Chen Ge stood in the classroom, his body seemed to be petrified, motionless.
The appearance of the old principal brought him a great shock. Hidden clues were discovered one after another. His worldview was slowly being overturned, and the way of thinking about problems began to change.
"Muyang Middle School and the Third Hospital Ward were among the first few scenes I experienced. It has been so long, but I didn't expect to encounter things related to them in a four-star scene." No one disturbed Chen Ge, and everyone protected him tacitly.
"Based on the old principal's description, I am 100% sure that the mental patient he mentioned is from the third ward. In other words, the only escape route in the four-star scenario is a three-star scenario I experienced a long time ago."
Muyang Middle School was the first two-star scene that Chen Ge experienced, the third ward was the first three-star scene that Chen Ge experienced, and the psychic ghost school was the first four-star scene that he experienced. These three scenes were connected together in a very clever way to form a closed loop, which surprised Chen Ge very much.
He began to suspect that the tasks on Black were not issued randomly, and each task had a deeper meaning behind it.
"All the tasks on the phone are preceded by the word 'Trial'. Is such a difficult and dangerous task just a Trial task?"
"One-star scenes are people, two-star scenes are evil spirits, three-star scenes are red clothes, and four-star scenes are above red clothes. Logically, the different star levels should mean a greater span between scenes, but they are interconnected. It feels like someone... wants to let me experience something through these scenes and slowly find something I lost." Chen Ge frowned, and he rarely showed such an expression: "Why do you do this? What do I need to know? What have I lost?"
Looking down at Yinghong and Yingbai, the two little girls were a little afraid of Chen Ge's gaze.
"Have I also lost a part of myself?" Chen Ge didn't know what expression to show. His mind was in a mess. For some reason, he thought of his haunted house and the door in it.
When he first learned that there was a "blood door" in his haunted house, he was really scared.
What made him even more uneasy was that when the door was opened at midnight, he heard someone outside the door calling his name.
He remembered the voice clearly, it was very familiar but he couldn't tell who it was, it was just like his own voice.
"My own voice calling my own name?" Recalling this strange experience, Chen Ge felt a chill running up his back.
“Maybe I really lost myself.”
Chen Ge has many secrets that he cannot share with others and can only bear them by himself. It’s not that he is not afraid, he just keeps everything deep in his heart.
"Doctor Gao entered the door of my haunted house and was nearly frightened to death. He had to flee in panic. Given the strength of the Ghost Story Association at the time, he was frightened and ran away before he could explore further. This shows that there might be a four-star scene behind that 'door'."
The door is in the bathroom of the haunted house, which means that the world behind the door is Chen Ge’s haunted house.
"I wonder what the horror house behind the door looks like." Chen Ge was a little curious, but with his current strength, he would probably never get out if he went in.
"The person behind the door is calling me. If I go in on my own initiative, wouldn't that be exactly what he wants? I must control myself before things are completely figured out." After Chen Ge decided to go back to the haunted house, he installed a security door on the toilet cubicle and then poured concrete on it. It was too unsafe to just nail it with wooden boards.
"That door will only open at midnight. If I can solve this problem, then my haunted house can open at night, increase business hours, and make more money." Shaking his head, Chen Ge realized that he was thinking too far ahead.
He put down his backpack and squatted between Yinghong and Yingbai.
Regardless of whether Yinghong and Yingbai were hints left by his family, he had to find out the reason.
"I won't hurt you. I just saw my past self in you, so I want to figure out one thing. When did you become like this? Or when did Ying Hong appear?" Chen Ge was getting closer to the truth step by step. He was like walking through a thick fog. Any bit of light was a hope that he wanted to hold on to.
"I don't know." Ying Bai was very cute, with her hands clasped together. Of all people, she was closest to the old principal, but now the principal was protecting another girl who looked so similar to her.
Chen Ge did not embarrass Ying Bai, he looked at Ying Hong again.
Being stared at by him, Yinghong was scared and nervous at first, and behaved almost the same as Yingbai. But when she gradually realized that this trick didn't work and she couldn't win any sympathy at all, her true nature finally revealed itself.
Scarlet eyes stared at her schoolbag on the ground. Sakura lowered her head, and no one around could see her expression: "If I tell you the answer, can you give me my schoolbag back?"
The cherry-red schoolbag didn't have many decorations, but it looked very girlish and youthful. Who would have thought that it was filled with notes about curses and murder.
"Okay." Chen Ge agreed immediately.
"The day I opened my eyes was one night, around 2 a.m., when I heard a noise in the bedroom. I turned around and saw my adoptive father in my room." Yinghong's tone was frighteningly calm, as if she was telling someone else's story: "I was startled and screamed, and my adoptive father opened the door and ran out."
She paused for a moment and slowly said a few words: "I appeared on that day. I only appear after Ying Bai falls asleep. I know everything she has experienced, but she doesn't remember me."
"I won't blame her because I am the person who knows her best in this world. I know exactly what kind of hell she lives in and what kind of fear she faces."
"I don't know why I appeared. Maybe it's because Ying Bai was too scared and too timid, but she couldn't get help, so she created me." Ying Hong glanced at the innocent Ying Bai: "Of course, it's also possible that I am a wandering ghost and I just happened to possess her body."
A cruel smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. Yinghong wanted to touch Yinghong's face, but Yingbai dodged him: "I am an innocent and cute child during the day, and I don't know what I am at night. I was trying to find a meaning for my existence, and later I finally found the meaning of my existence."
Yinghong lifted her long sleeves, revealing burn marks on both of her slender arms. "That old dog likes to come into my room late at night, so I prepared a thermos of water by the bed. That was my first fight back, but probably because I was too weak, the result wasn't perfect, but I still scared him half to death."
Yinghong's way of addressing her adoptive father kept changing, and she completely tore off her disguise.