After transforming into Nightmare mode, Wen Wen felt somewhat out of place with his surroundings.
It was as uncomfortable as a fish out of water, with an inexplicable sense of weakness occupying his body. However, this discomfort only lasted a short while before disappearing, as Wen Wen's body did not solely possess the Nightmare physique.
What he experienced should be the current sensation of Menglan.
Keeping her in such an environment for an extended period could cause her some damage, with her strength constantly declining, even leading to loss of life.
Having caught a Nightmare with great effort, Wen Wen couldn't let Menglan just die like that, so after some thought, he conveyed a command to Troublemaker.
From now on, arrange for a prison guard to sleep in Menglan's room every day, to allow her to rest and feed.
As long as the Nightmare has no intent to kill, feeding once only results in a few days of fright. The number of prison guards in the Sanctuary could easily maintain Menglan.
Then Wen Wen came out of the Sanctuary, glanced at the sky, and found it was already past midnight.
He spent a long time in the dream, but not much time had passed in reality, as the flow of time in dreams is much slower than in the real world.
He came out to test the Nightmare's abilities.
Wen Wen captured the Nightmare to utilize its abilities, sneak into the victim's dreams, and find the culprit behind the coma cases.
The culprit is likely a Catastrophe-Level Expert, so Wen Wen needs to familiarize himself with his abilities in advance.
He searched the nearby area and casually found a chubby man sleeping soundly, stood by his bed, and entered his dream.
The feeling of entering a dream was strange, like squeezing into a narrow, warm, soft space, moving forward a bit, then opening up suddenly.
This chubby man's dream was a school, where a sports event was taking place, and the chubby man participated in various events, excelling in each one.
"Dreams can intuitively reflect a person's thoughts. This chubby man might have always wanted to participate in the school sports event but couldn't due to physical reasons."
Wen Wen found a corner and began testing the Nightmare's abilities. First, he sensed some dreams connected to this chubby man, taking just two seconds to leap into another dream.
Next, he can enter deeper dreams through this chubby man, deep dreams, subconscious dreams, and even deeper dreams; Wen Wen could enter them all.
However, the deeper the dreams, the more eerie and bizarre they appeared, with dangers lurking everywhere.
As a Nightmare, Wen Wen could torment the chubby man, feeding on his fear to gain strength, and could freely manipulate the dreams to achieve various unreasonable effects.
Additionally, in battle, Nightmares don't need to adhere to some rules of the real world.
One can burn people with water, knock them out with a blade's edge, their attacks would not be blocked, and can grow two hearts…
This feeling was quite marvelous; Wen Wen took more than an hour to finally become familiar with the feeling of being a Nightmare.
Once fully familiarized, Wen Wen intended to leave this dream, but upon turning around, he found that the chubby man had already stopped dreaming about the sports event and was now in a rather interesting competition dream.
There was an ice-cold beauty, with a sign in front of her: 'Beauty Wisdom Competition'.
The rules were such that whoever could fill the room with one particular thing would become this beauty's husband.
This beauty seemed to be the chubby man's dream girl; as for this expression… She probably always had this expression towards the chubby man in reality.
Wen Wen silently mourned for the chubby man for a few seconds, then showed a mischievous expression.
Competing for the beauty alongside the chubby man were several extras: a fitness coach, a business elite, and a charming uncle; presumably, they were all rivals in the chubby man's mind.
The fitness coach tried to fill the room with sandbags but collapsed before managing half, the business elite used roses, but the flower gaps made him fail, and the charming uncle used 'love', but actually nothing filled the room, leading to failure.
Wen Wen shook his head: "Even in dreams, consider your opponents a bit stronger, idiot…"
Finally, the chubby man took the stage, confidently smiling, covering the room's windows with cloth, then turned on the electric light, filling the room with light.
According to this simple story of the dream, the chubby man should embrace the beauty next.
In fact, the chubby man had opened his arms, moving towards the ice-cold beauty.
But at this moment, Wen Wen stood out: "Wait, I haven't competed yet!"
The chubby man paused, not realizing anything was wrong, only feeling puzzled, unsure when he gained another rival.
Wen Wen said to the beauty: "I will use art to fill this room."
He walked into the room, took out ten gas cylinders, opening them all, making the room full of pungent gas smell.
The other NPCs detected nothing odd, but the chubby man was sweating profusely, not realizing he was dreaming, terrified to the extreme.
Red smoke drifted from the chubby man's body, entering Wen Wen's mouth.
Wen Wen smacked his lips and said: "The taste is alright; no wonder those Nightmares resemble starving ghosts. But I still prefer real-world cuisine."
He took out a match, said sinisterly to the chubby man: "Art is an explosion!"
The match lit, the entire room filled with gas ignited, with a loud bang, the room exploded, all NPCs torn to pieces, the chubby man felt intense pain, then abruptly awakened.
He sat up on the bed, wiped the sweat off his forehead, and took a deep breath.
"It was just a dream, scared me to death."
This is the normal reaction of someone attacked by a Nightmare. For the next two days, he will feel mentally exhausted, but won't remember what happened in the dream, only recalling how frightening it was.
The chubby man wanted to drink some water to calm down; upon turning his head, he saw Wen Wen sitting at his bedside, with a sinister smile matching the expression while lighting the match! ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ N()velFire.net
"Ah… Ah… Aba Aba." The chubby man rolled his eyes and fainted.
Wen Wen scratched his head; the dream scope was too small just now, and the gas bomb exploded the entire dream to collapse, ejecting Wen Wen from it, thereby accidentally scaring this chubby man.
He reached over to his toes, rummaged in his Space Ring, took out a stack of cash, and left it on the chubby man's table.
Then he found a scrap of paper and wrote on it: "I scared you, here's some compensation. Also, if you have a crush, pursue them. Only fantasizing about embracing the beauty, she will be embraced by someone else."