Chapter 137 Hunter
Yu Sheng belatedly noticed the dead silence surrounding the cottage.
The invisible wolf pack disappeared, retreating back into the shadow of the Black Forest at some point. Silence enveloped everything, and the most ferocious giant wolf belonging to "this generation of Little Red Riding Hood" never appeared - but Yu Sheng could feel the wolf's gaze.
The wolf that had devoured him once was now staring at the cabin from a distance. It had sensed the presence of its prey, but for some reason, it took no action.
What is it observing? What is it waiting for? Or... is the wolf on guard or vigilant against something? Yu Sheng carefully extended his perception, trying to analyze the wolf's behavior pattern or logic from its sight, but at this moment, he suddenly "saw" a shadow from its sight.
Near the cabin, in the open space between the forest bushes, a figure suddenly appeared - a human figure.
Yu Sheng's nerves tensed up instantly, and almost at the same time, he heard footsteps coming from outside.
It was the sound of human footsteps, gradually approaching, stepping on the fallen leaves and rotten soil outside, slowly, and almost reaching the door.
Yu Sheng's heart suddenly tightened. He thought of something, immediately raised his head and looked around, then quickly hid in a corner.
Almost at the moment he hid, the door of the hut was pushed open.
A tall figure appeared at the door - under the dim and cold starlight, Yu Sheng could only see a green and brown hunting suit and a thick hood that obscured the visitor's face. He saw the figure holding a long hunting rifle and walking into the house with a somewhat funny pace, half-bent over.
The hunter is coming.
But the wolf was already dead—dead before the hunters arrived.
Yu Sheng was suddenly stunned when he saw the tall figure in hunting clothes take two steps forward, obviously seeing the big bad wolf lying on the ground with its belly ripped open.
The "script" that was supposed to be completed by him was tampered with, so this "entity" that was also generated by the Black Forest suddenly stopped in place, like a stuck process.
The hunter didn't move, and Yu Sheng, who was hiding in the corner, didn't dare to move, so the cabin fell into an eerie silence.
Yu Sheng even felt that there was something a bit awkward in the silence.
At this moment, Irene's voice suddenly rang out in his mind: "Hey! Yusheng! Are you alive? How are you doing over there? Why haven't you come back yet?"
"I'm fine, but something went wrong," Yu Sheng said quickly in his heart while staring at the "hunter" who was standing still. "What's the situation 'outside'? Have Little Red Riding Hood and the child 'gone home'?"
"Everything is going well on my end. Little Red Riding Hood is vomiting in the bathroom next door now. The child has also woken up and vomited with Little Red Riding Hood. It seems that the 'sudden awakening' has had a great impact on both of them," Irene blabbered. "To be honest, I was shocked! The child is actually 'alive'. A person who had no heartbeat or breathing for a long time can actually be resurrected! How did you do that... Hey, what's going on over there? I heard from Little Red Riding Hood that you killed 'Grandma Wolf'? So now..."
"Yes, I killed Grandma Wolf, so the Hunter is stuck here," Yu Sheng sighed, interrupting Irene's chatter. "Do you know the Hunter? He's the one who ran out at the last minute to rescue Little Red Riding Hood. I took his job."
Irene didn't say anything, perhaps because she didn't react immediately.
Two seconds passed before the puppet's voice sounded again: "Huh?! Stuck?! Is it still like this?"
"That's the only explanation. What else can I do?" Yu Sheng's tone was also helpless. "Anyway, it's still there. I'm hiding in the corner of the cabinet behind it, and I'm embarrassed to go out. Mainly because I'm not sure how this thing will react. After all, it should also be an entity generated by the Black Forest. There may be some taboos or something like that."
"So you two are just going to compete in willpower? If you can't do it, just withdraw first. I'll pull you back..."
"Don't do it yet!" Yu Sheng interrupted Irene when he heard that she was going to "pull" him out. He recalled the feeling after "awakening suddenly" and suddenly thought that it would be better to go up and die. "I'll go and test the waters first. At least I can see what this hunter looks like."
As he spoke, he had already tiptoed out from his hiding place and slowly walked towards the tall figure in hunting clothes.
The "hunter" seemed not to hear the noise behind him and still stood next to the big bad wolf like a sculpture.
Yu Sheng gradually became bolder and no longer restrained his pace. He took three or two steps to the hunter's side and leaned over to take a look at him.
Irene's voice rang in his heart: "Hey, what's up? You didn't get killed, did you? What does that hunter look like?"
Yu Sheng was silent for two seconds: "...under the clothes, it's empty."
He looked at the 'hunter' in front of him and saw that it was just an empty hunting suit, no face under the hood, just some empty shadows.
The entire "Hunter" is just a set of clothes floating there.
But he didn't know if it was an illusion, he always felt that there seemed to be... "sight" under the empty hood, as if there was an invisible face and a pair of eyes staring at him.
Yu Sheng took half a step to the side. The "hunter" in front of him remained motionless, but he always felt that the "gaze" coming from under the hood seemed to move a little with him.
"Hello," Yu Sheng hesitated for a moment, and finally tried to greet the "entity" in front of him, "My name is Yu Sheng, um, I just got here."
Irene's beeping immediately sounded in his mind: "Ah, that sounds stupid."
Yu Sheng said expressionlessly: "Shut up!"
The hunter did not respond to his greeting, only the invisible feeling of being watched still existed.
Yu Sheng felt a little embarrassed, and pointed at the wolf corpse on the ground: "I did this - sorry for stealing your job."
At this moment, he keenly noticed that the folds on the edge of the hunter's hood had changed.
This "entity" was moving its gaze in the direction of his finger, and...it might even have nodded.
He/she can communicate!
Yu Sheng's heart was moved, but he immediately controlled his expression and continued to speak cautiously: "The child eaten by the 'wolf grandmother' has been rescued by me."
The hunter's hood moved slightly again, and this time Yu Sheng saw clearly that he was really nodding.
"It seems that you have no hostility towards me," Yu Sheng tried to make himself look more friendly and slightly extended his right hand to the other party, "If we stand from the perspective of fighting against the 'evil wolf', we are on the same side."
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The hunter suddenly took a half step back.
Yu Sheng was stunned by the other party's sudden reaction, and then he saw the other party continue to retreat quickly - as if it was a reverse playback of when he entered the door. This invisible "entity" wearing hunting clothes and a hood retreated quickly with a slightly funny but extremely weird pace. He retreated to the door of the cabin in a few steps, and then disappeared into the vast night outside almost in the blink of an eye.
"Hey——" Yu Sheng subconsciously stretched out his hand and shouted, but failed to stop this strange entity at all.
Irene's voice came from the bottom of his heart: "What's going on?"
"The hunter suddenly ran away when I was about to shake his hand," Yu Sheng himself was also confused, "I don't think I did anything to irritate him."
As he spoke, he sighed, but at this moment, something caught the corner of his eye.
It looked like a piece of paper that had fallen to the ground when the hunter left quickly just now.
Yu Sheng bent down and picked up the piece of paper. He saw that it was yellowed and fragile, about the size of a palm. There might have been something written on its surface, but it was covered with layer upon layer of dirt - ink, oil, and perhaps even blood - so that the content on the paper was completely unrecognizable.
"I found something..."
After carefully examining the piece of paper for a long time without any result, Yu Sheng muttered to himself.
"Ah? What did you find?"
"It's a piece of paper that fell from that 'hunter', but it's so dirty and torn that nothing can be seen."
"Um, do you think you can bring it out?" Irene's tone sounded a little weak. "I should only be able to 'pull' your consciousness out... or should I go in and show you the scene now? I'm still not very good at magnum opus and relic checks, so you don't have to count on me at all."
To be honest, Yu Sheng didn't even realize what the puppet said was wrong at first. He was stunned for a moment before he realized what was going on. He laughed in anger and said, "You are so honest!"
As he spoke, he shook his head, carefully put away the piece of paper that seemed like it would tear at any time, and walked over to the wolf corpse.
"Next, I'm going to try to open a door from here to see if I can bring the things out. But this is my first time opening a door from a 'conscious world' like the 'Black Forest' to the real world, and I'm not sure what will happen. You ask Little Red Riding Hood and the others to stay away first, and it's best to wait outside the room. Just you and Hu Li will guard by the side."
"Oh, OK!"
After getting confirmation from Irene, Yu Sheng took a deep breath, and then... took out his cell phone and took a look.
He also didn't understand whether the "mobile phone" he took out when his consciousness entered the Black Forest was a real object or just something he dreamed about. Anyway, there was no signal for the mobile phone here.
It looks like there's no way to report this, but the Secret Service should be used to it... right?
With some messy thoughts flashing through his mind, Yu Sheng put away his phone, then bent down and grabbed one of the wolf's legs. With his other hand, he pulled in the air, and an illusory and faintly glowing door appeared out of thin air beside him.
(End of this chapter)
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