Chapter 236: Four Newcomers
The elevator was last opened on the twelfth floor, right in the middle of the building.
"It's game over, but the 24th floor still hasn't appeared."
The silver-gray elevator door was facing the dark corridor, and Chen Ge stood inside and took out the leaflet of the Strange Talk Association.
"The first floor corresponds to the twenty-third floor, the second floor corresponds to the twenty-second floor, the whole building is an odd number of floors, the twelfth floor is in the middle, there is no corresponding floor."
After thinking about it for a long time, Chen Ge didn't know whether he had succeeded or not: "Is it because he was seen by the old man?" So failed? Need to try again? β
Today is already Wednesday, the night is dark, staying alone in the elevator looking at the dark corridor outside, Chen Ge also feels that something is wrong.
"There is a number 24 on the elevator display, but there is no corresponding button on the control panel, is this a mistake by the installer, or is it intentional?"
Chen Ge was unwilling to leave and decided to go to the top floor to take a look in person.
He pressed the button on the twenty-third floor, and the elevator began to rise again.
The numbers keep changing, and they don't stop in between.
β20γ21γ22β¦β¦β
Chen Ge looked at the display, and when the number changed from 22 to 23, he suddenly found that the elevator did not slow down as before.
The color of the numbers deepened, as if blood was oozing from the wound, a cold wind blew in the closed elevator car, and strange noises were heard from outside the elevator from time to time.
Chen Ge stood in the corner, his body half-arched, his fingertips lightly touching the pig-killing knife tied to his calf.
After about two seconds, the elevator began to slow down, and when the elevator came to a complete stop, the last number on the display lit up.
β24οΌβ
The silver-gray elevator doors opened to both sides, and a few strands of blood stuck to the middle, and a strong stench poured in from the outside.
Covering his mouth and nose, Chen Ge was very familiar with this smell, he had smelled a similar smell in Wang Shenglong's room in Haiming's apartment, as well as on the first floor of the third ward.
"This smell seems to be peculiar to the monster on the other side of the door!"
The elevator door was completely opened, and a cold wind blew in the empty car, and Chen Ge looked at the almost completely dark corridor outside, a trace of hesitation flashed in his eyes.
He didn't go out directly, and first set the one-key dialing of his mobile phone to Gu Feiyu's phone, although this is one more process than calling the police, it can effectively prevent the police from leaking his existence.
After setting it up, Chen Ge took out another item from his personal pocket, and before he came, he was also thinking about whether he should take this thing out of the haunted house.
"There is a requirement on the leaflet that all members of the association are not allowed to divulge information to each other, so masks must be worn."
There are many masks in Chen Ge's haunted house, but there is only one that is most comfortable to wearβthe patchwork face of the doctor with a cranial crusher.
"Wearing it, I feel like I can fit in with this psychopathic community more easily."
It's a little unnatural to wear a human skin mask outside a haunted house for the first time, but now I can't think about these details.
Walking out of the elevator, Chen Ge glanced back, there were some blood marks and mutilated bloody handprints on the walls on both sides of the elevator door, as if someone had struggled to climb to the side of the elevator, and then was brutally caught back.
The silver-gray elevator doors closed slowly, and the elevator never came up again.
"How am I going to get out?"
There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and Chen Ge can only comfort himself like this now.
He checked his belongings and walked down the hallway.
In the elevator, he could hear someone screaming outside, but after coming out, Chen Ge found that the surroundings were very quiet.
The security doors on both sides were locked, and no sound came from the room.
"It feels like there's no living person on this level."
As we walked on, the light grew dimer and the walls began to see more and more blood stains.
"Is the Weird Tales Society in one room?" Chen Ge walked forward about ten meters away, and suddenly saw an anti-theft door open in front of him.
Cautiously approaching the iron door, he was about to look inside, when a man wearing a beak mask suddenly stepped out of it.
The two sides looked at each other, Chen Ge stopped, but the bird's beak man took a step back in fright.
Chen Ge didn't speak first, in this completely unfamiliar environment, the more he talked, the more dangerous it became.
Both of them were silent, and after about a few breaths, the bird-beaked man asked with confusion: "Newcomer?" β
"Yes." Chen Ge changed his voice, making his voice sound more hoarse and low.
"There are already three newcomers here today, how can there be a fourth?" The bird-beaked man blocked in front of Chen Ge: "How did you find here?" β
Chen Ge handed the leaflet of the Strange Talk Association to the bird's beak man, and after the man glanced at it, he was even more puzzled: "It was the leaflet we sent out, but why did four people come this time?" β
He walked up to Chen Ge and looked up and down, his long beak almost touching Chen Ge's face.
"I can't smell strange smells...... "The bird's beak man closed the security door next to him, and said not too sure, "You come with me." β
Chen Ge lowered his head and followed behind, his eyelids twitching slightly, and just now at the moment when the bird-beaked man turned around and closed the door, he glanced into the room.
There were several wooden boxes in the gloomy room, one of which had not yet had time to be sealed, with half of the arm stuck in the gap, and a circular wound could be seen in the center of the palm, as if it had been pecked by a bird's beak.
Following the birdbeak man, the two came to the end of the hallway.
"Let's go inside." He pointed to a door in the deepest part of the corridor and said to Chen Ge.
"Okay."
Chen Ge didn't talk nonsense, opened the door and paused for a second or two, and after making sure that there was no danger at the door, he walked in directly.
Taking one step at a time, when Chen Ge saw the scene in the house, he took a soft breath.
The room was much larger than he had imagined, with an elongated dining table in the living room, five men in black robes wearing faceless masks sitting on the left and right, and three people in civilian clothes standing at the table.
"Thirteen ......" Chen Ge wrote down all the characteristics of those people in just a few seconds: "Is it because of the light?" Why is it that the five people on the left have no shadows, and only the five people on the right have shadows? β
"Come in, fourth newcomer, good luck." The bird-beak man didn't give Chen Ge a chance to repent, and closed the security door heavily.
"Bang!"
The door closed loudly, and everyone in the room was attracted, looking at Chen Ge through the mask.
"How can there be a fourth newcomer?" The man in the first seat on the right-hand side stood up, his voice a little shrill and a cigarette scar on his exposed little finger.
"Don't interrupt other people's stories." The person in the first seat on the left spoke lightly, and there was a hint of dissatisfaction in his tone.
"But why are there four newcomers?" The man on the right sat back in his seat.
"It doesn't matter how many newcomers there are now, there are only three left in the end anyway."
The man on the left said gloomily, and when he heard this, the three newcomers standing at the table did not look very good.