I have a ghost diary

However, when the door opened, there were no fully armed reinforcements, only a long-haired girl holding a cup of milk tea.

She had a pair of sunglasses clipped to her shirt, looking cheerful; she was somewhat surprised to see so many people standing outside when she opened the elevator door.

The girl took a sip of her milk tea, a sheepish smile on her face, and stepped out of the elevator. "Oh dear, I'm late. Is the meeting over?"

Seeing that no one spoke, she curiously walked over to Chu Jiang and Yan Wanli, then looked at the two people, one standing and one kneeling, with some confusion, and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Hmph, I'll let it go this time for your sake." Yan Wanli said threateningly as he withdrew the power of the ghost corpse and stood up from the ground expressionlessly.

Then, with his hands in his pockets, he walked around Chu Jiang on the right and headed towards the elevator without looking back.

This left everyone stunned. Hey, didn't you just say, "Who does Yuwen Ting think she is?" Now that Yuwen Ting herself is here, you're saying you're giving her face??

"Wait, everyone's here, let's come back for the meeting!" the middle-aged manager called out hastily after a moment of hesitation.

Unexpectedly, Yan Wanli simply waved his hand, "I'm busy right now, let's talk about it next time."

As he spoke, he entered the elevator and, with a stiff expression, pressed the button for the tenth basement level.

After what just happened, Yan Wanli has no face to stay.

He desperately wants to know why this happened. He needs to find someone, a very professional expert, who should be able to give him an answer.

Yuwen Ting was clearly a little confused. Wasn't that guy surnamed Yan someone she had always been at odds with?

Then she looked at Chu Jiang and said, "I didn't expect to see you again so soon. I haven't made it up to you yet."

After Yan Wanli left, Chu Jiang finally breathed a long sigh of relief. He was also facing a lot of pressure.

Faced with Yuwen Ting's greeting, Chu Jiang simply shook his head, "Never mind, it was an unintentional mistake on your part."

"I need to go through the onboarding process now. You go ahead and get busy. We'll probably see each other again in the future."

Seeing that Chu Jiang insisted, Yuwen Ting had no choice but to nod, "Then we'll talk about it later."

With a wave of her hand, Yuwen Ting, her long hair flowing, walked towards the conference room, holding her milk tea.

Chu Jiang, amidst the interested gazes of a group of team leaders, simply walked over to Han Zhengde and, together with Han Zhengde, temporarily returned to the second floor...

"Who is that young man? Is he a newcomer?" the woman in red asked Yuwen Ting.

"He seems to be a newcomer. I just met him today. We happened to be on the same flight to Yunjing City." Yuwen Ting said, leading the way into the large conference room.

"Hey Vice Minister, what's going on?"

The middle-aged manager shook his head repeatedly. "That guy surnamed Yan was too arrogant. In the end, he got a blow. Let's go inside and talk in detail."

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After taking the elevator back to the second floor, Han Zhengde was still somewhat shaken.

After rushing Chu Jiang back to his office, Han Zhengde gulped down several mouthfuls of tea before saying, "Brother, I really admire you. You actually scared Captain Yan to his knees."

Chu Jiang shook his head. "The situation is a bit strange; even I don't quite understand it."

"By the way, who exactly is that guy? Why is he so arrogant?"

"I don't know the specifics very well, but I do know that Yan Wanli was one of the first batch of ghost masters recruited by Research Institute No. 21."

"His code name is [Ghost Corpse]. He has at least three ghosts on his body and is extremely powerful. He is now a captain-level figure."

“It is very difficult to control demon masters who possess such powerful individual abilities.”

"Moreover, the research institute and the country also need their strength; so things like some temper are completely tolerable, as long as they don't cross the bottom line."

"In fact, many ghost masters are not much better in temperament than Yan Wanli. But there is no way around it. It is unrealistic to expect them to work for you and to meet the standards of the top ten employees in every aspect."

"You yourself are a Ghost Master, so you should know that feeling very well. They are all people with short lifespans, and they also possess power beyond that of ordinary people. Such people are very difficult to manage."

"The research institute can only use a combination of kindness and coercion, offering benefits while using even greater force to intimidate them."

Chu Jiang asked curiously, "What is this so-called more powerful force? I don't think it's high-tech weapons."

Even ordinary demon masters can still be annihilated using physical force.

But those who reach the captain level are probably half-human, half-demon; you could blow their heads off and they wouldn't die. Such beings could even wipe out a foreign armed base.

Furthermore, it seems that the captains had discussed this before. However, Chu Jiang's attention was entirely focused on Yan Wanli at the time, so he only vaguely heard some words like "that person".

"The more powerful force is naturally the force related to demons."

At this point, Han Zhengde hesitated for a moment, but still said, "Anyway, you're about to start the job, so there's no harm in telling you this now."

"The ghost masters in our research institute are not all recruited from outside. From the day the research institute was established, we have had a group of our own ghost masters."

"I don't know their origins either, but I do know that they are all highly capable individuals and are reliable, trained personnel."

"There are several extremely powerful ghost masters, and I even suspect that the strongest one is a ghost himself, a controllable ghost. Otherwise, how could he make all the ghost masters who have seen him obediently follow his orders?"

“We don’t usually call him by his full name, and no one knows his full name. We usually refer to him as ‘that person,’ or ‘Mr. Xu’ or ‘Old Master Xu’.”

Chu Jiang pondered for a moment, "Have you seen him in person?"

“I saw him once from afar at an important large gathering. At that time, it felt to me not as if I were looking at a person, but as if I were staring into an abyss that could swallow all light.”

When talking about this incident, Han Zhengde still seemed a little shaken.

"I couldn't see his face clearly, but I could see that he was wearing a gray robe from the Republican era, dressed like a schoolteacher."

"Although everyone called him Grandpa Xu, I remember that he stood very straight and did not look old and frail. His voice was hoarse and aged, as if he had really lived for more than a hundred years."

Chapter Seventy-Four: Absolute Ascension

Han Zhengde was lost in his memories, while Chu Jiang gained a deeper understanding of the profound heritage of Research Institute No. 21.

As expected of a top-tier paranormal organization worldwide; the research institute's hidden strength beneath the surface is far more terrifying than he imagined.

Putting aside other things, the group of captains we met before were not all the captains of the research institute, but only a part of them.

After all, the captains also have their own cities and regions to protect, and it's impossible to transfer them all back to headquarters at once.

While the two were discussing, news of the rookie ghost master's battle against Captain Yan, forcing him to kneel and admit defeat, had already spread throughout headquarters.

Although those actually present are too busy to go out and spread rumors, one group is still having a meeting on the third floor, and another group is still in their offices on the second floor.

But don't forget, how could headquarters not have surveillance?

Not to mention, when Yan Wanli violently destroyed a metal gate, alarms immediately went off at the defense department.

Therefore, the people who actually saw Chu Jiang and Yan Wanli confronting each other were not just those present who had the right to access the surveillance footage from the third-floor corridor; they all witnessed that scene.

Normally, the bespectacled vice minister would have minimized the impact of this matter and instructed people in various departments not to speak out.

But he's busy in a meeting right now, so he plans to deal with it later. And he believes his subordinates know what they're doing.

But how should I put it, other unexpected situations are one thing, but this one is just too explosive!

It was rare to see a captain-level figure suffer such a setback, especially considering Yan Wanli's poor reputation at headquarters. Therefore, the incident spread remarkably quickly.

The research institute's employees were still quite diligent, and no one left their posts, but some people had already started inquiring about Chu Jiang's identity.

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In his office, Chu Jiang was also pondering what had happened earlier.

At first, he genuinely thought it was a trap; a captain wouldn't stoop to such a level.

However, a voice later reminded him that the little girl holding the doll had mentioned a term called "perfect self-control".

Could it be that... the Bloodhand Ghost completely counters the opponent's Ghost Corpse?

No, Chu Jiang clearly didn't notice anything wrong or unusual about the ghost inside his body.

When it was attacked by the skeleton ghost before, it at least stirred up a bit, but this time there was really nothing unusual.

Moreover, Chu Jiang couldn't imagine how the ghost could control the corpse. Surely the corpse couldn't have been killed by the Blood Hand Ghost before it died, could it?

By the way, regarding the relationship between the living, the dead, and ghosts, Chu Jiang once saw a large survival lecture post on a paranormal forum.

This post isn't about teaching you how to survive; it's about explaining the dangers of suicide and encouraging everyone to be positive and not to think about dying all the time.

The post mentioned a very crucial piece of information:

Since the discovery that ghosts really exist, some desperate and resentful people have tried to become ghosts seeking revenge by committing suicide.

They even deliberately wore red clothes, chose an extremely yin and evil place, and chose midnight to commit suicide.

However, none of those who tried succeeded! They all died.

Therefore, the poster specifically mentioned that he hoped all ghost masters would not do anything foolish in the future. The origin of ghosts is a complete mystery, and the living should cherish their lives.

Of course, the poster didn't say that people absolutely cannot become ghosts after they die. It's just that the whole process is certainly not as simple as everyone imagines.

Otherwise, with such a large world population and people dying every day, many of whom harbor resentment, what would happen if they all became ghosts?

Based on this conclusion, Chu Jiang also doesn't really believe that the ghost corpse was killed by the blood-handed ghost before it died. Whether such ghostly things even have the concept of "before death" is another matter.

Not to mention that Chu Jiang also killed Zheng Chengren, but he never came back as a ghost to take revenge; he's long since dead.

Since it's unlikely to be the Bloody Ghost... could it be the Ghost Diary?

Chu Jiang hadn't originally planned to bring the Ghost Diary with him when he came to the research institute headquarters, in case it was forcibly taken away.

But think about it, such a large official organization wouldn't stoop so low as to forcibly seize the seal artifacts of newcomers. Otherwise, who would dare to join Research Institute No. 21? It wouldn't align with their policy of eagerly seeking talent.

So, in case anything unexpected happened, Chu Jiang brought the Ghost Diary with him.

Because this diary was larger than a regular diary, with 304 pages, it simply couldn't fit in his pocket, so Chu Jiang had to continue carrying his backpack.

Fortunately, the research institute did not have a mandatory body search procedure, but Chu Jiang had passed through more than one metal detection gate when he entered.

At that time, he wondered if it was necessary to have several identical doors if it was just for detecting metal.

Therefore, some of these doors may detect special things.

But it doesn't matter. Since the people at the research institute allowed Chu Jiang to bring in the sealed artifact, they assume they're not afraid he'll cause trouble.

Chu Jiang had no intention of causing trouble. He never took out his diary from beginning to end, and during the physical examination, he kept his backpack where he could see it.

Could it be that the one who can subdue the ghost corpse is actually the ghost from Ghost Diaries?

It's quite possible. You know, even the skinny ghost that wiped out Luoxi No. 7 Middle School only held out briefly against Ghost Diary before leaving.

Of course, there is another possibility: the ghost corpse is a ghost that escaped from the Ghost Diary.