Chapter 171 Death and Response
The wolf's breath temporarily receded, and the heart filled with wolf poison gradually shriveled and withered in Yu Sheng's arms. The dark forest suddenly became quiet, without any more low and chaotic howls, or the gaze coming from the depths of the forest.
Hu Li and Irene ran out of the hut and dragged Yu Sheng into the house together.
"My benefactor, my benefactor, how are you?" Hu Li looked at Yu Sheng, whose face had turned pale, nervously, and the hair on his tail stood up. "Can you still hear me?"
"I can hear it, I can hear it... Don't get so close," Yu Sheng gasped with difficulty, feeling his strength draining away and the coldness and numbness gradually spreading through his blood vessels. "I'm almost dead. This thing is poisonous. I'll be poisoned if I touch it..."
"I also think you're dying, your face is black," Irene came over from the side, climbed onto Yu Sheng's chest, and stared at his face with her scarlet eyes. "So, Grandma Wolf is dead too, right? Does this count as killing her?"
"Dead, but temporarily. Like all entities, it will come back. In the next cycle, the Black Forest will return to the way it was before we came in," Yu Sheng said with difficulty. He coughed twice and continued, "But it doesn't matter. I have intervened in its cycle now... We succeeded, at least a big step... You come down first. You are so heavy now."
"Nonsense, my body is made of steel and stone now," Irene muttered as she obediently climbed down from Yu Sheng's chest, "but you didn't think it was too heavy when I sat on your shoulders before."
"I am dying now, and I am weak," Yu Sheng said, pausing to take a breath, and reaching out to Hu Li beside him, "Help me up."
Hu Li quickly hummed and held Yu Sheng's arm: "My benefactor, what are you going to do?"
"You two go back," Yu Sheng said, and with the help of Hu Li, he stretched his hand into the air. A door with a gleaming light gradually emerged. "Take my weapon with you. It's quite useful. Go back and improve it and continue to use it... Oh, and take this deflated heart with you. There's nothing useful left on Little Red Riding Hood's wolf grandmother. Only this heart looks like it's made of meat. Now that its poisonous blood has drained out, I'll study whether I can make a stir-fried wolf heart with peppers..."
"You're planning to eat this too?!" Irene was shocked and stared at Yu Sheng in amazement, "Isn't this a bit too scary?"
"Try it, try it. I finally killed it, and it killed me once," Yu Sheng took a breath, "I'd feel really bad if I don't fry it."
Irene felt strange, but Hu Li, who always listened to Yu Sheng, had already used his two tails to roll up the shrunken wolf heart and the tetanus stick on the ground, walked to the door, and turned back to ask: "Benefactor, then don't you go back?"
Yu Sheng waved his hand: "I'll stay here."
"Ah?" Irene looked up, her face full of surprise. "You're not going to die at home?"
"I'll wait here and see when the hunter will show up," Yu Sheng was already a little unsteady at this time, "What if we can communicate... I'll just die here later."
"Okay, let's go back first," Irene sighed and asked casually, "Would you like to have something to eat when you get back? Hu Li and I will prepare it for you first... Don't look at me like that, we won't cook, we'll just wash the vegetables for you or something."
"Wash two cucumbers and two tomatoes. It should be almost morning when I get back. I just died and want to eat something light. Let's make cold noodles with tomato and egg stew and cucumber shreds."
"oh."
Irene and Hu Li left, and the flickering door slowly disappeared.
The hut fell silent. Yu Sheng looked around and saw that the place was in ruins due to the previous battle. Although the giant wolf never stepped into the house, the spreading fox fire and penetrating silk threads almost destroyed all the furnishings in the house and left large areas of burnt marks on the walls and floors.
He took a breath and walked with difficulty to the small burnt bed in the corner of the house. He sat among the wreckage, waiting for the hunter, waiting to die.
Wolfsbane runs in his veins, and his blood flows in the Black Forest.
The faint crying sounded distant and vague, as if there was a curtain between them at some point, and as if something was soothing the source of the crying, making it gradually quiet down.
A slight rustling sound came from the wreckage of the crib. Yu Sheng looked towards the source of the sound and saw a dark brown, furry little creature poking its head out from the charred debris. A circle of red rags was wrapped around its head.
"Oh, Squirrel, I thought you must have run away," Yu Sheng greeted the squirrel, "You are very brave."
"Squirrel... Squirrel Knight is fearless... Fearless..." The squirrel repeated these words over and over again, as if his mind was gone. But suddenly he stopped and stared at Yu Sheng blankly, "Wait, you're going to die... You've been bitten by a wolf, and the wolf's heart has bitten you! You... You're going to die! You're really going to die! You're going to die in the real world, too! What should I do, what should I do, what should I do..."
It seemed like it had finally discovered something terrifying and started screaming and shouting, appearing anxious and frightened.
"I came here with my real body," Yu Sheng just smiled at it, "Don't be so nervous, I will come back - to me, 'death' is just a temporary symptom, of course you don't have to think about this complicated thing now. Calm down, little squirrel, if you don't want to leave yet, just chat with me."
The squirrel stared with its round little eyes, as if it didn't understand what Yu Sheng was saying, nor did it know what it should do at the moment. It was in a state of confusion.
"You're wearing this red cloth again," Yu Sheng stretched out his finger and pressed the squirrel's head, "Do you like this very much?"
"Red cloth... Red cloth is a good omen," the squirrel was startled and spoke subconsciously, "Squirrels also need their own red cloak... The red cloak will scare away the evil wolf. The red cloak is proof that you have not turned into a wolf..."
"Is the red cape proof that I haven't turned into a wolf? So that's how it is," Yu Sheng said slowly, holding up his eyelids. "Does the squirrel also worry about turning into a wolf in the forest?"
The squirrel suddenly stopped talking and just stood there blankly, as if it had fallen into a new round of system downtime because of Yu Sheng's question.
This little animal always crashes like this, as if it has a brain that is too small and carries too many thoughts that are beyond its ability to understand.
Yu Sheng feels that he is in the same situation now.
His mind was gradually becoming numb, and wolfsbane seemed to have replaced his blood flow, gradually growing many cold and vicious branches in his blood vessels. He felt dizzy and the little squirrel appeared in many double images in his field of vision. He heard the hollow sound of wind coming from the forest, and the wolves began to howl one after another again. They always howled like this because that's what the story said, at least... the one who told the story thought so.
In the gradually darkening vision, Yu Sheng saw something.
His eyes seemed to penetrate the dark forest, penetrate the barrier shrouded in shadows, and the thick soil beneath it. He saw countless fine branches, which were like tree branches, supporting this place on the "other side" of the forest. He also saw many intertwined structures, which were like blood vessels and nerves, entangled and filled with chaos and nothingness. The end of each cluster of intertwined structures was supported like a tree branch.
They support the king's castle, the wilderness where knights and dragons fight, the never-ending dance, the tower where the princess is imprisoned, the bedroom surrounded by thorns, the beanstalk that towers into the sky, and the sea and the palace filled with songs...
But this is not what Yu Sheng wants to see.
What he wanted to see was the "other side," the depths of those interwoven structures.
He tried hard to control his vision, trying to turn his gaze away, to look into the depths of the chaos, towards the source of those intertwined structures.
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But an extreme darkness blocked him, and there seemed to be nothing in the depths of that chaos.
The sound of footsteps reached my ears.
Yu Sheng regained consciousness briefly again, his consciousness returned from the perspective that penetrated the dark forest and fell back into the cabin.
The fire in the wooden house had gone out, and the candlelight on the table had long since disappeared. A cold atmosphere enveloped everything, and a tall figure pushed open the door of the wooden house and walked into the house with mechanical and stiff steps.
The dim starlight shone on the figure, giving it a vague outline.
"Hello, Hunter," Yu Sheng said to the figure who walked in, leaning against the remains of the cot. He felt the hollow and invisible body looking at him. "I've been waiting for you for a long time. I'm almost dying."
The hunter walked up to him slowly, with his empty hood lowered, as if he was carefully observing the "dying" "person" in front of him.
Although he couldn't see the "expression" under the hood, Yu Sheng felt that the hunter seemed to be in confusion.
This may be because there is a little bit of wolf's poisonous blood flowing in his body at the moment, which makes the "hunter" unable to judge whether he should shoot or not.
Yu Sheng did not explain anything. He saved every bit of his strength, slowly took out a piece of paper from his arms, and unfolded it in front of the hunter.
Twelve men and women wearing heavy protective armor stood there, posing for a meticulous photo.
"Do you remember this?" Yu Sheng raised his head and said softly, "Are you... one of them?"
The hunter stood there motionless, making no response.
Yu Sheng waited patiently, wondering which would come first, his death or the hunter's response.
Then he saw the hollow, invisible shell slowly raise the shotgun in its hand.
Yu Sheng: “……?”
No, man? "Bang!"
Gunshot.
Death and response came at the same time.
(End of this chapter)
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