"Chang Wenyu once said she'd seen a Black Phone somewhere in the Blood-colored City. The person who kept sending me messages should be there."
A lot of clues had come together, and Chen Ge was getting closer and closer to the truth.
When Chen Ge returned to Nightmare Academy on Century Avenue and entered the Haunted House, he noticed someone watching him from across the street, inside Shilixiang Delicatessen.
But when he used his Yin Pupil to look over there, he couldn't find whoever had been watching him.
"Was the Innkeeper at Shilixiang watching me?"
Chen Ge couldn't be sure. He planned to go over and investigate more thoroughly that night.
When he entered the Principal's Office, Chi Ren was asleep inside. Chen Ge didn't disturb him and sat down at the desk.
He opened his Backpack, intending to organize his belongings, when his expression suddenly changed.
"Why is this note still in my bag? Didn't I hand it over to the Xinhai police?"
Chen Ge took the note out of his Backpack. Its crooked handwriting seemed like a Curse he could never escape.
"There are more than a dozen Red-Clothed ghosts living in my Backpack. If someone had secretly put the note back in there, my Red-Clothed employees would have noticed!"
If an ordinary person encountered something this strange, their first thought would be to tear up the note or burn it. Then they'd discover that even after doing so, the note still appeared beside them. That was a classic horror-story opening.
But Chen Ge was different. First, he placed the note on The Shadow and waited half an hour. When nothing unusual happened, he picked it up and tucked it inside the Red High Heels.
"The note keeps reappearing, as if it's reminding me that the world I