Nightmare Apostle

Upon hearing Wang Yong’s name, Yang Xiao furrowed his brow even more tightly. He originally thought the ghost’s target tonight was him and Ye Zheng, or perhaps Zhao Xuehua and Zhang Xiaomin who were in the game room.

Wang Yong and Liu Hongwei were in a team, tasked with observing undercover in the dance hall tonight. Could it be... that they also encountered something strange?

But that shouldn’t be, before separating at night they had returned to the storage room for a small meeting. At that time both Wang Yong and Liu Hongwei were present, and neither mentioned encountering anything strange.

Moreover, tonight he had tricked the phone ghost, telling them they would wait in the family dormitory for new armbands to be delivered.

But now it seems the phone ghost wasn’t fooled, since they lived in Family Building No. 1, and the deaths tonight occurred in Family Building No. 4.

But the incident has already happened, so Yang Xiao decided to go to the scene to check it out, perhaps they missed a critical clue somewhere.

Regarding Yang Xiao’s request, Chief Zhou initially did not agree. After all, according to regulations, Yang Xiao and his teammate shouldn’t be at the scene, as it could easily expose their identity.

Yet Yang Xiao insisted on going, arguing that he had just encountered something strange, and as a witness to the attack, he might be able to discover some clues that ordinary people overlook.

Thus, Chief Zhou left a few people to guard the scene and took Yang Xiao and Ye Zheng with him to set off. It was Yang Xiao’s first time riding on this type of motorcycle with a sidecar.

Chief Zhou drove, Yang Xiao sat in the sidecar, and Ye Zheng sat behind Chief Zhou, while others followed on bikes.

The motorcycle sped along swiftly, and Yang Xiao felt completely shaken in the sidecar, nearly losing the coarse grain bun he had eaten a short time ago.

When he got off the bike, Yang Xiao’s legs were trembling.

Following Chief Zhou’s instructions, everyone put on the red armbands, which were the mark of the Security Division, and then, led by responders at the scene, they entered Family Building No. 4 in single file.

The group walked upward; Wang Yong and Liu Hongwei lived relatively high, in room 27 on the 4th floor, as the family buildings only reached up to the 4th floor.

Upon entering the family building, they were greeted by the humid and stuffy atmosphere, and the hallway was cramped and crowded. The living conditions here were even worse than in Yang Xiao’s building.

But Yang Xiao was relatively satisfied with Chief Zhou’s team’s ability to control the scene well; the incident hadn’t alarmed many people, and the doors of the rooms they passed were all tightly closed.

Accompanying Security Division personnel quietly explained to Yang Xiao that most people on this floor were scheduled for night shifts and wouldn’t be in the dormitory at this time, as they were working in the front factory.

"That Liu Hongwei is a strong girl, no wonder she’s from the big city."

"She immediately went to the gatehouse downstairs to make a phone call to the Security Division upon noticing something amiss, without crying, causing a commotion, or making too much noise," the guard at the scene explained.

Soon, Yang Xiao’s group arrived at room 27 on the 4th floor; pushing the door open, they saw Liu Hongwei sitting at the bedside, distressed, accompanied by two others.

Seeing Yang Xiao and the others, Liu Hongwei seemed to see her family and momentarily lost control of her emotions, tears streaming down.

But Ye Zheng took the opportunity to comfort her and pinched Liu Hongwei’s arm forcefully, indicating she should hold back, as this was Nightmare World and she shouldn’t speak recklessly.

Luckily, Liu Hongwei was perceptive enough, adjusted her glasses, wiped away her tears, and, as requested by Chief Zhou, began recounting the events of the night.

After leaving the Cultural Palace, she and Wang Yong didn’t even have dinner, going straight back to the dormitory, which is here.

After all, the factory at night is different from the day, somewhat eerie, so they acted cautiously in this regard.

They hadn’t left the family building after returning, Liu Hongwei felt a bit sleepy and went to bed first, while Wang Yong, claiming he wasn’t tired, sat in the chair reading comics.

"What comic?" Yang Xiao asked seriously.

The dormitory had a very simple layout, with everything visible at a glance; there was not a comic, book, or piece of paper in sight.

"I don’t know what it was about—it was... it was something Wang Yong brought back from the reading room. After Wang Yong disappeared, the book also vanished," Liu Hongwei explained.

The reading room did not allow books to be taken without permission, and Wang Yong’s action was evidently a violation, but no one pursued it now.

"Did he disappear in this room?" Chief Zhou scanned the entire room, his sharp gaze not missing any suspicious detail. "While you were asleep?"

"No, no, not here—it was... outside, by the communal restroom at the corridor’s side. He disappeared while going to the toilet," Liu Hongwei hurriedly clarified.

These few family buildings shared identical layouts; the communal restrooms were positioned at the corridor’s left side end, together with the washing area.

Turning from the corridor, the washing area came first, with two elongated concrete basins for washing and grooming on both left and right.

On the corresponding wall, a row of vintage taps were installed, where the staff on this floor fetched water and washed.

The washing area had doors on the left and right; the left was the men’s restroom, and the right, the women’s.

According to Liu Hongwei, she was sleeping deeply when Wang Yong suddenly woke her, holding his stomach and looking troubled, saying he had a stomachache and needed to go to the bathroom.

Originally, their room had an old night pot in the corner, but at the moment, the area around it was wet, with a pool of liquid. Sniffing, she detected a foul stench.

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