Chapter 0821 – The Great Fire!
A musty smell emanated from the archive room, Chen Ge covered his mouth and nose and was the first to enter the room.
The wooden bookshelves looked old, and there was an inexplicable sense of incongruity when they were placed together with the rusty filing cabinets next to them.
”These bookshelves and metal cabinets seem to be from different schools.”
Chen Ge casually took out a piece of information from the wooden bookshelf, but probably because of the poor preservation environment, the file bag broke when he exerted a little force.
”Insect infested and damp, these materials don’t seem to have gotten any attention from the school authorities at all.” Chen Ge carefully unwrapped the file bag, and the contents inside made him feel puzzled: “Donor appreciation list? Why does this piece of paper look somewhat familiar?”
Chen Ge watched it repeatedly as an image suddenly flashed in his mind, and he looked at the file bag full of wormholes in his hand in surprise, “It seems like I’ve seen such a list in the principal’s office of Mureyang Middle School as well!”
He scrutinized it and desperately recalled it, comparing it to the names of the donors, something that made him even more surprised happened.
”It’s an exact match! I’ve seen this list in the principal’s office of Mureyang Middle School!”
Back then, he had entered Twilight Sun Middle School many times in order to search for the old principal of Twilight Sun Middle School, and that two-star horror scene had already been rummaged through, only to dig up the ground and not find the old principal.
”The world behind the door is woven together based on the memories of the person who pushed the door, this school is rather special, it seems to have been formed by the memories of all the people inside the door fused together.” Chen Ge gently held his chin, “Other than the old principal, everyone else in Mureyang Middle School is in my haunted house, and the list of Mureyang Middle School’s donors will appear here, does it mean that the old principal of Mureyang Middle School is also among the school?”
Chen Ge’s eyes widened as he looked at the musty smelling bookshelves in front of him, and the more he looked at them, the more familiar they looked, “Could these things have been moved out from Mureyang Middle School as well? Part of that two-star scene was hidden here?”
”It seems like the old principal and I do have a connection.” He put the document back, his expression intriguing, “Before the Psychic Ghost School trial mission is unlocked, there are still nine predecessor missions, is it possible that these nine predecessor missions all have some sort of special connection to the Psychic Ghost School?”
”Teacher Bai, have you discovered anything?”
”Yes, there are some discoveries, but I’m not sure yet.” Chen Ge pulled out another damp file with mold growing on it, “A campus surroundings investigation book?”
This was said to be an archive room, but it was actually more like a cluttered room with piles of documents, and there were all sorts of documents and information in there, including graduation designs, reimbursement bills, club stats, cafeteria purchasing catalogs, and so on.
”Teacher Bai!” Zhu Long found a few crumpled newspapers from the nooks and crannies, and he brought one of them to Chen Ge’s eyes, “Look at the news article with the big picture in the center.”
”The school building caught fire due to unknown reasons, many students were trapped in the restrooms, and firefighters bravely broke through the fire to rescue them.” This story was in the middle of the newspaper, very eye-catching.
”Looking at the layout and content, the person who wrote this report should not be very old.” Chen Ge took the newspaper, which was covered in mold and still had large stains remaining, and many parts were blurred, “This seems to be the school’s newspaper.”
Mureyang Middle School was only a private welfare organization, it simply did not have the ability to create a school newspaper, after Chen Ge flipped through all of those newspapers, he found a familiar place name – Xicheng Private Academy.
This place name had appeared many times, and many of the reports were centered around the Xicheng Private Academy.
”Isn’t the West City Private Academy the school that Zhang Ya is in?”
It was in that abandoned school that Chen Ge had his first date with Red.
It was also in that school that he walked into Zhang Ya’s heart.
”There was a fire in the West City Private Academy’s school building?” Thinking back now, he had seen burnt stair railings in the school building at that time, “It’s a bit strange, not only the Xicheng Private Academy, but also several abandoned schools I’ve been to, including Mureyang Middle School, all have traces of fire.”
He read the newspaper handed to him by Zhu Long again, when the firefighters rescued six people from the toilet on the top floor, the newspaper treated the firefighters as heroes and praised them throughout.
But he also saw a story in the corner of the newspaper calling for people to learn about summer fire prevention, which vaguely mentioned that one of his classmates had perished in the midst of the blaze.
”The fire started spreading from the restroom, but how did the fire start in the restroom? The fire happened after the students’ evening study session was over, and school had already ended, so why did those kids stay in the toilet on the top floor of the school?”
Combining several reports, Chen Ge was keenly aware of the problem: “The fire was burning on the fourth floor, and at that time, there were only students in the restroom on the fourth floor; firefighters rescued six of them, but there was also one student who was lost in the fire, which means that there should have been seven people in the restroom at that time!”
What the cause of the fire was, it was impossible to figure out now, there was no record of this incident at all in the information and archives, and the child who lost his life in the fire seemed to have become a taboo.
”And something like that happened at the West Side Private Academy? But I didn’t feel anything ‘abnormal’ when I went there?” Chen Ge was puzzled in his heart, “If that door to the restroom was pushed open by the kid who died in the fire, then he should be the ‘door pusher’ of the Xicheng Private Academy, but the Xicheng Faculty Academy was able to become a three-star scenario solely because of Zhang Ya!”
Now that the Xicheng Private Academy had become part of the haunted house scene, Chen Ge was very certain that Zhang Ya was the most terrifying presence in that school.
”There’s a door in all three-star scenes, but the only one that doesn’t have a door is the Xicheng Private Academy even though it’s a three-star.” Chen Ge looked towards his shadow and silently recited that name in his heart, he kept repeating it and still got no response.
”Xicheng Private Academy can be rated as a three star scene by the black cell phone solely because of Zhang Ya, as far as I know Zhang Ya has not pushed open any door, and I have not seen the door when I went to Xicheng Private Academy ……”
Chen Ge’s hand holding the newspaper slowly lowered, and that red dress appeared in his mind.
”Zhang Ya, the door that should have existed but disappeared, the person who pushed the door ……” These three words connected in Chen Ge’s mind, and he suddenly thought of a certain possibility.
With his eyes rounded, Chen Ge gently sucked in a breath of cool air, “The door pusher of the West City Private Academy couldn’t have been eaten by Zhang Ya, right?”
Only this explanation could explain why Zhang Ya was different and why she was ridiculously strong.
”What will happen to the door after the door pusher is eaten?”
Chen Ge speculated on the possibilities, “Zhang Ya didn’t become a ‘door pusher’ because of her obsession, and that door missing the ‘door pusher’ should have slowly spiraled out of control like the door in Liwan Town, but in fact that kind of thing didn’t happened, the door would just appear at the bedside of those desperate children …… etc! Could it be looking for a new ‘door pusher’?”