Chapter 130 "Fairy Tale" Story
Irene crawled out of Hu Li's arms. She stood on the table and, like Little Red Riding Hood, looked at the open space outside the window in a trance.
"This is where the 'Fairy Tale' first broke out, but the victims later treated this place as their home... It always feels weird." The little doll muttered.
"There must be a home," Little Red Riding Hood turned around with a faint smile on her face. "I don't know how the 'predecessors' made the decision many years ago, but now the children living here regard this orphanage as their home. For me, this is also a place where I can feel at ease...even though so many things have happened there."
"Only orphans are affected by 'fairy tales'?" Yu Shengze frowned, "Or are ordinary children also sent here after being affected by fairy tales?"
Little Red Riding Hood sighed, "Only orphans."
"What's the reason? Any conclusion?"
"Because their hearts lack protection," Little Red Riding Hood said calmly, "Although there are still many gaps in our understanding of 'fairy tales', based on the existing progress, it can be determined that the impact of 'fairy tales' is related to the 'personality pattern' and 'social relations' of the victims. Orphans who lack the protection of their parents or other relatives, who are in a state of psychological instability for a long time, and who have weak social connections in the real world are its best 'prey'. After all..."
She paused here, and after a moment she shook her head gently: "After all, if reality is too cold, then the warmth in fantasy will appear particularly tempting. The power of 'fairy tales' is actually very weak when they first have an impact. It only takes a thin 'rope' to firmly fix the affected children to the side of reality. But for many orphans, even that thin 'rope' does not exist."
Yu Sheng's brows were still furrowed. After a moment, he asked again, "What was the trigger for the impact? I heard from the squirrel... that it was reading the corresponding fairy tale?"
Little Red Riding Hood nodded slightly: "This is the most important part."
"Why not just list these stories as taboos?" Hu Li looked curious. "There was a demon cultivator in my hometown who merged himself into a legend before he died. Later, he almost succeeded in turning the legend into reality through word of mouth. I feel it is quite similar to this... just as scary."
When Irene heard this, her eyes widened slightly, and she stared at Hu Li in amazement: "Fuck, your hometown is really full of outrageous things... Then what happened? How did you get rid of that 'devil cultivator'? How did you ban that contaminated 'legend'?"
"Ah, that's not the case," Hu Li waved his hand. "Although we tried to ban it at the beginning, the back-up plan left by the demon cultivators had a wide impact and we couldn't ban it. But then the era of self-media came."
Yu Sheng's expression suddenly turned dull: "Uh...ah?"
"The world is full of demonic changes, ghost videos and short video clips. That demon cultivator died miserably afterwards," Hu Li gestured. "The last message for help he sent was turned into a ghost video and emoticons. By the time the Immortal Alliance noticed it, he had already died amid the laughter and joy of the people of the world..."
The room suddenly became quiet. Little Red Riding Hood, Yu Sheng and Irene just sat there on the sofa in a daze. Hu Li continued to speak dully, "So from then on, even the big fox demon in our tribe didn't dare to easily refine itself into the legend. If they had to refine themselves, they would refine math problems and physics formulas. After all, these won't be easily changed..."
Little Red Riding Hood listened to Hu Li's words in a daze. After a while, she blinked and turned to look at Yu Sheng: "Well, I can't follow your thoughts..."
"It's okay. I often can't keep up with the things happening in her hometown," Yu Sheng waved his hand. "Don't delve into other things, but I want to ask Hu Li's question as well. Since the corresponding fairy tales are an important reason for inducing 'fairy tales', why not directly control the spread of these stories? Or, like in her hometown, 'destroy' those stories..."
Little Red Riding Hood did not answer directly, but threw back a question: "Remember when we discussed why we didn't just demolish the old theater to 'permanently close' the Foreign Land-Museum?"
Yu Sheng's heart moved, and the expression on his face suddenly became subtle.
He knew what was going on.
"The abnormal alien world... also follows the same principle?"
"Yes, abnormal alien worlds are also alien worlds, and the underlying rules are the same," Little Red Riding Hood nodded. "The essence of the 'fairy tale' is a deeper 'information', and those stories are just some 'portals' connecting it to reality, just like the essence of the 'museum' is a distorted space, and the stage of the old theater is just its entrance. Removing the entrance will only make the alien world go out of control in a more bizarre and more difficult to prevent way, and even the danger level may increase, and..."
She raised her head and looked at Yu Sheng with a serious expression.
"Fairy tales have an even weirder feature. Their stories don't even need to be told by people. There was a record of a child who had never been exposed to the corresponding stories falling into a 'subset' created by fairy tales after a dream. Later investigations found that the child had heard the voice of a story being read in the void. This is why, although the fairy tale alien realm is not directly fatal, its danger level is rated as above level three - it has active malice."
The story of Little Red Riding Hood came to an end, and Yu Sheng sat on the sofa with a gloomy look on his face.
An inexplicable feeling of irritation came over him. He got up from the sofa and walked around the room, but he didn't know what to say.
"It shouldn't be like this... The Secret Service has no way to do anything?" He suddenly turned around and looked at the girl in red sitting next to him.
Little Red Riding Hood just sat there, raised her head and looked at him calmly: "Has mankind eradicated the common cold?"
Yu Sheng: “…”
"If you think of it as a chronic disease that only affects a small number of orphans, wouldn't it be easier to understand and accept?" Little Red Riding Hood continued, "You can't demand that a natural phenomenon be eradicated from the world just because you feel sorry for us orphans, and ask the Secret Service to do things beyond human power. The Alien World is not a factory with problems that can be solved by simply shutting down. The Alien World is a 'phenomenon' that operates in this world, and opening the entrance in a fixed place is already its greatest mercy to humans."
Little Red Riding Hood's voice was calm and powerful, but Yu Sheng still felt that something was wrong.
No, there is an alien world... there is an alien world that has indeed been "eradicated".
That valley.
Yu Sheng was thinking quickly, with all kinds of thoughts swirling in his mind like a storm -
Can the things that happened in the Night Valley be reproduced in the Black Forest? Even if they were reproduced in the Black Forest...how would it affect the essence of the "fairy tale"? In the final analysis, the Black Forest was only a subset of the fairy tale, a temporary "room" in the "invisible building". According to Little Red Riding Hood's explanation, Yu Sheng could not think of any way to touch the essence of the "fairy tale"...
How was he supposed to smear his blood on a "collection of stories"?
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Little Red Riding Hood looked at Yu Sheng, who suddenly stopped in front of the window, with some curiosity. She was curious about the ever-changing expressions on his face. She didn't know what this strange "adult" from No. 66 Wutong Road was thinking, but she could feel that this "weird entity" that made the Secret Service extremely nervous really wanted to help her.
"You want to do something very difficult," she said to the student. "I know you want to help us. In fact, there have been divers, scholars, investigators, and even an astrologer from Algrad who wanted to help the children resist nightmares, but they all failed. I... I don't mean to say this, but I just want to tell you in advance that this is a dangerous thing and there is no clue yet."
Yu Sheng seemed not to hear what Little Red Riding Hood said. He just continued to ponder. After a long time, he suddenly looked up and said, "I may not have any idea about the essence of the 'fairy tale', but we can start with the Black Forest."
Little Red Riding Hood was stunned: "Uh...did you not hear what I said at all?"
"I've heard it. I don't think it's a big problem," Yu Sheng waved his hand. "There are many things in this world that I don't understand. I still don't even know where my water and electricity bills and sewers are connected. As for the danger... To be honest, every foreign land is dangerous."
Little Red Riding Hood opened her mouth, but for a moment she couldn't think of how to refute the other party.
But just at this moment, when Yu Sheng was about to ask the girl in front of him for some more information about the Black Forest, a hurried sound of footsteps suddenly came from the corridor, interrupting everyone's conversation.
The door of the reception room was pushed open, and a girl with long black hair, who looked a year or two younger than Little Red Riding Hood, hurried in.
Little Red Riding Hood stood up immediately: "Long hair? What happened?"
The girl called Long Hair first glanced at the "outsiders" in the room. After getting a hint from Little Red Riding Hood, she took a deep breath and said in a low and quick voice, "A child 'left'. It happened very quickly. We didn't have time to rescue him..."
Yu Sheng noticed that Little Red Riding Hood's body shook slightly for a moment, and even her breathing stopped.
"...Which one?" she asked in a low voice.
"The new one."
(End of this chapter)
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