Chapter 573 Trial and Intervention
As the two children fell asleep, outside the candy house, accompanied by a dark smoke, the figure of an old witch appeared silently at the door.
She was wearing a dark robe and a pointed wizard hat, with blue-gray eyes emitting evil light, a long hooked nose, and a face full of wrinkles and age spots like bark. She looked like a standard evil old witch from a fairy tale.
After a while, the dark smoke slowly dissipated, and the old witch, whose body was completely solid, stretched out her hand and pushed open the white chocolate door of the candy house.
After entering the room, she looked at the furniture that was gnawed into a mess, and a weird smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
Without staying on the first floor for a long time, she walked straight to the stairs leading to the second floor, as if she had determined the location of the two young uninvited guests.
Avis could also sense all this, and he could even hear the faint footsteps approaching outside the door.
There was almost no convenient hiding place in this bedroom. The only place to hide was under the bed, or escape from the window immediately.
He now faced two choices, either to escape immediately or to hide nearby.
Avis didn't want to gamble whether his hiding would be seen by the old witch. He had a feeling that if he let the old witch "see", it would probably trigger some unexpected changes.
But the most important thing was that he couldn't feel any breath of life from the old witch. If the two children could still be considered independent individuals, then the old witch was more like an abnormal phenomenon in a dream.
As the footsteps became clearer and clearer, Avis no longer hesitated and got under the bed directly.
The space under the bed was not high. After Avis got under it, a sweet smell of cake lingered in his nose, as if tempting him to try it.
Soon, the bedroom door opened, and a pair of feet wearing dirty pointed black leather shoes came from far to near, and finally stopped in front of the bed.
Avis held his breath slightly, and at this time, the two children on the bed were unaware of the situation and were still sleeping soundly.
The next moment, strange changes began to occur.
The indoor environment suddenly began to change, the light dimmed, and the space flowed, spun, and smeared like paint on a canvas. After finally re-freezing, it had become another room that was completely different from the previous one.
The changes in the dream did not include the several meters centered on the white cake bed, so Avis, who was hiding under the bed, also came to this new room.
There was a strange smell of magic potion in the sweet fragrance of the cake, and a strange gurgling sound appeared nearby, accompanied by the crackling and stirring sounds of firewood.
The two children on the bed were also stimulated by the change in environment and woke up with frowns.
After the initial confusion, the two children finally discovered the abnormality of the environment.
The candy house that seemed like a dream before had disappeared at some point, replaced by a dark and damp hut.
The walls were covered with strange things such as lizard tails, dried frogs, goblin ears, etc., and a huge black iron cooking pot in the center of the room sat on the flames. A figure in a black robe was facing away from them, stirring something in a cauldron with a stick.
As if hearing the sound of the two waking up, the figure stopped moving and slowly turned around. A terrifying face of an old witch came into their eyes.
"Hehehe!! Two tender and juicy children, I, the grandma, love to eat the most! Since you ate my house, then repay with your body!"
Accompanied by a laugh that sounded very evil, the old witch came over and prepared to grab the two trembling children and put them in the pot.
But at this moment, the boy seemed to suddenly burst out with courage, jumped up and hit the old witch with his body, and then dragged the girl who was so scared that she was stiff and ran out of the door.
Caught off guard, the old witch staggered, and then suddenly became furious and ran out after the two children.
But for some reason, she did not use any magic during the chase.
However, after all, the physical foundation of the professional is there, and the two children are not familiar with the terrain, so the old witch quickly caught up with the two people who were running away in panic.
But when her hand was about to touch the two children, a faint white light flashed on the two children, bounced the old witch's hand away, and teleported the two children to other rooms.
But soon, the old witch would find them again and continue the previous chase.
"If this is in a fairy tale, how should the plot develop next..."
Watching the scene of the old witch chasing the two children around the house through mental power, Avis felt extremely speechless.
He also saw some problems. There seemed to be some special mechanism in this dream. The candy house seemed to be completely taken from the best things in the two children's memories, and the old witch was the embodiment of the things they feared.
Moreover, the light of protection on the two was not infinite. As the number of times they were caught by the old witch increased, this layer of light became dimmer and dimmer.
The door of this room seemed to be unable to be opened. After being nearly caught by the old witch many times, the two finally realized that it was useless to just run away.
"This won't work, Sel. We have to find a way to get rid of her, otherwise we will definitely be caught!"
"What should we do, Gray? The door seems to be locked, and there is no window here. We can't escape."
Hiding in the kitchen cupboard, the two children began to discuss. At this moment, the protective aura on them had been completely exhausted. If they were caught again, they would face death.
"Listen, Sel, although she looks scary, she doesn't seem to be able to use magic. We can find a way to push her into the cauldron!"
The girl first thought of a way to save herself, and she began to explain her plan to the boy.
"But, Gray, she is very strong, we can't beat her."
"Then find a way to lead her to the pot, and then sneak attack her from behind!"
After a brief plan, the two children made up their minds.
Without much hesitation, the two immediately fled to the room with the cauldron before the old witch found this place.
The subsequent plot was just as the two planned. The two children set a simple trap. The boy was deliberately caught by the old witch in the room, and then the girl hiding in the closet rushed out from behind the old witch and slammed into her back.
But unfortunately, the girl's strength seemed too weak. Although the old witch's body shook, she did not fall into the boiling pot as the two expected.
Showing a hideous smile to the girl with a look of despair, the old witch reached out and grabbed the girl, and then wanted to put the two children into the pot together.
At this time, Avis, who had been waiting for a long time, finally took action.
The invisible force field enveloped the old witch's body, imprisoned her, and took the two children away from the witch's hands.
But as Avis moved, a huge sense of crisis stimulated his nerves like a thorn in his back.
It seemed that an unknown factor interfered in the scene. The rolling iron pot, the two children flying away from the witch's hands, the imprisoned old witch... everything fell into a strange state of stagnation.
Then, an unstoppable force surged from the dream itself and descended on Avis, trying to completely erase his existence.
But before this power came, Avis had already taken a bite of the cake on the bed in advance. At the same time, the effect of [Dark Side of the Moon] that appeared on him also confused this power for a moment.
The next moment, a special dream wave emanated from Avis' body.
Sensing the existence of this wave, this power swirled around Avis for a while, and finally dissipated again.
Aware of all these changes, Avis secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
He made a bold attempt, and the result was not bad.