Tokyo, Adachi-ku.

Hanabata River.

Adachi Ward is a suburb of Tokyo and one of the poorest of the 23 wards of the entire Tokyo metropolitan area.

Except for the slightly bustling area around Kita-Senju Station, there are large areas of low-rise one-family buildings and small factories.

The Hanahatagawa River is an artificial canal in the eastern part of Adachi Ward, which was dug during the Showa period, and was mainly used for flood discharge during flood seasons in the early days, and mainly for transporting grain and manure on weekdays.

After World War II, the Americans replaced the manure that the Japanese had been using with chemical fertilizers. The value of the Hanabata River's "excrement" plummeted, and today it has been reborn as a tourist river.

Along the Hanabata River, there are many small factories.

Among them, there are many abandoned sites.

Around 7 p.m., an abandoned textile factory on the banks of the Hanabatake River.

The area is sparsely populated, but it is now completely controlled by the personnel of the Metropolitan Police Department and the Metropolitan Police Department, avoiding the proximity of idle people.

Kamiyagawa and his party are currently in this abandoned textile factory.

Fu Youyi: "Are you ready, Kamiya-kun?" ”

"I think it's about the same."

Kamiya put away the [Cloud Outer Mirror].

The overlook of the abandoned textile mill has been included in the mirror.

As long as the countermeasures room is well prepared, it is better to do so sooner rather than later.

Tens of thousands of people are trapped in their dreams and unable to wake up, and none of them are able to access the nutrients their bodies need. If it drags on for another day or two, it is estimated that more than half of the people will be sent to the hospital for nutrient infusions to continue their lives.

In the abandoned textile factory, they are now all people in the countermeasure room.

All the soul slayers who were involved in the Dream Man incident are here.

The battle plan that was drawn up in the afternoon, these people already have some understanding.

"Want to start?" The rich sister asked again.

"Hmm."

Kamiya is surrounded by the strongest combat force of this operation, Granny Blind, Master Hagiwara, Lady Nomoto and others.

After reconfirming the plan of action with these teammates, Kamiyagawa was almost ready to fall asleep.

He lay down on a stretcher bed held in place by pulleys, and looked up to see the dark sky above the abandoned factory.

"Little tapir."

"Poof."

The Dream Eater Tapir appeared at the call of the owner and went straight to Kamiya's chest.

The weight of this little guy is obviously a lot more solid than when he first entered the C class more than a month ago.

The pressure on his chest slightly made Kamiya gasp.

"Poof, poof."

The little tapir looked up at the sky and gently patted Kamiyagawa with his little paw to reassure his owner.

Just a little while, leave it to me.

You may feel a little dizzy, but it's normal, take a deep breath and poof!

The dream-eating tapir began to exert its strength, and the red auspicious cloud lines on its forehead and limbs shone brightly, turning into a blurry red light, completely enveloping the Kamiya River.

About half a minute later, the red light rose into the sky, shot into the sky, and disappeared.

The dream-eating tapir also disappeared.

Kamiyagawa, who was lying on his back, quickly lost consciousness and looked as calm as if he had fallen asleep......

"Hotaru can only ask you, Kamiya-kun...... Wu Yun Changlong. ”

"Amitabha."

The group of soul slayers around them fell silent, silently waiting.

It was getting dark, and there were many people guarding the entire abandoned textile factory, but it was as silent as if it had fallen into a deep sleep.

……

Dizzy.

Blurred red spots of light expand and contract in front of your eyes.

Kamiyagawa has never experienced such an unbearable experience of falling asleep.

Fortunately, the uncomfortable situation didn't last long.

After a moment's recollection, the surrounding scene gradually became clear and fixed.

"It's like, the low-rent apartment I used to live in?"

When everything was settled, Kamiya looked around.

I found myself feeling as if I had returned to the small, dilapidated apartment I had lived in.

It's cramped, and it's a little dim.

There were wine bottles littered in the corner of the room, and they were smelling.

"Little tapir, did you successfully send me into the dream realm of the dream man?"

Kamiyagawa subconsciously raised his hand and touched the wall beside him.

Roughly smooth, but with the rough touch of some potted particles, clearly transmitted back through the fingertips.

He reached out his right hand again and pinched his left wrist a little harder.

The pain is also very clear.

"Is this still a dream? The sensory experience here is a little too real. Kamiya thought.

Tens of thousands of dream men and tens of thousands of people's consciousnesses are connected together to form a dream, which really can't be understood and explained by common sense.

Still, it's a good thing.

The feeling in this dream of 10,000 people can be so real, which shows that it can no longer be defined as "a dream".

It might make more sense to think of it as an unknown place in the void.

[Cloud Outer Mirror] pulls reality and dreams to overlap, and there is a high probability that it is really feasible.

"Speaking of Cloud Extramirrors......

The divine mourning artifact was planned to be brought in by the Dream Eater using its newly mastered [Dream Acceptance] skill.

Moreover, because the spiritual power contained in the [Cloud Outer Mirror] itself is very strong.

If the tapir carries this item, with its current skill level, it will not be able to bring in other things in reality.

"Hasn't the tapir come here yet?"

Kamiyagawa tried to sense his connection to the Shikigami.

The experience in the dream realm of 10,000 people is really different from the inner world.

Here, he could not feel the contractual connection between Mary and Prajna, but only vaguely felt that the Dream Eater Tapir was still in touch with him.

In other words, except for the dream-eating tapir, the other Shikijin can't help in the dream realm.

Then, he tried to summon Yang Lei and the Ghost Hand.

The same did not respond.

"Dreams are not my home turf. It's a pity that I can't even play my abilities here. Kamiyagawa sighed slightly.

He turned and sat down on the messy futon sofa, the loose elasticity of the old sofa beneath him was real.

Kamiya didn't plan to leave the room for the time being.

I thought that after the little tapir came over, I would act together and go to the "server" alienated dream man.

In the dream world, the dream-eating tapir is the main force of one's side.

"Now that I'm in, the little tapir should be able to get here through my 'loophole passage' soon, right?"

After waiting for about half a minute, Kamiyagawa suddenly shifted his attention to the corner of the room.

A lot of bottles are littered there.

Kamiya noticed that the corner seemed to be a little darker than it had been at the beginning.

Bang Bang –

The bottles collided with each other, making a crisp and inexplicable sound.

On several glass bottles, there are heavier shadows gathering.

Then, the shadows quickly climbed upward, stirring, condensing into a vague human form.

It seems to have turned into a man, wearing a loose T-shirt and a somewhat sloppy appearance. And the man's face, with a high forehead, is slightly bald, with thick eyebrows, and a closed mouth, but unnaturally grinning wide.

Kamiyagawa recognizes this face, Yumeo.

At the same time, he also recognized this dress.

will be dressed like this.,It seems to be the gambling dog father of the original "Kamiya River".

"Anyone who enters the dream realm of 10,000 people will have a dream man. Is it because I don't have an 'exclusive dream man' yet, so this dream generated one for me? Kamiyagawa thought so, silently staring at the dream man in front of him.

"Whew-" Dream Man spat out a turbid breath with the smell of wine, and the whole person swayed, looking at Kamiya on the sofa, "What are you doing at home?" Didn't you go and buy ingredients to cook? ”

Kamiyagawa didn't respond to him.

Dream Man: "I'll talk to you, bunny." ”

"What is this? Role-playing? So Mengnan is playing the original drunkard gambling dog father, and he is quite devoted. ”

Kamiyagawa still didn't speak, but thought so in his heart.

"Okay, it's time for rebellion, isn't it?" It may be that Kamiyagawa's attitude of sitting on the sofa and ignoring it really made Dream Man angry, he pulled out his belt, and his tone became more and more vicious.

Dream Man walked over step by step, came to the sofa, and raised his hand to hit.

"Tsk."

Kamiya, who was on the sofa, only moved at this time.

His figure shook, jumped up like a sturdy bobcat, grabbed Dream Nan's sparse hair with one hand, pushed his right knee up, and slammed into the other man's jaw.

With a bang, the dream man slammed his back on the floor.

His chin was deformed by Kamiya's knee, and his whole face looked even more unnatural.

"It's okay, although I can't use skills in my dreams, my mobility is not bad."

"The strength of a single dream man in the dream realm seems to be like this, and he doesn't look like he has been beaten."

"However, judging from the statistics of so many dream man stories in the strategy room, it seems that there is really no special ability for the dream man in the home dream...... The trouble with this thing as a weird talk is that it can pull real people into dreams. ”

According to the situation in front of him, the thoughts in Kamiyagawa's heart changed, but the movements of his body did not stop for a moment.

There is also a muscle memory in the dream.

He raised his foot and stepped on Dream Man's chest, and pulled the chair next to him, and raised it high enough to smash down Dream Man's slightly deformed head.

It's been a long time since I've fought such a pure street-style fight.

This 10,000-person dream has a hyper-realistic physics engine, and the feedback is also very good.

To be honest, Kamiya was a little excited.

However, the chair in his hand stopped abruptly only halfway through.

"Shhh...... Now it seems that in dreams, it can directly and rudely cause harm to the dream man. But if I do kill this thing, will anything bad happen? For example, it will be noticed by other dream men or something. Otherwise, let's tie him up first......"

Kamiya threw the chair aside, kicked Yumeo on the ground again, and then planned to tear the sheets to make rope.

At this time-

"Poof, poof."

A familiar voice came, and the little tapir finally arrived.

The Dream Eater Tapir held the [Cloud Mirror] in its mouth and appeared in a red blurred light.

As soon as I came over, I saw that the owner was dreaming of men.

"Puff ......" the Dream Eater Tapir shrunk its neck.

The owner is really, no matter where he goes...... Brave.

The Dream Eater Tapir shook its long nose, and the red light on its body flowed, enveloping the dream man who fell to the ground and kept twitching.

In the next second, the dream man didn't even have time to struggle, so he disintegrated and turned into a dark crumb, wrapped in red light, and flowed back into the tapir's mouth.

"Poof, hiccup."

The dream-eating tapir hiccups in disgust.

It's always a taste, and I'm a little tired of eating it.

After the tapir eats Yumeo, Kamiyagawa senses something is wrong.

The space of the low-rent apartment he was in now began to distort, and from nowhere, it seemed that thousands of eyes were being cast.

It seems that Kamiyagawa's concerns just now are correct, and disposing of the dream man around him will indeed affect the dreams of thousands of people.

However, the dream-eating tapir is like a fish in water in the dream.

Since it dares to eat it, it means that there must be a way to deal with this situation.

"Poof."

The little tapir shook its body like a drowning dog that had just climbed ashore.

Red light splashes on the forehead and limbs, swells, stretches.

After a few moments, the tapir's appearance changed under the red light, and it became exactly the same as the dream man just now.

Dreams are also the home of dream-eating tapirs, and the little tapir can still do a lot in dreams, more than dream men.

The dream-eating tapir quickly turned into a dream man, the space of the low-rent apartment returned to stability, and the dense gaze that came from nowhere also dissipated in an instant.

"Well done, little tapir."

"Poof~" The dream-eating tapir in the shape of a dream man said happily.

"Hmm...... But you'd better not talk about it anymore, weird. ”

The Dream Eater's expression froze, and then he raised his hand and handed the [Cloud Outer Mirror] to his owner.

This double-sided divine mourning object was wrapped in a dim red light, and its own aura was very restrained.

The skill of [Dream Nawu] comes from the pillow return monster.

It's the inheritance of the pillow that has the ability to hide real objects into dreams.

This ability itself has the property of "Hidden Item".

This facilitated Kamiyagawa's next move.

……

Solve the dream man given by the dream, and the little tapir dove occupies the magpie's nest, and then the master and the slave can explore this grand dream more freely.

Kamiyagawa first glanced out the window.

The damp and cramped alleyway scene outside is exactly the same as the real low-rent apartment building.

"Let's go to the little tapir, let's go find the alienated dream man."

Just as he was getting ready, he was going to go out with the Dream Tapir.

Tuk Tuk Tuk –

There was an inopportune knock on the door outside.

"Are you in trouble again?" Kamiyagawa hid the [Cloud Outer Mirror] hanging around his neck under his clothes, thought for a while, and quickly went to open the door.

Standing outside the door is a neighbor of a former low-rent apartment.

A middle-aged woman with a somewhat large and chubby body, Ms. Onuma.

She should also be one of the people trapped in the dream of 10,000 people.

Onuma stood in the doorway, flanked by a "girl" in a bright red dress with a double ponytail.

But the girl's face is the one of a dream man.

The immature child's body has the face of an old man, and the bare head and double ponytail are particularly weird.

However, Ms. Onuma completely ignored this anomaly.

"Ahh Kamiya-kun, I heard a loud noise in your house next door, so I came to see what was wrong? Onuma asked Kamiyagawa.

"It's okay, my dad got drunk and fell."

Even if he doesn't have [One Thousand Silver Needles] in his hand, Kamiya's lies are easy to come by, and his face does not change.

"Then you have to be careful." Onuma has no doubt that he has him.

"We will."

"Then I'll go back. Come, Reiko, and say goodbye to Brother Kamiya. ”

"Brother, goodbye." "Reiko", who was held by Ms. Onuma, waved her little hand, but the voice of a man came out of her mouth.

"Well, that's good." Kamiya's face did not change and smiled at "Reiko".

"Right? Usually my husband and I are always too busy to take care of her, but this child has always been so well-behaved. Probably hearing her daughter being complimented, Ms. Onuma smiled happily.

The little "Reiko" next to him, that weird face also smiled brightly.

(End of chapter)