Chapter 186: Creating An Anomaly With His Own Hands!
After dealing with Cao Yang, Zhou Deng sighed inwardly. He knew none of these captains and ministers were easy to handle. According to his friends in the Supernatural Circle:
Wang Chaling had now reached a cooperation agreement with foreign Ghost Wielders’ forces, and under his command were six fully staffed Ghost Wielder teams.
Even the Supernatural Forum, which had always refused outsiders, had recently begun recruiting civilian Ghost Wielders.
Various civilian organizations were also springing up like mushrooms after rain.
Perhaps due to the geometric growth of Supernatural Events, domestic Ghost Wielders had surprisingly begun to form groups.
“As long as Headquarters Base in Dajing City doesn’t have any major problems, domestic stability can continue to be maintained. Although there’s no captain nomination, with Jiang Shan protecting me in the branch, I might live even longer.”
After dispelling his own worries and regrets, Zhou Deng glanced at Ye Zhen on the ground.
At this moment, Ye Zhen no longer had his initial dashing and handsome appearance. He was gasping faintly, with a bruised and swollen face, and his entire body appeared extremely bloated due to ruptured cell tissues.
If it were ordinary weapons hitting Ye Zhen’s body, they would never make him look like this no matter what.
But the God-Beating Whip was fundamentally composed of Supernatural Items and the Rebound Ghost, so every strike on Ye Zhen, due to the Clash of Supernatural, solidly landed on his body.
“He still hasn’t died like this? This Ye Zhen is indeed extraordinary.”
Looking at Ye Zhen lying on the ground like a dead dog, Zhou Deng couldn’t help but marvel inwardly.
Because he knew exactly how strong the suppression power of the Ghost Characters was, seeing Ye Zhen completely enveloped by Ghost Characters throughout, and then beaten by Jiang Shan with his homemade Supernatural Weapon for nearly ten minutes.
Yet, after enduring so many attacks, Ye Zhen hadn’t died. Although he now seemed to have fallen into a state of false death, he was still alive!
This change was simply unbelievable.
However.
On the top floor of the Pearl Building.
In Ye Zhen’s lounge.
On one wall in the lounge was a glass shelf displaying various anime character figurines.
Weirdly.
From left to right, the first figurine had shattered into pieces on the floor, smashed as if someone had forcefully thrown it from a height—using the term “reduced to smithereens” wouldn’t be an overstatement.
The neck and mouth connection of the second figurine was broken, with half its plastic head fallen off and rolled to the side.
The third figurine’s head was completely shattered, the figurine head smashed into fine debris as if someone had hammered it with a sledgehammer, and the body also had varying degrees of damage.
The fourth figurine was also damaged.
The fifth and sixth figurines were the same.
Starting from the third figurine, although each had different fracture locations, from the varying fracture marks on each, it seemed the “tool” that damaged these figurines was always the same one.
The seventh figurine showed no change, but the originally normal figurine character had become hideous in appearance, beginning to twist and struggle weirdly, like a fierce ghost, eerie and malevolent.
If an ordinary person saw this figurine now, they would involuntarily tremble all over and shout in terror:
“Ghost!”
Because what this seventh figurine displayed was too weird, and this precisely indicated that the Substitute Death Ghost was on the verge of its resurrection limit!
If Ye Zhen continued to substitute death, he would be completely replaced by the Substitute Death Ghost, and this was also why Jiang Shan stopped.
It wasn’t that he couldn’t kill Ye Zhen, but there was no need for it.
From his performance in the Original Work, Ye Zhen still had considerable methods in handling Supernatural Events, and no matter how strong Jiang Shan’s strength was—even as strong as Zhang Dong—the Supernatural Events one person could handle were limited.
After all, even Zhang Dong hadn’t ended the Supernatural Era, had he?
In the end, he died leaving behind a Ghost Tree Forest buried with countless Fierce Ghosts detained, and an empty, terrifying weird old house.
So rather than dominating alone and causing Supernatural Events to spread, it was better to follow the current trend: Headquarters taking the lead, with branches and captains handling Supernatural Events in their respective cities.
And the “contract system” was the best way to stimulate personal initiative.
One must know that in the Original Work, the supernatural situation Headquarters faced was much better than in this world, yet Headquarters in the Original Work still chose the captain plan, using captains to manage directly governed areas to share Headquarters’ pressure.
If Jiang Shan really killed Ye Zhen, once a problem arose at Headquarters, his branch might become the second Headquarters.
“Do I really have the ability to handle all domestic Supernatural Events properly?”
Asking himself honestly, Jiang Shan would decisively answer:
“No”
What he wanted was not the power gained after killing Ye Zhen, but a country with order and rules.
What he wanted to do was not to scheme for power, but to assemble the Puzzle Piece, control ghosts, and become a god!
Precisely because of this most unchangeable reason and bottom line, Jiang Shan simply planned to use Ye Zhen to fill the vacancy in branch resources.
The Supernatural Forum, as a long-established veteran organization, had now become the domestic second branch. If he couldn’t pry some “valuable treasures” from their hands, then he had hit Ye Zhen too lightly.
At this moment,
Jiang Shan who suddenly appeared on a certain floor of the building scared the staff protecting Zhang Dongxing.
“？！”
“Hello, Minister Jiang!”
Jiang Shan looked at the two, nodded, then shifted his gaze to Zhang Dongxing, who was unconscious on the sofa.
At this moment, Zhang Dongxing’s entire body seemed to have become void, his faintly visible appearance immediately reminding Jiang Shan of the Luck Ghost’s erosion back then.
“Back then, rather than saying Zhang Dongxing controlled the Luck Ghost, it was more like he bore the Luck Ghost’s curse.”
Because at first sight of the Luck Ghost at the bus stop, Jiang Shan knew that the gray shadow following behind Zhang Dongxing was merely that ghost’s projection in the Real World.
The Luck Ghost’s source was not in the Present World, just like the Wishing Ghost existing beside Zhao Xiaoya.
Without physical entities, they were extremely hard to detain and extremely hard to attack.
“Now the Luck Ghost’s main body is eroding Zhang Dongxing’s body, just like myself back then. Looking at his condition, he must have encountered an attack from some ghost, and then the Luck Ghost replaced his body, blocking that attack for him.”
Looking at Zhang Dongxing’s condition, Jiang Shan analyzed calmly at this moment.
Originally, he planned to quickly resolve the Circle of Friends and then hold a meeting, but Ye Zhen’s arrival disrupted his plan.
Now that Jiang Shan had overnight wiped out the Circle of Friends and even detained Ye Zhen, creating such momentum, he would seize the opportunity to build momentum.
And those three days were not only time for him to recover his own state, but also to let the situation ferment—the golden time for the branch’s rise.
So Jiang Shan, who decided not to hold a meeting, first found Zhang Dongxing.
Back then in the hall, at first sight of Zhang Dongxing’s condition, he thought of a certain ghost that had escaped from the Ghost Rain and was now wandering in Dachun City.
“If that ghost’s Killing Pattern is as I think, perhaps I can personally create an Anomaly!”
