Chapter 97 The Surrounded White Exhibition Hall
He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but Yu Sheng felt that Little Red Riding Hood had been a little nervous since the beginning.
He felt that this might, perhaps, have something to do with him...
But fortunately, he was thick-skinned and broad-minded (this was mainly developed through working with Irene), so he quickly stood up and focused on the next action.
He could now feel that the security guards were stationary in various areas of the museum, and some of them were slowly "decomposing" in the air. It seemed that as the "intruder" disappeared from the sight of all the security guards, the museum's "clearing" mechanism also stopped, and the plastic dummies that were temporarily generated to act as cleaners began to be gradually recycled.
But the recycling process is very slow. If we wait until all the plastic dummies are gone before taking action, we might miss the museum's opening hours.
Yu Sheng still remembered that Little Red Riding Hood had reminded him that the museum was a foreign land with a duration and that it would only be open during night performances.
"Let's continue. We're heading in this direction," Yu Sheng carefully sensed it and pointed to a door deep in the corridor. "There is no 'security guard' behind this door."
"Okay." Little Red Riding Hood didn't waste any words and immediately commanded the wolves to follow Yu Sheng, the only one who could determine a safe route.
The next exhibition hall has warm and bright orange lights. A group of huge mountain sculptures are displayed in the center of the hall, and many landscape oil paintings with bright and pleasant colors are hung on the surrounding walls. All the collections have no names, and the creators are marked as "Anonymous".
There are no plastic dummies here, and no "security guards" are encountered on the next route indicated by Yu Sheng.
Little Red Riding Hood found this very strange - she had never thought that she could act like this in a museum that was already in an "activated" state. According to the evaluation standards of the Secret Service, the danger level of the museum after the "security guards" were generated was actually close to level three, and it was already at the level where fully armed elite troops were required to take over. But now she was leading her wolf pack to quickly pass through the exhibition halls and intersections in this museum that was gradually revealing its malicious intent. Those "entity-security guards" scattered throughout the foreign land...
It's like it doesn't exist.
Only when Yu Sheng lowered his voice from time to time and pointed to a certain intersection to warn her could she confirm again that the deadly threats were still around.
Then they passed through many corridors and rooms, but still did not see the empty white exhibition hall mentioned in the intelligence.
Yu Sheng suddenly stopped and frowned.
"What's wrong?" Little Red Riding Hood suddenly became nervous and asked solemnly.
"We haven't found that exhibition hall yet." Yu Sheng said in a deep voice.
"Maybe deeper down?" Irene had already sat on Yu Sheng's shoulder again. When moving outside, this little doll was too lazy to walk a single step on its own. "Didn't they say that the structures in this museum are randomly generated?"
"What I mean is that we have already explored all the places where there are no 'security guards' blocking the way," Yu Sheng said with a serious expression, "The remaining intersections are controlled by those plastic dummies."
Irene opened her mouth and managed to utter a curse word for a long time.
"That's the worst case scenario - the White Exhibition Hall is really surrounded by those 'security guards'," Little Red Riding Hood's face flashed a hint of dissatisfaction, but after all, she didn't curse out loud because she had gone to school and was not like those who were taught before birth. "Really? They can be born anywhere else."
Yu Sheng was silent for two seconds, then spoke with a hint of speculation: "Perhaps, those plastic people were simply created in the white exhibition hall."
As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed to a door.
"Going out from this direction, you will reach the center surrounded by those plastic men. There are seven or eight entities distributed in the same space. I also discovered one thing - the 'security guards' in other areas slowly disappeared over time, as if they were recycled by the museum, but only the few here have not shown any signs of being 'recycled' so far. I suspect that is the white exhibition hall we are looking for, and something must have happened there that led to the generation of the entities, and the 'stimulus source' is probably still there."
Little Red Riding Hood, Irene and Hu Li looked at each other.
Yu Sheng’s intelligence and analysis sound reasonable, but it does not seem to be good news.
"What should we do? Should we retreat or go over and take a look?" Irene was the first to break the silence. "Anyway, this is a weird thing. It's normal to retreat now, but if we really leave like this, not only will this trip be in vain, but we will also feel frustrated that we got beaten for nothing... We escaped so miserably before."
Little Red Riding Hood thought about it, but turned her gaze to Yu Sheng.
"Go ahead," she said.
Yu Sheng was stunned: "Are you sure you want a newbie like me to make the decision? Newbies don't know anything and are very reckless."
"You now hold the power to leave this foreign land, and you are the only one who can determine a safe route. It has nothing to do with whether you are a newcomer or not."
Yu Sheng's expression became serious. After weighing the pros and cons for a long time, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and turned towards the door.
"Let's get closer and observe the situation first. Without alerting those entities, let's find out what happened in the white exhibition hall. It would be best if we can confirm the situation. If not, we can retreat." Yu Sheng made his decision and then confirmed with Little Red Riding Hood, "Will those 'security guards' only take action when they 'see' us? Will just approaching alert them?"
"Only when they 'see'," Little Red Riding Hood answered immediately. "Previously, investigators have confirmed that the 'security guards' in the museum only have vision, not hearing or smell, and their vision is a fan-shaped range of about 120 degrees in front of their heads - so strictly speaking, these dangerous 'guards' actually have very limited perception capabilities. But on the other hand, as long as they are within this 120-degree fan-shaped field of vision, they will never be distracted or ignore any intruders. Considering that most of the exhibition halls in the museum are very empty, as long as several 'security guards' stand in the room at a certain angle, there will be no 'safe corner' in the entire room where they can hide."
Listening to Little Red Riding Hood's explanation, Yu Sheng nodded thoughtfully, then he led the team out of the exhibition hall and cautiously approached the place that he felt was "not quite right".
The group soon passed through another "repeated corridor" that was almost the same as the one they had seen before, and saw an exit at the end of the corridor.
When he was still some distance away from the exit, Yu Sheng stopped.
"It's the white room."
Irene had sharp eyes and caught a glimpse of the scene on the other side of the half-open door.
Yu Sheng could clearly sense the presence of the "security guards" at the end of the corridor, and even saw a small piece of dark blue security uniform sticking out from the edge of the door.
The situation was just as he expected. The "entity" originated from the white exhibition hall, and up to now the entity in that exhibition hall has not shown any signs of disappearing.
Little Red Riding Hood on the side suddenly frowned and her nose twitched twice.
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"Blood," she whispered, her expression becoming extremely serious.
"I smelled it, too," Hu Li nodded, "very fresh."
Blood, corpses, the smell of death—
There is a smell of blood coming from the white exhibition hall, and the "entity-security guard" guarding the museum is generated from this.
There was no doubt that something was wrong.
But from this angle, it is still impossible to see clearly what is happening in the hall. If you continue forward, you may alarm the entity guarding inside.
"…I should have borrowed Dorothy's drone earlier," Little Red Riding Hood suddenly muttered, "Who knew I would encounter a situation like this…"
Upon hearing this, Yu Sheng couldn't help but become curious about the "Fairy Tale" organization behind Little Red Riding Hood, as well as the other fairy tale members. He did find some information about this organization in border communications, but he only knew that the members of this organization all used classic characters from a fairy tale as their code names, and he didn't know more.
But judging from the wolf pack led by Little Red Riding Hood... maybe every member of the fairy tale organization has some abilities related to their "codenames"? Then what is the relationship between Dorothy and the "drone"? "Can you tell me about your companions when you have the chance?" Yu Sheng asked curiously, "I'm very curious about your 'fairy tale' organization."
"Being too curious is not a good thing," Little Red Riding Hood seemed not very interested in this topic, but she did not refuse directly. "If there is a chance, if they don't mind, I can introduce you to them. As for now - we should decide what to do next. It is definitely not possible to go any further."
Yu Sheng touched his chin and said thoughtfully: "You just mentioned drones... Could it be that those 'security guards' had no reaction to drones?"
"They will only react to the intruder himself," Little Red Riding Hood nodded. "After all, these entities that can be generated in large quantities have no thinking ability. They have limited perception and act completely according to the rules. This leaves people like us with many opportunities to act."
"What about your wolf pack?" Yu Sheng asked again, "Can you send your wolves to check the situation?"
Little Red Riding Hood hesitated and shook her head.
"no."
"Why?"
"Because in a sense, my wolf is me."
(End of this chapter)
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