Lonelytree

  Millman97

  “There’s someone inside the cubicle!” When he saw the black leather shoes, Chen Ge was instantly reminded of Mr. Bai from the eastern campus. The latter was wearing a pair of leather shoes just like that. “Stay back.”


  Chen Ge took two steps back. He took out Lin Sisi’s phone, lowered it to the gap, and snapped a quick picture.

  Lowering his head to look at the phone, the thing that Chen Ge worried about did not happen. There was only a pair of shoes inside the cubicle; there was no one wearing the shoes.

  The cubicle door could only be locked from the inside, and the way the black leather shoes were placed indicated that someone was standing inside and not that someone had shoved them inside through the gap.

  “Teacher, perhaps you were mistaken. Who would come to the toilet alone at an hour like this? Just the thought of it is scaring me.” The memory of Zhu Long was loosening. He was reminded of something, but it was still blurry; he could not make it out clearly. However, the influence on the young man was undeniable. Some barely discernible changes were happening to him like he started to maintain his distance from the other club members and would involuntarily stick close to Chen Ge like he believed that he was closer in nature to Chen Ge.

  “Guard the way here. Inform me if anyone’s coming.” Chen Ge shook the door with brute force, trying to force it open. Many skull faces were painted inside the cramped cubicle. Standing inside would make one feel like one was being stared at by many people.

  “Why would there be a pair of leather shoes here?” Chen Ge did not notice any strangeness inside the first cubicle. He came to the second cubicle. With his previous experience, he took out the phone and snapped a picture through the gap. The picture showed that there was also a pair of shoes placed inside the second cubicle. However, this time, it was not a pair of black leather shoes but a pair of old blue running shoes.

  “The placement is the same. Is there a purpose to this?” Chen Ge looked through the first six cubicles. There was a pair of shoes placed inside every cubicle. They were all male shoes—sneakers, hiking boots, and flats of varying sizes. They appeared to belong to different people.

  “The black leather shoes in the first cubicle reminded me of Mr. Bai; they should be for an adult. The other five pairs are mostly for students. Does this mean that each pair of shoes represents one specific individual? Lin Sisi was pranked by his whole class. Could these six shoes represent the people who had the biggest grudge against him?”


  The difference between a Specter and living person was that they were built by negative emotions and hatred; understanding and kindness were not part of their make-up. No matter what Lin Sisi was like in real life, the moment he turned into a Specter, his heart would be consumed by hatred. That was the nature of Specters and spirit; it was the basis to support his survival. To trap those who had pranked him inside the cubicle to be his company, based on Chen Ge’s understanding of Specters, that was something one would have done.

  “Sir! Someone is coming to the education block!” Zhou Tu held Wang Yicheng and screamed at Chen Ge from the entrance. “They seem to be coming from the labs!”


  “They’re chasing after us?” Chen Ge moved quickly to the last cubicle. He subconsciously took out the phone to take a picture, but he realized with a shock that the door of the seventh cubicle had been taken off its hinges.

  Based on Chen Ge’s prediction, the door most related to Lin Sisi would most likely appear in the toilet, but he could not find it after searching the whole toilet.

  Chen Ge bit on his tongue lightly. He knew that the people would need some time to get up the stairs.

  His fingers touched the hinges, and Chen Ge realized how the hinges had been broken.

  He lowered his head to look at the interior of the cubicle. There were no shoes inside the seventh cubicle, only two bloody footprints. The footprints were placed one before the other like someone was walking out from the door.

  Chen Ge whipped his head around. Perhaps it was his imagination, but the skulls on the walls seemed to have come alive; their expressions had shifted.

  Before solving this problem, another had appeared. The veins on Chen Ge’s forehead were close to bursting. He bit on his tongue to make himself more alert.

  “Sir! They’re coming up the stairs! We’d better find a place to hide!” Zhou Tu was rushing through his words. He was weirdly panicking. “It doesn’t seem like it was students or teachers who entered the block. They are walking with such strange gait!”


  “They’re walking strangely?” Chen Ge instantly realized that something was off. He waved for Zhang Ju and Zhu Long to get out of the toilet. “Which set of stairs are they taking?”


  “The one closer to the toilet!’


  “Okay! We’ll run down the other stairs! Remember, do not let yourself be discovered by them!” Chen Ge did not plan to go against the enemy for now. They ran down the corridor, but when Chen Ge passed Wang Yicheng, he suddenly stopped.

  His gaze narrowed as they fell on Wang Yicheng’s shoes.

  Wang Yicheng was wearing the same kind of shoes as the ones found inside the second cubicle!

  Chen Ge thought back to the discovery, and he suddenly realized that the shoes in the toilet matched the shoes worn by the students inside Room 413 perfectly.

  Chen Ge frowned.

  Chen Ge rubbed his temples. There were too many questions to answer.

  Chen Ge’s eyes moved away from Wang Yicheng’s shoes. He had already decided to take everyone to the eastern campus.