Rooster Lures a Soul, the Teacher Has Arrived

The rooster crowed, "Cock-a-doodle-doo."

The figure sitting on the dissection table slowly pulled aside the white sheet.

Through the moonlight shining into the room,

I could clearly see a bloody human hand slowly reaching out from behind the sheet.

The rooster continued crowing, "Cock-a-doodle-doo," as the sheet was pulled away bit by bit and gradually slid down.

The back of a long-haired woman appeared before my eyes.

She sat quietly on the dissection table.

I could not see her face or front, but from behind, she looked slender and delicate.

All I could do was watch quietly.

The yellow rooster continued to crow, as though it were constantly speaking to her.

Amid the unceasing crowing, the woman slowly stood up from the dissection table.

Her body turned slightly, allowing me to see her profile.

It was a blood-drenched side of a face with no skin.

Under the moonlight, I could even see the texture of her facial muscles and the eyeball protruding from its socket.

It was as if her face had been skinned. My scalp went numb, and goosebumps rose layer after layer.

She was clearly a female ghost.

I did not dare make a sound and continued staring.

After the female ghost turned around, the rooster that had been calling to her also turned away.

It walked forward step by step, still crowing, "Cock-a-doodle-doo."

And the female ghost who had risen from the dissection table followed the Big Yellow Rooster out of the Anatomy Room, one step at a time.

It was as though the yellow rooster was leading the way for her.

What a bizarre scene. My heart felt as if it were about to leap out of my throat.

Before long, the rooster led the female ghost to the door.

It looked as though the rooster intended to lead the female ghost out of the Experimental Building.

But she was not my target, so I did nothing else.

Yet what I never expected was this.

Just after the female ghost and the Big Yellow Rooster left the Dissection Room,

the Substitute Rabbit lying not far from me suddenly became restless.

Its drooping ears abruptly stood upright.

Its entire body rose up as it stretched its neck to peer toward the Anatomy Room door.

At the same time, I smelled an extremely strong scent of formaldehyde.

And as that smell appeared, the sounds of a rooster struggling and flapping its wings suddenly came from outside. "Pfft, pfft."

The sudden noise frightened the rabbit that had been peering out, and it fled backward.

I could not see what was happening outside the classroom.

But my instincts told me it would not be anything good.

The rooster's struggling sounds quickly stopped.

Instead, there came the crunching sound of bones being chewed.

And that sound drew closer and closer, heading toward the Anatomy Room.

The formaldehyde stench also grew increasingly intense.

I tensed up and continued watching the doorway.

Before long, a figure walked in.

In the dim yellow light, I saw a fat man dressed in surgical scrubs.

One hand held the dead rooster, while the other gripped a female ghost by the tongue. Like a walking corpse, he stepped in from outside...

The crunching sounds came from him gnawing on the rooster's head.

The heavy formaldehyde odor was emanating from him.

As for the female ghost, she was like a corpse, completely motionless...

My eyes widened as I clearly saw what he looked like.

The man in surgical scrubs was none other than

my dissection teacher, Chen Guofu, who had drowned in the Corpse Storage Pool.

And when Zhang Qiang had left, he said it was Chen Guofu who had kept urging him to bring me back.

Seeing my former teacher reduced to this state filled me with terror.

I did not dare make the slightest sound. I lay there on the floor without moving at all.

After chewing a few bites of the yellow rooster's neck, Chen Guofu's body suddenly stiffened.

He mechanically twisted his head toward the Substitute Rabbit.

His already hideous expression suddenly became excited.

He threw the yellow rooster to the ground and spat out the chewed-up remains of its head.

His other hand also released the female ghost's tongue.

The female ghost clutched her tongue, trembling as she hid in a corner of the Anatomy Room.

She hugged her head, her entire body shaking.

Every now and then, she let out faint, choked whimpers. "Wuwu..."

She was clearly terrified beyond measure, so frightened that she did not even dare cry out loud.

But the Dissection Teacher stared excitedly toward the Substitute Rabbit.

In a low, hoarse voice, he said,

"Jiang Ning, have you come back for class?"

The sound was as painful to hear as needles piercing my ears.

Looking at the rooster that had been bitten to death and the female ghost crouching not far away, I roughly understood what had happened.

This female ghost, whose face had been half-skinned, had most likely died in this Anatomy Room.

And the murderer was Chen Guofu, who had already transformed into a baleful spirit and become a vicious ghost.

The yellow rooster had probably been brought in by someone from a certain trade to lure out the female ghost's soul.

But just as the female ghost's soul left the Anatomy Room, Chen Guofu dragged her back. He also bit off the head of the soul-luring rooster, killing it.

That was my guess, but I did not make any excessive moves.

As long as he did not truly recognize me and went after the Substitute Rabbit, I would still have a good chance of killing him tonight.

The Substitute Rabbit had hidden behind something and was now lying on the ground, trembling.

Chen Guofu stared toward the Substitute Rabbit with a face full of excitement.

"My good student, where have you been these past few days?"

After saying that, he tiptoed toward the Substitute Rabbit.

I gripped the Fish Bone Sword tightly and held my breath.

"Why are you crouching on the ground? Why aren't you saying anything?"

It was a rabbit. How could it possibly speak?

Chen Guofu, carrying a bone-chilling coldness, had already passed by me. He was only a few meters from the rabbit.

I could feel that piercing cold sweep over me.

And it was the coldest chill I had felt in all the past few days.

It was like being in the dead of winter, when the freezing wind cut through flesh.

Together with that overwhelming formaldehyde stench, it made me feel utterly miserable.

Looking at the trembling Substitute Rabbit, he said in a hoarse voice,

"Jiang Ning, your teacher has missed you these past few days.

Zhang Qiang, whom I sent to find you, still hasn't come back.

Come, be your teacher's assistant. I'll teach you dissection..."

With that, he crouched down to grab the Substitute Rabbit.

Under the intimidation of this vicious ghost, the Substitute Rabbit could not move at all and was seized by the neck.

Chen Guofu easily held it in his hand and lifted it off the ground.

He stared at the white rabbit in his hand, looking somewhat confused.

His pair of blank white eyes stared fixedly at the Substitute Rabbit.

"Jiang Ning, have you lost weight? Why are you so light?"

The rabbit could not speak, and naturally, I was not stupid enough to answer him.

Chen Guofu hesitated for a moment, then said,

"It's fine if you won't speak. Your teacher will teach you dissection."

After saying that, he took a deep breath toward the Substitute Rabbit.

As he inhaled, I could see wisps of white vapor visibly drifting out from the rabbit's nose and mouth.

After that breath, the rabbit narrowed its eyes and looked half-dead.

Chen Guofu frowned.

"Jiang Ning, your body is really weak, isn't it?"