Enforcer Manual
Chapter 301: Phantom_1

Chapter 301: Chapter 301: Phantom_1

On that day, Song Lan met a worthy opponent for the first time.

He was referring to the field of human resources.

Gustav fully demonstrated the patience of a seasoned recruiter and, after Song Lan’s polite refusal, did not persist. Instead, he smiled and handed over a business card.

"If you’re willing, you can contact us anytime through this, and our liaison will come to visit you," he said.

He didn’t push, nor did he make any final statements.

This exquisite card seemed to lay the groundwork for future cooperation.

Song Lan had to admit that Gustav had made a good first impression on him, but he was certain that this man was probably a smiling tiger.

Although it wasn’t explicitly stated, the commotion in the hotel indicated another ulterior motive.

To meet him and to recruit him.

After bidding farewell to Gustav, Song Lan stayed at the banquet, waiting for the grand event to end.

The guests were immersed in the lively atmosphere of the banquet, seemingly having forgotten that they had gathered there to discuss the amendments to the "Second Energy Agreement"—in fact, if Gustav hadn’t mentioned it, perhaps nobody would have known that such a meeting was supposed to have taken place there today.

As the banquet concluded, the guests left satisfied.

And all the parts that had been warped by abilities were gradually returning to their original state.

Half an hour later, Lu Xiang received an emergency notification from Rainforest Prosthesis Hospital, reporting that the condition of a previous patient had suddenly worsened. The caved-in back of his head had caused him to fall into a coma. Fortunately, the patient was already in the ward when he lost consciousness. After an emergency rescue and a significant replacement of parts in his head, the patient’s condition finally stabilized.

This case was listed as a complicated and rare disease; no one knew why someone’s head would collapse for an entire day before exhibiting such symptoms.

In the hidden compartment of Lu Xiang’s office, she was closely examining the card Gustav had left behind.

"I didn’t expect they really existed... Song Lan, you might be the first person to have seen them and not disappeared!" she exclaimed.

"What kind of organization is this, so eerie?"

"Since the year 2140, the United Government has established a special agency to investigate this department, but after so many years, they haven’t found a single clue!"

Now, more than 20 years have passed, and more and more people believe this department is just a figment of the Review Meeting’s imagination. Even ghosts leave traces, yet everything they’ve done is like chasing an organization of nothingness that will never be found.

Since Song Lan had not been to the core areas and knew nothing about the United Government’s intelligence department, Lu Xiang felt he might not understand how fearsome an organization that had been pursued by a specialized intelligence department for over 20 years could be.

"What are those disappearances about? Did they also commit abductions?" he asked.

"Because, starting in the year 2140, every once in a while, several Ability Users considered potential by the United Government would mysteriously disappear. At first, they thought these missing Ability Users had been assassinated, but before long, Psychics of the same type would be sighted in different areas.

"These Psychics were initially thought to have defected, but when the intelligence department pursued them, they always ended up empty-handed, someone always one step ahead erasing all evidence. That’s why the Review Meeting suspected the existence of an organization that had turned these Psychics and secretly accepted them," she continued.

Lu Xiang spoke as if opening the floodgates of her thoughts.

During her school days, this mysterious organization was universally acknowledged as an unsolved mystery, and many students believed that it did not actually exist, but was rather an illusion formed by the convergence of many coincidences.

The Review Meeting always liked to engage in intellectual battles with thin air, which was no secret.

And now, Song Lan had not only proven the existence of this organization but had also met one of its members.

Gustav.

There was no digital footprint of this man anywhere on the internet.

There was only one possibility for someone to erase their digital presence so thoroughly—that Gustav had always lived in a world without the internet.

This card provided them with an explanation, "This card is specially made, and it should be a means of communication among members of that organization."

Lu Xiang studied the card for a long time but still didn’t know how to use it.

It had neither a phone number nor identity information, nor was it suitable for any kind of card reader on the market; she felt that even if the card fell into the hands of intelligence agencies, they might not be able to figure it out for quite some time.

"It seems we need to re-evaluate many things."

Song Lan’s description of Gustav deeply alarmed Lu Xiang. Similar incidents had occurred in various cities of the United Government before, but they weren’t as conspicuous.

There were sightings of Psychic activity, but what was strange was that there were no casualties during these periods.

It seemed less like an attack being brewed by Psychics and more like some kind of natural phenomenon.

Ephemeral and seemingly without motive or purpose.

Therefore, the investigators could only chase the lingering effects of the abilities like headless flies, ultimately reaching a dead end.

"Perhaps the incidents in other cities have also been forgotten by everyone, just like this ’Second Energy Agreement’ revision meeting."

"That’s what’s been bothering me all along."

Song Lan said, "According to Gustav, his ability could only make the people who were present at the meeting forget about it. But what about the people at the head office? They couldn’t have also forgotten about the ’Second Energy Agreement,’ could they?"

According to Lu Xiang, this was an organization that hadn’t left any clues for the United Government for over 20 years, meaning they had never slipped up in their "corrections" of the world, and no one from top to bottom had noticed anything amiss.

How on earth did they manage that?

For a moment, Song Lan couldn’t think of any kind of ability that could change people’s perception of an event on a global scale.

"I don’t know."

Lu Xiang shook her head, "But at least we know they truly exist."

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Meanwhile, somewhere "outside."

"Ahaha, this recruitment failed."

Gustav scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. After creating such a stir, he indeed met Song Lan as he wished.

The conversation was pleasant, but the outcome was not as hoped.

In the room was a quiet-looking girl wearing black-rimmed glasses, sitting at a desk with a novel opened halfway.

"But it’s not completely fruitless, at least the possibility of future cooperation has been established... Oh yes, the employer’s commission is completed; I’ll leave the follow-up work to you."

"Mhm."

The literary girl simply nodded.

She closed the novel on the desk and took out a yellowed book from her bag.

The book was like a thick chronology, marked with dates and recording events with very brief text.

She turned to a blank page and wrote down a passage:

"In the year 2166, July, ’Second Energy Agreement’ revision bill, rejected."

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