Chapter 1386 - 1353: The Ramming of the Safehouse
The events happening abroad have yet to be reported back domestically; no one cares about the disappearance of a captain. However, such a major event can’t be concealed for long; it won’t take more than a few days for headquarters to react, and when that happens, an enormous upheaval will undoubtedly occur in the supernatural circles.
The storm is currently brewing.
Early the next morning.
This is domestically, within Ning’an Building in Dadong City.
A man dressed in a suit, wearing glasses, refined, and handsome, is flipping through confidential files at his desk, incessantly jotting down notes.
From 7:30 AM, he worked until 11. Only then did Wang Chaling put his work aside, rub his eyes, make a cup of tea, and prepare for a break.
“I have enough time to slowly study the various supernatural powers emerging in the supernatural circles and then count, integrate, and optimize them to find the best solution. However, this era doesn’t allow me to take my time. The situation is changing too rapidly now. I don’t know how long I can stay peacefully in Dadong City.”
Holding a steaming cup of black tea, he gazes out the window at the bustling city.
As captain and the one responsible for Dadong City, Wang Chaling hasn’t had it easy these days. As an ordinary person, he not only has to deal with supernatural events in his surrounding areas but also strives to implement a long-formulated plan.
He has no teammates around him, nor friends, only family members who silently accompany him.
This is Wang Chaling’s confidence and motivation.
“It’s almost time, just one last step. I must implement the Infinite Restart Plan before Yang Jian comes to Dadong City to take away the clock. I must return to that moment to change the past and the future.” Wang Chaling took a sip of black tea, his gaze unwavering.
After pondering for a moment.
Wang Chaling checked the time and returned to the desk, picking up the phone: “Ah Zhen, prepare the car for me; I need to go out.”
Quickly.
A tall, sultry woman in business attire knocked on the office door, then entered and said, “Mister Wang, the car is ready.”
“I understand.” Wang Chaling put down the still-warm teacup, grabbed his suit, and walked out of the office.
Ah Zhen accompanied Wang Chaling down the elevator. Inside the elevator, Ah Zhen said, “Mister Wang, I would like to request a two-day leave tomorrow.”
“What’s the reason?” Wang Chaling asked.
“I’ve been feeling a bit unwell lately and want to go to the hospital for a check-up. Don’t worry, Mister Wang, I won’t let work get delayed,” Ah Zhen replied.
Wang Chaling nodded slightly: “I understand. Take a good rest these days, and if you need any help, you can let me know.”
“Thank you, Mister Wang,” Ah Zhen responded.
Not long after, Wang Chaling drove alone to a nondescript small house in the city center.
After getting out of the car, Wang Chaling took out a key to unlock the door and walked inside the house.
The house was dark; the windows were deliberately sealed during renovation, and only a dim light in front of an elevator was on.
Wang Chaling seemed familiar with the surroundings here, taking the elevator to the basement.
This was a safe house he had established.
The building above ground was merely a facade.
Coming to this hidden safe house, Wang Chaling didn’t intend to do anything or stay long; he was only here for a routine inspection because in this basement safe house, a tremendously terrifying ghost was imprisoned and stored… code name, Hungry Ghost.
The source ghost of an S-level supernatural incident, even though it has been nailed down with a Coffin Nail, Wang Chaling still feels uneasy. Whenever he has time and is not occupied, he comes to inspect.
The elevator stopped.
Upon reaching the basement, Wang Chaling went straight to a special room.
Through a small window on the thick door, he looked inside the room.
This was supposed to be a regular inspection, yet the situation inside the room instantly widened Wang Chaling’s eyes.
At this moment, the safe house was completely empty. The Hungry Ghost that had previously been imprisoned and stored in the safe house had mysteriously vanished.
“How could this happen? How could the Hungry Ghost disappear?” At this moment, Wang Chaling was shocked to his core.
He stared intently at every corner of the room, repeatedly confirming.
But the safe house wasn’t large, just a few square meters, with walls on all sides, all gold-isolated, visible in one glance, with no blind spots.
“Did someone discover my safe house and steal the Hungry Ghost?”
Wang Chaling’s expression changed unpredictably. After a brief shock, he forcibly calmed himself down to analyze the situation at hand.
“The house shows no signs of intrusion. If a ghost handler broke in, they would have to open the safe house door to take away the Hungry Ghost, but the safe house door remains intact and undamaged.”
He observed back and forth, finally focusing his attention on the safe house door.
The door showed no issues at all.
Such a situation is quite unreasonable; no matter how powerful the ghost handler, or how formidable the Ghost Domain, it’s impossible to rely on supernatural forces to invade the safe house. To enter the safe house, one must be outside to perform human damage first.
“Check the surveillance.”
Wang Chaling didn’t forget; there were monitors everywhere in the safe house. Although these monitors mostly served no real purpose, they could still provide some level of alert.
“The last time I came to inspect the safe house was two days ago, and everything was normal then.”
He went to the safe house’s monitoring room and pulled up all the surveillance from the past two days.
The surveillance footage is completely normal, not even the circuits are being interfered with, indicating that there’s been no supernatural force invading the house in the past two days.
“The surveillance is fine, everything is normal, so the only possibility is that there’s something wrong inside the safe house…”
The moment this thought occurred, a cold sweat broke out on Wang Chaling’s back.
Compared to the hungry ghost being stolen, this situation is even more terrifying.
That’s a terrifying ghost pinned by a coffin nail from an S-level supernatural event. If any accident happens, the consequences would be unimaginable.
“This is impossible, it shouldn’t be. Although I moved the hungry ghost out from the gold box, it has a coffin nail stuck in its head. That’s a supernatural item capable of pinning down any ghost. Could it be that there’s a problem with the coffin nail, causing the balance to break?”
Cold sweat kept dripping from Wang Chaling’s forehead, and he dared not think further.
“I need to take another look, I need to confirm thoroughly.”
He hurriedly got up and left the surveillance room, returning once more to the doorway of the previous room.
To ensure a better view, Wang Chaling took a flashlight and shone it through the window.
The intense light completely illuminated the not-so-large safe house.
Wang Chaling stared at the spot where the hungry ghost was previously placed and began to observe carefully.
An inconspicuous detail caught his attention.
On the spot where the hungry ghost was once placed, a small patch of something resembling dirt scattered on the ground.
“That’s not dirt, that’s rust, rust from the coffin nail.” Wang Chaling’s heart trembled fiercely, and his face instantly turned extremely grim.
He knew very well that supernatural items cannot be easily destroyed. Though the coffin nail appeared rusty as if it was about to break at any moment, no matter if you used a bomb, you still couldn’t destroy it. Only a problem with the coffin nail’s supernatural power could lead to the damage of the supernatural item it hosts.
“The hungry ghost has escaped, it’s now inside the safe house. The reason I can’t see it is because the hungry ghost possesses a ghost domain. What I see through the glass isn’t real.” Wang Chaling uneasily laid down the flashlight and subconsciously stepped back several paces.
There’s only a door between him and the terrifying hungry ghost, which would make anyone’s heart tremble.
“What should we do now?” Wang Chaling’s expression changed unpredictably; his hands were slightly trembling from excessive nervousness.
He kept thinking, trying to figure out a solution.
Luckily, for now, the hungry ghost is just trapped inside the safe house and hasn’t come out yet. He still has the chance to fix this.
Bang!
However, a dull sound startled Wang Chaling from his thoughts.
Bang!
Another loud noise came.
Wang Chaling’s eyes narrowed sharply as he looked towards the safe house.
The sound came from inside.
Bang
Bang
The sound kept echoing, each one seeming to slam against Wang Chaling’s heart, making him feel suffocated, frightened, and helplessly retreat with the urge to leave.
Even scarier is that cracks began forming on the glass of the safe house door.
The hungry ghost confined inside the safe house is trying to break through the door and get out.
Moreover, under these circumstances, Wang Chaling is powerless to stop it even if he wants to.
The destruction of the safe house is irreversible, even resorting to using the Wang family’s clock in the ancient house for resetting couldn’t affect the gold-crafted safe house.
In other words, Wang Chaling can only watch the safe house being broken by the ghost.
Bang…
The sound of the collision continued to echo, and the cracks on the glass window of the door grew more numerous, starting with just a few to now densely patterned like a spider web.
But in Wang Chaling’s vision, the safe house remained empty, with nothing happening inside.
Crash!
As a crash sounded again, the sound of breaking glass suddenly came, as the innermost layer of glass inside the safe house shattered.
The suffocating crash sound continued as the terrifying ghost started ramming the second layer of glass.
“The safe house can no longer contain the hungry ghost,” Wang Chaling gritted his teeth, forced to accept this harsh reality.
Because it’s not just the specially crafted glass that’s broken; even the door is starting to loosen after repeated impacts, needing only a small gap for the hungry ghost to escape.
After all, the main function of the safe house is to isolate the supernatural, not imprison it. It can’t be built as robust as a bank vault.
“There’s no choice, the hungry ghost absolutely cannot be allowed to escape outside. Otherwise, not only will my deed of stealing the hungry ghost be exposed, but Dadong City will also face doom. Since Yang Jian managed to contain it once, I can contain it a second time. I must solve it here.”
Wang Chaling took a deep breath, dispelled the various thoughts in his mind, calmed himself down, and prepared to confront the terrifying ghost.
Simultaneously, behind him, four sinister and eerie figures suddenly appeared.
They were Wang Chaling’s deceased grandparents and parents.
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