After going back and forth between the three fairy tales a few times, Lin Sanjiu finally sighed and lay down on a wooden table.
The wooden table was very hard. Even though Emma, who was Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother, covered her with a thin cushion, Lin Sanjiu could still feel the hard and uneven surface of the wooden table.
Compared with Lilah, Emma's life was very hard indeed. There was only one bedroom and guest room in the entire wooden house. There wasn't even an extra bed. The only thing that was worth a bit of money was a mirror that was said to be a gift from the king. In the old days, due to the lack of technology, a transparent mirror that could clearly reflect a person was an extremely rare treasure.
Under the dim reflection of the mirror, Lin Sanjiu tossed and turned a few times. She listened to the grandmother and granddaughter whispering to each other. The anxiety in her heart was like a fire that burned away all her drowsiness.
It was already nighttime in all three places.
After Lila pulled Lin Sanjiu's hand and asked her to sleep on the same bed, Cinderella's stepmother sent Lin Sanjiu to the latter's house to share a haystack with Cinderella. When Lin Sanjiu opened her eyes in Emma's wooden house, she had already lost all sense of time.
As the reference points were constantly changing, Lin Sanjiu couldn't even tell how long she had been here.
Did Xueqin and the others see the letter she left behind? Was the way out that Gong Daoyi told her really reliable? And most importantly … how could she leave this pocket dimension?
Up until now, even though she had appeared, the three fairy tales were still progressing smoothly. If there was anything different, it would probably be that Little Red Riding Hood had not met the wolf yet …
"Could it be that this is the breakthrough point?
But I don't even know the goal of this pocket dimension … "Lin Sanjiu sighed heavily.
The house was silent for a moment because of this sigh. Then, Little Red Riding Hood's soft voice rang out in the dark, "Is there something bothering you?"
"No, I'm fine," Lin Sanjiu replied quickly. Lin Sanjiu quickly replied. She could feel Emma's eyes staring at her in the dark. "I just need to get to a place quickly, so I'm a little anxious …"
Just now, when everyone was sharing the cake, Emma had been asking Lin Sanjiu some questions in a roundabout manner. Perhaps it was because of her complicated past experiences, but she was very guarded. She was very different from her granddaughter. Even though Emma couldn't find anything wrong with Lin Sanjiu's words, she still chose to sleep on the side closest to Lin Sanjiu and placed Little Red Riding Hood on the other side of the bed.
They whispered a few words to each other. It was unknown when it started, but the sound of rainwater hitting the window lattice was gradually added to the conversation. Looking out the window, he saw that the pattering rain was getting faster and fiercer, drenching the shabby house.
Lin Sanjiu couldn't help thinking about what Little Red Riding Hood had said, "There are no more guests." She asked subconsciously, Where are you … uh, dancing here? It looks like the rain is quite heavy today. "
Suddenly, there was a loud smack in the dark. Then, Little Red Riding Hood cried out in pain. It seemed that Little Red Riding Hood had been hit by her grandmother.
"This child, she always spouts nonsense …" Emma's voice sounded a little embarrassed, "That was many years ago. Since my daughter doesn't talk to me anymore, I quit. Now, I only do some handicrafts at home to earn some money."
She probably saw that the other party was a woman. She didn't show any signs of looking down on her, so Emma said a little more.
"However, ever since I stopped dancing, my daughter and I slowly got back in touch … You see, when she heard that I wasn't feeling well, she asked Little Red Riding Hood to send me a cake." Emma sounded a little gratified.
An idea came to Lin Sanjiu's mind. Just when she wanted to ask them if they had seen other "travelers from afar" before, she was interrupted by a sudden barking from outside the house. It sounded like a few large dogs were barking at the top of their lungs. The barking came one after another, and they were getting closer and closer to the house. In the blink of an eye, they were already at the door.
The three people in the room sat up with a 'bang'. They rushed to the window in bewilderment.
Through the heavy curtain of rain, the three of them could see the shadows of a few dogs outside. They were about half the height of a human, and they were barking crazily at the wooden house.
Little Red Riding Hood was the first to feel scared. She grabbed Lin Sanjiu with her cold hand and looked at her grandmother. She sounded like she was about to cry, "Whose dog is this? What are they doing? Why are they so scary? "
Emma's face also turned a little pale, "Isn't this Evey's dog?"
From what Emma said, this person called Evey seemed to be one of the hunters who lived not far away from the house.
Lin Sanjiu wouldn't be too concerned even if there were dog demons outside, let alone a dog. Just when she was about to turn around to open the door and was about to say "I'll go and chase them away", she was interrupted by a man's angry roar.
"Emma! Are you still alive? "
Emma was stunned. Even though she was a little confused by the question, she still answered loudly, "Link, I'm here." As she said that, she reached out to open the door.
Unexpectedly, the moment she opened the wooden door a crack, someone slammed the door shut from the outside.
Emma's hand froze in mid-air. She stared at the wooden door with an ugly expression on her face.
"Are you guys kidding me?" She took a deep breath and shouted at the door in a heavy tone, "My Little Red Riding Hood is here today. Don't scare her. Chase the dogs away!"
When her words reached the outside of the house, the man who spoke just now suddenly stopped talking. Only the barking that got louder and louder could be heard. It was as if the house was going to collapse. Wave after wave of barking rushed into Lin Sanjiu's eardrums.
After a few seconds, another man's voice asked, "Are there only the two of you in the house?"
Lin Sanjiu was stunned. She slowly turned her head and met Emma's long and narrow eyes.
"There is another guest." Emma stared out of the window. Lin Sanjiu saw that Emma's knuckles had turned white. "Why do you ask this?"
"Ivy! Richard! Take the dogs and go into the yard! "
The man called Lynk shouted anxiously before turning his gaze back to the wooden hut.
"I noticed something was wrong just now, so I called Ivy and Richard over …"
"The rain is so heavy now, but our hunting dogs are still so manic. This means that my guess is right."
"Among the people in your house, there is a werewolf." (To be continued.)
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