Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel both thought Yu Sheng was out of his mind.
"She died an hour ago!" Rapunzel stared, "Her whole body organs - including the heart and brain - have lost their vitality long ago! We have done an examination, and of course she is dead...
…”
"No, she's not dead, at least not yet," Yu Sheng still shook his head, the confusion gradually faded from his face, and his expression became firmer, "I don't know how to explain to you,
But I can feel it...she is still on this side of the living person, she has not stepped over yet."
As he spoke, he touched the blood marks on the girl's neck with his fingers again.
In the fleeting vision of black and white, he felt as if he "understood" something, but that feeling passed in an instant, and he tried to catch it but couldn't.
Little Red Riding Hood seemed to have thought of something: "You...can't communicate with the dead like you did in the museum before? So you think she is still alive?"
Yu Sheng hesitated for a moment and nodded.
Little Red Riding Hood's eyes widened, subconsciously doubting Yu Sheng's judgment, but she seemed to have some unrealistic fantasy left in her heart: "But..."
But Yu Sheng waved his hand vigorously, asking her and Rapunzel, who was about to speak, to quiet down.
"You don't understand, not only because I can't communicate with the dead, but I... can feel that she is still here," he said as he began to check the wounds on the girl's body, and suddenly took it from his pocket.
Out of a knife, Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel were stunned
Under his gaze, he directly cut open his palm and smeared his blood on the fine cracks on the other person's arm, "Do you understand what I mean? I mean, in my opinion, she is still alive and well.
, just fell asleep, sleeping in a dream of imminent death..."
Irene seemed to have finally thought of something. She jumped out of Hu Li's arms and ran to Yu Sheng's side: "Did you 'see' something again?!"
"See... yes, you can say that, I suddenly understood something," Yu Sheng muttered, smearing his own blood as if he was self-mutilating, and suddenly raised his head and looked at Little Red Riding Hood and the long-haired
Princess - they subconsciously felt uneasy after seeing his actions and wanted to stop them, but they stopped invariably at the look in his eyes, "You guys keep your distance, yes, just stand there, your balance is very fragile,
She's about to fall to the other side..."
Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel took half a step back, but the questions in their eyes fell on Yu Sheng at the same time.
"Do you know how bees judge the 'death' of their companions?" Yu Sheng suddenly said to them.
Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel looked at each other, wondering why the other party would suddenly ask such a question.
"Pheromone," Yu Sheng said without waiting for their answer, but said to himself, "The most direct way for bees to judge the death of their companions is pheromones - dying bees will release volatile substances.
Then it is received by the living bees, so they will come to 'bury' the dead companion and clean the body out of the hive. This can effectively avoid the spread of diseases in the hive... However, there is a problem with this identification method, that is, in the hive,
In our opinion, there is not always an equal sign between 'pheromone' and 'death'.
"If we artificially apply a specific volatile substance to a living bee, even if it is alive and kicking or struggling desperately in the hive, its companions will still regard it as a dead bee and forcibly treat it like a corpse.
Dispose of it - because in the eyes of the limited nervous system of bees, the same kind that exudes the 'smell of death' is a corpse. Even if it is struggling, it is still a corpse - they do not understand death other than pheromones.
feature.
"But for the living environment that bees have to face, this judgment is actually sufficient - human beings' boring 'interference' is something outside of natural conditions, and bees, in their limited evolutionary scope, are not originally
You don’t need to think about this.”
Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel stared blankly as they listened to Yu Sheng's words and watched the blood seep silently into the little "corpse" on the bed. An unreasonable... shudder suddenly rose in their hearts.
"You..." Little Red Riding Hood finally couldn't help but break the silence. She swallowed and looked at Yu Sheng with a strange look, "You want to say, we are..."
"Bee." Yu Sheng raised his head and looked calmly at the girl in red in front of him.
He lowered his head again and gently brushed the forehead of the child named "Xiaoxiao" with his blood-stained palm, leaving a fleeting trace of bright red on her forehead.
"In the face of 'interference' beyond your understanding, you are confused by the disguised 'death' - the heart stops, the brain stops, the nervous system collapses, the blood stops flowing and gradually cools down, and then the cells decay on a large scale and the enzymes are inactivated.
, the human body begins to digest itself... People regard this as a sign of death. If a person exhibits these characteristics, then he is dead..."
Yu Sheng thought that he was also like this - when he met these "characteristics", he died.
"Dead" in the eyes of ordinary people.
But he just continued to live in a way that ordinary people could not observe and understand, and waited for the short-term "symptom" called "death" to subside from himself.
"...Maybe I never came back from the dead."
He muttered softly.
The little corpse lay quietly on the bed. Through the blood, Yu Sheng gradually understood her "death" and also understood his own "death".
He felt a little quiet around him, so he raised his head, only to see Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel standing aside in an almost cowering manner, looking at him with uneasiness in their eyes, and Irene stood beside him.
, she raised her head, there was no uneasiness in her eyes, but she also looked quite confused.
Only Hu Li was neither confused nor uneasy. Although she couldn't understand it, she still nodded with an "understood" look on her face, and said with emotion in her tone: "My benefactor seems to be comprehending the great truth."
Irene was stunned: "...you can accept anything, right?!"
"We still have three hours, maybe a little less." Yu Sheng said suddenly.
Little Red Riding Hood was stunned: "Three hours? What?"
"Pull her back," Yu Sheng raised his finger and pointed at the thin figure on the bed, "My blood has not established enough connections. She doesn't know where to go. Next, she needs some 'manual intervention' - Irene
, I need your help."
The little doll didn't react for a moment: "Ah...ah? How can I help?"
"She is still dreaming, a dream that does not rely on the operation of the brain," Yu Sheng said casually, "Do you still remember how you found me in the black forest? It was a similar process, you found her and then sent me there.
"
Only then did Irene react: "Oh! It's easy. Just find a place to lie down - you can sit down, too. I've taught you about this once. You don't need to do anything, just stay calm."
At this time, Little Red Riding Hood also reacted - although she was still full of questions, at least now she knew what Yu Sheng was going to do: "Wait, you want to take the initiative to enter the 'Black Forest'? Find her?"
"yes."
"I'm with you!" Little Red Riding Hood said immediately, and then added, "I know it better than you do!"
Yu Sheng frowned and looked at Eileen: "Can I bring more people with me?"
"It should be no problem," Erin thought for a while and nodded with confidence, "She has a deep connection with the Black Forest, so she doesn't need my help to maintain the link. Theoretically, I only need to be a guide to ensure
As long as you can go in together."
"Then give it a try," Yu Sheng nodded without hesitation and sat down on the floor next to the crib. Then he patted the ground next to him and looked up at Little Red Riding Hood, "Sit here."
Little Red Riding Hood said "Huh", walked over silently, and sat down next to Yu Sheng.
Rapunzel looked a little worried: "Is it really possible? I've never done this before..."
Little Red Riding Hood was silent for a few seconds, then turned to look at Yu Sheng next to her: "Give it a try."
Dark silk threads emerged from Irene's hands out of thin air, and then grew wildly throughout the space, intertwining into a huge and complex network in the blink of an eye - the puppet carefully controlled this "net" and gently covered it in the
The little bed is empty.
The end of the silk thread hangs from the air, like countless tentacles extending from some kind of weird jellyfish, and begins to penetrate into the dreamer's body silently.
Rapunzel subconsciously took half a step back, turned to look at Hu Li, who still looked calm next to her, and finally couldn't help but speak: "Are the people in your 'hotel'... all so evil?"
Hu Li had no idea what the other party meant. She just looked at Irene's wonderful operation with admiration and nodded in admiration: "Irene, maybe you can become a textile fairy."
These were the last words Yu Sheng heard before falling into a dream.
And the last thought in his mind was - Irene seems to have become stronger.
The next second, he felt a sense of trance and falling at the same time. He felt that he and another consciousness were falling rapidly in the darkness. When a solid touch came from underneath his body, he slowly opened his eyes.
Chapter completed!