Wan Qing immediately sprang up from the sofa. Only the lower half of her face showed beneath her hood, and the corners of her mouth curled up. "Then what should we do? Kill him?"
She looked eager.
Zhou Yucheng shook his head. "That won't do."
"Leaving aside the fact that Red Ghost is incredibly powerful right now, who knows how many people we'd have to sacrifice to kill him?"
"Besides, for an expert of this level, it's extremely difficult to create an environment capable of trapping him."
"And if he escaped, the consequences would be endless."
"Furthermore, Red Ghost is currently overseeing the overall situation in the south. We've only just opened up the situation—if we kill him now, who can take his place?"
"Just the monsters in the Gou Mang Department alone would be impossible for anyone to suppress."
"Once Red Ghost died, the Gou Mang Department would inevitably fracture."
"The south's hard-won opening would certainly collapse. It wouldn't be so easy to recreate a situation like this afterward."
"So no matter how you look at it, we can't touch Red Ghost."
Wan Qing tugged at her hat and sat back down on the sofa. "Tch. What a bore."
Zhou Yucheng glanced at her. "You've fought Red Ghost before. You should know that I'm not making baseless claims."
With a flip of her hand, Wan Qing produced a dagger. She trimmed her nails with it as she said, "Since we can't kill him, how do you plan to deal with Red Ghost?"
"I don't believe you'll just let him continue developing like this."
Zhou Yucheng sighed. "The most commonly used and most ideal method in the past was to have the various departments restrain one another."
"But that method won't work against Red Ghost. He's too strong—strong enough to