Chapter 183: Filial Sons Emerge From The Stick
“Ye Zhen has disappeared. It seems Jiang Shan has made a move against him upon returning.”
Cao Yanhua watched Ye Zhen suddenly vanish outside the window and guessed in his heart.
Although he also wanted to know the full process of this battle at this moment, he did not rush to the window like Sun Yan. Instead, he immediately picked up the phone and called Cao Yang:
“Cao Yang, Jiang Shan and Ye Zhen are fighting. Contact Zhou Deng and the other persons in charge right now, and have all Ghost Wielders not on missions rush back to An Hua Building immediately.”
“Got it, I’ll handle it right away!” Cao Yang replied immediately.
After hanging up the phone, Cao Yanhua’s gaze shifted slightly.
“Ye Zhen coming to Dachun City might just be to suppress Jiang Shan, but the effect is clearly counterproductive. If it were another Ghost Wielder, they might pretend to yield when the situation turns unfavorable—after all, no Ghost Wielder wants to risk their life without reason; they can cooperate and put on a show. But Jiang Shan’s personality clearly won’t do that.”
“If the fight continues, things will only become more unmanageable. Jiang Shan just killed those people from headquarters above, so relying on headquarters to mediate is absolutely impossible. Once any problem arises, Cao Yang and Zhou Deng will have to protect Jiang Shan at all costs.”
Even though Jiang Shan said his condition was fine, the purpose of Cao Yanhua calling Zhou Deng, Cao Yang, and the others back was to prevent unexpected situations.
At the very beginning, he wanted to persuade Jiang Shan not to act against Ye Zhen, because the fact that those people from the Supernatural Forum let Ye Zhen come to Dachun City alone showed that Ye Zhen’s visit this time was a personal action.
It must be known that among the ministers on headquarters’ roster, there was not only Jiang Shan, but also Ye Zhen.
So Ye Zhen coming to Dachun City might be being used as a gun by the Circle of Friends, or perhaps for some purpose of his own, but in the end, there was no conflict of benefit between him and Jiang Shan—it was purely Ye Zhen stirring up trouble to suppress Jiang Shan.
But from Ye Zhen’s instant disappearance, Jiang Shan’s attitude was very firm.
So if Jiang Shan really fell short, as long as the branch’s Ghost Wielders were there, let alone Ye Zhen and the Supernatural Forum—even headquarters would have to consider the cost of making another move against Jiang Shan.
Although doing so was very undignified, Cao Yanhua couldn’t afford to care about that anymore.
After all, Jiang Shan and Ye Zhen were both the most important people in the branch. If anything happened to either one, it would be an unacceptable loss.
“Are the people from the Supernatural Forum all a bunch of idiots? Letting Ye Zhen come to Dachun City alone to suppress Jiang Shan?”
Thinking about it, Cao Yanhua, who usually never cursed, couldn’t help but curse in his heart at this moment.
He really couldn’t figure it out—what exactly was Ye Zhen thinking, coming alone to someone else’s territory to cause trouble.
What Cao Yanhua didn’t know was that the Supernatural Forum was in complete chaos at this time.
“Where is Boss Ye? Where is he? He’s been gone for over an hour—what do you think happened to Boss Ye?!”
A Wu, who had just called Ye Zhen several times with no answer, was now furiously questioning a Supernatural Forum member in front of him.
A Wu really couldn’t understand—he had just gone out to handle a Supernatural Event, and when he returned, his own boss was missing?
That otaku middle-schooler who never left the house, staying in the study room all day watching anime, had actually been missing for over an hour!
“Brother Wu, I… I really don’t know. Over an hour ago, I was accompanying Boss watching anime when Boss suddenly said he needed to go to the bathroom, and then… then he was gone.”
The Ghost Wielder being scolded looked distressed as he said.
Ye Zhen, who was usually so high-profile that he wished to use Ghost Domain to set the atmosphere everywhere he went, had actually slipped away silently during his shift!
He had even thought Ye Zhen was in the bathroom looking at shady sites—he never imagined Ye Zhen would run off.
This was truly “embarrassment opening the door for embarrassment—embarrassment to the max.”
“Quickly get the intelligence network to investigate and find Boss’s whereabouts in the shortest time possible, then immediately organize people to go chase Boss back!”
A Wu also knew that Ye Zhen’s sudden disappearance wasn’t the fault of this little brother in front of him—even he hadn’t anticipated that Ye Zhen could sneak away.
Just as A Wu arrived at the airport ready to take off at any moment, his mobile phone suddenly rang:
“Brother Wu, Boss, Boss is in Dachun City!”
A man said breathlessly and anxiously.
“What?!”
When A Wu heard this news, his face darkened instantly. After hanging up, he immediately called headquarters using a special number:
“This is from Dahai City branch. Minister Ye is now suspected of being attacked in Dachun City. I request that headquarters immediately send people to assist and ensure Minister Ye’s personal safety.”
The only one qualified to answer the branch’s special phone was Sun Huafeng. He told A Wu everything about Jiang Shan annihilating the Circle of Friends tonight and headquarters’ current difficulties, and rejected his request.
It wasn’t that Minister Sun Huafeng had no brains, but the matter of the Circle of Friends being wiped out wouldn’t take long to be known in the Supernatural Circle.
Even if he wanted to conceal it, he couldn’t, and the relationship between headquarters and the branch—putting it nicely—was superior and subordinate;
Putting it bluntly, headquarters was the Son of Heaven, while the branches and captains were the Vassal Lords.
Now that the Vassal Lords were in trouble, this Son of Heaven had no ability to provide aid, so explaining their own difficulties was necessary.
After hearing this speech from the headquarters minister, A Wu’s face looked as ugly as if he had eaten chicken shit. He cursed loudly in his heart:
“Damn it!”
While Cao Yanhua and A Wu were busily preparing escape routes for their respective ministers.
At this moment,
Under the dual suppression of Ghost Characters and Dead Face Ghost’s Ghost Domain, due to the supernatural in his body being suppressed and falling from high altitude, Ye Zhen seemed to have lost consciousness at this moment.
His eyes were tightly closed, his whole body limp, lying motionless on the ground like a dead man.
Jiang Shan, still shoving the God-Beating Whip into Ye Zhen’s mouth, did not relax his vigilance. While observing the abnormality, he continuously eyed Ye Zhen on the ground.
Although his attire was mismatched, he had a young and handsome appearance, looking only twenty-three or twenty-four, with a bit of the vibe of a celebrity young hunk—on the street, he would likely be proactively approached by girls.
Jiang Shan had to admit that Ye Zhen was indeed very handsome.
But precisely because of that, Ye Zhen’s current disheveled state formed a stark contrast with his looks.
“Ghost Characters and Ghost Domain are just to restrict the supernatural in Ye Zhen’s body, thereby limiting his actions. I don’t have a Coffin Nail on hand, so I can’t completely suppress the Substitute Death Ghost’s Ability.”
“Based on Ye Zhen’s personality and the Substitute Death Ghost’s substitute death pattern, his current state is very off. It seems the method of letting the Substitute Death Ghost continuously resurrect and then ‘repeatedly’ kill him is indeed feasible.”
Looking at Ye Zhen lying unconscious on the ground like a dead dog, although his method was indeed feasible, Jiang Shan knew that letting the Substitute Death Ghost continuously resurrect absolutely wouldn’t produce effects this quickly.
In other words,
The Ye Zhen who was now suspected of having “fallen to death” would resurrect again after a while due to substitute death.
And to make this foolish kid Ye Zhen stop, Jiang Shan’s method was very crude, but simple:
Although Ye Zhen was close to Immortal in some sense, he had plenty of ways to deal with such an “Immortal” person.
Since the God-Beating Whip could make Ye Zhen die from the Substitute Death Ghost’s resurrection, and his pain sensation was still there, Jiang Shan didn’t believe:
That the stick couldn’t produce a “filial son.”
