Nightmare Light

Chapter 206 Ant Gu Mirror

"Someone has attacked the Ant Gu Mirror!"

The priest's report put everyone on edge with a single sentence.

Bishop Du took a deep breath, forcibly maintaining his composure: "How about the Ant Gu Mirror?"

"Report to the Bishop..."

"At a time like this, stop with the empty titles!" Bishop Du suddenly roared. "Get to the point!"

"Yes...yes!" The priest shuddered. "The Ant Gu Mirror is fine! The attacker was just a low-ranking priest, in charge of miscellaneous tasks in the temple!"

"When my men were carrying the Ant Gu Mirror here, the attacker was pushing a cleaning cart by and suddenly grabbed a mop and threw it at the Ant Gu Mirror... but my men stopped him in time."

"What about others?"

“I am incompetent and could not stop him from biting the poison and committing suicide.” The priest lowered his head.

Death squad...

This word comes to mind.

"Bring the body up."

"Yes."

Several priests dragged a corpse by its legs and threw it in front of the people.

Everyone present was used to life and death, so they remained calm and stepped forward to observe.

The man in front of her was extremely ordinary-looking, even unremarkable.

A priest said, "I've seen this man before... His surname is Li, and he's in charge of sanitation in this area."

Another priest said, "Speaking of which, I once saw Vice-Bishop Zhao greet this... Old Li."

The truth came out—this man was Vice-Bishop Zhao's inside man at the temple, helping him with his correspondence.

At this moment, several priests brought over the Ant Gu Mirror—a mirror taller than a person.

It's called a mirror, but it's actually more like the "ant house" that Lin Wang saw in his previous life, only much larger, more than a person's height.

The mirror has a transparent glass panel in the middle, through which you can see the pale blue soil inside.

Two priests held the mirror upright by supporting it on both sides.

Bishop Du said, "This thing is an important tool of the temple—through it, one can find anyone the temple is looking for."

Lin Wang knew that Bishop Du was saying this to him.

He asked curiously, "How do you use this to find people?"

A priest brought over a wooden box and opened it.

Bishop Du took out a small metal plate from inside.

“Each of these metal plates represents a priest—this one belongs to Vice-Bishop Zhao.”

"After inserting the metal plate, the Ant Gu Mirror will display the opponent's current location..."

As Bishop Du spoke, he inserted the metal plate into the slot above the Ant Gu Mirror.

A priest, dressed in a red robe, rolled his eyes and convulsed, then lit a blade of grass and used the smoke to fumigate the ant-poison mirror.

“Unfortunately, this mirror is a Gu-type artifact… so even if the temple wants to use it, it must simulate a Gu ritual… for it to be effective,” Bishop Du said.

The mirror trembled a few times, and then, inside the glass, the pale blue soil, like ants drilling holes, produced a large number of hollow lines, except that those lines were all straight and horizontal.

Immediately afterwards, a shimmering point of light appeared on the mirror. The point of light was dark gray and kept flashing, making it very conspicuous on the blue mirror.

“This is the key terrain around the target’s location; judging from the lines… it should be a street,” Bishop Du said.

He pointed to the point of light again: "This is the target, the location of Vice-Bishop Zhao."

“She is indeed still alive,” Lin Wang said.

Bishop Du looked at the point of light and slowly frowned: "Strange, why is this point gray?" "What, shouldn't it normally be gray?" Lin Wang said.

“No, gray is very abnormal.” Bishop Du shook his head. “A normal, healthy person should appear as a bright yellow dot in the Ant Gu Mirror.”

"Is there any way to find out why the light spot is gray?"

Bishop Du pondered for a moment, then waved his hand, his expression full of confidence: "I have a way."

Then he asked the priest next to him, "Where is the instruction manual for this mirror?"

"I'll go get it right away."

Lin Wang's face twitched: "So your method is to read the instruction manual?"

"What? When you encounter something you don't understand on a device, shouldn't your first instinct be to read the instruction manual? Isn't that basic operation?"

"……Reasonable."

The priest brought over the instruction manual, which Bishop Du opened: "Let me see... the signal light color description... found it."

Then, he looked at the words above, remained silent for a few seconds, and looked up at the crowd around him: "The gray dots mean that the target is moving in the shadow layer."

“Shadow layer?” Lin Wang repeated, “I remember, the temple has many areas…”

“That’s right.” Bishop Du nodded. “The shadow layer is one of the core technologies of the temple—we place many important areas or important secrets in these shadow layers to avoid being seen by the eyes of the secular world.”

“But…” Bishop Du’s long eyebrows gradually furrowed. “I didn’t expect that she would still be able to operate in the shadows without the temple’s help.”

Lin Wang reminded him, "Those letters."

"You mean, the people corresponding with Vice-Bishop Zhao... are also from the temple?"

"Or, other people who possess shadow technology?"

Bishop Du was silent for a moment: "What you said is very likely... The temple will dig out the existence behind those letters as soon as possible."

At this moment, Shi Xiong leaned closer to the mirror, stroking his chin: "Tell me, can you tell what kind of place these lines represent? Is it Tangsheng City or some other city?"

A priest took out a map, unfolded it, and a group of people squatted on the ground, looking at the map and gesturing at it.

Even Bishop Du lifted his robe, squatted down beside them, and studied the map with them.

Lin Wang looked at the group of priests in front of him—these priests, in ordinary times, were all leaders of the divine authority in the secular world, and prominent figures.

At this moment, the group of people squatted on the ground without any regard for their image, each one of them wielding a golden sword and riding a horse like a flying swallow...

There are so many things to complain about, I don't even know where to begin...

Lin Wang shook his head, forcibly pulling his wandering thoughts back.

A few minutes later, a priest looked up and said, "Oh, found it."

He happily held up the map, pointed to a section of the road, and then pointed to the lines in the Ant Gu Mirror: "Look, isn't it exactly the same?"

Lin Wang leaned closer to the map and glanced at it. Sure enough, he saw that the paths the priest pointed to were exactly the same as the paths shown on the Ant Gu Mirror.

The name of that road is Phoenix Road.

The gray dot of light was currently flashing slowly in the middle of Phoenix Road.

Phoenix Road...

Middle section...

Lin Wang felt his heart pounding along with the light.

puff.

puff.

His gaze was fixed on that familiar name in the middle of Phoenix Road.

Qiwuyuan Orphanage.

(End of this chapter)