181: Chapter 181 The Allure of Large Caliber

He pushed open the door of the hospital's first floor.

A strong smell of formalin mixed with a moldy stench wafted over.

Although it was ten in the morning outside and the sun was shining brightly, it felt like another world inside this building.

After passing through those dust-covered glass windows, the light seemed to be swallowed by some kind of viscous darkness.

The depths of the corridor were like a wide-open black hole waiting for its prey.

Sadako's footsteps stopped immediately. "It's too dark..." Sadako swallowed, her voice carrying a clear hint of retreat, "How about we go back first? We aren't well-prepared today; let's call more people and come back during the day tomorrow?"

Before Qin Ming could speak, Emma, who had been chewing bubblegum beside him, suddenly reached out and grabbed his sleeve.

"Onii-chan~~~~" Emma looked up, her big blue eyes filled with innocence and grievance, her voice so sweet it could drip honey, "It's too dark, Emma can't see the way."

Qin Ming looked down at this little angel acting weak and couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"I give up on you." Qin Ming raised his right hand and casually snapped his fingers.

Snap.

The crisp sound of the finger snap echoed through the empty and silent hospital lobby.

In the next second, an extremely brilliant golden physical halo emerged from behind Qin Ming's head without warning.

The light swept through the entire lobby like a tsunami.

The viscous shadows that had been lurking in the corners, on the ceiling, and on the abandoned benches vanished instantly with a "chi-chi" sizzling sound upon contact with the Holy Light, like snow doused in concentrated sulfuric acid.

This haunted building, which hadn't seen the light of day for years, was forcibly illuminated brighter than the main road outside.

Sadako, who had been in an extremely tense state, couldn't help but tremble the moment she was enveloped by the Holy Light.

The chill that had haunted her bones for years was completely dispelled at this moment.

An extremely reassuring warmth, as if returning to the safest harbor, flowed through her entire body.

"Such a warm feeling..." Sadako subconsciously took half a step closer to Qin Ming and murmured to herself.

At the same time she was feeling emotional.

(Sadako back home: ★☆@#$%^&*_+)

"Let's go." Qin Ming walked deep into the corridor with his hands in his pockets, bearing that blindingly bright holy light halo.

The three of them followed the dilapidated stairs to the second floor.

As soon as they stepped onto the second-floor corridor.

"Ring, ring, ring—"

That extremely eerie music box ringtone rang out without warning at the end of the deathly silent corridor.

It was the very "Death's Incoming Melody" Sadako had received last night.

Emma spat out her bubblegum and jogged to the front.

The sound was coming from a room at the very end of the corridor.

A few precarious words hung on the doorplate: Dissection Room.

Bang!

Qin Ming kicked the heavy iron door flying inward; the Dissection Room was filled with a nauseating stench of rot.

In the center of the rusted operating table lay the carcass of a massive crow. The crow was highly decomposed, its black feathers matted with foul-smelling mucus.

Its chest cavity had been violently ripped open, and the internal organs inside had turned black.

And an old-fashioned black flip phone was wedged right into the crow's rotting entrails.

The screen's eerie green light flickered amidst the flesh; that death-heralding ringtone was coming from this blood-stained phone.

The scene was extremely eerie and disgusting.

"Is this it?" Sadako covered her nose and mouth, her stomach churning, as she asked while holding back her nausea.

"This is just a signal relay station." Qin Ming glanced at the phone.

Qin Ming turned his head, his gaze locking onto the room next door, separated from the Dissection Room by a single wall.

He strode over and pushed open the half-ajar door.

The stench in this room was ten times stronger than in the Dissection Room.

Rows of rusted high iron cabinets stood against the wall; the door of one cabinet was half-open, with a large black plastic bag stuffed inside.

The plastic bag had been torn open.

A shriveled, highly decomposed female corpse was curled up in the cabinet in an extremely distorted posture.

That was Mimeko's mother, Marie Mizunuma.

The woman who had long ignored her eldest daughter, allowed the tragedy to happen, and finally died in despair in this abandoned hospital.

In Marie's skeletal hand, she tightly gripped a bright red flip phone.

This phone wasn't ringing, but cold water droplets were constantly seeping from its surface, as if it had just been fished out of a deep well.

"Are all the death calls coming from this phone?" Sadako looked at the red phone, her voice trembling.

The moment Sadako finished her sentence.

There was a crisp "crack," and then the temperature in the storage room plummeted at an unreasonable speed.

"Watch out above," Qin Ming said, looking up coldly.

Drip.

A drop of murky water with a strong smell of rotting corpses dripped onto the floor by Sadako's feet.

Sadako stiffly raised her head.

In the shadows of the ceiling, a small figure in a tattered white dress was clinging upside down to the ceiling like a spider, her limbs contorted.

She had wet black hair that almost reached the floor.

Mimeko.

The moment Sadako saw her clearly, Mimeko's neck suddenly let out a tooth-aching "ka-ka" sound at an extremely anti-human angle, turning her face around.

In that instant, Sadako covered her mouth and let out an extremely shrill, suppressed scream.

Where the facial features should have been on Mimeko's face, there were nothing but dense, finger-sized black holes!

These black holes were bottomless, covering her entire pale face like a honeycomb.

At this moment, murky blood and foul-smelling foam were oozing out of every single hole.

This extreme trypophobia and visual impact were enough to make any ordinary person have a mental breakdown on the spot.

Emma grinned and instead took a step forward against the suffocating resentment overhead.

Her right hand reached behind her, and an extremely wild-looking revolver with an illogically thick barrel appeared in her hand—azure rose.

Emma held the gun with both hands, the muzzle aimed directly at the face full of black holes on the ceiling.

Bang—!!!

The deafening gunshot exploded in the small storage room.

A large-caliber bullet imbued with intense magical flames and Holy Light attributes blasted out like a miniature cruise missile.

Mimeko didn't even have time to react.

The bullet accurately slammed into the left side of her body.

Boom!

A large hole was blown right through the concrete on the ceiling.

Half of Mimeko's shoulder along with her left arm were blown to bits in the explosion mixed with Holy Light.

The vengeful spirit's aura, which had been extremely arrogant just moments ago and tried to suppress Qin Ming's halo, collapsed instantly like a popped balloon under this shot.

"Iyada! Tasukete!"

With a miserable, sharp scream filled with extreme terror, Mimeko's mangled body bounced off the ceiling and scrambled into the darkness deep in the corridor through a damaged ventilation duct.

As an A-rank vengeful spirit who had cast a network-based killing curse across all of Japan, she chose to flee in panic within five seconds of appearing.

Emma was trembling all over with excitement.

She performed an extremely beautiful gun spin with one hand, wisps of white smoke still drifting from the barrel.

"Ira~sshaimase!"

Emma let out a string of laughter that was as sweet as silver bells, yet sounded hysterical due to her extreme bloodlust.

Carrying the exaggeratedly large-caliber azure rose, she kicked aside a meddling medical cabinet and rushed over without hesitation with extremely cheerful little steps.

"Brother, Sister Sadako, wait here for a moment! Emma will be right back!"

From the end of the dark corridor, Mimeko's even more miserable screams and continuous booming gunshots were immediately heard.

Qin Ming stood in place, casually wiping a bit of dust off his cuff and shaking his head helplessly.

"Don't chase too far," Qin Ming called out into the darkness.

Sadako leaned against the wall, her legs completely weak. She stared blankly at the flashes of gunfire continuously lighting up the depths of the corridor, her brain completely short-circuiting.

Was exorcism really such a simple and violent affair?