A moldy smell permeated the room. Chen Ge was the first to enter the room with his hand over his nose and mouth.
The wooden bookshelf looked old, and when placed next to the rusted filing cabinets, there was a strange sense of dissonance.
"These bookshelves and cabinets seem to belong to different schools."
Chen Ge took out a random document from the wooden bookshelf, but probably due to the poor preservation environment, the folder broke when he used too much force.
"Mothballs, damp, these documents don't seem to have received any attention from the school." Chen Ge carefully opened the folder, and the content confused him. "The donor's gratitude list? How come this piece of paper looks so familiar? "
Chen Ge looked at it again and again, and an image flashed across his mind. He looked at the wormhole-filled folder with shock. "I think I've seen a similar list in the headmaster's office at Mu Yang High School before!"
He studied it closely and tried his best to remember. When he compared it to the donor's name, something even more shocking happened.
"It's the same! I've seen this list in the headmaster's office at Mu Yang High School before! "
To search for the old headmaster, he had entered Mu Yang High School many times. The two-star scenario had been turned upside down, but he had not found the old headmaster.
"The world behind the door is weaved from the door pusher's memory, but this school is unique. It appears to be formed from the combined memory of everyone behind the door." Chen Ge held his chin lightly. "Other than the old headmaster, everyone else is inside my Haunted House. The fact that there is a donor's list here means that the old headmaster is also inside the school, right?"
Chen Ge's eyes widened. He looked at the bookshelf that gave off the moldy smell, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar it felt. "Could these things have been moved from Mu Yang High School? Could part of the two-star scenario be hidden here? "
"Looks like the old headmaster and I are fated to meet." He placed the document back, and his expression was curious. "Before the School of the Afterlife's Trial Mission is unlocked, there are nine pre-missions. Could it be that these nine pre-missions are related to the School of the Afterlife in some way?"
"Mr. Bai, have you found anything?"
"There are some discoveries, but we can't be sure yet." Chen Ge pulled out another damp file that was covered in mold. "A report on the investigation of the campus's surroundings?"
Although it was called an archive room, it was more like a storage room for documents. There were all kinds of documents and materials, including graduation designs, reimbursement bills, club statistics, cafeteria purchase catalogs, and so on.
"Teacher Bai!" Zhu Long found several crumpled newspapers from the corner of the room. He showed one of them to Chen Ge. "Look at the article with the big picture in the middle."
"The school building caught fire for unknown reasons. Many students were trapped in the toilet. Firefighters rushed into the fire to rescue them." This report was placed in the middle of the newspaper. It was very eye-catching.
"Looking at the layout and content, the person who wrote this article should be quite young." Chen Ge accepted the newspaper. It was covered in mold, and there were large stains on it. Many parts of it were blurry. "This looks like the school's newspaper."
Mu Yang High School was just a private welfare organization. It did not have the ability to create a school newspaper. Chen Ge flipped through the few newspapers and found a familiar name — Western Jiujiang Private Academy.
This name had appeared many times, and many of the articles were centered around Western Jiujiang Private Academy.
"Isn't Western Jiujiang Private Academy the school where Zhang Ya studied?"
At that abandoned school, Chen Ge had his first date with a Red Specter.
It was also at that school that he had walked into Zhang Ya's heart.
"There was a fire at Western Jiujiang Private Academy?" Now that he thought about it, he remembered seeing the burnt banister at the education block. "This is strange. Not only Western Jiujiang Private Academy, including Mu Yang High School, the other abandoned schools that I've been to all have traces of fire."
He read the newspaper that Zhu Long had given him again. At the time, the firemen had saved six people from the toilet on the top floor. The newspaper had praised the firemen as heroes, and the whole article was filled with praise.
However, he also saw an article in the corner that called for people to learn about fire prevention during the summer. It mentioned that a student had died in the fire.
"The fire started from the toilet, but how could it have started inside the toilet? The fire started after the students had finished their night study session, so why were the students inside the toilet on the top floor? "
Combining the several articles, Chen Ge acutely noticed the problem. "The fire started on the fourth floor. At the time, there were only students inside the toilet. The firemen saved six people, but there was one student who died in the fire. In other words, there should have been seven people inside the toilet at the time!"
As for the cause of the fire, it was impossible to tell. There was no record of it in the files, and the student who died in the fire appeared to have become a taboo.
"Something like this has happened at Western Jiujiang Private Academy? But when I went there, I didn't feel anything 'off'. " Chen Ge was confused. "If the door to the toilet was pushed open by the student who died in the fire, then he should be the 'door pusher' at Western Jiujiang Private Academy, but the reason Western Jiujiang Private Academy is able to become a three-star scenario is all because of Zhang Ya!"
Now that Western Jiujiang Private Academy had become a part of the Haunted House, Chen Ge was certain that Zhang Ya was the scariest presence at that school.
"All three-star scenarios have a door, but even though Western Jiujiang Private Academy is a three-star scenario, it doesn't have a door." Chen Ge looked at his shadow and repeated the name in his heart. He repeated it, but there was no response.
"The reason Western Jiujiang Private Academy is given a three-star scenario by the black phone is all because of Zhang Ya. Based on my knowledge, Zhang Ya hasn't pushed open any of the doors. When I went to Western Jiujiang Private Academy, I didn't see any doors …"
Chen Ge slowly put down the newspaper, and the image of the red dress appeared in his mind.
"Zhang Ya, the door that should exist but has disappeared, the door pusher …" These three terms formed a line in Chen Ge's mind, and he suddenly thought of a possibility.
His eyes widened, and Chen Ge sucked in a cold breath. "Could the door pusher at Western Jiujiang Private Academy have been consumed by Zhang Ya?"
That was the only explanation that could explain why Zhang Ya was so different from the others and why she was so powerful.
"After the door pusher is consumed, what will happen to the door?"
Chen Ge speculated. "Due to her obsession, Zhang Ya didn't become the door pusher. The door without the door pusher should have slowly gone out of control like the door in Li Wan City, but that didn't happen. The door will only appear next to the despairing children … Wait a minute! Could it be looking for a new door-pusher? "
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