nightmare exec

Song Yin has heard that in the Book of Exodus, the God of the West sent down ten catastrophes in order to punish the Pharaoh who prevented the Jews from leaving Egypt.The plague of locusts is the eighth of them.

But he really felt that even the reappearance of the disaster in myths and legends would probably not make him more horrified than the scene in the live broadcast before him.

Cockroaches, big and small, cockroaches, rats, mole crickets, ants... jumping and scurrying in the side dish room less than the size of a classroom.There was a buzzing black mist in the air; the walls, tables, and ground were all covered with black wings, hard shells, and insect legs, which was suffocating.

Fortunately, Qi Zhengnan was not troubled at all.He took off his right glove calmly, and several clusters of flames immediately scattered from his palm, rolling around him.

The protein-rich insects were quickly ignited, with a creaking pop and a strong, burnt stench.In an instant, the insect corpses fell down like raindrops.The surviving insects around also fled away one after another.

"Wait a minute..."

Covering her mouth with one hand, Song Yin suppressed her nausea and carefully studied a certain detail in the video——

Dozens of thin black lines still remained on the wall that had been scorched by the fire.It was some kind of tiny insect, winding and circling on the wall, as if outlining some pattern.

"The bugs can't be burned to death, they must be clues, follow them!"

In fact, there was no need for Song Yin to remind him outside, Qi Zhengnan had already started to act.

He quickly manipulated the flames and burned the walls of the side dish room.Countless bug corpses fell to the ground, and the secrets hidden in the bug swarm also surfaced——

There are small black insects that have not been killed by the fire, and they gather in groups on the walls in one pile and one pile in the west.Their distribution looks random, but the overall pattern is familiar.

"These are bedbugs, and they've also appeared in surface dungeons before."

Erhu is still in monitoring mode, and Song Yin is talking to Ergou: "Bedbugs pursue a traumatic mating mode. Males sow seeds by piercing the bodies of females, and even other males and larvae."

"Another ugly reflection."

After an in-depth discussion with Erhu, Song Yin can roughly understand that the animals and plants that appeared in suspect A's superficial dream were all ugly, violent and twisted symbolic hints in his mind.

"Besides, bedbugs are insects that feed on human blood." Ergou then quoted Qi Zhengnan's original words, "The place where they stay should imply that there was blood there."

"Bloodstains?" Song Yin's heart skipped a beat, and he looked again at the black swarms of insects, and suddenly realized where the so-called "deja vu" feeling came from——

These bedbugs are made of bodies, which is a horrible scene of blood splattered after a brutal killing!

Song Yin's hairs stood on end immediately, and he unconsciously moved his eyes away from the video screen, but landed on the paper figurine beside him.

"This is what happened to you..."

He looked at the paper man who couldn't speak, and his heart was suddenly filled with grief and pity.

He wanted to give it a comforting hug, but he couldn't be sure whether doing so would touch the shadow in the boy's heart, so he froze in place for a moment.

After a few more seconds, the video screen in front of him suddenly brightened up—it was Qi Zhengnan setting a bigger fire in the side dish room.Tongues of fire licked the ground, countless insects scattered and fled wherever they touched, and the corpses of dead insects were also burned to ashes by the flames.

After the flames were gradually extinguished, Qi Zhengnan raised his hand and raised a gust of wind, and the ashes all over the walls and ground immediately flew away with the wind.Only the bloodstains that were "restored" by the black bugs remained.

Song Yin frowned and stared wide-eyed—he saw the most obvious splatter-type bloodstain on the wall, which was not high up, as if a child had suffered a fatal blow by the wall.

Then, the bloodstains flowed down the wall and formed a pool at the base of the wall, and then they were dragged again, winding towards the door.

The side of the door is the clean vegetable area.

Song Yin already understood the cause and effect - the child was killed in the side dish room, and then dragged to the vegetable cleaning area.But what is the purpose of doing this...

Qi Zhengnan seemed to have thought of something, he ran into the vegetable cleaning area in two or three steps.

This is a large room of nearly [-] square meters, and the sinks and pipes used to wash the ingredients are arranged in order, and there are drainage ditches criss-crossing on the ground.

The black "bloodstains" were still stretching forward, but there was no exit ahead.That is to say, the child's body should be hidden somewhere in this room.

Before he knew it, Song Yin held his breath, wanting to witness the reveal of the mystery with his own eyes.However, things backfired. A few seconds later, Erhu, who was in monitoring mode, suddenly raised an alarm——

"The spit monster is approaching! At three o'clock, there are still 200 meters away from you!"

It's time to come.

Song Yin decisively ordered Erhu to close the synchronized video with Qi Zhengnan, and at the same time marked the whereabouts of the real monster in the real scene.

Less than a second after the order was issued, a fluorescent green downward arrow appeared obliquely in front of him, pointing out the exact location of the Vortex.And the bigger the arrow, the closer the distance between the monster and Song Yin.

"Do you need me to inform Foehn?" Erhu asked him for instructions.

"Need not!"

Song Yin shook his head resolutely——Qi Zhengnan was only one step away from finding the child's remains, and Song Yin knew that he must not distract him at this juncture.

"I said Ermi, don't underestimate me, the son of Lianxuan!"

As he said that, he still put the paper figurine on his back, and while paying attention to the relative position between himself and the Truth Beast, he began to move quietly.

The dungeon in the dark night is eerie and weird, the ground is full of puddles of water in the east and west and slippery silt formed by fallen leaves.Song Yin carefully searched for every piece of land where he could set foot, and finally hid behind a small bush with his back bent.

After about two or three seconds, a burst of green light slowly appeared in the woods to the west.Immediately afterwards, he heard the heavy footsteps—as if a wild elephant was running towards this side, accompanied by the crisp sound of snapping branches.

The wind started to blow in the woods, and it was getting bigger and bigger, mixed with a disgusting stench.Suddenly, a huge and ferocious "hand" twisted two small trees, and poked out from the forest!

Song Yin curled up tightly, and looked forward through the gaps in the leaves—the heavy footsteps had stopped, and the five fingers on the head of the Tuzhen Beast were soft and boneless, twisting in different directions tentatively.The five human faces on the fingernails were either sniffing or sticking out their tongues, making strange high and low noises constantly.

As if in response to this strange sound, the plants around the Truth Beast began to bloom at a speed visible to the naked eye, but withered in an instant.

"Be careful, it's casting truth spells on the surrounding plants." Er Hu judged.

Song Yin was dumbfounded.Didn't it mean that only human beings can be the target of truth-telling?

Oh, by the way, this is a copy of the dream, all the animals and plants are part of the consciousness of the dream owner.

Although he was worried that he would be betrayed by plants, it would be irrational to walk around now.Song Yin could only hold his breath, shrinking his body as much as possible to hide himself, while reaching out and groping in the nearby mud, hoping to find a weapon that could defend himself.

"In fact, all your equipment and weapons have been worn on your body."

Relying on the fact that others could not hear him, Erhu continued to communicate with Song Yin: "From my point of view, you are still wearing a combat uniform and a gun on your waist. If you can break through this layer of blindness, everything will be fine." It's easy to solve."

Isn't this nonsense?Isn't the key to breaking through? !

Song Yin shrank her neck in fright from Erhu's small voice, but she didn't dare to tell him to shut up, so she could only pretend to be deaf and dumb in resentment.

After the five faces whispered for a while, the Truth Beast quickly started moving again - but instead of coming towards him, it turned a corner and walked towards the cafeteria.

Did it sense that Qi Zhengnan was inside?

Song Yin suddenly became a little anxious. He wanted to remind Erhu to tell Qi Zhengnan the situation, but he was worried that his whereabouts would be exposed if he made a sound.

Fortunately, at this time, that annoying little cat finally became a caring and good baby——

"He has informed Foehn of the attack of the Truth Beast. He has found the child's remains in the sewage pipe network below the vegetable cleaning area."

Just hearing this, Song Yin suddenly felt the weight on his back sink.

He looked down at his shoulders—the hands that were originally made of white paper turned into a pair of still pale hands that belonged to living children after all.

Immediately afterwards, the child slid off his back and walked in front of him.

He was a handsome boy, but he was wearing a blood-stained red dress.

The hesitation just now is still the same now, just when Song Yin was hesitating whether to hug the child, but the child took the initiative to put his arms around his neck.

"Thank you." He seemed to hear a childish thank you in his ear.

"No...we are late." Song Yin shook his head sadly, this is a sentence from his heart.

The final farewell is over.Like the two little friends before, the figure of the boy also began to disappear slowly, as if he would eventually return to a peaceful nothingness.

However, before that, a huge green arrow suddenly jumped out of the woods not far away.Below the arrow, a gigantic monster rushed towards Song Yin at lightning speed, taking away all his vision in an instant.

Song Yin didn't understand what happened until the surroundings became pure darkness.

He only felt the ground under his feet suddenly heaving and wriggling.Immediately afterwards, he lost his balance and fell into the darkness.

"You...be swallowed...to tell the truth..." Erhu's voice stopped completely after a few times of fits and starts.

The last time this happened, it was in a super dungeon, and was dragged into the real world by intruders.Shouldn't this time also...

No way? !

Song Yin was startled suddenly, and instinctively wanted to call for help.Who would have thought that when he opened his mouth, a soft and sticky tentacle actually stuck into his mouth!

What the hell is this? !

Song Yin was startled, struggling to spit out the tentacles stuffed into his mouth.But in the next second, more tentacles swarmed over, wrapping him around.

What's worse, the "hot" feeling that I haven't felt for a long time flooded my body again.

It's the truth-vomiting beast... He finally realized that he was probably swallowed by the truth-vomiting beast!

When he was infected by the Truth Beast in the surface dungeon before, he was still with Qi Zhengnan, and they could place their desires on each other and become a spice in the name of love.

However, Qi Zhengnan was not around at the moment, and these desires suddenly revealed their ferocious true colors, rushing towards Song Yin.

There is no more love, and all that remains is naked violence and plunder.

Song Yin felt that he was being polluted little by little, and he fought hard to resist the invasion of the tentacles.At the same time, various voices of abduction, threats and abuse came from my ears.

He felt that he was facing a torture, a cruel torture with no end in sight.It was not only the body that was suffering, but his mind was also convulsed by waves of intense loathing and fear.

And when the feeling of disgust and fear reached its climax, a hollow suddenly appeared under his feet.He fell through the hole, but escaped the tentacle's attack.

As he kept falling, many strange images appeared around him.The scenery and characters in the picture are all made of Lego bricks.They are like comic strips full of children's interest, but intermittently tell a story that is not beautiful, even sad.

At the beginning of the story, there are three young children playing with a brand new rabbit doll in the garden of the orphanage.The sky was overcast, and the grass in the garden was full of eyes, but their cheeks were rosy and their smiles were carefree.

Immediately afterwards, the little rabbit was suddenly taken away.

The tall black iron courtyard gate stopped the three children from chasing after it.The doll bunny is so weak and completely irresistible.Not far away, a black car is waiting to transfer it to the distance.

In the next frame, the little rabbit suddenly turned into a big rabbit. It drove its own luxury car and brought a large sum of cash, and returned to the gate of the orphanage full of expectations.What can be seen is a deserted scene.

The black iron gate that used to separate him from his friends was rusted, and it was crookedly open.But there is no longer its longing and expectation in the door.

Where did the children go?The big rabbit searched and searched, but there was no news.Big Rabbit was introduced to a psychological clinic because of longing.He was received by a female psychological counselor, who patiently listened to Big Rabbit's confession, and performed hypnosis and various treatments for it.

Maybe it was because I also had the experience of receiving psychological counseling.Song Yin watched this scene very carefully.

He found that the layout of the consultant's office was very similar to Mr. Lin's office.Even next to the desk, leaning on a cane.

No... He shook his head vigorously, trying to drive away the part of memory that was mixed in and belonged to him.

And at the moment when he turned his head, the scene in front of him began to change rapidly again.

The author has something to say: "Thank you" - these are the words the third child says before disappearing.

But the dream copy is the subconscious world of suspect A, and there is no consciousness of the three killed children.So the one who really thanks is actually Suspect A himself.

Song Yin's phrase "We are late" was also addressed to suspect A.

Nightmare executives can't save everyone in the world, the only thing they can save is the people in the dream.

Suspect A violated his duty, even though in his opinion that person was not worth saving.

And as the price of "dereliction of duty", he also paid everything of himself.

It's hard to say who is right and who is wrong, whether it's worth it or not, it's only in Suspect A's own heart...

It's just that it's not a good thing for Song Yin to be unable to save the person he wants to save.