While in Hollywood, I used Taoist magic to quell American terrorism.

Cao Kun led Megan out of the ward, the wire mesh floor beneath their feet creaking loudly.

The flesh and blood on the walls on both sides were still slowly writhing, and dark red liquid dripped down the rust.

Megan gripped Cao Kun's clothes tightly, her knuckles turning white with force.

"Damn, where am I? Why do I feel like those walls are breathing?"

Megan lowered her voice, her teeth chattering uncontrollably.

"The Other World," Cao Kun said casually.

Megan: "What is the Otherworld? Is it the same world we originally lived in?"

Cao Kun: "A world that exists between existence and non-existence cannot be truly defined."

Megan was completely confused, but wisely refrained from asking any further questions.

The two walked down the corridor, and a nauseating, burnt smell permeated the stairwell.

Suddenly, a series of hurried footsteps came from ahead, accompanied by a woman's scream and the sharp sound of a blade slicing through metal.

"Help! Get away! You monsters!"

Cao Kun's eyes sharpened, and he quickened his pace, pulling Megan along as they crossed the corner in a few strides.

In the lobby ahead, a white woman wearing a green coat and covered in dust was falling to the ground in a disheveled state.

She was surrounded by a dozen or so short, dark figures.

Before Cao Kun, many gray child monsters had been killed.

"Help me!" The woman's eyes lit up when she saw Cao Kun and Megan, and she cried out immediately.

"From one to ten thousand, go!"

Cao Kun gave a soft shout, and the Great Zhou Tian Copper Coin Sword, which had appeared in his hand without him noticing, suddenly exploded.

The 365 consecrated copper coins transformed into small swords, leaving trails in the air.

Puff puff puff—!

The three gray children who rushed to the front were pierced through by more than a dozen copper coin swords in an instant.

It exploded into three piles of ashes.

"Ding! Killed an F-rank monster, gained 1000 merit points."

"Ding! Killed an F-rank monster, gained 1000 merit points."

The system notification sounded again.

However, this time, there were no skill rewards.

Cao Kun's fingers flew across the keyboard, forming hand seals.

The hundreds of copper coins intertwined in the air to form a huge strangulation net, sweeping across the hall.

Those gray children, who were incredibly fast and could leave ordinary people helpless, didn't even have a chance to scream in front of Cao Kun.

Wherever the copper coin sword passed, monsters crumbled and fell as large swaths of gray embers.

In just ten seconds, the hall was cleared out.

"receive."

With a wave of his hand, Cao Kun sent hundreds of copper coins flying back, which then coalesced in his palm to form a copper coin sword.

Ross slumped to the ground, breathing heavily, staring blankly at Cao Kun.

"Thank... thank you all. Who... who are you?"

Cao Kun gestured, and Megan released Cao Kun, went over and helped Ross up.

Cao Kun: "You can call me Cao, this is my girlfriend Megan."

Ross steadied himself and wiped the cold sweat from his face.

Immediately, she grabbed Cao Kun's sleeve with a pleading tone: "Mr. Cao, have you seen my daughter Sharon?"

She got separated from me, she's right here, I heard her scream!

Cao Kun glanced down at Ross.

The woman's face was as pale as a sheet of paper due to extreme fear and the intense running.

His hair was stuck to his forehead with cold sweat, and his eyes were full of pleading.

"I haven't seen it yet."

Cao Kun said calmly, putting away his copper coin sword, "But I can take you to her."

It's not that Cao Kun has an excessive sense of compassion.

Rather, it is this inner world of "Silence" that is easy to enter but difficult to leave.

Without eliminating that cult priest, even Cao Kun will find it difficult to leave.

In comparison, finding Sharon and her other side, Alessa, was actually easier.

Since we're going to church anyway, taking Ross to find Sharon is just a side thing.

A glimmer of hope suddenly appeared in Ross's eyes: "Really? You know where she is?"

Cao Kun: "Just come with me. Let's go, let's leave this place."

"But..." Ross hesitated for a moment, then nodded without finishing his sentence, "Okay."

The three of them followed the original route to the entrance of the abandoned hospital.

Just then, the darkness receded like a tide.

The surrounding blood-red walls began to weather and peel away rapidly, turning back into gray and white ruins.

Dark gray "snow" began to fall from the sky again.

Silent Hill, back to the foggy world.

"Let's go, the timing is perfect."

Cao Kun strode out of the hospital lobby, with Megan and Ross quickly following behind.

The three walked along the street shrouded in thick fog.

Visibility was less than ten meters, and the shops on both sides were dilapidated, their signs swaying and creaking in the breeze.

"Stop! Hands up!"

A stern female voice came from the mist.

Cao Kun stopped and saw a white female police officer in uniform pointing a gun at them with a nervous expression.

Sibyl.

The righteous female police officer in Silent Hill.

She entered the town in pursuit of Ross; she is a determined pragmatist who does not believe in the supernatural.

In the original movie, she was brutally burned to death by cultists in the church while trying to protect Rose.

"Sybil!" Ross exclaimed.

"snort!"

Cao Kun snorted coldly, his gaze fixed on Sibyl as if it were a physical object.

Sybil's face changed drastically, as if she had been stabbed by two sharp swords. She staggered backward, her gun involuntarily falling to her sides, and she gasped for breath.

"you……"

She looked at Cao Kun with disbelief.

Ross quickly said, "Sybil, this is Mr. Cao. He means no harm. He's just about to take me to Sharon."

It took Sybil a while to calm her breathing, but her face was still full of shock.

Cao Kun said calmly, "Let's go! Put the gun away, it's useless here."

Just as Sybil was about to speak, a series of dense sounds, like countless hard objects hitting the ground, suddenly came from afar.

"Snap, snap, snap..."

A group of naked, skinless, twisted monsters with their heads and chests fused together emerged from the alley.

The person in the bodysuit has reappeared.

"Fuck!" Sybil turned and fired.

"Bang! Bang!"

The bullet struck the monster in the chest, but only momentarily slowed it down before it continued charging towards them.

bang bang bang...

Sibyl continued firing.

Finally, one monster fell, but more monsters rushed towards it.

Sybil's face turned deathly pale instantly.

Cao Kun snorted coldly: "Go away."

He took a step forward: "Let's borrow the earth's energy."

Boom boom boom!

A powerful surge of earth energy blasted the four or five people in tight-fitting clothes in front of them into a shower of minced meat.

"Ding! Killed a G-rank monster, gained 500 merit points!"

"Ding! Killed a G-rank monster, gained 500 merit points!"

……

Sibyl froze.

Her hand gripping the gun trembled uncontrollably as she turned to Cao Kun: "You... how did you do that?"

"I told you, bullets are useless."

Cao Kun glanced at the clock tower in the distance. "Let's go if we want to see Sharon as soon as possible."

Upon hearing this, Ross quickly followed.

The four of them headed towards the central square along the street.

The fog grew thicker, and heavy dragging sounds could be heard intermittently in the darkness.

Cao Kun walked at the very front.

He could sense that the will of the inner world was stirring wildly.

Suddenly, the fog ahead surged wildly, as if something huge was about to burst out from within.