A few days after the Dream Man incident intensified and Kamiya and the others were busy. Information about Dream Men is finally starting to appear on the Internet.

is a website. The content of the website titled "Searching for the Mysterious Dream Man" is very simple, and a striking restoration of the appearance of the dream man is posted - thick eyebrows, high hairline, and big mouth.

The facial features are patched together, uncoordinated, and unnatural, like a pseudo-human that can trigger the uncanny valley effect.

There is a text mark below the picture of Dream Man: This very sloppy website has gained a lot of attention once it was launched.

There are many people who leave messages under the website. At the same time, information discussions related to dream men also began to appear on YouTube and Twitter.

However, this content hasn't been around online for long. On the same day, he was banned for violating the content.

The official fate prevented further discussion and spread of the Dream Man incident on the Internet. …… At night, on a highway in Gunma Prefecture.

The ghost car is speeding towards its next destination. Toshima Oishi was concentrating on driving. Sister Ohara sat in the co-pilot, holding her head, ignorant but very attentive to the conversation between the boss in the back row and the god of Juqiong Shrine and Youyi.

Kamiyagawa looked at the temporary

The various information that is constantly updated in the "work group" said: "It turns out that the countermeasure room will control the public opinion of strange talk on the Internet?" What he said, of course, was that Mengnan's intelligence was blocked on the Internet.

The countermeasures room has launched an emergency plan, and cooperated with other official organizations to set up an information task force to ban all information and intelligence related to Mengnan on the Internet.

In addition, in the Japanese entertainment industry in the past two days, it is still relatively large

"Coincidentally" broke out a big melon. Regarding the high-level unspoken rules of a certain brokerage company, there are many artists involved.

On Twitter, there is a heated discussion about this matter. I don't know if the official is consciously promoting behind this sudden appearance in the entertainment industry.

In addition, there is a contact person from the information group in the work group who is reporting the situation. The person who said that he founded "Assisting in the Search for the Mysterious Dream Man" has been found.

However, after preliminary confirmation, the other party should not be the initiator of the Dream Man incident, but just a small group formed by several Dream Man encounterers themselves or relatives and friends on the Internet.

Further investigation into these individuals is ongoing. The members of the Demon Encounter who created Dream Man still haven't surfaced yet.

"Of course it will be controlled, haven't you noticed that in the past ten years, there have been no new urban weird stories in Japan that have spread widely?" Fu Youyi, who was sitting in the last row, answered,

"The rapid development of the Internet has only been more than ten years, and after the first batch of urban weird stories spread with the help of the Internet appeared, the countermeasures room has consciously controlled this aspect." The first urban legends to spread with the help of the Internet refer to Rutsuki Station and Miss Mary.

After these urban weird stories, there really haven't been any influential new weird stories on the Internet for more than a decade.

"What about the weird tales of the past? And those traditional yokai stories, none of which seem to be forbidden to be discussed. Kamiya asked again.

"It's hard to ban stories that have already gone viral. The best time to prohibit it is generally when the strange story is just born, and it is directly strangled in the swaddling clothes. "Fu Youyi seems to understand the public opinion control measures of the countermeasure room.

"Also, yokai stories are an important part of Japanese culture, so it's not realistic to ban them altogether." Japan is a nation that worships ghosts, and the demarcation between ghosts and gods has never been very clear.

All kinds of ghost and god culture and monster stories are indeed one of the important cultural components of this nation.

A hard-line removal of this part of the culture may have a great negative impact, and some cultural experts and scholars, as well as the Japanese politicians who are really in charge of affairs at the top, will not agree.

Fu Youyi: "So for the weird stories that have spread, there are also traditional monster stories. The countermeasures room has coordinated with the above several times to take more gentle measures. It is to use the cultural industry to change the image of these strange rumors in public opinion and make them harmless. According to the words of the rich sister, Kamiya thought for a while and roughly understood what it was called

The meaning of "gentle treatment". In the past decade, there have been many works with the theme of yokai in Japan's cultural industry, whether it is the anime or game industry.

Most of the monster images in mainstream works have undergone secondary processing. They are no longer the fierce and vicious appearance of the original backstory, but more anthropomorphic, more harmless, and to put it bluntly, their image has been cute.

The dissemination of public opinion on this kind of strange tale with a budding image can greatly reduce the people's fear of strange tales.

"The countermeasure room's policy to deal with strange public opinion is a combination of 'blocking' and 'sparseness', right?" Kamiya nodded.

"That's pretty much it." Through the conversation with Fu Youyi, Kamiyagawa has a new understanding of the countermeasure room.

And he had just learned that the countermeasures room would control the public opinion of strange talks, and he was a little worried about the little Wu at home

Can "Miss Mary's" live broadcast career go well? But with a little more understanding, this concern was temporarily dispelled.

Covering

"Miss Mary" debuted and became a virtual anchor, which is a secondary creation of Mary's urban legend image, giving a new image.

Although Kamiya did this with the intention of harvesting faith, this act is also a kind of image of Mary to put it bluntly

The treatment of "sprouting". I just happened to talk about public opinion with the countermeasure room

The strategy of "grooming" coincides.

"In recent years, though, the rate of weird visits has been unusually fast. It is difficult to say whether the attitude of the countermeasures office in dealing with strange public opinion will change in the future. Fu Youyi added.

Kamiya also knew about this matter from Uncle Yuuki before.

"That's ...... you...... Gunma Prefecture, Tsukiyono Town. The ghost car passed through a fence and stopped at a residential area.

Kamiya, Onizuka, and Tomi got out of the car and left Oishi and Ohara to wait in place. The Dream Man incident to be dealt with this time was reported by the local Metropolitan Police Department in Tsukiyono Town.

Dream Man's encounter is in this area. And unlike before, there are two parties who encounter Dream Man in this place, and they live not too far away, just across the street.

Both fell into a coma and could not wake up. An old police officer from Tsukino-cho, as well as two official soul slayerers from Gunma Prefecture, received Kamiya and the others together.

The old police officer was obviously aware of the existence of the special superior organization of the countermeasures room. A group of people just exchanged a few words of greeting, and then went to the home of one of the parties together.

The surname written on the table of a household is: The dream man of this family is a little boy. His family has communicated with the veteran police officer in the jurisdiction and is waiting at the door.

The identity of Kamiyagawa and his party seems to be used

"Psychologist" and the like. Believe it or not, that's their business.

"Please come with me." The mother of the Akiba family took Kamiyagawa and Fu Yuyi to the second floor. Onizuka stayed downstairs to learn more about the details of the incident from the police and the boy's father.

The rich sister looks more mature and reliable, and Kamiya and Onizuka act with her, in the eyes of ordinary people, it is like a teacher with two interns.

"Ms. Akiba, please go downstairs and wait for a while, I want to observe the child's condition alone." Fu Youyi casually separated the mother of the Akiba family.

The latter hesitated slightly, but chose to do so anyway

"I'm sorry for you," he closed the door and walked downstairs. Inside the room, named

The boy of "Yuki" is lying on the bed. The brow is slightly locked, and he has a dream that he can't wake up from.

"It's another coma and can't wake up, and this kind of case has been increasing recently. It seems that this is also the case with another encounterer here in Moonnight Nomachi, Hojo Shizuru. Kamiya-kun, please. Fu Youyi looked at Youshu on the bed and sighed softly.

"Hmm." After the idlers left, Kamiyagawa went straight to work.

"Little tapir." A red, misty glow appeared at the child's bedside at his call.

"Puff ......" the tapir sat on the edge of the bed, with a round belly and a sad face. Again...... Eating again?

I haven't finished digesting the last few meals. Today, it seems, I can't eat anymore, poof.

"Please, little tapir." Kamiya is also a little helpless, the tapir has indeed eaten a lot of dream men recently. The body size has been eaten bigger, and the strange atmosphere on his body is much stronger than when he was just promoted to the C level.

Thanks to it, it knows that these days it is dealing with strange things with its owners. Otherwise, you have to wonder if you are eating a severed head.

"Poof, poof." The tapir shook its nose at the owner, turned into a flowing blurry red light, and threw it into Youshu's body.

All right...... When you are full, you can eat two more bites, and you can still eat hard food. Ten minutes passed. The dream-eating tapir, which had already reached a little bit, appeared with a full burp and crawled out of bed.

The mobile phone in Kamiyagawa's pocket also vibrated synchronously. However, unlike before, this time the phone vibrated twice.

Because Fu Youyi was present, Kamiya didn't directly take out his phone to check, but through two vibrations, he still felt abnormal.

"Little tapir, is there any special situation?"

"Poof." The dream-eating tapir shook its nose, stood up slowly, put its little paw on Kamiya's hand, and began to pass

The way of "constructing dreams" directly conveys what he has just seen in the boy's dream............ Kamiyagawa and Fu Youyi went downstairs together with strange faces.

As soon as I came down, I saw one of the two official soul slayers, answering the phone. After hanging up the phone, he motioned for everyone to go outside the door of a house, away from the Akiba couple, and then spoke: "A colleague on the other side called, saying that Ms. Shizuru Hojo, the object of another dream man on the other side of the street, has just woken up. ”

"Hmm." Kamiyagawa nodded without much surprise.

"Did something happen?" Onizuka, who had been staying downstairs, realized something and asked.

"I just disposed of two dream men at the same time."

"What...... What do you mean? ”

"Yuki Akiba's dream has two dream men. No, to be precise, Yuki Akiba and Shizuru Hojo seem to be in the same dream. There was a dream man beside each of them, and he was treated by the dream tapir at the same time, so the two of them woke up together. ”

"Two people, in the same dream?" Even the little witch who is well-informed herself, when she listens to Kamiyagawa's words, she can't help but show a surprised expression.

Moonlit Night Town, two dream man encounters who are very close, two dreams that can't wake up, are glued together because of the existence of dream men.

Not each other. …… Dreams are supposed to be a subjective and private product of consciousness. But what happened in Tsukino-cho in Gunma Prefecture was enough for Kamiya and the others to be sure that Yumeo had the ability to break the personal boundaries of this dream.

At this time, it is not entirely certain why Yuki Akiba and Hojo Shizuryu's dreams are connected.

The preliminary judgment is that they are close to each other - the actual distance of the dreamman is within a certain range, and the dreams they fall into will be connected.

If this hypothesis is true, then if there are ten people, or a hundred people trapped in the dream man's dream in the same place, will it form a macroscopic convergence dream?

Yumeo's current sphere of influence is the entire Kanto region, including Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures. And recently, the speed of the dream man's strange visit is getting faster and faster, if you can't find out the Mao Shijia behind it in time, it is really likely that there will be multi-person online dreaming in the future, and the situation of grand dreams in series.

"It usually only takes three or four minutes for a tapir to treat a dream man, but it takes about ten minutes to deal with the affairs of Moonnight Nomachi. The appearance of two dream men in a dream is more difficult to deal with than a single dream man. If the dream becomes larger, there are more dream men in the same dream, and if it exceeds a certain threshold, will it be beyond the processing range of the tapir? "It's like a cat is certainly a natural enemy of mice, but no matter how powerful a cat is, it can't resist a swarm of red-eyed and crazy mice.

Kamiya was worried. After the incident in Nomachi on a moonlit night, the countermeasures room held a meeting again. A part of the more manpower was transferred from within the organization to devote themselves to the handling of the Dream Man incident.

At the same time, inform and exchange recent information, there are two most important pieces of information - one is found by Kamiya and their side, and Dream Man can connect dreams.

There is another conclusion, which is the conclusion reached by other groups: if the person who dreams of the dream man does not die in the early stage, after a few days, there is a high probability that he will fall into a coma and cannot wake up.

Therefore, falling into a coma is a stage that the dreamer must go through in the later stage. In addition, at the beginning of the Dream Man incident, the parties

"I dreamed of a dream man at night, but I can still wake up normally" has a long pre-period, but recently

The "lead time" is getting shorter.