Chapter 833
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Footsteps came from outside the reading room; the librarian was heading their way . Even though Chen Ge still had many questions, there was no time .
"Chang Gu, I hope you're not lying to me . I can do my best to help your sister, but you need to guarantee that my friends and I can leave this school safely . " Chen Ge stood together with his club members . He was a man of his word . He had promised to lead Zhang Ju and the rest out, and he planned to keep his promise .
"I can give you my promise, but what use is it? Here, anything can happen; even the painter can give you that guarantee . " Chang Gu's blood red eye was twitching slightly . No one knew what he was really thinking .
"You've changed a lot since entering the door . Looks like I'll have to reassess our relationship," Chen Ge said calmly . He was always like that, hard to read . It was unclear whether he was bluffing or not .
"We're still friends . We both came from outside the door . We know about each other . I will not harm you . " Chang Gu lifted the backpack . "See, I even brought your things for you . "
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"We are friends, but I've gained some new friends here . We're all friends, so I hope you won't put me in a difficult position . " There was one thing that Chen Ge did not tell Chang Gu . He had promised to be someone else's friend in the toilet on the top floor of the education block . Chen Ge had accepted the invitation, thinking that there was no harm in having more friend, but now that he thought about it, that person was most likely the painter . Many people wanted to make use of Chen Ge, but if they knew him better, they would regret that decision .
"Okay, we'll do it your way . " Chen Ge led the members to Chang Gu . "Now, can you give me back my stuff?"
"No problem, but you have to wait until you're inside the mirror before you open the backpack . " Chang Gu did not hand the backpack to Chen Ge but followed him to the last row of the shelves . They worked together to push the shelf aside, and that revealed the mirror hidden under a black cloth .
"There isn't much use left to this mirror, so you'd better move fast . Get the school's approval before the painter realizes what you're doing . " Chang Gu pulled the cloth back and handed the backpack to Chen Ge . "Stand before the mirror and place your hand on it . Look into the mirror with your heart, and you'll see what's on the other side . "
Accepting the backpack, Chen Ge did not place his hand on the mirror directly but took a step back .
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"What are you doing?" Chang Gu frowned .
"Don't worry, this is my first time here . I have no experience, so I wish to see other people do it first . " Chen Ge resisted the urge to open the backpack and tossed a look to Zhang Ju . "This should have been a part of your memory . "
Zhang Ju nodded and handed Zhou Tu over to Zhu Long before standing in front of the mirror . "Honestly, I don't mind living in the painter's paradise, but if that means I have to trade in my freedom, then I think not . "
The scarred arm landed on the surface of the mirror, and Zhang Ju lifted his head to look at his own reflection in the mirror . Chen Ge had noticed this a long time ago . In the world behind the door, there were few mirrors . It was as if mirrors possessed a special meaning in this blood red world . He stood at the back of the group and patiently observed . If not for the others, he would even have thought about using a pen and paper to record the whole process .
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Blood slid down the arm and fell on the mirror . Blood vessels crawled on the surface . It was hard to tell whether they were moving inside or outside the mirror . More blood vessels appeared . In the blink of an eye, the scene inside the mirror shifted . It was still the library, but the library in the mirror turned blood red . Blood flowed, and every book looked like it was written in blood .
"I didn't expect to one day return . This time, I hope I've made the right choice," Zhang Ju mumbled to himself outside the mirror, but his reflection had not moved . He was like a puppet without a soul, with his head lowered and eyes closed .
"Be careful . Don't wander about when you're inside . Wait for us . We'll move together . That should make things easier . " Chen Ge tried to say something else, but Zhang Ju was not looking so stable . He did not seem to hear Chen Ge . The head that was scorched slowly turned . Zhang Ju's remaining right eye was red as blood . He stared at Chang Gu as the wounds opened all over his body . Blood vessels crawled on his body . "Your left eye is very beautiful . I… wish to eat it . "
Zhang Ju appeared to be under some kind of influence . His expression turned ugly, and the strange thing was, the expression of his reflection started to change, transforming to match the one outside the mirror . When the two became one, the hand that was pressed on the mirror was pulled forward, and the young man was dragged into the mirror .
"He was dragged by himself into the mirror?" Before Chen Ge realized it, there was only a pool of blood left behind the mirror . Zhang Ju had disappeared like he had never been there in the first place .
"The mirror reflects your appearance, but it can't reflect your soul . On one side of the mirror, it's your shell, and the other side is your desire . When you look inside the mirror, you'll see your ugliest and sometimes your most dangerous self . " After Zhang Ju left, Chang Gu's tone lightened . "Mirrors inside the School of the Afterlife are different from those in real life . The painter moved everything beautiful inside the mirror, and all the ugly, desperate, and scary things have been left outside the mirror . So, when you stand before the mirror, you'll see a different version of yourself . "
While Chang Gu spoke, Zhou Tu passed through the mirror . He was so fast that none of the members, not even Chang Gu or Chen Ge, noticed it .
"Mr . Bai, I know you have many things that you haven't told us . " Zhu Long felt like he had many things to say, but considering that there were outsiders there, he did not voice those thoughts . "I rarely place my trust in others, so I hope you won't disappoint us . "
His palm on the mirror, Zhu Long looked at his reflection . The tall body was reconstructed, and the reflection in the mirror could not be called a person, more like a rag doll sewn together by a demented child .
The blood traces before the mirror thickened . After all the members had departed, Chen Ge stood before the mirror with two bags .