Chapter 191 Dream Ending

Let’s not discuss the question of whether Little Red Riding Hood is the murderer of Peter Pan, but no one will question that the Peter Pan in the castle now really wants to attack the player.

"Do you think if you take this stuff back and throw it in front of Peter Pan, he'll wake up straight away?"

Shi Yu listened and said, "You can try, but the possibility is not high."

Qiao Yan reached out and grabbed the skull.

The moment he raised his hand, the flesh originally attached to the top of the skull automatically peeled off like pieces of paper, forming a puddle of matter on the ground, which was washed away by the rain.

The same result would occur if the player touched other corpses. The skin and bones of the corpse would always be dismembered and separated the moment the player tried to move, and the corpse would be shattered into a pile of rotten flesh and blood.

Shi Yu loosened his grip on the spine and used the rain to wash the blood off his hands: "Luo Huai, you try it."

A few people came out without umbrellas, relying on Shuying to manipulate and disperse the rain to serve as human water repellents for them. Hearing this, he said nothing, and directed the water to wrap around one of the corpse's leg bones from below, slowly lifting it up.

The flesh on the leg bones began to fall off and then melted quickly.

Shi Yu looked at the blood at his feet and said, "I guess we can't bring the body back to the castle."

Under normal circumstances, corpses shouldn't be so fragile, but now they are in someone else's dream, and corpses are something that may stimulate the dreamer's mental state. Appearing here to tell everyone that the environment is fake is already the limit, and not being able to carry it around is probably a matter of self-protection.

Qiao Yan asked again: "What if we go back and bring Peter Pan here?"

Shi Yu: "What's the reason?"

"Do you need a reason to use force?"

“…”

Qiao Yan had just said it casually, not expecting that it would be so easy to pass the game of Shangjiu Tian: "Going back?"

When Shi Yu stood up, his body suddenly swayed as if it was unstable.

When he lost his balance, Qiao Yan reached out to hold him, and subconsciously looked at his right hand: "What's wrong?"

"It's okay." Shi Yu's voice was a little hoarse, "It's just sleeping pills."

"Didn't you say you discovered sleeping pills in the wine the first time you took a sip?"

"It wasn't that time." Shi Yu said, "It was when we went back later."

Peter Pan handed him a glass of drugged wine.

"Don't you know you can't touch drugs?"

“I threw it up later.”

Qiao Yan frowned: "I will take you back now."

Shi Yu shook his head: "Let's find a place first."

"What?"

"South Oak."

No matter how strange the laws of this world are, the rising and setting of the sun, the setting of the moon, the movement of the stars will not change.

Everyone observed the position of the sun on the way to the castle, walked straight to the south of the castle, and soon found the target plant.

It's because the oak tree is so big and so eye-catching.

Peter Pan said that the words carved on the south oak tree were not hidden, or the person who left them there at the beginning had no intention of hiding them; the content was not as complicated as everyone thought, on the contrary, there was only one central idea from beginning to end.

To live happily together forever.

A standard fairy tale ending.

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It had been a long time since Peter Pan had slept as soundly as he did today, and he even had a rare dream.

It was raining that day as well. He had just gone to the rooftop to take down the fruits that were drying on the rooftop when he heard a sound outside the door.

It was the sound of stomping feet on the wooden steps outside the castle gate, "dong dong dong" very rhythmically.

After a while the sound stopped. There was no peephole on the castle door. Peter Pan couldn't resist his curiosity and opened the door.

There was a man standing outside the door, wearing a bright red robe, standing on the edge of the steps wringing out the rain water from his robe.

"I'm sorry." The other person apologized first while holding the bamboo basket in his arms, "It's raining outside, I came to hide under the eaves."

Finally, he asked carefully, "Is it okay?"

Peter Pan said nothing, turned around and prepared to go back.

Someone behind him raised his voice and asked him, "Can I come in?"

Peter Pan still said nothing and went back to the rooftop to continue collecting fruit.

As soon as he reached the rooftop, a tail followed him: "Are you picking fruits? Do you want me to help you?"

The other person said, "My basket can hold a lot at once."

Peter Pan went down with the raisins in his arms.

As soon as I put the things down, the tail caught up again: "Don't go up."

The other party opened the basket cover: "I brought it all down for you, do you want to put it here?"

Peter Pan snatched the papaya from the other person's hand and said, "Don't touch my things!"

The other party was stunned.

Peter Pan ignored him and put the papaya slices on the cupboard. He looked up and saw the other person was still there: "Why don't you get out?"

The other party paused and went out.

Peter Pan packed up his things and went out. When he didn't find the other person, he threw the bamboo basket on the ground out of the castle and locked himself in a room on the second floor.

The rain stopped and the other person disappeared, and he didn't know when the other person left.

The next day was a sunny day, and Peter Pan carried a bamboo basket and went to the river outside the castle to catch fish.

Suddenly a person jumped down from the side.

The man was still wearing the big red robe, but this time without a hat, and smiled at him happily: "Peter Pan."

Peter Pan paused and ignored it.

The other party kept on talking: "I knocked on the door outside the castle for a long time but didn't see you. I was about to go back, but I saw you here."

After explaining, he asked again: "Are you catching fish? Can I help you?"

Peter Pan suddenly looked up and stared at the other person: "What are you doing here?"

The other person looked young, but had beautiful eyes: "I came to thank you for letting me into the castle to avoid the rain yesterday."

Then he took out a piece of cream cake from the small basket he carried with him: "Would you like some cake? I made it myself."

Peter Pan glanced at it, lowered his head and continued to fish, refusing indifferently: "No."

The other party was not annoyed: "Don't you like cake? What about caramel cookies? Pudding? Chocolate?"

The fish that was already in my palm suddenly slipped away.

Peter Pan couldn't help but pushed the other man hard: "Would you be quiet? All my fish ran away!"

The riverbed was too slippery, and the man subconsciously held onto the riverbank, and the bamboo basket and the cake in his hand fell into the water.

The other party only had time to retrieve the bamboo basket, the contents of which had been washed away, and apologized to him in a low voice: "I'm sorry."

The other person left with the empty basket.

The third day was a cloudy day. Peter Pan was tending to the flowers he planted in the backyard of the castle when there was a knock on the door in the front yard.

"Peter Pan!"

He ignored it.

The other party didn't wait for him outside the castle, and somehow wandered to the back. Looking at the colorful things on the ground, he asked: "Did you plant these?"

After Peter Pan finished watering the golden everlasting flowers, he turned around and flew to the red well water lily.

But the other party chased him and said: "You are so amazing, you can grow such beautiful flowers, can you teach me?"

Peter Pan watered the flowers in the backyard and turned around suddenly. The people behind him were caught off guard and bumped into him hard.

Both of them were only children, their lower bodies were unstable, and they fell to the ground at the same time.

Peter Pan shook his head, and his body flew into the air, turning the watering can in his hand upside down.

With a "splash", the remaining half pot of water was poured all over the other person, from head to toe.

The other person subconsciously closed his eyes. There was water on his face and body, and even his hood was full of it. The water quickly seeped into his clothes and dripped down.

Peter Pan held the spray can and said in a cold and impatient tone: "Are you annoying?"

The other person looked at him blankly for a few seconds, his eyes a little red, lowered his head, slowly stood up, turned around and left the castle.

On the fourth day, Peter Pan did not go out at all.

In the evening, he saw the other person appear outside the door, knocked on the door, but did not call his name. He just put something down and left.

Peter Pan waited for a long time before going downstairs. He saw a bamboo basket full of desserts by the door.

On the fifth day, dark clouds gathered over the forest.

This place either doesn't rain at all, or when it does it pours heavily.

Peter Pan didn't know why he opened the door of the castle, and the storm came in.

But all that came in was wind and rain.

After the rain stopped, Peter Pan closed the door again.

What was he thinking at that time?

I don't remember, but I was just irritable and wanted to throw things, destroy things, and abuse others.

On the sixth day, Peter Pan had planned to sleep all day, but he heard a voice shouting in his half-awake state: "Peter Pan!"

He thought it was a dream and ignored it.

Soon another voice rang out: "Peter Pan!"

Peter Pan woke up instantly.

It was the other person's voice. He remembered it clearly, not only because he had seen it a few days ago, but also because the other person was the only person who appeared near the castle and did not avoid him in all these days.

Peter Pan didn't even go through the door, he flew straight out of the window.

He can fly. He is born with the ability. He doesn't know the exact principles, but it's as natural as a bird.

There was still the other person outside the door, holding the basket and looking at him, hesitantly said: "Peter Pan, did you just wake up?"

It's almost evening now.

Peter Pan scratched his brown curly hair and said with a bad expression: "What are you doing here again?"

But the other party asked: "Did you fly off the bed because you heard my voice?"

"What are you doing here?"

"You can't even wait for the gate to leave?"

"What are you doing here?"

"You care about me so much?"

“…”

The other person said: "My name is Little Red Riding Hood."

After that day, the other person became Peter Pan's first friend in recent years.

Then there was a second, a third, and a fourth.

They were all introduced by Little Red Riding Hood.

Later, they carved a promise under the south oak tree to be good friends forever.

Then, everyone left.

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The rain had stopped. Qiao Yan walked back and asked, "Since they had a good relationship, why did Little Red Riding Hood turn against Peter Pan in the end and even go so far as to induce the lion to kill him?"

Shi Yu followed him and asked: "What is the ending of Little Red Riding Hood in the story?"

Shuying couldn't get a word in on this kind of question, but Qiao Yan thought for a moment and said, "Using sausage as bait to make the big bad wolf fall to his death from the roof?"

“…”

"Stuffing rocks into the wolf's stomach and letting the wolf fall into the river and drown?"

“…”

"Use ropes to tie the big bad wolf's limbs to the bedposts and let him starve to death?"

Shi Yu's face was very pale. He couldn't tell whether it was because the sleeping pills he swallowed while being watched finally took effect, or because he, who normally couldn't touch any drugs, suddenly broke his taboo and the sequelae had not completely disappeared, or something else.

He said in a very light voice: "There is no Big Bad Wolf plot."

Qiao Yan didn't react for a moment: "Although there are many versions of the story, don't the endings all end with the Big Bad Wolf being killed successfully?"

"No." Shi Yu said, "The Little Red Riding Hood here did not come out of the Big Bad Wolf's stomach."

"My basket contains food and flowers. There is a flower bed in the backyard of the castle, and the flowers in the basket can all be found in the backyard. It is obvious that the flowers in the basket were picked from the backyard of Peter Pan's castle. The South Oak tree is engraved with their vow to be good friends forever. There are flower arrangement techniques on the bookshelf in Peter Pan's room. It is very likely that Little Red Riding Hood came up with the idea of picking flowers when Peter Pan passed by the castle. There are too many trees in the rainforest, and the environment is not suitable for wolves to live. I have not found any traces of wolves on the way from the river to the castle. If nothing unexpected happens, Little Red Riding Hood should not encounter wolves on the way to her grandmother's house."

The moment the other party finished speaking, Qiao Yan suddenly raised his head.

Shi Yu said calmly, "Little Red Riding Hood will not die, or she would not have died originally. It was Peter Pan who lured the Big Bad Wolf over and restricted Little Red Riding Hood's movements by picking flowers. That gave the Big Bad Wolf the opportunity to ambush and eat Little Red Riding Hood in advance, and even at the end, the righteous hunter did not show up. This is probably what happened in the real forest."

Qiao Yan stopped breathing for a second.

"At first I thought that Little Red Riding Hood discovered Peter Pan's plan and lured the lion to kill her in order to protect herself, so it was Peter Pan who died in the real world. But if Little Red Riding Hood survived, judging from the appearance of the characters on the mural, why is the player so small in that forest?"

Shi Yu didn't wait for the other party to answer: "It is very likely that the real situation is the opposite. Little Red Riding Hood is the one who died, and the player is a doll-like substitute made by Peter Pan afterwards."

Qiao Yan asked why.

"I don't think the character I got in the game is the real Little Red Riding Hood, or the one Peter Pan knew. Because when a player enters the dungeon backyard, they either become passers-by who have nothing to do with the main storyline, such as an ordinary student at school, or become a living target for the main character's attention, such as a sacrifice for a forbidden technique. They won't get a character that fully participates in the love, hatred, and grudges of the main character. After all, the influence of different characters in the game varies, which can easily cause players to rebel, and the system is also afraid that if they intervene too deeply, they will be excluded and expelled from the God's Domain."

Shi Yu said, "Of course this is off-stage. Back to the game itself, the player in that forest has nothing in common with the protagonists on the murals except for his face. I don't have a big red robe, and you don't have only one leg. And the castle itself was an accident with the help of the lion. Other players didn't encounter lions, nor did they go to the castle, let alone see those murals, but the game went on anyway. The murals themselves are not important, at least not as important as the players' abnormal body shapes. The best explanation is that the players are not those characters at all, and the real parties involved have long been dead."

“It’s not until the player enters the dream that they become these characters because they follow Peter Pan’s wishes.”