Heavenly Official Sends Evil

Chapter 986 How to Deal with Nightmares

Seeing that Wang Hongjiu couldn't answer for a long time, reporter Wu stopped asking.

"If you want us to publish the news, there is one last thing I need to do: I need to document what she looks like when she has an attack."

Yang Qiqi took out her phone: "We have a video."

Reporter Wu shook his head: "We can't use yours. Who knows if your videos are real or fake? Reporters have to be worthy of their news audience. Only videos we shoot count."

The couple hesitated for a moment before agreeing.

Yang Qiqi coaxed Wang Xueying gently for a while before she agreed to show herself sleeping on camera and lay down on the bed that smelled strongly of blood.

Reporter Wu knelt beside the bed and asked gently, "Can you tell me what's in the nightmares that wake you up?"

"I...I can't remember. I forgot it very quickly after I woke up," Wang Xueying replied in a trembling voice.

"Then let's make a deal. This time, as soon as you wake up, tell me what you dreamed about, okay?"

Wang Xueying nodded, then closed her eyes. She hadn't slept for a long time due to fear, so as soon as she closed her eyes, her breathing quickly became steady, and her eyeballs moved rapidly under her eyelids, which meant that she had begun to dream.

After waiting for a few minutes, a horrifying scene unfolded before her eyes.

On Wang Xueying's body, there were densely packed bumps, at least hundreds at a glance, which was even more terrifying than the videos seen before.

Yang Qiqi covered her face and cried, not daring to look closely.

Wang Hong looked at the photographer and said excitedly, "Quick, quick, take a picture of this! If you take a picture, Xueying can be saved!"

Then Wang Hong saw the photographer casually throw the camera aside and take out a damp white towel to press against Wang Xueying's mouth and nose.

Upon seeing this, Wang Hong was first confused, then enraged, and punched the photographer.

"What the hell..."

But the photographer pinned Wang Hong against the wall with just one hand, rendering him unable to move.

Amid the couple's horrified gazes, reporter Wu pulled a burlap sack from his backpack, put Wang Xueying inside, hoisted her onto his shoulder, and walked out.

Bang!
The next second, the door was violently broken open!

A group of armed men in black stormed in, quickly subdued Wang Hong and Yang Qiqi, and drugged them unconscious. The remaining men then cautiously searched the entire house.

……

Reporter Wu carried the sack downstairs and gently placed it in a box that resembled a coffin. Both the sack and the coffin were covered with yellow talismans.

"Congratulations, mission complete."

The speaker was a white-haired, red-eyed man named Feng Chen, the action team leader of the City God's Office.

With a few days left before his visit to the spiritual clinic, Wu Xian only needed to follow his doctor's instructions to sleep at night, while he had plenty of free time during the day. So, he accepted the invitation from the City God to come here and help deal with an evil spirit incident.

Wu Xian does this several times every time he returns from the blessed land; it's part of his daily routine in the real world.

Wu Xian restored his hair, which had been deformed by the baseball cap, to its original fluffy state: "This job felt a bit strange. There was no need for fighting, and there was no danger. I was prepared for things to go wrong, but I didn't expect to catch the person so easily."

Feng Chen put a cigarette in his mouth: "Our operations are always focused on stability and safety. It's not easy to make a mistake. However, cases related to nightmares are indeed different from other cases. They're either very easy to solve, or incredibly troublesome..."

“If it’s just a regular evil spirit, I can just call on a dozen or so followers and crush it.”

"But nightmares are different. These things only exist in dreams, and the torment they inflict on the dreamer will also appear in reality. Some nightmares in the real world are brought out of blessed lands by benefactors, some are created by evil people, and some are created out of thin air."

"The most dangerous thing is that nightmares are very stealthy; once they sense danger, they will quickly flee..."

Wu Xian strongly agrees with this.

In this incident, it seems that only Wang Xueying is tormented by nightmares.

But in fact, both Wang Hong and Yang Qiqi were also under the spell of the nightmare. Therefore, even though they had seen strange things, they still did not choose to ask for help from the outside world. Instead, they stayed in the house together, despairing on their own.

The City God, through some means, observed something amiss here and provided spiritual guidance to the family, which led to Wu Xianhe's interview with the photographer.

Theoretically speaking, Wu Xian had killed countless nightmares and even eliminated the super nightmare 'Nightmare Master'.

But those achievements don't count in the real world. Wu Xian was able to fight Nightmare head-on only in the special environment of the blessed land. In reality, Nightmare would only hide in places that people couldn't find and spread fear...

Once the nightmare within Wang Xueying senses that it is threatened, it will escape using an unobservable method and hide in someone else's body.

Therefore, all of Wu Xian and the photographer's previous actions were to lower the guard of the three people and the evil spirit, including the nightmare, so that when Wang Xueying fell asleep, they could confirm that the nightmare was hiding in her dream and quickly seal it away, thus resolving the matter.

Many evil events in the real world are like this: they seem dangerous and complicated, but in reality, they can be perfectly resolved in the time it takes to eat lunch.

In addition, the City God Temple had also made contingency plans in case the plan went wrong. In case the plan failed, the two servants who entered Wang Xueying’s house would not be in any danger. Wu Xian was protected by the dream of the Floating Light Dream Fairy, and the photographer, although a newcomer, had a special dreamless constitution and could not dream at all.

Wu Xian asked Feng Chen, "By the way, what should we do with this family afterwards?"

Feng Chen flicked his cigarette ash and watched the coffin being carried away:
"Her parents were relatively less affected and could be released after some psychological intervention. The girl, on the other hand, will be sent to a special cell to be imprisoned as a container to seal the nightmare. If she is imprisoned long enough, the nightmare may die on its own."

This girl's future may be very difficult, but there's nothing that can be done about it. For ordinary people, it's already a blessing to survive when they encounter evil spirits.

After chatting for a while, the staff of the City God Temple completed the aftermath of the incident, and Feng Chen left with the family of three. As for the reward for Wu Xian, it would be distributed through Han Xiaoying.

Only Wu Xian and the photographer remained at the scene.

The photographer's name is He Xiaoyi, and this is their first time working together.

He Xiaoyi asked Wu Xian curiously:
“Angkor, when I first became a servant, I was specifically warned by the City God.”

"Only spells and items bestowed by immortals and gods are safe. All other cultivation methods, spell knowledge, and items from blessed worlds must not be used in the real world, even if this knowledge comes from righteous people in blessed worlds..."

"This knowledge can be distorted in the real world, leading to the depravity of those who follow it and causing disaster."

"But I just saw that the sacks and coffins that the City God used to seal the nightmares were covered with yellow talismans. These yellow talismans couldn't have been bestowed by the gods, because there were just too many of them. Wouldn't it be dangerous for them to use these yellow talismans?"

Wu Xian laughed twice after hearing this.

When he first saw the 'human-machine-cart' sealed by the City God, he was curious about this issue and had asked experienced relatives about it.

"These yellow talismans are indeed not from immortals or gods, but they will not pose a danger, because the knowledge to create these yellow talismans comes from the real world. The magical artifacts and talismans used by the City God are all provided by the Three Officials Sect!"

(End of this chapter)