Chapter 780

“Mr . Bai is on the first floor, the Red Specter is on the second floor, and a bunch of invisible monsters are on the third floor . What will be on the fourth floor?” Chen Ge stood in the corridor alone, not daring to breathe too loudly . His pupils narrowed to a point, and the muscles all over his body were tense . “Since I’m already here, might as well take a look around . ”

Moving his feet, Chen Ge’s body was slowly swallowed by the darkness . In the dim corridor, the only light source came from the elevator’s panel . The red number was like a smiling face carved out by a knife . It could not heal, and the painful smile had to be maintained forever .

Creak…

After walking for a while, Chen Ge discovered another room related to art—the model storage room . The door of this room had been left ajar . It felt like someone was hiding behind the door, spying on the corridor . Chen Ge slowly pushed the wooden door open . The room that he was greeted by was rather strange .

There were no tools, only columns of white cloths that ‘stood about’ . It felt like people covered by white cloths were standing in the room .

“What are these?” Chen Ge approached one of them and pulled away the white cloth that was closest to him . He wished to know what was underneath the white cloth, but at the same time, he was afraid that the thing underneath might be dangerous . Therefore, he moved with extreme speed and caution . He was going to make the first move before the other party could react .

The white cloth fell away to reveal a skinned human model statuette .

“This doesn’t look like it’s made from cement or manmade rubber . ” Chen Ge frowned lightly . The white cloth was hiding a human model that had no skin . The muscles appeared tense, and the blood vessels coursed through the muscles . It looked so real, replicating every single horrifying detail . “Did the art students at this school use these models during their classes?”

He looked at the model, and the model stared back at him . The pair of eyes that were sunk inside blood vessels and bone glared lifelessly at Chen Ge . “The paint storage room has rows of red paint jars that give off a faint scent of blood, and the model storage room has a bunch of skinned human models . I cannot imagine what I will find inside the art room . ”

After replacing the white cloth, Chen Ge learned from his previous lesson; he did not stay in the room for long and left immediately . Just as he turned around, his eyes caught the inner part of the model storage room . A white cloth was lying on the ground, but the thing that it should have been covering was nowhere to be seen .

After leaving the model storage room, Chen Ge found the canvas storage room at the other side of the corridor . It was filled with half-processed or fully processed ‘canvases’ .

Touching them with his hands, Chen Ge found that the processed ‘canvases’ had a smooth surface, but he was unable to tell what kind of materials had been used to treat them . However, what caused Chen Ge alarm was that the ‘canvases’ had the same touch as human skin . It felt like he was touching other human beings . He did not stay there for long . Wiping his hands on the working outfit, Chen Ge left the room .

“Just what kind of experiments are conducted here?” Chen Ge continued to move forward and finally found the art room at the end of the corridor . “As I expected . ”

With the discovery of the art room, part of Chen Ge’s goal of entering the laboratory had been accomplished . He walked hastily forward to push on the door . The wooden door fell open with his push . There were thirteen easels in the rooms, and various paintings hung on the wall .

At first glance, it looked like a normal art room, but once one looked closer, one would notice the endless horrors hidden inside this room . The paintings on the walls were all curious and strange . There were human faces, twisted souls, human portraits, and convulsing bodies; the content was all different, but all the humans or ‘ghosts’ in the paintings were inverted .

The backgrounds of the paintings were upright, but the people were inverted . It was as if they lived in a different world, and the paintings were merely capturing their shadows . The paintings that ran down the wall gave Chen Ge an immense impact . As he walked into the room, his gaze was pulled naturally toward them, and it felt like he was walking into a nightmare .

He walked to the center of the room . Thirteen incomplete paintings sat on the thirteen easels . Among them, three of the paintings greatly attracted Chen Ge’s attention . The first painting was of two inverted doors . One was bloody red, and the other looked normal . These two doors were wide open, and inside the doors stood two painters holding a paintbrush . He lowered his head to look at his inverted self, and it appeared like he was thinking about something in his mind .

The name of the painting was ‘Me Inside the Door’ . A row of description was scrawled underneath it in blood—’Overflowing despair will open the door, then if I remove the despair, will the world behind the door return to normal?’

The painting was the only painting in the room that was named . The painter obviously knew about the door’s existence . The second painting that caught Chen Ge’s attention was quite scary; it was a painting of that very room .

On the upper part of the painting, there were thirteen painters seated before their easels painting . However, the lower part of the painting was completely blood red . The thirteen painters died in different ways; their bodies collapsed on their seats . The most suffocating discovery was the painters were painting their own death in the upper part of the painting .

“These painters seem to know their ending beforehand, but they still insist on continuing their painting . Is it because they knew the ending was inevitable?”

The third painting that drew Chen Ge’s attention was the least completed . The upper part of the painting showed a child standing before a mirror . The world beside him was totally normal, but the surface of the mirror was dripping with redness . The boy in the mirror was covered in blood and was tapping heavily against the surface .

The lower part of the painting was still of that boy . The world around him was red, and the only exception was the mirror before him . It was clean and shining . The boy who was covered in blood slammed on the mirror heavily like he wished to strangle the uninjured version of himself on the other side of the mirror .

“I saw blood red mirrors in the maintenance room . Do the mirrors in this school have the same purpose as a door? No wait, I seem to have forgotten an important detail!” Chen Ge knew that a four-star scenario would be completely different from all the other scenarios that he had attempted in the past . Therefore, his experience from before could no longer be applied .

“Doors and mirrors, the blood doors and bloody mirrors behind the doors…” Various clues connected in his mind, and they led him to a brazen conjecture .

“Perhaps I should bring this painting with me . ” There was another reason that Chen Ge valued this painting so much . The spot where the painter would leave their name read… Lin Sisi .

This painting might be created by the real Lin Sisi, and solving the mystery around Lin Sisi might help Chen Ge understand the world behind the door . In fact, that might be the main objective that Chen Ge had given himself .

Chen Ge’s hand reached toward the painting . Before his finger even touched it, a giant change happened to the art room . Droplets of liquid fell on the top of his head . Chen Ge used his hand to touch it and realized that it was not water but blood .

The air became humid, and the heavy stench made its silent return . Blood started to leak out from the walls, and deepening footprints surfaced on the ground .

The normal world appeared to be overlapping with the other blood world . All the paintings inside the art room became distorted . A black shadow suddenly leaped out from one of the paintings and headed right for the door .

The shadow felt strangely familiar to Chen Ge . He immediately stopped what he was doing, grabbed the nails, and rushed toward the exit .