Nightmare Light

Chapter 106 Hypnotize Yourself
Lin Wang took the gun from Gu Shuochuan and checked it.

"Huo, the guns of your Mist Clan look so different from those of Tangsheng City... What's this medicine jar for? Make the bullets glow? Visibility is low in the fog... I understand."

He was checking the gun in his hand when Lao Gu asked him, "Lin Wang, what do you want the gun for?"

Lin Wang did not answer this question, but asked him in return: "Lao Gu, can you give orders to the soldiers?"

"Sure, what are you going to do?"

"Then please give this brother an order and ask him not to move." Lin Wang suddenly stood up, turned on the safety, and pointed at the forehead of a soldier not far away, "Because I want to kill him."

As soon as these words were spoken, not only Lao Gu and the surrounding soldiers, but even Sen was stunned.

"Brother Lin! What are you doing?" Lao Gu shouted anxiously, "Put down the gun! Don't joke about this!"

"Do I look like I'm kidding?" Lin Wang said grimly, "If these soldiers' cognition has been polluted, I don't need to tell you how dangerous it is to continue advancing."

"And the only way to find out... is to shoot any of them."

Lin Wang seemed worried about missing the target. He aimed at the soldier's head and took another step closer to him. "If he moves forward when I shoot, it means his cognition is polluted... If he moves backward, it means he and the other soldiers are 'clean'."

"Wait! Brother Lin! You can just shoot him at his feet! There's no need to kill him!"

"For a trained soldier, it's a simple matter to control his behavior when he knows he's not going to die - I can't risk the lives of so many people." He pointed the gun at the soldier's forehead.

"Brother, I'm sorry." Lin Wang tensed the muscles in his hands.

"bang!" Lin Wang suddenly shouted.

Everyone around was frightened by Lin Wang's sudden shout.

The soldier in front of the gun trembled violently, took two steps back quickly, sat down on the ground, and gasped for breath.

"Okay, it's safe." Lin Wang turned the gun upside down and handed it to Gu Shuochuan. He then reached out to pull the Mist Clan soldiers on the ground. "Congratulations, everyone. No one has been contaminated."

Gu Shuochuan was stunned: "Brother Lin, you... are just doing this for testing?"

"What else? Would I really kill one of your brothers?" Lin Wang looked at Lao Gu in confusion, "I have no grudge against you."

"Wait! What if my brothers and I think you are hostile and shoot you?" Lao Gu was a little excited. "You are taking too much risk!"

"If you really open fire, it can only mean one thing—I'm not very skilled." Lin Wang said as he walked towards the temple entrance, "In the test just now, I already gave you a little 'hint' in advance."

"hint?"

"I've already warned you in advance that this action is absolutely necessary and for everyone's safety," Lin Wang said. "This way, all of you will subconsciously believe that my shooting is absolutely necessary, which will prevent you from shooting me."

Lin Wang continued, "I have to make sure everyone believes I really want to kill someone, so I can get the most genuine reaction."

"So that's why the murderous aura you had just now..."

"It's true." Lin Wang nodded. "Before I fired the gun, I hypnotized myself a little: I made myself believe that I would indeed shoot and kill him at that moment - you are all elite, if my murderous intent is not strong, it will be seen immediately."

"What?" Lao Gu was stunned. "But in the end..."

"In order to prevent me from actually shooting, I added a limitation to this hypnosis: if the other party's micro-expression is self-protective, the hypnosis will be lifted." Lin Wang said lightly.

"What if not?" Lao Gu asked subconsciously.

Lin Wang said nothing. Gu Shuochuan and the soldiers exchanged glances, and everyone felt a chill in their hearts.

Lao Gu opened his mouth, subconsciously wanting to refute Lin Wang's previous statement, but the murderous aura in his eyes could not be faked - it was the murderous aura of a predator biting through its prey's throat: powerful, confident, and calm.

At that moment, he recalled the first time he met Lin Wang: at that time, every move and every thought of his was seen through and understood by the other party...

Who is this guy?

Lao Gu felt extremely confused.

He subconsciously hurried two steps to catch up with Lin Wang: "Brother Lin, what are your plans after we enter the temple?"

"My plan is... rush in, beat up every living thing in sight, rescue your brothers, and then capture Lao Hou! That's it!"

"..."

A few minutes later, everyone arrived at the temple gate.

At the empty temple entrance, huge stones were shattered on the ground. Through the fog, the passage inside the entrance was pitch black, with visibility close to zero.

Sen released a ball of light into the passage and then released a "detect evil" spell.

Taking advantage of the gap when two spells drifted into the passage, she glanced at Lin Wang and said, "Mr. Lin, just now, you could have let me test the cognitive problems of those soldiers."

"Of course, that's what we should do under normal circumstances." Lin Wang nodded, then changed the subject, "But are you sure that your magic will work in the situation just now?"

"I am the highest saint in the temple, the person closest to my mother, and I am proficient in all the divine arts of the temple... No evil can escape my mother's eyes!" Sen's tone was proud and full of confidence.

"If that's the case, you should have noticed something unusual in Old Hou's office when you first carried out the Essence operation for the newspaper—his office is less than ten meters away from the scene of Anomaly 046."

Lin Wang didn't look back, but walked forward calmly. "Besides, if that's the case, there's no reason for you to be defeated by Editor-in-Chief Hou."

Sen's eyes widened.

At that moment, a flash of lightning flashed through her mind.

She trembled in disbelief: "Lin...Lin Wang, you mean..."

"My guess agrees with yours." Lin Wang nodded, "So we can't rely on your magic."

"Brother Lin, Miss Saint, what are you talking about?" Gu Shuochuan didn't understand the cryptic conversation between the two.

"We believe that the pollution that Lao Hou suffered was caused by an outbreak in a research facility of the Mist Clan, and the one who caused the pollution outbreak in this research facility was a high-level being," said Lin Wang.

"A high-ranking being..." Lao Gu's voice trembled. "Are you saying... there's a certain god behind this?"

"Whether it is a god or not remains to be confirmed, but now, we can confirm one thing - from the perspective of rank, this power is superior to that of a priest."

As Lin Wang spoke, he moved a huge rock in front of him and looked into the passage.

As he spoke, there was a faint white fire burning in his eyes.

Through the white fire, Lin Wang saw that in the entire passage, countless black silk threads were surging in the entire internal passage of the pyramid as if they were alive.

(End of this chapter)