The sixth compartment only had eyes painted on the partitions, but not on the walls, which made Chen Ge feel a little strange.
He went around to the fourth cubicle, which had no graffiti.
"Could it be a prank by the students? But why did they choose the fifth cubicle specifically to paint? This cubicle is neither the last nor the first."
In order to find out the truth of the matter, Chen Ge returned to the door of the sixth compartment. He hesitated for a moment and walked in with the tool hammer in hand.
The drainage pipes are concentrated in the sixth compartment, which seems a bit crowded compared to the other compartments.
"There's nothing wrong with it. Do I have to enter the fifth compartment to find out something?" Chen Ge looked at the eyes on the partition, raised his hand and touched it lightly.
"It is indeed painted there, but it just looks scary." He stared at the eyes on the partition for a long time: "The fourth compartment is normal, only the fifth and sixth compartments have graffiti. There is a wooden board between the two compartments, and there are eyes painted on both sides of this partition..."
He vaguely felt that he had grasped some clue, and reached out his hand again, touching the eye patterns on the partition. When his fingers touched an eye at the knee position, Chen Ge's expression changed.
"Just as I thought!"
He crouched down and shone the light of his flashlight on the partition.
Where his finger touched, there was a hole exactly the same size as his eye.
A small hole was bored through the partition, which was difficult to detect because it was the same size and shape as an eye and was located in a corner.
"All the eye graffiti is to hide this small hole." Chen Ge looked at the hole in the middle of the partition. The more he thought about it, the creepier it became. "There is a hole mixed in with the eye graffiti. The hole just connects the fifth and sixth compartments. This means that someone used this hole to peek into the fifth compartment from the sixth compartment!"
Who would have thought when going to the toilet that there would be a real eye mixed in with the eye patterns around them.
"The drainage pipes are all in the sixth compartment. As long as he steps on the pipes, people outside will not be able to find him through the gap under the compartment. This person has thought of everything very carefully." Being spied on without knowing it was what terrified Chen Ge the most.
Think about the introduction in the side quest, the man hid in the fifth compartment waiting for Red Shadow to come. In fact, he might have been observed by Red Shadow for a long time.
"Now the secret of the fifth compartment has been cracked, but how do I complete the side quest? Do I have to stay in the fifth compartment, wait for the red shadow to appear, and then let it peek through the small hole?" Chen Ge waved the tool hammer in his hand. If this is how it unfolds, he doesn't mind giving the other party a hammer in the eye.
While Chen Ge was thinking about how to complete the side quest, the sound of footsteps walking side by side in the corridor sounded again. This time they went straight to the third floor, and at a very fast speed!
"What's going on? They seem to be more anxious than me. Is it because I opened the fifth compartment? But this doesn't make sense. I opened the compartment a long time ago. Why are they rushing over here now?"
Before he could figure out the answer, footsteps appeared on the third floor. Chen Ge was standing in the sixth cubicle at this time. He only had time to close the cubicle door halfway before the footsteps entered the toilet on the third floor.
"Finally, we're going to face each other head-on."
Chen Ge turned off the flashlight and raised the hammer high, but what happened next was completely different from what he had imagined. After the footsteps entered the toilet, they did not open the cubicle door to check each one, but went straight into the fifth cubicle.
As the door of the fifth cubicle slowly closed, the toilet suddenly became quiet.
"They are right next to me, but is the order wrong? According to the process of the side quest, I should be in the fifth compartment, right?"
The bathroom on the third floor was dead silent. After the owner of the footsteps entered the fifth cubicle, there was no more noise.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, Chen Ge became more and more curious about the "person" hiding in the fifth compartment.
He looked at the only small hole in the partition, squatted down and slowly approached.
The small black hole seemed to have some magical power. Chen Ge moved closer to the hole and looked inside. His pupils shrank slightly.
There were no bloodshot eyes or red ghosts on the other side of the hole, only two children who looked about three or four years old.
A man and a woman huddled on either side of the pit, holding onto each other with nervous expressions.
"Shouldn't it be Hongying? Where did these two kids come from?" Chen Ge retracted his gaze. Judging from the appearance of the two children in the compartment, they were not scary at all.
"In another side quest, Deep Well, a younger brother and sister were mentioned. Deep Well is related to Fan Yu. Could these two children be the son and daughter of Aunt Fan Yu? But why are they here? It feels like they are being chased by something?"
A series of questions popped up in his mind. Chen Ge waved the hammer in his hand. If the opponent was only these two children, he felt that he could still fight.
"Wait a little longer, I feel like there will be something else coming."
The night became darker, and I don’t know when the silence in the bathroom on the third floor was broken, and new footsteps were heard from the corridor.
Chen Ge gently pushed the door of the cubicle open a tiny crack and looked outside. When the footsteps stopped at the toilet door, a faint red shadow was reflected on the tiles of the wall.
“Here it comes!”
This time Chen Ge waited for the mission target. He didn't dare to breathe and stared at that direction.
The sound of footsteps was clearly audible, and Hongying entered the bathroom on the third floor.
“Crack…”
The door of the first compartment was opened, and Chen Ge could vaguely see the red shadow poking its head into the compartment through the crack in the door. There was a long pause in the middle, and then the red shadow walked towards the second compartment.
For the first time, Chen Ge felt the sound of the door being opened was so harsh. Soon, the doors of the second, third, and fourth compartments were all opened, and the red figure stopped at the door of the fifth compartment.
After witnessing all this, Chen Ge's muscles tensed up, his body seemed like a spring compressed to the extreme, and he had already held his breath.
If he did as required by the side quest, he would be the one in the fifth compartment at this moment, and what the red figure would do to the fifth compartment later would be what he would encounter.
In the silent and dark toilet, Hongying grabbed the handle of the fifth cubicle and slowly pulled the door open.
The room seemed to become darker. The crying and laughing of children came from the compartment at the same time. The red shadow stood at the door but did not go in. It looked left and right and then walked to the last compartment.