Alien Hotel

Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood talked a lot about squirrels and the unknown "arrival" eighty-six years ago.

Little Red Riding Hood told the students a lot about the past of the orphanage, as well as some of the daily situations within the "Fairy Tale" organization.

"Did you see that silly boy over there with some curls in his hair? The one who is chatting with the long hair is the red dragon that fell just now. He is in a similar situation to the 'King', and he also represents a category without The 'classic story image' that is clearly pointed to is not a clear 'story' behind it. His code name is 'Dragon Slayer'... which is of course not a real dragon, not that powerful.

"Why is the image of the 'Dragon Slayer' itself a dragon? Because 'The Dragon Slayer eventually becomes a dragon', so sometimes after entering the nightmare, he will directly fast forward and become a dragon... In fact, he can't fly. , he directly transforms into a defeated evil dragon. In the red dragon form, his only ability is to fall from the sky in various postures, mainly by falling and hitting people. Sometimes he will also act as the dragon slayer before turning into an evil dragon. Or, at that time, his ability was to summon a defeated evil dragon from the sky...or fall down and hit people.

"Sleeping Beauty usually doesn't like to talk much. What she likes most is sleeping. She sleeps during the day and sleeps at night. I have always envied her sleep quality, but she said that she always feels like she is awake when she sleeps. In fact, every day She was sleepy and tired. Her biggest wish was to get the most comfortable pillow and sleep on it.

"Dorothy can communicate with all kinds of machines. Even if those machines don't have machine souls, they will have reactions similar to machine souls when she communicates... Yes, 'Tin Man has a heart', that's the symbol. Dorothy can temporarily generate willpower in steel. She often uses this ability to trick the vending machine into giving her an extra drink, or to continue making calls when her cell phone is out of balance - I also envy this.

"But what I envy the most is the mermaid - she didn't come today. She sings so beautifully. She usually doesn't have to go out to pick up tasks. She just uses an avatar to broadcast live. She sings for half a day and earns more than I earn in a week... I ?I'm tone-deaf.

"But she also has some worries... She will inexplicably fall out of scales when taking a bath, which often blocks the sewer. Even if she maintains her human form, there are always scales appearing in the bathroom. By the way, she actually can't swim... I didn't expect it. Bar?

"By the way, there's that one over there, the 'Little Match Girl', the one with the longest code name. She's a master of arson, a super master. In the winter, if the heating in the orphanage is not hot, we count on her. But I heard that next year our area The municipal heating pipes are about to be replaced, so she doesn’t have to burn the boiler in the winter... Don’t offend her, she gets very irritable when lighting the fire.”

Little Red Riding Hood was chattering like this. She sat on a high slope with Yu Sheng, looking at her companions not far away, with a faint smile on her face, just like the most important person in a big family. The elder sister, with a bit of pride and doting, told her friends about the many embarrassing things about her younger siblings.

After a while, the boys and girls set up a grand bonfire in the wilderness.

The fuel they used was the thorn bushes summoned by Sleeping Beauty - the blooming rose bushes burned fiercely in the fire, and the sky-high firelight illuminated this chaotic and gray wilderness. Just as Yu Sheng had expected, this piece of The wasteland, which was as silent and monotonous as the afterlife, became so lively for the first time.

The older children gathered in this sheltered place shouted, sang and danced around the bonfire, mostly tone-deaf and howling at the top of their lungs, mixed with the king's meow.

Then, Huli and Eileen also ran over to join in the fun. The little puppets were floating in circles over the fire, as if they would light up their picture frames in the next second, while Huli was crackling. Shooting fox fire into the sky was like setting off fireworks - Yu Sheng was also dragged over to serve as the mascot in front of the bonfire.

He felt like he was participating in some weird and lively sacrificial ceremony, surrounded by "believers" who were excited and screaming, and like a "parent" being dragged to some campus event, surrounded by demons dancing wildly. Child - he could only maintain an awkward yet polite smile in the middle.

That wasn't such a bad feeling.

And then, the children's first gathering in this sheltered wasteland ended.

Early the next morning, Yu Sheng came to the orphanage - according to the plan, "blood vaccination" was to be performed on the younger children today.

He was sitting in the kitchen of the orphanage cafeteria, watching Snow White stirring a large vat of strangely colored "nutritional vegetable soup" with a serious look on her face, and couldn't help but feel a little doubtful: "...Is this thing really feasible? Look. I have no appetite..."

"Do you believe in my craftsmanship? Although it looks average, the little ones are usually cute to drink this." Snow White stirred the spoon in her hand and looked up at Yu Sheng, "Just wait a moment, wait a minute. Let the soup cool down a bit before adding ingredients to it, otherwise the blood will be boiled..."

Yu Sheng nodded: "Oh."

Next to her, another girl with long hair shawl, who looked about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a gentle and gentle temperament couldn't help but murmured: "I still think it's better to get it into strawberry smoothie - the low temperature can also cover up the bloody smell, and the color is also good." Don’t look weird.”

"It's winter, eldest sister. When the weather is more than ten degrees below zero, you order these little ones a smoothie each early in the morning. They are happy. Is the toilet enough?" Snow White raised her head and rolled her eyes, "I see. It’s just that you want to eat it.”

The long-haired girl with a gentle temperament laughed awkwardly, and Yu Sheng couldn't help but look at her a few more times - he always felt that the other person looked familiar, but he didn't recognize her right away. After looking at her for a long time, he couldn't help but Asked: "Who are you from?"

"We met last night," the girl smiled shyly, pointing to herself, "by the bonfire in the wasteland, I was standing behind Rapunzel - earlier I was standing on the beanstalk. ”

Yu Sheng thought hard, and finally a figure standing in the sea of ​​fire of Jack Beanstalk laughing wildly appeared in his mind.

He immediately slapped his hands: "Oh oh oh! The one who wants everyone to see Tai Nai in the fire..."

As a result, before he finished speaking, the girl in front of him blushed. As he spoke, she waved her hands vigorously: "I, I'm not usually like that. I just can't control it when lighting a fire..."

The corner of Yu Sheng's mouth trembled: "The codename is the little match girl, right... Her abilities are arson and illusion."

"This code name is too long. Usually they call me 'Match'." The girl in front of me smiled sheepishly. This shy and gentle look was indeed completely different from the figure laughing wildly in the sea of ​​fire. "Little Red Riding Hood, what do you mean to you?" There must have been a lot of embarrassment when introducing me.”

"...she added a lot of things when she introduced each of you," Yu Sheng recalled the "characteristics" that Little Red Riding Hood mentioned when she introduced everyone in the "Fairy Tale" organization to him last night, with a look on his face. She couldn't help but smile, "But I can tell she likes you quite a lot."

The Rapunzel in front of her smiled, her smile gentle and bright.

Snow White finally put down the spoon in her hand. She tested the temperature of the vegetable soup and turned to look at Yu Sheng with a half-smile:

"Brother, it's time to bleed."

Yu Sheng was stunned: "Brother?"

"Changfa and I wanted to call you uncle at first, but Little Red Riding Hood said that since you're not much older than us, it's more appropriate to call you brother," Snow White said with a smile, already picking up the kitchen knife beside her with one hand. "Would you like to cut it yourself or should I do it for you?"

Yu Sheng glanced at the smile on the other person's face and the kitchen knife with a cold light in his hand, and suddenly broke into a cold sweat: "I will do it myself, I will do it myself..."

…

At the same time, in the underground structure of the west building of the orphanage, Little Red Riding Hood was frowning slightly, looking at the underground passage in disrepair in front of her, and then looking down at the old information in her hand.

Please...you...collect 6...books...!

A "mercenary" with a dark complexion and a strong body wearing heavy armor was standing beside her silently. The mercenary's face was obscured by a heavy helmet, and the coat of arms with a cat's head was engraved on his breastplate. The "King" was standing beside her silently. He squatted on the mercenary's shoulders with dignity and was looking around curiously.

"Is this the location?"

asked the king suddenly.

"It's hard to say," Little Red Riding Hood shook her head. "The clues provided by the squirrel were not very clear in the first place - the fall point she mentioned was in the center of the orphanage's courtyard, but the layout of the orphanage eighty-six years ago was different from what it is now. , the 'courtyard' at that time partially overlapped with the current West Building, but the exact amount of overlap, where the center point is, and where the boundaries are are all uncertain..."

As she spoke, she picked up the old information in her hand and showed it to the "King".

"This is the layout of the West Building when it was built. This is the most reliable information that can be found in the archives - we are roughly at this location now. If my calculation is correct, this should indeed be the 'Squirrel' The location of the 'courtyard' in our memory... is right above our heads.

"In addition, this point is where I saw the 'Shadow of Thorns' before. It is a little bit north-east. Above us is an exterior wall of the west building."

The king stretched his neck and carefully read the information handed over by Little Red Riding Hood for a while, stretched out his paws and patted it: "Why are you showing me this? I'm just a cat and I can't understand it."

"...Stop pretending, I saw you writing Bai Xue's physics paper with my own eyes."

The king looked away in embarrassment: "...she bribed me with a cat strip."

Little Red Riding Hood glanced at the tabby cat with disdain, then waved her hand.

"Can you feel anything? Use your 'cat intuition' that you usually brag about."

"It feels... nothing special," the king muttered, stretched out on the shoulders of the summoned mercenary, and said in a lazy tone, "But don't you find it strange? There isn't even a mouse here... …”