Excessive ferocity due to caution

Without Zhao Yi, Li Xiuer, who was excitedly buying water at the convenience store and putting it in her bag, didn't even have time to scream before a blood-stained saw suddenly appeared behind her and slashed her neck!

Her body fell limply and was split in two at an angle.

Lying quietly on the ground, blood flowing...

...

Same old place.

It's still the same neighborhood.

It's still the same three people.

The only difference is that the sky is no longer filled with dark clouds and rumbling thunder.

It was actually raining.

Looking at the puddles on the ground, Zhao Yi seemed to be deep in thought.

Li Xiuer remained expressionless, still setting up her trap.

Although she knew these things were almost useless in the second layer of the dream, Li Xiuer was absolutely not going to stand idly by and wait to die.

Having wandered alone in the chaotic city for so long, her perseverance and will to survive are much stronger than those of ordinary people her age.

Living for even one more second might allow you to grasp a crucial clue and thus achieve a dramatic turnaround!

"I'm sorry... I've let you both down."

"It was all just my own delusion..."

Nan Jia's face showed both shame and apology.

My arrogant attitude just now was utterly shameful!

He even confidently told them that he had found the key to breaking the curse...

"No, you've done very well."

Li Xiuer raised her small face and said earnestly.

"You're just unlucky."

The young monk was taken aback.

At this moment, Zhao Yi, who was standing to the side, also said:

"Actually, your idea is not wrong."

"The method is wrong."

Upon hearing Zhao Yi's words, Nan Jia's eyes lit up once again.

"What do you mean by that, Benefactor Zhao?"

Zhao Yi stretched out his hand and caught the light rain falling from the sky:

"It's unlikely that we can destroy it head-on in Ezrak's dream."

"Our strength has been severely weakened."

"So waking it up is indeed a good idea."

"But you've made a mistake in one place."

Nan Jia was stunned:

"Where did I go wrong, sir?"

Zhao Yi turned his head and met Nan Jia's gaze:

"You shouldn't project your own kindness onto the other person."

Nan Jia looked bewildered.

"This humble monk...does not understand."

Zhao Yi said with a half-smile:

"What makes you think that once it realizes it's all a dream... it will stop killing?"

Nan Jia was startled!

This time he understood.

"In that case, wouldn't we be preventing Etzlark from knowing that this is its dream?"

"Then how do we wake him up?"

Zhao Yi handed the rainwater in his hand to him.

"fear!"

"Extreme... terror!"

Just as Nan Jia was stunned, the girl said in a deep voice:

"He's here!"

Upon entering the second layer of the dream, the three were in worse condition, while Etzlark was in better condition.

Surprisingly, the speed at which he walked towards the crowd, wearing a dark green thick raincoat, was not much different from that in the first layer of the dream.

After Zhao Yi's reminder, the bald man and the girl carefully noticed that the killer would intentionally avoid areas with deep water on the ground when walking.

"It's water...he's afraid of water!"

The girl murmured softly, and a subtle change occurred in her gaze as she looked at Zhao Yi.

When Zhao Yi was in the previous dream level, he asked her to buy water.

This shows that Zhao Yi already knew that this guy was afraid of water at that time!

This little bald guy's friend... seems pretty strong!

The viewers in the live stream suddenly realized what was going on!

"It was the raincoat that betrayed this murderer!"

"The first layer of the dream is a shallow dream; it doesn't rain at all, but out of fear of water, Ezrak's dream avatar—'The Slaughter'—still wears a thick raincoat!"

"Damn, no wonder Zhao Yi spent so long examining the raincoat fragments among the shredded meat... My brother Zhao is getting thinner and thinner!"

"What's the use of knowing the opponent's weakness? They have raincoats, so what if they're afraid of the rain? We can't just strip them naked and let them get soaked... Besides, Zhao Yi and the others are so severely weakened, it's simply impossible for them to do that!"

"Watch patiently, I trust Brother Zhao!"

...

Without hesitation, the three chose to flee.

On the way, the Nanga Riding Pig Trail:

"Benefactor Zhao, you have so many ideas, you must have a solution, right?!"

Zhao Yi replied, panting:

"have!"

"In the final layer of the dream!"

"We only have one chance!"

"Therefore, before we die in this layer of the dream, I must explain things to you clearly!"

Nanga:

"You speak, we're listening!"

Zhao Yi:

"If we want Etzlark's consciousness to abandon and destroy this dream world, we must make him experience enough despair and fear within it!"

He is extremely afraid of water!

"We'll take advantage of this and bombard his subconscious with suggestions—'Torrential rain, clogged sewers in Baihua residential area... flooding is imminent!'"

"The dream world is primarily constructed by the subconscious. When the subconscious believes a flood is imminent... then the flood will truly come!"

"We'll do this later..."

After assigning tasks to each other, the three stopped struggling.

Etzlark caught up with them, grinning maliciously as he used his blood-stained saw to dismember the three men...

...

The third layer of the dream.

Same old place.

This time, it wasn't just heavy rain.

And there's a hurricane!

The entire neighborhood looked like it was the end of the world!

The intense weakness was so great that the three of them could only lie on the ground and were unable to stand up!

"quick!"

"The sewage outlet is just ahead!"

As Zhao Yi spoke, he led the way and climbed into a vertical shaft.

That place... is their only hope for a desperate counterattack!

Due to this terrifying downpour.

The killers in the distance also began to approach the three of them tremblingly.

He abandoned the lantern with the severed head, his hands completely hidden inside his raincoat, dragging only the terrifying, blood-stained saw, and walked step by step, towards the crowd…

Amidst the sudden wind and rain, the two were less than two hundred meters apart.

But they can't see each other at all.

Upon arriving at the sewage outlet, Zhao Yi's eyes suddenly turned blood red, and black runes condensed on his body.

Despite being extremely weak, he managed to lift the heavy manhole cover by inserting one finger into it!

Then Zhao put Li Xiuer into the well and put the lid on.

Then, the two waited in the pouring rain for the killers to arrive.

Soon, the familiar dark figure in the distance drew closer and closer...

Upon seeing this, Zhao Yi hurriedly shouted in alarm:

"Oh no!"

"Nanjia, this rain is too heavy! It's destroyed the drainage system in Baihua Residential Area!!"

Nan Jia, with her eyes closed, used the last of her strength to shout at the top of her lungs:

"No way?"

How did you know?

The killer seemed not to hear their conversation. He dragged the blood saw to them, raised it high, and his eerie green eyes radiated savagery and ferocity!

This scene made all the players in the live stream hold their breath!

They knew that once that saw fell, Zhao Yi would surely die!

Will he... die?

The players stared intently at the live stream screen; at that moment, time seemed to stretch on forever!

However, just as the killer was about to swing his knife,

Below the shaft,

Li Xiuer held the bottle of mineral water she had bought from the convenience store on the first floor of the dream world, aimed the bottle opening at the drain hole of the manhole cover, and squeezed the bottle with all her might!

A small stream of water suddenly shot upwards from the drain hole of the manhole cover!

The perpetrators standing outside naturally saw the stream of water.

These seemingly insignificant details lend Zhao Yi's words a sense of absolute truth!

And so, the savagery vanished from the killer's eerie green eyes at a speed visible to the naked eye...

Instead, fear took its place!

Is the sewer really... clogged?

Wouldn't that mean...?

Just as he hesitated and was stunned, several more streams of water rushed out from the drain.

Zhao Yi, standing to the side, was utterly horrified:

"It's over...it's over!!"

"There's a huge flood!"

"...I'm going to drown...we're all going to drown!!!"

His constant nagging became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The killer, whose entire body was tightly wrapped in a dark green raincoat, suddenly threw away the blood saw in his hand and screamed in terror on the spot!

"No...no!"

"Water...no...no water...no!!"

"Aaaaaah!!!"

He covered his head with both hands, collapsed to the ground, and retreated in a panic!

But in the distance, where his eyes were fixed—at the entrance of the Baihua residential area—a massive flood was sweeping in!

The waves, hundreds of meters high, completely engulfed the tall buildings in the residential area!

"Gurgle gurgle—"

The killer lay on the ground, water gushing from his mouth and nose even though the flood had not yet arrived, his seven orifices flowing like springs!

He frantically tore at his own body, as if he wanted to rip himself apart!

It was at this moment that Zhao Yi lifted the sewer cover, allowing the girl to escape from the water.

As Etzlark's subconscious completely collapsed due to fear, the shaft was also filled with water...

There was no way for them to escape!

"Benefactor Zhao... what... what do we do now?!"

The weakening effect of the third layer of the dream world on them disappeared.

All three regained their strength.

But at this moment, what was truly deadly was no longer the humanoid fountain-like killer on the ground, but rather... the massive flood waves hundreds of meters high that had already surrounded them from all sides!

Zhao Yi handed the green umbrella to Nan Jia, then went to the killer's side, grabbed his collar, and looked him in the eye.

At this moment, Zhao Yi finally saw Etzlark's face clearly.

It was a face covered in pimples and pustules, incredibly ugly. It had lost its previous ruthless and vicious nature in hunting people, leaving only fear and a cowardly appearance with tears streaming down its face.

His mind temporarily collapsed in fear, and he could no longer resist Zhao Yi's mental invasion.

The moment their eyes met, Etzlark was shocked to see—

Zhao Yi's eyes... had turned blood red!

"Are massacre games fun?"

"Now...it's your turn..."

Etzlark's consciousness gradually sank into the abyss...

P.S.: Okay, that's the end of this story for now.

We are ready to continue fulfilling our obligations.

That's all for today.

Goodnight, everyone!

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I finally made up for the goodnight messages I missed the other day!!