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 effect of the so-called magic ritual is unknown. At least an hour has passed, and this effect still exists intermittently.
Rick is often saying what he wants to say normally one second, and then suddenly yells: "Burn her to death!!!"
And the frequency of occurrence is not high. Sometimes there is no movement for more than ten minutes or even half an hour.
And the content is repetitive, as if this hateful emotion filled Marty's heart and occupied most of his thinking.
After returning to the law enforcement agency, Rick was assigned a new task.
He did nothing, just sat upright in front of his workbench, with pen and paper on the table. Once he blurted out something incomprehensible, he would write it down verbatim.
This is a very boring task, because you may sit there for dozens of minutes without any movement.
Just wait.
And Rick was very thoughtful. He found a law enforcement mask, filled it with some cotton, and then put the mask on to cover his mouth to prevent him from yelling the next time he "rereads" The loud noise alerted colleagues on duty at the law enforcement office.
To be on the safe side, he also turned on the gramophone in the basement and played classical records at a high volume.
Although he knew that he would definitely be looked down upon by his colleagues again tomorrow, he had no choice but to do so.
……
As a result, this scene appeared in the underground morgue:
Rick sat in a daze in a serious manner. Occasionally, he would be startled like crazy. After finishing, he began to write down seriously.
Accompanied by the melody of classical music, under the occasional flickering light of the kerosene lamp, the bodies covered by white cloth were vaguely visible in the background outside the door.
The whole picture presents an uncomfortable and weird atmosphere.
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"Burn that bitch who is sleeping with the devil..."
"She must be burned to death. Those losers in Klin don't even dare to light the match, waste!"
"Dirty She doesn't deserve to be in this academy at all."
"Why, why do you want to send me to the academy? I don't want to stay here, I don't want to stay with that terrible witch, Why! ! ”
“My parents have never cared about me. I should be just a nuisance to them.”
"I don't want to stay in the college dormitory, but I don't want to go home either. I will see that thing again. It is more terrifying than the witch in the college..."
…
Sometimes It was a shouting at the top of one's voice.
Sometimes I seem aggrieved and helpless.
Rick recorded all the words he read back word for word.
He even kept staring at himself in the mirror to check whether his condition was stable. He also measured body temperature, heart rate and other data regularly to prevent some mysterious changes from happening to him.
In his notes, he not only recorded the inner monologues from Marty, but also recorded the duration of the sound of chains clashing in his ears while hearing those monologues. This was measured by holding his pocket watch. of.
It is worth mentioning that late at night, Rick no longer heard the familiar muffled sound he heard at first.
He has been thinking about what the muffled sound is, but he just can't remember it.
……
Rick, who turned into a repeater, continued to work in the basement.
And throughout the second half of the night, Milo was walking around Nanwei City with a crowbar, seemingly aimlessly.
It was not until after dawn that he found Rebecca.
Of course the main person I want to see is Kai.
In front of their residence, Rebecca and Milo exchanged a few words briefly.
After all, the case was opened for investigation when the five underage students disappeared. Rebecca was also following up yesterday, and she was keeping an eye on it personally. This was not because the families of the missing persons had any strong backgrounds, but purely to prevent them from letting go. This matter involves Kai.
"I found the doctor who performed the surgery on Kai at that time. After you...well, after you took those measures on him, he still doesn't remember the surgery at that time, and even he didn't remember the surgery at that time. Neither I nor you have any impression." This is the clue that Rebecca got from investigating alone.
"I just said, how can it be possible for all the kids in the academy to know about Kai."
Milo shook his head. The doctor who operated on Kai was instantly frightened when he saw the thing taken out of Kai's abdomen, and Milo also took advantage of the other person's fearful state with a low sanity level to lure him out of his dream and let him Forgot about that incident.
After the operation, the doctor went home to wash up and rest without looking back.
"In other words, the news was not leaked from the doctor. How did the dead children know about it? I went to their homes yesterday and their parents obviously had no idea about this matter. Nothing." Milo frowned.
Obviously, Marty may be the earliest insider among the five children.
According to the voices retold by Rick, Marty even knew what the stillborn fetus taken out of Kai's abdomen looked like.
But this is unreasonable, because during the operation, only Milo and Rebecca were guarding the door of the operating room.
Where could a fourth pair of eyes come from that could see the stillborn fetus?
The Scarlet Witch?
It’s impossible, the old witch only cares about the sacramental value of that piece of rotten meat, and other people’s matters are completely trivial to her.
How did Marty know all this?
It doesn’t make 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 troubled by nightmares for a long time.
Milo suddenly recalled the time when he first came into contact with mysterious events.
He was also tortured 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 tragic death of her 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 witnessed something that happened that night on the hunting night, including the terrifying cold stillbirth in the operating room.
Then there is only one possibility.
Marty is now in the nightmare stage.
The first stage of normal human beings transitioning into psychic vision.
This is the only reasonable explanation.
According to Milo's knowledge, the so-called nightmare stage is actually because the junk messages that should have been received by the superior gods were mistakenly received by human individuals with higher spiritual vision.
Those scenes of death and killing are insignificant to the gods.
But if this information is filled in a human's dream for a long time, it will become an abyss that tortures or even destroys the soul of this unlucky human.
He cannot make sense of it all and may even become lost in it without assistance.
Milo remembers clearly that during those two months, his mental and physical state were extremely bad. His face at that time looked more terrifying than a living corpse, and he looked like a person who would die suddenly at any time if he indulged in too much. Addict.
But luckily, Milo saved Daisy's life when he confirmed the authenticity of the dream in the real world, and overall the ending was good.
But Marty was a little bit worse. His parents simply threw this annoying son into the school dormitory, and finally Marty met Kai who gave birth to a stillborn baby in the school...< br>
From that time on, his psychology began to become distorted.
……
“I think I know what’s going on.”
Milo was thoughtful.
“Huh?” Rebecca still didn’t know what Milo was muttering. She glanced at Milo twice:
“You’re here to see Kai, right? I’ll call her. "
"No, no, no." Milo shook his head: "I have found the answer."
(End of this chapter)