Alien Hotel

The young man with a tired look opened the door and left, and the living room fell into silence for a while.

After a few seconds, Yu Sheng broke the silence first: "He is obviously making it convenient for us... Where should we start?"

Little Red Riding Hood didn't say anything, she just got up and walked to the low cabinet, took down the urn on it and said, "Try it."

This time, Yu Sheng hesitated before "giving it a try": "...Do you really want to give it a try?"

"This is also for Lao Zheng," Little Red Riding Hood said calmly, "If he really has something that he hasn't had time to say, then this may be his only chance."

Looking at the serious expression of the girl in front of him, Yu Sheng finally took a breath, put aside the hesitation in his mind, and stretched out his hand towards the urn...

After a moment, he shook his head slightly.

"As expected..." Little Red Riding Hood blinked, with a hint of regret in her tone, but soon she exhaled with relief, "But that's right, there are not so many simple things in the world."

She turned around and put the porcelain urn solemnly back on the cabinet, then bowed to it seriously, and then looked back at Yu Sheng: "But I'm a little surprised. You usually act like this in everything you do. You don’t care about the consequences, and you don’t even care about your own life. Why are you so cautious and serious at this time?”

"This is different," Yu Sheng said in a serious tone, "Ordinary people die only once - this one life and death is a very serious matter."

Little Red Riding Hood looked at Yu Sheng intently for a few seconds, as if she was getting to know the "person" in front of her again. After a while, she looked back and pointed in the direction of the bedroom: "Let's go see what's there."

The two entered the house and soon found the things that the young man had sorted out - on the desk in front of the window, there was a pile of old books, a few notebooks, and some miscellaneous labels, letterheads or papers. strip.

Yu Sheng went over to flip through one of the notebooks and saw that the handwriting on it was clear and neat, as if it vaguely revealed the personality and living habits of the writer.

He raised his head again and saw neat rows of solid wood shelves against the wall on the other side of the room. There were many handicrafts on the shelves, including ceramic vessels, metal ornaments... and even two two-dimensional figures.

Little Red Riding Hood noticed Yu Sheng's gaze, turned her head and glanced, waving her hand: "Don't look for it. An 'abnormal collection' like the 'Weeper' statue must not be placed here. In fact, the whereabouts of that statue are now unknown. Strange The Institute of Chemical Industry is also looking for it. It is either kept in a secret collection of Lao Zheng, or it may have flowed into the black market. "

"I just lament that this guy has quite a wide range of hobbies," Yu Sheng shook his head, "Those two figures don't look cheap."

"...I don't understand." Little Red Riding Hood muttered, then focused on the books and notes in front of her.

Yu Sheng also patiently looked through it together.

Most of the books are related to art collection. The two most read books are full of various notes. "Old Zheng" added a lot of his own insights under the items that interested him. , and the content of the notes is very messy, ranging from daily life trivia to work notes, and most of them look ordinary.

Yu Sheng's eyes turned to the notes and letterheads.

He was surprised that in this day and age, there were still people who communicated using paper letters, and some of these letters were very new and had obviously been received recently.

Yu Sheng picked up these letters that he felt a little concerned about, especially the last one with the date, and glanced at it casually.

The upper and lower ends of this piece of letter paper are somewhat wrinkled, and it seems that someone has grasped them harder. However, the content on it is just some daily greetings and discussions about certain collections. The date is three days ago, and the signature is obvious. It's a pseudonym.

"Is there anything in this letter?" Little Red Riding Hood glanced here and asked curiously.

"There's nothing wrong with the content..." Yu Sheng frowned and muttered, but for some reason, he always felt that the letter in front of him was a bit concerning. He turned over it but couldn't see anything interesting about it.

However, his spiritual intuition was really booming, making him unable to ignore the slight dissonance in his heart.

"Bake it with fire? Or soak it in water?" Little Red Riding Hood said while thinking, "Although it is a very old-fashioned method of encrypting letters..."

"No, in case this is really a specially processed secret message, maybe some clues have been destroyed," Yu Sheng frowned, "In that case, we should take Irene with us when we come out. She is here There’s always something strange about mysticism.”

Little Red Riding Hood thought for a while and said uncertainly: "Then take her here now? Anyway, there is no one else around at this time. Your door is very convenient."

The so-called authorities are obsessed with it. After being reminded like this, Yu Sheng reacted: "Hey, it seems to make sense."

As soon as he finished speaking, he took out his mobile phone and reported it to the Secret Service. Then he raised his hand and grabbed the void next to him - under extra careful control, an illusory door that was much smaller than usual appeared in front of him. She opened it in her hand. Opposite the door was the living room of No. 66 Wutong Road. Facing the sofa, Irene sat on the sofa in a daze: "...Ah, what are you doing?"

"Come here and help me." Yu Sheng said, reaching out and taking the little doll out of the door.

"Hey, what are you doing? I'm watching TV -"

In the middle of the little puppet's protest, the person was already lifted onto the table. Probably the scene was switched too quickly, which made him feel a little sluggish.

But it only took a moment for her to react, and her eyes suddenly widened: "Uncle Yu Sheng! How can there be such a thing like you! You said you wouldn't take me with you, and now you suddenly come here! I just watched half of you on the TV Drag me over here, I'm still waiting to see who of the two idiots in the drama will die first. It's about to get to the key plot point for you to mess with..."

Yu Sheng didn't wait for the little puppet to finish his protest before he spoke quickly: "The two idiots you mentioned will die together later, but in the next episode a more retarded villain will jump out and continue to act like a monster. I've seen it, and I'll be angry later. Damn you, the heroine died in love with the hero's second cousin in the end, and the hero and the heroine's cousin were dependent on each other - he also died in the extra chapter."

Irene listened in a daze for a while, and finally jumped up as expected at the end: "Who the hell wrote this drama..."

But she had just jumped halfway when she was pushed back by Yu Sheng: "The things here are really important. I can't handle it. I need your help."

His words directly suppressed Irene's anger. The little doll's attitude changed so much that she didn't even react when she was angry with herself. She instantly became sullen: "I know you can't live without me - say What's the matter?"

Yu Sheng raised his hand and pointed at the table: "Looking at these letters, I have a hunch that there is something wrong with them, but I can't tell."

Irene turned around and took a look, her expression a bit baffling: "If you have any questions, you should open it first and take a look."

Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood were stunned at the same time. They both said in unison: "Expand?"

Immediately afterwards, Yu Sheng picked up the letter that made him feel the most strange: "Isn't this already an unfolded piece of paper? This is the content on it..."

"It's rolled up! Can't you tell?" Irene looked at Yu Sheng as if she were a fool, reached out to take the piece of letter paper, then grabbed the two ends of the letter paper up and down, and then exerted slight force.

The sound of scraping paper reached everyone's ears.

Illusive flames rose on the surface of the letter.

The seemingly complete paper was "unfolded", and the plane that was originally hidden in some invisible state was gradually pulled out. Yu Sheng opened his eyes in surprise and saw the normal writing on the paper. , line after line of content began to appear suddenly...

However, before those contents could fully emerge, the "unfolding" of the letter suddenly stopped.

Yu Sheng raised his head in confusion: "Ah? Why don't you continue?"

Irene cried sadly: "...the arms are not long enough."

Yu Sheng's face trembled: "Then I will bring you another one."

"Ah, no! I'm playing a group game over there," Irene quickly stopped Yu Sheng who was about to open the door again, "You come here and hold on to this side - you don't need any special skills, just open it slowly, ordinary people can Can complete this process. Yes, slow down, I feel that this paper is not strong, and it may break if you pull it too fast. "

Yu Sheng followed the instructions of the little doll and slowly unfolded the letter paper from a strange "folded" state. Finally, the hidden paragraphs were completely reflected in his and Little Red Riding Hood's eyes -

"... Before X month

"We have arranged the ceremony, you don't need to worry about safety issues, just like you care about those children, we also hope to use the safest and most effective way to lift the vicious curse from the 'fairy tale'.

"We know your doubts these days, but the world has many misunderstandings about us - there are indeed believers who have gone astray. Driven by the temptation of power and stupidity, those fools misunderstood the intentions of the messengers, and even worse, they misunderstood the intentions of the messengers. It is tragic and unjust to follow false and false messengers in the first place, who have committed numerous evil deeds, only to have a bad reputation be heaped on all of us.

"But you have witnessed that there is also a pure and good messenger. We have shown you his power and intentions. You have heard with your own ears and seen with your own eyes that he is indeed harmless and does protect the children. , He speaks to you through the invisible mouth, and you acknowledge that you heard it, so you can put all worries to rest.

"If you have made up your mind, then light the blank letter we left for you. Remember, use a scented candle mixed with rose essence.

"Note: Don't buy the 'Linglong Pavilion' brand. They are shameful counterfeiters and deceivers. Sooner or later, the wrath of the messenger will fall on the despicable and shameless profit-driven profiteers like them.

"—humble and true, servant of the angels."