Chapter 815: Moveable Door
Translator: Lonelytree Editor: Millman97
Zhang Ju had long noticed that Chen Ge was not a normal person. The man’s eyes could retain calmness no matter the situation, like there was nothing in the world that could shock him. To be honest, he was afraid of people like that, but it was because of that fear that he had chosen to follow and listen to Chen Ge’s orders. Standing before the picture, Zhang Ju opened his remaining right eye and stared quietly at Chen Ge’s face.
It was a normal facial feature, a face that would be lost in the crowd, but soone like that subconsciously radiated a presence that frightened even himself. It was hard to describe; it was like a hatred-filled Specter was mixed with a crazed madman. He could see madness, sickness, and cruelty from that face but could not find a trace of fear. Zhang Ju knew how he looked, that he looked like a scary monster, but Chen Ge’s earlier reaction made him realize that there were scarier ‘monsters’ than him in the world.
“Yes, we should be the sa type of person.” He believed Chen Ge because only those who had experienced hell would make that kind of expression. The man, like him, had also forgotten his past.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Bai. It’s because of this sudden return of bad mory that I lost control of myself.” Zhang Ju’s voice was harsh and grating, but his attitude beca much better.
“It’s no matter. Of course, I do not mind. A teacher has to be understanding of his student,” Chen Ge said with a smile. He gave off warmth and kindness. It was hard to imagine that he was the sa person who had confronted Zhang Ju earlier. “What have you rembered? There’s no need to be shy. Let everything.”
“Actually, it’s nothing, just so painful mory.” Zhang Ju’s wounds were still opening. His shirt was slowly being dyed red. “I rembered the ti when I witnessed the murder. I was scared and cowardly. I rembered the pain of having my skin seared by fire. It was like having needles pierce into your skin until you couldn’t feel pain anymore. I still rember the pain and helplessness I felt when I was lying in the ICU. Despair grew in my heart. I didn’t want to know, but I didn’t know how to survive.”
“At the last mont of your life, did any special happen to you or around you?” Zhang Ju appeared in this world inside the door, but at the ti, he should have lost the ability to push open any door. Chen Ge was curious how he ended up at the school. Only by knowing how he entered would they have a chance of exiting. For a three-star scenario, the door was the only exit, but that did not seem to be case for four-star scenarios.
“At the last mont of my life...” Zhang Ju reached out to touch his face. “It seems I fell into a coma, but I could sense the goings-on around . I cannot tell the difference between the nightmare and reality, but I rember one thing very clearly. Whenever midnight ca, there would be a door inside the sickroom.”
“A door?”
“I stayed for seven days at the hospital. The door appeared every night, and each night, it showed up closer. Until it stopped right beside my bed.” Zhang Ju lifted his bloodied face. “It was a moving door. The more afraid I was, the more despair I felt, the closer it would co to . I couldn’t ask for help. At the night of the eighth day, the door was pushed open from inside. Hands reached out from behind the door to pull into it.”
What Zhang Ju described was similar to what had happened to Chang Gu. They had both encountered a door that could move. Every night at midnight, this door would get close to the sleeping victim before ending up beside them. The door would be opened from inside to pull the victims in.
“And this school is behind the door?” Chen Ge was curious about what had happened next. He wanted to know how Zhang Ju had lost his mory. Just how did this student whose face had been ruined in a fire beco a Half Red Specter?
Zhang Ju shook his head. “I felt trapped in a dream, a dream that felt so real. In the dream, everyone referred to as Lin Sisi even though I told them again and again that my na is Zhang Ju. I said they’d got the wrong person, but they thought it was just a joke.
“No one would believe , and I could only survive in the dream as Lin Sisi to experience everything as Lin Sisi. Eventually, even I started to wonder if I was really Lin Sisi.
“Being bullied, ostracized, ignored, it was hard to stomach, but I thought about it from another perspective. In real life, I had already beco a monster. The life in the dream was not that bad.”
Zhang Ju’s voice was flat enough to feel like he was telling another person’s story. “I had no friends, and everyone hated . I started to get dull to both the spiritual and physical torture, but then one day, a girl walked into my dream.
“It was a cloudy day. Soone planted a frog in my deskmate’s school bag. She suspected that I was the culprit, but I wouldn’t do sothing so stupid.
“No one listened to my explanation. The class chased out, and everyone in the corridor gawked at with their strange eyes. I ran away from them to go hide on the rooftop of the education block.
“I t her there.
“Even though I knew it was a dream, I felt that she was very special.” Zhang Ju’s voice started to change. “Her na was Wen Changyu, the only person who didn’t ignore . I told her my sorrow, and she showed sympathy.
“Then I told her about my past, and she confird that I am not Lin Sisi. Only when I was with her could I rember myself and not get assimilated into the dream. We would et every dusk on the rooftop, and gradually, I felt like I couldn’t stay away from her anymore.
“She said that she was very interested in my stories, and I liked spending ti with her
“Just as color started to return to my life, she suddenly posed a question to —would I like to see the world outside of the school? At the ti, I had no idea what she ant. I just wanted to stay with her, so I nodded.
“That day, after midnight, she led to the library. The library’s door was always locked, so we jumped in through the window. We found a mirror behind one of the bookshelves on the third floor.
“The mirror was very big, and the girl said that the mirror could still be used several tis and told to keep it a secret.
“I trusted her implicitly. At the sa ti, I realized sothing. This was the first ti that I had seen a mirror inside my dream!
“I asked the girl what I should do. The girl told that I only needed to peer into the mirror.
“I stood before the mirror, and she moved to stand behind . In the quiet night, I stared at myself in the mirror.
“The more I stared, the more I felt the reflection in the mirror changing. Slowly, my reflection started to bleed, and scars appeared on the person’s face. His ears started to wilt, his left eye closed, and his face started to get scarred and burned!
“I did not dare look further, but just as I wanted to leave, the monster in the mirror reached out to grab !
“Blood leaked out of the mirror until the surface was completely red!
“I scread loudly for help and turned around to look at Chang Wenyu, but she was unmoved. Even now, I can rember what she told last. ‘Why are you afraid? That is the real you inside the mirror.’
“Her slender fingers pressed on my left eye softly and slowly plucked it out!
“The world imdiate
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