Alien Hotel

He walked into the kitchen, closed the door, and turned on the range hood. Along with the noisy noise of the machine running, Yu Sheng felt that his heart slowly calmed down.

It was as if the thin wooden door in the kitchen and the noisy sound of the range hood helped him temporarily isolate a chaotic and strange world from the outside - he finally returned to a place that belonged entirely to himself, and could even temporarily pretend that he was not there. A huge and strange "boundary city", but returned to the real "home" that he is familiar with.

This big house was different from his original "home" in every way, but only this small kitchen was very close to the structure in his memory, so after settling down in this world, he decorated the place as much as possible It has become a familiar look.

While cooking here every day, he pretended that he was still at his real home, pretending that he had never opened the door that morning and stepped into a strange city full of strange shadows - sometimes he was busy here, He even felt that as soon as he raised his head, he would see the familiar street scene from the past through the window. He would see the old street outside the kitchen bathed in orange-red clouds, and the red sunshine outside the residential building in his memory. flowing on the wall...

But the scenery outside the window always broke his short-lived imagination. Looking out the window now, he could only see a bare open space and low and old bungalows not far away. There were no residential buildings here, but there were quite a few messy ones. He had not seen the telegraph poles and the warm and cozy sky in his memory for a long time.

The skylight in this city is always either blindingly bright or blindingly dark.

Yu Sheng sighed and closed the blinds outside the glass, not paying attention to the night outside that seemed to be forever shadowy.

Picking and washing vegetables, heating a pot with cold oil, sautéing chopped green onions, and quickly putting the ingredients into the pot. Listening to the sizzling sound coming from the pot, Yu Sheng heard the sound of a TV program coming from outside the door - this weird house The city does have a series of devices including televisions, mobile phones, etc. Information acquisition channels. In the early days, he learned a lot about this "boundary city" almost entirely through watching TV programs and reading news on his mobile phone. Even now, this is how he understands this "world" one of the important ways.

"Yu Sheng! The TV sound is too low! Help me turn it up! Please!"

A girl's whirring sound suddenly came from outside the door. Yu Sheng was startled for a moment, and his hands shook and he almost tipped the dishes out of the pot.

He almost forgot that there was Irene outside.

When he was cooking in the kitchen, no one talked outside!

"Wait!" Yu Sheng replied loudly and rudely, but couldn't help but mutter, "...she is quite familiar..."

But soon he twitched the corners of his mouth and showed a helpless smile.

Okay, okay, it also adds a bit of "popularity" to this house, it's a movement at least.

After a while, Yu Sheng came out with a hot meal. He placed the dishes on the dining table, turned up the volume of the TV opposite the dining table by two levels, and then sat down with his back to the TV. Opposite Lin's picture frame - he didn't have the habit of watching TV when he was eating, but he would turn it on as a background sound. This would not compete with Irene, who could only watch TV from a fixed angle.

Erin was holding a teddy bear in the oil painting and stretched her neck to look at the food on the table. She glanced at the program and then at the dining table, muttering: "It's quite rich..."

"These are home-cooked dishes," Yu Sheng said casually, "I quite like cooking."

"Oh." Irene said oh, and continued to watch TV honestly. But after Yusheng started eating, she leaned her head and glanced at the dining table again. After holding it in for a long time, she finally couldn't help but said: "Just... Are you eating while I watch?”

Yu Sheng raised his eyelids, stretched out his chopsticks and waved them in front of Irene's picture frame: "Would you like to take a bite?"

Erin stared, but then lowered her head and started sulking to herself.

"...Okay, okay, just a formality." Yu Sheng felt helpless when he saw the other person's appearance. He sighed and took another empty bowl from the kitchen. He took some food from his own bowl and put it in. In front of Irene's picture frame, "I've left the dishes and chopsticks for you - just smell it, I'll eat it in the end anyway."

Erin frowned and looked at the rice bowl in front of the picture frame. After thinking about it, she thought it was okay, so she jumped down from the chair and moved to the edge of the picture frame. A face occupied almost half of the picture frame. She looked at it carefully. Zhu Yusheng: "Okay, that's fine - thank you, you are quite considerate of others..."

Yu Sheng lowered his head to take a mouthful of rice and responded vaguely. Then he looked up and saw Irene, whose face was only exposed in the picture frame. Then his eyes were on the rice bowl in front of the picture frame, and suddenly he felt like Something is wrong...

Irene didn't notice anything was wrong at all, but she was a little surprised that Sheng was suddenly in a daze: "Why are you stunned?"

Yu Sheng quickly lowered his head and took two more mouthfuls of rice, then looked up at Irene——

The dark frame, the dark background, the head of the doll girl, and a bowl of food in front of the portrait.

The whole voice is still there, and the smile is still there.jpg.

The muscles on his face twitched twice immediately, but after holding it in for a long time, he still didn't dare to say what he was thinking about - not because of anything else, but mainly because Irene's swearing was unpleasant.

At this point, he could only cook. He could only pretend that nothing happened, and ate hard under Eileen's puzzled eyes, trying not to look at the person with a beautiful voice across the table...

The meal was like a gathering at a funeral hall.

After finishing the meal with great difficulty, Yu Sheng wiped his mouth and quickly removed all the cups, plates and bowls in front of Irene's frame, throwing them into the kitchen sink, ready to soak them until tomorrow morning before washing them - mainly because his waist was still very painful, and bending over in front of the sink to wash dishes was a bit of a burden for him now.

But the dishes can be left unwashed, but the garbage cannot be left undisposable. In this season, the garbage bags in the kitchen cannot be left at home overnight - he endured the pain in his waist to clean up the garbage, and walked out the door with the bag.

Irene, who was watching TV, looked up and asked curiously, "Hey, where are you going so late?"

"Do I have to report to you when I'm at home?" Yu Sheng replied unhappily to the overly familiar puppet in the painting, but still raised the garbage bag in his hand to show it to the other party, "I'm going out to throw away the garbage."

"Oh, then you come back early," Irene's eyes had already fallen on the TV again, "Such a big house, I'm scared to be alone, what if a thief comes in..."

Yu Sheng rolled his eyes, thinking that in such a gloomy big house, if someone really came in and saw a ghost-like figure swaying in a painting at first sight, it would definitely not be the person in the painting who would be scared to death first. With Irene's condition, a thief would have to call the police first...

But he didn't have the nerve to say this in front of Irene.

Yu Sheng shook his head, muttered a few words in his mind, and came to the door. After changing into his shoes for going out, he reached out and held the door handle.

He exerted a little force in his hand, turned it, and pushed it open.

For some reason, he suddenly recalled the ordinary morning two months ago, which seemed like every ordinary day in his ordinary life.

At that time, he was just like now, pushing open the door of his home, walking outside, and walked into a huge and suffocating strange city, and he has not been able to go back until now-

The weird association flashed through his mind, and Yu Sheng laughed at himself and shook his head, pushing the door out.

The crisp sound of dead branches being stepped on broke the silence in the valley. The cold night wind was wrapped with some disturbing decay and stench. The coldness in the air made Yu Sheng, who was only wearing a single piece of clothing, shiver subconsciously, and then he took several seconds to restart his brain that had just stopped working.

He saw himself standing among a desolate and dilapidated rubble. In the night in the distance, it seemed like a gloomy and bizarre dense forest, and there were high mountains on both sides standing in the night sky, like silent and hideous giants, overlooking the valley from both sides, bringing an unbearable heavy sense of oppression.

Yu Sheng was frozen in the cold night, then slowly turned his head and looked at the place where he came from.

A collapsed and dilapidated brick and tile came into view, which looked like a ruined temple that had been abandoned and collapsed a hundred years ago. A tattered door - or perhaps it could only be said that it was a half-door panel on a crooked door frame - stood alone in the ruins. When the night wind blew, a hollow whimper came from the gap between the broken door panel and the rubble.

Yu Sheng stared: "What are you doing to me..."

He finally understood gradually.

With the action of "opening the door", what happened two months ago was repeated.

He was thrown into a strange place again.

And it was worse than two months ago - although the huge and weird "Jiecheng" was very different from the "Jiecheng" where he was born and raised, it was at least a modern city where people could survive, but this time the situation was not so good.

He was thrown into a wilderness.

There was a dense forest in front, dangerous mountains on both sides, and behind him was only a dilapidated temple that had collapsed for who knows how many years. Yu Sheng took a look and felt that it would be a shame to not refresh thirty or fifty bandits or a few wolf demons and fox fairies in this place...

And the only thing he had in his hand was a bag of kitchen garbage he had just brought from home...

Yu Sheng thought about it and cursed in his heart.

And in the next second, when the fragrant and elegant words in Yu Sheng's heart were bursting out, an abrupt voice suddenly came from his mind-

"Yu Sheng! There is no signal on the TV! When will you come back?"