Chapter 220 - This King You Forgot

It was too late for the greater ghost to realize that the gun was capable of dispersing it. The ghost vanished, and Song Qixi continued to aim as he walked down the stairs. "It seemed like the first floor had been compromised. Else, there shouldn't be any entities here."

"Damn, doesn't that mean a King could be down there?" Sun Yinxie grimaced as he watched the sides. He just glanced at the sergeant in front. "Hey, hey, are we still proceeding even if there's a King down there?"

"It's just a King. As long as Hades is outside, we have no problem." Qiao Ni frowned at the man. This cowardly man was the wastrel son of the director, and probably the only one unmarried and had no company of his own. The Sun family was pretty powerful, comparable to other big families connected to the Li family. That was why the Qiao family was working with them. It's just that this son was… disappointing.

Sun Yinxie wore a long face and just s.u.c.k.e.d it up with the higher-ups. He was so used to the company of other soldiers that he's getting pissed by these people. Just a King? Why didn't she ask him how many people died because of just a King? Twitch. He aimed high at the steps leading to the higher flight. A hand was reaching out, and a ghost was trying to slip through the railing to fall on them.

A controlled pull on the trigger shot a single at the ghost that vanished with a low howl. Sun Yinxie then went back to watching both directions. He kept quiet as he was still annoyed. As for Fan Meiling, she was surprised. She just thought that Sun Yinxie joined the elite squad for fun and just earned a ticket through his father. However, it was starting to look like her waste of a boyfriend really was a trained soldier.

"A King does seem to be down here..." Song Qixi had entered the first hidden floor since he had clearance for it, but he was shocked to find the destruction there was. Blood was everywhere, and body parts were actually on the floor. It seemed that whoever had stayed here had been eaten. "Be careful..."

"Sergeant, wait..." Qiao Ni ran to the front and prepared talismans on her hands. She decided to cover the front side as the King might attack upfront. "The containment rooms are all broken. All the feed ghosts had escaped. I don't think the seal had been breached yet. Whoever did this… is still here with us."

"How annoying." Song Qixi brought his hand down when Qiao Ni ran to the front. With a glance, Sun Yinxie had to pause walking and let Fan Meiling pass him by before checking the back. The sergeant didn't really have much qualm if Sun Yinxie took the back. He was the one screening and training these elite squad people after all, and he knew their standard. He just hoped Sun Yinxie would be less talkative… like everyone else.

The group that crossed three floors in an hour was suddenly delayed by the matter. It seemed that the breaking of the maze formation had caused the doctors and nurses on this floor to panic—even the spirits must have grown agitated. That in itself could have turned this floor into a slaughterhouse.

Electricity seemed to have been cut off from this part of the hall by the system. That was at the first sign of electrical fire. Seeing that the locks had been destroyed and panels were broken, there was no reason for them to doubt the darkness on the floor.

However, they actually saw a rolling bed in the middle of the hallway. Blood was drizzled on the sheets and had pooled on the floor. It was also askew as if the one holding it was attacked. Qiao Ni waved her hand around it to feel any presence in it, but it was just a dead body. 

It was Song Qixi who checked the person inside, and his eyes narrowed. To this, Qiao Ni asked: "What's wrong?"

"Everyone here had been eaten, but this body was left completely. The seals are also intact. Whoever attacked them didn't want this body… or could have been protecting this body." Song Qixi flicked his gaze at Qiao Ni. "Did you exorcise that girl I had you extracted? That's a transcending greater ghost so it should be a problem to you."

"...Dr. Fan wanted to use it and see if the same phenomenon would happen." Qiao Ni glanced at Fan Meiling. "The ghost in the walls had another entity possessing him, and severing them from each other had impacts on the stronger ghost's control and form. She wanted to duplicate the results so she wanted us to keep the girl."

Song Qixi turned to the doctor that was with them, not even paying attention to him as she continued to check live updates of her ongoing project. "That girl is a servant. You do realize that her power will always be supplemented by the demon child."

After he finished talking, it was the only time when Fan Meiling glanced at Song Qixi. Her gaze and hands remained on her tablet after. "That ghost hasn't connected with its master for a long while and while in this floor. There shouldn't have been a problem. If anything happened to it, then it must be a mishap on the part of the handlers. Let's hurry, she's almost ready."

"We're not reaching that place with this King you forgot to tend to." Song Qixi only huffed as he gave Qiao Ni the cue to start walking again. They pushed the rolling bed to the side and walked past it. When it was Sun Yinxie's turn, he used his rifle to raise the blanket and saw a rather familiar face.

"Shit. Nurse Yun's dead? Wouldn't Xiaodan be furious?" Sun Yinxie remembered that Guangru vowed that nothing would happen to that nurse, and he was staring at the nurse's body. He kind of liked the guy for not being so stupid and overbearing so he used his hand and flattened the blanket to cover the body properly.

Song Qixi had to turn and look since Sun Yinxie was a little distracted. Well, he wouldn't blame the soldier for shuddering. Most of them actually knew by now that Yun He was close to Liu Xiaodan. The sergeant waited for Sun Yinxie to catch up with them before turning to the front again. "The demon child sure is."

A shudder came as a response. Sun Yinxie had to adjust his helmet. "Guangru probably isn't happy. Hey, could he be the one who broke the maze formation himself? I mean that thing is very powerful, right? Erm, what happened to Nurse Yun, though? How did he die?"

"Hm?" Song Qixi twitched, but it was Qiao Ni who answered the soldier with a snort. "I don't know. Maybe you should ask someone who had a hole in his forehead if he's going to die because of that."

"Huh? There's no hole in his forehead."