The snack street was along the road outside the west gate of People's Celebration University.
I hadn't known that at noon. It was only later, when we reached the snack street and saw the crowds of students, that I realized there was a gate to People's Celebration University there.
The police car was parked not far from the west gate.
Li Xingfang parked too, but didn't get out. He picked up the radio and spoke with the other cars.
Li Xingfang wasn't the commander of this operation. Another captain from the criminal investigation squad was in charge of the case. I guessed that, after seeing me get caught up in it, Li Xingfang had volunteered to join the operation.
So someone else was directing the operation. His voice came through the radio, and people kept responding, "Yes," and "Received."
The police cars didn't enter the campus.
Several unmarked sedans drove onto campus one after another.
I was even more surprised.
"Inside People's Celebration University?"
This was completely unexpected.
How had that ghost ended up on campus? Was it an accident?
Though People's Celebration University was right next to the snack street...
I couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong.
Had those three ghosts really escaped only this far in all this time? If so, how had Ye Qing and the others let them get away when they handled that delivery order? They'd never been able to find them again.
Nangong Yao had also said things were getting worse. The Nian beast was growing stronger, and so were the ghosts. Yet Kang Dalong and the other two ghosts had somehow gone against the trend and gotten weaker?
Or was there something inside People's Celebration University?
My heart leaped into my throat.
Li Xingfang didn't seem to be troubled by the