Master of Kaidan
Chapter 365: Raise Ghosts with Caution

Chapter 365: Chapter 365: Raise Ghosts with Caution

"What’s wrong with the Rogue Ghost?" Dunn’s face showed confusion, and Sai Chi looked slightly embarrassed, yet he told the truth:

"It went berserk. Everyone in the research lab, including all personnel in the surrounding facilities, was killed, without a single survivor."

"That’s impossible!" Dunn’s bafflement deepened as if he heard some unfunny joke, tapping his head and saying,

"That Rogue Ghost, although it had been filled with Cognition, was still just a Rogue Ghost. As long as nobody gambled with it, it would be considered second-tier among ghosts. Far from being a powerful ghost capable of Self-Observation, even if shrink wrap can’t hold it, we could still restrain it by focusing a multitude of gazes on it!"

Hearing Dunn’s words, Sai Chi’s expression grew even more embarrassed. Seeing his expression, Dunn didn’t wait for an explanation and suddenly realized,

"You gambled with it?"

"It was just a researcher’s personal—"

"Stop with the personal crap!" Dunn interrupted Sai Chi somewhat aggressively and demanded directly,

"I don’t care whether you did it purely for research, or to gain more life, or it was some temp worker’s mess. Just tell me the truth, how many people gambled with it?"

"Um, this..." Sai Chi showed a contemplative look, and through the Heart of Bright Mirror, Dunn clearly understood that he was indeed thinking, so he didn’t rush him.

After a long pause, as if he had finally organized his thoughts, he hesitantly said,

"I’m not entirely sure of the exact number, but a conservative estimate would be over twenty people..."

"How many people were in the area you said was annihilated?" Dunn narrowed his eyes, pressing on forcefully.

Sai Chi didn’t hesitate this time and replied immediately,

"Roughly around two thousand people, including a research team of about fifty people and an armed force of two hundred, plus some, uh..."

"Human experimental materials, right?" Dunn pierced through the other’s thoughts with irritation, then uttered a curse with a solemn tone,

"Fuck!"

"Ah?"

Sai Chi didn’t expect such a word from the gentleman in such a grave context and was speechless for a while before he finally looked at Dunn awkwardly, wanting to get angry but remembering he was the one asking for help. He could only wait awkwardly for what was to come.

In truth, if it were just a research institution, neither the Mysteries Consortium backing them nor Constantin’s own R&D department would care. Even considering the potential disaster that could be brewed, it would just take one Thermal Pressure Bomb to sort it out.

But the problem lay in the particular nature of that Rogue Ghost.

Why do the major consortia gather ghosts? Isn’t it precisely because this Rogue Ghost has the ability to rejuvenate?

After all, humans fear death, no matter how wealthy one is, death remains the great equalizer.

Yet, this Rogue Ghost possessed the power to resist death, and those aged directors naturally wouldn’t miss the opportunity to prolong their lives.

On the one hand, the directors would not allow the use of devastating means because that would sever the hope for everlasting life.

On the other hand, they could not delay. In an age where satellites were everywhere in the sky, the research institute’s anomalies would soon be discovered. By then, it might not just be a war involving a few hundred mechas like before. Considering the average age of the major consortiums’ board of directors, it could even escalate into a world war.

Even those gentlemen who were not that aged would not miss this opportunity. After all, aside from those young lads under twenty, who could not feel the "footsteps" of years known as time?

Seeing that Sai Chi had been silent for a long while, Dunn sighed and said,

"At this level, our enemy can no longer be handled by conventional means, I need a massive amount of consumables."

"What kind of consumables do you need? Our Mysteries Consortium will fully support you!" Sai Chi immediately responded upon hearing this, but Dunn shook his head and said,

"The type isn’t important. Find me a supermarket, and by whatever means necessary, dump everything inside onto the ’battlefield.’ I want to be able to pick up whatever I need on a whim."

"Supermarket?" Sai Chi’s face took on a puzzled expression, and he said incredulously,

"Our Mysteries Consortium has the most cutting-edge industrial system and high-precision 3D printing equipment. Anything you need can be made within twenty-four hours. There is no need..."

"It is necessary!" Dunn cut off Sai Chi again. His eyes were stern as he stared into Sai Chi’s, speaking almost as if giving an order,

"I need just those ordinary everyday items!

"You have to understand, the reason I live stream ghost catching, use cling film and chocolate beans, and have my employees live stream product pitching while catching ghosts is to lower the impression that ’ghosts are terrifying.’

"But you all fed me a big one using thousands of lives!

"To make you so-called members of elite society, those with higher education, understand this point, I’ve tried my best to make ghost catching seem more like ’comedy.’

"Only when everyone feels that ghosts ’aren’t scary,’ can we defeat them more easily. Do you understand? I want people to feel that no matter where they encounter ghosts, they can just pick up some random object and deal with them. That’s the effect I’m looking for! Do you understand what I mean?"

"Yes, I understand!" Sai Chi was somewhat rattled by Dunn’s outburst, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead while responding, and couldn’t help but symbolically ask,

"Is there anything else you need?"

"Yes, I need to live stream. Keep the attention on the streaming platform. With a ghost fed so fat, God knows what those it killed were thinking before they died. I need a large audience to dilute the echoes of their deaths." Dunn took a long breath, his tone becoming a bit calmer.

Sai Chi recorded each and every request before nodding and saying,

"So when do we start? And, can this ghost be captured alive?"

"It certainly can be captured alive, but are you sure you still want to research this thing? Just so you know, I don’t think anyone can really win against it through gambling, unless you can get millions of people to truly believe this thing sucks at gambling." Dunn’s casual remark caught Sai Chi’s attention, who made a mental note of this "strategy skill." Then he took out a gold card from the Mysteries Consortium and said,

"This is a VIP card of our group, allowing you to spend at any enterprise under our group’s name. We’ll need eight hours to prepare for your requests. May I know when you can set off?"

"Once you have the site ready, I can depart. But just to ask, where exactly is the location?" Dunn took the gold card, considering whether or not to bring a few mechas back to the real world for Yan Country to study. Meanwhile, Sai Chi replied calmly,

"Outside the city, about two hours by aircraft."