Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 366 Nightmare
It was late at night.

The good news is that Milo is a reasonable person, and the coldness and disgust he showed were not directed at Rick.

The bad news is that the duration of the so-called magical ritual's effect is unknown; at least an hour has passed, and the effect is still intermittent.

Rick could be saying whatever he wanted one second, and the next he'd suddenly yell, "Burn her!!!"

And it doesn't happen very often; sometimes there are no updates for ten minutes or even half an hour.

Moreover, the content was repetitive, as if this feeling of hatred permeated Marty's mind and occupied most of his thoughts.

Upon returning to the law enforcement office, Rick was assigned a new task.

He did nothing but sit upright at his workbench, with paper and pen on it. Whenever he blurted out something incomprehensible, he would write it down word for word.

This is a very tedious task, because you might sit for tens of minutes without making any noise.

We'll just wait.

Rick was also very thoughtful; he found a law enforcement officer's mask, stuffed some cotton inside, and then put on the mask to cover his mouth, so as to prevent himself from shouting too loudly and disturbing his colleagues on duty at the law enforcement office during his next "repeated reading".

Just to be on the safe side, he also turned on the gramophone in the basement and played classical music records at a loud volume.

Although he knew he would definitely be met with disdain from his colleagues again tomorrow, there was nothing he could do but accept it.

……

And so, this scene unfolded in the underground morgue:
Rick sat there solemnly, lost in thought, occasionally startled as if he were crazy, and after that, he would seriously pick up his pen and start taking notes.

Accompanied by the melody of classical music, and under the flickering light of the kerosene lamp, the corpses covered with white cloths could be vaguely seen in the background outside the door.

The entire scene presents an unsettling and eerie atmosphere.

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"Burn that vile woman who colluded with the devil..."

"She must be burned alive! Those useless bastards, Klin, don't even dare to light a match! They're trash!"

"That filthy thing doesn't deserve to be in this academy, she doesn't deserve it!"

"Why, why did you send me to the academy? I don't want to stay here! I don't want to be with that horrible witch! Why?!"

“My parents have never cared about me. I must just be a nuisance to them.”

"I don't want to stay in the dorms, but I don't want to go home either. I'll see that thing again. It's more terrifying than the witches in the dorms..."

...

Sometimes it's a desperate, desperate shout.

Sometimes she seems aggrieved and helpless.

Rick wrote down every single word he repeated.

He even kept staring at himself in the mirror to check if his condition was stable, and regularly measured his body temperature, heart rate and other data to prevent any strange changes from happening to him.

His notes not only recorded Marty's inner monologues, but also the duration of the clanging of chains that accompanied those monologues, all of which he calculated by watching his pocket watch.

It's worth mentioning that, as night fell, Rick never heard the other familiar muffled thud he had heard at the beginning again.

He kept thinking about what that muffled sound was, but he just couldn't remember.

……

Rick, who had become a broken record, continued working in the basement.

Throughout the rest of the night, Milo wandered aimlessly through the Nanwei city district with a crowbar in hand.

He didn't approach Rebecca until after dawn.

Of course, the person I really wanted to see was Kai.

In front of their residence, Rebecca and Milo exchanged a few words.

The disappearance of the five underage trainees is already under investigation, and Rebecca was following up on it yesterday, personally overseeing the situation. This wasn't because the missing trainees' families had any powerful connections, but purely to prevent this matter from implicating Kai.

“I contacted the doctor who performed the surgery on Kai. After you… well, after you took those measures, he still doesn’t remember the surgery, and he doesn’t even have any recollection of you or me.” This was a clue that Rebecca obtained through her own secret investigation.

"I knew it, how could the kids in the academy know about Kai?"

Milo shook his head. The doctor who operated on Kai was instantly terrified when he saw the thing removed from Kai's abdomen, and Milo took advantage of Kai's low sanity and fear to lull him into a dream and make him forget about the incident.

After the surgery, the doctor went home to wash up and rest without looking back.

"So, the information didn't come from the doctor. How did those brats find out? I went to their homes yesterday, and their parents clearly knew nothing about it either." Milo frowned.

Clearly, Marty was probably the first of the five children to know the truth.

According to Rick's retelling of his inner thoughts, Marty even knew what the stillborn fetus removed from Kay's abdomen looked like.

But this is unreasonable, because only Milo and Rebecca were waiting outside the operating room when the surgery was performed.

Where did this fourth pair of eyes come from that could see the stillborn fetus?

Scarlet Witch?
That's impossible. This old witch only cares about the communion value of that lump of rotten flesh; in her eyes, the affairs of other people are utterly insignificant trifles.

How did Marty know all of this?
That doesn't make any sense at all.

……

But soon, Milo's eyes gradually changed from confusion to clarity.

"nightmare."

he blurted out.

Marty's parents said that the child had been plagued by nightmares for a long time.

Milo suddenly recalled the time when he first came into contact with mysterious events.

He was also tormented by nightmares for a long time.

But a series of subsequent events proved that it was not a pure nightmare.

The murder scene that Milo saw in his dream, Daisy's tragically killed parents, and his series of auditory hallucinations were all real events that happened in the real world.

So much so that Milo later completely abandoned the concept of "nightmare".

But if Marty really did witness some of the things that happened on the night of the hunt, including the grotesque, cold, stillborn fetus in the operating room.

Then there is only one possibility.

Marty is currently in a nightmare phase.

The first stage of a normal human becoming a visionary.

This is the only reasonable explanation.

According to Milo's understanding, the so-called nightmare stage is actually caused by human individuals with higher spiritual insight misinterpreting garbage information that should have been received by higher deities.

Those scenes of death and slaughter are of no concern to the gods.

However, if this information persists in a person's dream for a long time, it will become an abyss that torments or even destroys the soul of that unfortunate person.

He couldn't comprehend any of this, and might even get lost in it without help.

Milo remembers clearly that during those two months, his mental and physical condition was extremely poor. His face looked more frightening than a zombie, like a drug addict who was about to die from excessive indulgence.

Fortunately, Milo's experience of verifying the dream's reality in the real world saved Daisy's life, so overall the ending was good.

Marty's situation was rather unfortunate. His parents simply sent their troublesome son to boarding school, and to make matters worse, Marty ran into Kay, the girl from his dream who had given birth to a stillborn baby, at school...

From that time on, his mind began to become distorted.

……

"I think I roughly know what's going on."

Milo seemed to be deep in thought.

"Hmm?" Rebecca wasn't sure what Milo was muttering about. She glanced at Milo twice:

"You're here to see Kai, right? I'll go get her."

"No need, no need." Milo shook his head: "We've already found the answer."

(End of this chapter)