Chapter 151: Likes To Pretend?
Although Cao Yanhua didn’t know Jiang Shan’s purpose for doing this, as a manifestation of taking sides to some extent, Cao Yang had already been packaged up and sent to the Branch by him.
So even if Jiang Shan requested that only Cao Yang handle this Supernatural Event alone, he had nothing to say.
After all, in ancient times, he and Cao Yang could be considered Jiang Shan’s “household retainers.”
The authority possessed by the Branch and the Captain is more exaggerated than most people imagine.
After all, the significance of these two is to better ensure the safety of a region through this form of “feudal system.”
Headquarters’ influence is no longer as unshakable as it was back then; the era underwent a earth-shattering change on a certain day in a certain year.
If described with a better metaphor, it would be:
Son of Heaven（Headquarters） does not control the Nine Provinces but shepherds the world,
Vassal Lords（Branch and Captain） use arms against barbarians to secure peace in one place.
In no time,
Cao Yanhua’s voice came from the satellite phone:
“Jiang Shan, I’ve already sent Cao Yang to do it, and I had him take the last two Ghost Candles reserved by the Branch. At the slowest, he can reach your position in forty minutes.”
“The faster Cao Yang the better. I need you to go handle one thing right now. This matter is very important and concerns the life and death of millions in Dachun City.”
Jiang Shan’s tone was serious, carrying an inexplicable intimidating force that startled the heart.
Cao Yanhua furrowed his brows at this moment. He didn’t respond but replied affirmatively:
“As long as it’s within my capabilities, I unconditionally support all your actions.”
“You and I both know how special Sun Yan’s identity is. Her file should have been transferred to Headquarters, so there shouldn’t be any issues. If I remember correctly, her file should have records of all her whereabouts from a month ago.”
Hearing Jiang Shan’s words, Cao Yanhua replied without thinking: “I was the one who handled and recorded Sun Yan’s file back then. What you said is no problem at all.”
Jiang Shan immediately continued: “Good, then go retrieve that file right now, and conscript all usable Ghost Wielders from Dachun City and the surrounding cities. Blockade all areas where Sun Yan appeared a month ago.”
“The blockade duration is two days. If there are residents, transfer them all. Personally lead people to patrol nonstop for twenty-four hours. Once any unidentified person appears, detain them using all means possible without asking reasons, but absolutely do not kill them. Can you do it?”
The difficulty of this mission far exceeded Cao Yanhua’s imagination.
Although there were already contingency plans for blockade-related matters and the blockade plan could be directly activated if needed.
But to blockade everywhere the City Person in Charge went a month ago, the workload of this level is no different from blockading and controlling an entire city.
Jiang Qingwu, listening on the side, heard Jiang Shan’s demands, and her eyes showed disbelief and doubt.
Just thinking about implementing these demands made her scalp tingle.
After merely pondering for a dozen seconds, Cao Yanhua resolutely replied:
“Yes, but it will take me at least two hours to do these. Will this affect your actions?”
“I’m not sure how long Shen Bao’s this ‘rebirth’ will take. Do your best to shorten this time further. The faster the better,” Jiang Shan said.
“Good, then I’ll go do it now.”
With that,
Urgent footsteps came from the other end of the phone.
Now all Jiang Shan had to do was wait. He naturally had his reasons for having Cao Yanhua do this.
Because according to Shen Bao’s own account, his Ninth Life no longer reborn from the past, but “resurrected” from a certain moment now.
Supernatural requires a medium to launch attacks or affect reality.
So Jiang Shan wanted to blockade all routes of Sun Yan’s whereabouts, with the purpose of controlling Shen Bao’s Ninth Life within Dachun City.
Although he didn’t know what tricks Shen Bao would play with this Ninth Life.
But it was imaginable that he absolutely wouldn’t do anything good.
If it could be nipped in the cradle, even if the Branch expended a lot of manpower and resources, it would be worth it for Dachun City.
Having made all arrangements, Jiang Shan took out nine sheets of highly dehydrated, somewhat cracked human skins and a mud-wrapped long object from his handbag.
These nine human skins went without saying; they were certainly related to that Short Old Man, and they might even be Sun Yan’s only means of conveying information to the outside world.
And that mud-wrapped object was precisely Sun Yan’s satellite phone.
He Qiong’s satellite phone had been placed on the Dead Person Lotus, while Sun Yan’s had been buried in the Ghost Pool’s mud.
Two overlapping signals—if not for Jiang Shan discovering it by sweeping with Ghost Domain, he might have overlooked it too.
If all the previous events were Jiang Shan’s guesses toward a maximum possibility direction.
Then these two items would be the most crucial verification proving his guesses.
Unbeknownst at some point, the text on the nine human skins had all changed to the same:
“Do not touch the Ghost Lotus. This is its Ghost’s Killing Pattern. **It will anchor your past, erase your consciousness. Your Ninth Life that killed in Dachun City, leave the rest to me.**”
Looking at the bloody text on the dehydrated human skin, Jiang Shan didn’t rush to judge.
He first removed all the mud from that satellite phone, then turned it on.
Searching through the phone’s messages, there was only one unsent message that read:
“I am Sun Yan, the first City Person in Charge of Dachun City. If you’re still in this weird park, absolutely do not think about how to do this or that, not even in your mind about not wanting to die!”
“Thinking will trigger a ghost’s Ghost’s Killing Pattern. This kind of Ghost Attack is extremely terrifying. I call it a sure-death attack.”
“I used that ghost’s Ghost Attack pattern to control a lotus flower-shaped ghost. I call it Ghost Lotus. After controlling Ghost Lotus, I realized that the appearance of Ghost Rain was deliberately caused by someone!”
“This person actually wanted to use Ghost Lotus’s Ghost’s Killing Pattern to restrict Ghost Rain. He first had Ghost Lotus restrict Ghost Rain, using their supernatural to form opposition. I feel I won’t live much longer because that person definitely left a backup in Ghost Lotus.”
The page-long message draft ended abruptly here.
“It seems much of the information He Qiong said was correct. She thought I knew a lot of inside information, so to make me believe her, she threw out a lot of real intelligence.”
Jiang Shan thought of Shen Bao in the Ghost Pool, pretending pitifully and scolding him in He Qiong’s identity, and felt a wave of nausea.
All thousand-year foxes, playing at what Liaozhai?
With these two strong pieces of evidence, his judgment would no longer be subjective speculation.
Then he could fully rely on this information gap to give that Shen Bao pretending to be He Qiong a good show.
Isn’t he very fond of pretending?
Let him fly!
