Nightmare Light

Chapter 113 Entering the Research Facility
One minute later.

Amidst the dull mechanical roar, the elevator descended rapidly downwards.

On the walls on both sides, huge stone reliefs can be seen everywhere, using simple carved lines to tell the historical stories of the Wu people.

Between these lines, you can occasionally see residual flesh and blood.

Lin Wang was standing on the elevator. On his shoulder was a small paper bride, who was trying to fold a groom's crown out of paper and secretly put it on Lin Wang's head.

Beside him, the cat girl squatted on the ground, rubbing his sleeve while grabbing a small fish as if it were a knife. She pointed the fish at Lin Wang and asked him, "Where did that big mouse go?"

Behind Lin Wang, who had a blank look on his face.

Miss Saint still had a cold expression on her face, but she watched the interaction between Lin Wang and his two companions with a hint of curiosity in her eyes.

Gu Shuochuan stood beside the saint, his expression stiff and embarrassed.

He was a high-ranking officer of the Wu tribe, holding an important position, and he felt a little embarrassed after being scolded mercilessly by Lin Wang.

Most of the soldiers were sent back to call for help, leaving only two people with him, but Lao Gu still felt a little embarrassed.

After a few seconds, he took a breath and walked behind Lin Wang.

Lao Gu originally wanted to ask Lin Wang: "Aren't you angry?", but then he changed his mind and thought that the northerner in front of him hardly cared about any worldly interests, so how could he be angry with him?

Then, he heard Lin Wang muttering to himself:
"I don't know how much bonus this information can be exchanged for..."

Lao Gu: "...Um, Brother Lin."

Lin Wang turned his head: "What's the matter?"

There was no emotion in his eyes about what had happened before.

Lao Gu calmed down and asked Lin Wang, "Brother Lin, there is something I can't figure out."

"I know what you want to ask." Lin Wang guessed Lao Gu's confusion and took over the topic directly. "In the monster's memory, I can only see pictures, not emotions, but I can probably guess why it didn't kill those soldiers."

"How did you guess my question?" Gu Shuochuan was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Why?"

"Because... it is your ancestor." Lin Wang said, "How could an ancestor kill his own descendants?"

"Ancestor..." After hearing Lin Wang's words, Lao Gu was stunned for a moment.

He was about to say something when he suddenly heard a muffled sound under his feet, followed by a vibration of the elevator and then began to slow down.

Everyone realized that they had arrived at the underground research facility.

Mori summoned a ball of light.

With the help of the magic of illumination, people could see the surrounding environment clearly - a platform full of machinery. When they walked out of the platform, there was a passage directly in front of them.

Strangely, this trapezoidal passage does not look like a research facility and does not have many machines. Instead, it is engraved with various mysterious runes.

There are mysterious sacrificial runes, some formations of unknown meaning, incense burners, sculptures, and some black ashes left after sacrifices in some places.

"The style of this place is even more like a temple than the temple above."

Lao Gu frowned and muttered.

"That makes sense: most of the time, temples and shrines are just places where people go to seek psychological comfort... After all, the gods are unlikely to respond to trivial matters like salary increases or test scores."

"But the research facility down here is different—what they were doing back then was truly establishing a connection with the gods...at least that's what the researchers here believed at the time."

The crowd walked in this environment for a while.

Lin Wang suddenly stopped and looked alert: "There's a sound ahead."

Hearing Lin Wang's words, everyone immediately took a defensive stance.

Lin Wang tilted his head and listened carefully for a while, then suddenly waved his hand: "Follow me!" Then he quickened his pace and ran forward.

Everyone quickened their pace and followed closely behind Lin Wang.

After running in the corridor for a few minutes, a sound of twisting flesh and blood suddenly came from above my head.

Lao Gu looked up in horror and saw a flesh-and-blood monster, almost identical to the previous one, slowly wriggling on the ceiling above his head! "Ah! That monster again!" a soldier screamed in horror.

"To be precise, you should say 'it's still the same monster.'" Lin Wang continued forward without looking back, and corrected the soldier, "What you saw was part of the big guy from before."

"Brother Lin, did you know that this monster... is not dead?" Gu Shuochuan looked shocked.

"When did I say it was dead?" Lin Wang raised his hand and drew a circle in front of him. "The entire research facility has been occupied for hundreds of years...it has practically become one with this temple."

"So you burned it before?"

"I just want to make it more sober." Lin Wang said something nonsensical.

"Make it...wake up?" Lao Gu felt that he could not keep up with Lin Wang's train of thought at all.

"It was polluted before, full of evil thoughts and malice." Lin Wang said, waving his hand above his head, "But now, it has become very gentle and will no longer attack people."

"Gentle? You mean...this monster?"

Lao Gu looked at the many flesh and blood monsters crawling ferociously above his head and on the walls around him. Several of them were close to them and were swarming towards them.

"Strictly speaking, it is the ancestor of the Mist Tribe, so you should use honorifics when addressing it."

"My burning destroyed the largest part of its body - mainly because that part was too large and blocked the elevator space."

"Secondly, it also cleansed the pollution within its body... Pollution involving divinity isn't so easy to purify, but it can still make it gentler and less irritable."

After hearing Lin Wang's words, Lao Gu and the two soldiers looked around curiously.

The flesh and blood monster closest to them crawled to within half a meter of them.

The soldier closest to it was a little nervous and gripped the weapon in his hand.

The flesh and blood monster stretched out a tentacle towards him.

The tentacle slowly stretched out and lengthened, extending in front of the soldier.

"Are you...are you sure this guy won't attack anyone?"

The soldier was stiff and trembling slightly.

The next second, the tentacle gently touched the soldier's epaulettes.

Then, it touched a second time.

The soldier was stunned: "You...you?"

After a few seconds, the tentacle lifted up and pointed somewhere deep in the passage.

But in that direction, there was a wall.

"Lao Gu, look at that wall, there's a bulge!"

Gu Shuochuan understood, ran to the bulge and pressed it hard.

With the sound of mechanical clicking, the wall split apart.

Behind the wall, there is a stone chamber.

In the stone chamber, more than a dozen soldiers in white combat uniforms were lying unconscious in a mess.

Lao Gu was overjoyed and ran towards his people.

He squatted down and helped a soldier up.

At this moment, a clear vibration was heard throughout the entire underground experimental facility.

Boom...

Boom!

(End of this chapter)