A hand-painted portrait of a man was placed in front of Kiryu's first-class class.

Bald, with a thin face, a strange expression, and a terrifying look in his eyes.

"Are you sure you dreamed of this man?" Kiryu asked, lightly cocking his index finger over the photo.

"Yes! But he didn't hurt me in the dream" A member of the club immediately nodded in affirmation: "He taught me a lot of things in the dream, but because it was a dream, he forgot all about it when he woke up, and the only thing he could remember was probably ...... Others are not bad. ”

"But I was hunted down by him in my dream!" Immediately there was a rebuttal.

Everyone dreams of this person to varying degrees, and there is no difference except that they look exactly the same.

And everyone's dreams are varied.

"No, it's not completely unconnected."

Kiryu's first-class fingers tapped lightly on the tabletop.

Judging from the information that has been obtained, in addition to the completely fixed face, the man in this dream has different personalities, which may be relatives or enemies.

Everyone dreams for a long and short time, some people dream for only a few minutes, and some people have dreamed for a few months, like a dream for a year does not appear, which is a blessing in misfortune, because from their feedback, the time passage in the dream feels exactly the same as the real world, and even people who have spent three months in the dream will have a feeling of being separated from the world after waking up.

"There are strange things about the common connection!"

The main content of everyone's dreams is creepy or scary, but it has something to do with strange stories.

"He shouldn't want to hurt anyone" Kiryu made a judgment, and then he comforted the others and said: "This person, of course, does not rule out that he has no ability to harm people now, so he chose not to do it, it is already dark outside, so let's stop the club activities first." ”

No one objected, and after the horrific collective nightmare incident, they just wanted to leave the community as soon as possible and go home to hide under the covers and shiver for a while.

"Senior" Nanami lifted the bag and looked at Kiryu first-class, who had not yet left: "Is it really okay?" ”

"Don't worry, it's definitely no problem" Kiryu said with a calm expression and a calm demeanor: "I've already guessed who this guy is." ”

"Well, be careful......"

Nanami, who knew Kiryu's first-class ability, did not force her to stay, and turned around and left very obediently.

Kiryu closed his eyes.

About ten minutes later, he opened his eyes.

It was still an empty classroom, the lights were flickering restlessly, and something dirty was affecting the operation of the circuit.

"Why don't you leave so late?"

He has a bald head and a strange face, but he makes Kiryu appear with an unusually familiar feeling.

Although he couldn't remember what the other party's name was, Kiryu nodded and said, "Let's go right away and go home together?" ”

It seems that he has become very accustomed to making this invitation.

The other party also nodded familiarly: "Just along the way." ”

The two of them left the school together, stepping on the road illuminated by the street lamp, and went home side by side.

However, while passing by a phone booth, Kiryu suddenly stopped.

"Have you ever heard of that urban weirdo?" He asked.

The bald man turned his head and looked at Kiryu first-class with an expressionless face, a pair of weird and terrifying big eyes, as if he wanted to see through Kiryu's first-class heart and soul.

"What's the weird talk?" The other party asked.

"There is a man who often appears in other people's dreams, and many people find out that they have dreamed about each other after communication."

The bald man replied, "It may be that they have received some kind of cue in real life, so the brain automatically forms that image in the dream." ”

"It's really not strange to dream of people who look the same," Kiryu continued, "However, according to legend, many countries on the other side of the ocean, people who don't understand the language, and even people who have never crossed paths in their lives, will dream of the image of that man in their dreams. ”

"Really? It's scary. The bald man nodded, but his expression remained unchanged as he spoke.

Kiryu first-class continued, "Abroad, he is called ThieMan, but in this country, he is generally called Yumeman. ”

"I haven't heard of this weird talk," the bald man shook his head.

"Really?"

Kiryu raised his hand and slapped the other man's head.

However, after the other party's head exploded, his body also spread out like a chocolate bean and rolled to the ground.

The street lights are dim, and one by one figures appear around Kiryu's first-class and surround him, they are all unified "dream man" images, looking up, the bald head reflecting the street lamp light has completely occupied Kiryu's first-class field of vision.

Uniform appearance, terrifying eyes staring at Kiryu first-class.

Watched by thousands of people.

Overhead, on buildings, on street lamps.

There are even heads that break out from under the road.

There is no visual blind spot, and Kiryu is stared at by countless "dream men", completely in the center of the strange circle.

"Sure enough, I'm just dreaming," Kiryu affirmed in a first-class tone.

"How did you know for sure?" The dream men spoke in unison, and from the tone alone, they couldn't tell if their mood had changed.

Kiryu grinned, raised his hand and slapped his head, and at the same time secretly said in his heart: "Do I want to tell you about this matter when I find out that the plug-in is gone?" ”

Open your eyes.

The lights of the club were on, and he was still sitting in a chair, maintaining the same position he had fallen asleep into.

"It's easy to know what you are, but...... Strange talk is missing, can even strange talk make them force them to sleep? ”

Kiryu chose to remove the skin from the Rift Girl.

"Ahh Help me!! ”

"Meow! Meow! ”

"Hair wax! Hair wax! Hair wax!! Ahhh ”

Screams came from afar, as well as the screams of cats.

Kiryu simply chose to go out through the window, and then he saw Sumimi Dengzi and other missing people, running away towards him in embarrassment, and the rift woman who was already crazy behind him waved scissors, and kept asking: "Am I beautiful?" Am I beautiful? Am I beautiful? ”

Sumimi Lanternzi screamed and shouted "hair wax" in a high-decibel voice, and there was no smell of hair wax that the rift woman hated, but it was useless to just shout the name of the hair wax.

After seeing Kiryu first-class, they seemed to see a savior.

But there are still people who accidentally "oops" and fell on the ground, it was the girl from the archery department.

"I'm done!" The girl's face changed drastically.

But the imaginary pain and fear did not hit, and the girl turned her head suspiciously, but there was no figure of the crack girl behind her.

"Hair wax?" She tried to shout, and there really wasn't any problem!

"Whew!"

In fact, Kiryu first-class put skin on the rip girl again, making her hide her figure.

Kiryu stepped forward and asked, "Where did you guys just go?" ”

There is also a definite information in my heart, although the dream man can fall into a dream, but he can't force people to be immersed in a dream and not wake up, compared with the movie "Freddy" on the other side of the ocean, it is still a lot worse.

"It's just that I'm suddenly sleepy, I close my eyes, and then I feel like I've had a long dream," Sumimi said, "I remember the contents of the dream very clearly, but just now I suddenly felt very dangerous, so I woke up, and then I saw the out-of-control rift girl." ”

"That's right, meow!" Maomaomaru nodded in agreement.

"Ahh Cat! Cat! The cat has spoken! The girl from the archery department who had just gotten up, her eyes were round, and probably she had more expressions than she had done this afternoon in the previous year.

The culprit of everything can be determined, but how to solve the dream man is a big problem, if the other party has been hiding in the dream, or the other party is just a strange talk because of the dream, there is no way to deal with it, you can only get used to the existence of the other party.

Now the only person who can solve the Yume Man incident is a recognized "expert", Kiryu is first-class.

"I'll go back and do a test."

After dismissing everyone, Kiryu left with strange talks.

After moving temporarily, the apartment they rented was also spacious.

Hanako drove into the bathroom with ease, and the rift woman was strolling around the kitchen with scissors in her hand.

"Rip Girl!" Black Feather saw the Rip Girl, and happily flapped her wings and flew over: "Rip Girl Mulberry!" You're back? It's just great! ”

The Rip Girl tilted her head to look at Black Feather, the maid of the Raven Tengu.

It's the Rip Girl, and it's also the Demon of Fantasy, one of the most widely circulated urban weirdos in the world, but it's not the Rip Girl it was at the beginning, and it has no memory of surviving here at all.

The reason why the image is embodied is also because people's illusions about it force its image to be manufactured.

"Rip Girl?" Hei Yu didn't know the relationship between this, she flew to the rip girl: "Rip girl, your mask is a little mismatched, you didn't use the heart-shaped mask I made before, wait, I'll help you get a new mask." ”

The rift girl was stunned and watched Xiao Budian flapping her wings and flying away in front of her, the other party was not afraid of her face, but brought a mask with cute patterns.

"Smack~" Black Feather clapped his hands with satisfaction, looking at the rift girl: "Hmm~ This is much cuter!" ”

The Rift Girl asked a little stiffly, "I...... Is it beautiful? ”

Hei Yu nodded, and in the posture of a maid, she was full of vitality and shouted, "Super beautiful!" ”

What happened behind him did not affect Kiryu in the slightest, and he dialed Kirizaki Mizuaki's phone, intending to find some reliable and useful information from folklore experts.

But as soon as he said a few words, Mizuaki Kirisaki asked, "Dream man?" ”

"Could it be Kirisaki-sensei, you ...... too"

"Well, Mamiya and I also dreamed of Dream Man."

"It's really pervasive," Kiryu said helplessly.

"This is a foreign legend, I also investigated it just now, there is a female Internet celebrity who deliberately compiled a dream man for the sake of the topic, so that the dream man who was slowly forgotten by everyone reappeared in Japan."

"You mean, Dream Man is a simple fantasy monster, an urban monster?"

If Yumeo is a fantasy youkai, it will be the worst situation, although it does not have any danger, but it is not a good thing to always dream of a terrifying person, and spend his days in a dream like a year.

"I've just investigated, and the situation of Yumeo is not limited to us, there are patients in Shibuya's hospital who have encountered the same situation and are being treated in the hospital, I recommend you to go there and have a look, maybe you can figure out the ins and outs."

"I'm going?" Kiryu first-class was a little surprised, like this kind of strange talk incident, generally Kirisaki Mizuaki and Mamiya Yuka are the most positive.

"It is said that it is a contagious dream, and ordinary people who approach it at will are likely to be infected."

“…… Infect? I understand. ”

One night, Kiryu first-class dreamed again, and the dream man in the dream seemed to be an old acquaintance, trying to teach him something, but since the last time he blew up the dream man's head, Kiryu first-class noticed that he was very awake.

Lucid dreaming is the most painful, and what is even more painful is that this dream lasted for a month, and he seemed to have really spent a month, and there was always a terrifying and strange bald man by his side.

It's a nightmare!

Early the next morning, Kiryu got up and went to the hospital mentioned by Mizuaki Kirisaki, and before he could enter the hospital, he felt a strong breath.

It's not like a demon, but it's a strong deterrent, and even Kiryu can't be sure if the thing that releases this breath is a creature or something else.

With Kirizaki Mizuaki greeting him in advance, Kiryu was regarded as a folklore college student who came to investigate and write a report.

The attending doctor led the way in front: "...... He came to our hospital a month ago, and at that time he said that he could dream, and the dream was so real that he couldn't tell the difference between reality and dreams. ”

"What dreams does he have?" Kiryu asked.

"I dream of anything"

"Sometimes he dreams that he is being chased and killed in a dream, and when he wakes up, he starts running away," the doctor said...... Sometimes he dreams that he has become a murderer, he takes the nurse hostage, and even once he thinks that the patient in the next ward is his girlfriend who is in trouble. ”

"It's really pitiful" Kiryu's first-class difficult evaluation.

can't distinguish between reality and dreams, if the "dream man incident" becomes more and more serious, all the people who are "infected" are very likely to end up in the same way.

If it is a sweet dream, the acceptance can be higher, but all the people affected by the "Dream Man Incident" so far have urban weird stories in their dreams, which also indicates that with the passage of time, they are destined to fall into endless horror nightmares.

"That's right," the doctor nodded: "His time in the dream is getting longer and longer, recently he has been sleeping all night, and more than ten years have passed in the dream, maybe for him, the real world is a dream." ”

Kiryu, who has had a long experience of lucid dreaming, can't imagine how torturous it is to dream for four or five years, or even longer.

As they spoke, they had already arrived in front of the hospital room.

The doctor took out a gas mask from the sterilization cabinet in front of the ward, and relied on a small oxygen tank to breathe, completely isolated from the outside world and avoid contact.

"What is this?"

"Contagion!" The doctor said: "His body secretes something that makes people dream, and some of the medical staff have been infected and have fallen into strange dreams, but the difference is that they are not in serious condition, and the longest time in the dream is a year." ”

"That's long enough!" Kiryu immediately put on a gas mask.

The two pushed the door open and entered the ward, which was like a dust-free workshop in a factory.

A patient with a withered face, sunken eyes, a head as big as a bucket, and slender limbs lay motionless on the hospital bed.

If it weren't for the ECG detection device on the side, Kiryu might have guessed that the other party was dead.

"Ahh

Who knew that the two had not yet approached, but the patient yelled and sat up, it was hard to imagine why the body like ET was so flexible, he grabbed the pillow behind him and threw it at the two of Kiryu: "You want to kill me?" Hahahaha, stop dreaming, hahahaha! ”

"You're awake, you're awake!" The doctor hurriedly stepped forward, raised his hands slightly, and comforted the patient.

"Awake, really?" The patient asked incredulously.

"Wake up, really!" The doctor nodded affirmatively.

Unexpectedly, the patient hid his face and cried: "I...... Woowoo woo ......"

Kiryu asked, "How long have you been in your dream this time?" ”

The patient raises his right hand, clenches his fist, and holds up his index finger and thumb, which resemble chicken claws.

"Eight years?"

"80 years"

"80 years?!" Kiryu first-class heart twitched, a number enough to make people desperate.

The sound of an ordinary person is only 80 years, and he only needs one night to dream, and it is a nightmare that lasts for 80 years.

"yes, I can't tell the difference, which side is the dream and which side is the reality" The patient's state looked very poor, he turned around and looked at Kiryu first-class: "I dreamed of you, we shouldn't have met before this, right?" ”

"I haven't seen it," Kiryu nodded.

"It's true, strange dreams" the patient struggled to squeeze out a smile: "In the dream, we seemed to be good brothers who talked about everything, but you betrayed me in the end. ”

"Then I apologize to you on behalf of me in my dream" Kiryu walked towards the patient, he could see that the other party was in a bad state, although it was just a dream, he had already tortured the other party into an inhuman form.

He decided to go straight to the point: "Recently, people in my neighborhood have also started to dream frequently, so I want to come to you and ask a few questions. ”

Thank you "Hellingknigh" for the 100 starting coins.

(End of chapter)