Alien Hotel.

Chapter 174 Breaking Through Shen Meng
After arranging the matters assigned by the director, Song Cheng returned to the office, lit a cigarette, and looked out the window in a daze.

The maze-like circular walls, which were stacked up layer upon layer and repeatedly built up, extended outside the window, extending to the endless distance. Heavy rain poured out from between the walls of the maze, flew into the sky, and washed another piece of land above the sky.

Song Cheng was in a daze for a moment before he remembered that today was Friday and the floor where his office was located would be moved to the observation deck of the "maze" area after twelve o'clock.

It’s Friday, great, worth looking forward to, and tomorrow is the pleasant weekend...overtime day.

Song Cheng smiled self-deprecatingly, pulled down the blinds in the office, turned around and walked to the desk, looking at the several files that his subordinates had just brought here.

These are all information related to the exotic "fairy tales", and some are also information related to the current members of the "Fairy Tale Organization".

Thanks to the recent activity of a certain "emerging spiritual detective organization", the focus of several departments of the Secret Service has now shifted to "Fairy Tale".

Putting the cigarette into the ashtray beside him, Song Cheng calmed down and flipped through the paper documents in front of him.

After an unknown amount of time, a burst of hurried footsteps suddenly came from the corridor outside the door, causing Song Cheng to stop flipping through the documents.

The moment the knock on the door sounded, he said, "Come in."

The door of the office was pushed open, and Ren Wenwen, who had short black hair, appeared at the door: "Captain Song, the arrest team sent to South City is back and has successfully completed the mission."

"Have you caught those two angel believers?" Song Cheng raised his eyebrows and smiled. "Are there any other big fish?"

"It seems... not," Ren Wenwen shook her head. "The arrest team has been there for a few days. The two believers seem to be acting alone, or they are standard 'disconnected members'. Their superiors temporarily cut off the line after assigning the task. Do you want to go over and take a look?"

"...Okay, I'll be right there."

……

In the bedroom, Yu Sheng fell into a deep sleep.

An adventure in the Black Forest and a fierce battle with Grandma Wolf consumed too much of his energy. Although he was supported by some inexplicable excitement and did not feel very sleepy, he had just returned to the bedroom and lay on the bed for less than two minutes before he fell asleep in a sudden and irresistible sleepiness.

In a daze, he felt a rustling noise beside him. It might be the puppet who was also planning to take a nap. He also heard barefoot footsteps in the corridor. It should be Hu Li who was returning to the room.

Then he heard the hollow sound of wind. The wind blew through the forest, rolling the lush branches and leaves, and passed through the towering ancient trees and the dry fallen trunks, whistling hollowly, and there seemed to be a faint baby crying in between.

Yu Sheng suddenly opened his eyes.

He saw that he was lying in darkness, and the surroundings were chaotic as if covered by an extremely thick curtain. There seemed to be something behind the curtain, but he could not see it clearly. In the darkness in front of him, he made out a tall and hazy shadow.

The shadow was wearing an old hunting suit and a dark-colored hood. Under the hood was nothing, with no body.

But Yu Sheng could clearly feel that there was a gaze in the void under the hood, quietly falling on him.

He suddenly woke up with a start, stood up from the darkness, and stared at the figure in hunting clothes.

At the same time, Yu Sheng quickly glanced around with the corner of his eye, judging the situation in front of him.

Am I back in the Black Forest again? It doesn’t seem like it… There is no such scene in the Black Forest. This heavy curtain is more like my dream… But just now I seemed to hear the hollow wind blowing through the forest again, which is very similar to the feeling in the Black Forest… And there is another sound in the wind, is that the cry of a baby?
Is this my dream? Is this the Black Forest? Or... is my "dream" connected to some weird thing again?
Yu Sheng quickly calmed himself down, and after realizing that he couldn't determine what was going on here for the time being, he focused his attention on the illusory figure in front of him.

The other party didn't move, and didn't seem to have any intention of suddenly raising his shotgun to shoot him.

"Hello," Yu Sheng said tentatively, greeting the other party, "Should I call you 'Hunter'?"

The figure didn't react.

"You must be it," Yu Sheng felt a little awkward, but he could only continue to talk to the other party, "We met in the Black Forest, twice - you even shot me the second time. Of course, I didn't care much about it. You must have your reasons for doing so, right... Hey, buddy, can you give me a response? You're embarrassing me."

The "Hunter" still didn't respond, as if it was just an illusory projection that somehow appeared in this dark space that looked like a dream. Yu Sheng frowned tightly, and he stepped forward cautiously, observing the other party's reaction, and then carefully circled around the other party.

"You can't speak?" Yu Sheng asked curiously.

He still didn't get a response.

After a stalemate for a while, Yu Sheng finally gritted his teeth and reached out to the hunting suit floating in the air.

He just wanted to touch the other person to see how the hunter would react, but the next second, he found that his fingers easily penetrated the clothes.

Yu Sheng was startled for a moment, then saw that the "hunter" was still standing there stupidly. He felt relieved and became a little bolder, stretching his hand forward.

He felt a slight obstruction, which was the real and illusory resistance produced when his fingers penetrated the "fabric", and then he felt a slight coldness, as if he touched a piece of air that was three or four degrees lower than the surrounding environment, but other than that, there was no special feeling.

Yu Sheng stood beside the "hunter" and put one of his arms completely inside the hunting suit, and then suddenly frowned.

Inadvertently, part of his arm that was inserted into the hunting suit overlapped with the sleeve of the suit - this scene was as if he was "wearing" the sleeve.

The next second, he saw that the sleeve, which had been floating in the air like a phantom and motionless from beginning to end, suddenly moved, moving with the movement of his arm. Although the amplitude was small, it did not escape his eyes.

I am “putting on” this dress myself!
The associations and realizations that arose in an instant seemed to impact this dark and chaotic "dream". Yu Sheng suddenly felt a violent shaking coming from all directions, and in this shaking, he found that he had withdrawn his arms without knowing when - he saw the heavy "curtain" around him collapsing, the dark space began to disintegrate, and the empty and invisible "hunter" in front of him suddenly moved, and he retreated with stiff and strange steps, and in almost the blink of an eye, only an illusory shadow was left.

Yu Sheng subconsciously stretched out his hand, trying to stop this strange "hunter", but just as he raised his arm, he suddenly heard a familiar voice in his ear -

"Uncle, what are you doing?"

Everything in front of him disappeared with a loud bang. Yu Sheng was in a trance for only a moment, and then he found himself standing in an endless, gloomy wilderness. The chaotic gray sky covered the wilderness, and nameless wild grass covered the ground. A familiar hill stood quietly in the distance. The breeze blew across the wilderness, and the wild grass rippled.

A little girl who looked only five or six years old was standing beside him, looking up at him curiously and blinking her eyes.

Yu Sheng’s mind was still immersed in the encounter with the “hunter” just now, and the scene where he almost “put on” the hunting suit. He didn’t wake up at this moment, and stood there for two or three seconds before he suddenly reacted: “Xiaoxiao?!”

"Hello, uncle!" Xiaoxiao suddenly laughed and greeted Yu Sheng happily.

"Um, hello... no, why are you here?!" Yu Sheng looked at the little girl in front of him in confusion. As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately looked up and looked around, but he didn't see Little Red Riding Hood. "Are you alone?"

"I don't know either," Xiaoxiao tilted her head in confusion, "I was taking a nap."

"Nap?"

"Well, Teacher Su took us to take a nap. We have to sleep at noon, otherwise we will feel sleepy in the afternoon," Xiaoxiao said, "I fell asleep, and then I dreamed that a big bad wolf was chasing me, and I ran and ran, and then I couldn't run anymore, so I fell down... and fell here. Then after a while, I saw you came here too, but you seemed to be in a daze."

The little girl's speech was a little disorganized, but the basic logic and events were complete. Yu Sheng immediately understood what she was saying, but his expression was even more confused than before.

Xiaoxiao dreamed of the "Big Bad Wolf". This was undoubtedly the influence of the "fairy tale" on her. She must have fallen into the dark forest in her sleep and was discovered by the wolf. But she said that she fell while running... and fell into this wasteland? What happened?
Yu Sheng looked up and around. Of course he knew where he was. This was still his strange "dream" - but after experiencing something wrong several times in a row, he had vaguely realized what was going on.

Is this place...really a "dream"?

Yu Sheng recalled the last time he saw Little Red Riding Hood here. He also remembered that Little Red Riding Hood was still in this wilderness after he "woke up" from here. If the teacher hadn't found her sleeping in class and woke her up with chalk, Little Red Riding Hood would have continued to stay here. And this time, Xiao Xiao had already arrived in this wilderness before he entered here...

Various clues indicate that this wilderness is not a "dream" at all.

This is a "place", a consciousness space, or something else. It has always existed, but when you dream... there is a high chance that you can come here.

(End of this chapter)