Chapter 25: The Dream Eater
"Young Master Warden!"
The strange girl who was called the Nightmare Demon by Yu Chang screamed in a strange voice, and she didn't open her mouth, only the "buzzing" sound of her vocal cords vibrating came out of her throat, which made people a little hairy.
Although the girl has a smile on her face, anyone who sees this smile may not feel warm, but will be scared into a cold sweat.
The two thin lines at the corners of her lips that extended to the back of her head rose in an exaggerated arc, and if you had to do the math, it was not much different from the little people drawn by young children, barely making the shape of a smiley face.
This picture, coupled with the girl's sharp and ugly voice, is even more bizarre and terrifying.
She saw that Yu Zhang was frightened, and danced again, her body was stiff, and she turned in circles steadily, like a marionette.
"Young Warden, is my body good-looking?" she asked with a grin.
Yu Zhang coughed dryly twice, and instead of answering directly, he quickly stopped her clumsy dance steps on her hands and feet, and asked, "Why did you come down?"
The girl let out a series of "jingle bells" yin laughter, the sound was obscure and harsh, if it was a metaphor, it was like a wind chime that had been put on for a long time, which was full of rust stains, and shook it, leaving only a dry collision sound.
She smiled and said, "I'll come down to see you, young master." ”
Yu Zhang's back was cold, he shuddered, and said in disgust: "Come less, whether it's rhetoric or nonsense, if you claim to be the second in the world, no one dares to call yourself the first in the world." ”
The Nightmare Demon's voice was gentle, and he said arrogantly: "How can people be so powerful..."
When Yu Zhang heard this, goosebumps rose all over his body, and he felt disgusted in his heart, so he quickly stopped him: "Stop, stop!"
"The last time I saw you, you were still a boy, why did you become a girl this time?" Yu Zhang hurriedly changed the subject.
The Nightmare Demon laughed, "Get a new body on a whim, anyway, my race doesn't have a gender, does it?"
Yu Zhang actually felt that it made sense, and immediately shook his head fiercely, thinking that he couldn't be surrounded by this monster who was good at demagoguery.
Yu Zhang stopped talking nonsense, picked up the most important and asked, "Who sent you down?"
The Nightmare Demon said: "Who else can there be, who has this right in the Void Heaven Temple now?"
Yu Zhang thought for a while: "Aunt Hua?"
"Alas. Yu Chang sighed, feeling a little helpless in his heart: the Nightmare Demon is a creature like the word "Nightmare" in its name, which is very difficult.
The predecessor of the Nightmare Demon was a psychic creature called a Dream Eater, which feeds on the emotions of various living beings. And the most emotionally abundant is human beings. As such, humans are the main targets of the Dream Eaters.
They are usually at night, looking for those who are asleep, and then burrowing into people's dreams and absorbing the emotional energy in them.
If the person had not dreamed at the time, the Dream Eater would have snooped on the person's memory and created a dream based on that memory.
In order to maximize their emotional energy, Dream Eaters tend to choose extremely impactful memories to construct their dreams. Whether happy or sad, all high-concentration emotions are the most ideal nourishment for dream eaters.
For the sake of greater efficiency, for those who are already dreaming, Dream Eaters will also modify their dreams to meet their requirements.
For those who are devoured of their emotional energy, it will not have much effect, at most it will be a little tired.
Unless the dream eaters create or modify the dream world, they exaggerate it so much that the person concerned is mentally unbearable, and the brain is impacted, and it becomes a nerd, a fool, a madman, and the most serious is brain death.
Or if too much emotional energy is swallowed up, it will also cause damage that is difficult for the human body to repair on its own.
Most of the Dream Eaters do not harm humans for their own selfish desires, and for the sake of long-term food supply, they tend to adopt the principle of "moderation and moderation" when absorbing emotional energy, and are supervised by their populations.
That said, I don't know when a group of "nightmares" appeared in the Dream Eaters who take pleasure in creating nightmares, they feed on fear, and by peeking into people's memories, they create the things that people fear the most.
And they don't follow the principle of "moderation, moderation" at all, choosing a person and not leaving until he has been sucked all the food. When a person approaches death, he has a fear that he has never felt before in his life, which is why the Nightmare Monster wants to kill him.
And the nightmare monster who brought this trend of "killing" attracted countless followers with his strong personal strength, and led them to wander around, committing countless evil deeds.
This monster is the nightmare demon in front of Yu Zhang.
It is recorded in ancient books that in the 100 years when the "Nightmare Monster" was prevalent, it slaughtered countless cities and villages, causing the revolt of all mankind.
The "Dream Eaters" are stronger than having no entity, and can easily enter the brain, which is the weakest but most important defense of human beings.
In order to fight against them, all countries and tribes have summoned masters who are good at spiritual arts, and at the same time, they have also created various magic weapons and spiritual weapons to deal with the "Dream Eaters".
Whether it's a "Dream Eater" or a "Nightmare Monster", it's the same kind of creature, and no one cares if you're a "good Dream Eater" or an "evil Nightmare Monster".
Under the common hatred of all mankind, within a few decades, the Dream Eaters were in danger and on the verge of extinction.
And just when they were about to be wiped out, a powerful man broke through the void, descended from the sky, and forcibly took away the last "Nightmare Monster" that was besieged and killed in an invincible state.
And this "Nightmare Monster" is the strongest and most evil monster, and it is known as the "Nightmare Demon".
The reason why Yu Zhang knew so much about the details of this matter was that the power that had single-handedly fought against countless human powerhouses and forcibly took away the Nightmare Demon was the hall master of the Void Heaven Temple.
With such a demon, the hall master saved it at that time to prevent the extinction of this species, and at the same time imprisoned him in the Void Heaven Temple to prevent it from harming people again.
The Nightmare Demon itself has no body, and this puppet-like body is an artificial body specially created to restrain it.
The last time I saw it, it was a man's body.,And this time it's a crazy weird girl.,It's worthy of being a big devil.,The bad taste is different.。
Yu Zhang handed over the position of acting warden to Aunt Hua because she was the most merciful among the lords of the Void Heaven Palace.
She treats all life as equal and cherishes all life. If there is a person who tramples a few ants on the side of the road when he has nothing to do, then Aunt Hua will not hesitate to get rid of this person, just because all things are equal.
Perhaps for most human beings, this idea of "all things are equal" is pathological, but it is much better than those who regard human life as a mustard, such as the smiling "girl" in front of her.
Since this is the case, then Aunt Hua will definitely not take the risk of another river of blood in the world and take the initiative to send the Nightmare Demon down to earth.
Yu Zhang's mind spun rapidly, thinking about the reason.
Nightmare demons can peep into and modify people's memories, which is indeed a great help in the case of the disappearance of spies.
If the spy is dead, there are no witnesses, the murderer is tight-lipped and all traces of murder have been cleaned up, then there is only one way to peep through memory.
Then Aunt Hua may have also made a lot of consideration before sending the Nightmare Demon to the mortal world.
But this nightmare demon, as a thousand-year-old demon, a god-like hall master may be able to perfectly suppress it, but Yu Zhang doesn't have much confidence.
Although Yu Zhang's head is above the status of a prison warden above 10,000 people, his own strength is one of the weakest among the 10,000 people.
One reason is because of his young age, and the other reason is that his mind is not on cultivation, and he either forgets to sleep and eat in the library all day long, or wanders around in various small worlds.
Regarding the management of the Nightmare Demon, it is assumed that once the puppet shell that restricts the Nightmare Demon goes wrong and the Nightmare Demon is released, the entire Takakawa Castle may change from a crowded and bustling city to a place full of corpses and bones overnight.
And once this happens, with Yu Zhang's strength alone, he can't stop it even if he fights for his life.
Therefore, taking the Nightmare Demon with you is like carrying a * that will explode at some point, and it is extremely hot.
However, as long as this body is not broken, Yu Zhang has a way to cure it.
Yu Zhang prayed silently in his heart, believing that the puppeteer's craftsmanship was excellent, and he believed in the quality of the products produced by the Void Heaven Temple.
Yu Zhang came back to his senses, looked at the hot potato in front of him, sighed, and the mood of shopping was gone, leading the nightmare demon and walking to the Xiao family's own room.
Along the way, the strange girl beside Yu Zhang attracted a lot of attention, but the Nightmare Demon still enjoyed this feeling, and responded to those glances even more.
Yu Zhang was calm on the surface, but he was extremely embarrassed in his heart, and the pace on his feet was a little faster unconsciously.
But when the two of them arrived at the gate of the Xiao Mansion, Yu Zhang suddenly turned around and headed back.
He thought about it for a while: Since they have come here, wouldn't it be a tyrannical thing to let it go?