Nightmare Light

Chapter 197 Children's Road Stop
"What...he!"

The other children scattered like a tide, making way for them.

The enormous little boy, pale-faced, with a tilted head and bulging eyes, dragged a roof beam as he walked through the crowd toward Lin Wang and his companion.

"Big brother! It was this kid before, I fainted as soon as I touched him!" Dog Brother stammered.

"Did he contact you back then?" Lin Wang asked. "Was he also going to pass through there?"

"Yes! The blow he gave me definitely went right through me, but I was still unconscious at the time..."

Lin Wang interrupted Dog Brother's rambling: "But now the roof beam in this kid's hand has cracked the floorboards."

"Holy crap! This kid has materialized!" Dog Bro exclaimed in shock. "Damn it, are we doomed... Boss, why are you looking at me like that?"

"Have you forgotten that you are a lay teacher?"

"Oh? Right... no, I didn't forget."

"With your abilities, dealing with a brat shouldn't be too difficult, right? What are you afraid of?"

"But what if we lose and anger these kids..."

Lin Wang pondered for a moment and nodded, "What you said makes sense." Then he walked towards the giant little boy.

"Boss, what are you going to do? You're not going to hurt these kids, are you? They're just kids, after all..."

"Didn't you say it's unsafe to resort to violence? I'll go and have a chat with him."

"Huh?" Dog Brother was startled. "But I tried to communicate with these kids before, and they completely ignored me! And you just now..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he saw a faint golden light flash and disappear in Lin Wang's hand. Immediately afterward, he heard Lin Wang shout at the huge boy, "Behave yourself! Or I'll give you extra homework!"

Dog Bro shuddered, almost tripping and falling to the ground: "Boss, you're talking to him about this... how would he understand?"

Then, he saw that the huge and sinister little boy in front of Lin Wang had actually stopped in his tracks!
The muscles on the huge boy's face contorted with difficulty for a moment, initially very stiff, as if he were quite unfamiliar with "changing expressions".

But gradually, his expression became more lively and natural. Then, he raised his head, looked at Lin Wang, and grinned.

A look of grievance gradually appeared on the boy's face.

"Holy crap?" Dog Bro exclaimed in surprise, "Boss can even train these 'weird' kids?!"

In his eyes, Lin Wang had become some kind of mysterious and terrifying creature.

From Dog Brother's shocked perspective, Lin Wang did something even more unbelievable.

He pointed to the ground, where the group of eerie children around him all sat down.

"He!" The children uttered the same word in unison.

Then, the largest, already solidified giant boy babbled on and on.

"Oh!" Lin Wang nodded with a serious expression.

"Boss, what are they saying?" Dog asked.

"I don't understand."

"Then why are you nodding?"

“These children are speaking what sounds like the ancient language of this place… The pronunciation is very strange, and I really can’t understand the meaning,” Lin Wang said. “But I have a rough idea of ​​what they want to do.”

He pointed to the center of town: "These children aren't trying to attack us, they're trying to stop us."

Lin Wang stood up and walked towards the town center. He hadn't gone far when the children in front of him stood up, their faces grim, and blocked his way. The children at the front even bared their teeth and raised their knives.

Lin Wang took a few steps back and turned to the road he had come from outside the town. After walking a few steps, the children in front of him silently made way for him.

The answer is obvious—these children don't want him to go near the town center; they want him to... leave.

“I guess what these kids were saying wasn’t ‘He’, but rather ‘Hui’ with a heavy accent… From the very beginning, they wanted us to go back.”

"Go back?" Dog Brother was taken aback, then perked up. "That's great! I've already scouted this location, so going back won't stop me from making money... Boss, boss?"

Lin Wang ignored him and continued walking towards the center of the town. The children stood up with gloomy faces and crowded in front of him, trying to block him.

"Ho, ho!"

Lin Wang continued forward, passing through a large group of children whose attacks passed right through him.

Initially, these attacks simply passed through Lin Wang, like illusions, and did not harm him.

But as he advanced, more and more attacks fell on Lin Wang, and some of them began to affect him.

puff!
A knife fell on Lin Wang, slashing a gash in his clothes.

Then came another slash, which landed on his body, leaving a shallow white mark.

Although they haven't breached the defenses, it's clear that the children's attacks are gradually becoming more tangible.

But Lin Wang remained unfazed, as if the attacks didn't exist, and calmly walked forward, passing through the large group of children like a large ship forcibly breaking through the waves.

His gaze fell on a slightly more distant spot beyond the crowd—a high, platform-shaped building in the center of the town.

Dog Brother's voice trembled as he spoke from behind: "Boss, what you're doing... I feel it's very dangerous! These kids will probably be stabbed in the flesh in another two or three minutes!"

Lin Wang didn't turn his head: "I have a vague guess about these kids... or rather, when I used my skill on that big boy just now, I vaguely sensed something."

"These children are clearly long-dead souls, but they are not incapable of communication, nor are they merely mechanical beings..."

Lin Wang turned to look at Dog Brother, then pointed to the high platform in the center of the town:
“Since these children are preventing us from reaching that location… I suspect that when we get close enough, something will happen to these children—and that change will enable them to ‘communicate’.”

"Why do I feel like they won't communicate in a positive direction?" Dog Brother muttered to himself.

Lin Wang ignored him and continued walking forward.

Throughout this process, the children around him kept their heads down, their expressions sinister, and kept rushing to Lin Wang's front, gathering together again, trying to block his advance.

"What!" "What!"

"what!!"

[Recyclable materials, distance: 230 meters.]

Further ahead, about 200 meters from the town's central platform, all the roads in Sizhen converge here, forming an area resembling a plaza.

At this moment, the pressure from the group of children on Lin Wang reached its peak—each of their attacks could leave a mark on Lin Wang's body.

Meanwhile, the giant little boy, whose expression had darkened again, lifted the roof beam and strode towards Lin Wang with a roar.

At this moment, Lin Wang once again did something that Dog Brother never expected.

He reached out his hand to the group of children, and suddenly white flames surged from his hand.

"Get out of the way, or I won't hesitate to beat the kid."

(End of this chapter)