A black luxury car emerged from the Special Operations Bureau's underground parking lot and soon took the "shortcut" through the nearest Otherworld entrance.
The gray-white concrete tunnel steadily slid past outside the windows. Monotonous, repetitive guidance lights and a faint "alien quality" surrounded the car. The shortcut was especially quiet at this hour. Aside from the occasional patrol robot from the Special Operations Bureau speeding along the tunnel walls, they hardly encountered any other moving creatures on the road.
Yu Sheng sat in the passenger seat, while Huli and Luna sat in the back. Eileen crawled back and forth between the two rows of seats, unable to keep still for even a moment.
She was clearly still excited.
The Clockwork Maid named "Marys" drove while glancing at Eileen through the rearview mirror. Eileen had herself hanging from the passenger-seat headrest, and a faint smile appeared on Marys's face. "Miss Eileen seems very happy."
"Of course. She's been waiting for this day for ages, constantly going on about how tall she'd be at one meter sixty-seven." Yu Sheng smiled and sighed. "I made her several bodies, but none of them worked out very well. This 'original' one shouldn't have any more problems."
"Our mistress has already made the preparations. We found the base blueprint for an old-generation doll body in the Garden Network, and the nanoprinting pool can restore that body according to the blueprint—no matter how many pieces it was broken into," Marys said gently. Her gaze suddenly fell on Yu Sheng again, a faint light flickering in her beautiful artificial eyes. "My respects, Mr. Yu Sheng. You have not only resolved another angel crisis, but also recovered a lost Alice doll. Our mistress says that this achievement is enough to make you a friend shared by all the Alice