Chapter 201: My Strength
“Is this man Jiang Shan?”
“Why do I feel like I’m looking at a ghost when I see him?!”
The people present were either high-level officials in positions of power or Ghost Wielders who dealt with Fierce Ghosts. Even though their gazes did not meet Jiang Shan’s, just seeing him and hearing Jiang Shan’s voice suddenly made their hearts palpitate.
Although they felt their own gazes were quite imposing, Jiang Shan’s gaze was even more terrifying—indifferent and ice-cold, like the gaze of a dead person, instilling a bone-deep horror, simply not like the gaze a normal person should have.
The originally pin-drop silent Meeting Room became even quieter with Jiang Shan’s appearance, as if a needle falling to the ground could be heard.
A deathly stillness and oppressive atmosphere enveloped every heart in the room like a dark cloud.
Jiang Shan, standing at the Lecture Stand, glanced at Cao Yanhua, and Cao Yanhua immediately understood.
As the big screen behind Jiang Shan lit up, this Branch Meeting, which Headquarters, the Supernatural Circle, and countless people around the world were closely watching, officially began.
Because before the Meeting started, Cao Yanhua had already published most of the Meeting content as an announcement on the Branch system.
So this portion of content that could be made public greatly accelerated the Meeting’s progress.
Time passed minute by minute, second by second.
This highly anticipated Meeting proceeded in an orderly manner.
Although Jiang Shan was just an ordinary Doctoral Student in Medicine before crossing over, because he became a Ghost Wielder.
Nowadays, the only thing that could make him feel fear was death. Even with countless gazes in the Meeting Room constantly scrutinizing him, his expression remained completely unchanged.
“Everyone present can offer opinions on the following: ‘Amendments to the Branch Person in Charge System’ and ‘Re-establishment of the Branch Person in Charge System’ proposals.”
After speaking, Jiang Shan calmly swept his gaze over the crowd, then slowly stepped down from the Lecture Stand and sat in the empty seat beside Cao Yanhua.
At the same time.
Cao Yanhua quickly stepped up to the Lecture Stand.
“According to the joint decision of the Branch Minister and Branch high-level officials, after this Meeting concludes, the Branch will revise the original Headquarters Person in Charge System.”
“The Branch has decided that City Persons in Charge will change from one Person in Charge per City to three Persons in Charge per City. The three Persons in Charge will have equal authority, can respectively manage different City districts, and can collaborate to Handle Supernatural Events.”
“Whether Handling Supernatural Events alone or collaboratively, the points earned will be the same. Basic Treatment for Persons in Charge will remain unchanged, ensuring their primary status in Supernatural Events in the corresponding City.”
“Free discussion and comments in the Meeting Room, time limit five minutes.”
After Cao Yanhua finished speaking, he quietly stood at the Lecture Stand observing the crowd’s reactions.
The Meeting Room went from initial deathly stillness to a Ghost Wielder from Area B speaking up, and the originally solemn Hall suddenly became as noisy as a vegetable market.
Doubt, surprise, confusion.
Although the expressions of the people on site varied, most agreed with this Branch decision.
Headquarters’ lesson from the past was right before their eyes:
Not to mention a City with a million people where increasingly frequent Supernatural Events were only assigned one Person in Charge to Handle.
The ever-increasing burden of duties, the constantly growing number of Terrifying Fierce Ghosts, required the Person in Charge to excessively use Supernatural Power. The cost of Handling Supernatural Events was the rapid draining of the Person in Charge’s life.
In other words.
These dutiful Persons in Charge were nothing more than human-blood steamed buns in Headquarters’ hands.
This erroneous system also led to more and more civilian Ghost Wielders resisting Headquarters, even opposing it.
Next was Headquarters high-level officials’ compromises and hoarding.
In the early stage when Ghost Wielders were scarce, Headquarters had no solution to stably help Ghost Wielders Control a second ghost; moreover, Supernatural Items like Ghost Candles and Substitute Dolls that could save lives were also chosen to be shelved.
Substitute Dolls that Persons in Charge, who safeguarded a City’s stability, were not qualified to obtain.
In the Circle of Friends high-level, He Tianxiong, who was not a Person in Charge, had one specifically for preserving his life.
Although corruption was unavoidable in every political system in the world,
In this era of evil ghosts rampant, as the country’s sole organization, Headquarters absolutely could not have such incidents.
Because this not only chilled hearts,
It was also a country’s future.
Five minutes passed in the blink of an eye.
Although discussion voices in the Meeting Room continued one after another, no one ever stood up to voice opposition.
“Quiet. Since no one has suggestions, the ‘Branch Person in Charge System’ will be implemented immediately after this Meeting, with a one-year trial period. During this time, the Branch will monitor Supernatural Handling in every City and conduct real-time evaluations.”
After saying this, Cao Yanhua did not pause at all. He looked at the crowd and continued:
“The Person in Charge reward system has been uploaded to the Branch system announcement board by the Staff. Please check it yourselves.”
“The next Meeting content is Branch Level 2 Confidential, relating to everyone present. Please keep it confidential yourselves.”
Actually, since Jiang Shan planned to disclose the “Haunted House” at the Meeting, he had no intention of keeping this matter confidential.
He wanted to use this plan to bind the hearts of Branch Ghost Wielders and these high-level officials.
One prospers, all prosper.
One suffers, all suffer.
“I’ll talk about the next content.”
Jiang Shan, who was sitting below the stage, suddenly vanished. Before the crowd knew what happened, he appeared out of thin air beside Cao Yanhua.
“Due to the ‘Ghost Town in the Rain’ incident, forty-three Fierce Ghosts roamed Dachun City. They have now all been detained by the Branch Person in Charge. Plus those Ghost Wielders from the Circle of Friends, the number of Fierce Ghosts detained by the Branch now exceeds sixty.”
Jiang Shan ignored the crowd’s astonished gazes, lit a cigarette, and continued:
“Many people probably aren’t too clear about my abilities.”
“What is Jiang Shan doing?!”
“Is this a ghost?”
“Is that a Ghost Mirror Shard in Jiang Shan’s hand? That Mirror can actually detain Fierce Ghosts?!”
In the horrified and shocked gazes of everyone, Jiang Shan pulled out a corpse from the Ghost Mirror Shard—its body covered in gruesome wounds, flesh and blood flipped outward, as if it had been cut thousands of times while alive.
The corpse was deathly still, its pale eyes sending chills through many ordinary people present, and at this time, most Ghost Wielders also looked grave.
Because the chilling cold unique to Fierce Ghosts emanating from that corpse let everyone present know:
What Jiang Shan held in his hand was a ghost!
“How dare he grab a ghost barehanded? Isn’t he afraid of a Ghost Attack?”
Some people suddenly noticed this scene, their hearts utterly shocked.
“He’s actually… turning the ghost into a toy?!”
Jiang Shan took out a Toy Bear from somewhere.
With a flash of silver light, the man-high, pale and emaciated corpse in his hand twisted, as if it might vanish from this world at any moment, but it did not fully disappear. Instead, it fused with the Toy Bear.
As the corpse vanished, the silver light beside Jiang Shan began to flicker, and the corpse flickered too.
Ghost Domain twisted and deformed, and the corpse and the little bear Doll twisted and deformed.
When the corpse completely disappeared, the originally cute, intact Toy Bear became utterly tattered, with flipped-out cotton stained with fresh blood, and dirty fur emanating a thick corpse stench.
At this moment.
A Supernatural Item made from a Doll and a corpse was casually created barehanded by Jiang Shan.
