Nightmare Light

Chapter 44 Eating Small Fish

To be honest, when Lin Wang entered the ancestral hall and tried to touch the statue, he had anticipated many situations.

Whether it was fighting, communicating, or even the statue stepping down from the shrine and dancing comically in front of him... Lin Wang had thought about it all.

But I never thought that I would...

Lin Wang scratched his head: "Did I scare it to death?"

The Paper Bride didn't answer him, but squatted on the ground, poking the ashes with her hands, and commenting with Aho-Mao.

"Don't blame my husband!"

...I don't think so. The guy behind the statue clearly ran away.

Lin Wang felt better when he thought that he didn't have to take the blame, but he soon developed a new heavy emotion - who was the owner of that voice?
Could it be... a certain god?

Or, like the Blood Cultists, have they come up with some weird thing to usurp divine power?
Why did he say he was retired?

Do gods retire too?

With such emotion, Lin Wang absentmindedly collected all the ashes, and absentmindedly found a vacant lot in the village to bury the ashes.

It is certainly impolite to have such an attitude when burying someone.

But fortunately, both the participants and the people being buried did not care about it - they even doubted whether they were human beings, so naturally they did not care about the attitude of the person who buried them.

Lin Wang also knows this habit of his: once he falls into deep thinking, it is easy for his mind to wander.

In Lin Wang’s own words: “Rather than offending people, I think deep thinking is more important.”

An hour later, Lin Wang completed the simple funeral.

He said to his paper bride, "I want to take a nap."

Then he found a courtyard at random, opened the door, went into the house, sat on a chair and fell asleep.

The paper bride tilted her head to look at Lin Wang for a while, then suddenly ran to the side, moved a chair over, placed it side by side with Lin Wang's chair, and sat on it.

The man is tall and the paper figure is handsome, and the picture is very beautiful when they sit side by side.

It looked like a ghost marriage scene.

……

Lin Wang woke up.

When I opened my eyes, the car was still moving forward. The lights in the dim car flickered and the car body trembled slightly.

"Are you...are you awake?"

A man's voice sounded, and Lin Wang turned his head to see the deputy commander of the Light Chasing Corps, a man who looked like Fat Tiger, Qiao Zhiyuan, looking at him with a very conflicted expression.

There is also a bit of awe in the entanglement.

What's going on with this guy?
Why did his attitude change after I slept? Is the way I sleep scary? Is snoring in the North really that scary?
Lin Wang was confused and turned to look at Tian Taozi again.

The latter was holding a large bag of potato chips, eating them with a sound of crunching, and after noticing Lin Wang's confused look, she raised her chin and pointed at Lao Qiao:

"He's (kachi) afraid of you, so (kachi) it's like this!"

"Are you afraid of me? Why are you afraid of me?" Lin Wang was still confused, but before he could ask, Fat Tiger moved.

The fat man seemed to have made up his mind. He took a deep breath, walked to the opposite side of Lin Wang, and sat down suddenly.

The moment I sat down, the whole car shook.

He stared at Lin Wang intently. After a few seconds, he spoke with a troubled look on his face and gritted his teeth, "My parents gave me this name. I will never change it!"

Lin Wang: “???”

The next second, Qiao Zhiyuan made a bitter face: "However, Fat Tiger is indeed very impressive, I can accept this nickname!"

Did I eat something unclean? Why am I suddenly so obsessed with this?

Lin Wang's mouth twitched.

Looking at Old Joe's expression, he seemed to have accomplished something particularly important, and his whole demeanor was relaxed.

Although he still looked at Lin Wang with a look of confusion and awe, he no longer had the timid expression he had just had.

At this moment, the car body shook and stopped.

Old Joe showed a look of relief: "We're here!"

He jumped off the carriage and pointed at the building in front of him: "There is a fog spirit imprisoned here. Follow me."

Lin Wang looked up.

In front of me was a gray building with a square floor, surrounded by a wall and a wire fence outside.

In the gaps between the wire fences, you can occasionally see some strange instruments stuck in the ground, flashing red light at a stable frequency.

There are towers on the roofs of buildings, in front of doors, and at the four corners of the walls, with armed soldiers inside.

The soldiers wore bulletproof layers over their jet-black combat uniforms and were also draped with heavy scripture cloth strips.

There is a sign hanging next to the building's gate.

There was no sign on the building's name, only a single line of text: "Military Area, Anyone Entering or Leaving Without Permission Will Be Killed."

"This place..."

"A research facility." Old Qiao knew what Lin Wang was going to ask and took the initiative to answer, "Researching some... somewhat dangerous things."

Is it just “a little” that simple?

Lin Wang looked at the soldiers around him, at the strips of cloth on their bodies, and at the faint light that appeared in the gaps between their armor, and he was lost in thought.

After passing three different access control, detection and defense systems, the three finally entered the building.

"This place is heavily guarded. No matter how powerful the guys are inside, they will never be able to escape." Old Joe said, pointing to the various defensive facilities around.

"You're joking, Mr. Deputy Commander." A young officer nearby chuckled. "You're the strongest defensive master in all of Tangsheng. If something really breaks out, our defenses here might not be as effective as yours."

After hearing this, Old Qiao smiled and said nothing, then continued walking inside.

After walking a few steps, he suddenly stopped, turned his head, and said to the young officer with a serious expression, "By the way, when you call me from now on, don't call me 'Deputy Commander' anymore..."

He pointed at himself vigorously, stabbing his chest with his fingers again and again: "I have a very powerful title."

"From now on, call me Sir Fat Tiger." After saying that, Old Joe puffed out his chest, turned around, and walked towards the depths of the research facility, amid the stunned expression of the young officer and the frown on Lin Wang's face.

After walking through the corridor, taking the stairs and taking the elevator, they entered a huge empty room deep in the research facility, around the tenth floor.

"Here, there's a mist spirit imprisoned... well, it can't be called imprisoned, it's just that it's not aggressive and is willing to cooperate and live here."

As Old Joe walked in, the lights in the room gradually brightened. He pointed inside the room and said, "That's the fog spirit."

In the middle of the room was a huge and extremely thick glass, which was densely covered with suppression devices, flashing red light, and with scripture strips hanging at intervals.

Through the suppression facilities and scripture strips, Lin Wang looked into the depths of the room——

He saw the fog spirit.

It was a creature shrouded in gray-white mist, wandering aimlessly back and forth in the room.

Through the mist, you can vaguely see that this fog spirit has a biological appearance: it has limbs and can be seen to have a human-like appearance, but when it walks, it has four limbs on the ground, and its posture is like a cheetah.

Or like other cats.

Lin Wang noticed that under the fog, there was a pair of black pointed ears standing upright on the top of the fog spirit's head, shaking from time to time.

"This is the fog spirit - each fog spirit has a different form." said Old Joe.

"So they won't dissipate the fog?" Tian Taozi asked curiously, "I want to know what they look like under the fog."

"The fog spirit will never dissipate the fog, because there is a saying that the fog is the real body." said Lao Qiao.

At this moment, the mist spirit behind the glass suddenly raised its head, sniffed around, and suddenly turned to look at Lin Wang.

The next second, the fog spirit shook its body, and with a whoosh, it retracted the fog from its body and turned into a fog-free form.

It was a girl with the features of a black cat. She was wearing a black nightgown, her tail stretched out and swayed slightly behind her, and she had a pair of furry black ears on her head that trembled from time to time.

(I couldn't find a suitable Catwoman picture, so I used this one!)
The most striking thing about the girl was her pair of bright amber pupils. At this moment, they were fixed on the direction of the glass, gradually widening and shrinking into vertical lines.

Her back gradually arched.

"How...how could this happen!" Old Qiao was stunned and became incoherent. "This...is this the Wu Ling?"

"This is the first time a fog spirit has become fogless... Wait a minute, I need to call someone, I need to call an expert..."

"Hey, let's talk about that later!" Tian Taozi also became more nervous and hurriedly pointed at the girl behind the glass, "She looks like she's going to attack us!"

"There's nothing to be afraid of an attack. This is special glass, and it has so many suppressors. Even a head-on attack from the Temple Bishop can be blocked... Damn, she's really going to attack!"

Before he finished speaking, the fog moved.

The cat-like girl raised her head and paws, staring at Lin Wang and the others with her pupils, then squatted and jumped up.

She covered a distance of more than ten meters in a single leap, reaching the glass. She raised her claws towards the incredibly thick defensive glass...

Wave!
The glass that was strong enough to block the bishop's full-strength attack was as fragile as paper in front of the girl's claws.

There was a crisp sound of glass breaking, and the glass shattered into a miserable web, which was then forcibly connected together by the tempered mesh.

But the tempered wire mesh only lasted less than a second.

Three narrow cracks suddenly appeared in the middle of the tempered net, one horizontal and one vertical. The cat-like girl smashed the net into pieces and continued to pounce on the three people with undiminished momentum.

The amber vertical pupils flashed dangerously under the light.

In this lightning-fast moment, Old Joe displayed amazing strength.

As expected of the most defensive lay master in Tangsheng City, at that moment, the fat man roared, his hands danced out afterimages, and he quickly formed seals.

In the short second that Wu Ling tore open the glass, he managed to spread out a huge and dense wooden net in front of him.

This wooden net looks fine and thick, and its surface is covered with thick red wood grains. It is much stronger than the one used to deal with cultists before.

At this time, the girl who looked like a black cat also pounced in front of the wooden net.

Amidst everyone's surprised gazes, she raised her paw again.

"Wishful thinking! My wooden net, blessed by our ancestors, is dozens of times stronger than that glass! Just relying on..."

Grasp!
Click!

Old Joe looked horrified and puzzled.

With just one claw, the wooden net was instantly torn apart and shattered into pieces, just like tempered glass, it had no effect at all.

The wooden net shattered and the girl rushed towards everyone.

Even the man with the strongest defense can't stop her?

Everyone looked pale and desperate.

Seeing the girl rushing over, a massacre seemed to be about to take place.

then……

Amidst everyone's emotions, she quietly landed on the ground, returning to her all-fours position, taking one step at a time...

Walked in front of Lin Wang.

She raised her head and sniffed in front of Lin Wang, then rubbed her cheek against Lin Wang's sleeve.

She sat down beside Lin Wang in a cat-like posture, squinting her eyes and purring comfortably.

Everyone was stunned for more than ten seconds before gradually coming to their senses.

Old Qiao swallowed and looked at Lin Wang with even more awe than before. But then he looked at the girl with an extremely confused expression: "I've never seen anything like this... Why is this happening?"

Tian Taozi also had a look of relief on her face, saying, "Um... Lin Wang, do you want to try to communicate with her?"

"Impossible, Wu Ling never communicates with people." Old Joe answered subconsciously.

The next second, he saw the cat-like girl suddenly open her eyes.

She looked up and glanced at Lin Wang beside her, shook her ears, reached into her pocket, took out something and handed it to him.

"Here you go, eat the small fish."

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　　Today I heard that Qidian suggested 6K update... The sky is falling...

　　
　
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