episode_0023

When the EMF meter reached level 5, it meant that there were ghosts around us.

This meant that the person standing outside the annex now was not the lady of the bed and breakfast, but something completely different.

I lowered my voice and showed Sarah the EMF meter.

“Do you see the light coming on?”

“I can see it well. I guess the machine is not fake.”

“That’s not a waste of money.”

The EMF meter I purchased for 100,000 won was definitely genuine. I saw an EMF meter that flashed 5 lights. Since I confirmed that the pitch-black silhouette standing outside the door was a ghost, I was able to prepare in advance.

We silently took out the military knives from our duffel bags. I put chunks of rock salt in my pocket. Unlike fine powdered salt, chunks of rock salt were consumables that were easy to throw away.

“Let’s go out.”

Preparation is over.

We went outside the annex. I kicked open the door and illuminated the yard with my flashlight. It’s 3 a.m. in thick darkness. As we illuminated our path with a flashlight, we could clearly see what was standing in the yard.

It was a young woman with a terrible appearance. As if something had happened, parts of his body were torn off, exposing his bony bones and blood-covered body. Even her neck was torn off, so the woman couldn’t raise her head properly and was bobbing around.

“Acids are not dangerous Acids are not dangerous Acids are not dangerous.”

Strangely enough, the same voice as that of the bed and breakfast lady came out of the woman’s mouth. Just by hearing their voices, you could not help but be fooled into thinking they were the same person. However, the lady at the guest house and that young family were completely different.

I could guess what happened.

“That’s imitating the old lady’s voice.”

“Because there are ghosts in this world that have the power to imitate voices.”

Among the countless ghost stories floating around the world, there were many about spirits imitating sounds. Stories of spiritualists who deceive people by imitating other people’s voices. This is what we are experiencing now.

“Acid is not dangerous.”

succeeded in revealing his identity.

The woman bobbing her neck noticed us and stopped imitating the voice of the bed and breakfast lady.

━━Heeheeheehee

The woman laughed from ear to ear and rushed towards us. The woman’s torn neck was making a sound. At that moment, Sarah threw a lump of rock salt at the woman. A tightly packed lump of rock salt hit the woman’s head.

Something mysterious happened.

The moment the rock salt collided with the spirit house, it shattered into pieces as if it had actually collided. Hard pieces of salt flew everywhere. The woman who was running furiously towards us disappeared without a sound on the spot.

It was successful in stopping Youngga’s actions.

“Rock salt chunks work! It has better stopping power than just sprinkling salt.”

Regardless of the East or West, salt was used to drive away unclean spirits. Since the rock salt was gathered into lumps that were easy to throw, the power was bound to increase. It was my first time using rock salt, but the power was quite satisfactory.

I couldn’t let down my guard yet. A sword or a lump of rock salt can only stop a ghost’s actions. I clearly remembered that ghosts that disappeared could reappear.

━━Hee hee hee!

A woman bobbing her neck appeared again near the annex. The woman, shaking her neck, suddenly rushed at Sarah, who was holding a lump of rock salt. I cut off the woman’s wrist with a military knife.

Swish! The woman’s severed hand flew into the air. Sarah and I swung our swords at the woman at the same time. Since this was not my first time dealing with a spirit family, I was able to deal with it skillfully. The situation was much better than when I had to deal with the severed head ghost in my apartment the other day.

Because both I and I have grown older.

A woman who was cut with a military knife and hit by a lump of rock salt disappeared and reappeared endlessly.

The woman, shaking her neck, slowly backed away.

Have we learned that no harm can come to us? At some point, the woman who was shaking her neck disappeared from the yard of the guesthouse. Since the last time they disappeared, there have been no more attacks on us.

“I think he ran away.”

“Let’s chase after him first. If you’re lucky, you might find something to burn.”

We decided to chase down the runaway woman.

I planned to keep chasing it and burn the object with a soul in it.

However, after opening the front door of the guest house and going out.

We soon had no choice but to abandon our plan to chase down the neck-bobbing woman.

I ended up seeing what was going on in the town in the middle of the night, illuminated by a flashlight.

“… Is there anything else?”

“Not just one guy.”

Dark Mugok Village.

On the main street of the village, ghosts I had never seen before were wandering around. They were all ghosts whose bodies had been horribly mutilated, like the woman with her neck shaking that I had seen earlier. I quickly counted the number of ghosts with my eyes.

As many as 10 people.

I discovered as many as ten ghosts just by looking at them.

“Crazy.”

Considering the hidden ghosts, I couldn’t predict how many more there were. I can’t tell if this is a village where people live or a village where ghosts live. The ghosts started coming towards us who came out.

“There are too many!”

“Jinwoo, let’s step aside for now. I can’t deal with them one by one.”

What if there is only one ghost?

Dealing with multiple ghosts at the same time was a foolish move. They are dead people who will not die even if you kill them, but if you fight them without knowing what they are inside, it will only become dangerous.

We hurriedly went into the guesthouse’s annex and locked the door. The spirits chasing us loomed outside the door in pitch black form. The door began to rattle menacingly.

━━Heeheeheehee

━━Let’s go to the mountains. Let’s go to the mountains!

If he had come to Mugok Village bare-body, he would have been killed without a move by the spirits.

However, we had shamanic supplies prepared in advance when we left Seoul.

We took five flags out of the duffel bag.

There were five flags, each with red, blue, green, yellow, and white fabric.

‘Obangi’

It was a flag containing the power of the five directions to drive out miscellaneous spirits. When just holding the Five Banners, the effect of exorcism was minimal. Only when flags of appropriate colors were placed in the five directions could the power to drive out miscellaneous spirits be demonstrated.

━━Thump thump thump

A loud knock on the door rang from outside. Several palms clung to the door covered with window paper. Perhaps because the number of spirits was large, their strength was no joke. Within just a few seconds, the door almost fell off.

At the moment when the door was about to be smashed, we scattered the five flags in five directions.

When the flags spread out on the floor were aligned in the appropriate positions, the five flags showed their power properly.

The spirits standing outside could no longer touch the door.

The black palms that were clinging to the window paper fell off one by one.

“Okay, that’s it… !”

“Phew.”

If it had been just a little bit slower, a group of spirits would have entered the annex.

We breathed a sigh of relief in the room where we had laid out the five flags.

“Sera! You can hold out until the sun rises, right?”

“Enough. If you sprayed the Five Banners, you could last for about two hours.”

Of course, installing the Five Banners did not mean that it would be safe forever.

If held on for too long, the flag that had been tainted by corruption could lose its strength.

The current time is 3 am.

Until dawn, the Five Banners will be able to prevent the invasion of evil spirits.

We waited for daybreak in the separate room. In the darkness, the spirits kept circling around the outhouse where we were. My EMF meter was emitting a constant flashing signal. Sarah and I spent the night with our eyes open, preparing for any possible danger.

Finally, time passed and it was 5 am.

The morning sun rose and warm light streamed in through the window.

It was a light like hope.

*

The morning dawned.

There was something I learned while walking around with Sarah. Ghosts could not move freely while the sun was up. You can think of the range of activities being greatly reduced.

At most, he could move around objects with souls. It was said that it was dangerous to be around a haunted object, but if it was not around, it was safe during the day.

It was when the sun rose.

The ghosts hovering outside the outbuilding disappeared without a trace the moment sunlight poured in. I no longer heard strange laughter or saw pitch-black shapes.

“For now, I think it’s safe.”

“At least there are no unclean items around here.”

We went outside and looked around the village for a while. Unlike when it was night, there were no spirits wandering around the village. At least they said there were no unclean things in this village. Only then were we able to return to the annex and rest in peace.

I was quite hungry after dealing with the spirits at night. We grabbed some crackers and protein bars from our duffel bags and had a quick breakfast. Of course, I brought emergency food with me in preparation for climbing the mountain.

As I filled my stomach with something sweet, my head turned.

Slowly, something suspicious came to mind. When I thought of the ghosts I saw in the village in the middle of the night, questions naturally came to mind.

‘Strange.’

What was strange was none other than the village of Mugok where we arrived. In this village, there were spirits that attacked people in the middle of the night. As soon as they saw us, the ghosts rushed at us like a flock of anglerfish.

“… … No matter how much I think about it, it’s strange.”

So how on earth are the residents of Mugok Village still alive?

The village should have been devastated a long time ago because of the hordes of ghosts attacking people. It was natural for the threatened residents to move out as a group and for the village itself to disappear. But something strange was happening.

On the outside, Mugok Village looked fine.

Several residents were living in the village. There was even a bed and breakfast in operation for tourists. This is a place where ghosts attack people at night.

“Sera.”

I told Sarah what was on my mind.

“How can people live here? How can there be residents when ghosts roam around every night? It’s so strange that there’s even a bed and breakfast.”

It was right then.

Sarah slowly opened her mouth.

“… … People can live.”

Sarah’s next words were quite shocking even to me.

“If everyone lives while possessed by a ghost.”