Nightmare Light

Chapter 114: Statue of Self-Discipline
The entire underground space began to tremble.

Amidst the tremors, rumbling sounds, and splashing of earth and rocks, a sharp and shrill alarm suddenly sounded deep within this ancient underground facility.

As the alarm sounded, the red lights in the passage began to flash.

An extremely dangerous aura permeated the entire underground space.

Whether it was Lin Wang and his companions, or the members of the Mist Clan present, they all felt that the entire underground facility seemed to come alive, staring intently at them with hostile eyes!

"The security system of this underground facility has been activated!" Lin Wang learned what happened here from the memory of the flesh and blood monster.

"Why is this happening? We didn't do anything!" Lao Gu shouted anxiously.

"This is a mistake—the place where the flesh giants housed these soldiers is where the test site stores the 'volunteers,' or 'test subjects,'" Lin Wang said with a grim expression. "It belongs to this facility. Every part of the entire experimental facility is accessible, but you went in, which is trespassing—this is a mistake."

"How could such a thing happen!" Lao Gu cried out in pain, and at the same time commanded his two companions, "Don't just stand there! Hurry and wake up our brothers!"

Sen also ran over to help - her magic was not enough to fight against the flesh and blood monsters, but it was very effective in saving people. After a few rays of light, some soldiers woke up slowly.

A flesh and blood monster also crawled near them, grunting and extending its tentacles, looking like it wanted to help.

The rumbling sound gradually approached.

Lin Wang looked into the passage and saw that bricks and stones had collapsed on the wall, and some strange-shaped "statues" were sticking out.

There were hundreds of statues, wearing bronze armor with animal heads, holding swords and staffs, with ominous dark red light in their eyes and spray coming out of their mouths and noses. Amidst the piercing rumble, they roared forward and approached the stone chamber where the Mist Clan soldiers were.

"It's the laboratory's bronze statue of self-discipline!" Lin Wang shouted, "How long will it take you?"

"It will take at least ten more minutes! Some of them are very unconscious!" Miss Saint didn't even raise her head, and poured out the magic in her hands as if it were free.

"I'll buy you some time!"

Lin Wang shouted behind him, and the three cat paper figures rushed out to meet the bronze statues.

The battle is about to break out.

Some of those bronze statues fight with sharp swords; others wave their scepters and release dim yellow beams of light towards Lin Wang and others. When they fall on the wall or the ground, they will explode a fist-sized stone pit.

Although they were extremely powerful and covered in bronze armor, their movements were stiff and their means of attack were limited. As soon as they started fighting, one of them was smashed to pieces by Lin Wang's tree spear.

At the same time, two more were instantly torn into pieces by the cat girl.

"That's not bad. If it's this level, it's easy to hold on for ten minutes!" Lin Wang shouted, feeling a little more relaxed. "It seems that the ancient self-discipline bronze statue of the Mist Clan is not very powerful!"

Then he couldn't laugh anymore - he saw the broken bronze statues of self-discipline crawling and wriggling on the ground as if they had consciousness. The severely damaged parts of them drilled into the cracks in the wall, while the other parts stuck to the nearby bronze statues with crackling sounds.

Soon, several sturdier and more powerful bronze statues rushed towards Lin Wang and the other two, waving more weapons.

"Meow! The mice are getting stronger the more they are beaten!" The cat girl quickly chopped up several bronze statues, but the latter reassembled themselves with a crackling sound.

In just a minute or two, what appeared before them was already version 3.0...

"Fighting them like this is not a solution. We have to find a way to completely control them...Azhi!" Lin Wang shouted towards his shoulder.

With a swipe, the barrage of comments popped up.

"Husband! Ah Zhi understands!"

In an instant, hundreds of paper strips flowed out of Ah Zhi's hand. Cat Girl grabbed one of them and began to run quickly in the underground passage.

At the same time, dozens of night-wandering gods over a foot tall emerged, each pulling a paper ribbon. They flew up and down in the entire space, weaving a huge paper net.

"Ha! If we tie all these guys up in a net, they won't be able to regroup! Isn't this a great idea?" Lin Wang laughed.

Then, in front of him, two little night wanderers collided head-on and fell to the ground.

"..." Lin Wang's mouth twitched. "As long as it works, that's fine."

Lin Wang thrust his spear forward, shattering a massive bronze statue. But before it could reassemble itself, it was firmly caught in a massive paper net, unable to return to the cracks in the stone wall or attach itself to another statue. The fragments trembled within the paper net, trying to reassemble themselves.

But whether it can complete the reorganization is no longer important, because Lin Wang’s goal is not to kill these bronze statues completely, but to restrict them.

More paper nets fell down, covering more bronze statues.

Bound statues, chopped-up statues, statue parts...

In just six or seven minutes, not a single moving bronze statue disappeared around the trio.

Lin Wang breathed a sigh of relief and was about to speak when suddenly, an extremely powerful aura swept through the entire underground space.

In an instant, the three of them were shocked, and the paper bride suddenly fell on his shoulder, losing the ability to move, and her life or death was unknown.

The white cat let out a "meow" and fell to the ground, unable to get up for a long time.

Even Lin Wang felt as if his brain was hit hard by a huge hammer. In an instant, his vision went dark and his head felt dizzy.

"What... is that?" Lin Wang raised his hand with difficulty, patted his shoulder, sent Azhi back to the space of the tree fern, and stood up again with the help of the ground.

The cat girl also climbed up with gritted teeth.

Lin Wang turned his head to look at the stone chamber and found that the situation inside was even worse than that of the three of them.

Sen fell to the ground, bleeding from the corner of his mouth, the tattoo on his forehead glowing, and divine power flowing all over his body.

Not far away, several flesh and blood monsters fell from the roof and covered the fog people, as if they wanted to eat them.

A awake Mist Clan soldier was trying to crawl out from under the monster, but he seemed to be completely powerless, and the monster on his body was too big and too heavy. He tried several times but failed.

Lin Wang pulled the soldier out and found Gu Shuochuan from under another mass of flesh and blood.

When Lin Wang found Gu Shuochuan, the latter looked like he had been devoured by a flesh and blood monster.

Lin Wang pulled him out. Lao Gu coughed violently on the ground for a while before he crawled up with a pale face.

After standing up, he stared straight into the depths of the passage, somewhat lost in thought.

Lin Wang pulled Miss Saint up again.

Sen's face was grim, and he stared into the passage with lingering fear. "What was that just now? It was so terrifying... At that moment, I even felt... was it my mother's anger?"

Lin Wang shook his head: "I also felt the fluctuation of divine power, but it is definitely not the power of a true god."

"What would that be? That overwhelming sense of vastness..."

"I don't know either." Lin Wang frowned. "The Flesh Monster's memory is fragmented, and I don't know the source of that power."

Ko Shuokawa came back to his senses from his trance.

He looked at Lin Wang and Sen, hesitated for a moment, and said to them, "I know what that was just now."

"That's also part of the automated defense of this research facility."

"Automatic defense? Divine power?" Lin Wang frowned. "Old Gu, are you telling the truth? And how do you know this?"

Gu Shuochuan hesitated for a moment and looked at the mass of flesh and blood that had just covered him.

"Just now, when it covered me, I knew a lot of things."

Lao Gu had a complicated expression and let out a long sigh.

"We were terribly wrong."

(End of this chapter)