"The road to the center of the Blood-colored City? Zhang Ya has been there?" Chen Ge looked at the bloody writing on the Ragdoll, his eyes narrowing. The city was extremely dangerous in his memory, a forbidden place he absolutely must not enter. But to his surprise, Zhang Ya had gone there a long time ago.
"Yes. She knew about that road from the very beginning. When the Door Pusher was hunting her, she escaped the school scene through it." The Ragdoll didn't seem to be lying, but Chen Ge still didn't fully believe him.
"The Door Pusher has absolute control over the door he opened. He knows every part of the scene because the entire place was woven from his memories." Chen Ge grabbed the Ragdoll by its other leg. "Are you still lying to me?"
"No!" The bloody writing on the Ragdoll darkened. He seemed genuinely afraid of Chen Ge. "Every half-Red Clothed Spirit—or, rather, every Vengeful Spirit with the potential to become Red-Clothed—has a special ability. Do you know what that woman's ability is?"
"Stop stalling." Chen Ge really didn't know what Zhang Ya's special ability was. She seemed to have so many unusual powers that it was astonishing.
"I don't know exactly what her ability is, but I heard from the Door Pusher that she can somehow obtain the abilities of other Vengeful Spirits." The Ragdoll's words confirmed some of Chen Ge's earlier suspicions. "It's the most unusual and terrifying ability I've ever seen. That's why no one has figured out what she can do. She has so many abilities."
Chen Ge looked at the bloody writing on the Ragdoll and didn't speak right away.
Zhang Ya was the only Vengeful Spirit with her own page in the Black Phone. At first, Chen Ge had thought