Chapter 249 The Power of Nightmare
After arriving downstairs of the apartment building, Fang Qing lit another cigarette, and then looked at Li Muhan with a little contempt.
"Captain Li, please stop chatting me up."
"ah?"
Li Muhan was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized that Fang Qing thought that the last question he asked was a chat-up.
"Fuck, I didn't. I actually thought she looked familiar."
"Do you know this nurse?"
Yoongi also asked.
"I don't know him. It's the first time we've met. Hmm... but I just feel a sense of familiarity. Never mind. Maybe I really saw it wrong. Shall we sort out the current information?"
Li Muhan winked at Fang Qing.
Fang Qing immediately understood and unlocked the car door. Li Muhan and Yin Qi got into the car immediately. Just when Fang Qing was about to come in, Li Muhan quickly stopped him.
"Hey, come in after you finish smoking. Come in after you finish smoking. Be polite and civilized Chinese people."
Fang Qing rolled his eyes at him, but still took a few puffs outside, threw the cigarette butt into a small box he carried with him before getting into the car.
"So what the nurse saw was true?"
Yoongi asked first.
"It's hard to say."
Li Muhan pondered for a moment and said, "The anchor named Mu Ya accused Luo Xue of animal cruelty, and Lu Xian actually saw Luo Xue being tortured and killed by a group of animals. It's hard to say this is a coincidence."
"Um."
Fang Qing also agreed.
"As for the time of death, it also matched. Luo Xue was taken to the hospital at 9 o'clock, and her body began to show abnormalities at 12 o'clock. She was tortured all night and did not actually die until 7 o'clock in the morning. This also fits with what the woman said: she would only truly die after she realized what she had done."
"Hmm...what kind of alien can do such a thing?"
Li Muhan asked doubtfully.
"If you mean disembowelment, most aliens are fine, but the key point is what Lu Xian saw. It was more like... an illusion."
"You don't believe what she said?"
Li Muhan asked Fang Qing.
Fang Qing shook his head.
"The hallucination I'm talking about isn't caused by fatigue, but rather by an external force. There are many creatures capable of this, but to be able to display it so vividly, I can only guess...it might be a nightmare."
Nightmare? This name sounds so familiar.
As Li Muhan was thinking this, he heard Fang Qing sigh and say.
"Nightmares are rare and exotic creatures. They rarely walk in the ordinary world. I haven't heard of the Special Management Bureau taking in nightmares for a long time, so I don't know whether nightmares can really turn the illusions they create into reality and cause harm to the human body..."
"Wait, you said nightmare, does it count as a nightmare?"
"Well, of course, a nightmare is a nightmare."
Fang Qing looked at Li Muhan in confusion, and then he seemed to have thought of something.
They both slapped their thighs at the same time.
"Captain Li! Wasn't there a Nightmare in your team that participated in the last exchange competition?!"
"Yeah! How could I forget about her!"
"I will apply to have him arrested now!"
"Fuck."
Li Muhan quickly held down Fang Qing's hand as he tried to dial the number. "What are you so anxious about! Even though Mengmeng is a nightmare, she has never hurt anyone. And even if this incident is related to Mengmeng, it's the Tianhai City Special Management Bureau's job to arrest her. Why are you from Beiyuan City getting involved?"
Fang Qing paused and thought so too.
"Then can you contact Miss Nightmare? See if she has any abnormalities?"
Li Muhan nodded, then took out his mobile phone and found Mengmeng's profile picture among his friends.
That was the archival photo that the Special Management Bureau took of her last time when she was detained, which is what we call an ID photo.
What an honest child, but her file photo is different from those of ordinary people. Her exquisite appearance makes many people think that this is simply an artistic photo.
After the call was connected, Li Muhan heard a lazy voice coming from the other end.
"...Hello."
"Mengmeng, it's me."
"Hmm...? You're... Hey! Wait, wait a minute! I, I'm still in bed! I, I'll change my clothes right away!"
Then Li Muhan heard a noise coming from the other end of the phone, the girl's scream, the rustling sound of clothes being put on, and the sound of the girl falling to the ground because she was too anxious to get out of bed.
"Me! I'm dressed!"
"...Um, we're not on a video call. You don't have to get dressed to talk to me."
"...Oh, then, should I take it off now?"
"...Please leave it at that."
Yin Qi couldn't stand it anymore, she snatched the phone and said to Meng Meng.
"Mengmeng, the outlier from the Sixth Squad, I'm Yin Qi, the investigator from the Seventh Squad. I need your information on a case."
Hearing Yin Qi's voice, Meng Meng calmed down a little.
"Okay, okay, Ms. Yoongi, is there anything I can help you with?"
"A few questions. First, where were you between 12:00 AM and 7:00 AM yesterday? Are there any witnesses? Answer this question first so we can proceed with the rest of the questioning."
Yin Qi's attitude made Li Muhan a little confused. Although she was not familiar with Meng Ye, they were all colleagues, so there was no need to make it look like an interrogation.
But Mengmeng didn't seem to care about it. She thought for a moment and then answered immediately.
"I was on a mission with Team 6 last night. Well, the captain can prove it."
"Can the mission briefing be sent to Li Muhan via text message?"
"sure."
Soon, the mission briefing came on the phone. Yin Qi did not read the content, but only looked at the official seal of the Special Management Bureau at the end. After all, tasks between different teams could not be sent to each other. Yin Qi just took advantage of Meng Meng's lack of understanding of the rules to trick her.
"Okay, the second question is, do you know any other people of the same tribe?"
"...Well, I've been living alone for many years, so long that I've forgotten the last time I left the dream world. Sorry...at least there are no nightmares I know in this world."
"The last question is, can the power of Nightmare to create dreams bring dreams into reality?"
"Hmm? What do you mean?"
Mengmeng seemed to be a little confused about what Yin Qi meant.
"To put it simply, if you cut a person's throat with a dagger in a dream, can you also have that person's throat cut in real life?"
"I, I won't do that..."
"Answer my question, Mengmeng from Team Six."
"...No, it can't. The power of nightmares only works within dreams. If we can bring the scenes in dreams into reality, then...wouldn't reality be messed up?"
After listening to this, Fang Qing nodded. There was indeed no record showing that Nightmare had such ability.
"Okay, I have no questions. Thank you for your cooperation, Mengmeng. I will submit the application for assistance in the investigation to your captain afterwards."
"Well, that's okay, eh? Wait, wait, I.....!"
Mengmeng immediately stopped Yin Qi after realizing that he was going to hang up, but it was too late. The phone was hung up. Hearing the beeping sound, Mengmeng, who had just rolled off the bed with disheveled clothes and messy hair, felt a little sad.
She buried her face in the pillow.
"I just said a few words... well..."
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