Nightmare Light

Chapter 95: Phoenix Street, Qiwu Courtyard

In the end, Lin Wang still did not agree and asked May to increase her homework.

After all, his purpose was to let the child grow up healthily, not to abuse the child...

This child had a hard life before, so it’s good to let her grow up happily...

Lin Wang thought to himself.

The little girl became proud when she learned that she didn't have to do much homework.

She raced around the giant tree, chatting with everyone beneath it and happily yelling, "I have a new plan!"

"I've got an even better plan!"

Lin Wang: “…”

I regret that I shouldn't have reduced her homework amount.

……

Leave the giant tree and return home.

Lin Wang took a shower and slept for more than ten hours.

After waking up, he felt that the tension and fatigue brought by days of running around had completely dissipated.

Lin Wang jumped out of bed and waved his fists a few times.

He even punched with a whistling wind.

"My goodness, have I become so powerful?"

Lin Wang was a little surprised and walked to the mirror.

In the mirror, there was a tall and burly northerner with an angular face and messy hair like a lion.

Hmm... as handsome as before.

After bragging about himself, Lin Wang looked at his body.

At this sight, he was startled.

If before, this body was considered a strong and healthy northerner's body.

Now, the body in the mirror looks like a sculpture, with every muscle having just the right lines and sharp edges.

But this kind of strength is not the hormonal strength of a fitness hunky, but rather has a beauty like that of a classical sculpture.

"Why do I feel like the muscle lines of my body are developing in the direction of mythical sculptures?"

"Why does this happen?"

"I guess...it has something to do with the crow feather from yesterday."

After thinking for a moment, Lin Wang didn't think any more about it.

He turned on his computer and organized the information about this fog exploration into two documents.

A partial copy of the story was sent to the newspaper.

A partial intelligence report, combined with some of his reasoning and analysis, was sorted out and sent to the Public Security Bureau.

Each document is carefully worded and clearly thought out, with a line of text marked at the end:

Remember to transfer money.

After finishing writing and checking that everything was correct, Lin Wang nodded with satisfaction and clicked send.

"Okay, now the work is done... check my background."

Lin Wang thought for a moment, turned on the computer, and entered the three words "Qiwuyuan" into the search engine.

This was a vague memory he had found after searching for a long time in the original owner's memory.

An orphanage.

The original owner grew up in this orphanage when he was a child.

The search results popped up on the computer and Lin Wang clicked on it.

Orphanage introduction, address, photos...

The person in charge introduced...

Lin Wang's gaze lingered on the photo of the orphanage gate for a few seconds, trying to combine the building in the picture with the original owner's memory.

After a few seconds, he turned off the computer and stood up.

“Instead of looking through a computer screen, I’d rather go and see it directly.”

Thinking of this, he got dressed and went out.

When he walked onto the street, he was about to call a taxi directly, but after a few seconds, Lin Wang changed his mind.

He turned into a nearby store, bought a bunch of snacks, carried them in both hands, and got into a taxi.

"Go to Fenghuang Road... No. 6."

...No. 6 Fenghuang Road.

Located in front of Lin Wang is a small orphanage.

Green bricks, green tiles, green stone slabs, tung trees, green bamboos, and wooden corridors. Moss grows in the gaps between the stone slabs and the cracks between the bricks and stones like stitches on mending clothes.

The three-story main building of the orphanage is hidden among the plants.

In the distance, you can hear the sounds of some children playing.

Walking on the cobblestone road, passing through the mottled light and shadow, as he moved forward, he felt his emotions gradually calm down.

Although he himself has no memory of this orphanage.

But the original owner's memories, the memories of this body, the smell of the orphanage... still made him feel familiar and relaxed little by little.

It's like a child who has been traveling far away has come home.

Walking through the wooden corridor and into the courtyard in front of the orphanage's main building, Lin Wang saw seven or eight children lined up in a row, screaming happily. In the front was an older little girl with her arms outstretched, acting as a hen.

The person who plays the eagle opposite is a young female teacher.

She hooked her left hand in front of her body, pretending to be an eagle's claw, and hid her right hand behind her back.

She suddenly took a step to the left and yelled at the children, "Ah!"

While the children were running to the right, she suddenly opened her right hand and threw a large piece of colorful paper at the children.

The children were in chaos with screams and laughter. The female teacher took the opportunity to rush into the crowd with a big laugh, hugged two of the children, pressed her face tightly against theirs, and rubbed them hard.

"Eagles eat children... huh? Lin Wang?"

Lin Wang's face was filled with dark lines. Some terrible memories of his childhood in the orphanage came to mind. "Sister Azhe...you are a teacher now?"

"You have to call me Teacher Liu now!" The female teacher stood up and grinned at Lin Wang with a bright, almost heartless smile and a pair of eyes that were a little too bright. "How did you grow so tall? Did you steal the bamboo at the door?"

Before Lin Wang could say anything, Liu Azhe continued quickly, "Let me tell you, your height is just right. Several lights in our orphanage are broken, and you can help fix them today..."

"Director Shen mentioned you yesterday, saying that at your age, you might be the only one in the orphanage who can't get married..."

"A while ago, a child from our orphanage came back to visit us. She's already married, but unfortunately, bigamy is illegal, so I can't introduce her to you. Oh, yes, you should know her name..."

Because the speech was too fast, Lin Wang tried several times but couldn't get a word in.

He suddenly had an idea and took out a bunch of snacks from his bag and distributed them to the children around him. At the same time, he handed a string of candied haws to Teacher Liu.

Liu Azhe took it and took a bite: "You still like eating candied haws so much! By the way, what are you doing back this time?"

"I came to see you and Teacher Shen." Lin Wang said, "Also..."

"Now it's Dean Shen!" Teacher Liu didn't hear the second half of the sentence at all and interrupted him directly, "I'll take you to see her!"

But just as she was about to leave, she was surrounded by a group of children chattering and clamoring to continue playing.

The two were stuck and couldn't move. Teacher Liu rolled his eyes and pointed at Lin Wang: "What do you think, should he play the eagle?"

"Great!" A group of children cheered.

"But I say—not good!" Ah Zhe changed the subject, raised his hands and feet, trying to gesture to the top of Lin Wang's head, "Tell me, with a head this big, how can he act like an eagle? Wouldn't he catch you all in an instant!"

"No! We want to play that too!" The children were still making a fuss.

"If he gets caught later, he'll be the one eating the child!" Ah Zhe stood on tiptoe and pointed at Lin Wang's sharp face. "Aren't you afraid?"

Lin Wang: “…”

The group of children were stunned for a moment, then looked at Lin Wang timidly, and some of them showed a look of fear.

But suddenly, a chubby little boy in the crowd shouted, "Don't be afraid! Let's play anyway!"

A large group of children started to make noise again.

“Let’s play!”

"I want the big eagle!"

"Big Eagle!"

"Stop making noise!"

Suddenly, a shout came from the direction of the courtyard building.

Lin Wang turned his head and saw a woman with a big belly, holding her waist with one hand and holding a rolling pin with the other, walking into the yard with a fierce look.

She raised her rolling pin and pointed at the children around her: "Whoever doesn't behave will be stuffed into the dumplings when we make them at noon!"

A group of children ran away laughing.

The pregnant woman chased after the group of children and glared at them: "What a bunch of naughty kids!"

Liu Azhe looked at the pregnant woman with a blank expression: "Dean Shen, stop pretending. They are not afraid of you at all."

"Ugh."

(End of this chapter)