Mysterious Resurrection: I am practicing magic in troubled times

Chapter 36
"Follow the supernatural investigators, exciting stories will be updated at 12 o'clock every night."

The story in the forum came to an abrupt end. Although this person's words sounded like a marketing account, the story was not made up.

According to news reports, a major fire did occur in this residential building due to a natural gas leak a few days ago, resulting in heavy casualties.

Zhang Qian walked to the edge of the building and hung his hands slightly above the wall. Even without direct contact, he could feel the special cold feeling.

"Have the supernatural incidents here not been solved yet? Or is this just the residual supernatural power of the evil ghost?"

He thought for a moment and called the headquarters.

For a supernatural incident with such heavy casualties, the headquarters will definitely send someone to deal with it. Whether it is solved or not, there should be records.

Soon, an operator responded to his call.

"Hello Comrade Zhang Qian, I am the operator Yao Jin. How can I help you?"

Unexpectedly, Yao Jin answered the phone again, as if she was providing one-on-one service.

"I want to check the information on a residential building." Zhang Qiandao, "There may have been a supernatural incident here. I want to know its information and processing results."

Yao Jin, who was at the headquarters, immediately opened the handle and moved it to the keyboard, asking: "Okay, do you have the address of this building?"

Zhang Qian glanced at his phone and read out the address on it, "Building 3, Huashi Limin Community."

"Wait a moment." Yao Jin followed Zhang Qian's clues and started searching in the database.

After a while, she found the archives of that building. Although the records were very rudimentary, they were enough.

"Event code name: Residential building in flames, death toll: 78 people. There are still 36 bodies missing. According to their lifetime information, the missing people should be 12 men and women plus [-] children."

"The supernatural manifestation was in the form of white flames, which could not be extinguished by conventional methods such as water. However, the flames were not corrosive and did not spread beyond Building 3."

"The incident has been resolved, and the ghost controller who submitted the file is Fang Shiming."

"What about the murder pattern? Didn't he record it in the book?" Zhang Qian said.

Yao Jin took a breath and added: "Fang Shiming only has a cooperative relationship with the headquarters, so the report he gave is not detailed."

"Forget it, just settle it. There shouldn't be any residents here anymore, right?" Zhang Qian asked.

"According to the follow-up investigation conducted by the headquarters, not only is this residential building empty, but there should be very few residents in the entire community."

"That's true." Zhang Qian looked around, but couldn't find many people.

In the evening, which should be the busiest time in residential areas, this community seems particularly deserted, with not even a square dancing lady.

"Supernatural events are too scary for ordinary people." Yao Jin said, "The reason of natural gas leakage can cover up the supernatural, but it cannot stop the fear in people's hearts. Coupled with the exaggeration of various ghost stories over time, even homeless people are I don’t want to come to a place like this anymore.”

"Speaking of ghost stories." Zhang Qian asked curiously, "The headquarters should be able to easily block these messages, right? If you don't want the supernatural to be exposed, why should you allow these ghost stories to exist?"

He flipped through the forums on his phone, which contained all kinds of horror stories. Although most of them were made up, several stories had vaguely suggested that ghosts have killing patterns.

I'm afraid someone is sharing their personal experience on it, or maybe they got some news from the ghost controller. "Headquarters also has its own considerations. As an operator, I don't know that." Yao Jin paused and then said, "Maybe she is worried that one-size-fits-all will arouse people's suspicion. There are one or two supernatural events in the true and false ghost stories. Not many people would take it seriously.”

"It is said that the headquarters has a dedicated person in charge of this section, so that unknown supernatural events will not be exposed. It's just that the impact of Building 3 is too great, and suppressing it all seems guilty."

"I have nothing else to do, thank you." Zhang Qian said politely.

"You're welcome, this is my duty."

Zhang Qian hung up the phone, pushed open the creaking iron door, and exhaled a cold breath.

There is a vague cold feeling in the air here. Although it is not as serious as in the supernatural incident, staying in this place for a long time is definitely not good for your health.

"Snapped--"

He stepped on the thick ashes and entered the corridor, only to find that the situation inside was even better than he imagined.

Even the lights and switches on the top were not damaged, and it didn't look like there had been a major fire at all.

"This supernatural power has less damage to reality?" Zhang Qian was a little confused and tried to press the light switch in the corridor.

The light bulb flickered for a moment, and actually emitted a dim yellow light into the darkness, but the flickering look was not much better than a candle left in the wind.

The swirling dust danced under the light, and Zhang Qian had to cover his mouth and nose to avoid having his mouth full of dust.

On the other side, Yao Jin waited for Zhang Qian to hang up the phone and then turned to other work.

The operator's job is not easy either. Although the risk is much lower than that of front-line ghost controllers, he still has to memorize most of the ghost controller's information, and at the same time he has to help channel the ghost controller's emotions.

Moreover, their salary is not high. They have to work twelve hours a day, but their salary is only average in the capital. They even cannot leave the base at will because they know too many secrets.

Yao Jin felt uncomfortable staring at the computer screen for a long time, and she couldn't help but rub her swollen eyes.

Fortunately, my shift is about to change, so I can take a good rest.

On the way back to the dormitory, Liu Xiaoyu came over with a mysterious look on his face, "Yaoyao, I have some gossip, do you want to hear it?"

"What?" Yao Jin tilted her head and asked curiously.

She didn't know why Liu Xiaoyu was so well-informed. Maybe someone in her family was a leader.

"It is said that the number of operators will be expanded soon. Soon the ghost controllers and operators will be connected one-on-one, which means that our workload will be greatly reduced." Liu Xiaoyu suddenly asked, imagining a better life in the future. , "Which ghost master will you choose?"

"I don't know..." Yao Jin thought for a while and finally shook her head, "We probably don't have the right to choose, right? Why don't we think about who will choose us."

"Hey~ What if a lolicon falls in love with me?" Liu Xiaoyu rubbed her arms, as if she really saw some kind of terrifying creature.

"You and them will never meet. Who knows that you are a legal lolita?" Yao Jin smiled, "If we could meet, there would probably be many ghost masters who would be jealous of you, right?"

"It's hard to say." Liu Xiaoyu rolled her eyes and said with a bad smile, "Yao Yao, you must be the most popular candidate. Some ghost controllers still dislike me. As long as you talk to him on the phone..."

(End of this chapter)