Raising Ghosts Takes Restraint

"What's wrong with Gambling Ghost?" Dunn looked puzzled. Sai Chi looked slightly embarrassed, but still told the truth:

"It went berserk; everyone in the entire research lab, including the surrounding facilities, was killed. Not a single person survived."

"That's impossible!" Dunn's expression of bewilderment deepened, as if he had heard a rather unfunny joke. He tapped his head and said:

"Although that Gambling Ghost has been filled with cognition, it is still just Gambling Ghost at heart. As long as you don't gamble with it, it's only a second-tier ghost, far from being a powerful ghost capable of self-observation. Even if you can't catch it with Preservative Film, you can freeze it by focusing a lot of your gaze!"

Hearing Dunn's words, Sai Chi's expression became even more awkward. Seeing his expression, Dunn didn't wait for him to explain and suddenly said:

"You made a bet with it?"

"Just a researcher's private matter..."

"Don't talk about private matters!" Dunn interrupted Sai Chi somewhat rudely, speaking directly:

"I don't care if you did it purely for research, to gain more lifespan, or if it was a mistake made by Temporary Worker. Just tell me the truth, how many people actually gambled on it?"

"Um, this..." Sai Chi looked thoughtful, and through the Mirror of Clarity, Dunn clearly understood that he was indeed thinking, so he did not urge him.

After a long pause, as if he had finally sorted out his thoughts, he said hesitantly:

"I'm not entirely sure of the exact number, but conservatively speaking, it should be over twenty..."

"So, how many people were in that area where everyone was wiped out?" Dunn narrowed his eyes and pressed on with a somewhat forceful tone.

Sai Chi didn't hesitate this time and said directly:

"Approximately two thousand people, including a research team of about fifty people and an armed force of about two hundred, plus some others, um..."

"Human experimentation supplies, is that it?" Dunn bluntly exposed the other person's thoughts, then solemnly uttered a single syllable:

"Grass!"

"Ah?"

Unexpectedly, this gentleman uttered such a sound in such a serious context. Sai Chi was stunned and didn't react for a long time. Then he looked at the other party awkwardly, wanting to get angry, but then he remembered that he was the one who needed the man's help, so he could only wait awkwardly for what was to come.

In fact, if it were just a research institute, let alone the Mystery Financial Group behind it, even the research and development department under Constantine wouldn't care. Even if they were concerned about the potential disaster, they would just launch a thermobaric bomb.

But the problem lies in the peculiarities of that Gambling Ghost himself.

Major conglomerates have collected countless ghosts, so why are they so particularly fond of this Gambling Ghost? It's because it possesses the ability to reverse aging.

Ultimately, all humans are afraid of death. No matter how wealthy one is, death is inevitable for everyone.

But this Gambling Ghost possessed a power to resist death, and the older board members naturally wouldn't let go of this opportunity to prolong his life.

On the one hand, the board members would not allow the use of destructive methods, because that would extinguish any hope of immortality.

On the other hand, they cannot delay, because in this era where satellites are everywhere in the sky, the anomaly at the research institute will soon be discovered. At that time, it will not just be a war involving a few hundred mechs. Considering the average age of the board of directors of major conglomerates, it may even escalate into a world war.

Even gentlemen who aren't that old won't miss this opportunity. After all, aside from young men under twenty, who can't feel the "footsteps" of time?

Seeing that Sai Chi did not respond for a long time, Dunn sighed and said:

"An enemy of this level cannot be dealt with by conventional means; I need a large amount of consumables."

"What kind of consumables do you need? Our Mystery Financial Group will fully support you!" Sai Chi said immediately upon hearing this. Dunn shook his head and said:

"The type doesn't matter. Find me a supermarket, and by whatever means necessary, dump everything inside onto the 'battlefield.' I want to be able to pick up whatever I want whenever I want it."

"Supermarket?" Sai Chi's expression turned strange, and he said with a look of incomprehension:

"Our Mystery Financial Group possesses state-of-the-art industrial systems and high-precision 3D printing equipment. We can produce anything you need within 24 hours. There's no need for..."

"Absolutely necessary!" Dunn interrupted Sai Chi again, his extremely serious eyes fixed on Sai Chi's, and said in an almost commanding tone:

"What I want are those things that are readily available in everyday life!"

"You have to understand, the reason I livestream ghost hunting, use Preservative Film and chocolate chips, and have my employees livestream selling products while hunting ghosts is to reduce the impression that 'ghosts are scary'."

"But you used thousands of lives to feed me a huge monster!"

"To make sure you self-proclaimed high-society, highly educated folks understand this, I've made ghost hunting as 'comedic' as possible!"

"Only when everyone feels that ghosts are 'not scary' can they be defeated more easily, you understand? People need to feel that no matter where they see a ghost, they can simply Qidian random Miscellaneous Item and deal with it. It has to have that effect! Do you understand what I mean?"

"Yes, I understand!" Sai Chi, feeling quite guilty after being yelled at by Dunn, replied while wiping the cold sweat from his brow, adding a token question:

Are there any other needs?

"Yes, I need to do a live stream. Keep the viewership on the Live Broadcast Platform high. This guy is so fat, who knows what those people he killed were thinking before they died? I need a large audience to dilute the lingering echoes of those deaths." Dunn let out a long sigh, and his tone became calmer.

Sai Chi wrote down every single detail, then nodded and said:

"So when do we begin? And can we capture this ghost alive?"

"Capturing it alive is certainly possible, but are you sure you still intend to research this thing? Let me make this clear first, I don't think anyone can actually beat it through gambling, unless you can get millions of people to genuinely believe that this thing is a terrible gamble." Dunn's casual remark caught Sai Chi's eye. He memorized this "strategy tip" and then took out a gold card from the Mystery Financial Group, saying:

"This is our group's VIP card, which can be used at any of our group's businesses. We need eight hours to prepare your request. When would be a good time for you to depart?"

"Once you've prepared the venue, I can set off. But if I may ask, where exactly is it located?" Dunn took the gold card, pondering whether to acquire a few mechs to bring back to the real world for Yan Kingdom to study. Sai Chi calmly replied:

"Outside the city, it's about a two-hour flight."