You Think You've Got What It Takes? Come Out and Face Me!
Xu Huo stood up and walked toward the side door, one step at a time.
By now, everything inside and outside the house was shrouded in darkness. Only the area around the side door stood out, every detail clearly visible even in the night.
For a moment, his brain stopped thinking. One simple, instinctive thought remained: go inside and take a look.
The sensation was impossible to describe. At that moment, Xu Huo had completely forgotten the meaning of "danger." He had no purpose in mind; he simply wanted to "go inside and see."
Just as he reached for the doorknob and was about to push the door open, something suddenly nudged him in the back. He snapped out of his trance and slammed the door shut. When he turned around, the old woman and the little girl were standing silently behind him.
The two red-eyed figures lunged at him in unison. Xu Huo pressed one hand against the girl's head and used his umbrella to shove the old woman away, then sprinkled them with some sleeping Potion.
The grandmother and granddaughter collapsed one after the other. Xu Huo's thoughts began to wander again, and he involuntarily turned toward the door behind him. But after grabbing the doorknob, he didn't feel an almost irresistible urge to go inside. Instead, he put on "Cling Together," then smeared all the slime secreted by the clothes over the Lock and the cracks around the door.
A bizarre compulsion drove him to break down the door and rush inside. But Xu Huo wasn't about to fall for it. He hung up "Do Not Disturb" to counteract the mental influence, then knocked on the door. "Come out if you've got the guts!"
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