Knocking at the Door

"You're overthinking it." Chen Ge caught sight of the Black Bag behind the door out of the corner of his eye, but he didn't give it a second thought.

Whether it contained household rubbish or a corpse, what did that have to do with him now?

Chen Ge had kept a clear head. His first priority was to figure out who he was and what kind of person Lin Sisi really was.

From his perspective, nothing about his body or appearance had changed. He also didn't know why Wang Xiaoming and the people around him kept calling him Lin Sisi.

Maybe Lin Sisi isn't a person's name at all. Maybe it's a code name, or a role.

"If you still want to go to the Cafeteria later, you can ask me to come along. I'm heading back first." Chen Ge's expression barely changed, as if he hadn't seen the bag.

"Okay." Wang Xiaoming backed into the dorm room, then suddenly seemed to remember something and called after Chen Ge again. "Xiao Lin, you slept through class today. I don't know if you heard the few things Teacher Bai specifically told us."

"What things?"

"Don't leave the dorm at night unless you have to. Just stay in your rooms. Also, lights-out has been moved up from eleven to ten thirty. Someone will patrol the corridors after lights-out, so everyone should keep that in mind."

"That's all?" Chen Ge had thought Wang Xiaoming was going to say something important. He'd been inside the Door Behind the World for a while now, but everyone and everything he'd encountered seemed perfectly normal—or, more accurately, normal on the surface. The school was just like an ordinary Night School. There was nothing particularly noteworthy about it.

Wang Xiaoming bit his lip, as if he still had