The principal furrowed his brows: "Are they all exhausted from crying? Sigh... What should I do about the children in my kindergarten? A few of them have already cried to the point of oxygen deficiency, what if... sigh!"
Though immensely worried, the principal had no solution for the moment.
He couldn’t possibly drag the exhausted cultivators back to work, could he? That would be too lamp-post like.
The principal was at his wit’s end, feeling unsettled and restless.
"By the way, Lu Ya, does the city’s investigation corps have any leads on the nightmare’s origin?"
Lu Ya shook her head: "Not yet. The children can’t describe the nightmare at all, so there’s no way to start the investigation. The corps doesn’t even know what the nightmare is about..."
The principal raised his eyebrow: "Well, we have a talented child painting images of the nightmare. You can take a photo back to use as a clue for the investigation corps."
Lu Ya was astonished: "The child who had the nightmare is drawing the source of the nightmare?"
"Indeed."
"No wonder they’re a super genius!"
The principal looked proud: "Feng Yan is truly remarkable."
"However... what’s more peculiar is that our kindergarten has three children who were immune to this nightmare."
Lu Ya was shocked: "Ah? Immune to the nightmare?"
The principal gave a slight smile: "Yes, three children didn’t have nightmares. Look..."
He pointed at Xu Ran, who had extremely high appearance, Zhu Yuheng with white hair and brows, and the vibrant Jiang Liuli.
Lu Ya raised an eyebrow: "Indeed, they don’t seem frightened by the nightmare... What’s the reason? All the children in Jing City suffered from nightmares, why are these three unaffected? I remember they’re only five or six years old?"
Principal: "Zhu Yuheng is a little over six, Xu Ran and Jiang Liuli are five and a half."
Lu Ya: "...This... this... what’s the cause?"
The principal shook his head: "We have no idea at all. Anyway... let me take you to see the source of the nightmare that Feng Yan painted!"
"Okay."
They walked for a dozen steps.
The principal and Lu Ya approached Feng Yan.
"Hiss— is this strange monster the one that intruded into the dreams of all the city’s children?"
Lu Ya’s pupils constricted sharply, feeling horrified: "Feng Yan, your painting is a bit too realistic!"
"This... this monster is disgusting! Just looking at it makes one feel uneasy."
Lu Ya looked indignant: "Are those so many infant corpses on its body? So, in the three Guhuo Bird incidents, the missing children whose bodies could not be found were refined into infant zombies by it? That’s tens of thousands of infants! Damn it! Damn it!"
The principal sighed: "Sigh... this Guhuo Bird creature, even if it’s eradicated once, it can appear again. If the root isn’t eliminated, it will likely get worse."
Lu Ya wholeheartedly agreed: "What’s even scarier is that the ’Citywide Nightmare’ only appeared in the dreams of the children in Jing City, indicating the nightmare’s root is hidden in Jing City itself."
Principal: "I know... the nightmare’s root is hidden in Jing City. A spiritual element super-strong individual from the capital is already on their way here, they’ll arrive in a day."
"But for now, my children are still trapped in fear... If they keep crying like this, it will be a major problem! Crying to the point of oxygen deficiency can cause brain damage!"
The principal was deeply distressed, wishing he could immediately find the root of the nightmare and crush it!
Feng Yan: "..." He hesitated to speak, turning to look at Xu Ran, as if asking whether he could say something.
Xu Ran was just about to reply.
Lu Ya and the principal suddenly and simultaneously turned to Feng Yan, looking startled: "Huh? What’s the matter with you? You just finished portraying the nightmare’s root, you should be even more scared."
"But you seem unphased, as if all your fear was dispelled?"
The principal grasped at this potential lifeline: "What’s going on? Is there a special method involved? Would it work for the other children?"