I! Cleaner!

It's coming!

At the moment when the Gray Mist Giant hugged the Sixth Floor Nightmare and tried to squeeze in, even though there was no obvious sign, everyone in the nightmare world still noticed the existence of the Nightmare King at almost the same time.

If I had to describe it, this strange feeling that suddenly appeared in my heart was like a rabbit eating grass and discovering the shadow of an eagle on the ground, or like seeing the underwater world while floating in the sea in a small boat. A huge shadow is approaching.

Even if there is no real crisis yet, just a little rumbling is enough to make people's hearts sink.

If the Nightmare King arrived first, I might be too late to save people...

Feeling that the surroundings suddenly became active, as if he was welcoming some kind of drizzle, Director Scorpio, who was standing on a tower filled with smoke and dust, his face darkened slightly, and he raised his hand to break the neck of the pale doll next to him.

"Gaba!"

Accompanied by a crisp sound of broken bones, a thin woman screamed in the crowd of people trying to escape at the gate below the city tower. Her thin, scarred neck and the neck of the pale doll tilted to one side at the same time. Go down.

But the strange thing is that even if her neck is suddenly broken, the thin woman still does not die. Instead, she hunches her shoulders against her head and runs towards another group of people with sick faces.

Unfortunately, before she could even take two steps, a thin sword that was still dripping with blood came out of her chest extremely cruelly, knocking her down to the ground and nailing her to the ground completely.

Following her death, the tower under Director Scorpio's feet began to twist slightly and strangely.

Immediately afterwards, the crowd retreated in horror; a black-robed doctor wearing a strange beak mask who was shouting loudly; a soldier standing behind a wooden horse, stabbing the card rushers with a long pole;

Blackened corpses overlapped on pillows, dirty streets filled with dead people lying everywhere; and the crematorium outside the city where white smoke billowed all day long and countless bodies of those who died of illness had been burned...

This city, which is being dragged into death by the epidemic, is twisting unconsciously with the death of the thin woman, like a shadow reflected on the lake, and with the stones thrown into the lake.

The next level of nightmare should be the desert of the dune giant worm, right?

After killing the plague girl who was responsible for "guarding" this nightmare, and temporarily eradicating the nightmare called "Death Plague City", Director Scorpio, who looked tired, squinted his eyes and looked at the dim and hot city below. In the lower dreamland, I couldn't help but sigh with regret, and then stepped into the boundless desert below with my last hope.

After knowing that Leon had jumped into the dreamland on his own initiative, he immediately rushed downward with all his strength, passing through three layers of nightmares in an attempt to join him as soon as possible, but in the end it was still a step too late.

Compared to myself who needs to kill the nightmares in the corresponding world to escape from the nightmare, as the Lord of Nightmares, the Nightmare King can freely travel through all nightmares as he pleases.

Then, the moment it comes into contact with the sixth-floor nightmare, it is equivalent to finding Leon's location, and can travel directly through it without any hindrance, reaching the nightmare where he is in an instant.

Facing the Nightmare King, who is double strengthened by the Dream World and the Black Abyss of Fallen Souls, and is still in a nightmare, he is fighting at home. Even without the blessing of the Star Palace, I am afraid that I will have to face a tough battle.

With the level of Leon's third-level cleaner, no matter how many trump cards he had, they would probably be shattered by a single touch. It would be easier for the Nightmare King to strangle him to death than to crush an insect to death.

What a pity for such a good young talent... Sigh... This is also the fate of the cleaners.

…

After recalling everything Leon had done, Director Scorpio couldn't help but sigh again.

The more paranoid and adventurous a liquidator is, the greater their potential is and the faster they become stronger. In the past, there was even a record of being promoted all the way to the head of the branch within five years.

It's a pity that the more outstanding talents are, the more likely they are to engage in irrational and risky behavior due to overly intense emotions, and die early in a mission that is not compatible with their own abnormality. Those who can survive in the end Very few.

And for a good prospect like Lyon, who can maintain his rationality and calmness despite being intensely emotional, as long as he works steadily and slowly for ten or twenty years, his future prospects will be limitless.

As a result, Olivia, that stinky woman, completely failed to fulfill the responsibilities of a director, and actually allowed him, a third-level cleaner, to get involved in such a true god-level mission. It was really...

After shaking his head with an unfavorable expression, Director Scorpio, who was extremely regretful, waved the thin sword in his hand, cut through the dim outer wall of the dreamland below, and took the initiative to enter the boundless desert belonging to the giant dune insect.

"Peng!"

After Director Scorpio left the damp, cold, plague-ridden city with continuous rain, and entered the desert with the scorching sun, a heat wave that could steam a person rolled over, and in the blink of an eye, all the remaining moisture on his body was dried away.

And when Director Scorpio adapted to the change in temperature, and took the initiative to look around through the heat wave that distorted the horizon, a familiar figure in the distance caught his eye instantly.

That's...Lion? !

Director Scorpio's eyes widened suddenly when he saw Leon appearing on the sand dunes more than ten miles away, fleeing desperately with the snow girl on his back, and the gray mist giant emerging behind him.

Damn it! Why is it in the most vast and endless desert? It’s too far away!

After finding the traces of Leon and the Nightmare King, Director Scorpio activated some anomaly. His tall and thin figure fell backwards, and the shadow under him stretched out infinitely strangely. In an instant, it spread out a distance of more than a thousand meters, until it was cut off by a huge concave sand pit, and then it stopped.

Then, Director Scorpio's infinitely stretched shadow suddenly shrank back. When he stood up again, he had instantly crossed a thousand meters and stood directly in front of the huge sand pit.

We must catch up! Maybe we can still make it!

Without bothering to shake off the sand on his body, Director Scorpio stood up and was about to activate the anomaly again. When he continued to move towards Leon, he suddenly found that both the gray fog giant and Leon had disappeared, and there was nothing on the sand dunes more than ten miles away.

It turned out to be a sand dune mirage...

Looking at the empty sand dunes in the distance, Director Scorpio's face couldn't help but completely sink.

This mirage-like thing, like the sick area of ​​the Plague City and the deep mountains of the Snow Mountain Range, is the "feature" of the nightmare of the endless desert.

The specific origin is that the scales on the sand dune giant worm fall off, and the phantom light reflected through the dream can make people see the situation of what they want to see most at the moment, so as to induce them to move towards the goal.

However, once tempted by the sand dune mirage, they will continue to lose water while moving, and finally die in the endless sea of ​​sand, becoming a dried corpse buried in the yellow sand. Although the scene they see is not fake, it will never be truly achieved.

"Huh..."

After exhaling in disappointment, Director Scorpio turned back to the way he came and reactivated the abnormal object used to hurry on his way.

Mirage is mirage...

Looking at the environment around Leon in the mirage, he should also be in the Endless Desert, but this desert with the word "Endless" in its name is the largest of the six nightmares, larger than the other five nightmares combined, and it is too late for me to rush over.

Since I can't save him, I might as well use the dune mirage to take a good look at his end, which can be regarded as a tribute to a brave colleague as a cleaner.

With this in mind, Director Scorpio stretched his shadow and returned to the position when he entered the Endless Desert again, looking solemnly at the position where the dune mirage appeared, but...

"Ah?"

Looking at Leon, who punched the Nightmare King's toes in the mirage, and then twisted his face with the gray fog giant, screaming together, Director Scorpio's eyes suddenly opened as wide as possible, and he almost stared out of his eye sockets.

"Ah????????"