Chapter 392 Beetle
Chapter 392 Beetle
"Tsk, what a violent woman!"
Looking up at the night sky covered with fragments of creatures from the dream world, Director Scorpio couldn't help but curl his lips, then hooked his finger at the puppet that crawled out of the box.
"It's your turn... Take a look at all the dream creatures she missed."
After hearing the tall and thin man's words, the pale puppet who was staring at Leon nodded, and stood up straight with its thin body in a very uncoordinated manner. Then, it imitated Director Scorpio's movements and looked up at the bloody night sky.
"Roar!!!"
At the moment the pale puppet raised its head, countless tiny black dots suddenly appeared in the sky covered with sharp red hair.
Even though the red-haired chief's killing efficiency was astonishingly high, with tens of thousands of dream creatures being cut into pieces almost every second as they passed through the bright red hair net, the dream creatures in the nightmare river seemed to have no end, spewing out new nightmares continuously.
Under the fearless attack of the endless creatures in the dream world, the bright red sky held up by the red-haired director finally had some holes. Some elite nightmares with more solid bodies and more hideous appearances broke through the obstruction of [Killing Blood Hair] with wounds all over their bodies and squeezed into the reality covered in blood.
A grinning ghost covered in gray mist, a headless knight holding a spine whip, a skeleton giant made of thin bones, a beautiful woman in thin clothes walking in the snow... one after another, the images circulated in stories and nightmares appeared vividly in the eyes of Leon and the others.
……
These things... seem to have been heard somewhere before...
Looking up at those creatures from the dream world that squeezed into reality and rushed towards the royal capital impatiently, Leon couldn't help but reveal a thoughtful look in his eyes.
The grinning ghost covered in gray mist seemed to be a monster from the folk tales of the Principality of Hesse, wandering in the wilderness and preying on lost travelers; and the headless knight holding a long whip seemed to be the messenger who pulled out the spine of the villain and offered it to the god of death;
The giant skeleton statue seemed to be some kind of legend. It was probably made up of corpses that died of starvation in famine and war, and would devour anything that could fill its stomach. The beautiful woman with pale and translucent skin that came with the blizzard was an ancient story that had been circulating in the Northern Kingdom for who knows how long.
Compared to the remaining ones that failed to pass the blockade of [Killing Blood Hair] and the dream creatures that were easily chopped into pieces by the director, these nightmares that successfully squeezed into reality seemed to be much more "famous".
So for these dream creatures, the more people know about or even believe in their existence, the more likely they are to appear in nightmares, and the stronger the dream creatures that are derived will be?
"Squeak."
Just as Leon was pondering the origin of these dream creatures, the pale puppet covered with thorns shook its head, and its ball joints turned awkwardly several times. Its disturbing empty eyes stared fixedly at the grinning ghost rushing in the front.
“Squeak!” “Squeak!” “Squeak!”
The sound of the puppet’s joints twisting was heard again, but this time it did not appear next to Leon, but appeared in the night sky of the royal capital.
Under Leon's surprised gaze, the ghost that was surrounded by hazy gray fog and liked to prey on lost travelers actually condensed a body strangely and drooped down like a puppet.
Soon after, the headless knight riding on the skeleton horse also fell down, and the armor covering his entire body was shattered to pieces, revealing his arms and legs as pale as a puppet, lying lifelessly among the scattered armor pieces.
Even the giant skeleton statue, which was taller than the bell tower of the capital, had turned into an extremely tall and strong pale puppet since some time ago. It could not move at all. Once it moved its body, it would be pierced by the thorns all over its body and bleed profusely, making it roar in pain. "The number that slipped through is less than I expected... Let's kill a few first!"
After taking a look at the nightmares that had turned into puppets in the sky, the tall and thin man grunted twice, pulled out a slender rapier from the box, and stabbed the puppet standing silently beside him, piercing its heart with a single move!
Next, as if some kind of chain reaction had occurred, the elite nightmares that were "captured" by the pale puppet's gaze suddenly trembled all over, and a small diamond-shaped wound suddenly appeared on their chest, with bright red blood spurting out in streams.
No matter whether it was the gray fog ghosts that were similar in size to ordinary people, or the skeleton giants that were over a hundred meters tall, at the moment when this small sword wound appeared, they all let out desperate screams and died in an instant. Their bodies disintegrated and fell to the ground, turning into debris floating in the night sky.
"Keep watching, and try not to miss anything!"
After instructing the puppet who was still looking up at the night sky, Director Scorpio drew out his rapier with a "puff", and then he started to search in his box while holding the bleeding rapier. While searching, he said without turning his head:
"Your name is Leon, right? The nightmare that found you before I came here said nonsense, but one thing it said was correct."
He took out a bottle the size of a human head from the bottom of the box, unscrewed it, and poured out the black and golden beetles inside. Then the tall and thin Director Scorpio stretched out his hand to Leon and said coldly:
"Give me Olivia's hair, and then go wherever you need to go. This is not a place for a level 3 cleaner like you to stay!"
"..."
After looking at the palm in front of him that was as steady as a stone statue, Leon couldn't help but raise his head and look up at the sky.
The corpses of the Headless Horseman and the Skeleton Colossus were still floating in the night sky of the capital. The Director Scorpio who asked for his hair this time should not be a fake disguised as Nightmare, but...
"Sorry, my job is to follow you and notify the director after we find the Nightmare King."
"Tsk... so why don't you just give me your hair? What's the point of keeping a burden like you?"
"These have nothing to do with me, but I believe in the director's judgment. She must have a reason for letting me stay."
"Haha, it's up to you."
After glancing at the red hair tangled around Yang's shoulders, the director of the Scorpio branch curled his lips in disgust, then sped up his work, pouring out all the fingernail-sized beetles in the bottle, then picked out the palm-sized female beetle at the bottom of the bottle and sucked it onto the clothes on his chest.
"Hey! Hey! Hey!"
After the tall and thin man finished this set of movements, the black and gold beetles scattered on the ground suddenly made sharp chirping sounds. After the beetles chirped for a while, he reached out and pinched the antennae of the queen beetle on his chest, and the palm-sized pure gold queen beetle began to chirp.
Then the scattered black and gold beetles quickly spread out on the dock like a tide, as if they had received some order. Each one found a sleeping human, and even one crawled onto Leon's body.
(End of this chapter)