Chapter 9 A Little Truth
The voice coming from his mind startled Yu Sheng, who was a little dazed by the cold wind in the valley - and then he was even more stunned.
He was stunned until Irene yelled in his head for the second time and then he suddenly woke up.
"...Eileen?" Yu Sheng blinked. At this moment, he was vigilantly observing the situation in the valley while cautiously moving towards the dilapidated old temple, trying to find a temporary shelter. At the same time, he tried to respond in his heart, "How did you... contact me? I mean, you were talking directly into my head..."
"Is this difficult?" Irene said confidently, "I am Alice's puppet!"
Yu Sheng thought about it, but couldn't connect the two things together... Does that mean that Alice's puppets can do this? Can they all talk in other people's heads? "Didn't I get into your dream once? I know the way after getting in once," Irene found that Yu Sheng didn't respond to her, so she patiently explained again, but then changed her tone, "No, where did you go? I can't sense you at all..."
Yu Sheng was silent for two seconds, looking up at the surrounding valleys and dense forests. He felt that a monster seven or eight meters tall would appear in this place in the next second, and an impassioned background music would sound. This made him feel cold: "...I may have gone on a long journey, and it may not be easy for me to come back..."
Irene was also obviously stunned for a moment, and her voice came a few seconds later: "...Didn't you say you were just going out to throw away the garbage? You were shoveled away by the garbage truck?!"
Yu Sheng didn't know where this guy got such a strong ability to associate...
But he had to admit that after hearing Irene's voice, his panicked heart, which had been thrown into such a remote place, felt a little more at ease... just a little.
This voice at least proved that his connection with the original world was not completely cut off. Since Irene was able to contact him, he should still have a chance to go back - although he had no idea and could not think of any reason to support this assumption, he had to believe it now.
As for now, the first thing he has to do is to ensure his own safety.
The valley was very quiet. Even now, only the occasional hollow sound of wind could be heard in his ears. However, Yu Sheng always had an awkward and depressed feeling in his heart. He always felt that there was something here staring at him, some kind of... cold, empty and hungry gaze, scanning this place and himself over and over again.
This made him even more uneasy, and he urgently wanted to find a corner to hide in, or at least not stand in the open space so carelessly.
But the only place he could hide in seemed to be the ruined temple that had almost completely collapsed - the forest in the distance was dense, but the atmosphere was even more weird and eerie. Besides, "entering the jungle late at night" was a classic element of death in horror stories, so he was absolutely unwilling to get close.
But the bad thing is that going into a dilapidated temple late at night is also a standard element of seeking death. The difference between the two options is that wild beasts are more likely to spawn in the forest, while monsters are more likely to spawn in the dilapidated temple...
Both are likely to trigger passionate BGM.
Yu Sheng gritted his teeth and walked towards the only relatively intact corner of the dilapidated temple.
At the same time, he also contacted Irene in his mind and roughly explained the situation on his side - in fact, there was not much to explain, because even he didn't know how all this happened. From beginning to end, he just opened a door...
After hearing this, Irene was stunned for a long time before she spoke hesitantly: "It sounds like you have landed in a 'foreign land'?"
Yu Sheng, who was standing in the ruins of the dilapidated temple, was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly reacted: "Foreign land? You call this place a foreign land? Do you know where I am?"
Irene's voice seemed a little confused for some reason: "Ah? There are so many foreign lands, how would I know which one you fell into..."
Listening to Irene's muttering, Yu Sheng frowned, and suddenly realized that he had gained some new knowledge about the "supernatural field", and also realized something crucial:
Maybe he was not thrown into "another world", but encountered some "natural phenomenon" that was not unusual in Irene's eyes? Yu Sheng was muttering in his heart, while Irene obviously thought of something and said in his mind with a somewhat unbelievable tone: "...You haven't heard of 'foreign land' at all?"
Yu Sheng had a strange expression on his face: "...Should I have heard of this? Is this something that ordinary people would know?"
"Oh, it's normal for ordinary people not to know about foreign lands. After all, most people will never encounter such things in their lifetime," Irene said casually, but her next sentence made Yu Sheng stunned, "But you shouldn't not know."
"Me? Why should I know?" Yu Sheng looked a little confused, "I'm just an ordinary person..."
"…But you live in a foreign land every day."
…
Shadows shuttled through the night, hunters took shape in the shadows, a ferocious wolf jumped out from the shadows, nimbly leaped a few times along the uneven roofs of the old city, landed lightly and silently on the empty street, and stood in the middle of the road looking left and right.
"Come back!" A somewhat angry female voice came from the shadow of the building in the corner of the street.
The wolf instantly shrank its neck, whimpered indistinctly, and quickly trotted away to hide in the shadow of a roadside building.
The girl in a dark red coat and a black skirt stood in the corner between two old houses. She reached out and rubbed the head of the wolf that had just run back, then raised her eyes and looked at the houses at the end of the old street.
This is a very short street with only a few dozen households living on the entire street. The street is transparent from front to back and the situation on the road is clear at a glance. Even without the wolf's eyes, she can judge the situation here at a glance.
The girl frowned, and her cell phone rang at the right moment - it was still the classic theme song of the 1986 version of Journey to the West. She answered the call just as the monkey did his second somersault: "It's me, yes, I'm in the old city, on Wutong Road."
The voice coming from the phone was that of a middle-aged man who was working overtime until he was unconscious, and he was chattering on and on.
Little Red Riding Hood listened patiently for a while, then curled her lips and said, "I'm here, but I found nothing. My wolf has searched the entire street three times, but found no trace of the alien world being opened, nor anything that has escaped from the alien world."
The phone was silent for two or three seconds, and then a voice came from the other end: "But the monitoring personnel can be sure that there is a reaction to the opening of the alien world on Wutong Road in the old city. There must have been a passage leading to the alien world there for a short time..."
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"I believe it," Little Red Riding Hood said helplessly, "I still recognize the professionalism of your Secret Service's surveillance personnel, but I also believe in my wolf. Maybe there really was a short-term passage here, but it must have disappeared completely now... Considering that under normal circumstances, it is impossible for an alien world to be disconnected from the real world in such a short time, maybe someone else took action to deal with it."
"There are not many people who are capable of cutting off the connection with the foreign land in such a short time. The forces they belong to have records and contact channels with the Secret Service." The voice coming from the phone sounded a little tired, "But I didn't receive any communication in this regard tonight..."
"Maybe they are from the Hermit Society. They are always talking nonsense..."
The girl said casually, and then as expected, she heard a string of chatter coming from the phone. She could only sigh and agree repeatedly: "Okay, okay, I get it. They are all respected scholars, okay... I have always respected scholars. No more, no more, I will take my wolf pack to search from the shadows again. Anyway, this 'Wutong Road' is not big, with a total of 65 house numbers, it won't be a big deal to search again..."
After hanging up the phone, Little Red Riding Hood finally had some peace and quiet. She sighed as she looked at the phone whose screen was turned off. She then looked down at the dog heads... and wolf heads that were appearing one after another in the shadows around her, and couldn't help but sigh again.
"I haven't finished my homework yet... Oh, life as an outsourcer is so hard..."
…
Yu Sheng sat under a relatively solid-looking wall in the corner of the dilapidated temple, feeling the cold wind blowing in through the big hole in the wall. He looked up at the dark and turbid night sky outside the hole in the roof, trying to empty his mind, but failed.
Just now, he learned the truth.
The only safe place he had in Jiecheng, the safest and most normal place in the entire city in his mind, was actually an abnormal... "place" called "foreign land".
In Irene's words, the so-called "exotic realm" is an area beyond the normal, a dimension on the edge of rationality. The orderly world in which ordinary people live seems to be a mountain with a solid foundation and a stable structure, but in fact, every tiny detail of this mountain is a "hole" leading to irrationality and disorder.
For the vast majority of people, they will never come into contact with these "holes" in their entire lives, and will never see the bizarre scenery on the other side of the holes.
But the glimmer of light leaking out of the holes will always catch the eyes of other people - for them, when they accidentally catch a glimpse of those scenes, some things can never be undone.
——But even for the well-informed puppet in the painting, it is still a bit absurd that a person can live in a foreign land for a long time...
(End of this chapter)
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