Netherworld Retrograde

Chapter 122: Chapter 55 Take You Home_2

He could go find and rescue the short-haired girl trapped in the Kaidan.

Maybe even comfort her and take advantage of her vulnerability.

”We’re not going to save him?” a student asked in panic, clearly seeing Huang Du as their leader.

Huang Du sneered internally but showed a regretful expression, ”It’s too late, let’s take this chance to leave... Don’t waste his sacrifice.”

He said, reaching out to help a female student nearby, putting on a concerned look.

”What about them?” another student pointed to the injured lying on the ground.

Huang Du shook his head again, ”From what it seems, those statues won’t attack unconscious people. We can’t take them with us, we just have to leave them here, we must leave the art gallery, leave this school. We can’t afford any burdens...”

After some hesitation, the students gave up for safety concerns.

Following Huang Du, they left the classroom and headed towards the staircase in the opposite direction of the safety passage.

...

Meanwhile, Li Yelai was extremely fast, quickly reaching the location of the safety exit.

But just as Li Yelai approached,

the originally green indicator light suddenly turned blood red!

The red light illuminated the surroundings, making the entire safety passage door look increasingly ominous.

Horror Tales Notebook, Clause Five: If the door of the emergency exit has a green light, you can pass through. If it’s red, do not approach!

Li Yelai stopped in his tracks and cursed loudly, ”Fine, fine, fine, playing it this way, huh?”

He wasn’t sure if it was just his bad luck encountering the red light or if someone deliberately changed the color.

Anyway, Li Yelai couldn’t use the safety passage now.

So, Li Yelai turned to look behind him.

He was moving fast and had put some distance between himself and the statues. But as he ran, a large number of statues poured out of the rooms, about twenty in total.

At the moment, all were rapidly approaching him. Among them were stone statues and bronze statues.

Leading the charge were two stone lions, as lively as real lions, and they showed their sharp tusks to Li Yelai.

No, they were even more terrifying than real lions.

After all, lions have flesh and blood, but their bodies were hard stone. Impenetrable by blades or guns, even a slide tackle would be useless.

Since it was unavoidable, he had to use his last resort.

So, Li Yelai quickly wiped his face with his hand.

Activating Xiang Yu’s Face, Overlord’s Double Pupils appear!

In the next instant, he kicked furiously at the forehead of the stone lion closest to him.

With a ’crack’, the head of the stone lion instantly shattered. That kick hit its weakness without much force, yet it shattered directly.

With one move, Li Yelai didn’t lessen his attack, his Hot Melt Axe fiercely chopped down, directly cutting another stone lion at the waist. Then, stepping on the headless body of the first stone lion, he leapt up and pounced on the closest statue.

It was a muscular, naked human-shaped statue, seemingly some David.

But it also had no time to react before Li Yelai with a powerful splitting move, chopped it in half. Li Yelai grabbed one half and, with terrifying strength, swung it around and smashed it onto the head of the fourth statue.

The stone statue shattered, mud and dust flying everywhere. The fourth statue fell to the ground with a smashed head.

In an instant, four statues were destroyed, and the statues collectively paused.

The light above Li Yelai’s head flickered, then exploded violently.

Darkness descended, sparks flew, outlining the figure of Li Yelai.

This also made the statue abnormalities halt their advance.

Although they were just abnormalities derived from the Horror Tales Notebook, they were not without intelligence and instinct.

At this moment, for the first time since their creation, they experienced... fear!

All fear comes from a lack of firepower!

Then Li Yelai went full firepower!

...

Meanwhile, Huang Du and others had already approached the staircase.

Li Yelai had attracted most of the statues, making their path much safer.

Occasionally encountering a few statues, they safely got past them under Huang Du’s command.

This left some students crying tears of joy, thinking they could finally escape this hellish place.

Looking at Huang Du, their eyes filled with increasing respect or admiration. Many females also subconsciously moved closer to Huang Du.

Huang Du was very satisfied, convinced that after a few more dangers, those girls would see him as a heroic figure and let him take whatever he wanted.

However, just at that moment,

a heavy object crashed onto the ground not far away, shattering the floor tiles.

Everyone stunned and looked towards the source of the sound with fear, dreading that it might attract other statues.

However, once they saw the object clearly, the scholars’ eyes widened and Huang Du’s smile instantly froze.

Because, lying not far behind them, was a shattered statue head!

The crowd looked back in astonishment and witnessed a bizarre sight.

The terrifying statues were fleeing rapidly, as if a monster was chasing them. Behind them in the corridor, light bulbs started bursting one by one.

Darkness gradually encroached on the passage, but it also drove away those abnormal statues.

Some statues fiercely fought back, charging into the darkness, but after a crisp snap, they never reemerged.

’Click,’ ’bang,’ ’boom’—

Strange sounds came from the darkness.

It was the sound of statues shattering, the sound of metal being cut.

It was... a monster hunting abnormalities!

People watched in disbelief as a humanoid stone statue suddenly knelt down, repeatedly kowtowing to the other side.

This made everyone widen their eyes in disbelief.

The previously frightening statues were now kowtowing and begging for mercy?

What monster was chasing them?

The next second, they saw a figure with an axe step out of the shadows, stepping forward to crush a statue’s head.

Then, the light bulb above his head suddenly aged and burst, letting darkness swallow the figure once again.

The remaining statues grew increasingly panicked, frantically moving closer to where the people were.

The crowd was quite startled, but the statues ultimately did not get close to them.

The last humanoid statue was clearly an activated Contemplator Statue.

When it was about ten meters away from the crowd, it suddenly lost its lower left leg and then violently crashed to the ground.

It seemed to emit a frightened but silent scream, frantically clawing at the ground, trying to avoid the creature behind it.

Even from its face, one could see its pleading.

But darkness caught up to it, a bony palm stretching out from the shadows, grabbing its right leg and dragging it into the darkness.

The Contemplator Statue struggled wildly, leaving several scratch marks on the ground, then was swallowed by darkness.

After a burst of sparks and the sound of metal cutting, there was no more sound.

Then, a figure walked out from the darkness.

It was none other than Li Yelai.

He walked out of the darkness with an expressionless face, as if nothing had happened.

Yet he made everyone feel an oppressive atmosphere.

Huang Du turned pale; in the world of the Horror Tales Notebook, he was supposed to be an invincible being.

He should have been roaming through the horrors like a Divine, using the horror to determine everyone’s life and death.

But what was the deal with the man in front of them?

Why were the abnormalities eradicated? Why was this guy more terrifying than the abnormalities?

Endless fear urged Huang Du to flee from the place.

But Li Yelai was already standing in front of him.

”Wait, classmate! I had no idea what was in there...” Huang Du quickly defended himself, never having imagined such a situation.

A human eradicating Horror Tales abnormalities, it was an incomprehensible power! How could such a power exist?

He must...

Before he could finish his thought, Li Yelai’s fist smashed into his face.

Before passing out, Huang Du saw his teeth flying...

Some students looked at Li Yelai in shock, and then at Huang Du, whose face was deformed.

They dared not criticize, but instead watched Li Yelai anxiously.

”Don’t be afraid, I am an official here. This horror incident is related to him.” Li Yelai briefly explained and then told everyone, ”This floor is now safe, go back and bring the injured. I’ll take you all home!”