Alien Hotel

The doll girl in the oil painting greeted Yu Sheng happily and pleasantly, her voice sounded a little surprised - but there was no shock or panic at all when seeing a dead person come back alive.

Yu Sheng felt that this was definitely not because Irene was big-hearted.

Sure enough, the problem lies with him - but considering that he has been through death and resurrection so many times in such a short period of time, it seems that it is not surprising that no matter how evil things happen to him.

"It's just an accident. I'm back at least." Yu Sheng responded casually, turned around and closed the ajar door, and immediately lowered his head to check himself, confirming that not only his body had completely recovered, but also his body. The clothes on my body were completely restored to their original appearance as before.

Yu Sheng frowned. Considering Irene's current reaction, he felt that rather than being "resurrected", he felt that the entire "event" of "death" seemed to have disappeared out of thin air...

The dazed look of him standing at the door fell into Eileen's eyes, and the puppet in the painting said doubtfully: "Yusheng? Are you okay? Why do you look so dazed? By the way, tell me how you came back. , I have been in and out of contact with you, and there is always a lot of messy movement over there. I don’t even know what strange thing you bumped into in that foreign land... Huh? What is that in your hand? "

After being reminded like this, Yu Sheng noticed that he was still holding something tightly in his hand - it was a strange and ugly severed tail with dark scales.

Yu Sheng's lips twitched: "Damn it, I almost forgot about it...it's still here."

This thing is still shrinking and squirming slightly in his hand, but it is obviously not as "vibrant" as it was at the beginning. It seems that although the monster's stumps have amazing vitality, they will still gradually weaken after being severed from the main body. die.

A strange feeling came to his heart, and Yu Sheng didn't even know how to explain the origin of this thing to Irene for a while. After a slight hesitation, he walked to the kitchen with the severed tail and said casually to Irene as he walked. : "...a little souvenir."

The puppet in the painting was stunned when he heard this: "...Huh?"

Yu Sheng had already thrown the severed tail into the kitchen sink. After confirming that the thing had no strength to crawl out of the pool, he stabbed it a few times uneasily, and then pressed on it. He picked up the lid of the pot (so that at least he could hear the lid falling to the ground when it really climbed out), and then returned to the restaurant with a hint of exhaustion, dragging his heavy body and sat down on the chair.

His mind was in a mess, there were too many things to think about, and more importantly, he was really tired.

But he forced himself to stay awake, it was not the time to sleep yet.

Aileen News across the table looked at this side carefully: "Yusheng, tell me about your experience in that foreign land, and how you..."

"I was about to tell you this," Yu Sheng waved his hands before the other party finished speaking, then adjusted his sitting posture and looked at the puppet in the painting with a serious face, "I have a lot of questions—— Let me first talk about what I met there. I met a girl there who was trapped in a foreign land like me, but she may have been trapped for a long, long time..."

Yu Sheng did not hide anything, but told the puppet opposite him all about his experience in the night valley, including the part of the information Hu Li revealed to him, and the very formal-looking figure who seemed to be a mixture of flesh and blood. Liberal monster.

Except for his "resurrection from the dead" situation, he hasn't figured out how to tell the other party about this yet, so he doesn't mention it yet.

Of course, he knew that he was still not very familiar with Irene, and he couldn't say he had much trust, but he had no other choice - in this city, Irene was the only "abnormal person" he had come into contact with and could communicate with so far. "Individual" is also the only person he knows who understands "things beyond common sense". Apart from Eileen, he really doesn't know who else to discuss matters related to foreign lands.

He felt that he should have more trust in the doll in the painting. After all, so far, her attitude was quite friendly (except when she cursed harshly).

Irene listened very seriously. When Yu Sheng mentioned the flesh and blood monster, her expression became extremely serious. There were several times when she seemed to want to speak, but she held back and never interrupted Yu Sheng's story. .

It wasn't until Yu Sheng's narration came to an end that the doll girl finally adjusted her posture. She sat upright on the chair covered with a red velvet carpet and spoke seriously: "First of all, I still want to To emphasize, I don’t remember many things. This painting has worn away too much of my memory, so the help I can give you is very limited..."

Yu Sheng nodded: "I know this."

"Well," Eileen hummed, and then her expression relaxed a little, "Then I will do my best to add some knowledge about foreign lands to you. First of all, you should already have some basic understanding of foreign lands and know what they are. A collective name for a certain area that deviates from order and violates common sense. Did you know that something called an 'entity' can also be generated in a foreign land?"

"...Entity?" Yu Sheng expressed doubts.

"In short, they are 'aboriginals' or 'products' in a foreign land. The entity does not necessarily look like something. Sometimes it may be a strange-looking human form, sometimes it may be some kind of beast or monster, and sometimes it may even be A fire, a gust of wind, a moving stone, anything that is produced in a foreign land and has obvious 'activity' and can react to outsiders can be regarded as an 'entity'."

Yu Sheng nodded thoughtfully.

"The classification of entities is broad and numerous," Eileen continued. "Generally speaking, entities have very obvious 'abnormal' characteristics. They were born in foreign lands and naturally have characteristics that are inconsistent with common sense, weird and dangerous, and most entities It is irrational, at least it does not exhibit 'thinking behavior' that can be understood by humans, but there seems to be a very small number of entities that are intelligent... I can't remember this part clearly.

"Ninety percent of entities are dangerous anyway, but they also have different strengths and weaknesses. The harm of some entities may only make people's noses itch, but there are also some entities that will be life-threatening for humans as long as they witness it—— So people have a guess that the 'entity' is some kind of rejection reaction from the foreign land, an anti-virus program generated by the foreign land to eliminate intruders. This view holds that for the foreign land, investigators from the world of order and common sense The lost ones are the indescribable monsters..."

Yu Sheng listened silently, and then suddenly realized: "...In other words, the 'monster' I met was the 'entity' generated in the valley?"

"Probably." Erin nodded.

"Can entities be destroyed?" Yu Sheng asked immediately.

"Entities can be killed, but they cannot be completely eliminated," Erin said seriously, "because strictly speaking, entities are just a kind of 'generated creature'. If you kill one, there will be a new 'copy' in a foreign land. They are the embodiment of the operating rules of foreign lands. As long as foreign lands are still there, entities will always be generated - but generally speaking, the generation of entities also takes time, and there seem to be some ways to inhibit the operation of certain foreign lands, delay or even Blocking the generation of entities...I don’t remember the specifics.”

"It can be killed, but it cannot be completely eliminated..." Yu Sheng repeated this sentence, suddenly feeling that things seemed more difficult than he thought.

He is not afraid of death.

The monster seems to be even less afraid...

Unknowingly, Yu Sheng had already acquiesced that he would return to that valley and encounter that monster again - he didn't know where this idea came from. When he noticed it, this idea, or Speaking of some kind of "intuition" has taken root in his heart.

"...No matter, it's a good thing to be able to kill them temporarily," he breathed softly and looked up at Irene, "Besides, what else do you know about entities? For example, their weaknesses and so on. "

"Entities do not have unified weaknesses. Sometimes the weakness of an entity is not even in itself, but in the 'foreign land', or in the rules of the foreign land itself. Some entities... will even change their own weaknesses," Ai Lin shook her head, "So exploring foreign lands and fighting entities is a professional and dangerous thing. I suggest that you'd better find a professional to help - not someone like me who is trapped in a painting."

Yu Sheng couldn't help rolling his eyes when he heard this: "To put it simply, where can I find professionals? They don't know how to paint little GGs on telephone poles..."

Erin: "Yes."

Yu Sheng: "...?"

"They have contact information - of course, it's not necessarily the little GG on the telephone pole." Seeing Yu Sheng's stunned expression, Irene nodded with emphasis, "Since the world is full of foreign lands, foreign lands It's very dangerous to ordinary people, so of course there will be a large group of people who are dedicated to dealing with it. Professionals in this area, if nothing else, in such a big city, there must be someone responsible for maintaining order both overt and covert, right? The official government has specialized departments, and the private sector also has large and small organizations, although I don’t remember much about it. I don’t know the specific situation, but these people must be active everywhere...

"Of course, under normal circumstances, they will keep a distance from ordinary people's lives and hide in the dark, because many foreign lands have weird and weird characteristics, such as 'activating when they are known', or 'taking the initiative to approach people who are afraid of them' ' and so on, so we should try our best to prevent ordinary people from coming into contact with information related to foreign lands. However, once an unlucky person has really come into contact with foreign lands, or there are foreign reactions in the city, these professionals will naturally have a way to quickly locate and Come to the door..."

Yu Sheng listened to Irene's story in a daze. After a moment of hesitation, he raised his head and looked out the window.

"That is to say, since I have already experienced an 'exotic reaction' here, I just have to wait and the 'professionals' you call me will take the initiative to contact you, right?"

"...should...right?" For some reason, Irene's tone suddenly lost her confidence.

Yu Sheng also heard that the other party lacked confidence: "...Then why didn't they come?"

"I don't know. Logically speaking, it's time to come."