"Fuck! I see it!"
Someone in the livestream posted a terrified comment, but most of the viewers remained confused.
To them, the camera only showed Celia and Sergio who entered. They couldn't see the third figure, but Mushy could.
At that moment, she felt as though all the blood in her body had reversed course. It felt like her body had plunged into an ice-cold abyss.
She wanted to scream, but something seemed to be stuck in her throat. She trembled and hissed but couldn't make a sound.
The ghost lady stared at her with an eerie gaze and slowly extended her hands. She made a motion as if she were about to hug Celia from behind.
Mushy's pupils widened in shock. Terror seemed to have broken free her throat from the constriction.
But when she finally found her voice, her first instinct wasn't to scream. Instead, she shouted, "Celia, duck!"
Celia looked helplessly at her, completely unaware of the danger lurking behind her.
Mushy was about to be driven mad by exasperation. Just as the ghost lady was about to hug Celia, she lunged forward to pull the latter away, driven by sheer desperation.
As she made her move, a deep and commanding male voice echoed from the phone.
"O' heaven and earth, heed my call. All ill intents, route the abyss…"
As Skylar recited the powerful incantation, the ghost lady behind Celia froze. Her expression shifted to one of fear.
Shannon's calm voice instructed, "Repeat after him."
Mushy's mind was blank from the shock. She instinctively obeyed. Still hallucinating from the mushroom poisoning, she could see relevant subtitles for each line Skylar chanted.
No longer doubting him, Mushy acted swiftly. As Celia moved closer, she reached out with her blood-stained finger and pressed it firmly against her forehead.
Celia was caught off guard and barely had time to explain before a horrifying, blood-curdling scream echoed through the room.
It was the voice of a woman screaming in agony. The sound seemed both near and far as if originated right beside them but quickly receded into the distance.
Celia's face turned ghostly pale as the reality of the situation hit her.
Sergio was stunned before recoiling in shock. He stumbled backward and pressed himself against the wall, watching both of them wide-eyed.
Mushy could no longer see the horrifying figure. She collapsed to the ground, exhausted and trembling.
For a moment, she sat there in dazed silence. Then, she clung to Celia's leg after remembering what had just happened and burst into tears.
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