“What the - ” Gloria walked over, tore up a piece of her sleeve, covered her fingers with it to push the wooden pieces around - they were two pieces of the same carving. When put together they would bee a crude carving of a round shield - the main surface of which had the relief sculptures of a mother and daughter - the Mother and Daughter Butchers, before they met their terrible fate. On the back of the wooden shield were some are symbols. Marcus could not read it, and judging from the looks of Tae Kuo, Gloria and Kevin, they didn’t know how to read them either.

  “Let’s go.” Marcus took a deep breath and shook his head: “I have a bad feeling about this - let’s find a pd rest for a bit before we tinue.”

  “Agreed.” Gloria hesitated for a bit, then finally pushed down the urge to pick the carving pieces up - the st time she did it to the one inside of the cat granny, she fell into a trah illusions without any means of fighting back. She survived that, but it would be much more dangerous if she did that again right now: “Let’s go.”

  “Hey, you alright?” Kevin was still pale and weak from the little girl’s touch, but he still wao che Keryn, who expended a lot of her Qi in that fight and used the o talisman she had on her.

  “I’m fine. I’m fine.” Keryn waved her hands, but still not refusing Kevin’s help: “Damn - first time fighting - I guess it’s sed time fighting a legend.”

  “Oh? What’s the first time?” Kevin chuckled and pushed his hardest in helping Keryn forward.

  “First time would be fighting that - that rotten woman who might ht not be Big Sister Zhu.” Keryn shook her head: “Damn - I still o talk to Brian about this, hope he’s safe in all of this mess of a situation.”

  “Here.” Kevin handed a talisman to Keryn: “You don’t have anymore, right?”

  “But - ” Keryated for a moment, then decided to accept and put it inside of her inner jacket: “If something happens, stay behind me or Marcus, alright? How are you feeling? ”

  “Like crap, to be ho.” Kevin hissed as he pulled a muscle in his bad waist: “Have you ever felt ice cold fihat make you depressed AND delusional at the same time? That was it.”

  “I - I kinda feel that.” Keryn nodded and sighed: “This is - truly disgraceful - ”

  “Who made them?” Mick asked while looking around: “Who - who the hell could have possibly made them? ”

  “Yeah I wanna know as well.” Tae Kuo shook his head: “They’re obviously people running everything here - ”

  The sound of waterdrops came from the floor below them as they made a turn. All of them instantly lowered their bodies and stuck to the wall. After what just happened, everyone was high-strung.

  Marcus stuck his head out from the er to take a quick look. For o was exactly what it sounded like: water dropping on the ground. The water came from the ceiling at a er below them. O a time, clear water dropped from a stained mark onto the ground, making a clear and unmissable sound.

  “It’s just water.” Marcus let out a breath of relief.

  “Any particur rhythm to it?” Mick asked, almost out of newfound instinct.

  “No - it’s just water dripping from the floor above.” Marcus shook his head.

  “Hey - weird, we don’t have water leak from the floor above.” Keryn raised her voice.

  Everyo silent for a moment, before Kevin busted out: “We should head dow away from it. Water in a fug haunted enviro, that’s no good now matter how you look at it.”

  No one objected to this, so they simply sped up and rushed downstairs. The water tio drop from behind them, still nothing happened. Without hindrahey went down another flight of stairs. But here again, they entered another er below them, with water dripping down the same position from the ceiling.

  “Wait - wait wait wait!” Gloria raised her voice as well as her right arm slightly: “Something’s nht.”

  “Yeah - I think we’re back to the same pce.” Kevin nodded.

  Marcus thought for a moment, then trated a bit of his Qi on his right index and middle fingers and shot a stream of Qi at the wall he er, leaving a small dent on it. “Alright, let’s go.”

  The group went down another floor, finally ing to another er where the er ceiling was leaking water, and on the wall beside them, they saw the same dent Marcus left.

  “Holy fug shit.” Tae Kuo sighed.

  Kevin and Mick turo the other dire - a dire they did not sider for even one moment - the door in front of them out of the staircase. It was a door with a long transparent gss window pced vertically beside the handrail. Yet, even though the window was transparent, behind it they could only see a s of darkness.

  “Okay. We’re collective in the Ghost’s Labyrinth.” Tae Kuo wiped his forehead: “And - okay, everyone, remember this, stick together, but also see and remember clearly who’s o you.”

  “Yes. And if possible, remember clearly what they look like.” Kevin gritted his teeth: “Get this - the more we go down, always check who’s around you, okay? Remember who’s o you and what they look like.”

  “Alright.” “Okay.” Marcus and Gloria answered at the same time.

  Everyone’s sight turo Keryn - she was the only one who had not responded.