Chapter 141: Dividing Into Smaller Units
The people in the meeting room looked at each other, and finally only the Ghost Controller with his face stuck to a yellow talisman firmly raised his right hand.
“Then it’s decided like this.”
Cao Yan Hua nodded and looked toward the end of the long table: “Zhu Fan, you’re in charge of selecting people to form squads to enter the thick fog and search for survivors, striving not to miss anyone.”
Hearing his own name, Zhu Fan, who was holding a notebook, was a bit surprised but immediately stood up to accept the order. “Understood, I will do my best.”
“Mm, according to the latest classification definition adopted, this supernatural event is very likely to reach A-level terror. As long as it’s handled well, none of you will lack merit.” Cao Yan Hua said.
As for why it wasn’t S-level, naturally it was because such a precedent couldn’t be set lightly.
“The meeting ends here. Adjourned.”
With a snap, the television at the front of the long table suddenly went dark, and the lights in the room were turned on.
They stood up silently. Although not everyone was satisfied with this decision, as direct Ghost Controllers under headquarters, obeying orders was their basic duty.
“Everyone, please wait a moment. Trouble you to come over first.”
Just as the Ghost Controllers in the room stood up to leave, Zhu Fan suddenly called out to them.
Pairs of eyes immediately turned to Zhu Fan, among them existences with terrifying strength who had been famous for a long time.
Zhu Fan took a deep breath, then said calmly: “Since the deputy minister has temporarily handed frontline command over to me, then I must take on this responsibility.”
“Someone will handle the main body of the Ghost Ship event. Our goal is to eliminate the fierce ghosts wandering outside and search for the masses lost in the fog.”
“The deputy minister said it very clearly. No need for you to repeat it.”
A hoarse voice rang out. The Ghost Controller with his face covered by the yellow talisman stood in place without moving.
Headquarters’ general goal was the same, but there were inevitably faction divisions among them.
The deputy minister’s position was very high, but headquarters didn’t have just one deputy minister. Clearly, this Ghost Controller was not on the same side as Cao Yan Hua and Zhu Fan.
It was already good enough that he listened to Cao Yan Hua’s orders to eliminate the supernatural. If Zhu Fan wanted to use a chicken feather as an arrow, he could only say he was overthinking it.
“I don’t mean to order everyone, I just want to provide some help. After all, it’s an A-level supernatural event; no amount of caution is too much.”
“Although this thick fog hasn’t affected communication yet, things related to the supernatural are often unpredictable. It’s best to leave some insurance measures for mutual communication and support.”
As Zhu Fan spoke, he raised the notebook in his hand and gave a rough introduction to its function.
“This thing doesn’t have a high terror level, but its functionality is pretty good.”
“After tearing off a page, it can exist as a separate subordinate body. I can see the content written on the subordinate body, and I can also convey information to each subordinate body. This method ensures communication between squads.”
Pausing for a moment, Zhu Fan carefully tore off a page from the notebook.
After handing this sheet of paper to a Ghost Controller beside him, he took out a pen and started writing and drawing on the notebook.
The metal pen tip glided over the dry yellow paper surface but left no traces, not even a single indentation.
But the paper in the nearby Ghost Controller’s hand suddenly changed; a sentence written in black ink abruptly appeared in the center of the paper.
Every stroke of each character was strangely twisted, slanted and crooked like a group of black insects wriggling.
However, upon closer inspection, the meaning of each character could still be made out—”Ghost Control operation, commence immediately.”
All the Ghost Controllers present clearly saw this scene. A square-faced Ghost Controller asked: “Not bad. How about the communication range and anti-interference capability?”
Zhu Fan looked at that Ghost Controller and guaranteed: “You can rest assured about this. I don’t even know the specific communication range myself, but covering two Dadong Cities is no problem.”
“As for anti-interference capability, it’s definitely much better than a satellite phone. Ordinary fierce ghosts can’t affect it.”
After explaining clearly, Zhu Fan counted the Ghost Controllers present and simply tore off fifteen pages from the notebook.
Even if there were many Ghost Controllers outside, dividing into fifteen squads should be about right. If divided further, each squad wouldn’t have enough Ghost Controllers, and even ensuring their own safety would be a problem.
This number was large, but the old notebook showed no signs of it, not even any unevenly torn page edges.
Those sheets of paper seemed to be created out of thin air, having no impact on the notebook’s main body.
Instead, Zhu Fan’s face turned pale. He plopped down into a chair, feeling a bout of dizziness in his mind.
However, he mustered his spirits and distributed the papers in his hand to the Ghost Controllers present.
“I won’t say much more. Everyone is an experienced Ghost Controller; no need for me to teach you how to handle supernatural events.”
“Everyone, form teams freely. Best to be groups of three to five, heading out in all directions, striving to resolve Dadong City’s anomaly as soon as possible.”
No one raised any more objections. Even the Ghost Controller with the yellow talisman took a white sheet of paper and silently disappeared outside the meeting room.
Zhu Fan himself didn’t leave. His strength wasn’t strong; one more Ghost Controller like him wouldn’t make much difference.
His task was to serve as the core of communication between squads, always paying attention to the information conveyed by each squad and ensuring the safety of every squad.
“Team member, where the hell are we supposed to find this?”
Two figures walked one behind the other down the aisle. The figure in the back was shrouded in a pitch-black cloak, with a chilling aura like a warning to stay away.
Xu Zheng naturally also got a white sheet of paper, or rather, he mixed into one of the squad leader positions.
However, he was completely clueless about it and simply followed the crowd with the other Ghost Controllers, entering the command center’s largest meeting room together.
The hall was now somewhat noisy.
Fang Shiming had already sat up with others’ support. Apart from a sunken chest, he seemed fine.
The others no longer paid attention to the farce here and instead began reading the content on the screen.
Headquarters’ orders had already been notified to the Ghost Controllers here via the big screen. The squad leaders were gathering familiar people here, planning to form squads.
Xu Zheng looked around and suddenly realized that the Ghost Controllers he knew could be counted on one hand, and those few weren’t even nodding acquaintances.
Just as he hesitated whether to go to the rostrum and shout a couple times, Yue Linhai’s figure suddenly caught his attention.
The squad matter could be put aside for now.
“What a joke, you want me, Ye Mouren, to be someone’s subordinate?”
Before even getting close, Xu Zheng heard a youth’s voice full of doubt.
