Chapter 118 In the Forest
This time, Yu Sheng fell asleep very quickly, probably because he had consumed too much energy. When the previous excitement subsided, he lay down on the bed and fell asleep almost instantly.
It was a series of bizarre, trivial dreams whose details were difficult to recall.
He felt groggy, as if his consciousness was floating on a hazy surface of water. He looked down across the water and saw himself lying on the bed, No. 66 Wutong Road, Irene fiddling with the TV remote control, and Hu Li scrubbing his tail by the pool, then hanging the washed tails one by one on the clothesline on the balcony, neatly hanging them in a row...
Yu Sheng gradually found it difficult to distinguish reality from illusion, and couldn’t figure out whether he was dreaming or really “seeing” these scenes. His consciousness floated for a long time, gradually sinking in an increasingly dizzy chaos, and then suddenly - he felt a solid touch coming from behind him.
Yu Sheng suddenly opened his eyes.
The first thing that catches your eye is the towering trees surrounding it.
Boundless forests, endless trees, and dense treetops intertwined and covered the chaotic sky. Under the treetops was a shadow like dusk, dark-colored vines intertwined in the dense forest, bushes grew rampantly in the open space, and there were unknown flowers and plants - lush, but all with a gray texture, covering the open spaces between the giant trees.
Yu Sheng stood up in confusion and felt a thick layer of fallen leaves and rotten soil beneath his body.
As he moved, the dark and boundless forest seemed to "come alive" further. He began to hear all kinds of unknown bird and animal sounds coming from the forest, something flying quickly through the open space in the forest, the sound of flapping wings echoing among the treetops, and there were distant howling sounds... wolf howls, but with a strange tone that sounded like a human voice.
Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, and felt his mind gradually becoming clear. A sentence popped up in his mind - Oh my god, what did I do to myself?
Was he dreaming? Or had he fallen into some strange "foreign land" again? Yu Sheng stretched out his hand and pinched his thigh, feeling a slightly numb pain. He tried to call Irene in his heart again, but he only heard a hollow whistling sound like the wind blowing through the valley echoing in his heart.
All these abnormalities instantly made Yu Sheng alert.
He immediately reached out his hand into the air, and after a moment, an illusory door emitting faint light vaguely appeared in the air.
Fortunately, the "door" still works.
Yu Sheng heaved a sigh of relief, then waved goodbye to the crowd, gathered his energy, and walked forward cautiously.
He had to first figure out where this place was.
He could vaguely feel that this place was different from the "Night Valley" he had mistakenly entered before. He should still be dreaming, but this was definitely not a normal dream. He couldn't say what the connection was between this place and the "foreign land", but this forest was definitely not something that should appear in his dream.
With his feet stepping on thick rotten leaves, Yu Sheng felt a sense of having nowhere to put his feet, accompanied by a slight rustling sound. He walked forward cautiously for a long distance. He passed a small open space and passed two large trees that had fallen to the ground. However, the surrounding scenery remained unchanged. The forest seemed endless, and there seemed to be no point in walking on two legs in this endless dense forest.
At this moment, a rustling sound suddenly came into Yu Sheng's ears.
He instantly became alert and turned back to look in the direction where the sound came from.
A large, furry-looking squirrel stood on a dry tree stump nearby, looking at him with its small black eyes.
It seemed to be just a small animal in the forest, which curiously ran out from its hiding place to observe this "uninvited guest".
The atmosphere around was weird, but after seeing this harmless little squirrel, Yu Sheng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and gave the squirrel a smile.
The squirrel glanced at him, swept its big tail across the stump, and uttered a shrill voice: "Don't leave the path..."
The smile on Yu Sheng's face froze instantly, and the next second his eyes suddenly widened: "Fuck! He spoke!"
"I haven't finished my words yet," the squirrel slapped the tree stump with its tail and stood up. "What the hell is the next sentence... Oh, don't let the pretty flowers and mushrooms distract your attention. Get back to the path quickly so that you can get home safely before dark~ Yes, there has to be a cute ending at the end, it's so fucking cute."
Yu Sheng: “…”
The squirrel not far away was holding its paws proudly and staring at this side.
Yu Sheng pinched his thigh hard again, as if to confirm whether he was hallucinating - what did this cute and harmless-looking creature say just now?
The squirrel seemed a little impatient. Seeing that Yu Sheng hadn't moved for a long time, it slapped the tree stump with its big tail a few times and said, "Go ahead, what are you standing there for? Don't die in the dark forest before you even take the first step."
Yu Sheng finally confirmed that he was not hallucinating, but he did not "keep going, get back to the path" as the squirrel said. Instead, he walked towards the squirrel with curiosity, with a look of surprise and confusion on his face: "Who are you? Where is this place?"
"Are you blind? I'm a squirrel!" The squirrel held its paws without fear and stared straight into Yu Sheng's eyes. "Can't you see this place? It's a forest, a dark forest, a huge dark forest - why do you look so stupid?"
As he spoke, the cute but rude squirrel took two steps to the side and looked around, as if searching for something, while muttering, "This is weird... the one now isn't dead yet, how come a new one popped up... the one now is dying? But why is this one a man..."
Yu Sheng listened to the squirrel's mumbling, and for some reason his heart suddenly moved, and he subconsciously asked: "Death? Who is dying?"
"Little Red Riding Hood," the squirrel wiped his face with his paw and said casually, "I don't know which generation it should be... the eighteenth? Or the twenty-eighth generation of Little Red Riding Hood...?"
Yu Sheng suddenly opened his eyes wide, and his heartbeat quickened a few beats. Then he seemed to remember something, and looked up at the endless forest, and listened attentively to the vague, strange howl.
The distant and familiar melody of the nursery rhyme seemed to have echoed in his mind, the little figure in the red cloak, the figure walking on the path in the woods, the flowers and mushrooms that tempted her in the depths of the forest... and the evil wolf.
Yu Sheng suddenly felt a slight tingling and a little heat on his shoulder. He turned his head and saw that blood had seeped out of his shoulder at some point. The scarlet color slowly spread on his clothes, becoming a dazzling color in the dark and gray forest.
That's where the wolf that emerged from Little Red Riding Hood's shadow bit at the Night at the Museum.
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The bloodstains slowly faded away, but Yu Sheng had gradually understood what had happened.
After all, his blood had established a connection with Little Red Riding Hood... Could the wolf that was chasing her be considered a part of her? So, this was actually her dream? All kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind, but the squirrel's voice suddenly came, interrupting Yu Sheng's wild thoughts: "No! No, no!"
Yu Sheng was startled for a moment: "What's wrong?"
"Little Red Riding Hood is indeed not dead yet! She is not going to die soon!" The squirrel jumped up on the tree stump, looking a little panicked. "The wolf hasn't caught up with her yet. The wolf is still looking for her in the forest... Who are you? How the hell did you get in?!"
Yu Sheng vaguely felt that the other party's last sentence sounded a little familiar...
But he didn't dwell on it, and spoke quickly: "I'm her friend - what did you say just now? You said Little Red Riding Hood will die? And which one did you say? What does that mean?"
"Friends? Where did this friend come from? She was walking alone on the path in the woods - Little Red Riding Hood has no friends in the forest!" The squirrel suddenly became excited and jumped up and down on the tree stump. "Something is wrong, something is wrong. This forest shouldn't change. If it changes, it will be even more difficult... Don't make things difficult for a squirrel! The squirrel is already very busy! This place..."
It suddenly stopped again, as if it heard some noise, and listened blankly with its ears tilted.
Yu Sheng spoke subconsciously: "Why..."
"Shh..." The squirrel raised its paw in a very human way, signaling Yu Sheng to keep quiet, "Listen carefully... the wolf is not howling anymore."
The forest was completely silent. The vague howling of wolves from afar had disappeared at some point, and even the sounds of other birds and animals that had been coming from nearby had quieted down.
An eerie, unsettling silence fell over the forest.
Yu Sheng's nerves tensed up, and in the next second, the squirrel suddenly jumped down from the tree stump, then rushed to his shoulder like lightning, and made a sharp cry: "Run! The wolf is coming!"
Yu Sheng was startled by the little thing's sudden action, but his body had reacted long before that. He subconsciously turned around and ran, and it was not until then that a belated sense of creepiness and a chill that seemed to pierce the soul caught up with him - a huge amount of malice and the omen of impending death crushed over and impacted Yu Sheng's mind, mixed with the whistling wind, and chased his footsteps.
The wolf is coming.
(End of this chapter)
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