Chapter 0052 – First Date
Taking a few deep breaths, Chen Ge slapped his face with cool water for a long time before calming down.
”It’s time to go.”
Chen Ge took out the backpack he used last time again and put Zhang Ya’s love letter, rechargeable treasure, and tool hammer into it, and he learned his lesson from the last time and directly stuffed the fruit knife into his pants pocket, and put the rag doll left to him by his parents into the inner pocket of his clothes.
Although it didn’t look too pretty bulging, at least this would give him peace of mind.
After packing up, Chen Ge locked the door of the haunted house and hurriedly ran out of the paradise.
It was now twelve fifteen in the morning, and there were very few vehicles on the road, so he waited for another ten minutes before he stopped a cab at the intersection.
”Go to the West Side Private School neighborhood, I’m in a hurry, please hurry.”
”Cheng, get in the car,” the driver was a very quick uncle, and the car was still playing a DJ that was popular a few years ago.
The car started, Chen Ge sat in the back and grabbed the time to start searching the internet for information related to this mission.
As soon as the favorability quest was opened, the first thing that surfaced was Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Red Dancing Shoes”, he found the original version of the story on the internet, and after roughly reading through it, he felt that the fairy tale was a bit} human.
The story is mainly about a girl got a pair of beautiful red dancing shoes, she often wear dancing shoes to church, may be because of blasphemy, her dancing shoes can no longer be removed, can only have been constantly dancing, she was afraid, helpless, exhausted, and finally begged the woodcutter to cut off their own legs, and then the whole fairy tale of the most high-powered place appeared, that pair of legs were cut off, wearing the red dancing shoes bounced away! ……
”Is this a fairy tale?” Chen Ge didn’t dare to imagine that image in his mind, his mission tonight was to find Zhang Ya’s red dancing shoes.
”When I drew the cursed love letter, there was a description of Zhang Ya in the black cell phone, she was wearing a blood-stained school uniform and a pair of red dancing shoes, and she was still dressed like this when she was dying, is the fairy tale of the red dancing shoes true? Once you put them on, you can’t take them off?”
Chen Ge’s heart was a bit panicked, this mission was different from the past, he was facing a red-clothed stern ghost with an exclusive page, that was only for the ghosts with the deepest and most ferocious grudges.
”Looks like the red dancing shoes are the key to tonight.” Chen Ge repeatedly read that fairy tale a few times, the main idea of which was to warn people not to be vain and always remain humble and reverent: “What is the deeper meaning of the black cell phone moving this fairy tale out at the beginning of the mission?”
He couldn’t figure it out for the moment, so he simply exited the page and started searching for something related to the West City Private School again.
This school had only been open for two and a half years before it was shut down, and had been deserted for a long time.
As for the reason for the closure, there were various rumors on the internet, some said it was because the fees were unreasonable, while others said it was because the documents were incomplete.
Chen Ge patiently read through all the information, and the name Zhang Ya never appeared from beginning to end, as if Zhang Ya had nothing to do with this school.
”There is a problem! The truth is definitely not those speculations on the internet, there might be something deeper.” Chen Ge looked out the window at the streetlights that were constantly receding, his eyes narrowed, “Just what kind of encounter could make a woman turn into a red-clothed ghost? What is the cause of her grievances of that magnitude? And what does it have to do with the red dancing shoes?”
Chen Ge was contemplating alone when the sound of the DJ in the car suddenly became louder, and when he mistakenly looked towards the main driver’s seat, the driver uncle was also sizing him up through the reflector.
”What’s bothering you? Why are you looking so sad at such a young age.” The uncle belonged to the chatterbox type and chatted with Chen Ge for a few moments right after he got in the car, but Chen Ge didn’t pay much attention to him because he was searching for information.
”I’ve recently encountered a lot of things I’ve never touched before all at once, so I’m a bit busy.” Chen Ge smiled politely and put his cell phone away.
”You can’t eat hot tofu in a hurry, everything will definitely get better, when you’re annoyed and dry, listen to a hi-fi song and shake and you’ll be done.” Driver uncle with the music beat shaking legs, this person has a very good mind, hard to stay up all night to drive out of the rental to dry out the feeling of a midnight drive: “By the way, what are you doing running the West Side private school at night? That place is deserted, and there doesn’t seem to be much of a residential area around it.”
Chen Ge opened his mouth and finally said, “Going on a date.”
”A date? Running out on a date at this hour?” The uncle looked back at Chen Ge.
”Really, I don’t know what to tell you, the woman’s temper isn’t too good, and her personality is a little weird ……” Chen Ge tried his best to speak a little bit more normally, for a man who had never been on a date before, being invited on a date by a beautiful woman should still be a pretty dignified thing.
”Then this is a good thing! What’s there to worry about, afraid that people won’t like you? But it’s true, how can you go on a date dressed like this? I tell you, men should learn to dress up, look at your backpack, it doesn’t match your temperament at all.”
The driver uncle was like opening his mouth, saying that Chen Ge was quite helpless, other people’s dates were cheerful and full of expectations, but this date of his was a bit more subtle. Instead of a date, it was more like a self-help in order to stay alive in a semi-coercive situation.
”Male dating must not be petty, be a gentleman, don’t come up and ask for WeChat, listen to people’s girls more, in their eyes the world’s most incorrigible disease is straight male cancer, the first impression is very important ……”
Listening to the driver’s uncle’s wise advice, Chen Ge was tempted to change the DJ in his cab to “Wedding Dress” to calm everyone down.
All the way through the wind, the vehicles and buildings on both sides were fewer and fewer, the road narrowed, and the streetlights gradually disappeared.
The scene outside the car window became more and more desolate, with fewer and fewer people, and patches of woods began to appear on both sides of the road.
”Do we still have to go forward? There’s nothing around there except a school, did you recognize the wrong road?” The driver uncle looked at the navigation and finally changed the topic.
”No, just find a place to park near the school, how much?”
”Nineteen, pay by your cell phone, I just picked up the night shift car, no change.”
”OK.”
Chen Ge went to pull out his cell phone, accidentally brought out the fruit knife in his pocket as well, and the folded knife fell on the cushion, and the driver’s uncle in the main driver’s seat jumped.
The sound of the DJ in the car slowly became smaller, the driver uncle pretended to raise his hand, and when he picked up the water bottle next to him, his finger secretly touched a certain button on his cell phone.
These small actions Chen Ge saw in his eyes, he had a bitter smile on his face, the other party was probably treating him as a carjacking bad guy.
”Payment successful.” Chen Ge raised his cell phone and glanced at the main driver’s seat again, “Uncle, are you recording this and preparing to call the police?”
The driver uncle who was drinking water almost choked, he coughed violently a few times and waved his hand repeatedly.
”Actually, I can understand you, but ……” Chen Ge looked out the window at the eerie outline of the school, “I did come here for a date.”