Alien Hotel

In fact, even with Little Red Riding Hood's explanation, it was still difficult for Yu Sheng to understand and imagine the life in this orphanage and its daily "operation" status. He could not imagine what the children living here were thinking every day. , what to do, I can't imagine what the specific responsibilities of the "council employees" sent here are, and I can't imagine how the "council" that rules the entire junction views such a special orphanage.

Because after all, he doesn’t even understand how this huge “boundary city” operates, nor does he understand the mysterious “council”. The only “official” he has come into contact with is the Secret Service, and the entire Secret Service , in fact, it is just a part of the council.

There were too many things in the border area that were inconsistent with him, and the place where Little Red Riding Hood and her friends lived just added to the many doubts in his mind.

Hu Li, who had been following him and had not spoken since he entered the door, suddenly said: "Why don't the Secret Service or the Board of Directors set up a special department to 'take over' the entire orphanage?"

Little Red Riding Hood looked at the fox girl in surprise.

Hu Li blinked his eyes and scratched his hair nervously: "Did I--did I say something wrong?"

"No——-that's right," Little Red Riding Hood quickly regained her normal expression and shook her head, "It's normal for you to have this idea, but do you know how many groups or organizations like "us" there are in the entire border area?"

Hu Li opened his mouth, but no words came out.

"As I said, most detectives and investigators in the spirit world 'changed' their jobs after being involved in foreign affairs. The children of the 'Fairy Tale' organization were also affected by the 'Foreign World - Fairy Tale'. In essence, every child you see here is a future or current spiritual detective. We are one of hundreds of extraordinary organizations in the border area, so many things, It must be handled according to the extraordinary organization's method.

"Of course, the Secret Service has considered providing 'special care' to us 'children', and that was a long time ago - as you said, setting up a separate agency fully overseen by the Board of Directors and directly under the Secret Service The 'Special Orphanage' managed by the government centrally protects and guides all children affected by fairy tales.

The 'adults' took care of everything instead of us being autonomous like we are now, but then--"-something big happened."

Yu Sheng frowned slightly, and in an instant, seven or eight scripts for movies, TV shows, thrillers, novels, and horror games appeared in his mind: ".————-The children were treated inhumanely, and then the 'fairy tale' got out of control? "

"No, on the contrary," Little Red Riding Hood shook her head, "Neither the Secret Service nor the Council are fools. They know that things like 'foreign land' do not follow any "human rules" when it kills people, so according to the record, they There was nothing wrong with what I did at that time - I took good care of each child and took into account the situation of each child. Nothing inhumane happened, but I only ignored one thing. "

Eileen poked her head out of Hu Hu's arms: "..——-neglected one thing?"

"'Fairy Tale' doesn't like adults." Little Red Riding Hood said calmly.

Yu Sheng was thoughtful and felt as if he understood what the other person meant.

Hu Li also nodded slightly after thinking for a moment, as if he understood the key points.

Irene also thought hard for a moment and raised her head: "No, what do you mean?" "-Why do you all seem to understand it just by looking at it? What do you understand?"

No one paid any attention to her.

"In front of this is the east building," Little Red Riding Hood pointed to the building in front and introduced the student, "The main building of the orphanage consists of two buildings. The east building you see when you enter the gate is the main accommodation and The activity area, the large canteen and the 'classroom' for young children are also here. The west building on the other side has some safe rooms and treatment rooms. Sometimes the children's condition is not stable, so Will go to the west building.

"The two buildings used to have two connecting passages. Later, the underground one had some problems and was locked. Now we can only pass through the high-rise corridor. Of course, the west building also has other regular entrances and exits.

"The open space over there is where the children usually play. We made the slides and swings ourselves, and we dug the sandpit ourselves. We asked the Secret Service to send a truck to bring the sand inside. We need money. There was some trouble at that time. The sand pit was dug too big and too deep. It was originally planned that one truck would be enough, but then three trucks came in and it was almost not filled. The people from the Secret Service suspected that we were trying to trick the sand into selling it. ·

"Over there, do you see those trees? We planted them ourselves. I was just ten years old at the time - the 'parents' who took me to plant the trees at that time are no longer here."

Yu Sheng listened quietly. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw several curious glances coming from the door of the east building. Several half-year-old children and several younger children were crowded near the door frame. He secretly looked at the "guests" who appeared in the orphanage, and from time to time he pointed and muttered, maybe discussing or guessing something.

Then a bigger girl came out from behind and pushed all the children back.

"How many children are there?" Yu Sheng asked curiously, "Well, I mean including you "parents"."

"Seventy-six," said Little Red Riding Hood. "Isn't that less than you thought?"

"Indeed——a little less than I expected."

"It's always this amount, only occasionally it fluctuates by a few digits," Little Red Riding Hood said, leading Yu Sheng into the door of the east building and walking towards the "reception room", "The new ones come, the old ones go,' Fairy Tale only accepts children who meet its requirements, and does not hesitate to eliminate old ones. So compared to our number, this facility actually seems a bit luxurious - many rooms above the fifth floor are empty. , most of the west building is also empty.

"Of the seventy-six children, sixteen are 'parents', and almost half of the remainder are between the ages of eight and fourteen, and the other half are younger. Overall, almost three-quarters are girls, Only a quarter of them were boys. "I also noticed that most of the people I saw just now were girls." Yu Sheng nodded, and then he was a little curious, "Why? "

Little Red Riding Hood showed a smile: "Because princesses are always more likely to fall into crisis - the same goes for 'country girls' like 'Little Red Riding Hood'. You have to learn to analyze this place from a 'fairy tale' perspective."

Thoughtful about life.

Under the leadership of Little Red Riding Hood, he, Eileen, and Hu Li came to the reception room at the end of the corridor in the east building.

Yu Sheng noticed several more prying eyes at the door, and some small figures were wandering in the corridor outside. They were obviously curious about today's new guests, but they didn't dare to get close.

"I brought some gifts for the children," Yu Sheng saw this and picked up the cookies and candies in his hand, nodding to Little Red Riding Hood, "Let them share it, shall we?"

"Thank you - you are very attentive," Little Red Riding Hood said thank you happily without being polite to him, and waved to a half-year-old child at the door, "Huihui, take these and put them in the canteen first, for dinner. It’s time to give everyone a share.”

A girl called "Hui Hui" who looked about thirteen or fourteen years old ran in happily immediately, followed by several children who looked to be five or six years old and took the opportunity to sneak into the room and run around the table. They ran away, and some even shouted excitedly: "I want chocolate! I want golden ones!" "Are there any gummy bears?" "Thank you, uncle!" "Sister Huihui! Yaya stepped on my foot!"

There was also a pink and tender little dot that suddenly came out from under the table, looking at Yu Sheng and Hu Li with big eyes, then raised his hand and pointed at Irene: "I want to hug this too!"

Erin immediately raised her arms and grinned: "I'm not a gift!"

The little one was stunned for a moment and burst into tears on the spot.

A group of human cubs suddenly dispersed, squealing, scurrying all over the floor, howling like ghosts and wolves - one by one, Yu Sheng imagined the situation of Irene in the house that morning.

At that time, his whole body became numb.

However, the chaos only lasted for a short while. Little Red Riding Hood immediately stood up and calmed down the gang of little ones with a few words. Then Huihui took over the gang of kiddos in a familiar manner and coaxed and deceived them back to the corridor. , and closed the door by the way.

Yu Sheng stared at this scene of chaos and calmness in stunned silence. It took him a while to react and turned to look at Little Red Riding Hood: ".————You——————are quite powerful."

"It's good to get used to it. The children here are actually very sensible. Although they may have some minor problems like normal children of this age, most of them can regain their composure faster than normal children and can understand the spoken language better. Children's instructions are to understand the need to obey the rules." Little Red Riding Hood had a faint smile on her face, "This is how everyone comes here."

For some reason, Yu Sheng felt even more uncomfortable after hearing this.

"Tell me about the 'fairy tale' thing," he shook his head and quickly changed the subject, "I mean the 'foreign land'

’ One by one, and what the ‘black forest’ I saw was about. "

"The Black Forest is a 'sub-body' of a 'fairy tale', but before I explain its structure in detail, I want to talk to you about some more basic things first," Little Red Riding Hood said unhurriedly. At this moment, Yu Sheng seemed He saw the precocious, calm and steady "spiritual detective" he had met when he first met him again, "Let me confirm first - next, do you know how many types of "foreign lands" there are?"

Yu Sheng thought about it and his expression became serious: "I don't know."

little Red Riding Hood:"..-

"I remember this is the relatively early content in the database," she looked at Yu Sheng with a subtle expression, "Didn't I tell you to take a look at this part of the knowledge as soon as possible?"

Yu Sheng was also a little embarrassed: "Isn't it extremely busy these two days?"

"What are you busy with? What arrangements does the Secret Service have?"

Yu Sheng kept a straight face and quickly went through what he had been doing in the past two days in his mind.

Open up wasteland in a foreign land, plant vegetables, clear ashes, raise chickens, play beaver at home, study with Irene to make Irene, and think about how to use rebar and No. 42 cement to build more Irene...

It felt like the moment I said it, my dignity as an adult was gone.

"Yes, the Secret Service came to me to talk about the Dark Angel."

Yu Sheng had a serious face and didn't tell a single lie.