Chapter 43 Irene's Plan
Irene does have many magical abilities, which Yu Sheng deeply realized when he followed the doll into Hu Li's dream. But it should be said that this unfortunate doll has too many shortcomings that people always ignore this point intentionally or unintentionally...
"Then there is only one thing left, the most crucial part," Yu Sheng said to the little puppet beside him with a serious face while sitting on the sofa, "Find a way to recreate the gate leading to the alien valley."
"Are you still going to rely on exhaustive method?" Irene asked curiously, "Try all the 'frequencies' that you think are close one by one?"
Yu Sheng sighed, "This is the only way. After all, when I first entered the valley, I hadn't really mastered the technique of 'opening the door'. I overlooked too many details at the time."
Irene turned her head and looked at Yu Sheng. The little doll seemed to be thinking hard. After a moment, she hesitated and said, "Actually... I have an idea."
Yu Sheng immediately leaned forward: "Huh? Do you have a solution?!"
"It may not be feasible, because I don't understand how you do this 'opening the door', and I don't understand what you mean by 'frequency' you keep mentioning," Irene turned around on the sofa cushion, "But from what I understand, you actually need a 'feature' that can help you 'lock' the destination? Or some kind of navigation signal?"
"... can it be understood this way?" Yu Sheng himself was a little uncertain. "In fact, I don't really understand it either. After all, I just fumbled around the whole process by myself, and did a lot of things based on 'feeling'. But your 'navigation signal' is more appropriate - the moment I open the door, the location on the other side of the door is completely random, but if I can accurately 'remember' a certain 'feature' on the other side of the door, the passage will collapse into a single one. This is probably the process."
"That means if we can leave a navigation point at Hu Li's place, you can directly find the passage?"
"It should be," Yu Sheng nodded, but he was a little confused, "But where can we get such a navigation point? What worries us now is that we can't find the way to the valley. If we can leave a navigation point there, we won't have to worry..."
"From a dream?" Irene said suddenly.
Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, and then he vaguely understood what the puppet meant.
Irene continued to explain in detail: "The last time I sank into Hu Li's dream with you, I had already established a weak connection with her. If this connection goes a step further, perhaps I can connect to her senses. If I bring you along, you can then directly contact the breath of the valley through Hu Li's perception. Isn't this equivalent to establishing a 'navigation point'?"
Yu Sheng listened to Irene's plan in a daze. The more he listened, the more he felt that this puppet's imaginative idea... seemed really feasible? "There are two difficulties in this process," Irene continued. "The first is that it requires Hu Li's cooperation. She must be willing to open her mind to you. But this shouldn't be a big problem. Just explain it to her. She should trust you. The second difficulty is a bit... dangerous."
Yu Sheng did not interrupt, but just signaled Irene to continue with his eyes.
"The second difficulty is that now Hu Li's mind is not just her own," Irene's expression became a little serious, looking into Yu Sheng's eyes and said, "The entity-Hunger has penetrated deep into her mind, so once you establish a deep connection with Hu Li, it is equivalent to establishing the same connection with the entity-Hunger... I'm not sure what will happen then. Although theoretically you should be able to withstand a short-term contact, I'm afraid that the power of hunger will take root in your heart. When you really enter the valley and confront that monster, the influence that has taken root in your heart may erupt at any time..."
Yu Sheng fell into deep thought.
Irene, who was standing next to him, saw that he was silent, rolled her eyes twice and then reacted. She immediately stood up from the sofa and put her hands on her hips (but still not as high as Yu Sheng was sitting): "Don't think about dying first to see if you can clear the influence! I tell you that this tendency of yours is very dangerous. If you can't get rid of it even if you die or come back to life, then you'll be in big trouble..."
Yu Sheng suddenly adjusted his sitting position a little awkwardly: "I didn't say..."
"I can see it all!"
Yu Sheng: “…”
This puppet's brain usually doesn't work very well, why is his intuition so sharp at this time! "I know, I know. Under no circumstances should we put the idea of 'dying' aside." Yu Sheng felt uncomfortable being stared at by Irene's scarlet eyes. He could only wave his hands in surrender and force the topic back on track. "But I still decided to try your plan. There is indeed a risk of direct contact with 'Entity-Hunger', but I think... it's worth the risk."
Irene continued to stare at Yu Sheng with her scarlet eyes for several seconds before she spoke: "Okay, it seems that you really want to rescue the fox, and her condition really can't be delayed any longer, so let's use this plan."
But at this moment, Yu Sheng suddenly remembered something: "But there is still one problem."
"ah?"
“I may not be able to dream about the dream with Hu Li in it,” Yu Sheng spread out his hands, “I didn’t even have a dream last night—and I don’t know how to control my dreams.”
Hearing this, Irene laughed instead, with a proud and boastful look in her smile.
"I can do it," the little doll proudly stood on the sofa with his arms folded across his chest (66.6cm), "Just dream, and leave the rest to me - I tell you, after getting rid of the shackles of that painting, I am now so powerful! I am afraid..."
Before he could finish his words, Yu Sheng adjusted his posture on the sofa, causing the sofa cushion to deform. Irene, who was standing on the edge of the cushion, lost her footing and fell off the sofa with a cry of "Ah" - and then the oil painting frame on her back was stuck between the sofa and the coffee table, with her whole body hanging under the frame.
The puppet hung under the picture frame with its claws and fangs bared, as if it was about to fly up and bite someone.
The curse was so ugly.
Yu Sheng reached out and picked up the picture frame: "I think your restraints are quite serious."
"You are happy... If you are happy again, I won't help you!" Irene's arms were stuck between the straps of the picture frame, and they were hung in the shape of a cross as Yu Sheng lifted up the picture frame. "Put them down for me! Help me... Hey, my arm, the joint of my arm is stuck! Please help me..."
Yu Sheng looked at Irene speechlessly, casually took her off the frame, and began to bend her stuck joints while enduring the doll's noisy screams.
Late at night, Yu Sheng was ready to go to sleep.
Irene was still running around on his bed like a little rocket.
"I'm telling you, can't you be quiet at this moment?" Yu Sheng, lying on the bed, looked at Irene, who was jumping up and down beside him, and said helplessly, "I'm going to sleep."
"Your bed is so big!" Irene happily ran to the bedside, then jumped onto the bedside table, hugged the table lamp on the table and shook it, as if she didn't hear what Yu Sheng said at all, "Hey, this table lamp is shorter than me! Yu Sheng, look! This table lamp is shorter than me!"
"Next time I'll buy you a night light that's shorter than yours!" Yu Sheng rolled his eyes in annoyance and reached out to take Irene off his desk lamp. "Have you forgotten what you are supposed to do? If you do this again, I'll lock you in the closet!"
Irene finally calmed down and smiled awkwardly: "I'm just a little excited...Okay, okay, you go to sleep, I won't make any more trouble."
Yu Sheng sighed exhaustedly and put Irene down: "Go and help turn off the lights."
The puppet said confidently: "I can't reach it!"
“…Move a chair!”
"oh."
The world finally quieted down.
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Yu Sheng let out a long breath, enjoying the quiet moment in the darkened bedroom, and began to adjust his state and try to fall asleep.
Then he turned his head and saw two glowing blood-red eyes in the darkness staring at him by the bed.
Irene was hanging on the edge of the bed, grabbing the mattress like a koala, and just staring at Yu Sheng.
"...You're making it even harder for me to fall asleep," Yu Sheng said helplessly, "Why did you have to come to my room? Couldn't you have entered my dreams even when you stayed on the first floor? Is it necessary for you to follow me?"
"The signal is good because it's close."
The puppet was very confident and his words sounded as real as the nonsense he was talking about.
But at least she understood Yu Sheng's meaning, and finally jumped off the edge of the bed, ran to a chair not far away and sat down.
Yu Sheng sighed again.
He knew that Irene was still watching him, and he had no idea what was going on in the puppet's mind (if there was one), but it seemed that he couldn't get rid of it at least tonight.
He could only try his best to ignore the scarlet gaze coming from the darkness, clearing away distracting thoughts as much as possible and falling asleep.
He didn't know how long he tossed and turned in bed - maybe an hour, maybe longer.
When his sleepiness reached its peak, he finally fell into a foggy darkness.
The dream came, and in the mist of the dream, Irene's soft voice came: "You finally fell asleep... Come, go this way."
Yu Sheng subconsciously turned towards the direction where the sound came from, and the next second, the mist dissipated, and light and shadows emerged in the darkness.
He really saw the dark wilderness again. The gloomy sky covered the earth, there were nameless hills in the distance, and the silver-white fox was still sleeping in the wilderness.
Yu Sheng walked forward, and then he noticed the "guide" floating beside him.
That was Irene who was guiding his dream.
Yu Sheng stopped and looked at the oil painting in the air with a strange expression.
Irene in the painting stared at him.
Yu Sheng: "...Why do I feel like this painting is your true self!"
Irene looked down, then looked around, and finally reacted belatedly.
"Hey, why am I in the painting again?!"
(End of this chapter)
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