Chapter 205 The Second Blood Donation and the Old Building Investigation
Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood talked a lot about squirrels and the unknown "advent" eighty-six years ago.
Little Red Riding Hood told him a lot of old stories about the orphanage and some daily situations within the "Fairy Tale" organization.
"Did you see that silly boy with curly hair over there? The one chatting with the long-haired one, he is the red dragon that just fell. He is similar to the 'king', representing a type of 'classic story image' with no clear reference, and the 'subset' behind it is not a clear 'story'. His code name is 'Dragon Slayer'... but of course he is not a real dragon, not that powerful.
"Why is the image of the 'Dragon Slayer' a dragon? Because 'Dragon Slayers eventually become dragons', so sometimes he will fast-forward and turn into a dragon after entering a nightmare... Actually, he can't fly, he will directly turn into a defeated dragon. In the red dragon form, his only ability is to fall from the sky in various postures, mainly by falling down and hitting people. Sometimes he will also play the role of the dragon slayer before he turned into a dragon. At that time, his ability is to summon a defeated dragon from the sky... again by falling down and hitting people.
"Sleeping Beauty doesn't talk much. She loves sleeping the most. She sleeps during the day and at night. I have always envied her sleep quality, but she said that she always feels awake when she sleeps. In fact, she is sleepy and tired every day. Her biggest wish is to get the most comfortable pillow and sleep on it.
"Dorothy can communicate with all kinds of machines. Even if those machines don't have machine souls, they will produce machine soul-like reactions when she communicates... Yes, 'The Tin Man Has a Heart' is this symbol. Dorothy can make steel temporarily have will. She often uses this ability to trick the vending machine into giving her an extra bottle of drink, or to continue making calls when her mobile phone is out of money - I envy this too.
"But what I envy the most is the mermaid - she didn't come today. She sings beautifully, and she doesn't have to go out to take on tasks. She just uses an avatar to do live broadcasts, and she can earn more in half a day than I can in a week... Me? I'm tone-deaf.
"But she also has her worries... scales fall out inexplicably when she takes a bath, often clogging the sewer. Even if she keeps her human form, there are always scales in the bathroom. Oh, she can't swim... didn't expect it, did you? "Oh, and there's the one over there, 'Little Match Girl', the one with the longest code name, an arsonist, a super expert. The orphanage relies on her when the heating is not warm in winter, but I heard that the municipal heating pipes in our area will be replaced next year, so she won't have to burn the boiler in winter... Don't offend her, she's very irritable when she lights a fire."
Little Red Riding Hood kept talking like this. She sat with Yu Sheng on a high earthen slope, looking at her companions not far away. She always had a faint smile on her face, just like the eldest sister in a big family, introducing many embarrassing stories of her younger brothers and sisters to her friends with a bit of pride and doting.
After a while, the boys and girls lit a grand bonfire in the wilderness.
The fuel they used was the thorn bushes summoned by Sleeping Beauty - the blooming rose bushes burned fiercely in the fire, and the flames that shot up into the sky illuminated the chaotic and gloomy wilderness. Just as Yu Sheng had expected, this wasteland that was as silent and monotonous as the afterlife became so lively for the first time.
The older children who had gathered in this sheltered place were shouting, singing and dancing around the campfire, most of them howling in tuneless voices, interspersed with the king's meows.
Then, Hu Li and Irene also ran over to join in the fun. The little dolls floated in circles above the fire, as if they would set their own frames on fire in the next second. Hu Li was crackling fox fire in the sky, just like setting off fireworks - Yu Sheng was also dragged over to act as a mascot in front of the bonfire.
He felt like he was participating in some weird and lively sacrificial ceremony, surrounded by "believers" who were screaming and joking with joy. He also felt like a "parent" who was being dragged to participate in some school activity, surrounded by children dancing wildly - he could only maintain an awkward yet polite smile in the middle.
That didn't feel too bad.
Then, the children's first gathering in this sheltered wasteland came to an end.
Early the next morning, Yu Sheng came to the orphanage - according to the plan, today he would perform "blood vaccination" on the younger children.
He was sitting in the kitchen of the orphanage cafeteria, watching Snow White mixing a large bucket of strangely colored "nutritious vegetable soup" with a serious face, and couldn't help but be a little skeptical: "...Is this thing really feasible? It doesn't make me hungry..."
"You have to believe in my cooking skills. Although it doesn't look very good, the little ones usually love to drink this." Snow White looked up at Yu Sheng while stirring the soup with the spoon in her hand. "Wait a moment, wait until the soup cools down a little before adding the ingredients, otherwise the blood will be scalded..."
Yu Sheng nodded: "Oh."
Another girl with long hair next to her, who looked about sixteen or seventeen years old and had a gentle temperament, couldn't help but mutter, "I still think it's better to put it in the strawberry smoothie - the low temperature can cover up the bloody smell, and the color doesn't look weird."
"It's winter, big sister. You gave each of these little ones a glass of smoothie early in the morning in the temperature of minus ten degrees. They are happy. Are there enough toilets?" Snow White raised her head and rolled her eyes. "I think you just want to eat."
The long-haired girl with a gentle temperament laughed awkwardly, and Yu Sheng couldn't help but look at her a few more times - he always felt that the other person looked familiar, but he couldn't put his finger on it at once. After looking at her for a long time, he couldn't help but ask, "Who are you?"
"We met last night," the girl smiled shyly, and raised her hand to point at herself, "at the campfire on the heath. I was standing behind Rapunzel—and earlier I was standing on the beanstalk."
Yu Sheng thought hard, and finally a figure standing in the sea of fire of Jack's beanstalk and laughing wildly appeared in his mind.
He clapped his hands immediately: "Oh oh oh! The one that wants everyone to see Tai Nai in the flames..."
Before he could finish his words, the girl in front of him blushed and waved her hands vigorously while speaking: "I, I'm not like that normally, but I just can't control myself when I'm igniting..."
Yu Sheng's mouth twitched: "Codenamed Little Match Girl, right? Her abilities are arson and illusion."
"This code name is too long. They usually call me 'Match'," the girl in front of him smiled shyly. This shy and gentle look was indeed completely different from the figure laughing wildly in the sea of fire. "Little Red Riding Hood must have exaggerated a lot when she introduced me to you."
"...she added a lot of things when she introduced each of you," Yu Sheng recalled the "features" that Little Red Riding Hood mentioned when she introduced the general situation of each person in the "Fairy Tale" organization to him last night, and couldn't help but smile, "but I can tell that she likes you very much."
The long-haired girl in front of him smiled, her smile was gentle and bright.
Snow White finally put down the spoon in her hand. She tested the temperature of the vegetable soup and turned to look at Yu Sheng with a half-smile:
"Brother, it's time to bleed."
Yu Sheng was stunned: "Brother?"
"Long-haired and I wanted to call you uncle at first, but Little Red Riding Hood said that you are not much older than us, so it is more appropriate to call you brother," Snow White said with a smile, and one hand had already picked up the kitchen knife beside her, "Do you want to cut it yourself or should I help you?"
Yu Sheng took a look at the smile on the other person's face and the kitchen knife in his hand, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat: "I'll do it myself, I'll do it myself..."
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At the same time, in the underground structure of the west building of the orphanage, Little Red Riding Hood was frowning slightly, looking at the dilapidated underground passage in front of her, and then looking down at the old documents in her hands.
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A "mercenary" wearing heavy armor, with dark complexion and a strong build was standing silently beside her. The mercenary's face was hidden by a heavy helmet, and a cat's head emblem was engraved on his breastplate. The "king" was squatting on the mercenary's shoulder with a proud look, looking around curiously.
“Is this the location?”
the king suddenly asked.
"It's hard to say," Little Red Riding Hood shook her head. "The clues provided by the squirrel were not very clear to begin with. She said the fall point was in the center of the orphanage's courtyard, but the layout of the orphanage eighty-six years ago was very different from what it is now. The 'courtyard' at that time partially overlapped with the current west building, but how much overlap there was, where the center point was, where the boundary was, these are all uncertain..."
As she spoke, she picked up the old documents in her hand and showed them to the "king".
"This is the layout of the West Building when it was built. It's the most reliable information we can find in the archives. We are roughly in this position now. If my calculations are correct, this should be the location of the 'courtyard' in Squirrel's memory... right above our heads.
"Also, this is the spot where I saw the 'Shadow of Thorns' before. It's a little bit north-east, and above us, it's an outer wall of the west building."
The king stretched his neck and carefully read the information handed over by Little Red Riding Hood for a while, then stretched out his paw and patted it: "Why are you showing this to me? I'm just a cat and I don't understand it."
"... Stop pretending. I saw you writing Bai Xue's physics paper for her."
The king turned his head away in embarrassment: "...She bribed me with cat strips."
Little Red Riding Hood looked at the tabby cat with contempt and then waved her hand.
"Can you feel something? Use that 'cat intuition' you always boast about."
"It feels... nothing special," the king muttered, stretching on the shoulders of the summoned mercenary, and said lazily, "But don't you find it strange? There's not even a mouse here..."
(End of this chapter)
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