Chapter 142 When Tomorrow is Suddenly Worth Looking Forward to
Yu Sheng didn't waste any words. After getting Little Red Riding Hood's confirmation, he opened a door in the corridor in front of Rapunzel and Xiaoxiao (of course, he also reported it with one click).
An illusory, faintly glowing gate appeared out of nowhere, and on the other side of the gate was an unfamiliar landscape.
"Wow..." Rapunzel's eyes widened instantly, and she looked at the scene in astonishment, "What... is this?"
While maintaining the gate, Yu Sheng casually said, "Didn't Little Red Riding Hood tell you about my abilities?"
"Well, she did mention it a little, but I didn't expect it to be like this." The surprise on Rapunzel's face had not yet dissipated, and she looked at the other side of the door with even more curiosity, "What's on the other side of the door?"
"Are you interested? You can go together," Yu Sheng smiled and invited her calmly, his eyes falling on Xiao Xiao again, "Do you want to go over and play? It's hard to find such a wide place in Jiecheng."
Xiaoxiao immediately raised her head and looked at her "parents" with a questioning and cautious look.
Little Red Riding Hood was full of doubts. For some reason, she always felt that the scenery across the door looked vaguely familiar, but she was not sure because of the perspective. However, after noticing the half-smile on Yu Sheng's face, she was sure that it was a safe place - so after a little hesitation, she nodded to Rapunzel and said, "Come along, since Yu Sheng said you can go too, it shouldn't be dangerous."
"Um...Okay, I'll go tell the others first and I'll be back soon!"
As Rapunzel said this, she turned around and ran quickly to the corridor. A few minutes later, she ran back in a hurry - holding a small schoolbag in her hand: "I'm back, I'm back, we can set off now."
Yu Sheng looked at the thing in the other person's hand with some confusion: "Uh...what is this?"
"Water bottle, tissues, snacks, and Band-Aids, kids should take them with them when they go out," Rapunzel said as she put the small schoolbag on Xiaoxiao's back. "Oh, and the hat, too. I forgot to take the little yellow hat. Wait for me..."
"We're not going on a picnic," Yu Sheng said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "Besides, there are no cars or intersections there. Besides, if I really need to, I can always open the door and come back."
"Ah? Oh, oh, okay," Rapunzel finally realized what was happening. She seemed a little reckless. "What's that place on the other side?"
"It's nothing, just a vegetable patch." Irene said casually.
Rapunzel had a puzzled look on her face, but before she could ask again, Little Red Riding Hood had already walked through the door, followed by Hu Li and Irene. Yu Sheng controlled the door with one hand and made an inviting gesture to her and Xiao Xiao with the other hand: "Go ahead, you'll be surprised."
The momentary feeling of weightlessness and dizziness, as well as the brief confusion of the senses caused by the change of environment - the whole process took less than a second, and the person who stepped through the gate had left the orphanage and stood in the vast sky and earth.
Rapunzel looked at the place with blue sky, high mountains and large valleys in astonishment, and then noticed that Xiaoxiao, who followed her, had her eyes wide open. This girl, who was always nervous and restrained because she had just arrived in a strange environment and usually didn't speak actively, had a strange look on her face. Such an incredible scenery obviously had a great impact on her.
"Wow--"
Xiaoxiao finally exclaimed, a huge grin on her face, she raised her hand, pointed at the large mountain range in the distance and the wasteland covered in a layer of light green, and then giggled.
I have no idea what she is laughing at, I can just tell that the child is very happy.
However, Little Red Riding Hood, who had stepped through the gate first, was now standing still. She seemed not to have heard the laughter coming from behind her. Instead, she stared blankly at the mountains on both sides of the valley. The expression on her face gradually changed from confusion to astonishment, and even a hint of nervousness emerged.
She finally recognized the place - although it had been turned upside down, she could still recognize the outline of the entire valley.
But the next second, she saw something that shocked her even more.
She noticed the open platform in the center of the valley (she was standing next to the platform at the moment), the large tracts of vegetable fields outside the platform that had obviously been leveled by humans, the unfinished water channel on one side of the platform, and... the ugly-looking makeshift toilet on the edge of the platform.
The girl's train of thought was immediately blocked by this pile of unrelated scenes, and she couldn't come to any conclusion after thinking about it for a long time.
She could only look up at Yu Sheng, but saw that Yu Sheng was also looking at her with a smile.
"Remember I told you that I would solve the problem of the Black Forest and even the problem of 'fairy tales'?" Yu Sheng came to Little Red Riding Hood and said to her slowly, "You told me that 'fairy tales' cannot be eradicated because foreign lands are such things - but I don't think so. Now look at this place. This is the 'evidence' I give you."
"Is this... Night Valley?" Little Red Riding Hood finally broke the silence, but she didn't know how to continue. She had already noticed that unimaginable changes had taken place here, but her reason made her dare not think about what this meant.
"It was called this name before, but now I am planning to change it," Yu Sheng raised his head and looked at the scenery in the distance, "Since the big eyes left, there is no night here anymore. Now I am more worried about how to make the day and night here normal - if it is always daytime, many vegetables will not grow well, but I don't know how to build a greenhouse."
Little Red Riding Hood blinked her eyes, her ears followed, but her thoughts did not.
She found that the biggest problem when dealing with Yu Sheng and his gang (although their number was questionable) was that she could never keep up with their ideas.
But after two or three seconds, she finally reacted: "Wait! What about the hungry entity entrenched here?"
"No more," Yu Sheng spread out his hands, "The dish you saw when I invited you to dinner last time was the last one."
Irene, who was standing beside her, looked up and added, "By the way, he seems to be quite sorry about this."
little Red Riding Hood:"……?"
She couldn't keep up with the train of thought.
"The Hungry Entity... is gone?" Another two or three seconds passed before Little Red Riding Hood finally reacted. She then made a series of stormy chain inferences based on her reason. She finally realized what Yu Sheng's words meant. "Wait! You mean, there will never be another 'Hungry' entity generated here?"
Yu Sheng nodded: "It's like this - not only will there be no more 'hunger' here in the future, but I also plan to turn this place into a meat, vegetable and grain production base for the hotel, although it's just in the initial stage now."
Little Red Riding Hood didn't pay attention to what Yu Sheng said in the second half of the sentence. She took two steps forward, her eyes as sharp as a wolf at this moment: "So, the rules of this foreign land have been permanently changed? No... The rules of a foreign land are its essence. The change of rules means... the original 'foreign land' here has disappeared? No, that's still not right. This valley is still there..."
"Bai Li Qing said something very appropriate," Yu Sheng saw that Little Red Riding Hood was a little confused due to her excitement, so he smiled and waved his hand in front of her, signaling her to calm down, "This valley is now like an empty shell left after being eaten up - the rules and entities that once filled this empty shell have been eroded in that feast, and the valley that is left is just a harmless shell."
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He paused for a moment and added, "Also, this 'shell' seems to have been 'connected' to No. 66 Wutong Road. Although I haven't figured out the space-time structure between the two, you can assume that you are now standing in the 'courtyard' of No. 66 Wutong Road."
Little Red Riding Hood said nothing.
She seemed not to be listening to the second half of Yu Sheng's words at all.
She just stood there blankly, not moving for a long time, her eyes seemed frozen in her eye sockets, staring fixedly into the distance, at the clear sky and the healed earth, at the light green on the hillside, at... this "foreign land" that was no longer filled with hunger and despair.
Brisk footsteps came from the side. It was Xiaoxiao. The child who always kept her head down and didn't talk in the orphanage now had a bright smile on her face. She trotted all the way to Little Red Riding Hood, raised her hand high, and handed over a handful of wild grass: "Sister Red Riding Hood! There are flowers!"
The next second, the little girl froze. She kept her hands raised and looked up anxiously, "Why are you crying? Does it hurt? Is your body going to break apart?"
By the end of the conversation, the child was obviously a little scared.
But Little Red Riding Hood suddenly lowered her head, wiped her face quickly, and when she looked up again, her eyes were full of smiles. She reached out to take the bunch of weeds from Xiaoxiao's hand, and rubbed her head again: "No, I was blown in the eyes by the cold wind... This is just a bunch of weeds, there are no flowers?"
"It fell on the road," Xiaoxiao laughed again, "and then was blown away by the wind. You have to pretend that it is still in your hand..."
"...Well, it's still there," said Little Red Riding Hood, ruffling the girl's hair again, "Thank you for the flowers."
Then she straightened up again, looking for Rapunzel.
She saw that Rapunzel had climbed onto the strange platform at some point and was curiously studying something next to the strange and ugly "house". After a while, she suddenly raised her head and waved her arms excitedly.
"Hey! Little Red Riding Hood! There are chickens next to this toilet! A whole bunch of them!"
Little Red Riding Hood faced the bright sunlight and squinted her eyes slightly.
How nice, she thought - how nice it was that there was suddenly something to look forward to in life again.
Only Yu Sheng suddenly seemed unhappy.
"That's not a toilet!" he shouted to the girl on the platform, "That's the first phase of our club's headquarters!"
(End of this chapter)
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