Chapter 154 Yu Sheng’s Plan
The small room was a little quiet for a while. Yu Sheng and Baili Qing fell into deep thought at the same time. Although Hu Li and Irene didn't quite understand the situation, they realized from Yu Sheng's reaction that things seemed a little complicated, and they didn't dare to speak casually.
After a long while, Yu Sheng raised his head again, his eyes fell on the "certificate" on the screen. After staring at it for a few seconds, he retracted his gaze and looked at the "action record" in front of him.
"Can you confirm which one of them it is?"
"The name and key ID number were erased and cannot be restored. I'm not sure if it was intentional," Baili Qing said. "I can only conclude that he was one of the twelve members who carried out the deep-sea mission seventy years ago... Maybe we should rule out the two who successfully returned to the real world?"
At this point she paused, frowned and shook her head slightly: "No... According to the records in the archives, the two divers who returned to the real world are most likely only returning in their bodies. Their souls should still be trapped in the 'fairy tale' world... just like the other ten people."
Yu Sheng did not speak. His thoughts were in a mess at this time. Countless clues formed by various speculations and known information surged in his mind like a whirlpool. He kept coming up with conjectures, but they were repeatedly overturned because of obvious contradictions or inexplicable loopholes.
After a long while, he frowned deeply and finally broke the silence hesitantly: "Do you remember what we just discussed? The twelve deep divers back then...the place they arrived at should not be the Black Forest, but this 'piece of paper' was picked up by me in the Black Forest. The 'Hunter' is also an entity wandering in the depths of the Black Forest."
"That's what I'm wondering about," Baili Qing did not hide her confusion. "'The deep dive team seventy years ago did not enter any known subset of the 'fairy tale' foreign land'. This has been one of the conclusions of the Secret Service on this operation. Logically, even if the deep dive team back then really left some 'relics' in the foreign land, these items should not appear in the Black Forest, unless..."
Yu Sheng raised his head: "Unless?"
"Unless after the accident, those divers were still operating in the depths of the 'Fairy Tale'... and eventually found the path to the Black Forest."
Yu Sheng's eyes froze for a moment, and then he slowly spoke: "Then, they, or one of them, became the 'hunters' in the Black Forest..."
At this moment, Irene, who had been silent, suddenly tugged at his sleeve. The little doll hesitated and said, "Well, don't blame me for spoiling the fun. The 'Hunter' may not be the deep-sea divers from that year. It's possible that those members were killed. The certificate is the trophy of the 'Hunter'. After all, the 'Hunter' itself is an entity in the Black Forest, right..."
Yu Sheng and Baili Qing both looked at Irene at the same time, and the latter subconsciously shrank her neck: "I told you not to blame me for spoiling the fun, this is just a guess."
Baili Qing was silent for a moment, then spoke softly, "Yes, we can't rule out this possibility."
Yu Sheng did not respond. He just couldn't help but recall his experience in the depths of the Black Forest, and the scene when he came face to face with the shadowy figure in hunting clothes in the dim wooden house covered with red cloaks.
The hunter had no face, no speech, strange behavior, and stiff and rigid movements. No matter from which angle you looked at him, he was more like a strange entity generated from an alien land than a "living creature" with human nature.
But when Yu Sheng told him that the child devoured by the wolf grandmother had been safely sent back to reality, the empty hood did nod slightly.
Was that barely perceptible nod the remnant of his humanity? "Do you have more detailed information?" Yu Sheng suddenly broke the silence, pointing to the list on the table, "About this group of twelve people."
"Yes," Baili Qing nodded immediately, "I'll have someone send it over. It will be here soon."
As she spoke, she picked up the phone on the table and gave some instructions to one of her subordinates.
For the next short while, Yu Sheng waited patiently, while paying attention to the situation on the other side of the large window.
The laboratory opposite is still busy - although the technicians have successfully restored the original appearance of the "piece of paper" and confirmed its origin, there is still a lot of information worth analyzing on the paper - changes in physical and chemical properties, the composition of stains on the paper, the soil particles carried... These inconspicuous tiny clues may become bargaining chips for those "ordinary people" to fight against foreigners.
On the other side of the window, one can see what is happening in another operating room - the mysterious metal device that "emerged" from the room at No. 66 Wutong Road is undergoing a new round of instrument scanning. Compared to the intelligence quickly obtained from the "piece of paper", the analysis of this sample has obviously encountered difficulties, and the on-site technicians have not yet fed back any valuable information.
But perhaps this "difficult" situation is a common situation when analyzing exotic samples.
However, Yu Sheng’s attention is no longer on the “iron lump”, he is more concerned with things related to “fairy tales”.
Less than ten minutes later, the information Yu Sheng wanted was delivered to the small room.
It was a stack of personnel files temporarily printed out from the database, a dozen thin sheets of paper, printed with simple information of the deep-sea divers of that year - name, age, photo, service status, and so on.
Yu Sheng flipped through the sheets one by one, gradually matching their names with the list in the action file, and then looked at the black and white portraits.
There were twelve people, both men and women, some were elite veterans who looked middle-aged, and some were young people who looked about the same age as him.
At the end of the file there is a group photo. Twelve people, wearing some heavy protective armor with a somewhat "old-school sci-fi" style, are standing neatly in front of a building. They are not hugging each other, nor are they posing any gestures of victory or encouragement. They just stand straight and rigidly, take off their helmets, and stand at attention to take a group photo.
"This is their group photo before departure," Baili Qing said, "This is the rule of the Secret Service. Before each team carries out a deep-diving mission, all members of the operation team who participate in the dive must take a group photo."
"Yeah," Yu Sheng nodded gently, quietly looking at the photo printed on A4 paper in front of him. After a long while, he suddenly said, "Can I take this away? Just take it, I won't take other materials."
"What are you going to do?" Baili Qing asked curiously.
"Show it to that 'hunter' if there's a chance."
Baili Qing was silent for a while, seemingly thinking.
"In principle, this batch of information cannot be taken out, not even a single piece of paper," she said calmly.
Yu Sheng: “…Uh, okay…”
"But the principles are in my hands," Baili Qing continued, pushing the paper in front of Yu Sheng, "Take it away, don't spread it to others, and destroy it at the appropriate time after the incident is over."
Yu Sheng was a little stunned for a moment: "......?"
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Baili Qing looked at him: "Any questions?"
Yu Sheng finally reacted. He took the paper, folded it and put it away while muttering in a strange tone: "Uh, I didn't expect you to have a sense of humor."
"I'm not a man of steel."
Yu Sheng: "I didn't say these words either..."
"I'm just used to being serious." Baili Qing still had no expression, as if she didn't care at all about what Yu Sheng said, and then changed the subject, "Tell me about your plan. How are you going to deal with 'Fairy Tale'? In addition to this information, what else do you need us to do? We will do our best."
Yu Sheng suddenly felt a little embarrassed: "Well, you guys have been a great help..."
"The Secret Service has an old account with regard to the 'fairy tale' matter," Baili Qing interrupted him with a calm look and tone, "On the other hand, you are the only 'adult' who can enter the 'subset' like those children and remain unaffected, and you have successfully rescued a child from the depths of the Black Forest - we have every reason to continue to provide assistance."
Those colorless eyes were calm and firm. Yu Sheng looked into their gaze for a while and breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'm trying to find the 'storyteller' behind the Black Forest," he said slowly. "Based on my observations of the Black Forest and my perception of the wolves, I can now basically confirm that every subset of the 'fairy tale' is controlled and driven by a 'story source', and this source is most likely what the deep dive team encountered back then. But the problem I encountered is that I can enter the Black Forest, but I can't find the way to the 'backstage'. This is probably the opposite of what the team encountered back then."
At this point, he paused and looked seriously into Baili Qing's eyes: "They are most likely to have landed directly behind the stage."
Baili Qing immediately understood the meaning of this sentence: "So, if the 'hunter' in the Black Forest is really the deep diver back then..."
"Then they would know how to get to the back of the stage," Yu Sheng nodded. "That team might have successfully penetrated the deep barrier of the 'fairy tale' that year - but when they penetrated it, they had completely cut off contact with the real world."
"But the 'Hunter' is incapable of communication and lacks reason."
"So I need this," Yu Sheng pointed to his pocket, where he kept the photo close to his body, "This thing might be useful."
"Use a photo to influence a soul that has already turned into a physical body and exchange it for its empty humanity?" Baili Qing looked at Yu Sheng with a strange look in her eyes. "Do you really think this kind of thing that seems like a plot in a novel... will work?"
"If it doesn't work, think of another way," Yu Sheng said, smiling, "Just give it a try."
(End of this chapter)
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