My first time with Helen. Christopher officially met shortly after the events of the town's nightmare in the town of Rest.

Helen. Christopher, that is, Jarvis. Christopher - the younger sister of "flax". The reason why I say this is an "official meeting" is because there has been a less formal meeting before. She was taken by the Sheepskin Killer as prey, but I was able to save her life because I took out the Sheepskin Killer in time.

She struck me as apprehensive and cowardly during that incident, and now I learn that this is not her nature. The real her is stronger and more chic than I imagined. At the same time, he attaches importance to feelings, especially with his brother.

It all started after Hu Ma and I returned to the real world.

After getting off the train, we didn't just turn around and leave the place of right and wrong in Sabbation. As a police officer, Hu Ma has the responsibility to report the incident to the local police. He took me straight to the Public Security Bureau in Rest Town, and as a police officer in Beaver City, he focused on two things: first, the withered cultists had appeared here with gray uniforms hired from the Black Zone; The second is that there are loopholes in the seal of the dream monster that can be exploited by advanced dream technicians. The local public security naturally attached great importance to this matter, but at the last moment, it was thunder and rain.

The reasons are not so complicated. In the eyes of the local police, although the whole incident is thrilling, it is neither about to happen nor is it happening, but an incident that has already ended. The violent appearance of the withered cultists in the town of Sabbath must be taken seriously, but the men were slaughtered along with the gray uniforms; It was unreasonable that the seal of the dream monster had been breached, but the Turin doctor, who was the initiator, also left the town quickly. The local police tried to ask Hu Ma about the appearance and real name of the Turin doctor in the real world, but whether Hu Ma wanted to confess or not, he could not tell why. In addition, the Turin doctor did not cause material damage to the town of Shere, so the local police had to write down the account first and calculate it at a later date.

What they value most is nothing more than the vulnerability of the Dream Monster Seal. However, this vulnerability is not so much due to the lack of dedication of the technicians responsible for maintaining the seal, but rather the tricky angle from which the Turin doctors found the vulnerability. She didn't use the sealing technique to find the loophole, but used the advanced dream technology to draw out the power of the dream monster.

The next afternoon, we walked out of the Public Security Bureau.

Hu Ma looked me in the eye cautiously, and then apologized to me, "I'm sorry for wasting so much of your time." ”

"Don't worry, that's your job." I comforted him in turn.

He nodded in his heart and then asked, "Do you want to go back to Beaver City first?" ”

"What about this......" I thought for a moment, and he looked at me silently.

I felt that he was paying more attention to my relationship changes than before.

The reason for this is that the doppelganger Xu Fu once used the incitement words of the withering believer to push the prophet into the end of self-judgment.

I originally thought that the reason why the doppelganger Xu Fu would do that was simply because he saw the prophet as "unpleasant". This is a crude statement, but if it were me, I would certainly not be able to accept being under the same ceiling as the "time bomb" of the prophet. It was only afterwards that I reviewed the overall situation of the town's nightmare and realized that the motives of the doppelganger Xu Fu were probably different from what I thought.

He had already realized that the relationship between the prophet and the nun was "two-in-one". Among them, the prophet plays the role of "sinner"; The nun plays the role of "judge". After the prophet broke the covenant with the nuns and attracted the undead and the living dead, the matter should have developed into a situation where the "inquisitor" judged the "sinner" in public, and ended with the "sinner" being ambushed, and the dream would have ended in this way. However, he intervened at this critical moment and forced the prophet to death with his own hands.

His real purpose is to postpone the "curtain call" of the town's nightmare.

And, not to prolong his own life, otherwise he would not have committed suicide so decisively in front of me.

He wanted to buy me more time.

In his opinion, if the town nightmare ended prematurely, then Violent would be able to return to reality and kill the Turin doctor immediately. There is actually a misunderstanding in between. Although he grasped the truth of "two-in-one" faster than me, he may not have grasped the truth that "there is a dream beyond the nightmare of a small town". However, although it is likely that there was such a misunderstanding, he still helped me crucially. If the town nightmare really ended prematurely, then I wouldn't be able to get the poisonous dagger, let alone be violent.

But at the end of the day, that's just my speculation. I have nowhere to verify the true thoughts of the deceased.

Just as I was thinking about this, I suddenly realized that I and Hu Ma were being followed.

But I didn't look back, but changed the reservation of "return immediately", and continued: "It's rare to come here, and you can't just go to the public security bureau for sightseeing." Do you have anything you would like to visit? Let's take a look. ”

"Hmm......" flax mused, "how is the museum?" ”

"Want to learn about the history of Sabbaternity?"

"Yes." He nodded rather earnestly.

We started moving in the direction of the museum. On the way, he finally couldn't help but ask, "Is there really no way to save the dream monster from the nightmare?" ”

"You've been thinking about this kind of thing all the time?" I asked.

"The prophet did bad things, but it was only because the nightmare set him to do so. I could feel that his nature was still quite kind, otherwise he would never regret falling into that kind of fate. He didn't know that the nun was also a reflection of the dream monster, and he didn't know that the reason why he was able to survive was because she saved his life, but he was still saying good things about the dream monster, "A good person like him shouldn't suffer endlessly in nightmares." ”

"Nature shouldn't be." I said, "But unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about it right now." ”

"Well...... he was a little struck, and then worried about something else, "he's been in a nightmare, will he be dragged into the abstract universe?" I've heard that dreams are quite close to the abstract universe. ”

"It's not that easy." I shook my head, "For example, if the abstract universe is the ocean, then the dream is the surface of the sea. Although the sea surface is also a part of the ocean, for the three-dimensional ocean, the two-dimensional sea surface does not occupy volume. ”

I continued, "In other words, for the abstract universe, dreams do exist, but they are no different from non-existence. And this nature of dreams makes it impossible to fall into it, even though it is close to the abstract universe. ”

"I see......" he realized, and then asked some more questions, and I answered them one by one.

He admired: "You know so much. Where did you know this? ”

I was about to answer, but at that moment, his canine ears stood up alertly, and his face suddenly became serious.

Three seconds later, he said solemnly, and at the same time quietly, with a sense of déjà vu, as if sharing an earth-shattering secret: "I have discovered something very unpleasant. ”

"What's the matter?"

"We're being followed!" He said it conclusively.