Chapter 124: Wang Xiao Ming Arrives, The External Captain
Rumor, Yang Jian went to Z City.
Hmm, he participated in a supernatural event.
Something expected.
For Yang Jian, Lin Qian wasn’t worried at all.
Instead, for their Da Jiang City, someone who shouldn’t have come but did come, and that was also within expectations.
“You shouldn’t have come here.”
Da Jiang City, inside the tallest mansion in the city center.
Wang Xiaoqiang looked seriously at the young man in a white coat in front of him.
The other party looked not much older than him.
Lin Qian was beside him, and upon hearing Wang Xiaoqiang’s words, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.
Smoke drifted, Lin Qian looked at a man in special combat uniform sitting next to the white coat.
“Li Jun, how many cigarettes do you smoke a day?”
Li Jun was stunned, looked at the Liqun in his hand, “Can’t smoke here?”
“No.” Lin Qian waved his hand, “I’m just curious.”
Although he didn’t know why Lin Qian was curious about this, Li Jun still answered truthfully, “About one pack a day.”
“What about when you’re under pressure?”
Lin Qian asked again.
Li Jun thought for a moment upon hearing this, then shook his head, “Don’t know.”
“I remember, during the Starving Ghost incident in Da Chang City, you seemed to be squatting roadside, smoking one by one.”
“Then after finishing, you ran over…”
Li Jun’s face immediately became embarrassed, “Professor Wang.”
Wang Xiao Ming smiled, not continuing.
Then he looked at Wang Xiaoqiang, “Why shouldn’t I have come?”
“Both publicly and privately, I have reasons to come here.”
“Publicly, I’m here to discuss something with Lin Qian. Privately, my younger brother is here. As his big brother, can’t I come to visit and care for my brother?”
Wang Xiao Ming looked at Wang Xiaoqiang with a smile and asked.
Wang Xiaoqiang’s expression changed slightly, his face slowly turning away, not looking at Wang Xiao Ming.
Lin Qian shook his head, these two brothers.
“What do you want from me?”
Lin Qian asked about the main matter.
Wang Xiao Ming restrained his smile.
“Headquarters is about to implement a policy.”
“In this era, ghost controllers are very rare, but it’s enough to ensure that important cities have a person in charge.”
“But one person in charge managing one city is very taxing.”
“Especially for those with weaker abilities, they might not even be able to handle supernatural events in their own city.”
“Let alone helping in other cities when the person in charge there can’t handle the supernatural event.”
Wang Xiaoqiang slowly straightened his body, his expression becoming serious.
Lin Qian narrowed his eyes slightly.
“Powerful ghost controllers handle supernatural events in cities very easily. As long as it’s not an S-level supernatural event, they can basically handle it. Some ghost controllers can even handle S-level ones.”
“Like you, Yang Jian, Ye Zhen, and Fang Shiming.”
“So, I thought of a possibility.”
“Is it possible to let a powerful ghost controller form a small team, and directly assign several cities to them to manage.”
“Let them handle supernatural events.”
“Moreover, we’ve already discovered that ordinary people managing ghost controllers is very difficult.”
“So what if ghost controllers manage ghost controllers?”
At this point, Wang Xiao Ming pushed his glasses.
“Headquarters is currently short on strong people, or more accurately, short on figureheads.”
“So, I proposed a plan.”
“Captain plan.”
Hearing the captain plan, Lin Qian felt relieved instead.
“The captain plan aims to select the current strongest international police at headquarters, tilt resources and authority to them, to replace headquarters in managing ghost controllers.”
“Lin Qian, what do you think?”
The topic suddenly turned to himself.
Lin Qian wasn’t surprised. The other party came to find him and revealed this secret to others.
The other party couldn’t just be here to leak the secret to him simply.
At this moment, both Wang Xiaoqiang and Li Jun looked at Lin Qian.
“What ideas could I have?”
Lin Qian spread his hands and leaned on the sofa, “I’m not from headquarters.”
“Not necessarily from headquarters, external personnel is also fine.”
“Although I don’t know why you don’t want to join headquarters, it’s not important now, and I believe it won’t be important in the future.”
Wang Xiao Ming said.
“What do you mean?”
Lin Qian asked.
Only when talking openly does it make sense.
Wang Xiao Ming didn’t plan to hide it anymore.
“External Captain.”
“External Captain?”
Lin Qian was stunned. In the original work, there was no such position at all.
Was it newly added because of him?
Wang Xiao Ming nodded, “Yes, external captain, has the same authority as a captain, but no specific resources from headquarters.”
“Like Ghost Candle and such.”
“You’re different from them. Headquarters and you have a transactional relationship.”
“Resources are mutual between us.”
Has authority, but no resources.
Lin Qian stroked his chin. He didn’t lack resources. The biggest resource in this world was ghosts.
And conveniently, he had them, and they were in deadlock.
He didn’t lack resources, nor did his members.
“Interesting.”
Lin Qian knew that authority actually represented resources, that was certain.
“Tell me more specifically.”
Wang Xiao Ming: “External captain, after all, isn’t a headquarters captain. Besides the shortage in resources, it’s the ghost controller team.”
“Unlike other captains who can pick people at headquarters, you need to form your own team. Of course, if someone at headquarters is willing to join you, that’s fine too.”
“Besides that, because you’re an external captain, you and your team will be responsible for more cities than others, equivalent to one city per team member.”
“Of course, this sounds like a heavy workload, but you and your team can fully exercise headquarters’ authority in the cities you’re responsible for.”
“I know this doesn’t count as much of a benefit.”
“Besides that, unless headquarters issues an absolute order, and it’s confirmed to be an emergency, you can completely ignore any other matters.”
“Even for emergencies, you can choose to refuse.”
“Of course, unlike regular team captains being summoned to handle supernatural events for free, you get paid, and the pay won’t be ordinary items, but headquarters’ supernatural items or strategic-level resources like Ghost Candle.”
“You can choose supernatural items, but you can’t choose strategic-level resources.”
At this point, Wang Xiao Ming stopped.
After waiting a while and seeing Wang Xiao Ming not continuing, Wang Xiaoqiang spoke up, “This external captain sounds like it doesn’t have many benefits.”
“President, this captain position can’t be taken!”
Li Jun was stunned, looking at Wang Xiaoqiang in surprise.
Lin Qian stroked his chin, giving Wang Xiaoqiang a strange look.
Wang Xiao Ming: “…”
At this moment, Wang Xiao Ming’s face had darkened.
“Big Brother, why are you looking at me like that?”
Seeing Wang Xiao Ming staring at him unkindly, Wang Xiaoqiang immediately felt guilty, “Is there something wrong with what I said?”
Wang Xiao Ming gritted his teeth, “No problem, but have you forgotten that I’m your big brother!”
Wang Xiaoqiang immediately became unconvinced upon hearing this, “Bullshit!”
“How could I forget? If you want to leave the family register, don’t drag me into it!”
“After I die, I still need to go down and boast to Dad and Mom that their son has made it!”
“Don’t you dare cause this kind of thing for me!”
Li Jun was completely stunned.
Lin Qian’s expression became even stranger.
Wang Xiao Ming clenched his fist, “When did I ever say I wanted to leave the family register?”
Wang Xiaoqiang was baffled, “You didn’t?”
Then he looked at Lin Qian, “President, he didn’t say that?”
Lin Qian couldn’t help laughing, “No.”
“Oh, then I misheard.” Wang Xiaoqiang said indifferently.
Wang Xiao Ming closed his eyes, silently reciting in his mind, don’t curse, cursing him is cursing myself, his parents are my parents, yes, his parents are my parents.
Soon, Wang Xiao Ming opened his eyes, his expression calm again.
“Lin Qian, my brother is right, external captain really isn’t a great job, especially for you.”
“But I still sincerely hope you’ll agree.”
“Headquarters’ goal from beginning to end is to ultimately deal with the supernatural, handle fierce ghosts, and resolve fierce ghost revival.”
“No matter headquarters before, now, or in the future, no matter how much internal fighting, scheming, or power struggles there are at headquarters, this goal won’t change.”
“It will never change.”
“Lin Qian, I sincerely invite you to become headquarters’ external captain!”
Wang Xiao Ming stood up, his expression extremely grave.
Li Jun also stood up, his expression solemn.
He knew very well that external captain was a position others could only dream of.
The benefits and prospects were immeasurable. Although no resources, backed by headquarters, unimaginable benefits could be obtained.
But for Lin Qian, this wasn’t a benefit, but a burden.
The other party didn’t need any resources.
The other party wasn’t afraid of fierce ghost revival.
The other party’s ability could easily form a ghost controller team, or even establish a headquarters.
Authority, the other party already had it. Strength, the other party had it. Resources.
All of headquarters’ resources were based on the existence of ghosts, to counter ghosts.
And the other party possessed ghosts.
Could use ghosts.
He knew he was morally binding Lin Qian.
But at this moment, he hoped Lin Qian would be bound.
Lin Qian also quickly stood up.
Wang Xiaoqiang was no exception.
He looked at Wang Xiao Ming.
What the other party said made a lot of sense.
It wasn’t him whitewashing headquarters.
Headquarters truly existed to handle supernatural events.
Headquarters’ deputy minister, Cao Yanhua, a ruthless political machine. As long as it could handle supernatural events, he could compromise.
As long as supernatural events could be handled, he could ruthlessly sacrifice anyone.
The ones doing things at headquarters were people.
Although many were fighting for power and profit, the ones truly controlling headquarters didn’t need to fight for power or balance anything.
They just needed to calmly and ruthlessly watch the situation, then based on their own strength, judge and handle one supernatural event after another.
Headquarters was sending ghost controllers to their deaths.
But what could be done about it?
It wasn’t him whitewashing headquarters, but there really was no other way.
Early on, headquarters was full of talent, but most died in supernatural events.
Did those ghost controllers not know they would die handling supernatural events?
Did headquarters not know?
They all knew, but should they stop handling them?
Li Jun, from a military background, the most righteous.
In one sentence, worst case fierce ghost revival, as long as supernatural events could be handled, he would do it without hesitation.
Early headquarters was full of such people.
But later, with the absorption of folk ghost controllers.
Headquarters slowly changed flavor.
But still handling supernatural events.
Headquarters was very cold-blooded, only valuing ability, that’s correct.
But that’s what a national machine should be.
Machines should be cold and ruthless by nature.
Otherwise, like abroad?
He hadn’t seen early headquarters, didn’t participate in mid-period headquarters.
What was current headquarters like?
The moment the captain plan was proposed, ordinary people could no longer control ghost controllers.
Only ghost controllers could manage ghost controllers.
Similarly, only ghosts could deal with ghosts.
The world never lacked people full of hope.
Even if there was no hope ahead, then shatter one’s own hope to let despair breed hope.
Lin Qian didn’t think he was a good person.
So the not-good-person him wasn’t moved by Wang Xiao Ming’s words.
But why not fight for a better opportunity for his members?
He didn’t need it, others did.
Thinking of this, Lin Qian smiled and nodded, “You make a lot of sense.”
“I’ll take this external captain position.”
Wang Xiao Ming immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
“Thank you!” Wang Xiao Ming said sincerely.
Lin Qian pressed his hand, signaling them to sit.
Others fought for captain positions from headquarters.
But he was different, headquarters was eagerly offering it, and it depended on whether he wanted it.
That was the gap.
“Can you tell me who the captains you have in mind now are?”
The four sat down again.
Lin Qian asked.
“No problem, no need to hide this from you.”
“Currently confirmed captain nominations are: Da Dong City’s Wang Chaling, Dachuan City’s Li Lepeng, DQ City’s Liu San, Da Xia City’s Shen Lin, Circle of Friends’ Fang Shiming, Jiang Shangbai, Da Jin City’s Cao Yang, Li Jun, Wei Jing, and Lu Zhiwen.”
“Additionally, Da Chang City’s Yang Jian was also nominated by me.”
“But currently, he’s not suitable to become a captain.”
Why Yang Jian wasn’t suitable to become a captain, Wang Xiao Ming didn’t say explicitly.
Lin Qian knew why. Yang Jian was still too immature. Becoming captain now carried great risk. Not becoming captain was a good thing for him.
After all, Yang Jian was a grassroots.
Including Yang Jian, eleven captains total, missing one He Yin’er.
He Yin’er should still be soaking in Ghost Lake now, or perhaps already out.
But it didn’t matter. Whether He Yin’er could become a captain like in the original work depended on what she did.
Besides that, also missing one A Hong.
A Hong should be around, but wasn’t nominated.
The rest had no issues.
Right, seemed to be missing one Zhang Sun too.
According to the original work, Zhang Sun left the country very early and went abroad.
The spy type.
Normal not to reveal now.
“Quite a few names I’ve never heard of.”
Lin Qian said with a smile.
Wang Xiao Ming: “Most are ghost controllers with hidden files, but they handled their supernatural events beautifully.”
The implication was that these people were not as simple as they appeared on the surface.
