The fat man instinctively ran toward the door too, but because of where he was standing, he was slower than most of the others. Just as he reached the doorway, a hand suddenly grabbed him. "Don't run."
It was the doctor's voice.
The hand pulled the fat man back into the bedroom. In the faint light of a phone screen, he was astonished to see that, besides him and the doctor, there were two other people in the room.
Yao Shunyu, who looked like a delinquent student, and Lin Qianqian, who had seemed so delicate, had both stayed behind. Lin Qianqian swiftly gathered up her previously loose hair and tied it behind her head. With her neat, efficient movements, she looked like a completely different person.
"Looks like we're all on the same page," Lin Qianqian said, her pretty eyes blinking.
Before she had even finished speaking, Yao Shunyu and Lin Qianqian moved almost simultaneously. Lin Qianqian headed straight for the corner. The fat man remembered Song Keli crawling out of that spot not long ago.
Yao Shunyu crouched and slipped beneath the bed, grabbing hold of Song Keli, who was trembling with fear. Pressing their bodies tightly together, he whispered in Song Keli's ear, in a voice only the two of them could hear, "You've managed to survive this long, so you must be pretty lucky. Which means you won't mind taking me along too, right?"
The fat man suddenly understood. No wonder the doctor had seemed so nonchalant earlier. It turned out he hadn't planned to hide anywhere else at all. He had chosen this bedroom from the start!
And no wonder Song Keli had managed to scrape by for the first four days. That at least proved he was good at hiding. The two best spots had