That night, Yu Sheng fell into a drowsy sleep.
Probably because he had too many things going on recently and consumed too much energy, he actually fell asleep fairly quickly, but after falling asleep, he started to have a lot of strange and messy dreams—sometimes he dreamed about the museum, and sometimes he dreamed about the museum.
The image of his hometown in his memory, and sometimes he dreamed of the dark forest. He felt as if he had woken up a few times, and even heard the voice of Irene talking in her sleep, but those few times when he woke up seemed to be just another scene.
Just a weird dream.
This restless sleep lasted until the latter half of the night, when he suddenly felt a relaxation in his spirit. All the chaotic dreams that were difficult to distinguish between reality and reality seemed to be suddenly tamed, and he slept peacefully until the second day in a gentle and comfortable light dream.
One morning.
Then when he opened his eyes, he saw two Irenes pressing on his arms, one on the left and one on the right. Both arms were so numb that he couldn't feel anything.
Yu Sheng waited for a long time and finally pulled his arm out with all his strength. The numb and sore feeling immediately made him grin.
Irene also woke up with Youyou, sitting up with her messy hair and rubbing her eyes: "Good morning... yawn, why did you sleep so poorly yesterday?"
Yu Sheng was swinging his arms in annoyance, but when he heard the little doll muttering, he was stunned for a moment and immediately reacted: "You were the one who helped me in the second half of the night?"
"Your dream disturbed me," Erin and Irene muttered at the same time as they stood up and arranged each other's clothes and hair. "It was so annoying that I went in to calm you down."
Yu Sheng drooped his arms, his expression a little subtle, and after a while he coughed twice: "Ahem, thank you."
"It's not a big deal - come and comb my hair."
"I have kept you pressed all night, and your arms are still numb. You can do it yourself." Yu Sheng waved his arms helplessly, "I bought you two small combs and put them on the bedside table. Anyway, you have two different bodies now.
It’s also very convenient to comb each other’s hair.”
"oh."
The two dolls crawled to the bedside table together, found the small comb that Yu Sheng said, and began to mumble while taking turns combing the hair of "the other party": "Either you humans have really inconvenient bodies, and things will happen casually.
It’s malfunctioning. If you press it or bump it, you’ll feel numbness or pain. Look at our dolls, it’s much easier. They’re broken to pieces without saying a word..."
Yu Sheng listened to Irene's ramblings for a while, but didn't pay much attention to the content of her chatter.
The bright sunshine in the morning came through the window, and two identical Gothic dolls sat in the sunshine, taking turns combing each other's hair and adjusting their clothes - let alone, if they could shut their mouths, this scene would be awesome.
It can be called beautiful.
Yu Sheng was a little trance watching this scene, and suddenly he couldn't help but think, now that the two dolls are so beautiful when they wake up in the sun, if they really bring out a whole room of Irene, then...
What a fuss.
The beautiful imagination in Yu Sheng's mind stopped at the scene of Irene crawling all over the ground, squirming in darkness, jumping up and down and squealing. He immediately shook his head: It's a pity that this doll has a mouth - now
There are two.
After cleaning up and washing up, Yu Sheng's arm finally recovered. He simply went to the kitchen to make breakfast (actually it was not that early), fed the beavers that had been wandering around the house looking for food as soon as he woke up, and then
He was about to go out for the appointment at the address Little Red Riding Hood left for him.
"Should I bring some gifts or something?" Yu Sheng suddenly remembered this when he was about to go out, "This is the first time I've come to visit, so it's not appropriate to go there empty-handed."
"It seems so?" Irene had already crawled into Huli's arms with ease at this time, ready to "disguise". She raised her head after hearing Yu Sheng's words, "Bring some cookies, candies or something? There seem to be many children there.
…”
"Isn't it a bit too cliché?"
"You can't share a tube of blood with each other when you meet each other - that's quite cliché, they would have to call the police."
Yu Sheng thought about it and felt that Aileen was right.
So he took Hu Li and Irene (P2) out. Before taking a taxi, he went to the small supermarket at the intersection and bought a bunch of candies and snacks. Then he hailed a taxi directly on the roadside.
, take a taxi to another city according to the address left by Little Red Riding Hood.
By the way, Irene (P1) stayed at home and watched TV - this doll is really getting more and more familiar with life with two bodies now.
The border city is very big, but fortunately the address left by Little Red Riding Hood is not too far away. After spending more than half an hour on the road, Yu Sheng and his party arrived near their destination.
After getting off the bus, the first thing Yu Sheng felt was... there were very few pedestrians around.
And the further you go forward according to the address left by Little Red Riding Hood, the fewer people there are on the road.
The location for getting off the bus was an intersection of the main road. When Little Red Riding Hood sent the address, she also specifically marked the short route that she would need to walk after getting off the bus. Yu Sheng left the avenue and walked along a quiet and slightly old road.
The path led into the old residential area behind the business district. It looked slightly newer than the area where No. 66 Wutong Road was located, but it wasn't much newer. After walking for about ten minutes, he noticed the nearby area.
No passersby can be seen anymore.
Then, he saw the end of the path suddenly opened up, and a large building appeared in his sight.
It was a "compound" consisting of two townhouses and several small building structures. The gray-white buildings looked to be old, and a high wall surrounded all the buildings. The wall once
It seems to have been brightly painted, but now most of it has been mottled and peeled off, leaving only the faded wall covering.
A fence gate that seemed to have been specially reinforced lay in front of Yu Sheng, but what attracted his attention more was... several familiar metal obelisk devices arranged along the wall on both sides of the fence gate.
That's the "node" set up by the Secret Service.
The reason why there were so few pedestrians along the way and gradually disappeared was found.
The entire "base" of "Fairy Tale" has been cognitively isolated according to foreign standards.
A red figure came into Yu Sheng's sight. He saw Little Red Riding Hood walking out of the guard box on the inside of the fence gate. The girl opened a small door next to it and walked quickly towards this side.
"You guys came earlier than I thought."
Little Red Riding Hood came to Yu Sheng with a slightly complicated smile on her face - she seemed very welcoming, but also a little nervous and reserved.
This was the first time that Yu Sheng saw such an uneasy look on the face of this precocious high school girl.
"I was worried about being late, so I went out a little early." Yu Sheng smiled and nodded, looking over Little Red Riding Hood's shoulder and towards the door of the "compound".
On the wall on the side of the fence gate, several metal letters originally attached to the wall have fallen off and been damaged, but the remaining traces are still there, and the words "XX Welfare Institute" can be vaguely distinguished. In addition, this closed building
There are no other landmarks in the compound.
An orphanage, hidden deep in the city, even needs "nodes" to block... the orphanage.
Yu Sheng was not surprised. He had already vaguely guessed something before coming.
"Come with me, I have already told my family," Little Red Riding Hood turned sideways, making an invitation gesture, "I have no classes and no other work today, so I can take you for a walk."
Yu Sheng and Hu Li followed Little Red Riding Hood and walked into this large courtyard that looked a little old but not dilapidated.
When passing by the guard box, Yu Sheng noticed a dozing girl sitting there, who looked to be about the same age as Little Red Riding Hood.
"That's 'Cinderella'. She always looks like this during the day, but she's actually very alert," Little Red Riding Hood introduced casually. "Usually there is a special 'security guard' here during the day, sent by the council.
staff, but on weekends it is the 'parents' who take turns standing guard here - the so-called parents are actually older children, like me."
"A person sent by the council?" Yu Sheng frowned, with some surprise in his tone.
"'Fairy Tale' is an independent organization, but a group of orphans who have grown up and a group of younger children will eventually encounter many practical problems that cannot be solved. On the other hand, the children affected by the 'curse' must
To identify them as early as possible and concentrate them in safe facilities, government organizations like the Council must come forward," Little Red Riding Hood slowly explained, "So we established a cooperative relationship——
"This orphanage is nominally maintained and operated by the Junction Council. They provide the site and part of the funds, and regularly send 'employees' to help us solve many problems such as social identity, children's schooling, and out-of-home medical treatment.
It's a real problem, but in fact, the orphanage is governed by 'fairy tales'. We accept the children sent here and use our methods to reduce their loss of control as much as possible, or... even if they are out of control, we must control things.
Within the scope of this fence.”
Little Red Riding Hood paused after saying this and summed it up in one sentence: "In short, the ordinary becomes ordinary, and the extraordinary becomes extraordinary."
Yu Sheng listened quietly and walked through the open space within the wall with Little Red Riding Hood. After thinking for a moment, he gently shook his head: "It's not the same as I imagined."
"Only after actual contact, you will find that all the seemingly weird status quos have reasonable reasons behind them," Little Red Riding Hood said lightly, "At least for us now, this is the most comfortable state - we
We can live our lives at the pace and way we like, and many things are under control, and for managers at the junction, 'controllability' is the reward they most expect."
"No, I mean... I thought the Secret Service would handle these things. I thought they would be your 'management department'. After all, they are the professionals in the extraordinary field."
Little Red Riding Hood paused slightly.
"...the Secret Service also often deals with us. You are right, they are indeed experts in handling extraordinary events, but in most cases, we can handle the 'extraordinary events' that occur in this facility ourselves.
We need extra help," she said slowly, "so the relationship between the Secret Service and us is generally limited to 'business dealings'. On the contrary, in terms of the 'lives' of most members of the orphanage, we have a close relationship with those sent by the board of directors.
'Ordinary People' is a little more intimate."
Yu Sheng was thoughtful: "Is that so..."
Chapter completed!