The night is deep.
Night shrouded the orphanage, and the corridor outside gradually became quiet. The children had exhausted their energy during the day's play. Most of them had fallen asleep at this time. The "parents" who were watching the night walked through the corridor with flashlights. Occasionally, there was light from
The door's observation window flashed by, accompanied by the sound of deliberately slowed down footsteps.
Little Red Riding Hood put on her nightgown, leaned against the bed, and listened to what was going on outside.
She was paying attention to whether there were short cries or unusual screams in the night. Her wolf was sniffing out the smell of fear and uneasiness in the shadows, sniffing out whether there was something that shouldn't be there, taking advantage of the darkness of the night.
leaked into reality.
Even on days when she didn't need to be on night watch, she had developed this habit.
After a while, she finally breathed a sigh of relief and lay down on the bed.
The first hour after lights out is the most likely to cause trouble. It seems like today is a peaceful night.
There was a creaking sound from the upper bunk, and a head poked out from the edge of the bed, with curiosity on its face: "Red Riding Hood, why did you go to bed so early today? Have you really slept more recently?"
"Well, I'm starting to feel sleepy," Little Red Riding Hood yawned and said a little sleepily, "And I have an appointment tonight."
Rapunzel, who was sleeping on the upper bunk, was a little confused when she heard the words. She didn't understand what they meant for a moment, but within a few seconds she realized what she was saying, and a name that she had become familiar with recently came to her mind: "...that one is called
Yu Sheng’s uncle?”
"He's not that old, you should call me brother," Little Red Riding Hood rolled her eyes, "Yes, it's him. He asked me to meet in the Black Forest."
"Okay, brother," Rapunzel looked a little weird, "I asked you to meet in the Black Forest... Well, although I know what's going on, it still sounds weird. We have always been trapped in
In their respective 'subsets', your dark forest has become 'lively' recently..."
Little Red Riding Hood raised her eyelids: "Envy?"
The head on the edge of the upper bunk tilted, then retracted after a moment: "I don't have any ideas."
Little Red Riding Hood opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she swallowed the words. Then she picked up the mobile phone beside her, and edited a message as sleepiness gradually emerged——
"Good night, see you later."
After an unknown amount of time, the girl finally fell into a dream.
Dark, cold, and empty, and then layers of shadows appeared in front of us. The forest at dusk emerged from the shadows, and along with the shadows, there were distant howls of wolves.
Little Red Riding Hood opened her eyes in her dream and saw a familiar "landscape".
"...We are really at this place again."
She sighed helplessly, but her nerves gradually began to tighten in her heart.
The fear and tension that have been rooted in childhood have almost become instincts born in the bones. This is not something that can be fought against by making any mental preparations in advance or exercising courage on weekdays. The calmness on the face and the ridicule in the tone are just that.
She is still afraid of being able to lie to herself - she knows this better than anyone else.
As her nerves gradually became tense, she summoned her wolf pack, and then looked around.
She was wary of the evil wolves appearing in the darkness, and was also looking for the figure who promised to explore the dark forest with her.
Almost at the same time that the wolves were summoned, Little Red Riding Hood saw intertwining and spreading black threads suddenly appearing out of thin air in the nearby air, and heard a voice coming from nowhere:
"Hey, she's asleep, she's asleep... Don't rush, don't rush. Just position yourself. You have to find a way to drive directly to her. This is a delicate job... It's connected, hey, it's connected! Just set the door here.
, Let’s open, let’s open…”
The next second, Little Red Riding Hood was astonished to see those threads floating in the air suddenly condensed into a thorny "door frame", and a shimmering illusory door quickly took shape in the center of the thorn bush, and the door opened.
, three familiar figures stepped out of the door.
Yu Sheng carried Irene on his shoulders, and the fox girl followed beside him.
"Good evening," Yu Sheng greeted the girl in front of him cheerfully as soon as he came in, "I guess you're not late, right? Irene said you just fell asleep a few minutes ago."
Then Hu Li and Irene also waved and said hello, both looking cheerful.
It seems as if we are not entering a dangerous black forest, but running to a park for an outing.
Little Red Riding Hood suddenly felt that her emotions were a little out of sync. She felt that she should still be nervous, but the atmosphere was suddenly overwhelmed by the cheerful attitude of these three people. She could only open her mouth and hold back a sentence for a long time: "Uh...
I just came in."
Then she saw Yu Sheng dig out the door that had not been closed yet, bending down to pull something in from the opposite side of the door - and taking a closer look, it was a piece of rebar more than one meter long.
The front end of the thick steel bar is bent
There are several circles, with a pile of rusty nails, blades and angular steel bar stubbles welded horizontally and vertically on them. In the dark forest at dusk and near nightfall, these things glow with a cold light. Just looking at them makes you feel like you are going to get tetanus.
…
With a question mark on her forehead, Little Red Riding Hood watched as Yu Sheng pulled the tetanus stick out of the door and waved it twice out of thin air. The one-meter-long and nearly two-meter steel mace was as light as a plastic stick in his hand.
, she finally couldn't help but ask: "What is this?"
"Weapon," Yu Sheng explained cheerfully, but at the same time he seemed a little embarrassed, "The main reason is that I don't have anyone who can take advantage of me, and I don't have much combat experience or skills. I usually have nothing but brute force and selling blood."
There are other advantages, unlike Hu Hu, who has a fox carrot suit, or Erin, who has a bunch of magic gadgets... I can only make do with this."
As he spoke, he swung the vicious stick that could cause severe bleeding and tetanus to an ordinary person twice, and sighed: "Although I feel that this thing is of no use to the 'evil wolf', but it has a root."
A stick is better than going up with bare hands or swinging a stone like before."
Little Red Riding Hood was stunned for a while after hearing this, and finally recovered from the shocking "weapon" style of painting, and followed Yu Sheng's train of thought. Her expression couldn't help but be a little awed - but it wasn't because of this.
How powerful is the stick really?
To be fair, she has seen a lot of dangerous weapons in her years as a detective in the spirit world, and there are countless weird things that can kill people in foreign lands. A piece of rebar with a lot of blade stubbles welded to it is actually nothing at all.
Advanced stuff, but this
What’s great about this thing is the style of painting. The pile of spikes, barbs and sharp blades shining with cold light can be seen as the result of the designer giving full play to subjective malice and ruthlessness. The murderous aura in the weapon painting style has surpassed that of the weapon.
It's lethal in itself.
And for some reason, when she looked at this thing, she always felt waves of... frightened. This tension became more and more obvious, and finally made Little Red Riding Hood feel that something was wrong.
She suddenly sniffed and noticed the source of this strangeness in the cold flash of the blades.
"...Is this soaked in blood?" The girl gradually opened her eyes wide and looked at Yu Sheng in surprise as he turned around and closed the door seriously.
"Yes," Yu Sheng laughed, "a lot."
In the shadow of the dark forest, that smile seemed to glow with pure joy.
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Little Red Riding Hood stood there in a daze, always feeling that she should say something at this time, but she couldn't find the right words in her limited life experience and three views. After a while, she just said: "This... your
Blood? Isn’t this a bit..."
"Don't worry about it," Yu Sheng waved his hand nonchalantly before the girl finished speaking, "Anyway, this whole stick is the leftover material left when making the doll. It can be regarded as a by-product of making the doll."
little Red Riding Hood:"……?"
Yu Sheng did not continue to explain, but put the tetanus stick on his shoulder and looked up into the depths of the black forest.
"Don't stay in this heavily shadowed place. According to what the squirrel said, look for a direction with light first. I think there seems to be a light in front of you - let's walk first and see who comes out first, the squirrel or the wolf.
…”
As he spoke, he walked out on his own. After Little Red Riding Hood reacted, she had no choice but to follow. After a few steps, she noticed the nail marks on Yu Sheng's arms and the small teeth marks on his forehead.
(I don’t know how the teeth marks could be gnawed on the forehead), I couldn’t help but wonder: “Then what’s going on with these wounds of yours? It’s like a cat scratching...”
Yu Sheng's steps immediately slowed down, and his face twitched in embarrassment: "Well... this is also a by-product of making dolls. Don't worry, it will be fine after a while."
Irene, who was sitting on his other shoulder, snorted and tried hard to act like she was still angry, but it was not intimidating at all. In the end, she reached out and touched the tooth mark on Yu Sheng's forehead, which seemed particularly twisted.
.
Little Red Riding Hood continued: "...?"
At this moment, a rustling sound suddenly came from the bushes nearby, causing everyone to stop instantly.
The next second, under the gaze of several eyes, a small figure suddenly jumped out of the bush——
A squirrel with a big fluffy tail, a red rag wrapped around its body, holding an acorn picked up from nowhere, jumped to the twigs at the top of the bush with great dignity, and made a high-pitched cry.
Voice: "Ah - dusk! The forest has darkened, and Little Red Riding Hood is walking alone on the path in the countryside. Good children should control their curiosity and never be attracted by the wild flowers and mushrooms on the roadside..."
The little squirrel suddenly stopped mid-sentence and stared at the group of people in front of him.
Yu Sheng was carrying the tetanus staff with a smile on his face.
This doll is only 66 centimeters tall but looks so impressive for some reason.
Behind him are a bunch of demon foxes with fox fire floating around their tails.
Little Red Riding Hood looked embarrassed but didn't know why.
The squirrel watched this scene blankly. After a few seconds, the acorn in his paw fell to the ground with a splat.
Chapter completed!