Chapter 173 Early Morning
After sending the message, Yu Sheng looked up at the sky outside the window.
It was just daybreak and still early for work, so it might take a while for Baili Qing to respond.
So he didn't just sit there and wait. After sending the message, Yu Sheng found a small box that was originally used to hold biscuits, put away the "bullet" from the hunter, and then went to the kitchen to prepare something to eat.
Hu Li and Irene followed quite naturally - the former wanted to get some food, while the latter obviously had some questions that she didn't understand.
"How did the hunter know that you could bring the bullet 'outside'?" Irene followed Yu Sheng in confusion. "He shot you like that, and he was sure that you would not only survive, but also get the bullet out? And that you would have the opportunity to find someone to analyze the origin of the bullet? How can you pass on information like that?"
Yu Sheng was busy in front of the stove. He did not stop what he did after hearing Irene's words. He just frowned slightly, with a thoughtful look on his face.
The question mentioned by the little doll was exactly what he had been thinking about since just now.
It is hard to say whether the bullet was a piece of "information", but one fact is very clear: in the Black Forest, the hunter shot him without hesitation, and the bullet was aimed directly at the heart. Excluding other motives, the shot was obviously aimed at killing him.
"So, the biggest possibility is... he doesn't know." After a moment of contemplation, Yu Sheng broke the silence.
Irene blinked: "He doesn't know?"
"An entity wandering in the Black Forest cannot possibly know my ability to 'resurrect,'" Yu Sheng said slowly, "and probably doesn't know that I 'opened the door' directly from reality into the Black Forest. So when the hunter fired the gun, he theoretically didn't know that I could later live and bring the bullet into the real world."
"So he really wants to kill you? But Little Red Riding Hood just said that the hunter would not misjudge. He has no motive to shoot you..."
"I don't understand this either," Yu Sheng shook his head, "but no matter what, next time I go into the Black Forest, I will carry that bullet with me."
He quickly cut a plate of cucumber shreds, then picked up the remaining half cucumber and handed it to Hu Li who had been waiting for a long time. After a pause, he said, "Since the hunter gave me a bullet, I have to take it with me and see what changes it will cause in the future."
Irene said "Oh", and at this moment, a cell phone rang suddenly from Yu Sheng's pocket.
"It's Baili Qing calling," Yu Sheng took out his phone and took a look at it. He quickly answered the call, "Are you awake so early? Did you see the message I sent you?"
Baili Qing didn't say a word, and got straight to the point in her first sentence: "That was a standard exorcist warhead used by deep-sea divers and secret service agents seventy years ago. It has now been upgraded."
Yu Sheng wiped his hands on the towel, told Hu Li to watch the pot where noodles were cooking, and told Irene not to climb onto the stove again, then walked aside: "...Okay, it's just as I thought."
"The bullet came from the Black Forest?" Baili Qing's voice came from the receiver, "Is it another 'relic' obtained from the 'Hunter'?"
Yu Sheng subconsciously pondered for a moment, mainly wondering whether the bullet he shot at was "left behind" or "gifted" to him. After thinking for two seconds, he quickly shook his head and cut off this somewhat outrageous fantasy: "I guess so. The process of obtaining it was quite tortuous, but it is indeed the Hunter's thing, and it is the item he is using."
"Then we can basically confirm that the hunter is from the twelve-man deep-diving team seventy years ago," Baili Qing's tone changed slightly, with an imperceptible solemnity, and then she took a deep breath, "Have you established contact with him? Is this veteran... still willing to help us?"
Yu Sheng couldn't help but fall silent. After a moment, he sighed, "Unfortunately, I failed to successfully establish communication with the Hunter. Although I showed him the photo, I'm not sure if he reacted to it."
"You didn't say a word?"
Yu Sheng thought for a moment and said, "I didn't have time to say it."
Baili Qing was silent for a moment: "...Then how did you get the hunter's bullets? This kind of thing should be a soldier's personal belongings..."
"The other party called me."
Baili Qing remained silent a little longer this time.
He was obviously controlled by Yu Sheng's words and fell into deep thought.
"It means exactly what it says." Yu Sheng added.
This time the director finally understood. The voice on the other end of the phone suddenly hesitated: "...Are you okay?"
"Not dead," Yu Sheng had no other words to say. After all, the other party didn't know that he couldn't die, so he could only perfunctorily say, "It's just a few scratches, and I always feel that the other party should still be able to communicate, but the method this time may not be right."
"You still want to try to contact the 'Hunter'?" Baili Qing seemed a little surprised, "This may be dangerous."
"It's a little dangerous, but it's worth another try. I've made some progress. I'll sort out what happened last night and send it to you. You have a lot of think tanks over there, so help me analyze it and see if there are any details I missed," Yu Sheng said quickly, not giving the other party a chance to interrupt him. "Little Red Riding Hood doesn't have much time left. There are still many children in that orphanage, and they don't have much time either... You know what I mean."
"...I understand. The Secret Service will provide full assistance. If you need anything, please feel free to contact me."
After the phone call was hung up, Yu Sheng leaned against the cupboard and took a deep breath.
"My benefactor," Hu Li's voice came from the direction of the stove, interrupting Yu Sheng's somewhat chaotic thoughts, "The noodles are cooked, do we need to rinse them with cold water?"
"Yes, rinse it with cold water," Yu Sheng shook his head quickly. When he looked at Hu Li who was full of expectation, the irritability in his heart gradually dissipated unconsciously, and a smile appeared on his face, "Then we will prepare to eat."
…
The children were lining up in front of the sink, washing their hands and faces and applying perfume obediently in order. The children who had already washed their hands sat at the dining table early, waiting for their "parents" to help them serve the food.
Little Red Riding Hood was supervising the doll heads beside the sink, looking back from time to time to confirm the order at the dining table, with a somewhat bored expression on her face.
Rapunzel passed by, carrying a large bucket of vegetable soup she had just brought from the kitchen. She looked up at Little Red Riding Hood curiously as she passed by her. "Hey, you're not still mad at me, are you?"
"Do I look like I'm angry?" Little Red Riding Hood felt a little puzzled.
"Anyway, you look pretty serious," Rapunzel nodded, "That's all you did last time I owed you twenty bucks."
The corners of Little Red Riding Hood's mouth twitched suddenly, and she didn't know how to respond.
"Hey, tell me what happened," Rapunzel asked curiously, "I know that you were kicked out of your dream. You suddenly sat up and vomited in the middle of the night, and then you were sulking. What happened?"
"…Nothing, I just suddenly realized that I'm actually quite scared of my birthday next month - but I'm also looking forward to that day for some unknown reason." Little Red Riding Hood was silent for a few seconds, exhaled softly, and waved to the other party, "Okay, don't waste time with me here. If you don't send the soup over, the children will make a fuss."
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"oh……"
Rapunzel walked away with the soup bucket, and Little Red Riding Hood's eyes involuntarily followed the direction she left and looked at the long table.
Children of all ages sat there, chatting and playing.
Several adults in council employee uniforms stood at the kitchen door, looking over here with complicated smiles on their faces.
Xiaoxiao has fully recovered. She was very shy and didn't dare to speak loudly to others in the orphanage just two days ago, but now she seems to have her own friends. She is describing a strange dream she had with the child sitting next to her with a serious face - it seems to be a dream that has nothing to do with the Black Forest, a little weird, but ordinary and peaceful.
The other children who often had nightmares seemed to be very envious of the scene Xiaoxiao described, and several children were attracted to it.
Little Red Riding Hood raised her head, facing the gradually warming sunlight that came in from the window, and squinted her eyes slightly.
…
The phone beeped, indicating a message was received. Baili Qing opened it and saw that it was from Yu Sheng.
The message describes a daring adventure in the Black Forest, a thrilling face-to-face confrontation with the "Grandma Wolf", and what happened during a brief contact with the hunter.
There are also many of Yu Sheng’s personal speculations, as well as some information related to the current situation of the Black Forest that has never appeared in the investigation report before.
The text was very long, and had obviously been edited on a computer and then forwarded - with many details clearly written out.
Baili Qing stood in front of the French window, carefully reading this "report" that he wasn't sure if it could be considered a report, and couldn't help muttering, "He really deserves to be a novelist..."
A pair of eyes appeared quietly outside the French window behind her, and a mechanical voice sounded in her mind: "Beautiful words?"
"No, what I mean is that it's much easier to understand what he wrote than to listen to him speak," Baili Qing sighed, "At least it's not so... hard to react."
The pair of illusory eyes blinked, and then they looked at the text on the phone carefully together with Baili Qing.
A moment later, Baili Qing dialed a number.
Song Cheng's voice came from the phone: "Director?"
"An additional deep-diving squadron will be arranged at the headquarters. They will not be deployed for the time being, but they must be ready to carry out missions at any time," Baili Qing said calmly, "The large deep-diving pool at the D2 diving port should be prepared from now on."
"Yes," Song Cheng responded immediately, but he was subconsciously a little confused, "Director, what happened?"
"Just in case of emergency," Baili Qing said, "...the 'core' of the fairy tale may really be dug out this time."
(End of this chapter)
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