Chapter 250: Luring The Painting Ghost
“The plan has been finalized, the list of participants for this incident has also been basically determined, and if there are no accidents, the action will begin at nine o’clock tonight, striving to solve the Starving Ghost Incident before dawn tomorrow.”
In the Headquarters Meeting Room.
Sun Huafeng, Wang Xiao Ming, Liu San, and other important personnel held a small meeting.
The content of the meeting was simple: perfect the plan according to the previous proposal, striving to solve the fierce ghost codenamed Starving Ghost.
Headquarters could not continue to allow the Starving Ghost that had swallowed seven ghosts to remain in a state of being out of control at any time.
This action was very secretive, the entire plan was highly confidential, and the list of participants was not disclosed externally. Even a ghost wielder of Jiang Shan’s level would not be notified unless he was selected by Headquarters as one of the participants.
Although Jiang Shan did not know the reason, from the moment he and the other captains as well as the captain candidates were asked to leave the Headquarters Base in batches, it proved that this action did not require his participation.
Since Old Qin was leading the team, this action could already be declared a success.
In this short period, at least his own interests were guaranteed not to be affected, so Jiang Shan had no need to shamelessly force his way into these supernatural events.
“Feeling light and unburdened, it’s time to go find Wang Chaling and talk about life.”
Jiang Shan, who had returned to the hotel, looked at the dazzling lights and neon glow of Dajing City outside the window, his eyes flickering. As a thin layer of silver light spread over him, his figure gradually disappeared from the room.
Although he and Wang Chaling had left in batches, for Jiang Shan.
The entire Dajing City held no secrets from anyone in his eyes.
Even if Wang Chaling had now hidden in a safe house, Jiang Shan, who had noticed all this, already had another way to find him.
If people can’t find him,
Can’t ghosts find him either?
At the same time,
A special team was now approaching alone outside a hotel near the suburbs.
The area nearby was eerily quiet in a terrifying way; at night, not even the sound of insects could be heard, only the occasional rustling of cold night wind blowing through the treetops, and this wind carried an inexplicable chill, faintly emitting a subtle rotten stench.
Dozens of small drones flew overhead, proving that the action was underway.
Ordinary people could provide only minimal help in this action; what they could do was provide informational support.
“Old Qin restricted the Starving Ghost to this hotel?” Several people stopped in their tracks.
Lights shone from overhead.
In this entire urban area under the highest level of blockade, a hotel covered in water stains appeared pitch black from afar, like a huge black coffin thrust into the ground, only its surroundings were obscured by countless buildings, so it didn’t look so weird.
“Prepare to begin the action, clear all interfering factors outside the blockaded hotel.”
As the voice sounded in their earpieces, countless special forces personnel and related staff waiting in the distance immediately sprang into action.
Because the residents of this urban area had all been relocated during the daytime meeting, the related personnel responsible for preparatory work found it very easy:
Demolish floors,
Clear streets;
Construct special marker points.
Wang Xiao Ming’s plan could be said to largely originate from Old Qin’s intelligence. The initial preparatory work for the action was to raze this urban area that restricted the Starving Ghost to the ground, using the Ghost Painting Ghost Domain’s ability to invade reality to lay foreshadowing for the subsequent detention of the Starving Ghost.
And the bottom line time given by Headquarters for leveling this urban area was:
Eight hours.
This nearly impossible task had to be completed by tens of thousands of people in one night.
Whether for Headquarters’ ghost wielders or Dajing City’s residents,
Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.
As the demolition work was nearing its end,
Suburbs.
Tonight, the area was terrifyingly quiet; not a single vehicle passed on the nearby asphalt road for hours, and everything around seemed to have fallen silent.
Only under the dim streetlights, several humanoid figures gathered there occasionally emitted sparse murmurs, along with the explosions that had been resounding in their ears all night.
The area within ten kilometers had long been blockaded; no living humans, livestock, or any living creatures were allowed to set foot here.
The wisdom and action of tens of thousands of people.
This blockaded urban area had become a piece of empty land, with only a nine-story luxury hotel covered in water stains and surrounded by a layer of green haze standing bare like an oak tree without branches or leaves.
There were no timed bombs in this urban area,
Nor was there the rebellion that Dajing City residents imagined.
It was only because at the center of this blockade, a fierce ghost codenamed Starving Ghost was restricted by some supernatural power inside that hotel. Any ordinary person passing through here, even livestock or birds flying overhead, could trigger the Starving Ghost’s loss of control.
Only those possessed by ghosts and controlling fierce ghosts were qualified to venture deep into this seemingly ordinary but actually extremely dangerous forbidden area.
And tonight, the action to detain the Starving Ghost was underway.
The atmosphere around was very tense.
The people responsible for this action were not many; there were only six in total.
Li Jun was one of them.
This action required the use of ghost domains, and it also needed a ghost wielder who had contact with the Starving Ghost to take over from Old Qin at any time, so he was a very suitable candidate, but not the most suitable.
Clearly, Jiang Shan was the first choice in Wang Xiao Ming’s mind.
Whether in terms of strength or on-the-spot decision-making, although Li Jun was from Headquarters, in this supernatural event, he was not just one level below Jiang Shan.
But for some reason, when they finalized this plan, Old Qin specifically instructed that this action did not need Jiang Shan’s participation.
Although the reason for doing so was unknown, for Wang Xiao Ming, Old Qin, a mysterious ghost wielder from the Republic of China era, the intelligence he revealed even made him feel endless despair toward the supernatural.
Moreover, after several conversations, Wang Xiao Ming’s intuition told him:
This nearly hundred-year-old ghost wielder could foresee the future!
Therefore, regarding Old Qin’s request that Jiang Shan not participate in this action, Wang Xiao Ming, Sun Huafeng, and a series of Headquarters high-level officials chose to agree.
“It’s coming.” Suddenly, Li Jun, who was squatting on the ground smoking, stirred, his hoarse and low voice echoing around.
Almost at the same time, the others also received the relevant information.
The fierce ghost from the Ghost Painting incident had been successfully lured and was moving this way.
Everything was proceeding as planned.
Most people present felt a chill; their almost sickly pale faces were full of tension, because this signal meant that tonight’s action could not be avoided.
What kind of unknown changes the collision of two S-level supernatural events would produce, no one could be sure.
Although according to Professor Wang’s hypothesis, there was a high probability that the Starving Ghost Incident would be resolved, and the Ghost Painting would be restricted to a certain extent, he also said there was a small probability of triggering some chain reaction, causing both incidents to lose control simultaneously; the risk still existed.
Even with that terrifying ghost wielder named Old Qin standing beside them, everyone’s hearts still could not calm down.
Although preparations had been made for possible loss of control, those who truly had to contact the ghost were always in danger.
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