Hell App - Chapter 122 - Deformation

If you open the door…… you can return home!

The students were very excited. At this moment, the classroom’s wooden door was like the gateway to heaven. If they opened this door, they would obtain salvation.

One student ran to the door and eagerly pushed down on the handle, desperate to open this gateway to heaven.

Then, he forcefully pulled, but the door refused to budge. He immediately froze.

Seeing him motionlessly standing there, a boy behind him anxiously shouted, “Xiao Yu, stop dawdling! Hurry up and open the door! If you can’t open it, let me do it!”

Xiao Yu still motionlessly stood there without a word, causing the boy behind him to get worked up. He immediately stepped forward to yank at the door.

But after pulling a few times, he froze, just like Xiao Yu.

His hand stuck to the door handle, tightly gripping it in the same way as Xiao Yu.

At this moment, the students behind them realized something was wrong. Some students hesitantly asked, “What happened?”

“Teacher… you are lying to us!”

The boy suddenly burst into tears. His eyes widened in fear as he let out a wail, “You said we could go home! Why can’t the door be opened at all?

“And……my hands are stuck to the door handle! Teacher, can you please open the door instead and let us leave?”

Ning Xiuli didn’t reply and continued to smile eerily. She looked at the unqualified students as if they were already dead.

One after another, the students realized their situation. They finally understood the meaning behind Ning Xiuli’s words——

If you failed the exam, you can leave the school, but only if you can walk out alive from the classroom first!

If you can’t escape, then you will die here!

The students fell silent, quickly accepting the reality of this situation.

If they learned anything this month, it was definitely coming to terms with harsh realities.

They looked at their apathetic classmates, knowing that those qualified students wouldn’t lend a hand, just like how no one bothered to help the deceased classmates before their death.

The qualified students were all bystanders, and Ning Xiuli is a ghost. It was already good enough that she didn’t act. If they wanted to escape, they could only rely on themselves.

Therefore, the unqualified students began to move one after another. Some ran to help the boy and Xiao Yu smash the door, and others tried to open the windows so they could climb out through it.

However, they soon realized their efforts were in vain.

Furthermore, just like Xiao Yu, they became firmly stuck to the door and the window glass…… unable to move at all! 

Desperately, they began to wail:

“Save me! Help! This wall is dangerous!”

“This window was smeared with glue, and I’ve become stuck to it! Ruirui, aren’t you my friend? Grab me, just pull me off the window glass, you passed the exam so there won’t be any danger!”

Perhaps she was persuaded by their friendship, or maybe it was the reassuring words of “there won’t be any danger” that convinced her. Wu Ruirui lifted her head to glance at Ning Xiuli and hesitated for a while, before tentatively walking to the girl’s side and giving her a powerful pull.

However, as soon as Wu Ruirui used her strength, the girl let out a piercing scream——

Her hands and half of her body were stuck to the window. When she was forcefully pulled, the window’s strong adhesion caused half of her body to twist and deform. Just like a mouse struggling on a glue trap, the more she struggled, the harder it became to escape.

It truly seemed as if the window glass was coated with a thick layer of glue. Its strong adhesion caused the girl to deform beyond recognition as she was tugged.

Frightened by the girl’s disfigured face, Wu Ruirui only pulled once and didn’t dare continue. She hastily retreated back into the crowd of classmates.

Due to the pain, the deformed girl soon stopped struggling and became motionless.

The other stuck students also stopped struggling.

They realized that the more they struggled, the more painful it became.

Furthermore, not only were they stuck to these surfaces, but their bodies were also undergoing a strange transformation.

It was like they were a lump of soft putty. Their bodies became fragile and easily damaged at the lightest touch, and their state could be effortlessly changed, allowing them to be molded into any shape.

All the unqualified students didn’t dare to move. They watched in horror as a slender girl, who had struggled the most among them, turned into a chubby ball of flesh during her last-ditch efforts to escape.

The human meatball’s neck had shrunk into oblivion, and her head and limbs were entangled together, giving her a very distorted appearance. She realized something was wrong and tried to stop moving. However, it was as if she was a roly-poly toy, uncontrollably swaying from side to side. With each sway, she became shorter, her body getting closer to becoming a round ball……

The twenty qualified students witnessed the tragic fate of the eliminated classmates. They were frozen in fear, and no one dared to step up and help.

After a long time, the unqualified students stopped wailing. They had lost the ability to scream; one after another, their bodies melted into a puddle of mud and were eventually absorbed by the dark floor tiles.

When the last drop of liquid seeped into the tile cracks, the remaining students seemed to awaken from a stupor and began to cautiously move their numb legs.

Although they had passed the exam, the fate of the eliminated students was unnerving; they couldn’t shake off the feeling that with one wrong move, they might also turn into a lump of mud.

Now that those distorted figures finally disappeared, they breathed a sigh of relief.

However, just as they calmed down, another person attracted their attention——

Earlier, Ning Xiuli didn’t call out Ning Xiuli’s name, therefore he didn’t pass the exam. 

But why is it that while the others had died, he is still standing in the middle of the classroom instead of turning into a puddle and getting absorbed by the floor?

Is it because he didn’t struggle earlier, unlike the others?

Some students suspected they might’ve misheard the list of names, so they began to count the number of people in the room.

Including Ning Xiaobo, there were a total of twenty-one students, which meant there was one extra person.

Some students were slow to grasp the situation, but Bai Yan completely understood the meaning behind this. Sure enough, the deceased person that the bonus problem asked about was Ning Xiaobo.

In the unsettling silence, more and more people realized the truth.

One after another, they began to distance themselves from Ning Xiaoli, afraid of being dragged into hell along with him.

Everyone took a few steps back, leaving Ning Xiaobo standing alone in the center of the classroom, his face growing increasingly pale.

At this moment, he finally realized why everyone was backing away, and the lost memories from last night gradually returned……

Yesterday, when he was lying on his pillow, several sharp nails pierced into his head, and then he lost consciousness……

“I’m… dead?”

“So… I’m actually dead…!”

As soon as Ning Xiaobo finished speaking, dark red blood gushed out from the back of his head and gurgled out of several holes.

Seeing the holes in the back of Ning Xiaobo’s head, Xu Yue’s expression drastically changed.

She couldn’t help but look at Bai Yan, her eyes filled with disbelief, as if to say, “Why aren’t you the one who’s dead?”

Turns out, it was you who put the nails inside my pillow……

Bai Yan withdrew his gaze, pretending not to notice Xu Yue’s scrutinizing stare.

He observed Ning Xiuli, who walked toward the door in a daze while bleeding from all seven orifices, and waited for the moment when he was about to leave the classroom.

Then, he suddenly stepped forward and shouted in a righteous tone, “Xu Yue, I know it was you! What grudge do you have against Ning Xiaobo? He has never wronged you, so why did you kill him?”