Chapter 0846 – Cherry White, Cherry Red
Chen Ge was just a stranger to Yan Fei, but Li Bing was different, he used to be Yan Fei’s friend.
Some words Chen Ge said had low credibility, but the same content for Li Bing to say would have a completely different effect.
Chen Ge knew that it was difficult to attack Yan Fei’s psychological defense, so he first attacked Yan Fei’s friends.
Li Bing said a lot to Yan Fei, Yan Fei’s eyes slowly got a little color, his heart had been shaken, but he still couldn’t go to believe Chen Ge.
”This ghost school is already different from before, I will change everything from the root.” Chen Ge gently picked up Yan Fei’s arm and lifted his long sleeve, the boy subconsciously wanted to block it, he didn’t want to be seen by others with his secret.
There were bandages wrapped underneath the long sleeves, and underneath the bandages were wounds that hadn’t healed yet.
”The wounds on your body will heal with a bandage and some medicine, but the wounds in your heart that have been torn out will stay forever. I know you’re paralyzing yourself with the pain in your body, but it won’t solve anything. Why do you need to punish yourself with your own pain, even if you die, those who hate you won’t shed a single tear over it, they’ll stand by your grave and look at your black and white picture frame and gloat.”
Putting the lifted sleeve back in place, Chen Ge held Yan Fei’s palm, and the palm of a living person made Yan Fei feel a trace of long-lost warmth.
”I know you still can’t believe me, but I will prove it with practical actions.” Chen Ge stood by the bedside: “The Ghost School will soon be in chaos, it’s dangerous for you to be here alone, come with me and Li Bing, we’ll protect you.”
”Yes, Yan Fei, I won’t run away this time, I will stand in front of you.” Li Bing was very cooperative, he and Chen Ge kept persuading, and Yan Fei’s attitude started to change.
”You, me, Li Bing, we still have a lot of friends, everyone has long been unwilling to be silent anymore, I will get them all!”
The students that Chen Ge had rescued on that side of the mirror were also in the middle of this blood-red world, and although they were separated from Chen Ge, Chen Ge still treated them as friends and companions.
”There are others?” Li Bing and Yan Fei looked at Chen Ge at the same time.
”Yes, we are not alone.” Chen Ge slowly helped Yan Fei up, “Kind people are like light, all those who look to the good will be attracted to it, just wait and see, I won’t let you down.”
This school had also reached the point where it was time for a change, although it provided a home for the homeless children, this home was cold and chaotic, and was not suitable for them.
”It’s time to change the person in charge.”
Letting Li Bing take care of Yan Fei, Chen Ge didn’t leave the infirmary right away, he walked back to the hospital bed where Sakura Bai was.
This child was acquainted with the old principal, so there was no way Chen Ge would leave her here unattended.
Lifting the white cloth, Sakura Bai sat next to the hospital bed with wide eyes, she had just been eavesdropping on Chen Ge as they spoke.
”I …… didn’t listen to you guys ……”
She was like a small child who had secretly eaten a lot of snacks when her parents weren’t at home, her expression was very cute, forming a stark contrast with this world behind the door that was filled with pain and despair.
”Sakurabaek, there’s something I have to tell you.” Chen Ge took out his killer weapon as he took out the comic book from his backpack, “I know your grandfather, he is one of the people I respect the most.”
”You know my grandfather?” It was Sakurabaek’s turn to be dumbfounded, her small mouth opened and closed, her eyes full of surprise.
”That’s right, and I don’t want to lie to you, the old man had opened a private welfare organization and adopted many orphans. Later, with the help of the local government, he converted that welfare institution into a school called Mureyang Middle School, and I have entered that school many times.” What Chen Ge said made the girl even more surprised.
”It’s true that grandpa ran a welfare organization, but he didn’t set up a school, could you be mistaken?” Chen Ge’s words had managed to arouse Sakura Bai’s curiosity.
”It can’t be a mistake, since you know that grandpa has opened a welfare organization, then you should know them as well.” Chen Ge already knew that he was invincible as he walked out of the hospital room and flipped through the anime albums to conjure up the students of Mureyang Middle School.
In a few breaths of time, when Chen Ge came in from outside the house again, he was followed by several students.
They had curiosity and smiles on their faces, and although only illusory obsessions remained, they looked happy.
For these adopted orphans, flying high or whatever they didn’t care, they lived together, they were a family, a family just stayed together that was enough.
”Sakura Bai, I’ve been looking for you for a long time.” Chen Ge’s tone was quite emotional, he sidestepped to one side, those few students from Mureyang Middle School then saw Sakura Bai who was skin and bones on the hospital bed.
Those students froze, and they seemed to be unable to believe their eyes.
”You guys ……”
Tears flowed directly from Sakura Bai’s eyes on the hospital bed, and his voice was trembling, “It’s been a long time.”
Chen Ge didn’t affect their catching up and guarded outside the door with his backpack.
He found an inconspicuous corner, took out the bandaged ballpoint pen in his backpack, and placed it on a piece of white paper, “Pen Fairy, can you tell me the story between your principal and that girl? You should be old friends, right?”
The pen in his hand hovered over the white paper for a long time before he started writing, “Thank you.”
Out of Chen Ge’s expectation, the Pen Fairy, who had an extremely bad temper and a very bad personality, actually said the word thank you to Chen Ge this time.
”Don’t be like this, I’ll think you’ve been taken over by another scapegoat.”
The Pen Fairy didn’t care about Chen Ge’s words and continued to write on the white paper, “Welfare organizations and private elementary schools are two different concepts, the principal has always had this idea, but it was very difficult to implement, it wasn’t until something happened to Li Xuezuo that his determination to start a school for adopted children was strengthened.”
”Her name is Li Xuezakura? Isn’t this child called Sakurabaek?”
”I won’t be mistaken, she’s Li Xuezakura, she’s the child of the first child adopted by the old principal.”
”It’s a bit roundabout, can you be more specific?” Chen Ge held the pen and stared at the blank sheet of paper very seriously.
”Li Xuezuo’s mother was the first child adopted by the old principal, because of a physical defect, she was unable to work, and the old principal took care of her until she got married.”
”Seeing his adopted child step into the marriage hall, the old principal was very touched, he thought that his daughter had finally gained happiness and lived a normal life, but he didn’t expect those bad things to happen behind.”
”Li Xuezuo’s mother’s condition worsened, her father decisively abandoned their mother and daughter, and in the end, it was the old principal who sent Li Xuezuo’s mother away in the hospital.”
Chen Ge nodded, “I know all of this, you only need to tell me what happened to Sakura Bai afterwards.”
”Li Xuezakura’s mother leaving the world hit the principal very hard, he felt guilty and felt that he was the one who had misjudged people and pushed his daughter into the fire.”
”The old principal adopted Li Xuezakura again, he gave turned all the guilt into love and took care of Li Xuezakura with all his heart.”
”Snow cherry from childhood is very understanding, academic performance is also very good, in order not to delay her, the old principal sent her to the city’s best school, but let everyone did not expect things happened.”
”Half a year after enrollment, Snow Cherry left the earth, until that time the old principal didn’t know that Snow Cherry had been bullied in her class. The people in the same class didn’t envy Snow Sakura just because she got first place, instead they grew more and more disgusted, thinking that she was just an adopted orphan with no father or mother, and that the parent-teacher conferences were all attended by orphanage staff who came to help.”
”The principal really loved Snow Sakura, he didn’t expect this to happen at all, the man who had lived most of his life broke down on that day, he pointed at the students with innocent expressions and shouted you’re all murderers!”
”This incident stimulated the principal a lot, he adopted those children to make them happy, not to watch them step into the abyss.”
”People can’t be brought back from the dead, the principal wanted his own children not to be bullied, for things like this to never happen again, that’s why he ended up defying all odds and converting the orphanage into the Twilight Sun Middle School.”
The pen in his hand was still moving, Chen Ge really didn’t think that there was such a thing behind Mureyang Middle School.
”Twilight Sun Middle School was built well, and the principal’s hair turned all gray, he is still as amiable as ever, but he is not as talkative as before, and the number of times he smiles has become less.”
”If I remember correctly, it was also from that time that he often went out alone at night.”
”Wait a minute.” Chen Ge saw the last sentence written by Pensieve and felt a little strange, “Does the old principal often go out alone late at night?”
”It seems like he takes the last bus to the west suburb of Hankai, the principal is very busy during the day and only has time at night.”
”Do you know why he went to the western suburbs?”
”It seems like he went to meet someone, but once I saw tickets for our haunted house on his desk.” The penny dropped, but in her heart she already considered herself an employee of the haunted house, and that was evident in her choice of words.
”The old principal went to the western suburb of New Century Paradise in the middle of the night?” Chen Ge’s eyes widened as he remembered something else – the second time he explored Mureyang Middle School at night, he saw a donation record in the old principal’s office, which had his parents’ names on it, as well as Dr. Gao’s name!
”The old principal knows my parents!” Chen Ge’s eyes narrowed, he felt that the old principal was able to enter the Ghost School and find Sakura White, probably guided by his own parents!
”I get it, I get it all.” Chen Ge took a breath, “The old principal knew that the Psychic Ghost School was very dangerous, and he didn’t feel at ease with those students from Mureyang Middle School, so he never made up his mind to enter the Ghost School to rescue Sakura White. Later, when I rushed to the ghost school, he knew the character of my parents, so he was also very relieved about me. On the surface, it looks like I was the one who took away those students, but it was actually him who wanted to find a forever home for those kids.”
After figuring this out, Chen Ge wasn’t annoyed at being deceived, but instead felt even more that the principal was a marvelous person who was still thinking about those children even after his death.
After obtaining the black cell phone, Chen Ge saw another world, he had seen the deepest darkness and the true light, such as the old principal of Mureyang Middle School, and Wei Jiuqing, the doctor who donated his remains to the Forensic Science Institute, and so on.
”Without worries, the old principal should enter the Psychic Ghost School and try to save Sakurabaek, who is most likely in this school right now.”
After learning that the old principal and his parents knew each other, Chen Ge was even more eager to find the old principal, as long as he met him in person, many of the mysteries that confused him could be solved.
”The old principal entrusted the students of Mureyang Middle School to me, so it seems that he’s already prepared for his soul to die, so why bother? We’re all family, give me a heads up, how nice to discuss this together.”
Chen Ge had already understood the cause and effect, and was about to put away the ballpoint pen when he suddenly thought of something else: “Pen Fairy, does Li Xuezura have any older and younger sisters? In addition to Sakura Bai in this ghost school, there is also a girl called Sakura Hong, who looks a lot like Sakura Bai, only her personality is completely different and she seems to be more scheming.”
”Sakura Lee doesn’t have any sisters, her only relative is the old principal.” The pen fairy wrote honestly on the paper.
What Pen Fairy wrote was the same as what Sakura White said, Chen Ge nodded, “Then it’s probably because something went wrong with Li Xuezakura after she entered the ghost school, Sakura White, Sakura Red, Li Xuezakura, Li Blood Sakura …… Looks like I’ll have to bring that Sakura Red around as well before I can do anything about it.”
Chen Ge now no longer cared about how complicated this scene was, he was with his staff, how difficult he was confident that he could handle it.
Putting away his ballpoint pen, Chen Ge walked back to the hospital room, and as soon as he entered, Li Bing ran over, “Chen Ge, are these people like us? So we had so many friends a long time ago?”
”Yes, they are all our friends, you can communicate with them more, you still have a lot to learn from them in the future.”
Chen Ge lightly patted Li Bing’s shoulder, this dude was very festive looking, kind of an anomaly amongst the obsessions and Knight Ghosts, the class didn’t like him, but Chen Ge thought that this kid was nice.
”Okay!” Bing Li didn’t hear the deeper meaning in Chen Ge’s words, he just felt excited, he didn’t realize that there were so many people like himself in this school.
Walking past Bing Li, Chen Ge came to the side of Sakura White’s bed, “Do you believe what I said now?”
”En.” Sakurabaek recognized her former friend, she had forgotten a lot of things and her memories were still stuck in the time period when she went to school alone.
To her, it was like a lot of friends coming to visit her.
She forgot that she was dead, not to mention the fact that these friends had actually become remnants.
”Everyone go out first, I have some things I want to talk to Sakurabaek alone.” Chen Ge looked towards those students of Twilight Sun Middle School, they were just remnants that were unwilling to leave Twilight Sun Middle School after their deaths, they were not even considered as severe ghosts, and when they really fought and killed, they would easily dissipate, Chen Ge was protecting them by doing so.
Followed the students out of the infirmary, Chen Ge used the opportunity of closing the door to include all the students in the comic book, when he met the old principal, he was counting on these kids to put in a good word for him.
The infirmary was quiet again, and when Chen Ge returned, he found that Sakurabaek had already stepped out of the hospital bed.
She was frail and looked weak, but she still made a great effort to walk over to Chen Ge’s side, seemingly treating him as a family member as well.