Chapter 5 Stairwells
The green card was slowly inserted into the testing slot, Lu Haitian held his breath, and the lime took Lu Haitian's hand, his palms sweating.
Turner frowned as well, and everyone's hearts hung up.
Drip......
A crisp sound broke the silence, the green light above lit up, and the door opened.
Lu Haitian breathed a sigh of relief, patted Lime's hand, the palms of the two of them were sweating, and Turner also put down his hanging heart.
"It's okay, you can enter!"
Lu Haitian smiled and walked inside, Lime pulled the corner of Lu Haitian's leather coat and followed, Turner.
The hallway was dark, dark and damp, and the walls looked like they were soaked in water, with water droplets seeping out of them.
The lime fell to the ground, staining the gray staircase white.
Lu Haitian walked in the front, his hands clenched into fists, always vigilant of possible dangers.
It's not that Lu Haitian is bold, but he himself is not afraid of any ghosts and gods, in his words: "The human heart is more terrifying than ghosts and gods!"
Of course, this is not all that constitutes his courage, and if he didn't have some ability, he wouldn't have become one of the three major school managers.
The Lu family is the weakest of the three school trustees, but they are also the strongest.
The weakest strength is because the Lu family has almost no power, and some of them are also interspersed with some eyeliner in the crowd to do some simple intelligence gathering work.
And the strongest, it is the head of the Lu family, and every individual combat ability is a thousand-on-the-thousand.
The same is true for Lu Haitian, who can manipulate the power of ice and snow to turn everything in the area into ice slag, and the temperature can reach absolute zero.
Absolute zero is already the strongest force of ice and snow in the range known to man.
Lu Haitian and the three of them walked in the corridor for a while, but they didn't find anything abnormal, but the lime became more and more nervous.
"Husband... Have you noticed that the light of our flashlight here seems to be getting dimmer and dimmer, and the light seems to be absorbed by something unknown!"
As soon as Lime said this, Lu Haitian really found that something seemed to be wrong, the light was getting darker and darker, and the entire corridor revealed a strange atmosphere.
"It's okay, I'm here!"
Lu Haitian turned around and comforted Lime, kissed her lightly on the face, and then he raised his head with a puzzled look.
"What's wrong?"
When Lime saw the doubt conveyed in Lu Haitian's eyes, her heart fluttered, which only added more uneasiness.
"Where's Turner?" Lu Haitian looked at the empty staircase behind Lime and walked behind him.
His light shone on the floor above, and there was no shadow of Turner at all, at this time, there was a sound of footsteps downstairs, and Lime hurriedly hid behind Lu Haitian.
Lu Haitian shone the flashlight on the wall, and a pitch-black shadow was imprinted on the wall below, waving his arms, as if he was some kind of monster.
The ice vortex in Lu Haitian's hand began to condense, except for some unknown Keter-level SCPs, Lu Haitian was not afraid of anyone!
"I hate pretending to be a ghost the most, come out!"
Lu Haitian stared at the people who were walking slowly under the stairs, and everyone was stunned.
"Turner?!Why are you down there!" Lu Haitian looked like he had seen a ghost.
"Uh... Dude, you're here too!I thought someone was coming, what a false alarm!" Turner gasped heavily.
"Aren't you behind Lime?" Lu Haitian asked suspiciously.
"No, I came down alone!" Turner didn't know what Lu Haitian was talking about.
Lu Haitian scratched his hair, a little brain-studded, could it be that this SCP tampered with the space, and then erased the memory of the teleported person?
This is not uncommon, and there are a few SCPs in the Foundation that possess such abilities.
"Why did you come from below, and what did you see down there?"
Lu Haitian stepped forward, although he trusted Turner, he still maintained a position with him.
This is the minimum degree to which he can react quickly in the face of a crisis.
"I was halfway through when I heard movement and a whisper from upstairs, so I came to take a look. ”
Turner looked into Lu Haitian's eyes, and both of them were vigilant, after all, anything could happen in SCP.
"Okay! Let's go down together!"
Lu Haitian patted Turner's shoulder heavily, and a gleam flashed in his eyes.
The three of them then became Turner in front, Lu Haitian in the middle, and Lime in the back, and walked down.
The hallway is still dark and damp, and you can even hear the sound of dripping water when you walk on the stairs.
"This water is supposed to be a droplet of moisture, because the temperature difference between here and outside is huge!" Turner said as he walked down the road.
Lu Haitian nodded, his eyebrows did not spread, and he said: "I don't think the water is anything, but this stairwell is too weird, we have been walking for at least fifteen minutes!"
"Well, there should be!"
"And we haven't reached the end of the stairwell, is there no end to this stairwell, and we have entered a distorted space?"
Lu Haitian suddenly thought of a famous SCP, SCP-087.
"It's like a thing, isn't it?" said Turner.
"You mean SCP-087, the famous stairwell, but that stairwell isn't in Siberia!" Lu Haitian wiped the droplets of water from his face.
"They have a lot of similarities, for example, in terms of eerieness, I don't think this SCP is weaker than 087, but it's not as weird as 087, like 087's baby crying, which is not in this stairwell. Turner said.
"Yes! When exploring SCP-087, the D-class refused to enter, and they all showed a strong sense of resistance and fear, and it was said that there was an unknown hostile entity underneath. Lu Haitian recalled.
Lime was said by the two, his whole body was creepy, and goosebumps were about to rise, "I didn't follow if I knew it!"
She muttered to herself that she would rather fight some powerful SCP or alien creature than explore in such an eerie environment.
Especially the two people in front of her are still talking about weird things in SCPs, which adds to her psychological burden.
The three of them walked for another quarter of an hour, and this time they finally saw the bottom of the stairwell.
There are no unknown physical monsters here, and there are no weird sounds.
There was only one door in front of them, and there was a handprint on it.
Lu Haitian looked at the iron door, the iron door was already rusty, the red iron oxide was attached to the door, and a bright red handprint was slapped on the door, which was very conspicuous.
This seems to tell the explorers who come here that there is the door of death ahead and do not enter it again.
Lu Haitian and Turner glanced at each other, and both of them saw the fiery color in each other's eyes, the more unknown things were, the more attractive they were.
Especially for a person like Lu Haitian who has intelligence, his greatest pleasure is to collect intelligence, and then integrate some intelligence together, which will constitute an incredible case.
He has solved many puzzles about the unknown, such as the appearance of some unknown creature, and after his analysis, I really hope that it will surface.
Another example is the conspiracy of a careerist, in his intelligence network, the truth of those guys' actions in the secret will be revealed and made public.
He's happy to bring some ugly politicians under the noses of the people, so that everyone can see what these blood-sucking things are.
He is also willing to conceal or fabricate some facts for some people who have difficulties, in short, every time he achieves something, he has a great sense of accomplishment.
"I'll do it!"
Lu Haitian held one hand on the doorknob, he pulled it hard, his squinted eyes slowly widened, and the doorknob seemed to be unable to open.
"What's going on?" asked Turner, a little puzzled.
"It looks like the door is rusty!"
Lu Haitian touched his head, and randomly grabbed the door again, this time he spared no effort as soon as he came up, pulling the handle with all his might, and they slowly opened a gap.
"It's actually open!"
Lu Haitian continued to increase his strength, but this door was somewhat strange, even if it was rusty, it shouldn't be unable to pull it.
Like now, Lu Haitian has pulled out a slit, and it should be easy to follow, but who knows that the next thing seems to be the big one.
Turner looked at Lu Haitian's effort, his face was red, not like he was pretending, "Is it so difficult to pull? I'll help you!"
With that, Turner also got his hands on it, and the two of them pushed hard towards the back, and the door opened a little more.
"This door... It's like someone is fighting us, and won't let us open the door!"
Lu Haitian gritted his teeth, if this is really the case, then this thing is awesome.
Lime tilted her head and pursed her lips, "Do you really want to go in?"
"Nonsense!" the two said in unison.
Lime nodded, then waved her hands and muttered something as the three of them disappeared to the end of the stairwell, the door slamming shut.
On the upper staircase, a dark figure shook for a while, then disappeared into the darkness.
Lu Haitian and the three of them entered the door, Lu Haitian and Turner fell backwards because of their unstable center of gravity, and they fell together heavily, with their feet facing the sky.
"Finally came in, fortunately I have my wife's chain of gods, I knew that I could save a lot of effort!"
Lu Haitian blew his hand that had been strangled with a bloody streak, and rubbed it on the fur coat for a while.
Turner also stood up from the ground, he picked up the flashlight on the ground, and the world around him lit up.
"Here it is... Ice Cave!?" Turner had a mouth as there were ice edges and ice cubes all around.
The ground was like a frozen lake, very flat and smooth, and Turner's feet wiped on the ice, erasing the white ice slag, revealing deep black ice cubes underneath.
"There are a lot of passages ahead!"
Lu Haitian's flashlight beckoned inside, it had several caves, it was dark inside, there was no light, and when Lu Haitian shone past, it would only shine.