Chapter Twenty-Three: The Sixteenth Floor

"Unexpectedly, it was pitch black in the hallway. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info can be seen to be bright, only the elevator button and the red number showing the floor. Of course I pressed the button, but the elevator plummeted and refused to return. I cried out in my heart and looked around. Needless to say, I was scared, but at the same time I felt like a nuisance. Do you understand this? “

Wang Yong nodded thoughtfully, is it a corner of this world, or a passage to the spiritual world.

Every world is not so simple, if it is a passage into the spirit world, to be honest, Wang Yong is a little reluctant.

Maybe I came here to experience or experience nightmares.

Yumiji looked at Wang Yong and said, "It has become so dark, it is nothing more than a problem with the function of the hotel. Mechanical, structural, bound to toss. It's continuous overtime, it's a day-long exercise, and it's a lecture from the boss. I've already had enough of this hardship, and I'm just settling down. “

Wang Yong smiled and nodded yes. Suddenly I felt that Yumiyoshi was so cute

。 But it's true, in the real world, no one would think of that, even if they have these things in the depths of their memory. The more important problem is probably the trouble at work.

Thinking of this, I gradually became angry, and anger prevailed more than fear. So I thought about it and saw what was going on, and slowly, I tried to take two or three steps. This time, I realized that something was wrong, that is, the footsteps were different from usual. At that time, I was wearing flat shoes, but the soles of my feet felt different, not the usual feeling of stepping on the carpet, but much rougher. I'm sensitive to this and can't be mistaken, really. And the air is also different from usual, how to say, it seems to be a little moldy, and the air in the hotel is not at all the same. Our hotel is made to bring in fresh air. It's more natural, and I can't imagine any musty smell. And the air there at that time, when you take a breath, you know that it is old air, the air of decades ago, just like the countryside when I was a child

The smell I smelled when I opened the old warehouse when I was playing at home - all kinds of stale smells mixed together, precipitated together, and did not move.

"I looked back at the elevator again, and this time even the on/off lights were gone, I couldn't see anything, everything was dead, completely dead.

"Dead, completely dead," Wang Yong said silently, this was a clue that he hadn't noticed before, maybe it was the world that led to the dead side - the spirit world, or the lower spirit world.

"I'm scared now, can I still be afraid? I was the only one in the dark, and I was so scared. But it's strange, the surroundings are so quiet, dead and quiet, and there is no sound at all, no wonder? Because the power outage usually turns black, people must be making a lot of noise, right? Besides, the hotel is full, and it is impossible not to complain about this kind of thing. However, it was very quiet, eerily quiet. This confuses me even more. ”

You Meiji and Wang Yong embellished the wine at the same time. She put down her glass and held her eyes.

Wang Yong felt that it was not very enjoyable, and took another sip.

"I said, did you listen carefully? Do you understand my feelings? ”

Wang Yong smiled: "Understood, understood." And I know why, I'll tell you later. ”

Wang Yong enjoyed the feeling of staying by Yumiji's side, if he chased the girl he had a crush on, would it be the same?

Although he has gradually forgotten it now, this feeling still makes him a little intoxicated.

With Wang Yong's interruption, the solemn atmosphere dissipated slightly.

"Really?" Yumiji widened her beautiful, swarthy eyes, sighed and said, "It's not that I'm boasting, I'm really not very timid, at least I'm brave among girls, so I won't be like other girls screaming because of the power outage." Fear is afraid. But I didn't want to be scared, and I had to see what was going on anyway, so I groped my way through the corridor with my hands. ”

"Awesome." Wang Yong praised from the bottom of his heart. I came into this world by myself, and I wasn't afraid, because I knew it well. Without knowing anything, exploring into the darkness, and it may be related to ghosts, I am afraid that my knees would have been sore at that time.

"The hallway is straight, and after walking along the wall for a while, it turns right. At this moment, there was a faint light in front of me, which was really faint. It looks like a candle light is leaking from the end. I guess someone found a candle and lit it, so they went up and took a look. When I looked closer, I noticed that the candlelight was pouring out of the crack in the slightly cracked door. ”

Wang Yong's attentive listening was very important to him.

"I stood in front of the door, not knowing what to do. I don't know who is inside, I'm worried about the weird people coming out, and I haven't seen the door at all. So I tried to knock on the door quietly, and the voice was so low that it was almost hard to hear, "yes."

It turned out to be much louder than I expected because it was so quiet. There was no reaction inside. Ten seconds, twenty seconds............ I stood motionless in front of the door, overwhelmed. After a while, there was a rustling sound from inside.

How to put it, it's like the movement of a person in a lot of clothes when he gets out of bed. Then there was the sound of footsteps, very, very slow, "Boom...... Cha...... "Boom......" seemed to be wearing slippers, and the slippers dragged the ground, and he approached the door step by step. “

Yumiyoshi seemed to remember the sound, looked at the space, and shook her head.

The moment I heard that sound, I shuddered, and I thought it might not be the footsteps of people. Not really, but my gut tells me that it's not the sound of a human foot.

It was only then that I realized what it was like to be frozen in my backbone, which was really called freezing, not rhetorical exaggeration. I ran with my legs pulled, maybe a fall or two in the middle, because the stockings were torn, but I didn't realize it at all, running, running, all I can remember is running.

During the running time, all I could think about was what to do if I still didn't understand the elevator. Fortunately, the elevator is still moving, and the floor display lights are still on.

When I saw it stop on the first floor, I pressed the button and the elevator began to move upwards, but it was so slow that it was hard to believe. Second floor...... 3rd Floor ...... 4th Floor ...... I prayed in my heart to hurry up, hurry up, but it didn't work, it was so grinding, as if it was intended to make people anxious. “

She paused, gulped Scarlet Mary, and kept turning the ring.

The music stops and someone is laughing.

"But the footsteps are audible." Cha...... Cha...... Approaching ...... slowly, but one step at a time. "Boom...... Cha...... ...... "Walked out of the room, into the hallway, and approached me. I'm really afraid of people, no, it's not that I'm afraid, it's to jump up and down all the way to my throat. And sweating all over, cold sweat, the smell is not good, cold, like a snake crawling around on the skin, the elevator still hasn't come up, the seventh floor...... 8th Floor ...... 9th Floor ...... The footsteps were getting closer. “

She paused for twenty or thirty seconds, still unhurriedly turning the ring, as if adjusting the radio band.

Wang Yong gently grabbed Yumiyoshi's white-skinned, cold hand that was as delicate as a work of art in the dim light.

Yumiji was a little nervous and wanted to pull his hand out, but like a deer looking for warmth in winter, he got into Wang Yong's big hand.

She lowered her head slightly, and there seemed to be a hint of pale crimson on her ears against the gold earrings.

Wang Yong felt her hands tremble cold and slightly.

It is not pleasant to make a person recall painful, horrible memories again. But a little bit of the fear hidden deep in the heart may be able to heal some of the wounds in the heart.

"It's impossible to know that fear without experiencing it yourself." She said in a dry voice.

"What happened?"