Nightmare Light

Chapter 2 Voice of Darkness
"Don't come over here!"

Lin Wang woke up, his head covered in sweat.

He suddenly turned over and sat up from his chair. In the dim surroundings, those pale paper figures had disappeared.

Could it be that those paper figures have left...

Wait... a chair? Where did the chair come from in the ancestral hall?

Lin Wang was stunned for a moment.

Looking around, there were more than a dozen partitioned desks with computers and scattered files on them. There was a slogan on one wall -

"Haoyue Newspaper, pursuing all the truth!"

The corner of the character "真" is drooping.

Oh, a newspaper office, the kind with a strong office atmosphere... So I'm a corporate slave?
At this time, Lin Wang was sitting at a workstation. There was a computer on the table in front of him, and the screen was glowing dimly.

The mountain of manuscripts next to it was obviously the reason why the original person was working overtime.

What a miserable social animal...

Strange... Wasn't I in that weird ancestral hall before?

Lin Wang looked confused and thought secretly.

He recalled everything that had happened before, combined it with his current situation, and after thinking for a long time, he came to a conclusion -

Before, it was a dream.

"It was a dream." Lin Wang breathed a sigh of relief.

The next second, he saw a dark grey wooden sign in his hand.

In the middle of the wooden sign, there is a light yellow sun pattern with cracked black lines on it, which looks weird no matter how you look at it.

The wooden plaque found in the ancestral hall.

"I'm sooooooooooooooo!"

Even Lin Wang, who had a big heart, was frightened to the point of almost jumping up.

Was I brought back by the paper figurine? Or did I bring something out of my dream?

Lin Wang sat in the chair, looking surprised and confused.

After thinking for a long time, he came to a second conclusion: for some strange reason, he brought something out of his dream.

The reason for thinking this way was simple - he remembered the previous dream too clearly, a normal dream could not be so clear.

And that wooden sign cannot be faked.

I definitely traveled through time, but why is it so weird...

It makes people feel uneasy.

Lin Wang looked around: "So, this is the real world outside the dream?"

Outside the window, at night, the pale blue fog is thick, the outlines of buildings are scattered in the distance, and dim lights are faintly flickering.

In front of me, there is a newspaper office with a strong class atmosphere, which looks to be quite large.

Looking down again, I saw a mountain of manuscripts on the table in front of me.

"Class, not even dogs."

Lin Wang had no interest in working overtime, nor did he have any attachment to his original job.

I turned around and decided to leave the office and try to figure out where I was going to live.

Thinking of this, Lin Wang stood up and scared himself when he stood up.

"Why the hell am I so tall?"

Although there was no mirror in front of him, Lin Wang now stood up straight, and his line of sight was obviously much higher than that of a normal person - a bit like the feeling of standing on a stool to fix a light bulb.

He even felt that he could unscrew the light bulb from the ceiling with just a lift of his arm.

Thinking about it carefully, I seemed to be about the same height in my previous dream, but I was crouching down and didn't react at that time...

What's wrong with my height?

click!
A sudden voice interrupted Lin Wang's thoughts.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of sound is nothing, about the size of a glass breaking.

But at night, in the silence, the sound was as harsh as a firecracker exploding.

Who? Is anyone else working overtime?

The sound came from deep inside the office.

Lin Wang suddenly turned his head and looked deeper into the office area, but it was dim at night. With only the weak light from his desk, he couldn't make out what was there. There was only a vague darkness that enveloped the end of the office area. Dark, deep, and pitch black.

Why does it feel like that darkness is moving as if it is breathing... Do you want to go over and take a look?
Lin Wang was thinking in his heart.

Honestly, he was a carefree person, and he was not afraid to walk at night or watch horror movies. But his previous experience with the "ancestral hall paper figurines" was a bit too scary, so he was a little nervous when faced with this situation.

Click, click, click…

The voice sounded again.

This time, it was a series of continuous sounds, which sounded a bit like the sound of a paper shredder being stuffed into another larger paper shredder and shredded.

Something's wrong... Whose office would make such a noise in the middle of the night?
Do you want to run?

Lin Wang pondered for a few seconds and quickly came to a conclusion.

Don’t run…

You’re dead, right?

Thinking of this, he turned around and walked towards the office exit.

But after taking only two steps, Lin Wang stopped.

He stared intently at the darkness not far away, in the direction of the office area exit, with a very ugly expression.

Not far away, in front of the exit, in the passage, there was a black shadow wriggling.

Lin Wang could clearly see that it was an abnormal darkness. The black shadow seemed to be alive, breathing and wriggling. After each wriggling, the darkness would expand a little.

At the same time, along with the wriggling, there will be a subtle sound, as if countless rodents are gnawing, or as if countless wild boars are gnawing in a cornfield.

At this rate...it won't be long before the entire office area is engulfed in darkness...

Where should I run?
Lin Wang himself did not realize that although he was anxious, at this moment, his emotions were unusually calm.

A very strange, powerful, but obviously abnormal thought gradually emerged in Lin Wang's mind in a way that he himself did not understand.

What the hell are you afraid of? No matter what it is, just rush over and kill it!
Is there anything in this world that can't be solved by a fistfight? If there is, then just give it another blow and it'll be over!

This thought was so strong that Lin Wang realized that something was wrong with him.

but……

People can talk big, but they can't really commit suicide.

If he really rushed over, no matter what was in the darkness, I would be his prey.

Chop it up a bit and serve for two plates at most.

Still have to find a way to run!
Just as Lin Wang was daydreaming, he discovered that the strange sound that had originally come from deep within the office had disappeared.

Moreover, there was no strange black shadow anywhere he looked.

The dim light filled the entire corridor, and you could clearly see the end of the corridor.

A vague memory emerged in Lin Wang's mind - there, next to the human resources office, was the fire escape.

"As long as we rush into that passage, we can escape!"

Behind him, the dark shadows pouring in from the entrance of the office area gradually approached. The row of workstations in front of Lin Wang had been swallowed up by the darkness.

No more time to waste.

Lin Wang picked up his keyboard as a weapon, thought about it, put it down, picked up his colleague's keyboard next to him, and walked to the back of the office area.

The corridor was silent and the only sound he could hear was his own breathing.

Lin Wang walked to the door of the Human Resources Department office. The office door was open. There was no one in sight. There were only desks, chairs and office supplies, silent in the dim light.

No one... is safe...

Lin Wang breathed a sigh of relief.

Just a few more steps and you’ll reach the fire escape!
He could feel his heartbeat speeding up a lot.

At this moment, a strange thought flashed through Lin Wang's mind.

Wait, something's not right!

If HR really has nothing...

Why is the door open?
Kaka...

The sound of a paper shredder eating itself echoed above Lin Wang's head.

Lin Wang's face was pale, his movements were stiff, and he slowly raised his head.

Directly above his head, a huge flower of flesh and blood that occupied his entire field of vision was gradually opening its petals, revealing thousands of red and white teeth.

　The girl who appears in the next chapter is not the heroine! Keep asking for the heroine's name~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)