Nightmare Light

Chapter 243 Ghost hits the wall

One day later, early morning.

A jeep roared through the morning mist of Tangsheng City, sped out of the city, and drove onto the highway leading to the western border.

This is a small team from the Wild Wolf Gang that went to the Western Territory to carry out a recruitment mission and conduct an investigation. The members include Dog Brother, Bai Xiaoxiao, Lin Wang, and... May.

Sending such a team to carry out a mission would certainly not meet the requirements of the conscription order.

However, the entire Wild Wolf Clan had just woken up from an illness, and their prolonged coma had left them all very weak, requiring a period of rest and recovery.

Secondly... nobody cares about the Wild Wolf Gang.

Their indifference allowed the Wild Wolves to take advantage of the situation, which is how this small, strange group was able to set off.

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Dog Brother was driving, and the light from outside the car window shone on his face through the glass. As they drove through the stone forest and trees, the light was blocked, making his face appear to be in and out of light.

Sitting next to him was Bai Xiaoxiao, a young female mercenary who had recently joined the Wild Wolf Gang.

Old Bai was getting on in years, and there were still many people in the group who needed care, so the old man stayed behind to look after the group members, while Bai Xiaoxiao went on a mission with Brother Gou.

Newcomers to the group urgently need to complete a mission to quickly establish themselves within the group.

Bai Xiaoxiao sat in the passenger seat, holding a stack of yellow and white talismans with red characters and gold outlines, looking very mysterious.

The young mercenary girl stood up, opened the convertible top of the jeep, her hair fluttering in the wind. She raised her hand, muttered some incantations, and then scattered a handful of lit talismans.

The talisman burned, swirling and dancing into the sky, turning into ashes that merged with light and mist.

Lin Wang asked curiously, "What are you doing?"

"Ah... this is our group's rule every time we go on a mission." Dog Brother gripped the steering wheel, glanced at Lin Wang through the rearview mirror, and replied, "This increases the success rate of missions."

Even now, these rituals from another world still seem very interesting and mysterious...

Lin Wang pondered.

At this moment, Bai Xiaoxiao took out a second bundle of talismans.

Lin Wang was a little curious, so he casually took two bills from the mercenary girl's hand and looked at them closely.

A talisman reads: "Safe travels."

The other one reads: "Make a fortune!!"

The second exclamation mark was drawn out so long it looked like it was about to be drawn on the back of the talisman.

Lin Wang kept a straight face, silently returned the talisman to Bai Xiaoxiao, turned his head to look out the window, and didn't say a word.

I didn't even need to look at that...

About two or three hours later, the jeep turned onto a side road.

Dog Bro's tone became excited as he pointed into the depths of the fog ahead: "The Steelbone Army's base is just ahead! Just go around that bend and head northwest for another ten minutes or so, and you'll be there!"

Ten minutes later.

"...What happened?"

Dog Bro looked confused: "Why can't I find it... The Steelbone Army's base is clearly right here!"

Bai Xiaoxiao said, "Could it be that you took a wrong turn somewhere?"

"Unlikely... I'll try again." Dog muttered to himself as he stepped on the gas again.

Ten minutes later.

"Huh? How did we end up back here again?" Dog Bro's forehead started to sweat, beads of sweat dripping onto his beard, and his lips trembled.

His hands trembled, and he muttered to himself, "I must have gone to the wrong place again... How could this be..."

Lin Wang looked around, and at that moment, not only him, but everyone in the car began to realize that something was wrong.

The side road leading to the Steelbone Army doesn't look complicated. It branches off from the main road and is as simple and straight as a normal country road, with some rugged rocks and trees on both sides.

But even on this simple road, Dog Bro walked it two or three times and still couldn't find the gate to the Steelbone Army's base.

More importantly, each time, the Jeep would eventually circle back to the starting point of the road.

The fog around us had become much thicker than before, and it looked quite abnormal.

Dog Bro's forehead was covered in even more sweat.

Lin Wang squinted, beginning to ponder. This situation... is clearly not right...

At this moment, Bai Xiaoxiao glanced behind her, her face turning pale: "Brother Gou! Look behind you!"

Dog Brother flinched, and the car almost veered into the ditch.

He slammed on the brakes, and everyone in the car jolted.

Lin Wang raised his hand and shielded Wu Yue's forehead. The little girl's head was buried in his palm, so it didn't touch the front seat.

Everyone turned their heads to look behind them.

Everyone was taken aback when they saw this.

Behind them, a pale yellow mist churned and approached the vehicle; with each step the car took forward, the mist drew closer.

Dog Brother's face turned pale, and his whole body began to tremble.

Lin Wang pondered for a moment, then patted Dog Brother on the shoulder (incidentally, even this pat made Dog Brother shudder): "Stop the car."

Without a second thought, Dog Brother stopped the car.

He turned his head: "Boss, what's wrong...?"

Lin Wang interrupted him, pointing to the rear window: "Do you remember the direction of the road we came from behind?"

Dog Brother thought for a moment, then nodded and raised his hand: "I remember... this direction."

"Okay, starting from this direction, turn around and look inside... In your memory, which direction is the Steelbone Army's gate?"

"...It's roughly around here." Dog hesitated for a moment, then pointed in a certain direction, "But now..."

"Move aside, I'll drive."

"Huh? Oh, oh." Dog Brother gave the driver's seat to Lin Wang, who then adjusted the seat to its furthest position and asked Dog Brother, "Can you adjust it any further?"

"Boss, just make do with it. After all, this wasn't designed for people from the North..."

Lin Wang was squatting in the driver's seat, and the scene looked like an adult driving bumper cars at an amusement park.

He gripped the steering wheel, recalling the direction Dog had just pointed, and then closed his eyes.

The moment he closed his eyes, Dog Brother and Bai Xiaoxiao, who were standing nearby, were startled.

"Boss, what kind of stance and technique is this?! Why are your eyes closed?!"

"Brother Lin, you... which driving school taught you to drive like that?!"

Lin Wang opened his eyes and glanced at the two of them: "What driving school? I don't have a driver's license."

"This is even scarier!"

Lin Wang interrupted the two and chuckled, "It'll get even scarier in a bit... No matter how I drive or what appears in front of the car, don't make a sound or interrupt me."

Bai Xiaoxiao was stunned: "Big brother, what are you going to do?"

Dog Bro, however, reacted in advance: "Okay, whatever you say."

Bai Xiaoxiao wanted to ask more questions, but Lin Wang had already closed his eyes.

And so, with a tall man standing with his eyes closed in a comical pose, the jeep drove straight off the road and into the depths of the fog.

A huge rock appeared in front of the car.

Dog Brother, Bai Xiaoxiao, and May behind them all tensed up and trembled.

Bai Xiaoxiao gripped the passenger side handrail tightly, her eyes wide open.

Dog Brother put one hand in his mouth and bit down hard on a row of fingers.

May, standing to the side, was tense and looked very nervous, but her eyes were shining, and she muttered, "This is so exciting!"

Then, the car crashed head-on into the boulder.

But the collision that people expected did not occur. Miraculously, the vehicle passed through the boulder and continued to move forward.

Bai Xiaoxiao's eyes widened: "...An illusion?"