Chapter 394

It’s not… what are you up to?

Leon felt a bit uneasy as he looked at the Scorpion Bureau Director who had suddenly become humble and showed goodwill towards him. His heart twitched, and his whole body felt awkward.

Could it be that I’ve been visited by nightmares again? But I just touched the “Dream-eating Anomalous Carapace,” and it was definitely real. Even if the Nightmare King himself were to descend, it would be impossible to simulate the information of the “Dream-eating Anomalous Carapace,” right? “Don’t overthink it.”

After glancing at the night sky over the Capital City and looking at the Dream Realm creatures immobilized by the pale doll, the tall and thin man picked up his still-dripping slender sword and decisively chopped off the doll’s head. He then killed hundreds of elite nightmares that had broken through the blockade. Subsequently, he placed his hands behind his back, lifted his head slightly with great bearing, and said:

“The grudge between Olivia and me is personal and doesn’t involve you cleaners. Personally, I quite admire your courage… If I’m not mistaken, the Nightmare King should be appearing soon. Try to stay close to me so that I can save you in time.”

“…”

If you hadn’t insulted me so much before, I might have believed you now…

Although Leon felt that the sudden change from the other party was very awkward, his own bureau director had indeed said that staying by this guy’s side would be safe before the Nightmare King appeared. So, Leon didn’t say more but cautiously moved closer after responding.

“Come, stand next to me.”

The tall man gestured for Leon, who was half a step behind and looking up at the sky, to come stand beside him. While disassembling the doll’s head, he kindly advised: “Remember, when the Soulfall Black Abyss overlaps with reality, although it will strengthen the power of the dream realm creatures, the dream realm creatures that descend into reality will gain real bodies instead of merely existing in consciousness, making them easier to kill in the dream realm.

However, the existence method of the dream realm differs from reality, so we must also be cautious not to get dragged in.

After all, the dream realm is their home field. Being too fixated on our flesh and souls makes us no match for dream realm creatures. But if we loosen our self-awareness and align with the rules of the dream realm, we risk confusing our own existence… Hmm?”

At this point, as if noticing something amiss, the eyebrows of the tall man slightly arched, and he twirled one of the antennae of the mother bug on his chest.

“Shrill! Shrill! Shrill!”

The sharp insect calls sounded again. With the mother bug’s call, the offspring bugs spreading throughout the capital city began calling together, responding with three clear insect calls.

But strangely, even though their numbers continued to multiply, the responses from the “Dream-eating Anomalous Carapace” offspring bugs rapidly decreased. If the first wave of insect calls was as loud as the tides of the sea, then the second wave was only as loud as the waves at the shore.

As for the final third wave of insect calls…

“Shrill…”

Looking at the last “Dream-eating Anomalous Carapace” still moving weakly on Leon’s shoulder, responding to the mother bug, the expression of the Scorpion Bureau Director instantly became visibly serious.

“Don’t move.”

After calling out to Leon, who didn’t understand why, the Director of the Scorpio Division pinched the beetle on Leon’s shoulder, flipped it over, and found a hair-thin wooden splinter embedded in the abdomen of the beetle, piercing straight through the forehead position of the human-face pattern.

All wiped out…

Looking at the beetle in his hand, whose movements were getting weaker and leaking black water, the tall man took a deep breath and said with an unpleasant expression: “Abnormal creation… Aquarius is really alive!”

Aquarius?

After hearing the words of the tall man, Leon couldn’t help but show a slight change in expression and lightly tapped the wooden splinter stuck in the bug’s belly.

[Name: Bug-removal Wooden Splinter (Wish granting, Bug removal, Chain)]

[Ability: Kill beetles, eradicate pests, chain bug killing]

[Cost: Too negligible to count]

[Archive: Created by the former Aquarius Director of the Cleaning Bureau to handle the rapidly mutating “Dream-eating Anomalous Carapace.” Using the strong desire of the Nightmare King to erase the “Dream-eating Anomalous Carapace” as material, it was temporarily created by沾dying a drop of True God’s blood. This killing-type anomaly has no provisional number yet.

After using this anomaly to kill one bug, it can trace back along the connection between identical sub-bodies, simultaneously killing all similar sub-bodies within a large range. This effect is only effective against the “Dream-eating Anomalous Carapace.”]

[Evaluation: Extremely targeted anomaly, highly effective when targeting shell insects. Also, because the wood is fine and tough, it works well as a toothpick.]

[Taint Value: 0.1]

“…”

With a Taint Value as high as 60 points, the “Dream-eating Anomalous Carapace” which once reproduced nearly a billion and caused headaches for the Cleaning Bureau, was actually killed entirely by a toothpick? After reading the information about the “Bug-removal Wooden Splinter,” Leon instinctively reached for his cufflink, wanting to use the “Unfair Snake Contract” to swap this thing over, allowing the “Dream-eating Anomalous Carapace” to function normally.

But considering the yet-to-be-exposed “Unfair Snake Contract” and the overly “cheap” materials used for the “Bug-removal Wooden Splinter,” Leon let go and instead asked the Scorpion Bureau Director:

“Mr. Edward, can you save this last sub-body?”

“All could be saved.”

After looking at the barely breathing beetle in his hand, the tall man couldn’t help but frown and say:

“But saving it won’t be of any use, right? The “Dream-eating Anomalous Carapace” needs some time to mutate to a sufficient quantity, and Aquarius has already prepared a targeted anomaly.

No matter how many “Dream-eating Anomalous Carapace” have mutated, as long as they find any sub-body of the “Dream-eating Anomalous Carapace,” all other sub-bodies will be killed simultaneously. This thing is useless now.”

“Still, try to save it.”

Leon insisted: “You’ve already given the mother bug one command, and you can never use it again in this lifetime. It takes 60 Leon Values to induce the mother bug to produce controllable offspring. It’s better to keep a few just in case.”

“Hmm, that’s true…”

Hearing this, the Scorpio Bureau Director nodded, retrieved dozens of beetles that weren’t completely dead from the surrounding sleeping pedestrians, cut his finger, and squeezed a drop of blood onto each one. Then he put the revived beetles into a bottle and threw it to Leon.

“You take them! In case you’re hypnotized by nightmares again, they can eat your dreams and forcibly drive the nightmare out.

However, to prevent them from going out of control, I set the lifespan of these adult beetles I bred to be extremely short, lasting only about a week. They will die automatically after a week, don’t forget that.”

“Thank you, I’ll remember.”

Carefully storing the bottle containing the “Dream-eating Anomalous Carapace” and also putting away the “Bug-removal Wooden Splinter (Sub-body),” Leon looked at the increasingly blood-red sky above and slightly worriedly asked:

“Mr. Edward, approximately how long until the Nightmare King appears?”