It was still broad daylight.
The streets in the bustling area were overflowing with a constant stream of people.
Suddenly, glass from high above a nearby skyscraper fell down, crashing onto the ground and shattering, with shards flying everywhere, injuring numerous pedestrians.
Others scurried for cover, but at the same time, many curiously looked up at the building.
It must have been about fifteen stories high.
Although it wasn't very clear, one could still make out that on the fifteenth floor of the office building, people were using all kinds of tools to crazily smash the windows from the inside.
The glass in the skyscraper was tempered, which under normal circumstances is very hard to break, but the people inside, with some mad burst of energy, managed to smash the window panes, causing the broken glass to fall to the ground and almost hit the pedestrians below.
"It looks like something serious has happened; people on that floor are breaking the windows to escape. Could there be a fire?"
"I don't see any smoke though, it doesn't seem like it's a fire."
"Weird, what are they doing then? Could it be some collective madness, or is the company brainwashing its employees?"
Many people discussed among themselves while quickly leaving the dangerous area.
A crowd of onlookers had gathered, all staring up at the fifteenth floor of the skyscraper where the incident was unfolding.
"Don't come closer, don't come closer... Help, someone save me!"
A female employee from the company was sitting at a window, crying in despair, her face full of terror.
She waved her hands toward the inside of the office, trying to drive something away, but at the same time, she desperately tried to move away from that layer, forcing half of her body out of the window, almost jumping out.
The female employee suddenly screamed hysterically and, summoning courage from who knows where, flipped over the window intending to jump out.
But before she could, she seemed to be grabbed by something, and her entire body was flung back inside instantaneously, disappearing from the sight of all the onlookers, with only a faint, agonizing scream echoing from the fifteenth floor.
It sent chills down the spines of the listeners.
Several younger and stronger male employees were frenziedly smashing the windows, attempting to use the broken glass to climb down to the floor below.
Nobody knew what exactly was happening inside that could drive people to such dangerous actions from such a high floor.
"Everyone is shouting for help; there must be something dreadful happening. Call the police!"
Some bystanders who felt something was amiss hurriedly called the police.
But more people were instead looking up in curiosity at the unfolding event.
There were even quite a few who took out their phones to broadcast the scene live.
At this time, Yang Jian was standing by the side of the road, eating an ice cream while frowning at the problematic floor.
The entire floor was as dark as if it had lost power, shrouded in a layer of dark green mist, not like smoke or fog, it was bizarre. Although one could still make out the fifteenth floor, anything inside covered by the dark green mist was reduced to a blurry outline.
"It's true, something really has happened. How did you know?"
Jiang Yan clutched his arm, not budging an inch, with an inexplicable panic in her voice.
"Some kind of connection between similar entities... I can't explain it, it's like a sixth sense in humans, only my sixth sense is just much stronger."
Yang Jian took another bite of his ice cream and continued watching.
"Although I don't know if the other floors will be affected, but not a single person on that fifteenth floor will survive, all are doomed. The ghost's Terror Level is very high; it can even affect the environment around it."
He looked up, continuing his observation.
Being able to affect the environment meant a Ghost Domain was forming.
If put on that international website, the Terror Level would be defined at least as a B.
Jiang Yan shivered, "Then why are we still watching? If it's none of our business, let's hurry and leave. Otherwise, if we get dragged into it, it'd be really troublesome."
"No, I must take a look, at least to clear up some facts about this supernatural event, or else if we bump into it next time by accident, won't we be completely in the dark, not knowing any information?"
Yang Jian continued eating his ice cream, "It rarely happens to me, so sometimes it feels quite nice to watch the excitement and not mind if it escalates."
Jiang Yan saw the despair and fear on the faces of the employees on the fifteenth floor and couldn't help but think of her own time in the shopping mall.
She felt no mood for spectating, only fear.
However, laymen watch for fun, experts watch for the routine.
Yang Jian slightly narrowed his eyes, silently musing, "This is a supernatural event happening in broad daylight. How many have occurred before in Dachang City? Those I've encountered, and those I haven't encountered... I can clearly feel that the number of supernatural events is increasing."
"The full-blown outbreak that Wang Xiaoming spoke of, one that can't be suppressed, is probably not far off."
"The peace and order are about to be shattered. The despair brought by the malicious spirits will likely soon envelop everyone's head."
Looking at the passersby, there wasn't a trace of fear or alertness on their faces, merely treating the incident as an accidental mishap, a spectacle to behold.
Who would have thought.
What they were witnessing was a real supernatural event.
"Preparations must be made immediately."
Yang Jian bit into his ice cream again, "Within the shortest time, everything must be arranged properly, and then... prepare for battle and survival."
He had a feeling that a storm was coming, and the end of the world was near.
Although everyone in the city was still oblivious, as a ghostbuster who regularly deals with supernatural events, he had already sensed something.
The storm was imminent.
The first to feel it wasn't the leaves being pelted by rain nor the thunder heard by animals, but the dragonflies flying low before the rain started.
At this moment, a desperate scream sounded.
A man could no longer bear the fear and jumped from the shattered window.
His body tumbled several times in mid-air before crashing to the ground with a thud.
From such a height, a person would instantaneously become a corpse, and moreover, a mangled one at that.
It was a gruesome sight to see.
Among the onlooking pedestrians, many screamed in fright, and the crowd started to stir, rushing backward to escape.
Yang Jian still stood unmoving by the roadside, continuing to eat his ice cream as he watched the scene.
Jiang Yan could no longer bear to watch and hid behind him.
"Jumping from the building will only hasten death, the only chance is to gather courage and run from the front while the ghost is busy killing others," Yang Jian stated calmly, "In a group of people, there are always a few lucky ones who slip through the net and are let go by the ghost."
It was difficult to execute.
A couple of brave souls charging head-on is useless, it has to be a group.
But these people have already experienced the terror of ghastly spirits, scared into despair and jumping off buildings. Those left are just waiting to die.
However, at that moment.
Several special vehicles came racing over from various roads, disregarding traffic rules and running red lights to get there.
"The support has arrived quite fast, and this could have been halted if it were a common accident, but unfortunately... this is a supernatural event," Yang Jian did not think it was helpful.
Even if a ghostbuster immediately intervened, the idea of saving people was pure fantasy.
Dealing with malicious spirits too hastily could end up costing a ghostbuster their life.