Nightmare Light

Chapter 59 It’s hard to protect yourself
In the dream world, dark clouds rolled in the dark sky, and white paper strips on the treetops fluttered in the wind.

Under the tree, Lin Wang looked numb as he looked at the barrage of comments above Paper Bride's head.

After a while, he sighed deeply and said to the mercenaries of the Wild Wolf Group, "Things... are not what you think."

"I understand." Dog brother nodded with a smile on his face, "Don't worry, I understand."

I always feel like you guys don't understand something right...

Lin Wang muttered to himself, but since the other party gave him a way out, he had to go down too, right?

Then, he saw Gou Ge turned his head away as if nothing had happened: "There was a brother in our group who was like this a while ago. He insisted that he had found true love and insisted on marrying a stool."

Dog Brother's expression was serious, and his tone was deep: "In this world, being crazy is happier than being non-crazy."

Lin Wang realized that if he continued with this topic, he would have no choice but to kill all these people.

So he gave a dry laugh and somewhat awkwardly changed the subject: "By the way, what are all of you doing in this dreamland?"

Dog Brother immediately puffed out his chest and said righteously, "We, the Wild Wolf Regiment, are the bravest and most elite in Tangsheng City... cough."

Halfway through his words, Gou Ge looked up and saw Lin Wang looking at him expressionlessly. He shrank his neck and coughed: "Actually, there is a commission that asked us to come to this area..."

He glanced at Lin Wang and said, "Looking for and recycling the same thing."

Looking for recycling in this area?

A huge red slime figure appeared in Lin Wang's mind: "Recycling what?"

"The client said it was a very large, but not very aggressive, red monster."

It really is that thing...

Lin Wang asked again: "Who gave you the commission?"

"Boss, in our line of work, we must keep the client's information confidential. This is the rule."

"I see. Then how did you offend the Clay Buddha?"

As soon as Lin Wang said this, the mercenaries around him covered their faces with their hands, revealing sad expressions.

Gou Ge coughed and turned his face away awkwardly: "...It was just a small accident."

"A small accident?!" The soldiers in the team started talking at once, "You call this a small accident?"

"...Anyway, it was just an accident, just an accident..."

"When have we never encountered an accident?"

"The last time I tried to fix a car in my own camp, I ended up blowing it up!"

"Well, that time it was because..."

"That time we saw an old lady crossing the street. We told you not to help her, but you insisted. Then the old lady turned into a crazy monster in front of everyone!"

"..."

Lin Wang's face was dark, and he interrupted everyone: "Don't go off topic, just talk about this time."

A brave mercenary looked at Dog Brother and said to Lin Wang, "This time, the brothers entered the dreamland to find the monster, but we have been searching for a long time in this area and have not encountered any trace of the monster."

"According to the rules, when encountering something like this, we should first return to Tangsheng City, communicate with the contact person, and then determine the next plan of action."

"But before leaving, the brothers found a small temple. Brother Gou said, why don't we go in and worship, so..."

"Wait, you're saying you saw a temple and decided to go in and worship?" Lin Wang interrupted with a look of horror. "You're not sure who's in the temple? You're not sure if the temple is normal? Are you all that careless?"

"Actually, in the world of adventurers, such actions are very common," the soldier continued. "Although this nightmare world has been completely destroyed, the statues in the temple are often still able to respond to prayers."

The statue still answers prayers?!

Lin Wang frowned, and he suddenly recalled the sound he heard when he used white fire on the statue in the Zhicun ancestral hall.

The statues of gods in this world... can respond to prayers... What's the principle behind this...

The soldier didn't notice Lin Wang's expression and continued, "Also, sometimes, by interacting with the statue, you can learn some new knowledge, which is also very helpful for improving the level of secular skills."

Dog Brother turned around and took over the conversation: "Right! So it's normal for us to go into a temple and worship when we come across one."

"and then?"

The soldier sighed. "Then, as soon as the brothers entered the temple and lit the incense, the Bodhisattva statue, covered in black mud, jumped down from the altar and charged at us with its fangs and claws bared... Clay Bodhisattva, Clay Bodhisattva!"

"What clay Buddha?" Lin Wang was stunned.

The soldier pointed behind Lin Wang and said, "That clay Buddha is alive!"

Lin Wang turned around suddenly, his pupils shrinking sharply.

He saw that the clay Buddha had recondensed its body at some point, with three faces of laughter, crying and anger growing on its head. The black mud light behind it shattered, and hundreds of clumps of black mud were floating around its body, locking onto everyone!

But what really made his pupils shrink was the paper bride.

At some point, the paper bride had staggered towards the clay Buddha. As she walked, she opened her arms, and countless paper ribbons spread out, covering the sky and forming a dense net in the air, firmly blocking all the attack routes of the clay Buddha.

Above her head, her ahoge formed a few large characters as big as door panels, floating in the air.

"Don't hurt my husband!"

Lin Wang's voice suddenly became anxious: "This guy... come back! Come back!"

He shouted urgently, but it was too late.

Hundreds of huge black mud balls rained down on the paper bride. The latter's paper net was only blocked for a moment before it was broken by the mud balls and hit the paper bride hard.

Everyone only felt a flash before their eyes, and the place where the paper bride was standing turned into a small hill of black mud.

The thin, small figure was crushed underneath and disappeared in an instant.

boom!
Almost at the same moment, the white fire giant stood up and grew taller. In less than a second, he grew to the same height as the clay Buddha.

He took a step, and the earth trembled. Hoarfrost spread, and the extremely cold frost instantly transformed the surrounding land into a blanket of silver. He took another step, and his body grew to over ten meters tall. He stretched out his arm, blazing with white fire, and placed it on the top of the clay Buddha's head.

The clay Buddha raised more than a dozen arms, trying to stop the white fire arms from falling, but it only lasted for a short moment. The black mud arms then ignited with white flames and burned into ashes, or turned into ice lumps and shattered onto the ground.

The arm continued to move forward with force, hitting the top of the clay Buddha's head firmly. Dozens of faces with different expressions instantly appeared on the top of the latter's head, but all the expressions turned into fear and pleading in the end.

"conviction!"

White flames burned fiercely, and the clay Buddha, which was as tall as two stories, was instantly ignited. It struggled and roared, looking like an indescribable miserable soul.

The fire lasted less than a second before the black mud monster's body began to collapse and turned into ash. But Lin Wang grabbed the black mud giant's head:
"Don't fall!"

The white fire instantly became twice as strong. To the naked eye, almost every inch of the black mud monster's body and every grain of soil were being roasted by the white fire.

All around, the mercenaries of the Wild Wolf Group were stunned.

A mercenary swallowed his saliva and said, "I will never mess with those action figures again."

"Me too."

Dog Brother kicked the soldier on the butt: "Our boss is angry, and you are saying such things! Be serious!"

Suddenly a soldier pointed at the pile of black mud that buried the paper bride and said, "Look, brother Dog!"

When Gou Ge took a closer look, he was immediately shocked.

On the ground, in the pile of black mud, the exposed paper tape would tremble from time to time, curl up, and poke the black mud.

He immediately shouted towards Lin Wang, "Boss! That, that...sister-in-law is still alive!"

The white fire giant trembled all over.

He didn't care about the ambiguity in Dog Brother's words. He raised his hand and the burning black mud monster turned into ashes, which scattered dozens of meters away. It was obvious that there was no chance of it being resurrected again.

Lin Wang himself quickly rushed towards the pile of mud where the paper bride was.

The mud pile had lost its source of power and had become an ordinary pile of mud.

Lin Wang raised his hand, and the pile of black mud rolled up, growing tombstones and white bone arms, and then quickly flowed and dispersed in all directions.

Revealing the paper bride lying in the middle.

Lin Wang changed back to his original form and ran to the paper bride - the latter now looked extremely miserable, her body was dirty and covered with black mud, and even her clothes and paper ribbons were all torn.

The paper bride was already in pieces. The moment Lin Wang picked her up, she only raised her head slightly and then had no reaction at all.

No death allowed.

As long as you still respond, I will definitely save you.

Think of a way... Lin Wang, you must have a way... You must have a way!

Wait, that energy! The energy coming from the giant tree!
Lin Wang suddenly remembered another force in his body, that weak but stubborn, vital energy.

Tree! That tree!
But how to take her out?
Wooden sign!

Since the wooden sign can be taken out, theoretically...

In theory, all you need to take the paper bride out is one FM tune!
I know what to do.

"You guys go now. See you in Tangshengcheng if there's a chance." Lin Wang didn't give Gou Ge a chance to speak. His whole body was burning with white flames. The flames spread, wrapping up the paper bride, and disappeared in front of everyone.

Leaving behind the mercenaries looking at each other in bewilderment.

……

"Brother Gou, if I'm not mistaken, the white fire giant should be the legendary..." A mercenary trembled slightly, his face full of fear.

"Don't say that name." Dog Brother stopped his men, but his eyes were bright and his expression was excited.

After hesitating for a moment, he said to the mercenaries around him: "Brothers, I have an idea."

A few seconds later, a cry of extreme fear and confusion came from the mercenaries.

"You said you want to recognize an evil god as your boss?!"

"What are you yelling about!" Dog Brother quickly covered the young mercenary's mouth: "It's still unclear whether it's true or not!!"

"But he clearly..."

"Even though, even though Boss Lin Wang is the evil god," Gou Ge said seriously, "Did he sacrifice you? Did he eat your soul?"

"That's not the case, but..."

"Don't worry, he even saved our lives." Gou Ge picked up a small ball of mud and gently crushed it in his hands. He sat on the ground and looked into the distance. "We are a bunch of unlucky people. We will be struck by lightning three times if we buy a pack of cigarettes..."

His eyes brightened again as he looked at the brothers around him, with each person's reflection reflected in his pupils.

After a few seconds, those reflections transformed into the figure of an old man.

"Brothers, I want the Wild Wolf Group to survive. I want you to follow me and have a good life. I..."

He added, "I want to do my best to live up to the old leader."

"So, even if his origins are strange."

"Even though he is terrifyingly powerful."

"Even if he really is an evil god..."

"As long as he can really help us..."

The reflection in his eyes turned into an old photo of a family of four.

"I'd like to follow him too!"

　Peace of mind is to upgrade the paper bride.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)