What’s wrong with the dream world!

The boy's skin was still as pale as if he was sick, and his body was as tender as a child of six or seven years old. He had a face very similar to Yu Xiu De's, except that his eyes were rolled back and his whole body exuded a black aura that symbolized fear.

It was no longer wearing the original research institute's hospital gown, but a normal set of children's clothes with cute cartoon patterns. However, this outfit was extremely inconsistent with its pale face and gloomy temperament, and seemed out of place.

Hearing the voice of the nightmare, Yu Xiu De frowned.

He doesn't like and is unwilling to accept this title.

"Don't call me dad."

"Dad!" Nightmare still called affectionately.

Yu Xiu De was unhappy.

As a being with a high emotional intelligence, Nightmare naturally understood that Yu Xiude's aversion was not just about this title. However, it still insisted on calling Yu Xiude "Dad".

Before Yu Xiu De could attack, Yan appeared less than two meters in front of Yu Xiu De and knelt on the ground with a thud.

It didn't care at all about the image it had built in the hearts of believers over the years, nor did it have any idol baggage of being a god. With a bang, its little head made close contact with the floor.

It looked like the custom during the New Year in some areas, where people kowtowed respectfully.

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Even Yu Xiu De, who had rich experience in dreams, was stunned for a moment when faced with this scene.

"!"

The believers were stunned when they saw this, and some of them even had their eyes bloodshot, as if they had never imagined that such a blasphemous scene would appear before them.

Just as everyone was about to doubt their faith, a sudden and unexpected flash of thunder struck the sky. With a rumble and a flash of lightning, the darkness that had obscured Yu Xiude's face was instantly dispelled, allowing the believers to clearly see the face of the uninvited intruder in the church.

Those bishops, missionaries and devout believers who were shaken in their hearts also seemed to have some understanding.

"Praise you, great Holy Father." The old nun was the first to speak devoutly.

Then, she imitated the movements of the nightmare, crawling on all fours and kowtowing to show humility. Later, the believers followed suit, kneeling down and kowtowing on the ground.

"Praise be to you, great Holy Father." The chants rose one after another, and soon the believers began to grasp the rhythm of bowing, which rose one after another and quickly became uniform.

Yu Xiu De had a blank expression on his face, no joy or anger, and no strangeness at all, as if those believers did not exist. His attention was always on Yan.

That very coincidental lightning was created by Nightmare.

After bowing three times, the nightmare knelt on the ground, raised its head, and smiled ingratiatingly. Without black eyes, it looked naive and adorable, more like a dog wagging its tail than a filial grandchild.

Yu Xiu De felt very annoyed.

The reason was simple. Nightmare's face was extremely similar to his, which made him feel uncomfortable.

But Yu Xiu De still suppressed his irritation. He understood that it was not the Nightmare's own choice to grow into this way, and it could not be blamed on its fault.

As a [Priest], No. 13 is based on his idealized self. Even if [Nightmare] disassembles him and reassembles him using fear, at best it will only make Nightmare look more evil and have a darker temperament, while his facial appearance will still be exactly the same as when he was in the research institute.

Punishment requires the right reasons, and cannot be based solely on one's own emotions and likes and dislikes, otherwise it is impossible to establish rules.

So, with a blank expression on his face, he patiently said, "Get up."

"Do you think that by wagging your tail to me, you can cover up what you did in your dream?"

Yan seemed to hear the hint of threat in Yu Xiude's words, and the little boy who was originally kneeling on the ground immediately stood at attention.

"Of course not. This is all my love and respect for you from the bottom of my heart."

Yan seemed to realize that Yu Xiu De was not impressed by the behavior of the believers in the church. His eyes without pupils turned and his thoughts moved slightly.

Then, everyone in the church, except Yu Xiude, heard a clear child's voice in their hearts: "Don't kowtow, but don't stand up either. Keep kneeling on the ground and don't move."

The originally uniform kowtow sounds stopped instantly.

At this time, Yu Xiu De shifted his gaze from the nightmare in front of him, and looked down at the believers in the church who were still crawling on the ground as if on pilgrimage, without any emotion in his eyes.

In Yu Xiude's view, these believers are just people in his dreams.

Even though their behavior seems to be no different from real people, and they even have a clear sense of self, to the Nightmare, they are just wisps of thoughts, not real people.

Yu Xiude naturally sensed Nightmare's voice transmission. Nightmare wasn't telepathic, but rather, it used its own characteristics as a dream creature to possess this ability within dreams...at least that was the way it manifested.

Yu Xiu De saw all of Yan's actions.

He casually asked, "Why do you use such an inefficient method as voice transmission? Wouldn't it be more efficient to directly modify their behavior?"

After all, in a dream, telepathy is like taking an unnecessary detour compared to directly modifying behavior.

The believers who were crawling on the ground trembled slightly when they heard Yu Xiu De's blunt words.

"...I, I might be used to it."

The boy responded with a somewhat embarrassed tone, as if he was hiding something else, but his pale, sickly face and rolled-up eyes concealed his emotions.

"Really?" Yu Xiu De didn't dwell on this topic for long. At this moment, he was concentrating on thinking about how to educate the little devil in front of him who had an evil nature.

Once bitten by a snake, one will be afraid of ropes for ten years. If it was during his graduate school days, Yu Xiu De might not have done this, but the negative side of "Two-Faced Man" provided Nightmare with fresher educational experiences and more relevant cases.

He firmly believed that when teaching a lesson to a little monster like Nightmare with an evil nature, the more sufficient the reason, the more severe the punishment, the better.

"Then tell me in detail, what exactly did you do in the past twenty years in your dream that led to the sudden emergence of such a religion in this world, and..."

"Why are you doing this?" Yu Xiu De said word by word.

He deliberately did not warn Nightmare not to lie.

The Silence of the Lambs: Chapter 159: The Strange Dreamer

But the subsequent developments made Yu Xiu De feel somewhat disappointed, yet also somewhat expected.

Yan first invited Yu Xiu De to sit on the chair high up behind the sculpture in the church.

After Yu Xiu De took his seat, he transformed a small bench next to the extremely noble-looking chair, sat on it very obediently, and then told Yu Xiu De quite frankly about his experiences in dreams over the years.

Including how it was discovered, why Real Dreamland was created, and how Real Dreamland developed to this point.

"Before one meal, I discovered that the prisoner sentenced to death was wrongly accused, so I stepped in and cleared her name."

"As for why I created Real Dreamland... Because according to the law, my entry into the prison would be considered illegal trespassing, so I wanted to make my actions appear more legal."

It reported everything to Yu Xiu De in detail and explained its own behavior.

"I believe that the death penalty alone is not enough to deter potential criminals, nor is it enough to heal the trauma suffered by the victims and their families."

"Although bringing fear to others in my dreams is a necessary way for me to survive, I can also integrate into the social system and shine for others in my own way."

"I let those guilty provide me with a constant source of fear, and I make movies of their ugly appearances in dreams and show them to the public...with age ratings."

As if to avoid Yu Xiude grabbing his hair, Yan added seriously:

"Of course, they have all been processed in post-production. After all, these documentaries focus on highlighting the fear of these criminals."

"This method can make people aware of the majesty of morality and law, and make them understand that death is not equal, and that even death is more painful for those who have committed crimes and are being tried. At the same time, the fear and pain of these guilty people can heal those they have hurt."

"Their faith in me is spontaneous. I didn't force them to believe in me or worship me. After all, as you said, their faith is of no use to me."

"I just had a choice, and I tried to eat as ethically as possible. But after more than 20 years, it became like this..."

As Yan spoke, he supported himself with his hands on the front edge of the bench and carefully glanced at Yu Xiu De, trying to find any emotion or thought on that calm face... such as approval or recognition.

But of course, it was all in vain.

This made Nightmare feel a little disappointed, although it didn't show it on its face.

But Yan's sneak peek naturally did not escape Yu Xiu De's eyes.

He is not the owner of the "mind" realm, nor the owner of the "speech" realm. Faced with the cautious actions of the creatures that were not dreamed of by him, he relies on his vast experience and emotional intelligence to quickly come to a "correct" conclusion.

'This little monster is trying to figure himself out.'

Then it is very likely that he is still pretending!

Yu Xiu De’s worries were not groundless. After all, Nightmare was a monster created based on himself.

When he was in the research institute, he was also pretending, but when he was in the research institute, he pretended to be a stupid, autistic, and expressionless child in front of the researchers, while Yan pretended to be a good child in front of him.

But...

Yu Xiu De lowered his head and looked carefully at the doll that he had snatched from No. 13 and was still talking nonstop.

Unfortunately, it is ultimately just a poor imitation of itself.

Yu Xiu De acknowledged that Nightmare was as cunning and scheming as the abyss, but he did not acknowledge that it possessed the same wisdom as himself.

After all, for a being that devoured the dreams of hundreds of thousands of people to pretend to be a child was a far too crude a method. This wasn't the way to dispel vigilance. In the eyes of a nightmare of the same kind, it had absolutely no credibility.

“…I, everything I said is true!”

"If you feel the facts don't match what I said, it doesn't mean I'm trying to deceive you. It's just that I don't have the ability to condense and outline everything that's happened over the past twenty years with just words!"

"I really didn't lie to you, Dad!"

Nightmare was a little anxious, and his pale face turned a little red.

Just as Yu Xiu De could not understand its inner thoughts, it could not understand Yu Xiu De's psychological activities. It interpreted Yu Xiu De's lack of reaction as a lack of trust in its own words.

"Then I hope you can be more capable of summarizing the key points."

Yu Xiu De's voice remained calm, he did not correct Yan's name, and his expression remained indifferent.

"Also, don't try to guess other people's trust in you."

He did not reveal his doubts about the nightmare, but instead told the nightmare that he believed in it.

Whether it is fishing law enforcement or fishing education, when people realize that it is fishing, it will only backfire and produce worse results.

Of course, facing Nightmare's defense, it was easy for Nightmare, who had a lot of experience, to find fault with it and find an excuse to teach it a lesson. From the perspective of morality and ethics, and from the perspective of social impact...

There is still a difference in magnitude between lakes and oceans.

But Yu Xiude did not do so.

He just "argued" the truthfulness of Nightmare's words in a slightly boring manner, limited to Nightmare's actions rather than thoughts, and then continued to listen patiently to Nightmare's "sophistry".

From the very beginning, he saw through the nightmare, which had the same experience as the lake, and knew that Yu Xiude, who was pretending to be a child, would not be fooled by such a disguise, so he put aside his doubts.

Once suspicion arises, the guilt is established, and it is even more difficult to erase the nightmare that will continue to deepen one's memory through "memory dreams".

However, the obedience shown by Yan was not without effect.

Just as people whose inner darkness is restrained by laws and regulations and not implemented, they can also become the backbone of building society.

If Yan is indeed different from Fang Xuemu, and although he is evil by nature, he will not act like Fang Xuemu and will not make trouble for three days, and is very sensible, then Yu Xiu De should start to consider whether he should slow down his testing for the time being.

Not knowing that Yu Xiu De was still thinking about how to fish, he sincerely told the story in the church for three days and three nights.

The light coming in from the church windows alternates between bright and dark.

Those believers who were originally crawling on the ground had already left under the order of Nightmare. After all, not only could their bodies not withstand three days and three nights of sleepless, non-stop nagging without food or drink, they also had their own lives... even if they were just people in a dream.

Only the old nun stood by Nightmare.

The old nun, who was secretly given various blessings by the nightmare, lowered her head and listened to the nightmare's story. She couldn't help but reveal a kind and gentle smile on her face.

At this moment, Yu Xiu De, who had roughly taken a look at the Nightmare's twenty years of experience, shifted his attention away from the Nightmare a little and looked at the old nun slightly.

This person in the dream seems a little strange.

The Silence of the Lambs: Chapter 160 Transcript

Yu Xiu De felt strange. It was not that this old nun was essentially different from the other people in the dream. The other party was still just a person in his dream, an ordinary person.

It was other aspects of her that made Yu Xiu De notice her specialness.

At this time, Nightmare's voice stopped.

It racked its brains but had no idea how to further explain its experiences in the dream over the past twenty years. It had tried its best to tell Yu Xiu De everything that had happened over the past twenty years as comprehensively as possible.

But when the report was finished and only silence remained at the scene, it felt a little uneasy.

Because Yu Xiu De still had no response to its words. He just leaned back in his chair, his lifeless eyes completely empty. He seemed to be in a daze, like a sculpture, not listening to what it was saying.

But in fact, Yu Xiu De did not miss a word of Yan's words. Now he was just observing certain information from a high-dimensional perspective.

"Dad, how are you doing in real life lately?"

After just sitting in silence for an hour, Nightmare, who was not as calm as its original form, could no longer control his temper and tried to get closer to Yu Xiu De.

Although in its subjective consciousness, it was not able to use other people's dreams as its own extra life like a nightmare, and it had not seen Yu Xiu De for more than 20 years, when Yu Xiu De appeared in front of it again, it still longed to get close to Yu Xiu De.