Chapter 26: The Thirteenth Floor
"I can't contact Yuan Xi now, how can we go upstairs?" Jiang Yi and Li Tong stood in front of the security door of the community, which either needs to wait for the residents to go out to open it, or someone has to press the door button from home.
"Look at me," Li Tong grinned. Standing in front of the closed security door of the unit building, holding the handle of the door with your hand, first pushing the door inward, and then gently flicking the door lock with your right hand a few times, and then kicking the security door with your foot mercilessly, the standard taekwondo kicking pattern.
"Bump ......", the old door in disrepair was kicked open by this quiet-looking girl.
Jiang Yi looked at the black line, how painful this girl's kick would be if she kicked someone.
"Don't look at me like that, this door is already in disrepair, and I used to open it like this when I forgot to bring my key." Li Tong smiled embarrassedly, feeling that the image of a lady he had just created had collapsed again.
The two pressed the elevator of the unit building, and the elevator moved very fast, and in the blink of an eye, it fell to the first floor and opened the door for them.
The two walked into the elevator, Li Tong directly pressed the highest 12th floor without looking, the elevator indicator light lit up with a dark red light, and the iron sliding door slowly closed.
In the elevator of the 14-unit building, Jiang Yi watched the green numbers on the elevator display screen keep jumping.
“6,7,8……”
"Didn't you say that Yuan Xi's house is on the thirteenth floor? Why are you pressing on the twelfth floor? Jiang Yi found that there were only twelve floor buttons on the elevator, and there was no thirteenth floor where Yuan Xi lived as Li Tong said.
"This unit building does have thirteen floors, but one floor is closed to the outside and the elevator can't go up, so its thirteenth floor can be reached by pressing the button on the twelfth floor." Li Tong said softly, and when she said this, she pursed her lips, and her face was a little pale.
"This ...... It's really weird, so which floor is the elevator can't reach? Why is it not open to the public? What is the company's office rental land? Jiang Yi couldn't understand, since the floors in these communities are all residential areas, how can there be a floor that is not open to the public?
"I climbed up the stairs to find out which floor, it should be the twelfth floor, and the twelfth floor can be seen when I climb up the stairs, and the outer door was nailed by wooden boards and locked the door very early, and I don't know what is inside." Li Tong looked down at the ground, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Ding, the tenth floor has arrived." The elevator suddenly stopped on the tenth floor, and the door slowly opened, revealing the neat and calm corridor on the tenth floor, and the soft light of the delicately decorated hanging lamps came in.
A little boy of about five or six years old, wearing a baseball cap and holding a soccer ball in his arms, walked in with a smile and a cute watermelon head, and was wearing a children's jersey with a reduced size of Cristiano Ronaldo.
The boy looked at the elevator button, smiled at the two of them and said, "Brother and sister, you also went to the twelfth floor?" I haven't seen you before, are you a new resident? ”
"No, no, we're just here to visit a friend." Li Tong hurriedly shook his head, "And you're wrong, it's to go to the thirteenth floor, and the twelfth floor doesn't live in people." ”
"Sister, you live on the thirteenth floor? Oh, I remembered what you said, Bai Xue told me that there is a beautiful sister who has just moved in 1304 on the thirteenth floor, and she is very likable, it's you, sister, right? The little boy looked at Li Tong with big sparkling eyes, just like a child seeing a new toy, full of innocence and expectation.
"Pretty sister?" Li Tong and Jiang Yi glanced at each other, isn't 1304 Yuan Xi who lives? How did you become a beautiful sister?
"Ding, the twelfth floor has arrived." The elevator door opened, and the child ran out first, holding the ball in his arms, and said without looking back:
"Brother and sister, I am Wang Xiaohu who lives in 1213, if you have a child in the future, you can let him play with me!"
"Children in this year, their mouths are so cheap?" Jiang Yi said angrily and funny, and was about to go out with him, but was pulled by Li Tong by his sleeve:
"Something is wrong, let's not go out yet."
Jiang Yi looked at the corridor outside the elevator, on both sides were doors of different shapes, there were rusty iron doors, there were rotten wooden doors, starting from "1201", all house numbers began with "12 ......", didn't these twelve floors say that they were not open to the public?
The hallways are lit with old-fashioned incandescent lamps, the walls are plastered with all kinds of psoriasis advertisements, all kinds of garbage and debris are piled up in front of the doors, and the floor is filthy and full of dirt, just like the last century, and the young boy's clean football boots are out of place on this dirty ground.
"Mom, open the door! I am back! The little boy knocked on the door of 1213, shouting with vigour.
"Tap, tap, and who are you out there with?" A woman's voice came from the door, the door opened, and a pair of pale bloodless hands came out of the door, and took the ball from the little boy's arms, no, now it was not a ball, it was a little boy with a small face with a watermelon head laughing and a head made of a leather ball.
The child's body was pulled into the door by the hands, and the child's happy laughter was heard from inside the door:
"I just played with Bai Xue on the tenth floor, and she read me a Grimm fairy tale, which was interesting."
"Oh, which fairy tale did she tell?" Mother asked with a smile.
Jiang Yi was still in a daze, not knowing how to react, but Li Tong did not hesitate to slam the door close button of the elevator, and the door that the elevator had been open was halfway closed, but it was stuck, and it opened by itself.
"We need to get out of here quickly." Li Tong said with some panic, "We shouldn't have seen the twelfth floor, something is wrong." ”
The incandescent light in the corridor flickered, flickering and dimming, Jiang Yi rubbed his eyes, as if he saw a transparent humanoid phantom in the corridor flashing away.
She knocked on the button to close the door like crazy, but the door never closed, and the button on the twelfth floor of the elevator was still on.
"Bai Xue told me the fairy tale of the juniper tree, is there really such a stepmother, who kills the child and still uses the child's meat to make soup for her father?" The little boy's voice asked scaredly.
Jiang Yi saw that in the corner of the wall at the bottom of the elevator corridor, there seemed to be a person's eyes open on the wall and looked at them coldly.
The elevator door finally closed, and Li Tong breathed a sigh of relief.
But the indicator light on it was still dancing on the twelfth floor, turning a bright red color.
"Ding, the twelfth floor has arrived." The cold female voice in the elevator was broadcast again.
The door of the elevator slowly opened, and this time the outside was full of seemingly normal floors, a modern gatehouse, smooth and neat walls and decoration, as well as Western-style carvings on the black security doors on both sides, and the house numbers on the security doors started from "1301", all of which were numbered "13".
It's just that on the smooth marble floor of the corridor, there are dozens of pure white and beautiful pigeons, all "cooing", and the ground is full of feathers and pigeon droppings, they all look at the two of them quietly with black jewel-like eyes, and then they flutter their wings and fly into the night sky outside from the wide open window at the end of the corridor.
"Here, the real thirteenth floor?" Jiang Yi asked with a trembling voice.
"Damn, first floor, second floor, third floor...... None of them light up! Li Tong still pressed the elevator button in vain, and finally hammered the elevator door closing button hard, but there was still no response.
No one pressed the door button, but the elevator door remained stubbornly open, as if waiting for the two people inside to go out.
"Drip, drip, drip...... "Because I haven't closed the door for too long, the stiff alarm in the elevator sounds.
The two of them only felt as if something alive in the elevator was warning them that if they didn't go out, no one would know what would happen.
They had no choice but to step out of the elevator and enter the thirteenth floor.