At that mont, footsteps ca from the outside corridor. Soone ca to his room and started to tear off the talismans on the door. Hearing that, Gao Ming slamd harder into the door. Compared to the chains, the talismans affected Gao Ming even greater. As the talismans were torn off, the lock shook, and the old door loosened.
Perhaps it was a bond or a mistake by the person outside, and he shoved the bat through the gap in the door. Gao Ming turned back to look after he grabbed the rusted bat. His grandmother’s bedroom was open. The corpse in red appeared to have left her chair. The red twines that enshrouded the ceiling swayed. The bells knocked into each other. Gao Ming took in a deep breath. He slled the stinging sll. He saw his grandmother’s purplish, bloated face at the bedroom door. The bells chid loudly. There was a wet slushing sound against the white rice. Sothing was crawling towards him on four limbs.
Without any hesitation, Gao Ming shoved the bat into the lock. With a crack, the door finally opened. Without wasting any ti, Gao Ming, who was covered in words, rushed out. He bumped into the person who was standing outside the door.
“Close the door!” The door closed. Gao Ming held the bat and looked up. Two identical faces stared at each other.
“Gao Ming?”
“Run!”
Gao Ming, with the words, grabbed Gao Ming, who was expelled. Fan Li waved at them from the distance. A few of them went back into the first room to hide.
“What is happening?” The expelled Gao Ming stared at the other him with a deep frown. “I thought I was the most rebellious one, but I was wrong. You have a full-body tattoo. Didn’t your parents say anything?”
“They went missing when I was very young. I was raised by my grandmother.”
“Of all the Rooms 0715, you’re the most special,” Liu Yi stood before the Gao Ming with all the words, “What present did you receive?”
“Present?”
“What was there in your room?” Liu Yi was suspicious.
“My grandmother’s corpse. She trusted this Sensei with her life. In the end, she gave him her life and changed into a ghost.” Gao Ming sat on the ground. He had been trapped alone for so long that conversations felt new to him.
“The other versions of yourself are all alone. Why do you have a grandmother?” Liu Yi didn’t waste ti. She took out the different diaries and updated Gao Ming on the situation.
After listening to Liu Yi, Gao Ming covered in words had a complicated expression. He exchanged information with everyone and used five whole minutes to digest everything. “There are only other Gao Mings in the other rooms, but I have a grandmother in my room…” Gao Ming held his heart as the mory pieces appeared in his flesh. He had a guess. “They said I’d be very scary in the future and the strongest horror ga player. This matches the mory fragnts I have.”
“Do you have other mories?” The expelled Gao Ming widened his eyes. They were both Gao Mings. How were they so different?
Gao Ming, covered in prayers, nodded and said, “The mory fragnts are like glass shards lodged inside my flesh. They’d prick occasionally.” He thought about it and continued, “If I string the fragnts together, it goes like this… As a horror ga player, I entered Everlasting Life Apartnts. Two Gods were hidden there. One God trapped my flesh in the worst future, and the other God tore apart my mory and soul so that I’d be lost in the past…”
“That sounds harrowing.” Fan Li had survived anomalies, but he had never been targeted so badly. “How can we help you?”
“Life consists of endless choices. This Gao Ming and I might have chosen the wrong paths. If I want to beco the strongest version of myself, I need to follow the right script from this mont on. Either that, or we need to find a version of Gao Ming who can always make the right choice!” The prayers on Gao Ming’s body were like blessings and curses.
Staring at Gao Ming, Liu Yi pondered, “The last room has a new character in the grandmother. Do you know the exact God she worships?”
Gao Ming shook his head. “I only know she calls them Sensei and his God.”
“Do the two nas correspond to different Gods?” Liu Yi held Gao Ming’s face. They were very close. “I suspect the grandmother is the manifestation of the two Gods, and you are the flesh version of Gao Ming. Your grandmother has been torturing you in the na of helping you. She trapped you in the ho and forbade you to leave. If you really stayed for seven days, you would never leave again.” Liu Yi pointed at the clock. “Have you noticed this? Every room has a working clock. Ti is instruntal to this anomaly!”
“As expected of soone from Class 13.” Fan Li didn’t even notice that. “What should we do now?”
“Gao Ming and I are classmates. I don’t know what he was doing on the night of July 14th, but I know that we were supposed to gather at school at 7 am on July 15th. We would take a bus to participate in so event. It was that event that changed the fate of everyone in our class! That was the turning point of Gao Ming’s life!”
“Does that an we have to leave this place before 7 am? Can we escape this anomaly in a few hours?” Fan Li didn’t have confidence.
“I lived close to Gao Ming. I rember very clearly that we waited for the bus outside our neighbourhood at the bus station of Route 27 at 6.30 am. Coincidentally, there is a station for Route 27 outside Everlasting Life Apartnts.” Liu Yi said, “If we don’t want to make the wrong choice, we have to bring the correct Gao Ming to the station outside the apartnts before 6.30 am.”
Liu Yi’s logic was clear. Both Gao Mings were persuaded. The Gao Ming, covered in words, were about to say sothing when sothing slamd into the door.
“The ghost has never knocked before this.” Fan Li stood up when Gao Ming’s phone vibrated. His grandmother was calling. He answered the video call. He saw his grandmother standing outside the room. “Gao Ming! Co ho with !”
The door shook, and their faces paled. The grandmother’s corpse could sense Gao Ming’s location. This ant that they had to split up.
“This door can’t hold up much longer. If she makes more noises, more ghosts will co!” Fan Li said through gritted teeth. “I’ll lead her away, and you’ll run out of the apartnt building!”
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