Heavenly Official Sends Evil

Chapter 807 Harvesting Nightmare Coins
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On the fourth floor of the mysterious building, the door at the end of the corridor opens.

Wearing a helmet, Wu Xian tilted his body and floated out of the stairwell door.

Previously, the inhabitants were driven here and forced to kill each other, thus creating a large number of Nightmare Coins.

Wu Xian came alone this time to reap the rewards of the battle.

The other four floors were visited by other members of the family. After accumulating power through three dream-entry experiences, the members of the family had become strong enough that, in order to save time, this harvesting work did not need to be carried out in teams.

Before the guests left, this corridor, like all the corridors in the Mystery Building, was dark, narrow, and slightly oppressive.

Now, this place has been completely turned into a murder scene.

Corpses of all kinds were everywhere: lying down, sitting, hanging, and separated.

The walls and ceiling were splattered with blood; a severed finger was stuck in the crack of the door; the floor was covered with bloody handprints and drag marks of a corpse; and under the furniture thrown from the apartment, a large pile of already rotting internal organs was faintly visible. The stench of blood in the air was so strong it was almost viscous…

It's easy to imagine how many people died in this corridor.

Wu Xian covered his nose as he wandered among the corpses, searching for traces of the Nightmare Coin.

When he floated to the door of apartment 404, he heard chewing sounds coming from inside.

So Wu Xian followed the sound and drifted inside. The scene inside the apartment was even more horrific. The floor was almost completely soaked in blood, and not a single square meter of space was clean.

The sound came from under the collapsed furniture, bookshelves, and cabinets, where a man covered in blood was lying.

This person had met Wu Xian once; he was Cao Yi!
Cao Yi is a rare native who did not actively attack Wu Xian. He used to be a truck driver and was involved in a car accident before the world's disaster spread.

After the car accident, he returned home to find that his entire family had died in the fire. He was also haunted by the victims of the accident, suffering from nightmares in which his family members would gradually transform into the likeness of the deceased...

In the end, Cao Yi was rescued by the Sleeping Woman and became a resident of the Mystery Tower.

During his second dream, Wu Xian traded a bottle of wine with Cao Yi for some information about the Mystery Tower.

At this moment, Cao Yi looked extremely miserable. His waist was almost broken by the heavy cabinet, but he was still lying on the ground, hugging the blood-stained flatbread, tearing and chewing it with great relish, as if he could never get enough of it.

Seeing his miserable state, Wu Xian sighed softly.

“I’m sorry to have dragged you into this. You’re the only one among the indigenous people who has left a good impression on me, but this is a necessary step in order to end all of this.”

Cao Yi, who was eating a flatbread, looked up and asked in a strange tone, "You mean to say that you're the one who used this meat pie to incite us to fight each other?"

Wu Xian nodded heavily.

"Well... thank you!"

Wu Xian was stunned. He had prepared himself to be insulted by Cao Yi, but he did not expect to receive a sincere thank you.

Seeing Wu Xian's surprised expression, he smiled at Wu Xian, took a bite of the biscuit, chewed it, and said to Wu Xian:

“You know, I’ve lived in this building for a long time.”

“Living in this building is more boring, tedious and dull than being in prison. We have no entertainment, only endless fear.”

"Only by using Nightmare Coins to exchange for cigarettes, alcohol, food, sleep, and family from Room Nine can I feel like I'm alive."

"In order to live a better life, I killed many people, and I was also killed by others because of it..."

Cao Yi chuckled self-deprecatingly. He knew that the mutual slaughter among the natives was a crazy and evil thing, but in this building, it was the only way to survive. "Slowly, I began to become insatiable, and even the things in room number nine could no longer satisfy me."

"This is probably because whatever you get from Room Nine, no matter how it looks, is ultimately just a fake that only exists in a dream."

"But your cake is different..."

Cao Yi stroked the blood-stained pancake, a look of nostalgia on his face.

"This pancake is so real, so real, that it reminds me of my family, the whole family, sitting around the table, eating pancakes my wife made. Back then, I would complain that they were too soft, too hard, too burnt, too light..."

As he spoke, he choked back tears, trying his best to swallow the bread, not even letting the crumbs go to waste. Tears washed two streaks down his blood-soaked face.

"But now, I have no one to complain to."

Wu Xian didn't interrupt and waited until Cao Yi finished eating.

After eating all the cakes, Cao Yi wiped away his tears and looked up at Wu Xian:
"The first group of people to enter this building all felt their hunger and thirst were insatiable during the long period of torment. When they lost their humanity in their hunger, they all became monsters that occupied the apartment and could not communicate normally."

"I am the last of this group, and I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on for much longer."

"So, please do me one more favor."

"I know you newcomers are capable, so if one day I become that kind of monster, please kill me."

Cao Yi pulled out a bunch of Nightmare Coins covered in sticky blood plasma from his pocket and pushed them in front of Wu Xian.

"This is the reward I'm paying for your help."

After releasing these nightmare coins, Cao Yi's voice became weak, and then he collapsed to the ground, no longer breathing.

Wu Xian stood there for a short while.

The incommunicable monster that Cao Yi mentioned should be the evil spirit with rule-based abilities that appears in the apartment every time the people enter their dreams.

It turns out that those evil spirits were originally inhabitants of the Mystery Tower, who had lost their humanity over the long years...

"Hey……"

Wu Xian shook his head, squatted down to pick up the coins Cao Yi had left behind. With these coins, he could go and meet up with the other members of the family.

But just as he picked up a dozen or so, the cabinet and bookshelf that were pressing down on Cao Yi's body suddenly exploded!

Beneath the broken furniture lay a monster formed from fused flesh and blood!

The monster looked like a ball of flesh, from which grew the upper bodies of several people, including old men and women, women, and young men and women!
Cao Yi, who just spoke, is only a part of this fleshy monster!

The appearance of the fleshy ball was very abrupt, and the scene was quite terrifying, but Wu Xian was not frightened at all; instead, his eyes became somewhat complicated.

The fleshy mass was connected to Cao Yi's family.

In the past, Cao Yi was trapped in a nightmare because he lost his family.

Now, Cao Yi is in a nightmare, having lost himself and turned into a monster, but... Cao Yi can finally be with his family again.

"Okay, I promise to help you!"

The enormous ball of flesh unfolded, like a pocket, enveloping Wu Xian. But before the flesh could close up, purple-blue lightning flashed within, followed by black-red flames that began to burn…

(End of this chapter)