Nightmare Light

Chapter 145 Lushan's Sealing Room
five minutes later.

The footsteps gradually approached the sealing room.

As the lights in the corner flickered, several figures gradually lengthened.

On the ground, a burly corpse lay face up, eyes open in death.

Soon, a figure turned the corner and covered the corpse.

The shadow gradually approached the corpse, revealing the young face of the Northman in the firelight.

Lin Wang walked to the corpse and squatted down.

Looking at the dead box keeper, he sighed slightly in his heart.

This person could have lived...

Lin Wang looked at the wound on the deceased's abdomen, and then observed the deceased's eyes - in those eyes, in addition to fear, there was also a bit of disbelief.

Lin Wang closed his eyes and simulated in his mind the scene that the deceased saw in his last moments - a person he had never expected and whom he trusted very much suddenly shrank in front of him, became extremely short, and then stabbed the knife into his body.

What did he see?
Lin Wang was deep in thought, quickly organizing the information he had recently collected in his mind.

At this time, Ji Xuance's voice, a little frightened, interrupted his thoughts.

"Brother Lin...Lin Wang! That, that door to the sealed room!"

Lin Wang was startled and looked up suddenly.

He saw that at some point, the main door of the stone chamber in front of him was pushed open a crack, and the width was just wide enough for one person to fit through.

The murderer...entered the stone chamber?!
Could it be different from what I guessed?
"Oh no! Could it be that the murderer broke into the sealed room!" Ji Xuance shouted, turning his head and shouting to his followers, "Go call the madam!"

The attendant beside him agreed and turned and ran away.

Ji Xuance immediately turned around and said, "Brother Lin Wang! We must enter the sealed room to stop the murderer! Otherwise, what if the power of the gods is obtained by an ambitious person?"

"This is the sealed room of your Lushan. Isn't it that only Lushan people recognized by the gods can enter?" Lin Wang said.

"No, the people of Lushan who are recognized by the gods enter the sealing room to receive the power of the gods - but such a grand ceremony must have onlookers present." Ji Xuance said quickly.

"So, the gods have another set of screening procedures to select those who are allowed to enter the ceremony site."

He took out a thick candle and lit it.

"If the shadow of a person illuminated by the candlelight is luminous, it means they can enter the sealed room and become a spectator."

Ji Xuance said this, holding up the candle.

Lin Wang was just about to ask how people's shadows could glow when he saw that the shadows of three people, including himself, Ji Xuance and Ji Shuying, all emitted a bright glow when projected on the ground.

And his shadow was so bright that it was even a little dazzling.

The entrance to the underground stone chamber suddenly became a dazzling pure white. The three of them raised their hands to cover their eyes at the same time, and Ji Shuying even screamed.

Damn, I was almost blinded by my own shadow...

Lin Wang muttered.

He looked up at Ji Xuance: "So, this means...the gods agree that I can observe?"

Ji Xuance's eyes were bright as he stared at Lin Wang: "Of course... of course!"

Lin Wang nodded, no longer hesitated, and walked to the door of the sealing room.

This is a crack in the door that is just big enough for one person to pass through.

Lin Wang took a peek inside through the crack in the door, only to find it was pitch black with no visibility at all.

He summoned a flame from his palm, but found that it still couldn't illuminate the inside.

"The sealed room has its own rules. No matter what lighting method you use from the outside, you can't see inside - only after you walk in can you see inside clearly." Ji Xuance said.

"Okay." Lin Wang shook his head helplessly and walked in. The moment he entered the sealed room, Lin Wang felt that the rules of the entire space had changed.

At that moment, Lin Wang felt that his entire state was "switched", and a feeling like switching into a dream world, or switching into the space of the tree fern, appeared in him.

This place really has a secret...

Lin Wang muttered.

After a few seconds, Lin Wang felt his whole body relax and his vision returned to normal.

In front of me is a small stone chamber, about the same size as the main hall of a medium-sized temple or a slightly larger village ancestral hall.

The room is rectangular, surrounded by ancient stone walls with some murals of figures painted on them, which seem to be related to hunting and construction.

A little further inward, there are four stone pillars supporting the ground.

In the middle of the stone pillar is a bright pool of water. A pool of silver-gray liquid like mercury is wriggling in the pool as if it were alive.

Is that a gift from God?

How do you absorb it? You can't just jump in and take a bath...

Speaking of which, that "murderer"...

Is it time to go on stage?
"Brother Lin Wang." Ji Xuance's voice sounded behind Lin Wang, and gradually approached him with the voice.

Lin Wang did not look back, but looked calmly at the mercury pool in front of him.

"It was you who killed the two box keepers."

"Strictly speaking, it's not all me... But it doesn't matter, just treat me as the murderer." Ji Xuance's voice returned to the same tone as when he first met him, relaxed, cheerful and a bit bohemian.

"Brother Lin Wang, are you interested in discussing business?" Ji Xuance said.

"You deliberately tricked me into this sealed room just to discuss this business with me?" Lin Wang asked.

"It's alright if you say that." Ji Xuance said with a smile, "But I'm doing this for your own good."

"I reject."

"Smart guy! I just know...what?"

"I refuse. Is that hard to understand?"

"You, you don't want to hear what my deal is?" Ji Xuance was a little unable to keep up with Lin Wang's pace.

"No." Lin Wang shook his head decisively. "Whatever you want to do, no matter what, must be related to the water in this pond—or rather, to the gods."

"But I absolutely don't want anything to do with gods—so I refuse."

Ji Shuying also came in at this time, and the girl listened to the conversation between Lin Wang and her father.

The girl took two steps forward pitifully and said timidly, "Brother Lin Wang, could you please listen to my father's request first?"

Your father's request wasn't a request... It was either coercion or moral kidnapping...

Lin Wang complained in his heart and switched to the super-dimensional perspective to scan the pool.

Because he was concentrating on the pool, he did not answer the girl's words - this action, in the eyes of the women of Lushan, became "pretending to look at the god's pool with a deep expression, but actually having agreed to listen to their transaction plan", so Ji Xuance laughed.

"Brother Lin Wang, first of all, I have good news to tell you..."

"You are indeed the one chosen by the gods." Ji Xuance said, then changed the subject, "But there is one thing, I just lied to you. You are not the one chosen to observe the gods' blessing ceremony. Instead, you are..."

"You are actually that person."

"One who is worthy of receiving the complete divine blessing."

(End of this chapter)