April 1. Sunday. Night, 22:26.

After the brutal earthquake, the mall landscape elevator was suspended between the fourth and fifth floors.

The elevator cable has been broken, and the elevator is falling rapidly like a guillotine knife. A fishy and thick liquid splashed on Mo Xing'er's face, and she closed her eyes in pain, restraining herself from screaming out loud with fear and nausea, otherwise the liquid would flow into her mouth. At the same time, her whole body fell suddenly, and her long hair rose upward, as if she had committed suicide by jumping from a tall building, like a free-falling leaf, but without the wind affecting gravity—a memory that had been made many years ago.

The brain didn't know which tendon to turn to, and in less than a tenth of a second, I remembered a Weibo I had read: How to escape when the elevator suddenly fell?

First, press the buttons on every floor – but it's too late. Second, if there is a handrail in the elevator, immediately hold it tightly - Mo Xing'er's right hand side is, naturally hold it tightly. Thirdly, the entire back and head are close to the inner wall of the elevator in a straight line, relying on the elevator wall as a protection for the spine - fortunately, there is no longer a glass curtain wall behind her, but a metal side wall. Fourth, the knee is in a flexed posture because the ligament is the only tissue in the body that is rich in elasticity, and it must be borrowed from the knee bend to withstand the pressure of a heavy blow.

In less than half a second to complete these actions, the elevator has hit the ground! She felt a strong tremor, and then heard the sound of large swaths of glass shattering. The eardrums buzzed loudly, and the back slammed against the inner wall of the elevator, and the feet were almost blown into the air, and the internal organs were also violently hit, and the heart seemed to be knocked out of the throat.

The elevator stopped completely, but the heartbeat did not stop, but beat even more wildly.

As long as there is a heartbeat!

Mo Xing'er couldn't believe that she was still alive, but the rapid and violent heartbeat like a war drum, as well as the pain in her back and soles of her feet, and the almost falling bones and joints, made her confirm that she was still alive.

Fortunately, the landscape elevator only goes to the first floor of the Future Dream Mall, and does not reach the fourth basement floor like several other straight elevators. So, in fact, she only fell four and a half stories high and was protected by a sturdy elevator. Otherwise, if you fall four more floors to the underground garage, you are likely to die with a fracture all over your body!

It was still like an ancient tomb in front of her, and she endured the pain all over her body and struggled to get up. Although the elevator door has long been opened, I can't see the situation outside clearly, for fear that I will fall into the abyss as soon as I go out. She trembled and fumbled on the ground, finding it all broken glass, and finally found a metal object—her phone. Press the phone's unlock button and the screen glows with a blinding light – because you've been in the dark for too long.

She saw two twisted human legs.

Obviously, it wasn't his own legs, which looked slightly plump, and the black silk stockings had been stained with blood and excrement. The two legs were scattered near the elevator door, and there was a blur of flesh and blood, and it was impossible to tell which part of the human body it was. Mo Xing'er forced herself to calm down, relying on the light of the mobile phone screen, and saw a pair of red high heels, which had fallen from the two poor feet, and the almost intact soles of the feet, with a few pieces of broken glass, and the big toe was still twitching instinctively.

The hapless woman died in such a tragic way that only two legs were severed from the groin - the upper half of her body remained on the fifth floor.

Mo Xing'er suddenly understood that the filth on her face was not only a thick black blood, but also the excrement of this poor woman. A strong feeling of nausea ran through his stomach, and he managed not to vomit on the dead man's two stump legs. She threw away her blood-stained coat, illuminated the open elevator door with her phone, and strode over the blurred pile of flesh and blood into the ground floor of the Future Dream Mall. At this point, dinner and lunch were all thrown up on the floor. When she vomited and there was nothing left in her stomach, she limped out of the elevator. There were shouts in the distance, and it turned out that there were quite a few survivors. She didn't take a few steps down the passage before she found the bathroom.

The women's toilet was also pitch black, with the sound of running water and the toilets being damaged by the earthquake. She didn't dare to look deeper into the toilet, for fear of seeing a corpse lying on the ground, and only shone at the sink at the entrance. Thankfully, there's still running water! Maybe it's something left over from the water pipes. Mo Xing'er didn't dare to look in the mirror with her mobile phone, seeing her bloody face, she buried her head in the sink, rinsed her hair and face with cold water, and washed it for about ten minutes, feeling like she was going to wash her skin.

Use your mobile phone to illuminate the face in the mirror - in the dark and leaky women's bathroom, the faint mobile phone screen illuminates the face of a long-haired woman, and I can't help but think of the woman who combs her hair in the mirror in "Midnight Bell". She saw a pair of frightened eyes, so strange and terrible, and her face was as pale as a dead man. Her slender ten fingers touched her face, clinging to the wet hair on her forehead, faintly revealing a bewitching glow.

No, it's not yourself!

She bowed her head in pain, her arms and shoulders ached, and she was covered with blood when she touched it. She suddenly realized that she was bleeding, and turned to look sideways, and sure enough, she found a lot of broken glass ballast on her right arm and the back of her shoulder.

It turned out that the elevator had just fallen down, and the glass curtain wall was shattered, and some of the crumbs were stuck to the body. Fortunately, she lowered her head at that time and subconsciously protected her face, otherwise she would have broken her appearance! I didn't feel it because I was too nervous just now, but now it's in terrible pain.

It's super lucky, if—even a large piece of broken glass could kill her.

Mo Xing'er struggled to hold the mobile phone with her injured hand, and pulled out the glass ballast with the other hand—there would be a lot of blood stains with each blow, and the sound kept echoing in the women's room. She was amazed at how bold she was, if she had fainted in normal times.

The glass ballast that could be seen by the naked eye was pulled out, and she took off her upper body clothes, leaving her stripes naked in the air, and no one would come in such a place anyway. She examined her body carefully, leaned down and rinsed the wound with tap water - there must still be many small glass ballast remains, which must be removed as much as possible, otherwise the injury would be worse.

When will I be able to escape? When will I meet a doctor? Or can't escape again?

Fortunately, each wound is very small, and it quickly stops bleeding and scabs over. During the whole process, she did not shed a single tear. Put on the close-fitting clothes full of holes again, and think about going to the women's clothing store to find a few beautiful and warm clothes, there will be no more salespeople to issue invoices to collect money, right?

When death is on the verge of death, why are you still thinking about this? Being able to escape from the death elevator means that in the underworld, there is some kind of power to protect you?

Running out of the toilet soaking wet, she finds a towel in a small shop and hides in the dark to dry herself. As soon as he returned to the atrium of the ground floor, he tripped under his feet and stumbled and fell to the ground.

She rubbed her sore knee and turned back in horror—a corpse with twisted limbs, its head hidden in the shadows, and a mess of slimy material on the ground, from which she had fallen. Take a few steps back and look up at the atrium, where there is a faint glimmer of light. remembered that ten minutes ago, he came out of the ninth-floor cinema, and no matter what, he couldn't have imagined that he would come to the ground floor in this way.

Such a short period of time. What's wrong with the world?

Mo Xing'er looked at the screen of her mobile phone, but there was still no signal. From time to time, people ran by in a panic and rushed to the same place, so the light was concentrated. Only then did she understand that it was the gate of the Future Dream Mall, and everyone wanted to escape as soon as possible.

Many men were armed with tools and tried with all their might to dig up the rubble that blocked the gate. Suddenly, she noticed that one of them was a little familiar, and under the light of the emergency lights, the man in his thirties was struggling to dig the passage - Mo Xing'er remembered, just in the elevator at the time of the earthquake, this man was kissing his girlfriend in front of her as if no one was around. However, when the elevator fell and stopped between the fourth and fifth floors, he timidly left his girlfriend and ran alone, only to have his poor girlfriend cut in two by the suddenly falling elevator. Probably, people show heroic courage only when they protect their own lives.

Behind this group of anxious men, there are more men and women, who push and shove each other, trying to occupy the best position to escape.

Mo Xing'er didn't squeeze in to join in the fun, and she knew that she didn't have the strength. She held up her mobile phone and took a picture of it in the corner, saw the landline hanging on the wall, picked it up and listened to it, but there was a dead silence.

Wireless and wired communications have been disrupted, unless there is a special tool such as a maritime satellite phone, can it be found in this building?

After walking about ten meters along the foot of the wall, she found a woman squatting at her feet, holding a sleeping boy in her arms. Mo Xing'er didn't dare to disturb the mother and son to rest, so she walked away.

She subconsciously hugged her shoulders, her hair was still wet, she was shivering with cold, and she really wanted to take a hot shower immediately!

Suddenly, there was a deafening sound in the lighted foyer, followed by countless panicked screams, and the emergency lights went out immediately.

Mo Xing'er seemed to hear the sound of her heart shattering in half.