Chapter 287
At the hotel rooftop.
The sky was overcast with dark clouds, as if a massive black dome had sealed the city. The air was thick with moisture, heralding an approaching storm.
It had been bright and sunny when Shen Ge and the others arrived for the banquet just over an hour ago. The sudden shift in weather unsettled him—something felt off.
Boom—
A bolt of lightning split the sky, illuminating the dense cloud cover. From a distance, it looked as though a giant eye had opened in the heavens, staring down at the earth.
Standing at the rooftop’s edge, Shen Ge activated his Ghost Eye and surveyed his surroundings. The seemingly ordinary storm clouds were anything but simple—the churning layers within were actually condensed from ghostly energy and black mist. The sensation reminded him of the time he’d scanned a Tier-5 anomaly beneath the pedestrian street restaurant.
Shen Ge doubted the Freak Organization possessed anything like a “Poké Ball.” If they could casually release and recall a Tier-5 or higher anomaly at will, they would have already conquered the world—there’d be no room for the Counter-Ghost Organization to even have a say.
After all, in the Great Xia Dynasty and across the globe, the current assessment of counter-ghost agents still placed solo Tier-3 hunters at captain-level strength. A select few “super captains,” forged through concentrated resources, could barely hold their own against a Tier-4 anomaly.
And that was just holding their own—victory was far from guaranteed.