Forbidden Nightmare

Chapter 88 Returns, the Non-Existent Nightmare Group?
When Li Nanke regained consciousness, he had returned to the other side of the lake where the lake was like a mirror and the sky was blue.

There is no danger or fighting here, far away from all the noise, and even the text of the synchronized prompts is a relaxing azure blue.

He finally completed this forbidden dream, just like completing a marathon. Logically, he should feel relieved, but in fact he felt a little regretful.

If nothing unexpected happened, Renault and Anya should have escaped successfully, and completing the final hidden node was only a temporary severance of the grace of pain, and this "temporary" time was too short.

The spirits of the three saints are only the manifestation of the will of the great gods, which may be equivalent to the projection of the incarnation. If the "Holy Lord" cannot be completely killed, it is impossible to truly cut off the suffering of the grace of God.

Li Nanke even suspected that even if the supreme god was killed, as long as the people in the dream still believed in suffering, the grace of the god of suffering would never be cut off.

This is an unsolvable problem for him at the moment.

[Nightmare, you have completed the forbidden dream - 'Painful Divine Grace'! ]

[Dream is being resolved...]

[Your settlement score in this dream is: Grade A]

[Since you have completed the hidden node: Rescue the 'Lady of Eternal Pain' Aniya. ]

[Your dream score rises to: S-level]

[Since you have completed the hidden node: Severing All Suffering Divine Grace. ]

[Your dream settlement score rises to: SS level]

[Based on this score, your current normal exchange fee is 500 points, and you can exchange for two items in the special list. ]

"It seems that A-level should be the peak that the basic score can reach. Subsequent scores need to complete relevant hidden nodes to achieve them."

"It's an improvement over the previous two S+ levels... I just don't know how to achieve SSS level."

Li Nanke is not a perfectionist, but he always scores 85 or 90 points, which is only one step away from the full score. This makes him very curious about what the reward will be after getting the full score.

[Nightmare, you have unlocked new permissions for the Great Other Shore, the 'Recycling' and 'Trading' functions! ]

[Recycling: You can hand over useless items to the Great Other Side for recycling in exchange for a certain exchange fee. ]

[Trading: This trading function only provides the most basic trading authority. After each forbidden dream, you will get three trading opportunities. The value of the items you provide will be evaluated by the Great Other Shore, and then randomly matched with trading items from other nightmares. You cannot choose on your own. This trading authority will gradually increase as you participate in the forbidden dream more times. ]

Li Nanke was stunned.

What stunned him was the description of the trading option, that the trade could match the exchange items of other nightmares!
Except for the first guided dream in which other dreamers participated, there were no other nightmares in the two subsequent forbidden dreams.

Moreover, in the real world, he joined the Crisis Management Bureau and obtained a series of intelligence information, but he did not find any evidence of the existence of other nightmares.

This made Li Nanke think for a time that he was the only candidate to be promoted from a 'Dreamer' to a 'Nightmare'.

Now the other side once again broke his inherent cognition, telling him clearly that there are other nightmares.

"What exactly is going on?"

All kinds of speculations emerged in Li Nanke's mind.

He frowned and started using the transaction function without even bothering to look at the exchange list.

I don't actually have many extra items on me. They are all node rewards and items exchanged. There is actually nothing that needs to be traded.

Li Nanke tried to trade the dog collar he got from the last forbidden dream.

The message 'Matching...' flashed for less than half a second before the trading option appeared.

[Flash Dagger] [Type: Weapon/Blade]

[Quality: Inferior+]

[Rating: 12/100]

[Details: A short cold weapon, which has nothing special about it except that it is sharper and has a faster swing speed than an ordinary dagger.]

[Are you sure you want to exchange this item? ]

Regardless of whether the transaction is confirmed or not, once a match is initiated, a transaction will be consumed.

After Li Nanke made his choice, a sharp dagger appeared in his hand.

Strangely, this item does not display 'Notes'.

Every item he had seen since entering the Great Other Shore, regardless of its quality, basically had some nonsensical and funny notes, but the dagger obtained from the trade did not have any.

Li Nanke tried to use the recycling function to recycle the "Flash Dagger" and "Dog Circle", but he only got quotes of 6 and 8 points respectively.

"It's so damn dark!"

I still remember that the dog circle was exchanged for a 20-point exchange fee. Now with the recycling function, the Great Other Shore has more than halved the recycling price.

He had an idea and put his most valuable item, the 'Bloody Hammer', up for trade.

This time, the words 'Matching...' only flashed for half a second before the transaction item appeared.

【Shika remote control bomb generator】

[Type: Props/Permanent]

[Quality: Rare+]

[Rating: 22/100]

[Details: This is a strange technological heritage of the Shika tribe. It is a device that can continuously produce remote-controlled bombs by consuming source energy, but the second remote-controlled bomb cannot be produced before the previous bomb is detonated. The remote-controlled bombs are divided into two types: square and spherical. They will detonate ten seconds after being thrown, causing terrible destructive power. They can also be manually detonated in advance. ]

[Are you sure you want to exchange this item? ]

Li Nanke canceled the transaction with an extremely serious expression.

"The number of nightmares that exist in the Great Beyond...I'm afraid it's far beyond my imagination."

If a low-value item like a dog collar can be quickly matched with an item of similar value, it doesn't mean much, but the Bloody Hammer is a rare weapon. With the inlay of the 'God's Thorn', the power of this weapon is greatly increased and its value rises sharply.

But in such a situation, the Great Other Shore can still quickly match things of equal value.

This means that the number of items being traded online at the same time is extremely large, and correspondingly, the number of nightmares on the other side should also be extremely large!

This is completely inconsistent with the information Li Nanke currently has.

If such a large number of nightmare groups really exist in reality, some of them must have contacted or even cooperated with the Crisis Management Bureau.

The Control Bureau must have a lot of information about Nightmare, and there would definitely not be such a ridiculous incident of misdiagnosing Li Nanke as a "Vanxiang System".

Intelligence obtained from reality shows that there are not a large number of nightmares in the real world. Even if there are more than one of them, the number of nightmares should be very small so as not to be discovered by the Control Bureau.

When two pieces of information are completely contradictory, if both of them need to be reasonable... Li Nanke couldn't help but come up with another guess.

(End of this chapter)