Gyuu Park closed the door behind him, took a deep breath, then headed out of this simple and dirty looking apartment plex.
If he could help it, he would not let his frie a p such a dirty, rundown spot residing in one of the worst areas around the district, with visibly bad Feng Shui. But he could not - and it was the first time he ever came down here.
The docks area was known to be a bad pce during the night, for almost all illegal trades were being ducted there after su. But due to historical reasons, it was also one of the bigger areas for street vendors to operate during the day and thus it remained crowded and somewhat expensive. Both the city and the unity collective had tried some campaigns before to reform the area, it up and maybe rebuild certain parts, yet none was able to maintain steam past three months. One of the obvious reasons was that the local gangs had quite a bit of influend sway in this area to halt and sabotage any outsider attempts at ging anything in the area. And the other obvious reason was that the area was quite a managerial nightmare in itself, and any proposed ge o gh hundreds of stakeholders and almost all of them require different means of unication. This artially thanks to the South Eastern District’s separate norms of operation from that of the city’s.
The streets were empty, and Gyuu Park did not need ara effort to not be seen or noticed. Before long, he reached the outskirts of the docks area, just half a block away from the entrance.
The smell of salt and water, rotten weeds and blood could easily make a normal person unfortable. But Gyuu Park just used his Qi to block off the foul smell. At the same time, he used his personal Qi tricks as well as Spirit tricks to gauze upon the air as well as the aura surrounding the docks area.
Dark clouds, dark tendrils made of tiny particles, faint faces of painful, resentful and hateful emotions floated in the air, remaining in a stant state of appearing, disappearing and reappearing at a different spot.
“Tsk.” Gyuu Park shook his head. This was not a good sign - even if he dared not use any tricks of peeking into the flow of Qiyun right now, it would be foolish to even overlook such a btant sign of manipution and poisoning. Even for a pce that saw dead bodies on a regur basis, this kind of foul, corrupting energy would serve no one in this area any good.
With this in mind. Gyuu Park sat down in a er and pushed his Qi to circute faster and stronger all over his body to protect himself and to be always ready for anything ued. With a talisman made with red ink on a piece of purple paper tucked in his chest pocket, he snuto the area through a waist high metal fence.
Just like Gloria mentiohere were bodies of what looked like local gang members on the ground. And judging from their states, they all seemed to be the doings of paranormal entities, and differeies as well - for some of them seemed to be ripped apart from the inside, some of them seemed to have died to extreme fear and horror, and some of them seemed to have died from severe hypothermia or even frozen to death. And there were of course, more of them whose causes of death were not easy to tell just by their apperances.
There was one body he edge of the entrance, who though had marks of paranormal entities all over the skin, generally remained unspoiled. Gyuu Park came in closer, and saw that this dead man seemed to have some gaed tattoos on his arms, and there were a few pretty serious puncture wounds on his upper body. From the bed vein marks around these wounds, he seemed to have been poisoned before his death.
The wind was strong and chilling in this area, yet it did not blow the smell or the lingering dark particles away. Gyuu Park looked around, some of the warehouses had colpsed, some were severely damaged, and the ohey snuto st time to check the Qiyun flow of this area seemed to be mostly unscathed, including the shiny new locks.
Gyuu Park took out a small wooden pass from his inner jacket pocket and id it ft on his hand, while letting the moonlight fall on the upper surface. With the flow of his Qi into it, the wooden needle at the ter bounced up, shaking and creaking. The moment, it started slowly spinning instead of pointing to any particur dire.
“Fuck.” Gyuu Park put the wooden pass bad took out a small mirror with an octagon wooden frame. A bagua mirror, a more powerful artifact almost anyone could use to bat the paranormal or even influence Feng Shui. He did not want to stay for a moment longer, but he was here already, and he o get a closer and clearer look.
From his other jacket pocket, he took out a very short but retively thicker inse stick made with some kind e material instead of the usual yellow with a gray hue. This was somethi from her than the elders at Kshiti Temple - a gift when he became the official clergyman of the Fragrant Chrysanthemum Temple. It recious and expensive gift, also a dangerous one.
Gyuu Park pced his left middle finger oump of the inse stick, igniting it with his Qi and a small droplet of his blood. Large amount of smoke disproportioo the size of the inse stick rose. In just a few seds, the smoke flowed around in the area, taking shapes of humans, parts of not yet fully colpsed warehouses and even some unhuman-looking creatures aies
“Hang in there!” A blob of smoke in the shape of a human man was holding a faint shadow in his arms, while small streams of glowing red energy went from his palm to the shadow in his arms.
“Back off.” In the blink of ahe same smoke ged position slightly and seemed to be speaking to a few other shadows made of smoke.
While the smoke was repying what happened here in this area in quick motion. Sweat started f in Gyuu Park’s face. There were some other visions being ied into his mind as well, expected effects of this inse stick. For araihe pain aal strain stemming from the e to this inse stick alone would cause them to faint.
Screaming voices, tens, hundreds and even thousands of them, started ing up from the depths of the water around the ptform. The water was bubbling, more and more, as if something was ing rapidly closer to the surface.
