Chapter 869 - Who Will Be Next? (2/2)

“This place is so messy.” Dirty clothes and trash littered the room. The luggage and blankets were strewn everywhere like a tornado had just hit the place.

“Did you discover anything?” The headmaster had been following behind Chen Ge like he was worried Chen Ge might do something crazy. “Shall we leave? This is the school’s forbidden zone; we’d better not stay here for too long.”

“Wait a minute.” Chen Ge stood in the middle of the room and lifted his head to look at the roof. There were nails pinned to the ceiling painted white. From each nail, a tattered cloth was dangling. The cloths of many colors dangled downward. The ceiling was like a white sea, and the red cloths were like corals living on the sea floor. Reaching out to pull at one of them, Chen Ge tugged at it lightly. “This cloth is unable to support a person’s weight. They can’t be used to hang a person.”

“I feel more like they are used to fix mosquito nets. How come your mind goes straight to hanging?” The old headmaster stood at the door. “This room is not big; there probably aren’t any secrets here. The school’s consciousness has preserved this place probably because this place is meaningful to it.”

“Boss, look at this.” Bai Qiulin held the mirror with one hand, and his other pointed at the edge of the iron bedframe. The bed had a rope tied to it, and at the other end of the rope was a doll with black hair and a name.

“This looks like the doll that Zhang Ya once gifted me. Has Zhang Ya been here to help the hanging student before?” Looking at the items in the room, Chen Ge could not find the answer. Chen Ge opened the comic and summoned the hanging student. Normally, in the haunted house, the hanging man would hide in the mannequin that Chen Ge had specially made for him. He was a normal Specter, not even as unique as the stench.

The pages turned, and a thin boy appeared in the room. There was an obvious rope mark around his neck, and his neck was dislocated from his shoulders, giving him a strange look.

“You remember this room, yes?” Chen Ge asked softly. The confusion in the student’s eyes slowly disappeared—he was like a spooked kitten. He rushed toward one of the beds and tossed all the trash away. He found a black envelope under the mattress, and on it, a sentence was written.

‘Who will be next?’

The envelope was puffy like it was stuffed with something. The boy held the envelope tightly with both hands. Fear rose in his heart; he was still very afraid.

“Can I talk a look at that letter?” Chen Ge wondered what the hanging man had experienced, why their dormitory room was filled with dolls crafted by Zhang Ya.

The boy shook his head with determination. He put the black envelope away and rushed back into the comic.

“The envelope looks like a curse, but there is nothing that scares me.” Since his worker refused to share, Chen Ge would not force it. He inspected the room again and then replaced everything before leading everyone deeper into the male dormitory.