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"Go back and prepare for a few days, then we'll come again. Master wrote two days ago saying he'll be back soon."
After returning, Chen Mu told me to stay at the clinic, studying medical skills while also learning the basic abilities of an exorcist.
Studying the arts was incredibly dull. During the day, I sat nearby as Chen Mu's assistant while he diagnosed elderly patients and prescribed medicine. At night, after secretly reading up on how to refine corpse oil, I asked Chen Mu for leave and hurried back to school on the night bus.
Something was strange about the school today. When I entered Classroom 201, not a single one of those female students was there.
This was bad. Had all the ghost students run off?
Just as I was panicking, a chill wind rose behind me. It was the class monitor, Mu Yu.
I put on a stern face and asked, "Mu Yu, where are the other students? What kind of class monitor are you? The students aren't in the classroom, yet you didn't report it to me immediately!"
Mu Yu said aggrievedly, "Teacher Shu, they were all starving, so they went outside the school to look for food."
My head immediately exploded. "They went outside the school?"
Mu Yu nodded, delighted. "Teacher Shu, you really didn't lie to us. Once we graduate, we really can leave the school!"
How could I possibly feel any joy? A group of female ghosts had run out of the campus. The school's seal had most likely been damaged—this was a disaster!
"Where did they go?" I hurriedly asked Mu Yu. "Come on, take me to find them!"
As we passed the Great Hall in the center of the school, I noticed that the ghostly aura there seemed