Chapter 774: 774

“He gave me his promise first!” Wang Xiaoming glared at Bai Ling and raised his voice .

“But you are now in the staff dormitory . Without my help, you would have gotten into the maintenance room,” Bai Ling retorted with a sweet smile on her face . Her hands were still curled around Chen Ge’s arm . “Come over to my place . I still have many things I want to tell you . ”

Chen Ge was squeezed between the two . He knew better than anyone else what was happening . The big dog being reared at Bai Ling’s home was the missing student . If he followed Bai Ling home, he would end up as the girl’s plaything . It would not be too safe to follow Wang Xiaoming either . The man had been saying that there was delicious food at the canteen, but he did not mention what kind of food it was . If he really did follow Wang Xiaoming to the canteen, Chen Ge had a feeling that he would end up as the food himself .

Everyone in that school had their own evil agenda, but they would never show it directly . Both of those choices would lead to certain death—the difference was how he would die . Looking at the two fighting over him, Chen Ge did not push them away .

With one hand over Wang Xiaoming’s shoulder and the other caressing Bai Ling’s head, Chen Ge acted touched . “You both are my good friends . One is reliable and trustworthy, and the other is kind and cute; I really can’t find it within myself to reject either one of you!”

He hesitated for a while before squatting down to pick up Bai Ling . “I will follow my friend to the canteen to find something to eat first . Later, I’ll come back, okay?”

“No! You cannot go with him!” The girl’s sweet expression immediately froze . Small lumps started to swell on her body, and she seemed to have grown slightly taller .

“Okay then . ” Chen Ge turned to Wang Xiaoming with a helpless expression . “Brother, how about you go to the canteen ahead of me? I will stay to accompany this girl for a while . She is probably too afraid to stay home alone . ”

“Have you lost your mind‽ When Mr . Bai returns and sees you in his room, he will send you to detention!” Wang Xiaoming was stronger than Bai Ling . He pulled Chen Ge over to his side . “Follow me! We will go to the canteen!”

Chen Ge was dragged by Wang Xiaoming to the door, but Bai Ling refused to let go . “But you promised me!”

The transformation of the little girl became more pronounced . Her eyes sunk, and tears flowed out of her eyes . The tears cut open her face like a sharp knife . The monster that was hiding inside the girl was showing itself .

“You’re making this very difficult for me . ” Chen Ge flung both of their hands away . “You two can discuss this among yourselves . I will wait outside the door for you . Come and find me when you reach a decision . ”

After dropping that announcement, Chen Ge opened the door and left . Once he closed the door, the sound of a heavy thud came from inside the room . It sounded like someone’s head was slammed into the wall .

“It’s so surprising that I’m so popular here . There are so many students at this school, so why are they so hung up over me?” Chen Ge memorized what his two friends had said . Once he exited the maintenance room, he did not pause for even a second . He grabbed his bag and raced directly out of the staff dormitory . The moment that Chen Ge stepped out of the staff dormitory, a voice came from the darkened corridor behind him . It seemed to be calling Xiao Lin’s name .

However, the biggest difference between Chen Ge and the other protagonists of horror movies was that he would never curious about things that might kill him . It was unimportant who the person that called after him was; the important thing was that he had obtained what he needed, and it was time to begin the next step of his plan .

“I need to move faster . If Bai Ling survives, she won’t know my exact location, but if it’s Wang Xiaoming who survives, everything will be much more complicated . This deskmate knows my room location and will definitely return to the dormitory to find me . ” Chen Ge did not turn around once as he jogged all the way back to the male dormitory . “There is not even one person to be seen in this school after dark . No matter how strict the rules are, shouldn’t there be some guards patrolling the compound?”

It was a completely different atmosphere at the night school before and after the lights went out . The lights were probably some kind of boundary line there . “Staying here for too long will lead to some bad things, and staying in the dark for too long will attract the unwanted attention of monsters . There sure are many rules that can cause death here . ”

Having many death-causing rules was not that scary; the thing that made it scariest was the fact that no one had told Chen Ge what the rules were . Even though he had been exploring the place for so long, Chen Ge was not completely confident that he had correctly deduced all the rules .

Chen Ge did not stop to catch his breath as he jogged back to the male student dormitory . He did not enter the building directly but hid behind one of the big trees next to the entrance . He used his Yin Yang Vision to scout out the area first .

The entrance was not closed shut, but the dormitory manager that Wang Xiaoming was afraid of appeared to have gone to sleep already .

“Something’s not right . When Wang Xiaoming and I left this place earlier, I made sure to close the entrance door, but now, it’s open . It can only mean that someone has been in or out of this place during the period that we were out . The school forbids students from wandering about after dark, so the person who arrived here was either a member of staff or the dormitory manager . ” Chen Ge ran to the other side of the road to switch to a different vantage point . He saw something new .

There was a pair of brown leather shoes sitting in the corner of the first-floor corridor . Someone appeared to be hiding there!

“If I’m not mistaken, Mr . Bai wears a pair of shoes just like that . Is he the one who’s hiding there?” The more Chen Ge thought about it, the more he felt that it was likely . He had been in the staff dormitory, but he had not run into Mr . Bai .

“I sure was lucky . He has been waiting for me at the student dormitory, and that gave me the perfect opening to sneak inside his room . ”

This kind of dangerous action caused Chen Ge’s heart to race . “It’s a good thing that Mr . Bai is hiding here . Wang Xiaoming knows that I will return to the bedroom, so if he survives the encounter at the maintenance room, he will rush back here . If he’s careless, he will run headfirst into Mr . Bai, and that will solve one of the loose ends . ”

Chen Ge would run into more danger if he wished to continue his exploration of the school, but he had handled this situation nicely . While he attracted danger, he kept shifted the focus on him to something else . This made it so that even though he was in constant danger, he was not in mortal danger .

“For now, I can’t return to the student dormitory . I need to change up my plan somehow . ” Chen Ge decided to go to the art room first . From Xiao Lin’s notebook, he had found out that the first student who died in Room 413 was an art student .

“It’s fine if you want to use me as a scapegoat, but you have to clarify some things first . If the discussion fails, I will personally hammer back the nails that you’ve put on me one by one . ” Still hiding in the shadow, Chen Ge silently retreated . He did not have a map and had to avoid the different danger, so he walked very slowly .

“I’m at such a disadvantage because I don’t know anything about the different scenarios at this school . I need a real partner that I can trust . ”

After taking a long detour, Chen Ge came to the laboratory building . There were few buildings on the night school’s campus, and he believed the art room might be inside this building . In any case, that was the likeliest possibility .