In the Orphanage

There were humans in Jiangbei City, and quite a lot of them. Black Nightmare's first thoughts were the Tech Company and the shelter.

After some consideration, he ultimately decided to start with the shelter, because the Tech Company's defenses were comparatively tighter.

Besides... he had once breached the Tongchang City Shelter. He was familiar with this sort of thing and had plenty of experience.

Black Nightmare could not wait to learn more about Lin Dong, so he planned to act that very night.

It was another dark and windy night.

Under cover of nightfall, Black Nightmare traveled from Tongchang City to Jiangbei City, quickly slipping into a pitch-black forest.

This was where Lin Dong had once battled Azure Scale.

Traces of that battle could still vaguely be seen nearby. Trees had fallen, and dry bones littered the ground, some piled together into mounds of White Bone.

Black Nightmare stood tall atop one of the bone piles, his mismatched black-and-white eyes fixed ahead.

Not far away—

was the human shelter.

After this period of recovery, the shelter had basically regained its strength. Its collapsed walls had been rebuilt, and the buildings inside had been repaired.

Awakened ones patrolled atop the walls. Lamps illuminated the area every few dozen meters, attracting swarms of mosquitoes and insects that buzzed through the air.

"Dream Invasion!"

Black Nightmare murmured. His two-colored eyes narrowed as his S-rank mental power spread out and drifted beyond the walls, disturbing no one as it seeped in without a sound...

He could clearly sense that quite a few people were asleep.

But this time, his goal was not murder.

It was to uncover information about Lin Dong.

So Black Nightmare began searching the humans' memories for anything related to Lin Dong.

Naturally, there were people in the shelter who knew