“Didn’t the second victim already wake up? Did you get any clues?”
A dark-skinned young detective beside the older detective asked.
“Just like the one at the Imperial Dragon Bay, he couldn’t remember what happened that night. He only remembered that after he fell asleep, he was immersed in endless nightmares.”
“The only clue we have now is that there might be more than one [nightmare God]! The second and third cases happened almost at the same time, and the two places were dozens of kilometers apart. Even a commander-level flying-type familiar wouldn’t be able to cover such a long distance in such a short time. ”
“Flame Hound, do you smell any other familiars?”
The young agent nodded and asked a flaming Hound beside him.
The 2-meter tall Inferno Hound closed its eyes and immediately activated its extraordinary sense of smell.
Then, the smell that had once lingered in this place materialized in its mind, turning it into a human or a familiar.
“Woof!”
It barked a few times in a low voice.
“What’s the situation?”
The senior agent quickly asked.
“Other than the scent of li dongze and his familiar, the harshwolf, there has been no other familiar’s scent in this room for the past three days.”
“It seems that the way to track the murderer from the smell is blocked.”
The senior agent’s eyes were filled with helplessness.
The case this time was unusually tricky.
This was because the so-called [God of nightmare] had no rules when it came to choosing targets.
It was completely random.
It was the most difficult crime to trace.
Moreover, it should be some kind of spirit-type familiar that didn’t have a physical form, which was why it didn’t leave any trace behind.
At that moment, a fat uncle in a black windbreaker appeared in front of them.
He had short hair, thick eyebrows, and big eyes. He looked a little funny.
“Chief.”
A few investigators said respectfully.
The chubby uncle in the black trench coat was their bureau chief, Liu Dongri.
“How’s the situation?”
The two agents briefly described the situation.
The plump uncle nodded. A dark purple array appeared in front of him, and a commander-level dream butterfly slowly flew out of the array.
The dream butterfly’s wings were one meter wide when fully spread. The wings were dark purple with beautiful and mysterious patterns on them.
“Dream butterfly, use the trace.”
“You you~”
The dream butterfly gently flapped its wings, and a light blue light was released from its body, quickly spreading throughout the room.
[Trace]
[Attributes]: spirit
[Level: Advanced]
<Introduction>: restore what happened through the information left on the object.
This skill was somewhat similar to Jiang He’s synesthesia, but the reverse vision could only track what happened in a short period of time.
Jiang He’s empathy was to communicate with the “spirit” of the ancient objects, and from there, to reproduce what had happened in ancient times.
As the light blue spiritual energy covered the area, the dream butterfly’s consciousness entered the past ‘illusionary world’ of this area.
The chubby chief Liu Dongri also entered the illusionary world created by the dream butterfly.
A man in pajamas was sleeping on the bed. A Husky was lying on top of him, licking the man’s toes.
The way the man and beast slept was really not flattering.
The dream butterfly sped up the time in the illusionary world.
The man and the Husky had changed their sleeping positions several times, but the man suddenly started trembling as if he had just experienced something terrible.
The Husky Wolf beside him seemed to be hypnotized. The Beastmaster’s strange behavior didn’t wake it up at all.
“Step back.”
The time in the illusionary world started to reverse, until the second before the man trembled.
“Stop,” he said.
Fat chief Liu Dongri asked the dream butterfly to stop the time in the illusionary world. He walked to a mirror and saw a pair of Scarlet eyes and a long body.
The [nightmare God] that they had been searching for seemed to be in the form of a snake.
The snake’s body was as black as ink, and it was only a dozen centimeters long.
“The nightmare serpent has the ability to switch between a physical and a non-physical form. However, I’ve finally found you. ”
“Let’s continue!”
Thus, time began to flow again.
The nightmare spirit snake’s figure in the mirror was fleeting. It had already come to the real world from the mirror, but because it was not in a physical form, it could not be observed!
The sleeping Beastmaster started trembling uncontrollably, as if he had fallen into the deepest fear.
Nightmare, an intermediate spiritual skill.
Induce all the fear in the hearts of familiars or humans, causing their minds to fall into a state of confusion.
Very quickly, The Beastmaster on the bed started foaming at the mouth. A round black crystal appeared above his stomach.
“Core of nightmare?”
This was the product of highly concentrated nightmares and fear. It was a substance that could only be produced when living creatures experienced countless fears in a very short period of time.
“It seems like this nightmare spirit snake is at the critical stage of advancing to the commander-level or evolving. That’s why it’s releasing so many seeds of nightmare.”
For the first time, there was doubt in the eyes of the fat bureau chief, Liu Dongri.
The [nightmare God] who was behind this actually had the strength of a peak battle general.
The question was … Where did it come from?
All familiars that were brought from the New World to the real world had to go through a strict identity registration.
Even master-level Beastmasters weren’t allowed to make an exception.
The only explanation for an illegal entry was that the familiar was born in the real world, but it didn’t go to the administration to register its identity.
Most of them were servant-level wandering familiars.
The battle general level only appeared once in a hundred years.
Without resources, the energy in the air was extremely thin, and there was no way to advance.
It was already ridiculous that this nightmare spirit snake was at least a tier 9 warrior or higher.
Even if it had consumed a large number of nightmare cores, it could not have advanced so quickly!
Moreover, it had the strength of an Advanced Battle general before the first round of attacks.
Before this, there had never been such a case!
Soon, the illusionary world faded, and the fat director and the dream butterfly returned to reality.
The dream butterfly’s eyes were a little tired. It was quite exhausting for it to maintain its vision for a long time.
“Chief, did you find the murderer?”
“I found it. It’s the nightmare spirit snake.”
Liu Dongri nodded.
“Everyone, please work hard these few days. Make sure that there is at least one agent present in each district.”
Liu Dongri told the two police detectives and handed them two stacks of amulets.
The pattern in the middle of the amulet was the same as the one Bai Shan gave to the students.
“This is an amulet that I asked a master to make. When the amulet flickered, it meant that the nightmare spirit snake was nearby, and it immediately requested for us to gather.”
“Yes!”
The two police officers saluted and quickly got to work.
The nightmare God could come back at any time, and the earlier they set up, the higher the possibility of capturing it.
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Night fell, and dark clouds covered the moon.
It started to drizzle.
Only the street lights in the Riverside Villa area emitted a pale white light, which made it seem a little quiet.
Inside the house.
“We’re going to Shanghai tomorrow morning, so let’s rest early today!”
Jiang He said to his three familiars.
He had already taken half a month’s leave from Bai Shan today. He was going to the East Xia University League in Shanghai to improve the actual combat experience of the droplet.
It’s so exciting to take a long leave right after school starts.
“CAW!”
“Yiyi!”
The two little ones responded and ran to their room to sleep.
The moonlight elf yawned lazily and jumped onto Jiang He’s bed.
Although the Star Room was not bad, it was still used to sleeping next to Jiang He.
“Go to sleep!”
Jiang He turned off the lights.
After he and all his familiars fell asleep, a pair of Scarlet eyes suddenly appeared in the mirror in the room.
It drooled unconsciously.
[This human’s mental energy is so delicious. The quality of the condensed core of nightmare must be very high!]
The nightmare spirit snake had chosen Beastmasters as its target because humans had more complicated thoughts. Beastmasters had stronger mental strength, and the quality of their cores of nightmares was very high!
Familiars were too simple-minded and had too few things to fear.
However, the light-type familiar around its “food” made it feel a little threatened.
After hesitating for a moment, nightmare spirit snake still could not resist the temptation of ‘delicious food’.
Take a gamble, and a bicycle can become a motorcycle.
After eating this human’s core of nightmare, there was a high chance that its main body would complete its advancement!
As a result, the small snake, as black as ink, slowly crawled out of the mirror. The moment it came out, its body instantly became transparent.
“Clang”
At this moment, the amulet in front of Jiang He burned rapidly, and then a light dispersion spread rapidly around it!
