From Little Red Riding Hood's reaction and the expression on the face of the girl who just came in, Yu Sheng quickly guessed what happened.
He frowned for a moment, but before he spoke, Little Red Riding Hood had already waved her hand hurriedly: "You guys wait here, I... will come as soon as I go."
"No, I'll go with you." Yu Sheng stood up without any explanation. Hu Li next to him also reached out to hold Irene in his arms and stood up.
"This is an internal matter within Fairy Tale, and we have gone through a similar process...many times," Little Red Riding Hood said with a dark and heavy expression on her face, "Thank you for your concern, but..."
"Nothing but, I know what you mean - but your wolf bit me," Yu Sheng interrupted the other party directly. He knew what to say to make this somewhat stubborn girl give in, so he did not hesitate to rekindle old matters.
Mention, "I have been involved in a 'fairy tale'. Maybe I will go to that dark forest next time in my dream, so I must know more about the situation."
Faced with such a statement, Little Red Riding Hood really lost the confidence to continue to persevere. She could only look at Yu Sheng with a complicated expression, and then nodded lightly.
"Long Hair" looked at Yu Sheng and his party with some confusion, as if he had many questions in his mind, but after noticing the look in Little Red Riding Hood's eyes, he swallowed all his words and turned around to open the door.
As soon as he came out of the reception room, Yu Sheng saw many children gathered in the corridor.
There were children who looked only six or seven years old or even younger, and there were also children who looked about twelve or thirteen years old. They gathered in the corridor in small groups. They were the most noisy at their age, but at this time they seemed
Extremely quiet.
A little girl in a blue skirt saw Little Red Riding Hood coming out, hesitantly walked over, and carefully grabbed the latter's clothes: "Teacher Su said... Xiaoxiao graduated today, is it true?"
Little Red Riding Hood pursed her lips, bent down and pressed the little girl's head: "Well, she left today and went to another place."
"Will she come to the classroom again this afternoon? I made her a gift..."
"Just give the gift to Teacher Su, and she will hand it over for you - the graduating children will leave soon, and I probably won't have time to say goodbye to you, but... I will send it to her for you."
"oh……"
Little Red Riding Hood got up and hurriedly walked through the corridor with Yu Sheng and his party.
After leaving the sight of the children, Yu Shengcai frowned and asked in a low voice: "You just said that this kind of thing has happened many times?"
"Many times," Little Red Riding Hood nodded lightly, "some children were already in very unstable conditions when they came here, and some... were already suffering from mental illness, and 'fairy tales' would aggravate their condition.
.We don’t face death crises only in ‘adulthood’; ​​throughout childhood, there are obstacles everywhere.”
Erin looked up from Hu Hu's arms: "They don't know the truth?"
"The youngest group of children don't know that because of the extra tension and fear of the unknown, confusion will intensify the impact of 'fairy tales' on them, but at the age of about thirteen or fourteen, they will gradually understand from 'dreams'
to what will happen next, and at the same time begin to grasp the power that 'fairy tales' bring to them - we call this node 'awakening', and after that, they will become 'parents'... We have a set of mature guidance
process."
Erin buried her head in Hu Li's arms again, her voice sounding muffled: "...it's the first time I've felt the mature sexual process. This statement sounds so uncomfortable."
Yu Sheng did not speak, he just pursed his lips tightly, and his expression looked particularly gloomy, as if it contained a fire and some strong and persistent thoughts that were brewing.
Irene noticed something. She quickly raised her head and glanced at Yu Sheng, but said nothing.
They quickly passed through the east building, and then, led by Little Red Riding Hood, walked through the corridor between the two buildings and entered the building called the "West Building".
As soon as he stepped into this building, Yu Sheng quickly felt the change in the surrounding environment, or in other words, the atmosphere.
A vague sense of... "suppression" seemed to permeate the entire building. The corridor was so quiet that it was a bit unnerving. The lights were bright, but he always felt that there were dark corners everywhere around him - that was a kind of
The psychological "darkness" is like there are many things in the west building that cannot be dispersed by the light, dividing the whole building into countless scattered parts.
"There are many seals and isolation measures in this building," Little Red Riding Hood seemed to have noticed the change in Yu Sheng's expression, and explained softly, "This is our containment and research facility for the time being - children who have had accidents must be here first
They must undergo certain 'security procedures' before they can be sent outside."
Yu Sheng did not speak, but nodded silently.
He followed Little Red Riding Hood and Long Hair through the uncomfortable corridor. The sunlight streaming in from the window left intermittent shadows on the wall. Finally, they came to a large, heavy-looking iron door.
And a young woman in a light gray coat, who looked to be in her twenties and looked tired, was standing at the door, seeming to be leaning against the wall in a daze.
is an adult.
Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment when he saw the other party, but soon he remembered what Little Red Riding Hood had told him.
An "employee" sent by the board of directors?
"This is 'Teacher Su'. She is responsible for taking care of children under the age of seven," Sure enough, "Long Hair" introduced in a low voice, "She is sent by the council, and the children like her very much."
The young woman known as "Teacher Su" finally woke up from her daze. She noticed the person coming, but she didn't seem to pay attention to him, instead her eyes fell on Little Red Riding Hood.
"It was during class..." she whispered, obviously an adult, but in front of Little Red Riding Hood she looked like a child who had made a mistake, "I...should have noticed earlier..."
"It's useless to notice it earlier. It may be too late before we are sent here," Little Red Riding Hood shook her head, "We have to go in and check the situation."
"...Okay," the young woman bit her lip and nodded, but at this moment, she seemed to finally notice the existence of Yu Sheng, Irene, and Hu Li, "Wait, who are they?"
"Come with me," Little Red Riding Hood had already pushed open the heavy iron door, "you are also my friend."
The woman was stunned, but Yu Sheng had already walked past her. Before entering, he turned his face and nodded to her: "Hello, my name is Yu Sheng, and I come from the 'hotel'."
Hu Li also followed suit: "My name is Hu Li, Hu Li from the 'hotel'."
"My name is Irene, Irene from 'Hotel'!"
Before the woman could react, several figures had already walked into the door. The iron door was closed, leaving her standing in the corridor a little dull.
The lights in the room are bright.
But the "darkness" that seemed to spread directly from the psychological level was even more serious than in the corridor.
Yu Sheng saw that there were no furnishings in this huge room, except for a small single bed placed in the middle.
A thin figure covered with a thin quilt was lying on the bed, seeming to be sleeping deeply.
An inexplicable resistance stirred in his heart, but Yu Sheng still took steps forward.
The child was lying there, sleeping peacefully.
But he didn't breathe, and his chest didn't rise at all.
Some fine, disturbing red lines covered her neck, arms and calves, and there were still blood stains between the lines, as if those places had been torn apart and then barely healed together.
Yu Sheng instantly recalled the changes in Little Red Riding Hood's arm that he had seen in the valley before.
"It was handled in time, and no other children saw it," Rapunzel whispered from the side. "She briefly turned into a wolf in the nightmare. It only lasted a moment, and it was already too late."
"...Fortunately, she finally returned to her human form at the last moment," Little Red Riding Hood sighed softly, "At least we can send her away in a 'human' way."
"Wait, wolf?" Yu Sheng finally determined something and looked at Little Red Riding Hood in astonishment, "Her 'symptom' is also turning into a wolf? So..."
"Don't you know?" It was Rapunzel on the other side who spoke. She pointed to the child lying on the bed, "She may be the next Little Red Riding Hood."
Having said this, she shook her head with a low expression: "But it's meaningless to say this now."
"You have seen it," Little Red Riding Hood took a long breath and said to the student, "This is the end of the story - her childhood is over."
"Will you do the same then?"
"Yes, I will be like this in the future - if I'm lucky, I'll look like a human being, if I'm unlucky... I'll look like a different person."
Yu Sheng said nothing. He looked at the girl in red in front of him for a long time, and then looked at the child lying on the bed. He remained motionless for a long time, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
A few minutes passed like this, and just when Little Red Riding Hood finally couldn't help but speak, Yu Sheng suddenly moved.
He reached out his hand and touched the blood stain near the child's neck on the bed.
Rapunzel's eyes widened instantly and she took a step forward: "What are you doing?"
Yu Sheng didn't even raise his head: "I want to know what she saw at the last moment. If possible, maybe I can say a few more words to her."
Rapunzel was stunned, but just when she was about to speak, Little Red Riding Hood stretched out her hand to stop her.
At almost the same time, Yu Sheng also said "Huh?" in confusion.
"What's wrong?" Eileen said subconsciously.
Yu Sheng did not respond. He just kept reaching out and touching the blood marks. He stood there steadily for more than ten seconds, as if he was observing or sensing some unusual information. After a while, he
Then he suddenly blinked his eyes and exhaled sharply.
"...She's not dead."
He said softly, with hesitation and confusion in his tone. Then, as if to emphasize, he raised his head again, looked around everyone present, and nodded vigorously again.
Chapter completed!