Having observed everything for a brief moment, Gloria finally let out the breath she was holding and Marcus: “Looks like we’re safe for now. But we should still be very careful and not do anything rash.”

  “I agree.” Marodded, theured to the rest of the group to e forward: “Shh - be careful, watch your steps!”

  The rest of the team came into the open spa the other side of the tunnel. It was a crest-shaped hall, the tallest part of which was around three storeys high. On the far side of the hall was a three-storey high wall entirely made of slightly stained gss, through which they could see the dim, flickering street lights and parking lots outside. They had already reached the ground level, which meant they were almost out of the entire building. Should they proceed forward, they would very likely end up in the back of the datater building.

  “What are those?” Kevin gasped as he saw the floating gray spirits.

  “Memories, spirits, long fotten soul fragments.” Tae Kuo narrowed his eyes: “At least - that’s what I’m assuming - I’ve seen things like this a few times in my career. But his many. But I guess it’s expected from this pce.”

  “Are they dangerous?” Keryn asked, ready to shield the civilians should anything out of the ordinary happen.

  “No - unless under very specific circumstances.” Tae Kuo shook his head: “Still - we should watch our steps. Usually when they appear, it means something ‘stimuting’ is near - and by that I mean things that stir up the occurrence of the paranormal. But - ”

  “But what?” Gloria could not help but begin to worry.

  “Nothing much, just - I wouldn’t expect this kind of ‘weak’ spirits to actually appear here.” Tae Kuo frowned as he followed Marcus and Gloria’s lead: “They are mostly threats to only the extremely mentally weak, uhy or those who are on the verge of death. Even a normal ghost could easily devour them. Why would they appear now all of a sudden …”

  Before any of them could say or ask anything, a light e arch appeared in the air, close to the sloped ceiling. Mick almost let out a scream before he covered his own mouth. Marcus, Gloria and Keryn immediately looked around, before log their eyes on the e arch.

  It was e instead of red, and had a visible fire symbol at the top. But unmistakably, it had the exact same shape as a Blood Rainbow.

  “Get ready to run. If there’s even a sight of the un, run!” Marcus growled these words.

  The team hasteheir steps while still trying their best to be as light on their feet as possible. Marcus and Gloria kept their eyes on the arch, even though they were close to having expended all of their Qi, they still o be ready to fight.

  Gray fog appeared and began to grow dense oside. More fights could be waiting for the team outside.

  The spirits in the hall tinued floating aimlessly around for only a brief moment, before their attention was turo the e arch. The gentle light radiating from the arch lit up their simple faces with either only oion or ion at all. All smiling and eyes narrowed, they formed several lines and began going into the arch.

  Before the eyes of everyone in the group, spirit after spirit went into the gate and turned into smoke and ashes in mere moments.

  “Woah.” Marcus and Kevin gasped lightly at the same time.

  “That’s - that’s a good sign, right?” Mick asked, scratg his jaws and his face.

  “A really good sign, for them at least.” Tae Kuo let out a sigh of relief: “Whatever that arch is, if it could relieve these torn, zombie-like spirits of their suffering, who say it’s not? ”

  “But - this is still unnatural right? ” Mick took a few deep breaths before catg up to Marcus, eager to just rush to the gss door and run out. “I don’t think that’s how people generally - go? That’s what I was thinking - ”

  “True. It’s just - it’s like pollution handling.” Tae Kued: “Something must have gone wrong for them to appear in the first pce.”

  “No matter. We should head out.” Keryn shook her head and urged: “Everyone? Move! Move!”

  “What the - ” Marcus almost cursed as he pushed open the gss door.

  The fog oside of the building - it was irely fog, but also the same kind of spirits that were roaming around ihe hall. And above them in the sky, two more e arches maed, and began taking the spirits in.

  “The reset - I think it’s successful. I think - ” Marcus stammered.

  Streams of bck smoke broke through the crete parking lot floor and shot up into the sky, inside of which were faces, limbs and bodies. All of the figures were formed by the same kind of dark smoke.