Upon hearing Hu Li's analysis and conclusion, the little puppet's expression looked as if her world had come crashing down.

She never expected that the powerful body she'd finally acquired would turn out to be a limited-time trial version.

With her energy depleted, she now found even moving a single finger extremely difficult.

"What should I do…" No.1 Erin, carrying a picture frame, mumbled beside Yu Sheng, looking up at the new body still held in Yu Sheng's arms and unable to move, then fretfully glanced at the fox girl, "Do you have any ideas?"

Hu Li stepped forward to seriously inspect Pro Erin's situation, bending the latter's arms and legs, then casting spells and gestures whose purposes were unknown, before nodding after some time: "In theory… just wait."

Erin and Yu Sheng said in unison: "Wait?"

"Wait for her to recharge," Hu Li pointed to the puppet's finger in Yu Sheng's embrace, "See, her hand can already move—Mysterious Iron has the inherent feature of gathering nature's spiritual energy, and this intricate puppet body naturally retains this ability. Technically speaking, just by waiting, she'll gradually recover."

"Re-Really?" No.1 Erin blinked immediately, "You're not tricking me?"

Hu Li tapped No.1 Erin with her tail: "Why would I trick you?"

"Alright, then we'll wait and see…"

The facts proved Hu Li was right; after waiting several more minutes, Pro Erin's body began to regain its basic movement abilities—though it was like an old iron-skinned man who hadn't been oiled in years, she could finally creak and move her arms and legs, and even stand up to walk a few steps.

The new body regaining movement abilities certainly cheered the little puppet up, but not by much.

She shuffled with ten-year-stroke-like footsteps around Yu Sheng, then stopped beside her three other bodies, a face of hopelessness: "I feel like I'm lugging a human-shaped coffin… this recharging is way too slow! Just recovering movement abilities is so difficult, when will I gather enough energy to fire the laser cannon again!"

Saying this, she looked at Hu Li again: "Isn't there any way to speed up the recharging?"

Hu Li thought for a moment: "…Usually, I eat things, lots and lots of things."

Erin: "…"

"Well, um," Yu Sheng had to remind quietly from the side, "She doesn't have a digestive system."

"Even if she did," Hu Li's ears twitched, "Ordinary stomachs can't 'refine' substances."

"Then please think of something else that's at least faster than this," Yu Sheng glanced at Erin's expression and quickly reminded, "She's about to cry again."

"Absorb nature's spiritual energy?" Hu Li pondered, but shook her head before Erin's eyes could light up again, "But I've only seen that in short videos about ancient cultivation practices, I don't actually know how to do it… Or perhaps use some other method to recharge? I can't think of how to charge for now… You can't just grab a power line, right?"

Listening to Hu Li mutter away, Yu Sheng knew this elementary-school dropout Nine-Tailed Fox wouldn't be of much help. He could only sigh, pick Pro Erin back up, and comfort her kindly: "At least you can recover yourself, slow as it is, but you also have other bodies… If it really comes down to it, we'll just consider this body a trump card, keep it at home for slow charging, and I'll open a door and lift you out for cannon fire during battles…"

The little puppet lifted her head in Yu Sheng's arms: "Yu Sheng…"

"Huh?"

Little puppet gritted her teeth: "You really know how to comfort people!"

Yu Sheng reckoned she wasn't actually complimenting him…

A while later, the long-haired princess and others, who'd been watching the commotion for a while, finally understood the situation. They gathered around, some comforting Erin, others curiously asking about the "proliferation" process of the puppet's new bodies, some marveling at the colorful everyday life of the travel agency, while others praised Erin's previous display of military boxing—the latter being the carefree long-haired princess, who got swarmed and headbutted by three Erins mid-compliment, making her scamper and hop.

Yu Sheng then looked around and noticed a certain familiar figure wasn't there, prompting his curious inquiry: "Where's Little Red Riding Hood? Out on a mission again?"

"In class," Snow White said casually while watching the fun play between the three Erins and long-haired princess, "She won't be back until the evening."

Yu Sheng: "Isn't it Saturday?"

Snow White: "She's in her senior year of high school."

Yu Sheng: "…Ah, I forgot about that."

"By the way," Snow White suddenly leaned in a bit, whispering, "Her birthday is next week, did you know?"

"Yeah, I remember," Yu Sheng nodded, "She told me about it ages ago."

"Picked out a gift yet?" Snow White murmured, adding, "I plan to gift her some books."

Yu Sheng's expression turned hesitant, pondering for quite a while before reluctantly responding: "I actually wanted to give her some books as well…"

"That's great, she enjoys reading,"

Snow White said, then walked away.

Yu Sheng watched Erin playing around with the long-haired princess and them, deep in thought.

A gift… Thinking carefully, he realized he didn't really have much experience picking out gifts for someone.

Neither did he have much experience celebrating someone's birthday.

The past days always drifted like clear water, so insipidity that, in Yu Sheng's memory, life before coming to this "Boundary Land" was mostly spent in "quietude"—quiet, peaceful, tranquil, and alone. Even "writing" was just a means to make a living. In comparison, the uneventful days of the past seemed to pale beside the liveliness of these three days here.

...Although sometimes, things got a bit too lively.

Yu Sheng, shaking his head with a smile, glanced once more at Erin and the long-haired princess playfully squabbling with each other. He called out helplessly, "Take your play elsewhere! Everyone, step away from the platform, I'm about to start building!"

The moment he said that, Erin and the long-haired princess immediately stopped their antics.

Several gazes were suddenly fixed on Yu Sheng.

The long-haired princess was the first to lean in. "Bro, what kind of building are you making?"

"Building a ring of walls around this platform, then adding a roof," Yu Sheng spread his hands helplessly. "This is the core building of the travel agency base; it can't always be just a bare foundation—besides, I'm planning to add several more floors here to make it more imposing."

"Adding several floors?" Erin perked up with curiosity. "What will they be used for?"

"Haven't decided yet, I'll construct them first and improve gradually," Yu Sheng said matter-of-factly. "Anyway, we'll definitely need an alchemy laboratory on the second floor—an actual lab, not a temporary setup, complete with an alchemy table, preparation room, and storage room."

Erin's eyes widened. "To build me a new body?"

Yu Sheng responded with annoyance, "Can't I research other things?"

"Can you do anything else?"

Yu Sheng's mouth twitched. "...To build you a new body."

"Great!"

No matter how you look at it, after a mess of odd interruptions, Yu Sheng finally decided to add a roof over this "hub platform" that had been prepared long ago.

Owing to their high confidence and trust in Yu Sheng's "house-building" skills, the long-haired princess and the others immediately retreated a hundred meters away from the platform.

Even Hu Li and Erin ran off—Proc Erin, who struggled to move, was carried away by her other three bodies.

"Is it really necessary..."

Looking back at the group already a hundred meters away, Yu Sheng murmured a bit helplessly, but he didn't care much about it. Instead, he quickly calmed his mind and focused on the task at hand.

Standing on a piece of vacant land beside the platform, with his mind grounding down, the "blueprint" gradually surfaced in his mind.

Firstly, he needed the optimal point for "construction."

The soil at his feet began to squirm, condense, harden, and then gradually rise up.

A gray-and-white pillar ascended from the vacant land. Yu Sheng stood atop it, ascending with the pillar until he was overlooking the entire teleportation platform.

Not far away, Erin watched this scene and couldn't help murmuring, "Looks like he's doing a proper job..."

Hu Li nodded firmly once again, "I told you before, our Savior could indeed be a Civil Engineering Immortal."

Yu Sheng heard the murmurs coming from afar.

In fact, he could currently hear all the sounds from the platform and a considerable area around it.

This included even the faint noise of the wind sweeping over gravel, the rustling of grass blades penetrating the soil, unfurling fresh leaves.

As well as the weak friction of "rocks" forming inside the platform, gradually growing upward.

This land, in his "vision," transformed into a plastic, rapidly growing... "living being."

The high walls rose from the edges of the platform, accompanied by low rumbles and the sound of friction. Alongside the ascending walls emerged ancient, solemn stone pillars—columns encircling the outside of the walls, forming a corridor around the entire hub, with support pillars slowly growing inside the walls like the ribcage of a giant beast, preparing to uphold the subsequent dome.

Yu Sheng looked down upon the swiftly growing "bones" and "flesh," watching the gray-white rocks rapidly shape the first layer of the hub's structure, and then began constructing the slightly smaller second layer.

In his blueprint, this was a grand pyramid-like building.

The tower had seven layers, diminishing successively in size, each with distinct characteristics.

The first layer was the foundational structure of the teleportation platform, used to link to various places the travel agency could reach—even considering the vastness of the universe, no single hallway would suffice, so the doors here would be limited to the most crucial nodes, thus it would be named the "Hub Hall."

The second layer was designated for research activities, with its core being the alchemy laboratory for creating more Erin bodies and surrounded by many vacant rooms to be utilized eventually.

The third layer was principally a storage facility—a necessity Yu Sheng felt he had for collecting and stowing all the odd and curious items, convenient weapons, and tools, as even the basement at No. 66 Wutong Road couldn't compare to a marvel building in the valley. Given this world has countless wondrous items, that basement's space would inevitably run out.

Entirely the third layer, was to be his personal "Treasure Pavilion."

The fourth through seventh layers—piece the rest. Primarily for aesthetics, complementing the pyramid structure...

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