Chapter 0074 – Group Photo
Red is the color with the longest wavelength and the most colorful sense in the visible spectrum, while black is just the opposite, and the two colors together can produce a special visual effect.
The black house was like the night, the red villain seemed like blood, and the two blended into one, making people feel very depressed.
”This child likes to daze and draw when he’s not doing anything, and he doesn’t go out to play, always locking himself in his room.” The dark and thin woman walked in at some point, she was holding two cups of water in her hands, “I don’t want anything else now, I just want him to grow up happily like a normal child.”
The woman handed one of the cups of water to Chen Ge, and the other cup of water was placed next to the boy, “Let’s come out and talk, he’s afraid of strangers.”
”Good.” Chen Ge carried the glass of water and returned to the living room, where the dark and thin woman sat across from him.
”Is there anything else you want to ask?” The woman looked a little formal.
”This child Fan Yu does look quite pitiful, I think he should have suffered some kind of stimulation, if you want to cure him you need to find out the cause from the root before you can prescribe the right medicine.” Chen Ge said what was on his mind, “You’re the only family he has left, I can tell you love him very much, I want to ask you a few more questions can I?”
The black and thin woman nodded, probably because the weather was too hot, a fine sweat appeared on her forehead.
”You said before that Fan Yu’s parents disappeared because they were looking for him, then where did Fan Yu find him later?”
”Twilight Sun Middle School, he hid in my brother’s office.”
”Mureyang Middle School again, that school seems to have frequent accidents.”
”Who says it doesn’t?” The black and thin woman sighed softly, “Mureyang is the worst school in Jiujiang, I don’t even know what the point of this school’s existence is, there used to be frequent accidents, fights and brawls even alarmed the police.”
”So serious?” Chen Ge listened attentively, the black and thin woman’s present statement was much more convenient than him looking it up on the internet himself.
”There are more serious ones.” The black thin woman straightened up, looked very solemn: “That school is not clean, listening to the neighborhood old man said that the original site of the school seems to be a crematorium, only because of the city planning, in a long time ago, all demolished. But you think ah, the school built on that, may attract what strange and weird things, at that time I also advised my brother, but he just do not listen.”
”Why did your brother have to go to Mureyang Middle School to become a teacher?”
”The salary is high, plus he himself made a mistake, it’s not easy to find a job, he was thinking of going to earn money, but as a result, he didn’t expect to end up putting his sister-in-law in harm’s way together.”
”Made a mistake? Did he have a grudge against someone? Could his disappearance be the work of an enemy?” Chen Ge immediately noticed the details in the woman’s words.
”That’s not true, my brother likes to drink and has a strangely bad taste in alcohol, he repeatedly made mistakes because of drinking, and was later expelled from the school he was in, leaving a bad record in his file. There are only so many schools in Jiujiang in total, everyone knows exactly who has committed what, that’s why it’s hard for him to find a job.”
”It doesn’t seem to be a vendetta.”
”Definitely not.”
The woman’s phrasing made Chen Ge’s eyes narrow, “How are you so sure?”
”I won’t hide it from you.” The woman took out a photo from the innermost part of the drawer and laid it on the table, “Ever since Mureyang Middle School was built, there has been a classroom with the front and back doors locked, forbidding students to enter, and no one knows the reason for this except for the old principal. After the old principal passed away, it became an unsolved mystery, and there are many legends about that classroom in the school, what with the grudging spirits from the crematorium attending classes in it, and workers being killed in the unfinished classroom during the construction of the school, and so on. In short, it was a very ominous place.”
”But what does this have to do with your brother’s disappearance?” Chen Ge still didn’t quite understand.
”Look at this photo.”
Chen Ge took the photo from the woman’s hand, and in the photo was a very bizarre group photo.
An obviously drunk man sat dazedly in the middle, and around him stood several rows of students tall and short.
Just looking at them, it felt like an ordinary graduation photo, but the problem was that all the students were standing with their backs to the camera!
And if you look closely, you can find that each student’s standing posture is very strange, as if they are all standing on their tiptoes.
”Where did you get this photo from, have the police seen it?” Chen Ge placed the photo on the table and wiped the sweat from his palm.
”The night before he disappeared, he drank all night with his friends and watched a soccer game, and when he was done, in order not to delay his classes, he was dizzy and ran straight to school. At that time the sky was not yet completely bright, he thought to first go to the health room to sleep, in passing a classroom, saw inside standing a lot of people. He thought to himself which class was so diligent and stopped at the door for a short while. The people in that class seemed to be preparing for a group photo and when they saw him they took the initiative to invite him to sit in the center. After the photo was taken, the students left, and in the end, I don’t know who slipped him this photo.” The dark, thin woman’s voice was calm, but the story she told was heartbreaking.
”After my brother looked at the photo, he realized that everyone had their backs to the camera, and the wine woke him up with a fright, and that’s when he realized that he was sitting at the door of that sealed off classroom.” The dark and thin woman pushed the photo towards Chen Ge, “He only told my sister-in-law and I about this, thinking that it would be fine after a while, who knew that unfortunate things would happen that night. Xiao Yu went missing, and the two of them went out together to look for him, and they all disappeared, so I think his disappearance shouldn’t be a vendetta, but something to do with that classroom that was sealed off.”
”What did the police say?” Chen Ge pushed the photo back again.
”They took the photos to Mureyang Middle School to do an investigation, and although the students in the photos were all wearing Mureyang Middle School uniforms, there were no such people inside the school. Later on, they opened the sealed off classroom and rummaged through it inside and out, only finding my brother’s shoe prints, they can be sure that my brother did enter the classroom that day.” The dark and thin woman got more and more evil as she spoke.
”Good.” Chen Ge asked the woman a few more questions, there were some things she didn’t know and only gave very vague answers.
After making sure that she couldn’t ask anything new again, Chen Ge got up and prepared to leave.
”Leaving? It’s so hot outside, why don’t you drink some water before leaving?”
”No need.” Chen Ge thanked the woman for her kindness and left the small second-story building with his cell phone.
After talking with the woman, Chen Ge had a more comprehensive understanding of Mureyang Middle School, “There are a total of four side quests in Mureyang Middle School, and two of them are related to the little boy’s family.”
He took out Fan Yu’s painting in his pocket and looked at it a few more times, the black and red colors seemed to be trying their best to express something: “Black house, red villain, is there some kind of connection between this and Twilight Sun Middle School? Could the pattern in the painting be one of the buildings in Mureyang Middle School?”