Sean and Jamie, being the strongest, worked to restrain the violently struggling Quinn, while Tucker found some rope.
Quinn’s strength was astonishing. No one could understand how a girl with two broken legs and a neck injury could unleash such terrifying force.
It took the combined effort of four grown men to finally get her under control.
She laughed maniacally, her disheveled hair obscuring her face, but they could still vaguely see her eyes, radiating pure evil!
“You… and all of you will die here! Hahahaha! I’ll be waiting in the darkness for you to arrive after you’ve suffered! Hahahaha…”
Specs, who was tying her up, suddenly saw something squirming up from Quinn’s chest.
It seemed to have a life of its own, crawling up her throat.
The others glanced over and saw a sinister, dark eye staring out at them from her throat, through her wide-open mouth!
The moment their eyes met its gaze, a cold sweat instantly drenched their clothes!
Specs’s hands trembled, and the rope nearly slipped from his grasp.
“Tie her up, now!”
Jamie, having confronted the evil spirit directly before, was the most clear-headed. He shouted, snapping Specs out of his stunned fear!
Specs finally managed to finish the job. After that, Quinn seemed to calm down and fell into a deep sleep.
Everyone present was deeply shaken by the harrowing scene, especially Tucker and Specs, who had originally come just to put on a show and film a video.
They were so terrified they immediately confessed that they had no real ability to exorcise spirits or deal with ghosts.
Sean was already heartbroken over his daughter’s condition. Hearing that these two were frauds, he flew into a rage and tried to throw them out.
It was Elise who finally stopped him.
“These two… might still be able to help us…”
Elise clutched her injured shoulder, her face contorted in pain.
“Do you need to go to the hospital?”
Sean asked, but Elise firmly refused!
“We can’t delay any longer. That evil spirit has already taken half of Quinn’s soul and possessed her. If this continues, Quinn’s soul will be completely taken from her!”
“Some spirits in the darkness want to possess people to live again, but the one we’re facing is more evil. It wants to drag human souls into the darkness itself!”
Elise looked at the others.
“Later, I will use my powers to journey into that dark space. One of you needs to take notes, and the other should film…”
“I’ll keep watch around here.”
Jamie volunteered, getting up and heading outside.
During the struggle, there had been a small detail that everyone else had missed.
It made him unable to shake a certain suspicion, a thought that left him unsettled.
He needed to verify whether his guess was true right now.
After assigning tasks, Elise turned off the lights and lit candles.
She held Sean’s hand and the hand of the unconscious Quinn, then closed her eyes.
The candle flame on the central table flickered as if moved by an unfelt wind.
When Elise opened her eyes again, she found herself in a pitch-black, dark space…
Meanwhile, stepping outside, Jamie, his emotions in turmoil, dialed a number on his phone.
Just then, the elevator nearby chimed, signaling its arrival.
Ding…
As the elevator doors opened, he also heard the sound of his call being disconnected.
A figure stepped out of the elevator. Jamie turned and saw the familiar face. He opened his mouth to speak,
but was so overwhelmed he couldn’t find the words at first.
The eerie, terrifying atmosphere and the pervasive, bone-chilling cold seemed to dissipate with this person’s arrival.
So it was true! Earlier, at the critical moment, it was Su Fan who had intervened and helped him avert disaster!
Who else could the newcomer be but Su Fan?
He walked up to Jamie, skipping any pleasantries. His tone was as calm as ever, as if the crisis Jamie was facing was nothing significant.
“What’s the situation inside now?”
“Ms. Elise is attempting to use her powers to save Quinn,” Jamie answered truthfully.
“She said Quinn has already lost part of her soul. If this continues, her entire soul might be pulled into a dark, alternate space, never to return.”
At this point, Jamie grew uneasy.
“Su, do you think Ms. Elise will succeed this time?”
He had experienced ghosts killing before, but possession was a first for him.
Even he had been deeply shocked when he saw the eye in Quinn’s throat.
“She might have been able to, but now it seems unlikely,” Su Fan said, glancing at the door of room 414.
Through his special vision, he could see streams of black, evil energy continuously seeping out through the door cracks.
“Do you remember what I told you about ‘Sha’ before?”
“Yes.”
“Simply put, the basic condition for becoming a ‘Sha’ is to survive the three punishments from Heaven, Earth, and Man…”
Su Fan paused before continuing.
“That Oxygen Mask Evil Spirit, while it hasn’t undergone the punishments from Heaven and Earth, having the Ward Evil Talisman applied to it loosely counts as the ‘Man-inflicted’ punishment.”
“Because the talisman didn’t destroy it immediately, escaping this attempted eradication made the spirit stronger.”
“Now, that thing’s power is far greater than before. Relying on Elise alone might not be enough to overcome it.”
Hearing this, Jamie’s face paled.
He finally understood what Su Fan had meant by ‘endless trouble.’
So, a large reason the evil spirit was so ferocious now was because he had intervened but failed to complete the task properly!
“If I had just secured the Ward Evil Talisman properly and guarded it well, maybe this wouldn’t have…”
“Don’t be so quick to shoulder all the blame,” Su Fan interrupted. “While you are connected to this situation, it’s not specifically for that reason.”
Before coming here, Su Fan’s first stop had been room 514 upstairs.
Using his special vision, he had discovered many different clues, confirming the information revealed by his earlier divination.
The Ward Evil Talisman wasn’t ordinary paper; it wouldn’t simply fall off by wind before the spirit was destroyed. The only explanation was external interference.
The divination had indicated the involvement of a non-human, filthy entity.
In other words, the haunting wasn’t just the work of a single Oxygen Mask Evil Spirit!
“Come with me inside.”
Su Fan moved to push the door open.
“Su, does this mean you’ve changed your mind? You’re going to save her?”
Jamie followed behind him, surprised and hopeful.
“I knew you wouldn’t just stand by and let someone die in front of you.”
Su Fan chuckled softly and shook his head.
He wasn’t particularly concerned with Quinn’s survival.
His primary purpose in coming was to eradicate the Oxygen Mask Evil Spirit, which showed signs of evolving into a ‘Sha’.
Just like with Freddy.
Some people aren’t particularly useful alive, but their deaths can cause a lot of trouble.
Rather than saying Su Fan wanted to save people, it was more accurate to say he wanted to prevent them from becoming fodder for the evil spirit, strengthening it further.
