The Last Gentleman

Chapter 293: Ready to Go

[Power Station]

An entire circular floor was cleared out to serve as the “Dream Entry Room” for the nightmare project, where the brains of [six] death row inmates were transported for the final stage of setup.

These brains were preserved in cylindrical containers filled with green gel, with their surfaces bristling with all sorts of wires.

Surrounding each brain, there were 4 to 6 glass bathtubs, likewise filled with the green gel, where the dreamers would later lie inside wearing sleep attire.

This liquid was better at calming their mental state and could enhance brain sensing capabilities, thereby improving autonomous functions within the dream realms.

The containers holding the brains also had the corresponding names of the death row inmates attached to them,

and the inmates’ files were given to the corresponding dreaming team members, as they would be temporarily partnering with these inmates in the dreamscape.

Although the organization would offer death row inmates the “prosthetic body continuation” as a condition for their cooperation, it wasn’t guaranteed that all inmates would comply willingly, so getting to know them in advance was quite necessary.

Brain No. 1 [“Street Vendor” Dalair], a gentleman with an ordinary white envelope who, having no hope of breaking through, mingled in the lower districts of Zion, peddling various goods, even private medicines. It was later discovered that at least eleven missing persons and deaths by poisoning in Zion were connected to him.

Brain No. 2 [“Magician” Silona], gentlemen who teamed up with her for missions often had at least one member go missing, and some directly died. While the reasons were primarily due to the missions themselves, and there were even teammates who alibied her,

following repeated incidents and predictions by the Prophet, Zion conducted forced memory reviews on her, uncovering that she used tricks and deceptions to lead one of their squad members into a fatal error during each mission.

Brain No. 3 [“Breeder” Blanklin], the instigator behind the Kefan Town human-pig incident.

Brain No. 4 [“Clothier” Adoma], a tailor sent to Tewick City by the organization. Since her arrival, gentlemen who happened to pass through the city for attire repairs gave rave reviews. Not only could she quickly fix clothes, but they also received a portion of meat that quickly restored their energy.

But with her emergence, multiple disappearances occurred in the city. After the scandal broke, she killed several local gentlemen who came to arrest her in an attempt to escape, ultimately leading to her capture.

Brain No. 5 [“Violent Machado”], the executioner from Cesimani who, during a team mission involving multiple people, lost control of his emotions, killing all the other squad members as well as teammates who tried to stop his rampage, eventually turning himself in.

The central brain [“Silver Demon,” “Founder of Dusk Thin Silver Liquid,” “Founder of Twilight Clinic” Doctor Macaul].

The above are the six brains corresponding to the death row inmates, and they also signify that six teams would be entering the dream simultaneously.

However,

although the six teams were all composed of “Breakthroughs,” their combat capabilities were not equal, or rather, one of the teams was terrifyingly superior, far surpassing the others.

They could nearly symbolize the organization’s pinnacle combat power,

compared to which, the other five teams’ greater role wasn’t to infiltrate the nightmare but to help distract attention from the nightmare, allowing the elite squad to reach the Root and eliminate the target more swiftly.

And the brain center used by the elite squad was none other than the notorious Silver Demon—Doctor Macaul.

A large number of people dressed in sleep attire were gathered here, some perusing the inmates’ files, others doing exercises to relax their bodies, and some were huddled together discussing the upcoming dreamscape issues.

Just then, a commotion erupted nearby.

“What, William didn’t really come to join! Impossible, he’s usually the most proactive about these things.”

About ten minutes later, Yi Chen found the corresponding place at the end of a sloping street, a low-rent apartment building which represented the organization’s last act of pity for gentlemen who refused to strive, risk, and faced difficult lives.

Yi Chen pulled out the nightmare card in front of the dilapidated apartment, and the hint on the back changed again.

It went from the street name and building number to a series of strange arrow symbols, kindly annotated.

↑ meaning go upstairs

← move one room to the left,

→ move one room to the right

↓ enter

When Yi Chen followed the hints into the apartment building, the light suddenly dimmed;electricity was long gone here, and residents relied on candles for illumination.

One could often see a smiling resident standing at the side holding a candle, or within a room’s window.

Following the instructions, Yi Chen arrived at the fourth room on the sixth floor’s right side,

Oddly, the next hint consisted of three consecutive ↓↓↓ symbols, indicating the need to enter thrice.

But the apartment in front of him was simply a one-room affair, with no interior rooms to speak of.

The only thing there was a closet against the wall.

Cautiously, Yi Chen approached the closet, and when he opened the decrepit wardrobe doors, he was momentarily taken aback by the scene before him.

Inside the wardrobe was a deep, dark passage, and considerately, a candle was placed beside the door.

Analyzing the current street and the apartment building’s exterior structure, such an inexplicable passage shouldn’t exist;Yi Chen even began to doubt whether he was already dreaming.

Picking up the candle, he stepped into the passageway within the closet.

At the end was a door with alternating black and white, also matching the last ↓ symbol on the card.

Gently pushing the door open, to his surprise, he found a cozy bedroom infused with some circus elements,

A young girl with black and white patterns was covered up to her upper body with a checkered duvet, with her black and white leg stockings slightly poking out from the covers.

When she saw Yi Chen come in, she excitedly patted the vacant space next to her on the bed.

“Come on~ It’s getting late, time to sleep.”