Chapter 203 Self-Protection Measures
It was the afternoon of the next day.
In a spacious conference room at the headquarters, there was a heated discussion on how to respond to the invitations to battle posted by Germany and Jian on the Ghost Rider website.

Wang Xiaoming's hunch was correct. Germany and Jian did not want to expand the scope of the battle.

After a brief confrontation with Ren State in all aspects, Germany and Jian found that they could not gain the upper hand, so they launched a gambling challenge to Ren State this morning.

The Ren Kingdom was required to bring out its healing array technology as a bet, with each side sending out five players to compete in a best-of-five format.

"We absolutely cannot agree to this," an old man with gray hair and a cane shouted angrily, "We cannot follow the enemy's ideas."

"But if we don't agree, I'm afraid the other party will become desperate. The current trend of supernatural revival is getting faster and faster, and we don't have time to fight with them." Someone analyzed the current situation based on the current situation.

The meeting lasted for more than an hour, with the leaders from all sides arguing with each other, but no one could convince the other.

After the meeting, Cao Yanhua stopped Wang Xiaoming who was about to leave. The two came to the office and Cao Yanhua talked about what happened in the meeting:
"The professor has seen the debate at the meeting. I wonder what the professor thinks of Germany and Jian?"

Wang Xiaoming shook his head and said, "I don't have any ideas. I will support whatever decision the headquarters makes."

"Ugh……"

Cao Yanhua sighed lightly, understood Wang Xiaoming's thoughts, stopped mentioning the affairs of Germany and Jian, and started talking about some recent trivial matters.

Especially when Wang Xiaoming was planning to travel, Cao Yanhua reminded him that Germany and Jian might take the risk of kidnapping the professor.

Leaving Cao Yanhua's office and returning to the laboratory,
Wang Xiaoming took out the combination of the wish ghost and the ghost cabinet and entered the research state without distraction. As for today's meeting and Cao Yanhua's strangeness, he didn't take it to heart.

In fact, he had already seen that although the forcing of the palace by Germany and Jian this time seemed to be a huge move, it actually had no confidence and could not cause any trouble at all.

Even if the headquarters does not agree to the demands of Germany and Jian, they will not be able to cause any trouble in the end.

After all, everyone has the weapon that can destroy humanity - nuclear bombs, so no matter how big the conflict is, it must be controlled within a certain range.

However, people who work in politics have to think a lot, consider a lot, and are used to compromising.

Cao Yanhua probably had received orders from above, and this meeting was just a formality. He asked Wang Xiaoming only to relieve his depression.

"The order from above should be to accept the challenge of war between the two countries, which is why Cao Yanhua is unhappy!"

Wang Xiaoming stopped studying to restore his spirituality, thinking of Cao Yanhua, and thought to himself: "Even if I am in charge of the entire headquarters, there are still some things I cannot decide."

His guess was soon verified again.

evening,

When Wang Xiaoming walked out of the laboratory and prepared to go back to rest, Zhou Tong, who was in charge of driving, revealed to him that the headquarters had just decided to accept the challenge from Germany and Jian.

From Zhou Tong's tone, Wang Xiaoming clearly sensed his dissatisfaction with the headquarters:
"Professor, why should we accept the challenge? If they want to fight us, we will fight them. But now they are challenging us to a fight with your research results. What if we lose?"

"Okay," Wang Xiaoming stopped Zhou Tong's complaints, "The headquarters must have their reasons for doing this. Just drive carefully and don't be affected by what others say."

Zhou Tong muttered a few words and stopped talking.

After returning to his residence, Wang Xiaoming turned on his computer and logged into the Ghost Rider website. He saw that the headquarters’ speech had been pushed to the top of the list.

Click to view, there are hundreds of words, which can be summed up in one sentence - let's fight!
There were a lot of comments under the speech post. Wang Xiaoming read them roughly and found that the comments were polarized. Some criticized the headquarters for being cowardly, while others agreed with the headquarters and believed that the overall situation was more important and harmony was the most precious.

Wang Xiaoming just checked it silently without making any comments.

After exiting the post, he clicked on some posts introducing supernatural ghosts and wrote down some ghosts he had never seen before.

Just then, a new post appeared in front of him, and Wang Xiaoming clicked on it:

"Damn it! You have no idea what I just went through. The boss of our organization just died because of a ringtone.

I know you want to quit, but I advise you to read my post to the end, because it may help you survive when you encounter this evil spirit.

Although my organization is very small, our boss is a very powerful elite ghost rider. Some time ago, our organization received a big order, which is to protect a ghost rider.

The ghost rider was cursed by the ghost call and would die in three days, so he decided to hire...

At that time, there were three organizations that received the task, and our organization was one of them. At that time... the boss went alone... but the employer still died... The phone rang, and they didn't have time to do anything, and the employer died.

Afterwards, the other people who accepted the job also suffered from the curse of the ghost call... When they heard the phone ring... they all died, and no one could escape... After the boss came back, he prepared many life-saving props... but he still died.

As long as you hear the ringtone of a ghost call, you will be haunted by it and die within three days.

Everyone's rating of the ghost call is still too low. I think its horror level is at least S-level... Finally, I'll give you a piece of advice, don't ever think of saving people from the ghost call... Otherwise, it won't just be one person who dies... You will also be marked by the ghost call."

Has it evolved to this extent?
Wang Xiaoming's face turned solemn. In the original novel, the Ghost Caller was recognized as the most difficult ghost to deal with. Not only because of its powerful mortality characteristics, but also because it came and went without a trace, making it impossible for the ghost handler to detect it, let alone imprison it.

This kind of evil spirit is the most disgusting and it is impossible to guard against it.

Moreover, there is very little information about ghost calls in the original novel, and it has no reference value at all.

"I just don't know if the ability to spread curses like Ghost Calls already exists in the original novel? Or is it a result of changes in this world?"

"Now the world has been changed too much by me. The plot in the original novel is no longer reliable. In the original novel, the ghost call never appeared in Renguo, but now it may not be the case."

"As long as someone can record the ringtone of a ghost call, they can lead the ghost call to any place. This is just like the protagonist Yang Jian in the original novel holding the door-knocking recording, which is a very powerful means of threat.

No, it should be said that it is a more terrifying means of threat."

"According to the information collected so far, the ghost calls mainly attack human consciousness. All the people killed by the ghost calls have their bodies intact."

"So if you want to defend yourself against ghost calls, you have to work on your awareness."

Remembering Cao Yanhua's reminder, Wang Xiaoming decided to improve his defense again. After all, he was far from invincible now.

After exiting the website and turning off the computer, Wang Xiaoming came to the magic room. In order to prevent future troubles, he decided to make himself a layer of consciousness protection shield.

Fortunately, when he was refining supernatural weapons for the headquarters, he collected a lot of evil spirits with special uses, including some that could protect consciousness.

In the magic room, Wang Xiaoming stretched out his hand and took out a straw hat from the air.

The straw hat was worn out, with a big hole on the top and a lot of dried bloodstains near the hole, as if someone had been stabbed while wearing the straw hat.

The ability of the straw hat is also very strange. It will attack all creatures wearing it. As a side effect, it will not allow other supernatural forces to harm the wearer. In short, it is "protecting food."

Even if a ghost with this kind of ability is refined into a supernatural weapon, the side effects are severe and the ghost will be revived after a few uses.

However, because there are relatively few conscious evil ghosts, Wang Xiaoming kept the Straw Hat Ghost.

He has many evil spirits like this. Most of them have too strong side effects, but their unique effects are worth studying.

"I just had a new idea. Let's practice with these evil spirits!"

After Wang Xiaoming took out the straw hat ghost, he took out two more ghosts, one in the shape of hair and the other in the shape of eyes.

These three are all evil ghosts with powerful side effects and no use value. For example, the abilities of the hair ghost and the eye ghost are that they have some positive abilities while invading the host, but these positive abilities are insignificant compared to the aspect that they erode the host.

"The weakening of the eye ghost, the weaving of the hair ghost, and the protection of the straw hat ghost, the three abilities work together to increase the defense ability to the strongest.

As for the side effects, we need to keep the evil spirits in a state of balance and confrontation during the refining process to offset their ability to attack the host. "

Wang Xiaoming roughly planned out the next steps for refining the evil spirit in his mind, and only started to set up the smelting formation after he felt there were no problems.

The smelting array was the knowledge he gained from knowledge step by step when he was in sequence six. He could melt different evil spirits together and even add up the spiritual strength of the evil spirits.

It is a necessary formation for refining multiple evil spirits.

In order to increase the success rate of this refining, he also made special modifications to the formation to make it more suitable for the situation of three evil spirits.

After a while, the smelting array was set up.
Wang Xiaoming placed the three evil ghosts at three positions of the formation and started to activate the formation.

Bang!
The white forging fire rose up and quickly enveloped the formation. The flame seemed blazing, but there was no trace of warmth, and the temperature in the room did not change at all.

The white flames touched some books in the spell room but did not ignite them, as if the flames were fake.

Inside the formation, the three evil spirits began to vibrate continuously when the light and flames attacked, as if they were resisting the refining of the forging fire.

It’s just that the three evil ghosts had stayed in the Wilderness of Knowledge for too long and had already been in a state of paralysis. They had no ability to resist Wang Xiaoming’s refining.

Since Wang Xiaoming was promoted to Sequence Five, all his abilities have been enhanced. He felt very comfortable manipulating the smelting formation again.

He easily mobilized the power of the formation and swept the three evil spirits together. At the same time, various knocking sounds began to be heard in the flames, as if there was a blacksmith shop hidden inside.

"Yes, it will work this time!"

A smile appeared on Wang Xiaoming's lips. He felt that the refining process was developing in the direction he expected. If it continued like this, the refining would be completed soon.

If the refining is successful this time, it means that a new refining method will appear in the future. Not only can the evil spirits with relatively large side effects that he has collected in the Wilderness of Knowledge be refined into supernatural weapons, but also some evil spirits with small side effects can be refined into stronger supernatural weapons.

In the smelting array, the more he refined, the more inspirations Wang Xiaoming had in his mind. In just a short moment, he thought of several refining methods.

"My previous method of refining the five-piece stationery set was too crude. At that time, I could only simply sew a few evil spirits together. If it were now, its power would probably increase by about 30%."

Thinking that he must refine the stationery ghosts again later, as time passed, Wang Xiaoming looked at the three ghosts in front of him, and he knew that the smelting was about to end.

The forging fire disappeared, and Wang Xiaoming's figure appeared in the spell room again. In front of Wang Xiaoming, a small jade pendant appeared where the three evil spirits had been.

Picking up the pendant, Wang Xiaoming looked at it carefully and saw a strange human head carved on the pendant, with a straw hat, one eye, and long hair. It was exactly the shrunken appearance of the three evil spirits.

'Identification!'

Wang Xiaoming's eyes gleamed, and various information about the pendant began to flow in his mind.

After a moment, he retracted his ability and nodded slightly to show his great satisfaction.

Judging from the appraisal results just now, his refining this time was very successful and the side effects were reduced to the minimum. In addition, his weakening ability can attenuate the side effects. After a series of combined punches, the remaining side effects of the pendant are easily bearable for him.

The most important thing is the defensive ability of the pendant. This time, Wang Xiaoming upgraded the consciousness protection and integrated the weaving ability of the hair ghost and the weakening ability of the eye ghost into it.

The originally scattered defensive forces were organized into a thick protective shield. With the mutual coordination of the two evil spirits' abilities, the defensive capabilities were qualitatively improved.

The weakening ability is integrated into the entire protective shield, changing the original appearance of the protective shield into the shape of an eye. Wherever the gaze goes, all attacks will be weakened.

This refining not only perfectly integrates the supernatural powers of the three evil spirits, but also cleverly combines the abilities of the three evil spirits to achieve the effect of one plus two being greater than three.

After putting on the pendant, Wang Xiaoming's sense of crisis disappeared. With the protection of the pendant, even if someone used ghost calls to attack him, they would be blocked by the pendant's protective shield.

"But to be on the safe side, I'd better add a few more layers of protection. After all, the strength of the ghost call is unknown. If the pendant can't block it, I will need to reopen it." Wang Xiaoming thought cautiously.

So next he pulled out a large box from the corner of the spell room, which was filled with various spiritual materials that could be used to cast spells, make extraordinary weapons and magic scrolls.

He was preparing to make a batch of magic scrolls. After gaining the ability to make magic scrolls, Wang Xiaoming never touched the scrolls again except for using his engraving ability to make a few scrolls at the beginning.

Logically, his ability to make magic scrolls would have deteriorated, but surprisingly, it did not. Not only did Wang Xiaoming's ability to make scrolls not deteriorate, but he was so skilled that he did not look like a newcomer who had only made scrolls a few times.

The reason is probably because he has been using the engraving ability and has mastered it. The most critical step in making a scroll is engraving. No matter how good the material processing is, if the engraving is not successful, the scroll will be invalid.

In addition, since he had been promoted to Sequence 5, it became much easier for him to understand Sequence 6 problems.

(End of this chapter)