Nightmare Apostle

Chapter 215: Chapter 182: Coming Out

"Cough...cough cough..."

"Teacher...Teacher Wang..."

Xia Xiuyan knelt on the ground, just catching her breath from asphyxiation, when the next second, a goose egg stone appeared in her throat again.

"Heh...heh..."

Clutching her neck, the intense feeling of suffocation made her mind hazy, and she uncontrollably scratched at her throat with her fingernails. Soon, the flesh on her neck was torn open, blood gushing out. freeweɓnøvel.com

This was the punishment for her false accusations, a grievance unredressed by speech that took lives. Even if she coughed out this goose egg stone, there would be another, and another. She would suffocate in pain forever in this classroom, atoning for the evil she had done.

Teacher Wang’s methods were undeniably cruel, chilling to the bone to onlookers, but Yang Xiao thought they were well-deserved for these people.

Sun Shengnan, unwilling to sit still and await death, sprung from the ground and charged at Yang Xiao and the other two. She had observed that Teacher Wang did not intend to kill them for now, and this was her only chance.

"Save me! Get me out of here, and I’ll treat you as..."

Before she could get close, Yang Xiao rushed towards her, lifted a foot, and kicked her away hard, verifying what he had learned in combat class in this moment.

"Get lost!!"

Sun Shengnan crashed to the ground, her momentum sliding her across the damp floor until she came to rest at Teacher Wang’s feet in a ludicrous posture. freēwēbnovel.com

Seeing that Sun Shengnan was still breathing, Yang Xiao finally relaxed. He had put full force into that kick in his hurry and worried that the filthy creature might draw Teacher Wang’s attention, potentially causing a misunderstanding.

If his kick had accidentally killed Sun Shengnan and he inadvertently achieved her "first kill," he wondered if Teacher Wang would mind.

After driving Sun Shengnan away, Yang Xiao immediately ran back and resumed the punishment stance he had been in before, standing with Song Yan and Yu Mi with their backs pressed against the wall, not daring to utter a sound.

Knowing she could not escape her fate, Sun Shengnan grew bolder, dropping her pretense and showing her true colors, cursing Teacher Wang vociferously: "Come on! Kill me! I’ve climbed my way up from a rural kid all on my own, and I’ve lived to this day, I’ve earned enough!"

"As for you, a pitiful and pathetic thing, what have you seen? What have you enjoyed? Hahaha, even if you kill me, what then? People only know you as the Beast Master of the Mountain Village who violated female students, and I, I am the hero who exposed your true face!"

"You’ll only be spat upon, even a hundred years after you die, you’ll still be spat upon, nailed to the pillar of shame, with no chance of turning over a new leaf!!"

"Pitiful, oh so pitiful. And about your damned foster mother, did you know? When she goes to buy eggs at the market, nobody wants to sell to her. Everyone avoids her and gossips about her behind her back."

"All because of you! Because of birthing a thing like you, who violates female students, a cowardly wretch who commits suicide out of fear of his crimes, it’s because of you that your foster parents died!"

"You monster, you deserve to die! People like you should all die!!"

Sun Shengnan’s harsh words were like knives, each one stabbing into Teacher Wang’s heart. Even Yu Mi, an outsider, couldn’t bear to listen anymore. To kill someone was not enough; she had to repeatedly rub salt into the wound. Could there truly be such a spiteful person in the world, with a heart made of stone?

"This woman is really vicious, trying to provoke Teacher Wang for a quick death," Song Yan, with sharper insight than Yu Mi, quickly identified the problem.

"Seeing what happened to those people, she’s scared," Yang Xiao also realized that Sun Shengnan was just bluffing, putting on a fierce front.

As she kept ranting, Sun Shengnan suddenly fell silent. Teacher Wang made his move, pressing her onto the decrepit desk, pulling out a needle and thread, and stitch by stitch, sewed her mouth shut.

But that was not the end. After the mouth came the nose, then the eyes, the ears. Sun Shengnan’s face twitched, but she could only emit desperate muffled groans.

Teacher Wang was skilled and patient, his movements unhurried, each stitch tight and close-set. The flesh on Sun Shengnan’s face was sewn together, blood flowing freely; even Yang Xiao and the others felt chills at this spine-tingling scene.

With the final stitch in place, Sun Shengnan, now blind, struggled to jump up, like a headless fly trying to run. But then, from the ceiling, a hanging rope descended, and Sun Shengnan’s head fit right into it; the noose tightened instantly around her neck and lifted her up.

As Sun Shengnan dangled, struggling in mid-air, the immense pressure on her neck caused by the rope made her suffocate. The next second, an even more horrifying sight occurred—the dismembered "people," some missing hands or feet, or even most of their torso, began crawling towards her, moaning in sorrow as they rushed at Sun Shengnan and grabbed her legs. If it weren’t for this woman, they wouldn’t have ended up in such a dire situation.

"Sun Shengnan, give me back my life!"

"It’s all your fault, all your fault!!"

"You vile woman, I won’t let you go even as a ghost!"

One after another, "people" crawled on top of Shengnan, some cursing violently, some pounding with their fists, and the limbless ones bit with their teeth.

As the weight increased, the hemp rope had dug into Shengnan’s neck; her trachea was crushed, leaving only a vertebra struggling to maintain.

Mouthfuls of blood spewed from Shengnan’s sewn lips, and it was unknown whether she now had even a trace of remorse in her heart.

But none of that mattered anymore. When you did wrong, you took your punishment, and the punishment awaiting Shengnan was to forever remain in this classroom, hanging from the ceiling, day and night, day after day, year after year, atoning for her past wrongdoings.

Along with these greedy people, perhaps one day, Teacher Wang really would feel their repentance and might just set them free.

Shengnan and Xia Xiuyan, two utterly evil individuals, had received the punishment they deserved. Teacher Wang turned around, kicked aside the bothersome Xia Xiuyan at his feet, and stepped towards Yang Xiao and his two companions.

In that moment, Teacher Wang seemed to be possessed by a killing god, his entire body soaked in blood, the eyes beneath the lenses were cold and cruel, paired with a twisted neck and a cyanotic complexion, Yu Mi had never even dreamed of such a horrifying entity.

If they managed to survive this time, there was no doubt that Teacher Wang would haunt her nightmares for the rest of her life.

Seeing Teacher Wang approaching with malice, the three understood that today’s issue was probably insoluble. Although they stood on the same side as Teacher Wang, who could reason with a ghost? After all, the former Teacher Xu Yu had been scratched by Teacher Wang, let alone themselves.

Moreover...moreover, Teacher Wang was now clearly addicted to killing, veins on his neck bulging violently. Just watching him approach left Yu Mi without the courage to resist.

"Teacher Wang, we’re on the same side, we’re on the same side!!" Song Yan still wanted to struggle. He had just tried pushing the window, to no avail.

In a burst of inspiration, Yang Xiao suddenly took out his phone and dialed Xu Yu’s number—if anyone could stop Teacher Wang now, it would only be her.

May the deities bless them, the call connected immediately. "Hello, where are you guys?" Xu Yu on the other end seemed even more anxious than he.

"We’re in the classroom, the one where Shengnan is," Yang Xiao said, cutting the story short.

"What?" Xu Yu panicked immediately, "We just came out from that classroom, why didn’t we see you guys?"

"The room has now turned into the one where Teacher Wang committed suicide, we’re trapped!" Yang Xiao shouted for help, "Hurry and save us, Teacher Wang has gone on a killing spree!"

"Get to the door, I’ll get you out!" Footsteps hurried on the other end, surely Xu Yu was on her way.

Yang Xiao and the others quickly moved, running towards the door, which was now sealed by a brick wall. Song Yan charged at it with his shoulder, but the wall did not budge.

"Hurry up! Hurry up!!"

Xu Yu was now their last hope. Soon, they heard footsteps on the other side of the wall. Yang Xiao, enlivened, began banging on the wall to make noise, "Here! We’re here!"

But the footsteps outside were a step too slow. Teacher Wang had already arrived behind them, and his overwhelming aura of terror halted their breath.

In an absolutely critical moment, Yang Xiao switched the call to speakerphone, and Xu Yu’s voice clearly came through the speaker. "Teacher Wang, don’t harm them! They are good people, they helped me!"

"We’re law-abiding citizens, Teacher Wang!" Yang Xiao blurted out in his panic.

The next second, something happened that none of the three had expected; Teacher Wang slowly extended his hand, holding the camera that had been snatched by the fake policeman.

Without any action from Teacher Wang, the camera screen lit up automatically, beginning to play Xia Xiuyan’s confession video.

But Yang Xiao clearly remembered that this footage had been deleted by Shengnan.

Now was not the time for that; Yang Xiao understood Teacher Wang’s intention immediately. He took the camera, repeatedly agreeing, "Don’t worry, Teacher Wang. We’ll definitely hand over the evidence to the police and clear your name!"

Even after getting a response, Teacher Wang didn’t leave, nor did he remove the obstruction to let them go. The two groups remained at a standoff, Teacher Wang slightly twisting his long neck, his gaze turned towards the wall in front of him, as if he could see through the barrier to Xu Yu outside.

Yang Xiao quickly caught on and also understood Teacher Wang’s concerns. He hung up Xu Yu’s call, "Don’t worry, Teacher Wang, our lips are sealed. I swear, we won’t speak of anything we saw here today, especially not to Teacher Xu Yu. In her heart, you’ll always be the kindest and gentlest teacher, and we won’t trouble her with worry."

As soon as he finished speaking, the scene before them changed abruptly; Teacher Wang disappeared, and the classroom reverted to its former state—no blood, no corpses, no sickening stench of blood. Everything had returned, except that those people, including Teacher Wang, were gone.

"Bang!"

The classroom door swung open, and Xu Yu appeared outside. She looked around, and Yang Xiao, exhausted, took a seat in a chair, panting heavily, simultaneously handing over the camera in his hands.

"Stop looking, Teacher Wang is gone, and the evidence is here."