With so few clues, Chen Ge could not unravel the truth.
He put the three chairs back in their original positions and looked around. Due to the presence of the mirror, the dance studio looked especially empty.
Since it's so clean, it must've been cleaned more than once. There was no trash on the floor, which was not good news for Chen Ge. The scene has been cleaned. Hopefully, the pair of red dancing shoes hasn't been tossed away.
Chen Ge walked away from the mirror and walked to the corner of the dance studio. Various certificates of honor were pasted on the wall, and there was something that looked like a scoreboard.
After glancing at it, Chen Ge noticed a problem. The first place on the scoreboard had been erased with a carbon pen.
There's no scoreboard for the first place? Chen Ge saw the names of Qian Yujiao and a few other girls on the scoreboard, but he could not find Zhang Ya.
He moved his gaze away. There were still some pictures of the winners on the wall, and one of them attracted Chen Ge's attention.
It was probably a group photo of six people. Five of them were huddled together with bright smiles on their faces, and the sixth person was standing at the corner, some distance away from the other five. Her picture had been cut out with a pair of scissors. If not for the fact that half of a white dancing shoe was exposed at the bottom of the picture, Chen Ge would've thought it was a group photo of five people.
They're all individual pictures and group pictures, but why isn't there a group picture of the whole class? Chen Ge took out his phone to snap a picture of the Wall of Honor. Following the wall, he soon found an unmarked room.
Curious, he pushed the door open and entered.
There was an office table, a dresser, and a single bed in the room.
This looks like a tutor's office, but why would there be a bed here? Is there a tutor on night duty? Chen Ge rummaged through the dresser, hoping to find the red dancing shoes. Unfortunately, the dresser was empty, and the drawer was stuffed with a bunch of photocopies of certificates of honor.
Looks like the dance students from Western Jiujiang's Private Academy are quite impressive. They've won so many awards. Chen Ge casually flipped through a few of them. One of them had the names of Qian Yujiao and the others printed on it. "Swan Lake City Ballet Team Competition Champions, qualified for the provincial competition."
The copy of the certificate of honor was not posted on the wall of honor outside. What was even stranger was that there should have been six winners, but the last name was erased.
"It's the same as the results list."
Chen Ge wandered around the room for a while, and after finding nothing else, he left the room.
As soon as he opened the door, Chen Ge's heart skipped a beat. The three chairs had deviated from their original positions and followed him.
"It's starting again!"
Chen Ge forced himself not to look at the chairs. He walked forward quickly. If he did not find anything in three minutes, he would leave the Rec Center.
Using his phone as a light source, Chen Ge walked all the way to the deepest part of the dance studio before he saw the sign for the women's changing room in the corner.
The female changing room and the female dormitory's bathroom are said to be places with heavier Yin energy. I need to be careful. He pushed open the door to the female changing room lightly. Two rows of metal cabinets were placed against the wall, and in the middle was a long wooden chair.
"So, this is how the female changing room looks like."
This was the first time Chen Ge had entered this place. He closed the door halfway and pulled open one of the cabinets.
There was a female uniform placed on the top of the cabinet. The uniform of a private school was different from a public school in that the design was more elegant and beautiful.
"The dress only reaches my knees. Isn't it too short?"
Chen Ge rummaged through the uniform's pockets, but he did not find anything. He turned to look at the lower part of the cabinet, and there was a pair of white dancing shoes.
"The color is not right. It's not what I'm looking for." Closing the cabinet door, Chen Ge found a small card on the lock, and the girl's name was written on it. "That makes it easier to find."
He held his phone against the closet to check, but after looking around, he could not find Zhang Ya's name. All he found was a lonely closet in the corner of the changing room. It had no logo at all.
"This cabinet seems to be isolated by all the other cabinets, and it's left alone in the corner." Chen Ge opened the cabinet door. A dirty ballet dress was left on the top of the cabinet, and there was nothing on the bottom.
"There's no name, and it's isolated by everyone. Who could this cabinet belong to?" Chen Ge already had an answer in his heart. He took out the dress and realized that there were five boxes of candy that had already gone bad under the dress.
"What does this mean? A present? " Chen Ge placed the ballet dress on the wooden chair and picked up the candy boxes. The boxes were covered with handmade packaging, and each of the packaging had a girl's name written on it.
The names were different, but the handwriting was the same, so it was clear that they were all written by the same person.
"These candy boxes should be the present that she prepared for me." When Chen Ge picked up the last box of candy, he saw a picture that was placed at the bottom of the cabinet.
This picture was the complete version of the picture that was hung on the Wall of Honor. On the back, it said, "Congratulations to Room 414 for winning the provincial contest," and on the front, there were six girls.
Five of them were squeezed together on the right side of the picture. They were smiling brightly, and half a palm away from them stood the sixth girl.
The girl was tall and perfect. She was about 1.7 meters tall. She was like a real white swan — elegant, pure, gentle, and beautiful. Even though she tried her best to blend into other people's circle, her presence was completely out of place.
"This can't be Zhang Ya, right?"
Chen Ge really could not connect the Red Specter with the girl in the picture. He mumbled to himself and accidentally uttered Zhang Ya's name.
For Chen Ge, this was an unintentional action, but when he uttered Zhang Ya's name, several of the cabinets in the women's dressing room creaked like they were going to explode at any moment. To his surprise, at the same time, there was a series of creaking noises coming from the door of the women's dressing room like something was rushing toward them.
"Who is it?"
Shoving the picture into his pocket, Chen Ge grabbed the mallet and walked toward the door. He pushed open the half-closed wooden door, and three chairs lined up outside blocked his way into the women's dressing room.
"Do you really think I won't tear you apart?" Chen Ge's back was drenched in cold sweat, but his expression did not change that much. With the mallet in his hand, he walked toward the chairs.
There was no other exit in the women's dressing room. If he did not rush out, the situation would only get worse.
Chen Ge's eyes drifted out. He was planning his escape route, but when his eyes landed on the mirror in the dance studio, his feet stopped moving.
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