Something was wrong with this room, and the people inside it.
That was Luo Xian's intuition, the first powerful premonition that arose after she witnessed the Cheongsam Woman's bizarre state.
Of course Room 1001 was supposed to contain a ghost, and of course it would attack the living. But this opening move fell outside the usual rules.
Luo Xian did not know the details of what had happened during the Fifth Manager Mission, but according to what she had heard, Old Madam Hu did not kill people directly.
During treatment, she would cast the living into the origins of evil spirits and use those spirits to kill them.
There was nothing inherently wrong with the incense-burning step. Even the Cheongsam Woman melting was not a problem. The greatest anomaly was the white smoke turning red.
According to Gu Xingjian, Old Madam Hu's method of treating and killing patients consisted of four steps—Lure, Recognition, Extermination, and Awakening.
Lure meant drawing the ghost to her, which corresponded to Luo Xian coming to her door. Next came Recognition, which involved lighting an Incense Stick. If the white smoke turned red around someone, it meant the ghost was inside that person.
What the Cheongsam Woman had just done was clearly the Recognition step.
But the problem was that the white smoke had turned entirely red before it even enveloped Luo Xian.
It was as though... before this tool for curing illness and detecting evil could reach Luo Xian, it had already sensed an evil spirit near the Cheongsam Woman and Old Madam Hu.
And it had been contaminated on a massive scale, almost as though something had swallowed it whole, turning it completely red and filling all of Room 1001.
This was undoubtedly an extreme reaction.
And what had sent Luo Xian fleeing in