Forest's Temptation
The squirrel looked somewhat shaken. The little rodent stood frozen on the railing as if petrified, its beady black eyes fixed on Yu Sheng, without moving for a long while.
To be honest, being stared at by a talking squirrel felt rather eerie.
Yu Sheng couldn't help feeling curious. What... exactly was this squirrel's background?
If this Black Forest was the "Fairy Tale Otherworld" that Little Red Riding Hood had mentioned—the one that had cursed her—then was this squirrel an entity generated by this Otherworld? An entity with such rich emotions and reasoning ability? Were those wolves entities of the Otherworld too? Could entities with completely opposing positions appear within the same Otherworld?
Yu Sheng felt that his understanding of the Otherworld was still far too shallow.
"Strange, strange." The squirrel stopped staring blankly and began pacing along the railing, its large tail sweeping restlessly back and forth. "This has never happened before! This has never happened before! Only Little Red Riding Hood can come here. I've never heard of anything about 'friends'... This is too strange. Something unprecedented has happened in the forest! Something's going to happen. I just feel that something's going to happen... How did you get in? How exactly did you get in?"
The squirrel suddenly leaped onto Yu Sheng's arm and clutched his sleeve with its claws. It looked so anxious that it was nearly frantic, repeating the question, "How exactly did you get in?" over and over.
"...I don't know either." Yu Sheng shook his head.
He didn't tell the squirrel the truth. After realizing that this seemingly rational and friendly squirrel might essentially be nothing more than an "entity" generated by the Black Forest, he had no choice but to remain somewhat wary of it as well.
After all, he still