Chen Ge sympathized with Yin Bai, but if Yin Bai did not say anything, he could not help her.
"I'm a new student who just transferred here, so I don't know this school that well. If I say something that makes you feel uncomfortable, I hope you won't take it to heart."
The girl's mental state was very unstable, and forcing her to talk might cause her to break down. For the sake of the girl's safety, Chen Ge memorized the girl's bed number and prepared to close the curtain before returning.
The thick white cloth was closed again, isolating the bed from the outside world.
Chen Ge turned to head to the next bed, but he only took a few steps when he felt someone tugging on his shirt.
He turned back to look, and a pale hand reached out from under the white cloth to grab his shirt.
"Run away. Don't go to class at this school. You'll go crazy." Yin Bai's voice was very soft, and he needed to focus to hear her clearly.
"I feel like the learning atmosphere at this school is very good, and people like to make friends with me." Chen Ge was not afraid of the girl harming him; he was afraid that the girl would not open her mouth. As long as they could communicate, everything was fine.
"Go back to your previous school. Go back." There was a pleading tone in the girl's voice. She did not give a specific reason, but Chen Ge could hear from her tone that the girl was indeed concerned for him and did not want him to be hurt.
In the red world behind the door, there was such a kind girl. Chen Ge thought that it was unbelievable.
"I can't go back." Chen Ge paused, and his brain came up with an excuse in less than a second. "I've been bullied at my previous school. I don't know what I've done wrong, but the people bullied me every day for fun. My parents went to find the school's leader and teacher, but the more they tried, the more they went. In the end, no one in my class was willing to be my friend. I couldn't stay there anymore, so I transferred to this school. "
"You were bullied at your previous school, so you transferred here?" The white cloth was pulled back to reveal Yin Bai's palm-sized face.
The fear in her eyes faded away and was replaced by surprise and worry. "I don't even know how to tell you this. If you don't want to be hurt again, I advise you to go to another school."
Perhaps because they were both victims of bullying, the relationship between Yin Bai and Chen Ge had gotten much closer.
"Why? Today is the first day of my transfer. Half an hour ago, I was still introducing myself on the podium. Isn't it a little inappropriate to leave now? " Chen Ge was luring the girl to tell him the truth. He needed more information before he could truly help her and change this school.
"This school is like a black whirlpool. You have to leave before you get close to it. Once you're caught in it, you won't be able to escape. You'll be dragged to the bottom of the abyss. You'll either be crushed into pieces or become a monster like them." The girl sat on the bed. She refused to interact with the outside world. Reaching her hand out of the white cloth seemed to be her limit.
"Is it that scary?" The blood red world behind the door formed a stark contrast to the school constructed by the painter in the mirror. At that moment, Chen Ge had a better understanding of the painter and Chang Wenyu.
One only accepted beauty and hope, tearing apart humanity; the other chose to escape, to hide where she would not be hurt.
Their method of gaining the school's approval was more convenient. It was not wrong, but it did not solve the problem from the root.
"You'll be assimilated. If you don't want to be bullied, you'll have to turn yourself into a monster." Yin Bai probably had not talked to anyone for a long time. Seeing how familiar Chen Ge was and how he was a transfer student, she chose to communicate with Chen Ge.
"Are those the only two possibilities? Then you … "Chen Ge put down his backpack and sat down beside the bed.
The bed that was isolated by the white cloth was like the girl's sealed heart. Chen Ge slowly walked into her world with kindness.
"Can you tell me your story?"
The girl did not answer, but she did not chase Chen Ge away. In fact, she acted like she was annoyed. She wished for someone to stand beside her, but due to various reasons, she had lost the courage to talk to others.
Her world was surrounded by evil. If she took a step forward, she might fall into a trap filled with poisonous snakes and knives.
Looking at the girl up close, Chen Ge realized that the girl was very cute. There was a kind of sickly beauty about her that could easily awaken one's desire to destroy.
Slender arms, white neck, pale skin, and face. The child hugged his knees, his black hair covering his eyes, as if he was in a daze.
The bed was soft, and Chen Ge noticed that the girl's pillow was heavily sunken like she was hiding something inside it.
Moving his gaze, Chen Ge found a picture frame next to the girl's pillow. It was a family picture.
A slightly rotund old man was pushing a wheelchair, and a frail young woman was holding a bouquet of flowers. Needles could still be seen on the back of her hands.
Beside the wheelchair were two cute little girls. They were wearing pretty dresses, and they leaned against their mother.
The two girls were Yin Hong and Yin Bai, but the thing that really attracted Chen Ge's attention was the old man pushing the wheelchair.
The old man's hair was a mix of black and white, and he looked similar to someone in Chen Ge's memory.
The shape of his face and the way he smiles are eighty to ninety percent similar to the old headmaster of Mu Yang High School!
Chen Ge had seen the old headmaster's picture before. In the group photo of all the students at Mu Yang High School, a rotund, smiling old man was sitting in the middle.
The age doesn't match! Why would the old headmaster be with these two little girls?
With a dry cough, Chen Ge asked softly, "Yin Bai, is the old man in the picture your grandfather?"
"Yes." Yin Bai nodded. "He's my only family, and he occasionally comes to visit me."
"He'll come to visit you? Your only family? "Yin Bai's question was very informative, and many thoughts appeared in Chen Ge's mind.
If this old man was really Mu Yang High School's old headmaster, then since Yin Bai said that the old man would occasionally come to visit her, this meant that the old headmaster knew the way to enter the School of the Afterlife!
That was the first point. The second point was that there were both Yin Bai and Yin Hong in the picture, but Yin Bai said that the old man was her only family. In other words, from Yin Bai's perspective, Yin Hong was not her family, and something terrible must have happened between them.
"Yin Bai, can you tell me what kind of person your grandfather is?" Chen Ge nudged the girl.
Yin Bai, who sat in bed, raised her head. After a long time, she said, "My grandfather is infertile. He has no blood relatives, but he has many children."
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