Master of Kaidan
Chapter 177 Discuss

Chapter 177: Chapter 177 Discuss

"Above is the content of the communication through that call."

In the communication team’s office, a group of professionals were analyzing the previous call made with Chen Xiyao. Although the majority of the call seemed meaningless, similar to lovers in a long-distance relationship casually chatting, they still discerned quite a lot from it, for example—

"Can Kaidan proactively receive our thoughts?"

A young man, who often helped the psychological consulting group, asked with some doubt because, so far, all Kaidan they had captured, regardless of their level, lacked interactivity.

They had even tried to teach Yan Country language to the other party, but often before the basic dialogue could begin, they would disappear. The only difference was that the lower-level Kaidan disappeared filled with terror and reluctance, while the higher-level ones mostly appeared calm and even relieved.

"In my view, this seems more like a judgment of its own ’image’." Said Mr. Wang at a relatively slow pace, seemingly pondering as he spoke:

"As for our speculation about Kaidan, we have made many. But all the guesses cannot circumvent their ’needs’..."

"Do you think this is evidence for the ’memory’ faction?" Captain Li adjusted his glasses and furrowed his brow.

Given the scarce samples and despite Kaidan having appeared decades ago, the results from various countries were very limited, mostly concerning how to preserve small amounts of Kaidan materials (Pseudo Artifact) or using Magic Items as a basis to develop various derivative technologies.

The needs of Kaidan were a subject of much debate, with two mainstream views in Yan Country alone—emotions and memories.

Some believe that Kaidan, like certain legendary ghosts, survive by absorbing human emotions, hence luring people to kill and absorb feelings like fear, anger, and hatred.

Others think that Kaidan needs to be remembered by people, thus they start committing various sins to be remembered once they are forgotten with goodwill.

Both arguments made sense, and Mr. Wang usually referred to these generally as "cognition."

At this moment, he was still not planning to differentiate between memory and emotion, but merely said on his own:

"Whether it’s emotion or memory doesn’t matter. What’s important is that he can clearly understand our ’positioning’ of him. Just like this ’scandalous boyfriend,’ which was merely a joke during Group Three’s casual chat, yet he clearly recognized it, meaning whether we harbor goodwill or hostility, he understands. I think this is also why he mentioned in the letter that he was unwilling to communicate with officials."

"But we haven’t shown any hostile actions," said another older team member, but Mr. Wang shook his head:

"Absence of actions doesn’t mean absence of thoughts. Judging intention rather than action is what’s truly problematic."

Saying this, he picked up the tablet in front of him, manipulated it for a few moments, dragged the transcribed dialogue content, and then highlighted a few paragraphs:

"Look here, he mentioned ’I am now a Kaidan’, and he also mentioned a term ’nothing,’ which may mean, compared to our terms of lower-level and higher-level Kaidan, Victoria’s theory classifying ’ghosts’ and ’abnormalities’ into two species might be closer to the truth."

"But the structures of the collected organizational samples are consistent, and they all vanish after observation stops..." A middle-aged female who often helped in testing immediately responded, foreseeing that the topic would fall back into the old debate of "whether Kaidan itself conforms to objective laws," Mr. Wang quickly interjected:

"That issue is not important, the focus should be on the reason he has ascended in this year."

"Isn’t it already confirmed that a lower-level Kaidan, after causing sufficient influence, will ascend to become a higher-level Kaidan?"

Although knowing what Mr. Wang would say next, Liu Yingqiang skillfully played along.

"That’s where the problem lies." Comforted by the segue, Mr. Wang smoothly made the transition, his fingers sliding across the screen, bringing up information about the Ambulance Demon—

"As everyone can see, this so-called Ambulance Demon Kaidan wasn’t created by the code-named ’Instructor,’ but comprised of countless private prisons and hospitals in Columbia. You could say, apart from its initial few occurrences, this Kaidan had nothing to do with him, and even before him, there were probably instances of robbers calling an ambulance after being robbed."

"Do you mean the reason for his ascension isn’t because of the Ambulance Demon legend?" The man sitting in front of a nameplate labeled Vice Captain Zhang, looking at the outrageous operations of the Columbians, also remembered to think about why Mr. Wang highlighted this point, and after a brief thought, he suddenly had a realization—

"Could it be Martial Arts?"

With Vice Captain Zhang bringing it up, everyone suddenly understood:

In nearly this past year, it wasn’t only in Columbia that the Ambulance Demon appeared; Yan Country had also been practicing the martial arts brought by the other party.

Does that mean, it’s very possible that he actually ascended through a Secret Martial Arts Manual?

After Kaidan ascend, they undergo a qualitative change. Although some countries intentionally let Kaidan ascend to obtain more Magic Items, Yan Country usually handles the situation before it escalates, even specifically producing shows like "Approaching Science" to reduce the impact of Kaidan.

If the Secret Martial Arts Manual could indeed enable him to ascend, then the manuals he had sent had to be treated with great caution.

Even, not just the two new manuals that had arrived, but even the Golden Bell Shield that had started the third round of testing had to be immediately halted.

"We still need to use it!" Suddenly, a military representative who had been listening in without speaking much suddenly spoke up:

"The Golden Bell Shield is indispensable. According to current experiments, to make a new soldier reach a level where they can ignore small caliber firearms only takes six months, and the cost per person doesn’t even exceed fifty thousand yuan. That’s with a small number of people. If we widely spread this, mass-produce the equipment, and invest in the planting of medicinal materials, the final cost per person could even be reduced to below one thousand yuan. Yet, this could greatly enhance the soldiers’ combat and survival abilities. Everyone should understand what this means!"

Faced with the words of the military representative, everyone fell silent. To avoid making a currently benign Kaidan stronger and ignoring the safety of three hundred and fifty thousand military and police personnel, those were words no one could utter.

Perhaps because the atmosphere was too silent, Captain Li tentatively spoke:

"How about, we directly ask the main entity?"

"But didn’t he say he didn’t want to communicate with the officials? Are we to ask Xiyao to help?" Vice Captain Zhang pointed at the content on his tablet that read "doesn’t want to chat with officials." However, Mr. Wang suddenly laughed:

"He doesn’t want to communicate, yet he sent over the manuals. That itself is a statement. We might as well be more open-minded, let Xiyao relay the message; just don’t let her help to ask, instead directly say we’d like to talk. Otherwise, it would be bad for him to harbor a grudge against Xiyao!"