Zhang Ming set his phone screen to stay on, then found a broom handle and used it to push Broom outside the door.
"That should do it."
On the Red Moon, the protrusion writhed with a grotesque, frantic motion, trembling hundreds of times per second. Faces now covered the entire moon, possibly numbering in the tens of thousands.
Moonlight seeped into the bathroom like ink.
His scalp prickling and sweat pouring down his face, Zhang Ming pressed his back against the bathroom wall, took the Invisibility Cloak from his backpack, and activated its invisibility.
His entire body vanished.
But that still wasn't safe enough!
He also activated the Source of the World's Sanctuary. A thin spatial ripple, like a soap bubble, enveloped a space about a meter across.
Yet the moonlight kept seeping in, as though deliberately searching for him!
In less than a minute, moonlight had completely flooded the bathroom. The temperature seemed to drop below freezing, and all the fungi on the walls died, turning into wisps of ash.
Wearing the Invisibility Cloak, Zhang Ming crawled back into the Sewage Passage and inched downward, brushing against countless slugs and snails along the way.
But compared with the icy red moonlight, even those mollusks were utterly adorable.
"The moonlight followed me in..."
"Do you really have to go this far? I only looked at you a few extra times. You don't have to give yourself to me!"
Old Zhang didn't know whether to laugh or cry as he edged downward.
He saw with his own eyes how the mollusks touched by the moonlight abruptly turned to ash. All the moss and mold turned to dust as well, as though their vitality had been sucked away in an instant.
The dust drifted down in clouds, only to be kept outside