Alien Hotel

Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel both thought Yu Sheng was out of his mind.

"She died an hour ago!" Rapunzel stared, "Her whole body organs, including the heart and brain, have lost their vitality long ago! We have done an examination, and of course she is dead—— "

"No, she's not dead, at least not yet," Yu Sheng still shook his head, and the confusion gradually faded from his face.

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His expression became firmer, "I don't know how to explain it to you, but I can feel it - she is still on this side of the living person, she hasn't stepped over yet."

As he spoke, he touched his fingers to the blood marks on the girl's neck again.

In the fleeting vision of black and white, he felt as if he "understood" something, but that feeling passed in an instant, and he tried to catch it but couldn't.

Little Red Riding Hood seemed to have thought of something: "You--can't you communicate with the dead like you did in the museum before?" So you think she's still alive? "

Yu Sheng hesitated and nodded.

Little Red Riding Hood's eyes widened, subconsciously doubting Yu Sheng's judgment, but there seemed to be some unrealistic fantasy left in her heart: "But..."

But Yu Sheng waved his hand vigorously to silence her and Rapunzel, who was about to speak.

"You don't understand, not only because there is no way to communicate with the dead, but I - I can feel that she is still here," he said as he began to check the wounds on the girl's body, and suddenly took it from his pocket. Taking out a knife, while Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel stared in shock, he directly cut open his palm and smeared his blood on the fine cracks on the opponent's arm, "Do you understand what I mean? I mean, in my opinion, she was still alive and well, but she was just asleep. In a dream of imminent death, Irene finally seemed to think of something. She jumped out of Beaver's arms and ran to Next to Yu Sheng: "Did you "see" something again?!"

"See----yes, you can also say that, I suddenly understood something," Yu Sheng muttered, smearing his own blood as if he was self-mutilating, and suddenly raised his head and looked at Little Red Riding Hood and the long The hair princess and the others subconsciously felt uneasy after seeing his actions and wanted to step forward to stop them, but they stopped invariably at the look in his eyes, "You guys keep your distance.

Yes, just standing there, her balance is very fragile, she is about to fall to the other side——"

Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel took half a step back, but the doubts in their eyes fell on Yu Sheng at the same time.

"Do you know how bees judge the 'death' of their companions?" Yu Sheng suddenly said to them.

Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel looked at each other, wondering why the other party suddenly asked such a question.

"Pheromone," Yu Sheng said without waiting for their answer, "The most direct way for bees to judge the death of their companions is through pheromones - dying bees will release volatile substances. are then received by living bees, so they They will come to 'bury' their dead companions and clean their bodies out of the hive. This can effectively avoid the spread of diseases in the hive - but there is a problem with this method of identification, that is, in our opinion, "pheromone" and There is not always an equal sign between 'death'.

"If we artificially apply a specific volatile substance to a living bee, even if it is alive and kicking or struggling desperately in the hive, its companions will still treat it as a dead bee and force it to look like a corpse. Dispose of it - because in the eyes of the limited nervous system of bees, the same kind that exudes the "smell of death" is a corpse. Even if it is struggling, it is still a corpse - they do not understand death other than pheromones. feature.

"But for the living environment that bees have to face, this kind of judgment is actually enough - boring human intervention" is something outside of natural conditions, and bees, in their limited evolutionary scope, originally did not No need to think about this. "

Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel listened to Yu Sheng's words and watched the blood seeping silently into the little "corpse" on the bed. A kind of unreasonable trembling suddenly rose in their hearts. You——" Little Red Riding Hood finally couldn't help but break the silence. She swallowed and looked at Yu Sheng with a strange look, "You want to say, we are..."

"Bee." Yu Sheng raised his head and looked at the girl in red in front of him calmly.

He lowered his head again and gently brushed the forehead of the child named "Xiaoxiao" with his blood-stained palm, leaving a fleeting trace of bright red on her forehead.

"In the face of 'interference' beyond your understanding, you are confused by the disguised 'death' - the heart stops, the brain shuts down, the nervous system collapses, the blood stops flowing and gradually cools down, and then the cells decay on a large scale and the enzymes are inactivated. , the human body begins to digest itself - people regard this as a sign of death, and if a person exhibits these characteristics, then he is dead -"

Yu Sheng thought, he was also like this - when he met these "characteristics", he died.

"Dead" in the eyes of ordinary people.

But he just continued to live in a way that ordinary people could not observe and understand, and waited for the short-term "symptom" called "death" to subside from himself.

".—Maybe I never came back from the dead."

He cooed softly.

The little corpse lay quietly on the bed. Through the penetration of blood, Yu Sheng gradually understood her "death" and also understood his own "death".

He felt a little quiet around him, so he raised his head, only to see Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel standing aside in an almost cowering manner, looking at him with uneasiness in their eyes, and Irene stood beside him. , she raised her head, but there was no uneasiness in her eyes.

But he also seemed quite confused.

Only Hu Li was neither confused nor uneasy. Although she couldn't understand it, she still nodded with an "understood" look on her face, and said with emotion in her tone: "My benefactor seems to be comprehending the great truth."

Erin was stunned:

"..—You can accept anything, right?!"

"We still have three hours, maybe a little less." Yu Sheng said suddenly.

Little Red Riding Hood was stunned: "Three hours? What?"

"Pull her back," Yu Sheng raised his hand and pointed at the thin figure on the bed, "My blood has not established enough connections.

She doesn't know where to go and needs some 'manual intervention' - Erin, I need your help. "

The little doll didn't react for a moment: "Ah, ah? How can I help?"

"She is still dreaming, a dream that does not rely on brain operation," Yu Sheng said casually, "Do you still remember how you found me in the black forest? It was a similar process, you found her and then sent me there. "

Only then did Irene react: "Oh! It's easy. You can just lie down somewhere or sit down. I've taught you about this once. You don't need to do anything, just stay calm."

At this time, Little Red Riding Hood also reacted - although she was still full of questions, at least now she knew what Yu Sheng was going to do: "Wait a minute, you want to take the initiative to enter the "Black Forest"? Go find her? "

"yes."

"I'm with you!" Little Red Riding Hood said immediately, and then added, "I know it better than you do!"

Yu Sheng frowned and looked at Eileen: "Can I bring more people with me?"

"It should be no problem," Erin thought for a moment and nodded with confidence, "She has a deep connection with the Black Forest.

There is no need for me to maintain any connection. In theory, I only need to be a guide to ensure that you can go in together. "

"Then give it a try," Yu Sheng nodded without hesitation and sat down on the floor next to the crib. Then he patted the ground next to him and looked up at Little Red Riding Hood, "Sit here."

Little Red Riding Hood said "hmm", walked over silently, and sat down next to Yu Sheng.

Rapunzel looked a little worried: "Is it really possible? Never done this before?"

Little Red Riding Hood was silent for a few seconds, then turned to look at Yu Sheng next to her: "Give it a try."

Dark silk threads emerged from Irene's hands out of thin air, and then grew wildly throughout the space, intertwining into a huge and complex network in the blink of an eye. The doll carefully controlled this "net" and gently covered it in the The little bed was empty.

The end of the silk thread hangs from the air, like countless tentacles extending from some kind of weird jellyfish, and begins to penetrate into the dreamer's body silently.

Rapunzel subconsciously took half a step back, turned to look at Hu Li, who still looked calm next to her, and finally couldn't help but speak: "Are all the people in your "hotel" so evil?"

Hu Li had no idea what the other party meant. She just looked at Irene's wonderful operation with admiration and nodded in admiration: "Irene, maybe you can become a textile fairy."

These were the last words Yu Sheng heard before falling into a dream.

And the last thought in his mind was that Irene seemed to be getting stronger.

The next second, he felt a sense of trance and falling at the same time. He felt himself falling rapidly in the darkness with another consciousness. When a solid touch came from underneath his body, he slowly opened his eyes.

The endless black forest comes into view.