Yang Jian and Li Yang were traveling in a dedicated car in Dachuan City.
This city is also a very important tropolis, although it's not as significant as Dahai City, it's on the sa level as Dachang City in terms of population, economy, and prosperity.
Logically speaking, there shouldn't be so few vehicles and pedestrians on the streets of this city.
Although Yang Jian felt that the city seed operational during the car ride, he sensed as if there was a lack of vitality.
There wasn't that noisy, lively atmosphere.
There was a sense of oppressive lifelessness.
"Li Yang, check to see if there have been any supernatural incidents here," Yang Jian instructed.
Li Yang imdiately contacted headquarters to look into Dachuan City's supernatural case files.
In such a big city, there are bound to be supernatural incidents. Before the Hungry Ghost incident, Dachang City had several supernatural events, but they were small-scale and under control.
Soon.
Li Yang received a response, "There were two supernatural cases on record, one is a Grade C supernatural event, codenad 'Forgotten.' The other is a Grade B supernatural event, codenad: Ferocious Ghost District."
"Both cases were resolved by the Dachuan City official Li Leping. There should be no issues now, and Dachuan City has been peaceful without any further peculiar occurrences," he said.
Yang Jian nodded, "For such a large city to have only two supernatural incidents, that's really quite fortunate. But the truly chosen place is Dahan City, managed by Sun Rui, with not a single supernatural event occurring. Compared to them, I seem to have much worse luck."
"Sun Rui isn't having an easy ti now either, with a Ghost Post Office placed in the city center. If it goes out of control, it could lead imdiately to a Grade A supernatural event," said Li Yang.
Yang Jian spoke, "Pull up these two case files for to have a look."
"Okay."
Li Yang imdiately contacted the operator to pull up these two case files.
The first file, "Forgotten"
The na of the file was odd, seemingly picked by soone with no sense of grounding.
Yang Jian flipped through the file and according to the narration within, at so unknown point, Dachuan City began noticing a decrease in its transient population, prompting officials to investigate.
Shockingly, a demographic survey revealed nurous instances of family mbers going missing.
The most eerie part was that after a family mber disappeared, the rest of the family had no awareness of it. A family of four would beco a family of three, and life would proceed as normal.
It was precisely because of this that the supernatural event was discovered relatively late.
Exactly how many people went missing remains unknown to this day.
Afterward, these strange disappearances ceased, and Li Leping contacted the headquarters, stating that he had resolved the supernatural event.
There's no record of the process by which the supernatural event was resolved, nor is there any data on the malevolent ghost involved.
This is an incomplete file, containing only a personal report from Li Leping.
The credibility is very low.
But headquarters still archived it, after all, it is a supernatural case file and holds certain reference value.
"Was that ghost controlled by Li Leping? Is that why he beca soone who is easily forgotten?" Yang Jian pondered this.
Then he opened the second case file.
Codena, Ferocious Ghost District.
The event began three months ago.
In the city center of Dachuan City, nightfall on the streets and alleys, corpses with ghastly death appearances were discovered one after another, and the number of deaths increased day by day. Stories of murderous ghosts had also beco a scary urban tale a few months earlier, frightening many citizens.
Many chose not to go out at night.
But occasionally, security caras on the streets captured terrifying images of ghostly figures.
It seed there was an unknown malevolent ghost wandering a certain area, unremittingly attacking the living.
After that, the area was sealed off.
And the sealed-off area was the Ferocious Ghost District.
Later, Li Leping entered the sealed-off Ferocious Ghost District alone.
A few days later, the blockade was lifted.
Because he reported back to headquarters that the supernatural event was handled, and the ghost would no longer appear.
But strangely, the file still lacked any details on Li Leping's process in resolving the supernatural event, as well as any information about that malevolent ghost.
This was another incomplete file.
"Li Leping is purposefully hiding the process of resolving the supernatural events. Is it a way to protect his own intelligence, or is there sothing in the process that he does not want others to discover?"
Yang Jian fell into deep thought.
There was sothing odd about this city, and even the official in charge, Li Leping, seed to be under a shadow.
And now, the address of the Ghost Post Office pointed to this city.
Obviously.
Sothing was definitely happening here, or had happened already; it's just that he had yet to find out since he was new in town.
"No rush, let's investigate slowly," he thought to himself.
But suddenly, he rembered an important detail of this letter delivery mission.
That is, this letter delivery mission seed to have no ti limit.
Yes.
Yang Jian recalled carefully and realized that indeed, there was no ti requirent for this letter delivery mission.
Previously, the letter delivery mission at Fushou Garden in Dahai City had a seven-day requirent, but this ti the deadline wasn't ntioned.
"If no ti limit for delivery was ntioned, then by default, it should be three months, because the ssengers on the third floor need to send out a letter every three months," he pondered.
Three months' ti indicated that this letter delivery mission had a rather generous tifra.
But this also indirectly suggested that there was sothing unusual about this letter delivery.
As Yang Jian contemplated, the car that had been running smoothly suddenly started to accelerate rapidly, as though it was rushing past a traffic light intersection.
However, at this mont, a small truck burst out from a side road and slamd straight into the service car.
The service car tried to accelerate quickly to avoid the small truck, but it was still a step too late.
The rear door of the car was hit by the small truck, causing a violent shake felt by everyone inside. Then, followed by the sound of screeching brakes, the vehicle lost control at the intersection, flipped over, and finally skidded for several ters before coming to a stop on top of the roadside greenbelt.
The truck that caused the accident had no intention of stopping at all, simply flooring the accelerator and quickly making its escape.
The twisted wreckage of the service car lay overturned there, silent, with no indication of the condition of the people inside.
However, the next mont.
"Bang!"
A loud noise as the side door of the vehicle was kicked off in an instant.
Yang Jian climbed out of the wrecked vehicle expressionlessly, his slightly red eyes fixed on the rapidly departing truck that caused the accident. He wanted to give chase but restrained himself.
Because the driver of that truck was a living person.
This ant that the attack was not from a fierce ghost, and since it wasn't, there was no need to exert supernatural power.
"This isn't a coincidence, it's intentional. Soone's been targeting . Could it be a sworn enemy? Probably not. Thinking they can finish off with a car accident, anyone with a bit of sense knows that's impossible."
Yang Jian watched the car drive away, his expression growing slightly grim.
"What a shock, how could there be a car accident out of the blue, Yang, how's the situation?" Li Yang also climbed out of the car, bleeding from a cut on his forehead.
Yang Jian replied, "All normal, nothing special, just that the driver who caused the accident fled. Let Li Leping handle the arrest; he is in charge of Dachuan City, and catching a person should be no problem for him. I don't want to waste ti on this."
"It seems like the driver is dead; he's not moving anymore," Li Yang added.
"Is that so? That's truly regrettable." Yang Jian said expressionlessly.
He would not feel any special emotion for the death of a stranger because he was too accustod to seeing life and death.
Soon.
Several other service cars swiftly stopped nearby.
Li Leping got out and said, "How are you two doing, no issues? I just saw your car accident, and it really startled . Don't worry, I will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly and apprehend the driver today to give an explanation to you two."
Yang Jian looked at his calm to the point of being almost numb expression, not showing any emotional disturbance in Li Leping, but rather a terrifying composure.
However, as most necromancers are like this, he didn't pay much attention to it.
"Let's change to another car, hoping this was just a misunderstanding," Yang Jian suggested.
Without another word, Li Leping arranged another vehicle for the two of them.
Quickly, everyone left the accident scene.
But inside the twisted and deford vehicle, the driver in the front seat was already cold and lifeless, slumped over the steering wheel.
His hands still clutching the steering wheel, body in a driving position.
But his neck was missing a head, with no idea where it had rolled off to, and the wound on the neck was too neat, definitely not a result of this car accident, and must have been present before.
Since the front and back seats were separated.
The driver's bizarre state went unnoticed by Li Yang and Yang Jian.
anwhile, the small truck that just committed the hit-and-run was now flooring it through the center of Dachuan City.
Strangely, there were very few vehicles on the road taken by the small truck. Even if there were a few other cars, they had changed lanes and left half a minute earlier.
Moreover.
At every intersection, the small truck encountered green lights.
Even if there was a red light, as the truck approached, the green light would suddenly flash, turning back to green again.
The person driving the small truck was an ordinary-looking middle-aged man.
This man's expression was sowhat vacant, like a puppet only knowing to steer and accelerate, not showing the slightest intention to slow down or give way.
The small truck disappeared into Dachuan City, heading for an unknown destination, leaving no trace.
And Yang Jian, Li Yang, upon arrangents by Li Leping, checked into a five-star hotel in the city.
The hotel was desolately empty; apart from so staff like waiters, chefs, and cleaners, it had no other guests but them two. .
Li Leping claid he now owned the hotel, which was specifically to accommodate Yang Jian and Li Yang.
For soone of Yang Jian's stature, this level of hospitality was not unusual.
After all, as soone responsible, he had the capacity for such arrangents.
"I will go handle the aftermath of the accident and give the two of you an explanation. I'll discuss matters of Dachuan City with you tonight, and I hope you don't mind," said Li Leping.
"Okay, you go on. I'll wait for your good news," Yang Jian stood still, watching Li Leping and his entourage depart.
Li Yang frowned, feeling sothing was off but unable to express it.
This vague feeling, unconfird before, strengthened after entering the five-star hotel, making him sure of it.
"Captain, there's sothing strange here."
A cold smile flashed across Yang Jian's lips: "Of course, it's strange; these people walking about don't have shadows."
What?
Li Yang's expression changed drastically, and he imdiately looked towards Li Leping and the others, still not far away.
Suddenly.
A chill surged forth.
Under the outdoor sunlight.
Whether it was Li Leping or the suited assistants by his side, none of them cast shadows.
This was extrely illogical.
Everything should have a shadow.
But there are always exceptions, and in this world, there is sothing that can defy common sense and exist.
Ghosts!
Only when related to ferocious ghosts and supernatural incidents can all physics common sense and understanding possibly be overturned.
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