Chapter 899 - What Is Hiding in Your Shadow? [2 in 1] (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

“The painter will undeniably become the new door pusher at the School of the Afterlife? You guys sure have plenty of confidence in him.”

Due to the different position that they took, they naturally had different ways of dealing with things. In the eyes of Lin Sisi and the rest, the painter was their only hope—he was the one closest to becoming a Greater Red Specter—but Chen Ge did not share their view. Be it the painter or Chang Wenyu, their thoughts were too extreme. No one knew the actual meaning behind the door’s existence, and even the door pusher himself would be unable to explain it. In those circumstances, there was no need to force a change to the world behind the door. There had to be a reason for it to exist. Chen Ge’s thoughts were much more innocent than the rest.

“Please get out of the way. The students are innocent. You all have no right to make them sacrifice themselves.” Chen Ge stood in front of all the students from the school. “It was the door from the School of the Afterlife that lured them into the door; it was not them who opened the door willingly. So, it was the door from the school that needed their help, not the other way around.”

Chen Ge’s very words resonated deeply with the hearts of the students. “None of us wish to fight the painter or Chang Wenyu; we just want to be alive.”

When the students following behind Chen Ge saw Lin Sisi and the man with the blindfold, they started to feel uneasy. It was an everyday affair to feel threatened by the school’s consciousness, and the painter and his people were in a way the representative of the school’s consciousness. Going against them meant that they would be abandoned by the school’s consciousness, and in the world behind the door where danger was lurking everywhere, losing the protection of the school’s consciousness was no different from finding death. Before this, they had no choice, so even when the school’s consciousness went against their own ideals, they had no choice but to silence their heart and follow.

However, that day, Chen Ge was there.

There were several Red Specters around him, and he had saved many of the students who were trapped in danger. He dared go against the painter’s people, and he was not afraid of the teachers who represented the managers. Everything that he did was out of consideration for the students themselves. How could they not follow a person like that?

Why would they find a reason to reject such a person?

The same knife cut bread and flesh—the one thing that might help them could also injure them. The painter’s people blocked the exit, and their actions lit a fuse under the resentment that had been curdling in the students’ hearts.

One had to understand that not all the students at the school were Specters. A large portion of them were lingering spirits who had been kidnapped by the ‘door’. Their souls were hooked inside the door, but their physical bodies were still lying in the hospital in a coma. Before Chen Ge entered the School of the Afterlife to find Chang Gu, he had seen many parents of the students trying to find and corner Chang Gu. Those were the parents of the students whose lingering spirits had been trapped behind the door.

Releasing a small portion of the lingering spirits would not affect the School of the Afterlife, but to let go off all of the students, the foundation of the School of the Afterlife would collapse upon itself. The painter and the school’s consciousness would not allow that to happen, so they had no choice but to block Chen Ge’s path.

“Chen Ge, I really do not wish to fight you—you will not win.” Lin Sisi slowly lowered his head, and the following seemed to subconsciously escape from his lips. “You do not understand how scary the painter can be…”

“Lin!” Before Lin Sisi could finish, the blindfolded man interrupted him harshly. He turned around and pulled off the black cloth that covered his eyes. “Do not forget who it was that pulled you out from the deep water of despair and who it was that used the painting to help you retain the only beautiful memory you had.”

After hearing what the blindfolded man said, Lin Sisi’s eyes slowly turned cold. It was as if the boy had put his emotions away. It appeared that the boy was not a killer by nature, but for the sake of the painter, he would do what he normally would not.

“Chen Ge, neither I nor Lin hate you. Even the painter places great value upon you, and as a matter of fact, he wishes for you to join us. We should not be fighting each other. Take all the students back to the classrooms, and the painter will forgive all the mistakes that you have previously made.”

“Forgive me?” Chen Ge took several steps back. Just as Lin Sisi and the blindfolded man thought that he was about to compromise, Chen Ge opened his mouth to say, “I do not think that I have done anything wrong, so I do not need his forgiveness. In fact, it is you people who need to reflect on what you have done.”

There were plenty of students following Chen Ge, and more and more students were being dragged away by the monsters in the blood fog, never to return. The patient in the center of the storm was worried that Chen Ge would be convinced by the painter’s people, so he ordered a large number of monsters to attack the students that were following Chen Ge. With every second that dragged on, more and more students would disappear.

“You will regret this.” The blindfolded man threw away the black cloth that he was holding. The eyes that he had kept closed were now slowly opening. The left eye was a sea of blood, and the right eye saw the people and monsters, but there was no scenery or background. It was as if, other than blood, humans, and Specters, there was nothing else that was able to be registered in his sight. “I have now seen the moment of your death.”

The painter and the man in the fog formed a consensus on the way to deal with Chen Ge. The monsters in the fog and the blindfolded man attacked Chen Ge’s group at the same time. The difference was, the blindfolded man and Lin Sisi only went after the Red Specters, but the monsters in the blood fog attacked indiscriminately. This naturally placed Chen Ge’s group in a desperate situation.

“Stop it! Please stop it!” The old headmaster cried at the top of the lung. He saw with his own eyes the students being dragged into the blood fog and their spirits dispersing just like that. It was just too cruel. Being killed behind the door meant that they would be left with nothing, and it was no different from being wiped out from the world. No trace of them would be left anymore, and that was such a cruel punishment for the students who had basically done nothing wrong. For most of them, they were not at the School of the Afterlife of their own volition, so what had they done to deserve such an unsightly ending?