Nightmare Light

Chapter 45 Want to go home

The room where Wu Ling was placed was littered with broken glass.

The cat-like girl squatted beside Lin Wang, who was holding a fish in his hand. Everyone looked at each other in confusion.

The atmosphere was solemn and eerie.

There's also a bit of embarrassment in it.

"...Uh, that..." Lin Wang spoke first, "So...is this normal?"

"Of course it's not normal!" Old Joe felt his worldview shattered. "Since the time of the Three Emperors, humans have ventured into the fog thousands of times and dealt with fog spirits countless times! We've never seen a fog spirit like this!"

He looked at the girl with a look of shock and incomprehension: "She's even, she's even talking to you!"

A soldier nearby said, "Deputy Commander Qiao, I think we should report this matter."

Old Qiao nodded, still staring at the girl from Wuling: "You're right, we should report it."

At this time, the cat girl sitting on the ground looked at Lin Wang and suddenly said, "When are you going home? The cat wants to go home."

Lin Wang was stunned and pointed at himself: "Go home? Are you talking to me?"

"You smell like family." The cat girl raised her hand and poked Lin Wang twice in front of her face. "So when are you going home?"

"How can I smell like your family? At most, I smell like the scallion pancakes I made this morning..." Lin Wang was confused at first, then he gradually revealed a look of horror. "Wait, you want to go home with me? Back to my house? How can this be possible!"

"The cat wants to go home. When are we leaving?" The girl said lazily, repeating these two sentences over and over again.

"I tell you, this is absolutely not..."

"Lin Wang, she seems to think of you as her master?" Tian Taozi guessed with a strange look on her face.

"Treating me as your master? You must be joking! Putting aside the question of whether it's appropriate for such a grown-up girl to treat me as her master...she can't leave the research facility right now!"

"Well...actually, if she wants, she can really leave." Old Joe said in a sullen tone.

"Why is that?" Lin Wang was even more confused. "Do you still manage your lab facilities humanely?"

"Because, originally, this mist spirit...Miss, wasn't captured by us. She came here on her own," Old Qiao said. "At first, she just appeared outside our camp in the form of a cloud of mist, sniffing around, as if looking for food."

"We discovered that this mist spirit had no intention of attacking, and we were unable to eliminate it. So we used fish to lure her into the research facility, imprisoned her, and attempted to use her to study the characteristics of mist spirits."

Lin Wang nodded: "In other words, she wasn't captured, nor is she a prisoner... Theoretically, she's eligible to leave freely?"

Old Qiao didn't say anything, which was considered as his agreement with Lin Wang's statement.

The soldier at the side spoke up at this time: "But... Deputy Captain Qiao, I still think it's inappropriate to let her go like this! According to the regulations of our base, if she wants to leave..."

"I understand the importance of rules better than anyone," Old Joe interrupted the soldier. "But there's one thing I think you... and everyone else in this base, should understand."

Old Joe raised his hands, and everyone saw that his hands were still shaking.

"If she wanted to leave, the base couldn't stop her."

The soldier paused for a moment, then lowered his head after a few seconds: "I understand, but it is my duty to report this matter..."

"Of course, it's your 'duty' to report this to your superiors!" Old Joe interrupted the soldier again, his tone unkind, "But I hope you're reporting to the military! Not! the! Temple!"

As he spoke, he poked the scripture cloth on the soldier's shoulder with his fingers, causing the soldier to take a few steps back.

The soldier was wearing a helmet, so his expression couldn't be seen, but when he was poked and retreated, his trembling body and heavy breathing revealed his emotions - he was a little angry.

Lin Wang noticed at this time that this soldier not only had scripture strips hanging on the outside of his bulletproof vest, but also fine and dark divine patterns could be seen everywhere on the entire military uniform.

It was not particularly obvious because the military uniform was black, but now, these divine patterns were shining slightly.

Obviously, Wu Ling's attack just now caused the soldier to activate these divine patterns.

"Deputy Captain, I hope you understand that I am from the Temple..."

"I don't give a damn where you come from! This is Tangsheng City's research facility! This is military territory! You're just a supporter sent by the Temple!"

Old Joe took another step forward, his tall, burly frame practically crushing the soldier. "This is military business! Military territory! The military has the final say! All the charlatans need to do is sing praises! And, when necessary, play tricks! That's it!"

The Light Chaser's deputy commander looked down at the soldiers. "This is an order. Do you hear me? Soldier."

The soldier's body trembled violently with anger. After a few seconds, he lowered his head and said in a low voice, "I will obey your orders, Your Excellency, Deputy Commander. However, after this support mission is over, I will report everything that happened here to the temple."

"You're threatening a Light Chaser with words like that?" Old Joe opened his eyes wide and looked at the soldier, as if he had heard something ridiculous. "Ha!"

He ignored the soldier and turned to look at Lin Wang.

"Brother Lin, you take her... Never mind, I'll get you out." Old Qiao hadn't recovered from his previous emotions. "Let's stop here today. Tomorrow we'll go see that Mist Tribe member. I hope you can find a way to communicate with him."

Lin Wang glanced at the girl beside him, who was rubbing her face against his sleeve. The corner of his mouth twitched: "She is a mist spirit, and she can communicate with humans, doesn't that mean..."

"It's difficult." Old Joe pondered for a moment and shook his head. "Although she can communicate with you simply, I don't think she has the ability to communicate normally with humans."

Lin Wang asked her: "Can you...what's your name?"

The girl tilted her head to look at Lin Wang and pointed at her black ears: "White cat!"

It’s obviously a black cat, why is it called a white cat!
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Lin Wang shouted in his heart, looked up and saw the people around him, all with dark expressions on their faces. He shook his head and asked again: "Can you say hello to everyone?"

The white cat raised its head lazily, looked at the people around it, remained in a squatting position, and pointed its chin at the people around it one by one.

Pointing at Lin Wang: "You, family."

Pointing to Old Joe: "You, idiot."

Old Joe: “…”

Then he pointed at the soldier: "You, stupid gatekeeper with a familiar smell."

The soldier heaved violently several times.

The girl looked at Tian Taozi again and sniffed: "You (sniff)...why don't you smell?"

The girl stood up suddenly, kept her limbs on the ground, walked to Tian Taozi, and circled around her: "A person with no smell at all... Forget it, it has nothing to do with the cat. The cat wants to go home."

Tian Taozi was stunned: "Huh? Because I take a shower every day..."

This little episode did not attract much attention. Everyone just thought that girls were naturally clean, and the cat-like Wu Ling girl kept clamoring to go home, so everyone agreed to let Lin Wang take the girl back first and settle her down before discussing anything else.

Lin Wang himself was of course firmly opposed to it - after all, this was a living person, a young girl, and he was a single man.

"Do you think she will listen to you?" Old Joe pointed at the white cat.

“…She actually could understand.” Lin Wang sighed, “But she didn’t listen.”

In the past ten minutes, Lin Wang tried various ways to communicate with the cat girl and received a total of three pieces of feedback.

"I want to go home."

"When are we going home?"

And the third sentence——

"I'll try my best to catch small fish to feed you."

After trying various ways to communicate without success, Lin Wang had no choice but to compromise:

"Let's settle this guy first."

Tian Taozi came closer with a nervous look on her face: "Hey, Lin Wang! You have to control yourself and don't make any mistakes!"

Lin Wang looked mad: "What are you thinking! I'm a normal person! A normal person!"

"But you peed on the bed before...Ah! I was wrong! I was wrong!"

(End of this chapter)