The Frozen Holy Water

She took out a palm-sized glass bottle and poured the liquid inside into a golden object shaped like a makeup case.

Seong-hun explained as he filmed, "This is holy water Charlotte personally brought from Myeongdong Cathedral."

"She'll pour it into the basin, and we'll place a camera in front of it to capture the ghost's presence."

Then she sprinkled the remaining liquid from the bottle across the surrounding floor, drawing a circle around the service desk.

As Charlotte moved, Wu Heng sensed a faint ripple of resistance aboard the ship. Some shoddy exorcism item seemed to have briefly interfered with the outside of this mysterious loop.

He immediately guessed it might be Ah-yeon and the others.

Using that fluctuation, he instantly located the exit of this space and took the opportunity to launch an attack in that direction.

Though it would be blocked by the space itself, it would still serve as a warning.

Bang!

A violent door-slamming sound came from behind the six of them. They jumped in fright, and Ji-hyun hunched her neck and asked anxiously, "What was that? Was that a door closing?"

"It sounded like the director's office," Charlotte judged from the direction.

Seong-hun and Seung-wook exchanged a glance, smiles lingering at the corners of their eyes. Then Seong-hun said calmly, "Let's go take a look at the director's office."

The moment he finished speaking, there came another pop.

On the service desk, the golden box containing the holy water suddenly burst, splashing water everywhere.

More than half the holy water sprayed across the counter, mixing with the thick dust and forming tiny beads of mud.

The water remaining inside the box had actually frozen together, forming a snowflake-shaped sheet of ice about the size of a ping-pong ball.

The layer of ice was thin as