"What kind of joke is this? How could a ghost suddenly appear at the perfectly fine training base?"
Yang Jian gripped the satellite phone tightly, his grim expression looking particularly unpleasant.
That brief encounter just now had nearly gotten him killed. He just did not know why the ghost's target had not been him, but the human-skin paper in his hand. After being repelled once, the ghost had not attacked him again.
Surviving had indeed been mostly a matter of luck.
Liu Xiaoyu at the communications room fell silent for a moment before lowering her voice. "Something went wrong in the laboratory. Professor Wang had been conducting some kind of experiment, but today—no, around half an hour ago—the ghost of an unknown level escaped from the laboratory. The training base was the only place nearby."
"So Headquarters suspects that ghost may head for the training base. That thing is unusual and terrifying, so Headquarters has ordered everyone at the training base to evacuate. Anyone who can get out should get out."
"Wang Xiaoming?" Yang Jian frowned.
"How could he make such a mistake?"
"You can't entirely blame Professor Wang. I heard the laboratory incident happened while he had left to speak with you. The responsibility does not rest solely on him. There may be something more to it."
Liu Xiaoyu said, "This is not the time to discuss that. It's great that you're alive. Leave the training base now. This time, Headquarters does not need you to rescue anyone. You only need to protect yourself."
Yang Jian's expression shifted slightly.
For Headquarters to issue such an order, did that mean they knew the ghost was too terrifying for the Ghost Tamers at the training base to handle?
But thinking of what had happened earlier, he had only barely forced back