Donghai City Missing! They've all been waiting for this day!

The lights in the Kyushu command center remained on.

The red alert has not been lifted.

The news of Guihua's abduction was suppressed, known only to the most core group. Even with the information blackout, the atmosphere in the command center remained terrifyingly heavy.

Qin Taotao sat at the conference table, her face pale.

Her injuries weren't serious, but what was truly serious was that most of her contact with the Ghost Post Office had been forcibly severed.

This feeling is something outsiders cannot understand.

It's like someone holding a life-saving knife, but the next moment, someone else snatches the knife away and holds it to their neck.

Li Yue has gone missing.

The ghost painting has disappeared.

The mysterious post office is out of control.

These three things combined are enough to plunge the Kyushu headquarters into an unprecedented crisis.

In the conference room sat the few remaining core leaders of the headquarters, as well as a few ghost riders who had participated in the Ghost Post Office project.

No one spoke.

The air was so oppressive that it was hard to breathe.

It took Qin Taotao a long time to raise her head.

"Let's begin."

Her voice was a little hoarse.

"I need to know why Li Yue lost control."

A technician immediately opened the document.

On the projection screen, all of Li Yue's recent activities were displayed.

From the moment the bizarre and complete resurgence began, she almost always stayed by Qin Taotao's side.

Dealing with the door-knocking ghost incident.

Handling the faceless doctor incident.

Handling school incidents.

Handling incidents at subway stations.

There were no abnormalities in the middle.

At least on the surface, no.

The technician said in a low voice, "According to the surveillance footage, everything was normal before Li Yue entered the rest room."

"Although her physical condition was affected by supernatural forces, there were no signs of the vengeful ghost resurrecting."

"The surveillance camera briefly flickered after she entered the lounge."

"After that, when she came out, her behavior pattern had already changed."

That scene appeared on the screen.

Li Yue walked out of the lounge.

Her expression was calm.

He was so calm that he didn't seem like a living person who had just returned from a high-intensity mission.

She made her way through the checkpoints.

No one stopped them.

All access doors open automatically.

The guards later recalled that they did not remember ever seeing her.

In the conference room, someone couldn't help but whisper, "This isn't ordinary paranormal interference."

"It's as if she already knew the route to headquarters."

"I also know where Guihua is being held."

The other person looked grim.

"The location where the ghost is being held is top secret."

"Li Yue didn't have access to that level before."

"Even if she's possessed by a vengeful ghost, she shouldn't know."

Qin Taotao stared at the screen, remaining silent.

Of course, she had thought of that too.

Li Yue herself was unaware of this.

The person who controls her knows.

This is the most terrifying place.

Someone who could infiltrate deep into headquarters using Li Yue's body could not possibly have acted on a whim.

He knows headquarters very well.

They even know about ghost paintings.

Learn about the Ghost Post Office.

I also understand the gold blockade.

In the conference room, an older manager slowly began to speak.

"Is it possible that the ghost painting itself influenced her?"

As soon as this speculation was put forward, some people shook their heads.

"impossible."

"The Ghost Painting's cover remained intact; there were no signs of prior leaks."

"Moreover, Li Yue had already shown abnormal behavior before she went to retrieve the ghost painting."

"The drawing isn't the reason."

Qin Taotao suddenly said, "Investigate how Li Yue became a Ghost Tamer."

Everyone was taken aback.

The technicians immediately retrieved another set of data.

Li Yue was not among the earliest ghost tamers.

She got to where she is now because she participated in the mail delivery mission of the Ghost Post Office.

She survived that mission.

It was after that incident that she came into contact with the supernatural and became a ghost tamer.

The documents were turned page by page.

Soon, two words appeared on the screen.

A pharmacy.

The meeting room fell silent.

Qin Taotao's gaze sharpened.

"stop."

The technicians immediately stopped.

The screen displayed the mission log.

Li Yue received a letter at that time.

The letter asked her to deliver the items to a pharmacy.

That pharmacy isn't on the normal map.

It exists deep within an old town.

It looks like an old-fashioned Chinese medicine shop, but in reality, it doesn't belong to the real world.

That was a haunted place.

Li Yue completed her mail delivery task there.

She returned alive after the mission.

It also brought back a kind of supernatural power.

From that day on, she was no longer an ordinary person.

She became a demon tamer.

Qin Taotao stared at the information and said, word by word, "Pharmacy."

Someone in the conference room frowned.

"It was clearly stated in the mission recovery report at the time."

"Li Yue did not find any obvious abnormalities."

"She was just delivering the message when she got caught up in some kind of supernatural rule within the pharmacy."

"After that, she controlled the demon."

"Headquarters has conducted tests, and her condition is stable."

Qin Taotao gave him a cold look.

"What if the testing was already misleading at the time?"

The man's face stiffened.

Qin Taotao stood up and placed her hands on the table.

"Li Yue wasn't just targeted today."

"The seeds of her problem were sown the moment she became a demon tamer."

After those words were spoken, the atmosphere in the meeting room grew even colder.

Some people instinctively retorted.

"But she remained normal after that."

"She participated in so many missions; if she was truly being controlled, why didn't they act sooner?"

Qin Taotao did not answer immediately.

Instead, it was a ghost tamer who spoke up.

"Because the timing isn't right."

His voice was very low.

"The ghost painting was previously sealed off by headquarters."

"The Ghost Post Office was previously in Qin's hands."

"The situation outside isn't that chaotic."

"Things are different now."

"The mist has appeared, the vengeful spirits have fully revived, and all the headquarters' forces have been dispersed."

"This is the best opportunity."

Silence fell over the meeting room once again.

That was a harsh remark.

That makes a lot of sense.

Li Yue's possession doesn't seem like a sudden event.

It's more like a nail that was planted a long time ago.

It hasn't moved at all.

It wasn't until the most critical moment that it pierced the heart of headquarters.

Qin Taotao closed her eyes.

She remembered Li Yue's earlier exhaustion.

I remembered her saying she could still hold on.

I remember her falling asleep by the bedside.

Perhaps from that moment on, Li Yue was no longer Li Yue.

No.

Maybe even earlier.

But none of them noticed.

One of the people in charge suddenly spoke up.

"Is the pharmacy related to the previous era?"

This statement drew everyone's attention.

No one answered immediately.

But the answer is actually quite obvious.

The pharmacy is not an ordinary haunted place.

Like the Ghost Post Office, it seems to be something left over from a certain era.

Behind these kinds of things, there is often the shadow of ghost tamers from the previous era.

Qin Taotao said slowly, "Continue the investigation."

The technicians quickly flipped through the documents.

Soon, another intelligence report was retrieved.

Donghai City.

Zhou Heng.

Luo Qian.

On the screen, Zhou Heng's earliest information appeared.

Zhou Heng was originally just a survivor in Donghai City.

Later, he disappeared in a paranormal event.

When it reappeared, its body had been taken over by Luo Qian.

Luo Qian, on the other hand, was a ghost tamer from the previous era.

He recovered using Zhou Heng's body.

Subsequently, it appeared in Donghai City.

Now, all the vengeful spirits in Donghai City have been suppressed by him.

This incident was originally seen as evidence that Luo Qian was temporarily on the side of humanity.

But looking at it now sends chills down my spine.

A terrible possibility has been laid out before everyone.

Zhou Heng was possessed by Luo Qian.

Li Yue was also possessed.

They have something in common.

They had all encountered supernatural phenomena left over from the previous era.

After a certain special point in time, they all became ghost tamers.

At crucial moments, their bodies were taken over by another consciousness.

Qin Taotao looked at Zhou Heng's information on the screen, her voice turning cold.

"Zhou Heng of Donghai City was possessed by Luo Qian."

"Li Yue became a Ghost Tamer after delivering a message at the pharmacy."

"Now she has also been possessed."

"This is no coincidence."

One of the managers' expressions changed slightly.

"You mean, there are also demon tamers from the previous era hiding in the apothecary?"

Qin Taotao did not nod directly.

But her silence was tantamount to acquiescence.

Everyone in the meeting room understood what this meant.

The demon tamers of the previous era did not truly die out.

They left behind so much.

post office.

A pharmacy.

Ghost drawing.

There are other undiscovered haunted places.

These things appear to be rules, tasks, and opportunities.

But in reality, it could also be a trap.

Ordinary people who survived believed they had become demon tamers.

But perhaps from that moment on, they had already been chosen by some old man.

The body became a container.

The supernatural became the starting point.

We're just waiting for the other person to wake up at a certain time.

Li Yue is an example.

Zhou Heng is another example.

A young ghost tamer looked grim.

"In other words..."

"Are all the ghost riders we trained through the Ghost Post Office problematic?"

"Is there something wrong with the ghost post office itself, or something else...?"

As soon as those words were spoken...

Everyone's expression changed.

The Mysterious Post Office Project.

It is currently the most important source of replenishment.

There are too many vengeful ghosts in reality, and the existing ghost controllers are simply not enough.

If the Ghost Post Office also carries similar risks, then headquarters has essentially sent a group of people into danger.

But what if the Ghost Post Office project is stopped?

If Kyushu cannot nurture new demon tamers, it means there is no way to cultivate new forces!

This is a dead end.

Qin Taotao's fingers slowly clenched.

She knew better than anyone how difficult this choice was.

After a moment, she said:

"The Ghost Post Office project will not be halted for the time being."

"Although Yang Jian is about to arrive, we can't place all our hopes on him, right?"

Everyone nodded.

"In addition, pharmacies and cemeteries are also listed as high-risk areas!"

"Conduct a focused investigation."

One of the officials nodded.

"I'll arrange it immediately."

Qin Taotao added, "Also, retrieve all the records from Li Yue's mission at the pharmacy."

"The contents of the letters, the mission route, and every conversation in the apothecary all need to be reviewed again."

"I need to know who is the person who has taken over her body."

The technicians responded immediately.

The atmosphere in the meeting room finally started to liven up.

One order after another was issued.

But everyone has a weight on their heart.

Because they knew that even if they found out the reason, it wouldn't change the fact that the Ghost Painting and the Ghost Post Office had already been taken away.

They were even less able to save Li Yue immediately.

Qin Taotao sat down again.

Her complexion was still terrible, but her eyes had regained their coldness.

She looked at Li Yue's photo on the screen.

In the photo, Li Yue is still very young, standing in front of the headquarters archives, with a calm expression and a hint of stubbornness in her eyes.

That's the real Li Yue.

It's not the thing in the secret room that speaks in a man's voice.

Qin Taotao whispered, "Are you still alive?"

No one answered.

The only sound in the meeting room was the clicking of keyboards.

After a while, a technician suddenly looked up.

"Team Leader Qin."

"We compared the information of Li Yue and Zhou Heng."

"There are indeed similarities."

"Before they were possessed, they all came into contact with a haunted place left behind by a ghost tamer from the previous era."

"And all of these transformations of power were completed after that."

"In other words, their status as ghost tamers may themselves be a prerequisite for possession."

Qin Taotao's gaze turned cold.

"in conclusion."

The technician took a deep breath.

"The reason why Li Yue lost control can be basically determined."

"She is not simply a resurrected vengeful ghost."

"It wasn't influenced by the ghost drawings."

"She came into contact with the pharmacy during a mission to deliver a message. When she became a Ghost Tamer, she was left with a possession technique by a Ghost Tamer from the previous era."

"Tonight, that method will be fully activated."

After those words were spoken, the conference room fell into a deathly silence.

The answer is finally out.

But this answer is more unsettling than the unknown.

Because this means they are facing not just vengeful ghosts.

And then there are those who have lived from the last era to the present.

They hide behind the supernatural.

Hidden deep within the rules.

Hidden within seemingly normal bodies.

Qin Taotao slowly raised her head and looked at the night outside the command center, shrouded in mist.

Luo Qian is from Donghai City.

The headquarters lost Li Yue.

Even with Zhou Heng's body possessed, he could still suppress an entire city.

Li Yue was possessed.

But they took away the ghost paintings and the eerie post office.

What will they do next? Nobody knows, but it's very dangerous...

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The alarms at the Kyushu command center have not yet stopped.

As soon as Qin Taotao stepped out of the conference room, a communications officer ran quickly towards her at the end of the corridor.

Her face was very pale.

This whiteness is not due to weakness after injury, but rather to seeing something unbearable.

"Team Leader Qin."

The correspondent's voice was strained.

"Something has happened in Donghai City."

Qin Taotao stopped in her tracks.

She didn't speak immediately, but just looked at the other person.

The lights in the corridor were a bit glaring, but her eyes were colder than the lights.

"explain."

The correspondent swallowed hard.

"All surveillance signals in Donghai City have been lost."

Qin Taotao's pupils contracted slightly.

The expressions of the other managers nearby also changed at that moment.

Donghai City.

Zhou Heng.

Luo Qian.

These names almost simultaneously came to mind for everyone.

The surveillance cameras in Donghai City are not ordinary surveillance cameras.

After the area was sealed off by paranormal activity, the headquarters had long since reconfigured a completely independent system.

The visible cameras, the hidden paranormal sensors, and the several key isolated communication stations were all there to monitor the city's condition.

Because Luo Qian is there.

A ghost tamer from the previous era who has taken over Zhou Heng's body.

prior to,

Luo Qian suppressed all the evil spirits in Donghai City.

This incident caused differing opinions within headquarters.

Some people believe that Luo Qian is a candidate.

Some believe that Luo Qian will not, at least for the time being, stand on the opposite side of humanity.

But Qin Taotao never truly believed him.

People from the previous era crawl out of their graves and stand in this era anew in the bodies of living people. How could such an existence be without purpose?

Now we have the answer.

All surveillance cameras in Donghai City have lost contact.

This was not an accident.

This is because Luo Qian didn't want the Kyushu headquarters to see what was happening in Donghai City.

Qin Taotao remained silent for a few seconds.

Then she spoke in a low voice.

"I knew it."

Her voice wasn't loud, but it made everyone around her feel a chill.

That wasn't anger.

Rather, it is a chilling feeling that comes from having already anticipated the worst outcome.

The correspondent quickly added, "It's not just the regular surveillance cameras; the three transit stations we've set up on the outskirts of Donghai City are also unresponsive."

"Monitoring of paranormal activity has been interrupted."

"The satellite images were obscured by a layer of haze."

"The status of people inside the city cannot be confirmed at this time."

Qin Taotao raised her head.

"Contact the personnel stationed in Donghai City."

The correspondent's face grew even uglier.

"Unable to contact."

"All channels are being jammed."

"In the last transmitted footage, there were no signs of ghost activity on the streets of Donghai City."

"but……"

Qin Taotao glanced at him.

"But what?"

The communications officer whispered, "In the last frame of the video, a patch of grave soil appears."

The corridor fell silent.

Grave soil.

This term is not unfamiliar to headquarters.

The supernatural beings that Luo Qian controls are related to grave soil.

He can bury vengeful ghosts and suppress supernatural phenomena.

If the last image transmitted back from Donghai City is of graves, it means that Luo Qian has begun to use his power.

Moreover, it's not a small-scale operation.

It involves mobilization at the city level.

This means that Donghai City has been isolated by him.

He didn't want headquarters to get involved.

Qin Taotao turned around and walked back into the conference room.

The core personnel, who had just dispersed, were urgently recalled.

No one complained.

Everyone knows that every piece of intelligence could now determine the fate of Kyushu.

The screen lit up again.

The map of Donghai City appears in the center.

But the once densely packed monitoring nodes have all turned gray.

The entire city looked as if a piece had been ripped out of Kyushu's view.

Qin Taotao stood in front of the screen, her face terribly grim.

"Donghai City has lost contact."

"Luo Qian has made his move."

No one in the meeting room objected.

At this point, there's no need to deceive ourselves anymore.

One of the people in charge had a hoarse voice.

"Could it be that a new paranormal event has occurred within Donghai City?"

Qin Taotao looked at him.

"What kind of paranormal event could simultaneously cut off all surveillance, block satellites, isolate communications, and still leave traces of grave soil?"

The person in charge opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.

Yes.

This is not a case of vengeful ghosts committing massacres.

This is a deliberate blockade.

Only Luo Qian could do that.

Qin Taotao turned to look at another screen, where Li Yue's information was still displayed.

Li Yue looks calm in the photo, but she is no longer the same person she once was.

She took the ghost painting.

She stole the core contact of the Ghost Post Office.

She forcefully tore open a gap in the Kyushu headquarters' trump card.

Now, Donghai City has lost contact again.

Both of these issues are serious enough if viewed separately.

However, if we look at them together, only one conclusion remains.

Someone is cooperating.

Or rather, they were always in cahoots.

Qin Taotao spoke slowly.

"The painting was stolen."

"Li Yue was possessed by a ghost tamer from the previous era."

"Donghai City is under lockdown."

"The Ghost Post Office has been disrupted."

"These things can't just be coincidences."

Her voice grew colder and colder.

"They've been waiting for this day."