Chapter 1 Midnight Elevator
Where do people go when they die, the legend is heaven and hell, in fact, the most likely is to live around us, in many inconspicuous corners.
Elevator incident 1: Lan Keer, a Chinese Canadian girl who shocked the Internet, disappeared into the elevator after making a series of strange movements. When it reappeared, it was already a corpse lying in the tank.
Elevator incident 2: The man saw his long-dead grandfather in the elevator in the middle of the night, lying on the top of the elevator and smiling at him, he could see but couldn't touch it.
Elevator incident 3: It happened in Taiwan around 09 years, an old man walked into the elevator, and there was only an old woman inside. The old woman insisted on pressing the floor button on the sixth floor, but the sixth floor was empty for many years and no one cared about it. After reaching the sixth floor, the old man looked back and found that there was nothing behind him! When the elevator door opened, a corpse fell towards him, and this corpse was clearly the old woman.
Sometimes legends are not scary, but what is scary is that legends are facts.
The elevator you've taken isn't necessarily full of living people......
When I was 26 years old, my society was hit by a major financial crisis and I was displaced.
I'm unemployed.
I looked for many jobs one after another, and although those companies were very polite, I frowned when I looked at my education and resume, and I knew my embarrassment, and I left in disgrace every time.
In this era of college students walking all over the place, college students who are not graduates of Tsinghua University and Peking University are no longer the sweets of a few decades ago, and they can even be called dogs.
For nearly a month, I hid in my parents' house to gnaw at the elderly, and my relatives and friends all sneered, saying, isn't this the one? The boss is not small, and he is still lying at home eating and waiting for death, and he can't even talk about a girlfriend, it seems that playing a bachelor for a lifetime is a stereotype.
I was in despair.
At that time, a friend approached me and said that there was a good thing that could help me through my current predicament, and asked if I would be interested in doing it.
I have a job as an elevator administrator, and I want to laugh after hearing it, and I say don't you just open the elevator door for people? How does this kind of work help me get through this dilemma? If you take it as a business, it is estimated that you will have to drink the northwest wind.
He smiled mysteriously and said, "Every day on the night shift, from twelve o'clock in the middle of the night to six o'clock in the morning, you can get this amount every month." As he spoke, he spread his hands wide and stretched out ten fingers.
I said that the salary of this job will be as much as 10,000 yuan per month?
At that time, my first reaction was that there was something wrong with this job, but then I was carried away by the salary of 10,000 yuan a month, which was too great a temptation, and I believe that no one can resist it.
I took the subway to the address my friend gave me and set off to this property company called Fenglin Haojing.
The manager of the property company is named Song Ming, and he looks polite, and the salary and treatment offered to me are even more tempting than what my friend said!
The monthly salary is not just 10,000, but 12,000! This is just the basic salary, in addition to the monthly full attendance bonus, which can already reach four figures. There are also overtime rewards during the New Year's holidays.
At that time, I only had one feeling, that is, pie fell from the sky and fell on my head, so I nodded and agreed.
Then he smiled mysteriously and said, "Well, you have to pay attention. The period from 1 to 3 o'clock in the middle of the night is the peak period, you must open the elevator door every five minutes, there is no half-point pool, even if no one enters or leaves, you must open the elevator door on time! Got it! ”
After he said this, my heart began to feel furious.
You know, the general formalism is based on the situation that things are reasonable, but what this manager Song Ming told me is very wrong.
Especially the sentence 'Even if no one is in or out, you have to open the elevator door on time'.
Building 4 of Fenglin Haojing is very dilapidated, the voice-activated lights in the corridor are on and off, and there are countless holes on the cement floor, and there is a danger of breaking feet every minute.
What's worse is that there are not many residents at all, standing downstairs at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night and looking upstairs, only a few windows are lit, and everything else that can be seen is pitch black.
This is an incredible thing, it is said that Fenglin Haojing is a strong property company, the other buildings from No. 1 to No. 3, No. 5 to No. 10 are all luxuriously decorated and brightly lit, only Building 4 is so special.
Between half past one and three o'clock in the middle of the night, a lot of people suddenly appeared in Building 4, and I didn't have time to be surprised or ask more, so I kept opening and closing the elevator doors. The men seemed flustered and hurried, as if something important was waiting for them downstairs.
Among them, the older ones were obviously twice as many as the younger ones, and each of them had anxious expressions on their faces, scrambling to gather at the elevator door, always ready to walk in after the elevator door reopened.
At that time, I was so busy that I didn't have time to care about what these people were doing, sending away a wave and then ushering in a wave, and so on, almost in one breath I was busy until the sky broke.
In the end, I was exhausted, and while there was no one in the corridor, I quickly sat down on the steps and smoked a cigarette, and looked at the time, it was half past three in the morning.
From one o'clock to half-past three, my hands barely stopped, and my legs stood as if they had been filled with lead.
After a short break, I walked back to the elevator door, and the rest of the time was much lighter, there was almost no one, and the entire corridor of Building 4 gradually began to be quiet.
At four o'clock, there was no one at all, and the night was restored to its original appearance.
When I was in a daze, I suddenly heard a sound of footsteps on the floor from the bottom of the stairs, at first I thought it was Song Ming to check the work, the footsteps lasted for a long time, but then suddenly stopped.
I saw something strange, so I called Manager Song twice, but I never heard a sound from under the stairs again. When I walked over, there was no one in the stairs at all, and when I looked down, there was no one either.
I was very confused, it was already this time, and Building 4 was so weird, except for Song Ming, I really couldn't imagine that anyone would come here.
I called out to Manager Song a few times, and at the bottom of the long staircase, only my echo answered. I have to say that my heart is a little hairy, I walked up the stairs to return to the elevator door, and as I walked, I looked down, and it was empty and dim.
When I looked back, a middle-aged man in his forties was standing in the hallway, looking at me with a blank face, his face was blue, his hair was gray, and his expression was extremely haggard.
I've always disliked dealing with other people, especially such a weird man who suddenly appeared in the middle of the night.
Without saying a word, he walked to the elevator door as if he had strong autism, and kept looking inside the elevator, as if waiting for something.
I suddenly realized that it was not a problem to go on like this, so I asked him softly out of professional ethics: "Sir, are you waiting for someone?" ”
The strange man didn't say a word, still looking straight into the elevator, with a sad face, and sighed with a cigarette in his mouth. I asked him several times in a row, but he didn't answer, and I didn't bother to pay attention to him when I saw the situation, and sat down on the steps with my head down.
By the time I looked up again, the strange man was nowhere to be seen, and I didn't think so, and I got off work until six o'clock, sitting on the steps and fiddling with my phone.
This is my first day in Building 4, I don't have much to think about, I just think that the money is really good, and I deeply feel that I have picked up a big bargain, and I am overjoyed.
After returning to the dormitory, I took off my work clothes and was about to lie down to sleep, when I suddenly felt that something was wrong with my hair, so I took out my mobile phone and took a photo on the back of my head.
I looked at it, jumped out of bed and looked at it carefully, and after seeing it clearly, I almost didn't pass out, and my black and thick hair actually turned gray overnight.
I'm only twenty-four years old this year, and if my hair turns gray overnight, it's a complete ghost. I didn't even have time to put on my shoes and hurriedly ran to the mirror, I saw that I was extremely haggard in the mirror, my eyes were dull as if I was terminally ill, and this gray hair made people tremble when I saw it.
What's even weirder is that the person who appeared in the mirror was not me at all, but the strange man I saw in Building 4 in the early hours of the morning......