Nightmare Light

Chapter 230 Returning to the Original Body
As it turns out, no one can remain calm in the face of a true god.

Even a top priest as powerful as Bishop Du is no exception.

A dozen seconds later, the middle-aged bishop sighed and waved to the priests: "Put away your weapons."

He said to Lin Wang and the people around him, "The people of the temple will truthfully disclose the matter of Vice-Bishop Zhao."

"Are you sure?" Lin Wang squinted, looking at Bishop Du with suspicion.

"...I am a bishop! How could I lie about something like this!"

“You said before that the main job of the temple is to lie.”

“…I swear! I swear to God! I swear to my mother!” Bishop Du’s temples bulged with veins. He found that he easily got angry and irritable every time he faced Lin Wang.

Fearing that Lin Wang might say something infuriating again, he shouted loudly to all the priests behind him:
"All priests! Collectively! Together with me! Swear before Mother! This matter will be made public truthfully!"

The priests carried out the orders as instructed.

Lin Wang chuckled and dialed Lao Hou's number: "I've found you a big news story. Remember to send me a bonus later."

Bishop Du took a deep breath, turned and left: "Take Vice-Bishop Zhao's body and call it a day!"

The priests left the scene in silence.

Miaomiao squatted on the ground, tilting her head and thinking for a long time: "Why don't they arrest me? Aren't I the leader of the rebels?"

Ah Zhe squatted down next to her and used a stick to draw a circle around the ant hole to block the ants' way home: "They probably forgot about you?"

Miaomiao thought for a few seconds, then slowly squeezed out an "angry" expression on her cold little face: "How dare you look down on me! I, the dignified Shadow Master of the Shadow Reversal, actually..."

"Then let them arrest you and take you back?"

"...Why don't you try using ink to stop the ants? I've heard that scents can affect their ability to find their way."

"..."

Shi Xiong walked towards Lin Wang and said, "Brother Lin Wang, I'll be going now."

"Are you going back?" Lin Wang asked him.

Shi Xiong laughed: "What's the big deal? With the scepter in my hands, that Holy Army can only obey my command... The honorary title of bishop is meaningless to me."

"Don't worry, I know the temple better than anyone else—they won't do anything to me."

He patted Lin Wang on the shoulder, turned around, and strode towards the temple entrance, gradually disappearing into the mist outside.

Following his gaze, Lin Wang saw that the old locust tree in the courtyard had, at some point, regained its lush greenery.

Dean Shen, supporting her pregnant belly, walked towards Lin Wang: "Lin Wang, you..."

“I know,” Lin Wang interrupted her. “I’ll bring those children back right away.”

Dean Shen looked deeply at Lin Wang: "Lin Wang, thank you very much."

"No need to thank me, I'm also a member of our orphanage." Lin Wang waved, then suddenly remembered something and said to Director Shen, "By the way, there's something I think is very important."

"You said."

"These children, suddenly returning from a state of spirit to their bodies—we have no experience with this. We should find a way to calm them down as quickly as possible, and we also need to consider the fusion of their souls and bodies..."

Dean Shen pondered for a moment, then nodded seriously: "I think what you said makes a lot of sense. I will get on this matter immediately."

A-Zhe stood up and stepped forward: "Dean Shen, Lin Wang, I have a way! Leave it to me!"

Dean Shen looked at A Zhe and nodded: "Okay, get it done as soon as possible. As soon as the children return, get to the facts."

"Alright!" After saying that, A-Zhe rushed into the orphanage like a gust of wind and ran upstairs.

"Sister Zhe...can you handle this?" Lin Wang's lips twitched. "I always feel like she's a bit too easily startled."

“Although Ms. Liu is a very lively person, she is a very good and responsible teacher. I’m sure she can handle it well; I have confidence in her,” Dean Shen said. “In that case, I have no problem.”

After Lin Wang finished speaking, he found a corner to sit down, then switched his mental energy channel, and the next second, he appeared under the tree fern.

Then he saw a dozen ghost children sitting neatly under the tree fern, all of them crying loudly with flat little faces.

Beside her, May stood with her hands on her hips, looking fierce: "Don't cry! Crying counts as time!"

Beside her, the skeletal-looking Little Yellow Springs Lord waved his bony arms: "Secondary Ritual Studies is already very simple! Sister May didn't assign you any complicated homework! When I first came in, my homework was all about the relationships between the gods..."

...What is secondary ritual studies?
What exactly is the study of the relationships between the gods?
Lin Wang was completely confused.

He stepped forward and gently flicked May on the back of the head.

“Brother uncle!”

"These children..."

“I’ve made sure they study hard! They have to do practice tests every day, attend classes, and practice boxing…”

Good heavens, you're training these kids according to the standards of the Crusades...

Lin Wang's face twitched slightly. He nodded at May and said in an approving tone, "Well done."

After saying that, he added, "Then I'll take these children with me. They're all in ghost form and need to return to their original forms as soon as possible."

May nodded: "Okay, then you can take them away... Ah! No! We have to wait!"

"Huh? What are we waiting for?" Lin Wang asked, puzzled.

"Wait ten more minutes, and the allotted time for this test paper will be up."

"..."

Ten minutes later, Lin Wang, expressionless, led a large group of ghost children back to reality.

At this moment, Dean Shen had led the "sick" children, who were the real bodies of these ghost children, to an empty activity room.

She and two female teachers busied themselves settling the children in.

After Lin Wang resolved the matter in the Shadow Realm, all the children had regained their normal complexions and fell into a deep sleep.

A few seconds later, amidst a spatial tremor, Lin Wang appeared in the corner of the room (the spot where he had been sitting), surrounded by a group of pale-faced little ghosts.

What puzzled Dean Shen and the female teachers was that every single one of these ghost children wore an expression of lingering fear...

Upon seeing Dean Shen and several female teachers, the children even displayed the expression of someone who had been lost and starving for hours and then finally saw their mother again—they grinned, looking like they wanted to cry.

"How could these children be so aggrieved?" a female teacher asked, looking puzzled.

Dean Shen shook his head: "It's probably because it's been too long since they started using their bodies, and they're unhappy... Don't think about it too much, everyone hurry up and get them back into their bodies!"

Lin Wang has obtained a method from the server function to send the ghost back to the main body.

Since the children's physical bodies did not die, a simple folk technique called "Returning Soul Guide" is all that's needed to send their bodies back.

A female teacher brought over a stack of papers. Lin Wang pricked each child's hand, dripped a drop of blood onto the paper, wrote an edict, then lit it and held it in front of the child's nostrils to inhale the smoke. His ghost then followed the smoke back into his body.

A few minutes later, all the children in the room opened their eyes again and looked at each other in bewilderment.

Dean Shen was overjoyed, his face lighting up with excitement: "That's wonderful... the children are all back!"

"I'm back!" With a bang, Liu A-Zhe kicked open the door to the activity room.

The female teacher burst in, excitedly calling out to the people in the activity room, "I know how to calm the children down while also getting their cognitive and physical responses aligned as quickly as possible!"

She struggled to lift the large stack of things in her hands, which she estimated to weigh at least twenty pounds: "Let the children do a few sets of worksheets! This will definitely help their cognitive and physical development align as quickly as possible! What do you think?"

(End of this chapter)