"Grandma's after me. You can't lure her away." Covered in words of blessing, Flesh-and-Blood Gao Ming gripped his backpack. "Hide off to the side first. I'll draw her into the room, and you can run."
Liu Yi opened the window, found a bedsheet, and tied it to the window frame as fast as she could. "Let me see if I can get into another room this way."
"Hey!" Neither Gao Ming had expected Liu Yi to act so decisively. Before they could react, she had already grabbed the bedsheet and started sliding down. She kicked the window on the floor below. "Looks like it won't open?"
"Gao Ming! Time to come home! Come home with me!" Grandma's voice grew increasingly shrill, like a knife scraping against their hearts, making their skin crawl.
The door shook under blow after blow. It could be forced open at any moment.
While everyone in the room scrambled in panic, the depths of the corridor remained unusually quiet. The Gao Mings in the other rooms seemed to be monitoring the situation through their doors as well.
"That old hag's been drawn over there. The last room should be empty now." A faint voice came from behind the door diagonally opposite the last room, and the door opened without a sound.
A strong smell of paint drifted out of this Room 0715. A Gao Ming in a school uniform stood in the doorway, watching what was happening outside.
His backpack was stuffed with paintbrushes and paints, and his once-clean uniform was covered in colors and bizarre, grotesque paintings.
With a gentle smile on his face, this Gao Ming slowly narrowed his eyes. He was so delighted that he could not stop the corners of his mouth from rising. "They really fused together! So am I Gao