【Nightmare Gamble】

This gambling game initiated by Catherine, Yi Chen chose to participate in it for two reasons, in fact, there are two reasons: light and dark.

On the bright side,

Yi Chen already knew that the pieces of meat mixed with the nightmare substance had already been sold to the market, and they had been eaten directly by a large number of gentlemen, and at least 50% of the people of Zion had been 'implanted with ideas'.

Once Catherine is in a hurry, all she needs is a snap of her fingers, and Zion will be in chaos overnight, with the whole city filled with strange laughter, and gentlemen who fail to push the limits will laugh and wreak havoc.

I want to save Zion, save the brains and lives of every people,

Yi Chen has and only one way to play with Catherine.

As long as she can win the game, according to the "Soul Pact" signed by the two, Catherine will drain the thoughts from the brains of all the people, clear the nightmare influence from all of Zion and evacuate completely.

But there is a very important issue here.

Even if Yi Chen held up a unique "black crazy brain", he might not be much worse than Catherine in terms of implanting thoughts, and even better in some aspects.

But the game's main venue is a nightmare, Catherine's turf.

If you want to win an existence whose strength is unknown or even much higher than Yi Chen's in someone else's territory, this probability can be said to be very low.

Moreover, if Catherine is cunning and uses some weird nightmare rules and tricks, her win rate may even be reduced to [0].

If you can't win the game, don't talk about saving the people at all, and then Yi Chen himself will be enslaved by nightmares.

therefore

Here is another [dark side reason] that chooses to participate in the game,

A reason that can ensure that Yi Chen has a high probability of winning the game, and an insurance measure that Catherine is completely unaware of.

This insurance is "Yuri's maid".

Before participating in the nightmare game, Yi Chen made a special trip to the Prophet's House and borrowed Yuri's prophet's maid for indoctrination training.

Finally complete the indoctrination of all the maids.

Of course, this is just training, and in the end, the education of most of the maids was lifted, and only the teacher-student relationship of the seven special maids was retained.

Indoctrination does not affect their master-servant relationship with Yuri Prophet, and they continue to carry out their own monitoring tasks on a daily basis.

It's just that these seven maids have a 'self', and they begin to be able to think and analyze for themselves, and in addition to the same daily work, they will also take the initiative to seek knowledge, and there may even be a 'mechanical upgrade' that surpasses the original design.

will also call the teacher when he sees Yi Chen.

And among the seven maids, Miss Irina, the best, most special and smartest, is the key to the key.

She happened to be in charge of the lower street district to be responsible for the surveillance of killing intent, and because she had obtained the stall permit issued by the organization, she pushed her maid pancake cart around the stall on weekdays.

Yi Chen and Catherine meet at a restaurant on the lower street, and after finalizing the nightmare game in the private room, they happen to be caught by Irina when they leave the restaurant.

As teachers and students, it is natural for them to discover each other at the first time.

Yi Chen was obviously supposed to greet Irina who was not far away, but he pretended not to see it and left quickly.

Irina's professional acumen and self-analysis made her aware of the anomaly.

She continued to set up the stall as if nothing had happened, and when it was normal time to close the stall, she reported the situation to Yuri, who also took the matter very seriously.

After several days of getting along, including sensual and killing training, the discussion of the new maid design,

Yuri can also be regarded as having a certain, even 'deeper' understanding of Yi Chen.

Yuri soon learned from the principal Daisling that Yi Chen had given up participating in the [Dream Project] in his personal name, and in his eyes, a guy like Yi Chen who dared to work hard would never give up his dream at such a juncture.

Combined with Yi Chen's unusual behavior on the lower streets, Yuri decisively issued an order.

Let the seven special maids be scattered throughout the city, and use the 'teacher-student relationship' to locate Yi Chen's location as much as possible, follow him secretly, and never reveal his whereabouts.

These seven maids are Yuri's most elite agents, and they know more than anyone else the shadowy areas of Zion, and this task is only fitting for them.

Soon, a maid discovered that Yi Chen, who had returned from outside the city the next day, quickly appeared on the lower streets, and his whereabouts were very suspicious.

As if under some kind of instruction and traction,

After turning into more than a dozen narrow streets and alleys one after another, he disappeared directly under the noses of the maids, and he was completely lost.

But they can barely feel Yi Chen's existence through the 'teacher-student relationship', and after their structural deduction of the lower streets, they finally judge that Yi Chen has turned into a "disappearing street".

There are certain conditions that need to be met to find the 'entrance' to the street, and they have some guesses.

You need to turn into a few correct alleys at a fixed time to find the entrance.

They did not go deep and reported the situation again.

Yuri, who learned of this, immediately put down his work, did not inform anyone, and went there in person disguised as a high-ranking paraplegic old man.

While Yuri and the maids were searching for the 'Lost Street'.

'Marco and Martin', who escaped from the nightmare game and were about to clean up the nightmare in private, collided head-on with Irina who was selling pancakes when they walked out of the homes of residents on the lower streets.

According to the code indication given by the ketchup on the pancake,

Marco and Martin met Yuri in a hut, and the two prophets instantly stood in a united front.

Under the premise of 'quietly', we will work together to find the 'disappearing street' and the 'trail of William'...... Based on the clues Yuri already has, Marco uses a new divination technique he learned from the Nightmare Room to find the entrance.

An apartment building that had been abandoned for many years was soon presented to the two of them.

The above things are based on the premise that Yi Chen didn't know and didn't do anything.

Just because the maid is the pivot point, let the 'insurance measures' become natural,

Catherine, who has been in contact with Yi Chen, is also completely unaware of this.

Now

Marco and Martin, hidden in their cloaks, were already pushing Mr. Yuri in a wheelchair and standing at the head of the bed in a secret bedroom.

On the big bed in front of them, Yi Chen and Catherine were lying.

The two are connected to each other's arms by an infusion tube to ensure that they can share dreams and nightmare substances.

Neither Mako nor Yuri made a reckless move, they knew very well what Yi Chen was doing.

When Yuri touched Yi Chen's gentleman's costume with a murderous palm, a pre-set 'measure' was quickly activated.

Recognizing Yuri's breath, the costume actively revealed an inner lining with a piece of paper sandwiched inside.

≮ Between sleep, no need to kill, just a little pressure. ≯

As Yuri held his knife to Catherine's neck, a sense of threat that reached deep into her soul instantly reached her consciousness body in the dream.

【Nightmare Town - Park】

In the face of Catherine's angry glare,

Yi Chen responded very indifferently:

"I didn't do anything, I kept the contract and the game promise we made. It's just that Catherine, you underestimate the tracking ability of gentlemen, and your so-called dream point is not absolutely secret and safe.

Throw in the towel and end the game early, and if you're decisive, you might still have a chance to survive. If you survive, we may be able to meet at the circus in the future. ”

(End of chapter)