Chapter 67: Reform Society
The street was dim, and the streetlights had long since gone out under the erosion of the supernatural.
A strange mist spanned the entire street.
Lin Qian stared at that man, “Speak, or you’ll die right now.”
The man swallowed, not daring to beat around the bush anymore:
“The Heaven and Earth Society took notice of you, boss, for a very simple reason. Li Yong, Li Yong leaked your news. We’re very curious about you.”
“Li Yong?” Lin Qian’s gaze sharpened. Didn’t Li Yong have connections abroad?
How about that, the ones who came were from the Heaven and Earth Society?
It wasn’t easy for forces from abroad to enter domestically now; the cost was high.
Headquarters wouldn’t allow ghost controllers from abroad to enter domestically.
So, people from abroad couldn’t come in…
They’d have local forces deal with him?
“What kind of ghost controller organization is your Heaven and Earth Society?”
“How many people exactly?”
“Your president, what level of ghost controller is he?”
Lin Qian asked three questions in a row.
This time, that man didn’t ask again whether he’d live or not.
He looked at Lin Qian, his face still wearing a fawning smile.
“Boss, you might not have heard of the Heaven and Earth Society, but we have another name you might have heard of.”
Lin Qian keenly noticed the change in the man’s tone.
“Oh? What?”
Lin Qian asked, pretending to be interested.
“Boss, have you heard of the Reform Society?”
“What?”
Lin Qian frowned. What Reform Society?
He didn’t know what the Reform Society was. He only knew that when this man mentioned the Reform Society, there was no more fear in his eyes.
Instead, there was a hint of mockery.
“Looks like you haven’t heard of it.”
The smile on the man’s face faded a bit.
No longer so fawning, but a mockery that no longer needed to be hidden.
“From what you’re saying, the Reform Society seems impressive.”
That Reform Society seemed to give this man tremendous confidence.
When he mentioned the Reform Society, he wasn’t even afraid of death anymore.
Even though he himself hadn’t heard of this Reform Society, the other party wasn’t afraid at all.
What kind of organization was this Reform Society?
“Of course. You have no idea what the Reform Society represents. If you did, you wouldn’t be standing in front of me so calmly.”
The man said with a smile.
“Oh? If the Reform Society is so powerful, why target me?”
“Even if I have a method of controlling fierce ghosts, it shouldn’t make your Reform Society so interested.”
“Tell me, what’s the real purpose of your Reform Society?”
“If you say the goal is me, I definitely won’t believe it.”
The method of controlling fierce ghosts was undoubtedly a fatal attraction to ordinary ghost controller organizations.
But from what this man said about the Reform Society, they probably looked down on something like this.
After all, they didn’t know his real situation.
Would Headquarters and the Circle of Friends leak that information?
He didn’t believe it.
Headquarters and the Circle of Friends now wished they could seal the news that Lin Qian could make fierce ghosts dormant to death.
They wouldn’t possibly leak Lin Qian’s intelligence.
The news Li Yong got was only that he had a method of controlling fierce ghosts.
He didn’t know that he could also make fierce ghosts dormant for others to control easily.
With such insufficient intelligence, a person with a method of controlling fierce ghosts.
Actually, to some large organizations, it wasn’t a necessity.
Of course, the premise was that this organization wasn’t from this era.
He didn’t know about the Reform Society, but he did know about the Heaven and Earth Society—though not this one, but another.
The Heaven and Earth Society that repeatedly appeared in the Republic of China era.
If nothing unexpected, the Reform Society probably had deep foundations.
“The purpose?”
The man narrowed his eyes slightly. “You’re definitely not our target.”
“In our organization, you’re just a small fry to be taken out.”
“Our real target has never been you, but! Go die!”
A chilling cold suddenly emerged, and a thick corpse stench was delivered to Lin Qian’s face by the man with a rusty little knife that appeared out of nowhere.
Just as the little knife was about to stab into Lin Qian’s body, two slender fingers suddenly appeared and clamped the little knife.
The man sneered, “Courting death!”
“Oh? Is this your confidence?”
The man suddenly froze, and the little knife in his hand suddenly felt empty.
He jerked his head up, only to see Lin Qian examining the rusty little knife he’d clamped.
There wasn’t a single injury on his body, nor any supernatural manifestation.
“Impossible!”
“How could you be completely fine!”
The man widened his eyes, full of disbelief.
“Looks like I can’t get anything out of him.”
Lin Qian watched as the man’s shocked expression quickly turned manic.
He knew he’d encountered a diehard, a ghost controller willing to die for the organization.
A chilling cold suddenly burst from the man’s body, followed by a terrifying scene.
The man’s body suddenly made cracking sounds.
The sound was like something gnawing at his bones inside his body.
The man’s expression was manic as he looked up fixedly at Lin Qian. “Die for me, you swine here! You don’t deserve to live in this world!”
“This world needs reform!”
The man shouted maniacally, lunging at Lin Qian with arms outstretched.
Lin Qian frowned, his lips moved slightly, and immediately, a ghost wind appeared.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh~!
The ghost wind instantly enveloped the man.
The man’s flesh withered, and the fierce ghost inside him was being suppressed.
The man widened his eyes, but the mania and fanaticism in them showed no change.
His expression gradually became numb, and the fanaticism in his eyes turned to dead silence.
Lin Qian’s expression shifted slightly. “This is… fierce ghost revival?”
But he was already suppressing the other’s ghost.
How could fierce ghost revival happen?
Could it be…
Lin Qian glanced at the fierce ghost behind him that he’d suppressed with one attack.
The fierce ghost showed no signs of revival.
So…
This man, truly dried up by the ghost wind, was autonomously reviving the fierce ghost!
“To kill me, he’d go this far?”
Lin Qian frowned, but soon relaxed slightly.
Lin Qian stomped on the man’s head.
Bang! The man’s body was directly stomped flat on the ground.
The spreading chilling cold on his body stopped instantly.
The man died, and the fierce ghost was directly suppressed.
Very weak, not like a ghost controller controlling two ghosts at all.
This was also why Lin Qian guessed the Reform Society had strong foundations.
This man, plus that woman, were both ghost controllers controlling two ghosts.
Looking at the man’s corpse, withered but not turned to powder and dust due to the fierce ghost.
He picked up the little knife, pondering some things.
From this situation, Da Jiang City might not be peaceful recently.
He wasn’t the main target. Since he wasn’t, this bullshit Reform Society appearing in Da Jiang City must be for something he didn’t know about.
Did Da Jiang City have anything very important?
What could it be?
Lin Qian couldn’t think of it.
But suddenly, Lin Qian’s expression changed drastically.
Without any hesitation, he retreated sharply. A ghost face mask appeared, its ghost eye staring fixedly ahead.
Darkness descended instantly.
An illusion appeared in Lin Qian’s eyes.
It was a figure sitting on a high seat.
The figure was entwined by seven or eight red chains.
Every chain was already rusty.
And beside the figure, several broken chains were scattered.
The figure sensed something.
‘It’ slowly raised its head.
Lin Qian’s ghost eye trembled slightly. What the hell was this ghost thing!
A face, an extremely eerie face. Its features were normal, just a human face.
But on its forehead, the entire forehead had an eye, a blood-red one with a point of pitch-black in it.
The eye occupied the entire forehead.
The moment it raised its head, that huge eyeball suddenly rotated.
The eye was expanding, devouring flesh, the eye growing larger.
But at that moment, those few chains suddenly tightened.
The eyeball focused, rotated a few times, and stopped.
Then, ‘it’ looked over.
The surrounding environment quickly became eerie, the darkness twisting and changing.
Lin Qian felt a chill in his heart.
The killer ghost’s ability activated instantly.
The medium was evaded, and all the eeriness before his eyes vanished instantly.
Lin Qian retreated rapidly, staring fixedly at the corpse on the ground.
What was that?
What the hell was that ghost thing!
A ghost?
Or a ghost controller?
“This guy’s mouth was tight. I didn’t get any useful information out of him.”
The mist slowly began to dissipate.
Footsteps sounded.
Wang Xiaoqiang walked over, carrying the upper half of a woman’s body.
Her intestines dragged a black blood trail on the ground.
Lin Qian glanced at the half-corpse in Wang Xiaoqiang’s hand.
Then he saw that the woman’s mouth was gone.
“Mouth tight? How tight?”
Lin Qian composed himself and asked.
“Very tight. From the start of the fight, she didn’t say a word.”
Wang Xiaoqiang said.
“Then her mouth…”
“Oh, that? At the start of the fight, she made her own mouth disappear.”
Lin Qian: …
No wonder her mouth was tight.
“Did you get anything out of your side?”
Wang Xiaoqiang was still a bit angry.
Being inexplicably attacked was one thing, but this woman he fought seemed like he’d killed her parents in a past life.
She was completely fighting him with her life.
She didn’t care at all if the fierce ghost would revive; her only goal was to kill him.
If he didn’t have a ghost domain, he might have needed Lin Qian’s help.
He now urgently wanted to know the origins of these two ghost controllers.
“Reform Society, a ghost controller organization I haven’t heard of.”
Lin Qian took out a cigarette and lit it. “Da Jiang City has a formidable organization entering.”
That eerie scene from just now was still fresh in his mind.
Reform Society?
Wang Xiaoqiang frowned. “Never heard of it. I’ll go back and ask my brother if he’s heard of it.”
From the name of this organization, it should be a domestic one.
Of course, not necessarily.
“Let’s head back first. Keep a close eye on Da Jiang City’s recent movements. Things probably won’t be peaceful next.”
These two ghost controllers came for him, but clearly, he wasn’t the main target.
Wang Xiaoqiang nodded.
“What a pity about my sports car.” Wang Xiaoqiang sighed inwardly, activated his ghost domain, and headed to the club with the fierce ghost.
Lin Qian grabbed the man’s ghost and likewise activated his ghost domain, turning into a streak of light and leaving.
…
“They’re dead.”
In a bar private room, a middle-aged man lit a cigar and looked at the woman on the opposite sofa.
The woman’s face was completely covered by a ghost mask.
Not even her chin was exposed.
“Not important. What’s important is our plan from beginning to end.”
The woman spoke in a cold, emotionless voice.
The voice was extremely eerie, as if a corpse was speaking to him right now.
The man exhaled a puff of smoke.
“Currently, the most dangerous feeling in all of Da Jiang City is that Lin Qian.”
“Oh? Do you know his strength?”
The woman said.
The man shook his head. “No, but he has a method of controlling fierce ghosts, and the success rate is much higher than in labs in various countries.”
“Li Yong and his members all perished in Da Jiang City. Their ghosts should have been collected by him.”
Speaking of Li Yong, the woman moved her fingers slightly. “Useless trash. Even together, they couldn’t shake us.”
“What about Headquarters?” the man asked.
The woman fell silent immediately.
The man sneered inwardly. “If we weren’t afraid of Headquarters, would we have to sneak around like this?”
The woman slowly raised her head. “I don’t want to hear your nonsense. Speed up the progress. Wipe out that Lin Qian. He shouldn’t exist.”
“No one with a method of controlling fierce ghosts should exist.”
With that, the woman stood up and looked down at the man.
The man sighed. “Got it, President.”
The woman heard the man’s sigh, and her motion to leave paused.
Seeing this, the man quickly stood up, his expression serious. “I said, got it, President!”
The woman nodded, and her figure slowly vanished from the private room.
…
“Reform Society?”
Wang Xiaoming flipped through Headquarters’ files.
“There’s no such ghost controller organization domestically.”
“Nor abroad.”
Wang Xiaoming closed the file and put it back.
He adjusted his earphones:
“I’ve looked into all those large organizations abroad.”
“Since the supernatural revival began: Lord, Christ, Satan, Holy Fire, Life, Death, Red Clothes, Wilderness, Light, Darkness… and so on.”
“Countless sects sprang up, but now, only one or two remain.”
“And they’re on the verge of extinction.”
“Never heard of the Reform Society. The Heaven and Earth Society did exist before the Republic of China era.”
Wang Xiaoming said softly.
“Is that so?”
Lin Qian’s voice sounded in the earphones.
“Maybe you can ask some old folks, see if they know anything.”
“I’ll go ask.”
Wang Xiaoming walked out of the file room.
“According to your speculation, Da Jiang City might be incubating danger.”
“Do you think you can handle it?”
“Can I handle it?”
In Da Jiang City, inside the club.
Lin Qian looked at the night scene outside the window.
“Not sure, but if I can’t beat it, I’ll run.”
“Mm, got it. I’ll get you results as soon as possible.”
“Be careful on your end. If it’s impossible, leave early,” Wang Xiaoming said.
Lin Qian’s gaze flickered. Outside the window, lights flowed like dragons, neon like sunset glow draping down to the world.
Beautiful as a painting.
“Run…”
“Maybe.”
“If it really comes to that, I’ll definitely run.”
Lin Qian thought to himself.
