Nightmare Light

Chapter 195 Dog Brother's Mission

In the nightmare world, the sky and earth were pitch black, the stone house was pale, the temperature was dry and cold, and there was a faint smell of revenge in the air.

Lin Wang stood in the center of the formation, holding a tree spear, in a wary posture, but looking completely bewildered.

Dog Bro? Alone?

What's he doing here? Where are his teammates?
This guy was a bit of a nice guy, but overall he was a pretty good person... How did he end up here?

He...won't be dead, right?

Lin Wang looked serious and prepared to step forward to check.

At this moment, the burly man lying on the ground began to snore softly.

Lin Wang: “…”

To snore in a place like this, how carefree can one be...?

He mentally scoffed, then squatted down and patted Dog Brother's face: "Hey! Wake up!"

The first time I tried to wake him up, he didn't wake up.

Lin Wang patted him a few more times, and the man sleeping on the ground gradually opened his eyes and met Lin Wang's gaze.

Then, he scrambled to his feet, assumed a defensive stance, and roared, "Hey! What kind of monster are you!"

...Maybe we should just let him die here.

Lin Wang resisted the urge to punch him, pointed to his own nose, and asked very seriously, "Don't you recognize me?"

"This fiend dares to impersonate my boss!" Dog Brother still looked tense. "How could I fall for your trick!"

Lin Wang conjured a small white flame the size of a fingernail and flicked it onto Dog Brother's forehead, creating a small patch of frost.

Dog Bro jumped in shock: "This monster is actually imitating my boss... Boss, is that really you?"

Lin Wang asked expressionlessly, "Awake?"

"Before I fainted, I made a wish, asking you to come and save me, boss... I didn't expect you to actually come!" Dog Brother's expression gradually became excited, but then he suddenly paused, "Wait! Am I still not awake? Still dreaming! Or... boss, could you hit me?"

Dog Brother looked at Lin Wang, who dug a stone slab weighing several hundred pounds out of the ground. Dog Brother shrank his neck upon seeing this and said, "Forget it, I think I'm completely sober now."

Dog Bro rubbed his hands together: "Boss, thank goodness you came to save me! Otherwise, I would be dead here today!"

"You seemed to be sleeping soundly just now, not like you were in any danger."

"Well, that's because..."

While talking to Dog Brother, Lin Wang glanced at the message sent by the server function.

[Recyclable material distance: 920 meters.]

He said to Dog Brother, "Keep up with me, we'll talk as we walk."

Dog Brother was stunned for a moment, then took a step to catch up with Lin Wang: "Boss, I wasn't asleep, I passed out..."

Are you sure you were unconscious?

"Of course, I did get some sleep later," Dog said. "I was so scared at first that I fainted. When I woke up, I found that as long as I kept my eyes closed, the kids wouldn't attack me, so I just lay down and took a nap..."

"The child?" Lin Wang heard the key information in Dog Brother's words.

"Yes, kid!" Dog Brother shuddered, his eyes filled with fear as he looked around, but he saw nothing. "I was..."

"Stop." Lin Wang continued walking towards the target, and said to Dog Brother, "You should start from the beginning. This way, it's all disjointed."

"Okay." As they spoke, the two gradually approached the center of Sizhen.

A wide intersection appeared not far in front of them, with buildings on both sides that looked like a market in a town. Lin Wang stood at the intersection, not in a hurry to move forward, but with a slight frown, deep in thought.

In my mind, an aerial map is gradually taking shape.

At the same time, Dog Brother was rambling on about his story.

(For easier reading, Lin Wang's comments during Dog Brother's storytelling will be enclosed in square brackets.)

"The story begins a few days ago—our group hasn't been doing very well lately, so I've been thinking about how to get a big job to help the Wild Wolf Group recover."

The idea is good, but your group has never seemed to have a good track record, has it?

“Yesterday, I went out and took on a job—someone commissioned me to investigate a few locations in a nightmare. I get paid just for the investigation, and if I can bring back samples from the locations, the reward will increase.”

[Standard mercenary business... but I feel like you're after the fact that 'you get paid just for investigating'?]

“This deal is practically tailor-made for our group, so I plan to go back to the group and call more people to investigate all the locations in one go.”

[So he just wants to earn a basic income, huh?]

"Of course, we will take samples if the investigation site is safe... but in nightmares, there are generally no safe locations."

[Isn't this just a case of wanting to earn a guaranteed minimum income?]

"After I finished accepting the mission, when I returned to the regiment to organize the people... something happened."

What happened?

"When I returned to the regiment, I found that all the brothers in our regiment who could move had gone mad."

【crazy? 】

"It's said that he's gone mad, but not like a secular master who's been corrupted by negative energy, nor has he turned into a monster."

Hearing this, Lin Wang narrowed his eyes: "So, it was some kind of deliberate act? An attack on your group?"

“I think so too, but I really can’t think of anything in our group that would make anyone want to keep an eye on us.” Dog Brother gave a wry smile. “But I have no choice but to report to the temple first and ask the priests to help heal my brothers, while I go into the Nightmare World alone to carry out the mission.”

And then you collapsed?

"My first stop was Sizhen. The intelligence said it was a relatively safe place for investigation, and there were no living people there."

[You're still a coward, aren't you! But what exactly is in this town that could make you pass out but not die?]

"After I entered the town, just as the intelligence had said, I didn't see any living creatures at first. But as I approached the center of the town, suddenly, I heard the laughter of many children coming from all around..."

Hey, don't talk like you're telling a ghost story.

"Someone as brave as me couldn't back down, so I bravely picked up my weapon and let out a 'heroic roar' at the surrounding crowd..."

[Actually, it was probably a scream of terror!]

"After I roared, the children who were hiding in the shadows were indeed intimidated by me, and they emerged from the shadows and began to surround me."

"Although I was very brave, there were only children around... Even though they looked scary, I couldn't lay a hand on them, right? So I fainted for a short while..."

Lin Wang drooped his eyelids: "So, after removing the modifiers... you actually walked to the middle of Sizhen and encountered a group of elementary school students, which scared you so much that you fainted."

"Uh... those kids aren't ordinary kids, they're actually..."

"Are they those kids?" Lin Wang interrupted Dog Brother, pointing around.

"Fuck!"

(End of this chapter)