Dream Travel

Chapter 328 Does he have a grudge against the devil?

“It’s not the demon hunters from Rota City.” Bai Mu sized up the group, while the demon hunters who appeared looked around warily.

After seeing the white curtain, one of them walked over, and as he approached, the holy runes on the warrior's body were activated.

"you……"

“Oh, you’re an authorized agent from the Rota City Handling Bureau.” Bai Mu pulled out his identification from his weapon case.

This thing is really useful when you're out and about.

Although the issuing authorities vary from country to country, documents are sometimes universally accepted or 'common'.

After carefully examining the identification information in Bai Mu's hand, the soldier lowered his guard slightly and then said, "This isn't the place to talk. Shall we move together for now?"

"It doesn't seem like it will work, does it?"

Bai Mu drew his weapon, and the demon hunters who appeared were more wary of his weapon than of him.

"If you can control your weapon, then it's fine; we can exchange intelligence."

There's no such thing as a simple lone wolf, let alone a lone wolf in this kind of environment.

They have paid a heavy price to eliminate the source of the strange dream, but so far, their hopes remain slim.

But the demons clearly wanted to cause a big stir in reality, so they had to find a way to get rid of the source of the dream.

Not only that, they are also searching for traces of the source of the strange dreams in reality, and if possible, they can also solve the problem from the real world.

After all, dealing with those demons in reality is actually easier.

In reality, we can use the Dream Source Bomb to deal with demons.

"That's no problem, enchanted demons are quite easy to talk to."

Lexenberg snorted coldly. If it weren't for the need for the white curtain for his existence, and the restrictions of this damned demonic script, he wouldn't... well, he wouldn't be like this.

It's just that we can't achieve this level of success now.

Do you have a safe house?

"Are you kidding me? This is hell, where's the safe house?"

Bai Mu opened his weapon case, the main items inside hidden by internal partitions; what he was showing people now was what he wanted them to see.

"I need some holy water or other supplies, or any other resources that are hard to store in Hell."

"...How long have you been in hell?"

Looking at the contents of the box in the white curtain, the leader of the demon-hunting team asked him a question.

"Less than a week."

His brow relaxed slightly. The power of hell has a great influence on humans. Even if one does not approach the origin of the dream source, it is difficult for ordinary humans to resist the influence of hell.

This hell is not a paradise for the dead, but a place where demons dwell. For humans, the power of hell will quickly weaken them, even leading to death.

Therefore, anyone who is in this area must leave immediately if they feel unwell.

The way they left was by using the Dreamwalker's 'brain fluid', but they obtained the Dreamwalker's brain fluid through legal means.

Their normal activity time in hell is only about half a month.

The fact that Bai Mu could collect so much hellish metal, coupled with his power to control demons, meant that his time in hell was less than a week, and it had no impact on him whatsoever.

"How many demons have you killed?" A warrior picked up a piece of hell metal through his glove.

This piece of hell metal weighs less than a pound, but it's quite heavy. This metal is also an excellent material in reality.

Don't assume that just because this metal comes from hell, it's useless to demons.

On the contrary, weapons made from this stuff are more effective against demons!
In hell, demons fight demons, and they use metal weapons to kill their own kind. If the effect isn't good enough, why would demons use such things as weapons?

However, such metal is difficult to carry out. Dreamwalkers can take it with them, but the amount they can take at one time is not large.

Of all the hellish metal that Bai Mu obtained, he would be lucky to take even one-tenth of it out of the country.

However, it is indeed worth collecting more of this stuff. They have the Dreamwalker's brain fluid, which is a product of diluted brain fluid, and its effectiveness is not reduced due to dilution.

By covering themselves with this material, they can, like dream walkers, reliably carry out some strange dream objects.

"I didn't count, but there were quite a lot." Bai Mu thought for a moment, and he really didn't keep track of how many demons he had killed.

Lexenberg didn't bother to remember; in his words, the devil was just a weed in hell.

Apart from those with names and surnames, the rest are those whose deaths are of no concern to the demons.

Bai Mu thought about it carefully and figured there should be no fewer than two thousand. He'd look through the photos when he got back.

With that in mind, he took out his camera and snapped a picture of the demon hunter team.

"personal habit."

“Hmm, we can trade for some Hellmetal.” The leader of the demon hunter squad took out some supplies.

The supplies are already in excess; we can trade some of them now.

As for holy water, holy oil, and the like, they also carried quite a lot with them.

Since Bai Mu is a master at killing demons, giving him some supplies is fine. Their landing point is random, but the camp is not. There will be plenty of supplies once you get to the camp.

In the hellish environment, many supplies cannot be stored for long periods of time, so use them up as soon as possible.

Those things, even if they look fine and in good condition, must be destroyed when the time comes.

As for why this requirement exists, it's because someone has had bad luck with it.

“If you can collect more hell metal, we can tell you about a supply depot where you can make more trades.”

The leader of the demon hunter team said this after exchanging the extra supplies.

He didn't take much metal; what they were carrying wasn't worth that much.

"I don't know much about the situation here. Could you tell me more details?" Bai Mu took out two more pieces of metal from the box.

"Okay, but we should go somewhere else."

The leader of the demon-hunting team looked in one direction; the demons were coming.

"Leave it to me." Bai Mu immediately closed the weapon case, pulled out the greatsword stuck in the ground, and rushed over.

"Does he have a grudge against demons?" A soldier scratched his helmet, puzzled.

Their equipment is designed to insulate against the power of hell. Although it is tight and uncomfortable, wearing it can extend their time in hell and ensure that their bodies do not suffer any problems.

The white curtain was just ordinary equipment—no, it wasn't ordinary equipment at all. The opponent didn't even have armor; all they had was a box filled with a lot of things and a greatsword.

In addition to cold weapons, they also carried a lot of firearms, including a grenade launcher for each person, specifically to bombard the demons.

Although demons are powerful, they are not like those in the movies in the fantasy world, completely ignoring attacks from modern weapons.

Many demons, though not entirely carbon-based life forms, can still be killed by armor-piercing bullets if they don't have a barrier created by special forces.

In reality, humans can tamper with bullets to make them more lethal to demons.

"Check the situation first, then prepare for support." The leader of the demon hunter squad drew his weapon.

There were quite a few demons that arrived; these demons were patrolling this area.

Hell is never short of demons, and the location of the Dream Source is within the territory of a demon lord.

Perhaps even the demon lord didn't know how many demons were in his territory, but the demons in his territory knew what their lord wanted.

The real United Nations doesn't actually want to invest too much effort in this fantastical dream.

However, the troublemaking demons extended their reach to ordinary people, directly involving a large number of ordinary people through the Dream Terminal.

While the Dream Terminal brings convenience, it is also easy for people to exploit it.

Just like now, if the demon wants to involve more people in the alternate dream, it first needs to use the alternate dream source. Once more people are involved, the alternate dream source can no longer be concealed.

This problem can be avoided by using the Dream Terminal.

Simply hide the source of the alternate dream in a deserted area, and continuously draw victims in through the alternate dream terminal.

The strange dream will eventually expand to its limit, after which the source of the strange dream will likely be doomed.

The demons are expanding the influence of the alternate dream because they intend to do something big in reality; otherwise, why would they go to such lengths?
In addition, this is hell.

Some speculate that the devil wants to bring a hellish world into reality.

When a dream spirals out of control and collapses, it brings a large amount of dream erosion to reality. A significant portion of this erosion will solidify into low-quality dream erosion crystals. Some items will also become incomplete dream artifacts due to the effects of dream erosion, although occasionally some complete items will reappear.

However, these are considered good cases. Some alternate dreams are so out of control that they directly lead to other realms appearing in reality.

That situation is a result of dream erosion caused by abnormal dreams severely affecting the environment itself.

It's not impossible for a demon to create a hell in reality through the dream erosion caused by the collapse of a dream.

For humanity, the existence of an unnecessary hell in reality is definitely not a good thing.

In reality, humanity has also won over some friendly beings from otherworldly dreams. Some of these beings possess power that is no less than that of primordial demons, and some are even stronger.

However, they are also beings from another dream, and cannot go to a different dream with real humans to solve problems.

Those friendly, powerful individuals should not be used as disposable commodities.

Therefore, the matters within the alternate dream are still for them to resolve themselves.

The demons who discovered them were quickly killed by the White Curtain.

Lexenberg let out a satisfied sound: "Phew~ At least I'm not such a small fry anymore."

"How do you compare to your original form now?" Bai Mu flicked the greatsword with his finger.

The demonic text on it is like it's been etched on, and it's very difficult to remove. After removing the enchantment, the weapon can be cleaned up with a wash.

"Make me a hundred times stronger."

"You're such a useless piece of trash."

"...I'm just a fragment of a mind." Luxembra had already started talking about this, and Bai Mu had been nagging about it so much that his ears were practically calloused.

The white curtain shattered the demons' weapons, revealing large chunks of hell metal.

"If you can find hellfire lava, you should be able to refine these metals," Lexenberg said.

"How to refine it?"

“I don’t know,” Luxembla said matter-of-factly.

Bai Mu clicked his tongue, carried the weapon case back, and decided that these demons, whom he could kill, were not worth his time to deal with their corpses.

If you want to be controlled by him, you'd better at least get him to open his eyes.

However, as Luxembra's power temporarily increased, he no longer needed to use his silver eyes to quickly kill demons; he could simply kill them on sight.

"Are you interested in cooperating with us?" the demon hunter team leader invited Bai Mu.

The way Bai Mu dealt with the demons seemed more professional than the demon hunters themselves.

At least he seemed to be very familiar with those demons, even appearing to know some of the spells they used.

“I need to find a special kind of demon, not yet.” Bai Mu shook his head.

Although Luxembra's true form wouldn't come here, Luxembra could sense the presence of its 'true form'.

That means that in this dream world, there is most likely an entity that has a close relationship with Luxembla.

The opponent possesses the power of a primordial demon, and if he could be killed, Luxembra indicated that his mental fragments might be significantly enhanced.

That being was an outsider to this hell; if the White Curtain killed it, its soul would not be protected by this hell.

They might even be swallowed up by this hellish place, but if the white curtain can take away the other party's soul first, then there won't be any problems with that.

The White Curtain couldn't steal the souls of the local demons in this hellish place, because those demons were native to this area and bore the marks of hell.

"A demon... alright." The demon hunter team leader said nothing more.

They are constantly investing their strength here to fight against those foreign demons.

The local demons are not the main target. Killing those enemies related to the foreign demons will prevent the Dream Source from falling into the hands of the local demons. Without the appropriate means, the local demons will not be able to interfere with reality too much.

The most important thing is to find a way to solve the problem of the source of the strange dreams.

"You've been here for almost a week, haven't you met anyone else?" a demon hunter asked White Curtain on the road.

The white-clad figures, still on their journey, were consuming the supplies they had traded over.

They're all high-energy bars or something like that; one of those can sustain them for a whole day of high-intensity activity.

Bai Mu had already eaten five or six sticks on the way.

While consuming too much of this food won't make you feel bloated, exceeding your body's tolerance can cause severe vomiting.

“I have encountered them, but those people didn’t greet me, and some even tried to betray me.”

"...That's normal, even demons have minions," said the leader of the demon hunter team.

Those who enter this strange dream are not necessarily from various national agencies; some are sent in by demons.

Those people deceive those who enter the alternate dream. Even now, there are still people secretly sending ordinary people into this alternate dream through the alternate dream terminal.

They are not without ways to deal with this situation.

The more Dream Terminals the demons deploy, the easier it is for them to find the source of the Dream Terminals. Once they have a clue, they can slowly find the location of the Dream Source.

"We're almost there." The squad leader looked into the distance. "It's over there... What's wrong?"

Noticing that Bai Mu's expression was a little off, he immediately asked.

"Hmm, something seems to have happened." Bai Mu looked in the direction the squad leader was pointing.

He carried the Dream-Eater Imperial Arms with him throughout Hell, which allowed him to see further.

Where the squad leader pointed, Bai Mu saw a hole blasted into a watchtower.

Half a corpse was still hanging on the edge of the large hole, and the flames that had been burning had been extinguished. The supply station had not been attacked recently.

The demon hunter team immediately increased their speed.

As they approached the supply depot, they got a clearer picture of its condition, and to their relief, there were more demon corpses there.

Although there were human corpses, some coded messages that only they could understand could also be found at the scene.

Although the ciphertext was somewhat disordered, the fact that it left such traces at least indicates that the people at the supply station had some leeway when they retreated.

"It seems this supply station has been in use for too long." The leader of the demon hunter team frowned slightly.

They were in Hell, the land of demons, so it was normal for them to be targeted by demons. Although this place was outside the territory of that demon lord, it didn't mean there were no demons here.

"How many people have died in this strange dream?" Bai Mu observed the scene. Some supplies had been exposed to the hellish environment and had deteriorated severely.

However, the white curtain did see some plastic products, which seemed quite normal in the hellish environment...

Well, it's pretty hellish to see plastic products like plastic bags in hell.

"There are no fewer than 20,000 at present, and actually more," the leader of the demon hunter team said with a frown, not hiding this information.

Bai Mu clicked his tongue in astonishment: "So many?"

"The first place where the Dream Terminals first appeared was in war-torn areas. Those countries are backward, have no border defenses, and checkpoints can't detect smuggled Dream Terminals."

How long ago did this happen?

"It's been at least four months... Did the agency in Rota send you here without telling you this information?"

The leader of the demon hunter team suspected that Bai Mu might have offended someone.

"I came here at my own request. I have a feud with a demon in reality, and the other party is in this alternate dream, so I came. The Rota Disposal Bureau is not involved in this matter."

Finding a new dream was his requirement; as for seeking revenge, that was just wishful thinking.

But overall he wasn't wrong. If he encountered someone related to Luxembra, could he make things easier for them?

Moreover, before encountering the demon hunter team, Bai Mu was plotting with Lexenbra to lure them out using a fishing method.

The best bait is the fragments of Luxembla's mind.

"I see." The captain of the demon hunter team nodded, dispelling his doubts.

"There's nothing of value here anymore." The demon hunter team leader obtained the address information through ciphertext.

Although the address information is not precise, as long as you find a nearby area, you can always find a new supply station or camp.

Bai Mu was still somewhat curious about the supply station, so he followed it directly. Here in Hell, he still needed some normal supplies.

(End of this chapter)