“Teacher Wang, why are you giving us one-inch photos of yourself?”
“Keep them on you. Don’t let them leave your person. If you run into something like what happened today, they might just save your lives.”
“Ah, don’t worry, Teacher Wang. Once I get back, I’ll definitely burn incense to your photo day and night, pray to it, chant scriptures for blessings, and never let it leave my side!”
Zhang Wei immediately put Wang Liang’s one-inch photo into the breast pocket of his jacket, zipped it up, and even covered it with both hands in an exaggerated manner.
“You don’t have to go that far.”
The corner of Wang Liang’s mouth twitched. He ignored this pillar of the comedy world, the future dual-wielding golden gunman of Dachang City.
“All right, get in. I’ll take you all home.”
At this point, Wang Liang felt somewhat troubled, because seven students definitely would not fit.
Although his car was an SUV, counting himself, seating eight people at once was still a bit much.
The others could also see Wang Liang’s difficulty. Yang Jian took the initiative and said,
“I’ll go back by myself. Teacher Wang can take them.”
“Then… then I’ll go straight home too. My place is nearby,” Liu Qi said.
“I’ll go with you, Yang Jian,” Wang Shanshan said softly at this moment.
“Huh? Fine, ladies’ privilege. I’ll take you.” Yang Jian was stunned for a moment, but did not mind.
“Can I… stay at your house for a few days?” Wang Shanshan asked in a small voice.
“Hah?”
Hearing this, everyone looked at Wang Shanshan with strange expressions.
Wang Liang, however, looked at an inconspicuous pale-red mark on Wang Shanshan’s wrist. It looked like an eye. Even Yang Jian had not noticed it at this moment.
That was the ghost slave mark belonging to the ghost eye, left behind when Yang Jian saved Wang Shanshan.
“That definitely won’t do. Come on, I’ll take you home first,” Yang Jian said.
Although fear still lingered in their hearts, and none of them wanted to separate just like this, in the end, everyone still went their separate ways.
Liu Qi’s home was nearby, so he went back on his own.
Yang Jian took Wang Shanshan home. At the entrance to Wang Shanshan’s house, he received two hundred yuan in “breakfast money” handed over by her mother, Wang Haiyan.
As for Wang Liang, he first drove Zhang Wei, Miao Xiaoshan, Zhao Lei, and Sun Ren home. After that, he went to a mobile phone store, bought a new phone, and put in a new SIM card.
The first thing Wang Liang did after getting the phone was go to the forum Yang Jian had mentioned and download and save the electronic audio file containing the knocking sounds.
Then he posted his new phone number in the Class Seven group chat, where there probably would not be many people speaking anymore.
He did not plan to use his old number anymore. Consider it a period placed at the end of this body’s identity as a teacher.
The school was already finished. Now that he had become a ghost wielder, there was no need for him to continue being a teacher. Besides, he was not truly Teacher Wang to begin with.
If he replaced the old number now, those parents would only keep calling him to ask this and that.
A supernatural incident had occurred. What else could he say to those parents? That there had been ghosts, and that their children might already have… They probably would not believe him anyway. It would only continue to cause trouble for both sides. The matter of explaining things could be left to the relevant departments.
Meanwhile, a little earlier.
Dajing City, Asian Division, in an operator room at the Ghost Wielder Headquarters,
Liu Xiaoyu, the operator originally assigned to Zhou Zheng, was currently working on a computer.
After pulling up the relevant surveillance footage according to the known intelligence, she called out to a middle-aged man in uniform inside the operator room:
“Captain, based on the positioning signal from Zhou Zheng’s satellite phone, I’ve already found the relevant surveillance footage.”
Hearing this, the stern-faced Zhao Jianguo strode over.
“How is Zhou Zheng? Have you made contact?”
“Not yet. Earlier, I was worried that contacting him might cause him to encounter an accident during the supernatural incident, so I didn’t take the initiative to call Zhou Zheng’s satellite phone.
But now, in the nearby surveillance footage found according to the satellite positioning, I don’t see Zhou Zheng. Zhou Zheng’s satellite phone should be in the hands of these people in the footage. Zhou Zheng’s own situation is probably not good.”
“Who are those eight people in the surveillance footage?”
“Seven of them are students, all from Dachang City No. 7 High School. According to the footage, these seven people suddenly appeared just now at the pedestrian street in Dachang City. There should be a ghost wielder among them. It’s estimated that someone became a ghost wielder during the supernatural incident at No. 7 High, suspected to possess a ghost domain.”
“Mm. What about the person who got out of the car afterward?” Zhao Jianguo asked.
Liu Xiaoyu answered quickly; she had already completed the investigation.
“According to the system’s facial recognition, he is a teacher at No. 7 High. He is also the homeroom teacher of the class Zhou Zheng went to give a safety lecture to tonight. His name is Wang Liang. He grew up at Fule Orphanage in Da’an City, went to university in Dachang City, and later stayed on to teach at Dachang City No. 7 High School.”
“Homeroom teacher? Why did he drive there alone? Wasn’t he at the school at the time?” Zhao Jianguo felt somewhat puzzled.
“Captain, I feel that this person is very unusual.”
At this point, Liu Xiaoyu’s expression became somewhat strange.
“I checked the surveillance footage near No. 7 High. At the time, he was the one who met Zhou Zheng at the school gate, and the two entered the campus together. There is no record of him leaving.
In other words, he also encountered the supernatural incident at No. 7 High and was taken away by that ghost’s ghost domain. But afterward, he escaped from the ghost domain unharmed.
The surveillance footage found through facial locking shows that, some time after the supernatural incident at No. 7 High broke out, he suddenly appeared in a residential complex five kilometers away from the school. Then he took a taxi back to No. 7 High.
After getting into his own car at the school, he stopped for a long time on Guyang Street. Around three in the morning, he set off again and rushed to the area near Hongfa Temple.
The surveillance cameras didn’t capture it, so we don’t know what he did. After staying there for a period of time, he then drove all over many places in Dachang City, moving erratically. His behavior is impossible to understand.
But in the end, he actually encountered the seven students who had just escaped from the ghost domain with great precision at the pedestrian street.
This shows that earlier, he probably wasn’t wandering around at random. Rather, he was able to accurately lock onto the moving position of the ghost domain of that malevolent ghost from No. 7 High and was tracking it with purpose. It was probably to save his students!”
Liu Xiaoyu gave her conclusion.
“Based on this information, this person should also be a ghost wielder, and his ability is not simple. He probably isn’t a newcomer. He may have already been a ghost wielder for some time. But his condition… seems very good. There are no abnormalities in his appearance. Before this incident happened, he had also been teaching at No. 7 High the entire time, with no abnormal behavior.”
After hearing Liu Xiaoyu’s string of analysis, Zhao Jianguo furrowed his brows tightly. Only after thinking for a while did he speak:
“A ghost wielder with the ability to escape a ghost domain and even lock onto one has actually been working as a teacher in a school all this time. That’s very hard to believe. This person…”
“Ah, Captain, look!” Liu Xiaoyu suddenly cried out, interrupting Zhao Jianguo.
“Mm? What is it?”
Zhao Jianguo hurriedly turned his head to look at the computer screen Liu Xiaoyu was pointing at, and then his expression changed drastically.
On the desk, Liu Xiaoyu’s computer screen had suddenly begun flickering unstably, as though it were dropping frames.
And in the surveillance footage on the screen, Wang Liang, who was talking with the students, also underwent an eerie change at this moment.
Whoosh.
The somewhat frame-skipping computer screen abruptly flickered violently, turning into severe visual distortion.
After that flash, when the screen returned to normal, Wang Liang’s figure in the surveillance video had already been replaced!
He had become a female ghost in white, standing there quietly with disheveled black hair, her face impossible to see!
Yet the students in the footage seemed completely unaware of this change, still gathered in a circle and conversing normally with this female ghost.
This meant that the image in the computer was not aimed at the scene itself, but at them here!