the last gentleman

Chapter 265 Nightmare
Nightmare.

A thing that was abandoned by Yi Chen a long time ago.

During the orphanage, if the nightmare turns the teachers into ghosts, or deliberately creates some scary scenes, it will make Yi Chen feel comfortable and interesting, but the reality of the orphanage itself is more painful and frightening.

Gradually, Yi Chen hardly had nightmares anymore.

In order to adapt to the high-pressure life in the orphanage, even the number of dreams has gradually decreased, and the body adapts to efficient dreamless sleep every night.

Even in this sick world, I still rarely dream and never have a nightmare.

However, the nightmare experience just now made Yi Chen sweat profusely, as if it happened for real, as if his body was really cut open and put on as a costume by others.

Staring at the black smoking liquid on the table, it was dead pus unintentionally secreted from the brain stimulated by nightmares.

"It's not right, something must be affecting me.

Such vivid nightmares cannot happen without reason.The theme of the nightmare is that I have turned into a costume. Is it related to "Gentleman's Skin"?

Since I became a gentleman, I have been wearing clothing almost all the time. Even when I am sleeping, the clothing can evolve into a sleeping bag structure, providing me with a good sleeping environment, and I wear it almost 24 hours a day during my missions.

So some sort of 'dependency' on clothing?
During this period of time, due to the redoing of the clothes, I couldn't wear them for more than ten days. Did the dependence on the clothes lead to the nightmare just now? "

With doubts in his arms, Yi Chen walked out of the basement.

It was already noon the next day. The long sleep and the strange nightmare made Yi Chen a little hungry. He first ordered a big bowl of sauced pork noodles at a nearby shop, and then went to the nameless clothing store alone.

When walking around the corner of the stairs, Yi Chen still couldn't help but look at the group of models on the first floor, and found nothing unusual.

When I came to the second floor, which was built with giant mirrors like a dance studio, the door of the dressing room was closed tightly, and there was a faint sense of weirdness. The picture seemed to overlap with the dream of last night.

A sense of uneasiness urged Yi Chen to come forward and actively knocked on the secret door of the dressing room.

Following the sound of footsteps, Mr. Ivan, wearing a half mask, opened the door with a tired face.

"Huh? Why did you come here by yourself without notifying you... However, it's really timely. The ready-to-wear sample has just been revised, so come and try on the clothes."

Still a faceless model standing in the deepest part,

Completely different from the weird dress in the dream, the clothes worn on the models have not been colored yet, and belong to the original flesh color of "Gentleman's Leather", which looks like a human fur coat.

This can't help but remind Yi Chen of the situation in the dream where he turned into skin and was 'put on'.

"What are you doing here? Go try it on."

Yiwan's words pulled Yi Chen's thoughts back.

"I had a dream last night..."

Yi Chen resolutely narrated the dream experience, which made Ivan also look puzzled.

Yi Chen continued to ask: "Mr. Iwan, is it possible that I have not dressed these days? After all, I have been wearing clothes before, and the long-term contact with the skin has made my body have some kind of dependence?"

"No, at least I've never met one.

When I served the organization before, I received many advanced clothing productions, and even the old man Chamberson's clothing was made by me.

Although the dependence on [skin] does exist, it will not cause such a strong and clear nightmare.

Maybe it has something to do with your limit breakthrough. After all, the relic you choose is something for the crazy, and those guys are also crazy in the old world.

Clothing making is a major part of your life these days, and combined with prolonged periods of not getting dressed, you end up causing the epileptic nature of your brain to kick in during sleep.

If you are worried, you can go to the hospital for an examination. "

"Ok."

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and try on clothes! There is still a lot of work to do in the follow-up."

After all, Mr. Iwan took out a pair of scissors from his pocket and threw it over, and Yi Chen also caught it firmly.

"Scissors?"

"That's right, I deliberately didn't open the thread in some parts of the clothing sample. If you handle it yourself, it will increase the adaptability."

"Ok."

Yi Chen got close to the model, and when he was curious about where the thread needs to be opened, he found that the shirt of the costume was actually glued to the model's skin.

The seam of the shirt is exactly where the thread needs to be opened.

Mr. Ivan's voice came again, "That's right, I used a unique bionic body clothing to make, you only need to 'open' along the midline of the model's body.

Remember to clean out the internal organs and bones of the model. "

Upon hearing these words, Yi Chen immediately thought of his dream.

A sense of weirdness spread in the air, and the tungsten bulbs above his head began to flicker.

He turned his head suddenly, and saw that Mr. Ivan kept his mouth open, and there was obviously something like a tentacle wriggling in his mouth.

"Try it quickly, this is the costume I worked so hard to make for you~"

As he spoke, black and smoking tentacles emerged from Ivan's mouth, opening like an octopus.

hum!
Woke up again.

A puddle of smoking pus flowed on the table, and Yi Chen stood up suddenly!
This time, he didn't hesitate anymore, and directly stimulated his own disease ability, clang!Barbed iron chains grew out between the arms and dragged to the ground.

Yi Chen found a beam that could bear enough weight, took out the black umbilical cord, and hung himself up.

In the hanging state, use the iron chain to flog yourself to ensure that each spike hits the body precisely, stimulating key acupuncture points and bringing the greatest pain.

Even though the blood kept spilling, even if his whole body was covered with holes, Yi Chen still didn't want to stop.

Snapped!
Due to too many holes in the waist and abdomen, with a hard blow, the lower body was directly severed,
The umbilical cord in the hanging state also showed the opposite effect, constantly pulling away Yi Chen's vitality, leading him to death faster.

When the pain overflows the whole body and is about to die,

The basement scene in front of me disintegrated inch by inch like peeling... Hum!

wake up again,

The wooden table where he was supposed to rest was completely eroded by the pus overflowing from the corner of Yi Chen's mouth, leaving only a small puddle of fluid remaining on the ground.

The black umbilical cord seems to have self-awareness, lifting Yi Chen up in reality,
The whole body is covered with spikes, especially the head part.

The face is even painted with "dead makeup". Judging from the state of the makeup, it seems that it has just been painted.

"Fuck!"

Yi Chen couldn't help swearing, immediately relieved the tension in his body, and returned to the original state.

"If I don't have the ability to break the illusion, I'm afraid I will be trapped in it infinitely... What the hell is going on!"

When Yi Chen walked out of the basement in this bum-like costume full of holes.

Cuckoo!An owl landed directly on his shoulder.

Immediately afterwards, Professor Chamberson with a serious face descended from the sky, clasped his claw-like palm firmly on Yi Chen's shoulder, and some kind of wind and cold entered the body along the contact points of his fingers, testing Yi Chen's physical condition.

"William! Are you all right?"

"Huh? Professor Chamberson, why are you here..."

"The principal specifically reminded me to come and check on your status! Looking at your mental state and tattered clothes, something really happened, right?"

"I had a nightmare last night, a very dangerous nightmare."

"Sure enough!" Chamberson's eyes widened when he heard the word 'nightmare'.

Yi Chen quickly asked, "Huh? Are there other people in the city having nightmares?"

"This incident dates back to three months ago, when an ordinary resident named Marco Velasquez was found dead at home. He seemed to have suffered a severe shock before his death, but the autopsy found nothing .

Since then, 1 to 5 similar deaths have occurred every other week. Later, according to the joint investigation of the Prophet's Joint Monitoring Force, it was determined that their deaths seemed to be related to nightmares. "

Yi Chen immediately realized something, "Wait! Professor Chamberson, if I'm not wrong, the dead have the habit of taking off their clothes to sleep?"

"That's right, after investigation, it was found that all of them were in a state of undressing and sleeping before they died.

About a month ago, Zion notified all areas, asking everyone to dress and sleep at night.You happened to be at the headmaster's side at the time, and you just didn't receive the notification. "

Chamberson reached out and wiped away Yi Chen's clothing full of holes, "The clothing Ivan gave you also contained a gentleman's skin... Maybe because it doesn't match you, it's not a problem with the original clothing, so it failed to protect you. "

"Has some unknown pathogen that causes nightmares invaded Zion?"

"It's hard to say. At present, the Hippocrates Hospital has not given a conclusion. After all, once this kind of thing is made public, the organization will become chaotic.

Anyway, you're fine.

Also, your costume is probably almost done, so don't go to bed until you put it on.Talk to the headmaster about it after the fact, you as a survivor can help to find out the truth of the nightmare. "

(End of this chapter)