If there’s a big wave coming. Hmm... Cowardice is impossible—soldiers block those who come, water covers those who flood!
He only has this one life, and it’s absolutely impossible for him to die.
So, even if a powerful ghost creature really came into being and snatched him away, he would find a way to blow it up.
Thinking like this.
Xu Ran calmed himself and followed his mom to the teaching activity center.
Inside the venue.
Crying could be heard everywhere.
The six-year-old super geniuses looked like startled rabbits, lying in their mothers’ arms, with their heads buried tightly, their shoulders twitching at a high frequency. The little ones were bawling, crying until their voices went hoarse, even lacking oxygen, yet they couldn’t stop crying.
That heart-wrenching pitiful sight made Xu Ran genuinely feel sympathetic.
The skin of the little ones was tender, their cheeks chubby, little round hands and short legs, segment by segment like fat lotus roots, cute and amusing.
To improve his [Young Venerable] progress, Xu Ran played with them for a month.
Although he only made progress once, feelings were developed.
Unexpectedly, they were now experiencing nightmares, crying to the point of oxygen deprivation.
"Sigh..."
Xu Ran wanted to comfort them, but for a moment, he didn’t know how to proceed.
"Even if I fully utilize [Horror Whisper], I can’t achieve this effect. I’m afraid it requires the Third Sequence, [Domain of Fear]."
"The monster causing nightmares across the city... it’s probably not a small character!"
Xu Ran glanced at everyone.
The principal, Li Qinghong, two other mentors, and the guards were all beside the children, trying to calm emotions.
They were bustling around, yet achieving little!
Seeing his mom and Xu Ran.
Tiger Girl’s mom and Yu Heng’s mom came forward: "It seems that little Ran also didn’t have that terrible nightmare."
Lin Qian looked relieved: "Yes, little Ran didn’t have a nightmare."
"Out of the entire kindergarten, only the three of them are a bit luckier. Many of my friends’ children had the same nightmare."
Yu Heng’s mom: "My friends’ children also had this nightmare just now. Sigh... What is this all about?"
Xu Ran: "..."
In fact, he was confused by this.
He knew all the children in Jing City had nightmares, but didn’t know what kind of nightmare it was.
The descriptions from his mom and the other moms were neither accurate nor informative.
Xu Ran: "Did some kind of monster appear in the children’s dream realm?"
Tiger Girl’s mom nodded: "...Yes."
Xu Ran: "Specifically, what kind of monster?"
Yu Heng’s mom: "How to put it, it’s hard to describe. Feng Yan is drawing the monster from the nightmare. You can go and see. He usually likes to draw, and the drawn outcome is very vivid. But just looking at it can make someone uncomfortable."
Xu Ran curiously: "I see, I’ll go take a look."
His mom grabbed Xu Ran: "Son, don’t go, don’t scare yourself."
Xu Ran smiled: "I won’t, mom. Seeing what kind of monster it is will prepare me so that if I dream about it next time, I won’t be scared."
Mom: "...It makes so much sense, I can’t even argue."
"I’ll go with you, I’ll take a look too."
Mom held Xu Ran’s hand tightly, she was most afraid of ghosts, but at the moment she mustered up all her courage, if her son got scared later, she would definitely calm down and soothe Xu Ran’s emotions.
Thinking like this.
The two had already arrived behind Feng Yan.
Feng Yan, six years old, had a shield type of root bone, standing at one meter two, twenty centimeters shorter than the five-year-old Xu Ran, and ten centimeters shorter than Tiger Girl.
At this moment.
Feng Yan’s face was pale, beads of sweat still visible on his forehead, indicating that the nightmare had made him sweat a lot.
However, to provide clues for the principal, he sat on the ground, gritting his teeth, trembling as he sketched on the drawing paper, his expression very serious, even slightly meticulous.
Mom looked distressed and heartached: "What a strong child..."
Xu Ran was also surprised by Feng Yan’s willpower: "A real man indeed, back then I punched him twice, and he didn’t say a word. Now he had a nightmare, while other little kids are crying, he can still suppress the fear within and work on drawing the nightmare’s image, thereby providing the principal with clues..."
Xu Ran nodded in admiration, his gaze falling on Feng Yan’s watercolor drawing.
It was a sea cucumber-like monster, its body bloated like an eerie, inflated balloon. Embedded in the head of the sea cucumber was the face of a woman, pale and ghastly, with wide-open eyes full of resentment.
If it were just like this, it wouldn’t be enough to scare all the city’s children to tears.
The most terrifying part was that thousands of violet rose-colored umbilical cords extended from the sea cucumber man-faced monster, the cords twisting, writhing like serpentine worms, each end gripping a baby corpse.
The baby had become zombified, its skin indigo, sharp fangs and claws, bloody eyes and sinister tongues, ferocious and vengeful.
A pair of cursed infant-like gazes, penetrating the drawing paper, stared at Xu Ran, as if ready to pounce and tear him to pieces.
Mom turned away, too scared to keep looking.
Xu Ran also stood in awe: "Little Feng, your drawing is a bit too realistic."
Feng Yan took a deep breath, rubbed his pale face, his eyes full of determination: "I’m the only one here who experienced the nightmare and can still maintain my sanity, I must draw every detail so the principal and the others can gather more information!"
"This monster is definitely wanting to harm more children, I must do everything I can to stop it! Kill it! Even if my power is insignificant!"
Feng Yan was trembling, but his resolve was especially firm.
Xu Ran paid solemn respect, leaning back strategically: "Is the monster hanging with tens of thousands of zombie babies?"
Feng Yan nodded: "Yes."