At dusk.
On the top floor of Ning'an Building in Dadong City.
The captain candidates summoned by Headquarters had all gathered this time. There were not many of them: Li Yang, Tong Qian, Liu Qi, Su Fan, Zhang Lei, Wen Zhong, and an old-school Ghost Tamer named Lin Long. Feng Quan had originally been among them, but like Wei Jing, he was trapped in the old grave at the Ghost Post Office and unable to escape, so he did not appear.
Seven captain candidates. They had been selected in a hurry; if Headquarters had been given more time, it could certainly have uncovered more potential candidates.
"Lin Long, you're actually still alive?" Tong Qian stared at a gloomy-faced young man of around twenty-six or twenty-seven.
"Feng Quan isn't dead either. Of course I wasn't willing to die," Lin Long said.
Tong Qian said, "The last time I saw you was during the Starvation Ghost Incident in Dachang City. After that, I never heard any news about you again."
"Don't bring up the past. After the Starvation Ghost Incident ended, Yang Jian and I had a fight. He nearly buried me alive. Later, Li Jun and the others mediated, so I got away unharmed. But as a warning, I had to stay far away from Yang Jian, so I've been serving as a person in charge in relatively remote cities. Still, thanks to Yang Jian, being far from major cities meant encountering very few supernatural incidents and rarely having to use supernatural powers. So things remained peaceful."
Lin Long sounded somewhat wistful. The events of those days still felt vivid, yet everything had changed. Li Jun was gone, and some of his former colleagues had died as well. Yang Jian, once a newcomer, had now become the Enforcement Captain, overseeing everyone.