Chapter 174 Breaking Through Shen Meng
After arranging the matters assigned by the director, Song Cheng returned to the office, lit a cigarette, and looked out the window in a daze.
Layer upon layer of repeatedly piled up, maze-like circular walls extended outside the window, extending to the endless distance. Heavy rain poured out from between the walls of the maze, flying into the sky, washing another piece of land above the sky.
Song Cheng was in a daze for a moment before he remembered that today was Friday and the floor where his office was located would move to the observation deck of the "maze" area after twelve o'clock.
It’s Friday, great, worth looking forward to, and tomorrow is the pleasant weekend...overtime day.
Song Cheng smiled self-deprecatingly, pulled down the blinds in the office, turned around and walked to the desk, looking at the several files that his subordinates had just brought here.
These are all information related to the exotic "fairy tales", and some are also information related to the current members of the "Fairy Tale Organization".
Thanks to the recent activity of a certain "emerging spiritual detective organization", the focus of several departments of the Secret Service has now shifted to "Fairy Tale".
Putting the cigarette into the ashtray beside him, Song Cheng calmed down and flipped through the paper documents in front of him.
After an unknown amount of time, a burst of hurried footsteps suddenly came from the corridor outside the door, causing Song Cheng to stop flipping through the documents.
The moment the knock on the door sounded, he said, "Come in."
The door of the office was pushed open, and Ren Wenwen, who had short black hair, appeared at the door: "Captain Song, the arrest team sent to South City is back and has successfully completed the mission."
"Have you caught those two angel believers?" Song Cheng raised his eyebrows and smiled. "Are there any other big fish?"
"It seems... not," Ren Wenwen shook her head. "The arrest team has been there for a few days. The two believers seem to be acting alone, or they are standard 'disconnected members'. Their superiors temporarily cut off the line after assigning the task. Do you want to go over and take a look?"
"...Okay, I'll be right there."
…
In the bedroom, Yu Sheng fell into a deep sleep.
An adventure in the Black Forest and a fierce battle with Grandma Wolf consumed too much of his energy. Although he was supported by some inexplicable excitement and did not feel very sleepy, he had just returned to the bedroom and lay on the bed for less than two minutes before he fell asleep in a sudden and irresistible sleepiness.
In a daze, he felt a rustling sound beside him. It might be the puppet who was also planning to take a nap. He also heard the sound of barefoot walking in the corridor. It should be Hu Li who was returning to the room.
Then he heard the hollow sound of wind. The wind blew through the forest, rolling the lush branches and leaves, and passed through the towering ancient trees and the dry fallen trunks, whistling hollowly, and there seemed to be a faint baby crying in between.
Yu Sheng suddenly opened his eyes.
He saw that he was lying in darkness, and the surroundings were chaotic as if covered by an extremely thick curtain. There seemed to be something behind the curtain, but he could not see it clearly. In the darkness before his eyes, he made out a tall and hazy shadow.
The shadow was wearing an old hunting suit with a dark-colored hood. Under the hood was nothing, with no body.
But Yu Sheng could clearly feel that there was a gaze in the void under the hood, quietly falling on him.
He suddenly woke up with a start, stood up from the darkness, and stared at the figure in hunting clothes.
At the same time, Yu Sheng quickly glanced around with the corner of his eye, judging the situation in front of him.
Was he back in the Black Forest? Not really… There was no such scene in the Black Forest. This heavy curtain was more like his dream… But just now he seemed to hear the hollow wind blowing through the forest again, which was very similar to the feeling in the Black Forest… And there was another sound in the wind, was it the cry of a baby? Was this his dream? Was it the Black Forest? Or… Was his “dream” connected to something weird again? Yu Sheng quickly calmed down. After realizing that he could not determine what was going on here for the time being, he focused on the illusory figure in front of him.
The other party didn't move, and didn't seem to have any intention of suddenly raising his shotgun to shoot him.
"Hello," Yu Sheng said tentatively, greeting the other party, "Should I call you 'Hunter'?"
The figure didn't react.
"You must be it," Yu Sheng felt a little awkward, but he could only continue to talk to the other party, "We met in the Black Forest, twice - you even shot me the second time. Of course, I didn't care much about it. You must have your reasons for doing so, right... Hey, buddy, can you give me a response? You're embarrassing me."
The "Hunter" still did not respond, as if it was just an illusory projection that somehow appeared in this dark space that seemed like a dream.
Yu Sheng frowned tightly, walked forward cautiously, observing the other party's reaction, and then carefully walked around the other party.
"You can't speak?" Yu Sheng asked curiously.
He still didn't get a response.
After a stalemate for a while, Yu Sheng finally gritted his teeth and reached out to the hunting suit floating in the air.
He just wanted to touch the other person to see how the hunter would react, but the next second, he found that his fingers easily penetrated the clothes.
Yu Sheng was startled for a moment, then saw that the "hunter" was still standing there stupidly. He felt relieved and became a little bolder, stretching his hand forward.
He felt a slight obstruction, which was the real and illusory resistance produced when his fingers penetrated the "fabric", and then he felt a slight coldness, as if he touched a piece of air that was three or four degrees lower than the surrounding environment, but other than that, there was no special feeling.
Yu Sheng stood beside the "hunter" and put one of his arms completely inside the hunting suit, and then suddenly frowned.
Inadvertently, part of his arm that was inserted into the hunting suit overlapped with the sleeve of the suit - this scene was as if he was "wearing" the sleeve.
The next second, he saw that the sleeve, which had been floating in the air like a phantom and motionless from beginning to end, suddenly moved, moving with the movement of his arm. Although the amplitude was small, it did not escape his eyes.
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I am "putting on" this dress! The associations and realizations that came into being in an instant seemed to impact this dark and chaotic "dream". Yu Sheng suddenly felt a violent shaking coming from all directions, and in this shaking, he found that he had withdrawn his arms without knowing when - he saw the heavy "curtain" around him collapsing, the dark space began to disintegrate, and the empty and invisible "hunter" in front of him suddenly moved, taking stiff and strange steps to retreat, and in almost the blink of an eye, only an illusory shadow was left.
Yu Sheng subconsciously stretched out his hand, trying to stop this strange "hunter", but just as he raised his arm, he suddenly heard a familiar voice in his ear -
"Uncle, what are you doing?"
Everything in front of him suddenly disappeared. Yu Sheng was in a trance for only a moment, and then he found himself standing in an endless, gloomy wilderness. The chaotic gray sky covered the wilderness, and nameless wild grass covered the ground. A familiar hill stood quietly in the distance. The breeze blew across the wilderness, and the wild grass rippled.
A little girl who looked only five or six years old was standing beside him, looking up at him curiously and blinking her eyes.
Yu Sheng’s mind was still immersed in the encounter with the “hunter” just now, and the scene where he almost “put on” the hunting suit. He didn’t wake up at this moment, and stood there for two or three seconds before he suddenly reacted: “Xiaoxiao?!”
"Hello, uncle!" Xiaoxiao suddenly laughed and greeted Yu Sheng happily.
"Um, hello... no, why are you here?!" Yu Sheng looked at the little girl in front of him in confusion. As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately looked up and looked around, but he didn't see Little Red Riding Hood. "Are you alone?"
"I don't know either," Xiaoxiao tilted her head in confusion, "I was taking a nap."
"Nap?"
"Well, Teacher Su took us to take a nap. We have to sleep at noon, otherwise we will feel sleepy in the afternoon," Xiaoxiao said, "I fell asleep, and then I dreamed that a big bad wolf was chasing me, and I ran and ran, and then I couldn't run anymore, so I fell down... and fell here, and then after a while, I saw you came here, but you seemed to be in a daze."
The little girl's speech was a little disorganized, but the basic logic and events were complete. Yu Sheng immediately understood what she was saying, but his expression was even more confused than before.
Xiaoxiao dreamed of the "Big Bad Wolf". This was undoubtedly the influence of the "fairy tale" on her. She must have fallen into the dark forest in her sleep and was discovered by the wolf, but she said that she fell while running... and fell into this wasteland? What was going on? Yu Sheng looked up and looked around. Of course he knew where he was. This was still his weird "dream" - but after several consecutive experiences of something wrong, he had already vaguely reacted.
Is this place...really a "dream"?
Yu Sheng recalled the last time he saw Little Red Riding Hood here. He also remembered that Little Red Riding Hood was still in the wilderness after he "woke up" from here. If the teacher hadn't found her sleeping in class and woke her up with chalk, she would have stayed here. And this time, Xiao Xiao had already arrived in the wilderness before he entered...
Various clues indicate that this wilderness is not a "dream" at all.
This is a "place", a consciousness space, or something else. It has always existed, but when you dream... there is a high chance that you can come here.
(End of this chapter)
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