Chapter 0053 – The Chair Is Really Moving
The driver’s uncle blushed and gave a dry smile, “Good luck then.”
”Will do, can the cell phone be turned off?” Chen Ge revealed what he thought was a kind smile, “It’s just a misunderstanding.”
”That’s a must.” The driver agreed bashfully, casually tapped his phone a few times, and continued to drive forward for two or three meters, the car intercom suddenly lit up with a red light, his finger lightly touched it, and before he could speak, a rough voice came out from inside.
”Old Liu, you are also in Xicheng private school ah? I’m curious how there are still people running to that place in the middle of the night, I also pulled one here, we are quite close. By the way, what did you post in the group? Did I get clipped by a stick?”
”It’s okay, just drive your car.” Uncle wiped the sweat from his forehead and hung up the intercom.
”It should be that I’ve been kidnapped, right? Uncle, where is the most basic trust between people?” Chen Ge raised an eyebrow, he was also afraid of inviting the police in later, “Just stop here.”
”Good!” The driver stopped the car without saying anything, his calves were still shaking.
Chen Ge checked what was on his body and got out of the car with his bag on his back, as he was closing the door, he looked up and realized that there was a line scrolling on the display on the top of the cab – I’ve been hijacked, please call the police!
”You’ve got quite a few tricks up your sleeve.”
Witnessing the cab flying away, more than ten seconds later, the surrounding nearly a hundred meters fell into the middle of dead silence.
The sky was devoid of stars and moon, as if it was about to rain, the clouds were pressed down so low that there was no light at all.
Chen Ge opened his cell phone and looked at the time, there were still eight minutes before the agreed deadline.
”When I was in the car just now, someone on the intercom said that he also pulled a person to the Xicheng private school, and ran in this direction at 1:00 a.m. Could it be related to me?” He kept an eye out, if there wasn’t a time limit, he probably would have ambushed both sides of the road to see who was following him first.
”With eight minutes left, it’s better for me to enter the school first, and after familiarizing myself with the terrain, it’s also a good idea to take the lead.” The vicinity of the West City Private School was a wasteland, no lights could be seen, and there was only an increasingly narrow highway crossing the woods and bushes.
Turning on his cell phone flashlight, Chen Ge walked forward along the highway for nearly a hundred meters and finally arrived at the main entrance of this abandoned school building.
The chains and fences were rusted together, the gate was tightly closed, and looking in through the iron fence, it was pitch black.
”How do I get in?”
Chen Ge wandered outside the gate for a moment, first throwing his backpack into the school grounds, then jumped up with a running start, grabbed the top edge of the fence, and flipped over the fence.
The campus wasn’t too big, and at a glance, you could see the edge, and in the darkness stood a few dark building vignettes, as if they were a few lonely night watchmen.
The school’s signboard had already been removed, in fact, Chen Ge didn’t know what the school’s real name was, he only knew that everyone called it West City Private College.
The bushes were so thick that it was hard to see the road clearly, and from time to time something cut into his calf, feeling itchy and painful.
”I arrived within the time limit, and my next task is to enter it to find Zhang Ya’s red dancing shoes.” Chen Ge took out the tool hammer from his backpack, and he felt much more solid as he gripped the cold hammer handle.
Using his cell phone for illumination, Chen Ge walked towards the school grounds, and before he took a few steps farther, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, stopped, and took a few more steps back.
”Is it my illusion? Why does it feel like my shoulders are being pushed when I walk towards the inside of the school? While moving backward, his back is blocked by a force with an inexplicable resistance.” Twisting his head to look over his shoulders, there was nothing there, and he shined the light onto his back again, and there was nothing like the imagined ghost.
”Could she be here already? Right next to me? It’s just that I can’t see her?” Chen Ge shivered and was tempted to try swinging a hammer behind him, but on second thought, what if it was really Zhang Ya behind him and this hammer slammed over and angered the other party?
He was just a lonely, weak and helpless haunted house owner, in the middle of nowhere, the consequences of angering a severe ghost were unimaginable.
”Forget it, let’s go in first.” Chen Ge picked up his bag, held up his cell phone, and carried his tool hammer into the middle of the campus.
The night was getting thicker and thicker, and a wind was blowing, which was also mixed with raindrops as thin as cow hair.
”The most likely places for the dancing shoes to appear are the women’s locker room in the dance studio and the dormitory where Zhang Ya used to live, these two places should be keyed in.”
Chen Ge walked towards the nearest building, the trees on the campus grew crookedly, the ground was overgrown with weeds, and there were many sculptures standing around, mostly portraits, which looked a bit creepy in the dark.
”Girls’ apartment?”
A four-story apartment building, not too high, but probably because it had been abandoned for too long, it looked eerie.
The glass door of the apartment was chained shut, and he pressed himself against it to look in.
The dark corridor, the doors on both sides of the room were all closed tightly, and the weirdest thing was that in the middle of the corridor there was a chair with its back to the door of the dormitory.
”A chair placed in the middle of the corridor in an unbiased manner? What’s the special meaning?” Chen Ge took a small step back, “The school’s front door and dormitory glass doors are all locked, and there isn’t any garbage in the corridor, so it can be seen that when the school was closed, everything was cleaned up, but why would they leave a chair in the middle of the corridor? Is this going to drive OCD to death?”
”If the chair was left by the school, what was their reason for doing so? If they didn’t leave it behind, then after the room door was locked, who was inside and moved the chair to the middle of the corridor?” Chen Ge pointed his cell phone at the glass door of the dormitory, the chair was five meters away from the exit, and the top of his head was facing a smashed porch light.
”The porch light is smashed, the wires are still sticking out, the chair, the wires, how is this scene the same as hanging?” Honestly after seeing such a bizarre scene, Chen Ge’s heart was also drumming, “I should be overthinking it.”
He looked around, the night breeze was blowing the leaves of the trees, and the campus became stranger and stranger after the early hours of the morning.
”I can’t scare myself, the red-clothed stern ghost Zhang Ya is the most terrifying existence in this school, I have her love letter, who would dare to make things difficult for me?” When it came down to it, Chen Ge could only comfort himself this way, “This is just a favorability quest, to put it bluntly, it’s just a special date, there’s no need to be nervous, and there’s even less need to be scared.”
He muttered to himself to give himself a pep talk, and after finishing, he grabbed the tool hammer and walked over to the glass door again, and when he was about to crack the glass and enter to find out what was going on, his eyes suddenly caught a detail.
The chair that was supposed to be facing the porch light, at this time and the porch light is a meter wrong, it seems to have moved forward.
”Holy shit?”
It was the first time Chen Ge had experienced something like this, “Am I blind?”