After three days at sea, the Wings of Hope cruise ship finally reached Yingzhou's territorial waters. In a few more hours, it would arrive at the strangest place in the Human Nation.
Here, Weirds and humans lived together peacefully. If Mountain City in Cloud Province had the lowest incidence of Weird outbreaks, then Yingzhou as a whole had the fewest deaths after an outbreak.
Yingzhou also belonged to the Human Nation, but how should one put it?
Fifty years ago, the director of the Special Affairs Bureau's Ping City branch in Yingzhou had defected to the General. Since then, more than seventy percent of the Special Affairs Bureau branches across Yingzhou's cities had been absorbed into his ranks.
From that point onward, Yingzhou had been all but independent of the Human Nation, and the Special Affairs Bureau Headquarters had stopped dispatching Ghost-Tamers there.
Over time, the Special Affairs Bureau branches in most of Yingzhou's cities had disappeared. Now, everyone in the Human Nation called Yingzhou the "Weird Nation."
Naturally, the King of the Weird Nation was the General.
The General was an immensely charismatic leader who loved cultivating. Although he could no longer grow stronger, he enjoyed the feeling of tempering his own will.
He was extremely strict with himself but lenient with his subordinates, treating Weirds and humans alike. In his eyes, there were only useful "people" and "people" placed in the wrong positions.
Weirds feared this Weird King, while humans adored this inhuman leader. The General was also the only Weird King to have held formal talks with the Human Nation.
In the fifteenth year after Anping Capital's founding, thirty-five years ago, something had happened.
The General had sent a diplomatic letter to the Human Nation.
Zhou Qianyan, then the Human Nation's foreign minister and now one of