Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 242 Law Enforcement Captain
Jiang Shangbai?
I saw a figure walking in.

Wang Chaling and Li Leping both nodded in agreement in the meeting room.

Although the three of them didn't have a particularly good relationship before, they were all candidates for captain of the Ghost Tamer Headquarters and would inevitably have to deal with each other in the future. Therefore, unless necessary, none of them would want to make the relationship too strained.

"I just arrived too."

Wang Chaling smiled and said to Jiang Shangbai, who had just walked in, "Unlike you, who has always been in Dajing City, we had to come all the way from our respective cities to attend this meeting."

Unlike Li Leping.

Although Wang Chaling wasn't exactly familiar with Jiang Shangbai, he was at least not a complete stranger to him.

They had previously carried out a mission assigned by headquarters to deal with the ghost painting in Dahan City. Headquarters dispatched a total of six captains that time, including Wang Chaling and Jiang Shangbai, as well as Li Hui, Liu San, Li Jun, and Shen Lin.

It is precisely because of this.

This led to Wang Chaling and Jiang Shangbai getting to know each other.

"There's nothing good about Dajing City either. If I had a choice, I would prefer to be the person in charge of a city like you are. It would be much more free."

Jiang Shangbai said with a hint of regret.

"After all, the Ghost Riders headquarters is located in Dajing City, and I am not the only captain. Moreover, in the eyes of some people at headquarters, I am always an 'outsider' and the leader of the circle of friends, so I still envy you more."

This seems to be the truth.

However, Wang Chaling could not respond to these words.

Because Wang Chaling was a smart man, he knew that his relationship with Jiang Shangbai was not that good yet.

Jiang Shangbai was clearly just making a casual remark; if he were to take it seriously, then there would be something wrong with his brain.

"You've been in Beijing all this time, dealing with headquarters every day. How much do you know about the Ghost Lake incident?"

Wang Chaling asked Jiang Shangbai, clearly intending to change the subject and not wanting to continue the conversation about the city's head.

"I don't know much about Ghost Lake, mostly just what's in the files. But I do know a bit about Wei Jing. As far as I know, he's very strong. There are rumors that even if Wei Jing isn't as good as Li Hui, he'd still be in the top three among our twelve captains."

Jiang Shangbai continued, "I can't be sure how accurate the news is, but it's unlikely to be baseless!"

"Moreover, since Wei Jing appeared, he has replaced Li Jun as Wang Xiaoming's bodyguard. If the Ghost Lake incident hadn't been so special, it would have been impossible for him to go. However, this also proves Wei Jing's strength from another perspective."

Speaking of which.

Jiang Shangbai's face clearly showed worry.

In his view, even a captain as strong as Wei Jing had fallen, and his own strength was almost at the bottom among the twelve captains. How could Jiang Shangbai not be worried about sending him to deal with Ghost Lake?

Fortunately, this was a group action.

Moreover, it seems that Li Hui, who is known as the 'strongest captain,' will also be going. Thinking of this, Jiang Shangbai's worries were greatly reduced.

Tatata!
It was at this time.

The sound of footsteps interrupted the conversation among the people in the conference room.

The newcomer was a young man who looked to be in his early twenties. His complexion was extremely pale and ashen, with strange wrinkles. He exuded a chilling aura and had no trace of life. He looked like a moving corpse.

"Liu San, you've come too."

Upon seeing the person clearly, Wang Chaling, who was always 'polite and hospitable', immediately took the initiative to greet them.

Like Jiang Shangbai, Liu San was one of the team leaders who went to Dahan City to deal with the ghost painting incident last time, so he was familiar with him and recognized him immediately.

What Wang Chaling couldn't be sure of was whether the Liu San in front of him was a paper figure or the real person.

However, it should be the original body.

After all, this meeting was different from the previous ones; it was a meeting exclusively for the team leaders. Those attending were either other team leaders or high-ranking officials from headquarters. Presumably, Liu San wouldn't send a paper effigy to participate, as that would seem to disregard the others.

However, nothing is absolute.

Therefore, Wang Chaling did not dare to make a hasty conclusion immediately.

But whether it's a paper figure or the real person, Wang Chaling doesn't see much difference. He doesn't care about that. Even if the Liu San in front of him is really a paper figure, the real Liu San can still know what they are talking about.

And that's enough.

Just then, Liu San, with a strange expression, spoke up: "Originally, I didn't want to come, but I heard that you were all going to attend this meeting, and it seemed a bit unreasonable for me to refuse alone, so in the end I had no choice but to come."

While talking.

Liu San found a seat next to the conference table where his nameplate was placed and sat down.

"It's almost time. It's already 4:58 PM, and the meeting is about to start in two minutes. Where is everyone else? Why are there only four of us?"

After sitting down, Liu San asked.

Before Wang Chaling and the others could respond, footsteps echoed in the corridor outside the meeting room.

The sounds were very dense, clearly not coming from one person.

Then, under the watchful eyes of several people in the conference room.

A group of four people walked in.

The person in the lead was Cao Yanhua, the deputy minister of headquarters. Behind him were Li Jun, who was wearing a special forces uniform, and Cao Yang, who was wearing the clothes of a city official.

In addition, there was a man who was about thirty years old, wearing a suit, and looked like an office worker.

The man's face was stiff and expressionless, as if it weren't a face at all, but rather carved from wood, exuding an eerie aura.

"Is this the captain who's been hiding in the shadows at headquarters?"

The moment they saw Lu Zhiwen's face clearly, the same thought arose in the minds of everyone in the conference room.

They were all familiar with Li Jun and Cao Yang, who were following behind Cao Yanhua, but they had never seen the man in the suit before.

Not to mention Wang Chaling, Liu San, and Li Leping, even Jiang Shangbai, who stayed in Dajing City and dealt with headquarters almost every day, had never met Lu Zhiwen.

soon.

Under the gaze of everyone.

Following Cao Yanhua, Li Jun and the other two found their seats after entering the conference room.

"It really is."

Upon seeing this, everyone's eyes lit up.

I glanced at the man in the suit and the nameplate on the table in front of him.

Lu Zhiwen!
Everyone present immediately memorized Lu Zhiwen's appearance and his name.

The headquarters has made fairly thoughtful arrangements in this regard. Each seat has a nameplate with the name written on it, which can effectively prevent people from sitting randomly. The only thing to be careful about is whether anyone will be dissatisfied with the seating arrangement.

Since the conference table is rectangular with seats in both rows, this arrangement naturally results in some people sitting in the front and others in the back.

Therefore, arranging seating is a real challenge for the headquarters staff.

Since they are all team leaders at headquarters, no one will admit that they are inferior to others. In this case, arranging seats in this order can easily cause dissatisfaction among some people.

"The meeting is about to start, why are there still people who are late or absent?" Cao Yanhua frowned after scanning the room.

There are a total of twelve team leaders. Apart from He Yin'er and Wei Jing, who have lost contact, and Zhang Xun, who is abroad and has not been notified, there should be nine team leaders present.

However, only seven people are present now.

Of the remaining two, Li Hui and Shen Lin were nowhere to be seen.

"That shouldn't be the case. According to the staff at the call center, Li Hui and Shen Lin have both confirmed they would attend the meeting. Why haven't they shown up yet?"

Cao Yanhua frowned.

However, at that moment, a man's voice suddenly rang out in the conference room.

"I'm not late. You know, there were still three seconds left before the meeting was scheduled to start at headquarters. No, it was two seconds, one second. The time has just started..."

As soon as the voice rang out, the expressions on everyone's faces changed.

Because a memory image that did not originally belong to them suddenly appeared in their minds.

In my memory, they were also in this headquarters conference room, the scene was the same as now, the only difference was that there was an extra person in the seat next to them.

The extra person was a young man dressed casually with a smile on his face.

next moment.

Everyone in the conference room turned to look in the same direction.

That was the chair where the young man they remembered had sat.

Then something strange happened.

Memory and reality overlap.

A young man suddenly appeared in a chair that had been empty next to the conference table, and he was nodding and greeting everyone.

This appearance was exactly the same as the memory images that had appeared in everyone's minds, as if the images from their memories had been reproduced in reality.

Shen Lin?

Upon seeing the young man, many people subconsciously glanced at the name on the nameplate on the table in front of him.

"The fact that it can affect other people's memories is truly a terrifying supernatural phenomenon, and its level of danger is extremely high!"

this moment.

Many people in the conference room felt a sense of apprehension towards Shen Lin.

A powerful ghost tamer may not be frightening, but a ghost tamer who is not only powerful but also possesses bizarre supernatural abilities is enough to arouse everyone's fear.

But not everyone is like that.

Many people had already dealt with Shen Lin before, and although they were still surprised by his way of making his appearance, they were not surprised and were already prepared.

“Vice Minister, I wasn’t late. I entered before five o’clock. It seems that the only one who was truly late was Li…”

Shen Lin was about to say that only Li Hui was late, but before he could finish speaking, he caught a glimpse of a figure out of the corner of his eye, and his words immediately stopped.

Suddenly, a figure appeared sitting in the chair at the very front of the conference table, a chair that had previously been empty.

It was a handsome young man, also dressed casually.

The person who arrived was none other than Li Hui!

In the courtyard of an old building deep within the headquarters base, Li Hui successfully replicated Qin Lao's supernatural abilities, and even directly conversed with his future self in that courtyard.

However, the results of the exchange were less than satisfactory.

Li Hui tried many times, but still couldn't get any clues about the future 'crisis'. Most of the illusory figures who appeared and talked to him were 'Li Hui' from the near future, and he had no idea what the future crisis was.

Even the illusory figure that knew about the 'future crisis' couldn't give him any clues. The supernatural was disturbed. The scene seemed to suggest that Li Hui had died before reaching that time period. He tried several times and it was the same.

Later, Li Hui even asked Old Qin directly, but the result was the same as nothing.

According to what Mr. Qin said.

He only knew that Li Hui might encounter a crisis in the future, but he didn't know where the specific source of the crisis would come from. The supernatural communication with his future self was also affected, and he guessed that it was probably related to Li Hui himself.

This result naturally failed to satisfy Li Hui.

Faced with this situation, he was at a loss. Several attempts failed to yield any useful information. In addition, the meeting was about to start, so Li Hui used his Ghost Domain ability to teleport to his chair in the conference room.

"Now that everyone is here, let's begin the meeting."

Cao Yanhua, who was standing at the front of the conference room, glanced at the time and found that it was exactly 5:01 pm. He immediately announced the start of the meeting.

He then continued, "I suppose you all know to some extent that the content of this meeting is closely related to the Ghost Lake incident, but there is one thing you may not know: headquarters is currently implementing a plan called 'Enforcement Captain'."

"The captain's role is to ensure that headquarters' various operations can proceed more effectively. The captain has the authority to mobilize other ordinary city managers, ordinary ghost controllers at headquarters, and various supernatural resources. You should all be very clear about this, right?"

"I know," a captain chimed in.

"Okay, next I will tell you about the authority of the law enforcement captain."

"To put it bluntly, the captain's existence is actually to better restrain the other ordinary ghost tamers at headquarters, while the enforcement captain's authority is to restrain the other captains at headquarters!"

Cao Yanhua continued, "Once the selection of the enforcement team leader is finalized, all other team leaders at headquarters must obey the enforcement team leader's orders and arrangements."

"In other words, the enforcement captain is the boss of all the ghost riders at headquarters, and even has the power of life and death over the other captains!"

(End of this chapter)