Chapter 193: Waiting
While everyone remained silent, only Cao Yang raised his hand. He raised his eyebrows, looked at Brother Jiang, and spoke:
“Brother Jiang, you don’t know. The Supernatural Circle is all vomiting~!”
Before Cao Yang could finish his words, a cigarette butt shot into his mouth like a bullet.
“If you keep asking, what you eat won’t be this. You’ll eat whatever Ye Zhen ate yesterday. Alright. These are just some minor side issues.”
Brother Jiang glanced indifferently at Cao Yang, who was retching nonstop, and continued, “Let’s continue discussing the team matters. A team needs a captain, a boss. Naturally, I will serve as the first captain, but everyone has the possibility of dying. So if I die, who will take the position of the second captain or Branch Minister?”
Looking at the silent crowd, Brother Jiang sat on the sofa calmly smoking.
His calm, unwavering gaze swept over every person present:
“The number of Ghost Wielders now registered and preparing to join the branch, even excluding those who failed the mental evaluation, is more than enough for the numbers needed by the new Person in Charge System. So our small team is not just for handling Supernatural Events.”
The emergence of a team isn’t just about gathering together; it requires binding by benefits and the establishment of rules.
It also needs to ensure that if someone suddenly dies, the team can still continue to function.
Because the existence of this team is not just for handling Supernatural Events, but more importantly, to band together for survival.
According to Brother Jiang’s idea.
A small team composed of trustworthy top-tier Ghost Wielders would be enough to make any organization in the Supernatural Circle dread them.
Even if a few team members die, as long as the team exists, their parents and family will have sufficient safety and benefit guarantees, avoiding the situation of people leaving and tea cooling.
This is the purpose of him forming this small team.
After all, Brother Jiang does not want that one day, when he falls into silence or near-death due to the supernatural, to have no teammates by his side, or for the teammates to be unable to provide sufficient protection.
A team cannot achieve great things relying solely on the captain’s abilities. Along this path, although Brother Jiang has been quite lucky, he won’t always be so lucky.
“Forget it, let’s leave it at that for now. When the team is fully staffed, we’ll discuss this topic again.”
Because everyone is unfamiliar with each other and there’s mutual distrust, Brother Jiang also knows that no one will take the initiative to speak up and assume the position of Minister at this time.
So he simply stopped dwelling on this matter.
At this moment,
Brother Jiang’s team had preliminarily taken shape. The process had gone quite smoothly, without any conflicts or contradictions. What remained was for them to get to know each other and gradually integrate.
“Let’s settle the team matters like this for now. We’ll discuss the remaining things slowly later. It’s getting late now, so let’s eat first. In the coming days, you all familiarize yourselves with the situation in Dachun City, and subsequently Chen Yue will arrange for you to move into this villa.”
Brother Jiang checked the time and didn’t continue speaking.
Everyone in the study room nodded, bid him farewell one by one, and then left the study room.
After everyone had left, Brother Jiang looked at the time displayed on the calendar. He sat on the sofa, smoking one cigarette after another.
“Caesar Grand Hotel, Newspaper Ghost, Tong Qian.”
“Now I cannot plan in reverse according to the story in the Original Work. Not only does the Newspaper Ghost in the Original Work have no relation to Yang Jian’s father, but Wang Chaling and Old Qin also deviate greatly from their counterparts in the Original Work.”
The more he thought, the more grave Brother Jiang’s expression became.
He could understand Wang Chaling’s differences from the Original Work. After all, from the time he dared to steal the Starving Ghost, Brother Jiang knew he was definitely no pushover.
But regarding Yang Xiaotian’s consciousness still existing within the Newspaper Ghost, and Old Qin, who never interferes in Headquarters decisions.
According to Cao Yanhua’s description, Old Qin unexpectedly pushed strongly against opposition at the Headquarters meeting, even revealing Supernatural Power at the cost of it. His firm, non-negotiable attitude forced the Headquarters high-level officials to pass the still-under-discussion “Captain Plan” and “Branch Trial Plan.”
These were the two points that made Brother Jiang most dread.
Old Qin’s abnormal actions forced him to re-examine all the stories and characters about Yang Jian in his memory; everything needed to be re-evaluated.
In this world where ghosts kill people and people eat people.
Brother Jiang could no longer scheme using the perspective of a Transmigrator. What he needed now was his own thinking and judgment in the face of an unpredictable future.
“From the Newspaper Ghost’s actions in Dachang City, and the ‘Undead’ team that appeared in the Ghost Rain, it seems Yang Xiaotian and Wang Chaling are scheming something. The establishment of the small team can deter these people to a certain extent.”
“But this is definitely not a long-term solution. My top priority now is to find the Newspaper Ghost’s whereabouts and control it. In my current state, the risk of controlling the Newspaper Ghost is very low.”
Thinking of this, Brother Jiang opened a certain special app on his mobile phone.
A few seconds after opening the app, an extremely clear satellite map appeared on the mobile phone screen, with countless yellow dots flashing on this map.
Different names were written next to each dot.
This was the Person in Charge satellite positioning map that only Ministers could use. It could display the positions of all Persons in Charge domestically. If needed, Brother Jiang just had to tap a yellow dot lightly.
Then all the information on that Person in Charge would appear on his mobile phone.
“As expected, Yang Jian still went to Xiao Chun City.”
Looking at Yang Jian’s positioning displayed on the screen, Brother Jiang’s eyes flickered.
If based on the Ghost Bus’s signal-blocking characteristic, Yang Jian at this time should not have boarded the Ghost Bus yet.
And although the ZS City that he had Cao Yanhua keep watching had a Human Head Balloon Supernatural Event, Tong Qian had not gone missing yet, and Caesar Grand Hotel had not lost control.
Suspecting that Yang Jian’s fate was being arranged by Yang Xiaotian, Brother Jiang had not proactively gone to ZS City to search for the Newspaper Ghost. He worried that the Newspaper Ghost, with Yang Xiaotian’s wisdom, would notice and thus alert the enemy, leading to the failure of the plan to control the Newspaper Ghost.
So Brother Jiang had been waiting for Yang Jian, waiting for him to get off the Ghost Bus, waiting for him to be guided by someone or some ghost to head to Caesar Grand Hotel.
As for why Brother Jiang was so certain that Yang Jian would definitely go to ZS City?
That was because on that ghost whose killing pattern had been altered by the Newspaper Ghost, he had seen part of Yang Xiaotian’s memory.
A father who had already died,
An Old Qin who could converse with his future self.
After learning that his son had also become a Ghost Wielder, as a second-generation top-tier Ghost Wielder, and suspected to still exist within the Newspaper Ghost without having died, Yang Xiaotian.
Who could say he wasn’t planning a future for Yang Jian?
