Chapter 1155 – Expanding Scarlet City
Chen Ge asked Old White to stay behind to guard the house, and he himself included all the red-clad employees in the comic book, then left the House of Horrors with the white cat in his arms.
The caretaker of the New Century Paradise had long been asleep, and there were very few vehicles on the road, so he waited for a long time before getting into a cab.
After three in the morning, Chen Ge arrived at the Westside Private College, he took the diploma and ran to the toilet cubicle on the top floor of the school building.
”How is this thing going to work?”
After trying several times over and over again, the blood door didn’t appear, and Chen Ge didn’t know if the door to the Psychic Ghost School had been an accident, or if he had missed the time.
”The door of the ghost school still doesn’t have a ‘door pusher’ so far, so it looks like I’ll have to wait until zero o’clock tomorrow night to come back.”
As soon as he finished speaking on his side, the shadow behind him changed shape, and a drop of blood oozed out from the door of the toilet cubicle, followed by the drop blooming like a flower.
Tendrils of blood spread all over the door panel, and a strong smell of blood seeped out from the door crack.
The piercing blood and the blood light on the diploma echoed each other, Chen Ge tried to push the bloody door, and for a split second the boundless color of blood drowned him.
When he came back to his senses again, his eyes were already filled with red, and the entire building was covered in blood.
”Psychic Ghost School?”
Chen Ge stood in place, and before he could return to his senses, footsteps came from outside the corridor.
Subconsciously flipping through the anime picture book, Chen Ge summoned Men Nan and Xiao Bu out.
A few moments later, the toilet door was pushed open, and two very delicate looking little girls appeared in the doorway.
One of them wore a white dress and the other a red dress, and their facial features were very similar, but their reactions to seeing Chen Ge were completely different.
”Sakura Red, Sakura White?”
”The Blood Gate was pushed, and my first guess was that you had returned.” Sakura Red swept her head crookedly at Chen Ge before setting her eyes on Boo and Men Nan, her cute eyebrows furrowed slightly before she held Sakura White’s hand and ducked a little further away, “Tell me, what do you want to do when you return to your alma mater? Everyone isn’t very welcoming to you, but seeing as you saved the school, we can grudgingly help you out.”
”Is the principal here? I want to have a good chat with him.” Chen Ge was also quite worried about the Psychic Ghost School, after all, this place was particularly close to the Scarlet City, and the old principal of the Twilight Sun Middle School was only a half-bodied red-robed man, so Chen Ge was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to handle it on his own.
”Follow me.” Sakura Red did not talk nonsense and led Chen Ge to the school hospital.
After the original school doctor was killed, this place was left vacant.
”I want to see the principal, why did you bring me to the hospital?” Chen Ge was quite puzzled.
Sakura Red spread her hands helplessly, “Go in and see for yourself.”
Lifting the blood-red curtain, Chen Ge saw a fat old man dressed in bloody clothes talking to a few students.
That fat old man heard the ringing and looked up at Chen Ge with a very kind smile on his face, “Chen Ge? Why are you here?”
”Elder, when did you break through to red clothing?” Chen Ge was very surprised, the last time he left the old principal was still half red, how long had it been since he had seen the principal not only become red, but also had a feeling of unfathomable strength.
”I also forgot exactly what time it was, ever since I became the principal of this school, I have been enlightening these children and slowly became red-robed.” The old principal of Mureyang Middle School was a very special stern ghost, he didn’t devour any ghosts after his death, but he became half-red, and now what was even more outrageous was that this old gentleman had somehow broken through to red again.
From the old principal, Chen Ge saw another path for the breakthrough of a stern ghost, a path that could perhaps be tried by Yan Dainian.
”How did you do it? Can you reveal some details?” Chen Ge stood in the middle of a group of children and students with a feeling of being out of place.
”My experience is probably of no use to you, some of the children in the Psychic Ghost School are victims of school bullying, some of them have broken up their families and haven’t enjoyed love and warmth since they were young, so I want to heal the scars of their childhood and truly make the Psychic Ghost School their home.” The old principal hugged his chubby belly, “Actually, I didn’t do much, the main thing is that the children are slowly recognizing me, they influence the school’s will, and gradually I gained the recognition of the school’s will as well.”
The door of the Psychic Ghost School was at its weakest point, it desperately needed to find a door pusher for itself, in this case the old principal had gained the recognition of most of the children again, plus there was no one else competing or messing with it, so the school’s will began to add on to the old principal’s body, wanting to slowly make him the master of the door.
In terms of strength, both Painter and Chang Wenyu were stronger than the old principal, but they couldn’t really bring salvation to the students behind the door.
Although the old principal was the weakest one, this old man was the most suitable.
He didn’t have the means to build a paradise behind the door, nor did he have the means to lead all the students to escape from the door, but he could do his best to create a haven.
”Four-star scenes are capable of giving birth to fierce gods, and the Psychic Ghost School is a four-star scene recognized by the black phone, so if we give the old principal some more time, maybe he can really become a miracle.”
Becoming a Fierce God without devouring any of the Lich Ghosts, this almost impossible thing was slowly becoming a reality because of some kind of persistence from the old principal.
The old principal had shown Chen Ge a path, and he felt that he should also have a good chat with Yan Dainian to figure out what was really going on inside Yan Dainian’s heart.
”Principal, during this period of time, has that Scarlet City still come looking for trouble from us?” The last time Chen Ge entered the Psychic Ghost School, Zhang Ya had just become a Fierce God and had not yet recovered from his serious injuries, and his staff strength had not been boosted, but this time it was different, and he now had three of the top red coats alone.
”That city ……” The smile on the old principal’s face disappeared, “The situation is not too optimistic, I’ll take you to the top floor to see what you know.”
The principal led Chen Ge to the top floor of the school building, the iron door leading to the top of the building was the only door in the entire ghost school that wasn’t boarded up.
”I’ll open the door, don’t get too close to me, it’s dangerous.” The old principal fished out a key from amongst his red clothes, which surprisingly had a shrunken heart of red clothes engraved on it.
Slowly opening the door a crack, the thick blood mist directly floated down the crack into the middle of the corridor.
Only after determining that there was no danger did the old principal allow Chen Ge to come over, “See for yourself.”
Using his Yin pupil, Chen Ge looked outside along the doorway.
All kinds of buildings towered around the Psychic Ghost School, and every single one of them was covered in the color of blood!
”This is completely different from the last time I left!” Chen Ge was very surprised.
”The Psychic Ghost School has been swallowed by that blood-colored city.” The old principal wore a bitter smile, “Not long after you left, that city was getting closer and closer to the Ghost School, so we had no choice but to give up part of the campus, focus all our strength, and completely blockade the main campus with the remaining wooden boards and soul nails, leaving only this one door for entry and exit.”
”That means the Psychic Ghost School is now a completely closed scene?”
”En, the playground, warehouse area, and club venues are all places we’ve given up on, and everyone is now mainly concentrated in the middle of the teaching building, apartment building, and laboratory building.” The old principal looked at the blood fog outside and sighed softly, “This is also a solution without a choice, in front of that blood city, we look too small.”
The Tongling Ghost School had already been annexed by the bloody city, which was something Chen Ge hadn’t thought of before arriving.
”This Blood City is still expanding, no, or it would be more appropriate to describe it as growing.” The old principal was open-minded, “It’s good to be annexed, as long as we don’t leave the main building, the ghosts and monsters in the Scarlet City won’t make a move against us, it seems like they have a set of their own rules here.”
Previously, the Psychic Ghost School was independent of the periphery of Scarlet City, just like the Underworld Fetus Scene, it was completely independent, but now the Psychic Ghost School Scene had also become part of Scarlet City.
Chen Ge looked towards the distance along the doorway, all surrounded by blood-red buildings, and could not see the end at all.
”I wonder if the Cursed Hospital is also independent of Blood City.” Chen Ge gazed into the distance, “It would be great if we could get this city to annex the Cursed Hospital.”
”Chen Ge, it’s dangerous here, if you don’t have anything else, I’ll close the door.” The old principal urged.
”The painter ended up entering Blood City, Dr. Gao might be somewhere in Blood City right now as well, should I go in or not?” Chen Ge flipped through the anime painting book, he was tempted to let his staff enter the Blood City to hunt, but it was just too dangerous, he still remembered what happened to Dr. Gao after he ventured into the Blood City.
”Boom!”
The iron door closed, and the old principal seemed to be able to see Chen Ge’s thoughts, “Don’t do anything foolish, even top redcoats may encounter the unknown in Blood City.”
”Encountering the unknown?”
”When the Tongling Ghost School was just annexed, there were some ghosts and monsters hiding in the blood mist, they wanted to enter the ghost school, but then I don’t know what happened, those ghosts and monsters all flew away.” The old principal himself couldn’t say it clearly, “It was very scary, we hid in the school building and merely saw a red shadow floating by.”
”Was that the top red coat?”
”Even if it was a Top Redcoat couldn’t have done that to instantly kill so many ghosts and monsters, besides, it seems like there were Top Redcoats among those ghosts and monsters themselves.” The old principal’s heart palpitated, “If you accidentally enter Blood City in the future, you must remember to run when you see the red shadow, it seems like it can’t enter the interior of the building.”
”Got it.” Chen Ge took a deep breath, “Headmaster, you open the door first, I want to go outside and do a test.”
”Why are you more bold than a ghost?” The old principal shook his head, and in the end, he reluctantly agreed only after being worn down by Chen Ge.
Comic book in hand, Chen Ge had Red High Heels take a bit of blood from the white cat’s body that contained red-clothed blood threads, “Can you use this blood to cast a spell and see if you can contact Dr. Gao?”
The red high heels tried for a while, then shook their heads.
”It doesn’t work? It seems that just using the blood threads of the Weird Tales Association isn’t enough, in which case I’ll have to go find Ruxue Gao.” Chen Ge didn’t have any malicious intent towards Gao Ruxue, it was just a bloodline connection, and he wanted to contact Dr. Gao through Gao Ruxue.
Dr. Gao’s misfortune started when he encountered the cursed hospital, and his wife’s death was also related to that hospital, so he and Chen Ge had a common enemy, and they were allies with the same interests.
”Chen Ge! Come back quickly! Don’t stay too long!” The old principal noticed something approaching in the blood mist and warned in a loud voice.
Chen Ge didn’t take any chances and put away the comic book and returned to the middle of the Psychic Ghost School.
Closing the iron door, the old principal was relieved, “Don’t go out if you’re fine, this Blood City is really very dangerous.”
”Headmaster, there’s something else I want to ask you this time.” Chen Ge stated his other purpose: “Is there anyone else in the Psychic Ghost School who can contact the painter? I want to team up with him to do something.”
”The students who identify with the painter have all left after him, but there is one thing that should help you find the painter.” The old principal locked the door and took Chen Ge to the lab building again, he found an unfinished painting in the art activity room, “This is the only painting the painter left behind, when he left the ghost school, all the paintings turned into flying dust, only this one stayed, I think this painting must be very important to him.”
Chen Ge took the half-painted oil painting, the painting was very simple, a young man with a changed face and a child were sitting side by side in the sunlight, they seemed to be chatting about something.
”This painting is of the painter and Fan Yu?”
An ordinary and simple scene was a dream that was hard to realize for the painter.
Chen Ge put the oil painting away and then went to meet with the other red coats in the ghost school, he still needed a lot of help if he wanted to go against the cursed hospital.
After asking the old principal for permission, Chen Ge took away the three red coats from the ghost school.
Leaving the Psychic Ghost School, it was still light in reality, so Chen Ge dialed Zhang Wenyu’s number again, wanting to meet with the other party.
Half an hour later, Chen Ge found Zhang Wenyu in an abandoned building on the northern outskirts of Hanjiang.
This suicide operator was standing next to a homeless man who was seriously ill, and he watched silently, wanting to go to the rescue but unwilling to break some sort of rule.
In the end, it was as if he was the real-life Grim Reaper, silently watching.
”I want to ask you to do me a favor.” Chen Ge walked over to Zhang Wenyu.
”Good.” Zhang Wenyu’s reply was only one word.
”Don’t be in a hurry to agree yet, there are at least two Fierce Gods among the enemies I want to deal with.” Chen Ge didn’t want to force anyone.
”Fierce Gods?”
”It’s an existence that is ten times more terrifying than a top-tier Redcoat.” Chen Ge’s expression was grave, “Are you still willing to help me now?”
”Of course.” Zhang Wenyu nodded.
”Thanks a lot.” Chen Ge wanted to put Zhang Wenyu into the comic book, but he tried several times to no avail, and after asking Yan Dainian he realized that Zhang Wenyu looked like a Red Clothesman, but he was actually equivalent to countless Lil’ Ghosts, and the comic book simply couldn’t hold that many Lil’ Ghosts and obsessions.
While Chen Ge was entangled, Zhang Wenyu’s figure slowly dissipated, and a few moments later Chen Ge’s cell phone received a message that was sent from that suicide operator number: “I’ll be right by your side until you’re relieved of your crisis.”
Turning his head towards the surroundings, Chen Ge didn’t find Zhang Wenyu even with the use of his Yin pupil, but there was inexplicably an extra strength in his heart, as if there were countless people silently traveling with him.
”The people you have saved will eventually become your power to redeem yourself.”
The early sun rose, Chen Ge put away his cell phone and left the northern suburb of Hanjiang, and he took another taxi to the Hanjiang School of Forensic Medicine, preparing to meet Gao Ruxue.