"Hello! I'm looking for Teacher Jiang Zhihua!"
Inside the Academic Affairs Building, Li Yifei hurried to the central information desk and asked.
"Teacher Jiang Zhihua?" The female teacher on duty at the desk froze for a moment, then searched on her computer. "You mean the administrator of Building 5? She got sick this morning and took leave to go home..."
Li Yifei stood rooted to the spot.
"She went home sick?"
"Yes... Student, what do you need her for?"
"N-Nothing."
Li Yifei walked out of the building in a daze and sat on the steps by the main entrance, looking somewhat dejected.
Jiang Zhihua was not at school, so naturally he could not ask her to free those remnant souls. Even if he could get her phone number or address, it would already be too late by the time she arrived.
Li Yifei had also considered asking Lin Qiye to open that barrier again with a glare... but Lin Qiye and the others had spent two or three days painstakingly gathering the remnant souls scattered around the school back into the classroom. Now he was supposed to ask them to open it again and release those souls?
Setting aside whether mischievous remnant souls might cause trouble at the gala afterward and refuse to return to the classroom, why should Lin Qiye and the others pay for his guilt?
Li Yifei cared too deeply about others. He wanted to help those remnant souls, but he also did not want to put Lin Qiye and the others in a difficult position. Now that Jiang Zhihua was not at school and he had no way to open the barrier himself, all he could do was sit on the steps before the building, anxiously scratching his head.
From the distant gala venue came wave