I! Cleaner!

"You...you are going too far!"

Looking at the old investigator who was desperately squeezing his legs and curling up on the carpet like a shrimp, and the female investigator who broke in after hearing the screams, her pretty face was suddenly livid with anger.

"Senior Camus is such a kind person. He has been offended by you several times without holding any grudges. He also asked me not to bring my personal emotions to work. You...you actually treat him like this?!"

"..."

Could it be...that I felt wrong just now?

Looking at the old investigator who fell to the ground and kept twitching after being hit hard in the crotch, Leon hesitated for a moment, then reached out to lift him up and said with a guilty expression:

"I'm sorry... I may have misunderstood. Are you okay?"

Am I okay? Don't you know if something's wrong with me?

Hearing Leon's sincere greeting, the sweaty old investigator rolled his eyes hard and said nothing with trembling lips. The female investigator on the side quickly ran over, helped him up and said to him indignantly. Lyon said:

"Go away! I will definitely report what happened today to the General Administration!"

"..."

It seems that I really felt wrong...

After taking a look at the old investigator, whose legs were shaking and he couldn't even stand steady in pain, Leon couldn't help but open his mouth, and then bowed to him apologetically.

Sorry, I was a bit cautious, mainly because of the parting words I just said, which really sounded like someone behind the scenes. If I didn't test it, I might not even be able to sleep tonight.

Also, although I made a mistake in judgment this time, so did you. Since he is not a villain, then why are you pretending?

"What's going on? What's wrong with him?"

The screams just now and the subsequent noise made a lot of noise. Not only were the cleaners who were not out in the field disturbed, but even the red-haired director came out of the office and asked curiously.

"You came just in time!"

Seeing the red-haired director come out of the office, the female investigator couldn't help but said angrily:

"You Maiden Branch really went too far this time! You actually kicked Senior Camus's... there! Just wait! When I get back, I must ask for an explanation for Senior Camus!"

Um? threaten me?

After hearing the female investigator's words, the red-haired director who originally wanted to ask more questions raised his eyebrows, then nodded with an indifferent expression and said:

"Okay, let's go slowly without seeing you off."

"you?!"

"If you want to leave, leave quickly. We have other things to do and don't have time to waste time with you."

Directly looking away from the two investigators, the red-haired director clapped his hands vigorously, attracting everyone's attention, and then announced with a serious expression:

"For those of you who haven't left yet, follow me to the conference room on the second floor. The big work is about to begin!"

…

"The General Administration has just sent news that the location of the Dream World has shifted, and the location of the Black Abyss of Fallen Souls is about to coincide with the Kingdom."

After taking out a dozen marked maps from the folder brought by the old investigator, and pressing them on the intelligence board in the conference room with pins, the red-haired director standing next to the intelligence board spoke with a serious face. road:

“In the real world that coincides with the Black Abyss of Fallen Souls, the connection between the body and the soul will be infinitely weakened, and the dream creatures and related abilities will be greatly enhanced.

According to the prompts given by the Watch Palace, the Nightmare Black Cult will hold an advent ceremony to try to help the King of Nightmares invade reality and spread nightmares to the entire kingdom. Our mission this time is to prevent its arrival! "

The Nightmare King?

After hearing this somewhat familiar name, Leon couldn't help being slightly startled. He first looked around, looked at the serious-looking senior cleaners, and then reached out to hold the back of Emma's slightly tense hand.

‘Senior Emma, ​​is the Nightmare King who wants to come this time the evil god who was expelled by the ancestors of the royal family and therefore cursed the royal bloodline? ’

'Um. ’

After hearing Leon's inquiry through the soul, Emma nodded slightly, knowing that he was somewhat lacking in these "common senses", so she took Leon's hand and explained quickly:

‘The King of Nightmares, also known as the Lord of Nightmares, is one of the three gods of dreams believed in by the Nightmare Black Cult. He has no real entity. In recent years, he has been living in the dream world, and the Black Abyss of Fallen Souls is his residence in the dream world.

Compared with the stable material reality, the spiritual dream world is more erratic, so its position is not fixed, so the position of the Black Abyss of Fallen Souls will also change from time to time.

To use a simple metaphor, just as the moon is too close to the ocean, which may affect the tides, the Black Abyss of Fallen Souls is too close to reality, which will also have some effects. At this time, the Nightmare Black Cult and Nightmare King will Start taking action, trying to invade reality and spread nightmares. ’

Spreading nightmares?

Leon pondered for a moment after hearing this, and then continued to ask:

‘If you have a nightmare at this time, will the consequences be serious? ’

'very serious! ’

Emma nodded and said with a somewhat solemn expression:

'If you have a nightmare at this time, it is equivalent to entering the scope of the Nightmare King's power. Every time you fall asleep for the rest of your life, you will be trapped in an endless nightmare all night long, providing it with power until death.

Individual souls with particularly outstanding "compatibility" with the dream world will even be directly captured by the King of Nightmares and taken into the dream world with his own hands. After the body left behind dies, it will be completely transformed into a dream world creature and live forever. Become its servant.

And the soul quality of us cleaners is generally higher than that of ordinary humans. If we are targeted by it in a nightmare, the possibility of our soul being forcibly taken away is very high! ’

If the soul is taken away, won’t it be left with an empty shell?

Lyon couldn’t help but ask after hearing this:

‘What is the strength of the Nightmare King? Compared with the Goddess of Wealth? ’

‘It’s not a question of strength or not, but a question of existence. ’

Emma shook her head and said:

‘The Nightmare King will not come in the flesh like the Goddess of Wealth. It will only exist in the dreams of intelligent creatures. When you see its body, it often means that you have entered the scope of its power.

And what will happen if you enter the power range of a true god? You should know what will happen if you have faced the Goddess of Wealth. As long as there is no power of the same level or even higher to resist, there is no ability to fight back at all. So no matter how strong it is, it is much more difficult to deal with than the Goddess of Wealth.

Olivia can easily fight three or five flesh gods like the Goddess of Wealth at a time, but once the Nightmare King successfully descends, he can constantly shuttle through the nightmares of countless humans, and Olivia can't catch up with him even if she ventures into dreams. '

Even the director can't do anything?

After listening to Senior Emma's story, Leon couldn't help but frown slightly, and understood why the cleaners of the Virgin Branch looked like they were facing a great enemy.

Although occasionally not very reliable, the red-haired director's super strength has always been the biggest confidence of the Virgin Branch. Even if the mission really fails and a real god is accidentally missed, there is still the director to clean up everyone's ass.

But this time, the opponent is the type that the director is not good at dealing with. If there is really a mistake, resulting in the successful arrival of the Nightmare King, then everyone may only be able to pray for good luck in the end.