Chen Ge felt very sorry for Ying Bai, but if Ying Bai didn't speak up, he would have no way to help her.
"I'm a new transfer student and I don't know this school very well. If something I said makes you uncomfortable, I hope you don't take it personally."
The girl's mental state was very unstable, and forced questioning might cause her to collapse. For the girl's safety, Chen Ge memorized the girl's bed number and prepared to close the curtain and come back later.
The thick white cloth was closed again, isolating the hospital bed and the outside world into two different worlds.
Chen Ge turned around and walked towards the next bed. After taking a few steps, he suddenly felt someone pulling the hem of his clothes.
Looking back, he saw a pale hand reaching out from under the white cloth and grabbing his clothes.
"Run away, don't go to class in this school, you will go crazy." Yingbai's voice was very low and you needed to concentrate to hear it clearly.
"I feel that the learning atmosphere in our school is very good, and everyone likes to make friends with me." Chen Ge is not afraid of girls hurting him, but he is afraid that girls will not speak up. As long as they can communicate, everything will be fine.
"Go back to your old school, go back." There was a hint of pleading in the girl's voice. She didn't say the specific reason, but Chen Ge could tell from her tone that the girl was really thinking about him and didn't want him to get hurt.
In the blood-red world behind the door, there was actually such a kind girl. Even Chen Ge himself found it incredible.
"I can't go back." Chen Ge paused for a moment, and within a few tenths of a second, he had already come up with an excuse: "I was bullied in my previous school. I didn't know what I did wrong, but those people bullied me every day for fun. My parents went to the school leaders and teachers for help, but the more they did so, the more they went too far. In the end, no one in the class wanted to be friends with me. I couldn't stay there any longer, so I transferred here."
"You were bullied in your previous school, so you transferred here?" The white cloth was opened a little, revealing Yingbai's palm-sized face.
The fear in her eyes faded a lot, replaced by surprise and worry: "I don't know how to tell you, if you don't want to be hurt again, I advise you to go to another school."
Perhaps because they were both bullied, Ying Bai and Chen Ge became closer.
"Why? Today is my first day here. I was introducing myself at the podium half an hour ago. It's not appropriate to leave now, right?" Chen Ge was trying to trick the girl into telling the truth. He needed to know more information in order to truly help her and change this school.
“This school is like a black whirlpool. You must leave before it gets close. Once you are in it, you will never be able to escape. You will be dragged to the bottom of the abyss, and either you will be crushed to pieces or become a monster like them.” The girl sat on the sickbed. She refused to contact the outside world. It seemed that stretching her hand out of the white cloth was her limit.
"Is it that scary?" The blood-red world behind the door formed a sharp contrast with the campus constructed by the painter in the mirror. At this moment, Chen Ge understood the painter and Chang Wenyu a little.
One only accepts beauty and hope, tearing apart human nature; the other chooses to escape and hide in a place where he will not be hurt.
Their approach of gaining the school's approval is quite pleasing and cannot be said to be wrong, but it does not fundamentally solve the problem.
"You will be assimilated. If you don't want to be bullied, you can only turn yourself into a monster." Ying Bai probably hasn't spoken to anyone for a long time. Seeing that Chen Ge looked friendly and was a transfer student, she chose to communicate with Chen Ge.
"Are these the only two situations? Then you..." Chen Ge put down his backpack and sat down next to the bed.
The hospital bed separated by white cloth was like the girl's closed heart. Chen Ge walked into her world little by little with kindness.
“Can you tell me your story?”
The girl did not reply, nor did she drive Chen Ge away or act annoyed. Deep down in her heart, she longed for someone to stand with her, but for various reasons, she had lost the courage to talk to anyone.
Her world is filled with malice, and if she takes a proactive step, she might fall into a trap filled with poisonous snakes and sharp knives.
Looking at the girl closely, Chen Ge found that the child was very cute, with a kind of morbid beauty that could easily awaken people's potential desire for destruction.
Slender arms, white neck, bloodless skin and face, the child hugged his knees, black hair covering his eyes, and seemed to be in an unconscious daze.
The bed was very soft, and Chen Ge noticed that the girl's pillow was sunken badly, as if she had hidden something in it.
Moving his sight, Chen Ge found another photo frame next to the girl's pillow, which contained a family photo.
A slightly plump old man was pushing a wheelchair, and a frail young woman was sitting in a wheelchair holding a bouquet of flowers, with pinholes vaguely visible on the back of her hand.
On both sides of the wheelchair are two lovely little girls, wearing beautiful dresses, snuggling up to their mother, one on the left and one on the right.
The two girls were Yinghong and Yingbai, but what really caught Chen Ge's attention in this photo was the old man pushing the wheelchair.
The old man's hair was a mixture of black and white, and he looked very similar to someone Chen Ge remembered.
"His facial shape and the way he smiles are 80% similar to the old principal of Muyang Middle School!"
Chen Ge had seen a photo of the old principal. In the group photo of all the students of Muyang Middle School, a chubby, smiling old man was sitting in the middle.
"The ages don't match up! Why is the old principal with these two little girls?"
After a dry cough, Chen Ge asked in a low voice: "Ying Bai, is the old man in the photo your grandfather?"
"Yeah." Ying Bai nodded: "He is my only relative and he comes to see me occasionally."
"He will come to see you? Your only relative?" Ying Bai's words contained a huge amount of information, and countless thoughts instantly emerged in Chen Ge's mind.
If this old man is really the former principal of Muyang Middle School, then he was in Muyang Middle School before, but Ying Bai said that the old man would come to see him occasionally, which means that the old principal knew how to enter and exit the psychic ghost school!
This is the first point. The second point is that there are clearly two people, Yingbai and Yinghong, in the photo, but Yingbai said that the old man is his only relative. In other words, in Yingbai's view, Yinghong is not her relative at all, and something bad must have happened between them.
"Yingbai, can you tell me what kind of person your grandfather is?" Chen Ge moved towards the girl.
Ying Bai, who was sitting in the sickbed, raised her head and spoke after a long while: "My grandfather is infertile. He has no blood relatives, but he has many children."