The silver elevator doors slowly opened to both sides.
"Hey, what's wrong? Are you afraid of taking the elevator?"
Jiang Jun gently pressed on Li Xiu's back, lowered his head and asked with a smile.
Li Xiu swallowed and lowered his eyes to hide the shadows in his eyes.
In fact, if he hadn't seen Wang Rongfa, Li Xiu would have simply given up the elevator and taken the stairs. But now, the image of Wang Rongfa's face peeking out from around the corner kept popping up in his mind.
The direction Wang Rongfa leaned out happened to be the stairwell.
Is that person still there now?
Why was he glaring at me in that strange posture, with his neck stretched out?
Even just thinking about this question, Li Xiu would feel an indescribable chill.
"No, nothing."
The warm body warmth of Jiang Jun beside him came over. After a brief moment of hesitation, Li Xiu forced himself to respond with a few words, then followed Jiang Jun into the elevator.
Teacher Xu said that as long as people don't believe in these things themselves, they won't be scared.
All he really needs to do as a student is to study hard.
Everything he could see was created to scare him...
After entering the elevator, Li Xiu kept his head down, repeating in his mind what Teacher Xu had said to him before, and praying frantically that the elevator would reach the first floor quickly so that he could quickly leave this building that had brought him severe psychological trauma.
However, things did not go as planned. The elevator stopped just after going down one floor.
"Ding Dong——"
The door opening reminder sounded.
However, no one came in from outside the elevator.
This situation is quite common. If someone presses the elevator button and sees that the elevator does not come for a long time, they will change elevators or go directly to the stairs.
So when the elevator reached the floor and opened the door, the people outside had already left.
Li Xiu didn't take it seriously at first, but subconsciously looked up at the empty elevator door. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw something shaking slightly at the end of the corridor.
Coincidentally, at this moment Jiang Jun walked past him and pressed the door closing button.
The silver metal door closed.
The elevator slowly descended again.
Then...
It stopped again on the next floor.
"Ding Dong——"
Accompanied by the familiar electronic sound, the elevator door opened again, but this time, there was still no one outside the elevator door.
No, strictly speaking, it's not completely empty...
Li Xiu's whole body was tense and his hair stood on end.
He stared at the end of the corridor, looking at the shadow crawling on the ground, and was unable to move for a moment.
That's Wang Rongfa.
Li Xiu himself was a little puzzled as to why he could recognize Wang Rongfa - that person no longer had the basic appearance of a "human".
The once muscular, overweight boy was now hunched over, like a piece of stuffing forcefully stuffed into a delivery box, his body folded into an indescribable distortion. Li Xiu could no longer discern the original structure of his torso: arms, legs, spine... Beneath the pale skin lay bright red muscle and grayish-white bones. Next to Wang Rongfa's head lay his own feet, while his arms, braced at the back of his body, scraped against the ground, pushing the "monster" forward.
["Wait… Ho ho… Wait a minute…"]
"I want to… go out…"
…
A dry and hoarse moan emerged from Wang Rongfa's upturned chest.
However, as he squirmed forward, Li Xiu's vision was blocked by the closed metal door of the elevator.
"The elevator is going down—"
An electronic prompt sounded in the small elevator car.
Li Xiu took a step back suddenly and hit his body against the wall.
"A Xiu? What's wrong?"
Jiang Jun looked at Li Xiu in surprise.
Li Xiu couldn't help but grab his hand tightly.
"Did you see it?"
Li Xiu asked, panting and trembling.
Jiang Jun frowned slightly, looking confused: "Ah? What did you see?"
At this moment, Li Xiu felt the subtle inertia when the elevator stopped.
Yes, the elevator stopped at the next floor again.
"Ding Dong——"
"No, no, you can't open the door..."
Li Xiu didn't care about anything else and rushed to the door and pressed the close button, but no matter how hard he pressed the silver metal button, the elevator door opened again.
This time, there was still no one outside the door.
In other words, there are no "living people".
["Wait for me…wait for me…"]
At the end of the corridor, Wang Rongfa was still moving step by step towards the elevator.
At this distance, Li Xiu could even meet his gray, cloudy eyes.
You can also see his belly which has begun to swell.
Fortunately, because Li Xiu kept pressing the door closing button frantically, the elevator door closed much faster than before.
"A Xiu? Are you okay?"
Jiang Jun also walked forward at this time. He held Li Xiu's hand, his face full of worry.
"Sometimes people are just bored and press the elevator. Don't be nervous... Are you claustrophobic?"
As Jiang Jun was speaking, the elevator went down another floor.
And, as expected, the elevator door opened this time.
Wang Rongfa's twisted body moved closer to the elevator door. He turned his head and met Li Xiu's frightened gaze in the elevator.
["I've already said…wait…I…"]
"You bitch... why... just won't you listen..."
…
"Ding Dong——"
Once again, the door opened.
"Ah, how annoying! Who is so bored as to press every level?"
The words of the boy next to me seemed to come from far away.
Li Xiu was completely speechless.
It felt like sleep paralysis during the day. An invisible force possessed him, suppressing him.
His whole body was trembling, but he could only cling tightly to the only bit of warmth at his side, unable to move.
I knew I should act immediately.
I knew I had to find a way to escape immediately.
However, Li Xiu found that he had completely lost control of his body.
A tingling chill ran down my spine.
The terrifying premonition was so strong that Li Xiu almost vomited.
But he could only stand there stiffly, watching the elevator door open and close, his pupils reflecting the twisted monster's figure approaching with each floor.
Getting closer and closer.
"Wang Rongfa" is getting closer and closer.
If I don't leave immediately, if I let the elevator continue to stop at each floor, then next time... "Wang Rongfa" will... come into the elevator.
There was a voice screaming in Li Xiu's head.
Fortunately, at this moment, Li Xiu suddenly felt the cell phone in his pocket ringing.
The buzzing and vibration of the cell phone suddenly broke Li Xiu's stiffness as if by magic.
Li Xiu's hands were shaking badly, but she still answered the phone instinctively.
"Fuck, Ah Xiu! Where are you now... sizzle... sizzle... sizzle...? Do you know that I've been calling you... sizzle... sizzle..."
As soon as the call was connected, the other end exploded.
It was Fang Qianan's voice.
Li Xiu moved her lips, wanting to respond but no sound came out for a long time.
The signal in the elevator was extremely poor, and Fang Qianan's angry questioning became intermittent and sounded particularly vague.
"Fang Qianan, we're being watched..."
Finally, Li Xiu squeezed out a whimper with all his might.
He tried his best to calm himself down, but his voice couldn't help but tremble due to extreme nervousness.
"Wait, what do you mean by 'we'...who else is with you..."
For some reason, Fang Qianan's voice sounded even more panicked through the microphone full of electrical noise.
"Jiang Jun, Jiang Jun is the only one by my side."
Li Xiuqiang suppressed his fear and struggled to speak.
"…A Xiu."
Fang Qianan's reply became low and deep.
"Listen to me...zizizi...that person...can't possibly be Jiang Jun..."
"Jiang Jun is still... in his hometown attending a funeral... I... Zizi... haven't asked anyone to look for you..."
"A Xiu..."
"Zizi...quick...zizi...run..."
…
Li Xiu clutched the phone, frozen in place. His lips moved but no sound came out.
A hand reached out, gently took the phone from Li Xiu's hand, and pressed the end call button. Li Xiu turned his head with great difficulty, just in time to see Jiang Jun looking at him with his neck lowered.
When did Jiang Jun... become so tall?
Li Xiu stared at Jiang Jun blankly, even her fear became numb.
Jiang Jun's body was stretched out like a snake, and mottled blue corpse spots could be seen beneath his white skin. He just stared at Li Xiu, his pupils dark and without a single reflection. "What's wrong? You look so bad."
If you don't look at his face and only listen to his voice, you will find that he still has that bright and cheerful tone when he speaks.
"Ding Dong——"
At this moment, the elevator door beside Li Xiu opened again. However, this time, there was no one outside.
There was no one, not even Wang Rongfa.
There was only darkness outside the elevator.
When Li Xiu suddenly turned around, she found that Jiang Jun, who was by her side just now, had suddenly disappeared.
The pale light illuminated the narrow elevator compartment brightly. In the entire elevator, Li Xiu was the only one standing there extremely stiffly.
However, the next second, Li Xiu heard a long electronic alarm.
That was the alarm sounding because the elevator was overloaded.