Shrouded in blood mist, Chen Ge could only vaguely make out the outline of a playground. The scene before him slowly overlapped with the back playground of Muyang Middle School in his memory.

"The well is over there." The old principal took good care of Chen Ge. He seemed to be worried that Chen Ge might get into an accident, so he kept Chen Ge behind him and walked in front.

Crossing the playground, under the guidance of the old principal, Chen Ge finally found the abandoned dry well.

As soon as he approached, he heard all kinds of crying coming from the well, including men, women, and children, which sounded very creepy.

"Is the exit at the bottom of the well?" The fog was thick, and even if Chen Ge had Yin pupils, he couldn't see what was at the bottom of the well.

"right."

"Is this how you entered the ghost school?" When Chen Ge stood by the well, Xu Yin stopped him, as if the well made him feel uneasy.

"Yes, the blood mist at the bottom of the well is very thick, almost turning into substance. This may be the key to the dry well avoiding the school's will." The old principal signaled Chen Ge not to stand by the well for a long time to avoid attracting the attention of the school's will: "Go down to the bottom of the well, there is only one road inside. Follow that direction and in about three to fifteen minutes, you will be able to leave the ghost school and enter the underground of the blood-red city. Then we can find the way to the ground."

The whole process sounds simple, but there are many parts that do not stand up to scrutiny.

Chen Ge held the edge of the well with both hands and looked back at the old principal: "After entering the bottom of the well, it takes three to fifteen minutes to leave the ghost school? Why is the time difference so big? If the distance is the same, even if the speed is slowed down, the error cannot be so large!"

"I can't explain it clearly. We take the same route every time, but sometimes it takes a long time and sometimes it takes a shorter time. Do you want to go down and take a look first?" The old principal himself didn't understand it.

If someone else said this to Chen Ge, not only would Chen Ge not go down, he would even suspect that the other person wanted to harm him on purpose, and then throw the other person down to explore the way. But the old principal was different. He trusted this old man very much.

"With this back-up plan, I will be invincible and can do things with confidence and boldness, but the prerequisite is that this road is passable and not a dead end."

Chen Ge thought for a long time and asked Xu Yin for her opinion. After getting Xu Yin's agreement, he decided to go down with the old principal to take a look.

"I went down alone before, without any reference. This time we have more people, and there are people in red to accompany us, so there shouldn't be any problems." In order to reassure Chen Ge, the old principal was the first to walk to the well. When Chen Ge was about to jump in, Chen Ge stopped him again.

"Wait." Chen Ge took out some ropes from Lin Sisi's backpack. These were the ropes he had left over from climbing over the wall at the West Campus. "Tie them around your waist to prevent you from getting separated."

"How come you have everything?" The old principal was no longer as surprised as before.

"How deep is the well? Are two ropes enough?"

"Almost." The old principal supported the wall of the well with both hands. Black and red flowers appeared on his old-looking coat, and his eyes were slowly filled with blood.

Seeing the changes in the old principal's body, Chen Ge realized that the half-clothed man in red in front of him was different from the other half-clothed man in red he had met.

The old principal gave him a very strange feeling, which was hard to describe. When he stood next to the old principal, he did not think of him as a ghost at all, but rather as a living person.

"Even Red Clothes has never experienced this kind of situation. Could it be that the old principal did so many good things when he was alive that even after becoming a ghost, there is no trace of evil and violent aura on him?"

Watching the old principal disappear into the well, Chen Ge also hurried over. He asked Xu Yin to follow behind, and he stayed in the middle.

As soon as you enter the dry well, thick blood mist hits you in the face. The mist in the dry well is much thicker than that outside. For some unknown reason, this well seems to be actively absorbing the blood mist full of negative emotions, causing a large amount of blood mist to accumulate here.

Entering it is like falling into a pool of blood.

The clothes stuck to his body, and Chen Ge felt a stinging pain on his skin, as if he had been bitten by someone, but when he used his Yin pupil to look, there was nothing on his skin.

"Xu Yin didn't have any warning, which means she is safe for now and everything is under control."

The surroundings were completely shrouded in blood mist, and nothing could be seen clearly. If Xu Yin hadn't been guarding him, Chen Ge would never have gone down.

"Hasn't reached the bottom yet?" This well was much deeper than he had imagined. No wonder the Ghost School's will did not notice this loophole.

The deeper he went, the more depressing it became. Chen Ge was very worried that something might happen to the old principal. He was afraid that when he got down, the person tied to the other end of the rope would not be the old principal.

The rope was no longer taut, and the figure of the old principal slowly emerged from the well.

The old principal stopped when he reached the bottom of the well.

"Why don't you continue walking down?" Chen Ge was a little confused. He felt that the old principal was not in a good state.

"I can't go down anymore..." The old principal's voice was trembling.

Chen Ge moved his body closer to the old principal. He followed the principal's line of sight downwards and cold sweat broke out on his face.

The blood-red mist beneath the old principal's feet was no longer blood-red fog, but blood-red water. What was even more terrifying was that there were many human faces crowded under the water!

As the blood mist gathered, the water level in the abandoned well continued to rise at a speed visible to the naked eye. The monsters hiding under the water opened their mouths wide, as if they couldn't wait to rush out and bite Chen Ge.

"When I came in last time, there were no such monsters..." The old principal was a little anxious.

"fine."

Chen Ge said it was okay simply because Xu Yin didn't react at all: "I have seen them in the mirror school built by the painter. They have no skin, are covered in blood, and emit a pungent odor."

These monsters were no different from the ones Chen Ge had seen before. The only difference was that they were no longer walking upside down.

"How did these monsters come into being? Did they come from the bloody city outside the school, or was this well the place where they were born?"

"If the monsters come from the bloody city outside the school, then why do I see them in the painter's mirror school? And they are all upside down? Are these monsters raised by the painter? Is the change in the school now also because of him?"

Chen Ge felt that he was one step closer to the core secret. He gently pulled the rope and said, "Principal, let's go back first."

"I seem to have seen them somewhere." The old principal stared at the monsters in the well. "They are absorbing the blood mist. I've heard people say that these guys feed on the negative emotions in people's hearts! But... that's not right. How could they appear in this well? Why are there so many negative emotions gathered here?"

"Feeding on the negative emotions in people's hearts? Appearing in the well?" Chen Ge vaguely realized something. He remembered a tip from the black phone about Muyang Middle School - everyone has an unfathomable well in their heart, buried with unspeakable and unbearable memories.