Chapter 124 Savoring Life
Yu Sheng's consciousness floated in the endless darkness. The familiar sense of nothingness and oppression flowed silently on the edge of his perception. His thoughts moved very slowly. In such a lonely and familiar "afterlife", he even began to feel a little bit of enjoyment in the quietness.
How should I put it...what happened was quite predictable.
The wolf, which was bigger than a house, pounced on him and killed Yu Sheng instantly. He did not last any longer than the squirrel.
Of course, the main reason why things ended so quickly was that Yu Sheng didn't hide at all. Not only that, he even took the initiative to offer himself up - offering his blood, his flesh, his soul, his... all the pure and burning joy and curiosity.
He lay quietly in the darkness after death.
He flowed quietly in the spirit and flesh of the evil wolf.
He quietly infiltrated into the Dark Forest, searching for the tentacles of "fairy tale" in the Dark Forest.
Yu Sheng controlled his own thoughts, trying not to be affected by the bizarre thoughts and fragments of memories in the darkness.
For him, every death is a "practice". He was reborn in a daze at the beginning, then he could realize the existence of the darkness around him, and then he could feel the process of returning to the "human world". Now, he can not only keep clear thinking in the darkness, but also try to control his most pure "thinking" at this moment without the burden of the flesh.
He actively honed the power of his thinking, trying to calculate time in the dark, and even trying to perceive things "outside" in reverse.
He knew that his body was still sleeping in the real world, and Irene and Hu Li were by his side. It was only his soul that died this time - just like the last time when he came into direct contact with the entity - Hunger and was devoured by it.
But it is obviously different from last time.
This time, Yu Sheng could vaguely feel that the shattered pieces of his soul were gradually decomposing and becoming part of another individual, just like a swallowed seed that was sprouting, and the sprouts turned into winding tentacles - he sensed one of the tentacles, so he tried to extend his will in the darkness, and took the initiative to gently... "fiddle" with it.
He saw "himself" running in the forest, blindly, furiously, shrouded in the endless night, casting a huge shadow.
He could even vaguely feel his own fur, the night wind in the dark forest blowing past his ears, the howling of wolves ringing around him, and invisible wolves following him, running endlessly in the night.
He could sense that these wolves fed on fear - that was the most primitive and essential function of fairy tales at the beginning of their creation, which was to intimidate and coerce. It was to use many terrifying and sinister images to make the children who listened to the stories afraid of the wilderness and unfamiliar environments, so that they would stay at home obediently.
This fear grew in the Black Forest and turned into these wolves that feed on fear.
But now they are hungry.
Because they did not gain any nourishment from the hunt just now - after swallowing the flesh and blood of the strange invaders, they felt only fearless emptiness, and some joy and curiosity that the wolves could not recognize and made them quite confused.
The huge wolf crossed the clearing in the forest. Its confused mind could not understand why this happened - eating should not be like this. The thing being eaten, no matter what it was, should feel fear, but the thing it had just eaten was not afraid at all. In fact... the "food" was more like an ecstatic eater.
Did it eat the "human" or did the "human" get into its body and eat it from the inside out? The wolf didn't understand. It just ran through the forest according to its instinct, patrolling every place where Little Red Riding Hood might appear, searching for those hiding places, and destroying those hiding places.
"You're going to keep running like this?"
A voice suddenly appeared - Yu Sheng was whispering beside the wolf, whispering to it in the wolf's low whimpering voice.
The giant wolf suddenly stopped, raised its head in a daze, and looked around the dark forest that was no different from what it remembered.
It couldn't understand where the sound came from, nor could it connect it with the "eating" it had just done.
But it could sense that something... "appeared", and that thing seemed vaguely familiar, like prey - or like a hunter.
The howling of wolves all around gradually quieted down. The invisible wolves patrolled restlessly in the forest, and began to search for the equally invisible invader according to their instincts.
The grass and trees swayed, the wind blew through the treetops, and leaves swirled past the giant wolf. In the gaps between the spinning leaves, a pair of curious eyes were staring at it.
"Are you...delicious?"
The leaves dissipated, and the giant wolf felt that the strange "thing" also disappeared from its perception. It lowered its head and let out a confused and chaotic growl. The wolves around it whimpered, and the whimpering gradually became louder, and howls rose one after another throughout the dark forest.
In a bush in the distance, a pair of nervous eyes stared at the scene and uttered a small cry: "It's getting weird, it's getting weird..."
…
Yu Sheng fell suddenly in the darkness, and then the familiar feeling of crossing a "dividing line" came over him. He regained awareness of his body in the final stage of the fall, and he suddenly opened his eyes as he felt the soft touch of the bed under his body.
As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw two Irenes with their heads pressed against each other in front of him, two pairs of scarlet eyes staring at him without blinking.
Yu Sheng, who had just come back to life, was almost killed by the little doll again when he saw this scene. He immediately felt sick: "Oh shit! You scared me to death!"
As a result, Irene made a louder noise than him. When the two dolls saw Yu Sheng suddenly open his eyes, they jumped up with a roar - and then fell to the ground from the bed in unison, making two loud thuds.
It hurts just listening to it.
"You scared me!"
"How dare you say that? Who would stare at me so closely like you? Luckily I opened my eyes before I got up. If I had jumped up, I would have at least two bumps on my head!" Yu Sheng looked at Irene who was climbing onto the bed with her hands and feet, and then he saw the fox girl who was standing obediently by the bed and showing him a gentle smile. "Look how sensible Hu Li is. She just stood quietly by the side and greeted me with a smile..."
Irene had just climbed onto the bed when she heard Yu Sheng's second half of the sentence and immediately put her hands on her hips and complained: "She's laughing because she feels guilty!"
"……ah?"
"She ate all the meat filling! No more buns tonight!"
Yu Sheng listened in a daze, then turned to look at the fox girl. The smile on the latter's face finally began to stiffen. Then she lowered her head, and even her tail and ears drooped down: "...I just wanted to taste something salty..."
"And if the first bite was too salty, you drank water. If the water was too bland, you had another bite of meat filling, right?" Irene stood at the head of the bed with a proud look on her face. "A whole bowl! You ate it all!"
Yu Sheng had just woken up when he encountered a lawsuit. His mind was in a mess for several seconds before he finally came to his senses. He turned his head and looked at Irene: "What about you? What were you doing when Hu Li stole the meat filling?"
Irene said confidently: "I poured her some water! I was afraid she would choke."
Yu Sheng slapped him on the forehead.
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He definitely owed these two clowns in his previous life.
“My benefactor… I’m sorry…” Seeing that Yu Sheng didn’t say anything, Hu Li thought that he was really angry, so he came closer nervously and said, “I won’t eat it all next time.”
As she spoke, a large, silver-white, furry tail appeared in front of Yu Sheng.
"I'll let you touch my tail. I'm not angry anymore."
Yu Sheng looked up and his mouth twitched.
"Well, it's nice of you to let me touch your tail, but you don't have to pull it off for me... It looks a bit creepy."
"oh."
"Forget it, I'm not angry, I just came back to life and my mind is a little confused. I can't react to all the noise you guys made," Yu Sheng exhaled, picked up the still radiating heat of the fox tail and handed it to Hu Li, "I'll go cook some noodles later, I guess you're not full yet - you guys go downstairs and wait for me, I'll take a rest."
Hu Li said "oh" and stood up to go out. Ailin walked to the bedside and suddenly turned back: "By the way, you haven't told me what's going on over there - judging by the time you woke up, are you really dead again?"
Yu Sheng smiled slightly: "That thing's front teeth are thicker than my thighs, what do you think?"
Irene had a strange expression on her face: "...Then I see you're in a pretty good mood."
Yu Sheng thought about it, as if he was savoring something. After a long while, he showed an ambiguous smile on his face: "Yes, it's good. Although I haven't tasted it, it seems... worth looking forward to."
Irene blinked, then immediately shrank her neck after realizing what was happening: "Oh my god, you are worthy of me."
She jumped off the bed and ran after Hu Li, shouting as she ran: "Hey! Silly fox, let me tell you! We may have to add more food in a few days!"
"Ah? What's the extra dish?"
"Maybe wolf meat..."
Listening to the voices of Hu Li and Irene gradually fading away in the corridor, a smile unconsciously appeared on Yu Sheng's face. Then he took a long breath, relaxed his body, and leaned back against the head of the bed.
After a while, he reached out and picked up the phone on the bedside table.
Open the border communication and find Little Red Riding Hood’s portrait - as a high school student, she should still be in school at this time.
Although Yu Sheng always felt that it was strange for a spirit detective like her to go to school obediently, he got used to it after meeting her a few times.
There is never a shortage of strange characters in this city.
He quickly edited a message and sent it to the girl with the wolf.
"I entered the Black Forest, saw the invisible and visible wolves, the paths in the forest, the cabin, and the squirrel - do you have time to talk about it?"
(End of this chapter)
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