Zhu Long grabbed Zhou Tu, and the two of them looked behind them. The surroundings were pitch black, and they could faintly hear footsteps, but they couldn't see a single living person.
"Where's anyone?"
"When I picked up the kitchen knife just now, I saw them — they were all walking upside down, following right behind us, as if they lived in a world flipped from ours." Zhou Tu was still shaken. "Those people kept staring at Zhang Ju and Wang Yicheng. Should we tell Teacher Bai?"
"Good idea." Zhu Long stared suspiciously behind them. Zhou Tu didn't look like he was lying.
While the two of them hesitated, Chen Ge and Zhang Ju had already reached the middle of the corridor. The closer they got to the bathroom, the more tense they became.
"Teacher Bai, Zhou Tu just said he saw people following us. They were all walking upside down — I don't know how to explain it. Never mind, you should just ask Zhou Tu." Zhu Long pulled Zhou Tu over to Chen Ge's side.
"When I bent down to pick up the kitchen knife just now, I saw that the area behind us was full of people. Their heads were pointing down, and they were floating in the air. No — it was like they were walking along the ceiling. Those things must have been drawn here by Zhang Ju and Wang Yicheng. I saw it with my own eyes — those upside-down monsters kept staring at Zhang Ju and Wang Yicheng." Zhou Tu didn't want to get close to Zhang Ju. It was an instinctive revulsion.
"Upside-down people?" Chen Ge had seen those things in the science building as well. "Let's check the bathroom first and confirm whether the 'door' is there. If we don't find anything in the bathroom, we leave immediately."
This school was far too strange. Even with a Red-coat protecting them, Chen Ge couldn't feel safe.
He quickened his pace. Just a few steps from the bathroom, a pair of hands suddenly clamped around his neck.
Two ice-cold, skeletal arms locked around his throat. The grip was tightening slowly, and Chen Ge's breathing grew increasingly difficult.
"Wang Yicheng? You're awake?" Chen Ge twisted his head to look. Wang Yicheng's head was resting on his shoulder, his eyes shot through with black-red veins. It seemed as though he had been fighting something inside his mind all along.
"Don't go in. They're in there."
Wang Yicheng's voice was nothing like his usual tone — it was drenched in remorse, sounding like a beaten stray dog desperately guarding a companion's corpse while others beat him senseless.
"They? Who are they?"
"Classmates, seniors — everyone who hates you is in there. Don't go. I already secretly told the teacher." Wang Yicheng tried to force a smile but couldn't manage it.
"Did you beat this kid stupid or something? What kind of nonsense is he spouting?" Zhu Long held the pink phone and quietly edged closer to Chen Ge. The atmosphere inside this teaching building was suffocating — only staying near Chen Ge brought even a sliver of comfort.
"Wang Yicheng, did you remember something?" Wang Yicheng's memories had been triggered at the West Campus bathroom entrance. Back then, Chen Ge had knocked him unconscious to prevent being exposed. Now that he'd awakened, his mind seemed to have become somewhat muddled.
"They sent me to trick you into going in. I refused, so they beat me — made me climb the stairs with a limp. I did everything they asked, but they still won't let you go. Remember: no matter who tells you to go to the bathroom on the top floor of the teaching building, don't go! Whatever you do, don't go in!" Wang Yicheng's voice was feeble, his body seemingly weakened to the extreme.
"Besides you, did they find anyone else to lure Lin Sisi?"
"I don't know. But I already told the teacher everything — why hasn't he come yet!" Wang Yicheng was getting anxious. The only lifeline in his heart was that teacher, but the teacher didn't seem to have appeared. Maybe even that teacher hated Lin Sisi.
"It's fine. I'm just going over to take a look."
"Don't go! Don't go in!" Wang Yicheng had mistaken Chen Ge for Lin Sisi. These were his true inner feelings. You could see how wracked with guilt he was, desperate to make amends.