"The ghost actually didn't come after me..." In the mess of crowded shoe display racks, Renle Mountain shrank himself down as much as he could, hiding inside.
The racks here were already leaning all over the place, and some tipped-over racks formed a triangular space in the middle, like a tent that hadn't been pitched properly.
After escaping the ghost's pursuit, Renle Mountain hid himself inside there.
This was the same shoe store he had passed earlier with Rat loves to eat cat; not far outside the store, the claw-machine was still emitting a faint, eerie glow.
By that glow from the claw-machine, he could observe the situation outside—his own flashlight was of course already off; unless he was tired of living, he wouldn't swagger around with a flashlight on inside the dark, abandoned shoe store where he was hiding.
But when he split up from Anzhi Tianlan to run earlier, his flashlight had still been on, and at that time he glanced back and saw the general shape of the ghost.
