Yu Sheng quickly shook his head and temporarily put aside the messy conjectures in his mind.

Whether this is a special consciousness space, or it is really his "dream", what really needs to be thought about now is why Xiaoxiao appears here.

Yu Sheng naturally thought of two other people who had also appeared here: Little Red Riding Hood and Beaver.

If you have to count, Irene must also be added - although the little doll came in on its own by its own "dream" ability.

...Is it because of the blood connection?

Xiaoxiao was still standing aside, blinking and looking here, looking a little confused.

Yu Sheng reached out and rubbed the little guy's head. He didn't know how to explain this place to a six-year-old child, so he simply stopped explaining: "You are dreaming."

"Uncle, are you the person I dreamed about?" The little guy looked curious.

Yu Sheng was startled and could only bite the bullet: "...Yes, you dreamed about it."

"Uncle, can you become an X-faced knight?"

Yu Sheng finally realized that the topic seemed to be going differently than he had imagined: "...can't."

The little girl thought for a while: "It's okay to become an Ultraman."

Yu Sheng couldn't stand it any longer, and squatted down to be eye level with Xiaoxiao, speaking earnestly: "Although this is a dream, there are also things that cannot be done in dreams..."

"oh."

The little girl said oh, as if she had finally given up on this wild idea.

Then a few seconds passed.

"Then Rainbow Little X..."

"No way."

"Okay, that won't change."

Xiaoxiao sat down on the spot, pulled out a few grass blades from the side, and began to tie the grass blades into knots seriously.

Yu Sheng couldn't help but think of Little Red Riding Hood's complaint against him here last time. He squatted down next to Xiaoxiao: "Do you feel it's a bit boring here?"

The little girl nodded, but then shook her head vigorously.

"There are no wolves here," she whispered, "I feel better than other dreams."

Yu Sheng was startled for a moment, then thought deeply.

But just when he was about to say something else, he suddenly heard something vaguely.

He reacted for a moment and realized that the sound was coming from the real world.

"Uncle is leaving," Yu Sheng thought quickly, turned to Xiaoxiao and said, "You should still stay here. The teacher will wake you up at the end of the lunch break. Don't be afraid, it's safe here.

"

Xiaoxiao blinked her eyes and waved her hand politely to the student: "Goodbye, uncle."

Yu Sheng immediately let go of his control over his consciousness, letting his thoughts fall in this "dream", and was pulled back to reality by the voice in his mind.

The next second, he suddenly felt pressure coming from everywhere on his body, and the heavy pressure on his chest made him almost breathless. When he opened his eyes, he saw three dolls as expected——

Two Irenes were pressing one of their arms and one leg respectively, and one Irene was sleeping on her chest with her arms stretched out...

Even if the three dolls looked exactly the same, he could instantly tell that the one lying on his chest was the rebar Irene...

"Go down, go down, I'm going to crush you to death." Yu Sheng quickly used his hands and feet to get several Irenes off of him. He felt like he was battling wits with a bunch of koalas when he finally broke free.

He felt that half of his body was no longer his, and even suspected that he might have been crushed to death by this guy once, and now he had just come back to life - and then he hurriedly stretched himself to reach the ringing mobile phone on the bedside table, and took it

When I came over to take a look, I found that it was Little Red Riding Hood calling.

Ignoring the doll X3, which was mumbling and complaining while half asleep, Yu Sheng casually answered the phone: "Hello?"

Little Red Riding Hood on the other side of the phone got straight to the point, but Yu Sheng was very surprised by what she said: "Do you still remember the last action we took at the museum?"

Yu Sheng was a little stunned for a moment. He was originally thinking about Xiaoxiao getting into his "dream". At the same time, he also thought that Little Red Riding Hood came to him because there was something strange discovered at the orphanage, but he didn't expect that the other party would suddenly come to him.

What he mentioned was the museum's operation. He reacted for a moment before nodding: "Ah, I remember it."

"Then do you remember that the 'reward' for that operation never came?"

"Ah, I almost forgot if you didn't mention it!" Yu Sheng reacted quickly, "The reward has never been paid... What happened? Did you go to ask for the account? Did the other party refuse to pay?"

As he was talking, he felt a little strange, because when he contacted Little Red Riding Hood recently, he always discussed "fairy tales" and exotic things. The topic was either the black forest or the big bad wolf. At this time, he suddenly mentioned the museum incident a few days ago.

, this topic jumped so much that he was quite uncomfortable with it.

But the other person's next words instantly shook Yu Sheng away from this uncomfortable feeling——

"My client is dead."

"……What?!"

"Because I haven't received any payment from the Strange Objects Association, I felt very strange, so I went to contact him, but found that the several contact information left by the client could not be reached," Little Red Riding Hood began to explain to Yu Sheng in detail.

"So I contacted other acquaintances in the Oddities Association today, and they told me that my client had an accident a few days ago and has died."

Yu Sheng didn't speak for a while, but he already felt something was wrong about this matter from Little Red Riding Hood's words.

After a moment, he grasped what exactly this "something wrong" feeling was about: "...Wait a minute, what about the commission for the 'Statue of the Weeper'?"

"It seems that you have also thought of it," Little Red Riding Hood said with a solemn tone, "The Oddity Association is a formal organization with great influence. For the commissions they announce to the outside world, even if the executor has an accident, the organization should have a follow-up to take over.

According to the process, there should not be a situation where the person in charge of issuing the contract dies and the subsequent rewards are swallowed up, so I directly inquired about the commission according to their process... What do you think the result was?"

"No need to guess," Yu Sheng already knew the answer after hearing this, "You said so... commissions don't exist, right?"

"Yes, it doesn't exist. In the public contract information of the Oddities Association, there is no recycling commission for the 'Wayer Statue'," Little Red Riding Hood sighed, "But I don't know if this commission was fake from the beginning.

, or someone deleted its record recently.”

Listening to the other party's last words, Yu Sheng's brows gradually wrinkled unconsciously.

Many days have passed since the operation in the museum. Although there were many unexpected situations behind it, including sacrifices by cults and angel cultists, Yu Sheng felt that this matter was at least over for him and Little Red Riding Hood.

However, now, a new wave of something wrong has arisen in this already ended incident, which gave him a faint smell of... "the smell of conspiracy".

If this commission was fake from the beginning, then the matter would be simpler - perhaps an unruly member of the Society of Oddities wanted to circumvent the supervision of the society and secretly collect "exhibits" from the "museum" for profit.

The thing is in hand but the person is gone. The whole thing can still be limited to the "personal" category, but if this commission was really sent from the Oddity Society, but has recently been deleted all information, then this matter

Things... are much more complicated.

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"I feel something is not right about this matter, and the remuneration that was originally agreed upon to be distributed to you is now gone. I think I should contact you to explain the situation." Little Red Riding Hood's voice continued to come from the phone, which sounded still...

Apologizing, "I'm sorry, you've worked hard on this matter and delayed it for so long, and now it's like this..."

"Don't talk about this yet," Yu Sheng interrupted, "What are you going to do next? We have to continue the investigation, right?"

"...Well, at least I need to figure out what happened to my client," Little Red Riding Hood hesitated, then said, "I have been working with him for several years, and the person who first helped me connect with the Oddities Association was

He, even... the last 'Little Red Riding Hood', also received help from him. Anyway, I don't believe that he would do such a thing for personal gain, and his death was really strange, too like..."

Yu Sheng said calmly: "It sounds like someone has silenced you, doesn't it?"

"……Um."

"Let's meet and talk," Yu Sheng breathed out softly, "Should I come to you or should you come to me?"

Little Red Riding Hood was a little surprised. She was startled for a moment and then said quickly: "Ah? I didn't intend to trouble you. I just wanted to tell you about the reward. I plan to conduct the subsequent investigation myself..."

"Nonsense, you've talked so much, my curiosity has aroused," Yu Sheng interrupted again, "And this is so bad, even child laborers are defrauded of their money..."

little Red Riding Hood:"……"

It could be heard that she wanted to refute something during this moment of silence, but she couldn't.

Yu Sheng said a few words indignantly, and then suddenly remembered something: "By the way, let me ask by the way, does the Secret Service care about this matter?"

"Of course it is managed. After all, it is a commissioned operation registered on the 'Border Communication' platform. If there is a breach of contract or the hiding and transfer of 'odd objects', the official will of course investigate, not to mention that a human life was lost this time, but they

The direction and method of investigation are definitely different from those of a 'spiritual detective'."

"Then let them check theirs, and let's check ours," Yu Sheng waved his hand, "You haven't said yet, will I look for you later or will you look for me?"

Little Red Riding Hood was silent for two seconds, and finally said: "...I'll go find you. I happen to be nearby now. I'll be there in about half an hour."

"Okay, then I'll wait for you at home."

"Well, and...thank you."

After hanging up the phone, Yu Sheng watched the screen gradually go black and breathed out softly.

Then when he looked up, he saw three little dolls sitting neatly on the bed, staring directly at him.

"Something happened again~"

The three Erins spoke in unison, deliberately lengthening their pitches.

Yu Sheng glared at them, raised his hand and pointed at the one in the middle: "This, you are not allowed to sleep on the bed in the future."

"...Why?"

"Why? Why did you almost crush me to death!" Yu Sheng stared, "And the rebar and solid stone have pressed me from 1.67 meters to more than 60 centimeters. I'm even afraid that you might jump on the bed.

I'll smash a hole and get down quickly."
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