Chapter 1077 - 1043: Mysterious Girl

Gao Ming clearly had some reservations about this matter; the information he sent to Yang Jian earlier did not detail Yang Zifeng’s situation.

Only after Yang Jian arrived did Gao Ming gradually reveal information about Yang Zifeng.

Yang Zifeng is dead.

His death was bizarre; he fell flat on the ground, breaking his neck right in front of Gao Ming. The way he died was the same as those killed by supernatural powers.

Yang Jian noticed a detail.

That is, when Yang Zifeng died, he was with Gao Ming.

“You, as a person in charge, couldn’t even save an ordinary person beside you?”

Yang Jian frowned, then casually took the iced cola Qin Meirou poured nearby.

“That’s the problem.” Gao Ming touched his sunglasses: “When Yang Zifeng had the accident, a ghost appeared by his side. That ghost was terrifying, warning me that if I forcibly intervened, I would also be targeted by that ghost.”

“A brief hesitation, and Yang Zifeng was already dead. I think this is the price Yang Zifeng paid for acquiring supernatural powers.”

“An ordinary person makes a wish and truly obtains supernatural power; it’s simply unbelievable. So his death was both surprising and reasonable. What do you think, Captain Yang?”

Yang Jian replied: “The situation is indeed as you say, but you are wrong. You are the person in charge; to understand supernatural events, you must have contact with the supernatural. When Yang Zifeng had the accident, it was a perfect opportunity for you to make contact with the ghost, yet you missed it.”

“Reckless contact, I might have ended up dead.”

Gao Ming shrugged helplessly: “I must ensure my safety before trying any exploratory action, which is reasonable. After all, I’m just working for a paycheck. Being too reckless often leads to a quick death.”

He showed a laid-back attitude.

Becoming the person in charge was not his desire, so every day he wished to slack off at work and go home right at the end of his shift.

As for supernatural events, it was best if they didn’t happen.

“So you want to push this matter onto me?” Yang Jian took a sip of cola, his gaze cold as he looked at him.

His slightly reddened pupils showed no hint of emotion.

Gao Ming chuckled: “You misunderstand, Captain Yang. I’m just providing information. If you’re interested, we can investigate. After all, this matter could be a hidden danger; if not dealt with now, it might cause bigger trouble later.”

Though laid-back, he wasn’t foolish.

The Wish Sticker matter of Yang Zifeng might be involved in something significant.

It’s better to discover and address it early than to handle it after it becomes a major problem.

“I’m just curious and not too willing to get involved in this matter. If you only hope for me to help you handle it, then you’re thinking too much. By rules, my jurisdiction is only Dachang City and some surrounding towns. I can’t manage this place.”

Yang Jian spoke casually as well.

His refusal to help Gao Ming was reasonable.

“By the way, who is the captain in charge here? Li Jun or Wei Jing?”

Gao Ming said: “It’s Wei Jing, but he’s dealing with other matters. If he were here, I wouldn’t have to worry so much.”

“However, if Captain Yang can help, I’d be happy to watch over Captain Yang’s friends here. If you need anything in the future, just say the word.”

He smiled, making a small promise.

After all, looking after ordinary people is not troublesome at all, and if it can get Yang Jian to take a trip, it’s a great deal.

However, as soon as he said this, Yang Jian thought of Miao Xiaoshan.

Miao Xiaoshan still needs to study here. He couldn’t possibly be here all the time, and having someone to look out for him is reassuring. Though Gao Ming is not at captain level, as the person in charge, he still has significant authority to help resolve many problems.

Yang Jian also possesses such authority, but after all, he is not in this city, and he also has inconvenient times.

“You’re finally speaking some sense. If you can take good care of her, I wouldn’t mind accompanying you to investigate that so-called supernatural Wish Sticker, but this promise is no easy matter. If anything happens to her in the future, you know what the consequences will be.”

He spoke without the slightest politeness, even with a somewhat sinister attitude.

Yet Gao Ming didn’t get angry.

The Captain Level ghost-eyed Yang Jian has rampant authority no matter where, and no one dares to underestimate him.

“Of course, since I have nothing after work, occasionally looking out is no problem.” Gao Ming said.

Yang Jian said: “Then it’s settled, hand it over.”

After speaking, he reached out his hand.

Qin Meirou glanced at Gao Ming and then at Yang Jian.

Gao Ming smiled and said: “Captain Yang thinks I’m still hiding some intel?”

“Isn’t that so?” Yang Jian said: “I’m long accustomed to your ways, always keeping something back. Actually, if I really want to check, you can’t stop me. It’s all unnecessary.”

Gao Ming signaled to Qin Meirou, who nodded and walked off to search the archive shelf.

“Apologies, the archive information here is actually managed by Wei Jing. If I give it to you directly, it’s hard to explain to them, and I’ve told you what I can. What remains is just a surveillance video from a few days ago; you can just take a look.”

Soon enough.

Qin Meirou found the USB with the video file and played it.

The projector in the office soon displayed the image.

A street scene in the footage.

But after a while, the image started to flicker, jump, and blur. Yet one could vaguely see a little girl walking from afar in the surveillance video.

And the closer she got, the blurrier the image became.

In the end, the image completely lost its effect, and after a while, returned to normal.

“Supernatural interference, the role of surveillance is limited, and the image cannot be restored, but it can be roughly seen that the image shows a little girl, around ten years old, wearing a white dress with floral prints…” Qin Meirou captured a few key images for Yang Jian to see more clearly.

“The surveillance video was shot four days ago. Hopefully, Captain Yang can locate the position of this little girl based on this information.”

“She could be anywhere in this city now. If we utilize manpower to search, it will be too time-consuming and might alert the little girl.”

Qin Meirou maintained a businesslike demeanor, not showing any personal emotion.

Although she didn’t particularly like Yang Jian, he was a remarkable ghost handler, and also the captain from headquarters, so due respect was given.

“Finding someone in this city shouldn’t be a problem for headquarters, right? By using facial recognition to pinpoint supernatural interference locations, and then deploying people for regional search, results will come in no time.” Yang Jian said calmly.

Gao Ming shook his head slightly: “The theory is correct, but searching carries its own dangers. If that truly is wish-granting supernatural power, then that girl might have already wished for specific people to be unable to find her, and I’m unsure if approaching would provoke a ghost attack. If alerted, if that little girl makes a new wish, things could become problematic.”

“The supernatural should be dealt with by the supernatural to be prudent. What do you think, Captain Yang?”

Yang Jian looked at him with slight surprise.

Unexpectedly, Gao Ming had such insight, deducing merely from a wish sticker that the girl might have already wished for supernatural protection and other hidden supernatural measures.

“You make a good point, and it’s likely correct.” Yang Jian said flatly: “I noticed a detail in that surveillance video just now.”

“That is, at night, a child wearing a dress, appearing like a homeless child, walking down the street, with people around occasionally glancing at her.”

“This neglect is neither indifference nor unseen, they were affected by supernatural interference. Yet this supernatural interference was ineffective on Yang Zifeng, what do you think is the reason? Or rather, what kind of wish would a little girl make to shield the eyes of others?”

Yang Jian began analyzing some aspects.

“If I were the little girl, to protect myself, I would definitely wish for bad people not to approach me, or not to be discovered by bad people, generally around that meaning…” Gao Ming contemplated.

“Think further, if the wish truly was so, then how does that little girl define good or bad? More precisely, how does the ghost beside her make such judgments for her?” Yang Jian asked.

Gao Ming’s expression shifted slightly: “This is a subjective definition, impossible to clearly articulate.”

“Right, who is good and who is bad, no one can make a definitive judgment, not even a ghost,” Yang Jian said, “So the little girl’s wish would create a paradox and logically shouldn’t take effect.”

Qin Meirou, standing nearby, looked at Yang Jian, appearing very surprised.

Yang Jian’s ability to analyze the situation was terrifying; he had already discerned the ghost lurking by the little girl.

“But the supernatural has already taken effect, and passersby’s attention has been blocked,” Gao Ming said.

Yang Jian said, “So whether the supernatural power appears or not doesn’t depend on us but on that little girl. Her subjective judgment is important. I think whoever she sees as a good person is a good person, and whoever she sees as a bad person is a bad person. If she determines us as enemies, then that ghost is very likely to directly attack us.”

“I see,” Gao Ming mused.

Hearing Yang Jian’s analysis, he couldn’t help but feel a little scared.

Luckily, he didn’t go looking for that little girl on his own, or the moment he found her, he might have been judged by the little girl as a bad person, triggering some protective mechanism formed by her wish, being relentlessly attacked by the vengeful ghost, or even killed outright.

“So the best method is to not let that little girl notice us and then find her,” Qin Meirou interjected.

Gao Ming shook his head and said, “No, if you do that, finding her would be meaningless. You can’t do anything to her, and even appearing would get you killed by the ghost. The only method is… to eliminate her.”

“But it cannot be ruled out that she wished for the ghost to protect her.”

“Now I understand why this little girl has become a vagrant. She’s a jinx; wherever she goes, there’s danger, and as a child, she can’t control the vengeful ghost, which is why it’s somewhat out of control now.”

Yang Jian said, “I’m just analyzing; we’ll only know the situation after making contact.”

“Now, we need to find that girl first.”

After saying this, he stood up and went to the floor-to-ceiling window of the office.

Looking down from above.

Most of the city’s buildings were in full view.

The next moment.

His ghost eyes opened.

Three ghost eyes stacked, the three layers of Ghost Domain instantly spread out.

The Ghost Domain spread, covering outwards from the skyscraper in all directions.

With Yang Jian’s current ability, the three layers of Ghost Domain were too simple for him, so the extent of this Ghost Domain was astonishingly large, with entire regions enveloped in red light. In just a few seconds, the whole city was covered by Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain.

“An incredible scope of the Ghost Domain,” Gao Ming observed from beneath his sunglasses, his dark eye sockets peering into the distance.

He was amazed.

Because he couldn’t see the edges of this Ghost Domain, it exceeded his sight range; all around was a crimson silence.

But ordinary people didn’t feel any different; it was the same as when it was normal just a moment ago.

At this time, as long as Yang Jian wished, he could easily erase someone, making them disappear with no trace left behind.

“How nice it would be to give a heads-up; otherwise, it alarms the headquarters again,” Gao Ming said.

“It’s not the first time; just get used to it,” Yang Jian was indifferent.

Within his Ghost Domain, he noticed many ghost handlers paying attention to him.

“Is it the Ghost Domain? A supernatural event, or a ghost handler?”

“This red Ghost Domain… coming from Gao Ming’s direction, it must be Yang Jian’s doing.”

“Covered here, truly astounding, already dozens of miles away.”

These ghost handlers belonged to the headquarters, quickly communicating via satellite positioning phones. After confirming the situation, they stayed calm to avoid misunderstandings.

“Let me see where that little girl is,” Yang Jian was filtering.

Filtering the population of a city takes some time; it’s not an easy task, but he has experience with this.

For example, he started by filtering out people whose height doesn’t match the requirement.

Just like this, the number of people in his vision reduced significantly, almost all being children now.

Then filtering out the boys…

Filtering out girls who are too young…

After several rounds of filtering, the targets visible in Yang Jian’s ghost eyes were very few.

The remaining ones were not easy to filter, so he had to look at them one by one, identify them one by one.

The three-layer Ghost Domain could isolate general supernatural elements, and it definitely wouldn’t let an ordinary person detect it, so if everything went smoothly, that little girl wouldn’t notice him either.

Soon.

Yang Jian’s ghost eye moved, and his unobstructed sight fell on a deserted alley away from the city center.

The alley, even during the day, appeared somewhat dim.

Yet there was a girl in a dirty dress walking in the alley, holding a piece of bread she found from somewhere in hand, eating as she walked.

“Found her.”

The moment Yang Jian’s ghost eye sight fell on this girl, it immediately triggered some kind of reaction.

The sight distorted, a terrifying ghostly figure overlapped with the girl’s figure, as if fusing into one, and the ghost seemed to have noticed him, slowly turning its head.

The Ghost Domain was vanishing.

A terrifying supernatural force further disrupted it, and the sight was lost.

The area became like a blank space, no longer visible.

It was as if shrouded in a mist.

“Easily able to disrupt the three-layer Ghost Domain’s vision, that ghost is very unusual,” Yang Jian’s expression shifted slightly.

What he thought would be a smooth search turned out to have a ghost’s terror beyond imagination.

“Gao Ming, let’s go together.”

“Wait a minute,” Gao Ming realized something, hurriedly wanting to stop him.

But Yang Jian wasn’t giving him the chance to hesitate; he directly took him and vanished from the building.

Since the area was unclear due to supernatural interference, it made sense to get closer and investigate.

The next moment.

They appeared outside the alley.

The dark, damp alley full of stagnant water immediately came into view.

“This is…” Gao Ming pinpointed their location, an eyelid twitching.

Already over twenty kilometers from where they were before.

Sure enough, the extent of Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain was unusually large.

“That little girl is in this alley,” Yang Jian said, then added, “The ghost is here too.”

Gao Ming looked into the alley.

It was empty and a dead end.

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