The next day, 7 AM.
Room 2333, Dayang Hotel, Habing City.
Ring ring.
The mobile phone rang, the caller ID displayed - Huang Qingshan.
Zhang Wei picked up the phone:
"Captain Huang, what's the matter calling me so early in the morning."
"Zhang Wei, I didn't disturb your sleep, did I?"
"No, I just woke up and was about to check the Weidao Division forum."
Zhang Wei replied.
Yesterday, he went with Huang Qingshan and the others to rescue Wunian and the others. After returning, he found Lu Lianxue and asked her to help him register for a Weidao Division forum account.
Weidao Division Forum.
It was the largest forum exclusively for ghost exorcists in the country. Anyone involved in ghost exorcism, even if not a member of the Weidao Division, could access it to post, chat, and discuss.
Previously, when Lu Lianxue called Zhang Wei to inform him that Wunian and Zhang Chao were in trouble, she had learned about it from the forum.
It could be said that.
The Weidao Division Forum was the largest intelligence hub for ghost exorcism in the country, containing all sorts of information, which was very beneficial for Zhang Wei in dealing with ghosts, as knowing oneself and the enemy leads to victory.
For this reason.
After confirming that Wunian and Zhang Chao were safely rescued, Zhang Wei planned to browse the forum first thing in the morning.
Huang Qingshan heard this and said, "That's good. It's like this, didn't I ask you to go on a mission with Captain Lin today? But I just thought about it and wanted to ask if you'd like to undergo a test before the mission, the test to save Grandpa Huang."
Before he finished speaking.
He added, "The test won't take too long, it's to test your strength, similar to a physical examination, it won't delay the mission."
Zhang Wei thought about it and agreed.
It was just a physical examination and a test, not actually saving Grandpa Huang, and he could get five hundred thousand for free. This was a daily income of five hundred thousand, which made him feel incredibly pleased.
"Alright, I still have some things to do here. I'll come find you after lunch."
Huang Qingshan's voice came from the phone.
Instantly.
Zhang Wei stopped moving his mouse:
"Is it about yesterday's incident with Wunian and the others? Has there been any progress?"
After finding Wunian and Zhang Chao yesterday, due to the deaths of other teams, Huang Qingshan attached great importance to the matter and sent people to conduct a thorough search of the surrounding area. Zhang Wei did not participate in this matter, as he did not need to worry about the deaths of ghost exorcists.
Therefore, he and Wunian and the others returned to the hotel early.
However.
Whether he participated or not, he received news from Lu Lianxue last night that after the search, in addition to the teammate of Captain Li who died, twenty-four more bodies of ghost exorcists were found.
This death toll.
Exceeded what Zhang Mei and Captain Li had expected. It wasn't just two Weidao Division teams that had died, but a total of four Weidao Division teams.
Moreover.
It was confirmed that all twenty-four deceased ghost exorcists were, without exception, individuals who had gone missing in various parts of the Northeast.
If these were the only clues.
Zhang Wei might have thought that the situation was caused by the Nine Evil Yin Gathering Ghost driving other ghosts to capture ghost exorcists, and then using them to carry out a second Nine Evil Yin Gathering Cave.
It seemed the situation was not that simple.
This was because Lu Lianxue's last piece of information was that before she received the news, not only the twenty-four ghost exorcists who went missing in the Northeast the day before yesterday, but also other missing ghost exorcists had not yet been found, even after the Nine Evil Yin Gathering Ghost was killed.
A large number of ghost exorcists went missing, and the Nine Evil Yin Gathering Ghost was involved. Something was definitely wrong.
"There has been some progress."
Huang Qingshan did not hide anything.
Some of the missing personnel were ghost exorcists supporting the Northeast, and Zhang Wei was also a supporting ghost exorcist, so he had the right to know some information.
Before he finished speaking.
Huang Qingshan rubbed his temples:
"Given the matter of the Nine Evil Yin Gathering Ghost, our Northeast Weidao Division has decided to start with powerful ghosts and search for them to see if we can find other missing ghost exorcists."
"Because the experts from the investigation teams in the division discussed that the Nine Evil Yin Gathering Ghost is likely not the mastermind, and there might be someone behind it."
Zhang Wei agreed with his statement.
A total of over a hundred people went missing on the same day, but only 24 were involved with the Nine Evil Yin Gathering Ghost. It was clear that there were other participants, or even the true mastermind. Zhang Wei did not believe that the Nine Evil Yin Gathering Ghost coincidentally captured people who were all missing. How could there be such a coincidence?
Following that.
Huang Qingshan continued:
"To find these powerful ghosts, I have had people use all the spiritual artifacts in the division that can search for ghosts, and I have also borrowed the Maoshan Eight Trigrams, one of the treasures of Maoshan sect, from Maoshan."
"The Maoshan Eight Trigrams has an insight ability that can detect ghosts within a radius of five li centered on the Eight Trigrams, even ghosts of the Ghost King level can be detected."
"After searching all night."
"We found some powerful ghosts and recovered some of the missing ghost exorcists from them."
"A total of 39 ghost exorcists, with 27 dead and 12 seriously injured. Alas."
At the end of his speech.
Huang Qingshan's tired face showed anger, his eyes were sharp. He hadn't closed his eyes since the investigation began last night. Upon learning of the death toll, no matter how tired he was, he couldn't sleep, vowing to uncover the truth of the disappearances.
"Did you find the mastermind?" Zhang Wei couldn't help but ask.
As a result.
Huang Qingshan's sigh came from the phone:
"No, we didn't find them. Those ghosts, like the Nine Evil Yin Gathering Ghost, are all participants, not the mastermind."
"Also."
"But it's okay. We deliberately held back when dealing with these ghosts, and captured three Red-clothed Fierce Ghosts, whose strength is only slightly inferior to the Nine Evil Yin Gathering Ghost."
"We are now interrogating these ghosts, and I believe there will be more progress soon."
"Perhaps even..."
"We can find that damned mastermind."
Zhang Wei heard the anger in Huang Qingshan's voice and teased him, "Captain Huang, you're very angry this early in the morning. Drink more chrysanthemum tea to cool down, or you'll get acne. Although we are boys, we still need to pay attention to our appearance and be a refined boy who can make women spend 180,000 yuan for me in three sentences."
Huang Qingshan gave a wry smile:
"Alas, I should buy some chrysanthemum tea to cool down."
"By the way, Zhang Wei, be careful recently. The division's investigation team has made a deduction, guessing that the disappearances of ghost exorcists may not have happened only once, and there might be another time."
"Because the disappearance of ghost exorcists is very likely related to the frequent appearance of ghosts in the Northeast recently."
"Many of the ghosts we captured alive had their ghost domains containing ghosts that have been frequently appearing in the Northeast."
"So Zhang Wei, be careful."
"You are currently in the Northeast and are a supporting personnel, so you are very likely to become a target."
Zhang Wei's eyebrows raised: "Oh? Is that so?"
As he spoke.
He added in his mind, that's really great. Hurry up and catch me. It's best if there are hundreds of ghosts, so I can earn more system points.
Thinking of this.
He couldn't help but glance at the system panel he had summoned.
[Host]: Zhang Wei
[System Points]: 2328
[Ghost Exorcism Divine Ability]: Ghost Mark
[Item]: None
His gaze fell on the system points column.
This time, Wunian used the Namo Gatling Bodhisattva photo, which gave him a full 1230 system points. He had made a fortune.
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