Three days passed in a hurry, yet that rain still had not fallen.
Thick dark clouds had hung over the city for three straight days, their accumulated blackness like ink, plunging all of Shanming City into perpetual darkness.
At first, people had welcomed the warmer temperatures, but gradually, some began to feel confused and worried.
They all wondered just how much rain those lingering dark clouds held, and when it would finally come crashing down.
There was an unrealistic saying: "The rain isn't falling because it's waiting for something major to happen."
Of course, it was merely a joke.
But Ji Li truly had waited for three consecutive days. During that time, he had eaten and slept on Old Yu Street.
And over those three days, he finally understood why Mei Sheng had been unwilling to leave after coming here.
Old Yu Street had four old buildings, each eighteen floors high, with at least ten households on every floor.
Among that enormous number of rooms, nearly sixty percent were inhabited by ghosts.
It was practically a larger version of Tianhai Hotel, except the greatest difference was that these ghosts had been trapped here by human hands.
Mei Sheng was a walking seal. As long as she remained, these ghosts would never be able to leave Old Yu Street.
However, the ghosts on Old Yu Street possessed the ability to attack. Yet because of the seal, as long as one figured out each ghost's rules and taboos and did not violate them, it was relatively safe.
Most importantly, other than ghosts, there were no disturbances here at all.
Old Yu Street was a place abandoned by the Real World, and likewise a place cast aside by Tianhai.
The existence of the Yin Yang Two Realms placed it beyond both worlds. Outside