Chapter 73: The Headquarters Old Man’s Choice And Warning
The eve of danger is always calm.
Wang Xiao Ming rarely put down his research and sat beside an old man.
Accompanying the old man watching the trickling water in the backyard.
Koi fish representing auspiciousness, good fortune, and luck swam in the water.
The old man leaned on a cane, his turbid eyes blankly staring at the fish playing and swimming freely in the water.
“Reform Society.”
The old man’s gaze flickered slightly, “Just rekindling embers.”
“Nothing but their final madness.”
“What kind of organization is the Reform Society?” Wang Xiao Ming asked naturally.
“Not important.”
The old man shook his head, “It’s too early for you to know now.”
“You only need to know that the Reform Society is an organization full of danger to the living.”
Wang Xiao Ming: “Cult?”
Old man: “More cult-like than a cult.”
“Compared to them, cults can only be considered kind.”
“You should have read the supernatural event report for Da Jiang City. What’s your overall impression?”
The supernatural event in Da Jiang City had ended two days ago.
Handled very quickly.
Probably in the domestic area, Da Jiang City was the only city where an A-level supernatural event appeared on the same day and was handled on the same day.
Casualties were limited only to the area covered by the ghost domain.
Although there were still heavy casualties, compared to past A-level supernatural events, this casualty ratio was still acceptable.
“Dangerous. The Reform Society deliberately revives fierce ghosts. According to intelligence provided by Lin Qian, they are raising ghosts.”
“But it’s unclear what their purpose is for raising ghosts, though it can’t be anything good.”
The old man nodded, “That’s the Reform Society’s style. Ghosts are the most important, humans are the lowest.”
“They advocate for humans and ghosts to coexist peacefully.”
Hmm?
Wang Xiao Ming was stunned, “Humans and ghosts coexist peacefully?”
“They…”
Wang Xiao Ming really wanted to say if the Reform Society was out of their minds?
Humans and ghosts coexisting peacefully, is that even possible?
“Not what you think. The ‘humans’ they refer to are not ordinary people.”
The old man shook his head, “No more on that.”
In this era, the Reform Society’s theories are still too advanced.
Wang Xiao Ming was also a smart person. Before deeply understanding the characteristics of fierce ghosts, if he learned the Reform Society’s ideals, he might go astray.
The harm caused by a ghost controller going astray is nothing more than some deaths.
But a scientist, and one in a position of great power going astray.
The harm caused would be far greater than that of a ghost controller.
The old man didn’t linger on the topic, “Da Jiang City will have a crisis.”
“A very big crisis.”
“Give this letter to Lin Qian and see his choice.”
Wang Xiao Ming took the yellowed letter the old man pulled from his pocket.
“Crisis?”
“A supernatural event?”
“Can we handle it in advance?”
The old man waved his hand, “You have a similar trouble to handle.”
“Da Jiang City, leave it to Lin Qian and them.”
“Since he chose to take on Da Jiang City, he must be mentally prepared to maintain Da Jiang City’s safety.”
Wang Xiao Ming fell somewhat silent. A similar trouble?
What could it be?
“Go.” The old man waved his hand.
Seeing this, Wang Xiao Ming didn’t say more and left very straightforwardly.
He had asked what he could, knew what he should, and couldn’t know what he couldn’t, no matter what.
Da Jiang City.
Lin Qian was reading a letter in his hand.
The letter was delivered by someone sent from headquarters.
Wang Xiao Ming said it was given to him by an old man from headquarters.
Saying to see his choice.
The content of the letter was nothing unusual.
It only recorded a future stop location for a bus.
And some reminders.
The letter said a crisis would appear in Da Jiang City.
Very dangerous. With his current strength, he was not sufficient to handle the future danger.
The person who wrote the letter gave him some choices.
1: Board the bus and get off at Stop 15, where there will be a puzzle piece for one of the fierce ghosts on you.
2: Do nothing, wait for the danger to arrive, then desperately handle it.
3: Before the danger arrives, flee Da Jiang City.
A total of three choices.
Lin Qian put down the letter.
His brows furrowed:
“Is Da Jiang City that dangerous?”
Lin Qian had a rough idea who wrote the letter.
Headquarters, Qin Lao.
That old man whom Yang Jian jokingly called headquarters’ mascot.
Actually, when crossing over to mysterious revival, Lin Qian’s biggest worry was turning around and encountering an old man with a cane.
Once he saw that old man, Lin Qian would realize he was about to die.
But fortunately, from beginning to end until now, he hadn’t met that old man.
Yet from this letter, the other party had already noticed him.
“Has it not affected the future?”
“Or did I still play a role in the future?”
Lin Qian put away the letter. The three choices given by the old man.
No matter how he looked, there was only one choice.
“Some trouble.”
Lin Qian sighed. He had planned to lie low, honestly guarding Da Jiang City and living off this plot of land.
The two revived ghosts on him: the ghost performer was detained very securely and basically wouldn’t escape outside.
The killer ghost’s puzzle pieces were still unknown.
Revived ghosts wouldn’t affect him.
Only the ghost messenger’s supernatural aspects were somewhat troublesome.
But so what?
He had already thought of three methods to handle the ghost messenger, and the fourth was about to come out.
Although the ghost messenger was terrifying, it was the easiest to handle.
Enemies were just Taiping Ancient Town.
But guarding Da Jiang City and trading with headquarters circle of friends, his strength would visibly grow stronger.
He didn’t believe that if a few crashed ghosts couldn’t kill He Liansheng and them, then controlling a dozen or dozens of crashed fierce ghosts still couldn’t kill He Liansheng and them?
What a joke.
He’d bury their graves without knowing where.
Guaranteed win.
“Most annoying when someone makes choices for me.”
Lin Qian stood up and walked toward the warehouse storing detained fierce ghosts.
He guessed the old man at headquarters wanted him to take the path of completing the ghost play troupe.
Although he thought the same, he wasn’t in that much of a hurry.
He wouldn’t go to Caesar Grand Hotel for now.
He didn’t plan to go to the ghost post office either.
The ghost ship abroad…
Couldn’t go there.
Wang Family Old House?
Might not come back if he went.
His idea was simple: rely on fierce ghosts provided by headquarters and circle of friends to grow, then sweep Taiping Ancient Town and control that ghost opera stage.
Then go to the ghost post office, followed by Caesar Grand Hotel, then Wang Family Old House, and finally go abroad.
During this, he also needed to find some unknown ghost play troupe puzzle pieces.
Only when everything was ready would he go abroad before the national war.
But clearly, the old man at headquarters didn’t want him to lie low.
No, the other party was using this opportunity to make him move.
“Hope my guess is wrong.”
Lin Qian thought this way.
The next day, Lin Qian stayed in the warehouse, making fierce ghosts crash.
Si Zeyuan’s corpse had been buried. The two ghosts in his body, and the other one, had also been made to crash and stored in the warehouse.
After making the ghosts sent by headquarters and circle of friends crash, and also crashing the one detained this time, he left the warehouse.
“Lin Qian.”
“What’s up?”
Lin Qian looked at Wang Xiaoqiang, whose expression was somewhat grave, and asked.
“Lu Lin is almost unable to hold on.”
Lin Qian paused, then thought, immediately understanding, “What did headquarters say?”
Lu Lin’s fierce ghost was about to revive entirely because of handling that supernatural event before.
“Headquarters sent an A-level fierce ghost, wanting you to help Lu Lin control it.”
“Relying on headquarters, Lu Lin cannot control a second ghost.”
“Extremely low success rate.”
Wang Xiao Ming was currently mainly researching the fierce ghost Lin Qian sent over.
Secondarily, research on controlling fierce ghosts.
This led to no breakthrough progress in the success rate of controlling a second ghost.
Especially for fierce ghosts with very terrifying internal fierce ghosts, the control success rate remained the same.
The more terrifying the ghost to control, the faster the revival, the harder to suppress.
Abroad, there was a special case.
An ordinary person extremely luckily controlled an S-level fierce ghost.
Then, in an extremely short time, the fierce ghost revived.
“Where is the ghost?”
Lin Qian asked.
Lu Lin was actually a pretty good person.
To put it bluntly, changing to another person in charge wouldn’t do as well as Lu Lin.
As a headquarters ghost controller, after taking the position of person in charge in Da Jiang City, he acted more like a member of his club.
This was very interesting.
Regardless of the other’s stance, this attitude made him very comfortable.
“Right outside. I’ll arrange for it to be sent over immediately.”
Wang Xiaoqiang said.
Lin Qian nodded, “Good.”
Wang Xiaoqiang didn’t hesitate, went out, and quickly arranged for the box containing the fierce ghost to be sent over.
Soon, Lin Qian exited the warehouse again.
A golden coffin was urgently sent out of the club.
In the office.
“I plan to go out for a trip. Might take a while.”
Wang Xiaoqiang was stunned upon hearing this, “You’re going out again?”
“What for?”
“Not planning to pick a fight with Taiping Ancient Town again, right?”
Uh…
“I want to, but my strength doesn’t allow it.”
Taiping Ancient Town was very quiet now, letting headquarters people demolish and plan it.
Based on Lin Qian’s understanding of those old men, they couldn’t possibly sit idly by.
So, two possibilities: either they hadn’t left the ghost painting yet, or they planned to hole up and prepare a big move.
The former was fine, the latter… not so good.
“I have something to do outside, and I have to go.”
A ghost performer very likely detained in a supernatural land, how could he give that up?
Currently, the killer ghost had the highest terror level.
But he never used the killer ghost for damage; it was for dodging damage.
Main damage was still from the ghost performer.
Put on the mask, open the ghost eye, killing pattern triggers instantly.
Combined with the sneak attack ghost’s killing pattern and the ghost messenger’s suppression power.
If a glance didn’t kill, he’d suppress face-to-face.
No need for the killer ghost’s killing pattern at all.
“In the warehouse, all are ghosts that have gone silent.”
“When you think it’s very dangerous, you can arrange for members to control them.”
“But remember, don’t control too many, or there will be problems.”
“You and Ye Feng can choose to control A-level fierce ghosts. There are currently only two A-level fierce ghosts in the warehouse; cherish them yourselves.”
“Don’t reveal these things, be careful of someone raiding the base.”
“Also…”
At this point, Lin Qian suddenly paused, as if he had missed something.
Soon, he remembered what he missed.
“After I leave, directly arrange for people to control fierce ghosts. You and Ye Feng go first.”
Wang Xiaoqiang was stunned, “So urgent?”
Although he was happy to control ghosts, Lin Qian being this urgent definitely meant there was a problem.
“With your current strength, I’m afraid when I return, the club will be wiped out,” Lin Qian said flatly.
Wang Xiaoqiang: ???
Lin Qian was also somewhat helpless, “Truth is, the gap between your strength and mine is too big.”
“No experience in handling supernatural events either.”
“If the Reform Society comes looking for trouble, you’d be 100% wiped out.”
Wang Xiaoqiang: …
“It’s settled then. Guard the home well. Your president, that is me, is going out to catch some useful ghosts to bring back for you.”
Uh…
Why did this sound a bit off?
“I’ve left things for you. That small knife has also been handled; you can all use it without cost.”
“But note, you can use it without cost, others can too.”
“Da Jiang City is left to you.”
Lin Qian stood up, patted Wang Xiaoqiang’s shoulder, “Guard the home well, don’t let me come back to find the club gone.”
Wang Xiaoqiang: …
Before Wang Xiaoqiang could speak, Lin Qian had already disappeared.
Wang Xiaoqiang was silent. Wait, open ghost domain to travel?
In such a hurry?
Whatever, get used to it.
Wang Xiaoqiang forcibly convinced himself that a club’s president didn’t have to be at the club all the time, as long as he was there when it mattered.
Besides, their president cared about the members before leaving, planning their backup.
Mm, though he didn’t leave contact info, Wang Xiaoqiang felt it was enough.
If real danger came, with the club’s soon-to-rise strength, they should be able to handle it.
Lin Qian left.
Though he felt the organization he created was somewhat chicken rib.
But only for now.
Once he improved the members’ strength so they could stand on their own.
He’d have a backup.
He absolutely wouldn’t be like Ye Zhen, with the strong playing strong-man games dragging the weak.
Later, the entire organization destroyed, not a single one able to resist.
He created the organization not to protect them.
But to seek convenience for his own future.
Could reference Yang Jian’s ghost controller team.
Except for Li Yang, the rest were useless.
Mm, especially Tong Qian.
Lin Qian left, Wang Xiaoqiang didn’t hesitate and quickly gathered members to control fierce ghosts.
Though Lin Qian didn’t say it explicitly, Wang Xiaoqiang knew Da Jiang City might have some trouble soon.
As for the Reform Society, they might really come for revenge.
Although Lin Qian leaving at this time inevitably seemed like deserting before battle.
But knowing Lin Qian, Wang Xiaoqiang felt he wasn’t that kind of person.
Moreover, if Lin Qian was deserting, why would he think of improving their strength and preparing new fierce ghosts for them?
Clearly impossible.
Moreover, Wang Xiaoqiang saw this as an opportunity.
As long as they could guard the club, even if two members died, it wouldn’t matter.
If the price of growth is death, it’s still worth it.
An organization of trash is still a trash organization.
Wang Xiaoqiang deeply understood that for an organization to be strong, it wasn’t enough to just have a strong leader.
Impossible.
Only the individual is strong, not the others.
They members and subordinates needed to grow.
Da Jiang City was full of undercurrents and strange waves.
Meanwhile, in a dim meeting room.
A few people sat sparsely.
An unknown meeting began.
