Chapter 0083 – How is this mission going to be accomplished?
”Whether it’s for his future rehabilitation or for your own safety, don’t take it lightly.”
”Understood.”
Hanging up the phone, Chen Ge leaned against the wall of the toilet, his mind was in a mess right now, the murderer was either Fan Yu or Fan Yu’s aunt, they were the most suspected and the closest to the victim.
”Fan Yu’s aunt hid the truth from me, something else must have happened on the rainy night a few years ago.”
Why the closest person would turn out to be the murderer was what Chen Ge was most puzzled about.
”The murder scene is at Mureyang Middle School, maybe I can find something here.”
Chen Ge reopened his cell phone live broadcast, the pop-up screen was still lagging, but the live broadcast screen was slowly stabilizing.
After briefly saying sorry to his water friends, Chen Ge walked out of the second floor toilet with his tool hammer.
He stood at the door of the toilet and specifically used the flashlight to shine down on the ground, and there were no footprints or anything like that at the door of the toilet.
”When I hid behind the door just now, I heard footsteps, and that sound ended up stopping at the door of the toilet, but now when I check on the ground, there’s nothing at the door. It seems that the ones walking side by side were not living people.” Chen Ge glanced towards the downstairs, where he had last heard the voice go to the first floor.
Chen Ge wasn’t sure if the owner of the footsteps, for the time being, was the Red Shadow from the side quest, and to play it safe, he decided to avoid it for now.
Holding a flashlight, Chen Ge walked towards the third floor, but just as he reached the middle of the third and second floors, the sound of footsteps suddenly rang in his ears, and the sound seemed to be coming from the first floor.
Two “people” side by side, walking on the stairs.
”Found me?” Chen Ge decisively turned off the flashlight, leaned his back against the wall, and stared intently at the entrance to the hallway.
The footsteps did not stop, and the two “people” walking side by side made their way to the second floor.
”They seem to have entered the toilet on the second floor?” Just as this thought surfaced in Chen Ge’s mind, his ears heard the sound of the door panels opening and closing in the second floor restroom.
One by one, the door panels of the compartments were opened, and six sounds rang out before and after, as if they were inspecting the toilet compartments.
Chen Ge moved closer to the second floor, and he tried to poke his head out and peek at the situation on the second floor from between the cracks in the railing of the stairs.
After the sound of the door panels opening and closing stopped, the footsteps disappeared as well, as if everything just now was a hallucination of Chen Ge, he waited in the hallway for five minutes and didn’t find any strange things coming out of the second floor toilet.
”The footsteps didn’t sound again, does that indirectly mean that the dirty things walking side by side haven’t come out of the toilet yet, and it’s possible that they’re hiding in one of the compartments in the second floor toilet, waiting for me to throw myself into the net.” Although Chen Ge was very bold, it didn’t mean that he wouldn’t be scared, really if he saw something horrible once he opened the door of the toilet cubicle, he would probably be scared enough too.
”This monster is hiding in the second floor toilet and won’t come out, so I can just go to the third floor to explore first.” Chen Ge didn’t turn on the flashlight, he possessed the Yin pupil, this reward for completing the nightmare level daily quest, perhaps because it hadn’t been fully activated yet, it wasn’t as magical as what the black cell phone had described, it just allowed him to increase his eyesight dramatically, and he was barely able to see in the darkness of the night.
In the dark rainy night, lightning crossed the sky from time to time, the brief bright light reflected everything around him horribly, Chen Ge was a little worried, he was afraid that something would follow behind him unknowingly.
After looking back a few times, the hallway was empty and there was nothing, Chen Ge then put his heart down and gripped the tool hammer tightly to enter the toilet on the third floor.
The toilets on the third floor were weirder than the toilets on the other two floors, the windows were boarded up and there were hardly any stains on the walls, it seemed like this place was rarely used before the school was closed down.
Entering it, the door panels of all six cubicles were tightly closed, which gave Chen Ge a very strange feeling, as if there were living people hiding in all six cubicles.
The fifth and sixth cubicles on the first floor were closed because there were sundries piled up inside, could it be that all six cubicles in the third floor toilet were also piled up with sundries?
Chen Ge walked to the outside of the first cubicle and first leaned over the door panel to listen, there were no cries of babies or low laughs of girls as expected.
Then he did something even bolder, squatting down and peering inside through the gap underneath the cubicle.
Empty?
There were no mops, brooms, or other clutter, and no feet to stand on; it was a very ordinary cubicle.
Chen Ge tried to push it, the door panel opened with a sound, the cubicle was very clean, he touched the partition, if it wasn’t for the thick dust piled up on it, he would almost think that someone came here to clean it every day.
”The entire school building was incinerated by fire, but there are no traces of scorching in this restroom, which is very similar to the classroom at the end of the first floor.” The same characteristics caught Chen Ge’s attention, “In that case, the mission objective I’m looking for should be here.”
He continuously pushed the doors of the next few compartments open, and finally stopped outside the fifth one.
”There’s a bad feeling, could there be something dirty hiding behind the door?” Chen Ge tucked the muppet his parents had left him into his collar, gripped the tool hammer, and used the head of the hammer to push the cubicle door open.
The door shaft turned, and after seeing the scene in the cubicle, Chen Ge subconsciously took a step back.
On the partitions and walls of the fifth compartment, as if they were graffiti, there were many eyes painted, in the same proportion as real people’s eyes.
Before opening the door, Chen Ge had also imagined the scene behind the door, it could be a pale little girl, a monster with a hideous face, or a madman coated in blood and so on.
The only thing he hadn’t imagined was that there would be such a bizarre scene behind the door.
”Why are there so many eyes painted on the partitions and walls?”
Seeing such a scene in the abandoned school on a night when it was raining torrentially, Chen Ge felt a slight chill arise in his back.
As soon as the door was opened, it was as if there were countless pairs of eyes staring at him, and standing outside in this situation made him feel scared, let alone going inside the cubicle.
”Whoever drew these eyes in the toilet cubicle is sick in the head, right?”
That one eye was as if it was spying on the person in the cubicle, Chen Ge looked at it for a while and closed the door of the cubicle again.
Being watched by so many eyes in the middle of the night was a bit overwhelming.
”I found the quest site, but how am I going to complete this side quest? Hide inside and wait for the Red Shadow to visit under the gaze of all the eyes on the cubicles and walls? Isn’t this a bit too much?”
Chen Ge stared at the door panel for half a day, and then opened the door to the sixth compartment, which had the same number of eyes painted inside.
Somewhat strangely, the eyes in this compartment were all painted on the partition shared with the fifth compartment, while the walls were clean and devoid of anything.