Chapter 224 Awakening
After seeing the next few scanned images, Yu Sheng couldn't help but frown.
There are normal story paragraphs and illustrations, as well as wrong lines and typos that are obviously caused by typesetting errors or poor printing quality, and even blank spaces between paragraphs where content is obviously missing. The content at the beginning is fine, but becomes increasingly serious as time goes on.
He exited the picture page and edited a message to ask what was going on, but while he was still typing, Baili Qing's message had already been sent: "Did you see it?"
"I see," Yu Sheng typed back immediately, "but what about the rest of the content? I see a lot of typographical errors and some parts that were omitted."
"Poor quality printing, so most of the books in this batch were taken back from the market and destroyed that year," Baili Qing seemed to have known that Yu Sheng would ask this question, and she quickly responded, "But obviously, the Council cannot supervise every corner of Jiecheng 100%, so there are still some books left at the end of the market - and then one of them was donated to the welfare home at that time... It may be used to declare charitable assets to make up the number, or it may just be an unintentional act."
After a while, Baili Qing sent a follow-up message: "We found the asset list left behind when the management of the orphanage was handed over in an old file of the board of directors. There is a record of this "social donation book". To be honest, it is not easy to find it - we only found the name and the publication period. The pictures sent to you were later matched in other databases through other channels.
"But on the other hand, since most of the circulating versions have disappeared, this book has become an 'unpopular treasure' among some book collectors. The Secret Service is still trying to find an existing copy of the same edition. According to transaction tracking records, the last copy of Squirrel Knight that appeared in a formal channel was sold by a private collector a month ago. The buyer was a branch charity under the Sunshine Foundation. We have sent someone to contact them and hope to find this book, although we are not sure what use this book can be used for..."
The message sent by Baili Qing was quite long. It took Yu Sheng a long time to read it through. Then he frowned unconsciously. He felt a little uncomfortable when he thought that such a shoddy "storybook" was once the most treasured treasure of the squirrel. But at this moment, Little Red Riding Hood, who was leaning over to look at the phone, suddenly said "Huh?" and interrupted his wandering thoughts.
Yu Sheng turned his head: "What's wrong?"
"Sunshine Foundation... I feel like I've heard about it recently," the girl frowned, trying to recall something, "Just these past two days, it seems..."
Her eyes suddenly fixed.
A light bulb went off in the high school student’s head.
“Snow White!” Little Red Riding Hood raised her head and shouted at the camp with a slightly urgent tone, “Snow White! Where are you?!”
The next second, Snow White's head popped out of a nearby hut. "What's up?"
"Didn't a batch of donated books arrive at the orphanage a while ago? They were sent through the Sunshine Foundation channel?!"
Snow White was stunned for a moment, and nodded as she walked out of the room. "Yes, that's right. I was almost exhausted from moving a bunch of books sent by the Sunshine Foundation to the reading room. Why?"
Then she saw Yu Sheng standing next to her and happily raised her hand to greet him: "Brother, have you eaten?"
Then she saw the serious and solemn expressions on Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood's faces.
Snow White's expression suddenly became tense: "... Something went wrong with that batch of books?"
Little Red Riding Hood stared into the other person's eyes: "Have you really checked carefully? There is nothing wrong with the books?"
"I have checked it. I have read every book. I have also shown you the book list..."
Little Red Riding Hood frowned. She thought carefully and remembered that she had indeed seen the list of donated books after that, and the name of that book was not on it.
But the fact that something could be so coincidental is still enough to arouse suspicion.
"Where are those books now?" Yu Sheng said seriously, "I have to go check them out."
"It's in the cabinet in the northwest corner of the reading room, the one at the end of the second floor. I haven't had time to put it on the bookshelf yet. It's still piled there," Snow White said hurriedly, and couldn't help asking, "So what is it..."
"Eighty-six years ago, Zhao Lele gave a fairy tale book to Ankaela, who had just come into this world. According to recent transaction records in the collectors' market, an old book from the same batch and edition as that fairy tale book was 'coincidentally' bought by a unit under the Sunshine Foundation a month ago. And a few days ago, the Sunshine Foundation donated a batch of books to the orphanage. All the abnormal situations started after that day."
Little Red Riding Hood said this with an extremely serious expression.
"Coincidences exist in this world - but do you believe in coincidences to this extent?"
Yu Sheng had already stretched out his hand towards the sky: "No matter what's going on, I'll go over and take a look..."
Just when he was halfway through his words, a sharp and piercing "noise" suddenly entered his mind, interrupting his actions.
It was the sound of a baby crying, and shrill alarms, layers of buzzing - it was like it temporarily drowned the entire world, surging in the consciousness with a roar.
Yu Sheng took a deep breath and looked towards the camp.
The children were running back and forth between the makeshift huts, and the teenagers and their "parents" didn't seem to notice anything unusual.
Hu Li, who was standing next to him, was startled by Yu Sheng's actions and expression: "My benefactor, what's wrong with you?"
"Ankaela's 'noise' is very clear and very close," Yu Sheng said quickly. At the same time, he could continue to hear the voice in his mind in waves. "I feel like it is trying to chisel open the real world... No... It's about to chisel open! Let the children go back to the room! Quick!"
He seemed to sense something, raised his head and spoke hastily, then looked at Little Red Riding Hood fiercely: "You go back too! Everyone get injected with sanity blockers - let the Secret Service and the Council staff take over the camp, immediately!"
Although Little Red Riding Hood couldn't hear the "noise", she instantly knew the situation was urgent from Yu Sheng's reaction. Without any doubt, she turned around and ran towards the camp. Snow White was only half a beat slower than Little Red Riding Hood, and the two of them ran into the resettlement area one after the other.
Afterwards, the entire camp reacted almost in the blink of an eye, as if an invisible alarm had been sounded. The children who were still playing a second ago quickly completed their integration and ran to their respective houses under the command of the teenagers and "parents". The caregivers sent by the council fetched sufficient amounts of sanity blockers in the shortest time possible and distributed them to each house. The "parents" who were close to adulthood injected themselves first, and then helped the younger children complete the injection process according to the degree of erosion of each younger brother or sister - everything was carried out with amazing efficiency as if it had been rehearsed countless times.
Yu Sheng, Hu Li and Irene also quickly came to the camp.
The dark threads slid through the air.
Irene sat on Yu Sheng's shoulder, raised her hand and moved the air lightly and quickly. Spider-silk-like threads floated and spread, weaving into a huge net like strange and living hair, which gradually expanded above the camp, and in the process of expansion, continuously dropped thin threads.
"There is no pollution for the time being, but there are indeed children who are 'falling asleep' uncontrollably, and some have already started dreaming," the little puppet said hurriedly, "Yusheng, can you feel that 'Ankaela'? Is it invading the valley? Has it come in?"
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"Don't worry, don't worry. I'm looking for it in the opposite direction." Yu Sheng waved his hands quickly, trying to concentrate and track the continuous noise in his mind. The power of blood connected his perception with the entire valley, as well as with every child in the valley. He sensed the situation in the camp and any possible signs of "angel invasion" in the valley. However, after several "scans", he still did not find Ankaela's breath.
He was no stranger to that aura, as he had faced that huge shadow in the Black Forest.
But it didn't come here.
The noise is getting sharper, Ankaela is waking up...
Yu Sheng raised his head and glanced across the room where the children were hiding.
The houses fell silent one by one.
The children were falling asleep one after another. At this moment, the real world was welcoming night. The power of the "fairy tale" was rapidly increasing in the night. The crying of the baby became clearer and clearer. Ankaela's awakening process was obviously advancing rapidly. It felt as if it had broken through some kind of barrier, as if it had entered...
container.
This word suddenly appeared in Yu Sheng's mind again.
The children are all protected by the "blood pact", and the sheltering wasteland can at least protect their consciousness.
There was no sign of any angel invasion in the valley, and Ankaela didn't seem to have noticed this place.
Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White, the two fairy tale members who were most severely corroded, had been in stable condition until just now. And now Irene is still monitoring the minds of everyone here, and even this incredible doll has not found any signs of contamination.
Wasn't it some child here who was chosen as the container?
It can't be that the "squirrel" was trapped in the dark forest and had long lost its real body, right?
Could it be the nephew of Lao Zheng whom he had only met a few times? The phone rang quickly, and Yu Sheng subconsciously picked up the phone and saw Li Lin's name on the screen.
He answered the phone and heard the young Secret Service agent's hurried voice coming from the receiver.
"…What does 'the orphanage stood up' mean?"
(End of this chapter)
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