Covered in blood mist, Chen Ge could only vaguely make out the outline of a playground. The scene in front of 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 about Chen Ge's accident, so he kept Chen Ge behind him and walked in front.
Crossing the playground, under the leadership of the old principal, Chen Ge finally found the abandoned dry well.
As soon as he got closer, he heard all kinds of cries coming from the well, including men, women, and children. It sounded very scary.
"Is the exit at the bottom of the well?" The mist was so thick that Chen Ge couldn't see what was at the bottom of the well even with his Yin Eyes.
"right."
"Is this where you entered the ghost school?" When Chen Ge stood by the well, Xu Yin stopped him. It seemed that the well made him feel uneasy.
"Yes, the blood mist at the bottom of the well is so thick that it almost turns into substance. This may be the key to the dry well being able to avoid the school's will." The old principal told 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. Walk in that direction. After 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 will find the road to the ground.
That’s it.”
The whole process sounds simple, but there are many aspects that cannot withstand 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 there such a big difference in time? If the distance is the same, even if the speed is slowed down, it will not matter.
Maybe the error is so big!”
"I can't explain clearly. I walk the same route every time, but sometimes it takes a long time and sometimes it takes a short time. Do you want to go down and have a look first?" The old principal himself didn't understand.
If someone else had said this to Chen Ge, not only would Chen Ge not go down, he would even suspect that the other person was deliberately trying to harm him, and then throw him down to explore the way. But the old principal was different. He trusted this old man very much.
"With this escape route, I will be invincible, and I can do some things with confidence and boldness, but the premise is that this road is accessible and not a dead end."
Chen Ge thought for a long time and asked Xu Yin's opinion. After Xu Yin agreed, he decided to go down with the old principal to have a look.
"I went down alone before, without reference. This time there are more of us, and we are accompanied by red clothes, 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 he was about to jump down, Chen Ge stopped him again.
"Wait." Chen Ge took out some ropes from Lin Sisi's backpack, which were leftover from when he climbed over the wall in the West Campus: "Tie them around your waist to prevent them from getting separated."
"Why do you have everything?" The old principal was no longer as surprised as before.
"How deep is this well? Are two ropes enough?"
"Almost." The old principal held the wall of the well with both hands. Black and red flowers sprouted from 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-dressed man in red in front of him was different from the other half-dressed men he had encountered.
The old principal gave him a very strange feeling. He couldn't explain it. When he and the old principal stood together, he didn't regard the other as a ghost at all. He felt that the other was a living person.
"This has never happened even to Hong Yi. Is it because the old principal did too many good things during his lifetime? Even if he turns into a ghost, he doesn't have any evil and violent aura in him?"
Watching the old principal disappear little by little at the mouth of the well, Chen Ge also ran over quickly. He asked Xu Yin to stand in the back and he was in the middle.
As soon as he entered the dry well, a thick blood mist hit his face. The mist in the dry well was much thicker than outside. For some unknown reason, this well seemed to be actively absorbing the blood mist full of negative emotions, resulting in a large amount of blood.
Fog settles here.
Entering it is like falling into a pool of blood.
With the clothes sticking to his body, Chen Ge felt a stinging sensation on his skin, as if he had been bitten by someone's teeth, but when he used his vaginal eyes to see, there was nothing on his skin.
"Xu Yin has no warning, which means it is safe for the time being and everything is within control."
The surroundings were completely shrouded in blood mist, and nothing could be seen clearly. If Xu Yin hadn't been by his side, Chen Ge wouldn't have gone down at all.
"Isn't it the bottom yet?" This well was much deeper than he imagined. It's no wonder that the will of the ghost school didn't notice this loophole.
The further he went down, the more depressed he became. Chen Ge was very worried that something might happen to the old principal. He was afraid that when he went 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.
We haven't reached the bottom of the well yet, but the old principal stopped.
"Why don't you continue going down?" Chen Ge was a little confused. He felt that something was not right about the old principal.
"I can't go down anymore..." the old principal's voice was trembling.
Chen Ge moved his body and got closer to the old principal. He followed the principal's gaze downwards and broke out in cold sweat.
There is no longer blood-red mist under the old principal's feet, but blood-red water. What's even more terrifying is that there are faces crowded under the water!
As the blood mist gathered, the water surface in the abandoned well was still rising 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 weren't any of these monsters..." The old principal was a little anxious.
"fine."
Chen Ge would say it was okay simply because Xu Yin had no reaction: "I have seen them in the mirror school built by the painter. They have no skin, are covered in blood, and exude a pungent stench."
These monsters are no different from the ones Chen Ge saw before. The only difference is that they no longer walk upside down.
"How did these monsters form? Do they come from the bloody city outside the school, or is 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? Now there are changes in the school, too
because of him?"
Chen Ge felt that he was one step closer to the core secret. He gently pulled the rope: "Principal, let's go back first."
"I seem to have seen them somewhere." The old principal stared at the monster in the well: "They are absorbing the blood mist. These guys feed on the negative emotions in people's hearts. I have heard people say it before! But... it's not right.
, how did 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 reminder from the black phone about Muyang Middle School - there is an unfathomable well in everyone's heart.
Buried inside are unspeakable and unbearable memories.