Alien Hotel

After briefly checking the status of the TV, Yu Sheng found that the thing was just dead.

A classic situation that occurs when cheap smart devices are used for a long time - Oops, I have been working continuously for two hours and my CPU is smoking/the memory reports an error/the power supply is overheated/nothing but I want to die...

Yu Sheng couldn't help but miss those old and durable TVs in his memory. He thought that the home appliances back then were not as pretentious as these smart devices today. Although they had fewer functions, he felt that the various smart functions now were not easy to use. Where are all the artificial intelligences that look like artificial retarded people...

"Just wait two minutes for the power to turn off and then turn it back on," Yu Sheng sighed in his heart, turning off the power of the TV and turning to Eileen, "The quality of this thing is not very good. If you leave it on for a long time, it will get stuck."

"Then do you want to get a new one?" Eileen's eyes suddenly lit up, "Just get one with voice control. I can change the channel by myself, and I can watch TV even if you are not at home..."

"Are you really embarrassed to make demands?" Seeing this guy who didn't regard him as an outsider at all, Yu Sheng was angry, "You are staying in my house and I haven't said anything yet, and you still want a new TV, you are Did you contribute money or effort? "

"I..." Irene opened her mouth, her face actually turned a little red, and she hesitated when speaking, "I, I, I don't have any money, but I have been helping you with your knowledge about foreign lands! I am more or less a consultant... …”

"This consultant's memory is not very good, right? I'm not sure whether what he said is reliable or not," Yu Sheng curled his lips, "If I want you to be my consultant, I have to find another consultant to be your consultant."

Irene's face turned red, but she couldn't find anything to refute after blushing for a long time. She could only lower her head and sulk to herself, but she was in a good mood. She recovered after being sulked for three seconds and looked up at Yu Sheng: "Then when you get me out, no matter how you get it out, I will work to pay you back, and won't you still deal with foreign lands in the future? I can be your helper! I can fight for you... …”

Yu Sheng really didn't think about this - in fact, he never considered what would happen after Irene really came out of this painting one day. Hearing this, he raised his eyebrows: "Are you? Are you sure?"

"Hey, I'm telling you, don't underestimate me! I'm Alice's doll!" Erin stood up from the chair with her hands on her hips, her whole body shuddering. "Living dolls are blessed. I can fight more in foreign lands than those so-called investigators and detectives in the spiritual world..."

"Then you press people into the painting, right?"

Erin's eyes turned red instantly (even though her eyes were originally red): "You...you, you, you...you will know when I come out! Don't turn your head!"

"Okay, okay, I believe it, I believe it." Yu Sheng turned around with a smile and waved his hand helplessly.

In fact, he never took this doll seriously from the beginning. After all, she stayed in the painting. Although she stayed at home, she did not eat his rice. The area occupied was less than half a square meter even if it was placed flat on the ground. Hanging it on the wall is not in the way, it consumes almost nothing except watching TV, and bickering can relieve boredom - not to mention, she has indeed helped herself to supplement a lot of knowledge about the "other world".

As for what this guy said about working to pay off debts or working as a thug after coming out of the painting... let him just take it seriously.

The TV screen turned on again. Yu Sheng took the remote control and clicked it a few times to find a nutritious urban drama.

Erin is not picky about TV shows - after all, Teletubbies are more interesting than wallpaper.

But at this moment, Yu Sheng looked at the TV screen in front of him and suddenly thought of something that he had never cared about before.

"Irene." He turned back and looked at the doll girl in the oil painting.

"Why?"

"I remember you said that you have been sealed in the oil painting for a long time, right?"

"Yeah, it's been so many years, I can't even remember when I came in..."

"Then how come you know so much about modern things?" Yu Sheng asked seriously, "Do you also know about smart TVs that can be controlled by voice?"

He discovered a flaw in Erin's words and actions.

But this is actually not a big problem. There are many explanations to answer this. For example, she learned about the changes in the world by observing the dreams of people nearby. For example, she was hung up in other places before entering this house. In a modern family - Yu Sheng felt that Irene's answer would probably be like this.

But Erin responded to him with a dull "Huh?"

The doll in the painting seemed to be completely confused by this question. She even seemed to realize this for the first time. After staring blankly for a long time, she slowly turned her head: "I... Don’t know why?”

"You don't know why?" Yu Sheng looked stunned.

"Well, I... have indeed been locked up in this painting for a long, long time. Really, it could be decades, but... I just know what the world is like now, even though I don't Knowing how I know it, I..."

The puppet in the painting hesitated and hesitated, and in the end it seemed that it began to doubt itself and hesitated to speak anymore.

Yu Sheng stared at Irene's expression closely, trying to find a hint of lying on her face.

"Then do you still remember how you were imprisoned in this painting? And what happened before you were imprisoned? Do you remember?" He then asked.

"I... just remember it was a curse," Irene said hesitantly, "This painting is also some kind of entity. I should have come to solve it, but I was locked in instead. I can't remember the specific process, and what happened before I was locked in... what happened before I was locked in..."

The puppet slowly stopped, as if the fragmented memories of the past entangled her thoughts. She recalled in a daze. After an unknown amount of time, she spoke softly as if in a dream: "I am Irene from Alice's cabin, one of Alice's puppets..."

She raised her head, with an uneasy expression.

"Yusheng, that's all I remember."

Yusheng frowned deeply.

At this moment, there were too many things in his mind.

From weird to conspiracy to funny - but none of them were reliable.

After all, he had no evidence or clues to solve the mystery of Irene.

Irene looked particularly uneasy. She hugged the teddy bear in her arms tightly, squeezing the stuffed toy out of shape: "Am I out of my mind?"

Yu Sheng crossed out the conspiracy in his mind.

Then he looked up at Irene and added another 10% weight to the funny direction.

"Don't think about it if you can't remember it, at least don't think about it now," he exhaled softly and shook his head at Irene, "Maybe it's because you've been locked up for too long that your memory logic is a bit confused."

"Yes, yes?" Irene nodded hesitantly, and then seemed to be relieved a little.

Yu Sheng: "..."

No, how could she be relieved after knowing that there might be something wrong with her memory and logic? Doesn't this prove that her brain is really broken? ! Did what he said just now comfort this guy? !

Yu Sheng's forehead was full of question marks, but he had to say it, Irene's reaction now really dispelled a lot of doubts that had just arisen in his mind.

To be honest, if this doll in the painting really found a perfect reason to explain her "source of modern knowledge", Yu Sheng might be more suspicious. On the contrary, when she just said "Ah?" from the bottom of her heart, Yu Sheng felt that this guy's whole personality became clear...

Thinking of this, he shook his head and walked towards the stairs leading to the second floor while casually saying: "You watch TV downstairs, I'll go upstairs to catch up on my sleep."

Irene waved her hand: "Hey, go ahead."

Yu Sheng left the restaurant and went upstairs, yawning and walking towards his bedroom with the fatigue accumulated in the night valley before.

He was indeed tired and sleepy, and he felt even more sleepy after eating and drinking. He really needed a good sleep at this time.

But when he came to the bedroom door, he still stopped involuntarily and looked up at the end of the corridor.

The door that was once blocked by an unknown force stood quietly in his sight.

The room at the end of the corridor was where he found Irene at that time.

Yu Sheng frowned, and with a thought in his mind, he walked over there.

When he arrived at the door, he noticed that the position of the door handle had changed. The direction of the door axis and the handle had been swapped, and it was replaced with the "correct position" that he finally found and could successfully open the door.

After hesitating for a moment, he reached out and grasped the door handle and turned it gently.

With a light click, the door that had been unopenable was now opened as easily as the doors of every other room.

Pushing the door open, the scene in the room came into Yu Sheng's eyes-

Simple and ordinary furnishings, a single bed and a bedside table were placed against the wall on the left side of the door, and a wardrobe, a desk and a chair were placed against the wall on the right side. The old floor looked a little faded, and the wall was covered with light blue wallpaper.

There was a window above the desk, and the bright sunlight poured in through the window, making the whole room look bright and warm.

On the wall facing the door, where Irene's oil painting was once hung, there is now a mirror.

The mirror reflected Yu Sheng's gradually shocked expression.