A storm was brewing.
In all the years of the Top Ten Branches' existence, there had never been such a vicious ghost tide invasion.
It had become an exceedingly clear signal.
Tianhai Hotel's seemingly unrivaled control over ghosts was no longer what it had once been.
But to humans, it was still that evil god which ruled over life and death.
Once it issued an order, none dared disobey.
Huhai City, first floor of Branch No. 10.
As a flash of white light erupted, it shattered a vast number of blue-green monstrous infants and awakened the frozen world.
As the shrill cries of the ghost tide rang out, the managers of the Second, Fifth, Eighth, and Tenth Branches gathered in one place.
When Su Chenghe, Li Guanqi, and Huangfu Jiajia arrived and saw the scene before them, they could not help but suck in a cold breath.
The bluish-gray ghost infants were like a smashed ant nest. They were tiny and malformed, yet piled atop one another in layer after layer.
As far as the eye could see, there was almost no open ground to step on. They had occupied it all.
Of the original twenty-odd employees of Branch No. 10, more than half had already died. Only seven or eight were still struggling to hold on.
The branch's walls, floors, and even its ceiling were covered in blood.
That ancient, solemn hotel had long lost its former appearance and become a living hell.
At the same time, nearly fifty employees from the other branches appeared at various locations throughout Branch No. 10.
The moment those reinforcements arrived, they were swallowed by the wave-like ghost tide.
None of them had expected the ghost disaster at Branch No. 10 to have spread to such a scale.
They could not deal with