What’s wrong with the dream world!

A creepy feeling suddenly filled my heart!

It was clearly a monster born from fear and dreams, but when it heard the gentle voice ringing in its ears, its body couldn't help but tremble.

It raised its head in disbelief and looked at Yu Xiu De, who was standing beside it with a calm expression. It opened its mouth as if it wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Yu Xiu De as a matter of course.

"You should understand, Nightmare."

"Dreams must eventually end."

At this moment, Yu Xiu De seemed to acknowledge Yan, showing a deliberate but standard fatherly smile. He lowered his head to look at Yan, with the corners of his mouth raised, but there was no warmth in his eyes.

I don’t know if it was the nightmare’s illusion, but the young man in its eyes seemed to have a momentary blurry flashback, and his face seemed to become much older in an instant, like a middle-aged man, but eventually he returned to the appearance of a young man.

And at that moment, Nightmare's eyes were still pure.

The frightened Yan quickly shook off Yu Xiu De's hand.

Although it has no place to stay, as a dream creature, it can still float like Yu Xiude after becoming familiar with the rules of this space.

It looked at Yu Xiu De in surprise and doubt, and then its eyes fell on the bubble closest to it.

Even though the surface of the bubble was covered with a layer of chaotic colors, Nightmare could still confirm that this was the bubble where the old nun was.

And the old nun was indeed just a person in the nightmare dream.

A person who is dreamt of.

Yan, who had a premonition, saw Yu Xiude raise his hand towards the huge bubble in front of him and quickly said:

"Wait a moment!"

Although it itself didn't know why it spoke up to stop the nightmare.

After all, as a creature in the dream world, it should know that the world is actually just a nightmare's dream, and it has no reason to interfere with how the nightmare deals with the bubble.

In fact, if it wasn't because it was facing Yu Xiu De, a nightmare who could maintain his dreams while awake, then its actions at this moment would undoubtedly be persuading an ordinary sleeping person never to wake up from his dreams.

Is it worth it to anger the original owner of the dream for a person who appeared in the dream?

But…the nightmare dream was too real.

Knowing he was in the wrong, Yan didn't dare to express his reluctance directly, but instead tried to persuade him indirectly:

"Isn't this a bit too wasteful...?"

The child's voice stopped abruptly.

Because it saw that the originally huge bubble began to shrink extremely quickly as Yu Xiude stretched out his right hand, spread out his palm, and then clenched his fist, and was finally grasped in Yu Xiude's hand.

It was so fast that Yan had no time to react, and his actions did not hesitate at all because of Yan's words.

"This isn't a waste for me. After all, my power isn't unlimited. Only when those outdated dreams fade away can I dream of something new. Carrying a heavy burden forward is not the path I choose."

"But perhaps this could also be good for you."

Yu Xiu De threw the object in his hand towards Yan.

Nightmare instinctively took it with both hands, but when it saw the specific appearance of the object in its hands, its mind went blank.

It was a scarlet fruit with human ears, eye slits, lips, and a nose, but it looked like a disrupted Rubik's Cube and no longer had a human shape. The texture in the hand was also very similar to skin, but it felt a little dry and loose, like the skin of an elderly person.

Sensing Nightmare's gaze, the small fruit quickly reassembled like a Rubik's Cube, with human ears, eye slits, lips, and nose reorganized into a specific shape, taking on a human form, but it made Nightmare feel extremely familiar.

It was the old nun's face.

A peaceful voice came to my ears again.

"I made it so that you can accept it."

Yu Xiu De seemed to have no idea that there was anything wrong with his actions.

He instantly came behind Yan and put his hand intimately on Yan's shoulder, like a serious and old-fashioned father who was also deeply "tender" to his children, adding some "interesting" decorations to the food that the child did not want to eat.

It's like turning a child's pet rabbit, which they have deep affection for, into rabbit meat; turning a child's carefully cared-for chicken into chicken legs... no, it's even worse.

Because they had all turned into flesh, they couldn't be detected without reminders, and Yu Xiude even reassembled these "flesh" into the form that Yan was most familiar with, stimulating Yan's mind...

And they added fuel to the fire with words so bland that one could hardly hear any emotion!

"I am moved by your persistence in calling me father."

"Your similarity to mine touches me."

"So I will tentatively acknowledge that you are my offspring."

"And this is my early coming-of-age gift to you."

Yu Xiude said in a commanding tone:

"Eat it."

The Silence of the Lambs: Chapter 163: Expunge Your Humanity!

“…What if I don’t eat it?”

Feeling the pressure on his shoulders, Yan spoke with difficulty.

It finally recovered from the heavy pressure and was able to maintain basic thinking ability to guess Yu Xiu De's motives and understand its current situation.

In fact, Nightmare has always known that Nightmare has been vaguely wary of him, and has been trying to provoke him, but he has always been avoided by Nightmare.

Nightmare was right. Nightmare had indeed been pretending to be a good child.

And now, this little monster, whose thinking and experience are actually higher than those of normal children, although very depressed, restrained himself, gently placed the fruit on the palm of his hand, and began to wonder if this was also a test.

If you really eat it yourself, you will fall into the lower class.

Thinking of this, the unknown emotions that seemed to be about to sprout seemed to have lost their nutrients and could not bloom.

Under the dual influence of emotion and rationality, a half-true and half-false reluctance appeared on Yan's little face.

"I don't want to eat it. If possible, I want to keep it as my most precious memory."

That's right.

Since Nightmare was willing to feed himself this "dream material" that contained his entire high-quality dream, it meant that the dream should be transferable to him and was not necessary, so he could keep it.

Besides, this fruit is still alive, isn't it?

Since Nightmare can transform a huge dream world bubble into a small fruit, it should also be able to transform it back into the bubble that seems to encompass an entire world!

But just when Nightmare was thinking about how to persuade Nightmare, who seemed to not regard the people in the dream as human beings, and at the same time make his behavior conform to Nightmare's wishes, he got an unexpected answer.

"Don't eat?"

Yu Xiu's tone rose, but there was no surprise on his face, only a natural calmness.

He patted Yan's shoulder and said in a low voice:

"Do you think you have a choice?"

"I said, eat it."

"!"

what happened?

Shouldn't this just be a test?!

Yan felt something was wrong and thought his judgment might be wrong, but it was too late.

Because just as Yu Xiu De finished speaking, his body suddenly became uncontrollable and the fruit slowly moved towards his lips.

During this slow process, Nightmare could even see the old nun's tightly closed eyes on the fruit slowly opening and looking at him.

Two lines of clear tears flowed from its eyes and dripped onto Nightmare's palm, as if it felt sad about the impending ending. At the same time, its lips were reluctantly raised, as if to comfort Nightmare that it was not its fault.

She still loves it.

But at this moment, Yan was unable to respond to this kindness from a real dreamer who was like an elder.

When the nightmare is pulled into the nightmare's dream, except for its own feelings and thoughts, its behavior, its life and death are all in the control of the transcendent in the dream realm.

Yan could only watch helplessly as the fruit was put into his mouth, feeling the juice gushing out of his mouth like a normal fruit, and the flesh being chewed by his teeth.

At the same time, the peaceful voice from Yu Xiu De in his ears was like a heavy hammer hitting his childish mind again and again, shattering his rationality that was on the verge of collapse.

"What makes you think this is a test? Just relying on your previous poor acting skills and shallow experience, you think you can understand my logic?"

"Do you think that by constantly calling me father and being obedient, you can pretend to be a good child and hide your inhuman nature? Do you think that the relationship between father and son can be easily established simply by addressing each other? Or that it even allows you to make demands on me?"

"Of course, it doesn't matter what you think... After all, I can't read minds even in dreams. Even if I could recreate you in my dreams based on your prototypes, the risk of 'distortion' is not negligible."

"And you, Nightmare, you have indeed earned my recognition through your actions. Regardless of whether you harbor evil intentions or simply crave my protection, I am willing to acknowledge you as my offspring."

"But do you think that as a child, you don't have to endure your parents' nagging and scolding, and..."

"Education with love?"

Yu Xiu De put his hands on Yan's shoulders and leaned over to whisper in Yan's ear.

Words that still lacked much emotion kept washing over Nightmare's brain. In the dream, it seemed as if the time of the words and the amount of information in the bytes had become blurred, and the words themselves were like mud, wrapping around Nightmare's ears.

"You've learned about morality and emotions from your dreams. That's great. You're becoming more and more like a human being."

"But you seem immature. You take the things in your dreams seriously and can't let go of what happened in your dreams for a long time... This is not good."

"Dreams are just dreams after all. It's great to gain experience, emotional intelligence, wisdom, skills, information, and insights from dreams, but if you stick to one or two specific dreams, aren't you missing the big picture?"

"As my descendant, I think I need to teach you this."

……

After eating the fruit, Nightmare could feel the power rising in his body. He had not fought many times with the owners of the fate, and Number Thirteen, who had no fighting spirit at that time, obviously did not count... So he could only use himself as a reference and roughly estimate that he was now more than ten times stronger than before.

But the sense of fulfillment brought by the strength did not fill the emptiness in its heart at the moment.

It felt that its mind had become a mess, more confused than before when it was still a ball of flesh without independent consciousness.

The underlying logic written for it by No. 13 tells it that its prototype is gentle, majestic, compassionate, trustworthy and also worthy of entrustment.

Nightmares are the most worthy objects of faith in the world.

This was a thought that No. 13 had unintentionally added when he was creating Nightmare in the past, and it was also the fundamental reason why Nightmare was so close to Yu Xiu De without any bottom line.

Otherwise, a dream creature enlightened by fear would not be eager to be close to the nightmare like a child, but like a subordinate who surrenders out of fear, a pet that obeys because of birth.

However, the self-awareness that has sprouted after being enlightened by the nightmare now tells the nightmare that there is a problem with its closeness to the nightmare.

It didn't even last a whole day with the nightmare.

And it and the old nun lived in a nightmare for more than twenty years.

……

……

Snapped!

Yan suddenly realized something and made up his mind. He turned around, slapped away Yu Xiude's hand on his shoulder, and quickly distanced himself from him.

There was no flattery or obedience on its face, nor was there any cynicism, only pure anger.

"Fish, cultivate virtue!"

With difficulty, Yan awkwardly pronounced the name of the man in front of him, whose expression remained unchanged, as if everything was within his expectations. He shouted in a tone filled with strong emotion:

"You're totally inhuman! I'm going to fight you!"

The Silence of the Lambs: Chapter 164 The Nightmare Has Not Awakened

Qianpeng City, Lanmeng Community, in the bedroom of 13d.

The old nun, who had lived in this apartment, which had been transformed from an ordinary apartment into a sanctuary, for more than 20 years and was the only one living in this apartment, sat by the bed and looked worriedly at the boy who was lying on the bed and seemed to be asleep.

The layout of the bedroom is the same as it has been for more than 20 years. In fact, the entire building, whether viewed from the inside or the outside, is just an old building that has been outdated for more than several decades. However, it is still clean and tidy, and it can be seen that it has been well maintained.

The old nun knew that this was prepared by Nightmare for Nightmare, and it hoped to keep this residence, which was originally modeled after the real fish Xiu De, as original as possible.

In fact, Yan's guess was correct, this was still a test.

Although its experience is not as rich as Yu Xiu De's, its accumulation method is extremely similar. As a monster enlightened by Nightmare himself, even if it is affected by the 800-degree filter of "Number Six in Number Thirteen's Mind" unconsciously imposed on it by Number Thirteen, it still has certain advantages in guessing Nightmare's thoughts.

However, this advantage was discovered by the nightmare and countered by Yu Xiu De who realized that his thoughts were being guessed. He was then dragged into a dream within a dream by the insightful dream educator.