Chapter 48: Crime

Watching Ouyang’s face contorted so grotesquely, Zhang Wenda suddenly felt his scalp tingle, and his body slowly stepped backward.

He had no idea what was happening—how had his teacher suddenly turned into a monster? Could he even stay here?

He reached out to touch the wooden door behind him, only to find that it had vanished—replaced by a cold, solid wall.

“Who told you? Answer me!” The cracks in Ouyang’s porcelain face widened, and a stench of blood drifted out.

When he saw another male teacher with the same eerie expression staring at him, Zhang Wenda’s mind raced. “A teacher wouldn’t do this, right? I was only asking! I didn’t go!”

“Answer me!”

Despite the urgency, Zhang Wenda didn’t reply directly. “What will you do to her if I tell you?”

“I’ll use Green Dam to thoroughly eliminate the source, completely eliminate it!”

At this, Zhang Wenda was shocked. Thank goodness he hadn’t turned in Song Jianguo—this punishment was brutal. If they caught him, he’d be dead.

“I just heard someone say it—after school, I overheard someone talking on the road! I didn’t even see his face!” Zhang Wenda made up an excuse.

“No! You’re lying!”

With a rush of wind, Zhang Wenda was suddenly thrown into the air, slammed against the wall by Ouyang’s cracked porcelain arm.

Before he could recover from the pain in his back, the fragmented porcelain shards shifted and began closing in on Zhang Wenda’s body.

“Answer me! Where does the source of the network world come from!”

The sharp porcelain shards began to embed in Zhang Wenda’s flesh.

In pain, Zhang Wenda swept his right hand behind him, and suddenly a flashlight appeared in his hand. With a flash of red light, Ouyang’s porcelain arm was cut clean in two, collapsing into shards on the floor.

Now he couldn’t think of anything else. Zhang Wenda took advantage of the momentary freedom and sprinted toward the window.

With a crash of breaking glass, Zhang Wenda burst through the window into the outer corridor.

But before he could take more than a few steps, Ouyang—missing one arm—appeared again in front of him.

Ouyang looked utterly non‑human, eyes fixed on Zhang Wenda, repeating the same words. “Answer me! Who told you? Who is it!”

Zhang Wenda glanced around and dashed down the left corridor—if it wasn’t a confined space, Ouyang couldn’t keep up.

He hadn’t gone far before a bald male teacher wearing glasses blocked his path, speaking the exact same words as Ouyang.

Everything had happened so fast—just because he uttered one word, the entire school had transformed into a house of monsters.

But Zhang Wenda didn’t give up. He turned and ran toward the nearby spiral staircase.

Students who had stayed behind to clean saw the scene and watched curiously.

Ouyang walked slowly along the balcony, watching Zhang Wenda rush down the spiral stairs. With a gentle clap of her hand, the remaining students froze in place like zombies and began to surround Zhang Wenda. At the same time, the school intercom started broadcasting Ouyang’s voice.

As soon as Zhang Wenda reached the ground floor, he found himself completely surrounded by hundreds of students moving toward him.

This was the school—there were so many teachers and students here; confronting them head-on was hopeless.

A piece of chalk flew at high speed from above, spinning madly and embedding in Zhang Wenda’s flesh. Pain shot through him.

Zhang Wenda looked up at Ouyang on the second floor and shouted, “Teacher Ouyang! I know you can hear me! What did I do wrong for you to treat me like this? Just because I said a wrong word? Didn’t you promise Teacher Rabbit that you’d take good care of me?! Is THIS your idea of care?”

Ouyang paused, the cracks in her porcelain face tightening. “I’m doing this for your own good—keeping you away from the network world. That’s what I call care.”

“You were late, you skipped class, you didn’t do your homework—I didn’t care. But I didn’t expect you to become entangled in the network world. That place is depraved. You wanted to go there? I’m so disappointed.”

Upon hearing that, Zhang Wenda became enraged. “Do you think I wanted to go? I’m suffering! I’m in pain! Do you know how awful it is to be attacked out of nowhere every few days? Do you know?!”

“If you won’t help me, then I have to go there myself and find a way! I’m just trying to find a way to ease the pain—why is that wrong?!”

Faced with Zhang Wenda’s questioning, Ouyang finally spoke. “The network world is a depraved place. They call it electronic heroin. Once you touch it, you’re done. Anyone who’s been there can only grow up to be a thug or a prostitute.”

At these words, Zhang Wenda froze, then laughed angrily after a moment. “Fuck, this again? I should’ve known. So that’s it.”

A piece of chalk smashed into Zhang Wenda’s head, splitting blood.

But he didn’t dodge—it hit him square on. He lifted his head, stubbornly gazing at Ouyang.

“If you had any other reason, I could argue with you. But if that’s your reason, then sorry, you’re wrong—completely wrong!”

He ground his teeth and said, “I’ll be honest with you—I WILL go to the network world! What, want to send me to rehab again? Go ahead—try it!”

With a faint red glow, Zhang Wenda stamped his feet, lunging fiercely toward Ouyang on the second floor.

Just as he was about to strike Ouyang, she waved her hand gently. A familiar wound appeared on Zhang Wenda and quickly spread across his body.

Cracks of bone snapped, his fingers twisted like twisted dough. The flashlight fell from his hand to the ground.

Zhang Wenda lay on the floor, writhing in nearly faint-inducing pain, staring up at Ouyang’s legs walking toward him.

He stared unwaveringly. “So you can do this too? You knew all along, didn’t you? You never told me!”

The cracks in Ouyang’s porcelain face closed, morphing once more into that porcelain smile.

“See? The harm of the network world is so great. You’ve already been brainwashed. You dared to strike a teacher just hearing the name. If you go there, I can’t even imagine what you’ll do.”

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