Something was already very wrong on the fifth floor.
The Supernatural Principles Laboratory, the Refinement Laboratory, the Instrument Room, the Biology Laboratory... some rooms still had lights on, while others had gone completely dark.
And the rooms whose lights had gone out had often undergone changes of varying degrees.
Paper talismans had appeared on some of the doors.
These talismans were nailed to the door panels with rusty iron nails, while the metal doors had long since become old, rotten wooden ones. Standing outside, they could faintly hear strange noises within.
It sounded a little like a cat clawing at the door.
But... was there a cat in that room?
They kept walking.
Some rooms had lost their doors entirely. A trail of water stains stretched across the floor into the passage opposite, disappearing into the darkness.
Clearly.
Something had come out of there earlier.
In other rooms.
Even the white-haired man and Bald Man could see figures moving inside, while Xu Yanxing could clearly sense that one was a thoroughly rotted corpse.
But there was something bizarre about this corpse.
Vines wrapped around its entire body. Its mouth, nostrils, and ears were stuffed with a woman's hair, while several tender plant shoots protruded from its blood-red eyes, as though rooted in the eyeballs.
The corpse hung from the ceiling.
Completely motionless.
"The institute is way too terrifying with the lights off," Bald Man couldn't help muttering. He felt as though he were walking along the edge of a cliff, one careless step away from plunging into a bottomless abyss and being smashed to pieces.
"What are you talking about?"
"Wasn't it terrifying before the lights went out?"
"Those White Coats are much scarier than these vicious ghosts."
The white-haired man chuckled.
Encountering an evil spirit meant death at worst.