Chapter 242: Convening The First Meeting
Jiang Shan’s words instantly caused the already deathly still atmosphere to drop to freezing point once again. After the silver light dissipated and the red light enveloped the Ping An Hotel again, Yang Jian looked at Shen Liang with a gloomy expression:
“Jiang Shan is right. The layout of this hotel is just like a prison. Some rooms are like prisons made of gold, specifically used to detain Ghost Wielders, or rather to prevent Ghost Wielders from escaping, while some rooms don’t have that, like my room.”
“It seems someone specifically renovated this hotel. I don’t think this was Headquarters’ command, right? Shen Liang, you should give us an explanation.”
Because he didn’t want to cause trouble, Yang Jian hadn’t used his Ghost Domain to check the entire hotel after arriving at the Ping An Hotel; he had only checked his own room. After finding no abnormalities, he hadn’t paid it any mind.
After all, this was a place Headquarters used to host Ghost Wielders.
Yang Jian didn’t think any safety hazards could appear here. The biggest hazard at most would be a Ghost Wielder undergoing Fierce Ghost Revival.
But he hadn’t expected that a simple action tonight would uncover something so terrifying upon closer thought.
Secret passages connecting various rooms with golden interlayers;
Ghost Wielders alive without a ghost in their bodies;
The disappeared Zhang Lei;
All these events stirred strong unease in Yang Jian’s heart. He felt a fog obscured everything before him, and beneath his feet was like an abyss ready to swallow him at any moment.
“After the Circle of Friends was destroyed, this hotel was managed by Minister Zhao. He did propose to Headquarters to renovate the hotel, but how is this possible? Minister Zhao”
Feeling the crowd’s icy gazes, Shen Liang was already sweating profusely. As he recalled the hotel’s previous events, his confidence grew weaker with every word.
Because the facts were right in front of them.
If none of this had anything to do with Zhao Jianguo, even he wouldn’t believe it.
But Shen Liang didn’t understand why Zhao Jianguo would do this?
Clearly he.
Hearing the three words “Minister Zhao,” Jiang Shan’s expression showed no change. He had already guessed that the person who renovated the hotel would definitely be him.
“Could it be for the ghosts in the Ghost Wielders’ bodies? But why would Ghost Wielders without ghosts resurrect? So there must be a ghost existing here, but I didn’t discover it in the hotel. It seems it has already left.”
“In that case, this ghost has wisdom. Its relationship with Zhao Jianguo isn’t superior-subordinate, but cooperation. A storm is brewing.”
Jiang Shan glanced at Shen Liang, who was still explaining nonstop, and at Yang Jian, who was still pressing for answers.
He silently lit a cigarette, then slowly walked back into the hotel.
“Jiang”
“I know what you want to know. Soon I’ll have Cao Yanhua tell you. I believe Headquarters will notify you right away too. As for the ghost in the hotel, it left no medium. You know what that means without me saying.”
“Alright, stop bothering me, and stop grilling Shen Liang. He knows very little. Stay in good condition. If you’re scared, you can go home; it’s not shameful.”
Hearing Yang Jian’s voice, Jiang Shan immediately interrupted his words.
He could fully understand Yang Jian’s current mood, but Headquarters was still a muddy pool, and Zhao Jianguo, who had completed all his schemes, was nowhere to be found.
Many times,
it wasn’t that he didn’t want to act, but that he couldn’t act.
Controlling the Newspaper Ghost had consumed too much of his time. If it had been at the very beginning, perhaps Jiang Shan could have stopped Zhao Jianguo’s various actions, but now it was too late.
Zhao Jianguo’s disappearance meant he had completed everything.
Rather than letting Yang Jian keep asking, it was better to tell him the specific information and let him weigh the pros and cons himself.
Jiang Shan knew he was a smart person and would make the right choice.
After all,
when the nest is destroyed, how can any eggs remain intact?
After handing over to Shen Liang, Jiang Shan casually found a “specially renovated” room to stay in. Next, all he had to do was wait.
Waiting for all the captains to arrive,
waiting to turn from passive to active.
The next morning,
Jiang Shan, who was sitting on the sofa scrolling through Douyin, received a notification from Cao Yanhua to arrive at Headquarters by eleven o’clock today to attend a meeting.
The meeting content wasn’t specified, but it could be guessed that it was related to the Captain Plan.
After several days of investigation and preparation, Headquarters must have reacted by now. Although the harm from Zhao Jianguo’s memory alteration had ended for Jiang Shan, it hadn’t ended for Headquarters.
Soon, Jiang Shan got into a car at the hotel entrance.
A special vehicle drove out of Dajing City’s urban area.
Sitting in the car, Jiang Shan saw it heading toward some uninhabited mountainous area, with no display on the map and no clear road on the navigation for the vehicle to continue.
But in reality, a wide and straight road extended deep into the mountains.
“Headquarters Zhao Jianguo, let me see what Headquarters has been up to.” Jiang Shan thought to himself, looking out the car window.
Along the way, the vehicle passed several sentry posts, all guarded by heavily armed special personnel. Even special cars had to go through several checks, verifying the vehicle information and the identities of the people inside before allowing passage.
Though there weren’t many people at the sentry posts, the security was very tight—an outer lax, inner strict protection method.
It looked like just a few people checking, but if something happened, who knew how many would come for support in a short time.
After the vehicle entered the mountains and drove a bit further, Jiang Shan saw various buildings gradually appearing in the area. At the mountaintop were many satellite communication devices flashing lights in operation, with nearby sentry posts and dedicated personnel protecting them.
“Signal’s gone.” Jiang Shan saw his mobile phone signal completely disappear after entering here, unable to contact the outside.
The vehicle finally stopped in front of a building.
Jiang Shan saw a dozen or so similar vehicles parked in front of the building. These should be other Ghost Wielders who had arrived early, and it looked like quite a few in number.
Under the staff’s guidance, Jiang Shan was already in the lounge, quietly waiting for the meeting to begin.
From the intelligence specifically left for him on the table, he had learned all the participants of this meeting and the purpose of Headquarters holding it.
“I didn’t expect Ye Zhen to come too. It seems Minister Sun is prepared to tell all the captains about Zhao Jianguo. Time to prepare defenses.”
Looking at the twelve familiar names on the captain list, Jiang Shan’s eyes flickered.
Headquarters absolutely could not fall,
not just because of its control over supernatural events everywhere, but more importantly, the unique meaning it represented behind the scenes.
If Headquarters was gone, the world would descend into chaos.
Order,
is the first element for the survival of groups and individuals.
