I became the emperor in the comic book series.

Damn it, you'll do it again next time!

Let's have our fun first.

…………

The publicity department under Yunmeng Group.

A junior manager in charge of field sales looked at the notice sent down from above, frowned, and pondered for a long time but still couldn't figure out why headquarters would issue such an abstract order. However, since it was an order from headquarters, he could only obey it.

Anyway, it wasn't him who was fired, so he had to respect the salary Yunmeng offered him.

Stepping out of the office, his gaze precisely locked onto an employee who had only been working there for about a week and was still in the internship phase without officially starting work. He waved to him.

"Mr. Yuzo, can we talk?"

Leading his bewildered subordinate to a corner of the work area, the supervisor looked at him with a somewhat troubled expression. "The higher-ups require every employee to register for that game and log in every day to visit the shrine and check in. It's something that can be done in a few minutes. For this, the group is willing to shorten the working hours of all employees by half an hour. This is a good thing. Mr. Yuzo, you haven't implemented the arrangements yet, have you?"

After saying that, without waiting for his troubled subordinate to explain further, he issued an ultimatum, "Mr. Yu San, can you do it? If you are still unwilling, we can only regretfully apologize to you. Although it may seem strange, you know that the group does not offer such good treatment to everyone without conditions."

Upon hearing this, the employee's expression darkened. He thought about how after those people registered game accounts and successfully logged in to worship, their phones emitted a scorching barrier from the screen that was similar to that of a real shrine, resisting the supernatural. This kind of thing looked weird; even ghosts wouldn't want to touch it!

His face twitched, his eyes hardened, and he suddenly turned around, grabbed his bastard boss by the collar, and punched him hard in the face.

At the same time, taking advantage of the chaos, half of the soul had already emerged from the body and was trying to burrow into the creature.

He had initially thought the promotion path within the group was relatively smooth, and he planned to take it one step at a time, taking it easy and not rushing to work. After all, finding a suitable body to work for wasn't easy. But now it seemed there was no way to do so.

You bastards, why didn't you just cooperate obediently? Why did you have to force me!

Then I'll borrow your body. You've become a winner in life, and your wife and daughter are quite good-looking. I'll take care of them for you from now on!

Just as his swollen, lotus-shaped body was about to touch the junior manager's body, a golden light suddenly emanated from the cell phone in the other person's pocket, repelling him. The sudden heat scorched his spiritual body, turning it a dark reddish-black color. He couldn't help but scream and shrink back into his original body, no longer daring to reveal himself.

From the perspective of an ordinary person who cannot see spirits, the supervisor who was punched fell to the ground and cried out in pain. Other employees in the work area were shocked and rushed over to hold down the assailant to prevent him from hurting anyone else. Several others helped the supervisor up.

The supervisor, clutching his face and wincing in pain, stared incredulously at his subordinate who had suddenly gone berserk.

No, it's not like we didn't give him a chance to complete the registration as soon as possible. Even if we disagree, we can just part ways amicably. Why make such a fuss?

You've broken the law, do you even know that?!

Thinking of the handling measures sent by the group headquarters this morning, the junior manager picked up his phone and called a police officer in the police department of the neighboring county, briefly described the situation, and contacted the officer to come and take the criminal away as soon as possible.

After finishing everything, I hung up the phone and glared hatefully at that madman.

Chapter 130 Possession

Soon, the insiders closest to the ground promotion point arrived quickly and captured the assailant at sea.

In just one morning, one-third of the faith power that Higashino Akira had accumulated the day before was instantly consumed.

Wool comes from sheep.

Normally, the existence of a shrine's barrier depends on the power of the gods, but Akira Higashino has only recently transcended the level of mortals and hasn't gone very far, so he can't be said to have much supernatural power.

Therefore, the energy source for the shrine barrier on the mobile phones of those who successfully registered "Okumizome Story" and visited the Unmu Shrine according to the daily task process, thus becoming believers in the Unmu pantheon, is the power of faith that they unconsciously offer.

This thing is essentially an insurance device. Unlike the normal shrine barrier that maintains a certain intensity year-round, the barrier of the electronic Yunmeng Shrine in the phone only maintains a minimum power consumption state, and its only function is sensing.

Unless a supernatural attack that could cause fatal damage to the player is sensed, high-intensity power supply will not be provided.

There are so many ordinary people in this world, and the majority of them will not encounter supernatural beings and will live normal lives. In essence, as long as the game is promoted far enough and there are enough players, it will not collapse.

The reason why such a large amount of resources were depleted today is mainly due to the internal dismissal of uncooperative employees. Many inhuman beings who had infiltrated the group suddenly attacked and injured people, triggering the defense mechanism.

Of course, in order to prevent his savings from being maliciously taken advantage of by some people, Akira Higashino also set a limit. At each shrine branch terminal, unless it is an internal employee, the number of defenses that can be triggered in the short term and the limit are limited.

Once triggered, the next time he wants to obtain the defensive support of the shrine's barrier, he either has to wait a long time for the faith power provided by his daily worship and sign-in to make up for the amount consumed last time, or he has to actively promote a sufficient number of active players and have a portion of them allocated to him to make up for the previous consumption.

This patch was just applied today.

The reason is that Akira Higashino discovered that almost half of the shrine terminals that triggered the barrier were not official employees of his Yunmeng Group, and the frequency was ridiculously high, unlike some unlucky people who occasionally encounter ghosts.

Higashino Akira then attached his spiritual power to the newly formed bond line and looked over to observe it.

Then, it was discovered that a group of idiots who liked to play psychic games and explore paranormal places were using their faith power as a get-out-of-jail-free card to seek thrills. Also, those mediocre psychic practitioners also discovered this use and went out with their phones to encounter ghosts to explore the upper limit of their defensive power.

These guys had a blast, using his credit card and his savings!

In a fit of anger, Higashino Akira blocked all these idiots. He would only reopen the barrier function of the shrine branch terminal when they started to accumulate double the amount of faith power they had consumed each day, or when a sufficient number of new players were willing to visit the Yunmeng Shrine in the game every day.

If we say that qi is a panacea for ordinary people, then the power of faith is a panacea that can replace all kinds of extraordinary powers.

It's great for enhancing the functions of shrines, and it's equally effective at boosting the power of subordinate deities.

Only one in a thousand converted subjects has the opportunity to be granted a title of subordinate deity, and only by having one hundred believers contribute a little faith power each day can a single drop of pure incense faith be purified.

The wages he paid to his subordinate deities were deducted from this amount according to a certain percentage. Those with the talent of the little fox, who usually did a lot of errands, received thirty drops of purified incense and faith per month.

Those who become more sophisticated enforcers, such as courtesans and spirits from H Castle who are traded from Xiao Yexiao and named Thousand Souls Huayan Self-Slaying Child, earn even more per month.

Theoretically speaking, the faith provided by the one thousand people required for each conferment of divine authority can be considered as their fiefdom, while the additional believers who provide faith even before they are naturalized are Akira Higashino's private territory.

However, bosses must first get rich themselves before they can help others get rich. In order to compress salaries to prepare for hiring more followers of God in the future, work positions must be reserved. The maximum number of people allocated to the followers of God's incense and faith is one thousand. What boss would pay a CEO's salary to a new employee right away? How can he promote employees and raise their salaries in the future?

It's incredibly unfair that errand runners and fighters receive the same salary when the upper limit is the same.

Therefore, make your subordinates suffer, and let the gods bear the blame for their bad reputation.

What percentage you get, whether it's 91% or 69%, depends on how hard-working and ambitious your subordinates are.

For a few special subordinates, like Kanoko, who has her own shrine and followers and doesn't have much need for faith, she doesn't need to receive faith power from Akira Higashino. She is completely left to her own devices, and her salary is unlimited deer crackers and fresh fruit.

Unfortunately, she seems to be some kind of comedic character, with rather ordinary abilities and mechanisms. Moreover, after staying for a while, she seems to have a kind of brain-degrading aura, making the people around her become more abstract indiscriminately hostile. It's hard to say that she has any value for development.

.........

In the afternoon, after temporarily mitigating the impact of deep-sea fishing.

Akira Higashino has started operating his own security posts around Tokyo to check on the spies he pulled out from within the group today. These guys are pretty stubborn.

In order to prevent them from being switched or from staging some kind of attempted assassination to disgust people, although we managed to subdue them under pressure, we couldn't use any special interrogation methods that might leave others with new incriminating evidence. After a whole day, we still couldn't get anything useful out of them.

Until, when Higashino Akira saw a familiar name in a temporary shelter, he suddenly froze and stopped in his tracks.

What's his name?

"Your Majesty, this man's name is Fukusuke Yuzo."

Akira Higashino's gaze was fixed on the man. By observing his aura, he learned that his real name was Hiroshi Sato. This was the same name that had been used by the people in the crowd when the Yunmeng Group headquarters was surrounded by protesters and reporters in Tokyo.

"Open the door."

The cell door opened, and Higashino Akira walked in. Under the watchful protection of Luan L, he used his ten points of Qi to gently touch the half-dead man lying on the ground, panting.

In an instant, a vengeful spirit with burns on its body was sprang out of its shell and quickly retreated back in.

Realizing he had been exposed, Hiroshi Sato abruptly looked up, staring in horror at the man they had targeted.

Akira Higashino narrowed his eyes, then turned and left.

"Let's go."

The result is in, although the thread of fate still cannot be successfully traced back to the real mastermind.

However, this situation is completely different from ordinary possession by evil spirits. It is more stable, more hidden, and more deadly. The original owner of the body has already died completely from the beginning, with no possibility of rescue.

The word "possession" involuntarily popped into Akira Higashino's mind!

Once I understood this, everything that I couldn't quite grasp before suddenly became clear.

Chapter 131 Dinner Party

No wonder those behind-the-scenes manipulators treat human lives as if they were nothing. They barely manage to catch a clue, and then they easily cause a group of their subordinates to commit suicide or be assassinated.

Especially since they've all become politicians of considerable influence, how can they just give up like that?

In a small place like Japan, even politicians who host the Olympics don't commit suicide this frequently, let alone assassinate someone, let alone attempt one. What a joke! Does he think he's Abe or Trump?

Moreover, people from both the business and political circles can exert pressure on Yunmeng.

In matters of the heart, others don't need to cultivate subordinates; they can simply seize whoever they fancy.

Generally speaking, as long as one is not a particularly central or very small minority in the mortal world, it is difficult for someone with a mind of their own to succeed in seizing a body by taking advantage of someone who is not. As long as one disguises oneself well, it is not so easy to be exposed.

Because these rats in the gutter, the smarter ones, choose to possess those with similar energy fields and colors, so even those with the ability to see ghosts and spirits may not be able to easily distinguish them.

If it weren't for Higashino Akira's ability to discern a person's true name through their aura, he wouldn't have recognized him either.

As he walked out of the shelter and looked at the gloomy sky above, Akira Higashino sighed.

Indeed, this world is a terrible place, at least in this island nation. It's full of wandering ghosts and evil spirits, who can easily possess and impersonate humans. Urban legends and supernatural phenomena abound.

Aside from pretty girls, there's nothing left to look forward to in this world.

"After that, punish those who deserve it, and then let them go. Keep an eye on the ban measures, and don't let these guys die on our turf."

He gave a brief instruction to the undercover agent dressed in an island nation police uniform beside him, waved his hand, and walked into the administrative car that had been waiting outside the shelter for a long time.

Some information, if you can't get it out of me, then you can't get it out of me; there's no need to ask.

On your own turf, it doesn't matter who attacks you; what matters is knowing who has the ability to attack you.

[Series of Missions: Conquest (Unlocked)]

[Second Task: To repel external threats, internal stability must come first. We cannot tolerate others snoring beside our bed. Facing lawbreakers, we must strike with the resolve to eradicate them completely, with the force of an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, to decisively eliminate dissidents within our territory, rectify the situation, and secure the nation!]

[Task completion rate: 0%]

[Quest Reward: Upgrade to the Divine Realm version, load of the Three Realms module.]

The second phase of the Conquest mission started right after the first phase was completed, but to be honest, it's not easy.

The main difficulty is that there are too many evil spirits in this godforsaken place.

Although Akira Higashino's territory is mainly located in the rural areas of Okumizome and Itomori, he also has quite a few scattered enclaves in the city.

Compared to cities, the countryside is relatively sparsely populated and has fewer evil spirits, making it easier to clean. However, people are born, grow old, get sick, and die, and new spirits with unresolved attachments will always appear in the world.

The difficulty in the city is that even if you clean the evil spirits out of your house, they are still everywhere outside, and it's easy for them to bring new filth back home.

The Cloud Dream Shrine barrier in your phone can protect people, but it can't cover an entire house. That would be too expensive, and the power of faith would only be insufficient to cover the costs.

Ultimately, the problem is a lack of manpower.

It's unrealistic to assign a mediocre protective spirit to every family and every person, like Jianzi did.

If I had a super working spirit that was more responsive, had a simpler trigger mechanism, was more powerful, and could split into thousands of clones and appear in different places across space in a short time, I might be able to upgrade it and make it a gatekeeper or something, solving a major pain point.

In other aspects, there are also many points that need to be further deepened and controlled, and implemented one by one.

Sitting in the car on the way back, Akira Higashino fell into deep thought.

After a long time, a sudden ringing sound came from his ear, and the vibration from his phone interrupted his thoughts.

It was a letter from Yamada Ryo.

[Higashino, want to come to Starry Night for hot pot tonight?]

While Higashino Akira was still pondering why Miss Liang Qichao had suddenly become so generous, her next message arrived.

[Pochi has also arrived; she needs a protector to escort her home.]

Akira Higashino: "..."

What else can be said?

Okay.

On the other end of the network, upon seeing this reply, Yamada Ryo's lips curled up slightly, revealing a knowing smile.

[The restaurant opens at night after Starry Night closes for the day; don't forget to pick up some meat on your way.]

.........

night.

After paying the fine, providing full compensation, and receiving forgiveness, Hiroshi Sato finally walked out of the shelter with a gloomy face.

The burns on his soul were already excruciatingly painful, and the thought of his supervisor still lecturing him with such pain and remorse at this point made his face twitch slightly.

What a joke! After being a ghost for so many years, when has he ever suffered this kind of loss!

If he could change bodies, he wouldn't have been able to escape from that weird, dilapidated company building. In the end, the police officers who caught him used methods to prevent his soul from leaving his body...

After walking a distance and getting out of the police station's sight, Hiroshi Sato, enduring the burning pain, ripped the amulet off his neck and threw it into a roadside trash can. After finishing, he kicked the trash can hard in anger.

The loud noise startled the passersby, who quickly moved away upon seeing his fierce gaze.