Chapter 32 Blood Test
Not only did Irene's curses sound nasty, but her loud screams made people's heads buzz.
Yu Sheng even wondered how this guy could make such a loud noise through an oil painting - the whole canvas could be used as an amplifier? "Don't ask me the principle, I don't even know what it is," Yu Sheng said helplessly as he picked his ears and spread his hands to Irene, "What I can be sure of is that I can open 'doors', and these doors can lead to various places, either foreign lands or what you just saw... some distant place. Of course, it's still unclear whether it's a different world, a different planet, or a parallel universe or something like that."
He paused for a moment, then continued, "Maybe I should ask the person on the other side of the door about the situation? But the female elf didn't look very happy just now..."
Irene was half stunned. After listening to Yu Sheng's long chatter, she finally reacted. After thinking for a while, she spoke: "Then...what about the conditions for taking effect? For example, under what circumstances can the door be opened?"
"I'm not sure yet. I feel like it can be opened at any time," Yu Sheng thought for a moment and said everything according to his current feelings. "As for the way to open the door, it seems there are two ways. One is to directly open an ordinary door that exists in reality. This way of opening the door is very easy. Sometimes I don't even realize what I've done. Once the door is opened, it leads directly to 'somewhere else'. The second way is what you just saw -"
As Yu Sheng spoke, he raised his hand in the air and gestured to open the door.
"It's more difficult to create a door out of thin air. You need to concentrate on perceiving and imagining it. And if you get distracted during the process of opening the door, it may suddenly disappear. But the good thing is that you won't accidentally push the door into a foreign land."
Irene stared at Yu Sheng's movements with scarlet eyes, and followed his arm swinging back and forth several times. After a long pause, she broke the silence: "... Are you a human?"
Yu Sheng was immediately dissatisfied: "How can you say that!"
"At this moment, do you still have the nerve to say that sentence? The sentence you said to me not long ago," Irene muttered as she recalled the past, and then imitated Yu Sheng's tone and expression and spoke in a controlled manner, "-- I am not a human, so are you?"
She turned over and looked straight into Yu Sheng's eyes.
"Some humans can master some supernatural powers, but I've never seen anything like you."
"Maybe you have seen it but you have forgotten it?" Yu Sheng said stubbornly, "Your brain is not very reliable."
Irene was stunned: "...Yes, really?"
This time it was Yu Sheng's turn to feel a little embarrassed. He just kept talking tough and bickered with the puppet out of habit. He never expected that Irene had a clear self-awareness and her first reaction was to admit it... She admitted it...
However, he quickly adjusted his facial expression, coughed twice and brought the topic back to the topic: "So now it seems that my falling into that valley had nothing to do with the strange characteristics of this house. It should be that the passage opened automatically the moment I opened the door. Therefore, as long as I can reproduce the operation at that time, I can return to that foreign land. This is the theory."
When it came to business, Irene's expression became serious: "Is this ability controllable?"
"...semi-controllable," Yu Sheng said uncertainly, and then explained, "I can basically control when to open the passage to 'somewhere else' and when to push open the normal door, but I can't be sure where it leads to. I can even fall directly into the crater when I open the door. But... there is one thing I just confirmed."
Irene asked hurriedly: "Which point?"
"The passage can indeed be reproduced. Under certain circumstances, opening the door twice can lead to the same place," Yu Sheng said, "Just like the elf you just saw. This is the second time I have met her."
Irene: "...Oh, no wonder she reacted like that just now."
Yu Sheng looked a little embarrassed. "I'm not sure how this happened, but I vaguely remember that 'feeling'. I think as long as I try and train a few more times, I should be able to stably open those 'gates' that I passed through once. But the biggest problem now is... I was completely unprepared when I entered that valley, and I have almost forgotten the feeling of opening the door, which makes it very difficult to reproduce that passage."
"But at least you finally have an idea now, right?" Irene immediately spoke to comfort her, "I used to think that your idea of going back to save the fox was a fantasy, but now it has become a feasible plan, right?"
Upon hearing this, Yu Sheng looked up and down at the doll in the painting with a somewhat surprised look, which made the latter shrink back in his chair a little awkwardly: "Why are you looking at me? I told you that you and the paper man will not have..."
This time, Yu Sheng interrupted the other person before he could finish his words: "This is the first time I've heard a few good words from you - I always thought you were full of trash talk, but I never thought you knew how to comfort people."
Irene: “…”
Irene's swearing is really nasty.
However, Yu Sheng is in a very good mood now, and even the sound of Irene scolding can be regarded as the BGM in his life.
He looked at his hands, waved them in the air, stood up from the table, and walked around the restaurant, looking very motivated.
Seeing this, Irene stopped talking about the birds and flowers, and her eyes followed Yu Sheng around: "Are you going to start... uh, 'training' now?"
"It's better to do it sooner rather than later. Anyway, I slept all day and I'm very energetic now," Yu Sheng said as a matter of course, "This exercise doesn't take up much space."
"Then you should be careful. If you open the door again and see the elf just now, the opponent might launch a huge fireball at you - you will splatter my blood again."
This rubbish sounds right to me.
Yu Sheng waved his hand nonchalantly and his eyes fell on the kitchen door next to him.
Opening the door out of thin air requires extra energy consumption. For practice, it is of course more appropriate to use a "physical door" that does not consume much energy.
But before that, Yu Sheng suddenly thought of something else.
"What did you say just now?" He turned around and looked at the doll in the painting on the dining table.
Irene thought for a moment and said, "...Tell you to take it easy? To prevent the elf on the opposite side from throwing a huge fireball at you?"
"I mean the more despicable one."
Irene's mouth twitched: "Don't splash blood all over me!"
"Yes, that's it. I want to test this first," Yu Sheng grinned, walked to the dining table with a smile, raised his hand and picked up a small fruit knife on the table, "My blood."
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Irene was visibly startled, and she jumped up from the chair holding the teddy bear. "Hey, what are you doing? I just said it casually, do you have to use a knife? I'm warning you, I'm not easy to mess with. You don't even have to use a knife. Just put that thing down, and if it scratches the canvas, I might crack it..."
The puppet started beeping a lot when it panicked. Yu Sheng couldn't help but frowned: "Why are you so nervous? I didn't say I was going to cut you."
Before he finished speaking, he had already put the knife against his fingers - but after hesitating for a moment, he moved it to the back of his hand, then he gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, and a cut appeared.
It didn’t even hurt.
Irene stared at the scene in amazement. Seeing Yu Sheng bringing his bleeding hand towards her, she backed away repeatedly, exclaiming as she did so: "What are you doing? Wait... Did you believe in the stuff in the novels about identifying the master by dripping blood? I told you to read less..."
"First, I write novels. Although I'm not doing very well, I have a problem with your problem with novels." Yu Sheng glanced at the puppet in the painting with a horrified face. "Second, this has nothing to do with blood recognition. I just want to test some conjectures. When we were in that valley, Hu Li came into contact with my blood, and then some changes happened to both of us. I want to see if something similar will happen to you."
Yu Sheng was referring to the fact that Hu Li suddenly became able to sense his "death" after coming into contact with his blood, and that he was able to sense some of Hu Li's thoughts and memories. He also suspected that the projection of the silver-white demon fox in his dream world was also related to this "blood connection".
Irene was slightly startled after hearing Yu Sheng's words, and then she realized the other party's serious attitude. Although she didn't know what was going on, she gradually calmed down. Even though she seemed reluctant (mainly because she didn't trust Yu Sheng's suspicious operation process), she still cooperated.
Of course, the main reason for her cooperation was that she couldn't escape. After all, she was sealed in the oil painting, and normally she couldn't do anything except beep loudly. But now Yu Sheng had basically gotten used to her beeping loudly...
But to be honest, Erin wasn't a suitable "testing partner."
After all, her "physique" is a bit special.
It was difficult for Yu Sheng to determine whether his blood was applied to Irene or to the oil painting that served as a sealing medium - he smeared his blood on the painting frame, and while the wound had not healed yet, he squeezed some blood and dripped it onto the canvas. But no matter what he did, he couldn't let his blood directly contact the puppet in the painting like Hu Li did that time.
Irene looked up, not knowing exactly what her perspective was in the painting—but she clearly felt the contact of blood.
But that’s all.
The oil painting did not "absorb" Yu Sheng's blood like Hu Li licked the blood.
"Do you feel anything?" Yu Sheng waited for a long time before asking uncertainly.
Erin thought for a moment: "... warm? But now it's cold."
Yu Sheng: "... then it seems useless."
(End of this chapter)
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