This dark and quiet theater should be the "starting point" of Nissa's entire spiritual world. Just like in Jiutian's spiritual world, every time someone enters, they will appear from the lake pavilion under the moon.
Looking at those "puppet actors" who looked like props in a haunted house, Jiutian began to observe them with great interest.
It took me a while to figure out the roles of these puppets.
The girl with the red hood is Little Red Riding Hood, the big bad wolf hugged by the girl has a split mouth to the base of the ear, and the person struggling on the bed is the grandmother who is about to be eaten by the two;
The seven dolls, only half the normal height, are staggering crazily, leaning back and forth. The princess lying on the bed has a distorted and painful expression, and the witch and the prince are embracing each other intimately beside the bed;
The brother and sister beat each other, biting each other's flesh and blood in their mouths. They were fighting for their lives to occupy the house made entirely of candy in front of them;
Thirteen witches looked at the newly born baby girl in front of them and placed the most vicious curse on her, making her sleep forever and fall into the most terrifying dream forever;
The naughty little princess was playing in the garden and met a frog that could speak human language. She clapped her hands happily, dismembered it and ordered the royal chef to cook...
"Little Red Riding Hood", "Snow White", "Candy House", "Sleeping Beauty", "The Frog Prince"...
these are……
""Grimm's Fairy Tales."" Jiutian took a deep breath.
Yes, he has recognized these well-known stories, those classics that have been adapted and remade countless times and have accompanied generations of children through their childhoods.
These folk fairy tales and legends collected and compiled by the German writers Grimm Brothers are full of childishness, warmth, and educational significance. It is said that "Grimm's Fairy Tales" is second only to the "Bible" in sales worldwide, and even those images are
Jiutian, who has grown up, can also identify it.
The puppets in this theater at the moment are not only those images, but also "The Monster in the Glass Bottle", "The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats", etc... But they are all without exception, and the scenes they show are all related to
The warmth and touchingness of the original work are completely different, but full of distortion and evil.
"It's just a dark version." Jiutian said to himself. If these scenes are seen by children, it will probably leave a lifelong shadow on them, right?
The puppets with strange expressions and exaggerated movements performed silent plays, and the plots they performed were completely contrary to the original works, and they looked like projections of dark hearts.
Why is there such a thing at the starting point of Nissa's spiritual world? Could it be said that she had already chosen these when she was building this place?
This is the first time that Jiutian has officially entered the spiritual world of a spiritual evolver, and it is also the first time that he has seen the embodiment of other people's hearts, which can't help but feel a little weird.
The light in his hand became brighter again. Jiutian looked around and relied on the light to finally see the exit of the theater in the corner.
Although there is a time difference between the spiritual world and the real world due to the speed of thinking, we still have to seize the time to find Nissa's soul.
After walking out of the theater along the exit, some other light finally came into Jiutian's eyes.
Dim colored lights decorate the temporary place built with sheds, and you can see that there is a vague cage placed inside the circular shed.
The soil underfoot is moist, and some ancient carriages are scattered around randomly.
"Is this a circus?" Jiutian looked around curiously.
There is rarely a concept of circus in China. He has only seen it in movies and TV shows when he was a child. Although Jiutian doesn't like places that are too noisy, he is still quite curious about the circus.
In every sense, this place was in line with Jiutian's imagination of the circus, but what he didn't expect was that Nissa would actually use this kind of place as a filler for the spiritual world.
The theater where dark fairy tales are played, the empty circus... it's really interesting.
After walking in this quiet spiritual world for a long time, I began to explore the outside world.
The area of the circus is not large, about the same as Jiutian's Huxin Pavilion plus the lawn. Looking out from here, you can clearly see a dense forest, which is probably the second level of the spiritual world.
Nissa's soul may be hidden anywhere, so Jiutian walked around and carefully sensed all the strange places in this world.
Different spiritual power evolvers have very different ways of shaping their spiritual space. Some have habits that reveal scenes and things that have a greater impact on them, while others hide them. Feeling this space, Jiutian is also very interested in Qingteng who is about to break through.
I have some ideas on how to shape the spiritual world.
Before he knew it, Jiutian had walked a full circle around this circus.
"Not here." Jiutian frowned, Nissa's soul was hidden really well.
Jiutian didn't dare to directly spread his mental power in this space. This would easily stimulate Nisha's chaotic consciousness in the outside world. If she instinctively wanted to die together, it would be difficult to handle.
"Keep looking." Jiutian wandered all the way to the edge of the second layer of dense forest in the spiritual world.
Thick fog spread in the woods, making it difficult to see what was going on inside, but Jiutian didn't feel any danger, so he stepped in without hesitation.
Tall trees stand all around, there is no place that can be called a "road", and it looks eerie.
After walking in the woods for a long time, I felt the dense overlapping leaves under my feet, and suddenly I looked up and looked ahead.
Something finally changed in this quiet place, and a hunched black shadow appeared in the thick fog.
"Ah... who can take pity on me..."
Withered hands poked out from the fog, grabbing randomly, and were about to press down on Jiutian.
Jiutian frowned and turned sideways to avoid the man's grasp.
An old woman fell out of the fog and fell to the ground.
"Oh, kind-hearted passerby, please buy a box of matches..." The old woman cried out in pain, and after a while, she tremblingly took out a box of matches from the basket she was carrying.
, the dry skin is covered with wrinkles.
"Winter is coming, please buy a box of matches... Otherwise, I will starve to death." The old woman began to sob, looking extremely pitiful.
But Jiutian felt a little creepy when he saw this scene.
here we go again.
This is another story, "The Little Match Girl" from "Andersen's Fairy Tales".
It was one of the few tragedies in fairy tales. The little girl finally lit all the matches, saw her grandma and the big meal in the light of the fire, and then froze to death in the wind and snow.
But why is there an old woman in front of me?
Although it looked very pitiful, Jiutian still didn't step forward to take the box of matches. He always felt that something was wrong.
Ignoring the old woman's request with some indifference, Jiutian continued to walk forward.
This time, he hadn't walked a few steps when a painful sound suddenly came from under his feet.
"Ah! It hurts me so much!"
"Huh?" Jiutian felt the squirming under his feet and immediately moved his feet away.
A girl who was only the size of a thumb was covered in blood and flesh, her bones were broken, and her limbs were all limp.
"Ah, I'm so miserable, I'm in so much pain, why are you stepping on me, why!" the girl roared ferociously.
"I'm in so much pain! I'm going to kill you! Kill you!" The girl's face was distorted and her voice was hoarse. She kept crawling in the direction of Jiutian, dragging a bloodstain as wide as her thumb on the ground.
"Thumbelina"?
Jiutian felt a little confused. How could he step on her?
But his instinct told him that this Thumbelina also had a problem, so Jiutian ignored her and left on his own, leaving only the sound of painful screams behind him.
This time Jiutian quickened his pace. The old woman's moans and Thumbelina's screams made him feel extremely uncomfortable.
But something strange soon happened again. A pungent fish smell not far ahead spread into Jiutian's nose unimpeded. The stench caused by the illusory mental power made him dizzy.
A disemboweled mermaid lay beside a tree with lifeless eyes. It could be seen from her stiff limbs that she had been dead for a long time.
Flies landed on her cloudy eyeballs and began to rub her hands. Maggots emerged from her internal organs. The smell of rotten fish could make people faint.
"The Daughter of the Sea".
Jiutian passed her and continued walking forward.
The fog around him became thicker and thicker, and as expected, he discovered more dark fairy tale scenes along the way, such as an extremely ugly and huge bird that was weeping and pecking at its own body alive.
This is "The Ugly Duckling".
What's going on? After "Grimm's Fairy Tales", "Andersen's Fairy Tales" will begin? What will be next? "One Thousand and One Nights"?
These bloody and dark scenes made Jiutian feel very uncomfortable. He didn't know whether this place was originally like this or whether it was influenced by the secret society.
The whole world seems to be an extremely absurd drama.
Jiutian traveled through the entire jungle until he reached the edge of the world.
Not far away was the border of chaos filled with mental power fragments, Jiutian frowned.
No more, it ends here.
He traveled through this illusory space, but found no trace of Nissa's soul.
How is this possible? Could it be that something went wrong? Or maybe I didn't look carefully enough?
I thought about the possibilities for a long time.
There is chaos in front of you, and behind you is a jungle full of dark fairy tale scenes. Unless you turn around and continue looking in other directions, the road will be cut off.
That's it? Is this all she has in her spiritual world? A place made up of a bunch of dark fairy tales?
Jiutian felt that his thoughts were a little confused.
If this is really the case, should we say it is unexpectedly weird or unexpectedly simple?
He turned back and looked at the thick forest behind him.
No, that's not right, there must be something I didn't notice.
Just like when I build my spiritual space, I don't construct those scenes aimlessly. Every permanent element has a meaning. These dark fairy tales of Nissa must also have some meaning, and that is the key.
What could it be? When was the fairy tale created? Characters? Scenes? Plot?