B-Class Assessment

Shangjing City.

City center.

A skyscraper that pierced the clouds stood at the very heart of the city.

From the top of the building, one could overlook the entire city.

Wang Ye looked at the magnificent structure, and the corner of his mouth twitched involuntarily. Seeing Sun Qian introduce it with such pride, he was completely speechless.

If he remembered correctly, around three years later, an A-Class Supernatural Incident would erupt at Heaven Group Headquarters—this very building.

Because the building

was so tall, the people inside would have no time to escape.

Countless would be killed and injured.

After that, Heaven Group learned its lesson and switched to rows of single-story buildings.

Upon entering the building, Wang Ye found only a simple reception desk in the spacious first-floor lobby. A pretty young woman approached him with a smile.

"You must be Wang Ye."

Wang Ye nodded faintly.

"I've received the minister's notice. I'll take you to your assessment now. Please follow me." The girl spoke with a professional smile.

As she spoke, she opened the elevator and pressed the button for the thirteenth floor.

"Good luck. What happens next is no longer my responsibility." Sun Qian stood at the elevator entrance and spoke to Wang Ye before turning and leaving.

The elevator doors slowly closed. The girl stood behind him, looking at Wang Ye with curiosity.

She did not understand why the minister had sent an ordinary person to the thirteenth floor for an assessment.

Soon, the elevator came to a stop.

The girl led Wang Ye out.

The moment Wang Ye stepped out of the elevator, he instinctively looked around.

The thirteenth floor was completely empty. It seemed vast, frighteningly quiet; he could even hear the echo of the girl's voice.

"Assessment content: Find the source of the ghost on the thirteenth floor and seal it."

After introducing the rules according to procedure, the girl returned to the elevator and left at great speed.

As though something terrifying lurked on the thirteenth floor.

With the girl gone, the thirteenth floor became utterly silent.

A chilling aura drifted over, and Wang Ye frowned slightly.

The B-Class assessment was to independently seal a ghost? The difficulty was rather high.

At the current level of Superhumans, most of them could not manage independent containment and instead operated in teams.

Heaven Group seemed to think rather highly of itself.

And Heaven Group seemed a little too bold. They actually dared release a ghost inside Headquarters. If something went wrong, the losses would be enormous.

Before he knew it, the lights seemed affected by a magnetic field, flickering erratically.

"So it's starting?"

Feeling the change in the atmosphere around him, Wang Ye muttered to himself.

A Hemp Rope slowly slid out from the cuff of his left sleeve, and he took it into his hand.

At some point, a Golden Needle forged entirely from gold had appeared between the index and middle fingers of his right hand.

Though fully prepared, Wang Ye did not move. Instead, he stood in place as if silently waiting for something.

Before he understood a ghost's killing pattern, any unnecessary action could cost him his life.

"This young man is quite steady."

Behind a massive screen, a middle-aged man looked at Wang Ye's figure and nodded involuntarily.

Remaining calm in a crisis like this showed that his mental fortitude was not bad.

"But he's still an ordinary person. Do you really think he can contain a ghost by himself? Even if it's a modified ghost."

Beside the middle-aged man, a Young Man with flowing long hair frowned, his eyes filled with deep skepticism.

"Hehe, why insist that he be able to seal the ghost?" The middle-aged man chuckled. "This is only an assessment, not a mission, right?"

The Young Man's gaze deepened, and he said nothing more.

Three minutes later.

Other than feeling a little cold, Wang Ye experienced no other abnormalities.

"Is it hiding?"

"Or have I not triggered its killing pattern?"

Wang Ye frowned and continuously observed his surroundings beneath the flickering lights.

"Looks like waiting for the rabbit is unrealistic."

Sure enough, how could an assessment like this be so simple? If that was the case, then why not take the initiative?

In his previous life, he had always believed that

as long as one grasped a ghost's killing pattern, even an ordinary person could contain it with ease.

Of course,

for the unsolvable kind, and those that killed indiscriminately,

one could only pray to live a little longer.

Wang Ye slowly walked forward, but no matter where he went, he firmly remained in the open central area.

As for sticking close to the walls or anything like that—

that was practically courting death.

He might not even know when the ghost appeared or attacked before dying for no reason.

But Wang Ye did not notice that

as he walked forward, his shadow was strangely left behind in its original spot, constantly swaying.

After a long while,

the shadow struggled and slowly rose from the floor. Tilting its head as it watched Wang Ye's retreating back, it then hid in the darkness and quietly followed him.

"Nothing?"

After searching the entire floor once, Wang Ye spoke softly.

But that made sense.

If it were a highly aggressive ghost, then this assessment would be no different from murder.

But now, it seemed the hardest part of this mission was not the final sealing, but finding it.

Hide-and-seek?

Interesting.

A trace of excitement appeared in Wang Ye's eyes.

"Heh, foolish ordinary person."

The long-haired Young Man yawned boredly and completely lost interest in Wang Ye.

From his perspective, Wang Ye looked like an idiot, wandering aimlessly from side to side.

"No, look carefully."

The middle-aged man shook his head. "He seems to have already noticed something is wrong."

"It's only been ten minutes."

"I remember when you took this assessment, it took you around thirty minutes to notice the anomaly."

As he spoke, the middle-aged man pointed at Wang Ye, who had already stopped moving on the screen.

"Hmph!" The long-haired Young Man snorted disdainfully, but his gaze returned to the screen.

"There are barely any hiding places on this entire floor. The places where a ghost could hide are pitifully few."

"Then where"

"is it?"

Wang Ye closed his eyes. A floor plan of the entire level emerged in his mind as he pondered continuously.

One minute later.

Wang Ye suddenly opened his eyes, a sharp gleam flashing through them.

"Found you!"