Chapter 491: Fire and Murderer

In the burning flames of the living room, there were still many charred corpses with folded hands and feet, like spiders, hiding.

The doctor's miracle 【Heart Light Shield】 developed by the core spirit rune 【Heart Light】 cooperated with Xia De's Moonlight Greatsword. The two walked side by side, always guarding against monsters that suddenly pounced from the sea of fire. Their strength was indeed not strong, almost as long as they were touched by the Moonlight Greatsword, they would immediately turn into flying ashes.

"Detective, have you noticed? The appearance of those corpses that can be barely identified, and the burning clothes on them are different, and they are not randomly pieced together. This shows that these corpses are very likely all seen by the dream master in the real fire."

The doctor reminded and asked Xia De:

"Do you remember how many monsters we have encountered so far?"

At this time, the two had reached the stairwell on the first floor. Xia De held the sword in his right hand and recalled in the sea of fire:

"17."

"It seems that the fire three years ago really has a problem."

This kind of corpse with folded hands and feet only existed on the first floor. And after climbing the stairs that were burning as a whole, new dream monsters appeared.

Every time he stepped on the stairs, there was a possibility that a transparent hand wrapped in bandages would suddenly stretch out from the wall on one side of the stairs, trying to push them downstairs. But the strength of these hands was not strong, and they could be easily cut off by moonlight slashes.

"The appearance of this kind of monster represents that the dream master has seen someone pushed down the stairs in that fire. And judging from the appearance of only a pair of hands instead of a specific image, it is very likely that those hands are Lude Jinweis's own."

The doctor then analyzed. He had broken into many people's dreams and could skillfully use the abnormalities appearing in the dream to infer the dream master's thoughts.

"So, is Lude Jinweis really the fire murderer and murderer?"

Xia De asked curiously.

"Detective, if you are really curious, we can ask him in a moment."

The passage from the stairs to the second-floor corridor was blocked by collapsed stone slabs, but Xia De and the doctor didn't have the need to enter that side, so they continued to climb the stairs toward the third floor.

But on the stair platform on the second floor, there stood a new blocker.

This time the monster was a humanoid creature, without a head, wrapped in a black coat, with eight hands on both sides of the body, holding a dinner knife, a pistol, a glass bottle containing powder, a handkerchief, a rope, and metal knitting needles in their hands, and the last two hands were empty, but there was red liquid dripping on the hands, very much like blood.

"A typical murderer image, and without a head, it means the dream master doesn't want the murderer's face to appear here."

The doctor stood on the burning stairs and analyzed:

"If the murderer is not the dream master, fear will not lead to forgetting, but will lead to a more weird shape. Of course, what exactly happened before that fire, just inference is not enough. I think it is really necessary to ask in a moment."

Xia De nodded. He noticed that although the flames were more fierce on the higher floors, the closer they were to the top, the dimmer the light around became. The burning flames were moving around, but the light of the flames was becoming more and more dim.

"I'll deal with it."

Xia De said, passing the doctor standing sideways on the stairs and walking toward the front.

He flicked his right hand forward, and the arc-shaped light blade flew upward. The headless eight-armed monster waved the dinner knife in its hand, and while Xia De's moonlight was shattered, one of its hands was completely broken.

"Still not strong."

Xia De thought in his heart, pulled out the Moonlight Greatsword with his right hand, and then jumped upward fiercely. His whole person disappeared into thin air, and then appeared above the black-clothed monster.

He held the sword with one hand and jumped and slashed downward. He originally thought he could split this monster with one sword, but didn't expect the headless eight-armed monster to raise a hand holding a handkerchief upward:

Boom!

"Hm?"

Black liquid quickly covered the handkerchief, and the handkerchief actually grew larger and harder, blocking Xia De's sword like a shield. Silver moonlight debris splashed everywhere, and cracks appeared on the surface of the black handkerchief, but it quickly returned to normal.

"After all, it is a monster related to the dream master himself, so it is normal to have some special abilities."

The doctor's voice came from behind. Xia De nodded, pressed the opponent's handkerchief shield with the sword in his right hand, and after his feet landed, he supported the ground with his right foot, twisted his waist, and kicked forward with his left leg, kicking away the handkerchief shield. His right hand swung the sword again, and with the fall of the moonlight arc, silver lines appeared on the monster's body, and then it also scattered into black ashes, merging with the black silk flocculent in the air.

"Hm?"

Xia De frowned again in the sea of fire.

"What's wrong?"

The doctor also caught up, and both saw that the handkerchief shield stained deep by the black liquid didn't disappear immediately.

Those thick liquids gradually withdrew from the handkerchief, and the handkerchief turned into black ash in the sea of fire. But the liquid itself didn't disappear, but slowly penetrated into the floor.

"What?"

The strong sense of familiarity made Xia De walk two steps quickly:

"Silver Moon!"

He pointed his finger, and the light on his fingertips shone on those black things, letting them be evaporated in the light.

"Doctor, is this also something that will appear in a dream?"

After doing this, he turned his head to look at his companion and asked very uncertainly. He suspected that he just encountered similar things, but actually it was not what he thought.

The blue-eyed doctor pursed his lips and looked up:

"Just physical substances formed by negative emotions, I see them often, don't care."

But immediately said again:

"However, looking at it, there might be some danger above. Let me walk in front for the rest of the way."

Saying this, he took the lead toward the stairs on the third floor.

Xia De looked at the burning floor, and then looked suspiciously at Dr. Shi Nai De's back, his brows deeply wrinkled:

"Physicalization of negative emotions?"

Looking up at the top:

"Is it an illusion? No, it's better to be cautious, must be prepared."

Thinking in his heart, he followed Dr. Shi Nai De quickly. However, before confirming his guess, Xia De didn't intend to tell the doctor about Ivan Dac Nisi.

He wanted to avoid Dr. Shi Nai De meeting the demon as much as possible.

The stairwell on the third floor was even dimmer, but the flames were also more fierce. This kind of opposite scene performance made the weirdness of the third floor become more serious.

And on the stairs connecting the second floor to the third floor, new monsters appeared. This time it was no longer hands pushing people downstairs, but flying gold pounds with wings.

These monsters were darker in color than real banknotes, and their attack method was to fire burning paper money. Those sharp paper money could even be deeply embedded in the burning wall.

The doctor took the lead in the front, using the transparent shield summoned by the miracle to block the attack. Xia De followed behind him, using moonlight slashes to counter the attacks of those agile creatures.

"Detective, the general common sense is that the closer you are to the dream master, the more the image of the monster guarding the dream fits the dream master's thoughts. So, the truth of this fire is probably because of this money."

The doctor still had time to explain the current phenomenon to Xia De while moving forward. It seemed that in his view, this nightmare exploration was not the most dangerous.

But the burning dim flames had already made the skin feel some scalding pain. Although the flying banknotes were easy to deal with, after these monsters died, like the headless eight-armed monster just now, they would also leave behind traces suspected of being demon pus.

Although Xia De maintained the moonlight, when those traces fell toward the lower floors through the cracks in the stairs and wall cracks in the fire, he couldn't stop them at all. It was just fortunate that the amount of black pus was extremely low, and it seemed to be deliberately avoiding the two, so it didn't cause trouble for the time being:

"The appearance is so similar, but there is no aggressiveness, is it really a coincidence?"

When they defeated the last wave of gold pound monsters flying out of the flames and reached the third floor, the black silk flocculent that could not be touched in the air was already as dense as snow. At the same time, the light of the flames was also completely weaker than the silver moon light on Xia De's fingertips, which meant that if the fingertip moonlight was not maintained, the visibility on the third floor would be far lower than the normal level.

Xia De and Dr. Shi Nai De had originally prepared to encounter stronger enemies on the third floor, but after arriving on the third floor, they found that there were no monsters guarding the dream here except for the fire like the floor below.

But the integrity of the third floor was the worst of all floors. Collapsed furniture, cracked floors, and collapsed ceilings blocked the corridor, making them almost unable to move forward.

Xia De could only use the Moonlight Greatsword to slash open the way in front. Under the doctor's command, the two came to the door of the second room on the left on the third floor. The burning door was tightly closed, and the black components in the flames almost completely overwhelmed the bright yellow.

"Accounting room?"

The doorplate was burned away by half, but it could still be guessed as a complete word. The burning door was tightly closed, and the flames were moving around.

"Detective, the target is inside. We need to find Lude Jinweis's image in the dream, and after catching him to hold the ritual, we can extract the Mental Crystal."

The doctor said, his voice sounding a bit low in the crackling burning sound. Reaching out to hold the door handle, the door was locked as expected, but the doctor didn't let Xia De come forward to open the door this time, but said softly to the inside:

"We brought more gold pounds."

A click sound that was almost submerged in the burning sound of the fire scene represented that the door was opened from the inside.

"You see, this is the correct way to pass through the locked door in the dream."

The doctor turned to look at Xia De, and after signaling him to get ready, pushed the door and walked in. Xia De followed behind.

When both of them completely entered the room, a loud bang suddenly came from behind.

Xia De and the doctor turned around immediately, seeing the ceiling of the corridor at the door collapse in the flames. With the raised dust and the heat wave, the road outside the door was completely blocked. ===== CHAPTER 492 =====