Mysterious Revival: Controlling Ghosts Starts with a Bug

Chapter 62: Bargain
As the deputy director of the Asian Ghost Hunters Headquarters, Cao Yanhua is indeed very calm.

In the first half of the dinner, I managed to hold back from talking about things in Dachang City, and chatted about this and that.

Only when he saw that Xu Kong had almost finished eating did he sigh and speak with a helpless look.

"Xu Kong, I think you also know why the headquarters invited you here?"

"If we tell others about what happened in Dachang City, it would be a complete loss of face and dignity."

"We mobilized ghost riders from dozens of cities, but there wasn't even one who could break through the ghost den and get in."

He looked quite disappointed with his friend, sighed, and changed his tone.

"Of course, the starving ghosts are too powerful, so it's not their fault."

"It's just that the powerful ghost masters in the country are either busy with one thing or another."

"As a result, millions of people in Dachang City have not been rescued yet, and our Asian Ghost Riders Headquarters has also lost face internationally."

Cao Yanhua looked at Xu Kong and said seriously.

"We invited you here this time to help break open the den of starving ghosts so that the recruited ghost riders can go in and rescue the millions of people in Dachang City as much as possible."

Then, he added another sentence.

"Of course, it would be even better if we could imprison that starving ghost."

"Starving ghost? Do you have any specific information?"

Xu Kong picked up a tissue and wiped his mouth, then asked.

"Of course."

Cao Yanhua immediately picked up a stack of prepared materials from the stool next to him, handed it to Xu Kong, and explained.

"The starving ghost is actually the ghost baby controlled by Zhou Zheng, the previous Interpol officer of Dachang City. It is also the source ghost that caused the supernatural events in Dachang City."

"Because the ghost baby eats humans all the way to grow after it was revived."

"And this morning, it was discovered that residents in Dachang City, under the influence of the dark ghost den, began to develop small ghost babies that parasitized the human body."

"These small ghost babies are also growing by eating the host's internal organs. The fastest ones are expected to burst out of the stomach tomorrow."

"Considering that it is very similar to the folk story of ghosts who died of starvation being reincarnated, Professor Wang Xiaoming updated the name of the archive this morning."

"The specific situation is also written in more detail in the file."

Xu Kong listened while nodding and flipping through the files.

It has to be said that as a national institution, the Asian Ghost Hunters Headquarters still has capable people within it.

The entire file is illustrated with pictures and texts, and is easy to understand. In just seven or eight pages, it describes all the circumstances since the outbreak of the starving ghost incident in Dachang City.

The origin and growth of the starving ghosts, their actions in Dachang City, their devouring abilities...all are described clearly.

According to what Xu Kong saw, what was written in the file was exactly the same as what he remembered.

The only difference is that those derived ghost babies have not yet started to grow and are still in the stomachs of millions of people in Dachang City.

"How about it?"

When Cao Yanhua saw Xu Kong finish reading the file, he couldn't help but become nervous.

"Can it be solved?"

"can."

Xu Kong nodded.

"But I think you, Minister Cao, are also aware of the supernatural rules of the ghost cabinet."

Cao Yanhua immediately breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

"Of course I understand. It's a 'deal'."

"Although the headquarters said that there are limited evil spirits, we can still provide dozens of them."

"Minister Cao is generous."

A smile also appeared on Xu Kong's face.

"So, Minister Cao, is the headquarters planning to make a deal to break the ghost den, or to rescue millions of people in Dachang City, or to solve the supernatural incidents in Dachang City?"

Cao Yanhua pondered for a moment and suddenly asked, "Can't we follow what we said before and isolate the supernatural in Dachang City for a year at the price of one evil spirit for every 20 square kilometers?"

"Haha, if the deal is like this, the headquarters only needs 10,000 yuan."

Xu Kong replied with a smile.

"Really? You're not kidding?"

Cao Yanhua was a little skeptical.

"Minister Cao, you were the one who made the joke first."

The smile on Xu Kong's face faded and he spoke to Cao Yanhua.

"I remember telling Wang Xiaoming before that all the shortfalls from the previous expenditures will be supplemented later."

"Minister Cao, guess what the 'down payment' for the Dachang City incident would be if it was only 10,000 yuan?"

"Cough cough!"

Cao Yanhua didn't want to guess, and his thick old face didn't change color at all. He just coughed twice, as if the previous question had never happened, and then continued to ask in a serious tone.

"Then Xu Kong, what are the prices for the three options you just mentioned?"

"It's easy to break through the ghost den. All it takes is three evil ghosts."

Xu Kong put out a pair of chopsticks.

"It's a little troublesome to rescue the millions of people in Dachang City because there are too many people. It will take thirty evil spirits."

He held out a second chopstick.

"It will take more effort to solve the paranormal incidents in Dachang City. Minister Cao, you should have seen how difficult it is to 'restart'."

"So if we want to trade this, we need one hundred evil spirits."

"Of course, if you choose this, the first two are also included."

Xu Kong placed the third chopstick, then calmed down and let Cao Yanhua choose.

He himself continued to look through the files of the starving ghosts.

Cao Yanhua pondered for a moment, as he really couldn't make a decision regarding the lives of dozens of evil spirits, so he asked Xu Kong to sit in the living room for a while while he went to the side to make a phone call to report.

Xu Kong naturally wouldn't urge him.

After all, those who shoulder the heavy responsibility of the country must shoulder their responsibilities.

No matter whether Cao Yanhua chooses one or two on behalf of the headquarters, in the end, for the lives of millions of people, he will have to choose three.

Because in the entire country, unless the headquarters invites those ghost riders from the Republic of China, the new generation of ghost riders will not be able to solve the combination of starving ghosts + wishing ghosts.

So Xu Kong just needs to wait patiently.

Perhaps it was an emergency so Cao Yanhua came back very quickly. In less than twenty minutes he was back in the living room and spoke to Xu Kong.

"Xu Kong, the headquarters has decided that you are requested to completely solve the supernatural incidents in Dachang City, but the starving ghost must be returned to the headquarters."

"No problem, it's just that the headquarters has raised the requirements, so the corresponding price will also be higher."

Xu Kong nodded quickly, then saw Cao Yanhua's astonished look and asked in confusion.

"You don't think that starving ghosts are irrelevant in the judgment of the ghost cabinet?"

"What humans can see, the patterns of evil spirits can only be judged more accurately."

"The growth potential of the starving ghosts is clearly beyond the standard."

"In this 'transaction' of the 'ghost cabinet', the 'recycling' of the starving ghosts accounted for a large part of the 'price'."

Hearing Xu Kong's question, Cao Yanhua laughed awkwardly twice.

"Haha! How could that be?"

"You get what you pay for. The headquarters won't do anything that would evade payment."

"Tell me, how many evil spirits would it take to make such a deal?"

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