Just like the suddenness of his appearance, Xue Yueling's disappearance was also traceless.

Li Mengnan took out a pen and paper, drew a brief schematic diagram as he walked forward, and finally found the exit of the "mirror maze" in the stumbling and constantly hitting the wall.

What surprised him was that there was a person who came out earlier than him.

Can be picked.

"Sister Lian, how did you get out?"

Li Mengnan was very incomprehensible, when he finally saw Ke Cailian, the other party and Guo Debiao and others were also being chased by his terrifying shadow, he didn't think that Ke Cailian had the kind of unnatural luck that could run the right route at one time.

Hearing someone coming out from behind, Ke Cailian, who was kneeling on the ground and gasping for breath, fell forward in horror, turned around and pointed the knife at Li Mengnan with both hands, and her whole body trembled.

"Sister Lian, don't be afraid, it's me."

Li Mengnan hurriedly turned off the flashlight, but Cailian saw clearly who it was, and the knife in her hand fell to the ground, and she threw herself into Li Mengnan's arms and cried.

"Old Man Tian is dead! He helped me block out the shadows and was dragged into the mirror...... I was so scared, so I closed my eyes and waited for death, and then those shadows didn't move, and I didn't dare to open my eyes to see, so I touched my hand and walked out......"

Just as people often experience so-called selective amnesia when they encounter a heavy blow that they do not want to face, in the same way, when people are extremely frightened, there is a certain chance that this will stop the brain's association of relevant information.

But Cailian is lucky, she happens to be the kind of person who gives up thinking and escaping reality, and without the source of information for fear, those murderous images will naturally cease to exist.

However, this probability is too low, and it is estimated that such a case as Ke Cailian can appear among the volunteers is already the limit, and the fate of other people in the maze is only afraid that it will be more auspicious.

At the same time, Li Mengnan became more and more confused about this mission, what was the purpose of the HX Research Institute to throw them into this near-killing dream without any hints? Is it just for these monsters to torture them for fun?

Bang dang!

The door at the exit of the mirror maze was suddenly slammed open by a strong force, and Wen Jiahao, who was like a bloody man all over his body, stumbled out, rolled down the steps with one foot in the air, and lay on the ground instead of wailing, but laughing like a maniac.

"I'm out! I'm finally out of it! If you want Lao Tzu's life, it's not so easy! ”

Wen Jiahao's hideous face covered with blood frightened Ke Cailian, she subconsciously hid behind Li Mengnan, and said in fear: "This person ...... Is he crazy? ”

"No, he's not crazy."

The so-called madness, or mental illness, is in fact caused by part of the consciousness sinking into the deeper levels of the brain, and the consciousness of the guide zhì is incomplete.

In dreams, human consciousness is completely immersed in the deepest part of the brain, and there is no such thing as incompleteness.

Therefore, no matter how much pain the person in the dream suffers, he will not be able to go crazy or fall into a coma.

"Dead...... ...... are all dead" Wen Jiahao struggled to prop up his body, looked at Li Mengnan and Ke Cailian not far in front of him with blank eyes, and laughed miserably: "You two continue to move forward, I just want to be alone here......"

"Li Mengnan, he ......"

"Let's go." Li Mengnan grabbed Ke Cailian's shoulders and shook his head regretfully: "He has given up." ”

Glancing at the backs of Li Mengnan and the two of them turning away, Wen Jiahao took out a crumpled blood-stained cigarette from his pocket, lit it and held it to his mouth, looking up at the dazzling and charming starry sky.

"If it weren't for those monsters, this would be a great place! It seems like it's been a long time since I've looked up at the stars above my head like this...... Well? Is that? ”

A huge black shadow fell from the sky, blood splattered, and Wen Jiahao's headless body fell heavily to the ground.

……

At the same time, a shrill alarm suddenly sounded in the test monitoring room of the HX Institute.

"Warning! Warn! Signs of nightmare activity in Area 2b - species: dog lady. Intensity Class: E. ”

"I'm the next Olympian! What's going on! Euonymus's face changed suddenly, he jumped up from the swivel chair and rushed to the monitoring console on the side, "Quick, call up all the monitors near the mirror maze of the amusement park!" ”

It is theoretically impossible for a nightmare to exist in the test area, and the only explanation for this anomaly is that someone in the real world has accidentally broken into the test area.

Soon, a clear night vision picture appeared on the screen, near the broken mirror maze, a couple of men and women were holding flashlights to the depths of the amusement park, the girl took the lead, and from time to time turned around to urge the boy who followed carefully behind him, obviously to explore and seek excitement.

"! How do you monitor? Can't you see two big living people coming in? ”

Euonymus can't wait to split the head of the monitoring department alive at this moment, E-rank nightmares are a difficult bone for dreamwalker newcomers, and for ordinary people who have not yet broken through to become dreamwalkers, they are simply unsolvable.

"Director Wei, another volunteer's brainwave has stopped moving, and now only the last two are left!"

The staff behind the glass nervously reported the monitoring records displayed on the instrument, and the last two green lights on the top of the twenty egg-shaped containers remained, and the rest were shocking blood red.

"Quick! Immediately notify the dreamwalker on duty today and prepare to enter the dream world for rescue! ”

After issuing all the orders as fast as he could, Euonymus sat down in the swivel chair with a dejected ass.

It is not a problem for any dreamwalker in the institute to deal with E-class nightmares, but it takes a certain amount of time to enter the dream world, and for now, they can only do their best to obey the fate of heaven before the last two volunteers can hold out until the rescue arrives.

"Brother Wei, didn't you say that you wouldn't interfere with the testing of these volunteers?" The rookie researcher next to him was a little puzzled by the fierce reaction of the euonymus.

"The test of our HX Institute is to squeeze the potential of these volunteers, so that they can overcome their limits and become dreamwalkers...... But even a newly broken Dream Walker can never be an opponent of an E-rank Nightmare, so if this test continues, it will not be a test, but a senseless killing. ”

"Is the nightmare that happened this time very powerful? I think those two bodies seem to be very ordinary......"

The dream world transcoding video has not yet been parsed, and it is difficult for the rookie researcher to imagine what the nightmare projected by such a young couple in love in the dream world looks like.

"Nightmares are almost all different, but they can be different."

Euonymus knew that he was in a hurry at the moment and there was nothing he could do, so he could only patiently explain to the rookie researcher, which could be regarded as helping him distract himself.

He pulled up a screenshot of the video transcoding, and although the image was a little blurry due to the high-speed movement, it was still vaguely clear that it was a slender black female humanoid monster leading a giant vicious dog almost three meters tall with an iron chain.

"This is the 'dog girl' - the female monster represents the dominance of women, and the giant vicious dog represents the male who has a strong body but is willing to accept it.

When a couple or couple in the real world, the woman is absolutely dominant, this nightmare projection will appear in the dream world.

In other words, the nightmare of 'dog girl' was not many before, but it has become more and more common in recent years. ”

The rookie researcher scratched his face awkwardly and smiled, if it was inferred from this, his projection in the dream world at the moment was also the dog led by chains.

"This kind of nightmare is a nightmare of twins, and its danger is not as simple as one plus one...... To deal with this kind of nightmare, the most important thing to pay attention to is that before killing the dog, you must not touch the female monster behind you, otherwise the dog will enter a terrible state of rage, which is very tricky. ”

Euonymus's expression suddenly darkened, he remembered a friend of his own, this seems to be a simple experience with only one sentence, but it was exchanged for the other party's life.

……

"! Is this HX Institute going to trap my brother's rhythm? How could such a monster be released! ”

Facing the huge dog in front of him, and the black female figure that twisted strangely from time to time, Li Mengnan wiped a handful of blood foam from the corner of his mouth, and couldn't help cursing again and again in his heart.

He didn't want to provoke this behemoth, but the other party didn't seem to have the harmonious and friendly spirit of "if people don't offend me, I won't offend others", after swallowing Wen Jiahao's corpse as if swallowing fat, the huge vicious dog immediately opened its teeth and pounced on him with a bloody basin stuffed with rags between its teeth.

Judging from the speed of the giant dog's sprint, Li Mengnan instantly judged that he couldn't escape no matter what, so he could only draw out the sword and fight head-on, and constantly fight with the giant dog under the cover of the complex terrain around him.

Li Mengnan doesn't know any swordsmanship, in fact, even if he does, it's useless, after all, the so-called martial arts have always been for people and not for animals.

What's more, even if the legendary beggar gang learned the "Dog Stick Method", the original founder never considered beating such a big dog.

Cutting and stabbing more than a dozen times around the limbs of the giant dog, the seemingly sharp blade could not break through the smooth fur at all, but Li Mengnan was accidentally swept by the front paws of the giant dog.

Although he defended with a knife at the first time and rolled backwards to unload the force, he still felt as if his chest had been smashed by a thousand pounds of hammer, and the thin blade of the knife was broken in two, and he couldn't help but have a mouthful of blood gushing to his mouth.

"Li Mengnan!"

Seeing that Li Mengnan was knocked to the ground and vomited blood, Cailian subconsciously wanted to run to help him, but Li Mengnan raised his hand to stop him.

"Sister Lian! Run! Find a safe place to hide! ”

No, Cailian didn't do what he said at all, she bit her lip as if she had made up her mind, picked up a fist-sized stone on the ground, and smashed it at the female figure behind the giant dog who had been holding the chain and didn't move.

"Come on! Come and bite me! You monster! ”

The stone was smashed on the head of the female figure impartially, and the black monster with a slender body was suddenly smashed backwards, and at the same time let out a high-pitched scream like an ordinary woman.

But Cailian was also stunned, she threw stones just to attract the attention of the other party, wanting to lure the giant dog away from Li Mengnan's side, but she didn't expect that the female-body humanoid monster behind the terrifying giant dog was so weak that it could be knocked down with just one stone.

Suddenly, the black giant dog that was about to rush forward to give Li Mengnan a fatal blow let out an earth-shattering roar, and the long hair on his neck suddenly exploded, like an angry male lion, leaving Li Mengnan and turning around at an extremely fast speed to pounce on Ke Cailian in the distance.

"Sister Lian!"

Li Mengnan endured the severe pain of his internal organs turning over the river and the sea, flew up and picked up the tip of the knife on the ground, shook his hand and turned into a silver flash and chased straight towards the black giant dog.

There is no suspense in the ending. The tip of the half-cut knife hit the fur on the black dog's hip, flipped out and fell weakly to the ground.

Ke Cailian's delicate body was whipped out more than twenty meters by the claws of the wild black giant dog, and stuck to the outer wall of the mirror maze like a sticker, hanging in the air for a few seconds before slowly sliding down, leaving a shocking blood mark on the wall.

"Child...... Child...... Sub ......"

Ke Cailian's eyes on the ground were completely dilated, but her fingers were still trembling slightly, as if she wanted to grasp something.

But at this moment, a huge black shadow fell from the sky, claws pressed on her back, and ripped the entire lower half of her body from her waist in one gulp, and swallowed it with its head held high.

But Cailian died, but there was still a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, as if she had seen something before she died.

Li Mengnan remembers this kind of smile, every time he sends him out, Xiao Hui smiles at him so gently, which is full of the mother's meticulous love and concern for the child.

But...... In this world...... Another child never saw that smile again......

"Brute-!"

Li Mengnan suddenly felt as if something extremely precious in his heart had been torn to pieces, and his body, which was already almost immobile, actually stood up slowly again.

At the same time, a layer of white shimmer began to emerge from his body, and it continued to rise and condense like substance, twisting and rolling over his shoulder, as if a new life would break out of the cocoon inside.

The black giant dog seemed to sense something, turned its head and let out a vigilant roar, dropped the upper body of Ke Cailian, which had not yet been devoured, and turned around and pounced on Li Mengnan again.

The scarlet blood basin mouth emitted a pungent stench, which grew wider and wider in Li Mengnan's pupils.

One man, one dog.

Time seems to freeze in an instant.

……

"Alert! Alert! Unknown high-intensity brainwaves appeared in area 2b, and the type of brainwaves was α, and it was preliminarily judged to be mutated nightmares......"

"! Don't let people stop? There were only two nightmares, and another one popped out of nowhere......"

Hearing the alarm again, Euonymus subconsciously jumped up and rushed to the console, connecting the monitoring department and about to scold, suddenly seemed to realize that something was wrong.

"Wait...... α types of brainwaves, mutated nightmare bodies? it! Something is wrong! The Euonymus scrambled to connect to another special line, almost in a loud voice with a broken voice: "Immediately increase the speed of consciousness transmission!" Be sure to save the last survivor in the test field no matter what! ”

"But...... Yes, got it! ”

The tone of the other side seemed to be a little hesitant, but when he heard the guard spear so resolute, he knew that something big must have happened, and immediately began to carry out the order.

Putting down the microphone, Euonymus seemed to have lost its former calm, his brows were tightly locked into a Sichuan character, and he kept walking around the control room.

"Brother Wei, what's wrong? A new nightmare in the testing ground? ”

It was the first time for the rookie researcher to see Euonymus fidgeting like this, and subconsciously glanced at the surveillance images transmitted back near the amusement park, except for the two young couples who were still playing adventure games with great interest, there was no third person at all.

"No, it's not a nightmare, it's someone who broke through."

"Breakthrough? You're saying there's a new dreamwalker? The rookie researcher hurriedly checked the test file this time, "Is that the volunteer named Li Mengnan?" He's been really lucky......"

"It's more than good luck! Did you hear the alarm just now? α brainwave type, this kid directly awakened the mutated nightmare body! I've been at the HX Institute for so long, and it's the second time I've seen someone awaken a mutated nightmare body for the first time they enter the dream world......"

The words of the guard spear were full of uncontrollable ecstasy, he really didn't see the wrong person, Li Mengnan, this kid really has the potential to become a dreamwalker.

"Uh...... Brother Wei, although I don't want to say it, I still ask for popular science. ”

The rookie researcher was also a little embarrassed, this night he felt like he was about to become a blue cat naughty three thousand asked.

Although Euonymus was in a mixed mood at the moment, he was still mostly happy, so he waved his hand disapprerovingly and said, "Although the people who have broken through the limits of their physical energy in the dream world are collectively referred to as 'dreamwalkers' in the research institute, in fact, there are also two kinds of dreamwalkers.

One is called an autologous dreamwalker, with a β type of brainwaves, and they are not much different from ordinary supporters except for their extraordinary physical abilities, reactions, and perceptions.

And there is a relatively rare one called the allogeneic dreamwalker, the brainwave type is α, in addition to having the characteristics of the autologous dreamwalker, they also have a special doppelganger called the mutated nightmare body, which we generally refer to as the allogene. ”

"Mutant Nightmares? Variant? What exactly is that? Does it have anything to do with nightmares in general? ”

Although information like Dreamwalker is not a secret, it is still rare for a low-level supporter to have the opportunity to know about it.

"What is a nightmare? The nightmare we are talking about is actually the ** collection of our human beings hidden in the deepest part of our hearts, which generally only appears in the inner world.

Then the question arises, if we enter the inner world with a clear consciousness, then where are our own nightmares?

That's right, our nightmares are suppressed in the deepest part of our minds by our waking consciousness, and they can be sealed there, so to speak.

But when the nightmare breaks through its own seal in the waking state, the nightmare's evil instinct is suppressed by our consciousness, while retaining the nightmare's own powerful power in the dream world - this is the so-called mutated nightmare. ”