Night had fallen deep, and a faint autumn chill gathered from all directions. On the distant streets, only the dim streetlights flickered on and off, intermittently. Snippets of music mingled with other unclear sounds floated in the night breeze, and by the time it reached the ears, only brief, illusion-like notes remained. In this old district, far from the city center, time seemed to have forgotten to flow, bearing a silence and desolation of decades past.
The sky near the city was impure, and although it was nearly midnight, the ever-persistent city lights still cast a gloom in the heavy skies with only a few stars twinkling innocently like Passerby A, dulling even the not-so-full moon with a layer of dust.
And under this night sky, two shadows approached the dilapidated campus wall with agile steps.
"I really didn't expect you'd take the initiative to come with me."
