Nightmare Light

Chapter 254 Entering the Tomb
A dozen seconds later, the mouse with a tuft of white fur on its head, holding a biscuit on its head, straightened up with its two paws supporting it, and like a human, scurried away on its hind legs and disappeared into the rocks.

Lin Wang stared blankly at everything. He felt that he would no longer be surprised by anything strange he saw.

After waiting for two or three minutes, several unusually large rats ran back.

Huang Liangye squatted on the roof of the cart and squeaked with the rats below for a while. He then waved to the rats below, scattering them.

After that, he went back into the car and squatted down in front of Dog Brother's steering wheel.

On the long, pointed face of the big yellow rat, a surprisingly human-like expression of "confusion and hesitation" appeared.

"what happened?"

"I have good news and bad news," the yellow-skinned rat said, licking its paw and wagging its tail.

Lin Wang raised his hand, aimed at Huang Liangye's forehead, and made a flicking motion on the forehead.

The big yellow mouse squeaked, shrank its neck, and covered its forehead with its two little paws: "I'll talk! I'll talk, okay?!"

He grinned at Lin Wang and said, "The good news is that we should indeed go to the right—the rats say there's a huge facility underground on the right."

"And what's the bad news?" Bai Xiaoxiao asked.

Huang Liangye added, "The bad news is that the rats want us to go to the left side again after we've finished our business."

"Why?"

"There's a huge maze on the left, and a lot of rats are trapped inside and can't get out. We need to go and rescue them."

"..."

Lin Wang's face twitched, and he said, "Let's go, we've been delayed long enough."

Huang Liangye jumped onto the back of Dog Brother's head, grabbed a lock of hair, and pulled it to the right: "Whoa! Whoa!"

Dog Brother pulled the steering wheel to the right, and the car turned into the right lane.

Dog Bro's new skill is getting better and better...

Lin Wang then made another sarcastic remark.

The car turned onto a new road, and after driving for a while, a fairly large open space appeared in front of them.

Everyone could tell at a glance that this place was the true entrance to the imperial tomb—the reason was simple: the Steelbone Army had set up a dense array of defensive facilities around it.

Sandbags, machine guns, turrets, and even the magically amplifying crystals...

And an astonishing amount of explosives, enough to blast the entire canyon to smithereens.

The group stopped the car and headed deeper into the open space.

After circling the open area twice, they found a hidden passage by a rock with a flickering flame.

The group entered the mountainside and walked for a while through a man-made passage.

The stone passageway was dimly lit.

The Night Wanderer floated at the very front, and from somewhere he pulled out a lantern and grabbed a little Night Wanderer from the air.

He grabbed the little night wanderer by the neck and, taking advantage of the latter's pale face, shoved it into the lantern.

Then, carrying a lantern, it floated at the front, its tone very happy: "My lord! Let me lead the way! Just follow me!"

...I have a feeling that I've seen something very strange...

Lin Wang mentally scoffed and withdrew his hand, which was about to light the white flame.

After walking along the passage for a while, Night Wanderer took the lead, squeezed out of the passage, and entered a pitch-black space.

Soon, from that space came the Night Wanderer's somewhat confused, even trembling voice.

"My...my lord, come and see!"

Lin Wang conjured a ball of white flame, illuminating the passage.

They ran a few steps quickly along the passage.

After exiting the passage, what appeared before them was an extremely spacious and enormous space inside the mountain. It was surrounded by huge stones, each over a meter tall, forming a pyramid-shaped space inside the mountain.

In the very center of the ground in this space, there is an ancient and complex pentagonal magic circle.

However, at two corners of the magic circle, the boulder cracked, and the magic circle pattern was also graffitied and altered by some unknown liquid.

That was clearly the culprit that the Steelbone Army officer had mentioned earlier, the one that caused the magic circle to malfunction.

But none of this was enough to make the Night Wanderer feel surprised or even nervous.

Lin Wang's gaze fell on a corner of the space.

In the light of the night patrol's lanterns, the crowd saw hundreds of steel-framed military uniforms, black and cracked, piled and intertwined like tattered rags...

On a huge mass of rotten flesh.

It was a mountain of flesh, piled up from the blood, bones, and broken limbs of hundreds of humans.

When everyone saw it, it was already complete, the aggregation of all the flesh and blood in the room.

At this moment, it was moving its enormous body toward the center of the room, toward the magic circle.

“Those uniforms…are they from the Steelbone Army?!” Bai Xiaoxiao exclaimed in surprise.

"Could it be... that this lump of flesh is one of the mortal soldiers of the Steelbone Army who were previously responsible for guarding the inside of the tomb?" Dog Brother exclaimed.

"Judging from the numbers... I'm afraid almost all of the Steelbone Army's regular divisions are here." Lin Wang squinted. "No wonder we hardly saw any regular divisions or officers at the Steelbone Army's base..."

"It seems that officer is the 'officer' seed left behind by the Steelbone Army. Apart from that person, all the other elite members of the Steelbone Army are probably here." Bai Xiaoxiao looked at the writhing mass of flesh, her emotions somewhat complicated.

"Those Steelbone Army guys... they live up to their name," Dog sighed. "Those tough-as-nails."

But no matter how much they lamented, what lay before them was an undeniable fact—these corrupted Steelbone Military Divisions had completely merged into one monster.

Meanwhile, the monster was slowly moving its body toward the magic circle.

"Stop it!" Dog shouted, then muttered under his breath, "Should it be it or them?"

Despite muttering to himself, he still put on the lion's head and breathed fire at the monster.

A pungent stench emanated from the monster, and some of its clothing and flesh scraps fell off.

Bai Xiaoxiao also raised her wooden hammer and nails and struck them heavily in the direction of the monster.

With a loud crack, a mass of dark flesh exploded out of the monster's body and scattered all over the ground.

Seeing that the attack was effective, the two men were invigorated.

Another attack was launched.

In this round, the two mercenaries from the Wild Wolf Gang inflicted even greater damage on the monster. In some places, severed limbs and torsos fell to the ground, exposing the monster's internal organs.

Dog Brother shouted at Lin Wang, "Boss, all you immortals, make your move!"

Huang Liangye bared his teeth at him: "Why would I lay a hand on this thing! It's obvious it doesn't dream!"

The Night Wanderer was even more decisive: "I only obey my lord's commands!"

Lin Wang frowned: "...Don't rush to make a move. I always feel that there's something wrong with this guy."

"This guy looks really weird!" Dog Bro exclaimed again.

During this time, the monster finally moved to the center of the room, to the location of the magic circle.

At that moment, Lin Wang slapped his palm, suddenly realizing, "I know what's wrong! This guy doesn't show the slightest bit of hostility!"

[Special sacrificial object detected, distance: 5 meters]

Meanwhile, from the wound on the back of the monster, a hideous human face wriggled and grew, dripping with slime.

His face contorted a few times, then he gave Lin Wang and his companions a pained, furrowed brow.

"Citizens, run! We can't hold them off for long!"

(End of this chapter)