Even though Dafu City doesn’t have a captain, it does have a person in charge.

The person in charge is named Ma Jun, an ordinary man in his early thirties who works from nine to five. Walking down the street, no one would recognize him.

However, this doesn’t mean he lacks ability.

On the contrary, he is very capable, managing Dafu City well during working hours and successfully resolving several supernatural incidents. It is precisely because no supernatural events have broken out that Dafu City and Ma Jun remain unknown and very low-key in the supernatural circle.

If it weren’t for this captain meeting, the city of Dafu wouldn’t even appear in people’s sight.

Today.

Ma Jun, as usual, arrived at his office and sat down. He leisurely brewed a cup of hot tea, then sat the whole day, waiting to pack up at exactly five p.m. and go home.

If there’s something in Dafu City, he goes on a business trip. If there’s nothing, Ma Jun drinks tea, watches the news, and streams some TV dramas.

“Ma Jun, even with such major events happening lately in the supernatural circle, you’re still in the mood to sit in the office drinking tea? The headquarters have declared war on the King Organization; shouldn’t you also start preparing?” The assistant, unable to bear it, planned to remind Ma Jun not to stick to his usual nine-to-five routine and to show some initiative.

Ma Jun put down the magazine in his hand, raised his head, took a sip of tea, and said, “I’m just an ordinary person in charge, managing Dafu City is enough. Aren’t there captains to deal with the headquarters and King Organization fighting? Why should I get involved, eager to die faster?”

“Aren’t you worried about the future situation?” the assistant asked again.

Ma Jun shook his head and said, “I am quite worried, but my ability is limited and can’t influence such a big picture. So whatever the result may be in the future, I’ll keep guarding Dafu City.”

“If the headquarters lose, you as the person in charge would be in great danger too, and the other side will settle accounts,” the assistant said.

“If even the captains can’t handle the King Organization, there’s nothing I can do if they come for me. It’s not something I can decide, so don’t worry, life has to go on.” Ma Jun remained calm, shaking his head to express indifference.

Hearing this, the assistant had no choice and left angrily.

Ma Jun merely shook his head slightly at this and continued drinking tea and reading the magazine.

In his heart, he knew now was a time of great unrest in the supernatural circle, yet the more it was so, the more he had to manage Dafu City well. The captains had their roles to play, and he had his duties. Caring about the survival of the headquarters was not wrong, but having the ability was necessary.

Ma Jun considered himself inferior to Enforcement Captain Yang Jian and thought peacefully coming to and from work was good enough; at least, as long as he had a job, things wouldn’t get too bad.

“Speaking of the Enforcement Captain, Ghost Eye Yang Jian, what was my previous codename…” Ma Jun suddenly pondered a rather silly question in his mind.

Having not mingled in the supernatural circle for a long time and not interacting with other ghost handlers, he couldn’t remember his own codename for a moment.

After all, not every ghost handler has a good memory.

“Ah, I’ve remembered, my codename was Ghost Gamer.” He recalled his codename in the supernatural circle.

Ma Jun silently mocked in his heart, “That’s really a lousy codename, it’s embarrassing to mention, forgetting it is actually a good thing.”

Very quickly, he put aside these terrible memories and devoted himself to slacking off at work, hoping the day would end soon.

Time slowly passed.

Finally, when it was five in the afternoon.

An alarm clock in the office went off.

“It’s five o’clock, time to get off work, time to get off work.”

Ma Jun immediately packed his belongings, grabbed his briefcase, and walked out of the office. Before leaving, he didn’t forget to lock the office to ensure he wouldn’t need to come back for overtime.

The others were used to this and even thought Ma Jun was very responsible, a good boss, given that with Ma Jun’s position, no one would say anything even if he didn’t come to work every day.

Walking out of the company.

Ma Jun stretched lazily, as if smelling the air of freedom, and walked briskly towards his home.

For the convenience of going home, he had directly moved the office to a building just ten minutes’ walk away from home.

He thought today would be another ordinary day as usual.

However, as he stood at the intersection waiting for the traffic light, a voice abruptly spoke from behind, “Are you Ma Jun, the person in charge of Dafu City?”

The speaker’s accent was somewhat strange, not like someone from Dafu City, more like a foreigner who hadn’t learned Chinese well.

Ma Jun didn’t turn around but frowned, staring at a person across the street.

The voice clearly came from behind, yet the person was opposite him, which felt very odd.

“Who are you?” Ma Jun asked, while also sizing up the individual.

It was a tall, burly foreigner wearing a cowboy hat with a scruffy beard. He had a slight smile on his face, gazing intently at Ma Jun, giving off an extremely dangerous feeling.

“You can call me Simon.” The foreign man introduced himself as Simon, though this name was likely a fake.

Simon?

Ma Jun didn’t have an impression of this person, but it didn’t affect his judgment: “There is no such person in Dafu City, and even across a street, I can sense that rotten, chilly aura from you. You’re a ghost handler, right? And likely one from the King Organization.”

“Your judgment is correct.”

Simon slightly adjusted his cowboy hat, then slightly lifted his head to reveal a pair of pitch-black, pupil-less eyes, with a hint of green light deep within that was eerie and sinister.

“Looks like I’ll be working overtime today.” Ma Jun sighed slightly.

He understood that he was already targeted by someone from the King Organization, and it seemed impossible for him to go home today.

In that case, he might as well fulfill his duty as the city’s person in charge.

“Perhaps you won’t have to go to work ever again; I’m here to set you free.” Simon grinned sinisterly.

At this moment, the red light turned green.

The pedestrians waiting to cross the street seemed oblivious to the two of them and went on their way across the street.

The crowd surged.

This Simon mingled into the crowd, walking towards Ma Jun, and similarly, Ma Jun, with a grave expression, moved towards Simon without backing down.

Both were prepared to take action.

Yet, what Ma Jun didn’t know was that Simon wasn’t just an ordinary ghost handler in the King Organization, but one of the fifteen Kings.

However, this no longer mattered.

“Let’s play a game. I’ll count one, two, three, and everyone turns into a wooden figure, not allowed to move.” Ma Jun’s voice echoed.

“One”

Simon moved, a strange aura enveloped the surroundings, the evening sky instantly turned into Black Night, and at the same time, a pair of eerie green eyes flickered in the darkness, particularly striking.

“Two.”

Ma Jun’s voice still echoed.

The next moment, an old double-barreled shotgun appeared in Simon’s hand, and without any hesitation, he pulled the trigger at Ma Jun.

Locked in Ghost Domain, this shot was destined to hit, unavoidable.

“Three.”

Ma Jun’s final call came, but simultaneously, the terrifying gunshot also reverberated around.

A certain dreadful paranormal game took effect.

Everything in the vicinity that could move became motionless at this time, as if truly turned into wooden figures as he previously mentioned, and this supernatural event even affected Simon himself, freezing him in place.

However, this state of immobility lasted less than two seconds for him.

Soon enough.

Simon regained his movement.

“Ran away?”

Then, Simon’s face contorted in a sinister twist, he found that Ma Jun was no longer in the vicinity.

A prey that could have been easily caught had slipped away right before his eyes.

Was he careless?

No.

The power of this responsible individual was formidable, unlike those others, he wasn’t someone at the same level. Though not as strong as the Enforcement Captain, he could already cause some small trouble for Simon.

Of course, Ma Jun ran away.

He wasn’t dumb, the opponent clearly came to kill him.

“Send a message.” Ma Jun immediately informed headquarters about what had happened while escaping, then rushed home anxiously.

He was very concerned about the safety of his family.

However, at this moment, Ma Jun suddenly stopped in his tracks, clutching his chest as a sharp pain surged through, his body disobeyed his commands and he fell to the ground.

“How could this be? Clearly, I had successfully escaped, why was I still hit by that old shotgun?”

Ma Jun looked down at his chest, blood flowing, a pitch-black hole appeared on his body.

He initially thought such a wound shouldn’t be fatal.

But soon, Ma Jun realized that something seemed to be wriggling inside his body.

Upon checking, he immediately realized what the foreign body inside him was.

After being shot, what was left inside him wasn’t a bullet, but a ghost, and this ghost had already perfectly merged with his body, indistinguishable from himself anymore.

Moreover, what made Ma Jun uneasy was that this ghost was still in a state of revival.

If a resurrected fierce ghost forcefully occupied a ghost controller’s body, what would happen?

It was obvious; the balance would be broken, his own state would be thrown into chaos by this suddenly joined ghost.

“That shotgun is specifically designed to deal with ghost controllers.”

Ma Jun struggled in agony, he could no longer use his supernatural powers normally, because his inherent supernatural balance was disrupted; even if the enemy did nothing, he would die from ghost revival.

“There’s no time, I can’t go home, I must hold them off here, wait for reinforcements to arrive.”

He knew the message had been sent, and the Captain would soon arrive to support him.

Provided he could survive until then.

“Found you, really surprising that you could run this far after being shot, are all the responsible ones so resilient?” That familiar voice emerged.

Simon’s leather boots clattered crisply on the ground.

Meanwhile, several various individuals also appeared around one after another, all ghost controllers who infiltrated Dafu City, in order to ensure by all means necessary that the city’s responsible person was eliminated.

“Let’s play a game, from now on, whoever finds my location in this city first will be the winner.”

Ma Jun, enduring the pain as if his body was being torn apart, forcibly utilized his supernatural power. He knew he was doomed to die, so he risked ghost revival to hold these people off.

The next moment.

The pedestrians on the nearby streets suddenly vanished, the sky turned dim, all the ambient noises disappeared, leaving only silence.

In the blink of an eye, Dafu City turned into a desolate Ghost City.

There were no living people, no signs of life, only ghost controllers drawn into it.

And Ma Jun once again vanished from sight.

He hid within this silent city.

And risking the peril of ghost revival, Ma Jun unleashed the strongest supernatural power he could ever wield in his life, directly influencing an entire city.

Previously, he could at most affect a few streets, a district.

Hiding in a place as large as a city, it would undoubtedly take some time for his adversaries to locate Ma Jun.

Yet in the silent city.

The missing Ma Jun now sat on a bench at a corner of a park, motionless, his face ashen, eyes dimmed, breathless, despite his body still eerily writhing and twitching, he himself had no more life.

Ma Jun had died, succumbing to ghost revival.

A single paranormal assault from the opponent was sufficient to claim his life; the fact that he could hold on even momentarily was already surprising.

Although Ma Jun died, this supernatural game had to continue.

Because now, the one controlling the game was the real ghost.

This was also Ma Jun’s thought before his death, using his life to stall the opponent, waiting for the Captain’s reinforcements to counterattack.

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