The Bai Guild's headquarters was in the suburbs, and they still had a while to drive before reaching their destination.
Yin Chao grew drowsy as soon as he got into the car. No longer in the mood to tease Midnight, he simply lay down in the back seat and went to sleep.
He had no idea how long he had slept before voices woke him.
"You're here, Midnight!"
It was An Nian's voice.
Yin Chao rubbed his eyes and sat up in the back seat. Only then did An Nian notice him.
"Hi! You came too!"
He nodded and murmured an acknowledgment.
After he got out of the car, he found an old residential building directly ahead, with gray-black walls and cluttered, narrow stairwells...
It looked oppressive, and even the sky seemed to cooperate by growing much darker.
The place was already worlds apart from how he remembered it.
Beside An Nian stood another girl her age, wearing thick black-framed glasses. She looked painfully shy.
"Hello, I'm Xiaoyu, An Nian's classmate. Thank you for coming to help me. Why don't we go up to my place first?"
She was a little nervous, but she hadn't forgotten her manners.
Xiaoyu lived on the third floor. On the way up, Yin Chao heard the two girls whispering behind him.
Xiaoyu said, "They... they look like celebrities. Can they really catch ghosts?"
An Nian said, "Oh, don't worry. Midnight is really dependable. If he says he can handle it, he definitely can."
Xiaoyu said, "Really? But... but they're so handsome. I get nervous whenever I talk to them."
All right, all right. So she wasn't shy-she just got nervous around handsome guys.
Xiaoyu's home was warmly decorated, with a photo of the family of three displayed by the entrance.
She found slippers for