The Last Gentleman-Chapter 298: Gentlemen, Death Row Inmate and Nightmare

Four elite gentlemen dressed in “sleepwear,” although they had already negotiated terms with Breeder Blanklin at the very start of their dreaming,

as long as their team could excavate some useful information from the nightmares, after the mission Blanklin would gain control over his prosthetics and would no longer have to be immersed in a liquid container.

Moreover, they also received a verbal commitment from Blanklin, promising not to cause trouble and to assist seriously.

However, they still harbored great prejudice against Blanklin.

During the early stages, unfamiliar with the infinite cycles of the dream space, they often failed to create the stairs, causing frustration. During these episodes of agitation, they could always hear the sound of grease dripping from Blanklin’s body, the sweat footprints left on the ground, and the increase in body odor due to physical heat dissipation, which only added to their contradictions.

Given Blanklin’s greasy, massive physique, a sense of aversion began to rise in the hearts of each team member.

This aversion increased over time and as the nightmare layers accumulated.

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It began with their tone becoming harsher,

Gradually, some started to refer to Blanklin not by his name, but as “Fat Pig.”

They began to demand that Blanklin control his body’s grease secretion, but he said he couldn’t do it, as secreting grease was like breathing to him, an involuntary action.

He had always secreted grease but relied on his gentleman’s clothes to absorb it.

Once the storage capacity of the clothes was full, he would secretly find a place to dispose of it or collect it in oil drums to sell to shops in the lower zones.

Eventually, annoyance turned into disgust and hostility, for they believed that a person as sinful and devoid of character as Blanklin would definitely not cooperate honestly with them,

Perhaps due to the constant inhalation of nightmare substances within the dream space, team members even hallucinated scenes of Blanklin suddenly rebelling, allying with nightmare creatures to massacre them and create a horrific human-pig totem.

Ultimately, on the captain’s suggestion, a gentleman whose profession was “Tamer” created a binding collar, which was directly placed around Blanklin’s neck, also providing mental taming to prevent any betrayal.

When the collar was made, the team members were ready to forcefully put it on Blanklin,

unexpectedly, he did not resist at all and even actively took the collar and put it on himself, having sensed their intentions beforehand.

Even as he felt the taming thoughts transmitted through the rope by the Tamer, he did not resist and let the other establish both physical and mental double constraints on him.

Such a deformed relationship within the team was also observed by Yi Chen.

However, some of these impacts were also facilitated by him.

The nightmare effect continued to spread here, with a large maze designed after an orphanage gradually leading the team astray.

Unconsciously inhaling a large amount of nightmare substances, their minds became increasingly sensitive, but their ability to capture details and recognize directions became increasingly blurred.

Any attempt by the team to create “Nightmare Stairs” was preemptively disrupted by Yi Chen, the main entity of the nightmare, making the creation ineffective or the stairs produced extremely unstable.

Yi Chen was like a child handling a new toy, and as his proficiency with the dreamscape increased, he began to “dream in real-time.”

He introduced multiple mirrors at certain crossroads to increase misleading effects, successfully splitting up the team members.

Except for Tamer Bu Qi and Breeder Blanklin who were connected via the neck lock, all other personnel were split into individuals,

Yi Chen handled this inducing process effortlessly, clearly not like a newcomer to becoming a nightmare.

…

Power Station

Technicians responsible for monitoring team four (Breeder’s brain) suddenly intercepted abnormal brainwave signals transmitted by the members during their dreaming.

Before they could decrypt the signals,

the team’s captain and two other members woke up sequentially.

However, on their faces, no signs of panic were visible, it seemed as if they hadn’t experienced any nightmares. Calmly, they unplugged the dreaming devices and began to report their dream experiences in an orderly fashion.

The last part of their report was quite contradictory;all claimed that after getting lost in the maze, they saw each other again, but the ways they met were all different.

In no time, under the influence of the ‘other’s’ actions and words, they gave up the mission and committed suicide.

For some reason, they had a quite strong desire to commit suicide at that time.

A simple compilation of their statements concluded that the ‘others’ they encountered after being dispersed were nightmares fictitiously crafted, possibly even perfect impostures by the nightmare entity itself.

However,

while the three had already exited the dream, both the central brain Breeder Blanklin and Tamer Bu Qi were still in the dream, showing no signs of exiting anytime soon.

Suddenly, technicians intercepted abnormal brain waves from both of them, differing from the previous three. The decoded brainwave messages related to being attacked in the dream rather than to suicide.

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[Dreamscape – Sixth Layer]

In the space transformed into an orphanage-style maze by Yi Chen.

Blanklin, with a collar around his neck, was sitting in the corridor resting, his body already covered with a layer of grease, giving off a sensation of seeping downward.

The other end of the collar was connected to the right hand of the tamer Bu Qi by a metal rope, a burly Northern European man with a thick beard.

Although he stood at a height of one hundred and ninety centimeters and possessed a strong physique, he could not compare to breeder Blanklin in terms of physical build.

The latter’s towering stature of about two meters and fifty centimeters, combined with his layers of corpulence, looked like a mountain of flesh.

Compared to the threat of the nightmare itself, Tamer Bu Qi paid more attention to Blanklin, fearing that this butcher might chop him up like pork.

Unable to create stairs and completely lost, he had long harbored thoughts of abandoning the Nightmare Exploration.

Just then,

a series of footsteps came from around the corner of the corridor ahead, and out walked the ‘Captain’ in his sleepwear.

“Phew~ I finally found you, Bu Qi, Blanklin!

Luckily, you both stayed put and didn’t move, I’ve found the crucial issue here.

The space we are currently in changes with our movements, and under the manipulation of the nightmare, we will never meet if everyone starts moving.

I hope the other two guys also stayed put like you, come with me, let’s quickly find them.”

When Tamer Bu Qi saw the arrival of the Captain, the pressure that had almost filled his heart was released, and he stood up to follow the Captain.

Suddenly, a mass of greasy flesh blocked his path – it was Blanklin, whose mountainous body almost completely obscured his view.

“Fat pig, what are you doing?”

“Be careful, Mr. Bu Qi… this one is probably not our Captain.”

As soon as he finished speaking,

a brass frame appeared above Blanklin’s head, the top carved with a pig’s head, the frame filled with a type of fatty oil… a small segment of pathogen essence was directly consumed.

Pop!

The fat on Blanklin’s body suddenly fell off, transforming into two pigmen who, with gaping mouths, pounced toward the ‘Captain’ to devour him.

Tamer Bu Qi wanted to stop this action but found that the taming signal he sent was blocked by layers of fat, completely unable to affect Blanklin’s brain.

As the pigmen were about to gnaw on the Captain’s flesh,

Swish!

Two black tentacles suddenly pierced through the bodies of the pigmen, suspending them in the air, and the injection of the Death Black Liquid rapidly turned the pigmen into skeletons, eventually crumbling into dust.

The Captain’s complexion turned grim, and black liquid seeped from his five orifices as he let out a terrifying sound:

“As expected of a death row inmate, you must be a double breakthrough in both ‘Physique’ and ‘Sensing’… but tell me, how did you see through my disguise?”

Blanklin replied naively:

“Sweat smell… Captain Ross, although outwardly calm during the nightmare operation, became increasingly nervous as the levels increased, particularly after arriving at this vast and bizarre maze area, and he sweated profusely.

His sweat smelt of sea salt and pork mixed with extra salt, somewhat salty, although you also mimicked some sweat, the smell was different, yours had a stench of the dead and was not very salty.”

As he spoke,

the liquid in the frame above Blanklin’s head once again diminished, only this time, he no longer morphed into pigmen but fortified himself.

His body thickened, and terrifying fangs emerged,

Pop! The collar around his neck was suddenly split open.

The once naive and simple man had transformed into a terrifying pigman, his right hand holding a totem made from numerous human bodies.

Blanklin did not launch an attack immediately but turned his head towards Tamer Bu Qi.

“Mr. Bu Qi, let’s join forces to deal with the nightmare entity before us. Collect as much information from it as possible, so we can fulfill the requirements of the Nightmare Exploration mission.”

Bu Qi was momentarily stunned,

and for a moment, his negative emotions towards Blanklin cleared, and his hands grew metallic luster-whips, “Alright! I’ll cooperate with you.”