Chapter 89: Unknown Number
“The limit distance is probably about fifty meters…”
As Zhang Qian crossed the hall, his control over the black smoke suddenly failed, and the black smoke hidden beside Wang Cha Ling dispersed.
The fierce ghost on Wang Cha Ling was too terrifying, so Zhang Qian naturally left himself a way out.
If Wang Cha Ling reneged again, what awaited him would be a new round of attack. Pulling into the illusion plus ghost mask face-to-face, it wouldn’t take a second to severely injure him again.
After leaving the airport, Xu Zheng finally relaxed his suspended heart.
“I didn’t expect Wang Cha Ling to suddenly renege, almost thought I was done for here. Clearly last time I came he was quite amiable, how just a few days later it’s like he’s a different person?”
“Very normal. According to headquarters’ information, Wang Cha Ling had just returned to the country at that time and didn’t understand various domestic situations, so he would definitely act cautiously. And headquarters as the official ghost controller organization, in his view, undoubtedly has the strongest strength, so he wanted to gain headquarters’ recognition and was willing to accept the Person in Charge Plan.”
Zhang Qian stood by the roadside, gazing at the empty street.
It seemed Wang Cha Ling had not only cleared the airport but also sealed off the nearby streets.
For an international metropolis, doing this caused enormous influence every minute, but Wang Cha Ling did it without any hesitation.
“Now he has figured out the strength of contemporary ghost controllers, naturally understanding that he is among the strongest in this era, so there’s no need to consider others’ feelings when acting.”
Xu Zheng shook his head helplessly, looking at the fierce ghost following closely behind and sighing: “Headquarters sent me to supervise Wang Cha Ling, originally to show strength, but in the end it backfired and we showed weakness. Previously unclear about his specific strength, now it seems killing me is probably no different from killing an ordinary person for him.”
“If not for wanting a legitimate identity to control Dadong, he probably would have kicked headquarters aside and gone independent long ago.”
Zhang Qian nodded, recalling Wang Cha Ling’s statement, “After all, according to Wang Cha Ling himself, he has no idea of dominating, and hanging a name at headquarters has no influence on him. But until a stronger figure appears at headquarters, Wang Cha Ling probably won’t obey headquarters’ orders.”
“We didn’t even think of ordering Wang Cha Ling. This mission was still discussed with him. Headquarters really did us a disservice this time. Good thing your strength is strong enough to suppress him, otherwise this mission would be over.”
Xu Zheng’s tone carried some guilt, feeling that headquarters had good intentions but bad results this time.
Originally, headquarters wanted Wang Cha Ling to let Zhang Qian in for headquarters’ sake, but who knew Wang Cha Ling didn’t care about headquarters at all.
And even if he went back on his word this time, headquarters couldn’t do anything to him.
As for punishment? Now at headquarters, besides the mysterious Old Qin, who else has the strength to punish Wang Cha Ling?
In this world now, strength is the hardest truth, other things like morals and laws have to take a back seat.
“As long as no problem occurred it’s good. Contacting Wang Cha Ling in advance now is better than sneaking into Dadong City and getting caught red-handed by him.” Zhang Qian said nonchalantly.
Precisely because headquarters had discussed with Wang Cha Ling in advance, Wang Cha Ling didn’t act directly but showed strength to persuade the two to retreat.
If entering without reporting, it would be fine if Wang Cha Ling didn’t notice, but once discovered, Wang Cha Ling would probably directly dispatch the fierce ghost to attack them.
At that time, to face those two Wang Second Generation head-on, Zhang Qian really had no confidence.
After all, for Wang Cha Ling this Third Generation Wang, the only loophole was himself.
“Let’s go check the mission location first. With this warning, Wang Cha Ling probably won’t show up in front of me for a short time.”
Zhang Qian said as he took out his mobile phone, planning to call a ride-hailing car.
After entering the destination and about to place the order, the app popped up a prompt.
【Dear user, sorry, the area you are in is temporarily unable to accept orders due to construction and other reasons, please adjust position or…】
“Unable to order? Looks like Wang Cha Ling found an official reason for this lockdown.”
“What to do? Walk out?” Xu Zheng leaned over to look and said uncertainly, “This distance might be too far, after all we don’t know how big the lockdown area is.”
“Wang Cha Ling probably didn’t expect us to walk out of the airport, now we can only have him send someone to pick us up.”
If only there was a ghost domain, direct teleportation would be much more convenient than taking a car.
Taking out the mobile phone, Zhang Qian was about to contact Wang Cha Ling through headquarters.
But before he could dial, the satellite phone in his hand vibrated first.
“Unknown number again? This is headquarters’ internal contact method, can’t they pre-save the names?”
Although a bit tempted to complain, Zhang Qian still pressed the answer key to see which leader wanted to find him.
“…”
Dead silence from the other end of the phone, not even a single sound transmitted, not even breathing.
Zhang Qian frowned, glanced at the small screen of the mobile phone, confirming they were still connected.
Harassment call? How could it reach headquarters’ dedicated line.
Knowing something was wrong, Zhang Qian naturally wouldn’t speak first, and decisively hung up after two seconds of silence.
Xu Zheng noticed Zhang Qian’s expression was off and asked: “What’s up? Any orders from headquarters?”
“If it was really an order that would be good, but the person on the other end didn’t speak just now, to be safe, I hung up on him.”
“Harassment call? Unlikely.” Xu Zheng took out his own mobile phone and explained, “Headquarters’ dedicated line is only for internal contact, signals transmitted directly via satellite, others can’t call in even if they know the number.”
“So I suspect it’s a supernatural event, just don’t know why it targeted me.” Zhang Qian said gravely.
“In the current files, fierce ghosts haven’t shown the ability to invade electronic devices…”
Xu Zheng recalled the information he had checked, “Fierce ghosts’ mediums are either people or objects like mirrors, combs, cabinets, no ghosts related to mobile phones have appeared. But supernatural things are unpredictable, this might be a special case.”
“Mm…”
Zhang Qian turned off the satellite phone, but inexplicably thought of a horror story.
That was a story told to him by a driver big brother in the Flower Market, ghost call, could it be that thing?
Because they might have encountered a supernatural event, the two had no mind for idle chat.
After contacting Wang Cha Ling via Xu Zheng’s mobile phone, they silently stood by the roadside waiting.
Fortunately, not long after, a black sedan drove up from the end of the elevated bridge.
The car slowly pulled over to the roadside, and the driver in a black suit got out to open the rear door for them.
“Manager Zhang, Manager Xu, Manager Wang sent me to pick you up.”
