Nightmare Light

Chapter 21 The Injured Man
Seeing Tian Taozi running towards him, Lin Wang was surprised.

"Shouldn't you be up there, holding back those Blood Cultists?"

He asked curiously, and at the same time gestured for Tian Taozi to follow him and continue chasing deeper into the basement.

"We stopped those guys up there!" The sheriff girl said proudly, patting her chest. "I'm an elite! You know what an elite is? Peeling those guys is easier than peeling an apple!"

"I'm telling you, I went up with a baton, snapped it, and that Blood Cultist fell to the ground with a howl!"

"I do it this way and that way, snap!"

She was in high spirits, gesticulating and describing the previous battle to Lin Wang. Lin Wang listened to the girl's narration and a smile slowly curled up at the corners of his mouth.

Although Tian Taozi said it simply, Lin Wang knew that the previous battle must have been difficult.

The sheriff girl's combat uniform was now stained with blood, with several tears on the clothes, and the wounds under the clothes were still bleeding.

As she ran, her arms even trembled slightly - a sign of exhaustion after continuous fighting.

Even one of the grenades in her pocket was missing, which shows how fierce the previous battle was.

Seeing Lin Wang's eyes lingering on his pocket, Tian Taozi added, "I only used one grenade to defeat them! I'm awesome, right?"

Halfway through her speech, her mouth suddenly flattened and her tone became aggrieved: "I even threw away the snacks..."

Lin Wang originally felt a little sympathetic towards the girl, but when he heard her say "snacks", Lin Wang couldn't help laughing. He reached out and ruffled the sheriff girl's hair.

"I'll treat you to a snack after we finish this case."

"Really?"

"Of course, but we have to deal with your former colleague first."

Lin Wang said with a smile, and pointed to the end of the basement passage not far ahead: "That guy is not far from us. I just saw him run in."

"It's so dark in here, can you see clearly?" Tian Taozi asked curiously, "I can only see a blur."

"I can see it very clearly." Lin Wang looked at it carefully again.

In his field of vision, he could not only see the end of the tunnel in the distance, but even the peeling wall paint and moisture stains in the corners were clearly visible.

"You northerners have good eyesight..." Tian Taozi muttered softly, then took a deep breath, puffed out her chest, and shouted, "Guo Yao!"

"Listen up, you traitor! I'm here to chop you up!"

Lin Wang: “…”

They ran forward for a while. Although Lin Wang had a good vision, he had to take into account Tian Taozi's speed, so he did not run very fast.

After running in the basement at this speed for about a few minutes, the two realized that they had lost the target.

"Tsk, I didn't expect that guy to run so fast." Tian Taozi muttered a little depressed, "Is it because the common master has better physical strength than ordinary people..."

Lin Wang frowned slightly: "No, it's a bit strange."

Tian Taozi was puzzled: "What?"

"Ever since Guo Yao escaped, I've been calculating his running speed in my mind, and I've also calculated our speed."

Lin Wang slowed down his pace slightly and squinted his eyes: "Although he is running fast, with our speed, we shouldn't lose him."

"Hey, don't overthink it. Maybe the traitor suddenly accelerated after turning into this passage." Tian Taozi waved her hand carelessly. "Anyway, there's only this one passage leading to the bathroom. Let's go and see."

Lin Wang thought for a moment and felt that what Tian Taozi said made sense.

The passage is indeed one-way, and the former sheriff cannot be seen in the entire underground passage.

"It's better to wait and see than to stop and think, so let's keep moving forward."

Lin Wang nodded to Tian Taozi, and the two ran to the end of the passage - there, the roar of the water purification equipment became clearer and clearer, and a faint white light was emitted.

Nothing happened along the way. When approaching the main entrance of the water room, Tian Taozi breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt a little unwilling:
"I was saying, that kid is really fast, running ahead of us! Ha, if I catch him..."

Lin Wang nodded and was about to speak when a hoarse and gloomy chuckle suddenly came from behind him.

"Ah."

Lin Wang's nerves tensed up instantly. He turned around abruptly and swung the steel pipe in his hand towards the direction where the sound came from.

The moment he turned around, he saw that only three or four meters behind him and Tian Taozi, a ball of bloody red liquid was emerging from the floor and gradually condensing into a human shape.

And right in front of this human figure, one meter above the ground, a bloody red arrow had condensed into shape and locked onto Lin Wang's direction!
Oh no, at this distance, with the speed of the blood arrow... there's no time to block it!
Can it be blocked with white fire?
Lin Wang's heart was filled with alarm. He was thinking of a solution quickly when he suddenly saw a tall and slender figure standing in front of him with his arms outstretched.

puff!
Blood splattered in the air and the girl fell backwards.

Lin Wang didn't care about the former sheriff and ran forward two steps to support Tian Taozi.

Guo Yaoze took advantage of this opportunity, chuckling softly as he dodged past the two men and scurried into the bathroom. "Damn! I've been running the police department for so long, slaying so many criminals, and yet I got injured by a traitor... What a shame!"

Tian Taozi's originally wheat-colored face turned pale. She twitched in pain, tightly grasped Lin Wang's hand, opened her mouth, and spoke with all her might:

"Damn it, I really want to cut him..."

...He is still so energetic, it seems he can't die.

Lin Wang's mouth twitched, and his anxious heart was temporarily relieved.

But he turned and looked at the huge wound on the sheriff girl's waist.

The wound was pierced through by a blood arrow, which looked shocking. One could even see the internal organs through the wound.

The wound is too big, we have to find a way to stop the bleeding.

Lin Wang frowned.

He vaguely remembered that among the vast amount of knowledge he had obtained in the giant tree space, there was some way to deal with wounds.

While he was thinking, he suddenly saw Tian Taozi raised her hand and pointed at one of her pockets with trembling hands.

"Emergency...the first aid kit is here."

Lin Wang opened her pocket as she said and took out a small bag.

The moment he saw the small bag, he was stunned for a moment: "Is this a first aid kit? Why does it look like this?"

In front of him was a small jute paper bag tied with a straw rope. There were strange scriptures written on it in red and black ink. At first glance, it looked like a relic taken out of the temple.

"This is the first aid kit...hiss, it hurts." Tian Taozi groaned, "Open it."

Seeing this, Lin Wang didn't care about being curious about the wrong style of the first aid kit. He raised his hand to untie the rope, and when he saw what was in the package, his mind was confused again.

Inside the package, there was a handful of ash and a talisman.

"How...how do I use this?"

"Ashes poured onto the wound, the talisman tore...hiss...torn apart."

The style of this strange world has always been abnormal, and he has no better way at the moment, so Lin Wang stopped worrying about it and poured the ashes in the bag onto the girl's wound.

Then, with a scream that shook the earth and almost deafened Lin Wang, he tore open the talisman.

Something strange happened.

The moment Lin Wang tore open the talisman, a soft humming and chanting sounded out of nowhere, and the voice was faintly mixed with a woman's slight sigh.

As these two sounds appeared, the talisman turned into a piece of light dust in the air and fell to where the incense ashes were. The next second, the incense ashes began to wriggle.

The incense ashes crawl to the wound, condense, intertwine, and entangle with each other, pulling and tugging at each other like mycelium, weaving the wound together like surgical needles and thread, and then melting into the flesh and blood.

In just a dozen seconds, Tian Taozi's wound was sewn together, and from the outside, only an ugly scar left after sewing remained.

But now the wound has only been stitched up, which does not mean that the sheriff girl has regained her mobility.

She was still pale, and with a painful look on her face, she let out a long sigh: "Ah... I won't die, but I can't cut anyone either."

Lin Wang said, "You rest here, I'll go catch him."

"You can't beat him..." Tian Taozi subconsciously wanted to stop Lin Wang, but then changed her mind and said, "Ah... I forgot, you are from the north..."

"Northerners hate failure, and they never retreat..." She recited a couple of Northern proverbs and whispered, "I really like this kind of temperament of Northerners."

She trembled as she took out the last grenade. Serin looked at it and said, "Brother, if you can't beat him, don't be so stubborn. Use this when the time comes. It will be like beating him for me!"

The next second, she saw Lin Wang took the grenade with a smile but solemnly, put it casually into his pocket, and rubbed her hair again.

She saw Lin Wang stand up, his tall body blocking the faint light coming from the direction of the bathroom, but also outlining a circle of light around his figure.

She heard the northerner speak in a calm and confident tone in the dim light.

"Of course I can beat him."

The next second, Tian Taozi fainted.

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(End of this chapter)