The few seconds it took to escape the room were utter chaos.
In the intense panic, Jin Xueli's vision was a blur of shifting colors and limbs. The air was pierced by fragmented screams, crashing sounds, and the urgent shouts of someone she couldn't identify… Even though she couldn't see it, she just knew: the resident behind them was waking up.
The fear of being half a second too late and never returning to the Human World was a stronger motivator than anything. She shoved a hospital bed out of the way, dragged Morando, and lunged out of the room, only to trip over Chaisi's body—and just like that, Jin Xueli tumbled into the hallway, falling back into the Human World.
Morando landed beside her, and the several human faces on her body immediately began to shriek.
