Chapter 139 The Suspicious Piece of Paper
The dream scene described by the little girl made Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood, the two "parties" who had just returned from a cottage deep in the Black Forest, frown at the same time and fell into deep thought with serious expressions.
After several seconds, Yu Sheng was the first to look up and break the silence: "Can you see what those people look like? In addition to asking you to run fast, did those people in red cloaks say anything else to you?"
Xiaoxiao just shook her head and became nervous again.
"It's okay, it's okay. If you can't remember, forget it." Yu Sheng waved his hand and comforted the frightened girl. "Tell us later when you remember something."
Xiaoxiao blinked her eyes and nodded hesitantly, not knowing how much she had heard.
"Take her to the East Building classroom first and tell Teacher Su about the situation," Little Red Riding Hood said to Rapunzel, "But there will be no classes in the afternoon. Let her have a good rest in her room."
"good."
Rapunzel took Xiaoxiao's hand, and two figures, one tall and one short, walked out of the room.
The room fell silent again. Little Red Riding Hood looked in the direction they left, pursing her lips, not knowing what she was thinking. After a long while, she broke the silence with a soft voice: "This child is the first one to be sent into this room and walk out alive."
She raised her head and her eyes fell quietly on Yu Sheng.
"Thank you, 'Fairy Tale'. I owe you a big favor. From now on, I will be your most steadfast friend."
"This is just the beginning. My goal is to conquer the entire fairy tale world. The first step is to at least get rid of the black forest." Yu Sheng said seriously.
"Can this really be done?" Little Red Riding Hood couldn't help asking when she heard the other party mention this goal again, but this time there was obviously a hint of hesitation in her doubts - Yu Sheng's operation of rescuing a "dead" child from the Black Forest and bringing him back to the world obviously caused a great impact on her worldview, so that some of her deep-rooted ideas about "foreign lands" began to become less firm.
Yu Sheng did not answer the question directly, but stared into the girl's eyes quietly. After a moment, he said, "It's better to let you see it directly than to explain it in detail. After confirming that the child's condition is completely stable, I will take you to a place."
Little Red Riding Hood nodded with a hint of doubt and curiosity, and then Yu Sheng reached into his pocket again and took out a dirty piece of paper that looked very old.
"This fell from the 'hunter'. Do you know what it is?"
Little Red Riding Hood's expression suddenly became serious when she heard this. She carefully took the piece of paper and looked at it carefully for a long time, but finally frowned: "...I am not an expert in item identification, and I have never seen anything like this in the Black Forest..."
Yu Sheng was not disappointed by this answer. He just carefully put away the paper and asked curiously, "How many times have you dealt with that 'hunter'?"
"Not many. The most common creatures in the Black Forest are wolves, followed by huts and paths. Hunters only appear when Grandma Wolf appears, and they only appear for a short time each time," Little Red Riding Hood thought and patiently explained to the student, "and it's not accurate to say 'deal with'... In fact, every time I'm 'active' in the Black Forest, it's not like today."
"Not like that?" Yu Sheng raised his eyebrows, "Then what is it?"
"I feel confused and dazed, like a bunch of discontinuous dreams. I often find it hard to control myself, and my identity is not always 'Little Red Riding Hood'," the girl sighed softly in a low voice. "When the situation is bad, I even run in the forest from the perspective of a wolf. When I meet a hunter, I occasionally observe the wolves from his perspective. It's like I have many identities at the same time. Human, wolf, grandmother, hunter, my 'self-awareness' jumps back and forth between these identities. Recently, I've been acting as a 'wolf' more and more, and the number of hunters who appear... has also increased."
This was the first time she described to Yu Sheng her situation in the dark forest in such detail.
Yu Shengze frowned when he heard this. From Little Red Riding Hood's description, the first word that came to his mind was - fall.
In those discontinuous dreams and chaotic switching perspectives, in the repeated shaking and replacement of "self-cognition", Little Red Riding Hood is obviously gradually losing her true "self".
It wasn't just the wolf that devoured her, it was the entire Black Forest - turning into a wolf was just a kind of "manifestation" of this process.
"It sounds like a mess." Irene's sigh was very straightforward.
"Yes, it's a mess, and this kind of chaotic experience is the norm when you are trapped in the Dark Forest," Little Red Riding Hood spread her hands with a self-deprecating smile on her face. "Like today, I walked through the forest so clearly, and then left so clearly. After waking up, I was able to immediately confirm my human cognition. For me, it was a very incredible experience. In my memory... I probably only had similar experiences when I was a child, when I was not so deeply affected by the Dark Forest."
As she spoke, she shook her head and her eyes fell on Yu Sheng again.
"I'm sorry I can't help you. I know very little about Hunters. Most of the time I've only had contact with them for the duration of a gunshot. But I do have a suggestion."
"Tell me about it?"
"You can ask the Secret Service's Identification Division to help you look at the piece of paper," Little Red Riding Hood said seriously. "They may not know the situation of the 'Hunter', but their professional equipment can at least help you analyze more details from the piece of paper. Besides, didn't you pick up a 'metal part' that fell out of nowhere at home last time? You can also ask them to do an identification."
"Good suggestion," Yu Sheng thought it made sense, so he nodded, "Then I'll call Baili Qing and ask her to help arrange it."
When Little Red Riding Hood heard the other party mention the name of a big shot so naturally, her expression changed subtly, and she hesitated and reminded: "Well... for this matter, there is no need to contact the director of the Secret Service directly, right? Can't you just find Xu Jiali and the others?"
Yu Sheng thought about it, and recalled the last time he called Baili Qing in the middle of the night and the next day "Border Communication" directly updated a door opening declaration button. He felt that Little Red Riding Hood's reminder seemed to make some sense.
As a result, before he could say anything, he felt a vibration in his trouser pocket, and then his cell phone rang.
Yu Sheng took out his mobile phone and took a look, and suddenly saw the three words "Bai Li Qing" on the screen.
Little Red Riding Hood took a quick glance and was stunned, her expression visibly subtle.
Yu Sheng pulled the corner of his mouth, gave Little Red Riding Hood an awkward smile, raised his hand to answer the phone and put it to his ear: "Well, good afternoon, Director Baili."
"Just call me Baili Qing," a familiar and cold voice came from the other side of the receiver. "Just now, the monitoring department detected a very special time and space dislocation, and they couldn't find the cause anywhere, so I came to ask you - what's the situation on your side?"
Yu Sheng's expression became even more awkward when he heard this, and he smiled awkwardly: "Well, it is true that I just opened a door here... When I opened the door, I was in a foreign country, my phone had no signal, and I didn't have time to report it."
There was silence for two seconds on the other end of the receiver. "…The monitoring signal this time is a little different from usual. Are you testing some 'new function'?"
The monitoring signal is different from usual? Yu Sheng's mind moved, and he quickly thought of the special nature of "fairy tale" as an alien world, and immediately said, "Not really, I went to a special place - I just came back from the subset of the 'fairy tale' alien world, the 'Black Forest'."
There was silence on the other end of the phone for another two seconds.
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He didn't know if it was an illusion, but Yu Sheng always felt that every time Baili Qing was silent, there seemed to be a hundred or eighty sentences stuffed in it - they were just holding it back and not saying it out.
"Excuse me for being curious - what are you doing in 'Fairy Tale'?" The voice of the female director finally came through the receiver again, and her tone was a little subtle.
Yu Sheng's head twitched, and he blurted out without knowing what he was thinking: "...Do you believe me when I say I'm visiting?"
Baili Qing's response was even quicker than his: "Ah, there's someone you know over there..."
Yu Sheng interrupted the other party before he could finish speaking: "No, a child is missing. I'm going in to help find the child."
Baili Qing: “…”
Every silence of the director was so deafening that Yu Sheng felt that more than a hundred or eighty sentences might have been crammed into these two seconds.
After a moment, he clearly heard a slight inhalation from the other side of the receiver, and then Baili Qing's tone was still calm: "Have you found the child?"
"Uh, I found it," Yu Sheng felt that this phone call made him sweat coldly, "It was taken away by a wolf, but it's not dead."
He paused for a moment, then continued, "By the way, since you called me, I have something I'd like to ask the Secret Service for help with."
This time Baili Qing responded quickly: "Okay, go ahead."
"I brought something out of the Black Forest. I think it was something carried by the entity Hunter that was generated in the forest. I would like to ask you to help identify it. By the way, I have another thing here that was refreshed from the room at No. 66 Wutong Road. I would also like you to take a look at it. Is that convenient?"
There was silence on the other end of the receiver again: "..."
However, Baili Qing's silence was very short this time, and she responded soon: "Okay, I'll make the arrangements. If the sample shows no signs of self-destruction, can we wait one more day? A more comprehensive analysis laboratory will take some time to prepare."
"That's no problem. I'll wait for your news tomorrow."
"good."
The phone hung up.
Yu Sheng raised his head, looked at Little Red Riding Hood, and smiled awkwardly: "Well, in the end, I just let the 'Director' arrange it."
Little Red Riding Hood opened her mouth, and after a long pause she finally said, "Well, the experience of us 'ordinary people' is of no use to you..."
(End of this chapter)
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