Dream Travel

Chapter 69 Who made you meet me

"Sister Asha, good evening." Bai Mu stood up and greeted Sister Asha who had arrived.

The old and kind nun took out the cross from before, and the young nun next to her quickly said, "Aunt Asha has many crosses. This thing can sense demons in a small area."

"A lot?" Bai Mu immediately took the cross upon hearing that. There was no one nailed on it.

To be honest, when Bai Mu saw a cross like that, his first thought was what would the person think if he saw it?
After all, if that thing really works, there's probably someone who's been there, right? So, when they see this version of the cross, do they see it as a special figurine or do they feel mocked?

If someone was being ridiculed, would the slap mark on the person hanging on the cross be very special when he slapped the person on the cross?
Bai Mu kept this question in his heart. Although he was curious, he couldn't say it out loud to people with faith.

The cross Sister Asha gave him was normal.

Sister Asha said to Baimu: "The chaos has been controlled by the army, and we have to go back."

"Then let's go together and wait for me." Bai Mu put the cross in his pocket, took back his box from the processing bureau, smeared holy oil on the new ammunition, and filled the used magazine.

"Uptown, right? Let's go back together."

Sister Asha was accompanied by several other nuns and was escorted by police officers. It seemed that it didn't matter whether they were accompanied by Baimu or not.

But Bai Mu didn't plan to stay in the temporary camp.

On the way back, the little nun kept looking at Bai Mu quietly. Seeing that Bai Mu was not paying attention to her, she seemed a little disappointed.

Bai Mu sensed a subtle abnormality, and he had a hazy feeling that he was close to a strange dream.

The haziness was only very faint, and it should be some distance away from him.

"If there's anything else that's not done, do it quickly."

Sister Asha in the team suddenly said, Bai Mu shook his head: "No."

Sister Asha smiled at the young man's stubbornness. The monastery where they lived was at the junction of the upper and lower towns.

"Sister Asha, we will be patrolling nearby tonight, please don't worry too much." said a police captain who escorted them back.

This monastery is a relatively famous place in Rota City. Sister Asha has taken in many orphans here, and nearby residents will also provide Sister Asha with some daily assistance when they have nothing to do.

"Thank you." Sister Asha thanked the sheriff and the police officers, then looked at the white curtain and said, "Young man, go do what you want to do, and be careful not to get hurt."

"Good night." Bai Mu left quickly. On the way to discover the strange dream, Bai Mu suddenly thought of something. From the beginning to now, Sister Asha seemed to rarely say things like the Lord will bless you.

Does having such thoughts reflect my own stereotype of clergy?

Bai Mu thought for less than two seconds, then quickened his pace and returned to the lower city, arriving at the hazy area. It was a new dream, and it happened on a night when the devil caused chaos.

What kind of dream would this be?
"This is an inconvenient time!" Bai Mu, who was unable to contact Boré, investigated the area nearby for a while. After making sure it was safe, he began to approach the source of the dream.

Most of the strange dreams that occurred in a chaotic environment were not good ones. He had already experienced two strange dreams.

I won’t talk about Thorn in the sewer for the first time. It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the theme of the dream, but it is related to Thorn himself. In the dream, he is a lone hero.

Without the intervention of Bai Mu and others, Thorne could probably complete the process of finding a vaccine by himself, and at most take the scientific research director with him.

Fisherman Chuck's dream was very clear. He was questioned and angry because of a golden shark, so he forced himself to have a dream related to a sharknado.

The locals might not know about the Sharknado movies, but how could Baimu not know about them? He actually watched all six of them in one sitting!
This is partly why Bai Mu developed a strong interest in strange dreams. Since he could encounter such strange dreams, what about the second dimension? Who hasn't had fantasies?
The existence time of a strange dream is directly related to its source. The dream may not disappear, but the source will. Whether it is an ordinary person or a dream walker, after entering the dream by contacting the source, as long as the source is gone, they will be ejected.

So regarding the strange dream that appeared in the lower city, Bai Mu was wondering whether this dream was related to the devil?
If so, what kind of dream would it be? Chainsaw Man? Devilman? Or some other movie with demons? Compared to those dream worlds with such elements, Baimu really hoped that the dream world he was familiar with was the kind he knew.

"He's a bit young."

After finding the source of the strange dream, Bai Mu scratched his head. A little girl about twelve years old was lying quietly on the ground. There were traces of blood around her, but no body was seen. It must be that her family did not have time to evacuate and were attacked by demons.

Then the little girl had a strange dream, and everything around her was involved in it. Perhaps her family was not dead when they were attacked...

If there is no adult supervision, such a dream source will not have very good living conditions in the dream, right?

Thinking about the worst, encountering human traffickers was the least of her worries. What was even worse was that the environment she was in was even worse. For example, there were demons. If Yi Mengyuan died in the dream, he would die in reality as well, and it would cause the dream to go out of control...

"Who made you run into me?" Bai Mu quickly checked his equipment. Luckily, he'd brought the box back with him. The people at the disposal bureau were very capable; the spent ammunition in the box had been replenished, but no one had compensated him for his damaged pistol.

There is still half a bottle of low-grade holy oil left, one bottle of unopened holy water, and forty crossbow arrows left after deducting the ones used previously.

Bai Mu found a wooden board at the scene and quickly carved some information on it with a crossbow. After placing it in a conspicuous place, he walked forward and reached out to "tear away" the hazy layer he had sensed...

Not long after, people from the Processing Bureau rushed here. The members of the Dream Processing Bureau who arrived looked solemn. The instruments they carried detected that the intensity of the dream erosion here was still increasing, and the scope of the dream was also expanding.

This is the worst case scenario. The source of the strange dream here could not be discovered in time in the chaos. If you are not a dream walker, it is difficult to confirm the source of the strange dream without using relevant detectors.

Unless the source of those strange dreams is in a special environment, such as seeing a sleeping person in the wilderness, with dust and leaves covering the person's body.

In that case, it is highly likely that one has encountered a strange dream source. Normal people can easily encounter wild beasts in the wilderness, but a strange dream source can ignore wild beasts because wild beasts will also be drawn into the strange dream.

The devil is equipped with a dream erosion detector, and will most likely avoid the source of strange dreams. Ordinary people passing by here can easily be affected.

Now the intensity of the dream erosion here is increasing, which means that many people are involved in the dream, and those people died in the dream, forming holes, causing the scope of the dream to begin to expand.

"Quickly seal off the scene!"

After sealing off the scene, an operator breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the detector which was no longer changing rapidly. This was a good sign, meaning that the strange dream had temporarily stabilized and the people involved were probably almost dead.

"What's the situation with Yimengyuan... It's terrible!" Bo Lei hurried to the scene of Yimengyuan and cursed in a low voice after seeing Yimengyuan's appearance.

This was the situation he least wanted to see. Yi Mengyuan was too young, and children meant poor survival ability!
When the Dream Processing Bureau discovered the source of the dream, the last people they wanted to see were children and the elderly.

Even a middle-aged man with a big belly is better than these two types of sources of strange dreams.

"We need to deal with it quickly." Borei looked at Eiler and others.

"I'll go with you." Eller immediately understood. He was a person who longed for transcendence. If he could continue to come into contact with strange dreams, he would definitely do so. Moreover, frequent contact with strange dreams might make him a dream walker.

"Let's prepare the equipment first... What is this?" Borei saw something a staff member brought over and immediately grabbed it. After quickly reading the information on it, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Someone's got a head start on us."

Eller glanced at the message on the board: "I am a little worried about the safety of this child, let me go in and take a look first - Baimu stayed."

"Then let's..."

"Don't worry, the new instructions will be delivered soon." Bo Lei shook his head. In an emergency, he was ready to enter the dream directly, but now someone had entered it some time ago, so there was no need to be too anxious at this time.

The next step is to find a way to deal with the source of this strange dream.

Eller was somewhat disappointed. This was a rare opportunity to enter the source of strange dreams...

"The last thing the Bureau wants to encounter is this type of dream source," Boley said to the slightly disappointed Eller. "Children's dreams can be beautiful fairy tales, or they can be darker and more terrifying!"

The instructions from the processing bureau were delivered quickly. Since the army was still clearing and hunting down the remaining demons, police officers would come to assist them in sending the source of the dream outside of Rota City.

The army will open up a stable path for them during the escort process to prevent the remaining demons from causing trouble.

"Get ready for action." Bo Lei said to Eller, Matt and others, to send the source of the strange dream outside the city first, and new dream walkers would come to support them later.

When the situation is not urgent, the dream walker should first contact the strange dream to conduct preliminary investigation.

Now that new holes have appeared in Yimeng, whether to preserve, seal, or destroy it depends on the results of Yimeng's investigation.

Another option is to let the dream end normally, but the conditions for ending it are related to the source of the dream, which is the most difficult to operate.

Soon, a car similar to a hearse arrived here, and people wearing heavy isolation suits carefully sent Yi Mengyuan into the car.

After the door of the carriage was closed, the instruments around it that were detecting dream erosion slowly returned to their normal value range.

The vehicle started, and the people from the handling bureau and the police officers began the anxious transportation. Once the strange dream in the car exploded, no one present would feel good.

(End of this chapter)