Trojan Horse Plan

Listening to this strange Weird Tale in broken English with a bizarre accent, Jeston was both amused and exasperated. But regardless, the other party did have the willingness and ability to communicate, which made things easier.

He looked at Feng Xue with interest, but also understood that Fran's feelings needed to be considered, so he said to Fran:

"Dr. Fran, this ghost is quite interesting. Let's keep it for now. If you want to experiment, you can start with something else first. After all, ghosts won't live here for very long, will they?"

"You're right." Fran scanned Feng Xue with his one eye, but in the end, he didn't confront Jeston directly. After all, this prison was Jeston's property, and his men were all Jeston's men. There was no point in arguing in a place like this.

He casually pointed to a number in the prison, and two burly prison guards immediately opened the iron gate, beat him with sticks, and then dragged the unfortunate man out of the prison.

Seeing the pitiful state of their compatriot, others couldn't help but feel a sense of shared sorrow, but Feng Xue was relieved that the Wheelchair man had already left. She then Victorian:

"Canyon Spikeschainis?"

Although the sentence sounded quite non-standard to Jeston was much more standard than those sentences that even Victorians had to think for a long time to understand.

Only...

Why would this ghost ask in the Yan Country Language?

Is he more fluent in Yan Country Language than in Victorian?

Unfortunately, Jeston is a rich second-generation who runs a private prison, and mastering a foreign language is simply not within his scope of business, let alone the notoriously difficult Yan Country Language.

Of course, with the funds he had, hiring a Yan Country Language translator wouldn't be a problem. However, Jeston was also a little worried that the translator might mislead him. After all, he had heard the joke about "a bank robber who couldn't speak English being tricked into revealing his hiding place by a translator, only to be told he Tough Talk." What if this ghost said something important, and the translator didn't tell him? Wouldn't that be a huge loss?

This is a ghost that can communicate!

Seeing Jeston hesitate, Feng Xue roughly understood that this person did not understand Yan language, so she added:

"Dexed Nari!"

After listening to the broken English for a while, Jeston finally realized what it meant, and immediately clapped his hands and said:

"Yeah! A dictionary! Jon, go get me a complete Yan-Victorian Dictionary! The most comprehensive one!"

"Understood, boss." One of his bodyguards immediately nodded and left the corridor. Seeing that he couldn't communicate in a short time, Jeston got a little bored and simply had a chair brought over so he could slow down his speech and talk to this interesting ghost.

Jeston wasn't entirely ignorant about ghosts; after all, his father was incredibly wealthy, and in the Federal Columbia, money meant everything.

Although his youngest son was not well-liked and probably wouldn't inherit much of the estate, he could still learn some secrets. It was because of this that he could understand to some extent just how beneficial a communicative ghost could be.

Although to the ignorant commoners, the ghosts brought mostly slaughter and suffering, what did that have to do with Jeston? All he could see were the benefits the ghosts brought!

Those Magical Item cost a fortune!

Because ghosts cannot be communicated with, they can only obtain Magical Item by hunting them. As for where these magical trinkets come from, no one can figure it out. But now, a ghost that can communicate has appeared. Does this mean that they can finally know the origin of those Magical Item?

However, Feng Xue's Victorian vocabulary was really limited. Even after racking her brains, she could only recall words like school, parents, grandparents, and morning, noon, and evening. As for more nouns... well, Saber, Lancer, and Rider should count, right?

The communication breakdown quickly wore down Jeston's patience. He sat back down in his chair and waited quietly for his subordinate to return. However, what returned first was not a dictionary, but a USB drive.

"Boss, this is Calomi just sent back." The bodyguard handed Jeston a USB drive with a mobile phone interface. Upon hearing this, Jeston immediately plugged it into his Smart Phone, and soon, a picture of an abandoned street appeared on the phone's media player.

He noticed that Jeston had sped up and skipped the entire waiting process, since he had seen this boring waiting scene several times before.

The Trojan Horse Plan, in essence, is surprisingly simple.

Although they can't create doors, they can pinpoint the disappearing person. Once they confirm someone has indeed vanished, they can stake out the place where the person disappeared. If a ghost appears, they'll kill it—this is currently the mainstream strategy for hunting ghosts to obtain Magical Item. (Chen Xiyao ran away from home, and no one knows exactly where she disappeared.)

The Trojan Horse Plan was an upgraded version of the plan, developed based on information Dr. Fran overheard on the other side of the door. It involved letting the ghost that had come out stay, waiting for the ravaged, unrecognizable Spiritual Possessor to return, then forcibly preventing the door from closing, and shoving in a person with a time bomb implanted in their body, leaving that person to die on the other side of the door.

According to Dr. Fran, the death of a real person there would cause a terrible disaster, which might force out more ghosts. Of course, the first experiment failed. The person was sent there, but no more ghosts came out from behind the door. At the time, Jeston thought he had been tricked by Fran. However, about twenty days later, a large number of ghosts did appear near the place where the person was sent.

(To avoid anyone thinking too much, let me just mention this: Fran was unaware of the Landfill Area reconstruction project; he simply intended to use a suicide bomber for revenge, but unexpectedly succeeded.)

However, this experiment required passively waiting for someone to disappear, and it was impossible to determine when or where the ghosts would erupt. This experiment had been conducted five times since Jeston picked up Fran, but this was the first time the ghosts had been successfully stopped.

The video flashed by quickly before his eyes. Suddenly, Jeston's eyes lit up. As the door opened, the scene of the ghosts rushing out with excitement and fervor, only to be mowed down by bullets, filled him with indescribable excitement. But the next moment, his brows furrowed, because he saw that this ghost who spoke Victorian had actually summoned a golden chest!

Then, he actually put several things into that box!

As the box vanished into thin air, Jeston's eyes turned red. Although he didn't know what had been thrown in, Jeston put himself in Jeston's shoes and felt that it must have been Magical Item!

We must make that ghost hand over all those Magical Item!

This was Jeston's first thought, but it was quickly replaced by another, more fervent idea—

Why does this ghost possess so many Magical Item? He seemed to have mentioned the word "blacksmith" before? Could he possibly create Magical Item?!