Chapter 860 - Red in Human Heart (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

Through the veil of the blood fog, Chen Ge could only make out the shape of a field, but the scene before his eyes slowly overlapped with his memory of Mu Yang High School.

“The well is over there.” The old headmaster cared for Chen Ge. He was worried that an accident might happen to Chen Ge, so he guarded Chen Ge behind him and walked ahead. Walking through the field, with the headmaster leading the way, Chen Ge finally found the well. Once he got near, he could hear the many crying sounds coming from inside the well. There were male, female, and children’s—it sounded scary.

“Is the exit at the bottom?” With the thick fog, even with Yin Yang Vision, Chen Ge could not tell what was at the bottom.

“Yes.”

“Is this how you entered the School of the Afterlife?” Chen Ge stood at the edge of the well. Xu Yin reached out to stop him; the well made him uneasy.

“Yes, the blood fog at the bottom is very thick. It is basically palpable. That is probably how the well escaped the school’s detection.” The headmaster signaled for Chen Ge not to stay by the well for too long to prevent attracting the school’s attention. “There is only one way forward when you reach the bottom of the well. Follow that path, and after a three- to fifteen-minute walk, you can leave the School of the Afterlife and enter the blood red city. There, we will need to find a way to go back to the surface.”

The whole process sounded easy, but there were too many uncertainties. Chen Ge held the rim of the well and turned back to look at the headmaster. “After entering the well, you need to walk for three to fifteen minutes? Why the time difference? If the journey is the same, even if you slow down a lot, the time should not be so different!”

“I have no answer to that. Every time the path is the same, but sometimes, it takes longer to travel through it, and sometimes it’s shorter. Do you want to go down to take a look?” The old headmaster did not get it himself. If this was someone else giving the suggestion, not only would Chen Ge not go down, he would suspect that it was a trap. He would toss the person down first. But the old headmaster was different; he trusted this old man implicitly.

With this back-up plan, I will have nothing to lose. I can go on to do things that I might be afraid of, but the condition is that this is not a dead end.

Chen Ge thought for a long time and asked for Xu Yin’s opinion. After getting Xu Yin’s approval, he decided to go down the well with the old headmaster.

“I used this path alone, and there was no one to help me. This time, there’s so many of us, and with the accompaniment of a Red Specter, there won’t be any problems.” To help Chen Ge calm down, the old headmaster was the first to walk into the well. Just as he was going to jump, Chen Ge stopped him.

“Wait a minute.” Chen Ge took out some rope from Lin Sisi’s bag. This was the leftover from when he jumped over the wall between the western and eastern campus. “Tie this to your waist so that we won’t get separated.”

“Why do you have everything?” The old headmaster was no longer that surprised.

“How deep is this well? Will two ropes be enough?”

“Should be.” The headmaster held the rim of the well with both hands. His old jacket slowly bloomed with black-red flowers, and his eyes were slowly consumed by redness.

Seeing the change in the old headmaster, Chen Ge only noticed how different this Half Red Specter was to the other Specters that he had encountered. The old headmaster gave him a strange feeling that was hard to describe. Standing next to the headmaster, he would not treat him like a ghost but a living person.