"A bunch of bastards."
The Investigators from the Lishan Investigation Office stared at the backs of the Security Fourth Team and cursed under their breath. "At a time like this, instead of working together to deal with the ghosts, they still want to steal our things?"
"Plenty of people really are worse than ghosts. Once the disaster erupts in full, you'll see even uglier things." Chen Yuntian gently patted Bai Xiao's shoulder and said with complete seriousness, "But I hope you never lose yourself, and that you always know what you're living for."
Chen Yuntian knew those Security personnel were the General Bureau's trump card. They were so strong they barely seemed human. If the two sides really fell out, his own Investigators would be the ones to suffer.
"Office Director, thank you for speaking up for me just now." Bai Xiao put away his long blade. As though sensing something, he turned to glance at a distant corner.
In the stairwell, the Fourth Team's Security personnel formed up behind the Paper Doll. They made a very strange combination.
The Pathfinding Old Man fashioned paper people with both hands. Stodgy and old-fashioned, he seemed to still be living in the previous era.
The team members following him, meanwhile, were fully armed, equipped with night-vision goggles and various tools manufactured by the Mystery Analysis Institute.
"Team Leader, are we just leaving those Investigators to die? The yin energy in this building is heavy. There should be more than one Greater Ghost hiding here."
"They're asking to die. They can't blame me for being heartless."
The old man clutched a Spirit Tablet bearing a child's photograph. His eyes flashed with fury as he uttered an incantation. The Spirit Tablet shattered in his hand, and a child's crying rose from within.
"Lead the