Everyone's Suppressing Ghosts: Others Contract Divine Weapons, I Contract Blank Paper

Chapter 18: 73% Contribution Rate! The Trainee Team is Stunned!

【start.】

The countdown has reached zero.

In six old buildings, a stark white light simultaneously shone through.

The stairwell of Building 1.

Elevator shaft of Building 2.

Fire escape route in Building 3.

Entrance to the underground parking garage of Building 4.

Outside the apartment door of Building 5.

At the end of the old corridor in Building 6.

One after another, the order to "extinguish" lit up in door cracks, window sills, corridors, and elevator shafts.

Outside the blockade, everyone looked up.

White light could be seen rising layer by layer from the windows of the six residential buildings.

Not one building.

It consists of six buildings together.

The task panel started flashing.

[Yin Sha Cleansing: 9/333.]

[Yin Sha Cleansing: 26/333.]

[Yin Sha Cleansing: 51/333.]

[Yin Sha Cleansing: 83/333.]

At first, no one spoke to the trainee team.

Then someone slowly cursed.

"Holy crap!"

"We just now—"

"What were you guarding just now, bro?"

"Eight people, about twenty minutes."

"No one else went in."

Song Lin gripped the standard peach wood sword, his throat bobbing slightly.

He just said under the car that college training and real tasks are not the same thing.

The task panel is currently refreshing in the real tasks.

The person who posted it was Xu Du.

Zhao Heng stared intently at the control panel.

He understood better than the interns that the trouble in Anmin Community this time wasn't the yin energy itself, but rather the simultaneous spillover from multiple points. Leaks at any point—stairwells, elevator shafts, underground garages, residents' doors—would cause the pollution to spread again.

If there aren't enough people, you can't hold the line.

This is why the trainee team just lost.

However, Xu Du had already laid out a blank sheet of paper for all the key points of the six buildings in advance.

Zhao Heng said in a deep voice: "Simultaneous recording."

The staff nearby immediately took action.

[Assisted by: Xu Du]

[Operation: Clear all six buildings simultaneously.]

[Current cleanup efficiency: Continuously increasing.]

[Task contribution rate: 43% → 51%]

The surveillance footage from the six buildings was switched to the main screen.

一号楼。

Three malevolent spirits rushed out from the corner of the stairs and pounced on a tightly closed security door.

Behind the door was an old man hiding in the kitchen.

A paper order with the word "protect" was pasted on the door.

The moment the Yin Sha collided with it, the paper edict flashed with white light, forcefully blocking the three Yin Sha from entering the doorway.

The next second, the "Extinction" order flew over from the stairwell.

boom!

boom!

boom!

The three Yin spirits instantly dissipated into ashes.

The task panel has been refreshed.

[Cleansing of Yin and Yang energy in Building 1: 31/52]

[Residents of Building 1: Stable.]

Building No. 3

A cloud of dark gray energy surged out of the elevator shaft.

A dozen or so Yin spirits squeezed into the narrow shaft, trying to squeeze out through the gap in the elevator door.

However, the elevator door seams were already covered with white paper.

The character "封" (seal) appears first.

The yin energy in the elevator shaft was suppressed.

Then, the order to "annihilate" slipped through the crack in the door.

A series of muffled thuds came from inside.

Bang bang bang bang!

The red dots in the elevator shaft went out instantly.

[Cleansing of Yin energy in Building 3: 48/67]

[Elevator shaft contamination: cleaned up.]

Building No. 5.

The two children hid in the bedroom, hugging each other and crying.

There are evil spirits knocking on the door from the outside.

A piece of white paper was pasted on the inside of the door.

The character "护" (protect) lit up layer by layer.

The little boy looked up and saw that the white paper on the door was glowing.

A muffled thud suddenly sounded outside the door.

The knocking stopped.

The voices of the people on site immediately came through the communicator.

"Building 5, Room 602!"

"Both children are safe!"

"Those two outside, get rid of them!"

"—That paper really held up, bro."

Outside the cordon, the middle-aged woman in her pajamas nearly collapsed to her knees.

"My child."

"My child—"

The officials from the Department of Spirits Management caught her and helped her up.

"A person is alive!"

"Don't rush, don't rush!"

The woman stared intently at the window of Building 5, which was now illuminated by a white light, her mouth agape, unable to utter a single word.

Only tears kept falling.

The numbers on the task panel are still jumping.

[Yin Sha Cleansing: 124/333.]

[Yin Sha Cleansing: 167/333.]

[Yin Sha Cleansing: 219/333.]

[Protection of trapped residents: 83/83.]

[Number of new resident casualties: 0.]

The sounds grew fainter both inside and outside the blockade.

At first, the residents were still shouting.

The trainee team still has doubts.

The officials at the Superintendent's Office are still on edge.

But right now, everyone is looking at the task panel.

Numbers speak louder than any explanation.

Beside Zhao Heng, a member of the Spirit Management Bureau looked at the white light that simultaneously illuminated six buildings, his throat dry.

"Team Leader Zhao————"

"this----"

"This isn't a brothel, it's fucking brothel."

Zhao Heng did not respond.

The team member opened his mouth, as if to say something more, but in the end only managed to utter half a sentence.

"How do we fight this?"

Song Lin stood beside them.

There was no response.

The hand gripping the sword went from being clenched so tightly it turned white, to gradually loosening its grip.

The task panel continues to refresh.

[Yin Sha Cleansing: 251/333.]

[Yin Sha Cleansing: 286/333.]

[Yin Sha Cleansing: 312/333.]

Just then.

The white paper soul-guiding lamp suddenly lit up on its own.

There is no wind.

No one urged them to do it.

The edge of the lamp paper spontaneously combusted without a flame, emitting a pale white light.

Xu Du looked down.

He didn't say anything.

Zhao Heng caught a glimpse of that wisp of firelight.

He opened his mouth slightly, then swallowed.

The next second, the remaining "Extinction" paper tokens in the six buildings lit up simultaneously.

White light spread out from the depths of the corridor.

The last batch of Yin energy was suppressed by the paper edict.

Bang bang bang bang!

The numbers on the task panel suddenly jumped to the bottom.

[Yin Sha Cleansing: 333/333.]

[Resident Protection: 83/83.]

[New casualties: 0.]

[Pollution diffusion rate: 0%]

[Building under lockdown: 6/6]

[The simultaneous clearing of all six buildings has been completed.]

Clearing time: 47 seconds.

The entire room fell silent.

Forty-seven seconds.

From the start of the countdown to the clearing of all 333 evil spirits from the six buildings, it only took 47 seconds.

The trainee team, who had just failed to resolve the issue, stood frozen in place, their faces expressionless.

The eight of them held out for more than twenty minutes, almost causing the mission to completely spiral out of control.

Xu Du arrived at the scene, first sealing off six buildings, then protecting eighty-three people. Now, forty-seven seconds later, the task panels for the three hundred and thirty-three doors popped up again.

[Current Task Contribution:]

[First: Xu Du, contribution rate 73%.]

[Second: Trainee Team 1, contribution rate 11%.]

[Third: Zhao Heng, contribution rate 7%.]

Song Lin stared at the line of text.

73.

11.

His throat moved, and he opened his mouth as if to say something.

There was no way out in the end.

Slowly lower your head.

Zhao Heng looked at the contribution panel and remained silent for a few seconds.

Then he spoke: "Task rating, reassess."

The staff immediately uploaded the data.

A few seconds later, the Bureau of Spirits mission panel refreshed.

[Original mission rating: D.]

[Temporarily upgraded: Borderline C-level.]

[The assessment will be reassessed based on the actual number of negative influences, the building's area, the size of the population, and the difficulty of the remediation.]

Final mission rating: B.

[Main contributor: Xu Du.]

The area outside the blockade was blown up again.

"Grade B?"

"B-grade, bro."

"Didn't they say it was a D-rank apprenticeship mission when we left?"

"D jumped to B?"

"Six buildings."

"A student?"

The intern next to Song Lin moved his throat, his voice dry.

"—He's not a ghost-suppressing master."

"He's still a student."

"So what were we doing just now?"

Song Lin did not respond.

He slowly sheathed the peach wood sword in his hand.

A muffled thud.

Zhao Heng glanced at him.

They didn't say anything.

Zhao Heng walked up to Xu Du.

"All cleaned up."

"Residents evacuate."

Xu Du nodded.

"Um."

The Lingzhi Authority rescue team immediately entered the community.

Soon, the first group of residents were brought out.

An elderly resident in apartment 401 of building number 3 was helped downstairs by two staff members.

The middle-aged woman who had been crying rushed over, hugged the old man tightly, and didn't say a word, her shoulders trembling.

The old man patted her on the shoulder.

"—They're out."

"They're out."

The two children from Building 5 were also brought out.

One of the children was still clutching a small piece of charred white paper.

He gripped it very tightly.

When his mother hugged him tightly, he looked up, his eyes red-rimmed, and his mouth opened several times.

"mom----"

"Mom, this—"

"This piece of paper."

The mother nodded repeatedly while crying.

"----yes."

"Yes."

Xu Du did not go.

He was looking at the task panel.

[Task Status: Main task clearing complete.]

[Resident evacuation: In progress.]

Final settlement: Pending confirmation.

Zhao Heng glanced at the panel and suddenly frowned.

"Wait a moment."

The staff also noticed something amiss.

At the bottom of the task panel, a gray notification line has not disappeared.

[Underground parking garage anomaly: Not cleared.]

[Abnormal Target: Not included in the count of ordinary Yin Sha.]

Current status: Silence.

[Recommendation: Review by the official team.]

Zhao Heng's face darkened.

"Underground parking garage?"

Staff immediately retrieved the surveillance footage from the underground parking garage of Building 4.

The screen is very dark.

At the entrance to the garage, the "sealed" order that Xu Du had posted earlier is still there.

There were no red dots indicating evil spirits inside.

No pollution spread.

There are no residents.

But at the deepest part of the garage, there is a section that is always dark.

Light cannot penetrate white paper.

Song Lin looked at the screen and his throat tightened.

"That piece—"

"That doesn't seem like an ordinary Yin energy."

Zhao Heng immediately ordered: "Residents evacuate first."

"No one is allowed to leave the garage until the official team arrives."

After he finished speaking, he looked at Xu Du.

Xu Du was also looking at that black area.

The light from the white paper soul-guiding lamp, which had spontaneously combusted without fire, had not yet completely gone out.

The lamp paper swayed slightly.

That pale white flame rose another half inch.

Then it was pushed back down.

Xu Du picked up the lamp.

"I'll go."