Nightmare Light

Chapter 63 Village Illusion
Lin Wang and the white cat rushed into the fog.

In the thick fog, the villagers' roars, running sounds, the sound of fog breaking, and the strange "buzzing" sound made by the villagers when they regrouped mixed together.

Four figures shrouded in mist burst through the fog and stumbled out. They were villagers, but they looked more like some kind of evil and cruel monsters. The festering areas on their bodies, the granulation of flesh squirming, and the gray-yellow mist looked extremely strange.

"Meow, I'll deal with three o'clock! You fight four o'clock!" The white cat shouted, but pounced to the left, tearing the two villagers on the left into pieces in an instant.

"...Do you know the specific meaning of these directions?" Lin Wang shook his head, white fire ignited on his hands, and he punched the villagers on the right with two fists - the latter instantly turned into two frozen ice sculptures.

"I don't know! Meow, I heard those soldiers shouting that! So I shouted that too!"

"..."

A tall and strong villager rushed towards the white cat, holding a huge stone in his hand, but the cat girl's claws seemed to be able to ignore all defenses. The stone had just been raised and had not yet been dropped when the villagers behind it were turned into pieces on the ground.

The figures of seven or eight villagers soon emerged from the fog.

But this time, they did not rush forward, but stood stiffly in the distance and gathered together.

Strange, their behavior...why did it suddenly change?
Lin Wang narrowed his eyes, thought for a moment, then raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Want to stop me?"

"That's a good idea, but..."

Lin Wang took a step forward, his hands burning with white flames. In an instant, a large amount of extremely cold frost gushed out from his hands and quickly spread towards the place where the villagers were standing.

Those villagers didn't even have time to move before they were frozen into ice cubes by Bai Huo.

Even the fog in the air dissipated a lot due to the cold weather, and the visibility around was much higher.

"Meow, you almost froze meow!" the white cat cried in dissatisfaction.

Lin Wang smiled and rubbed the cat girl's head: "Follow me."

“Are there any small fish to catch over there?”

"No minnows, but there are some things... that should be interesting."

"I see." The cat girl nodded, and followed Lin Wang on all fours, rubbing her face against his sleeve. "Meow, I guessed what it is."

"Hmm? Guessed? What is it?"

"The thing that's more interesting than the fish is the mouse!" The cat girl looked excited, her amber vertical pupils sparkling in the mist.

"..."

After freezing those villagers, it was not known whether it affected the villagers' rebirth or for some other reason, but in any case, the two did not encounter any attacks in the next few minutes.

They crossed a stone bridge and went around a mound, then a large and wide-open... strange open space appeared in front of them.

Normally, an open area in the wild is either covered with plants and rocks, or it is uneven and has random trees growing on it.

But the land in front of Lin Wang was extremely flat, with no plants or stones.

If you look closely, you can even see that some of the loess has traces of wheel ruts.

In other places, fresher, lighter-colored loess was seen.

"Didn't they cover it up completely in such a hurry..."

Lin Wang narrowed his eyes, and a light flashed in his eyes.

The strange thing is that although there are many suspicious points in this open space, he did not find any clues from his energy perspective.

It seems as if the Creator is playing a deliberate joke on people here, just to make people sigh at the Creator's amazing workmanship.

I always feel that this place...is not that simple...

I feel like someone is deliberately preventing me from finding something...

In his intuition, there was something that kept reminding Lin Wang.

Although Lin Wang is good at analysis, he is also willing to trust his intuition when it warns him - if a person trusts logic too much, he will definitely fall into the logical trap carefully designed by others.

To put it bluntly -

Sometimes, it’s better to act recklessly than to think too much.

hum!
A huge ball of white fire burned fiercely.

Like a cold, evil nightmare—

A giant wrapped in white flames, the king of ice and fire, froze the earth and ignited the fog. With thunderous footsteps, he brought with him coldness and evil, tore through the chaotic fog, and walked towards the open space in the distance.

With every step He took, it was as if endless white fire grew, spread, and burned across the earth...

The entire clearing was ablaze.

"Lin Wang, what are you doing? Burning rats?"

"I'm looking for something that someone has hidden."

The white fire giant burned, alert to its surroundings.

But the white fire had been burning for more than ten seconds, and there was no reaction in the area.

Even when Lin Wang increased the fire, nothing was burned out.

Could it be... that my intuition is wrong?
Lin Wang asked himself secretly in his heart.

"Meow, there's clearly nothing here... Aa ...

The cat girl's fur suddenly stood up, she jumped back suddenly, arched her back, bared her teeth, and shouted "Ha" towards the distance.

Lin Wang was stunned and asked hurriedly: "What did you see?"

The cat girl raised her hand and pointed to the distance: "House! There is a house in the fire!"

Lin Wang looked in the direction the cat girl pointed, but saw nothing.

The next second, he slapped his forehead, causing sparks to fly all over his head.

Lin Wang collected Bai Huo's body, ran a few steps towards the cat girl, and then looked in the direction the cat girl pointed.

He saw it.

It's a matter of angle.

After his white fire burned, the village was revealed, but the target could only be observed at a specific angle.

because--

What appeared before him was the light and shadow outline of the entire village.

It was as if someone used glowing light strips to outline the outline of a village out of thin air, and then showed it to Lin Wang and the others at a specific angle.

"Meow! There really is a village here!" The cat girl rubbed Lin Wang's sleeve. "If I scratch it, will that stop the villagers?"

Lin Wang looked at the phantom of the village, recalling the various details he felt when the white fire was burning. After a few seconds, all the clues were connected.

He grinned. "No, this village is just a curtain... a smart aleck."

"Meow, I don't understand."

"There is a type of self-righteous criminal who will deliberately leave a 'curtain' behind after committing a crime to mislead the investigation."

"But such people will never understand one thing: the more you do, the more traces you leave behind."

"If someone had the ability to wipe a village from view, then those traces on the ground wouldn't have to exist." "Furthermore, the outline of the village that appeared after my white fire burned had a deliberate feeling of deliberately asking me to 'look this way.'"

Lin Wang said with a smile, while looking up at the foggy sky above his head.

"If I burn the outline of this village, I will definitely be laughed at, but if I..."

He raised his head and looked above his head.

In the palm of his hand, a ball of white fire suddenly ignited.

Lin Wang took a step forward, raised his hand, and made a javelin throwing posture.

"I don't dislike smart-alecks, but I'd hate myself if I fell for that kind of trick."

boom!
He threw the ball of white fire with great force, rushed into the air, and exploded in mid-air.

Like a pale firework.

A few seconds later, the fog in the sky suddenly rolled wildly, and during this process, something out of sight exploded.

"Lin Wang! It exploded!"

"Yes, it exploded."

"The rat exploded!"

“…” Lin Wang shook his head and looked up at the sky.

In mid-air, the fog dispersed under the impact of the explosion, revealing a hole.

In the hole, one can see the dark and cracked earth opposite, as well as the withered trees and dark and dilapidated houses on the ground.

And all of this, in the eyes of Lin Wang and the white cat - was hanging upside down in the air!
The cat girl squatted on the ground and looked up at the sky.

"Meow! What's that place? I feel like I'm going to fall!"

"The dream world...will not fall down." Lin Wang gradually narrowed his eyes, "I didn't expect it to explode so outrageously."

“Why isn’t there a pond across the way?”

"Huh? What does this have to do with the pond?"

"Then some small fish will fall in!"

"That place won't fall!"

"What a pity..." The cat girl squatted on the ground, wagging her tail, "So many small fish..."

"If we fall down, it won't be as simple as a small fish." Lin Wang shook his head and pressed his hand on the side of his helmet. "Call Lao Qiao."

In the fog, real-time voice communication requires a very close distance. If the distance is far, you can only do what Lin Wang does: control the helmet and input mental power.

A few seconds later, he heard Old Qiao's deep and hoarse voice: "I am Qiao Zhiyuan."

"I blew something up. How's it going over there?"

"Those villagers... disappeared. Congratulations, Lin Wang."

Hearing this news, Lin Wang felt relieved, but he soon discovered that Lao Qiao was not in a good mood when he spoke.

He asked, "What happened? Are your teammates okay?"

What followed was silence that lasted for more than ten seconds.

Ten seconds later, Lao Qiao's deep breath came from the communicator: "Let's talk when we meet."

The communication was disconnected.

The actual distance from the place where the battle broke out to this village is not far, and it takes less than ten minutes to walk normally.

But Lin Wang waited for nearly an hour.

When he saw this group of soldiers again, Lin Wang was stunned.

Like a demon returning from hell to the human world, or like a ghost resurrected from the dead on a tragic battlefield.

They were covered in wounds, their uniforms torn, and covered in blood, they supported each other and walked out of the fog.

The young adjutant carrying the flag walked in front, the Light Chaser's flag still in his hand, but the Misty Sun flag was already covered with dark brown, and the sleeve on his left shoulder was empty and fluttering.

Seeing Lin Wang's gaze, this very introverted young man, who had rarely spoken to Lin Wang before, grinned, revealing his white teeth: "I cut it myself - otherwise it would turn into mist."

Behind him, there were less than ten soldiers who were also covered in wounds.

Old Joe's shield even shattered, leaving only half a piece.

What caught Lin Wang's attention was his other hand - he was carrying a stretcher with a soldier.

The old soldier from the burial department, Lao Zhou, had almost no intact part on his body, and some parts were covered with fog. He was lying on a stretcher.

And at the back of the team, there were more stretchers with more people lying on them.

The medical sergeant (also covered in wounds) poured a can of green mud on Lao Zhou like pouring water. The mud seemed to have life and crawled into his wounds, but it was almost useless.

He sighed, walked to Old Joe and whispered:
"The wound is too severe. I tried my best, but I could only keep him alive for a little longer... about five or six minutes... I'm going to go check on the other brothers."

The medical sergeant lowered his head, not daring to look at Lao Zhou's face again, and hurried towards the other soldiers.

"What happened? Why is this happening?"

Old Joe said nothing.

Dozens of young and vibrant lives, who were still alive an hour or two ago, singing and making harmless jokes with each other.

But how could things turn out like this in just a few dozen minutes?

They all fell in pursuit of the truth.

Lin Wang felt a little blocked in his heart.

He raised his voice and asked Old Joe again: "Speak!"

"Brother Lin, don't ask anymore. Qiao Tuan is feeling worse than anyone else... He didn't do anything wrong just now."

A soldier with gauze wrapped around his head walked past Lin Wang and said to him.

"Just now, not long after you left, those Mist Tribe villagers suddenly became violent and became much stronger."

"But the Qiao group's defense network is really strong. The violent villagers still can't hurt the brothers."

The soldier shook his head. "After that, the villagers, realizing they couldn't break through the Qiao group's defenses, suddenly went mad and rushed forward... and blew themselves up."

"The power of that self-detonation is extremely strong. A common defensive master would be broken or even seriously injured if hit by it."

"Qiao Tuan... blocked a total of thirteen attacks."

"Qiao Tuan's shield was broken, and the villagers rushed over. Brother Zhou controlled the skeleton soldiers, hugged most of them, and pushed them deep into the fog."

"But there was one little kid who slipped through the net."

"Brother Zhou hugged the child."

(End of this chapter)