Chapter 0764 – Knocking on the Door
”You’re overthinking it.” Chen Ge’s afterglow swept the black bag behind the door, but he didn’t give that thing a second thought.
Whether it contained household garbage or a corpse, what did it have to do with him now?
Chen Ge had been sober, the first thing he had to do was to figure out his identity and figure out what kind of person Lin Sisi really was.
Going by his perspective, his own body and appearance had not changed in any way, and he had no idea why Wang Xiaoming as well as the people around him had called him Lin Sisi.
”Perhaps Lin Sisi is not a person’s name at all, but a code name, an identity.”
”If you still want to go to the cafeteria later, you can ask me to join you, I’ll go back first.” Chen Ge’s expression didn’t change much, as if he hadn’t seen the bag.
”Good.” Wang Xiaoming’s body shrunk inside the dormitory, and suddenly, as if he remembered something, he shouted at Chen Ge again, “Xiao Lin, you’ve been sleeping in class today, and I don’t know if you’ve heard those things that Teacher Bai purposely explained.”
”What things?”
”Don’t just leave the dormitory at night lately, just stay well in your respective houses, and there’s also the fact that the lights out time has been advanced from eleven o’clock to ten-thirty, and there will be people patrolling the corridors after lights out, so I hope that you can pay attention to it.”
”That’s all?” Chen Ge was still thinking that Wang Xiaoming was going to say something important, it had been a while since he entered the door, but everyone and everything he encountered seemed to be normal, to be precise on the surface it was all normal, this school was just like an ordinary night school, there was nothing particularly noteworthy about it.
Wang bit his lip and seemed to want to say something else, but probably because he couldn’t be sure, he didn’t open his mouth again.
The door to the room closed, Chen Ge stood alone in the corridor of the dormitory building, the surroundings were very quiet and there was no sound.
”It’s not lights out yet, how could the corridor be so quiet, could it be that no one lives in the dorm rooms on either side?”
Chen Ge took out the key in his backpack and looked at the door of the dormitory opposite Wang Xiaoming, which had a number written on it – 413.
”This is Lin Sisi’s room?” Staring at that number, Chen Ge suddenly felt a bit familiar: “4 stands for the 4th floor, what does 13 stand for? The 13th room?”
Chen Ge had seen the number 13 on a diary on the ground floor of the Nightmare Academy, and he remembered very clearly that the last page of that diary had a sentence written at the end of it – I, die, one-three, psychic ghost school, escape.
”The 13 in the diary is talking about this dormitory? It shouldn’t be that simple.”
In a dead silent corridor, there was only the sound of the key constantly sticking into the lock hole and turning, and Chen Ge tried several times before finding the correct key.
After opening the door and seeing the scene inside the dormitory, Chen Ge frowned tightly.
The dormitory wasn’t that big, with a total of six beds, all of which were top bunks, and underneath the beds were closets and desks, as well as all sorts of miscellaneous items.
Just looking at these would not cause any problems, what caught Chen Ge’s attention was the walls of the dormitory.
There were many human figures on the walls and ceiling of this dormitory room, consistent with the height and build of a normal person, and it was not known whether they were pasted on, or painted on.
”One, two …… “Chen Ge roughly counted, there were a total of five humanoid shadows in the dormitory.
That thing was very conspicuous, it was hard not to notice it.
For the sake of his own safety, Chen Ge first climbed along the bed ladder to the bed and observed those human shadows up close.
Touching his fingers to the shadows closest to him, Chen Ge gently snapped the wall skin with his fingernails, “It’s painted on with pigment, who would have nothing better to do than to paint these things in the dormitory?”
These shadows that were the same size as a normal person all looked terrifying when the lights were turned on, wouldn’t it be even more frightening to turn off the lights and look up to find silhouettes all over the room?
Sweeping his eyes over all the silhouettes, Chen Ge jumped off the bed, becoming more careful than ever after losing the help of his employees.
”There are a total of six beds, but there’s only one thermos placed in the dormitory, and there’s only one pair of slippers on the floor, so the only person who really lives in this dormitory should be Xiao Lin.”
Chen Ge carefully rummaged through the closets and desks corresponding to the other several beds, and although there were various sundries piled up inside as well, none of them were household items, and all of them were some very strange things.
For example, drawing boards, paint buckets, plaster broken hands, broken wires, and so on.
This dormitory seemed to be a utility room, with only Xiao Lin living alone, and the other beds not occupied.
”Students who go to night school rarely live on campus, and Kobayashi’s financial situation is not good, it is even more unlikely that he would pay more money to come and live at the school, the only possibility is that it is cheaper to live here than to live outside in a rented apartment.”
Normally, the price of a school apartment is much more expensive than a family hotel near the school, and the low price of this place is perverse, which can only mean that there is something wrong with this room.
What had happened in the dormitory where Xiao Lin lived, Chen Ge did not know, and there was always an inexplicable sense of urgency in his heart.
Climbing up to the fourth bed away from the door of the room, this bed was covered with brand new sheets and quilts, although several other beds also had quilts thrown on them, most of them were covered in dust and were so dirty that they could not be used at all.
”No one lives there, so why keep quilts specifically? Would anyone be willing to use a quilt that dirty?”
Chen Ge sat on the fourth bed and looked at the dormitory from a different angle, it felt completely different and not as crowded.
”That’s right, this is Xiao Lin’s bed.” There were words of motivation and a schedule of work and rest posted next to the pillow, and if he wasn’t in this weird school, Chen Ge would definitely feel that Xiao Lin was a good student who had risen to the occasion.
”The bedsheets were washed and smelled like laundry detergent, and the quilt was still neatly folded, when I was in school, I rarely saw anyone in the dormitory who would fold the quilt so well, Xiao Lin should be a person who loves cleanliness and is extremely self-disciplined.” Chen Ge speculated about Xiao Lin’s character in his mind.
In addition to the quilt and pillow on the fourth bed, there were only books and pens left.
At first glance, Chen Ge thought that Xiao Lin was extremely passionate about learning, but he casually flipped through them a few times before realizing the problem.
Most of the books related to the specialized courses were clean and dry, with no markings on them, just like new ones, but on the contrary, a few of Xiao Lin’s own notebooks were badly worn on the edges, and it looked like they were frequently flipped through.
Chen Ge took out the three notebooks that were sandwiched in the middle of the textbooks, which were stuffed with all kinds of stickers, some of which were cut from newspapers, some of which were announcements posted below the dormitory building, and some of which were a small slip of paper with different handwriting.
”This is …… “After casually glancing at it, Chen Ge was immediately captivated.
”The man took advantage of the students’ vacation to enter the dormitory, not expecting anyone to have left the school yet, he hid amongst the closet and was found when he left from the closet late at night.”
”The body was found in the closet in the early hours of the following morning, the murderer has not yet been caught, teachers and students at all levels are urged to take precautions.”
Cropped from the newspaper was a single news item with no detailed address or specific names, just a report of a murder case that should be heard.
”The names seem to have been intentionally cut out, where did Kobayashi find the newspaper? The paper is yellowed and feels a bit old.”
There was more than one case recorded in the notebook, and the places of occurrence included the dormitory, the library, the laboratory building, and the elevator box.
”Could it be that these cases really happened in reality?” Chen Ge flipped through the notes, and the more he read, the more alarmed he became, “This notebook is very important.”
While flipping through the notes, Chen Ge also became more curious about Xiao Lin, what exactly was the other party? Why would he go and collect these strange and bizarre murder cases?
Chen Ge placed all of Xiao Lin’s notes on his bed, he had been carrying one in his backpack, and there were three more on his bed, now Chen Ge had obtained a total of four notes.
”The notebook in the backpack should be used for camouflage, there isn’t much important information, these three found on the bed are probably Xiao Lin’s biggest secret.” Chen Ge carefully read them and directly memorized what he saw.
Chen Ge was fully focused without the slightest distraction, but just at this time, the door of the room was suddenly knocked a few times.
The silence was broken, and Chen Ge habitually held his breath.
After the room door was knocked on a few times, the knocking stopped.
”Is Wang Xiaoming outside? He asked me to go to the cafeteria to eat together?” Regarding Wang Xiaoming as a person, Chen Ge didn’t want to make too many comments, nor did he want to have anything to do with the other party.
After about a minute, that annoying knocking sound suddenly sounded again.
But this time the other party knocked on the door as if the sound was a bit harder, Chen Ge didn’t say anything and didn’t go to open the door, and after the knocking sound lasted for a few seconds, the doorway surprisingly came with the sound of the key being inserted into the lock hole, and the sound of the card spring spring bouncing!
Crunch ……
The door to the room was pushed open, and the pale-faced Teacher Bai appeared at the door holding the key and flashlight.
”Why don’t you open the door?” Teacher Bai glared at Chen Ge, his forehead was sweating and the knots in his throat were trembling gently, as if he was a little scared.
”I just fell asleep.” Chen Ge naturally grabbed the quilt on the bed and covered his body, covering the three notebooks in the process.
Teacher Bai didn’t enter the house, but just stood in the doorway and looked around, “Don’t run around at night, just stay honestly in the dormitory, do you hear me?”
”Okay.” Chen Ge nodded in agreement.
Teacher Bai closed the door to the room and left directly.
”Strange guy, he opened the door in a hurry just now, giving me the feeling as if he wanted to see if I was still alive.”
Chen Ge covered himself with the quilt and was about to continue looking over his notes when the lights in the dormitory suddenly went out.
”Lights out? It’s already half past ten now?” Lying in the middle of pitch blackness, Chen Ge suddenly realized a problem: “Ever since I entered the world behind the door, it seems like I haven’t seen anything that can show the time, there’s no wall watch, and there’s no time on my phone.”
”Time should be a hidden clue that might bring me some special help.” Chen Ge began to be distracted from the moment the lights went out, silently counting his heartbeats while using his Yin pupil to continue watching the notes.
He didn’t need to know what time it was too precisely, he just wanted to have a rough range to facilitate his next actions.
”Go through the contents of the notes briefly, then look for other clues, and if you really can’t find them, immediately change to the next place.” Teacher Bai possessed the dormitory door key, and he could enter and exit the dormitory at will, which made Chen Ge feel insecure.
The curtains in the dormitory were thick, and only a faint light penetrated the room through the cracks.
There were five silhouettes printed on the walls, and the atmosphere was getting more and more depressing.
Bang, bang, bang ……
In the middle of the darkness, Chen Ge suddenly heard someone knocking on the door of the dormitory, and the other party’s movements were very light.
”Why is someone coming over again?” The newly appeared knocking sound was completely different from the sound of Teacher Bai knocking on the door just now, it should be another person knocking on the door.
”Could it be Wang Xiaoming? No, he looks very timid and is very afraid to stay in the corridor of the dormitory building, it shouldn’t be him.” Chen Ge covered himself with the quilt and lay on the bed, he remembered the words of Teacher Bai and Wang Xiaoming, don’t just leave the dormitory at night.
Chen Ge was still hesitating whether to go over and take a look or not when the knocking had stopped, the other party had only knocked three or four times.
”Only knocking sounds, no footsteps, the person outside the door probably hasn’t left yet.” Chen Ge was also very skilled in detection and counter-detection.
He didn’t make a sound and his body didn’t even move, wanting to create an illusion that there was no one in the dormitory.
After there were ten minutes, the room and the corridor were still dead silent.
”That person has left?” Chen Ge was slightly relieved as he reached into Xiao Lin’s backpack and touched the scissors with polished edges, “Whether it’s useful or not, holding this will at least give me some peace of mind.”
Chen Ge was not the type of character to sit back and wait for death, no matter what kind of despair he was in, he would not give up lightly.
He grabbed the scissors, but before he could take them out of his bag, the knocking sound sounded once again.
It wasn’t very hard, as if it was mechanically repeating itself.
”Is the monster outside the door staring at me?”
Chen Ge gripped the scissors tightly, his eyes staring at the door of the room, but this time, the knocking didn’t stop, and it became urgent.
”That guy outside seems to be chased by something, does he want to come in for shelter?” A clay Bodhisattva could not protect himself, how could Chen Ge dare to run over and open the door for him at this time.
The frequency of the other party knocking on the door was getting faster and faster, but the strength was gradually getting smaller, giving the impression that it was like life was passing away and dying.
”Mischief? Or is he deliberately luring me out?” Chen Ge listened to the knocking sound that gradually became urgent, but the sound became smaller and smaller, his eyes slowly narrowed: “The knocking sound appeared out of nowhere, there was no sound in the corridor, not quite right, I seem to have overlooked a possibility.”
Chen Ge reached out and flipped through the notes next to him, one of the murders recorded was that the murderer hid in the closet of the dormitory, and was seen by a student when he left in the middle of the night, and the student’s body was eventually found in the closet.
”Either the murderer, or the student, was inside the dorm room that night. If this story took place in this room, then what I’m hearing right now isn’t even a knock on the door from outside, but a cry for help from inside the house! The ghost could be in the room!”
A wave of cool air ran down his spine and into his brain, the position of the silhouette on the wall seemed to have slightly changed, and to make matters worse, Chen Ge suddenly felt that something was moving under the covers!