I Am Your Natural Enemy

Chapter 473: Chapter 194: Stuck in Progress, My Yang Energy (5k)

The Scorching Sun Department isn’t incapable of discovering Ghosts, nor are they unable to make devices that can detect Ghosts’ presence.

It’s just that the special materials needed are in very short supply.

The best resources are all used where they’re needed most.

At the very least, a small town that’s always quiet, losing population, and barely has any harmless Little Ghosts, would never be prioritized in resource allocation.

If an Evil Ghost hides its presence, always takes side roads, and doesn’t cause any trouble, whether the Scorching Sun Department detects it or not, the result’s the same—nothing happens.

The Scorching Sun Department set its core policy long ago: To focus on deterrence against Ghosts, because it’s simply impossible to eliminate all Ghosts, let alone prevent new ones from emerging.

Excessively extreme measures were ruled out from the start.

Draw some to their side, ignore another portion, and deal heavy blows to the small number causing trouble—that’s standard protocol.

Are there high-precision devices capable of locating and sensing Ghosts within a given area?

Yes.

But the cost is too high, they require too much to make, and there are very few of them.

The ones that can be distributed and used daily aren’t precise enough, but they’re cheap and the necessary materials can be supplied.

The sensitivity isn’t high, but as long as there’s a powerful enough Ghost within a certain range causing trouble, those devices will pick it up.

Encountering an event like today, where the device’s reading exceeded five hundred, way beyond the upper display limit of these portable devices—this was the first time in recent days.

An alarm was triggered instantly—not just the local Scorching Sun Department’s alarm, but also the one at the Central Plains Scorching Sun Department.

This means, based on the Central Plains Scorching Sun Department’s contingency plans, headquarters must go all out.

The nearest branch must have personnel on site within three minutes, and all local members must report to their posts at once.

The always-on-duty logistics people must follow plan instructions and prepare all necessary gear within five minutes: best equipment, weapons, elixir pills, talismans—everything the combat team might need.

The information division has to prep intelligence support in advance, handing all intel over on the way as the fighters mobilize.

Non-combatants in the Field Agent team must arrive nearby within ten minutes and begin evacuating civilians.

At the same time, if the incident doesn’t occur in a densely populated area or near critical facilities, then they must ensure that, if necessary, the scene can be purged in three minutes.

Within the Scorching Sun Department, there’s an extreme shortage of Field Agents with strong personal combat power.

They’re short on other things too, but all in all, most of the time it’s still manageable.

Experts like Qin Kun basically never get a break—if you’re willing to fight, you’ll have battles to fight nearly the whole year round.

With vast territory and a huge population as the baseline, even the lowest percentages add up to astronomical numbers.

The Scorching Sun Department struggles most with just a few main types of threats.

Today, it’s one of those: a powerful individual goes berserk in a densely populated residential area.

Big Killer weapons are absolutely off the table. For this kind of scenario, the safest method is to deploy experts while the rest stay on the perimeter for support.

If it gets dicey, then surround on three sides but leave one exit—don’t push the target into a corner. If you give the enemy a sliver of hope, they’ll flee outside the city.

As long as they’re out of town, the Scorching Sun Department can cut loose, and the whole situation becomes easier to handle.

Even if it can’t be settled on the spot, minimizing casualties and ensuring evacuation must be the priority.

It’s the same today. Only, when the nearest Field Agent arrived, they found something unexpected.

A Big Head Ghost, with a massively long tongue, was squaring off against a Red Clothed Evil Spirit.

The Ghost setting off the portable sensors—making the readings break the scale—was that Fierce Ghost.

The small town’s Field Agent had never seen anything like this; a single glance from a distance was enough to know it was way out of their league, so they quickly took a picture and reported it up the chain.

On the street, black mist started rolling out from the compound eyes of the Big Head Ghost, oozing a cold, hateful malice.

Rumor had it Fierce Ghosts are all lunatics who’ll stop at nothing to get what they want—today proved it true.

Willing to self-destruct before letting them have their way—turning themselves into a beacon in the night at maximum power. As long as the Scorching Sun Department wasn’t blind and their instruments weren’t all broken, there was no way they wouldn’t know something blew up here.

Judging from the Red Skirt Ghost’s exploding aura right now, the Scorching Sun Department would surely prioritize this case big time.

Scorching Sun Department, huh...

The Big Head Ghost’s gaze hardened even further; regular Field Agents were nothing to fear.

But if secrecy couldn’t be guaranteed, he wouldn’t dare casually kill a Scorching Sun Field Agent. Kill one and ten more come, kill ten, and next time you have no clue what kind of monster they’ll send.

The higher the priority, the closer to death.

As Big Head Ghost’s thoughts raced, he saw the Green-faced Evil Spirit sneak underground, silently closing in on its prey.

Big Head Ghost’s mouth split open, his jaw snapping off with a crack, and his thick coiled tongue instantly swelled and unfurled, spreading outward.

A Domain unfolded from Big Head Ghost’s tongue.