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Chapter 286: Human Connections, Wandering Ghosts
Chen Xin thought that the handover of his work would be smooth, after all, he was just an intern.

But after he explained the situation to He Xiangwen, the director of the Information Sorting Department, the other party did not allow him to hand over.

They just don’t allow the handover, not that Chen Xin is not allowed to leave.

"You are very good at sorting out information. Although the bureau needs you to go to the front line, it does not mean that you cannot continue to stay in the Information Sorting Department."

"If you get tired of frontline tasks in the future, you can come to the Information Sorting Department to change your working style, just as a change of mood."

After saying this, He Xiangwen let Chen Xin leave.

Looking at the ID card of the third-level organizer in the Information Sorting Department, Chen Xin smiled and put it away.

He agreed with what He Xiangwen said, but if he really returned to the Information Sorting Department in the future, it would definitely not be for a change of mood.

Afterwards, Chen Xin had dinner with several familiar people from the Information Sorting Department.

He invited three people, but Wu Gou, the hard-working man, was busy with a mission and had no time to accept the invitation, so in the end he could only have dinner with Xia Hong and Dugu Yue.

During the dinner, both of them said that if Chen Xin was to be assigned a mission in the future, they would directly assign them, and they would definitely allow Chen Xin to complete the mission comfortably.

Chen Xin had no doubt about this.

As an information sorter himself, Chen Xin naturally knew the difference between an active information sorter and an information sorter who followed the routine in a supernatural incident.

When raising his glass, Chen Xin suddenly felt emotional.

He seems to have his own network of contacts.

……

The next morning, Chen Xin and Bai Bowen reported to Jin Chao's office.

"Come on, take a seat first. There are some things I need to tell you before we leave."

Jin Chao looked at the two of them and smiled.

He also had some expectations for these two directors' favorites.

I can lead them for a while, and when they reach a higher level, they will naturally not forget me, the team leader who has been with them for a period of time.

In order to maintain this friendship in the future, he took the initiative to greet his acquaintance in the task dispatch and asked him to find dozens of suitable tasks for him.

After spending an entire night, he managed to find suitable tasks for the two of them to do in the next week.

As for why I only looked for tasks that lasted for a week, it was because of the timeliness of supernatural events.

What may seem like an appropriate task today may not be so appropriate a week from now.

If they encounter special evil spirits, a week is enough for them to be upgraded to fierce monsters. This is not something these two newcomers should experience.

Therefore, he would screen the tasks for the two of them every week, hoping that they could get the most training in the shortest time.

"Although you have experienced supernatural events before, completing a mission is different from experiencing supernatural events."

"In the paranormal events you encountered before, you were all participants, but after that you were all the leaders."

"Since you are the leader, you have to do a lot more."

Jin Chao looked at the two of them and explained what a frontline polling bureau commissioner should do.

Chen Xin and Bai Bowen listened very carefully.

After speaking for half an hour, Jin Chao finally finished.

"Although I am the team leader of the two of you, I will not take action unless your life is in danger."

"Even during the mission, I will not be with you, nor will I remind you of anything."

"So don't think that you can rush into anything without worrying about the danger just because I'm here."

"The fact that Daxia has not been able to solve supernatural incidents and eliminate ghosts so far is enough to show how difficult ghosts are to deal with."

"There are times when I don't have enough time to act, so the two of you should just pretend I don't exist. Estimate your own abilities and complete the mission according to your own circumstances."

"do you understand?"

Chen Xin and Bai Bowen nodded and responded in unison.

"Okay, now that we are ready, it's time to set off."

As he spoke, Jin Chao picked up a bunch of keys and led the two of them towards the parking lot of the Public Opinion Survey Bureau.

Five minutes later, Jin Chao drove the two of them to their destination.

In the car.

While driving, Jin Chao asked the two to turn on the display screen in the car.

"I have already selected the mission for you. You are now a group. Contact the Information Sorting Department first and ask them to sort out the mission for you."

When Chen Xin heard about the information sorting department, he suddenly thought of what the two guys said last night.

Immediately, he said to Jin Chao: "Team leader, I know some combers, can you appoint them?"

"Oh?"

Jin Chao looked at Chen Xin in surprise through the rearview mirror, and then he remembered the department where Chen Xin had previously interned.

"It would be best if you know someone. This is your own relationship, so you don't need to ask me."

After hearing this, Chen Xin nodded, then slid his finger across the screen, sent his task to the group of himself, Xia Hong, Dugu Yue, and Wu Gou, and explained the situation.

What Chen Xin didn't expect was that the person who took the task was not Xia Hong and Dugu Yue, but Wu Gou.

Soon, Wu Gou replied.

"amalahe (Level 2): ​​I just finished my mission. I didn't go to the dinner party yesterday. This mission is my apology."

Chen Xin smiled and didn't refuse. After thanking him, he entered the waiting period.

Bai Bowen watched the scene at the side without saying anything, but Jin Chao in the front row had a strange look in his eyes after seeing it.

How did Chen Xin, a newcomer, get along well with a 'second-level information sorter'?

It's a bit inappropriate to let a 'second-level information sorter' participate in a mission that is barely at the level of a ghost.

Of course, what Jin Chao said about being unsuitable was not a waste of talent, but the participation of secondary information sorters might reduce the difficulty of the task.

In that case, perhaps the mission he chose was a little inappropriate.

But what he said just now had already been said. This was Chen Xin's own relationship, and he couldn't go back on his word so quickly.

"Forget about it this time. Next time, we have to increase the difficulty of the task a little and take the situation of this second-level information sorter into account."

Jin Chao thought so.

An hour later, when the car arrived near the destination, the information sorted out by Wu Gou was sent over.

"We've arrived. After reviewing the mission, you two can set off."

Jin Chao parked the car outside a street in the old city area outside Mubei City and spoke to the two people.

Chen Xin nodded and immediately opened the information about this mission.

……

Ten days ago, a citizen reported that when cleaning the sewer in a slaughterhouse, he found a finger stuck in the filter and immediately reported the case.

The police conducted a thorough inspection of the slaughterhouse that day. After a search, they found a female corpse with only her head left after being dismembered in a butcher's workshop.

Immediately, the three butchers and the boss of the slaughterhouse were arrested.

After interrogation, the suspect was identified as Mr. A, and the incident was committed by Mr. A alone. The others were released.

We thought the matter was over, but three days later, problems arose again at the slaughterhouse.

Butcher B was found dead in a closed slaughterhouse. He died in a miserable way. He was hung on a hook used to hang pork and his stomach was cut open.

The stomach entrails and other contents were thrown into a large barrel of pig offal nearby. It took a whole day just to search for the victim's entrails.

A second death occurred at the same location, and the police immediately targeted the family of the previous victim, speculating that it was an act of deliberate revenge.

But just as the police were interrogating the victim's family, butcher C also died, again in the slaughterhouse.

This time the cause of death was dismemberment. C was chopped into pieces, his bones were removed, his ribs were chopped off as ribs, and thrown into a pot to make a pot of rib soup.

The rest of the meat was thrown into a meat grinder and ground into minced meat. After the incident, the police expanded the scope of the investigation again and brought all the friends and admirers of the first victim to the police station to understand the situation, hoping to find the murderer.

The successive deaths made the residents around the slaughterhouse panic-stricken and frightened. Some people temporarily left their homes and moved elsewhere, fearing that the murderer would endanger their lives.

Those who have not moved out return home before dark every day and never go out of the front or back door.

In this atmosphere, another person died!

The person who died this time was... Mr. A!
It was still in the slaughterhouse, but compared to the way Mr. A died, what is most puzzling is how Mr. A appeared in the slaughterhouse.

After investigating the surveillance, the matter was reported to the Public Opinion Research Bureau.

In the surveillance video, Mr. A, who was clearly in the police station, walked out of the police station in a swagger.

None of the police officers on duty noticed him, and even when they glanced at him, there was no reaction.

This made the frightened people feel creepy, especially the one on duty at the time.

Afterwards, some people gossiped that this was the first victim who turned into a ghost to claim his life.

We also infer from the three deaths that it was not only A who killed the woman, but also B and C.

Because the police were unable to find the truth, the woman became resentful and turned into a ghost to seek revenge.

The local police station was under great pressure due to this, so after reporting the case to the police investigation bureau, they kept urging people to handle the matter, fearing that further problems would arise.

Finally, the task fell into Jin Chao's hands and he was chosen as the first task for Chen Xin and the other two.

"Three people died. If it was a female ghost, then she would be a fierce ghost."

After reading the basic circumstances of the incident, Bai Bowen began to analyze it.

"If we really want to fight it head-on, we can handle it, but it's a little unsafe. I suggest we check it with instruments during the day to see if we can find its body."

"If the ghost hides during the day and cannot be found, I suggest you look for it at night. The ghost will not hide at night, and the slaughterhouse is not big, so it will be easy to explore it."

"Either of us can resist the evil spirit for a period of time. During this time, the other person can use the instrument to search for the ghost's body. I think the chances of success are very high."

"I used my points to redeem the incense. If I really can't bear it anymore, I can light the incense and escape."

After Bai Bowen finished his analysis, he looked at Chen Xin.

"What do you think?"

Chen Xin pursed his lips and then pointed at the screen.

"I think you should read the subsequent analysis first?"

Bai Bowen was startled and turned to look at the screen.

He just started the analysis after reading the basic information, so he didn't notice that Wu Gou also sent some of his own findings and analysis later.

Looking at Bai Bowen who was a little embarrassed, Chen Xin didn't say much.

If only some basic information was obtained in an hour, it would be disrespectful to both Chen Xin and Wu Gou's identity as a "secondary information sorter".

During this hour, Wu Gou also collected and analyzed the situation near the slaughterhouse two weeks before the incident.

Then it was discovered that in addition to the victim who was found, a woman was missing, also in the area near the slaughterhouse.

After the slaughterhouse incident, the family of the missing person went to inquire whether it was related to the disappearance of their family members, but they were unable to make any connection.

But it's not over yet.

Wu Gou also discovered another thing from a very inconspicuous place.

A mentally retarded woman who often lived in the slaughterhouse area suddenly screamed one night and was heard by people nearby.

After that, the mentally retarded woman was never seen again.

Because the mentally retarded woman's family had long passed away, no one would worry about her and the matter was left unresolved.

From these two situations, Wu Gou gave another possibility.

One of the three missing cases was confirmed to be committed by Mr. A from the slaughterhouse, but three people actually died in the slaughterhouse, and in different ways.

Mr. A died in the same way as the victim who was found, but Mr. B and Mr. C died in different ways.

Maybe this was a sneaky way of killing someone, but it doesn't rule out another possibility.

That is... there are three ghosts in the slaughterhouse!

The three ghosts correspond to the three missing women, and they took revenge on the three butchers respectively!
This is a possible analysis given by Wu Gou.

……

"If that's the case, wouldn't it be simpler?"

Bai Bowen saw this and said with a strange look on his face.

"If it is one ghost, then it has been promoted to a fierce ghost after killing three people. But if it is three ghosts, then they are still three wandering souls!"

"If there are three wandering ghosts, there is no need to go through so much trouble. If we can't find the ghost's body during the day, we can just rush in at night."

When Jin Chao in the front row heard this, he glanced at Bai Bowen and Chen Xin through the rearview mirror and said nothing.

Chen Xin shook his head after hearing this.

"The two of us have no problem dealing with wandering spirits, but that doesn't mean three wandering spirits are no match for a fierce ghost."

"The main attack method of wandering spirits is to create ghost walls. If three wandering spirits simultaneously stack three layers of ghost walls on the two of us, the effect may be even greater than the threat posed by the evil spirits to us."

Chen Xin has experienced many illusions that could kill him directly, so he is very cautious about sneaky illusion abilities.

Of course, he was considering this based on his 'current strength'. To be honest, there was no way he would be trapped by the ghost wall of wandering souls.

Bai Bowen frowned, looked at Chen Xin and said, "So what do you mean?"

“What I mean is that we should follow your arrangement during the day, but don’t separate at night. If we find a fierce ghost, we can break the ghost wall with our combined energy and blood. Then it won’t be too late for us to separate one person to lure the ghost.

If there are three wandering spirits, then we must have measures to deal with the triple ghost wall."

Bai Bowen thought for a moment and said, "That's true, but how can we break through the triple ghost wall?"

Chen Xin smiled, took out seven or eight white stones from his bag, and then looked at Jin Chao in front of him.

"Team Leader Jin, can you use Yang Stone?"

Jin Chao smiled.

"I've already told you that anything you get with your own abilities can be used. But if you use it this time, I won't find you any ghost-level supernatural events next time. After all, if you use the Yang Stone to deal with the ghosts, you won't have to do anything."

"understood."

Chen Xin nodded and put most of the Yang Stones in his hand back, leaving only two.

One was given to Bai Bowen.

"Then let's just use one this time. With the Yang Stone, we can save our lives even if there are three evil ghosts. So if we encounter three wandering souls, we can only use the Yang Stone to break the ghost wall. What do you think?"

Bai Bowen looked at Yang Shi and nodded.

"I think it's okay."

"Then let's go."

……

Jin Chao lit a cigarette in the car and watched Chen Xin and Bai Bowen leave with their boxes with a smile on his face.

"The director has found a good candidate. Maybe he can improve the ranking."

As he was speaking, Jin Chao suddenly saw another message from Wu Gou on the screen.

"amalahe (Level 2): ​​The latest news is that the police have found the genes of three people in the minced meat that was previously sold at the slaughterhouse. It is basically certain that the people who disappeared before were most likely killed."

"amalahe (Level 2): ​​Even so, I still can't rule out the possibility that there was only one ghost. It just occurred to me that maybe it wasn't three ghosts that killed three people."

"amalahe (Level 2): ​​Maybe it's a ghost, killed five people!"

……

PS: I feel a little tired today, so I will just update once and will update more tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)