Alien Hotel

Seeing the strange girl in red rushing into the hut, Yu Sheng just paused for a moment before rushing in too.

The moment he stepped through the wooden door, he felt as if he had passed through something thin and cold, like water mist. Then, many of the sounds around him disappeared in an instant. The roar of the wolf approaching suddenly disappeared, and the sound of the wind also faded away, leaving only the cry of a baby that only he could hear and that continued as long as he entered the dark forest. It still sounded, but it seemed to be separated. Blurred like a thick barrier.

Yu Sheng carefully held the weapon in his hand, looked around, and then frowned unconsciously.

He didn't see the hanging red cloaks.

There was not a single red cloak on the wall or on the floor.

The only touch of red in the room was the girl in red sitting on the ground panting.

Yu Sheng and Hu Li walked over, came to the girl, and tried to wave their hands in front of the girl's eyes, but the latter still didn't respond.

At this moment, Hu Li seemed to have discovered something. She frowned and sniffed, and suddenly whispered: "My dear friend, there is no smell."

Yu Sheng didn't understand for a moment: "What?"

"She doesn't smell," Hu Hu explained.

Yu Sheng frowned, looking thoughtful. Then, as if he suddenly felt something, he immediately opened the wooden box containing the angel's umbilical cord.

The umbilical cord was still lying quietly at the bottom of the box, but at some point, part of the dry umbilical cord actually began to fill up, as if it had regained blood and vitality. Although the "alive" part only took up a small part of the entire umbilical cord. to one-fifth, but it looks extremely conspicuous.

Irene saw the change in the umbilical cord at a glance, and took a breath of cold air. She grabbed Yu Sheng's hair, and then quickly turned her head to look at Hu Li: "Quick, quick - hide it in your tail." Bring out the dipping sauces and so on..."

"Don't make trouble," Yu Sheng immediately interrupted the little puppet's troubles, "it's not that far yet."

Then he saw the chili powder and barbecue dipping sauce that Hu Li had taken out of his tail, and his eyebrows jumped involuntarily: "Take it back."

The girl in red sitting on the ground was unaware of what was happening "beside her". She seemed to be a projection in another time and space, just recreating some things that had happened in front of Yu Sheng and others.

After Yusheng confirmed that the angel's umbilical cord had no further tendency to recover, she finally seemed to have had enough rest and began to struggle to get up, as if she wanted to check the situation everywhere in the cabin.

From her eyes, Yu Sheng judged that she was quite unfamiliar and wary of this small house.

The next second, Yu Sheng noticed that the girl's condition seemed a little abnormal.

She struggled to stand up, but her legs and hands were bent at weird angles as if she couldn't straighten them. She seemed to be mumbling something, but all that came out of her throat was a hoarse and weird growl. She staggered forward. After taking two steps, she couldn't help but want to bend down - fine down began to emerge from her cheeks and wrists, her ears gradually lengthened and became pointed, and her eyes became like a wolf, Immediately afterwards, she began to grow fangs and claws.

It was as if the long-term accumulation had finally passed a certain critical point, and she was turning into a wolf at an alarming speed.

It seemed that even her thinking was affected. The girl didn't notice the changes in her body until now. She lowered her head in horror and saw that her body had begun to twist and deform. She opened her mouth, but what came out of her throat was not human. A cry of terror, but only a sad cry.

"Fuck--" Yu Sheng finally couldn't help it anymore. Although he had already guessed that the girl in front of him might be just a phantom, and the girl didn't seem to be in the same time and space as him, he still subconsciously moved the mace to the side. He rushed forward, trying to pull the opponent away.

But his arm went directly through the opponent's body,

The girl in red fell down, and before Yu Sheng's eyes, she finally turned into a twisted, half-human, half-wolf monster.

But she didn't seem to have completely lost her rationality. After breathing deeply for a long time, she struggled to get up again, and slowly crawled to the corner of the cabin on all fours.

The sound of nails scraping across the floor broke the silence in the hut.

She was carving words with her sharp nails.

"This forest is alive.

"Those chaotic noises turned into clear whispers. "There is a huge thing. It is dreaming. It is hidden in the dreams common to all children in the orphanage. I can't see clearly what it is, but it has penetrated into my brain. in.

"I can't go back, I'm very tired, very cold, very hungry, and I can't remember how long I've been here——·

"I found a room, but it's also very cold here. It would be nice to have a fire."

"The wolves are outside, they are waiting for me outside————

"I am: 'Little Red Riding Hood', the first one, but I'm afraid not the last one. I have seen that 'it' is choosing a new target. Those who came here after me, I wish you good luck——"

She began to twitch.

The handwriting carved by the nails became lighter and thinner, and eventually became unsustainable.

She stopped with a gasp, turned over, her deformed and twisted body lying on her side on the floor, looking past Yu Sheng, looking steadily at a corner of the hut.

"It's so cold. It would be nice if there was a fire -·

Yu Sheng sat down next to her. He put his hand on the other person's bent and deformed arm, but he could not convey any warmth to her. Hu Li also came over, and she piled several of her tails on the wolf-turned-arm. But suddenly, the girl's eyes brightened for a moment, and she seemed to really feel some kind of warmth passing by, a smile appeared on her face, and she said The final sigh: "It's getting warmer————"

Then, she turned into a flowing shadow and gradually dissipated.

A slight "pop" sound suddenly sounded in the hut, breaking the dead silence here.

Yu Sheng raised his head in shock and looked in the direction of the sound, only to see a spark coming in and out of the dark fireplace in the corner of the cabin.

Then there was a second snap, and the sparks turned into flames.

The warm fireplace burned, with hot and bright flames jumping in the hearth. A candlestick appeared on the table in the middle of the hut at some point. The candlelight was lit out of thin air silently, and the cold receded from the house.

Warmth filled the small room like a quick miracle.

Yu Sheng looked at this scene blankly, and suddenly, he seemed to understand something.

Almost at the same time he thought of the answer, he heard a slight sound coming from the window sill, and then the familiar voice of the squirrel reached his ears -

"The first Little Red Riding Hood died, bringing with it the first fire and candlelight in the Black Forest."

Yu Sheng suddenly raised his head and saw the squirrel standing on the windowsill. He didn't know when it got in - maybe it had been here from the beginning.

“It’s true—the original Black Forest didn’t have these ‘protections’, right? Yu Sheng looked at the squirrel in front of him thoughtfully, "What I see now is a 'record' from a long time ago?" "

The squirrel wiped its face with its paws, but it was different from the usual nervous look that jumped up and down at every turn.

It seemed particularly quiet today for some reason, as if even it could be preoccupied.

"Yes, there was nothing in the Black Forest. At the beginning, there were only forests and wolves, and there were also dark cabins——"

Yu Sheng slowly frowned: "Then, Little Red Riding Hood, as the "protagonist" of the story, appeared. "Little Red Riding Hood"

Is this stage finally starting to come together? "

The squirrel raised his upper body, but his eyes were not on Yu Sheng, but seemed to be looking at a distant place.

It said slowly ". - The second Little Red Riding Hood died, so there were those red thin threads and strips of cloth wrapped in many places, which could slow down the process of wolf transformation.

“After the third Little Red Riding Hood died, food and water to replenish strength began to appear in the hut.

“After the death of the fourth Little Red Riding Hood, a trail finally appeared in the forest. When walking on the trail, the probability of encountering a wolf will be very low, and the shelter hut will always appear at the end of the trail.

"The fifth Little Red Riding Hood lights up the street lamps on both sides of the trail - now, unless the street lights go out, the wolves will not come near the trail.

"The death of the sixth Little Red Riding Hood brought nothing new, but after that, all 'Grandmas Wolf' must first "knock on the door"

1-Although this may only delay it for a moment, Granny Wolf was actually spawned directly in the cabin before that.

“All Little Red Riding Hoods now have about a tenth increased chance of escape after Granny Wolf ‘knocks on the door’.

"The seventh Little Red Riding Hood--she is here for a short time, but she is very powerful. After she leaves, the 'bad wolf' will no longer appear in the dusk phase, and all dangerous periods are now compressed. night-----"

The squirrel spoke slowly, as if he was speaking to Yu Sheng, but also as if he was just talking to himself in his memories. Finally, he pulled the red rag strip wrapped around his body and looked up at the three people in front of him. : "So I have always been curious, which little red riding hood brought 'you'? You---don't belong to this forest."

"Sorry, we are adults who came uninvited," Yu Sheng took a step forward and looked calmly into the squirrel's eyes, "just like the 'hunter' who also came uninvited - you just ignored him deliberately, Yeah?"

The squirrel tugged at the cloth strip on his body again, but did not speak.

Yu Sheng didn't ask any further questions. He just stayed quiet for a few seconds and then asked very abruptly: "What about you?

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"-·What's the meaning?"

Yu Sheng looked into the squirrel's eyes and said word by word: "Which Little Red Riding Hood are you?"