This side quest is described in the first person and follows a man who hides in the fifth cubicle of the toilet in order to catch the red shadow that always appears at midnight.

What happened after that was not described in detail in the mission introduction, leaving Chen Ge with plenty of room for imagination.

He turned off the flashlight and was a little puzzled: "The mission said that there was a red shadow that would appear in the toilet at midnight, but listening to the footsteps it was clear that two people were walking side by side, could it be that in the past few years when the school was abandoned, the red shadow has made new friends?" ”

The sound of footsteps was slowly approaching the toilet on the second floor, and according to the requirements of the task, Chen Ge should hide in the fifth compartment of the toilet at this time, but he felt that this was too passive, and he really encountered something terrifying, and he couldn't run if he wanted to.

"Maybe I should have been more proactive."

Chen Ge carried a tool hammer and ambushed behind the bathroom door, no matter who came in, he was ready to give the other party a hammer first.

Taking a breath, Chen Ge held his breath and raised the tool hammer in his hand.

The footsteps were getting clearer and clearer, and it seemed that two people were running side by side, and they were already very close to the bathroom on the second floor.

The process of waiting was a kind of torture for Chen Ge, he didn't know what was out there, let alone what the thing was going to do, so he could only eavesdrop and try not to make any noise while eavesdropping.

After about a few seconds, the footsteps finally stopped at the toilet door.

"They're coming!"

Chen Ge's hand holding the tool hammer had begun to sweat, and his heartbeat gradually accelerated.

Outside the toilet, it was raining and rainy, and more and more raindrops blew into the house, wetting the floor.

"What about people?" Chen Ge turned his head to look behind him and above the door panel, and there was no sudden appearance of something like a human face, his patience was slowly worn out, and he grabbed the door panel with one hand, ready to go out and see it himself.

But before he could walk out from behind the door, a bolt of lightning lit up the night sky, and with a brief light, Chen Ge saw two shadows appear on the toilet floor.

"There's someone at the door!"

He froze in place, his flashlight had long since been turned off, and it was pitch black in the toilet at this time, and he couldn't see anything.

"The shadow is very short, like two children." He didn't dare to relax in the slightest, and waited a few more seconds before footsteps sounded again at the door.

It's just that unlike what he imagined, the owner of the footsteps did not enter the toilet, but entered the corridor on the side, as if he had gone to the first floor.

"That's leaving?"

Chen Ge slowly moved his steps and looked at the door of the toilet, where there was nothing.

"It seems that there are two children standing at the door just now, this is a deviation from the red shadow described in the black phone mission, is it because there is too much time and unknown changes, or is it because of my arrival in the school, something strange has awakened early?"

Chen Ge couldn't think of an answer, and he didn't have the heart to explore these anymore.

Turning on the flashlight, Chen Ge walked outside the fifth cubicle of the toilet, whether it was the mission target of the black phone or not, he had to check it.

Pushing the door panel, there was still nothing behind the dilapidated compartment.

"Judging from the current situation, the cubicle I am looking for should be in the toilet on the third floor, and the two children just ran to the first floor, and now is the perfect opportunity." Chen Ge hurriedly walked out, and before he could get out of the toilet, his mobile phone suddenly vibrate, and a strange call came in.

"Whose number is this?" Chen Ge has very few friends, and the few who are there are basically never in touch.

He hesitated, shrank in the corner, exited the live broadcast, and connected the phone: "Hey, hello." ”

"You're Gao Ruxue's classmate, right? I heard that you met a child today who behaved abnormally and may be suffering from mental illness? "The voice on the phone is mature and steady, giving people a sense of trust.

"Well, you are?"

"I'm her father and a lecturer at Jiujiang Medical University."

Heshan told Chen Ge before that he gave his phone number to Gao Ruxue, and now it seems that the "senior sister" with her own cooling aura is quite reliable.

"Can you elaborate on the child's situation? Mental illness is a poisonous weed that takes root in the body, and if not removed early, it can ruin a person's future. Gao Ruxue's father was well aware of the dangers of mental illness, which he considered even more dangerous than some physical illnesses.

"Yes, there is a child of seven or eight years old, who is in completely normal physical condition, but looks a little autistic, reluctant to communicate with people, and afraid of the sun."

"Are there any other symptoms? It's better to be detailed. ”

"I met this child at the door of the haunted house, and his aunt told me that this child especially likes to play in the haunted house, and he has no fear, fear and other emotions that normal people should have in the haunted house. Chen Ge expressed the doubts in his heart, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't believe that there would be such a child.

"A seven or eight-year-old kid who likes to go to a haunted house to play? And will not be afraid? ”

"Yes, that kid was even curious about the haunted house actor in dead man's makeup."

There was silence for a few seconds on the other side of the microphone: "If he just doesn't feel scared, it's probably U-Vickers disease, which causes the amygdala part of his brain to function badly." ”

"Sorry, I didn't get it too well."

"Quite simply, the amygdala is the nerve center for the establishment of fear memories, and is also responsible for controlling the generation of emotions such as fear and anger, and if there is a problem here, even if people touch high-voltage wires and approach beasts and poisonous snakes, they will not feel afraid, let alone enter a haunted house."

Gao Ruxue's father said very reasonably, but Chen Ge felt that this disease was not the same as Fan Yu's situation: "Teacher Gao, that child is not afraid of anything, he is afraid of the sun and hates walking in the sun. In addition, he is not only not afraid of haunted houses, but he likes the atmosphere of haunted houses very much, and he is completely different from being in a haunted house outside. ”

Chen Ge thought for a while and added: "He didn't say a word outside the haunted house, and he didn't have contact with others at all; After entering the haunted house, he became excited, and if he was forcibly pulled out of the haunted house, he would also attack people, and I saw him dig out his aunt's arm. ”

"Listening to your description, it feels a bit like the symptoms of bipolar disorder, full of destructive desires when manic, losing reason, and even hurting those closest to you; When you are depressed, you will feel lonely and sad, refuse to communicate, and be closed off in your own world. Teacher Gao carefully analyzed Chen Ge: "But there is one thing I don't understand, patients with bipolar disorder have random seizures, and there is nothing that will change when they enter a haunted house. Personally, I think that since he has a personality change in a haunted house, then his cause should be related to the haunted house, did he be frightened in the haunted house when he was a child? Or maybe his parents work in a haunted house? ”

Listening to Gao Ruxue's father's words, Chen Ge vaguely had a guess.

The boy's personality change is related to the haunted house, and the biggest difference between his haunted house and the outside world is that there are really ghosts in his haunted house.