I felt that something about the way the dream ended was off. It was a little different from how my dreams had ended before. More importantly, Ye Qing had been about to do something. He'd wanted to catch that ghost, or at least see for himself what it was really like. And yet the dream had just ended like that?
I got up in a daze. There wasn't anyone I could talk to about it.
On my way to work, I couldn't concentrate on anything.
When I got to the office and told the others, including Skinny, they naturally couldn't figure out what had happened either.
After our group arrived at Workers and Peasants Sixth Village, I was still turning the matter over in my mind. Then, suddenly, I started to understand.
The word "finally" Li Shi had said, and the stunned look on his face at the time, were clues. That ghost had probably already noticed me. After discovering me, he hadn't acted rashly. Instead, he'd let everything continue as it had before. Li Shi's family should have kept drifting along that river, like the ghosts trapped on the road, never finding peace. But after noticing me, the ghost had simply let them go. They'd gone to be reborn, and my dream had been cut short.
I realized how difficult that ghost would be to deal with.
With Ye Qing's abilities, the worst thing wasn't a ghost appearing in front of him and confronting him head-on. It was a ghost not showing up and playing hide-and-seek with him. My abilities worked the same way. If I could face the ghost directly, everything would be easy. It was this inability to catch up with it that made things difficult.
I was troubled, but I couldn't think of any good solution.