Chapter 261: A call for help
The news of the opening of the gate quickly spread throughout the valley. Children were attracted and then went in and out of the new portal with great curiosity. But soon, those children who were too young were dragged back to the "town" by their "parents" by their ears - after all, the orphanage was still in ruins and there were construction machinery everywhere. For those children who have not yet mastered their abilities or even have not awakened their abilities at all, it is quite dangerous to play in this place.
Snow White and her friends took a few half-grown children with them as they moved around in the ruins, searching everywhere without interfering with the work of the cleanup crews.
Although the entire orphanage was razed to the ground and the two main buildings were greatly twisted in the process of becoming an "umbilical cord", some intact objects can still be occasionally found in the ruins - objects that may not be of any use, but are full of memories for the members of "Fairy Tale".
Dorothy discovered something in the distance: "Long hair! I found a few novels, can you see if they are yours? There are two broken figurines lying next to them..."
Then Rapunzel just ran over screaming Aaaaaah.
Then Snow White also commanded the Thunder Titans to move away the cement fragments that seemed to have melted and solidified together, and found part of the activity classroom under the ruins - they found a graffiti board and a wooden box for storing indoor toys.
Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood stood not far away, silently watching the situation in the ruins. After a while, Yu Sheng whispered: "Why don't you go and look for it? Maybe there are still your things there."
"All the important things have been taken out," Little Red Riding Hood shook her head, but after a moment of silence, she still looked at Li Lin standing on the other side, "Can you help keep an eye on it? If you find any relatively intact objects when cleaning up the ruins, please help us collect them..."
"Of course," Li Lin nodded immediately, but then added, "But we can only try our best. After all, we are directly on the machine, and most of the cleaning staff can't be as careful and thorough as you."
"Just try your best."
"That's fine."
Yu Sheng was listening nearby without interrupting, but at this moment, a cell phone rang suddenly from his pocket, interrupting the communication between Little Red Riding Hood and Li Lin.
Yu Sheng took out his cell phone and saw that it was an unfamiliar number.
After a slight hesitation, he answered the phone and put it to his ear.
A familiar voice came from the receiver, with a hint of nervousness and fear. It was a young man: "Hello? Hello! Can you hear me? Brother Yu? I'm %￥%%@..."
There was an intermittent noise coming from the receiver. Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, and then he finally remembered where he had heard this familiar voice: "...Nephew?!"
Little Red Riding Hood beside him immediately asked with a question mark on her face: "Who's calling?"
"Lao Zheng's nephew," Yu Sheng turned around and said quickly. He had sensed something was wrong from the noise coming from the receiver, so he immediately asked on the phone, "This is Yu Sheng. What's going on over there? Is he in danger?"
There was another brief noise in the receiver, but a normal human voice came two or three seconds later: "I'm in the mall, and something seems to be wrong around me. The positions of many things have changed all of a sudden, and the people have changed too, and there are a lot of mirrors... This is the first time I've encountered this, and I don't know any other experts... Can you come %￥@%#￥..."
Yu Sheng turned on the speaker halfway through listening. When the noise started again, before he could open his mouth, Little Red Riding Hood beside him shouted into the microphone: "Stop talking nonsense! Just tell me which mall it is!"
Intermittent noises continued to come from the loudspeaker, interspersed with the increasingly out-of-tune voice of the young man: "Heyang District... @#￥Wanxiangji this side... But I entered through a strange door, and it doesn't look like... &**&￥"
The noise completely drowned out the young man's voice. The words that came after him became unclear mumbles mixed with the noise, and then the cell phone signal was cut off.
Yu Sheng looked up and exchanged glances with Little Red Riding Hood, but before he could speak, Li Lin beside him had already quickly picked up the phone, dialed the number expertly, and put it to his ear: "Li Lin from the Second Squadron, abnormal situation III, someone is suspected to be trapped in Wanxiangji, Heyang District... Yes, there was a signal a minute ago but the communication is interrupted now. It is suspected that they are sinking into a foreign land... Okay, the patrol team is leaving, right? Okay."
Yu Sheng was a little surprised when he saw Li Lin's reflexive reaction, but the latter felt a little awkward after noticing the gaze on him: "Uh, what's wrong?"
"You're pretty reliable," Yu Sheng said casually, "Do you deal with this kind of thing often?"
"Not often, but I learned it during training - after all, that's what the Secret Service does," Li Lin said quickly, but his expression was a little unnatural. "To be honest, I'm a little nervous. This is the first time I've reported an abnormal situation alone III..."
"I'm going to go check out the situation," Little Red Riding Hood interrupted the conversation between Li Lin and Yu Sheng. As she spoke, the shadows of the wolf pack began to loom around her. "Yu Sheng, are you coming too?"
"Let's go together," Yu Sheng said without hesitation, "They've called me."
"I have a mission, so I have to stay here," Li Lin shook his head helplessly, "but my colleagues are over there, you can ask them for help if you need any."
Yu Sheng nodded, then called Hu Li and Irene, and followed Little Red Riding Hood's wolf pack into the shadows.
The wolf pack formed by shadows quickly crossed the dimension between light and shadow, jumping and shuttling between the shadowed abstract city "plates", and in the blink of an eye they had crossed several blocks.
Hu Li followed Yu Sheng's example and sat on a shadow wolf. At this moment, he stared with wide eyes and curiously looked at the seemingly real city buildings around him that turned into monochrome projections. Ai Lin tightly grasped Yu Sheng's shoulders and observed the surroundings while muttering nervously: "What's going on? What's going on... Is that 'nephew' okay?"
"Highly sensitive and low stable is like this," Little Red Riding Hood's voice came from the side, sounding a little annoyed, "I should have applied for Secret Service protection for him earlier, but his 'highly sensitive and low stable' situation is too outrageous... He almost didn't formally come into contact with any extraordinary elements in the incident with Old Zheng, and the only connection was that he was close to the scene... How can he be entangled by the 'other side'..."
“Who would have thought of this?” Yu Sheng’s tone was a bit complicated, because this was the first time he had seen an ordinary person being “entangled” in extraordinary events again after being exposed to information from the “other world”. “After I dealt with Lao Zheng’s problem, I asked him to go home quickly. I thought everything was fine…”
He paused at this point and looked up at Little Red Riding Hood: "Do you know the mall he was talking about? Is there an exotic place there?"
"Vanxiangji? I know. I've been there twice. That place is certainly not an exotic place - but the entrances to many exotic places will move randomly, and will even appear directly on the victim's face when the conditions are right. It's not strange to encounter it anywhere," Little Red Riding Hood said seriously. "You also encountered a sudden freezing rain at the time. Did you forget?"
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Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, recalling the frog in the rain, with a subtle expression: "Well, if you hadn't reminded me, I would have forgotten it. It feels like it happened a long time ago."
Then he shook his head, temporarily putting aside some open-minded memories: "You are more professional than me. Can you judge what happened in the phone call just now? Do you think the 'nephew' is okay?"
"When the call was first connected, the voice was still clear, which means he hadn't completely 'sunk' at that time. He should be in the process of sinking from L-0 to L-1. If he was an experienced spirit world detective or investigator, he could have escaped by himself at this stage. The depth between level zero and level one is almost directly connected to the real world, and the safety rift is visible to the naked eye."
Little Red Riding Hood said this and shook her head.
"Then noise appeared and the signal was interfered with. We must have passed the L-1 depth. At this point, it would be up to luck for ordinary people to get out. But the surrounding environment should not be fatal. In many cases, the first-level depth just 'looks wrong'. There is almost no lethal mechanism. There is also a safe passage back to reality... But again, it depends on luck.
"But the bad thing is that the signal was interrupted very quickly. The whole process seemed to last only one minute? Then the noise completely covered the human voice, accompanied by mumbling in the middle... This means that he 'sunk' very quickly, and may have directly passed L-1. I hope he can stay in some foreign land at the L-2 level... At least stay there until the rescuers find him..."
Yu Sheng listened carefully, although he had experienced an event at the level of a dark angel, this kind of basic knowledge was still very new to him. There were many things that relied on experience that could not be found in the database, and only a spiritual detective like Little Red Riding Hood who had been in the industry for many years could know them.
At this time, Hu Li also turned around and interjected: "He also mentioned that people and things have changed, and there are many mirrors..."
"We can't tell anything from this. Distortion of surrounding objects is the most common phenomenon when falling into a foreign land. Often it's not the surroundings that change, but the victim's own 'field of vision' that changes. As for the many mirrors... there are too many foreign lands related to mirrors," Little Red Riding Hood waved her hand. "I know of more than a dozen of them - we'll have to get to the scene to make a specific judgment. The Secret Service should have arrived by now. They have a lot of detection equipment, and there are high-power scanning stations in various parts of the city. They may have captured the signals of the 'nephew' as he was sinking."
Irene raised her head and looked at Little Red Riding Hood and then at Yu Sheng. Finally, she couldn't help but said, "...You guys always call him 'nephew', 'nephew', but he should have a name, right? What's his name?"
Little Red Riding Hood and Yu Sheng looked at each other.
"...I don't know!" they said in unison.
(End of this chapter)
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