Catch up

In the case of rushing with all his might, six flights of stairs and a flat distance of about 200 meters are not a problem, it can be said that it can be said to be in a flash. It's just that when they arrived on the first floor of the opposite building, they saw the appearance of the elevator over there, and their hearts inevitably sank.

Although it is also a building that has not yet been put into use, the progress here is not a star and a half behind the previous one. Although the building they were in just now smelled stronger, it was almost ready to be put into use, and it was only about to put the finishing touches on the decoration. However, the main structure of the building here has just been completed, and the exterior walls are being dealt with, not only are they bare everywhere, but the key components have not yet been put in place. Even the large tower crane used to build the building had not been removed, and the behemoth was watching them silently outside the window, like a tall, thin one-armed beast.

At this time, they were standing in the elevator room, in front of them were eight empty elevator shafts, and they could see that the cables and hanging cables had not been laid, only one guide cable hung alone there, and the most critical car was not yet in place, and the control panel or something was not to be discussed. Of course, now that you have the cable, you can do the same thing with it, but the problem is that it was sliding down just now, and this is from the first floor. Even if they could climb up the cable here, it would be much more tiring than walking up the stairs!

Xiang Nanxing stood in front of the dark elevator shaft, only feeling speechless for a while.

"Hey, Doraemon, do you have any other props?" He asked without looking back.

"Aside from the stuff just now, there's just a marker." Ji Fenghua shrugged, "It's a pity that I threw it away before, otherwise I can try to draw a random door for you here." ”

"That's enough for you two." Lang Anbang said angrily in the back, "Since there is no elevator, you can only go up the stairs, so don't hurry up." ”

"Stairs? There are more than 100 floors, okay......" Ji Fenghua muttered. But just like Lang Anbang just said, there are only two ways to go upstairs is the elevator and the stairs, if the elevator is shut down like the building in front, then you can also find something like a control cabinet to restart it, but the problem now is that there is no elevator in this building at all. There was obviously no choice but to go up the stairs.

Even more troubling is the fact that the staircase of more than 100 floors, although it is too long for any to be tortured, is not long enough for them. Because on this stretch, they have to show more speed and better stamina to make up for the distance they have pulled down from the two groups in front of them. According to the general speed calculation, there was at least thirty floors between them and Lu Yixin, and the "fox" who set off earlier would only be in the front place. In addition to counting on the two groups of them to meet and delay each other, they must be at least a third faster than their opponents in terms of speed in order to have a chance to catch up.

There really is no time to waste.

This long climb is like a marathon, Xiang Nanxing's previous record of trying to climb stairs at full speed is 20 floors, which is a high-rise elevator that he encountered when he was working part-time to deliver food during the summer vacation of middle school. In the first ten floors, he felt relatively relaxed, but from the eleventh floor, the fatigue accumulated before seemed to surge up all of a sudden, his pace gradually became heavy, and the speed of his ascent slowed down.

Although he was still able to adjust his breathing so that his heart rate would not get out of control, his aching feet kept protesting at that time, and each step seemed to be against an invisible rope tied to his ankles, and the pull of this rope continued to increase. Xiang Nanxing remembered that he had climbed the last three floors almost with his hands and feet, and when he climbed to the door of the house, his feet were shaking uncontrollably. At that time, I just wanted to sit on the ground and never move again.

After several years, especially some time ago, he believes that his physical fitness is much stronger than when he was in middle school, but the challenges he faces have also increased several times in one breath.

The best physical fitness among the three is Lang Anbang, who has insisted on SWAT training for decades, followed by Xiang Nanxing, and although Ji Fenghua usually insists on fitness, she can't compare to the first two in terms of physical strength, and she is already a little out of breath if she persists until now.

So among the three, Xiang Nanxing opened the way, Lang Anbang was in the middle, and Ji Fenghua was at the end.

There is a reason for this arrangement. Because Lang Anbang's physical strength is obviously better than the first two, if he takes the lead, one of them may accidentally throw off the two behind him, or inadvertently bring the rhythm too fast, making it difficult for them to follow. If it is replaced by Xiang Nanxing, which is relatively close to the level of ordinary people, at least in terms of speed, it will be more normal. It was up to him to take the lead and explore the way, and then Lang Anbang was in the middle of the dispatch, and on the one hand, he could be distracted at any time to pay attention to Ji Fenghua's condition, and once he found that the latter was physically exhausted, he would propose to rest in time; On the other hand, if there was really an encounter halfway, he could also rush to the front line as soon as possible and meet the enemy side by side with Xiang Nanxing. This kind of need to have enough explosive power after a long journey, and you have to be able to do it with ease. Xiang Nanxing thinks that he is a little hanging, not to mention Ji Fenghua, it must be Lang Anbang.

If the team is properly configured, the speed will naturally go up. Anyway, Ji Fenghua in the back is taken care of, and Xiang Nanxing walks in front and just buries his head up. Having learned the lesson he had learned before, this time he didn't run with all his might as soon as he came up, but only used a little faster than his usual speed to climb the stairs, first warming up his body, and then slowly accelerating up.

It was only not long after the start that Xiang Nanxing discovered an important problem.

It's so stuffy......

Usually I just walk a few floors and I don't feel it, but it's only a matter of a minute or two anyway. But when you walk down a dozen or dozens of floors, the silent atmosphere and the monotonous scenes that are constantly repeated in front of you are indeed easy to go crazy. This kind of psychological impatience is by no means a trivial matter, not to mention weakening alertness, if it lasts for a long time, it will also make people unconsciously accelerate, thus increasing the consumption of physical strength.

Probably also aware of this, Lang Anbang suddenly said: "Xiaoxing, do you remember when you went to the SWAT training base when you were a child. ”

The corners of Xiang Nanxing's mouth unconsciously flashed a bitter smile: "Remember." ”

"At that time, you were still very young, you should be in the first and second grades of elementary school, and I was just a young criminal policeman who had just worked, but Sister Xiang was about to become the deputy captain. In our class of police academy students, she was the most dazzling idol. She was in charge of that training session and we were all very excited and we were in the best shape to perform. ”

Lang Anbang raised his head, as if caught in a memory.

"That was the first time I've seen you. I still remember that the day's project was running the stairs and climbing outside. In the latter case, you're too far off to be able to play, so you're all so angry that you're climbing the stairs. As an elementary school student, your physical strength at that time was considered to be the best among your peers, but after all, this is SWAT training, which is completely from a different world, so just a few seconds after you start, you were thrown far away, and before the first corner was left, you couldn't even see the figure in front of you. ”

"But you run to the end every time." "Not once did you give up and stop because you were thrown off," he said. ”

"I'm just a tendon, I love face too much." Xiang Nanxing said embarrassedly, "You are all watching from the side, and my mother is also there, I always feel that it is too embarrassing to give up, and I have to finish running to show her when I cry." ”

"So it's remarkable."

Lang Anbang nodded: "I've been impressed with you since then, and it's not just because you're Sister Xiang's son. At that time, I saw you crying and continuing to run up, and I thought that you would also take the police academy in the future and follow the same path as your mother. ”

Xiang Nanxing smiled bitterly: "I've disappointed you." ”

"There is nothing to be disappointed about, the choice of the future is personal freedom, and it is not the old society that pays attention to the inheritance of the father's business...... Ah, I'm sorry, inherit my mother's business. Lang Anbang patted his mouth lightly, shook his head and opened the topic.

"However, even I didn't expect that one day I would be able to fight alongside you."

"Me too." Xiang Nanxing turned around and smiled at him. His gaze swept over Ji Fenghua's face as if he was nothing, and he couldn't see what kind of expression the other party was at this moment, but he felt that his meaning had been conveyed to some extent.

At the elevator entrance before, the two sentences that Ji Fenghua said to him inexplicably, Xiang Nanxing could only attribute them to her unnecessary nervousness. Maybe it's because of Yue Ming's incident before, Ji Fenghua seems to have a natural wariness of people Xiang Nanxing knows, even Lang Anbang, who has already revealed his identity. If you think about it a little, you can see that in the case of no more than three people, there is no conflict of interest between the "civilian" players, and only cooperation is the best outcome. The only thing to worry about is whether there will be new companions who will knock out the original companions - but looking at the rest of the people, Xiang Nanxing doesn't think that it will be more conducive to winning by using someone to replace Ji Fenghua, at least he will oppose it with all his might.

After hearing this conversation, she should be able to understand the relationship between herself and Uncle Lang. Xiang Nanxing thought. This is not suitable for taking out the puzzle in the first place, and it would be great if it could dispel the concerns in her heart in this way......

"Huh?"

Just as he was thinking this, a strange smell suddenly entered his nose. At first, he didn't react to what was on his mind, but he took a few more steps up by inertia, and the smell suddenly became stronger, so thick that no matter how distracted, he couldn't ignore it. Behind him, Lang Anbang and Ji Fenghua had already sensed that something was wrong and stood still in advance.

"What is this?" Ji Fenghua frowned. Although she walked in the end, the girl's sense of smell was better than the previous two, and she had already smelled the alcohol-like smell on it before she turned the corner, and subconsciously felt bad.

Xiang Nanxing also stood still. His first instinct was to look left and right, looking for the source of the smell. The gas had no color and could not be distinguished by the naked eye, but when they were quiet, Xiang Nanxing faintly heard a "hissing" sound coming from above, which was like the sound of high-pressure canned gas leaking out of a container little by little.

"It's poison gas!" His face changed.

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