Chapter 39: Ghost Face Jiang Shan
The car hasn’t arrived yet.
Ahead, a group of people was already standing at the intersection waiting, and they had even put up parasols and set up a table, quite like the demeanor of a leader.
Soon, Yang Jian and Zhang Han stopped the car.
Next was the satisfying scene of Yang Jian angrily confronting Wu Yue.
Jiang Shan stood silently by the side watching. It had to be said that Yang Jian was truly his strongest mouthpiece.
No one knew which door had clamped Wu Yue’s brain, but after Yang Jian and Zhang Han had barely survived, he actually had the nerve to say congratulations?
Just as Yang Jian placed the pistol on Wu Yue’s head, an annoying voice rang out:
“Yang Jian, that’s enough from you. What’s the big deal about a few Ghost Wielders dying? The file issue isn’t Wu Yue’s fault. If it were me, I would prioritize the bigger picture too.”
Feng Quan stood beside Wu Yue with a look of indifference. His gaze lingered on the Ghost Coffin in the car before he continued:
“As long as the Ghost Coffin is brought out, there’s no need to dwell on these things. In this world, many things actually have no right or wrong, only differences in benefits. Concealing the file’s information was due to greater benefits at stake; the necessary sacrifices are worthwhile.”
“Exactly, exactly. Feng Quan is absolutely right. This mission is completed, and those of you who survived will get everything you want. That’s the most important thing, isn’t it?” Wu Yue quickly followed up.
“Sound reasoning, but unfortunately, I don’t buy it.”
Yang Jian’s expression turned cold, and without hesitation, he pulled the trigger.
“Bang~!”
The gunshot rang out.
Wu Yue’s head didn’t explode as expected, with brains splattering everywhere.
Instead, the bullet passed through Wu Yue’s forehead and landed on the road behind him, leaving a deep bullet hole.
“Looks like someone used a Ghost Domain to protect Wu Yue.” Yang Jian frowned slightly, quickly realizing in his mind.
And Jiang Shan had known this would happen long ago.
At the instant Yang Jian fired, he sensed the Ghost Domain’s presence, but he didn’t intervene.
This wasn’t because Jiang Shan was soft-hearted.
It was because Comrade Yang Jian would handle this matter beautifully, no matter from which angle.
So he just needed to provide good support to Yang Jian.
Although Jiang Shan didn’t block Li Jun’s Ghost Domain, that didn’t mean he did nothing.
Feng Quan, who had originally been beside Wu Yue, vanished after Yang Jian fired.
When he reappeared before everyone,
Feng Quan was lying on the ground with a face full of shame and anger, his entire body enveloped in black haze as thick as ink.
If someone looked closely, they could even see faint traces of crimson seeping through the black haze.
“How does the Ghost Domain and Ghost Characters double suppression combo feel?”
Jiang Shan smiled as he squatted beside Feng Quan, lit a cigarette for himself, then took out another and held it to Feng Quan’s mouth.
Yang Jian and Jiang Shan’s actions made Zhang Han’s heart race with shock.
A manager who seemed to have backing from above, and Dachang City’s first International Criminal Police—these two really had no reservations at all?
But Zhang Han didn’t understand.
Yang Jian’s action was to fight for sufficient authority for himself. He was indeed a Ghost Wielder who wouldn’t live more than a few months, but why should this group casually sacrifice him for some so-called greater good?
Yang Jian didn’t know about any greater good; he only wanted to live on, to live with dignity, that’s all.
As for Jiang Shan, he naturally knew the significance of what Yang Jian was doing.
He knew better than anyone who was behind hosting and arranging this mission—Headquarters.
So by suppressing Feng Quan just before he could act, Jiang Shan was essentially endorsing Yang Jian’s approach.
Headquarters’ actions in the name of the greater good were not wrong, but deleting the file and setting up Ghost Wielders to die was not something an official organization should do.
“When the sea loses virtue, the waters scatter on their own.”
Seeing that Wu Yue didn’t die, Yang Jian frowned and was about to pull the trigger again when
a voice suddenly rang out from not far away: “Someone will be held accountable for this, but it’s not Wu Yue—it’s me. I ordered the file to be deleted. Wu Yue was just doing company business; in principle, he did nothing wrong.”
A group of special people came striding over from the direction of the RV.
Leading them was a man in a white lab coat, of average appearance and looking quite young, followed by several security guards.
After speaking to Yang Jian, Wang Xiao Ming shifted his gaze to Jiang Shan. Looking at Feng Quan being force-fed a smoke, he said indifferently:
“You’re that famous Ghost Face Jiang Shan from my brother’s club, right? I never thought our first meeting would be in a situation like this.”
Before Jiang Shan could speak, a middle-aged man in uniform behind Wang Xiao Ming, who exuded authority without anger, spoke up:
“Jiang Shan, Feng Quan is Dachang City’s first International Criminal Police. You have no right or qualification to treat a national staff member like this. Regarding what happened in Huang Gang Village, I apologize to you on behalf of Feng Quan, but please release him to avoid unnecessary conflict between us.”
After Li Jun finished speaking, Yang Jian looked at him with icy eyes, while Jiang Shan smiled faintly:
“Who gave me such an ugly name?”
Jiang Shan scratched his head, extinguished his cigarette, and said flatly to Li Jun:
“I know you, Ghost Fire Li Jun. Your apology seems a bit too perfunctory. Whatever you have to say, let Wang Xiao Ming say it. You can’t figure it out, and you can’t explain it clearly.”
“As for Feng Quan, I’ll let him go when it’s time. If you insist on questioning my qualifications, you can try using your Ghost Domain to test if I have them.”
Looking at the black Ghost Face that appeared on Jiang Shan’s face, Li Jun said no more, just stared intently at Jiang Shan.
From the moment Feng Quan suddenly appeared before everyone, Li Jun knew his Ghost Domain absolutely couldn’t suppress that black haze.
Moreover, if he really fought Jiang Shan to the death, Wang Xiao Ming in front of him would inevitably be affected.
So Li Jun fell silent at this moment.
Suddenly, a slightly portly, amiable-looking middle-aged man stepped out from the crowd:
“As expected, heroes emerge from the young. Yang Jian, Jiang Shan, this should be our first meeting. I’m Zhao Jianguo. Without that phone call from Little Brother Yang Jian, I really wouldn’t have a proper excuse for paid leave.”
Seeing the atmosphere growing tense, Zhao Jianguo hurriedly tried to smooth things over, looking at Li Jun:
“There were serious issues with Feng Quan’s actions this time. I know Little Brother Jiang Shan; he saved eight people not long ago. He won’t do anything to Feng Quan.”
Looking at Feng Quan, whose mouth now only had a cigarette butt left, Zhao Jianguo couldn’t help but twitch at the corner of his eye.
At this moment, Feng Quan, enveloped in black haze, was completely unaware of the conversation outside. He only felt the cigarette in his mouth burning his lips at the end.
Unfortunately, he still couldn’t move.
For what followed, Jiang Shan completely became the shopkeeper who washed his hands of it.
With the strongest mouthpiece Yang Jian there, if he said one extra word, it would be disrespectful to “Yang War God.”
And Yang Jian knew he held the momentum, and even if things really fell apart, he had Jiang Shan standing with him.
So he confronted Wang Xiao Ming without any reservations.
As expected,
Wu Yue still died here, and it was Wang Xiao Ming who killed him personally.
Although Wu Yue’s death had little to do with him to a large extent,
Everyone from Headquarters watched this happen wide-eyed, yet no one spoke for him, and no one dared to step forward.
