Nightmare Light

Chapter 99 The Rebellious Son War
"Priest Tan! Tan Mingzhe!"

"Lin Wang! He asked Lao Hou to arrange for you to come to the newspaper office!"

Bishop Du stopped, turned slowly, and looked into Old Xu's eyes: "Are you telling the truth?"

"I swear to the goddess!" Old Xu raised his hand hastily. "This incident was a big news in the newspapers at the time!"

"Think about it! Under normal circumstances, which newspaper would hire a northerner... Lin Wang, I don't mean to look down on you, but you all know that northerners have this physique."

Old Xu spoke quickly, but everyone still understood what he meant:
Under normal circumstances, no cultural institution would consider people from the north.

Old Xu continued, "But that day, Old Hou suddenly decided to recruit Lin Wang to the newspaper... At the time, no one understood this decision, and I even went to have a big argument with him."

After a pause, Old Xu said, "I remember Old Hou's answer very clearly."

"He said, 'Old Xu, do you know Tan Mingzhe? He asked me to do this.'"

Hearing this, Bishop Du pondered for a moment, turned his head to look at Lin Wang, and then looked at Sen.

The Saint understood the bishop's meaning and said without hesitation, "I also know about Priest Tan. I can tell you about it on the way."

Lin Wang nodded: "There is no time to lose."

After saying that, the three of them left the temple quickly and decisively.

Bishop Du raised his long eyebrows and stared at the backs of the three people until they completely left the temple.

The middle-aged bishop looked at the direction the three men left and said slowly, "He really didn't pray to you... Haha."

……

When you walk out of the temple, the temple will send out a car.

After the three of them got in the car, Lin Wang said, "Let's continue talking about Tan Mingzhe."

"Okay." Sen, who didn't like to drag things out, said directly, "Priest Tan's matter involves a secret history of the temple, and it's known within the temple as the 'Temple Scar.'"

"Wait!" Old Xu suddenly said, turning his head to look at the two people in the back seat, "Is this something I should be allowed to hear?"

"Theoretically, no." Sen said calmly, "But with the capabilities of your newspaper, is there anything happening in the Federation that you don't know about?"

"Hey, Miss Saint, please don't say that... We at the newspaper are very disciplined. We don't know anything we shouldn't know."

"How much do you know about the rebellious son's riot?"

"Are you asking about the one in 1975 or the one in 1983?"

"You still say you don't know?"

"do not know."

The more Lin Wang listened, the more confused he became: "What rebellious son? What unrest?"

"..." Sen was silent for a moment, looking out the window. "Mr. Lin, any organization, whether it's a powerful country or a strict temple, is never completely solid."

"That doesn't sound like something a high-ranking priest would say when evaluating his own temple."

"But this is the truth," Sen said. "We call ourselves 'Mother's Children', so when another group of voices that disagree with us appeared inside the temple..."

"Just call them rebellious sons?" Lin Wang took over.

"They believe that although the temple is bathed in the divine light of the Mother, there must be a group of people who, for the sake of the Mother and the divine authority of this world, hide in places where the Mother's glory cannot shine, doing things that are not visible to the public." Sen nodded. "They call themselves the Shadow Reversers, which means people who walk in the shadows." "Typical extreme thinking..." Lin Wang shook his head. "So, in 1975 and 1983..."

"It was two wars within the temple, and between the rebellious son and me." Sen said, but then shook his head, "Actually, this statement is not accurate."

"The first time, it was indeed a war between the Temple and the rebellious sons, but the second time..." Miss Saint paused and reorganized her words, "Actually, it was a war among the rebellious sons."

"Ah?" Even Old Xu, who was sitting in the front seat, was stunned. "They started fighting among themselves?"

"I don't know the specific details, but after that incident, most of the rebellious priests died in battle." Mori regained his calm demeanor. "Since then, 'Shadow Rebels' has become a historical term, and the priests who survived have returned to command the temple."

"So Tan Mingzhe..." Lin Wang understood.

"Yes, Priest Tan is such a priest." The Saint nodded. "There aren't many such guilty priests in the temple, and every one of them is under close scrutiny."

"Each of them is on a surveillance list known only to high-ranking priests."

"That's why, when you asked me about the name, I reacted so strongly."

"Not to mention, after he defected, he sent a baby boy...that is, you, Mr. Lin, to an orphanage."

Lin Wang nodded and took a deep breath.

A huge amount of information was swirling in his mind, and his emotions were surging wildly in his heart.

He never imagined that there would be such a long series of things involved behind his life experience.

A mysterious priest, internal strife in the church, a former "rebellious son" who became a guilty priest for several years, risked defection, just to bring a baby boy to the door of an orphanage?
That late night more than 20 years ago...what exactly happened?
Suddenly, a dim and faded picture appeared before Lin Wang:

Late one night more than 20 years ago, under the endless fog and flickering street lights, a man in a robe, holding a baby boy in his arms, was running hurriedly.

In order to avoid the pursuit of the temple, he had no choice but to put the baby boy at the door of the orphanage.

After hurriedly speaking a few words to the head of the orphanage, he quickly left and disappeared into the fog.

And at dawn a few hours later, perhaps he had escaped the pursuit of the priests, or perhaps he had obtained something.

In short, this figure returned to the orphanage again and pushed open the door.

This time, he handed a wooden box to Dean Chen, and then left again.

The dim image faded before Lin Wang's eyes. He withdrew his thoughts, but his mind was still pondering:
What's in that wooden box?
Could it be a clue to my background?
No... something that would make a priest risk such a great risk to reveal... should be more important.

At this time, Xu Sunshan's voice interrupted Lin Wang's thoughts.

"Lin Wang, speaking of Tan Mingzhe... I suddenly remembered something."

Lin Wang collected his thoughts and looked at the editor-in-chief: "What's the matter?"

"If I remember correctly, there should be a letter left by Old Hou. It was left by Tan Mingzhe back then."

After a pause, he added, "I leave it to you."

"Left it for me?" Lin Wang frowned. "Why have I never heard Editor-in-Chief Hou mention it?"

"You'd have to ask him personally." Old Xu shook his head. "If exorcism is successful."

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(End of this chapter)