Chapter 218 After the Overflow Subsides
Yu Sheng stood motionless at the door, one hand still maintaining the door leading to the valley, his eyes fixed on the depths of the hall, on the stairs leading to the underground.
He was sure that he had really seen the hunter just now - an old hunting suit, a thick hood, and nothing under the hood. The other party just stood quietly in his sight. Although it only lasted for a blink of an eye, the hunter... was definitely staring at this side.
Why did the hunter appear? Was it because Little Red Riding Hood was the last to leave and the "Black Forest" subset had not completely subsided? Was it because something was still left in the building? Or was it because... Ankaela's activity was intensifying? In addition, Yu Sheng was sure that the other party was looking at him just now. Did the mysterious hunter... want to communicate with him?
He frowned tightly, and at this moment, he saw a figure swaying beside the door he opened. Irene came over and looked at this side curiously through the door: "Hey? Yusheng, why don't you come over?"
"Take Little Red Riding Hood and the others to settle the children first," Yu Sheng said quickly, "I'll check here and come back later."
"Oh," the little puppet nodded, but didn't ask any more questions. "Then you should come earlier. There are a lot of children here. I'm afraid they will come to catch me after they get used to it. I won't be able to stand it then..."
Yu Sheng agreed casually and let go of the door handle.
The passage leading to the valley was closed in the blink of an eye, and the scenery emerging in the door frame disappeared out of thin air, leaving only the empty courtyard outside the east building immersed in the night.
With an inexplicable sense of caution and vigilance in his heart, Yu Sheng first checked the first floor, then went up to the second floor and slowly walked forward along the corridor.
The lights were on in the building and all the doors were open. In the rooms, one could still see traces of the children's hasty evacuation - the beds were not made, and things that they had not had time to take away were placed on the tables or at the foot of the beds. The chairs that had been knocked over were left unattended and lay quietly on the ground.
Only Yu Sheng's footsteps echoed in the empty and silent corridor.
There were no strange sounds, no lights suddenly appearing outside the window, and no strange shadows emerging from the air or on the walls - Yu Sheng checked the second and third floors and did not see any unnatural phenomena.
It seems that with the transfer of the children, the "overflow" of fairy tales has indeed stopped, and the previous appearance of the hunter should be just some kind of "aftershock" phenomenon.
...Is it really just like this? Yu Sheng still had some doubts in his heart, and then his cell phone rang.
The caller was Song Cheng - the children were transferred in advance, and the engineering personnel in the valley were notified, and of course the news would be passed to the Secret Service.
After answering the phone, Yu Sheng took the initiative to speak before the other party: "The children have been urgently transferred. Now the "overflow" phenomenon in the orphanage has stopped, and all kinds of illusions entering the real world have subsided. I am patrolling the corridor. I am the only one left here."
"Good," a relieved voice came from the other end of the line, "As long as the overflow has stopped... A team is already on their way to your place. They will be there in about ten minutes. They will be responsible for monitoring the area from now on."
"Okay, I'll wait a little longer," Yu Sheng said, and looked up through the window in the corridor at the sky outside - that was the place that was illuminated by the anti-aircraft fire of "Prince" before. "Just now, there were overflowing illusions everywhere here. I saw some illusions even extending outside the walls of the orphanage, or extending to the sky... Did it cause too much impact on the surroundings?"
"That's exactly what I wanted to say - there have been no eyewitness reports so far, and the sensors set up by the Secret Service around the orphanage have not detected any abnormal signals," Song Cheng's tone sounded a little serious. "The bureau is working hard to confirm the data sent back by sensors in other locations and the recent 'nodes', but at the moment... I'm afraid that all the equipment has not captured the 'overflow phantoms' you mentioned."
Yu Sheng stopped and looked a little surprised.
The visions that just overflowed from the nightmare were so loud, there were even artillery roars and flames shooting into the sky, but there was no movement outside the orphanage? ! It would be fine if there were no eyewitness reports, after all, it was already the middle of the night, and there were "node" devices set up around the orphanage to shield ordinary people, but even the surveillance equipment set up by the Secret Service nearby did not capture any unusual phenomena, which was a bit wrong.
...Could it be that those illusions that overflowed from nightmares are only "visible" within the scope of the orphanage? Yu Sheng was puzzled. He told his guess to Song Cheng on the other end of the phone. After listening, the other party was silent for two or three seconds before speaking: "...It is very likely. Those 'overflowing' illusions are essentially still the 'nightmares' of the fairy tale members, and are not the 'real objects' that really invade reality. You also mentioned that those illusions did not leave any traces in the real world after they faded, which shows that their 'visibility' is still greatly limited."
"Then we should feel fortunate that we were able to control the 'overflow' in time when those illusions were still just illusions." Yu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, he saw through the window several lights appearing outside the orphanage wall - those were the lights of car lights coming from the direction of the intersection.
Song Cheng's voice also came from the phone: "Our people have arrived and are at the gate."
"I see—I'll go down and take it."
Yu Sheng arrived at the gate of the orphanage. As soon as he went out, he saw several black vans with Secret Service logos parked by the wall. The doors opened, and a dozen black figures wearing Secret Service equipment, fully armed to the teeth, who looked like future agents, jumped out of the cars. They looked very professional, and there was an especially familiar face in the team.
Li Lin.
When Yu Sheng saw this young Secret Service agent, his first reaction was to be stunned for a moment, and he was a little bit afraid to recognize him - because now the other party was wearing a full set of tactical equipment and protective armor and holding a gun in his hand. If he was an NPC in an FPS game, he could at least resist a burst of bullets from the protagonist team. Yu Sheng's most profound impression of this young man was still the scene where he went to the community supermarket to buy discounted instant noodles and squatted on the side of the road like a spirited young man...
The image of the spirited young man in his memory and the image of the elite agent in front of him kept overlapping for a long time. It was not until Li Lin took the initiative to walk over that Yu Sheng raised his hand and greeted him belatedly: "Uh, is that you?"
"Yes," Li Lin nodded, then stood at attention and said in a very well-trained and serious manner, "Second Action Team of the Special Service Bureau, 'Fairy Tale' Emergency Response Team, Li Lin, is now the on-site person in charge and will take over the monitoring and garrison tasks in this area!"
Yu Sheng was stunned and couldn't help but blurt out: "...Are you the person in charge of the scene?"
"I was also transferred here temporarily," Li Lin said, his expression a little bitter, and he lowered his voice and came closer, "Brother Yu, I'm so panicked now..."
Yu Sheng was a little uncomfortable with Li Lin's current image, but he couldn't help laughing when the other party spoke, and asked curiously, "Where is Xu Jiali?"
"He is a deep diver, on standby at the headquarters. He will be deployed only if the alien world is really out of control," Li Lin explained in a low voice. "The main task of our group is to keep an eye on it here - what is the situation inside now?"
"Well, there's nothing going on inside now, but it was quite lively just now," Yu Sheng coughed twice, and then roughly explained the situation in the orphanage to the other party, "... basically, the spillover here has stopped after the children evacuated, but because we are not sure whether there are any 'mutation' factors in this orphanage itself, we still have to keep someone here to watch. I will withdraw next and go to the resettlement site to watch over it, and I will leave this place to you."
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"Got it. Just leave it to us," Li Lin nodded immediately. At this moment, he really showed the reliability of an elite operator. "Go with peace of mind."
Yu Sheng always felt that the more he listened to the other party's words, the more wrong they were. Of course, it could also be that there have been a lot of deaths recently so he is more sensitive to this aspect, similar to a professional funeral...
But he didn't care. After explaining the situation of the orphanage, the characteristics of the overflowing illusions, precautions and other things to the young operator in front of him, Yu Sheng waved to Li Lin, picked up his mobile phone to report, opened the door and went to the valley.
Then, the first second after he stepped through the portal, he heard the sound of Irene shouting in his ears——
"Ahhh Yusheng! Help! Someone please take care of these naughty kids!"
Yu Sheng was startled, and then he saw a few doll-heads running around in circles on the grass not far away. Irene was being chased like a rabbit in front, and her short legs were almost flying with sparks...
Further away, he saw several "parents" from the fairy tale organization leading a group of children to rest on the grass and platform, Little Red Riding Hood communicating with the person in charge near the resettlement site, and the fox girl running towards him.
It’s great, the kids are happy and adapting here, no accidents have happened - a sense of security comes naturally.
Yu Sheng smiled and greeted the fox girl who was running towards him happily. The fox girl shouted happily as she ran towards him: "My benefactor! Human cubs are so funny!"
Yu Sheng was laughing happily, but he suddenly stopped halfway, and then he finally noticed the situation on the other side of the platform from the corner of his eye - several fox tails with blue flames were flying over the grass, and each tail had a cheerful doll head hanging on it...
He almost broke out in a cold sweat on the spot: "...Fuck! You can't play like this!"
Irene continued to run in circles on the grass not far away, shouting louder than Yu Sheng: "You can't play like this! Is there anyone to supervise it?"
(End of this chapter)
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