Countermeasure room building, conference room.
When Kamiyagawa came here, there were already many people sitting inside.
Looking over from the door, it was completely dark, with heads moving around.
Most of them looked familiar to Kamiya. They had met them in previous operations, but they couldn't name them.
"Kamigu, this way."
The little miko Onizuka sat on one side of the conference round table, leaving a seat for Kamiyagawa next to her.
There are many people in a meeting, and those who can sit at the central round table have a relatively high status in the organization.
This investigation into the Yumeo incident was led by Juqiong Shrine, so the host of this meeting was also a member of their shrine.
It's Fu Niyi whom I met yesterday.
Kamiyagawa sat down next to the little miko.
Some more people came to the conference room one after another. When everyone was almost there, Sister Fu started the meeting directly.
Fu Niyi: "Everyone here is already aware of this strange story temporarily called Yumeno, so I won't go into details here. After the notice of investigation of the Yumeno incident was issued, in the morning, according to the reports of various police departments, shrines, and temples, After screening the reports, we sorted out fifteen more incidents suspected to be related to Mengnan."
"The incidents are concentrated in the Kanto region, with Tokyo as the center, and cases have also been reported in the surrounding Kanagawa, Yamanashi, Saitama, and Tochigi prefectures."
"Five cases were reported to the Metropolitan Police Department in various places, three of which the parties concerned were deceased. The Metropolitan Police Department recorded interviews with relatives and friends of the deceased, and determined that the deceased had said that he had had strange dreams recently, in which he saw a strange man with thick eyebrows, a high hairline, and a big mouth. .”
"The remaining ten cases were reported by shrines and temples in various places. The person involved asked the priests and wizards for help, and also described seeing Yumeno in his dream..."
Kamiya doesn't like holding meetings very much, but this meeting is very important right now and he has to listen carefully.
According to Tomi, including the previous four incidents, there have been a total of 19 incidents involving Yumemen in the entire Tokyo and surrounding counties in the past two months.
This was only discovered by the countermeasures room investigation.
Considering the hidden events that have not yet been discovered, the number of people who have encountered Yumeng recently may be more than originally imagined.
Fu Niyi started to play the projection, and the content displayed was the information on the Mengnan incident that had just been compiled from various places.
"The Yumeno incident involved dreams. Among the twelve cases where the victims survived, nine cases are temporarily unable to be handled by local shrines and temples and require special teams to go to the local area for assistance."
The special team to deal with the dream boy incident was led by Granny Gu of Juqiong Shrine, and also recruited several spiritual exterminators within the organization who had experience in dealing with ghost stories in dreams.
Kamiyagawa is also one of them.
"Residents in charge of each jurisdiction present, please urgently screen the situation in the jurisdictions under your jurisdiction today and tomorrow. If you discover the Mengnan incident, please report it in time."
Fu Niyi's meeting was held very quickly and resolutely, and he didn't say much about mobilization.
The district heads who participated in the meeting also walked away very quickly after the meeting, with serious expressions on their faces.
It seems that this dream boy incident should be taken seriously.
After the conference, a total of sixteen people from the special group held another small meeting.
They have to help deal with the nine unresolved dream boy incidents in various places.
The fourteen people were divided into four groups, and each group was equipped with a spiritual master who had the ability to deal with dreams and ghost stories.
The remaining people are on standby.
Kamiyagawa was arranged to be the first batch of operatives, together with Onizuka and Tomi Nei.
There were three Yumeno cases handed over to them, two in Itabashi and Nerima wards of Tokyo, and one in Saitama Prefecture.
In fact, the little witch and sister Mi Yi are not very good at dealing with strange stories in dreams. It would be troublesome for them to treat the dream boy. The main thing is to follow up and conduct detailed investigations.
Kamiya River, or Kamiya's dream-eating tapir, is the main force in their group's next mission to defeat Yumeno.
…
By the time the two meetings were over, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.
Kamiyagawa called his young apprentice in the corridor of the countermeasures room.
"Hello? Master, Mr. Oishi has taken me home. I'm at Honganji Temple today...ah...won't you be back at night?"
When Xiaolu received the call, he sounded excited.
I probably wanted to share with Kamiya what happened in the "school", but I felt a little disappointed after hearing the master say that he had something to deal with tonight and would not go home.
Kanoya: "By the way, Master, Hachisha-sama has arrived. Do you want to talk to her?"
Kamiya did not meet with Bashikuang today.
But it doesn't matter, what needs to be explained at home has already been explained to the weird stories and Xiaolu who stayed at home during the day.
Now it's enough to chat with the eight-foot girl on the phone for a few more words, and by the way, she tactfully entrusts this B-level weirdo from afar to help look after the house.
"Although you can control your breath, it's best to stay at home and not move around at will."
"Po~ Okay, Lord Kamiya. Are you really not going home tonight? That's too much. I've obviously been looking forward to it for a long time."
"not coming back."
"It's so lonely."
Kamiya:……
You won't be lonely if you fight with Mary and Prajna...
Because of Kanoya, although Hachikuma has some unreasonable thoughts about Kamiya himself, she is still a very reliable friendly force.
Hang up the call with Xiaolu and Bachinu.
Kamiya contacted the hearse group and Xiaowu again and gave some brief instructions. In addition, he also ordered Oishi to take Ohara to drive the ghost car to the countermeasures room building.
There was still work to do in the evening, and to deal with the four dream boys, they had to run all the way from Tokyo to Saitama Prefecture.
It was a group operation anyway, so we might as well invite Onizuka and Rich Sister to ride in the ghost car together to save time and effort.
As for the hearse group's Takayama Mayi and Mikami brothers, Kamiya asked them to stay at home.
Especially Miss Gao Shan, she has to stay at home and take care of things.
After working for a while, Kamiyakawa put away his mobile phone and sighed in his heart: "It seems that the family lacks a non-Shikigami butler, otherwise I would have to worry about all the big and small things."
…
Saitama Prefecture.
Three o'clock in the morning.
Freezing rain is falling again tonight, and the temperature is probably around freezing.
The ghost car drove directly to the entrance of Kitayin Temple.
The mage here received the notice from Fu Niyi and was already waiting at the main entrance of the temple.
The matter of the ghost car was also explained in advance, so the Master of Kitain did not react excessively to the roaring ghost Mazda, but was more curious and surprised.
"Kitain is the last one."
Kamiyachuan exhaled and got out of the car.
The temple was dark and quiet in the early morning, and the only lights that were on seemed dim.
"Hey."
Onizuka, who came out of the car behind, stood still. By the way, he raised his hand and helped Kamiya pull the collar on the back of Lai's neck, which was crooked because he had just taken a nap in the car.
Afterwards, the little shrine maiden and Tomi Yidu went to the abbot of Kitain to inquire about the situation. After a brief exchange of greetings, Kamiyagawa was led by a mage in monk's robes to a wing of the temple.
"The person here is Ms. Tsumura. She came to our temple for help last night. But since this afternoon, she has fallen into a drowsy sleep and cannot be woken up. The evil spirit of strange stories can be seen in her body."
The mage whispered to Kamiya at the door of the wing.
Kita-in is a temple under the control of the Countermeasures Office. Like Juqiong Shrine, several mages in the temple also have a staff of serious spirit exterminators.
Kita-in's strength is far less powerful than Juqiong Shrine.
The mage in the temple also has insufficient means to deal with the strange stories in dreams.
But compared to the other "unorganized temple" Ningyoji Temple that Kamiyagawa visited half a year ago, it is much larger.
"I know." Kamiya nodded.
The mage carefully opened the door of the wing.
There is a middle-aged man and woman in the room. The woman is lying on the bed and looks like she is sleeping.
The man was sitting on the edge of the bed with a tired look on his face.
Seeing Kamiya and others coming in, the expression on the man's face became more vivid: "Master Kimura, is this the master who came to save Haruna?"
"Um."
The monk-robed mage nodded to the man, signaled him to be quiet, led him out of the wing, closed the door and waited outside.
Kamiyakawa and the unconscious woman were the only ones left in the room.
"Little tapir."
Kamiya directly summoned the Dream-Eating Tapir.
He has gone through this process three times tonight.
"Puff."
The red light flickered on the bed, then became blurry and soft, and penetrated into the woman's chest.
Kamiya sat on the edge of the bed and waited quietly for two or three minutes.
Buzz——
Mobile phone vibration.
[Dream boy is dead and got 107 soul crystals! ]
Done.
"Puff, puff."
The dream-eating tapir flicked its nose and appeared on the edge of the bed.
He seemed to be very excited and happy, his little paws pattering on the quilt.
"Well done, thank you for your hard work."
Kamiya smiled and reached out to touch the tapir's little head.
"Puff~"
It’s not hard at all!
Tonight, I ate three dream stories with the owner, and I was satisfied! happy! Phew!
"Show me the situation of Dream Boy in this dream later."
Kamiyagawa asked the dream-eating tapir to return the shikigami statue.
Little Tapir’s [Dream Eater] skill is currently described on paper as——
[Dream Eater: Tapirs devour dreams. It can swallow up all the evil thoughts and emotions in dreams. After devouring the dream, the tapir enters a brief state of satiety, regains energy and physical strength, recovers itself to a certain extent, and slightly improves its own strength. ]
Such things as dream-eating ghost stories are of great benefit to the dream-eating tapir.
Can give it upgrade experience.
Tapirs are different from dogs. Dogs eat monsters and upgrade their flesh and blood at the cost of not being able to use requiem candles. Little tapirs can "eat dreams", but they don't delay eating candles.
Moreover, after the Dream Eater tapir reaches C level, the upgrade experience obtained through [Dream Eater] is much more than when it is D level.
To the little tapir, Mengnan is simply a bag of free dog food.
If you don't eat, you won't eat.
After the little tapir left, the woman on the bed moved her eyelids slightly, as if she was about to wake up. Kamiya did not stay in the room anymore, got up, opened the door and walked out.
"Mr. Kamiya? Do you need my help?" the mage outside the door asked him.
"No." Kamiyakawa spoke calmly, "It's over."
Then he went straight to Onizuka and the others.
Only Master Kimura, who looked doubtful about life, and Mr. Tsumura, who was ecstatic, were left.
"So...fast?"
"Haruna! Haruna, you are really awake!"
…
In Kita-in, Kamiya's work ended quickly.
But this was not the case for Onizuka and Tomi Nei. They had to ask for more details and planned to talk to the person involved again.
Since it is already early in the morning, I will stay in this temple for now.
Before taking a break, the three of them gathered together again and reviewed the night's actions.
Tomi was sorting out the information on the four Yumeng incidents that had just been handled, while Onizuka was on the phone with Granny Gu.
"Okay, okay. I understand, mother-in-law."
Onizuka hung up the phone, and Tomi picked up the information about Kitain Yumeo that he had just recorded: "Ms. Tsumura from Kitain has been in a coma since the afternoon and cannot be awakened. This is different from other Yumeo incidents."
"This dream boy is much stronger than the ones I met before." Kamiya answered.
He intuitively judged Mengnan's strength level based on the number of soul crystals that exploded after the treatment.
The previous ones were fifty or sixty soul crystals, F level.
As for the one in Kita-in, after the treatment, there were one hundred soul crystals produced.
Although it doesn’t matter whether the dream boy has fifty soul crystals or the dream boy has one hundred soul crystals, it is still a matter of one bite for the little tapir.
Onizuka gave a brief summary of the conversation he had just had with Granny Gu:
"My mother-in-law said, and other teams reported that there was also a case of Yumeno incident in Yamanashi Prefecture where the person involved in the Yumeng incident fell asleep, and Ms. Tsumura was not the only one. Also, the heads of each jurisdiction have just reported several more cases of suspected Yumemen. When the incident comes up, ah - it’s even more of a headache, this matter is far more troublesome than imagined.”
"Anything else discovered?"
There are more and more incidents involving dream boys in various places.
According to this trend, Kamiya may not be able to calm down so easily recently.
It is expected that we will receive a new assignment to assist in the recovery and treatment tomorrow.
"If Meng Nan is a strange story deliberately created by someone with ulterior motives, then if we want to solve this incident, we must find out the person behind it, right?"
"That's true, but so far, we haven't found any clues about the other party's activities..." Fu Niyi shook his head, "That's it for tonight. Kamiya-kun, Xiaoying, go and rest. Thank you for your hard work."
The three-person team went to bed worrying about each other.
I guess there is still a lot of work to do in the future, so I will rest for now.
…
As expected, the Yumeng incident was just the beginning.
The next day, Kamiya and the others indeed received a new mission to assist in the evacuation, from Saitama County to Gunma County.
The number of Yumemen seems to be significantly increasing, and Kamiyagawa and others are getting busier and busier.
But in his busy life, there was one thing that Kamiya had not figured out. That is--
What did the originator of the dream boy rely on to promote the birth of the strange story of the dream boy?
Theoretically speaking, the Internet is the best petri dish for creating weird rumors.
But in fact, in the early days when Mengnan kept visiting reality, there was no decent and large-scale discussion about this weird story on the Internet.
How are these things made?
Is it just word of mouth?
(End of chapter)
