Chapter 3 Elevators

"Finally off work!!" In the office of a foreign company, a female office worker said while stretching her waist that she could have gotten off work normally today, but the customer suddenly changed his mind and put forward a proposal that he must see tomorrow, so the hard-pressed artist Xiao Li could only work overtime to modify according to the customer's requirements, take on the coat and mobile phone and other items, and began to walk to the company's gate, the company did not take the elevator on the first floor, came out to see the time, it was already twelve o'clock in the evening, the bus could not be had, so he took a car, told the master the destination, and the vehicle began to move forward slowly.

The master listened to the radio in the car, and Zhang Zhen told ghost stories, which made Xiao Li, who had been working overtime and coming home late, even more scared, but he was embarrassed to open his mouth to say anything, so he planned to put on headphones and listen to music, the driver master noticed this, and when Xiao Li took out the headphones from his bag, he changed the channel, and said with an apologetic smile: "Sorry, are you afraid?" Xiao Li also smiled and said, "Ah... It's okay, it's okay, you listen, it's okay. The master shook his head and smiled and continued to drive, stopped the car after driving to the gate of Xiao Li's community, gave the master money, thanked the master, and prepared to get out of the car. Xiao Li nodded stunned and said, "Well, what's wrong?" The master's expression obviously became a little embarrassed and said: "It's nothing, I heard that there are a lot of outsiders in this community, pay more attention, don't talk to strangers." ”

Xiao Li smiled and said, "Thank you, it's okay, I'm also a foreigner, I'm here to work, it's okay." The master shook his head and said, "I didn't mean that, anyway, don't bother with strangers." Xiao Li smiled and nodded, then turned around and walked in the direction of home, entered the unit door, there are two elevators inside, but one elevator has always been broken, and it was broken when I came to rent, why was it still broken when I went to work today, and now it has been repaired? After so long, this elevator has finally been repaired? It's kind of weird.

Xiao Li thought about it for a while, forget it, let's sit on the one that has always been good, don't be in case this one suddenly breaks down, trapped inside, who will save me in the middle of the night, I thought about it for a while and pressed the good one, pressed the A elevator, what's going on? Why does the elevator not come down all the time? Always on the 13th floor? I pressed B again, and the B elevator opened instantly, eh?? B elevator tips are also on the 13th floor, how can it be so fast? Maybe the indicator light hasn't been repaired, but the elevator has been repaired, Xiao Li thought in his heart and walked into this elevator, and looked around, this elevator is really dirty... There are a lot of shredded paper strips on the walls around them, a lot of torn off posters, and some posters have black and crimson strip ink traces on them, which is really uncomfortable, after pressing 9 layers, Xiao Li took out his mobile phone and looked at the time, it was already 1 o'clock, ah... It's so late, tomorrow I have to go to the company at 8.30 to show the new design drawings to customers, so annoying, Xiao Li with an impatient expression, put the phone in the bag, raised his head and saw how many floors, huh?? 11th floor? I obviously pressed the 9th floor, why didn't I stop, the 12th floor... When the 13th floor arrived, the elevator door opened, and the scene in front of him made Xiao Li very uncomfortable.

The 13th floor is a very empty place, different from the 9th floor and other floors where I am located, what is greeted here is not the walls and doors, but a lot of sundries, a lot of random stacked chairs, tables, all kinds of sundries, chairs are placed on the table, the chairs on it are stacked in a disorderly manner, it looks more like a bunch of people thrown into it, the entire 13th floor has a thick layer of ash, Xiao Li can clearly smell the smell of dust, which makes Xiao Li feel a little uncomfortable, she pressed the close button, and pressed the 9th floor, Didn't stop, the elevator kept going down, Xiao Li was a little scared, pressed 1 floor, the elevator didn't stop on the first floor, and went directly down to the first floor of the underground parking lot, ding, the door opened, no one outside the door, the underground parking lot at night was very cool, the wind blew from the outside to the inside, and the whole parking lot made a whining sound, which made Xiao Li feel creepy.

Xiao Li felt even more uncomfortable than just now, she didn't dare to take this elevator, but she didn't dare to walk out of the elevator in the parking lot, she was very scared, with tears in her eyes to press the door button with a trembling hand, and at the same time vigorously pressed the 1st floor, the elevator was closed, the lights in the elevator flashed twice, and then went out, which made Xiao Li, who was already afraid, cry out all of a sudden, at this time the phone just rang again, so that Xiao Li, who was already afraid, was even more afraid, she picked it up and saw that it was her roommate Weiwei who called, she was a little relieved, picked it up and cried and said, "Hey?? Vivi save me! This response startled Weiwei, Weiwei was going to ask her when she would come back, if she didn't come back, she would lock the door, it was late, Weiwei was very worried and said, "Where are you?" What's wrong? Xiao Li cried and said, "There is a problem with the elevator, come and save me." But at this time, there was no signal again, Weiwei couldn't hear what Xiao Li said, Weiwei put on slippers, went out and pressed the elevator without changing her clothes, planning to find the community security guard to help, and at the same time preparing to call the police, when she was thinking about how to organize the language, the elevator door opened, pressed Block A, but opened Block B, the elevator was turned on but there was no light, someone was crying, which made Weiwei also very scared, listening to this voice, this is Xiao Li's voice, Weiwei mustered up the courage to say: "Li Meng, Li Meng?" ”

Xiao Li raised his head violently after hearing it, and rushed out to hug Weiwei after seeing Weiwei and cried non-stop, Weiwei looked puzzled, turned on the flashlight with her mobile phone to look at the elevator, and the elevator closed when she just turned on the flashlight, and then rose to the 13th floor, Weiwei helped Xiao Li and kept comforting her and said: "It's okay, it's okay." But I don't know what happened, after more than ten minutes, Xiao Li calmed down, and Weiwei asked her what was wrong? Xiao Li didn't answer, but asked something like this: "Can I sleep with you tonight?" ”

Wei Wei saw that Xiao Li, who was crying, finally stabilized her mood, and couldn't bear to refuse, so she nodded, Xiao Li was so scared that she didn't dare to wash, Wei Wei didn't say anything, and the two fell asleep like this.

The next morning, Weiwei asked Xiao Li to ask for leave, Xiao Li did not ask for leave, or went to work, took the A elevator, and when she arrived on the first floor, she saw that the maintenance sign in front of the B elevator was still there, and the indicator light on the elevator was also off, which made Xiao Li, who was a little relieved, scared again, she was listless all day long when she arrived at the company, and she was always distracted, the department head noticed that she talked to Xiao Li, Xiao Li did not say it directly, because she felt that others would not believe it, and would treat her as a madman, the more she thought about it, the more aggrieved, In the office, Xiao Li cried when he stood facing his supervisor, fortunately, there were only two of them in the supervisor's office, and the supervisor thought that Xiao Li was out of love, but Xiao Li seemed to have been single? Could it be that something is going on at home?

After a long time, the supervisor said: "I don't see any work today, you can go home and rest, and give you half a day off." Xiao Li thanked the supervisor and left the company, but he didn't know where he could go, he didn't eat lunch, he thought about it, he went to a large shopping mall where his roommate worked, his roommate worked at the cosmetics counter in the mall, he was relatively free, he went to the mall and found his roommate, and his roommate got off work early, and her roommate asked her to sit in front of the dressing table and wait for a while, and when she got off work at 2.30, the two went home together.

When taking the elevator, Weiwei saw the maintenance sign of the B elevator and the indicator light that went out, when she pretended not to see anything and didn't say anything, after arriving home, Weiwei proposed that the two go out to the night market, but Xiao Li didn't want to go anywhere, and told Weiwei what happened yesterday, and after Weiwei listened, she said to herself: "It turned out to be true..."

This sentence attracted Xiao Li's attention, Xiao Li looked at Wei Wei, as if she was looking forward to something, Wei Wei walked out with Xiao Li, and said as she walked: "I'm not sure, I heard that the electrician uncle in our community knows what's going on, and I heard a little, I'll take you to find him." I went to the electrician's maintenance room next to the property office building, and there was an old man sitting inside, with his back to the two of them, and he was repairing some instruments inside, which looked like he was repairing the socket, and after Wei Wei and Xiao Li walked in, the uncle didn't reply and asked: "What's broken?" ”

Weiwei stepped forward and said, "Uncle, it's me." The old man turned his head and glanced at him and said, "What's wrong?" Don't have to go to work? Weiwei said: "Morning shift, it's already off work, uncle, this is my roommate, Li Meng, she took the bad elevator last night, can you tell him something." The uncle turned off the lamp on the table, stopped what he was doing, turned half a body to Weiwei and Xiao Li, and said: "There are some things, it's better not to know, as long as you don't take that bad elevator in the future, you will be fine, go back and have a good rest, pay attention in the future." ”

Xiao Li suddenly lowered his head and covered his face and cried, which made the old man soften his heart and said, "It's okay, girl, don't worry." Xiao Li wiped her tears and sobbed and said, "I don't really want to know, but when I think about it, I feel scared, I'm afraid that I won't dare to take the elevator again." The old man took a deep breath and said: "He has no malice, he won't hurt others, he is just greedy for fun, and it is because of this that he lost his life." Wei Wei looked at the old man and said, "Uncle, please, tell us, at least we need to know what it is." ”

Uncle stood up and walked out, Wei Wei followed out, Xiao Li wiped his tears, and also came out, Uncle raised his head and looked at these tall buildings, and then looked at these flower beds and said: "This community is very beautiful, many people want to live in." Xiao Li didn't say a word in the back, she wasn't in the mood, Wei Wei nodded and hummed.

The old man continued: "When this community was first built, many people were doing greening, and at that time a lot of houses were sold, but there were very few people who came to live, and there was a group of little boys at that time, all of whom were not big, and the oldest was 15 years old. The others are 12.3 years old, the youngest looks like 7.8 years old and secretly ran in to play all day, the security guard also said that he was not allowed to come again in the future, but the children who listened, these children often sneaked into the underground parking lot, ran around in it, shouted and shouted, ran into the elevators, from the lowest to the highest, the security guards caught many times, kicked them out, among them was an 8-year-old child, after eating at night, sneaked in again, hummed in the underground parking lot, pressed the B elevator, he went up, pressed the highest building, went to the highest building and came out to see, nothing special, piled up a lot of sundries, looked around, ran and ran nothing special and left, pressed the elevator to the negative first floor, a person was too bored, just jumped a few times in the elevator, every time the elevator jumped and suddenly sank, which made this child feel very interesting, he kept jumping, kept jumping, to the negative one, he pressed the top again, and then began to jump again, and very hard, very hard to jump, the elevator suddenly sinks and shakes violently, but does not fall directly to the bottom, sinks about 2 floors, stops, and then slowly goes down, The child began to jump again, and then quickly sank two floors, and then stopped, this is really stopped, stopped on the 1st floor, after stopping the child was unhappy, and kept jumping, wanted to let the elevator go down, this time the elevator was really broken, from the 1st floor to the position of the negative second floor, fell to the lowest, the elevator light went out, the indicator light went out, the electricity was gone, and it was directly broken. ”

Speaking of this, the old man lowered his head and sighed and continued: "Because of the darkness around him, the child began to be afraid, began to cry, made a whining sound, echoed in the underground parking lot, but it was useless to cry, at that time there were only five residents in the whole community, none of them were in this building, no one knew what happened, the child cried for a long time, and began to scratch the wall with his hands, to hit the elevator door, and there were advertisements for the sale and decoration of the house on the wall, and the little boy kept scratching on the wall with his hands, and after scratching for a long time, his hands were broken, and he bled a lot, All kinds of posters and advertisements were torn into one by one, and there was still blood on them, and then the child died in the elevator, and he was found in the afternoon of the second day after his death, and when the elevator was opened, the child's nails were gone, all blood, and there were obvious tear stains on his face. ”

Xiao Li lowered his head at this time and whispered: "Could it be that what I heard at that time was not the sound of the wind?" ”

The old man turned around and faced the electrician's office and said: "Later, the elevator has been broken and I had planned to arrange someone to repair it, but the repair has not been smooth, it will be broken the next day, the elevator will move by itself, and then I told the property that the circuit board was affected, and it may be damp so it moved by itself, but many people know that it may not be because of this, the property put a maintenance card on the first floor, and the electricity was cut off, but in the middle of the night and early in the morning, the elevator will light up, and then run by itself, to the highest, and then to the negative one, and so on." , although this is not the case every day, but one or two is enough to be scary. ”

Weiwei said: "In other words, there is no electricity in the elevator all year round? ”

The old man nodded and said: "Well, occasionally someone accidentally takes the B elevator, nothing will happen, the child may just be playful, it was like this before his death, and he is now." After saying that, the old man entered the house and sat silently.

Weiwei and Xiao Li didn't go home, they went out to find an intermediary, looking for a house and planning to move away, half a month has passed, and no strange things have happened, when they moved, they just met the old man, and before leaving, Weiwei asked the old man: "Uncle, how do you know these things?" ”

The uncle smiled and said, "When I first came, I wasn't an electrician, I was a security guard. After saying that, he turned around and walked away with his hands behind his back.