The Friends Circle meeting did not go very smoothly. The atmosphere was somewhat oppressive.
Quite a few people at the conference table remained silent, frowning as they smoked, filling the otherwise spacious meeting room with a hazy cloud of smoke.
"Heh, some greenhorn who crawled out of who-knows-what backwater got lucky and resolved an S-class paranormal incident. Now that he has a little capital, he thinks he can run rampant without giving us any respect. Back when we were dealing with paranormal incidents, this Yang Jian was still drinking milk at school."
The speaker was a slightly short but sturdy man. He sneered as he broke the meeting's silence. "Rather than wait for Cao Yanhua to prop him up into becoming a captain, we might as well take him out now and save ourselves the trouble of him competing with our Friends Circle for resources later. I have an idea: abduct his mother first, then lure Yang Jian out and kill him together."
"He Tianxiong, be rational. Yang Jian is just as capable of flipping the table as we are."
Someone tapped the conference table and said solemnly, "This is reality, not some gang fight in a movie. Abduct Yang Jian's mother? You call that an idea? The threat isn't his mother—it's Yang Jian. What would killing someone else's family even accomplish? It would only make things worse."
"And if you touch someone else's family, they'll touch yours too. Then his whole family dies, and so do ours. I've read Yang Jian's file. He possessed a Ghost Domain from the very beginning, the same type as Li Jun. Once people like that go mad, they can wipe out an entire city's population in minutes. People killing people is far more efficient than ghosts killing people."
"Manager Fei, I have another