An Inside Man

Yang Jian rejected Professor Wang's plan.

Soon, the temporary command center outside Dachang City heard the conversation between Wang Xiaoming and Yang Jian.

"Nonsense."

Cao Yanhua slammed his fist on the table. "He should have obeyed the orders. This is a matter of life and death for a city. He shouldn't have acted so recklessly."

"Yang Jian has always been like this. I've said before that he wouldn't agree to Professor Wang's plan. I know him; he has his own ideas. But it's no use saying that now. Yang Jian is taking action, and we can only trust him," Zhao Jianguo said.

"You know him so well, what do you think his success rate is?" asked Li Jun, the special forces captain standing to the side.

Zhao Jianguo said, "I'm absolutely certain; there's no possibility of failure."

"You trust him that much?" Li Jun, somewhat surprised.

"Because this matter can only succeed, it cannot fail. If it fails, Yang Jian will also die. Since he dares to take action, it means he is very confident. I believe that," Zhao Jianguo said.

Cao Yanhua said, "Now we can only wait for Yang Jian's good news. Are the things ready?"

"Outside," Zhao Jianguo said.

"Let's go take a look."

Cao Yanhua walked out, and the others followed.

They arrived at a tent guarded by special forces 24 hours a day. The tent was empty except for a large golden box in the center that stood out conspicuously.

It used up several tons of gold and was five centimeters thick. Once welded shut, the box would be like a solid block of iron, impossible to open.

This is the coffin prepared for that starving ghost in Dachang City.

"That damn thing got off easy, sleeping in a golden coffin." Cao Yanhua tapped the coffin, feeling a pang of heartache.

"The danger level is too high; only in this way can we ensure absolute safety," Zhao Jianguo said.

But just then, a messenger rushed in, saying, "Minister, there's been an emergency!"

"What happened?" Cao Yanhua asked.

"Yang Jian's location detected the signal of Ghost Tamer Zhao Kaiming," the communications officer reported.

"What? Is that so? Hasn't Zhao Kaiming been offline for a long time?" Cao Yanhua asked.

Zhao Jianguo said, "It should have been detected by Yang Jian's satellite positioning phone. Every Ghost Tamer's phone has at least three positioning methods. The common satellite positioning method is only one of them. There is also a positioning function between Ghost Tamer. Zhao Kaiming disappeared from the satellite positioning and has not had a signal for several days. Now it seems that he must have found a way to turn off the satellite positioning himself, but he overlooked the positioning between Ghost Tamer."

"That's right, the signal was received through Yang Jian's mobile phone," the communications officer said.

Li Jun said, "The professor suspected he wasn't dead before, and the Starvation Ghost Incident in Dachang City was also closely related to him. Zhao Kaiming's shadow was present throughout the entire incident, from its inception to its outbreak. We originally wanted to investigate him, but we had to put it aside for the time being after the supernatural events completely broke out. If Zhao Kaiming is still alive after the incident ends, the professor suggested that I arrest Zhao Kaiming immediately."

"Who's in charge of Zhao Kaiming? Why haven't we heard any reports about the problems he's involved in?" Cao Yanhua asked.

Zhao Jianguo said, "Shen Liang is in charge."

"Where is Zhao Kaiming's file? Get it for me," Cao Yanhua said. "Also, get a copy of the phone recording from the communications officer, and the most recent evaluation report as well."

After some investigation.

Cao Yanhua, in the command room, was furious again. He threw the file down and slammed his fist on the table. "Damn it, this person's mental evaluation report is so bad, he's no longer suitable to be a Ghost Tamer, so why was he appointed to Dachang City?"

"Minister, have you forgotten? Zhou Zheng is dead, and the position of Ghost Tamer in Dachang City is vacant. Yang Jian also suffered a mental breakdown during the Huanggang Village incident and is not suitable to take Ghost Tamer the position. So Shen Liang reported to you and suggested that Zhao Kaiming fill in temporarily until a suitable person is found to replace Zhao Kaiming. After that, Dachang City remained relatively normal, and the matter was forgotten." Zhao Jianguo said.

Cao Yanhua blushed immediately.

"The main problem is manpower. Who would want to hire someone like Zhao Kaiming, who has mental issues, if there are qualified Ghost Tamer available? Besides, Zhao Kaiming has a history of meritorious service, and his appointment was in accordance with procedures. If we're talking about mental issues, then all the Ghost Tamer who are preparing to enter Dachang City have some problems," Zhao Jianguo said.

"Zhou Zheng, qualified Ghost Tamer like Tong Qian are becoming increasingly rare; they're almost all dead."

The more qualified the Ghost Tamer; the more responsible they are, the harder they fight; and the harder they fight, the faster they die.

This is a very harsh reality.

"Inform Yang Jian about this immediately and tell him to be careful around Zhao Kaiming," Cao Yanhua said. "We'll discuss the rest after the Dachang City incident is over."

This new variable has cast a shadow over the operation.

Now.

Having already entered the campus, Yang Jian very carefully made his way to the restroom on the third floor of the teaching building.

He was perfectly safe within the Ghost Domain, but outside of his own Ghost Domain...

In the gloomy campus, Yang Jian glanced around and felt a chill run down his spine.

The campus here is like a sports meet, with terrifying figures standing there motionless, like tombstones on the ground. Looking around, these figures fill every corner of the huge school.

Whether it's in the green belts, in the school's river, or at the entrances of buildings and windows on every floor, these ghostly creatures are everywhere.

Moreover, the vast majority of them are third-stage Ghost Infant.

The number is no longer just a few dozen or a few hundred; it's estimated to be over a thousand, or even more.

Once Yang Jian utters a single word, all the third-stage Ghost Infant will awaken and tear him to shreds. Even with his ghost shadows to fight back, he probably wouldn't be able to eliminate so many ghosts. Moreover, the first-stage Ghost Infant are lying on the ground, their pairs of pupil-less, pitch-black eyes acting like cameras, watching everything around them.

Anyone it sets its sights on will be attacked.

Seeing and hearing are too easy conditions to trigger; any Ghost Tamer enters here will either be seen or heard.

A dead end.

Only Yang Jian, by using the Ghost Domain to conceal himself, could move freely among so many ghosts.

"Ye Feng must have accidentally wandered into this place, but he didn't understand the way the Ghost Infant killed people, so he awakened them and died." He thought to himself, puzzled.

To be honest, it's a bit of a pity that Ye Feng died.

A shroud could withstand any ghost's attack, and those ghost teeth could even bite through the Ghost Domain. If he had survived the later part of the plan, the hospital wouldn't have been almost completely wiped out.

However, he walked into a dead end and was surrounded by ghosts. Not even a hundred ghost clothes would be of any use to him, let alone one.

Those Ghost Tamer have their limits, but ghosts do not have this limitation.

"Arrive."

Yang Jian arrived at the entrance of the building; he only needed to go up three floors to reach the toilet entrance.

I remember when a group of his classmates ran away through this stairwell, they died all the way, killed by that Door-Knocking Ghost. In the end, only a few of them survived.

I glanced at the area next to the stairwell.

He didn't see the body of his former classmate; he must have been taken away by the Door-Knocking Ghost, who turned him into Ghost Slave. He also saw Qian Wanhao's body during the second Knocking Ghost Incident in the city center.

It's rotten beyond recognition.

There wasn't much time spent reminiscing about the past or mourning those classmates.

Yang Jian used the Ghost Domain to directly step onto the second level, and then took another step to reach the third level.

The toilet door was slightly ajar, and everything inside looked normal, with nothing eerie about it. Perhaps the supernatural force had disappeared, and the place had returned to normal. I remember when this toilet door opened, a pale white hand reached out.

I was almost killed by a Ghost Slave back then, but it was because I walked through this door that I survived until now.

Yang Jian frowned immediately after entering.

One of the doors disappeared.

It's still a toilet, just that it hasn't been used for several months.

"No, that's not right, I'm wrong. The place I'm looking for isn't at the school, it's near the pedestrian street in the city center." Yang Jian's eyes flickered as he recalled the characteristics of the Ghost Domain and, combined with the current situation, realized what was going on.

It's true that he encountered the Door-Knocking Ghost at school, but the Door-Knocking Ghost's location changed later, and the Ghost Domain must have changed as well. The school he saw then was no longer the real school, but just a school that had appeared in the Ghost Domain.

That's why he appeared on the pedestrian street in the blink of an eye when he escaped.

The Ghost Domain has moved from the school to the vicinity of the pedestrian street; it's just that the real world and the Ghost Domain are not in sync.

I was misunderstood by my own habitual way of thinking.

"We must return to the pedestrian street first. Only from there can we find that eerie space again and retrieve the coffin nail." Yang Jian abruptly turned around and set off, deciding to leave this place first.

However, his GPS-enabled phone lit up.

A message came in.

"There's a mole! Halt the operation!"

"?"

Yang Jian put down another page, only to see. "Zhao Kaiming is nearby, be careful."

Zhao Kaiming is still alive?

He frowned, but just as he was wondering, suddenly, the toilet door creaked open and a figure walked in from the darkness.

This person disregarded the barriers of the Ghost Domain and walked directly into Ghost Domain.

Yang Jian's hair stood on end, and he was suddenly startled.

How could someone hiding in the Ghost Domain even break in?

Who could it be?

Is Ye Feng, the fourth-stage Ghost Infant, still the source ghost?