Jiang Ji is recovering well at the moment, but according to Chu Xiuning's doctor's advice, she still has to stay in the hospital for a while.
While recuperating from his injuries, he also turned his attention to other things. This was the time when, in the original comic, each province and city selected people with potential to go to the headquarters for short-term training.
This training is about the same length as the rookie training camp.
The resources, treatment and training instructors at the headquarters are better than those at the branches, so those psychics who have a good fit at the headquarters basically stay there.
The chief psychic of each branch is stationed in the headquarters to prevent the instability caused by the withdrawal of psychics, and their strength does not require training.
In the original comic, only Xue Li went, and a small incident happened in the middle. This time, Ajin and Jiang Ji were both on the announced training list.
Ajin awakened his second superpower ahead of time.
It suddenly became a hot commodity.
Jiang Ji does not fall into the category of a person with superpowers, but she has appeared in ghost stories many times and made contributions. This time she directly rose to the top ten in the standings, and with a certain personality in her body, someone at the headquarters wanted to see her.
During the time they entered Aoki High School, the psychics selected from several other teams in Tonghua City had already set off.
Zheng Baixue and others have arrived in Kyoto.
Time was not that tight, so Ajin and the others dealt with the follow-up of the ghost story and the matters at hand while waiting for Jiang Ji to recover.
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Nikko City, Tōreiji Temple.
The black, red and white temple was built on a stone hillside. It was majestic and grand, with smoke rising from the sky. People meandered down to kowtow here, including the elderly and children, who prostrated themselves on the ground and kowtowed to the temple.
During this strange moment of revival, more and more people placed their faith in gods and Buddhas, and new temples were built every moment.
Along this road, there are prayer flags on both sides, many people holding prayer wheels walk and murmur, and many people kneel down with enthusiasm.
Inside the main hall, there are many Buddha statues surrounding it.
There were two Buddhas, one man and one woman, in a loose posture. There was the thousand-armed and thousand-eyed Avalokitesvara. There were several Vajras with hideous faces and many arms. There were also gods wearing skull crowns, holding a human skull bowl filled with blood in their left hands, holding a hatchet in their right hands, carrying a human head staff on their shoulders, and wearing a string of human bone necklaces around their necks.
The Buddha statue in the center of the hall is the tallest and largest, sitting on a lotus seat, with plump earlobes, kind eyes, and looking down at the believers below.
The hall was filled with a strong aroma. The monks wore black robes, which were extremely plain and gloomy. People who came in were unconsciously stunned by the sight before them. After paying homage, they felt radiant and all the fatigue of several days was swept away.
In the scripture hall at the innermost part of the main hall, there is a black and white TV placed in the dim room. The images on the TV are exactly what is happening in the scripture hall. Even the people coming in and out are exactly the same.
A bald monk was kneeling in a dark room.
The scene on TV was this scripture hall, with a young woman kneeling in the same posture, her hair loose, and a festering pus-filled swelling on the top of her head filled with dense worm eggs.
It was Han Wenwen whom Jiang Ji had met.
The Buddha statues on TV are also completely different from those in reality.
There are piles of white bones and hideous human heads under the lotus seat, and a huge black shadow behind the Buddha statue. At first glance, it seems to be the change of light and shadow, but if you look closely, it is a bunch of wriggling black lines, like tapeworms in the stomach, connecting the brains of every believer who enters the hall. The expression of every worshiper becomes numb.
"…It only appeared for a moment and never appeared again, but it is certain that the Thousand-Armed Thousand-Eyed Guanyin statue was indeed looking at her."
"She did not enter the Guanyin statue, so she cannot make further judgment."
"Since this is the instruction of God." The black-robed man laughed a few times in a rough and hoarse voice, which contained infinite malice, "Bring her here."
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After completing the trial mission and escaping from the ghost story, Ajin sent a message to the forum administrator and waited anxiously for a reply.
The administrator did not immediately respond, appearing to be evaluating the matter.
Ah Jin returned to the dormitory and just sat down on the sofa when he received a reply from the backstage: [Congratulations on officially becoming a night watchman. If you are more curious, please come to the "Half Awake" bar at 24:00 tonight. ]
He saw the content and jumped up immediately.
Hey...half awake? What?
Isn't it that the half-awake boss has the support of the consortium and has teamed up with Chris from the consortium to quickly spread the intelligence network from Tonghua City to the surrounding areas?
Now, Banxing has become the second underground trading place in Tonghua City. The black market of Tonghua City happens to be the territory of the Ark Organization, the union of superpowers, which has caused dissatisfaction among the Xie family... However, there was no comment from the consortium, and several families even expressed their support.
On the consortium's territory?
No way? So wild?
If this message had not been sent by the "administrator" through the forum backend, Ajin would have thought that it was another fraud gang trying to harm him.
His teammates were not at home tonight, which made it convenient for him to act alone.
The city center was as bustling as ever. Ajin walked into the dark alley. Outside the door of the bar was a pile of heavy and bulging black garbage, and there were many stray cats and dogs roaming around.
The eyes of those cats and dogs looked a little strange, as if they were smiling but not smiling. The color of the ground was slightly darker red than other places, but a closer look revealed that it was an illusion. Those stray animals were lowering their heads to eat the nearby cat and dog food.
Take your time, don't fight or compete.
The music was very loud in the half-awake room. It was now disco time. Ajin squeezed through the dancing crowd and found the waiter who was wiping the wine glasses at the bar.
The other party raised his head with a smile on his face.
"Welcome to the Half Awake Bar, what can I do for you?"
"Half a cup of Floating Life."
This is not a wine on the menu. The other party smiled slightly and thought for a moment: "This wine tastes a bit astringent, and you get drunk after one drink. It may not suit your taste. Do you need something else to go with it?"
"Then have another half pot of tea to sober you up."
The code is correct.
The fake smile on the waiter's face disappeared. He called another waiter to guard the bar, then turned and nodded to Ajin.
"plz follow me."
The two walked through several rooms and corridors.
The other party handed him a black robe with a hood and a mask with a voice-changing effect to cover his face, and then pushed open the iron door.
The cold air hit Ajin in the face as he entered an underground trading ground full of mixed people. Countless men in black robes and hoods were walking around. He saw several figures that looked somewhat similar to those on the wanted posters.
This place is perfect for official psychics to conduct sting operations.
The young waiter led him through here and still had no intention of stopping. After verifying the combination lock and iris lock, the further he went down, the colder it became. He smelled a damp atmosphere and there was actually a basement.
The more Ajin looked at it, the more familiar it seemed. Wasn’t this the place where he had broadcast live before?
Didn't expect the night watchman to be right next to him?