Nightmare Light

Chapter 216 Protecting the Children
"You actually know about those rebellious sons?" Vice-Bishop Zhao looked confused and surprised.

A few seconds later, she shook her head with great difficulty, snapping out of her thoughts—it seemed that even thinking had become a strenuous task for her now.

“Now I remember, you have a close relationship with the temple… It’s understandable that a certain foolish priest would tell you some inside information.”

"So, it was them who helped you?"

Lin Wang's heart began to beat slightly.

Perhaps this is his chance to find out about his origins...

"No comment," Vice-Bishop Zhao said coldly. "Don't think I don't know what you're up to—either you're using this clone to prepare to attack me, or... you're waiting for someone?"

"That ancient priest named Shi Xionglue? Is it him? Or that saintess named Sen?"

She suddenly screamed, bent over, clutched her forehead, and frantically twisted her head, sounding extremely pained.

"what!"

"No! Don't try to control... don't try to control my thoughts!"

She suddenly raised her head, her expression turning furious and hysterical: "Pay back the debts! Everyone has to pay back the debts!"

On the right half of Bishop Zhao's face, black mucus crawled towards the left half, leaving only one eye exposed.

She raised her scepter and pointed it at a child in front of her.

You're plotting against me!

"You're lying to me!"

"You think I wouldn't dare to kill? I'll show you!"

As she spoke, she raised the scepter again, which was now imbued with dense shadow energy, and swung it down forcefully, striking a child.

Without saying a word, Lin Wang took a step forward, and instantly, the pale ice surface rapidly spread towards Vice-Bishop Zhao.

In his calculations, the ice surface was just right to erect an ice wall in front of the child the instant the scepter struck him.

However, in that split second, an accident occurred.

Seeing what was happening in front of them, Lin Wang and A Zhe stared in astonishment.

The ghost of the female teacher suddenly moved at that moment.

She took a step forward, spread her arms, and stood between Vice-Bishop Zhao and the child.

The scepter, carrying surging shadow energy, struck the female teacher, cleaving down from her shoulder to her abdomen.

The enormous and horrifying wound almost split the poor ghost in two.

The pitch-black shadow burned wildly at the wound.

The ghost, expressionless, slowly raised her head, glanced at Vice-Bishop Zhao, and then slowly turned around.

As it turned, the scepter slashed the ghost's body, leaving even larger and more horrifying wounds.

Almost instantly, her figure began to fade, gradually changing from pale to transparent.

Her expression was stiff, and only her eyes were fixed on Lin Wang and A Zhe.

The ghostly female teacher slowly opened her mouth towards the two of them and said, "Protect the children."

A-Zhe's eyes instantly reddened: "Teacher Wang..."

Lin Wang replied solemnly, "I will."

Teacher Wang nodded to the two of them again, giving them a stiff smile that gradually faded and disappeared.

The black scepter fell again, but because of the female teacher's block, its speed was greatly reduced. By the time it struck down, Lin Wang's ice wall had already been erected.

Click!

The scepter struck the ice wall.

A shallow gap was visible in the ice wall.

Lin Wang raised his hand, and the ice wall instantly deformed, enveloping and freezing the scepter, trapping it within the ice wall. He stepped forward and walked to the scepter.

However, when he dispelled the ice wall, he discovered that the old woman had decisively given up the scepter and had turned into a cloud of black mist, escaping.

"That ugly thing escaped?" A-Zhe exclaimed.

“She can’t escape far,” Lin Wang said. “She herself doesn’t realize that she has been invaded by that shadow energy and is about to be completely dissolved into a monster.”

"What do we do now?" A-Zhe asked.

"Keep moving forward, we must catch her... and her accomplices behind the scenes."

“What about these children?” A-Zhe said. “The souls of these children…”

“Sending them back now is too much trouble.” Lin Wang pondered for a moment, then snapped his fingers. “I do have a place where I can temporarily accommodate them… but I don’t know if these ghost children want to do their homework?”

"?" Teacher Liu looked puzzled.

Whether it was a misperception or not, when Lin Wang said the words "do your homework," these ghost children, who should have been expressionless and unresponsive, seemed to shudder in unison.

After Lin Wang put the children into the tree fern space, the two continued on their way.

Not far ahead of this room, at the entrance to a passageway, they saw a staircase leading downwards.

[Warning: Shadow energy detected, concentration: extremely high.]

"Lin Wang, this fruit seems to have absorbed all its nutrients." Liu Azhe gestured for Lin Wang to look at the tree fern fruit in his hand.

In her hand, the tree fern fruit had transformed into a smooth, plump fruit with beautiful gold and black interwoven patterns on its skin.

The faint glow that had been emanating around the fruit had vanished, replaced by a barely perceptible aura of dark shadow.

"The shadow energy ahead seems very strong. We've run out of fruit. What should we do?" Liu Azhe said.

Then he saw Lin Wang wave his hand and conjure up a whole basket of dried tree fern fruits.

"Use it, there's plenty." Lin Wang chuckled. "These are a little different from the previous one. They don't contain holy light, but they can still absorb shadow energy."

"You actually have so many?" Liu Azhe exclaimed in surprise, glancing at Lin Wang thoughtfully. "Besides these, do you have any more?"

"I haven't counted them, but there must be tens of thousands." Lin Wang nodded, readily admitting it.

"...What have you been through all these years? Why have you become so strange?" Liu Azhe looked at Lin Wang in confusion. "Not only have you become so powerful, but you also have so many strange things..."

“This is a very long story; it would take at least hundreds of thousands of words to write a novel.” Lin Wang waved his hand. “So now is not the time to talk. Let’s go down first and save people.”

As he spoke, he hung the basket of tree fern fruits on Teacher Liu's back: "You carry these on your back and use them to absorb shadow energy."

Teacher Liu said "Oh," and put the basket on her back.

Lin Wang's lips twitched as he looked at Teacher Liu's style of drawing.

Suddenly, his thoughts wandered, and on a whim, he pulled out a tree fern vine, twisted it into a headband with leaves, and put it on Teacher Liu's head.

In an instant, Ms. Liu's demeanor transformed from that of an intellectual female teacher to a country girl picking fruit...

"What's this for?" A-Zhe asked curiously.

"Um... it's about controlling those fruits, otherwise you wouldn't be able to control them to absorb shadow energy."

"I understand. So I can control those fruits with my mind now?" A-Zhe exclaimed excitedly. "That's amazing!"

"Uh...yes." Lin Wang was afraid that if she asked any more questions, he wouldn't be able to answer them, so he quickly said, "Let's go, turn this corner, and we'll be on the next floor."

The two of them, one in front of the other, turned the corner.

What appeared before the two was a vast, empty underground facility.

Strangely, in the center of this empty space, there was no longer a rocky ground, but a pool-sized area of ​​dark, viscous water.

"Lin Wang... Where is this place? I feel very uncomfortable."

"That's the boundary between the real world and the shadow world."

(End of this chapter)