Nightmare Light

Chapter 211 The Orphanage Basement
"Are you planning to burn all of us, the old, weak, women and children, to the ground?"

Inside the orphanage, Director Shen's voice was serious and deep.

Lin Wang's lips twitched, and he waved his hand: "That's not what I meant."

He raised his finger, and a pale flame ignited at the tip.

Upon seeing the flame, Dean Shen and Liu Azhe both widened their eyes in surprise.

"Lin Wang, what is this?" Dean Shen's voice trembled slightly.

“This is my ability—it looks like flames, but it has many uses. It also includes restoring some evil things to normal…like the illnesses of these children.”

Dean Shen and Liu Azhe still looked skeptical: "Are you telling the truth?"

"You're not planning to burn us alive and seize the orphanage's inheritance, are you?"

Lin Wang almost choked on his breath: "How could I joke about something like this!"

"Then how about letting Lin Wang give it a try?" Dean Shen hesitated for a moment, glancing at A Zhe.

Ah Zhe: "I still think he's after our inheritance... Okay, just kidding, I was just a little nervous."

She took a spoon, scraped a black tear from the corner of a sick child's eye, and handed it to Lin Wang.

Lin Wang took the spoon and used the white flame to envelop the teardrop.

A few seconds later, the flames dissipated, and Lin Wang, Dean Shen, and A Zhe went over to take a look...

Lin Wang frowned: "Huh? Why isn't it working this time?"

Before him, in the spoon, the black tear remained unchanged, as if nothing had ever happened.

This was the first time in Lin Wang's memory—in his experience, this white fire had an effect on almost everything in the world.

But to my surprise, the tears had no effect whatsoever.

"Don't be too disappointed. The doctors we invited before were all very famous in Tang Shengcheng, and even they couldn't do anything about it," Dean Shen comforted Lin Wang.

"No! There's a response!" Ah Zhe's eyes suddenly lit up, and he shouted.

The three of them were startled and looked closely at the teardrop.

When Lin Wang looked again, he noticed a change—originally, these dark teardrops were a viscous, thick liquid that even had a faint stench.

However, after Lin Wang's white flames burned it, although the liquid was still black, it turned into a clear, transparent liquid, like a black gemstone, and it no longer had a foul odor.

"Wow! I didn't expect you to be so capable, Lin Wang!" Liu Azhe patted Lin Wang's arm a few times.

After saying that, she stood excitedly next to Lin Wang, pointed at the other people in the room, and waved her hand vigorously.

She adopted a commanding air, deliberately speaking in a deep voice, "Lin Wang, the next fire you set will be..."

"Speak properly." Dean Shen glared at her.

"Lin Wang, let's do it." A Zhe chuckled, "Burn them."

"Okay... but wait, Sister A-Zhe, why them?"

"Because I want to go on an adventure with you!" Liu Azhe exclaimed excitedly. "An adventure! A secret passage! I was so looking forward to it!"

"No, that place is so gloomy, and who knows what's down there? It's too dangerous!"

"Yeah, that's why I'm following you." Ah Zhe put his hands on his hips. "I have to protect you!"

"What? You're protecting me? What kind of logic is that?!"

"Nonsense, of course teachers should protect students! Isn't that a matter of course?" A-Zhe said, grabbing a mop from the corner and twirling it around in his hand twice. "Look, I've got my weapons ready!"

"Sister A-Zhe." "Nothing you say will work, I'm definitely going with you this time!" A-Zhe said firmly.

"I mean, when you were swinging the mop just now, you splashed the mop water in their faces." Lin Wang pointed in the direction of Dean Shen.

A-Zhe shuddered and turned to look in Dean Shen's direction.

Dean Shen, another female teacher, and four or five children who had not yet shown symptoms were all staring at her expressionlessly.

Each person's head and face were covered in a pool of black liquid, making them look like they were sick at first glance.

"Holy crap, let's get out of here!"

"..."

A few minutes later, Lin Wang used white flames to burn everyone in the room, whether they had already developed symptoms or not.

After being burned by his white flame, those who fell ill, although still having black fluid flowing from the corners of their eyes and mouths and a gloomy expression, were clearly no longer aggressive and just stood there with their faces downcast.

Even when Lin Wang handed a cookie to one of the children, the latter would silently accept it and take a bite.

This is already an amazing improvement.

Not only that, Dean Shen, the female teacher, and several children also felt somewhat relieved after being burned by the white flames.

Although it's unclear whether it's psychological or something else, the situation has stabilized for the time being.

"Next, let's see if I can find Vice-Bishop Zhao in that basement... and figure out why these children got sick."

Lin Wang took a deep breath, opened the secret door to the basement, and walked into the basement one after the other with A Zhe.

Liu Azhe held a flashlight, and Lin Wang lit a ball of white flame, illuminating the somewhat shady underground passage of the supermarket.

They walked in the underpass for four or five minutes.

The underground passage of the orphanage gave Lin Wang the feeling that, in terms of scale, it even surpassed the underground transportation stations of some small cities.

The passageway has become wider and wider, from initially only being able to accommodate one person to now being wide enough for four people to walk side by side.

As the passageway extends into the distance, it appears to be increasing in both area and width.

Moreover, there are several forks in the road on both the left and right sides of the passage.

This is not good news for the two of them—it means that the difficulty of their exploration is increasing.

Ah Zhe's voice, trembling slightly, rang out behind Lin Wang.

"Why is this underground passage so long?"

"Didn't Dean Shen say that this building dates back to the Three Sovereigns period? Heaven knows what it was originally used for, and how many times it has been rebuilt."

Lin Wang bent down, picked up a piece of porcelain from the ground, examined it in his hand, and then waved it in front of A Zhe: "Look, doesn't this look like the material on the sacrificial jars used by lay priests?"

"It looks a bit like it," Liu Azhe muttered. "Why would there be this in the basement?"

"This means that many years ago, there was a layman in this place... and most likely, he fought here."

Lin Wang picked up another piece of rusty metal from the ground, its original appearance unrecognizable: "This thing may be a fragment of some kind of weapon, or it may be a fragment of some kind of armor... The function of this place back then is very suspicious."

"Our orphanage was built in such a dangerous place?"

"Don't worry too much. In any case, this happened many years ago." Lin Wang said casually, then suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He lit the metal sheet with white flame and threw it forcefully into the distance.

The burning metal sheet, when thrown, left a trail of light in mid-air, illuminating a long distance.

Then, he and A-Zhe saw a figure flash by at the end of the light.

(End of this chapter)