Nightmare Apostle

Chapter 216: Chapter 183: The Long Road Finally Ends (Fu Lin Middle School Side Story Concluded)

"Where are those people?" Xu Yu asked.

"Who are you talking about?" Song Yan also excelled at playing dumb, feigning ignorance on purpose.

"Of course, Sun Shengnan, and Xia Xiuyan and all those people!"

"Ah, them. Through Teacher Wang’s patient and meticulous education, they have all expressed willingness to confess and accept their punishment, even asking to stay behind, to remain in that classroom to atone for their deeds," Yang Xiao sighed with emotion, "Teacher Wang is too kind-hearted."

"They got off too easy!" Xu Yu didn’t doubt it for second.

Some moments later, holding the camera, Xu Yu’s eyes shone with renewed brightness, "But no matter, with this evidence, even if Sun Shengnan and Xia Xiuyan are gone, as long as we find those parents who harmed Teacher Wang in the past, we can clear his name!"

Yang Xiao showed a troubled expression, stammering, "That’s true, but it might be difficult to carry out."

"What, with this evidence, they won’t confess?"

"No, what I mean is you might never find them again." Yang Xiao had a vision of Teacher Wang slaying furiously in his mind, and still felt scared, so he briefly summarized the recent events to Xu Yu, omitting some details.

When Xu Yu learned that those people had impersonated police officers, deceived for evidence, and even considered harming Yang Xiao and the others, she was so angry she trembled. After so many years, these people hadn’t changed at all; the evil ingrained in their bones was sickening.

"That kind of people, and Teacher Wang still reasoned with them?" Xu Yu was both furious and anxious but couldn’t help admiring the teacher’s magnanimity.

"He did. He explained thoroughly and clearly until those people were kneeling on the ground, weeping bitterly, confessing their sins." Worried that Teacher Wang might be nearby, Yang Xiao repeatedly spoke well of Teacher Wang, "Not only is he a teacher, but he’s also an educator."

"Let’s stop talking about this for now, we should get going and give this evidence to the police," Song Yan suddenly interjected.

On the way to the police station, Xu Yu received a call from a teacher guarding the hospital, bearing grave news.

Lu Ji had died. Due to excessive injuries and untimely medical rescue, he eventually passed away on the operating table.

After a moment of shock, Yang Xiao and the others fell silent. As partners who had fought for survival together, they did feel some sorrow at receiving news of his death, but not much. After all they had been through, they had become somewhat numb, as if death wasn’t such a distant and terrifying matter anymore.

"It’s for the best. The sooner one dies, the sooner one is reincarnated." Sighing, Song Yan leaned back in the seat, closed his eyes, and chose to remain silent.

Yu Mi, sitting by the window, began to sob softly, though it was unclear whether it was for Lu Ji or the contemplation of her own future.

They were all poor souls caught in a nightmare; as long as they were alive, they would continuously receive scripts from the nightmare. Dying by suicide, rather than a brutal murder by the Ghost, was already a rare mercy in the nightmare.

"Stop crying," Yang Xiao gently patted Yu Mi’s shoulder, softening his tone unusually, "Let brother Lu rest in peace on his last journey."

Driving the car, Xu Yu noticed the others’ strange behavior, but she didn’t ask further. Everyone has secrets or pasts unknown to others.

The car continued to drive; the night brought drizzling rain. The rain wasn’t heavy but shrouded the world in a foggy veil. The car lights pierced through the drizzle, as if headed towards an unknown world.

Gradually, Xu Yu realized something was off. She often drove down this street, but this time, after driving for a full ten minutes, she had yet to see a single traffic light intersection. The road stretched straight ahead, disappearing into the blurred curtain of rain, seemingly endless.

Other vehicles were also driving on the road—sedans, SUVs, vans, even large trucks hauling goods. Various vehicles sped by. Colorful signs of shops on both sides of the road—restaurants, bars, inns, everything one could need—with the occasional person with an umbrella seen on the sidewalks, hurried steps suggesting they were rushing somewhere.

Xu Yu hit the brakes and stopped the car in the middle of the road. She felt a heaviness in her chest, panic overtaking her body, knowing something was wrong, and yet... yet she couldn’t feel Teacher Wang’s presence nearby.

"Time’s up," Song Yan suddenly opened his eyes.

Yang Xiao was also ready; their mission had come to an end, and all of them simultaneously felt an eerie force.

This force was pulling them towards a door, and stepping through that door would mean returning to the real world.

"Goodbye, Teacher Xu Yu. Without your persistence, Teacher Wang’s case would never have been brought to light. Thank you," Yang Xiao said sincerely as he opened the car door, looking back at Xu Yu in the driver’s seat. freeweɓnovel.cøm

From a certain perspective, Teacher Wang was fortunate, after all, to have such a student willing to advocate tirelessly for his innocence.

At that moment, Xu Yu seemed to be immobilized by a strange force, not to mention turning around, even moving a little finger felt like wishful thinking.

As Yang Xiao and the other two got out of the car, the scene outside the window made Xu Yu widen her eyes in disbelief, as vehicles on the road came to a halt, clearing a path for the trio.

The shops on both sides of the street that were just brightly lit went dark simultaneously, leaving only a clothing store on the left with its sign still on.

It was an unremarkable little shop, but at this moment it seemed to be eroded by some weird force, and staring at the door of the clothing store, Xu Yu even felt a fear as if her soul was about to be expelled.

This was definitely not Teacher Wang’s doing, as he did not have such power. Under the influence of this force, the entire town she knew was twisted. Glancing sideways, Xu Yu felt a chill on the back of her neck as she realized that all the vehicles parked nearby were empty, with no one in the driver’s seats.

When they reached the door of the clothing store, they found the exit. Yu Mi was about to ask something, but before she could even speak, Song Yan pushed her hard from behind, and the moment she collided with the door and opened it, her figure was engulfed.

"Chu Xi, does the promise you made earlier still stand?" Song Yan asked seriously.

"Of course."

"Where do you live? Let’s meet up after we get out, have a proper chat."

Yang Xiao wanted to probe Song Yan further, so he repeated his usual method, "There’s a Yin Zhe Coffee House on Rongcheng West Suburb Si Nan Road. Let’s meet there at 10 a.m. tomorrow."

"Agreed, it’s a promise."

Just as the two were saying their brief goodbyes and preparing to leave, a questioning voice suddenly came from a distance behind them, "Who... Who exactly are you guys?"

Looking in the direction of the voice, they saw Xu Yu had fallen out of the car, the driver’s door wide open. She seemed to be pressed down by a force, lying prone on the ground, incapable of standing up, yet she still bravely lifted her head, her gaze firmly fixed on them.

Song Yan was about to speak when Yang Xiao’s voice rang out beside him, "We are messengers of justice; wherever there is injustice, there we shall be. Good and evil will eventually be repaid; it’s not that they’re not reported, the time just hasn’t come yet."

"Bastards!" Xu Yu lay on the ground, tears streaming down her face, "Couldn’t you have come earlier? 20 years, it’s been 20 years! If only you had come sooner, Teacher Wang... Teacher Wang wouldn’t have died! Neither would my grandmother!"

"What’s the point of coming now when everyone’s already dead, they’re all dead! Is justice that comes too late still justice?!"

Initially intending to offer some comfort to Xu Yu, the pitiful woman, Yang Xiao and Song Yan found themselves awkwardly turning around, shrinking their necks, and hastily entering the door to escape in a cloud of dust.

The second before they stepped through the door, Xu Yu’s voice was still echoing in their ears; she was still screaming, her fists pounding the ground, splashing up countless droplets, her years of pent-up grievances and helplessness bursting forth without restraint.

It turns out there are gods of justice in this world, it’s just that gods, like humans, have their own biases and do not dispense their favor equally to everyone.

Some Teachers Wang had their names cleared, while others are still on the way.