Chapter Thirty-Twelve: A Game of Cannibalism
"Long years no see." The simple dome of the Dream Department Hall was stained with a lingering black haze. A huge eye opened out of thin air. The illusory bubbles were clearly extinguished, and large gray-black hands opened.
Smear freely in the space...
Barbatos, a cunning and cruel nightmare, a third-level high-level nightmare who once killed hundreds of people. He was originally a third-level low-level nightmare, and he had to swallow such a huge amount of life energy to reach this level.
"..." Houston said nothing, his eyes were cloudy and confused.
"What's wrong? Isn't there any reason to release me?" Barbatos' voice was filled with a hint of joking, "They are already dead."
"Yes, they are dead." Houston's voice trembled, "You should thank me."
"Hahahaha! Yes! The great Barbatos should thank you, the person who sealed me in the first place, for releasing me again!" Nightmare laughed, even waving his tentacles crazily.
Sheldon couldn't sit still and wait for death at this time. He took out his wand from his arms, the magic power surged in his body, and sparkling light shot out from his pupils. He put his index finger on the back of the wand, and his eyebrows tightened suddenly.
【In my name!】
Like a huge bright blue marble, the tip of the staff trembled slightly, and liquid magic gurgled out.
It was a blue electric light ball! The ball was translucent, and there was manic magic power running around inside. Even Merlin next to him actually felt a palpitation in his heart!
"Merlin, what is this?"
"..." Nightmare didn't speak at first, and then made a deep, distant sound, "Something that can kill Nightmare."
"Then, will you be affected?"
"No." Nightmare's voice was confident, "I'm different from those lowly people."
In an instant, the light blue light ball shattered, and the manic magic power inside turned into countless stamen-like light spots under Sheldon's control, all rushing towards the nightmare above!
When Houston saw this, his eyes were full of mockery, and he pulled out an old book page from his arms.
It was actually engraved with dense runes! Moreover, the space around the piece of paper was actually somewhat stagnant!
Immediately, he calmly raised the page in his hand and uttered a few words heavily.
[The fourteenth level of long-lasting protection!]
"What!" Sheldon growled in surprise.
He actually has two pages of this kind of disposable magic weapon! This can barely be regarded as a second-level magic weapon! And he drew two of them at once?
When Barbatos saw this, he couldn't help but said: "What do you want? In other words, what is your purpose."
Houston laughed: "I am a carefree person now. I came here just for..."
"Revenge? You can do such a childish thing?"
"so what?"
"Then how do you take revenge?"
"Barbatos," he said firmly, "I want to make Dream Division...at least this place, a place of death. You can do it, right?"
"Haha...it's really...crazy."
"So what!" Houston's eyes popped out and his tone was strong, "Quick! Quick! Let these ungrateful fools! All die in pain! Let them also taste the despair of being betrayed! Including myself!"
Peyman had covered his face and sobbed softly.
"Dad, he is a bad person, so I will say he is a bad person."
"Be careful with yourself." Sheldon said suddenly.
In an instant, the originally chaotic space solidified again, extending radially around Barbatos like plasticine.
"Be careful, when you step into the [Dream Realm], you have already entered the territory of another nightmare."
One by one, the handprints were like those of the victims crawling out of the mud. They were shockingly and silently rubbed on the wall of the Dream Division hall, covering everything in the Dream Division with lightning speed.
The entire Mengshi Division was in chaos. Most of them had not yet realized what situation they were in, but they found that their bodies had become blurry, and their fingers were inexplicably stained with a sticky dark blue, and suddenly
He became extremely frightened.
"Can you break it?" Marquez asked.
"It's possible, but it's better not to act rashly now. The [Dream World] created by the nightmare is not a desperate situation. Everything will have a chance of survival. People trapped inside can find loopholes in the nightmare rules. Or...
Follow the process openly, the rules not only restrict others, but also restrict yourself."
"Will anyone die?"
"This is inevitable, but as long as you don't violate the rules, you probably won't die."
Before they finished speaking, the soles of everyone's feet were inexplicably empty, and an endless feeling of falling hit them. The surroundings were already filled with impenetrable darkness, which made people feel heart-stopping.
"Wow!" Martin screamed from near to far, as if his body had been torn into more than a dozen pieces.
"Catch me!" Fortunately, Merlin and Sheldon were not that far away, and Peyman and the others were nowhere to be seen. After a lot of effort, they finally caught Merlin's little hand during the fall.
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"Dad, will we fall?" Merlin's voice kept trembling in the strong wind. He looked around, and the dark blue runes were flying up and down, sometimes converging, and sometimes falling apart due to the sudden intrusion of energy.
"The current [rules] haven't been decided yet. Before landing, you will see the complete rules of this dream, so there is no need to panic." Nightmare's words were very soft, seemingly not worth mentioning.
"Since this is a dream, does it mean that we have just lost control of our bodies?" Marquez asked in the sea of consciousness.
"Except for us." Nightmare smiled, "Because 'we' are not human beings. Nightmares can naturally exist in the same kind of dream world. Of course, other people should still be lying on the ground."
"Are all the people in the dream department crowded into a dream world?" Marquez continued to ask, "Wouldn't it be crowded?"
"No, there are only fourteen 'sacrifice' in one scene under its control at most." Nightmare said, "No matter how many there are, he won't be able to hold on. The reason for the large number of people is that they enter different scenes in batches.
"
"Scenes?"
"That's the decoration inside the dream world. In this way, it can better induce people to die."
"..."
"Is it cruel? You know, our kind will also devour each other. If we are too weak, no matter whether we are humans, nightmares, or anything else... we will not be able to exist in this world."
"..."
"Are you okay?" Sheldon asked worriedly, "If you feel uncomfortable in any way, tell me."
"Yeah, okay." Merlin smiled sweetly, indicating that he was fine.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three loud noises were heard in everyone's mind, and they couldn't help but feel dizzy. Merlin shook Sheldon's hand, and saw that the other person's face didn't look good either, and he kept taking deep breaths.
Suddenly, two luminous numbers flew out from the endless darkness, aligned themselves, and stuck to their wrists.
[1: You are not allowed to call them by their first names, you can only call them by their respective code names. Anyone who violates this will be killed.]
Merlin looked down at his left wrist.
"Thirteen".
And Sheldon is "Twelve".
"What does it mean?"
"In other words, you can't call other people's names. If you do, you will die."
"Ah...really..." Marquez's voice was filled with worry.
His wrist was also a little itchy, and he couldn't help but rub it with his right hand, trying to get rid of the itchy feeling.
The mark on his wrist disappeared, and bits of black scum fell out from between Merlin's fingers.
"..." Marquez was a little confused. Why were the marks on his hands rubbed off so easily?
"Dad, the mark on my hand is gone..."
"???" Sheldon also tried to rub the mark on his wrist vigorously. It was obvious that his skin was broken and it was not rubbed off.
"Haha, the rules set by Nightmare have no effect on Nightmare."
The runes in the air are still being assembled and twisted, emitting a brilliant light, becoming the only source of light in the darkness.
Dang! Dang! Dang!
[2: The "murderer" has the right to contact the murderer, that is, when he encounters other non-murderers, the person will die accordingly, only once per day. ]
[3: Whenever someone dies, a trial meeting will be held. If the murderer is found, the murderer will be executed on the spot. If it is a mistake, the others will be executed, and the murderer will be the last survivor. 】
[4: If the survivors succeed in trying the murderer, they need to vote again and choose one person to stay here forever as the price of walking out of the dream. The rest will be liberated. ]
[Wu: The trial meeting does not require a trial, that is, the "murderer" will be forgiven. If the person identified as the "murderer" successfully kills three people, he will directly get the opportunity to leave the dreamland. ]
[Lu: After the “murderer” leaves, a new “murderer” will appear among the remaining survivors. 】
[Qi: No one is allowed to hide his/her body shape.]
[8: "Nightmare Hotel" welcomes you, the number of guest rooms will gradually decrease every day. 】
[Jiu: Only one person is allowed to live in each room, and there will be patrols in the middle of the night to execute those who have "nowhere to return". 】
[Shift: The last survivor will be automatically released and leave the dreamland. 】
[Then, let us start this cannibalistic game. There are more, more, more things worthy of you...]
There was a solid touch on the feet, and without a sound, the fourteen people were in place.
The dark curtain gradually glowed. A huge, old hotel stood up from the ground like a piece of paper. It was like a pattern drawn by a pencil, stuck abruptly on the curtain in front of it.
There is a huge sign on the roof of the building - Nightmare Hotel.
Bang!
Thick smoke billowed...and a strong wind blew.
Chapter completed!