Finally, led by Uncle Yun, Ming Li arrived at 123 Elementary School.
Looking at the tightly shut large iron gate, Xiao Sun paused and suddenly asked, "Um, boss, why are you here so late..."
Ming Li: "..."
Without the original host's plot, Ming Li didn't know where the original host lived, let alone find her target...
Thus, Ming Li stood expressionlessly at the entrance of 123 Elementary School for an entire night.
The surrounding ghosts, feeling the air turn several degrees colder, wisely kept their distance from Ming Li.
A ghost radiating coldness was not to be trifled with. Stay away, stay away.
The night passed quickly.
Unknowingly, the rain stopped.
The sky gradually turned a fish-belly white, and the first rays of sunlight shone on Ming Li.
Gradually, the pedestrians on the road increased.
Small breakfast stalls also appeared along the roadside in front of Ming Li.
Ming Li remained expressionless, standing in place as people began to bustle.
After an unknown amount of time, the large iron gate next to Ming Li finally moved.
Ming Li's gaze followed as the always shut iron gate was opened from the inside. Before long, cheerful music emanated from the school, and little figures carrying backpacks walked into the school with light steps.
Ming Li scanned these small figures but did not find the person she was looking for.
Time ticked by, and finally, in the last second before it was too late, Ming Li saw the person she was looking for.
Not far away, a small figure was slowly approaching, bathed in the morning sunlight.
As he got closer, Ming Li could see the little boy looked exhausted, with two large dark circles under his eyes.
Suddenly, the little boy seemed to sense something, stopped abruptly, and looked up in one direction. Seeing nothing there, he lowered his head in disappointment and continued walking towards the school.
The place he looked at was where Ming Li was standing.
Seeing this, Ming Li raised an eyebrow and followed...
But before he could float two meters, he was stopped by a white figure.
"Who are you?"
Hearing Ming Li's words, the white figure paused, but quickly came to his senses and said, "White Impermanence, you are already dead and cannot linger in the mortal world for too long. Come with me."
Hearing White Impermanence's words, Ming Li's expression almost broke.
What the hell? This was a modern world, wasn't it? How could there be beings like White Impermanence?
Was the system getting ahead of itself, or was she no longer capable? What kind of strange world was this?
At this moment, looking at White Impermanence before her, Ming Li thought for a moment and said, "I can't leave yet."
"There is no 'can' or 'cannot'," White Impermanence said, looking at Ming Li. "Past events are all fleeting. You should come with me quickly."
Hearing this, Ming Li frowned and said decisively, "I'm not going."
"Alas..."
Upon hearing her words, White Impermanence sighed. In the next second, he took out a white mourning staff and struck Ming Li's back of the neck with all his might.
The mourning staff could touch ghost bodies, but just as it was about to touch Ming Li, White Impermanence suddenly saw the girl before him vanish. What followed was the disappearance of the mourning staff in his hand.
White Impermanence: "...?"
Ming Li looked at the mourning staff in her hand and said expressionlessly, "I said I'm not going. If you want to catch ghosts, go catch others."
Looking at the girl who suddenly appeared behind him, a hint of shock appeared on White Impermanence's expressionless face. After a while, he frowned and said, "With this golden light of merit all over you, you must come to the Underworld and serve it!"
Ming Li: "...What business is my golden light of merit of yours?" Serve? He was dreaming.