Dealing with supernatural incidents is the job of the Special Branch. The rising case data in the past few days has made the senior officials of the Special Branch anxious. On this day, the headquarters of the Special Branch held a meeting to discuss the relevant situation.
The atmosphere of this meeting was different from usual. Before the meeting started, a group of division directors and deputy division directors began to whisper among each other.
"No, the chair is placed a little differently today."
"Could it be that Director Xu is back?"
After Xu Qian left, the daily affairs were handled by the two deputy directors, Zhou Qingyi and Xue Baishou. The position of the chief executive was only two chairs, but today there were three chairs placed by the chief executive. No one who could come to the meeting was a fool. It didn’t take long to discover this small and significant change.
"Impossible! If Director Xu comes back, there won't be any news at all."
"That……"
"Maybe a chief from above is going to attend today's meeting, or maybe a big boss from another department is coming."
Such situations are not unheard of. Occasionally, senior officials from outside the Special Branch will participate in meetings.
At this time, three people walked into the conference room, and the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became weird. Almost everyone looked at the person with surprised eyes, to be precise, it was one of the three people.
Zhou Qingyi said with a smile on his face: "We are all old acquaintances, so no introduction is needed. What I want to announce to you is that Han Qianqian has been appointed as the deputy director and director of the first division of our bureau. Welcome!"
Everyone was stunned for a moment. Deputy director and director of the first division?
Hong Lei, the former deputy director and director of the first division, died in battle when the orcs invaded, and the position of director of the first division has been vacant.
In the past, Deputy Director Hong Lei also served as the Director of the Division. Hong Lei was the most powerful person in the Special Branch at that time. Director Sun Fuwang's hidden cultivation was naturally not included in this. Within the Special Branch, everyone generally believes that the director of a division must be the top expert in the Special Branch. This is not a hard and fast rule, but it has been arranged this way for a long time and has formed a mindset. After all, the director of a division has to take action when necessary, but as the chief manager of the daily affairs of the special bureau, the director rarely has the opportunity to take action. He really needs strong backup, who can issue tasks to outsiders. Hire the help of a monk or a counselor from the advisory board. Later, Xu Qian became the acting director, and the director of a division was temporarily vacant. It was not that Xu Qian was not skilled enough, but that he really did not have time to do too much specific work. In addition, the bureau did not find a suitable person for this position.
Now that Han Qianqian came back and took the position of director of a department, it affected the nerves of everyone in the conference room even more than when she became deputy director. After all, there can be many deputy directors. With the power and connections of the family, it is not a big deal to add one more virtual deputy director. But with the position of director of a department and the identity of deputy director, Xu Qian, the deputy director today, is not a big deal. In the absence of the director, she is the number one person in the Special Branch, and her power is still higher than that of Zhou Qingyi and Xue Baishou.
Tang Hong, Director of the Sixth Division, was the first to speak, "Bureau Zhou, it seems that the position of Director of the First Division cannot be given casually."
Just when Zhou Qingyi was about to say something, Han Qianqian said that no one else needed to explain. She took a step forward and said, "This is not my first day working in the Special Branch. What does the position of director of a division mean in the Special Branch?" It’s very clear, now let everyone here test whether I, Han Qianqian, have the qualifications!”
After saying that, Han Qianqian's whole body's spiritual power exploded, and a powerful pressure came towards everyone.
Huiyang realm! It turned out to be the Huiyang realm!
The pressure disappeared, Han Qianqian smiled and said: "Do you think I have the strength to be a director?"
Times have changed, and with Xu Qian's promotion of major reforms in the Special Bureau, the unwritten rule that one cannot hold a position in the Special Bureau after entering the Tengyun realm has been clearly abolished. Now, no matter what the cultivation level is, as long as it is suitable, you can Served in the Bureau of Special Branch.
Han Qianqian went into seclusion after being attacked by orcs at the Special Branch headquarters. At that time, she was just a martial saint, that is, the Fengchu realm. In the environment of spiritual energy recovery, almost every monk has advanced in cultivation, but someone like her, who can go from Feng Chu to Qin Xin to Teng Yun in a few months, has now become the body of Hui Yang. It is absolutely unbelievably fast. Even Xiao Xu, who is known as the number one cultivator of monsters, can only be defeated by such speed.
The whole place was silent, except for the sound of a few people swallowing saliva after their throats felt dry.
"Since everyone has no objections, let's start the meeting!" Xue Baishou had already expected this result. He didn't want to waste time and sat down directly in his seat.
Han Qianqian was not polite and sat directly on the main seat in the center, with Zhou Qingyi and Xue Baishou on his left and right.
"Report the situation!" Xue Baishou ordered with a straight face.
Director of the Fourth Division Qiu Dongjin, a man in his fifties, took out the data he had prepared and reported: "According to data reported from various places, there were 372 new confirmed supernatural death cases across the country yesterday, with a death toll of 836. There were 105 more cases than the previous day, and the number of deaths increased by 263..."
Listening to these shocking data, everyone understands that behind these data are living lives that are unwilling to leave, and tragic families that have suffered sudden misfortune. However, all this happened for no reason and was inexplicable.
After Qiu Dongjin reported the data, the audience was silent for a few seconds.
Zhou Qingyi opened his mouth and said, "Let's talk about your thoughts. Say whatever comes to mind. Speak freely."
A relevant meeting was held two days ago. At that time, the situation was not so bad. It only attracted the initial attention of the Special Branch. Everyone also discussed countermeasures, but obviously, the effect was not obvious.
Qi Peng was the other deputy director of the Second Division besides Paine, but he was ranked after Paine. When Paine was there, it was usually not his turn to hold such a meeting, unless it was an enlarged meeting.
Qi Peng is the kind of person who talks more. Regardless of trivial matters, he was the first to express his opinion: "We monks know very well that the so-called ghosts in the world are basically controlled by people. This matter was mentioned in the last meeting. Regarding the issue of the mastermind behind this, I still stick to my opinion. Finding the mastermind behind this is the fundamental solution to the problem."
Qiu Dongjin somewhat disagreed, "It is of course important to find the mastermind behind the scenes, but the most urgent issue right now is to stop ghosts from harming people. If we blindly find the mastermind behind the scenes and ignore the supernatural deaths that are happening every day and are growing rapidly, If this happens, the whole country will be plunged into extreme panic. Now in many places no one dares to go out at night, and many positions that require working at night have even seen a wave of resignations. We must give an explanation to the people."
Just as Qi Peng was about to say something, a dark-skinned middle-aged man with a sturdy build said: "The difficulty now is that the places where the occurrences occur are too scattered and the victims are random. It is impossible to prevent and effectively control ghosts in advance with the power of our special bureau alone." When it appeared, before our people could arrive, everyone had been killed and the ghosts had fled."
The speaker was Wei Guangming, another deputy director of Division 3, and one of the people present who was most familiar with Han Qianqian.
Han Qianqian raised a question that was not covered in Qiu Dongjin's report just now, "What's the strength of those ghosts?"
Qiu Dongjin was unable to respond to this question for a while, because there seemed to be no information about this issue in the materials he prepared.
How powerful the ghost is can only be answered by monks who have fought against it. These days, of course, there are some monks who have fought with ghosts, not even a few, but many of them are not people from the Special Division, but monks who happen to encounter ghosts committing crimes. Even if the monks from the Special Bureau fight with ghosts, Information about the opponent's strength may not be reported, and the special bureaus and bureaus in various places do not compile such information.
For ordinary people, ghosts are just ghosts. How can they care about the strength of ghosts? The people who do statistical work in the branch are all civilians, not monks at all. When faced with terrorist attacks and invasions from other worlds, their mentality was relatively stable. But now they are facing ghosts. Even if they work in the branch of the Special Branch, their mentality is broken.
"The combat power is not high. If we divide the ghosts according to their levels, they are all imps. The strongest ones are only equivalent to the combat power of Fengchu Realm."
This person didn't speak loudly, but his simple words moved everyone present.
