B-Class Assessment

Shangjing City.

City center.

A towering skyscraper, piercing 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, the corner of his mouth twitching involuntarily. Seeing Sun Qian introduce it with such pride, he was utterly speechless.

If he remembered correctly, in about three years, the Heavenly Group headquarters, which was this very building, would become the site of an A-Class supernatural event.

Because the building was so tall, people inside had no time to escape.

Countless lives were lost.

After that, the Heavenly Group learned its lesson and switched to a campus of low-rise buildings arranged side-by-side.

Entering the building, the spacious first floor had only a simple reception desk. A beautiful young woman greeted him with a smile.

"You must be Wang Ye."

Wang Ye nodded faintly.

"I've received notice from the Minister and will take you for your assessment now. Please follow me." The girl's face held a professional smile as she spoke.

With that, the girl opened the elevator and pressed the button for the 13th floor.

"Good luck. What happens next is no longer my responsibility," Sun Qian said as he watched Wang Ye at the elevator entrance, then turned and left.

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

She couldn't understand why the Minister would have an ordinary person go to the 13th floor for an assessment.

Soon, the elevator stopped.

The girl led Wang Ye out.

Wang Ye stepped out of the elevator and instinctively looked around.

The 13th floor was empty, appearing vast and eerily quiet. He could even hear the echo of the girl's voice.

"Assessment objective: Find the source of the ghost on the 13th floor and seal it."

After explaining the rules according to procedure, the girl returned to the elevator and left at an extremely rapid pace.

It was as if something terrifying was on the 13th floor.

As the girl departed, the 13th floor fell completely silent.

A chilling aura washed over him, and Wang Ye frowned slightly.

A B-Class assessment task was to independently seal a ghost? That difficulty was a bit high.

Given the current level of ability users, most of them couldn't capture a ghost alone; they operated in teams.

The Heavenly Group overestimated itself.

Moreover, the Heavenly Group was too bold to dare to unleash a ghost in their headquarters. If any mistake occurred, the losses would be extremely severe.

Unbeknownst to him, the lights seemed to flicker, affected by some magnetic field.

"It's starting already?"

Wang Ye murmured to himself, sensing the change in the atmosphere around him.

A rope slowly slid down his left sleeve, and he caught it in his hand.

On the index and middle fingers of his right hand, a golden needle, crafted entirely from gold, appeared at some point.

Despite being well-prepared, Wang Ye didn't act. Instead, he stood in place, seemingly waiting for something.

Without understanding the ghost's killing pattern, any unnecessary action could cost him his life.

"This young man is quite composed."

Behind a large screen, a middle-aged man watched Wang Ye's figure and nodded involuntarily.

In this situation, remaining calm under pressure showed decent psychological fortitude.

"But he's just an ordinary person, after all. Do you really think he can capture a ghost alone? Even if it's a modified ghost."

Next to the middle-aged man, a young man with flowing long hair frowned, his eyes filled with deep doubt.

"Heh, why force him to be able to seal the ghost?" The middle-aged man chuckled. "After all, this is just an assessment, not a mission, right?"

The young man's gaze deepened, and he said no more.

Three minutes later.

Other than feeling a slight chill, Wang Ye experienced no other abnormalities.

"Is it hiding?"

"Or have I failed to trigger its killing pattern?"

Wang Ye frowned, using the flickering light to constantly observe his surroundings.

"It seems waiting for the rabbit is unrealistic."

As expected, how could this kind of assessment be so simple? If that's the case, what about taking the initiative?

In his past life, the belief he had always held was:

As long as one understood the ghost's killing pattern, even an ordinary person could easily capture it.

Of course, For unsolvable class ghosts, or those that killed indiscriminately, one could only pray to survive a little longer.

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

As for leaning against the wall or anything like that...

That was equivalent to seeking death.

He might not even know when the ghost appeared or when it attacked, dying inexplicably.

But what Wang Ye didn't notice was...

As he walked forward, his shadow bizarrely remained in place, shaking continuously.

After a long while...

The shadow struggled, slowly rising from the ground, tilting its head to look at Wang Ye's retreating back, then it hid in the darkness and quietly followed.

"Nothing?"

After searching the entire floor, Wang Ye said in a low voice.

However, this made sense...

If it were a ghost with strong offensive capabilities, this assessment task would be no different from a murder.

But now it seemed the most difficult part of the task wasn't the final sealing, but finding it.

Hide-and-seek?

Interesting.

A hint of excitement flickered in Wang Ye's eyes.

"Heh, foolish ordinary person."

The long-haired youth yawned boredly, completely losing interest in Wang Ye.

From his perspective, Wang Ye looked like an idiot, wandering around aimlessly.

"No, look closely."

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

"It's only been 10 minutes."

"I remember it took you about 30 minutes to realize something was off when you did this assessment task."

The middle-aged man said, pointing at Wang Ye on the screen, who was now standing still.

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

"There are almost no hiding places on this entire floor, so the ghost has very few places to hide."

"Then where..."

"Is he..."

Wang Ye closed his eyes, the floor plan of the entire building appearing in his mind as he pondered.

One minute later.

Wang Ye's eyes snapped open, a sharp glint flashing within them.

"Found you!"