Countermeasures room building, conference room.

When Kamiyagawa came here, there were already quite a few people sitting inside.

Looking at it from the door, it was black and oppressive, and the heads of people were moving.

Most of them, Kamiya looks more familiar, and they have been photographed in previous actions, but they can't be named.

"Kamiya, this way."

Onizuka sat on one side of the round table and made room for Kamiyagawa by her side.

There are many people in the meeting, and those who can sit at the central round table have a relatively high status in the organization.

This investigation into the Dream Man incident was led by the Juqiong Shrine, so the host of this meeting was also a member of their shrine.

It's the rich Youyi I saw yesterday.

Kamiyagawa sat down beside the little shrine maiden.

Some more people came to the conference room one after another, and when the people were almost there, the rich sister started the meeting directly.

Fu Youyi: "Everyone here already knows about this strange story that is temporarily called Dream Man, so I won't repeat it here. After the notice of investigation of the Dream Man incident was issued, in the morning, according to the screening and reporting of the Metropolitan Police Department, shrines, and temples in various places, fifteen incidents suspected of being related to the Dream Man were sorted out. ”

"Cases were reported in the Kanto region, with Tokyo as the center, and Kanagawa, Yamanashi, Saitama, and Tochigi prefectures in the surrounding areas."

"The local Metropolitan Police Department reported five cases, three of which were deceased. The Metropolitan Police Department recorded interviews with relatives and friends of the deceased, and it was confirmed that the deceased had said that he had a strange dream recently, in which he saw a strange man with thick eyebrows, a high hairline, and a big mouth. ”

"The remaining ten cases were reported by local shrines and temples. The person concerned asked for help from the priest and the mage, and also described seeing the dream man in the dream......"

Kamiya doesn't like to hold conferences, but at the moment this meeting is very important, and I have to listen carefully.

According to Fu Youyi, counting the previous four incidents, in the past two months, there have been a total of 19 dream man encounters in the entire Tokyo and surrounding counties.

This was only discovered by the investigation of the countermeasures room.

Considering the hidden events that have not yet been discovered, the number of people who have encountered Dream Man recently should be even more than originally imagined.

Fu Youyi began to play the projection, and the content put on was the information on the Dream Man incident that had just been sorted out from all over the country.

"The Dream Man incident involves a dream, and of the 12 cases in which the victims survived, nine local shrines and temples could not be handled for the time being, and a special team needed to go to the local area for assistance."

The special handling team for the Dream Man incident was led by the Granny of Juqiong Shrine, and it also absorbed several soul scavengers within the organization who had experience in dealing with strange dreams and stories.

Kamiyagawa is also one of them.

"The heads of the jurisdictions present at the scene, please urgently screen the situation in the jurisdictions under their management today and tomorrow. If you find a dream man incident, report it in time. ”

Fu Youyi's meeting was very fast, vigorous and resolute, and he didn't say much about mobilization.

The heads of the jurisdictions who participated in the meeting also walked quickly after the meeting, and their faces were solemn.

It seems that this Dream Man incident should be taken very seriously.

After the meeting, a total of 16 members of the special group held a small meeting.

At present, the nine dream man incidents that have not been solved in various places have to be handled by them.

Four teams were divided into fourteen people, and each group was equipped with a soul slayer with the ability to deal with strange dreams.

The remaining part is on standby.

Kamiyagawa was arranged to be the first batch of operatives, along with Onizuka and Tomi Youyi.

There are a total of three Yume Man incidents that they have handled, two in Itabashi District and Nerima District in Tokyo, and one in Saitama Prefecture.

The little witch and Sister Youyi are actually not very good at dealing with dream weird stories, and it will be more troublesome for them to retreat from the dream man, so they mainly have to follow up and do a detailed investigation.

Kamiyagawa, or the dream-eating tapir under Kamiya, is the main force of their group's next retreat to cure Dream Man.

……

By the time the two meetings were over, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.

Kamiyagawa was in the corridor of the countermeasure room and called the little apprentice.

"Hello? Master, Mr. Oishi has already taken me home. I'm ...... at Honganji today. Yes...... Aren't you coming back at night? ”

The fawn received the call at first, and his tone was excited.

I probably wanted to share with Kamiya what happened in the "school", but after hearing that the master said that he had something to deal with tonight and would not go home, he was a little disappointed.

Shikanoya: "By the way, Master, Lord Eight has arrived. Are you going to talk to her? ”

Kamiya didn't meet with Yachi-like today.

But it doesn't matter, the things that should be explained at home have been explained to the weird talkers and deer who stayed at home during the day.

Now it's okay to talk to the eight-foot girl on the phone, and by the way, I euphemistically entrust this B-class weird from afar to help take care of the house.

"Although you can restrain your breath, it's best to stay at home and not move around."

"PO~ Okay, Kamiya-sama. Are you really not going home tonight? It's too much, I've been looking forward to it for a long time. ”

"Not coming back."

"It's so lonely."

Kamiya: ......

You won't be lonely when you fight Mary and Prajna......

Because of Shikanoya, although the eight-foot woman has some indistinguishable thoughts about Kamiya herself, she is still a very reliable friendly force.

Hung up the call with the fawn and the eight-foot girl.

Kamiya contacted the hearse group and Xiao Wu again, and briefly told him something. In addition, Oishi was instructed to take Ohara to drive the ghost car to the side of the strategy room building.

There is still work to do at night, and the four dream men have to run all the way from Tokyo to Saitama Prefecture.

Anyway, it's a group action, so just invite Onizuka and the rich sister to ride in the ghost car together, saving time and effort.

As for the Maharato Takayama and the Mikami brothers of the hearse group, Kamiya asked them to stay at home.

Especially Miss Takayama, who had to stay at home and take care of things.

After being busy for a while, Kamiyagawa put away his mobile phone and sighed in his heart: "There seems to be a lack of a non-god's housekeeper at home, otherwise I will have to worry about all the big and small things." ”

……

Saitama Prefecture.

Three o'clock in the morning.

Tonight, it was freezing rain again, and the temperature was around freezing.

The ghost car drove directly to the entrance of the Kitain temple.

The mage here received a notice from Fu Youyi and was already waiting at the main entrance of the temple.

The matter of the ghost car was also explained in advance, so the mage of Kitain did not overreact to the roaring ghost Mazda, but was more curious and surprised.

"Kitain is the last one."

Kamiyagawa let out of the car with a white breath.

In the early hours of the morning, the temple was dim and silent, and the only lights were dim.

"Hey."

The onizuka that came out of the car at the back stood still. By the way, he raised his hand and helped Kamiya pull the crooked collar of the back of his neck that he had just slept on because he had just taken a nap in the car.

After that, both the little shrine maiden and the tomi Yogi went to the abbot of Kita-in to inquire about the situation, and after a brief greeting, Kamiyagawa was led by a mage wearing monk's robes to a side room of the temple.

"This is Ms. Tsumura, who came to my temple last night for help. But since this afternoon, I fell into a coma and couldn't wake up. In her, you can see the evil of strange visits. ”

The mage was at the door of the wing room and whispered to Kamiya.

Kita-in Temple is a temple under the rule of the Countermeasure Room, and like Juqiong Shrine, several mages in the temple are also staffed by serious soul slayers.

The strength of Kitain is far less strong than that of Juqiong Shrine.

The temple mage also has insufficient means to deal with the strange dreams and stories.

However, compared to the other "unwoven temple" Human-shaped Temple that Kamiyagawa visited more than half a year ago, it is much larger.

"Got it." Kamiya nodded.

The mage cautiously pushed open the door to the chamber.

Inside the room were a middle-aged man and woman, and the woman was lying on the bed and seemed to be asleep.

The man sat on the edge of the bed, his face tired.

Seeing Kamiya and them coming in, the expression on the man's face became more vivid: "Master Kimura, is this the master who came to save Haruna?"

"Hmm."

The robed mage nodded at the man, signaled for the other party to be quiet, and led the other out of the chamber, closed the door and waited outside.

In the room, only Kamiyagawa and the unconscious woman were left.

"Little tapir."

Kamiya directly summoned the Dream Eater Tapir.

He's gone through this process three times tonight.

"Poof."

The red light flickered on the bed, then became blurry and soft, and penetrated into the woman's chest.

Kamiya sat on the edge of the bed and waited for two or three minutes.

Buzz –

The phone vibrates.

[Dream Man is dead, get 107 soul crystals!] ]

Get.

"Poof, poof."

The dream-eating tapir shook its nose and appeared on the edge of the bed.

It seemed to be very excited and happy, and the little paws clicked and slapped the futon.

"Well done, hard work."

Kamiya smiled and reached out and touched the tapir's little head.

"Puff~"

It's not hard at all!

Tonight, I followed the owner to eat three dream strange talks in a row, satisfied! Happy! Poof!

"I'll show me the situation of the dream man in this dream later."

Kamiyagawa asked the dream-eating tapir to return to the statue of the god.

The tapir's [Dream Eater] skill, currently described on paper, is-

[Dream Eater: Tapir devours dreams.] It can devour all the evil and strange talk and emotions in the dream. After swallowing the dream, the tapir enters a state of temporary satiety, and its energy and physical strength rebound, and it obtains a certain degree of self-healing, and slightly improves its strength. ]

Eating dream weirdness and talking about this kind of thing is very beneficial to dream tapirs.

Can give it an increase in leveling experience.

Tapirs are not the same as dogs, and dogs eat monsters to talk about flesh upgrades, at the cost of not being able to use requiem candles. The tapir can "eat dreams", but it does not delay eating candles.

In addition, after the Dream Eater Tapir is promoted to the C rank, the upgrade experience gained through the [Dream Eater] is also much more than when it was D rank.

Dream Man is simply a free dog food package for the little tapir.

Don't eat for nothing, don't eat.

After the little tapir left, the woman's eyelids on the bed moved slightly, as if she was about to wake up, and Kamiya did not stay in the room any longer, getting up and pushing the door and walking out.

"Mr. Kamiya? Is there anything I can help with? The mage outside the door asked him.

"It's not." Kamiyagawa said lightly, "It's over." ”

Then he went straight to the onizuka and them.

Only Master Kimura, who is skeptical about life, and Mr. Tsumura, who is ecstatic, are left.

"So...... Is it fast? ”

"Haruna! Haruna, you're really awake! ”

……

In Kitain, Kamiya's work ended quickly.

But Onizuka and Fu Youyi are different, they have to ask for more details, and they plan to talk to the person concerned again.

Because it was already early in the morning, I stayed in this monastery for the time being.

Before resting, the three of them regrouped together to summarize the evening's actions.

Fu is sorting out the information on the four dream man incidents he just handled, and Onizuka is talking to his mother-in-law on the phone.

"Okay, okay. I see, mother-in-law. ”

Onizuka hung up the phone, and Tomi picked up the Yumeo information that Kitain had just recorded: "Ms. Tsumura of Kitain has been in a coma since the afternoon and can't wake up. This is different from several other Dream Man incidents. ”

"This dream man is a lot stronger than the ones I met before." Kamiya answered.

His strength level for Dream Man is intuitively judged based on the number of soul crystals that burst out after retiring.

The previous one was fifty or sixty soul crystals, F-level level.

And in Kita-in, there are 100 soul crystals produced after retreating.

Although it doesn't matter whether it's a dream man with fifty soul crystals or a dream man with a hundred soul crystals, it's a matter of one bite for the little tapir.

Onizuka roughly talked about the content of the call he just had with Granny Yu:

"My mother-in-law said it, and other teams reported that there was also a case in Yamanashi Prefecture where the person involved in the Yumeo incident was unconscious, and Ms. Tsumura was not alone. Also, just now, the person in charge of each jurisdiction has reported a few more cases of suspected dream man incidents, ah-more headaches, this time the matter is far more troublesome than imagined. ”

"Discoveries again?"

Dream man incidents everywhere, the more you investigate, the more you investigate.

According to this trend, Kamiya may not be so easy to stop recently.

Tomorrow it is estimated that a new assignment will be received to assist in the retreat.

"If it is said that the dream man is a strange story deliberately created by someone with a heart, then if you want to solve this incident, you must find out the person behind it, right?"

"That's right, but so far, we haven't found any clues about the other party's activities......" Fu Youyi shook his head, "Let's do it tonight." Kamiya-kun, Hotaru-chan, go and rest, thank you for your hard work. ”

The group of three went to sleep in their own troubles.

I guess there is still a lot of work to do, so let's rest for the time being.

……

As expected, the Dream Man incident was just the beginning.

The next day, Kamiya and the others really received a new task to assist in retreating, from Saitama Prefecture to Gunma Prefecture.

The number of dream men seems to be significantly increasing, and Kamiyagawa and the others are getting busier and busier.

But in the midst of his busyness, Kamiya has always had one thing he hasn't figured out. And that's—

What did the initiator of the dream man rely on to promote the birth of the strange story of the dream man?

Theoretically, the Internet is the best petri dish for creating public opinion weirdness.

But in fact, in the early stage of Dream Man's continuous visits to reality, there was no decent discussion on the Internet about this kind of strange talk.

How exactly are these things made?

Is it just word of mouth?

(End of chapter)