Chapter 101 Ends with Applause
While he hadn't completely forgotten the whole string of information, Yu Sheng blurted out all the information he had heard, and almost bit his tongue in the middle - the whole process was almost supported by instinct and that little short-term memory. As a result, after he finished speaking, Little Red Riding Hood let out a dazed "Ah?", and he felt terrible.
Fortunately, Little Red Riding Hood took out a recorder from her pocket...
"This is my habit. You'd better develop this habit in the future. Carry a recording device that is turned on 24 hours a day. Don't use the mobile phone issued by the Secret Service. It wastes too much battery life. A voice recorder will do." Little Red Riding Hood said to the student while operating it. "There will always be some emergencies in a foreign land. People's attention is not always available. It is very useful to carry a recording device and review it at any time."
After a slight noise, the recorder began to record the long string of content that Yu Sheng had just quickly recounted.
Little Red Riding Hood, Irene and Hu Li looked up at the same time, and their eyes of confusion, surprise and curiosity fell on Yu Sheng.
Hu Li was the first to speak: "My benefactor, this is..."
"He said," Yu Sheng raised his hand and pointed at the body next to him, "He spoke so suddenly that I almost didn't react. Fortunately, my short-term memory is still good."
Irene and Little Red Riding Hood were immediately horrified, but Hu Li was still looking at Yu Sheng heartlessly and admiringly: "Your spiritualism is really amazing, benefactor!"
"How come you can accept anything weird? You think everything that happens to Yu Sheng is normal, right?" Irene looked at Hu Li in astonishment, then turned to Yu Sheng with her scarlet eyes wide open. "What's going on? Weren't you just standing next to the stage in a daze? When did the corpse start talking?!"
"Maybe... it's because I touched this?" Yu Sheng was also thinking about this question. At this moment, he looked thoughtfully at the dried blood on his fingertips. "At that time, I suddenly saw the whole hall stop..."
He did not hold back and told everyone about his brief experience, including the abnormal phenomena in the hall and the strange conditions of Hu Li, Irene and Little Red Riding Hood. After he finished speaking, he curiously rubbed the bloodstains on the booth with his fingers, but this time, the phenomenon of "the dead speaking" did not appear again.
"It seems like a one-time thing," Yu Sheng muttered, rubbing his fingers together, "Little Red Riding Hood, is this reasonable?"
Little Red Riding Hood didn't say anything. She was still in a state of "this matter is too confusing and I haven't figured it out yet."
Yu Sheng knew at a glance that the other party didn't need to answer, as this matter seemed unreasonable.
Just like the many unreasonable things that happened to him, just like the countless unreasonable things in the world that he saw.
The little doll understood the situation after a while. She said hesitantly: "I think... this shouldn't be an illusion."
"You'll know if it's an illusion if you go and see it," Yu Sheng said, pointing to the entrance at the other end of the white exhibition hall. "The deceased told me that the murderer dumped the statue of the weeper in the corridor."
Hu Li immediately walked towards the corridor.
Seeing this, Irene quickly reminded: "Hey, be careful, don't run into any traps or anything."
After hearing this, Hu Li felt that it made sense, so she nodded, raised her hand and made a strange gesture, and eight of the nine tails behind her immediately left her body, flying in front of her surrounded by fox fire, and slowly flew forward like a group of reconnaissance and strike drones.
She even turned around to introduce it to Yu Sheng: "My benefactor, this is called the 'Tail Control Technique'..."
Yu Sheng's face twitched, and he tried hard to keep a straight face and pretend to be serious. At the same time, he sensed in advance and confirmed that there were no hidden "security guards" in the corridor.
Little Red Riding Hood still found it hard to accept the sight of the fox demon releasing its many tails to use as drones. The corners of her eyes twitched and she wanted to speak several times, but she held it back in the end.
A moment later, a fox tail returned from the depths of the corridor, with something curled up at the front end of the tail.
It was a small white statue - a sculpture of a woman with her face covered by her hands, crying in a strange and distorted posture.
This is exactly the original goal of this "commission".
The fox girl retracted her tail, and happily returned to Yu Sheng holding the statuette, handing him the commission as if offering prey: "My benefactor, it really is there!"
Yu Sheng reached out to take the small sculpture, which was only about 20 centimeters high. However, receiving the commission did not bring him any feeling of "complete success".
What was originally thought to be a simple lost-object commission where an experienced person helped a novice to speed through the process has now turned into an extremely difficult and complicated incident.
"The statue is really in the corridor... so the information you 'heard' from the dead is probably true," Little Red Riding Hood looked at the "Wailer" statue in Yu Sheng's hand with a complicated expression. "I just recalled that the Wudao River you mentioned must have been remembered incorrectly, but there is indeed a city called Wusong River in the southern part of Jiecheng, which is far away from here... Jiecheng is very large, and the accents of some of the people in the city are different from those in the main city."
"What do 'help Him to come' and 'save the Lord from suffering' mean? Do you understand?" Yu Sheng asked curiously.
"I have never dealt with angel believers. It is too dangerous for ordinary spiritual detectives. When we encounter clues in this regard, we report them immediately and try to stay as far away from them as possible." Little Red Riding Hood shook her head. "The Secret Service must know more, but... I don't recommend you to ask about this matter."
Yu Sheng frowned: "Why?"
"Because the 'angel' worshipped by the Angel Cult is, to put it bluntly, the 'Angel of Darkness'. The thing you saw in the valley last time - the guy who worships that thing as a god, do you think it can be good?"
Little Red Riding Hood looked serious and spoke in a deep voice.
"Even among all the abnormal cults and extremist organizations, the Angels are the most unreasonable group of guys. Even the Black Spot Group, an extremist force that is widely wanted in many orderly areas, has issued a wanted order for the Angels in the area under its control. You can see how evil this group of people is."
At this point, she was probably worried that Yu Sheng still didn't realize the danger of that group of lunatics, so she added, "They are not only crazy, but more importantly, they seem to have some kind of connection with the 'Angels of Darkness'. If you deal with them too much, the madness will be contagious, and even the 'Angels of Darkness' will cast their eyes on you - so even the 'regular troops' responsible for exterminating the Angel Cultists have to undergo strict mental evaluations and take administrative leave every time they come into contact with the Angel Cultists. Really, don't deal with this kind of group if you don't have anything to do with them."
Yu Sheng felt the seriousness of the matter from Little Red Riding Hood's repeated emphasis. He recalled the strange and terrifying giant eye he had seen in the valley, and his expression became serious: "Okay, I understand."
Little Red Riding Hood breathed a sigh of relief and looked around the white exhibition hall, which looked particularly strange and devastated at the moment.
"We should leave now."
"How do we get out?" Yu Sheng asked, "Uh, I mean the normal procedure."
Before Little Red Riding Hood could speak, Irene was the first to wonder, "Hey? Why don't you just open the door and go home?"
"Let's not do it, shall we?" Yu Sheng looked a little embarrassed. "It's late at night, and there's no way to call the Secret Service to report in the foreign land. It's scary if the alarm goes off suddenly. Besides, I also want to experience the evacuation process from the foreign land normally."
"Ahem, there are only two ways to leave the museum normally," Little Red Riding Hood coughed twice. "Either, survive here until the end of the 'night show', which is the next morning in the real world, or let 'Museum Night' usher in a grand 'closing', causing prolonged applause in the theater - after the applause, the show will end early."
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"It will take too long to wait until the night show is over," Yu Sheng immediately shook his head. "What does it mean to make 'Museum Night' end in a grand manner? What needs to be done?"
"There is no clear standard. Basically, if we regard the entire process of our activities in the museum as a 'performance' on the stage, we need to make those invisible audiences in the theater audience feel 'satisfied' or 'amazed'," Little Red Riding Hood explained. "There are many ways to achieve this effect. Sometimes applause is triggered inexplicably - someone improvised a painting in the exhibition hall, someone just hummed a song, and someone even received applause during an internal conflict with teammates. The most outrageous thing was that there was once an investigator who was trapped in the exhibition hall and was seriously injured. In desperation, he cursed at the museum, and suddenly there was thunderous applause while cursing..."
Yu Sheng: “…”
So casual?! After a moment of sighing, he turned his gaze to the little doll that had climbed onto his shoulder again.
Irene reacted immediately, glaring at me angrily: "Why are you looking at me? It's very rude of you to treat a lady like this. Let me tell you, I usually speak my mind out of my feelings. You have a stereotype of me..."
Yu Sheng thought about it and felt that it was a bit unreliable to let Irene curse the "audience" outside to her satisfaction, so he looked at Little Red Riding Hood: "The chase battle we had with the 'security guard' just now was quite exciting. Hasn't the condition for 'ending' been met yet?"
"'Fighting' is actually the most difficult to achieve 'ending', because 'security' is a mechanism in the museum. Fighting with 'security' seems to be judged as a normal part of the performance of Night at the Museum, and it will not have the effect of 'shocking' or 'out of the script'," Little Red Riding Hood analyzed seriously. "As far as I understand, the condition for meeting 'ending' should actually be 'something that shouldn't happen in the script of Night at the Museum'."
After hearing this, Yu Sheng immediately started thinking about it.
This time, without Irene's reminder, Little Red Riding Hood suddenly realized something - Yu Sheng had another idea.
Sure enough, Yu Sheng quickly spoke up: "You just said that the encounter with the security guard is a reasonable part of the big 'script' of Night at the Museum, right?"
Little Red Riding Hood didn't know what the other person was thinking, so she just nodded in confusion: "Yes."
"What if we still manage to create a huge piece of 'art' without having to deal with the security?"
Little Red Riding Hood: “…Ah?”
Yu Sheng did not explain, and turned directly to Hu Li: "Do you have enough tail reserves?"
Hu Li nodded repeatedly: "Quite a lot, and there is also Fox Fire available - that is unlimited."
"That's fine." Yu Sheng immediately laughed, his expression particularly happy.
Little Red Riding Hood felt that the other person's smile was a bit creepy, and finally couldn't help but asked: "What do you want to do?"
Yu Sheng chuckled and pointed at the door not far away: "Do you see the other side? We came from there before. There is a big exhibition hall over there with a lot of sculptures and antiques. I'll ask Hu Li to pile all the tails in stock there. Before the security guards come, we'll blow it up. If that doesn't work, we'll burn down all the exhibition halls along the way and blow down all the passages here..."
Little Red Riding Hood was stunned, but what stunned her even more was that Hu Li nodded without hesitation.
However, the next second, before Little Red Riding Hood opened her mouth to question, and before Yu Sheng could really take any action, a sudden sound coming from all directions interrupted everyone's actions.
There was thunderous applause in the museum.
(End of this chapter)
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