Yongsheng Club,
Sun Qiang took the elevator to the top floor. As soon as he entered, he hurriedly called out to Wu Chao, who was lying on a lounge chair in front of the floor-to-ceiling window with an eye mask on:
“Brother Chao, Brother Chao, our people said they saw that Wang Liang downtown at noon!”
The room was quiet for a moment before Wu Chao’s drowsy voice came out.
“Which Wang Liang?”
“That person in charge, Wang Liang. The new guy in Da’an City. Gao Yan said a few days ago that he’d gone on a business trip, but at noon today he suddenly showed up downtown. Gao Yan hadn’t given us any news in advance that Wang Liang was back, either.
I went to ask him, and Gao Yan said he didn’t know what was going on either. He only found out the guy was back when Wang Liang contacted him to ask for the latest situation on that supernatural subway incident.”
“Oh, that guy,” Wu Chao said lazily.
Sun Qiang said with some nervousness, “Brother Chao, do we still act according to the original plan? Wait until he deals with that haunted subway incident later, then...”
As he spoke, Sun Qiang raised a hand and drew it across his neck. Unfortunately, Wu Chao was wearing an eye mask and clearly could not see it.
Wu Chao did not see it, but he understood what he meant. He waved a hand. “Go find Old Feng. Let him arrange the specifics. Just let me know before you make the move. As for Gao Yan, ignore him. Since we didn’t get the news that Wang Liang had returned, maybe Wang Liang has already started suspecting him.
That works out fine. Since the other side won’t choose to cooperate, then strike the next time he handles a supernatural incident. Get rid of this trouble. Don’t let him think that just because he became a person in charge, he can forget how high the heavens are and how deep the earth is. Hmph.”
“Got it. I’ll go find Brother Feng right now.”
“Go.”
Sun Qiang came in a hurry and left in a hurry as well. He took the elevator down from the top floor to look for Feng Bo.
On the other side, after resting for most of the day and relaxing his mind, Wang Liang sat down in front of his computer desk and opened the materials Gao Yan had sent him regarding the supernatural incident.
They were indeed basically the same as what he had been given before, which showed that the subway matter had not undergone any new changes over the past few days.
Wang Liang looked through the files again, wanting to see if he could discover any details that might have been overlooked through the known information before going to the scene.
Facing an unknown supernatural incident, even though he was now controlling two crashed movie ghosts, he could not be too arrogant or casual. He still had to be somewhat cautious.
After all, his supernatural protection on the level of consciousness was still very weak. Sadako’s alternative reboot only transferred his consciousness and avoided the death of his body; it did not protect his consciousness from being attacked. At the very least, the current Sadako could not do that.
However, he now had a ghost domain and the coffin nail in hand. As long as he confirmed that the ghost had a physical entity, once he locked onto its location and launched an attack, he could basically nail it dead instantly. Quickly resolving a supernatural incident would not be a problem.
The incident on Metro Line 16 had happened a month ago. It was also the incident that had caused Sun Su’s death.
A month ago, the subway train on Line 16 had been inexplicably stopped between Fuxing Avenue Station and Shanglin Road Station, and contact with it was lost.
The staff urgently halted the following trains and went to investigate, but none of them returned. Before they died, not even a sound came through.
For those carrying camera equipment, all that could be seen was the person walking along, and then the screen would suddenly suffer interference and go black. The video feed cut off, and contact was severed.
The support personnel could not figure out what was going on, so they could only cut their losses in time, evacuate in panic, and seal off the place.
Aside from this information, there were no more detailed particulars in the file. They did not even know how the victims had died.
“Basically unknown, huh.”
Wang Liang called Su Xinxi.
“Does headquarters have anything on the supernatural incident at Da’an City’s Metro Line 16? Did Sun Su say anything to his operator at the time?”
After a few seconds, a soft, delicate voice sounded. However, it was not Su Xinxi’s voice. Su Xinxi’s voice was gentle, but not soft and delicate.
The voice coming from the other end of the phone now gave Wang Liang the feeling that if he punched her once, she would cry for a very long time.
“...I found the past call records. At the time, Sun Su only said that he was about to begin the operation, then hung up the phone. After that, he was lost there and contact was cut off. Sun Su’s satellite phone can still be located at the site of the incident now, and it has not moved for a long time.”
“Who are you? Where’s Su Xinxi?” Wang Liang asked in confusion.
“Hello, Wang Liang. My name is Du Sirou. Headquarters has further increased the level of importance they attach to you, so they arranged for me and Su Xinxi to serve you twenty-four hours a day together.”
“What kind of serv—forget it. Since there’s no information, then that’s that. I’m hanging up.”
“Okay.”
Beep—
Wang Liang had originally wanted to tease her a little, but then he felt that just saying it like this was meaningless. Besides, making dirty jokes might somewhat ruin his image over at headquarters, so after thinking it over, he decided to forget it. His persona could not collapse.
Since the files at headquarters did not contain any more detailed records either, he had no choice but to treat this matter as a brand-new supernatural incident he was coming into contact with from scratch.
It was already dark now. Wang Liang decided to act tomorrow at noon, when yang energy was at its strongest, for good luck.
After resting for the night, once the sun hung high in the sky the next day, Wang Liang brought the coffin nail, the red ghost candle, the ghost bell, and a gold body bag with him, then set off for the station where the accident on Metro Line 16 had occurred: Fuxing Avenue.
The red ghost candle was there just in case. Ever since he had obtained it, he had never used it. On the contrary, he had used the white ghost candle once.
Now, with his alternative reboot occurring more than three times every day, and with the exact upper limit still unknown, his margin for error when handling supernatural incidents was extremely high.
At present, the only situation where he might need to use the red ghost candle was against the kind of malevolent ghost that entangled and attacked consciousness.
Wang Liang set out. He did not use his ghost domain to rush over quickly, but instead drove there at an unhurried pace.
So after Wang Liang departed, the people from Yongsheng Club who were keeping watch near Shuangqi Jiayuan also received news that Wang Liang had left the residential compound at the first possible moment and passed it on.
Wang Liang drove to the subway station at Fuxing Avenue. The station entrances and exits here had long since been cordoned off with tape and barriers.
Wang Liang stepped over the cordon and walked into the subway station.
The power supply inside the subway station had long since been cut off. Whether it was the escalators going up and down or the lights inside the station, everything here was shut down and dark.
The pitch-black entrance to the subway station led all the way into the depths underground, gradually swallowed by darkness.
The darkness in the depths was like a gaping maw that devoured everything. The farther down one went, the more one could feel the cold, sinister chill in the air gradually intensifying.
Previously, Wang Liang would fill his body with Sadako’s supernatural power, enhancing himself and turning himself into a pseudo-ghost body to solve the problem of seeing in the dark.
But now he had a better choice. The Slit-Mouthed Woman was clearly more suitable for possession. It was a perfect fit, and her supernatural power merged more harmoniously into every part of his body, giving him an even greater enhancement.
Moreover, Wang Liang very much liked the terrifying suppressive power within the Slit-Mouthed Woman’s supernatural ability. It made grabbing ghosts by the neck much more convenient.
After filling every part of his body with the Slit-Mouthed Woman’s supernatural power, Wang Liang gained the ability to see through darkness. It was somewhat clearer than when he was enhanced by Sadako.
Then he walked toward the depths of the subway. His figure faded slightly as he lifted his foot and took a step.
The next moment, his figure appeared eerily twenty meters away. With one step, he crossed the downward stairs and arrived on the basement level of the subway station.
Here, he could already smell the faint stench of corpses drifting in the air.