Nightmare Despair

Chapter 59 The Most Humane Treatment

Ding San doesn't need to sleep most of the time.

After the meeting, she either had to continue her dreamless work or work with people from the public security system to search for the mirage in the city.

On his way to the basement of the Bureau of Extraordinary Events, Ding San couldn't stop thinking about that matter.

When faced with the trolley problem, ordinary people can choose to do nothing to escape the pangs of conscience.

But they can't.

They are the ones who have to switch the tracks.

They must kill that one person themselves to save the other five!

Of course, that person was going to die anyway...

All they had to do was make sure she died safely and normally enough, so that her death wouldn't drag more people down with her.

That's it.

"It was my mistake this time."

Ding San's eyes were hazy, as if he was recalling something.

Xishan City had been peaceful for so long that she had almost forgotten the weight of the words "reality nightmare" and subconsciously regarded Chu Siwen as an ordinary past nightmare infected person.

If it's a past nightmare, they will do everything in their power to help her become a traveler, anchoring her in that past, allowing her to live on, and to live as long as possible.

Even if she eventually dies and may turn into a mirage after death, the value she created throughout her career as an official traveler is enough to offset the trouble she might cause after her death.

but……

Chu Siwen is, unfortunately, a nightmare in reality.

Her continued existence is pointless and would only bring about a huge disaster.

Once she becomes a Walker, the power of nightmares will immediately pass through the anchor points in reality.

Subway Line 1 has begun to invade the real world.

Monsters will crawl into reality from another dimension, turning the entire subway line into a ghost town until Chu Siwen dies, at which point that reality will be completely swallowed up by nightmares.

Only then will a terrible disaster come to a temporary end.

"Little girl, you're really unlucky."

Ding San shook his head.

In the past, those infected with Nightmare Reality were dealt with extremely brutally, killed on sight.

Since they're going to die sooner or later anyway, the authorities might as well take action to prevent them from harming others after they've already died.

In the new era, the management style of the Red Star Bureau of Extraordinary Events has become much more humane.

Under certain circumstances, those infected with Nightmare in the present can receive similar treatment to those infected with Nightmare in the past.

For example, an infected person's nightmare might be just a hallway in their own home, an abandoned hospital room, or even just a wardrobe.

Even if this kind of nightmare invades reality, its harm level will be classified as the lowest, F level, which is controllable.

Infected individuals will continue to be trained and trained to become travelers, while the real-world locations associated with the nightmares will be sealed off and guarded by designated personnel.

Chu Siwen, unfortunately, does not belong to the F category.

She's not even an E, D, or C.

Given the coverage and passenger flow of Metro Line 1, if this area were to be invaded by the nightmare, the disaster level would be at least Level B.

Level B is already an extremely terrifying nightmare disaster.

The most recent one was the "Chunming Town Incident" that occurred three years ago in the Far East.

An entire town, along with its more than 8,000 residents, was dragged into a nightmare...

Of the more than 8,000 people, only three or four were rescued alive, even with the desperate efforts of local travelers.

The rest simply vanished without a trace.

Those people will transform from "Real-world Nightmare" into "Past Nightmare," becoming monsters wandering in endless nightmares.

Ding San drove away from the Bureau of Strange Events, and the neon lights outside the car window flashed by.

She had already made up her mind about Chu Siwen's fate.

"We must persuade Huang Zhang to take action. One deep hypnosis session to erase the nightmare survival rules from her mind... Let that little girl die peacefully in her dream."

"This is already the most humane approach, and the one that causes the least harm to everyone."

As Ding San stepped into the equipment section, a hint of weariness flashed in his eyes.

Now, the men in the group have become the problem.

Xiao Yin is a survivor of the Chunming Town incident. She joined Wumeng because she didn't want the tragedy in her hometown to repeat itself.

Ding San wasn't worried about him. Having experienced that kind of hell, he understood best what it meant to prioritize the overall situation.

The troublesome one is Huang Zhang.

He was too weak, and his empathy was too strong.

"I hope you don't do anything foolish. In the worst-case scenario, I'll have to be the villain..." "Third Sister? Here to pick up equipment? The team just came back yesterday, and they traded in a lot of good stuff. Would you like to take a look?"

A call interrupted Ding San's thoughts.

A man who looked to be in his forties sat behind the counter, yet he also called Ding San "sister".

Ding San thought for a moment and said to him, "Xiao Zhang, give me D107."

"OK."

A moment later, Xiao Zhang handed Ding San a half-finger glove that was in an evidence bag.

The gloves are black knitted and feel cold to the touch, with an invisible thin film on the palm.

It also has a brand name printed on it, Ningta, a sports brand that went bankrupt twenty years ago.

Ding San took this thing, of course, not to keep warm.

It is a D-class past Nightmare Walker, a creation brought out of a nightmare.

Only the power of nightmares can defeat nightmares.

Mirages are a secondary disaster of nightmares, and modern human firepower is almost useless against them.

The only exception... is the item that also carries the power of nightmares.

Ding San had a premonition that the mirage they were tracking would soon make its appearance.

Retrieving the Nightmare item is a precautionary measure.

"D107, picked up by Ding San at 3:44 AM on July 14th, to be returned within seven days... Sister, is that alright?"

Xiao Zhang typed away on the computer for a while, then reached out his hand to Ding San.

Ding San handed over his identification documents.

Then Xiao Zhang lowered his voice and said, "Rumor has it that the Broken Wings Sect borrowed 1,400 doses of A004 diluent from headquarters a while ago, and they owe us a favor. If you run into any trouble lately, you can go to the Broken Wings Sect's boxing gyms in Xishan and the surrounding area."

"Hawk wings, white birds, falcon strikes and such..."

Ding San nodded slightly, indicating that he had made a mental note of it.

Xiao Zhang laughed and said, "But I don't think you need it, Third Sister. Would it be convenient for me to treat you to a drink sometime?"

Ding San twitched his lips, rolled his eyes, and said, "You're not a kid anymore, stop being so cheeky."

"Good good."

Xiao Zhang responded three times and then said nothing more.

……

Zhou Kai did not sleep that night.

The medicinal effects couldn't be wasted, so he practiced his falconry technique quietly almost all night.

With the help of a mysterious drug, your Falcon Striker experience gain efficiency has been greatly increased.

[Falcon Striking Technique Experience +3]

After reaching level 2, can you gain three points by practicing all night?
This speed is even faster than at level one.

The enhancement that secret medicine provides to ancient martial arts training is simply terrifying.

Moreover, it's far more than just increasing cultivation speed.

As he felt the effects of the medicine interacting with his muscles and bones, Zhou Kai could clearly sense that his physical fitness was continuously improving.

Now he understood everything. That was why the increase in strength when he upgraded his Falcon Strike Technique hadn't met expectations.

So... the key lies in the secret medicine!

"No wonder those people were so anxious because they saw me getting close to Chen Ping, like their fathers had died."

According to Chen Ping, each ordinary student at the boxing gym can only receive one dose of the secret medicine per month.

And it wasn't the kind of pill Zhou Kai had...

They received a decoction that had been dissolved in pills and then diluted many times over.

The combined effects of nine doses of the decoction were barely equivalent to the single pill in Zhou Kai's hand.

Even so... the coverage rate of students using the herbal decoction is only 60%.

This means that about 40% of the trainees never get the secret medicine.

For them, the more students in the gym, and the more students stronger than them, the more their interests are harmed.

It's understandable that they would feel disgusted or disdainful towards Zhou Kai.

“It’s not that I can’t understand it.”

"If they knew that I could get the amount of secret medicine that an ordinary student would receive in a week, they would be even more insane."

Zhou Kai smiled with relief.

(End of this chapter)