Nightmare Apostle

Chapter 1252: Chapter 831: Mutation

"What’s wrong?" Yang Xiao packed his things and immediately retreated.

The slate couldn’t be taken away, but this porcelain bottle and that Human Skin Book must be taken out, Yang Xiao was sure these two items were related to the "Painted Woman".

A faint sound from the tavern owner could still be heard from above, but since it was quite far, Yang Xiao couldn’t hear clearly.

Before leaving, Yang Xiao retrieved two candles, they were the lifeline for them to leave here alive.

Quickly climbing up the bamboo ladder, once out of the hole, Yang Xiao immediately put the overturned cover back, the secret chamber gave him a very bad feeling.

At this moment the tavern owner was crouching behind the window, anxiously gesturing for silence, signaling them to move quietly.

Yang Xiao tiptoed to the window, looked outside, and frowned after a moment, seeing many more figures outside the fence.

"What’s going on?" Yang Xiao asked in a low voice.

The tavern owner also became tense, his voice trembling, "I don’t know, I... I just noticed it, maybe... maybe those corpses drew these ghostly things over."

"Should have thrown the bodies into the well." Sopa felt a bit regretful, she knew there was a deep, dark well in the backyard of this yard.

But now mutual blame couldn’t solve the problem, Yang Xiao signaled everyone to calm down and entrusted the task of finding a breakout route to the tavern owner.

Sopa’s candle was almost burned out, leaving only a little bit, Yang Xiao handed her the candle Datou left behind, it was also a promise with Datou.

However, what surprised Yang Xiao was that after receiving the candle, Sopa immediately realized it was her brother’s and asked why her brother’s candle was in Yang Xiao’s hand.

Yang Xiao reacted quickly, impatiently explained that Datou voluntarily gave him the candle as a reward for rescuing people in the village.

"Why didn’t my brother come?" Sopa seemed determined to get to the bottom of this.

"He was injured, his movement restricted, coming down would only hinder the action." Yang Xiao explained.

Seeing them still arguing over a dead person at this point, the tavern owner, who was eager to leave the village and go home, didn’t know what else to say.

"Did you find a way out?" Yang Xiao nudged the tavern owner.

"There’s no choice, too many people at the front, we can only go around the back." The tavern owner peeked out, kept observing.

Arriving downstairs, the two tightly followed the tavern owner, bent over all the way, and squeezed out through a gap in the backyard fence.

On the way, Sopa exchanged a look with Yang Xiao, Yang Xiao nodded, confirming Sopa’s suspicion that the tavern owner leading the way was also a ghost, yet in this Ghost Village, he was a special presence.

As to why, Yang Xiao was unclear, perhaps related to the person’s subsequent experiences. freewebnovёl.ƈom

Under the tavern owner’s guidance, the group escaped the Ghost Village without alarm, but just as Yang Xiao was about to climb over the hill in front to find a boat back, Sopa, the time bomb, finally exploded.

Having not seen her brother who was supposed to be waiting for her up the hill, she realized she had been deceived.

Yang Xiao had no choice but to speak the truth, bringing in the tavern owner to testify for him.

But Sopa didn’t buy it at all, she wanted to go back to find Datou, after all, no one saw Datou’s corpse, his death couldn’t be confirmed.

Seeing this, the tavern owner quickly stopped her, earnestly advised that the cliff was at least dozens of meters high, jumping down would be certainly fatal, going back now would be courting death.

But Sopa wouldn’t listen to anyone, she violently shook off the tavern owner, tearfully said, "Don’t mind me, you guys go, I’ll find him on my own!"

The sound of arguing seemed to have attracted something else, Yang Xiao looked around vigilantly, uncertain figures swayed behind the mist in the forest, these ghostly things were more troublesome than he thought.

There was no time to dawdle with Sopa, Yang Xiao quickly took a few steps, grabbed Sopa who was about to rush into the mist, and despite her struggle, pinning her harshly against a tree, "Listen! I won’t stop you from dying, but you can’t die here, otherwise I can’t explain to your brother!"

"Don’t mind me! I want to go back to find him, he’s not dead, my brother is stronger than any of you, you are all still alive, he won’t be dead!"

Sopa cried and struggled, her nails leaving scratches on Yang Xiao’s cheeks, until——

"Slap!"

"Slap! Slap!"

Yang Xiao raised his hand, delivering a few loud slaps to Sopa’s face.

Those slaps weren’t pulled back on force, Sopa’s delicate face immediately swelled, her nose bleeding and red with handprints.

But those slaps’ effect was immediate, Sopa stopped struggling, her pupils dimmed, and regained some sense.

Seeing Sopa seemed drained of all her strength, slowly sliding to the ground sobbing, Yang Xiao helped her up, gripped her shoulders tightly, "Let’s go, don’t let your brother die in vain, you have to live for his sake too!"

"They’re coming, those things are coming!" The tavern owner suddenly cried out.

Following his pointed direction, sure enough, a few Ghost Village People had already walked out of the mist, these were only the advance troops, how many more were in the mist was unknown. freeweɓnøvel.com

Pulling Sopa up, Yang Xiao and the others ran towards the hill, midway, Sopa shook off Yang Xiao’s hand, charged ahead.

Watching Sopa’s small but resolute figure, Yang Xiao felt indescribable emotions, in the Nightmare World, life and death were a moment’s affair, and so was growth.