Chapter 122 Irene Comes Over
It must be said that getting in touch with Irene again did make Yu Sheng feel relieved - and even though this little doll's words sounded a bit rude, she did reveal some very useful information during this contact.
The real self is still "dreaming", but it is obviously different from a normal dream. Irene thinks her consciousness is "lost", which means...
Yu Sheng raised his head and looked around the cozy little wooden house, then looked through the window at the vast night outside the house.
This "forest"... is a "spiritual space" that exists somewhere. It is complete and closed, like a trap that will "pull" the dreamer's spirit into it while isolating it from the outside world.
Thinking about it this way, Irene seemed quite amazing - how could she find him in such a situation? Various thoughts flashed through Yu Sheng's mind quickly, and at the same time, Irene finally asked the main point after a series of crackling beeps: "Yu Sheng, what's going on with you? How did you suddenly get 'lost' after sleeping? Where is your consciousness now?"
"…I am in a dark forest. If I am not mistaken, this should be the dark forest of 'Little Red Riding Hood'."
Irene was a little confused: "…What is 'Little Red Riding Hood's Black Forest'?"
"This is a bit complicated to explain. In short, wasn't I bitten by the evil wolf that came out of Little Red Riding Hood's shadow when I was in the museum? Now it seems that I have established a connection with it," Yu Sheng tried to explain while organizing his words. "Little Red Riding Hood once said that 'fairy tales' are a foreign land, and her power is a curse. The place where I am now should be the place that trapped her..."
Yu Sheng told Irene exactly what had happened on his side, including how he was chased by an invisible wolf and how he met a talking squirrel - of course, he did not mention the details of the "temptations" he had seen on the road.
"You mean... you're with a squirrel now?" Irene was stunned. Miss Doll probably never thought that Yu Sheng going upstairs to sleep could be so exciting. "So what's the situation outside your cabin now? Are you safe over there? Can you get out by yourself?"
"It's quiet outside now, but I can feel the wolves gathering in the Black Forest," Yu Sheng looked out the window, "but I don't think it's a big problem. This house looks safe now, and if things get bad I should be able to run away... Although I don't understand the principle, even in this 'dream' I can still 'open the door' normally."
Irene said "oh", and after a few seconds, her voice came into Yu Sheng's mind again: "Do you have a picture frame or drawing board?"
Yu Sheng subconsciously raised his head and looked around: "No...why are you asking this?"
"I want to try to see if I can 'drill' to your side," Irene said. "You are not in your dream now, so I can't go directly there. I need a medium, like the 'coordinates' you usually use to open the door. If you don't have a picture frame or a drawing board, do you have something to draw on? A pen and a piece of paper, anything will do."
Yu Sheng stood up and walked around the cabin, and finally found some black charcoal next to the fireplace.
The squirrel stood on the table, holding a large acorn, and looked at Yu Sheng walking around the room in confusion. Finally, he couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing?"
Yu Sheng said without even looking up: "I have a friend who wants to come and see me."
The squirrel was stunned: "...What?"
Yu Sheng didn't explain anything to it, but told Irene the situation here: "There's nothing here, just a few pieces of charcoal..."
Unexpectedly, the puppet immediately replied: "Okay, draw a frame on the floor..."
Yu Sheng: "How come you always end up like this when you have to settle for second best?!"
"This is just a matter of urgency!" Irene was very open-minded. "As for the ritual, the important thing is the process, especially the ritual in the dream. The main point is that sincerity will work. Insincerity doesn't matter. Anyway, a little symbolic meaning can create a direction..."
"…God, if you are sincere, it works. It doesn't matter if you are not sincere!" Yu Sheng was so angry that he couldn't get it out of his throat. But he still picked up a piece of charcoal and came to the open space in the middle of the hut. He drew a frame on the floor as Irene said. "Okay, the frame is drawn. What next?"
"Then draw an extremely beautiful, cute, elegant and mature lady - someone who looks like me."
Yu Sheng said nothing and just stood there without responding.
Irene's voice immediately dropped an octave: "...It's okay if it's not that pretty, just try to be like me."
Yu Sheng continued to remain silent.
The puppet accepted his fate: "…Doll, write my name below, spelling it with the letters I taught you."
"That's fine," Yu Sheng finally lowered his head and began to draw Irene's outline and real name in the charcoal-drawn frame. While drawing, he muttered to himself, "You know my hands-on ability. Don't make such an unreasonable request from the beginning..."
The squirrel next to him had been watching Yu Sheng's actions curiously from the beginning. When he saw him drawing on the ground and writing some strange runes, he was stunned and suddenly screamed: "Hey, you...you, what are you doing?! This, this, this...witchcraft?! I warn you, don't do anything rash. There are already enough deadly things in the Black Forest..."
"I told you that a friend of mine is coming," Yu Sheng said without even looking up. "Don't worry, it's not some weird witchcraft. It's just that my friend is sealed in a cursed painting. I have to use a special method to summon him."
When the squirrel heard this, he almost gasped for breath. He jumped up and down, slapping his big tail on the table, but he obviously didn't dare to step forward to intervene.
At this moment, Yu Sheng had completed all the steps of this simple "painting".
The squirrel that was jumping up and down on the table suddenly stopped.
It stared at what Yu Sheng had drawn with its black eyes, and a human-like relaxed expression appeared on its face.
"You scared me. I thought you were a wizard who could do evil magic, but it turns out you are an abstract artist. What can you conjure up when you are so ugly..."
A layer of light suddenly appeared on the surface of the simple "painting" on the floor.
The squirrel bit its tongue before it could finish the second half of its sentence.
A simple and solemn oil painting gradually rose from the floating light. As the lines drawn by charcoal on the floor quickly melted and evaporated, the oil painting also appeared complete in the air.
It floated in front of Yusheng and the squirrel. Irene stood proudly with her hands on her hips in the frame: "Yusheng! I'm here to help you!"
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The squirrel on the table twitched over with a "click", its four legs facing up in the air and its tail twitching.
Yu Sheng saw it and rushed over to wake up the squirrel: "Hey, what's wrong with you?"
The squirrel woke up slowly and saw the painting floating behind Yu Sheng. The Gothic figure in the frame poked its head out and looked at it curiously. It shuddered again, its tail curled up, "...Are witches so unpicky these days? They can even summon a goblin if it's painted like one..."
"Is this the squirrel you were talking about?" Irene looked at the "little animal" in front of her curiously, and then turned her gaze to Yu Sheng. "It looks quite interesting. There's a red cloth wrapped around its body. By the way, what does it mean by 'wild goblin' just now?"
"Ahem, it's probably a local specialty of the Black Forest... Let's not talk about that, let me introduce her first," Yu Sheng quickly changed the subject with two dry coughs, then raised his hand and pointed at the doll lady in the picture frame, introducing her to the squirrel, "This is my friend, her name is Irene - and she's also Little Red Riding Hood's friend."
"Hello," Irene said politely to the squirrel, and then added, "Actually, we also have a fox, who is also Little Red Riding Hood's friend, but she can't come in, so she can only guard outside."
The squirrel listened in a daze, then suddenly raised his paws and scratched his face, and began to walk around the table nervously: "What's going on? What's going on? It wasn't like this before... This kind of thing has never happened in the Black Forest. It's weird, it's getting weird..."
"Well..." Seeing this, Irene couldn't help but whisper to Yu Sheng, "Why does this squirrel look a little mentally unstable?"
"It's always like this. It was so nervous when we first met, and it was even smoking," Yu Sheng also muttered in a low voice, "But think about it, the squirrel can talk, how can you expect it to be normal..."
The squirrel that was circling the table suddenly stopped. Maybe it heard the whisper between Yu Sheng and Irene, but it suddenly raised its head and pointed at itself: "I am a squirrel."
Irene was startled and nodded blankly: "Uh, I can see that you are a squirrel."
"Little Red Riding Hood has many friends?" the squirrel asked, his eyes fixed on the puppet in the picture frame. "A lot of 'friends' like you... weird ones who seem to have great abilities and can run to the Black Forest?"
"Well... I'm not sure how many friends she has. After all, we haven't known each other for long, and I haven't had time to get to know her other friends." Irene hesitated for a moment, but then she started to show off. "But if you want to talk about skills, then we are really awesome! I'm a puppet from Alice's cabin! We also have a fox that can shoot its tail out - when she shows her true form, she can take up two parking spaces..."
The squirrel didn't seem to listen carefully to what Irene said next. It just suddenly became happy and walked quickly on the table, muttering as it walked: "The important thing is that you can run into the Black Forest, you can come in... Then she doesn't have to walk alone on the path... This is something that has never happened in the Black Forest... Yes, things that have never happened, things outside the rules, are 'accidents'. Where there are accidents, there are opportunities, maybe..."
Yu Sheng frowned when he heard this and looked at Irene in surprise.
(End of this chapter)
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