The SIM card was utterly ordinary, nothing special about it, but Zhao Kaiming could guess what it was for.
As for that piece of paper—
Zhao Kaiming carefully flipped it over, ready to let go at any moment. Yet after turning it over, he discovered that only a single sentence was written on it.
【Capture the ghost infant, insert the card, and wait for contact. Otherwise, bear the consequences. This time was only a warning.】
Zhao Kaiming crumpled the paper into a ball and hurled it viciously forward, then glared ferociously at the empty air beside him.
“I paid the price of a family member, and this is all you did? The other party isn’t dead! And he dares to threaten me!!”
“Damn it, say something!”
Zhao Kaiming slammed his fist down hard on the table, his chest heaving continuously, unable to calm down for a long time.
He sat on the sofa in silence for a long while, his expression shifting again and again. In the end, his face dark, he still rose to his feet and walked out of the villa.
The next day,
After the flight from Dachang City landed in Daan City, Wang Liang picked up his luggage and walked outside.
Before coming to Daan City, Su Xinxi had sent him a phone number via satellite phone, telling him to call it after landing. It was the number of Headquarters’ liaison in Daan City.
He brought up the number and dialed. The phone rang for only a second before it was answered; it seemed someone had been waiting on the other end the entire time.
“Is this Mr. Wang Liang? I am Headquarters’ liaison in Daan City, Gao Yan. I’m waiting for you at Exit 12, in a black Bentley. The license plate number is ******.”
“I see you.”
After leaving through Exit 12, Wang Liang got into the car that had come to pick him up. The driver was a middle-aged man wearing white gloves and a neat black suit.
“Hello, Mr. Wang. You can just call me Gao Yan. I’m the person who assists this city’s person in charge in communicating with the various departments. You may leave any troublesome matters to me. I have a great deal of experience.”
“Wang Liang. You know that already. I’ll be counting on you.”
“I wouldn’t dare. It is merely my duty. The safety of this city will still depend on Mr. Wang. Mm, would Mr. Wang like to go directly to the company now, or to the residence arranged by Headquarters?”
“The company?”
“It’s like this. The person in charge generally has a foothold and an office in the corresponding city. Establishing a company makes it more convenient for the city’s person in charge to liaise with the local departments, wealthy businessmen, and so on. After all, everyone is in the same city; when one prospers, all prosper, and when one suffers, all suffer.
“This company was established when the previous person in charge, Sun Su, was in office. Communication had already been made with the various wealthy figures, allowing them to learn about some supernatural matters, and they had invested money into this company as well.
“After Sun Su became trapped in a supernatural incident and died, this company was not dissolved. After discussion, those wealthy figures still decided to preserve it, to make it easier to communicate with the next person in charge.
“As for the current company, aside from the portion of Sun Su’s personal assets that was allocated to his relatives, the remaining shares belonging to the person in charge have already been acquired and are now all under your name. You hold absolute controlling interest, including your residence in Daan City.”
Wang Liang did not care about the sudden addition of a company, shares, and a house under his name. He looked at the scenery outside the car window and replied casually,
“Whether I hold controlling interest or not doesn’t mean much. The premise for everything is that I’m still alive. Sun Su is the best example.”
“Yes, of course. This is merely the attitude of those wealthy businessmen.” Gao Yan’s expression did not change much as he smiled and agreed.
“Fine. Then take me to my residence in Daan City first. We’ll talk about everything else once it’s fully light. Send the information on the company and Daan City’s supernatural incidents to my email first. I’ll take a look.”
“No problem. I’ll take you to the residence first.”
Gao Yan drove Wang Liang to a residential complex called Shuangqi Jiayuan. Most of the homes here were row villas, with some high-rise buildings in the surrounding area, but without exception, most people able to live here were either rich or powerful.
After Sun Su’s term as person in charge, the wealthy businessmen of this city had all come to understand one thing: wherever the person in charge lived was relatively safe.
Once people had money, most cherished their lives even more. Thus, they proactively provided free residences for all future persons in charge of Daan City, and moved in themselves as well.
Wang Liang’s residence here was a lakeside villa located at the very center of the complex. It was the villa with the best location here.
After arriving, Wang Liang bid farewell to Gao Yan and dragged his luggage into the villa alone.
This place had originally been the residence of Sun Su, the former person in charge of Daan City, but now everything belonging to Sun Su had already been moved away. More personal items such as bedding and daily necessities had all been replaced with new ones as well.
This villa had four floors above ground and one below. A section of the basement had even been specially renovated into a small safe room. It had been built when Sun Su was in office, but now Wang Liang benefited from it. This was also the reason Wang Liang had not proposed changing to another villa.
A free safe room—why wouldn’t he want it?
Wang Liang first walked toward the basement, preparing to take a look at the situation inside the safe room.
When he arrived in front of the safe room, the lock was broken. Someone had forced it open. Wang Liang frowned, but still pushed open the safe room door.
After entering, his brows did not relax either. It was not because he saw some strange things involving the supernatural, but because there was nothing at all, as if it were a brand-new safe room.
If a person in charge built a safe room nearby, then aside from the basic shelter facilities a safe room possessed, it would mainly be used to store relatively private things, such as imprisoned malevolent ghosts, or supernatural items obtained by chance.
According to the records, Sun Su had been in office for a total of five and a half months. For a ghost controller, that was already not a short time, especially while serving as the person in charge.
The safe room had been completed two months ago. After such a long time, surely there wouldn’t be nothing at all inside the safe room.
Wang Liang used his satellite phone to call Su Xinxi.
“Su Xinxi, did Headquarters take away the things the previous person in charge of Daan City, Sun Su, left in his own safe room?”
“Let me check... No. After Sun Su was registered as deceased, Headquarters originally intended to recover the items inside Sun Su’s safe room. After all, there might have been gold boxes containing imprisoned malevolent ghosts inside, and they couldn’t be left unattended for a long time.
“But after the retrieval officer went there, he did not find anything inside that safe room.
“Daan City’s liaison, Gao Yan, said Sun Su might have hidden those things somewhere else, and that he didn’t know about it. That was the person in charge’s privacy. In the end, this matter was difficult to resolve, so it was left unsettled.”
“When the retrieval officer came, was the safe room’s lock intact or broken?”
“Intact. At the time, the retrieval officer spent quite a bit of effort before managing to break open the safe room’s lock.”
“Got it.”
Wang Liang hung up the satellite phone and shook his head. He felt that the possibilities of Sun Su having had nothing worthwhile, or having hidden his things elsewhere, were both unlikely. There should be a problem here.
If Sun Su had not hidden them elsewhere, then the things in the safe room could only have been taken in advance before Headquarters’ retrieval officer arrived. They might even have replaced it with a new lock.
However, who had taken them?
With the existing information, it was impossible to infer. Wang Liang temporarily set the matter aside, only keeping it in mind.