Yu Sheng didn't know why the woman who claimed to be the Special Service Director suddenly froze. He was just curiously sizing her up, and seeing that she wasn't speaking, he took the initiative to start the conversation: "Speaking of it, your Special Service Bureau really pulls out all the stops when 'contacting' the involved parties, huh? I thought it would be Li Lin and the others meeting me, but I didn't expect to meet the Director straight away—are you always like this?"

Baili Qing quickly regained her usual indifferent demeanor upon hearing this: "No, only under special circumstances."

"Special circumstances?"

"For instance, someone who has lived in the Exotic Realm for a long time, yet has been living in the Boundary Land as an 'ordinary person' for over twenty years..." Baili Qing looked into Yu Sheng's eyes, "Sorry, I hope you don't mind me addressing you this way."

"Eh, I don't mind, but am I really that strange in your eyes?" Yu Sheng felt a bit awkward, "Seeing Li Lin and Xu Jiali's reactions, my lifestyle really surprised them, although I guess it's understandable."

"Maybe you haven't realized it," Baili Qing sighed, "Many from the Special Service Bureau have been focusing on your actions, especially in the past few days... A lot of agents have been busy because of this."

Yu Sheng opened his mouth slightly: "...Ah?"

Baili Qing looked at him: "You have the ability to open 'doors,' right?"

"Ah, yes," Yu Sheng nodded and reached out to grab at the air next to him. A door materialized next to him, "I used this thing to come back with Li Lin and the others…"

Before he could finish, the woman across from him suddenly raised her hand: "No need to demonstrate!"

Baili Qing rarely showed such excitement, usually maintaining a calm and aloof demeanor.

Yu Sheng awkwardly released his grip on the doorknob, seeing her reaction, he vaguely understood: "So, uh... Does my opening doors affect you guys?"

"When you open a door, the entire Boundary Land detects an untraceable spatial-temporal vibration," Baili Qing stated bluntly, "The staff responsible for monitoring have had strong opinions lately—are you really not aware?"

Yu Sheng's expression became a bit vacant, and his eyes gradually shifted, after a while, he shook his head with a strange look: "No feeling... So, the impact of me opening a door can really extend throughout the entire Boundary Land? Does this mean that I should stop using this ability?"

He clearly didn't relish saying this. After all, the "door" was really handy, he had only recently become familiar with this ability and had tasted its convenience. And now, people from the Special Service Bureau suddenly popped up saying this thing was being disruptive... It did feel a bit awkward.

But seeing the attitude of this female Director now, his own level of "being disruptive" seemed... quite significant, which was a bit embarrassing.

Of course, Baili Qing noticed Yu Sheng's mood and after a brief consideration, she shook her head: "I'm just making a suggestion, hoping that you can control the frequency of 'opening doors' in the future, at least... don't open hundreds of Rifts overnight like before, or at least give us a heads-up in advance. After all, it's your ability, and it hasn't actually caused substantial damage to the Boundary Land. In principle, we cannot directly prohibit such actions—of course, this is on the condition that you are willing to comply with us by registering with a Legal Identity, we will also adjust the surveillance measures to accommodate your ability."

Yu Sheng was somewhat surprised.

The female Director before him seemed cool and stern, giving an impression of being difficult to approach, but unexpectedly, she turned out to be quite... amenable.

When she referred to "opening hundreds of Rifts overnight," Yu Sheng immediately knew what she was talking about. At that time, he indeed didn't really feel anything, but now, even just imagining that night, he could understand the scale of the disturbance he had actually caused—and yet, this "Director Baili Qing" was still willing to negotiate with him amicably, even personally coming over to discuss...

Yu Sheng wasn't an immature teenager; he understood very clearly from an "official" perspective, this was a significant gesture of goodwill.

This "amenable" attitude caught him off-guard—originally, as soon as Baili Qing brought up the issue of "causing disturbances," he had prepared himself for a cunning battle with the Special Service Bureau, but before he could even throw a punch, he was metaphorically smothered with soft cotton.

This unexpectedly made him feel a bit sheepish: "Well, that's easy to handle, registering won't be a problem... But I do have a few questions, can you answer them first?"

Baili Qing nodded: "Of course, what would you like to ask?"

"The first one, this 'Special Service Bureau'... what exactly is this organization?" Yu Sheng immediately organized his thoughts, which he had been holding back, and began seriously, "What is its nature? How extensive is its jurisdiction?"

"Are you just curious about these things?" Baili Qing seemed a bit surprised by the questions Yu Sheng was focusing on, but she quickly began speaking, "The Special Service Bureau, fully known as the 'Special Security and Service Assurance Bureau,' is directly managed by the highest administrative body of Boundary Land—the Council. It is also the highest official department in Boundary Land dealing with the Exotic Realm, entities, and various types of 'Extraordinary Events'. If we were to divide Boundary Land into 'natural' and 'unnatural,' you could consider us as the highest responsible unit on the 'unnatural' side.

"Our operations, or jurisdiction, are not limited to Boundary Land—I don't know if you have already understood the special nature of Boundary Land..."

Baili Qing paused, looking into Yu Sheng's eyes.

"The special nature of Boundary Land..." Yu Sheng frowned, immediately recalling the various pieces of intelligence he had learned from Erin and something he realized when he opened those gates leading to distant places—

This world is not limited to one Boundary Land. Outside this bizarre "city," there are countless "far-off places."

"I think I know a bit," Yu Sheng spoke thoughtfully, "From its name, it seems to be connected to many places? It's said that this place has all sorts of strange things, just all hidden beneath a 'normal' facade..."

"Concealing those things that exceed common sense, and beyond the 'benchmark' of Boundary Land, making the city operate and develop according to 'standard parameters' is one of the tasks of the Special Service Bureau," Baili Qing nodded lightly, "Just as you understand it, this place is connected to many areas, and the extent and breadth of these connections... exceed anyone's imagination. You can imagine the entire world as a giant 'net' woven of countless traffic lines. These 'traffic routes' do not exist in the physical dimension, and ordinary people cannot perceive them, but on the 'unnatural' side, they intertwine, influence each other, and there is a place where all routes converge...

"That is Boundary Land."

Baili Qing paused, ensuring Yu Sheng could fully comprehend these matters before continuing.

"The duties of the Special Service Bureau, first, are to maintain the boundary between 'natural' and 'unnatural' within Boundary Land, to ensure the order on the 'unnatural' side; second, to handle all threats pointing to this 'convergence point' that spread from the 'traffic network'—no matter whether they are just inches away or 360 billion light years away in deep space."

Yu Sheng widened his eyes, and after a few seconds, he ventured, "… Aren't those distances a bit too vast?"

"For the special properties of Boundary Land, their distance is the same," Baili Qing said calmly, and pointed at Yu Sheng, "Isn't it the same for you?"

Yu Sheng was stunned, quickly grasping the meaning of her words.

"in those hundreds of Rifts, the ones pointing billions of light years away are not less than two-digit numbers." Baili Qing spoke lightly.

Yu Sheng was silent.

His expression was calm, but his mind was tumultuous.

In fact, he was not surprised, as he had guessed as much when those gates opened—just how far were those distant landscapes?

He had no definitive answer, but when discussing eagerly with Erin, he felt... some of them might be beyond the limits of his imagination.

The numbers he now heard from Baili Qing's mouth only seemed like a "footnote" to his imagination at that moment.

What truly astonished Yu Sheng was the "coverage" of the Special Service Bureau—he had seen Li Lin, an agent who stocked up on instant noodles with him in the supermarket and pretended to be browsing short videos squatting by the roadside while surveilling (he had matched the profile by then); to think such a character... suddenly claimed his organization had a backdrop of stars and seas, it was hard to imagine...

But Yu Sheng hesitated for a long while, too embarrassed to share his current musings with the "Director" before him.

Mainly because he was worried about affecting Li Lin's career...

Yu Sheng did not speak, and Baili Qing also remained silent, both momentarily falling into a brief quiet.

Until after half a minute, Baili Qing took the initiative to break the silence, "Do you have any other questions?"

"Yes," Yu Sheng immediately cleared the clutter from his mind, organized his thoughts, and then spoke, "The next question, Boundary City... is there only one?"

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