“What is this? Fuck - what is this?” Gyuu Park coughed and cursed wheered the stairwell.

  “What is what?” Tae Kuo asked, fused.

  “You don’t see it? The fug lines and - hair like shit everywhere!” Gyuu Park poi the ceiling and the handrails. After not getting a response from the Sifu, he turo Gloria, who was staring at him in fusion as well. “Fug hell - use your Qi?”

  “... I’ve been using it since we came in. But I don’t see anything like that.” Gloria shook her head with a frown on her face: “But - I believe you, there’s probably some kind of resonance. So you lead the way.”

  “Okay. Follow me, keep your eyes sharp!” Gyuu Park rushed past Gloria and up the stairwell.

  They ran up two levels. The air became more chilly, the smells that were assaulting their senses were being more foul and stale. It was as if the air itself had beore dense and more dened with additional, unpleasant moisture. Gyuu Park kept looking around, and shifting his position as if he was trying to dodge certain hazards. Gloria still could not tell what it was that Gyuu Park saw but she couldn’t, but she followed his a. Same did Tae Kuo.

  “Yeeeeeee - Ahahahahahaha - ” A gurgling, chilling ugh came from somewhere above, even though the three were ready for something abnormal, they still felt a wave of horror brushing through their bodies.

  “Go! Go!” Gloria spoke through her teeth, both herself aeammates.

  Gyuu Park tinued leading the way, and before long they got to the 4th floor, with a side door eg to a ptform outside, eg to another building.

  They were about to go up, but the cry of a small child, or maybe even an infant came through the side door.

  Gyuu Park looked back at the door, seemingly quite fused.

  “Let me go and have a look.” Gloria pulled out a handful of the blessed rid a bottle of blessed water, then said to the two men: “You go and drop the things off. Fier that.”

  “Got it.” Gyuu Park and Tae Kuo hen proceeded upstairs. The apartment was just one more floor up, and it would not take much time for them to do so.

  “Ms. Zi! Sue! Open up!” Gyuu Park banged on the door: “Please! Let us drop off a few things and go help Gloria!”

  “Where’s Gloria?” Luoshan Zi’s voice came from behind the door, cold and calm.

  “Fuck - fuck! She’s the oo answer.” Tae Kuo banged his fist on the wall: “Ask us something else! Ask us something only we know! We’ve gotta help Gloria. NOW!”

  “Okay - ” Luoshan Zi hesitated for a brief moment: “I’ll bring someone.”

  “Quick, please!” Gyuu Park yelled.

  “Okay! What - what is the number of emergency reparations team members we found together? The number we found that doesn’t add up? ” Sue’s voice came instead of Luoshan Zi’s.

  “Seven! The number is seven!” Gyuu Park immediately responded after a short moment.

  “Where the hell is she!?” The door swung open, with Luoshan Zi holding a dle in her hand and Sue beside her.

  “Hard to expin. But here’s some blessed rice, blessed water, some dles and - and ashes from an inse burner. Do you know how to use them?” Gyuu Park threw the bags he was carrying into the room.

  “What? Inse ashes? ” Luoshan Zi frowned.

  “Use it the same way as wok bottom ashes! Mix it with some grease and rub it on yourself!” Tae Kuo also threw his bags down and was ready to leave: “We o go now. Keep the doors locked!”

  Gloria felt a dry tingliion in her nostrils and throat wheepped onto the ptform outside. Though there was no smoke, smog or dust in the air, just the dark particles, the true nature of which she had no idea.

  This was not a simple ptform, there were several outlets as for what she could only assume were from air ditioners, a small water tower, a giant seemingly unused satellite dish and a metal box that looked like a switch box.

  She stepped onto the dirty ground, littered with stains from the rain and garbage tossed onto it from higher levels. Another cry came, and Gloria immediately lowered her body and lightened her footsteps, while infusing the ri her hand with her Qi. She wao make sure that if there was anything, she wao be able to strike first.

  Oep, two steps, three steps. On the fourth, she saw a shadow croug on the ground behind the crete base of the water tower. It looked indeed like an old woman, with boney arms, fingers, ankles and a full head of long hair.

  Gloria took one more step forward. Although she was not able to see whatever Gyuu Park saw earlier, she could still clearly see the dark tendrils made of dark particles growing from the woman’s back, and the grim, almost pe and tar-like dark aura around her.

  Just when Gloria was about to throw the blessed water and rice at the old woman, the old woman’s body twitched, and then a familiar voice spoke: “Please! Help! Someoook my son! Someoook my son!”

  Chills ran down Gloria’s spine, and a really unpleasant thought arose in her mind. Without thinking for another sed, she lu the old woman and threw her entire handful of blessed rid a whole bottle of blessed water at her.

  The old woman turo Gloria, her blurry, glowing eyes open wide and revealed her faenuating from her upper jaw. Gloria expected a scream, but all she heard was a hiss. She got a good look at the old woman’s face - a jaundiced, slightly wrinkly oh scratches on both sides of her mouth like whiskers of an actual cat, before the figure of the old womaed and turo a pool of dark tar on the ground.

  “Fuck.” Glasped, immediately turning around and running towards the entrance, just in time to see that Gyuu Park and Tae Kuo here to help her. “Go back! Go back!”

  “What?” Tae Kuo and Gyuu Park asked. The door smmed shut behind them.

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