Chapter 175: Old Events Become Suspicious
Yu Sheng quickly shook his head and temporarily put aside the messy guesses in his mind.
Whether this is a special consciousness space or it is really his "dream", what we really need to think about now is why Xiaoxiao appeared here.
Yu Sheng naturally thought of two other people who had appeared here: Little Red Riding Hood and Hu Li.
If we have to count, Irene should also be included - although the little doll came in by itself with its own ability to "enter dreams".
...Is it because of the blood connection? Xiaoxiao was still standing aside, blinking and looking at this side, looking a little confused.
Yu Sheng reached out and rubbed the little guy's head. He didn't know how to explain this place to a six-year-old child, so he simply gave up explaining: "You are dreaming."
"Uncle, are you the person I dreamed about?" the little guy looked curious.
Yu Sheng was stunned and could only bite the bullet and said, "...Yes, you dreamed about it."
"Uncle, can you turn into the X-Men Knight?"
Yu Sheng finally realized that the topic seemed to be different from what he imagined: "...No."
The little girl thought for a moment and said, "It's OK to turn into Oxman."
Yu Sheng couldn't hold it in any longer, so he squatted down to look at Xiao Xiao at eye level, and said earnestly: "Although this is a dream, there are things that cannot be done in dreams..."
"oh."
The little girl said "oh" and seemed to have finally given up this wild idea.
Then a few seconds passed.
"That little Rainbow X..."
“No.”
"Okay, that won't change."
Xiaoxiao sat down on the spot, pulled out some grass from the side, and began to carefully tie the grass leaves into knots.
Yu Sheng couldn't help but think of Little Red Riding Hood's complaints about him last time. He squatted down beside Xiao Xiao and asked, "Do you feel a little bored here?"
The little girl nodded, but then shook her head vigorously.
"There are no wolves here," she whispered, "I feel better than in other dreams."
Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, then seemed to be thinking about something.
But just when he was about to say something else, he suddenly heard a faint sound.
It took him a moment to realize that the sound came from the real world.
"Uncle is leaving," Yu Sheng thought quickly and turned to Xiao Xiao and said, "You should stay here later. The teacher will wake you up at the end of lunch break. Don't be afraid, it's safe here."
Xiaoxiao blinked her eyes and waved politely to Sheng: "Goodbye, uncle."
Yu Sheng then let go of the control over his consciousness, allowing his thoughts to fall in this "dream", and was pulled back to reality by the voice coming from his mind.
The next second, he suddenly felt pressure coming from all over his body, and the heavy pressure on his chest made him feel almost unable to breathe. He opened his eyes and saw three dolls as expected - two Irenes were pressing down on his arms and legs respectively, and another Irene was sleeping on his chest with her legs spread out...
Even though the three dolls looked exactly the same, he could instantly tell that the one lying on his chest was Rebar Irene...
"Get down, get down. You're going to crush me to death." Yu Sheng quickly used his hands and feet to get the Irenes off his body. He felt like he was competing with a bunch of koalas. When he finally broke free, he felt like half of his body was not his own. He even suspected that he might have been crushed to death by this guy once, and now he had just been resurrected - then he quickly pulled his body to reach the phone on the bedside table that was constantly ringing. He took it and saw that it was Little Red Riding Hood calling.
Ignoring the doll X3 who was mumbling and complaining in his half-asleep state, Yu Sheng answered the phone casually: "Hello?"
The Little Red Riding Hood on the other end of the phone came straight to the point, but what she said surprised Yu Sheng: "Do you remember the last time we did it in the museum?"
Yu Sheng was a little stunned for a moment. He was still thinking about Xiao Xiao getting into his "dream". He also thought that Little Red Riding Hood came to him because the orphanage found something unusual. He didn't expect that the first thing she mentioned was the operation at the museum. After a moment's reaction, he nodded: "Ah, I remember it."
"Then do you remember that the 'reward' for that operation has not come yet?"
"Ah, I would have almost forgotten if you hadn't mentioned it!" Yu Sheng reacted quickly, "The payment hasn't come yet... What happened? Did you go to collect the money? Did the other party refuse to pay?"
As he spoke, he felt a little strange, because recently when he contacted Little Red Riding Hood, they were always discussing "fairy tale" and exotic things, and the topic was either the Black Forest or the Big Bad Wolf. At this time, the museum incident from a few days ago was suddenly brought up again. He was quite uncomfortable with this topic jump.
But the other party's next words instantly shook off Yu Sheng's feeling of discomfort -
"My client is dead."
"……What?!"
"Because I haven't received any payment from the Association of Wonders, I felt very strange, so I tried to contact them, but found that the several contact methods left by the client were all unreachable," Little Red Riding Hood began to explain the situation in detail to Yu Sheng, "So today I contacted other acquaintances in the Association of Wonders, and they told me that my client had an accident a few days ago and had died."
Yu Sheng didn't say anything for a while, but he had already sensed that something was wrong from Little Red Riding Hood's words.
After a moment, he grasped the "wrong" feeling and realized what was going on: "... Wait, what about the commission for the 'Weeper Statue'?"
"It seems you've thought of this, too," Little Red Riding Hood said solemnly. "The Association of Wonderful Things is a formal organization with great influence. For the commissions they issue, even if the executor has an accident, the organization should have a follow-up process to take over. It shouldn't happen that the person in charge of the contract dies and the subsequent remuneration is swallowed up. So I directly checked the commission according to their process... guess what the result was?"
"Do you still need to guess?" Yu Sheng knew the answer after hearing this. "You said so... the commission doesn't exist, right?"
"Yes, it doesn't exist. In the public bidding information of the Association of Wonderful Things, there is no commission for the recycling of the 'Weeper Statue'," Little Red Riding Hood sighed, "But I don't know whether this commission was fake from the beginning, or someone deleted its record recently."
Listening to the other party's last words, Yu Sheng's brows unconsciously frowned.
It had been many days since the operation at the museum, and although there had been many unexpected situations afterwards, such as cult sacrifices and angel worshippers, in Yu Sheng's opinion, the matter was over at least for him and Little Red Riding Hood. However, now, new waves of something wrong had emerged in this originally concluded incident, which made him vaguely smell a hint of... "conspiracy".
If this commission was fake from the beginning, then things would be simpler - perhaps an unruly member of the Curious Items Association wanted to bypass the association's supervision and privately collect "exhibits" from the "museum" for profit, but ended up getting the things but not the person. The whole thing could be limited to the "individual" category, but if this commission was really issued by the Curious Items Association in the first place, but all information was deleted recently, then this matter... would be much more complicated.
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"I feel like something is not right about this matter, and the compensation that was originally agreed to be shared with you has not come to fruition. I feel like I should contact you to explain the situation," Little Red Riding Hood's voice continued to come from the phone, sounding apologetic. "I'm sorry, you've put in a lot of effort on this matter, and it took you so long, and now it's turned out like this..."
"Don't talk about this for now," Yu Sheng interrupted him, "What are you going to do next? We need to continue investigating, right?"
"...Well, at least I have to find out what happened to my client," Little Red Riding Hood hesitated for a moment, then continued, "I have been working with him for several years. He was the one who initially helped me connect with the Association of Strange Objects. Even... the previous 'Little Red Riding Hood' was helped by him. Anyway, I don't believe he would do such a thing for personal gain, and his death was really strange, too much like..."
Yu Sheng said calmly: "It looks like someone has silenced him, doesn't it?"
"……Um."
"Let's meet and talk," Yu Sheng exhaled softly, "Should I go find you or you come find me?"
Little Red Riding Hood was a little surprised. After a moment of shock, she quickly said, "Ah? I didn't mean to trouble you. I just wanted to tell you about the reward. I plan to do the rest of the investigation myself..."
"Nonsense, you've said so much, I'm curious," Yu Sheng interrupted him again, "and this is too bad, even the money of child laborers is cheated..."
little Red Riding Hood:"……"
I could tell during her silence that she wanted to say something in rebuttal, but she couldn't.
Yu Sheng complained for a few words, then suddenly remembered something: "Oh, by the way, let me ask you, is the Secret Service in charge of this matter?"
"Of course they are in charge. After all, this is a commissioned operation that has been registered on the 'Border Communication' platform. If there is a breach of contract or the concealment and transfer of 'strange objects', the authorities will of course investigate. Moreover, this time someone was killed. However, their investigation direction and method are definitely different from those of the 'Spiritual Detective'."
"Then let them investigate theirs, and we'll investigate ours," Yu Sheng waved his hand, "You haven't said it yet, should I go find you or will you come find me?"
Little Red Riding Hood was silent for two seconds, and finally spoke: "...I'll go find you. I'm nearby now and will be there in about half an hour."
"Okay, I'll wait for you at home."
"Yeah, and...thank you."
The phone call was hung up. Yu Sheng watched the screen gradually go dark and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then when he looked up, he saw three little dolls sitting neatly on the bed, staring at him.
"Another incident."
The three Iresnes spoke in unison, deliberately lengthening their voices.
Yu Sheng glared at them and pointed at the one in the middle: "This one, you are not allowed to sleep on the bed anymore."
“…Why?”
"Why? Because you almost crushed me to death!" Yu Sheng glared, "And the rebar plus the solid stone compressed the bed from 1.67 meters to more than 60 centimeters. I was afraid that you would jump on the bed and smash a hole in it. Hurry and get off."
It would have been fine if he hadn't said it, but as soon as he said it, Irene's eyes immediately turned red (although they were already red to begin with), and she rushed over with a roar...
(End of this chapter)
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