Nightmare Light

Chapter 295 Going Against the Tide with the Wounded Soldiers
The general-purpose military vehicle driven by the Wild Wolf Gang is actually a large jeep, so the rear compartment and the rear seats are connected. The moment the noise was heard, Lin Wang and Cang made their move.

Lin Wang aimed at the trunk and instantly conjured more than a dozen ice spikes, while in Brain's hand, a patch of blue light containing words had already condensed.

It appears to be a philosophy spanning at least several tens of terabytes.

From the back of the car came a panicked cry: "Ah! Don't hit me, it's me, it's me!"

Lin Wang dismissed the ice spikes in his hand and exclaimed in surprise, "Peach?"

In the back of the vehicle, a tarpaulin covering used for supplies was lifted, revealing a wheat-colored face and a pair of exceptionally bright eyes.

There was also a carefree, silly grin.

"Hey……"

"What are you doing in the car? Does the police have a mission to the North?"

"No! I ran away!" Tian Taozi laughed, sat cross-legged in the back of the car, took out a box and handed it to Lin Wang. "I knew you were coming to the North, so I went back and told Boss Jiang that I wanted to come too, but she didn't agree, so I ran away on my own!"

Lin Wang didn't take her cookie, but the girl forcefully shoved it into his hand without saying a word, holding one up herself and saying with great force, "I'm going to fight for you!"

This girl...

Lin Wang was both amused and exasperated.

He wanted to take Tian Taozi back, but the car was already on the road, and going around in circles would take a lot of time. Besides, given the girl's personality, unless he tied her up, she would most likely do something like stealing from a military vehicle...

Thinking of this, Lin Wang took out his phone and dialed Jiang Shanjun's number.

The mobile phone technology in this world is strange... I've never seen a cell tower...

The thought flashed through his mind at the same time the phone was answered.

“I know that girl is with you.” Jiang Shanjun got straight to the point, her tone cold.

That sounds... a bit strange.

Lin Wang mentally complained, but said, "Yes."

The female section chief sighed almost inaudibly on the phone: "I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you to take care of this child... The enemies are all superhumans, and she insists on going and causing trouble."

"Don't worry, she'll be fine," Lin Wang said.

“But she did break the rules after all.” Jiang Shanjun changed the subject. “Lin Wang, could you please turn on speakerphone?”

Lin Wang pressed the speakerphone button and held the phone close to Tian Taozi. Jiang Shanjun's voice came through the speakerphone.

Her voice sounded extremely serious: "Tian Taozi, an officer of the Fourth Section of the Public Security Bureau, has been disciplined as follows because you acted on your own initiative and violated the relevant regulations for the management of Public Security Bureau officers."

"First, retain your position in the Public Security Bureau, but the position of Operations Captain will be abolished;"

"Secondly, effective today, all matters within the bureau are suspended without pay or leave. You must diligently reflect on your actions and return to work only after you have recognized your mistakes."

Third... be careful.

After saying thank you, the female section chief and Lin Wangdao hung up the phone.

Tian Taozi pouted and looked down: "Wow... the boss seems really angry..."

He paused halfway through his sentence, then suddenly paused, "Wait a minute? Suspension without pay... does that mean I can just run around anywhere without any problem?"

"You're only just realizing it..."

The girl in the back carriage was stunned at first, then realized that she had understood correctly. With a "whoosh!" she jumped up and her head hit the roof of the carriage hard.

Boom!
"Ah...it hurts..."

Lin Wang smiled and shook his head, popping a cookie into his mouth. Wenqujun, standing to the side, turned his head and stared at the cookie with his exposed large eyes, a tentacle swaying beside it.

"You're curious about this?" Lin Wang picked up the biscuit and waved it in front of Cang's eyes.

"No, when I had a human body, I ate these things and was even craving their taste... I'm just suddenly curious whether I can still eat now that I've become like this? Whether I can still experience taste?" Cang's mind wandered.

"Why don't you... give it a try?" Lin Wang handed over a cookie.

Cang hesitated for a moment, then used its tentacles to roll up the biscuit and gestured in front of its eyes: "I don't have a mouth, how am I supposed to 'eat'..."

Then, Cang made a move that surprised everyone—He used two tentacles to pull open a fold on his head and then sandwiched the biscuit inside!
The next second, the cookie, with its wriggling folds, was "squeezed" into my brain!

It also made a clicking sound.

Lin Wang stared at the scene with a look of horror: "The way you're eating is a bit scary!"

"Your aesthetic sense is questionable... Ah, it tastes good... The brain has tens of thousands of times more neurons than the taste cells in the mouth... Eating food directly with your brain really does provide a more interesting and richer experience... Do you want to try it?"

"No, thank you." Lin Wang refused him decisively.

Then he turned to Tian Taozi and said, "You're not allowed to either."

Tian Taozi: "Huh? Oh...wait a minute, how did you know what I was thinking just now?"

"You seem to want to bite the tire of any car you pass by, is that hard to guess?"

"You're talking nonsense! When did I eat tires... By the way, what do tires taste like?"

"Look!"

……

The group of people made a ruckus as they drove north, out of Tangsheng City, into the mountains, and then through the mountains to a plain north of them.

Looking at the gradually flattening plain in front of him, Dog Brother suddenly said, "When my mother was a child, she always told me with a map that if one day we were to fight the Northern People, this plain would be the main battlefield for the final battle of the Candle Clan."

“I never expected that the Candle Clan would actually go to war with the Northern People… but we are the ones who initiated the attack.”

Lin Wang looked towards the roadside. Across the highway, he occasionally saw military vehicles driving back in the opposite direction. Those were probably vehicles that had completed their supply transport missions and were heading back to Tangsheng City.

Lin Wang's pupils suddenly contracted.

He had just seen a truck bed filled with wounded soldiers lying or sitting.

Wounded soldiers... Has conflict already broken out on the front lines?
Lin Wang's emotions were somewhat complicated. He wanted to go to the front lines after the Blood Cult incident was over.

But how could he, a mere individual, influence the course of the war?

While in silent contemplation, the car shuddered slightly and turned onto a side road.

Dog Brother held up the map and said, "According to the map, Shuofeng City is a bit west of here... To be honest, I had only heard of this ancient city in history books before."

It was almost noon, and with the help of the sunlight, the fog in the sky dissipated somewhat.

"That's strange. According to the map, that ancient city should be around here," Dog Brother muttered, frowning as he held the map.

"Could it be that too much time has passed and the records are incorrect?"

"Very likely."

A group of people stopped their car, took out maps, and huddled together to study them.

At this moment, Cang suddenly pointed to a group of undulating mountains not far away and said, "Look over there—doesn't the outline of those mountains look like a city?"

(End of this chapter)