"Let's start with a little nightmare, making all your descendants die because of the burial clothes."
"Add some more spice, let you dream of meeting your ancestors after death, being removed from the family records because of the burial clothes."
"Finally, have the burial clothes wrap around your next life, repeating the same cycle!"
Wu Liang mumbled about the dreamscape he was constructing while watching the elders possessed by the Shouyi Ghost trembling in fear within their dreams.
He was still contemplating adding stronger elements to the dream, feeling that mere family destruction seemed too mild.
The ultimate plan was to guide them toward the solution: remove and burn the burial clothes.
Before Wu Liang could add more, half of the elders had already awakened in terror, with the breath of the burial clothes starting to fade rapidly, suggesting they had removed them.
After all, in a world where Fierce Ghosts truly roam, many elders who are already superstitious are even more inclined to believe in karma and reincarnation.
Wu Liang's meticulously crafted dream hit right at their soft spot!
"Huff! Huff! Huff!"
While Wu Liang was joyfully continuing his dream weaving, the Nightmare returned from fetching people into the dreams, and upon seeing this scene, couldn't help but feel sad for those trapped in the dreams, even jokingly accused his master twice.
"What do you mean by 'you're such a devil'? You damn Nightmare! You're the ghost! How come you're scolding me?"
Although feeling slightly helpless from his subordinate's remarks, the dream weaving continued relentlessly, and he even intensified the psychological suggestion within.
The ability Wu Liang acquired from the Nightmare was—
[Deep Dream Realm: Those entrenched in nightmare dreams become firmly implanted with psychological suggestions upon waking]
This is a rather dangerous ability!
If Wu Liang enters someone's dream and weaves a recurring suicidal dream for them.
Then, upon waking, the person's subconscious will be filled with suicidal tendencies!
Altering someone's subconscious is a terrifying thing, so much so that he typically refrains from using this ability.
"Since the Shouyi Ghost can incite malicious thoughts, I shall shatter them with even more terrifying methods in the dream!" Wu Liang laughed villainously.
Ever since acquiring the Nightmare Ability, Wu Liang had never had such an exhilarating chance to use it.
He was engrossed in the pleasure of creating nightmares throughout the entire night.
The other Fierce Ghosts hiding in the Ghost Compendium shivered, genuinely scared of being whimsically pulled out by Wu Liang, thrust into nightmares, and made to suffer repeatedly.
Needless to say, Wu Liang's operation had excellent results.
All the bodies possessed by the Shouyi Ghost throughout Chengyang City had been burned to ash, leaving only one bewildered entity buried in a grave in the wilderness.
Even when its possessed bodies vanished in an instant, it vaguely heard a cunning voice echoing in the dream saying, "Caught you... hehe, I'll be digging up your grave tomorrow..."
What the heck is that!?
Why was it being targeted by another Fierce Ghost?
......
Not only was the residual Shouyi Ghost body terrified, but even the Official Awakened were disturbed by a barrage of report calls late at night.
"What? Another case? Another elder suddenly woke and burned all their clothes?" The operator had become somewhat numb.
This was the eighteenth report of a supernatural phenomenon received that night.
So many households experiencing such intense overlap of inexplicable events clearly couldn't be mere coincidences.
They dispatched investigators overnight to search those homes for traces of Fierce Ghosts.
But unfortunately, nothing was found.
Much to the frustration of the Official Awakened.
Calling it not a supernatural event is too bizarre, where do normal people rise in the middle of the night to burn their clothes anyway, let alone eighteen people doing it simultaneously!
Calling it a supernatural event presents no victims, with dawn nearly upon them!
The elders only claimed to have had a nightmare, yet couldn't recall its contents when asked.
They simply felt that the clothes they wore were ominously bad, convinced that not burning them would lead to family extinction and removal from the family record.
"You know some elders are the oldest in their families, who the hell can actually kick them out of the family!"
The Priest, on night duty scrambling between families due to this issue, complained in despair to Rose beside him.
Midnight awakenings for late-night overtime are one thing.
But to be running around doing multiple hours of fieldwork visiting over ten households, yet finding no trace of Fierce Ghost presence!
It's as if a hidden Fierce Ghost was playing a prank on them all night.
"Don't let me find out who caused this! Even if it's a Fierce Ghost, I'll crush you to dust!" Rose exclaimed, gritting her teeth.
"Alright, stop complaining. After we finish investigating the last house, get in touch with the technicians at headquarters, categorize everyone's information, and search for common points between them to analyze. Maybe something can come out of it."
He Zhan's voice crackled from the intercom, followed by a yawn that made the two in the car exchange smiles.
It seems not just themselves, but even the workaholic team leader can't resist the fatigue.
But there's no choice!
With an unknown threat hovering, they can't sleep so they must work overtime.
This disturbance left everyone sleepless!
......
The mastermind behind it all — Wu Liang.
With the sun nearly rising, seeing all the possessed were sorted out using the dream magic that led him to the Shouyi Ghost's real location, he returned his consciousness to his body, not knowing how chaotic the outside world had become due to his actions.
All he knew was that he was weary from working a whole night.
He quickly took off his mask, glanced at the time, set the alarm for eight thirty, and immediately fell asleep.
This morning's run would be temporarily canceled, having exhausted himself all night with no energy left for jogging, better to sleep more.
Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned.
Barely sleeping till seven-thirty, a knock on the door awoke him.
The sound of his aunt angrily stomping in slippers to open the door and murmuring in frustration echoed through the living room: "What's this! Disturbing people's morning dreams!"
She was dumbfounded when she opened the door.
In a more polite and cautious tone, she said, "Ah, isn't this Lei and Wang? What brings you to our home for a visit?"
Seeing the visitors merely glanced around the house without acknowledging her presence, she wasn't upset.
Even though her family member Chen Wang became an Awakened, after paying protection fees for two years, her fear of Lei Zhangming was almost engraved in her bones.
"Wang, didn't we pay yesterday? What's this..."
She was unsure of their intentions.
Yet Lei Zhangming spoke next, and what she heard was a title she never imagined—
"We want to inquire, is Wu around?"