"Huh, where did my big gatekeeper uncle go?"
"Good heavens, did they switch people?"
"If my girlfriend had this kind of quick change speed, I wouldn't have reached the King rank."
"Holy crap, the guy upstairs is being a show-off, having a girlfriend and being King rank."
The viewers in the live stream were stunned, their first reaction being that they had switched people.
In just one entrance and exit, the old man had turned into a young and beautiful girl.
This speed... tsk tsk.
Even viewers who had experienced all sorts of photoshopped beauty couldn't help but marvel.
"As expected, the power of an idol is immense."
...
In the live stream footage—
The girl, having transformed back, enthusiastically pulled Jiang Lin into the campus.
Before leaving, she didn't forget to throw a paper effigy to guard the entrance for her.
"Jiang Wuchang, this way."
As she walked, she introduced,
"Our North Hall is famous for paper crafting and musical instruments, so the training classes here mainly focus on these two."
"Among them, paper crafting and musical instruments are further divided into beginner, intermediate, and advanced classes."
Jiang Lin followed alongside, listening quietly,
Occasionally glancing at the doorplates of the surrounding classrooms.
When passing by the music classes, he could hear faint melodies emanating from within.
The sounds from the beginner classes were like cat claws scratching glass, 'screech, screech—', extremely piercing.
Or it was just breath sounds, making it difficult to produce any tone.
The intermediate classes were much more pleasant to listen to, acceptable to the ears.
The advanced classes were more like entering a concert hall.
Melodious notes, never ceasing.
The girl stopped at the entrance of an advanced class and listened for a while, her face filled with pride and admiration:
"Sounds good, right? Actually, this is just so-so. It's said that true musicians can, with a single note, transport the audience into an illusion.
Even at the moment of death, they remain immersed in the scenes created by the musician."
...
Further ahead were the classrooms for learning paper crafting.
Looking in through the windows, one could see rows of ghosts seated.
In the beginner classes, students held scissors in one hand and white paper in the other.
A slight tremor of the hand would result in a cut.
"Oh no, my paper!"
"Careful, my butterfly is flying over!"
"Holy crap, who cut out feces? Who are they disgusting?"
"Teacher, I want to report him, he broke my paper figure!"
Beginners, just starting with paper crafting, always experienced various hand tremors and accidents.
Paper figures that moved were flying all over the place.
The students below were in utter chaos.
At a glance, it was quite amusing.
Especially for the viewers in the live stream.
Watching the ghosts sometimes jump up from their seats as if their bottoms had been pricked.
Sometimes letting out a cry, and the paper figures in their hands would become dismembered.
"So ghosts can also be this flustered."
"Hahaha, it's just like when I had craft class, my hands would shake."
"Isn't this just a training class? Thinking about the streamer joining in, I can't help but hehehe... (*❦w❦)"
Onlookers never tire of a good show.
The viewers, looking at these 'vibrant' classrooms, eagerly anticipated the streamer's class days.
A ghost messenger also attending a training class?
Oh, just the thought of it makes them so excited.
...
"Hahahaha..."
The girl who was showing Jiang Lin around couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh.
"Hahaha, everyone is like this when they first start learning. In my class, we used folded paper to make a nest of wasps that could sting ghosts, hahaha..."
A nest of wasps...?
Jiang Lin glanced at the girl beside him, and a scene of a swarm of wasps buzzing around the classroom already appeared in his mind.
The students in her class at that time must have had a terrible time...
Moving further, they reached the intermediate and advanced paper crafting classes.
These classrooms were larger, and each student had more space to work.
The folded paper creations were more varied and had greater mobility.
Some of the works in the advanced classes were incredibly lifelike, truly eye-catching.
There was a paper effigy of a peacock as tall as a person, its expression proud, its hands transformed into colorful feathers.
Adorned in silk and satin, it was both magnificent and exquisite.
It looked as if it were a peacock manifested.
There was a large pink pig, three meters tall, with distinct strands of hair and bright, shining eyes.
It looked as if it had discovered some treasure.
There were also small paper figures, palm-sized, with two pairs of wings as thin as cicada wings on their backs, flying rapidly in the air.
Like little sprites.
These creations didn't look like they were made of paper.
It was as if real living creatures had been brought here.
"Ah, are these graduation projects?"
The gatekeeper girl peeked inside and then explained to Jiang Lin,
"Starting from the beginner class, whether one wants to graduate or advance to a higher class, they must create a 'graduation project' that satisfies the teacher."
"From beginner to intermediate, and intermediate to advanced. And for the advanced class, completing a graduation project means they are ready to graduate."
In fact, by the intermediate class, what they learned was enough for many ghosts to live quite well.
And most ghosts remained at this stage.
Very few could attend the advanced class and successfully graduate.
Firstly, the advanced class was expensive, requiring a lot of resources.
Secondly, reaching the advanced level wasn't just about effort; it also depended on talent, comprehension, and other factors.
"Many ghosts are stubborn and don't believe in fate. They insist on advancing to the advanced class to try and break through their destiny."
The gatekeeper girl shrugged, "So they deserve it, being stuck in the advanced class for decades without graduating. They're almost out of tuition fees."
Decades without graduating...
Jiang Lin was taken aback. Wouldn't that mean they might even be in debt??
He glanced at the situation in the advanced class. To him now, the creations were already very impressive.
The gatekeeper girl: "It's said that the former number one ghost in paper crafting folded a paper crane that instantly transformed into a real white crane and flew away on the wind."
"A paper crane turning into a real crane?"
This was the first time Jiang Lin had heard of such a thing. That would have already surpassed the scope of paper crafting, right?
It was directly manifesting a new life form.
"That is the highest realm of our paper crafting. All ghosts who enter this profession aim for this..."
As the gatekeeper girl was speaking, a powerful voice suddenly came from not far away:
"Zhong Pianpian! Are you slacking off again?! Do you still want to graduate?!"
At the end of the corridor,
A tall, well-built middle-aged woman with an owl perched on her shoulder appeared at some point.
She held a folder in her hand, looking at Zhong Pianpian, her eyes widened slightly.
Her tone was filled with disappointment and frustration.
The 'gatekeeper girl' immediately flinched upon hearing this.
Without looking back, she started running.
As she ran, she couldn't help but protest,
"I'm playing the role of a gatekeeper, not slacking off!"
And I can even earn tuition fees by moonlighting...
As soon as she flew out of the corridor, she seemed to remember something.
She turned back and waved at Jiang Lin, "Jiang Wuchang, I'll continue introducing you next time—"
After saying that, a giant paper crane appeared beneath her.
She lifted her green skirt, mounted the paper crane, and fled.
The series of actions and her reaction speed were so practiced, as if she had rehearsed them countless times.
Jiang Lin watched the direction she left and was silent for a moment.
"..."
So, the student who couldn't graduate for decades, the one mentioned just now, was you, wasn't it?
...