Chapter 168: Falling
Inside the dark and narrow elevator shaft, there is no end in sight up and down. Shen Hao turned on the tactical spotlight to take the lead, Saionji Sakura followed, and Kanzaki Ryuichi cushioned one meter behind the two, and the three of them climbed up so silently and quickly, except for the slight groaning sound of the handrail of the metal staircase being stepped on or grasped by them, everything around was extremely quiet.
This kind of silence is a little depressing, so depressing that it makes people feel suffocated, and the surrounding darkness seems to be alive and constantly crushing towards the three of them, if ordinary people are in such an environment, if they are not driven crazy, they will have chosen to give up a long time ago.
However, none of the three were ordinary people, so this level of pressure was not severe for them, and even their climbing speed was not affected in the slightest.
Fortunately, the environment here was fortunately said by Shen Hao, except for the boundless darkness, not a single USBM has appeared, this phenomenon made the Saionji Sakura and Kanzaki Ryuichi who were still apprehensive before, secretly relieved, although climbing hundreds of meters on the vertical stairs with bare hands is quite physically demanding, but compared to the safe and smooth passage, this consumption is completely negligible.
"Very well, it looks like we've arrived." Shen Hao said in a low voice, the beam of the spotlight has already shone on a closed top floor above, which is actually the floor of the elevator car that stays on the eightieth floor, so the elevator car should be the elevator door on the eightieth floor.
"There is no entrance to the floor of this elevator...... Shen Hao had already stuck to the bottom of the elevator car at this time, stretched out his hand and groped for a while, and said with a little frown, "Then if you want to go up, you have to find a way to move this block of iron that is in the way." ”
"Can you carry this elevator?" Sakura of Saionji also climbed up at this time, and from her angle, she could faintly see the gap in the elevator door.
"If it's down-to-earth, this thing will naturally be difficult for me." Shen Hao smiled, and then shook his head a little helplessly, "The problem is, the handrails of these stairs can't bear the weight of this elevator, if I stand on this staircase and exert myself, I will 100% trample these stairs down." ”
"It's not a big problem." Ryuichi Kanzaki also climbed up at this time, he wiped the sweat beads on his head and said, "My ability can cancel out some of the gravity of objects, which means that the weight of this elevator can be greatly reduced, so you should be able to move it out of the way, right?" ”
"In that case, let's get started." Shen Hao nodded, hung the shield and battle axe on the back of the armor, and then climbed a few steps upward, shoulders on the bottom of the elevator, his body bent slightly, and made a ready gesture towards Ryuichi Kanzaki below.
Kanzaki Ryu nodded, took a deep breath and followed, he stood below Shen Hao, grasping the stairs with one hand, and raising his other hand high, and his palm was also attached to the bottom of the elevator.
"Let's go!" His pupils shrank slightly, and Shen Hao and Sakura of Xiyuan Temple on the side both felt an invisible force emanating from his body at the same time, and then injected into the elevator above his head through his palm.
Shen Hao immediately felt that the weight of the elevator he was carrying on his back was instantly reduced by nearly ten times, and with a slight force, his body stood up, and there was an overwhelmed moan from the stairs under his feet, but after all, he still held on and did not break immediately. At this time, the elevator had been lifted by him more than a meter high, revealing a closed elevator door on one side.
"Team Sakura, you go first!" Ryuichi Kanzaki's face was a little pale, and he reluctantly pulled the corners of his mouth at the Saionji Sakura on the side, and gestured.
This gap is not too big, and the distance of more than a meter is indeed the right choice for the smallest Saionji Sakura to go first. Sakura nodded, took out the light knife invisibly, inserted it into the gap of the elevator door and pried it vigorously, and the closed elevator door immediately pried open a gap wide one person wide, and then she put away her sword, grabbed the elevator door with both hands, and drilled into the gap with a slight force.
Everything is going well, and everyone's mood is quite stable. However, just when Sakura of Xiyuan Temple had just climbed out halfway, she suddenly let out an exclamation, and then her legs that had not yet climbed out struggled to kick twice, and before Shen Hao and Kanzaki Ryuyi could react, her body seemed to be violently pulled by a force, and with a "whoosh" sound, it passed through the gap.
"Captain Sakura!!" Kanzaki Ryu's eyes turned red at once, and this tall man actually burrowed into that gap at once with an agile movement that did not match his body at all.
"Nope! Damn it, calm down, stop! Shen Hao's face changed suddenly, and he didn't care so much, so he scolded directly. But it was still too late, and the moment Ryuichi Kanzaki disappeared, the elevator on Shen Hao's back suddenly regained its original weight. Although this kind of weight is not unaffordable for Shen Hao, it does not mean that the stairs under his feet can bear it.
There was a crisp sound of "rattle", and the steel staircase under his feet immediately broke, and Shen Hao's body carrying the elevator immediately sank down. However, at this time, another situation happened that made his face change greatly, the elevator pressing on him did not stop at the moment because it returned to its original state, as if something on it had quietly broken the fixed steel cable on the top of the elevator.
The heavy elevator pressed Shen Hao's body all the way down, and the stairs under his feet continued to collapse like bursting beans, without the slightest ability to stop him from falling. Shen Hao's steel boots rubbed a series of sparks against the stairs and the wall of the shaft on the side, and his body had already slid down more than ten meters with the falling elevator, and this speed seemed to continue to accelerate.
"Nima, I'm not afraid of god-like opponents, I'm afraid of pig-like teammates! Netizens don't deceive me......" Shen Hao carried the elevator on his back, quickly touched his body a few times with both hands, and then pulled out the short sword on his waist and stabbed heavily at the cement shaft wall on the side.
"Bang-" The short sword of special titanium alloy penetrated into the wall of the well like a knife cutting tofu under Shen Hao's arm strength, and it reached the handle. The muscles of Shen Hao's arm, which was hidden under the armor, suddenly suffocated, and his body and the speed at which the elevator on his back fell violently, but the weight of an elevator was not enough for a short sword to withstand. I saw cement chips splashing, and the short sword broke a deep ravine in the wall of the well, but the momentum of the fall still could not be completely stopped.
"That's not going to work." Feeling that the short sword in his hand had begun to let out an overwhelmed moan, Shen Hao began to sweat on his forehead, he took off the round shield from his back with one free hand, buckled the handle on the toe of his left foot, and then kicked heavily with the shield to the opposite wall of the well.
"Cluck!" Half of the shield was embedded in the wall of the well, and Shen Hao's left foot once again gained a point of focus. So he stepped on the steel ladder with one foot, stepped on the edge of the shield with one foot, and grasped the short sword deep into the wall with one hand, and with the support of these three fulcrums, he finally stopped the fall while carrying an elevator, and slowly straightened up in the suspended elevator shaft.
"Whew, whew, whew......" Shen Hao gasped, and with one of his free hands, he raised the mask on his face and wiped the beads of sweat on his face indiscriminately. In the chaos just now, the tactical flashlight fixed to the helmet had fallen into the abyss under his feet, and the surrounding area was plunged into darkness. He settled down, thinking that he had asked for a few cold fireworks from Sakura in Saionji Temple when he started to climb before, and now he reached out and groped for it, but fortunately, he didn't fall out together.
"The R national pig who sold his teammates finally did a good thing...... Shen Hao polished a cold firework, and the white light illuminated the surrounding situation.
"Good luck." Shen Hao breathed a sigh of relief, there happened to be a closed elevator door opposite him, and the short sword stabbed out of his right hand happened to be stuck on the door beam of the elevator door at this moment.
"I don't know what floor this is now, anyway, let's get out of this place first." Shen Hao thought about it, took off the tomahawk from behind his back, easily pried open the elevator door, and then threw the half-burned cold flame out of the crack in the door, marking a landing direction for himself.
Then, he took a deep breath, slowly exerted his limbs, lifted the elevator that was pressing on him a distance again, and then slammed his feet against the wall, and with this kick, the whole person shot like a cannonball towards the slightly open door.
The elevator that lost his support made a metallic squeak, and its own weight drove it to rumble into the abyss below, Shen Hao just retracted his feet from the crack in the elevator door quickly, and the heavy elevator swept past the elevator door with a whistling sound, and the rumbling sound gradually faded away, and after a long time, a dull crash was faintly heard below.
"It's dangerous, it's dangerous." Shen Hao turned over and stood up from the ground, and at this time, the cold flame also burned to the end, and the elevator room he was in fell into darkness again. The lighting items on his body were limited, so Shen Hao no longer wasted it, and he stood quietly in place for a while, one to recover his strength, and the other to let his eyes gradually adapt to the darkness around him.
Although his abilities are not specialized in sensory enhancement, but the profound background makes his five senses still far superior to ordinary people, and after resting for a while, the things in the darkness gradually reveal their outlines, although they cannot be clearly seen, but they will no longer interfere with his normal actions.
"Sixty-seven floors, fortunately, the distance of the slide is not too outrageous." Shen Hao pressed his eyes almost completely to the wall, and only then could he barely see the floor number marked on it. There is an isolation door every ten floors, so as long as he breaks through two more iron gates, he can reach the position where the elevator was stalled again.
Although Shen Hao has been secretly scolding the irresponsible Kanzaki Ryuichi, he is still secretly wary of the thing that suddenly dragged the Sakura of Xiyuan Temple in his heart. After all, he was on the side at the time of the incident, but he didn't notice it at all when the other party suddenly appeared.
"These USBMs are really tough......