Chapter 0857: Why did “I” appear?
Chen Ge stood in the middle of the classroom, his body seemingly petrified and motionless.
The appearance of the old principal had brought him a great shock, and as one hidden clue was discovered, his worldview was slowly being turned upside down, and changes began to appear in the way he thought about things.
”Twilight Sun Middle School and the third sick building were one of the first few scenes I experienced, and it’s been so long since then that I didn’t expect to encounter something related to them in a four-star scene.” No one bothered Chen Ge, and everyone very silently escorted around him.
”Through the old principal’s description, I’m ninety percent sure that the mental illness he was talking about is the third sick building, which means that the only way back in the four-star scenario is a three-star scenario that I experienced a long time ago.”
Twilight Sun Middle School was the first two-star scene that Chen Ge had experienced, the third sick building was the first three-star scene that Chen Ge had experienced, and the Psychic Ghost School was the first four-star scene that he had experienced, and these three scenes were connected together in a very clever way, forming a closed loop, which made Chen Ge very surprised.
He began to suspect that the quests on the black phone weren’t just randomly released, and that every quest had a deeper intention behind it.
”All the missions on the phone have the word trial added in front of them, are such difficult and dangerous missions just trial missions?”
”The one star scene is a human, the two star scene is a stern ghost, the three star scene is a red dress, and the four star scene is above the red dress, it is reasonable to say that the star level is different, and the span between the scenes is bigger, but they are intrinsically related to each other, and it gives me a feeling as if someone …… wants to make me go through some things through these scenes that slowly finds a lost thing.” Chen Ge frowned, he rarely showed such an expression, “Why do you want to do this? What do I need to know? And what was once lost?”
Looking down at Sakura Red and Sakura White, both little girls were a bit afraid of Chen Ge’s gaze.
”Could it be that I have also lost a self?” Chen Ge didn’t know what kind of expression to show, his mind was in turmoil, and for some reason, he remembered his own haunted house and the door in it again.
When he first realized that there was a “bloody door” in his haunted house, he was really frightened.
He was even more disturbed by the fact that when the door was opened at midnight, he heard someone calling out his name outside the door.
The voice was fresh in his mind, familiar yet he couldn’t tell who it was, it was like his own voice.
”Being shouted his name by his own voice?” When he recalled this bizarre experience, Chen Ge felt a cool air rising up his back.
”Maybe I’ve really lost myself.”
Chen Ge had a lot of secrets that he couldn’t share with others and could only bear them on his own; it wasn’t that he wouldn’t be afraid, he just pressed everything to the bottom of his heart.
”Dr. Gao had entered that door of my haunted house and was almost scared out of his wits and withdrew in a mess, and with the strength of the Weird Tales Association at that time, he was directly scared and fled for his life before exploring deeper, which suggests that behind that ‘door’ might be a four-star scene as well.”
That door was in the toilet of the haunted house, which meant that the world behind the door was Chen Ge’s haunted house.
”I wonder what the house of horrors behind the door will be like.” Chen Ge was a little curious, but with his current strength, going in would probably never get him out.
”The person behind the door is calling out to me, so if I take the initiative to go in, won’t I be playing right into his hands? I must control myself before things are completely cleared up.” Chen Ge decided that once he returned to the haunted house, he would install a security door for the toilet compartment and then get concrete poured over it, it was too insecure to just nail it down with wooden boards.
”That door will only open at zero midnight, if I can take care of this problem, then in the future, my haunted house can also open up for nighttime, increase the hours of operation, and earn more money.” Shaking his head, Chen Ge realized that he was thinking too far ahead.
He put down his backpack and squatted between Sakura Red and Sakura White.
Whether or not Sakura Red and Sakura White were hints left behind by his own family, he was going to ask why.
”I’m not going to hurt you guys, I just see the person I used to be from you, so I want to figure out one thing, when did you become like this? Or when did Sakura Red appear?” Chen Ge was getting closer to the truth step by step, it was as if he was walking through a fog, and any bit of light was a hope he wanted to hold on to.
”I don’t know.” Sakurabaek was very cute, her hands clutched together, the one she was closest to out of everyone was the old principal, but now the principal was defending another girl, who also looked so similar to herself.
Chen Ge did not make things difficult for Sakura Bai, he looked at Sakura Hong again.
Being watched by his gaze, Sakura Red was scared and nervous at first, acting similarly to Sakura White, but when she slowly realized that this tactic didn’t work and she couldn’t gain any sympathy at all, her nature was finally exposed.
Scarlet eyes staring at her own school bag on the ground, Sakurahime lowered her head so that no one around her could see her expression, “If I tell you the answer, can you give me back my school bag?”
Sakurahime’s school bag wasn’t decorated much, but it looked girly and youthful, who would have thought it was stuffed with notes about curses and murder.
”Good.” Chen Ge agreed in one gulp.
”The day I opened my eyes was a night, it was after two in the morning when I heard a noise in my bedroom, and when I turned my head to look, I found my foster father in my room.” Sakurahime’s tone was frighteningly calm, as if she was telling someone else’s story, “I was so startled that I screamed out, and my adoptive father opened the door and ran out.”
She paused for a moment and slowly uttered a few words, “I appeared that day, I only appeared when Sakurabaek was asleep, I know everything she went through, but she doesn’t remember me.”
”I’m not going to blame her because the person who knows her best in this world is me, I know exactly what kind of hell she lives in and what kind of fear she faces.”
”I don’t know why I appeared, probably because Sakuraba was too scared, too timid, but couldn’t get help, so she created me.” Sakurahime glanced at the innocent Sakurabaek, “Of course it’s also possible that I’m a lone spirit myself who just happened to be in her body.”
A cruel smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, Sakura Red wanted to touch Sakurabaek’s face, but was dodged by Sakurabaek, “During the day I was an innocent and cute child, at night I was something I didn’t know myself, I was struggling to find a meaning to my existence, and then I finally found the meaning of my existence.”
Sakurahong lifted her long sleeves, both of her slender arms had burn marks on them, “That old dog liked to enter my room late at night, so I prepared a thermos of boiling water next to my bed, and that was the first time I fought back, but probably because of my strength being too small, the result wasn’t too perfect, but it did scare him half to death.”
Sakurahime’s name for her adoptive father was changing as she completely tore off her disguise.