Zhang Ju had long discovered that Chen Ge was not an ordinary person. His eyes remained calm no matter what he saw, as if nothing in the world could surprise him.
To be honest, he was very afraid of such people, but it was precisely because of fear that he chose to obey and follow.
Standing in front of the photo, Zhang Ju opened his only remaining right eye and stared at Chen Ge's face silently.
He had ordinary facial features and an appearance that could not be recognized in a crowd at first glance. But it was this person who just inadvertently revealed an expression that even frightened himself.
It's hard to describe. It's like a resentful ghost and a perverted madman combined together. From that face, you can see madness, morbidity, and cruelty, but the only thing you can't see is fear and terror.
Zhang Ju knew what he looked like, and he had always thought that he was a scary monster, but Chen Ge's actions just now made him realize that there were "monsters" in the world that were scarier than him.
"Yes, we should be the same kind of people."
He believed Chen Ge's words, because that kind of expression could only be possessed by someone who had been through hell, and the other person, like him, had forgotten the past.
"I'm sorry, Teacher Bai, I recalled some very unpleasant memories, so I lost control." Zhang Ju's voice was unpleasant and harsh, but his attitude was much better.
"It's okay. How could a teacher really blame a student?" Chen Ge smiled, giving people a very kind and gentle feeling. It was hard to believe that the person who just spoke to Zhang Ju was him: "What do you remember? Don't worry, tell me everything."
"It's nothing, just some painful memories." The wounds on Zhang Ju's body were still bleeding, and his clothes were stained red bit by bit: "I remembered myself when I witnessed the murder, cowardly and timid; I remembered the feeling of the fire burning my skin, like needles piercing my flesh until I could no longer feel the pain; I also remembered how I struggled in the sterile ward, despair took root in my heart, I didn't want to die, but I didn't know how to live."
"Did anything special happen to you or around you in the last stage of your life?" Zhang Ju appeared in the world inside the "door", but he had lost the ability to push the door open. Chen Ge was curious about how he got into the school. Only by knowing how he got in would he have a chance to deduce a way to escape.
In the three-star scene, the "door" is the only entrance and exit, but the four-star scene seems to be a little different.
"The last stage of life..." Zhang Ju reached out and touched his face. "I seemed to be in a coma, but I could sense the outside world. I couldn't tell the difference between reality and nightmares, but I remember one thing clearly. Every night, a door would appear in the ward."
"Door?"
"I stayed in the hospital for seven days. The door would appear every night, getting closer and closer to me until it finally reached my bedside." Zhang Ju looked up, his face covered in blood. "It was a moving door. The more scared and desperate I was, the closer it got to me. I couldn't ask for help. On the eighth night, the door was pushed open from the inside. Hands stretched out through the crack and pulled me in."
The situation described by Zhang Ju was the same as what happened to Chang Gu. They both encountered a "door" that would move by itself. Every midnight or early morning, the door would slowly approach the sleeping person, and eventually stand beside the bed. The door would be pushed open from the inside, taking away the dead living person.
"Is this the school behind the door?" Chen Ge was even more curious about what happened next. He wanted to know how Zhang Ju lost his memory, how this student who was disfigured in the fire turned into a man in red clothes step by step.
Zhang Ju shook his head: "I had a dream, a very real dream. In the dream, they all called me Lin Sisi. I repeatedly told them that my name was Zhang Ju. They recognized the wrong person, but they thought I was joking."
"No one believed me. I could only live in my dreams under the name Lin Sisi and experience everything that Lin Sisi went through. Over time, I even began to doubt whether my name was Lin Sisi or not."
"Being bullied, treated with cold violence, and ignored is not a pleasant feeling, but then I think about it again, I have become a monster in reality, so it's actually not bad to just live in this dream."
Zhang Ju spoke in a calm voice, as if he was telling someone else's story: "I had no friends, the whole world hated me, and the double torture of mind and body slowly made me numb, until one day, a girl walked into my dream."
"It was a rainy day, and someone stuffed a frog into my classmate's bag. She suspected that I did it, but how could I do such a boring thing?"
"No one listened to my explanation. My classmates kicked me out of the classroom. Everyone in the corridor looked at me strangely. I had no choice but to escape to the rooftop of the teaching building by myself."
“That’s where I met her.”
"Even though I knew it was a dream, I still felt that girl was very special." Zhang Ju's voice changed: "Her name is Chang Wenyu, and she is the only one who didn't ignore me."
"I told her about my grievances and she expressed her understanding."
"Later, I told her about my past and told her that I was not actually Lin Sisi."
"She was very interested in what I said, and I also liked being with her, because only when I was with her could I remember myself and not be assimilated by the dream."
"We would meet on the rooftop every evening, and I gradually felt that I couldn't leave her."
"Just when I felt that life was slowly becoming more colorful, she suddenly asked me a question - do you want to see the scenery outside the school?"
"I didn't understand the meaning of the question at that time. I just wanted to be with her, so I nodded."
"That night, after midnight, she took me to the library."
"The door of the school library was always locked. We climbed through the window and found a mirror behind a bookshelf on the third floor."
"The mirror was very big. The girl said it could be used several times and asked me not to tell anyone."
"I believed her very much, and at the same time I remembered something. This was the first time I saw a mirror in a dream!"
“I asked the girl what should I do?”
"The girl just told me to just look in the mirror quietly."
"I stood in front of the mirror and she hid behind me. In the dead of night, I just looked at myself in the mirror."
"The more I looked, the more I felt that the person in the mirror didn't look like me. Slowly, I began to bleed, and scars appeared on the face of the person in the mirror."
"His ears were withered, his left eye was closed, and his face was covered in blood!"
"I didn't dare to look any further, but when I wanted to leave, the monster in the mirror grabbed me!"
"The blood flows on the mirror until it dyes the entire mirror red!"
"I shouted for help and turned to look at Chang Wenyu, but she was indifferent. I still remember the last words she said to me - why should you be afraid? The you in the mirror is the real you."
"Her slender fingers gently pressed on my left eye and slowly took it out!"
"The world lost its color in an instant, and I was dragged away by the monster in the mirror. All my beautiful expectations turned into the most vicious curse at that moment."