Nightmare Light

Chapter 210 Hide and Seek in the Wardrobe
After Dean Shen finished recounting what happened back then, Lin Wang finally understood the whole story.

He silently inquired about the server's functionality: "What's the concentration of shadow energy in this area?"

[Detecting... An anomaly confirmed here... Anomaly!]

The servo function suddenly issued a series of alarms, startling Lin Wang.

But before he could ask, news of the server functionality arrived.

[Shadow energy confirmed to exist here]

What happened just now?

[There is artificial shielding that blocks the shadow energy here. The shadow energy is much lower in rank than the tree fern and is forcibly ignored by this server.]

Lin Wang understood the meaning of the server function—it's like someone using a computer to hack into a server and try to cause some damage.

This troublemaker was very clever; to avoid being discovered, he even installed a firewall. However, the people who came to arrest him used tools decades more advanced than his, so they easily cracked the firewall...

Who can I talk to to explain this?

No wonder the server has been silent ever since I entered the orphanage...

I thought it was the entrance to the shadows, not here...

Lin Wang's gaze lingered on the metal pull ring for a few seconds.

“It seems I have to go down and take a look,” he said, then turned to look at Dean Shen and all the other children. “The problem now is, these children…”

Just then, an older female teacher next to A-Zhe suddenly swayed a few times, black tears streaming from the corners of her eyes, and lunged at her.

boom!
Caught off guard, A-Zhe was suddenly tackled to the ground by the ailing older teacher.

The latter had a fierce expression, opened its mouth, revealing a mouthful of pale white teeth and black mucus, and roared as it bit down on A Zhe's neck.

Then, Lin Wang kicked him far away.

But the female teacher who was ill seemed to feel no pain. She simply got up again, raised her hands, and lunged at Lin Wang.

Lin Wang moved the child from the left armpit to his right hand, freeing up his left hand to press down on the female teacher's face.

With his height and long arms, the other person was unable to get close after being pinned down.

But an adult obviously can't be dealt with like a child...

Oh, I've got an idea.

Lin Wang pondered for a moment, then grabbed the other person's face and shoved him against the wall.

With a bang, the female teacher crashed into the wall and lost consciousness.

Dean Shen glared at him: "Is this how you treat our teachers?"

Lin Wang shrugged: "We can't just kill her because of this."

The female hospital director glared at him: "If I have an attack later, you're not allowed to treat me like this!"

Lin Wang chuckled, neither confirming nor denying: "Gather all the children together, including the sick and the healthy, as well as all the teachers in our orphanage... I have a method I want to try."

The female dean, clutching her stomach, looked wary: "You're not planning to knock us all out, are you?"

"What are you saying? Do I look like the kind of person who acts so roughly?"

The female dean glanced at the teacher who had fainted on the ground and chuckled.

"..."

Regardless, Dean Shen and A-Zhe still managed to gather everyone, including the orphans and teachers, into a large classroom.

Incidentally, those children who had already fallen ill all became obedient after Lin Wanglin tossed them around in his hands. Although their expressions were still gloomy, they were no longer aggressive; they just lowered their heads, looking sinister, and didn't communicate with anyone.

The same was true for the female teacher who woke up from her coma.

At this moment, the eerie children and the eerie female teacher stood in a circle in the classroom with their heads down, not speaking or communicating, which looked very strange.

Lin Wang and A Zhe brought all the other children over as well. After the "shaking baptism," they stood together with the other eerie children.

During this process, another child fell ill.

Lin Wang arranged everyone in order, and then said to A Zhe and Dean Shen, "I now suspect, no, I believe, that I have some kind of ability... that can alleviate or even cure this shadow disease."

"But I still need to go back into that passage to look for it and try to solve this problem completely."

As he spoke, he raised his hand, and a ball of white flame blazed in his palm.

Dean Shen and A Zhe frowned and stared at Lin Wang.

"Lin Wang, when you say 'completely resolve,' do you mean to burn down the entire orphanage, including all the teachers and students?"

……

at the same time.

In an extremely dark, narrow space with almost no visibility.

Suddenly, a faint light appeared.

In the light, the face of an unfamiliar girl, who looked to be only eleven or twelve years old, appeared.

The little girl had lovely and sweet features, but her expression was extremely indifferent—an expression of utter indifference towards everything in the world.

In her hand, she held a pyramid-shaped crystal the size of an egg, from which the light was emanating.

The little girl held the crystal, coldly gazing at the light emanating from it.

A few seconds later, a rustling sound came from the crystal, which then turned into the voice of a somewhat hoarse old woman.

"Your Excellency the High Priest, I salute you," the woman's voice said.

“Vice Bishop Zhao…the religious order is extremely dissatisfied with your actions,” the little girl said coldly, “and also extremely dissatisfied with your plan.”

“Please understand, Archbishop… In order for the entire city of Tangsheng to repay the debt to Mother, some sacrifices are necessary.” Vice-Bishop Zhao’s voice was very patient.

"Vice-Bishop Zhao, you never said that the so-called sacrifice meant that I, as a powerful bishop, would cooperate with you in doing this!" The indifferent little girl revealed a hint of anger on her face.

"Your Excellency, please be patient... As long as your matter is completed as planned, I will definitely complete my plan at the same time! At that time, the entire city of Tangsheng... will pay off Mother's debt!"

After hearing the words "to pay off her mother's debts," the little girl was silent for a few seconds, then snorted, "You better be telling the truth."

“Of course, how could I dare to deceive a high-ranking religious leader?” the old woman said.

After a few seconds of silence, the little girl said, "Do you have anything else to report? If not, that's all. I'm very busy and have a lot to do."

“That’s all settled,” the old woman said, then added with a hint of curiosity, “but there’s something I don’t quite understand… Your Excellency, why is it so dark over there? Even in the Shadow Realm, it shouldn’t be this dark…”

The little girl's anger intensified: "Because I'm hiding in a closet! I'm playing hide-and-seek with those stupid little kids!"

She suddenly became agitated: "You have no idea how annoying those silly kids' souls are! They want to play hide-and-seek! They want to hear stories! They want me to play jump rope with them! They want me to play the daughter in pretend play!"

She held up a finger at the crystal pyramid: "I'm almost two hundred years old! They want me, to be their... daughter!"

The other end of the communication was terminated very quickly.

(End of this chapter)