Chapter 3233

As everything around Su Xiao became blurry, while he was gradually entering a dream, he began to hear chaotic babbling sounds.

"Beast, the beast in my heart."

"You all go to die, hahaha, there is only despair left in this world."

"Nightmare, endless, nightmare..."

Accompanied by these babbling sounds, everything around became clear. Su Xiao opened his eyes and sat up from the bed.

He was still in Mayor Quiller's house, still on the bed in the bedroom. The difference was that Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha had disappeared.

Su Xiao determined that he was currently in the nightmare. The one entering the dream now should be his spiritual body. Thinking of this, he pressed one hand on the blade of the cruel saw blade beside him. A stinging pain came from his palm, and blood flowed down the ferocious saw blade on the knife. This feeling was too real.

Su Xiao looked at his hand and the prompt that appeared after being injured. He seemed... not just as simple as his spiritual body entering the nightmare, but if he said his physical body entered here, it was also wrong.

Here, Su Xiao could open the storage space, but couldn't take items out of it.

Although Su Xiao didn't know whether his body, will, and soul all entered the nightmare, or only his consciousness and soul entered Nightmare · Yongwang Town, no matter which method he used to enter, he had to be careful at all times. In such a place, there was a high probability that there were near-unsolvable enemies.

After getting out of bed, Su Xiao carried the cruel saw blade on his back and walked downstairs. A burnt smell drifted into his nostrils, coming from upstairs. After a brief pause, he walked downstairs.

The bloodstains on the wall in front of the porch had disappeared. Su Xiao pushed open the door and found that Yongwang Town here was also at night. The difference was that the full moon in the sky faintly emitted red, eerie and strange.

Su Xiao was just about to walk onto the street when he saw a huge black shadow walking over. This black shadow was a quadruped animal. When walking on the street, it almost squeezed the street full. Some of the buildings on both sides were squeezed until they were shriveled. While cracks appeared on the buildings, purple-black light particles appeared in the cracks. After a while, the shriveled buildings recovered.

The black shadow walking on the street was a black pig, a giant black pig with tusks and dark brown pig skin all over its body.

Seeming to notice Su Xiao, this giant black pig stopped in place. After letting out a roar that could almost deafen people, the pig brother rushed toward the direction where Su Xiao was.

Su Xiao closed the door with a bang and retreated quickly.

Boom!

A muffled sound came from the front. Su Xiao saw that the door and wall in front of him were both bumped until they bulged. The purple-black brilliance in the cracks became brighter as the bulge became larger.

Su Xiao determined that the trouble here could not be solved by force alone. Judging from the strength of this pig brother, it was not only amazing in terms of strength but also absolutely thick-skinned to the point of making people want to vomit.

Except for this pig brother, within a few hundred meters around, Su Xiao also faintly felt that there were other "stronger" existences. The strength of these enemies was not because of themselves, but because this was Yongwang Town in a nightmare.

The reason why Su Xiao's own combat power didn't increase and the gain from equipment disappeared was because he didn't enter here with his main body. Plus, he was very clear-headed. As the price for staying clear-headed in the nightmare, his sanity value was decreasing at a rate of 10 points per minute.

The good news was that although the bonuses of other equipment disappeared, the bonus of the Sun Church set was still there. This was not surprising. The Sun Church set should have characteristics aimed at this aspect.

With Su Xiao's current sanity value, he could stay in the nightmare world for at most 48 minutes. Any longer would lead to spiritual beastification. And during the 48 minutes of staying, he couldn't be attacked by the enemies here, otherwise, his sanity value would also decrease.

Simply put, here, sanity value is equivalent to life value in the outside world. When sanity value returns to zero, Su Xiao won't die in the nightmare world; he will wake up in reality and start spiritual beastification.

Determining this, Su Xiao was very confused in his heart. The residents in the town, as soon as night falls, enter Nightmare · Yongwang Town. Why didn't they undergo spiritual beastification? Only Mayor Quiller was unlucky?

Obviously not. Mayor Quiller, as an ordinary person, still had a trace of sanity left after entering the third stage of beastification. For ordinary people, Mayor Quiller was a respectable person.

It was very likely that it was Mayor Quiller who issued the commission to the Sun Church, otherwise the other party wouldn't have said before that he was grateful that Su Xiao could come here on behalf of the Sun Church.

Su Xiao thought that, in fact, from beginning to end, Mayor Quiller had been doing his best to save this town he loved dearly. This was not Su Xiao's speculation, but a fact expressed by many pieces of evidence.

First, when he first met Mayor Quiller, the other party's actions were too abnormal. First, he opened a crack in the door, letting Su Xiao see his bloodshot eyes, and after closing the crack, he talked to Su Xiao calmly.

Facing a member of the Sun Church, such abnormality = looking for death. Mayor Quiller was doing his best to look for death. His rational side and his beast side were repelling each other in his body every moment.

This led to the fact that Mayor Quiller couldn't do much. He even found it difficult to describe everything he knew, so he chose the simplest way, which was to let his beast side die. Perhaps before that, his rational side could occupy the upper hand for a moment.

The facts were not as Mayor Quiller thought. He overestimated himself a bit, which made the information he could say very limited. Please don't have too high expectations for this mayor who was middle-aged and moving toward old age. He was just an ordinary person, an ordinary person struggling in a crazy world. Being able to do this was already quite good.

All the efforts Mayor Quiller made had some returns now. Su Xiao successfully entered Nightmare · Yongwang Town based on the clues he left before his death.

Why did only Mayor Quiller undergo spiritual beastification? Su Xiao deduced that it was because Mayor Quiller woke up in the nightmare, which was the same state as his current state, maintaining sobriety through the slipping of sanity value.

Mayor Quiller's sanity value ran out in the nightmare, so he underwent spiritual beastification in reality. As for other townspeople, they indulged their desires in the nightmare and did whatever they wanted.

Precisely because they were not sober, how could there be a slipping of sanity value? This was also the reason why the town residents' sanity value didn't slip after entering Nightmare · Yongwang Town. There is a saying that as long as I am useless enough, no one can use me. That's probably the truth.

Zi la, zi~

A sound like scraping glass appeared in Su Xiao's ears. At the same time as this sound appeared, he discovered that his sanity value was no longer slipping. As a price, the strange noise in his ears became clearer.

Su Xiao ignored this sound as much as possible. Gradually, the strange noise in his ears went away and finally disappeared. His sanity value began to slip again by about 10 points per minute. This was a good thing. The town residents could all hear that kind of strange noise, which was also the only "remnant" of the nightmare that they remembered after waking up.

That's right, this is a puzzle-solving event. Unfortunately, there was no professional like the Umbrella Brother this time. Su Xiao could only do it himself.

In front of the porch, Su Xiao recalled the burnt smell drifting from upstairs just now. He turned and walked upstairs. There was a pig brother on the street. Before finding a way to break the situation, it was very unwise to fight these monsters head-on.

Going up to the third floor, Su Xiao found that it was very spacious here, completely different from the scene on the third floor in reality.

By the wall, there was a bar table embedded in the wall. A withered corpse was sitting in front of the bar table, as if it had been sitting here for many years, completely air-dried.

From the general characteristics of this withered corpse, Su Xiao guessed that this was Mayor Quiller. Of course, it was just a guess. The appearance of this withered corpse was too abstract.

Su Xiao looked at the test bench and saw many handwritings on it. The content was:

"When you see these, you have already entered the nightmare. Believer of the Sun Church, thank you for being able to come here. Regarding the commission, please don't take your anger out on the residents of Yongwang Town. Everything is my responsibility. I have been unable to issue a clear commission with complete sanity, but you will accept this commission. In my impression, you are lunatics, and also the only hope in the most desperate times.

This is in a nightmare. Cherish every minute and every second here. This is exchanged with your mind and rationality. Don't be obsessed with the fake beauty here, and don't fight with the monsters here. As an extraordinary being, you are very powerful, but fighting with the monsters here has no return. You cannot kill them, just as you cannot destroy the nightmare, destroy this thing that only exists in the spirit.

According to my calculations, the entire Yongwang Town can be divided into reality and nightmare. The nightmare is a projection of reality, and some things will map from the projection to reality, such as beastification.

The nightmare is clinging to us. All the residents of Yongwang Town cannot get rid of the nightmare. Even if they escape from Yongwang Town, as long as they fall asleep at night, their consciousness will return to the nightmare, and their bodies will move by themselves, walking toward Yongwang Town step by step. Many people have died in accidents because of this.

I don't have extraordinary power, I don't have a firm will. Fortunately, my pride, my son, is a cranial doctor. He used a flat needle to pierce from my eye socket into my brain, removing a small part of my brain. My son told me that this is brain... forgot, obviously, I don't have medical talent. Every time I have a small part of my brain removed, it allows my sanity, which is about to collapse, to have a moment of respite. I won't let my beloved town become a beast.

Nightmare and reality map to each other, and there must be a connection between the two. What is this connection? After my wife's research, we finally discovered that this connection is will. Will is power!

My wife, son, and daughter-in-law are all on the verge of their limits. They have already removed too much of their brains, and I am also on the verge of my limits. Everything we do is not because of the residents in the town. They have all... fallen. The nightmare binds us, and there is... nowhere to escape.

However, compared to them, we love this town more. Yongwang Town has a history of 294 years. In this desperate world, this town is my home, the home of our family. No one! Nothing can take her away from our family, even if we are burned to ashes for this. Outsider, sorry, wasted your precious time reading these, but... this is the last remnant of our family of four. People, always hope to be remembered, aren't they?

After the last family meeting, our family of four decided to enter the nightmare one last time. Nightmare and reality are connected and influence each other. Can weak things in reality become extremely powerful after being projected into the nightmare? Don't fight them in the nightmare. Find them in reality and wake them up.

This has a premise. When they are woken up in reality, in the nightmare world, there must be someone who can maintain extreme sanity to witness the monsters they project disappear. This is a kind of witnessing, a kind of cognitive erasure and determination, just like you drew a stroke on a painting.

My son and I have tried. I stared at a monster in the nightmare, and my son, at a painful price, forcibly broke away from the nightmare, found the body of the monster in reality, and killed it. The result was that the monster in the nightmare not only didn't disappear, but broke free from the shackles.

For a moment, I could feel that the monster could have been eliminated, but my sanity was not strong enough to use my cognition, my heart, and my gaze to kill it, to determine that it was dead, or that it had woken up.

In the end, I thought of a possibility: a person with a strong enough sanity enters the nightmare, lets the helper stay in reality, and both sides push forward together. The person in the nightmare guides the person in reality, which ones are monsters, and the person in reality finds the bodies of those monsters and wakes them up. This way, one can move unimpeded in the nightmare and find the source of the strange noises.

How can the people in the nightmare and reality communicate quickly? This is the last thing our family can do. The only connection between nightmare and reality is will. If will is used as a medium to write information on the ground and walls, can it map from the nightmare to reality, allowing people in reality to see it?

When doing this, I hesitated, but after our family of four woke up in the nightmare, the result was already doomed.

Did you see the three white charcoal sticks on the table? Although they are only the length of a finger, but... they are the remains of my wife, son, and daughter-in-law in the nightmare. After being burned into powder, they were pressed together. Use them to write down words in the nightmare, and they can be seen in reality. Please let them exert their value. Please."

Mayor Quiller's message was very long. Su Xiao picked up the three chalk-like objects from the table. This thing was very useful. Unfortunately, for Mayor Quiller's family, even with this thing, they couldn't destroy the monsters in the nightmare world.

For Mayor Quiller, the distance between reality and nightmare was very close. Close his eyes and fall asleep, and he could reach it. But sometimes, reality and nightmare were exceptionally far away, so far that it made this family desperate.

Mayor Quiller's family had no way, which didn't mean Su Xiao couldn't. At least he had to try whether he could destroy the monsters in the nightmare world through this method, for example, the pig brother.

Su Xiao opened the team channel and found that he couldn't communicate. The avatars of Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha were gray in the team channel.

Discovering this, he opened the team storage space and tried to put a gray pen into it, keeping two for himself. If he encountered monsters in the nightmare, he would provide clues by writing with the gray pen, and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha in reality would go and wake up or kill the monster's body.

The monsters in the nightmare can be described in one sentence: they are timid in reality, but punch hard in the nightmare.

A gray pen disappeared in Su Xiao's hand and was stored in the team storage space. It succeeded. The team channel was not very reliable, but the team space was exceptionally top-notch.

Inside the three-story building, Su Xiao thought about the positions of Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha. Xiang Bubu must not be near his body, but patrolling around. Baha must be near his body to avoid his body being attacked after he entered the nightmare. This arrangement was very reasonable. Recently, Baha's combat power was getting stronger and stronger, even moving toward the position of the second combat power in Su Xiao's team.

Su Xiao returned to the bedroom on the second floor and wrote a few words on the wall by the window.

"Team storage space."

Su Xiao began to wait. He couldn't leave the nightmare now and had to wait until tomorrow morning. As for forcibly breaking free, that would not only pay a certain price, but he wouldn't be able to enter the nightmare again tonight.

After writing the words, in less than ten seconds, the gray pen in the team storage space disappeared, and a few words appeared on the wall.

"Ba, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang is back, what to do."

This was Baha thinking that the gray pen was precious, so it made an abbreviation, meaning it was Baha, immediately let Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang go to patrol, and after that, what should the two of them do.

Seeing these words, Su Xiao's train of thought was clear, and he began to write on the wall.

A few minutes later, in the bedroom of the three-story building in reality, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha were ready to fight. Their tasks were very clear: whoever punched hard in the nightmare, the two of them would go and educate whoever.

"Xiang Bubu, I'll give you a buff to increase intelligence."

"Woof?"

In Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's confused gaze, Baha took out a can of cooling spray and sprayed it at Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's forehead. After a while, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's little eyes became full of wisdom.

PS: (Two chapters today, a total of 8000 words, continue to work hard tomorrow.)

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