Alien Hotel

The voice in his mind made Yu Sheng, who was in a daze due to the cold wind in the valley, suddenly startled - and then even more stunned.

He was stunned until Erin yelled in his head for the second time before he suddenly woke up.

"...Irene?" Yu Sheng blinked. He was carefully observing the situation in the valley while carefully approaching the dilapidated old temple, trying to find a temporary shelter. Trying to respond from the bottom of my heart, "How did you... get in touch with me? I mean you were talking directly into my head..."

"Is this difficult?" Erin's tone was particularly confident, "I am Alice's doll!"

Yu Sheng thought about it, but he didn't connect the two things... Does it mean that all Alice's dolls can be like this? Can you talk inside other people's heads?

"Didn't I get into your dream once? I'll know the way after I got in once," Irene found that Yu Sheng didn't respond to her, so she patiently explained again, but then her tone changed, "Oh no, where did you go? I can't sense you..."

Yu Sheng was silent for two seconds and looked up at the surrounding valley and dense forest. He always felt that a seven or eight-meter-tall monster would appear in this place in the next second and an impassioned BGM would play. This made his heart tremble: " ...I may have traveled far away, and I guess it’s not easy to go back..."

Eileen was obviously stunned for a moment, and her voice came after a few seconds: "...Didn't you say you just went out to throw away the garbage? You were shoveled away by the garbage collection truck?!"

Yu Sheng didn't even know where this guy got such strong association ability...

But he had to admit that after hearing Irene's voice, he felt a little more at ease because he was suddenly thrown into such a wilderness and panicked... just a little bit.

This voice at least proved that his connection with the original world was not completely severed. Since Irene could contact him, there should be a possibility for him to go back - although he had no idea and could not think of any reason to support this assumption. But he must believe so now.

As for the present, the first thing he has to do is ensure his own safety.

It was very quiet in the valley. Until now, there were only some hollow wind sounds in his ears from time to time, but Yu Sheng always had an awkward and depressing feeling in his heart. He always felt that something was staring at him here, something...without warmth. His empty and hungry eyes were scanning here and himself over and over again.

This made him more and more uneasy, and he desperately wanted to find a corner to hide first, at least he could no longer stand so carelessly in the open space.

It seems that the only thing that can be hidden in sight is the ruined temple that has almost completely collapsed - the forest in the distance is dense, and the atmosphere is even more weird and gloomy. In addition, "entering the forest late at night" is a classic part of the horror story. He would never want to get close to the element of death.

But the bad thing is that sneaking into a ruined temple late at night is also a standard element of seeking death. The difference between the two options is that beasts are easily spawned in the forest, while monsters are easily spawned in the ruined temple...

Both are easy to trigger impassioned BGM.

Yu Sheng gritted his teeth and walked towards the only corner of the ruined temple that was still intact.

At the same time, he also contacted Eileen in his mind and roughly explained the situation on his side - in fact, there was not much he could explain, because even he didn't know how all of this happened. From beginning to end, he It's just a door opened...

After hearing this, Eileen was stunned for a long time before hesitatingly said: "It sounds like you have fallen into a 'foreign land'?"

Yu Sheng, who was standing in the ruins of the ruined temple, was stunned when he heard the words, and suddenly reacted: "A foreign land? You call this place a foreign land? Do you know where I am?"

Erin's voice seemed a little confused for some reason: "Huh? There are so many foreign lands, I don't know which one you fell into..."

Listening to Irene's muttering, Yu Sheng frowned, and suddenly realized that he had gained some more knowledge about the "supernatural field", and also realized one crucial thing:

Maybe he was not thrown into "another world", but encountered some kind of "natural phenomenon" that was not unusual in Eileen's opinion?

Yu Sheng was muttering in his mind, while Irene obviously thought of something and said in his mind in a somewhat unbelievable tone: "...You haven't heard of 'foreign land' at all, have you?"

Yu Sheng had a strange expression: "...Should I have heard of it? Is this stuff common knowledge that ordinary people know?"

"Oh, it's normal for ordinary people not to know about foreign lands. After all, most people will never encounter such things in their lives," Irene said casually, but her next sentence made Yu Sheng stunned, "But You shouldn’t know.”

"Me? Why do I need to know?" Yu Sheng looked a little confused, "I'm just an ordinary person..."

"...But you live in a foreign land every day."

…

Shadows shuttled through the night, and predators took shape in the shadows. A ferocious wolf jumped out of the shadows, jumped a few times along the scattered roofs of the old city, and landed lightly and silently on the empty street. In the street, I stood in the middle of the road and looked left and right.

"Come back!" A somewhat annoyed female voice came from the shadow of the building in the corner of the street.

The wolf instantly shrunk its neck, let out an indistinct whimper, and quickly trotted and hid in the shadow of the building beside the road.

A girl wearing a dark red coat and a black skirt stood in the corner between two old houses. She reached out and rubbed the head of the wolf that had just ran back, and raised her eyes to look at the houses at the end of the old street.

This is a very short street, with only a few dozen households on the entire street. The front and back of the street are transparent, and the situation on the road is clear. Even without the eyes of a wolf, she can judge the situation here at a glance.

The girl frowned, and the ringtone of her mobile phone rang at the right time - it was the classic opening song of the 1986 version of Journey to the West. This time, she answered the call when the monkey had just turned its second somersault: "It's me. , Yes, I’m right here in the old city, on Wutong Road.”

What came from the phone was the voice of a middle-aged man who had worked overtime until he was delirious, chattering.

Little Red Riding Hood listened patiently for a while and twitched her lips: "I arrived, but found nothing - my wolf has searched the entire street three times, and found no trace of the opening of the foreign land. Discovering something from a foreign land.”

The phone was silent for two or three seconds, and then the voice from the other side came: "But the surveillance staff can confirm that there is a response to the opening of a foreign land on Wutong Road in the old city, and a passage to a foreign land must have briefly appeared there..."

"I believe," Little Red Riding Hood said helplessly, "I still recognize the professionalism of your Secret Service surveillance personnel, but I also believe in my wolf - maybe there really was a short-lived passage here, but it must have disappeared now. It's all clean... Considering that under normal circumstances, it is impossible for a foreign land to disconnect from the real world in such a short time, maybe someone else has taken action to deal with it. "

"There are not many people who have the ability to cut off foreign connections in such a short period of time. Their forces all have registration and communication channels with the Secret Service." The voice coming from the mobile phone sounded a little tired, "But tonight I did not receive any Communication in this area..."

"Maybe they are people from the Hermit Society. They chatter all day long..."

The girl said casually, and then as expected, she heard a bunch of chatter coming from the mobile phone. She had to sigh and agreed: "Okay, okay, I understand, they are all highly respected scholars, right... I I have always respected scholars. I won't say it any more. I will take my wolves and search around in the shadows. Anyway, this "Wutong Road" is not big, with a total of sixty-five house numbers, so it won't matter if I search it again. It’s troublesome…”

After hanging up the phone, her ears finally became quiet. Little Red Riding Hood looked at the phone with the screen turned off and sighed, then looked down at the dog heads rising up and down in the shadows around her... The wolf heads couldn't help but sigh again.

"I haven't finished my homework yet... Sigh, the life of outsourcing is really hard..."

…

Yu Sheng sat under a relatively solid-looking wall in the corner of the ruined temple, blowing the cold wind that blew in through the big hole in the wall. He looked up at the dark, turbid night sky outside the hole in the roof, trying to empty his mind, but failed. Unsuccessful.

Just now, he learned a truth.

His only stable place in Boundary City, the safest and most normal place in the entire city in his mind, is actually an abnormal... "place" called "foreign land".

In Eileen's words, the so-called "foreign land" refers to the realm outside the normal, the dimension on the edge of reason - the normal and orderly world where ordinary people live seems to be a mountain with a solid foundation and a stable structure, but in fact, Every detail of this mountain is a "hole" leading to irrationality and disorder.

For the vast majority of people, they will never come into contact with these "holes" throughout their lives, and will never see the bizarre scenery on the other side of the hole.

But those glimmers of light leaking out of the holes will always catch the eyes of others - for them, when they accidentally catch a glimpse of those scenes, some things will never go back.

——But even for the well-informed painting doll, it is still somewhat outrageous that a person can live in a foreign land for a long time...