Alien Hotel

Yu Sheng carefully introduced his construction plan in this valley to Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel, including the magnificent temple in his mind and a series of ancillary buildings built around this platform in the future. Although I haven't figured out what these buildings can be used for, they need to be built first before talking about it. Then, by the way, I explained why the square house next to the platform is not a toilet.

The two girls listened very seriously. The most serious part was when they laughed in the second half.

Yu Sheng was also helpless about this—because he also felt that the first phase of the project looked a bit like a toilet—

He could only end the topic awkwardly and try to divert the guests' attention.

"These are the chickens raised by the beaver," he introduced to Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel about other things in the valley. "After the ecology here recovers, we can let them run outside."

Little Red Riding Hood's reaction was the same as Erin's before, her eyes widened immediately: "You let a fox raise chickens?!"

"It's a fox demon - the difference is huge," Yusheng corrected seriously, "I'm serious, she actually takes good care of them.

While he was talking, Hu Li had already added water and feed to the chicken coop, and carefully checked the status of the chicks. Then he happily walked over and turned his head from his tail. After digging around, he took out two little chickens and showed them to Little Red Riding Hood: "They are white-cut and salt-baked. I plan to let them be the leaders of the flock in the future~"

Little Red Riding Hood reacted blankly for a long time before realizing that Baiqie and Saltbaked were the names of two chickens.

Before she could speak, Yu Sheng enthusiastically took her to introduce other places: "I'm going to use this area to grow vegetables. Have you seen the ditch over there? It's led from the foot of the mountain. The ground can be watered. I will also build a water reservoir in the corner of the platform. I plan to raise pigs in the future on the other piece of land, but I haven't had the time yet. There is an open space farther away, right? I plan to set up a fixed "gate" there, but for now it's just that. This is a preliminary plan. How to implement it needs further study.

Now the main focus is on farming and building houses——"

Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel were both dumbfounded. They just nodded blankly after listening to Yu Sheng's series of introductions, especially since the image in Little Red Riding Hood's mind was still stuck on the time when this place was "hungry", and Yu Sheng Every time a project was introduced to her, she would subconsciously repeat in her mind, "This place is a foreign land." Her outlook was as lifeless as doing sit-ups in a coffin.

Yu Sheng didn't think much about it. After the introduction with pride, he looked at the two girls happily and asked expectantly: "How do you feel? How is this valley?"

The long-haired princess opened her mouth and held back a sentence for a while: "What kind of valley are you doing! What kind of valley are you talking about?"

Yu Sheng thought about it and felt that the other party's summary was quite accurate, but he did not have the copyright and could not use the name.

The fresh wind blew from the depths of the valley, carrying a bit of the smell of grass and earth, as well as Xiaoxiao's cheerful laughter -

The little girl was running around on the grass, happily chasing and playing with Irene.

Erin was also very excited, and shouted while running: "Can someone take care of this naughty kid! Ah!? No one cares about the human rights of the dolls, right?!"

"Let me go and watch," Rapunzel looked up and said with a helpless smile. Then she picked up Xiaoxiao's small schoolbag in one hand and walked briskly towards the distance, "Xiaoxiao! Take a break and drink some water. Play again!”

With a smile on his face, Yu Sheng sat down on the edge of the platform. He looked at Rapunzel who was taking care of the child, Xiaoxiao who was talking excitedly, and Irene who was angrily trying to communicate with the naughty child. Then he looked back at Little Red Riding Hood who was standing next to him: "Do you feel like tomorrow is worth looking forward to?"

Little Red Riding Hood was also looking quietly into the distance. When she heard Yu Sheng's words, she was silent for a moment before speaking: "Black Forest - and other subsets of 'fairy tales', can they also become like this?" "

Her voice was very soft, as if she was afraid that if she spoke louder, it would shatter a ray of light.

"I still don't know how to fight against the 'ontology' of fairy tales, but at least we can start with the Black Forest. For now, although the Black Forest is a 'consciousness space', it still follows the rules of a normal foreign land in all aspects. Yes, and the entities it generates - mainly wolves - are not invincible and will be affected by my blood."

Yu Sheng spoke unhurriedly.

"The key question now is how to find the core and most essential part of the Black Forest - I suspect that it is not a wolf."

Little Red Riding Hood opened her eyes slightly: "Not a wolf?"

"For "Little Red Riding Hood", what is special about the wolf?" Yu Sheng asked calmly.

Little Red Riding Hood was stunned, as if she couldn't follow the other person's thoughts.

"'Little Red Riding Hood', add the title of the book," Yu Sheng continued, talking about his own thoughts, "Since the essence of 'fairy tale' is a 'collection of stories', each of its subsets is a story, which means that in the story No single 'element' can be used as a "representative" of the entire story. Not a single wolf, not a single hunter or a single Little Red Riding Hood. Even the dark forest - cannot represent "Little Red Riding Hood". . "

Little Red Riding Hood finally showed a thoughtful look, and she seemed to understand what Yu Sheng meant by "essence".

"The black forest is different from this valley - the 'hunger' generated in this valley is its only core. All the original rules here, and even the entire valley environment, are built around 'hunger'" up, and this is also a characteristic of most 'regular' exotic lands, but It's the dark forest. Its rules are extremely complicated. Every 'character' in the forest, including Little Red Riding Hood, the Big Bad Wolf, Grandma, the hunter, and maybe the godly squirrel, is just a system of rules. It's just a "link" underneath, it's the "surface" part. "

As Yu Sheng spoke, he raised his hand and waved it gently in the air. Then, with a sound of friction between soil and rocks, Little Red Riding Hood was shocked to see that a piece of ground on the edge of the platform suddenly bulged, and then the ground formed A small "stage", with some ugly and crude things made of stone rolling and running on the stage. Some of them quickly disintegrated, but new "actors" emerged from the stage and continued. Blind and meaningless activities.

"I thought of this after seeing Xiaoxiao's experience, and as you, the client, are limited by the perspective of 'Little Red Riding Hood', it is difficult to notice this," Yu Sheng continued while controlling the simple little stage. He said to the girl next to him, "Your attention always falls on the 'evil wolf', so naturally you will regard the wolf as the only and final 'villain' in the 'Black Forest Collection'", but I am standing from a perspective outside the story. ——I realized that the person I wanted to kill was not the villain in the story.

"Or to put it another way, I have successfully killed the 'villain' once - the wolf grandma who swallowed Xiaoxiao. It is the 'final villain' from Xiaoxiao's perspective, but in the process of killing it, I only felt To ---- emptiness, the black forest has not changed in any way because of the death of a wolf grandmother. The wolves are still there, the forest is still there, I can feel those sights, Xiaoxiao will still fall into the forest next time, and a The new Grandma Wolf will still be waiting for her at the end of darkness.

"Because as far as this 'story' is concerned, the script is intact from beginning to end."

The platform became quiet, and Little Red Riding Hood quietly looked at the stone "actors" who were still rolling and running on the stage, and finally said in thought: "So, what needs to be killed is the "enemy" itself -

"Yes, the story, but it doesn't necessarily mean to 'kill' it, because the story may not be killable, but you may be able to find ways to control it, tamper with it, or even dismember it. To do this, you cannot turn your eyes It is limited to the 'actors' on the surface of the story, but to find the 'key point' of the whole story." Yu Sheng nodded slightly and pointed at the simple stage, "Just like this stage, you think its true essence and What is 'core'? "

Little Red Riding Hood relaxed for a moment, her expression thoughtful, but she didn't seem to get the answer for a while.

"The answer is right in front of you," Yu Sheng laughed and raised his finger to point at his head, "It's me."

As he spoke, he waved his hand again, and the simple stage of earth and rock suddenly disintegrated, turned into clods of earth and stone, and quickly merged into the earth.

Little Red Riding Hood suddenly reacted and took a deep breath: "You mean, there is a 'storyteller' behind the black forest?" ! "

"It doesn't have to be an individual, but it must be a 'source'. That may be the essence of 'fairy tale', or it may be a tentacle extended from 'fairy tale'," Yu Sheng said unhurriedly, "As early as the first time When I entered the dark forest, I had been looking for this 'tentacle'. This time we found the "special cabin" in the deepest part of the forest. I thought the tentacle was there, but it turned out that it wasn't there. It was just a special corner of the stage. We were still walking around on the "front" of the stage, but The thing that shapes the Black Forest is hiding on the 'back' of the stage."

"I-I didn't expect you to think so much," Little Red Riding Hood looked at Yu Sheng in surprise, "I have never thought about the Black Forest like this before."

Yu Sheng laughed: "Because I am a hateful adult, and hateful adults always use this kind of rational thinking that is not interesting at all to expose children's stories. The most commonly used sentence we use is - 'This is all Made up by people.”

Little Red Riding Hood was stunned, and suddenly started laughing: "That's why fairy tales don't like adults.

"It doesn't matter, I didn't let it 'like' it in the first place," Yu Sheng stood up and clapped his hands, "Okay, the outing time is over and it's time for the child to go home. "