Operation Red Book

"It looks like you've woken up."

Moriarty looked at the girl's smiling young face and said with a forced smile.

Bai Xue did not respond to him. She knelt in front of the stream and wet her hands with the water.

She slowly combed her long ebony black hair, and her lips were as red as blood under the starlight.

Joshua nervously lifted the corner of his clothes, and Jacob stopped talking and swallowed several mouthfuls of saliva.

"Snow White! Snow White! I made a wreath for you! Do you like it?"

Thomas didn't notice the tense atmosphere by the river at all. He held the red and white wreath in both hands, and his happy smile was as bright as the sun.

Bai Xue paused, then moved her black hair on one side to the other side, and her shiny black eyes also moved along her long neck.

"How beautiful! Thank you so much! No one has ever been so kind to me..."

It was still Disney's singing voice. Snow White looked harmless at this moment, but her pale face and sinister smile seemed wrong.

She stretched out her porcelain-like hand toward Thomas, only ten inches away from touching his neck.

"Thomas! Don't go near her!"

Jacob shouted nervously, and Thomas stopped immediately upon hearing that. He was only one step away from Bai Xue.

"What's wrong with her?"

Alexander moved slowly behind Thomas with a gloomy face. Perhaps he realized something, but he looked at Snow White with great vigilance.

"I do not know either……"

Bai Xue tilted her head and blinked her innocent big eyes again and again.

She slowly withdrew her hand and gently placed it on her hair, slowly and gently wrapping it around strand by strand.

"I passed out until the breeze from the other side of the creek blew on my face, telling me it was time to wake up... I went to the river to wipe the dust off my face, not knowing what was going on here."

She turned her head to Moriarty and the other two and narrowed her eyes: "But I heard them say one word...KILL..."

"You guys are plotting to kill Snow White?"

Thomas shouted in disbelief, not knowing whether he was really stupid or just pretending to be stupid.

"Why did you three take so long to clean the wound? And you were still mumbling something..."

"We are checking the intelligence!" Jacob retorted angrily.

He wanted to stand up, but he just staggered. However, this did not stop him from pointing his straight index finger at the white snow in front of him.

"She's the one who's going to kill us!"

"Impossible!" Thomas said firmly.

"She's Snow White! Snow White! Snow White from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs!"

Snow White straightened her neck and shook her head flexibly. She stared at Jacob with complacency and pride, and said coquettishly, "That's right."

"Is that correct?"

Joshua, who was closest to Bai Xue, stood up and spoke nervously and anxiously.

"That's right... She is Snow White, but she is not the Snow White in the fairy tale we are familiar with."

"Why do you say that!" Thomas became more anxious.

"Because the name of this play is not Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In this play, Snow White is the seventh dwarf!"

Joshua opened his lightsaber with a "snap" and blue-purple electric light poured out like lightning.

Snow White's beautiful and mysterious face was illuminated again, but she seemed not afraid at all, just drooping one corner of her mouth.

Thomas froze in place, breathing heavily, as if he would roll his eyes and faint in the next moment.

"Do you understand what you are saying?" Alexander stared at Joshua and said slowly.

"I think he understands, guys."

Moriarty took over the conversation. He didn't say much, but turned his head to Bai Xue.

"I think you understand better because you are the one who led all this, right?"

Bai Xue did not answer. She looked at Joshua and the other two without any courtesy. Her dark eyes illuminated by the lightning flashed with thick dissatisfaction and anger.

"Actually, I don't quite understand either..." Jacob suddenly interrupted.

"Our conversation just now didn't touch on this, did it? Do you two smart people have some kind of telepathy?"

"Mr. Jacob, the information you just provided is very useful. It just explains why this forest gives people such an uncomfortable feeling."

Joshua said slowly, always alert to Shirayuki who was pointed at the tip of his lightsaber.

"Snow White, you said the forest was divided into two parts. The river is the dividing line between the southern part of the forest and the northern part of the forest."

"The southern part of the forest is close to the human tribe. Through the southern forest is the human kingdom. On the contrary, the northern part of the forest is inhabited by all kinds of creatures, including animals, plants, elves, witches, orcs, and dwarves..."

"You told us yourself that the end we are at is close to the human kingdom, which is the southern part of the forest."

"For humans, the further north you go, the more dangerous it becomes. The roads are steep, the mountains are rugged, and you'll encounter all kinds of evil creatures..."

"But for non-humans, the northern part of the forest is their base camp. They are not afraid of danger. They are the danger. They thrive in the northern forest. They catch owls and kill moles when they come across them..."

"Of course, if you are lucky enough to meet five humans, that would be the perfect treat. You won't let them go easily..."

Joshua shook the tip of his lightsaber, his eyes sharp and wary.

"Jacob explored the south of the forest. Unfortunately, the other side of the mountain was not a human kingdom, but a canyon filled with bones."

"The pile of bones that has formed into a hill must be the forest dwellers you killed... No matter in the south or the north, you have killed all the creatures in the forest..."

"Yes, I saw it with my own eyes! There are no humans here, let alone any kingdom!" Jacob shouted.

"No, there is a kingdom, and it's a human kingdom." Moriarty shrugged, "Otherwise why do you think Snow White is a princess."

"What's the situation?"

“Because this is not the southern part of the forest, but the northern part of the forest,” Joshua replied.

"We were in the northern part of the forest from the beginning. The other side of the river is the southern part of the forest..."

"Over there is the real human kingdom."

Thomas and Alexander looked out into the distance, but they could see nothing except the tall, dark treetops.

"Then, then what do you mean when you say Snow White is not Snow White, but the seventh dwarf?" Thomas asked with a grim face.

"Since Joshua said this is the northern part of the forest, then the dwarfs we are looking for are in this forest... In fact, we have already encountered them."

Moriarty folded his arms, and he had long since returned to his calm, self-controlled, intelligent and wise self.

"The tiger, the wild dog, the monkey we encountered, the black bear you encountered, the python and crocodile Jacob encountered, that adds up to exactly six, isn't it?"

"You mean those six beasts are dwarfs? That's ridiculous!" Thomas exclaimed.

"First of all, there can't be only these six beasts in this forest, unless they transformed specifically to kill us."

"Secondly, think about wild dogs pretending to be dead and then killing others, monkeys understanding human language, black bears setting traps, crocodiles lurking underwater... Wild animals living in the deep forest for a long time can't do this."

"Either they are beasts transformed by the dwarves, or they are in league with the humans who are controlling everything in the dark."

"And I tend to think it's both..." Moriarty said, showing his sword and looking at it with a sharp look in his eyes.

"To be fair, in order to ensure the implementation of the plan, the mastermind behind the scenes must be among the prey and tip off other hunters. This is what we often call an undercover agent."

"And you, my dear Snow White, you are the seventh dwarf we have met, that is, the seventh beast."

Moriarty slowly approached and pointed his sword at Snow White's chest.

"And what kind of beast are you? Please allow me to make a judgment on your appearance..."

"Skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, hair as black as ebony...Ah! We have a friend named Walter who is like that too."

"He's a vampire who can transform into a giant bat... I guess you are the same..."