Dream Walker: Feng Shui Master Bai Ya

Shang Muchen listened attentively to Li Qing's words.

"Uh, it's like this... I have a very good elementary school classmate, her name is Wang Ruolin."

We played together as children and were good friends for many years.

Later, she went abroad to study, attending Keio University to study philosophy of natural sciences.

Last year, she came back to China to visit me. We went to Disneyland together, attended a concert, and then…”

At this point, Li Qing paused, hesitated for a moment, and then continued,

"She told me she wanted to go back to her elementary school, so we went back to the place where we lived when we were kids and found the elementary school we used to attend."

The primary school has now merged with a nearby secondary school, becoming a 12-year integrated school with a much larger campus.

We had a blast that day. Under the cover of night, we sneaked into the campus and wandered around for a long time.

Later, Joanna Wang said she needed to use the restroom, so I waited for her outside. Unexpectedly, I was caught by security guards.

The security guard scolded me and almost mistook me for a thief. I begged him for a long time before he finally let me go.

However, what happened next was completely beyond my comprehension.

"What happened next?" Shang Muchen asked earnestly, his ears glued to the screen.

"Later, I texted Joanna Wang to ask if she had escaped, but who knew..."

To my surprise, all the messages I sent failed.

Then I called her, but the number was not in service.

I looked for her again, but I couldn't find her anywhere.

"Didn't you call the police?" Shang Muchen asked.

"No, you may not understand what I mean. What I mean is—this person has disappeared."

All evidence of her existence in this world simply vanished:

I asked everyone around me, but nobody remembered her!

Neither of our classmates had any memory of her existence!

She wasn't even in the graduation group photo.

Shang Muchen smiled and poured Li Qing a beer, saying, "Big sister, your story is too old-fashioned. There are too many jokes like this online."

Li Qing shook her head repeatedly in dissatisfaction, saying, "If this person had simply disappeared, I would at most think that I've gone mad, or that it's all just my hallucination."

But then this happened, and it made me start to doubt myself, and even the very reality of the world.

"Hehe, it's not that exaggerated. Tell me about it, I'd like to hear it."

"A few days ago, I started having the same dream repeatedly. In the dream, Joanna Wang cried and begged me to save her."

She was captured by a rabbit and locked in a rabbit hole.

"A rabbit figurine?" Shang Muchen asked, puzzled. "Are you sure it's a rabbit figurine?"

"That's right! In my dream, she said it to me repeatedly and even showed me photos on her phone."

"Wait a minute, what's with the photos on the phone?"

"The photos on my phone in my dream..."

"You can see photos on your phone in your dreams? You must be dreaming!" Shang Muchen retorted helplessly.

"I knew you wouldn't believe me, sigh!" Li Qing shook her head repeatedly and sighed, "Sigh, Yangyang and Lele both said you could solve strange things, but I didn't expect you to be so indifferent!"

Liu Qingyang chimed in from the side, "Mu Chen, why don't you take a look? The story she told sounds very convincing."

"Yangyang, you should know Wang Ruolin too..." Li Qing said weakly.

"I...I don't remember..." Liu Qingyang pouted, unable to answer.

Shang Muchen laughed and said, "Okay, I'm just killing time anyway, so I'll help you figure this out. It's kind of like psychological counseling."

Xu Lele slapped her thigh and said, "Let's do it! Tonight we'll go to your school and see what's going on with this Wang Ruolin you're talking about! What do you say?"

"Going today?" Li Qing nodded and said, "We'll sneak in through the back wall tonight..."

"No need! It's just the elementary school we went to back then, I have a way of handling it." Liu Qingyang waved his hand with a smile, took out his phone, made a few calls, made some contacts, and finally clapped his hands triumphantly, saying, "Done!"

"Done? Got what done?" Li Qing asked in surprise.

"The Wangfusi Primary School we attended back then is now part of the Antu Education Group, a public-private partnership. I know someone on the school's board of directors, so I spoke to him and asked him to take us inside for a look."

"Antu?" Shang Muchen raised his voice slightly.

"That's right," Liu Qingyang said with a smile, "It's Curly Hair, I called him."

"Curly hair?" Shang Muchen blinked, a little puzzled. Wasn't Liu Qingyang very averse to Lu Mingdi's gang?

"Hey, don't overthink it." Liu Qingyang waved his hand and said, "Although Curly Hair is Lu Mingdi's follower, he's not a bad person and has a good personality. It's just that he often has no choice but to follow the Crown Prince Lu."

Antu Group was actually run by his father, who was one of Lu Zhanshan's most capable subordinates and controlled nearly one-tenth of the Lu family's assets.

So, he was practically like Lu Mingdi's servant, born into such a family, and there was nothing he could do about it.

We're childhood friends and classmates, so it's no problem for me to contact him.

"Curly Hair? You were in our elementary school too?" Li Qing asked, tilting her head. "Yangyang, we weren't in the same class. You were in the elite class back then. The students in your class were people we ordinary folks couldn't even afford to befriend."

"Curly Hair, Fang Xuan, I don't know if you've heard of him."

"Oh, that mixed-race one?"

"Yes, his mother is Cuban, very beautiful, with very big eyes."

"Oh! I know him," Li Qing nodded. "He's become so successful? He's already a school board member?"

"That's right. But it's not that he's particularly capable, it's his family's influence," Liu Qingyang explained. "A few years ago, Fuze District carried out education reforms, merging many of the original primary schools for children of government employees into key group schools, while also introducing some private capital."

Antu Group is one of the main investors and established Antu Education Group. Fang Xuan, as the heir of the Fang family, participates in it as a director, which shows his considerable ability.

Li Qing stuck out her tongue, shook her head helplessly, and said, "I can't compare to them at all. I never even dare to dream of becoming a director of any education group in my life."

After dinner, Shang Muchen, along with Liu Qingyang, Xu Lele, and Li Qing, took a car to an old but neat and elegant community in Fuze District.

On the way, Shang Muchen, who had drunk a little wine and felt a bit dizzy, looked at Li Qing's back and felt that something was wrong. She was very different from Liu Qingyang and Xu Lele.

Liu Qingyang has an outgoing appearance, a fit and curvaceous figure, firm skin, a bright complexion, thick eyebrows, big eyes, red lips and white teeth, rosy cheeks, and a youthful and energetic appearance. Even with light makeup, she is still very beautiful.

Although Xu Lele is chubby, she has a soft, milky-white complexion and a relaxed, natural look. Her white dress flows gracefully, and her hair is glossy, giving her a natural and unrestrained elegance. Paired with huge black-rimmed glasses, she looks like a panda, which is quite cute.

Compared to the two women, Li Qing looked rather drab, with a square face, a bulbous nose, sloping shoulders, short arms, a flat chest, a protruding belly, legs like clubs, dry hair, glasses that always seemed to slide down her nose, and a face covered in powder that, despite trying to conceal acne scars, couldn't hide her nasolabial folds.

Is her life really that hard?

Despite his young age, he reeked of dust, looking like an old, neglected magazine in a corner of a library, someone you wouldn't want to look at twice.

Shang Muchen was suddenly drawn to a small pendant on Li Qing's handbag—it was a tiny 3D-printed black dragon skull.