Nightmare Light

Chapter 100 Return to the Society
Brakes sounded.

The temple's car was parked downstairs of the Haoyue Newspaper Building.

The three of them got out of the car, and the priest who was acting as the driver parked the car and followed behind them.

Lin Wang looked up at the building in front of him. It was an old brick and stone building with black iron fog lights hanging outside the building... It was no different from other old buildings in Tangsheng City.

A strange sense of familiarity surged in my heart.

If we count from the time he traveled through time, this is his second time to the newspaper office.

But if you add the memories of the original body...this place really has some feelings for him.

This was my first job after graduation.

Although he is still an intern today, he still skips work openly.

But the newspaper paid him a full salary, including royalties.

Speaking of which, it’s pretty good for Lin Wang.

When Lin Wang was in the most difficult time, it was the newspaper that gave him a job and provided him with a living security.

Hou Xuanzhang and Xu Sunshan were both very kind to Lin Wang.

I hope that my ability can help Lao Hou.

Lin Wang calmed down and followed Old Xu into the newspaper office.

The slightly plump, balding middle-aged man walked quickly and spoke quickly: "Follow me, I'll take you directly to Lao Hou's office... Before we go to the temple, I asked two editors to stop him inside!"

Going upstairs and passing through the office area, two editors came up to greet me with anxious expressions: "Teacher Xu! Mr. Hou is over there..."

"I've invited experts from the temple! This is the temple's Saint... This is Lin... Oh, you all know each other." Old Xu asked anxiously, "What happened to Old Hou?"

The two editors exchanged a glance. Although they were a little curious about Lin Wang being part of such a group, they still had to focus on business. They anxiously said, "Mr. Hou..."

"Hey, you guys are so stupid! Letting you go out and interview people will make the dead angry again!" Old Xu cursed and turned away, "I'll go and see for myself!"

After saying that, he brushed past the two of them and quickly rushed to the editor-in-chief's office with Lin Wang and Sen.

Behind him, two editors said in a wronged tone: "We are writers, not interviewers..."

Walking through the office area, I passed by the Human Resources and Finance offices.

When passing by these two offices, Lao Xu paused, turned his head slightly, glanced into the human resources office, and had a complicated expression on his face.

But he quickly turned his head and continued walking deeper into the corridor.

Lin Wang recalled the scene in the corridor when he encountered "Anomaly 046", the giant flower of flesh and blood.

Time flies...

Lin Wang shook his head, collected his thoughts, and followed Old Xu.

"My office is around the corner. Next to it is Lao Hou's office. I sent two editors to block the door, just in case he comes out and makes a scene... What?"

Old Xu exclaimed, took two quick steps, and yelled, "What happened?"

Lin Wang, Sen, and the accompanying priests ran two steps after them.

Turning the corner, they saw an office at the end of the corridor with a shattered glass door and broken glass all over the floor.

There were some bloodstains on the surrounding walls and ground.

The two editors fell in a pool of blood, gasping and groaning.

There were several employees nearby, holding first aid kits and busy bandaging the wound.

Lin Wang saw that one of the employees was tearing open the "gray medicine bag" used in the temple and pouring it on an injured editor who had fallen to the ground.

"What happened! Where's Lao Hou?"

"Teacher Xu!" an employee called out, "About half an hour ago, Mr. Hou suddenly started yelling and banging on the door! Teachers Fan and Zhang were holding it shut, preventing Mr. Hou from coming out."

"But Mr. Hou's eyes suddenly turned red, and he smashed the glass door with his head and rushed out from where the glass was broken."

"After rushing out, Teacher Fan and Teacher Zhang called us over and tried to hold Mr. Hou, but he was too strong and we couldn't stop him at all. He even injured Teacher Fan and Teacher Zhang!"

When Old Xu heard this, he immediately became anxious: "Where is Mr. Hou?" The employee said, "Mr. Hou rushed into the basement!"

Old Xu turned his head and looked at Lin Wang and the other two.

Lin Wang habitually wanted to talk about the plan, but he suddenly remembered that there was a temple expert standing next to him, so he didn't speak in a hurry, but glanced at Miss Saint.

Sen's thoughts were clear. He waved to the employee who had spoken. "Lead the way. Priest Meng and I will go with you to the basement. Don't worry. The temple will protect you."

The employee nodded in agreement.

Lin Wang asked, "What about me?"

"Mr. Lin, exorcism is the temple's job, we don't need your help." Sen shook his head and rejected Lin Wang.

"Okay." Lin Wang nodded. "I'll look for the letter that Tan Mingzhe left behind."

"It's your freedom." The Saint nodded and reminded seriously, "However, if you come across anything strange, please don't touch it casually... Also, if that letter contains anything related to the temple, I hope Mr. Lin..."

"The letter is private, so I can't guarantee it." Lin Wang shook his head and flatly rejected the saint's request.

Mori was silent for a few seconds, then nodded: "Sorry, I overstepped my bounds."

Everyone around was stunned, even the priest named Meng was dumbfounded.

The temple saint apologizes to an ordinary person/newspaper intern?

Is this world so absurd?
What is the status of the temple saint?
Apart from the bishop, the saint can be regarded as the highest representative of the temple in the secular world!

Although there is more than one Saint, the Saint of Tangsheng City, the largest city in the Chu Federation, has the most respected status among all the Saints.

Simply put, even if she met the Governor of Tang Shengcheng, it would be the Governor who should salute her first!
This is also the reason why Lao Xu had to go to the temple in person if he wanted to invite someone.

Now, such a respected person is apologizing to an intern at a newspaper?
Everyone looked at Lin Wang with confusion.

There were even two gossipy female editors who looked at the two of them with strange, thoughtful expressions...

Old Xu glared at them and said, "Anyone who dares to write a single word will be responsible for cleaning the toilet for the next six months!"

Sen ignored the editors and continued to look indifferent. He was led to the basement by the newspaper employee.

Old Xu reached into the broken glass door, opened it from the inside, pushed it open and walked into the office. Then he said to Lin Wang, "Lin Wang, follow me."

Lin Wang followed Old Xu into the editor-in-chief's office of Haoyue Newspaper.

In the original body's vague memory, he had entered this office once when he first came to the newspaper to report - now when he entered this office again, he found that he had almost no impression of it in his mind.

In the normal understanding, the office of an old newspaper editor should be filled with books, newspapers and various documents, and the person should move among these documents like swimming.

But Lao Hou’s office is not like this.

This place is so clean it looks like a minimalist performance art piece——

On one of the three walls of the room was a huge blackboard, covering the entire wall. It was filled with various plans - interviews, publications, distribution...

Almost everyone, all the time, and everything in the entire newspaper are reflected on this blackboard.

Lin Wang even felt that such a person, even if he did not come to the newspaper to be the editor-in-chief, would be a good hand if he was sent to a factory with tens of thousands of people to be the factory director.

On the other wall, there is a huge bookcase that takes up the entire wall.

The bookshelves are also divided into categories and clearly marked with regulations.

"I always feel that he spends most of his time every day making these records..." Lin Wang complained, his eyes falling on these directories.

"It's not a feeling, it's a fact." Old Xu opened the bookcase door and ran his hand across the rows of labels. "Old Hou used to work in a publishing house, specializing in cataloging books. It's his occupational hazard... Fortunately, he has this occupational hazard, otherwise it would be impossible to find information from more than 20 years ago... Oh, I found it."

Old Xu pulled out a folder from the bookshelf.

Lin Wang saw the words "86" written on the cover of the folder.

Xu Sunshan opened the folder and took out a letter from it. He handed the letter to Lin Wang.

The letter is sealed.

(End of this chapter)