"So it's Officer Li. We're basically freelance staff for you guys too. Usually, we're responsible for contacting Earthbound Spirits with relatively little resentment, making them happy, then helping them disperse their resentment."
"Just earning some extra cash to get by."
Captain Lu sat cross-legged on the ground and gave Li Guoqiang a simple explanation.
It also helped Li Guoqiang understand what Senior Chan Ka Kui had meant in that earlier phone call.
So they were freelance staff. It seemed Senior Li Jie had been right—though the work looked busy, there were plenty of helpers.
And they even had the authority to seal off a public place with a single order. The Miscellaneous Affairs Department was truly no simple organization!
It seemed Senior Chow Sing Sing had been right as well. Getting promoted here should be easy.
Li Guoqiang had always been exceptionally bold and quick to adapt. Now that he saw even an ordinary coward like Captain Lu could help deal with Ghosts, he no longer felt ghosts were such a big deal.
They were just creepy on a psychological level, that was all.
"Officer Li, don't let your guard down. The main reason we've been safe is because we have these protective talismans."
Captain Lu was practically at the level of a neighborhood committee auntie, and he was very good at reading people. He immediately noticed Li Guoqiang's indifference and proceeded to explain how terrifying Mr. and Mrs. Li had been during Haunted Night.
That reminded Li Guoqiang of what Li Jie had once said. It seemed that, in the past, people had needed to fill the gap with their lives!
"Leon said that if someone is possessed by a Ghost, then without talismans like these, an ordinary person will directly lose their three souls and seven spirits, becoming