Chapter 674: Bigger Trouble

Hearing Father Cali's shout, Ruya directly raised her hunting bow and aimed at this clergyman in deep black, complex robes with an arrow wrapped in silver-white electric light.

Unlike when she faced the coffee shop boss Bunia just now, her anger was more obvious now, without a trace of hesitation.

The priest was blaspheming, he was rebelling against the church!

Just then, a slender and powerful palm appeared in front of Ruya's hunting bow, blocking the arrow.

"You..." Ruya turned her head to look at Louis Berry, not understanding why he wanted to stop her.

Lu Mian said as steadily as usual:

"Look again."

During their conversation, Father Cali revealed a wanton and arrogant smile, turned his body, hugged the holy scripture, and walked back into Saint Cien Church step by step.

The golden dome at the top of the church and the statues and decorations on the surface of the outer wall actually showed a bit of dimness under the illumination of the crimson moonlight.

When Father Cali's figure disappeared into the open door of the church, Ruya looked at Lu Mian with a slightly heavy expression and said:

"Why?"

Lu Mian smiled:

"After discovering that this is a suspected dream, I have been thinking about a question."

Accompanying his words, screams and sharp shouts sounded in Tizamo Town and the surrounding plantations, echoing under the dark night sky.

"What question?" Ruya asked.

Lu Mian asked instead of answering:

"It is basically certain now that we are participating in the 'Dream Festival.'

"In this situation, if your attack on Father Cali succeeds, what will happen when the 'Dream Festival' ends and everyone wakes up?"

Without waiting for Ruya to answer, Lu Mian revealed a smile again and said to himself:

"If you shoot through his arm, after he wakes up, he should feel phantom pain in the corresponding position, as if suffering from arthritis, accompanied by muscle tearing;

"If you smash his head with a hammer and knock him unconscious, after returning to reality, he will most likely have a headache, dizziness, and nerve twitching.

"If you rape him, causing him to become pregnant, after he wakes up, he will most likely feel nauseous, have acid reflux, and abdominal bloating, feeling that there might be a fetus in his stomach;

"If you tie him up, constantly electrocute him, and burn him with fire, in the real world, will he feel that he has been possessed by a vengeful spirit or shadow, always being restrained, and feeling numb or in pain all over?"

Ruya listened calmly, not bothering to question why Father Cali would become pregnant, and the more she listened, the more terrified she became.

Because the symptoms after waking from the dream described by Louis Berry basically matched the various manifestations of the collective hysteria in Tizamo Town collected by the patrol team!

Lu Mian turned his head, glanced at Ruya, and smiled as he raised the question:

"If you had shot and killed Father Cali just now, what would happen when the dream faded?"

"He would die directly? No..." Ruya denied it herself.

Tizamo Town had not experienced many people dying suddenly in their sleep after one night.

Ruya then thought of an abnormal phenomenon that existed here:

The period from mid-to-late December to mid-to-late March concentrated eighty percent of Tizamo Town's annual deaths, and the mortality rate was significantly higher than that of Port Pylos and the surrounding towns.

Ruya immediately changed her statement:

"Will he gradually die within the next three months, irreversibly?"

Lu Mian nodded lightly and said:

"I even suspect that the several attacks launched by that primitive tribe in the jungle during these three months were mainly to kill those who died in the dream, letting them die reasonably in reality as well, without exposing the anomaly.

"The reason they only completed one attack from last December to this December should be that the attack was very successful; those who should die died, and some who shouldn't have died also died, so there was no need or motivation to take the risk to come to Tizamo Town again."

Ruya listened carefully and thought for a few seconds:

"Is the source of the 'Dream Festival' that tribe?"

"Possibly, the bigger possibility is that they are guarding or worshipping that source and taking corresponding actions according to revelations." Lu Mian answered simply.

Ruya nodded lightly:

"No wonder you stopped me from shooting Father Cali; the people of Tizamo Town should all be victims."

That is also the reason why I didn't counterattack those two attackers just now and only blasted that giant python to death with one punch... When the dream wakes up, will that giant python crawl directly in front of me and die? If that's really the case, it's just right to give Ludwig an extra meal... Lu Mian looked around the empty small square sleeping in the dark night and said:

"Now go find Camus and see if he is also maintaining consciousness."

Tizamo Town, Police Headquarters, third floor. The five rooms and one washroom here belong to the patrol team:

One room is used for daily office work, one is for storing data and items, and the remaining three belong to the local patrol team members' apartments, one for each person.

With the arrival of Camus and Kolobo, Ma Disi temporarily moved to Loban's place, specifically vacating a room for the colleague from Port Pylos.

Dang! Dang! Dang!

Amidst the echoing bell, Camus woke up suddenly.

He looked at the deep darkness outside the window and the dim crimson moonlight, feeling somewhat dazed for a moment, not knowing what time it was.

Camus was about to pick up his pocket watch to check the time when he suddenly discovered that Kolobo, who should have been sleeping on the temporary bed, was gone.

His spirit tightened. Borrowing the crimson moonlight, he flipped off the bed silently and put his pocket watch and weapon back on his body.

He moved step by step, left the room, and only felt that the corridor submerged in darkness was abnormally silent, without a trace of sound. Outside the Police Headquarters, in Tizamo Town and some places in the plantations, sharp screams and wailing-like shouts sounded from time to time.

As he walked, Camus, with the familiarity of a "Sheriff" with his "jurisdiction," noticed a bit of anomaly.

He pounced onto the ground and rolled forward.

A "pa" sound rang out. At the room Camus would have passed, the wooden door suddenly split into two halves and flew out.

A giant sword slashed out from inside, carrying a fierce and violent sword wind, slashing at the empty corridor.

Camus, while rolling, turned his body and saw who the attacker was.

That was Loban, a patrol team member who was over 1.9 meters tall, had light golden short hair and light blue eyes.

This Feysacian's expression carried a cruel smile, and in his eyes was greed that couldn't be hidden.

In the environment with only a little moonlight, his face was heavily shadowed, having an indescribable ferocity and evil.

At the same time he saw Loban, two lightning-like rays of light lit up in Camus's eyes.

"Spirit Piercing"!

Loban let out a scream, instinctively discarded the giant sword in his hand, raised his palms, and covered his head.

Seizing this opportunity, Camus pulled out his large-caliber revolver, half-squatted on the ground, and aimed at this teammate.

Looking at Loban's familiar face, which was distorted by pain, Camus hesitated for a moment. Not knowing exactly what had happened, he lowered the muzzle of his gun.

Bang!

A bullet shot out, hitting Loban's knee position, causing blood to fly and the bone to break.

Such an injury could be cured by a "Physician" of the "Mother Goddess of Earth" Church!

Loban's body swayed, and he fell to the ground with a thump. He instinctively tried to curl up, but couldn't complete it because of the pain in his knee.

Camus lowered his revolver, stood up, and continued to run toward the end of the corridor.

When he went down the stairs, he passed a storage room for miscellaneous items and heard a slight movement inside.

Camus's heart stirred, and he shouted in a low voice:

"Kolobo, is that you?"

After a short silence of a few seconds in the storage room, Kolobo's voice, panicked and filled with great fear, rang out:

"Don't come over! Don't come near!

"Let me go!"

Camus frowned, feeling that Kolobo's mental state seemed a bit abnormal.

Although he was occasionally afraid of this and that, and after meeting Louis Berry, he often didn't even dare to open his eyes, he had never had such a hysterical performance. He belonged to the type who was clearly very afraid but would still force himself to complete things and make the right choice.

What's wrong with Kolobo? Camus muttered.

Because he stopped in place and didn't try to approach, Kolobo in the storage room became quiet again, as if wanting to indicate his own non-existence in this way.

After more than ten seconds, Camus prepared to confirm Kolobo's situation, feeling that if the problem was serious, he would evacuate here first and look for Louis Berry.

Suddenly, he heard two sets of footsteps coming from below, approaching rapidly.

Camus turned his body violently, aimed his revolver at the stairs below, and then, he saw Louis Berry wearing a golden straw hat and Ruya holding a hunting bow and arrows.

Looking at the thick, pitch-black muzzle, Lu Mian smiled and said unhurriedly:

"Welcome to the 'Dream Festival'."

"Dream Festival"... Is it the "Dream Festival" now? Camus understood the current state of his teammates like Loban and Kolobo instantly. He looked suspiciously at Louis Berry, who had a smile on his face, and Ruya, who had a heavy expression, and asked in a deep voice:

"Why are we maintaining consciousness?"

He basically judged from Louis Berry and Ruya's performance that they were not dominated by excessive emotions and desires, but the revolver in his hand was never put down.

"It might be because we slept in that house in Tewanaco and entered this special dream in advance." Lu Mian stated his inference simply.

Ruya took the opportunity to tell Camus the guess that encounters in the dream might be reflected in reality to a certain extent.

Camus was first glad that he hadn't blown Loban's head off with one shot, then said solemnly:

"The Beyonders of Tizamo Town are not just the three of us. When attacked by them, if we always hold the mindset of not being able to kill them, it will seriously affect our combat performance."

Lu Mian smiled:

"Who said we can't kill?

"If it really endangers me, anyone can be killed."

Ruya and Camus fell silent.

After a few seconds, Camus nodded and pointed to the storage room at the corner of the stairs:

"Kolobo's overreaction is fear; he won't endanger us. Let him hide here and don't disturb him."

Ruya just expressed agreement when Lu Mian's expression changed suddenly.

He asked:

"Is Kolobo also in this dream?"

Was Kolobo, who had been in Tizamo Town for less than a week like me, also passively participating in the "Dream Festival"?

"Yes." Camus asked suspiciously, "Is there a problem with this?"

Lu Mian said with a slightly heavy expression:

"This means there might be a bigger trouble, a more serious problem."

That might be even more terrifying than the "Dream Festival" itself!

Without waiting for Camus and Ruya to ask, Lu Mian said directly:

"You wait here for me."

Before his voice fell, he had already used "Spirit World Traversal" and disappeared into the stairs.

Lu Mian's figure was then outlined on the second floor of the Buriu Hotel, outside the door of his suite.

The next second, he heard a scream filled with pain and terror.

That came from Lu Jianuo.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 675 =====