Chapter 0868 – Who’s Next?
As a plank was dismantled, the expression of Stinky, who was standing beside Chen Ge, slowly changed, his chubby head slowly turned, and his small eyes, which were squeezed into a slit by his fat flesh, stared straight at the long corridor.
The wooden board sealed corridor was completely different from the normal corridor of the ghost school, there was not a trace of blood mist in it, the walls, the concrete floor, the walls with shoe prints, everything looked just like in reality.
”All the students who live in the ghost school know that this is a forbidden place, they hardly come over, so it’s normal for this corridor to remain as it is.” Sakura Red saw that Chen Ge’s eyes were not right and explained in a low voice.
”The world behind the door is a blood red color, how could there be a scene that looks like the one in reality? This is definitely something that the school’s will intentionally preserved.” Removing the last plank, the blood mist spread, Chen Ge and the others were ready to enter it, and only the stench stayed in place.
”Are you remembering something?” Chen Ge wanted to reach out and pat Stink’s shoulder, but his hand passed through the middle of Stink’s body; this naive fat man was technically just a mass of smelly thoughts, and he was different from all the other stern ghosts.
Stench didn’t answer, his round body slowly moved towards the corridor, he walked slowly and seemed a little scared.
”Why this emotion of fear? Is it because you don’t want to see your true self? Or don’t want to face the memories in your heart?” Chen Ge didn’t know how to comfort Stench, he didn’t rush the other party, if Stench showed obvious resistance, he would immediately take the people away.
There were no lights installed in the long corridor, and all the windows were nailed shut with wooden boards, this place was completely isolated from the rest of the school, and the Ghost School Will didn’t seem to like other people coming in, as if this was his private territory.
”I’ve only heard my teacher talk about it before, I didn’t realize it looked so ordinary inside.” Sakura Red was very curious, she walked at the front and didn’t run a few steps before stopping again, “This room is the dormitory I mentioned before, any student who has stayed in this room has said that they woke up in the middle of the night and saw a man standing beside their bed, his feet on the ground, a long rope tied around his neck, his face glowing green, staring at a certain bed. If you lock eyes with him, you somehow disappear.”
”Is the door locked?” Chen Ge reached out and pressed on the door of the room.
”Hello! Are you even listening to me? Give some reaction, will you? I’m talking about something very scary!” Sakura Red was a bit dissatisfied with Chen Ge’s attitude, “I know you’re bold, but these forbidden places are places that the school teachers strictly forbid students to come to, and the first lesson that all students who have just enrolled in school take is to know which places they can go to and which ones they can’t.”
”The door is unlocked, Xu Yin, follow me closely.” Chen Ge completely ignored Sakura Red, and while the other party was muttering to himself, he had already pushed the door open a crack.
”You really haven’t died before! Let me tell you, there are many other things in this world that are more painful than death, so don’t think that you’re not afraid of death, just ……” Sakura Red had always appeared as the negative side of Sakura White, all the bad memories and cruel things that she needed to face, that’s why she slowly turned into a monster, but after something that happened before, she no longer hid in front of Chen Ge, probably because she felt that Chen Ge and herself were the same kind of people, and she felt close to them in the dark.
Chen Ge also noticed Sakura Red’s changes, but he didn’t take these to heart, Sakura Red was the negative memories of Li Xuezura, in his opinion even if that was the case, it should be Sakura Bai who was more affectionate towards herself, unless the Underworld Foetus had inherited good memories and he was the one who had borne all the pain alone.
But this was clearly impossible in his opinion, so he didn’t think much about it and just attributed Sakurabaek’s change to his own personality.
After receiving Xu Yin’s consent, Chen Ge opened the door to his dorm room, and a faint musty odor wafted out from it.
Having gotten used to smelling the blood and gore of the world behind the door, even smelling this musty smell had a long-lost sense of affection.
”This is too messy.”
All kinds of garbage and worn dirty clothes were thrown everywhere in the dormitory, and the luggage and bedding were piled up randomly, just as if they had just been hit by a typhoon.
”Have you guys found anything?” The principal had been following Chen Ge around, seemingly worried that Chen Ge would do something out of the ordinary, “Why don’t we just leave, this is a forbidden area of the Ghost School, it’s best not to trespass.”
”Wait a moment.” Chen Ge stood in the center of the dormitory and looked up at the roof.
The top of the room painted in white was nailed with a nail, and each nail had a rag tied to the front end of it, with strips of cloth in different colors hanging downwards, looking up, it was as if the top of his head was a white sea, and those red strips of cloth were corals growing on the bottom of the sea.
Reaching out and grabbing a strip of cloth, Chen Ge gently tugged, “These strips of cloth can’t bear a person’s weight at all, they can’t have been used for hanging.”
”I’d like to think that these strips of cloth are used to fix mosquito nets, that said, why did you think of hanging straight away?” The old principal stood in front of the dormitory, “The interior of this dormitory is not very spacious, it shouldn’t be hiding any secrets, the Ghost School’s will to protect this place may simply be because this place has a special meaning to it.”
”Boss, look at this.” Bai Qiulin held the mirror with one hand, the other pointing to the edge of the iron beds in the dormitory, all the upper bunk beds had a rope tied to the edge of the beds, the other end of the rope was tied to a rag doll with a name written on it and entwined black hair.
”Look at the workmanship it looks very similar to the doll that Jang Ah gave me back then, could it be that Jang Ah helped students who hung themselves standing up a long time ago?” Just by looking at the things in the dormitory, there was no way to find out why, Chen Ge opened his backpack and took out the comic book, he decided to ask the student who was standing and hanging face to face.
Normally in the haunted house, the “man standing and hanging” would hide among the dolls that Chen Ge had specially made for him, and his strength was very average, not as bad as the stench.
The pages of the book flipped, and a dry, thin boy appeared in the center of the room, with a very obvious strangulation mark on his neck, and his head was misaligned with his shoulders, which looked very strange.
”This room rings a bell for you, doesn’t it?” Chen Ge softly inquired, the confusion in the male student’s eyes slowly disappeared, he was like a frightened cat, suddenly rushing towards one of the beds, throwing the various miscellaneous items on the bed to one side, and finally found a black envelope under the bed sheet, with a sentence written on it – who’s next?
The envelope was bulging and seemed to be stuffed with something, and the male student gripped it tightly with both hands, fear and panic surging through him, he was very scared now.
”Can I see that letter?” Chen Ge was curious about what the person standing and hanging had gone through, and why they had cloth dolls suspected to be from Zhang Ya’s hand hanging next to their beds throughout the dormitory.
The male student shook his head firmly as he put the black envelope away and went straight back to the comic book.
”That envelope looks like a curse, but I have nothing to fear.” The staff was unwilling to talk about it, so Chen Ge wouldn’t force it, he checked the dormitory again, and finally put everything back in its place, leading everyone deeper towards the boys’ dormitory.