After the Yumeno incident intensified, Kamiya and others were busy for a few days. Information about Dream Boy finally began to appear on the Internet.
is a website. The content of the website titled "Associating with the Search for the Mysterious Dream Man" is very simple. It posts a striking picture of the dream man's appearance - thick eyebrows, high hairline, and a big mouth.
The facial features are put together, uncoordinated and unnatural, like a pseudo-person that can trigger the uncanny valley effect.
There is a text label under Mengnan’s picture: This very sloppy website has gained a lot of attention once it was launched.
Many people have left messages below the website. At the same time, discussions about Mengnan-related information began to appear on YouTube and Twitter.
However, the content did not remain online for long. All were banned on the same day due to content violations.
The official decision prevented further discussion and spread of the Dream Boy incident on the Internet. ...At night, on a road in Gunma County.
The ghost car is speeding towards its next destination. Oishi Shunma was driving intently. Sister Xiao Yuan sat in the passenger seat, holding her head, listening confusedly but attentively to the conversation between the boss in the back row, Shenzi of Juqiong Shrine, and Ni Yi.
Kamiyakawa looked at the temporary
While constantly updating various information in the "work group", he asked, "Does the Countermeasures Room control the public opinion about ghost stories online?" What he was talking about was, of course, the fact that Mengnan's information was blocked online.
The Countermeasures Room has launched an emergency plan and cooperated with other official organizations to set up an information team to target all online information related to Mengnan.
In addition, in the past two days, in Japan’s entertainment industry, there have been quite a few
A big piece of news came out "by chance". Regarding the unspoken rule incident involving the top management of a certain brokerage company, many artists were involved.
This incident is a hot topic on Twitter. I don’t know if the authorities are consciously promoting this sudden news in the entertainment industry.
In addition, the contact person from the information team in the work group was reporting the situation just now. It is said that the person who founded "Xie Xun Mysterious Dream Man" has been found.
However, after preliminary confirmation, the other party should not be the instigator of the Dream Boy incident, but a small group formed by a few Dream Boy encounterers or their relatives and friends on the Internet.
Further investigations into these individuals are ongoing. The members of Enchanzu who created Yumeo have not yet surfaced.
"Of course I will control it. Haven't you noticed that in the past ten years, there have been no new urban ghost stories that have spread widely in Japan?" Tomi Yi, sitting in the last row, answered,
"The rapid development of the Internet has only lasted for more than ten years. After the earliest batch of urban legends spread through the Internet, the Countermeasures Office consciously controlled this aspect." The earliest batch of urban legends spread through the Internet refers to The ones are Kisaragi Station and Miss Mary.
After these urban ghost stories, there really weren’t any influential new ghost stories on the Internet for more than ten years.
"What about the ghost stories from the past? There are also those traditional monster stories. It seems that these are not prohibited from discussion." Kamiya asked again.
"It is difficult to ban a story that has already been spread. The best time to ban it is usually when the ghost story is just born and strangled in its infancy." Fu Miyi seems to be very familiar with the public opinion control measures of the Countermeasures Room. ,
"Moreover, monster stories are an important part of Japanese culture, and it is unrealistic to completely ban them." Japan is a nation that worships ghosts, and the distinction between ghosts and gods has never been very clear.
Various ghost cultures and monster stories are indeed one of the important cultural components of this nation.
Cutting off this part of the culture may have a huge negative impact. Some cultural experts and scholars, as well as the Japanese politicians who are really in charge of the affairs at the top, will not agree.
Fu Niyi: "So for the ghost stories that have spread, as well as the traditional monster stories. The countermeasures room has coordinated with the higher-ups many times and adopted more gentle measures. It is to use the cultural industry to change the spread of these ghost stories in public opinion. image and make them harmless." Based on Sister Fu's words, Kamiya thought for a while and roughly understood the so-called
It means "handling with gentleness". In the past decade or so, in Japan's cultural industry, whether it is the animation, animation or game industries, there have been many works with monsters as the theme.
Most of the monster images in mainstream works have undergone secondary processing. They no longer look like the ferocious gods in the original background story, but are more anthropomorphic and harmless. To put it bluntly, their images have been cute.
Public opinion dissemination of such strange stories with cute images can greatly reduce people's fear of strange stories.
"The countermeasures room's policy for dealing with strange rumors and public opinion is to combine 'blocking' and 'dispersing', right?" Kamiya nodded.
"That's more or less it." Through the conversation with Fu Niyi, Kamiyagawa had a new understanding of the countermeasures room.
Moreover, he had just learned that the Countermeasures Room would control the public opinion about ghost stories, and he was a little worried about his family being tricked by Xiaowu.
Can "Miss Mary"'s live broadcast career go smoothly? But after learning more about it, this concern was temporarily dispelled.
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"Miss Mary" debuts and becomes a virtual anchor. This is a second creation of the urban legend image of Mary, giving it a brand new image.
Although Kamiya’s original intention of doing this is to harvest faith, this behavior is also a kind of attack on Mary’s image.
"Cute" processing. I was just discussing public opinion with the Countermeasure Room Monster.
The strategy of "grooming" is consistent.
"However, in recent years, the rate of strange talk and foreign visits has been abnormally fast. It is difficult to say whether the countermeasures room's attitude towards dealing with strange talk and public opinion will change in the future." Fu Niyi added.
Kamiya also knew about this matter from Uncle Yuki before.
"Is that so..."...Gunma County, Tsukiyano Town. The ghost car passed through a fence and stopped in a residential area.
Kamiya, Onizuka, and Tomi Ki got out of the car, and asked Oishi and Ohara to wait where they were. The Yumeno incident to be handled this time was reported by the local police station in Tsukiyano Town.
The person who encountered Mengnan lived in this area. And what's different from before is that there are two people involved in encountering Mengnan here, and they live not too far away, just a street apart.
Both fell into a slumber and could not wake up. A veteran police officer from Tsukiyano Town and two official spiritual exterminators from Gunma Prefecture received Kamiya and others.
The old police officer obviously knew about the existence of the special higher-level organization called the Countermeasures Room. A group of people just exchanged a few words and went to the home of one of the parties.
The surname written on the household registration form is. The person who encountered the dream boy in this family was a little boy. His family members have communicated with the veteran police officers in the area and are waiting at the door.
The identities of Kamiyagawa and his party seem to be
It's packaged with titles like "psychologist". Whether the family members of the parties involved believe it or not is their business.
"Please come with me." The mother of the Akiba family brought Kamiyagawa and Tomiyi to the second floor. Onizuka stayed downstairs to learn more about the details of the incident from the police, the boy's father, and others.
Sister Fu seems to be more mature and reliable. Kamiya and Onizuka act with her. In the eyes of ordinary people, they are like a teacher and two interns.
"Ms. Qiuye, please go downstairs and wait for a while. I want to observe the child's condition alone." Fu Niyi casually dismissed the mother of the Qiuye family.
The latter hesitated slightly, but still chose to do it and said
"Excuse me," he closed the door and walked downstairs. Inside the room, named
The boy named "Yushu" is lying on the bed. His brows were furrowed slightly, dreaming of a dream from which he could not wake up.
"It's another case of being comatose and unable to wake up. There are more and more cases like this recently. It seems that another encounter in Tsukiyano Town, Hojo Shizuru, is also in this situation. Kamiya-kun, I'm begging you." Tomiyi looked at He looked at Youshu on the bed and sighed softly.
"Yes." After the others left, Kamiyagawa started working directly.
"Little Tapir." A blurry red light appeared at the child's bedside in response to his call.
"Puff..." Tapir sat on the edge of the bed with a round belly and a confused look on his face. Are you going to eat again?
I haven’t even finished digesting the last few meals. It seems like I can’t eat anymore today, pffffffff.
"Please, little tapir." Kamiya was also a little helpless. Tapir had indeed eaten a lot of Mengnan recently. His body has grown a lot, and the strange aura on his body is much stronger than when he was first promoted to C-level.
Fortunately, it knows that it is following its owner to deal with strange incidents these days. Otherwise, you will have to wonder if you are eating your head off.
"Puff, puff." The tapir obediently flicked its nose at the owner, turning into flowing blurred red light and pouring into Youshu's body.
Okay...if you're full, you can still eat it if you take a couple of bites. Ten minutes have passed. The dream-eating tapir, who was already a little overstuffed, emerged burping and climbed out of bed.
The mobile phone in Kamiyagawa's pocket also vibrated simultaneously. But what was different from before was that this time the phone vibrated twice.
Because Fu Niyi was present, Kamiya didn't directly take out his phone to check, but after two vibrations, he still felt something abnormal.
"Little Tapir, is there anything special?"
"Puff." The Dream-eating Tapir shook its nose, stood up unsteadily, put its little paws on Kamiya's hand, and began to pass
The method of "constructing a dream" directly conveys what they saw in the boy's dream just now... Kamiyagawa and Fu Niyi went downstairs together with strange expressions on their faces.
As soon as I came down, I saw one of the two official exorcists answering the phone. After hanging up the phone, he motioned for everyone to go outside a building and stay away from the Akiba couple, and then he spoke: "A colleague on the other side called and said that another Yumeno encounter target a street away was Ms. Shizuru Hojo. , just woke up."
"Yeah." Kamiyakawa nodded without much surprise.
"What happened?" Onizuka, who had been staying downstairs, realized something and asked.
"I just dealt with two dream boys at the same time."
"what do you mean?"
"There are two dream boys in Akiba Yushu's dream. No, to be precise, Akiba Yushu and Hojo Shizuru seem to be in the same dream. There is a dream boy beside them each. They were defeated by the dream-eating tapir just now, so both of them Everyone woke up together."
"Two people, in the same dream?" Even the little miko, who was well-informed, would inevitably show a surprised expression after hearing Kamiyagawa's words.
In Tsukiyano Town, two Yumeno encounters happened very close to each other, and the two dreams from which they couldn't wake up were connected together by Yumeguo's existence.
Regardless of each other. ...Dreams should originally be a subjective and private product of consciousness. But what happened in Tsukiyano Town, Gunma Prefecture, was enough for Kamiya and others to confirm that Yumeo has the ability to break the private boundaries of this dream.
It is currently unclear why the dreams of Akiba Yushu and Hojo Shizuru are connected.
The initial judgment is that the distance between them is relatively close - the actual distance between the people encountered by the dream boy is within a certain range, and the dreams they fall into will appear in series.
If this hypothesis is true, then if ten or a hundred people are trapped in the dream of the dream boy in the same place, will it form a macro-aggregation dream?
Yumeo's current scope of influence is the entire Kanto region, including Tokyo and several surrounding counties. Moreover, the speed at which dream men are appearing in foreign visits has become faster and faster recently. If the Uushijia behind the scenes cannot be found out in time, it is very likely that many people will have online dreams in the future, and grand dreams will be connected in series.
"Tapir usually only takes three or four minutes to treat a dream boy, but it takes about ten minutes to deal with the matter in Tsukiyano Town. Two dream boys appear in a dream, which is more difficult to deal with than a single dream boy. . If the dream becomes bigger and there are more dream boys in the same dream, will it exceed a certain threshold and be beyond the tapir's processing range?" This is like a cat that is the natural enemy of mice, but no matter how powerful a cat is, , unable to resist the swarm of red-eyed and crazy rats.
Kamiya is worried about this. After the incident in Tsukiyano Town, the countermeasures room held another meeting. Allocating some more manpower from within the organization to deal with the Mengnan incident.
At the same time, they informed and exchanged recent information. There were two most important pieces of information - one was discovered by Kamiya and others, and Yumenan could connect dreams.
There is another conclusion drawn by other groups: if the person who dreams about the dream boy is not dead in the early stage, there is a high probability that he will fall into a comatose state and be unable to wake up after a few days.
Therefore, falling into coma is a stage that those who encounter the dream man will definitely go through in the later stage. In addition, at the beginning of the Mengnan incident, the person involved
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