Chapter 222
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Chapter 222: The Path of Defection
"Restore the ground to its original state," Chu Jiang said, looking down at the other person.
The man was startled, he had imagined countless ways Chu Jiang could respond. He even guessed that he might be mercilessly eliminated by Chu Jiang, but he didn’t expect Chu Jiang to reply like this.
When Chu Jiang walked past him towards the building, the man hastily used his supernatural powers to fill the hole and tried his best to put the shattered tiles back together.
When the man tried to chase after Chu Jiang, he found himself suddenly in a deserted city ruins.
Chu Jiang was sitting on a chair not far away, still looking down at him from a high place.
"I will give you a chance to explain. If your answer doesn’t satisfy me, I don’t need to explain what will happen to you, right?"
The gloomy man nodded repeatedly. Although he was badly injured, he wasn’t on the verge of death yet. In fact, he felt relieved after entering Chu Jiang’s Ghost Domain.
In this way, unless someone from Sincerity Company forcefully enters Chu Jiang’s Ghost Domain, the man himself will be safe in the short term.
As he tore off his clothes and bandaged his more severe wounds, he explained to Chu Jiang, "My name is Duan Mingen, but my colleagues gave me a nickname, ‘Short-lived Favor.’"
"It means that I fight without fear for my life, like a crazy dog. It’s obvious that I won’t live long."
"But often I have no choice. If I don’t show some toughness, they will see me as weak and take advantage of me even more."
Chu Jiang remained silent, only looking at the other person with indifference in his eyes.
"I was just an ordinary person, working in the food industry, but because of an accident, I became a Ghost Master."
"When I discovered that I possessed extraordinary powers beyond those of ordinary people, I was overjoyed. I believed that I was chosen, like a main character from a movie, and even thought that I was unique, destined to surpass everyone else in the future."
"Although the ghost inside me caused me great pain, I still remained mostly in a positive mood."
"But not long after that, I accidentally stumbled upon the world of the supernatural and realized that I was just a low-level Ghost Master, not a unique superhuman."
"Despite feeling disappointed, I decided to rely on this power to change my own destiny, so I joined Sincerity Company…"
Duan Mingen’s already unpleasant face darkened even more as he spoke about this.
"This was the biggest mistake I’ve ever made in my life!"
"I thought that joining a large Ghost Master organization would be a great path to success. And the person who introduced me to this company made it sound incredibly amazing."
"But when I went to the branch office for the first time, the other Ghost Masters there gave me a hard time. Their first lesson taught me what it means to have ‘rules.’" Duan Mingen clenched his fists tightly.
"There are certainly people who don’t follow their rules, and I saw a new Ghost Master get killed by them, with even the ghost inside them being taken out and sealed in a jar."
"In order to stay alive, I had to tolerate and accept the tasks they assigned to me one by one."
"The cruelest part of Sincerity Company is not squeezing us new Ghost Masters who have just joined; it’s that while they squeeze us, they also provide us with a way to move up."
"As long as you complete a certain number of tasks and you haven’t died, your level in the company will be promoted."
"There are many benefits after a level promotion, not only getting more supernatural resources, but also being able to refuse some overly difficult tasks and receive rewards for developing new Ghost Masters into the company."
"The most important thing is that I can assign my own tasks to people with a lower level than me."
"In other words, as long as we can level up step by step, we will go from being exploited to becoming exploiters."
"However, the dropout rate, or should I say, the death rate, is very high in this process. After all, the more the Ghost Masters use their powers, the faster they die."
"In conclusion, Sincerity Company is a purgatory, but also a crucible. The people who can become middle or even high-level executives are all ruthless individuals."
"After joining this company, I finally discovered who I truly am. Since then, I have been working my hardest to survive and get revenge on these bad people. I have even been promoted twice."
"If nothing unexpected happens, I may continue to stay at Sincerity Company."
"Leaving the company comes at a cost. I have seen many people who tried to do so, but in the end, most of them ended up dead."
"But sometimes things don’t go as planned. Just yesterday, I accidentally offended a senior executive of the company."
"It was just a small matter, and I even suspect that someone framed me. At that time, the senior executive smiled and said it was alright."
"However, this morning, a Ghost Master whom I saved secretly contacted me. He informed me that the senior executive became angrier and was planning to harm me when he returned."
"Feeling helpless, I had to make a tough decision. That decision was to come to Luohe City and seek shelter with Captain Chu."
"But if I had come directly, Captain Chu might not even glance at me and might even kill me without hesitation."
"So I took a risk. I killed my immediate superior and temporarily entrusted the company to him. I also managed to steal the precious sealed object."
"That person is not a good person. I believe you remember what he did in the villa. Also, I remember you were very interested in the hat he was wearing."
"And this is also a challenge. First, I defected; second, I killed my superior; third, I plundered the company’s valuable assets. So no matter what, Sincerity Company will not let me go."
Chu Jiang clapped his hands and said, "Good story, but I have a few questions."
"First, didn’t you, who were trapped by Sincerity Company, consider seeking help from Research Institute No. 21? After all, it is an official institution."
Duan Mingen laughed at himself and said, "First of all, Sincerity Company would never give us a chance to seek help in the first place."
"Later, as time went on, we became the beneficiaries. Naturally, we wouldn’t seek help from outsiders."
"Next, the research institute itself has allowed the existence of Sincerity Company, and even tolerated their [Competitive mechanism]."
"Who are we? We are ordinary Ghost Masters, unstable factors. In a way, the research institute would rather have us join their Ghost Masters and let a few more of us die."
"Everything is for the sake of overall stability. Like the Ghost Hunting Society, they are much more notorious than Sincerity Company. The reason they have survived until now is also related to this aspect."
"The existence of Sincerity Company is much better than the Ghost Hunting Society. At least Sincerity Company follows the rules and they also solve supernatural events, just for a fee."
"This helps alleviate some of the pressure on the research institute from objective factors, which is also one of the reasons why many Ghost Master organizations exist."