Chapter 134 The cabin in the dark
The squirrel calmed down and began to tell Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood what happened in the black forest.
"She came in a few hours ago. I didn't notice it at first - she didn't cry or fuss, and she was different from other children who had just come in," Squirrel sighed as he stood on Yu Sheng's shoulder.
He said angrily, "This may be her first time 'really' entering the Black Forest, but before today, she has probably had nightmares related to the Black Forest for a long time..."
"Which direction did she go?" Little Red Riding Hood on the side interrupted the squirrel's chatter, "Take us there."
"This way," the squirrel raised his paw and pointed in a certain direction, but then shook his head, "I think it's pointless for you to chase after it. It's too deep over there, and there are no lights from the trails or huts. There is no light in the darkness.
Shelter, you will only be swallowed up by wolves in vain..."
Little Red Riding Hood didn't pay attention to the second half of the squirrel's words at all. At this time, she was already walking forward: "We will judge for ourselves."
"Hey, you..." The squirrel suddenly shouted, jumping on Yusheng's shoulders, and then suddenly lowered his voice, "You don't know your situation, do you?"
Little Red Riding Hood stopped and turned around to look: "I know."
Yu Sheng followed Little Red Riding Hood and walked deep into the black forest, and the squirrel kept chattering all the way - it jumped from Yu Sheng's shoulder to Little Red Riding Hood's, looking nervous and impatient: "
You are taking a risk! If you take the initiative to walk towards a place without lights, you will definitely encounter a pack of wolves! Even the big bad wolf will find you soon!
"At least go to the path or a hut and rest for a few minutes to adjust your condition, especially Little Red Riding Hood. You need to regain stability now...
"That adult over there, aren't you her friend? You should try to persuade her...
"I think you are just trying to make things difficult for me, a little squirrel! No one cares about a squirrel's opinion at all!
“Why is the world so cruel to squirrels—for such a cute squirrel like me!”
The squirrel raised its paws and screamed, but before it continued to go crazy, Little Red Riding Hood suddenly reached out and grabbed the noisy rodent: "You are so noisy, if you do this again I will throw you into the bushes."
——The prickly kind.”
The squirrel immediately fell silent, and after a few seconds he spoke reluctantly: "You can't go down the road of giving up on yourself."
"I'm not giving up on myself," Little Red Riding Hood pursed her lips, her tone suddenly serious, "I'm serious - I'm calmer than ever now...at least calmer than every time I've been dreaming in recent times."
The squirrel stared blankly at Little Red Riding Hood, then raised his head in confusion at Yu Sheng who was walking beside him. He seemed to want to ask something, but he didn't say anything for a long time because his mind was a little confused.
Yu Sheng didn't say much along the way. He just followed Little Red Riding Hood quietly, but his energy was always focused.
He was trying to sense - to sense the movement around him, to sense the possible connections originating from blood, to sense the movements of the wolves, to sense... the largest and most ferocious evil wolf.
The faint howl of wolves came from the dark depths of the forest, one after another, everywhere.
The remaining dim light in the sky had faded away at some point, and night began to cover the forest, but the night was not completely dark - a more sinister sense of gloom filled the trees, and the darkness was mixed with an icy gaze.
"The wolf has noticed us, the wolf has noticed us..." The squirrel suddenly muttered nervously and quickly, and at the same time took out a dry and hard pine needle from somewhere, "It's really crazy, we have to do it without any lights at all.
The place is being eaten by wolves! It’s terrible, it’s terrible.”
Yu Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly, sensing some subtle... "flow" in the howling sounds of wolves.
A line of sight was scanning the area, and at a certain moment, he could even see his own figure in that line of sight.
But the owner of the sight has not yet appeared. The wolf is hiding in the forest, seemingly still waiting for something.
Yu Sheng kept paying attention to that line of sight, and then suddenly noticed that Little Red Riding Hood walking beside him slowed down a little.
The girl's body seemed to be shaking unconsciously.
"Are you okay?" Yu Sheng asked immediately.
"I'm fine," Little Red Riding Hood's tone remained calm, and even her expression and eyes didn't seem to have changed. "I just need to be vigilant when walking deep into the forest."
Yu Sheng looked at Little Red Riding Hood who looked normal.
The gaze cast from the depths of the forest was also looking at Little Red Riding Hood.
The sweet fear is rooted in the depths of childhood, grows in the darkness, is amplified by memory, and permeates the forest.
Yu Sheng suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Little Red Riding Hood's hand.
The latter was taken aback: "How..."
"Don't be afraid."
Little Red Riding Hood looked a little awkward: "...I'm not afraid."
"Pretending to be calm can't fool the wolf. It can directly see your fear." Yu Sheng just looked into her eyes calmly, "It's staring at you."
Little Red Riding Hood's eyes widened slightly. She was confused for a moment and couldn't help but said: "How do you know?"
The fear that spread around her subsided slightly, and the wolf continued to wait cautiously.
Yu Sheng blinked. He knew that the wolf was still staring here, but he was also staring at it.
"That wolf is stained with my blood," he said to Little Red Riding Hood. He was always very honest about this matter. "Now you don't have to be afraid. Sooner or later, he will become my prey."
Little Red Riding Hood said nothing, but looked at Yu Sheng in a daze.
She was a little doubtful, a little hesitant, and she couldn't fully understand and believe what Yu Sheng said - but the fear was indeed fading further from her.
That's enough.
Yu Sheng let go of her hand.
He knew that Little Red Riding Hood's "fear" could not be blamed - because this "fear" had long gone beyond reason, and in this dark forest, it was more than just an "emotional reaction" for Little Red Riding Hood.
As a senior detective in the spiritual world, she may be able to go deep into foreign lands without changing her expression, she may be able to stand up against those weird and ugly entities, and she may even be able to face her own life and death, but the fear of "evil wolves" began many years ago.
It took root in her mind and even became a part of her childhood. It grew up with her like tarsal poison until today - the evil wolf bigger than the house is a reflection of this fear.
No wonder the children of "fairy tales" can never escape the curse it brings.
The squirrel stood on Little Red Riding Hood's shoulder, looking between the two of them with its dark eyes. I don't know what he was thinking. It suddenly broke the silence: "She has run into the depths of the forest before... Most of Little Red Riding Hood's
More or less, you will have such an experience once or twice... At the beginning, most of the initial fear comes from this."
"Don't say unnecessary words." Little Red Riding Hood said dully.
"Is it because of the 'temptations' outside the path?" Yu Sheng couldn't help but asked curiously.
Little Red Riding Hood lowered her head and walked forward silently.
"What else could it be?" the squirrel sighed very humanely, "little flowers and mushrooms on the roadside - and some shiny things. Those things are always so tempting, but in the end they belong to the wolf.
Teeth and claws..."
Little Red Riding Hood looked up and gave the squirrel a nasty look: "I will really throw you into the bushes."
"...I have also encountered 'temptation', there is nothing shameful about it," Yu Sheng thought for a while and said to Little Red Riding Hood, "Look, I am an adult, and I almost lost control when I came in last time. If it hadn't been for someone
The squirrel reminds me, maybe I will also walk into the darkness."
Little Red Riding Hood looked at Yu Sheng a little surprised.
"...Have you also been 'tempted' by the sights beyond the path?" She said hesitantly, "Is there anything else that can tempt you?"
Her tone was quite unbelievable when she said this.
Just like when she first learned that Yu Sheng was also a cannibal, she was in disbelief.
Yu Sheng always felt that the girl in red in front of him was thinking of some rude things, but he had no evidence.
"It's normal. People are tempted sometimes," he waved his hand and said nonchalantly, and then asked inadvertently, "What about you? What lured you into the depths of the forest in the first place?"
He didn't mean anything else, he just hoped to divert the other party's attention and at the same time learn more about Little Red Riding Hood's past experiences - this might help him help her get rid of the influence of this dark forest.
However, Little Red Riding Hood just pursed her lips tightly, as if she didn't want to answer the question.
Even the squirrel on her shoulder, which had been chirping despite warnings, honestly shut its mouth this time.
"Okay," Yu Sheng breathed out and didn't ask any more questions, "If you don't want to say it, just leave it. Let's..."
He suddenly stopped mid-sentence.
Little Red Riding Hood also stopped for a moment.
Deep in the dense forest ahead, a hazy outline came into their eyes.
Not the "lost" child, but a cabin.
"Don't get close yet!" The squirrel immediately became nervous, its big tail trembling slightly, "Something's wrong, the squirrel feels something is wrong..."
"That looks very similar to the cabin I saw last time," Yu Sheng muttered in a low voice, "The appearance seems to be exactly the same."
"It looks like it, but it's not!" the squirrel said quickly, holding pine needles tightly in its paws. "Did you see it? There is no light! There is no light in this hut! Without light, it is deep in the dark forest, and it has not yet been darkened.
Swallow! It’s weird, it’s weird... The hut should have disintegrated and disappeared after the lights went out... Is grandma inside? No, no, the hut where grandma is there also has lights on..."
Listening to the squirrel's nervous and anxious chatter, Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood glanced at each other at the same time.
Chapter completed!