Freddy's vicious cursing did not anger Li Hai.

Instead, he revealed a smile full of mockery on his face:

"Freddy Krueger, your mother was a nun. Due to a staff error, she was locked in a prison filled with over a hundred murderers, psychopaths, and perverts. There, she was raped for a day and a night, and finally gave birth to you, the ultimate bastard of extreme filth."

"Oh~ It seems you know me very well."

Freddy cackled, hands on his hips, in a proud posture, "What, are you envious of my noble bloodline?"

"No, no, no."

Li Hai shook his head and laughed, "I just think you're very pathetic, truly very pathetic. Alas~ You were a bastard in life, and you're a bastard ghost after death. From birth to death, from beginning to end, no one ever loved you."

While uttering this "attack phrase reserved for white people"—"no one loves you"—Li Hai also quietly activated the Emotional Manipulation ability he learned from Freddy.

As for the target of the manipulation, it was naturally Freddy himself.

Thus, Freddy, whose Spiritual Focus was only at Level 1, had the humiliation, irritation, anger, resentment, sorrow, and other emotions hidden deep within his mind inevitably ignited by Li Hai's Spiritual Focus Level 2.

"Ah!!! You damned maggot!"

Freddy's head instantly swelled, and he roared towards the sky, "I'm going to twist your head off and stuff it up your ass!"

As he roared, his scrawny body rapidly inflated like a balloon, and his height also shot up. A pair of pitch-black bat wings even grew from his back.

In an instant, Freddy transformed into a scarlet demon with horns on his head, a towering and mighty physique, and a pair of wings on his back.

Then, just as he was about to spread his wings and pounce on Li Hai, a gentle, aged voice suddenly called out from behind him:

"Freddy."

"Huh?!" Freddy instantly froze.

He slowly turned around and saw an old nun with a face full of wrinkles and tired eyes standing behind him.

"Mom?!" Freddy, back in his original form, said blankly, "You, how are you here?"

The old nun did not speak; she simply opened her arms and smiled kindly, "Come here, child, let Mom hug you. Come quickly."

Freddy, who had never been hugged by his birth mother from birth to death, trembled uncontrollably as he walked towards the old nun, opening his arms and embracing her tightly.

But just then, the old nun's entire body suddenly split open, swallowing Freddy whole, and then condensed into a ball inside her abdomen.

The old nun's abdomen instantly swelled a circle, as if she were pregnant.

Then the old nun lowered her head and looked at her abdomen, saying coldly:

"Freddy, do you know how much shame your existence has brought me? Do you know how much I loathe you, how much I hate you?! I wish you had never been born. If God hadn't forbidden me from killing, I would have strangled you the moment you crawled out of my belly back then! All these years, every moment, I've fantasized about strangling you while you were still in the womb, breaking your neck, and stomping you into a bloody pulp on the wet ground!"

Every time the old nun uttered a venomous word, her abdomen would tremble violently.

Clearly, this was Freddy trembling.

And Li Hai, standing hundreds of meters away with a playful smile, clearly perceived through Evil Spirit Killer that every mental attack he inflicted on Freddy was now like a bullet striking his Core of Fear, causing one hideous crack after another to appear on the surface of that Core of Fear.

That's right, this old nun, who seemed to be Freddy's biological mother, was an illusion fabricated by Li Hai using dream manipulation.

Furthermore, the creator behind all the venomous words spoken by this old nun was also Li Hai himself.

As for—using someone else's mother's image as a weapon, using someone else's childhood pain as ammunition to attack others—is such a thing somewhat despicable?

~Despicable, oh despicable!

For a beast among beasts like Freddy, one must use the most vicious methods, targeting his pain points and outputting with all might, brutally hurting and breaking his defenses.

Otherwise, how could one's thoughts be clear?

As for why this beast among beasts, Freddy, reacted so strongly to these words, it was naturally the combined effect of Li Hai's Emotional Manipulation and Calming Aura.

Of course, Freddy's subtle yearning for maternal love was also a necessary part of it.

"I can already feel it."

Li Hai chuckled softly, "Just a little more cursing, and Freddy's Core of Fear will crack. Although he won't die, he will sink into the depths of the Chunmu Town's regional concept and definitely won't wake up for at least ten years. Then, the next step of the plan can be carried out."

But just then, Freddy, who was tightly 'sealed' within the old nun's abdomen by Li Hai's Calming Aura and Emotional Manipulation, suddenly extended a hand full of sharp claws, breaking through his mother's abdomen, frantically grasping in all directions, while continuously wailing and roaring:

"No, this isn't real, this is all fake! Mother can't hate me so much! Ah ah ah ah! Let me out, let me out!"

"Hmph~"

Li Hai, observing from afar, scoffed, "I didn't really Seal you; you're just subconsciously clinging to your mother's embrace. What a hypocritical and mentally fragile white trash."

In his view, Freddy's seemingly tragic life experience, if it were to happen to a magnetic field strongman like Bai Cixiong, would probably be as insignificant as a breeze.

Li Hai even felt that even if Freddy's life were to be made tens of thousands of times more dark, deep, and tragic, and then Bai Cixiong were to experience it tens of thousands of times, as the Emperor of the Earth, he probably wouldn't feel too bad, right?

Just as Li Hai and Freddy were battling in the dream, in a sparsely populated street or alley on the outskirts of Chunmu Town, several kilometers away, a hazy pillar of light suddenly descended from the sky.

Within the area covered by this light pillar, exactly twenty figures appeared silently.

However, all these people were lying on the ground, as if sound asleep.

After a subtle fluctuation from Yu Yi, the pillar of light instantly vanished.

A minute later, two figures, one with golden hair and one with white hair, stood up successively from among the people lying on the ground.

And when they saw so many people lying around them, their expressions immediately turned visibly grim.

"We're screwed."

The golden-haired figure said irritably, "The Main God is really ruthless. We only used an item to escape a team battle once. Was it necessary to make the penalty mission so difficult, for twenty people?!"

"Alas~"

The white-haired figure next to him sighed, "Now I just hope that this horror movie world isn't too outrageous."