Hospitals always felt cold. That was because the environment in such special places needed to be kept at a lower temperature to prevent bacteria from breeding. But in many people's eyes, that was the so-called eerie chill.
Perhaps it was psychological. After all, hospitals were places where life and death, meetings and partings, played out every day. To people with more straightforward beliefs about life and death, such a place naturally had heavy yin energy. No one knew how many people had passed through any given ward, nor how many corpses had once been kept in the morgue below...
Gu Mo walked down the hospital corridor, breathing in the scent of disinfectant and carefully sensing the changes in the aura throughout the area. His gaze swept rapidly over the hallway, and whenever he passed a ward, he casually cast a glance inside.
A Guardian Spirit's selection was not limited to the traits listed on the attribute page. There were also hidden effects that had not been detailed, such as Nine-Tails' Divine Power to beguile people's hearts.
Through his Guardian Spirit, he possessed Spirit Vision, enough to see many more things—from the Soul Spirits of the dead to the Lingering Regrets left behind by powerful emotions. He could see or hear all of them...
The former went without saying. The latter, at its core, was simply thoughts and obsessions left behind by intense emotions before death. They often remained condensed rather than dispersing, gathering upon objects the deceased had last touched in life, and could occasionally be triggered by the heightened spiritual sensitivity of the living.
During the Sengoku Period, Gu Mo had encountered them several times, usually upon corpses or weapons on battlefields. Some were left by humans, while others were left by monsters.
"There is deathly energy and yin