Alien Hotel

The squirrel calmed down and began to tell Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood what happened in the black forest.

"She came in a few hours ago. I didn't even notice it at first - she didn't cry or fuss, and she was different from other children who had just come in," Squirrel sighed as he stood on Yu Sheng's shoulder. He said angrily, "This may be her first time 'really' entering the Black Forest, but before today, she has probably had nightmares related to the Black Forest for a long time -"

"Which direction did she go?" Little Red Riding Hood on the side interrupted the squirrel's chatter, "Take us there."

"This way," the squirrel raised his paw and pointed in a certain direction, but then shook his head, "I think it's pointless for you to chase after it. It's too deep over there, and there are no lights from the trails or huts. There is no light in the darkness. Shelter, you will only be eaten by wolves in vain..."

Little Red Riding Hood didn't pay attention to the second half of the squirrel's words at all. At this time, she was already walking forward: "We will judge for ourselves."

"Hey, hey, you -"——" The squirrel suddenly shouted, jumping on Yusheng's shoulders, and then suddenly lowered his voice, "You don't know your situation, do you? "

Little Red Riding Hood stopped and turned to look: "I know."

Yu Sheng followed Little Red Riding Hood and walked deep into the black forest, and the squirrel kept chattering all the way - it jumped from Yu Sheng's shoulder to Little Red Riding Hood's, looking nervous and impatient: " You are taking a risk! If you take the initiative to go to a place without lights, you will definitely encounter a pack of wolves! Even the big bad wolf will find you soon!

"At least go to the path or a hut and rest for a few minutes to adjust to your condition, especially Little Red Riding Hood. You need to regain stability now...

"That adult over there, aren't you her friend? You should try to persuade her -

"I think you are just trying to make things difficult for me, a little squirrel! No one cares about a squirrel's opinion at all!

“Why is the world so cruel to squirrels—it’s because I’m such an adorable squirrel!”

The squirrel raised its paws and screamed. However, before it continued to go crazy, Little Red Riding Hood suddenly reached out and stopped the noisy rodent: "You are so noisy. If you do this again, I will throw you into the bushes." The kind with thorns.”

The squirrel immediately fell silent, and after a few seconds he spoke reluctantly: "You can't go down the road of giving up on yourself."

"I didn't give up on myself," Little Red Riding Hood pursed her lips, her tone suddenly serious, "I'm serious - I'm calmer than ever now - at least calmer than every time I've fallen asleep in the recent period. "

The squirrel looked at Little Red Riding Hood blankly, and then looked up at Yu Sheng who was walking beside him with some confusion. He seemed to want to ask something, but he didn't say anything for a long time because his mind was a little confused.

Yu Sheng didn't say much along the way. He just followed Little Red Riding Hood quietly, but his energy was always focused.

He was trying to sense one by one - to sense the movements around him, to sense the possible connections originating from blood, to sense the movements of the wolves, to sense the largest and most ferocious wolf.

The faint howl of wolves came from the dark depths of the forest, one after another, everywhere.

The remaining dim light in the sky had faded away at some point, and night began to cover the forest. However, the night was not completely pitch black, and a more eerie sense of gloom filled the trees. The darkness was mixed with cold voyeurism.

"The wolf has noticed us, the wolf has noticed us -" the squirrel muttered nervously and quickly, and at the same time took out a dry and hard pine needle from somewhere, "It's really crazy, we have to do it in a place with no lights at all." The place was eaten by wolves! It’s terrible, it’s terrible.”

Yu Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly, sensing some subtle "flow" in the roar of wolves.

There was a line of sight sweeping nearby, and at a certain moment, he could even see his own figure in that line of sight.

But the owner of the sight has not yet appeared. The evil wolf is hiding in the forest, seemingly still waiting for something.

Yu Sheng kept paying attention to that line of sight, and then suddenly noticed that Little Red Riding Hood walking beside him slowed down a little.

The girl's body seemed to be shaking unconsciously.

"Are you okay?" Yu Sheng asked immediately.

"I'm fine," Little Red Riding Hood's tone remained calm, and even her expression and eyes didn't seem to have changed. "I just need to be vigilant when walking deep into the forest."

Yu Sheng looked at Little Red Riding Hood, who looked as usual.

The gaze cast from the depths of the forest was also looking at Little Red Riding Hood.

Sweet fear, rooted deep in childhood, growing in darkness, amplified by memory, permeates the forest.

Yu Sheng suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Little Red Riding Hood's hand.

The latter was taken aback: "Why——"

"Don't be afraid."

Little Red Riding Hood looked a little awkward:

""..·I'm not afraid. ""

"Pretending to be calm can't fool the wolf. It can directly see your fear." Yu Sheng just looked into her eyes calmly, "It's staring at you."

Little Red Riding Hood's eyes widened slightly. She was confused for a moment and couldn't help but said: "How do you know?"

The fear that spread around her subsided slightly, and the wolf continued to wait cautiously.

Yu Sheng blinked. He knew that the wolf was still staring here, but he was also staring at it.

"That wolf is stained with my blood," he said to Little Red Riding Hood, who was always very candid about this matter. "Now you have no need to be afraid. Sooner or later he will become my prey."

Little Red Riding Hood didn't speak, but looked at Yu Sheng in a daze.

She had some doubts, and some, she couldn't fully understand and believe what Yu Sheng said - but the fear was indeed fading further from her.

That's enough.

Yu Sheng let go of her hand.

He knew that he couldn't blame Little Red Riding Hood's "fear" - because this "fear" had long gone beyond reason. In this dark forest, it was more than just an "emotional reaction" for Little Red Riding Hood.

As a senior detective in the spiritual world, she may be able to go deep into foreign lands without changing her expression, she may be able to stand up against those weird and ugly entities, and she may even be able to face her own life and death, but the fear of "evil wolves" began many years ago. Rooted in her mind,

It even became a part of her childhood, something that grew up with her like poison in the bones to this day - the evil wolf that was bigger than the house was a reflection of this fear.

No wonder the children of "fairy tales" can never escape the curse it brings.

The squirrel stood on Little Red Riding Hood's shoulder, looking back and forth between the two of them with its dark eyes. I don't know what it was thinking. It suddenly broke the silence: "She has run into the depths of the forest before——" Most Little Red Riding Hoods will have this experience at least once or twice—this is where most of their initial fears come from.”

"Don't say unnecessary words." Little Red Riding Hood said dully.

"Is it because of the "temptations" outside the path?" Yu Sheng couldn't help but asked curiously.

Little Red Riding Hood lowered her head and walked forward silently.

"What else could it be?" The squirrel sighed very humanely, "Little flowers and mushrooms on the roadside - and some shiny things. Those things are always so tempting, but in the end they belong to the evil wolf Tooth and Claw————”

Little Red Riding Hood looked up and gave the squirrel a nasty look: "I will really throw you into the bushes."

""--I also encountered 'temptation', there is nothing shameful about it," Yu Sheng thought for a while and said to Little Red Riding Hood, "Look, I am an adult, and I almost lost control when I came in last time. If it weren't for If there is a squirrel to remind me, maybe I will go into the darkness.”

Little Red Riding Hood looked at Yu Sheng a little surprised.

”——Have you also been ‘seduced’ by the scenery outside the path? She said hesitantly, "Is there anything else that can tempt you?" "

She said this in a rather disbelieving tone.

Just like she was in disbelief when she first learned that Yu Sheng was also a cannibal.

Yu Sheng always felt that the girl in red in front of him was thinking something rude, but he had no evidence.

"It's normal, everyone is tempted sometimes," he waved his hand and said nonchalantly, and then asked inadvertently, "What about you? What lured you into the depths of the forest in the first place?"

He didn't mean anything else, he just hoped to divert the other party's attention and at the same time learn more about Little Red Riding Hood's past experiences, which might help him help her get rid of the influence of this dark forest.

However, Little Red Riding Hood just pursed her lips tightly, as if she didn't want to answer the question.

Even the squirrel on her shoulder, which had been chirping despite warnings, honestly shut its mouth this time.

"Okay," Yu Sheng breathed out and didn't ask any more questions, "If you don't want to say it, just don't say it. Let's..."

He suddenly stopped mid-sentence.

Little Red Riding Hood also stopped for a moment.

Deep in the dense forest ahead, a hazy outline came into their eyes.

Not the "lost" child, but a cabin.

"Don't get close yet!" The squirrel immediately became nervous, its big tail trembling slightly, "Something's wrong, the squirrel feels like something's not right...

"That looks very similar to the cabin I saw last time," Yu Sheng muttered in a low voice, "The appearance seems to be exactly the same."

"It looks like it, but it's not!" the squirrel said quickly, holding pine needles tightly in its paws. "Did you see it? There is no light! There is no light in this hut! Without lights, it is deep in the dark forest, and it has not yet been darkened. Swallow! It’s weird, it’s weird—the hut should have disintegrated and disappeared after the lights went out—Grandma is in it, isn’t it? The hut where grandma is still has lights on—”

Listening to the squirrel's nervous and anxious chatter, Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood glanced at each other at the same time.

Then they cautiously took steps towards the small house standing quietly in the darkness.