Nightmare Light

Chapter 97 Temple Conversation
Footsteps sounded in the temple.

Lin Wang followed the saint, passed through the front hall of the temple, and walked into a passage on the side of the temple. After walking along this passage for about four or five minutes, the surrounding scenery gradually changed. The huge rocks around began to "lose" their color and turned into a pure gray.

Light and shadow seemed to have lost their proper function here - although there were still burning torches on the wall, Lin Wang could no longer feel the heat and color of the flames. It had become a visual effect like that of an old movie: still burning, but with neither heat nor color.

This place... seems to use some kind of powerful technology...

Lin Wang was a little curious and looked around.

"The temple has many enemies, so necessary security measures are still necessary."

Sen noticed Lin Wang's curiosity and said calmly, "If cultists come to attack the temple, these passages hidden in the shadows can allow the priests to retreat to a safe place."

"What if there is someone powerful enough to see through these shadows?" Lin Wang asked casually.

"If that happens, when the enemy enters these passages, we will blow up the entrances and completely trap the enemy in the shadows."

"...very tight defense." Lin Wang nodded.

"No, this is not the final solution." Sen shook his head. "The truly powerful ones can easily get out even if we blow up the passage."

"So?" Lin Wang thought, why are you telling me this?

"Under each temple, there is explosives equal to the temple's weight buried. If necessary, the temple and the enemy can be blown up into the sky."

Lin Wang's face trembled: "Are all of you guys so crazy?"

"As a priest, it is necessary to be prepared to devote yourself to your mother at any time."

During a meaningless conversation, the two walked deep into the temple and saw Bishop Du in front of a statue of a goddess.

This was not the first time Lin Wang met the bishop, but it was the first time he had close contact with him.

Not far in front of him, Bishop Du closed his eyes, folded his hands, and prayed softly in front of a statue of a goddess.

After hearing the footsteps, the middle-aged priest opened his eyes very slowly, but did not turn his head in a hurry. Instead, he looked at the statue deeply again before turning his head back.

Two extremely long eyebrows swayed in front of him.

"Young Northman... welcome to the temple."

He stared straight at Lin Wang and took a step towards him: "Do you want to pray to your mother?"

Lin Wang shook his head without hesitation: "I'm not going to pray to anyone."

"What a pity..." Bishop Du shook his head, but there was no regret in his tone. "You should pray to Him."

"I just came to inquire about something." Lin Wang gradually frowned, "Does the temple also have the business of forcibly recruiting people?"

The Saint Lady beside him was a little puzzled: "Your Excellency the Bishop, you..."

"Don't be nervous, young Northerner." Bishop Du gently waved his hand and suddenly smiled kindly. "I'm just suggesting something. The Temple won't force anyone... but a mother is a mother, and that won't change whether you join the Church or not."

"You called me here specifically to talk about this?" Lin Wang frowned.

"No, when I was praying to my mother, she told me that a guest was coming." The bishop looked at the goddess statue again. "Northerner, what do you want to ask?"

The goddess said I'm coming?

And I told you specifically?

Lin Wang frowned and looked up at the statue of the goddess.

The goddess statue in the temple has a compassionate face with her arms folded in front of her chest. At the upper back, three arms are arranged side by side, as if holding up the sky, and slightly below, there is a fourth arm, also reaching into the air.

Why are those arms behind my back so weird?

Lin Wang suppressed his curiosity and strange feeling in his heart, as well as the strange feeling brought to him by the middle-aged bishop, and frowned and said, "There is a priest named Tan Mingzhe in the temple. I want to meet him."

"Tan Mingzhe..." The middle-aged bishop raised his eyebrows.

Before he could say anything, the Saint Lady beside him changed her expression drastically, looking alert: "What are you looking for him for?!"

There is indeed something wrong with this priest!
Lin Wang asked, "What's his problem?"

"Tan Mingzhe is..."

"Child, the matter of Priest Tan is an internal matter of the temple and has nothing to do with the guests."

Bishop Du waved his hand, interrupting the Saintess. The Saintess immediately bowed her head and said, "Yes." The middle-aged bishop turned to Lin Wang and said, "Young Northlander, you are an honored guest of the temple, but Priest Tan's identity... is extraordinary. May I know why you are seeking him out?"

"If you really consider me an honored guest, I don't want the temple to hide anything from me about this matter." Lin Wang said, "It was he who sent me to the orphanage back then."

"then……"

"March 86, 3th year of the Federal Calendar."

"Federal Calendar... I understand." Bishop Du raised his hand and pointed a few times in the air in front of him.

In the void, some spots of light suddenly appeared and quickly condensed into some words.

Lin Wang looked at the scene in front of him with some curiosity: the effect of light spots condensing into words was very similar to the feeling of the Alsophila tree space, but a little simpler.

"Tan Mingzhe...position...date...Oh, I found it."

Bishop Du looked at the text above. After a few seconds, he raised an eyebrow and said, "Young man, are you sure...that Priest Tan sent you to the orphanage at the right time?"

"I saw it with my own eyes from the orphanage's record book."

"That... that's strange." Bishop Du looked at the words in front of him and said slowly, "Look for yourself."

Lin Wang walked to the text.

On the light screen in front of him, a few lines of text flickered slightly, but were clearly visible.

[Tan Mingzhe, a priest of the temple, defected on March 86, 3th year of the Federal Calendar.]

Bishop Du's voice slowly rose: "Combining the records of the temple and the orphanage, I think... the reason Priest Tan defected from the temple back then was to send a baby to an orphanage?"

"Could it be that he stole a baby from the temple... Mr. Lin, and then sent him to an orphanage?!" Sen's expression was shocked. She opened her eyes wide and looked Lin Wang up and down. "Mr. Lin... Could it be that you are the Son of God?"

She then revealed a thoughtful look: "So, the feeling I had before..."

Lin Wang was stunned: "What? Me? Son of God?!"

"No, that's impossible." Bishop Du flatly denied Miss Saint's judgment. "First, if Mr. Lin is the Son of God, he couldn't have remained under the Temple's nose for so many years without being discovered by us. Mother must have resonated with his aura."

"That's true." Sen nodded. "For me, as long as I get close to the Mother Goddess statue, I will resonate with it. Every time the believers see this, they are amazed..."

"Oh, there are resonance crystals buried under the floor to deceive believers. Don't think too much about it." The bishop waved his hand.

"..."

Bishop Du pointed to the light curtain in front of him and said, "Second point, the temple has no record of taking in any babies from 85 to 87."

The three people present were all lost in thought.

After a few seconds, Lin Wang interrupted the silence: "So, the clue is broken, right?"

"Unfortunately, kid."

"So I must know what happened to Tan Mingzhe." Lin Wang looked at the two of them, then stopped at Bishop Du's face, staring into his eyes.

Bishop Du looked at Lin Wang calmly, and stared at the latter for a few seconds. Then he shook his long eyebrows and smiled at Lin Wang.

"Few young people can hold my gaze for so long..." Bishop Du sighed slowly, turned around, and looked deeply at the goddess statue again. "The matter of Priest Tan involves a secret history of the temple..."

"That's a huge scar on the temple."

Lin Wang felt that his heartbeat quickened a little.

Just then, the sound of hurried footsteps interrupted the conversation of the three people.

A priest hurried in and was about to report to Bishop Du. When he saw Lin Wang, he was stunned for a moment.

"Mr. Lin is an honored guest of the temple. If you have anything to say, please speak frankly."

"Yes!" The priest lowered his head. "Editor Xu from the Haoyue Newspaper is here."

"What is he here for?"

When he heard that it was his own newspaper, Lin Wang also paid attention.

The priest said, "He wants us to send someone to the newspaper office. The editor-in-chief, Hou, seems to be possessed by an evil spirit."

(End of this chapter)