Chen Ge spoke calmly, as if what he was saying were nothing more than a trivial matter.
"You've lived in the Ghost School all this time, so it's only natural that you're afraid of the Painter and Chang Wenyu. But to me and the other outsiders, they're just two very ordinary top-tier Red-Clothed."
Hearing Chen Ge's reassurance only made Ying Hong and the other Ghost School students feel worse.
"There's nothing ordinary about a top-tier Red-Clothed." Ying Hong muttered under her breath. Looking at Chen Ge, she suddenly remembered something Director Lei had said earlier, and her gaze fell involuntarily on Chen Ge's shadow.
She could sense that something was hidden in Chen Ge's shadow, but its aura was too faint for her to make out clearly.
"Fine. I'll trust you this once." After saying that, Ying Hong ran over to Ying Bai and firmly took her hand.
"You..."
"No matter what happens later, don't let go of my hand. You need to understand that I'm the only person in this world who truly cares about you." Ying Hong spoke to Ying Bai as if she were giving her last instructions, and thoroughly frightened her.
The sounds of fighting kept coming from outside the Ghost School. Chen Ge looked calm on the surface, but inside, he was deeply uneasy.
He had called Zhang Ya's name countless times in his heart, but he hadn't received any response.
Without Zhang Ya, the Red-Clothed around him could still put up a fight, but they could do little more than resist.
"The Withered Well at Muyang Middle School holds the secret buried deep in the Painter's heart. The Painter definitely knows it's there, so that route isn't safe enough. And even if we escaped the Ghost School through the well, getting through Blood-colored City