Alien Hotel

Little Red Riding Hood didn't seem to doubt Yu Sheng's statement - unreliable adults always managed to keep their faces calm and heartbeat when concealing the truth, and easily fooled JK, who only celebrated his 18th birthday next month.

So she just reminded Yu Sheng again to be cautious when facing the dark angel, and then quickly brought the topic back to "foreign land".

"Foreign lands are mainly divided into four types. The first three classifications are the most intuitive. According to scale and expression, they are 'wilderness', 'country', and 'fortress'," Little Red Riding Hood said to the student with a serious face, "From now on You can probably guess what they mean by their names.”

Yu Sheng also quickly adjusted his attitude. As Little Red Riding Hood spoke, he also thought and said: "I have read a little bit of this part - I remember that the 'wilderness' type of foreign land refers to 'openness'. Space has no clear boundaries visually, and most of the range is pristine natural environment, which cannot be left directly by walking to the end, right? "

"Yes, so the 'Night Valley' is a typical wilderness-type foreign land," Little Red Riding Hood nodded, "Generally speaking, wilderness-type foreign lands are very large, and there are no obvious and fixed entrances and exits. Basically You need to meet certain conditions or leave at a certain time.

"The 'Kingdom' is another large-scale foreign land. Its spatial scale is sometimes comparable to that of the wilderness, but the difference is that there are often a large number of 'man-made traces' and continuous houses in the 'Kingdom'. , the city, even rumbling, not knowing what is happening What kind of factories are produced? The 'Kingdom' type foreign land gives people the impression of a civilization relic in an abnormal space, but in fact, the buildings and facilities scattered throughout the country are full of irrational places. If you observe a little, You will find their distortions and inconsistencies.

"In addition, in the 'Kingdom' type foreign land, you can basically find entrances and exits that can stably travel to and from reality. This is the biggest difference between it and the wilderness.

"The third exotic type, "fortress", often appears as a single and closed building or facility. Their "scale" is smaller than that of the wilderness and the country, but this does not mean that the "fortress" will be safer. , on the contrary, fortresses tend to have more complex Changing rules and strange environments, "uncertainty" are the biggest characteristics of the fortress-type foreign land. It is precisely because of this feature that the ways of entering and exiting the fortress-type foreign land are also strange. Some have stable entrances and exits, and some are just like the wilderness. , is a 'conditional round trip'.

"The 'museum' we explored together is a typical fortress-type foreign land, and the other 'fortress' you are more familiar with——"

Little Red Riding Hood paused for a moment, looking calmly into Yu Sheng's eyes: "Where do you guess it is?"

Yu Sheng felt comfortable for a while, then quickly realized what he was doing, and said uncertainly: "It can't be my home, right?"

Little Red Riding Hood seemed a little speechless: "...——Isn't this obvious?"

"Well, that's true, but I don't usually think in this direction." Yu Sheng touched his nose awkwardly, and then quickly changed the topic, "Okay, there are four types of foreign lands, you can say it in one breath now There are three, so it’s obvious that ‘fairy tale’ is definitely the fourth one, right?”

Little Red Riding Hood exhaled and nodded with a complicated expression: "The fourth type is 'abnormal'."

When Yu Sheng heard the name, before he had time to speak, he heard Irene say from beside him: "Hey, you know something difficult is coming as soon as you hear it."

Hu Li looked at the little doll in his arms with testimony: "Why do you say that?"

Eileen rolled her eyes: "Nonsense, foreign lands as a whole are something wrong, and now there is a special type of foreign land that even deliberately emphasizes 'wrong' in its name. That is simply Yu Sheng entered No. 66 Wutong Road. The evil one has arrived!"

Yu Sheng poked the doll's head with his finger on the spot: "I told you not to use my team's comments!"

Then he turned to look at Little Red Riding Hood: "Explain in detail?"

"If the normal foreign land is a distorted time and space, then the 'abnormal' foreign land - is those things outside of 'time and space'," Little Red Riding Hood considered the words, trying to make the next step too abstract and bizarre. Explain things clearly, "Those abstract, conceptual, and even things you can't imagine -: 'things'.

For example, an emotion, a memory, some sounds, or a story. "

Yu Sheng, Irene and Hu Li were confused.

After being stunned for half a minute, Yu Sheng was the first to break the silence: "Huh?"

Then he waved his hand: "Wait a minute, my imagination has actually caught up, but my understanding is still chasing behind - you mean, things like emotional memory and even sounds - can also form foreign lands?"

“It is not that they form the foreign, but that the foreign manifests itself in these forms.”

"I understand, I understand, let's just say it no matter what -" Yu Sheng looked confused, feeling vaguely that he had opened the door to a new world, "I always thought that no matter how outrageous the 'foreign land' is, it must at least be a "place" '————At least it should be something that can be seen and touched, and can go in and out. It's all what you mentioned---I'm telling you, I barely have the vocabulary to write a novel here. It’s not enough for you to say how outrageous this is! "

Little Red Riding Hood was stunned for a moment: "Huh? You write novels?"

Eileen next to her immediately moved forward: "Yes, the writing is really weird. You can ask the person named Ren Wenwen from the Secret Service later."

"This is not important!" Yu Sheng casually pushed Irene back, his eyes fixed on Little Red Riding Hood, "In short, I now understand why there is a type of foreign land called 'abnormality', and the co-authors are all this evil sect. It's something that can't be classified, right? So 'fairy tale' is the 'story type' in the anomalous foreign land you mentioned just now? "

Little Red Riding Hood nodded.

"But the dark forest I entered still seems to be a 'space'?" Yu Sheng noticed something was wrong, "That's not right either - that seems to be a dream?"

"This is exactly the characteristic of most 'abnormal' alien lands. They are abstract in nature, but they trap people in a concrete environment similar to an 'alien space' through hallucinations, dreams and other forms. Some are just will trap your spirit, while others will trap your body Also dragged in - so many anomalous foreign lands will be misjudged in the early days of the world. Even professional scholars will take a long time to realize that there is another ontology behind those weird 'spaces', and by that time, For many victims it is already too late..."

Having said this, Little Red Riding Hood paused for a moment, sorting out her thoughts, and then continued to speak - she talked about her own affairs, but calmly like an outsider: "As for 'fairy tales'", even in an abnormal foreign land,

It is also a relatively special one, because it has a large number of 'derivative branches', or -: 'subsets'.

"The Black Forest is one of the subsets of 'fairy tales'.

"You can regard a 'fairy tale' as an invisible, unknowable, and untouchable 'building'. This 'building' itself is invisible, but because of its existence, many 'rooms' are created. ', the Black Forest where the wolf is entrenched is just one of the rooms, there is also Dorothy's Wilderness, the tower where Rapunzel is imprisoned,

Cinderella's ever-circulating ball - and beyond that, there are some special 'rooms'. "

Yu Sheng raised his eyebrows: "A special 'room'?" "

"It does not point to any exact fairy tale, but to a type of classic fairy tale elements, or - -: 'imaginary script'," Little Red Riding Hood nodded slightly, "such as the king's 'castle', or the evil villain Dragon's 'Treasure House'——

We have not found which fairy tale or which "character" these "subsets" exactly correspond to. "

Yu Sheng frowned. He listened carefully to every word Little Red Riding Hood told him, understanding and outlining the various characteristics of the special foreign land of "fairy tale" and its possible laws. Some vague and general impressions were in his mind. It took shape in his mind, and Little Red Riding Hood's next narration rang in his ears.

"This is where the "fairy tale" first broke out."

Yu Sheng raised his head in shock and saw Little Red Riding Hood looking at the open space outside the window with a complicated expression -

——

A group of children were running back and forth between the swings, shouting and yelling through the window, which sounded very lively.

"That was many, many years ago. At that time, there were not these two buildings here, but some older and lower buildings. But the 'function' of this compound has never changed. It has always been a It was an orphanage before, it is now, and it will be in the future," Little Red Riding Hood said slowly. "About the outbreak that year, a lot of information is missing due to various reasons. It can only be obtained from sporadic records. You know, after the outbreak, this place was briefly blocked for a period of time.

"The Secret Service at the time thought this was just some 'ordinary' exotic phenomenon, and temporarily transferred the children affected by 'Fairy Tales' to another high-security holding facility. But just a few years later, the 'Fairy Tales' phenomenon Then they began to appear in other places in the border area, and the children who were originally transferred began to show various abnormalities. Only then did people realize that an unknown "abnormal foreign land" had already appeared in the border area. 'Expand' within.

"After that, people from the Secret Service thought of many ways to try to curb the influence of "fairy tales", but with little success. Even the most professional deep divers were helpless after entering those "subsets", and even lost them in vain. He lost his life, and then people paid a lot more At the cost, we have summarized some rough rules about "fairy tales", and the most important one------is what I just mentioned, "fairy tales don't like adults"--as you can see, this is this The foundation of the existence of a 'Kingdom' governed by children. "