That night.
I waited outside Xu Hui's school for her to get out.
After I had waited about half an hour, students began streaming out of the school.
I spotted Xu Hui in the crowd at a glance.
She was tall and good-looking, which naturally made her easy to recognize.
She waved to me from a distance, and I waved her on, signaling for her to go home.
Once she left, I followed behind her, watching her shadow the whole time.
Perhaps because there were quite a few people on the road, the ghost had yet to appear.
Xu Hui's home was a little over twenty minutes from school. Part of the route was fairly secluded and took over ten minutes to walk. Xu Hui had said that the shadow only began appearing when she walked along that stretch.
That showed that this ghost really had died only recently. Its yin energy was too weak, and it didn't dare appear around crowds, because more people meant stronger yang energy.
I kept following Xu Hui, and gradually, I noticed two other people following her too.
The two had a sleazy air about them and didn't look like decent people at all.
Two grown men, following a girl late at night...
I sized them up. Both were burly and had the unmistakable air of street thugs. If they tried to do anything to Xu Hui, I might not be able to take them.
Anticipating danger, I hurriedly pulled out my phone to call for backup. I called Song Xiaotian and told him to get over here right away.
After hanging up, I shared my live location with Song Xiaotian, then continued following Xu Hui, watching her shadow and occasionally checking on the two thugs.
There were fewer and fewer pedestrians. From this