Nightmare Light

Chapter 12 Battle in Dreams
At the same time, Lin Wang was here.

I learned from the officers of the Public Security Bureau that the largest library in Tangsheng City, where Lin Wang is currently located, is the large library in the Federal University.

It was already late when they finished handling Supervisor Xiao's case, and Lin Wang had to go to the library the next day, so he simply borrowed a lounge in the Public Security Bureau and slept on a folding bed.

Of course, he actually had another reason that he couldn't say...

He still hasn't finished sorting out the memories of his original body in his mind, so he still can't remember where he lives...

In addition, there is another more important reason - he feels that he will definitely enter the dream again when he falls asleep at night. Before he fully understands the rules of dreams, it is much safer to be in a well-guarded environment like the Sheriff's Bureau than in his own home.

If something really burns, it won't burn your own home.JPG
However, when Lin Wangzhen lay on the folding bed and rolled over and over dozens of times, he found himself...

Can't sleep at all!

There was too much information flooding into my brain at once, and I had experienced too many things. As soon as I lay down, my brain started to work at high speed.

Like a blender powered on, a tangle of information churned through my mind. Vast amounts of knowledge, complex situations, bizarre experiences...

Countless images flashed through my mind like a kaleidoscope.

Giant trees that reach the sky and the earth, bloody flowers, strange ancestral statues, paper brides...

Lin Wang sighed: The paper bride in my mind is still vivid, swaying in front of my eyes... Wait, in front of me?

Lin Wang blinked and looked again carefully.

A sky filled with rolling dark clouds, a spooky and eerie ancestral hall, a pale skylight, and... a paper bride with a painted face and waving her hands vigorously, swaying in front of him.

"...fuck!"

It seems that after rolling around in bed dozens of times, I finally managed to fall asleep.

Now, the paper bride's painted face appeared before him again. The moment he saw her, Lin Wang suddenly remembered the pile of paper figures that had been burned to ashes in the ancestral hall.

Combined with the pale white flame he summoned earlier...

"It seems that those paper figures were indeed made by me..." Lin Wang muttered to himself.

Although the other party was just some strange monster, at most classified as an "elite monster" before the time travel, when Lin Wang recalled the scene of them rushing forward one after another to protect the paper bride, Lin Wang still said to the paper bride sincerely: "Um... I'm sorry."

The paper bride stood there for a second or two, and then her two paper arms danced quickly for a while. The scene was like waving sleeves in a level 7 wind.

Lin Wang looked at it for a long time but couldn't understand what the paper bride meant, so he simply gave up thinking about it.

"It's time to study that fire."

Lin Wang thought and felt the flow of energy in his body, raised his hand and began to try to summon.

With his previous experience and no worries in his dream, he was much more calm when he summoned the fire this time.

A pale white flame surged out from the palm of Lin Wang's hand, jumping in his palm and illuminating his face.

The white fire jumped fiercely in Lin Wang's palm, but a look of confusion appeared on his face.

"Why is the temperature of this fire so strange?"

After thinking for a moment, Lin Wang picked up a stick from the ground and put it into the flame.

After burning for more than ten seconds, the wooden stick showed no change.

My feeling was right... this flame has no temperature... then how did you burn the paper man?
Could it be that I am using it incorrectly?
Lin Wang quickly searched for memory methods in his mind, but the knowledge was so vast that it took him several minutes to find what he wanted among countless things such as "plant cultivation technology" and "advanced fattening methods".

Deep mental control and training methods...got it.

Lin Wang found what he wanted.

With the mobilization of mental power, the temperature of the white fire suddenly changed.

The wooden stick instantly burned, smoking and turning red, and then small flames appeared.

That makes sense...but the color of this flame is so strange, it must have other effects!

Lin Wang's heart moved and he adjusted the temperature again.

The temperature dropped sharply all around.

When the wooden stick is close to the position, it is covered with a layer of white frost. When you get close enough, you can hear the tiny crackling sound made by crystallization.

Get colder...If used properly, it can have unexpected effects!
Lin Wang nodded with satisfaction, switching the temperature, tossing it with his hands... and having a lot of fun.

Although Baihuo definitely has more than one or two effects, for now, these two effects are enough for him to get familiar with for a while.

"We are also people with special effects."

Lin Wang chuckled, then turned his head and was stunned when he saw the paper bride.

At some point, the paper bride had hidden in a corner of the ancestral hall, curled up in the corner, raised one arm to cover her face, looking extremely scared.

He raised his other hand and pointed and gestured quickly in the direction of Lin Wang.

"…Are you this scared?"

Although Lin Wang felt a little embarrassed about playing with fire and scaring the paper bride, he suddenly realized that he could take this opportunity to make some rules with "her".

It was unlikely that he would expect her to part ways with him, but burning her to death... Lin Wang couldn't do that either.

Therefore, setting three rules is the best way nowadays.

Lin Wang dispersed the white flame in his hand and walked towards the paper bride. After seeing the flame in Lin Wang's hand disappear, the latter calmed down a little and lowered her arm that was blocking her face.

Lin Wang took a few steps toward the paper bride, cleared his throat, and prepared to start communicating.

The next second, he encountered a huge problem - this paper lady couldn't speak!

Fortunately, Lin Wang has a background as a psychological counselor and has extensive experience in communicating with all kinds of people.

After half an hour of guessing, using sign language, he was able to establish a simple communication with the paper bride!
Don't be afraid of the flames. Don't come too close to me.

Don't stay too far away from me.

“…Don’t hold my hand secretly!”

The last sentence was shouted out.

Although the process was a bit tortuous, fortunately the result was satisfactory.

After completing the communication with the paper bride, Lin Wang decided to leave the ancestral hall and look around. Ever since he learned that there were entities in this "dream" that could be taken out, he had always been interested in this dream.

Now that he had resolved the initial crisis in his dream and had the self-protection skill of Bai Huo, he could finally implement this plan.

A strange dream world...

What is your true face?
I am coming.

Thinking of this, Lin Wang walked out of the ancestral hall, and the paper bride followed him unsteadily, her two paper sleeves swaying like singing an opera, and she tilted her head to look at him from time to time.

I always want to secretly reach out and pull him.

"What's wrong with this!" Lin Wang shook off the paper bride's arm again, looked up at the village in front of him, showing a surprised and shocked expression.

After walking out of the ancestral hall, there is a slope in front of you. At the end of the slope is a small square in the center of the village. In the world before Lin Wang traveled through time, it was the kind of setting of "old people, children, chickens and ducks under a big tree".

Now, there is indeed a tree in the center of the small square at the foot of the slope not far away.

only……

The trunk of the giant black tree is thick and solid, and its branches are twisted and stretched. On the branches, thousands of white talisman papers are hanging, dancing in the windless sky.

Looking a little further, you can clearly see that every building, every street, and every dead tree in the entire village are covered and hung with pale white paper strips.

One look at it gave me goosebumps.

"This village... is so creepy?"

But this is not the most creepy thing.

The most creepy thing is this strange village... there is not a single moving thing.

In the entire village, apart from those white paper strips that fluttered without wind, there were only two "people" - Lin Wang and the paper bride, and the atmosphere was gloomy.

Are there no living creatures in this village... or are those paper figures the original living creatures?

Lin Wang was thinking in his mind while moving forward in silence.

He stopped for a while in the village center square, looked up at the tree in front of him covered with white paper, and wrote down its appearance.

Afterwards, he casually pushed open the gate of a house not far away and entered the courtyard.

In the small courtyard, the furnishings were messy, the furniture was rotten, and the black food ingredients were rotting in piles. On the ground, the dust was more than an inch thick. When you stepped on it, it felt like an astronaut stepping on the moon.

This place has been uninhabited for at least decades... Considering how dry it is, the furniture will decay more slowly, so this time may be even longer...

Lin Wang thought: It seems that those paper figures are not residents of this village.

Thinking of this, he felt better.

After all, killing humanoid monsters is a normal player behavior, but killing NPCs is a bit weird.

Lin Wang looked around again.

There's probably nothing worth exploring in this place.

But he thought that if there was a wealthy family in the village, perhaps some words or inscriptions that had not completely decayed could be found, which would provide some clues.

With this thought in mind, Lin Wang left the house and looked around in the center of the village.

Pale white notes were floating around in the village, and the silence was very creepy.

"If there were just a little noise in this place, it wouldn't be so creepy." Lin Wang muttered and prepared to continue walking down the slope.

At this time.

laugh!
click!
A sharp sound suddenly exploded in the distance of the village.

The sound sounded like the shrill explosion of a bloated cow's abdomen when air leaked out.

After that piercing sound, there was a series of hissing sounds, coupled with the continuous explosion of high-frequency words. It sounded like some "people" were fighting.

Lin Wang narrowed his eyes.

He immediately made a few gestures to the paper bride, signaling her to follow carefully. He then crouched low and moved towards the direction of the sound.

It's not that he didn't think about being cautious, but firstly, he already had the means of self-protection in Baihuo, and secondly, he already knew how to control his mental power and could wake up at any time, so he was not too afraid.

Besides... maybe it's his current weird mentality that's causing the problem - he's curious about everything and afraid of nothing.

However, necessary caution is still necessary.

So Lin Wang crouched down, leaned against the village wall on one side, controlled his footsteps, and moved closer to the place where the sound broke out.

　Three thousand words!

　　But today I wrote a new outline and used up all my saved drafts...

　　too difficult.

　　(Also, I want the heroine to appear as soon as possible, what do you think?)

　　
　
(End of this chapter)