Alien Hotel

To be fair, Yu Sheng found it difficult the moment the little doll said the four words "unity of mind and heart", mainly because he and Irene spent most of their time together in a state where both of them thought the other was sick. But he thought about it carefully, and they both thought the other was sick.

Isn't this also a kind of unity of mind and heart?

His thoughts spread unconsciously, and he lost his mind in a few seconds. In the end, Irene hit him on the head: "I told you to empty your mind! I didn't tell you to let your mind fly! At least you should focus on opening the door."

"Oh, okay."

Yu Sheng reacted instantly, quickly gathered his mind, and then began to seriously follow the steps of opening the door.

But this time, he only summoned a "null value door" that did not lead to anywhere, and then relaxed his mind a little while maintaining the stability of the door.

He felt Irene's small palm pressing on his temple.

He saw Irene's other hand raised, pointing to the door from a distance.

Strands of black silk threads spread and grew from the fingertips of the little puppet, silently, as if some strange "creature" with independent life, quickly intertwined, squirmed, deformed, split, and multiplied in the air————"

Some of the threads pierced his flesh and blood, pierced his brain, and a strange and cold feeling traveled along his spine, which even made people feel chilled.

If it was the first time to touch Irene's thread, Yu Sheng would probably have subconsciously thrown the little puppet away at this time. These cold and strange things don't look harmless to humans and animals. They are more suitable for the script of "the sinister cursed puppet finally seized the opportunity to plot against its owner and attempted to seize the top seat at No. 66 Wutong Road". It's really suspicious.

But he has gotten used to it. Maybe the puppets in Alice's house are like this.

And some of the threads spreading in the air are extending towards the door. Their front ends gather together, like a strange tentacle. , first carefully touched the door, and then began to probe into the inside of the door.

The connection was established.

However, at this moment, Yu Sheng suddenly felt a sense of... trance.

The sound of the wind in the valley disappeared, and the surrounding scene was shrouded in a thick and dim curtain, as if there was an endless fog filling the vision, and in the depths of the fog, he saw————

A blonde, fragmented doll, lying quietly in a ruin that fell into darkness, and there was a huge shadow, lying with the doll in the depths of the ruins. The dead doll opened its eyes, and in the brief illusion across the curtain, Yu Sheng suddenly had an illusion that the eyes were looking at him.

However, everything was fleeting, and he didn't even have time to confirm whether the dead blonde doll was the one he saw in the mirror at the beginning, and all the illusions disappeared.

He only heard Irene's energetic voice: "Hey, hey, hey! The door is open! I feel this thing is working! Yu Sheng, check if I did it right———"

Yu Sheng suddenly woke up with a start, and saw that the door leading to the Black Forest had slowly opened in his hands. Countless black threads with strange black mist intertwined and wandered inside and outside the door, outlining chaotic patterns, like thorns guarding the door frame, and on the other side of the door, it was the forest shrouded in shadows.

The door to the Black Forest was really opened successfully.

Yu Sheng looked at the door wrapped in black "thorns" in a daze. To be fair, it was a bit strange, but it was really exciting.

But he was more concerned about the "illusions" he had just seen.

"Erin."

"Ah?"

"Did you see anything just now? When you were connected with my spirit, did you see any illusions or anything like that?"

"No," the little doll confirmed, looking at Yu Sheng in confusion, "I just focused on helping you locate the door, for fear that something would go wrong———What did you see? "

Yu Sheng hesitated for a moment, but still did not hide it from the little doll: ".——-I saw the blonde doll again."

"Which blonde doll?" Irene did not react for a moment, "Do you know other dolls outside?"

"The one I mentioned to you, the one I saw in the mirror," Yu Sheng reminded the other party, "the one that was torn into pieces and died somewhere unknown. You also said that you would help her go home if you had the chance in the future."

"Oh, I remember!" Irene finally reacted, and then frowned, "Why did you see her again? What did you see this time?"

""..——-It was the same scene as the last time I saw it, but I felt that her eyes seemed to fall on me," Yu Sheng said slowly, "I don't know what happened, I just saw it when your "thread" connected to me just now---I thought you could feel it too. "

He and Irene looked at each other, but after thinking for a long time, they did not come to any conclusion.

Yu Sheng had many guesses in his mind, but there was no clue at all, and all the guesses were just wild thoughts in the end.

He could only focus on the door in front of him for the time being - but this time, the mysterious blonde doll had inevitably left a deep impression in his heart.

Hu Li came over and grabbed Yu Sheng's arm a little worriedly,

"The door to the Black Forest is open," Yu Sheng rubbed the fur behind the fox girl's ears comfortingly, "You will come in with me later."

Hu Li nodded immediately: "Yes."

"Erin, you stay here," Yu Sheng said to the puppet on his shoulder, "Observe the scene when we pass through the door. Hu Li and I will stay on the opposite side for a few minutes, and then open the door directly and come back. If everything goes well, our 'landing point' when we return should still be here. "

"Don't you need me to go in with you?" Erin looked a little worried, "What if you get lost inside and need help from me, the 'dream expert'?"

"You don't need 'navigation' to open the door from the side of the Black Forest to return to reality," Yu Sheng explained, "In comparison, it is safer for you to stay outside and act as 'insurance' for Hu Li and me.

"Okay," Irene felt that this made sense, so she didn't say anything and jumped down from Yu Sheng's shoulder. "Then I'll guard you here for a few minutes. Don't die in there———"

As soon as the little puppet finished speaking, Hu Li clenched his fists and said seriously: "I will protect my benefactor to the death!"

Irene waved her hand: "That's not necessary. You should protect yourself first. Yu Sheng's life is not worth anything—"

Yu Sheng opened his mouth, but he couldn't think of any rebuttal after a long time.

What made him even more depressed was that even Hu Li didn't refute.·

"I really owed you two in my last life."

He could only sigh like this, and then dragged the fox girl and turned to walk into the door.

After a moment of dizziness and sensory reset, he was already standing in the familiar black forest.

The distant and faint howl of wolves, the hollow sound of the wind blowing through the forest, the dark sky between dusk and night, the shadows everywhere, and the bushes that seemed to always hide something and had bad intentions.

Everything was the same as he remembered. This black forest seemed to be like this forever.

Hu Li, who was standing by, looked around with wide eyes. It was her first time to come to this place. Because she had heard a lot about this forest from Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood before, she seemed very alert at this time. The pile of tails behind her stood there like a swordsman, and the fluff on her ears exploded slightly.

After a simple confirmation of the surrounding environment, Yu Sheng called out in his heart: "Irene, we are coming in."

"I saw you go in," the little doll responded immediately, "the door here has disappeared, and it looks no different from the scene when you usually "open the door."

"Did our bodies also pass through the door?" Yu Sheng asked, "didn't stay outside?"

"No, you went through the door directly. "

Hearing the reply from the doll, Yu Sheng exhaled lightly and looked down at his hands.

Sure enough, after a series of "bug-free" operations, he successfully entered the Black Forest in the flesh - and successfully brought in a cyber fox.

Everything was just as he had expected. For the Black Forest, the boundary between "consciousness" and "body" was not so clear.

The products in the Black Forest can be brought into the real world in the form of matter, and the matter in the real world can also be sent to this Black Forest under certain conditions - the principle behind this may not be clear for the time being, but for him, this conclusion is enough.

What Yu Sheng was most afraid of before was that the Black Forest really is a pure "consciousness" world, or to put it more bluntly, it is a conceptualized and nihilistic thing:

Conceptualized and nihilistic things are the most difficult to deal with, because it means that you can only use the same concepts and nothingness to fight against them. After all, humans are creatures living in reality, and fighting against "abstract" is not something humans are good at.

Anyway, Yu Sheng himself thinks that he belongs to "human beings", and he only thinks according to human logic.

But since the Black Forest can establish a connection with the "material world" through "bugs", everything will be much easier.

This means that it has a health bar.

Yu Sheng likes things with health bars.

"Benefactor, what are we going to do next?" Hu Li approached cautiously and asked in a low voice, "Are we going to fight those wolves? Or wait for the "squirrel" you mentioned to come out?"

"The wolf pack is invisible, and the evil wolf also has its own conditions for appearing, and it will be difficult to deal with it for a while," Yu Sheng shook his head, "We are not here to fight, nor to find that squirrel. "

As he spoke, he reached out and opened a door again.

This time, the other side of the door was no longer chaotic darkness, but clearly reflected the scenery in the valley.

He could even see Irene standing opposite the door, staring at this side with wide eyes in surprise,

"Hey, Yu Sheng, I see you!"

"It seems that after entering the Black Forest in the flesh, you can open a normal door here," Yu Sheng smiled and nodded to the little doll on the other side of the door, and then turned his head to look at the fox girl beside him, "I'm ready to go, but before I leave, I have to say 'hello' to the thing behind the Black Forest."

"Ah? Say hello?" The fox girl was stunned for a moment, "What hello?"

"The kind of twenty chicken legs."

"-.Okay!"