Yu Sheng woke up from the endless dark fall and chaotic vision, opened his eyes in the dim bedroom, and then sat suddenly... but didn't sit up.
Two Erin sat on his arms, one left and one right, and a rebar sitting on his chest. There was a lying beside the bedside, with wide eyes staring straight at the Huqiu here. The latter's big eyes were glowing a golden red light in the dark, looking very charming.
Yu Sheng almost didn't make a comeback in one breath, and waved his hand to try to pull down the rebar Erin: "I agreed not to jump onto the bed suddenly, why are you coming up again? I wonder how heavy this body is..."
The little doll stared at scarlet eyes: "I didn't jump up suddenly, I climbed up slowly."
Yu Sheng finally sat up after a lot of effort. The drowsy feeling in his mind had not yet faded. Subconsciously, he said: "What are you doing here? You are surrounding like paying attention to your remains..."
As a result, before he finished speaking, Irene nodded: "Yes, I'm paying attention to the remains."
Yu Sheng: “…?”
"My benefactor, you just lost your breath for half an hour. I think you are dead," Hu Li nodded from the side, saying seriously, "Then I was discussing with Erin how you died, benefactor. Erin said that human beings are very fragile, and if you stay up late for too long, you will die suddenly, so you die suddenly - but I think you were crushed to death by her sitting on her chest. Then we are waiting here, wanting to wait for you to survive and ask..."
Yu Sheng: "...Can you learn something reliable from Erin!"
As he said that, he felt dizzy in his mind again. He didn't know whether this was the sequelae of resurrection or the impact of a rebar + stone doll sitting on his chest and almost letting his shadow die twice. Then, he gradually recovered, and the experience just emerged in his mind.
Squirrels, huts, hunters, flickering black forests, Anka Aira's patrols sweeping through the sky, wolves... and death.
A pair of golden red eyes approached quietly next to him. Yu Sheng subconsciously looked up and saw Hu Li's face approaching more than ten centimeters. The latter looked worried: "My benefactor...what is wrong?"
"I became a 'hunter' and saw the crack leading to the black forest - and then was intercepted by the wolf pack," Yu Sheng said, suddenly reacting, suddenly stood up and looked out the window, "Wait! When is now?!"
"It's already dark. You've been sleeping for a long time, benefactor," Hu Li was startled and replied quickly, "I've been to the valley in the afternoon, and it's all right there..."
"No, no, something is going to happen, it's almost night again-" Yu Sheng said, a strong sense of uneasiness rising in his heart, and he spoke quickly while getting off the bed, "Anka Aila's activities are still intensifying, it is preparing for a bigger impact... Ignore anything, I must have ignored something..."
Three Erin looked at me and I looked at you. One of them suddenly jumped from the bed to the bedside table next to him and looked up at Yu Sheng: "Wait, what are you saying that something is going to happen... Isn't the most dangerous night already over? And Hu Li and I just went to the valley to confirm that the children are all very comfortable..."
"But Anka Aila's activity has not decreased, but is increasing!" Yu Sheng interrupted Erin in a hurry. He looked at the doll's scarlet eyes in the dark. "The previous blood-instruction ceremony protected the children and the "blocking" of the valley itself did weaken Anka Aila's 'control', but its awakening speed is accelerating!"
The three Erin were stunned at the same time: "...what?!"
"I saw it in the Black Forest... the dark angel is scanning all the subsets," Yu Sheng was already quickly put on his coat and picked up his phone to send a notice to the Secret Service, and then reached out to open the door and said, "I suspect it was looking for those fairy tale members who were 'disturbed' - my asylum for those children seemed to Anka Aira as some kind of 'abduction'. It had sensed that the stage was losing control, but I was not sure how much it had to do with the acceleration of its awakening..."
Erin listened in a daze and jumped down from the bedside table: "Hey where are you going?"
"Go to the valley - you and Huli come with me!"
The illusory door opened out of thin air, and Yu Sheng appeared directly in the temporary camp in the valley. The bright sky light made him, who was still in the dark room a second ago, suddenly uncomfortable. Then, he saw Little Red Riding Hood standing not far away, looking at him in surprise.
"Why are you here?" The girl in red walked over quickly with a smile on her face. "I heard from Erin that you are exhausted and you are sleeping when you get home - we are preparing for dinner, are you going to come together?"
"Is everything normal in the camp?" Yu Sheng didn't care about responding to the other party's invitation and asked in a hurry, "Is there any child who suddenly fell asleep or hears something wrong?"
Little Red Riding Hood suddenly noticed the solemn expression on Yu Sheng's face, and suddenly became nervous: "No, everything is normal in the camp - what's wrong?"
Only then did Yu Sheng quickly talk about the situation he encountered, and then said, "Next, I will return to the Black Forest as soon as possible and find a way to get close to the rift - but Anka Aira's activity is a big problem. My behavior of "taking you away" seems to have stimulated it, a great stimulation."
Little Red Riding Hood listened with a serious and nervous look on his face. He opened his mouth several times but didn't find a chance. Finally, he hesitated: "So... Is the previous 'protect' too hasty? Shouldn't we stimulate that dark angel so much?"
"Of course I can't think so," Yu Sheng interrupted the other party without thinking. He was still very clear about this matter. "It's not just us who are acting - those angelists have been trying to help Anka Aira's awakening. When the situation was "instructing blood" to other children, we could no longer hesitate.
"After all, although the 'protection' behavior will stimulate Anka Aira, if it does not carry out the asylum, Anka Aira will still wake up in advance. After all, those cultists are crazy enough to hold collective self-sacrifices to stimulate their masters - so we must grab this time, and if we grab it, we can at least take the initiative in our own hands."
"Yes, I'm panicked too," Little Red Riding Hood nodded quickly, and his eyebrows were also frowning tightly. "What should I do now? Anka Aila wakes up further and is still starting to scan all subsets... Then the nightmare after that may be more dangerous."
"So I'm here to confirm the situation now - it's already dark in the real world, and the next is a cycle of active 'fairy tale' stage. This evening party is particularly important," Yu Sheng said with a serious face. "As long as the shelter of the wasteland is still effective, it is not a problem to survive the nightmare. No matter how much Anka Aira's activity improves, it is trapped in the foreign land of 'fairy tale' - in theory, its connection with the real world has been cut off with your 'shelp'."
"I understand," said Little Red Riding Hood immediately. "I will increase patrols tonight, and the King is ready, and its court wizards will monitor the entire camp continuously."
Yu Sheng nodded.
But he still felt a faint uneasiness in his heart. Although he had confirmed that everything was normal in the camp, and although he had arranged to patrol and surveillance of the camp tonight, he still felt something was wrong and felt something was going to go wrong.
Yu Sheng's face was solemn, and just when he felt as if he had caught a critical moment, a rapid ringtone of his cell phone woke him up from his thoughts.
He subconsciously frowned, picked up his cell phone but saw that it was Baili Qing's call.
After connecting, before he could speak, the female director's cold and brief voice came from the opposite side: "I found that book."
Then she paused for less than half a second and added: "We found the same batch of information on the book that Zhao Lele handed to Anka Aila, and there were several scanned pictures that were sent to you on the Border Communications, so you can check it out."
Yu Sheng hung up the phone. Despite his restless thoughts at this time, he immediately turned on the border communication on his mobile phone and checked the private messages sent by Baili Qing.
Erin and Little Red Riding Hood, who were beside each other, immediately followed him, and even the fox, who didn't know much, came over.
No mistakes, one song, one post, one content, one reading!
Yu Sheng quickly found the picture file mentioned by Baili Qing. After clicking it, the first thing that caught his eye was a pattern scanned with a low-fidelity scanner. It was a fairy tale cover with bright colors but poor quality, and looked like a strong sense of age. The edges were damaged, and you could see at a glance that it was a file left by an old book.
The cover depicts a graffiti-style forest, winding paths, and... a red-brown squirrel sitting on a stump on the side of the road.
Exaggerated and funny, holding a pine needle in his hand and pointing to the title of the book.
"The Squirrel Knight takes you to read the story"
Yu Sheng's eyes subconsciously stayed on the squirrel. He stared at it for a long time before taking a light breath and clicking on the next page.
That's a scanned picture of the directory.
The first story is "Little Red Riding Hood".
The second story is "Snow White".
The third story, "Sleeping Beauty"...
Little Red Riding Hood stood beside him, looking at the content on his phone without blinking, and after a moment, he muttered softly: "Oh, it turns out that I was the first story..."
Yu Sheng stayed in the directory for a few seconds, and then clicked on the next page.
On yellowed and damaged paper, poor quality printed text tells the first story, supplemented by simple illustrations and some pinyin notes.
The whole story only takes up two pages including the illustrations, which is extremely streamlined. It is obviously specially prepared for children who have just read story books independently.
Yu Sheng then turned the page down and looked at the subsequent scans-
He saw the chaotic printed text and the blank spaces that appeared sometimes.
Chapter completed!