Chapter 135 "Everyone, All Gone"
The fire alarm rang suddenly.
The sleepy-eyed Guan Tianxiang slowly opened his tired eyes.
What caught his eye made him shocked.
He was still in the dark storage room, with cardboard boxes in the corners of the room, no flashlights to turn on the power, and there was loneliness all around.
However, the others are gone.
Or rather, gone.
After talking to Toby for a while, and remembering the fire that had occurred here a long time ago, they stopped the discussion and went to sleep.
In my memory, nothing unexpected happened.
He quickly stood up, his right heel still swollen and painful, but he was finally able to barely walk.
He looked around, and all his companions were nowhere to be found.
What kind of prank is this? Could it be that they set off first and left Guan Tianxiang behind?
Are they such perfidious people? No...... No......
Or are they just out and about?
Yes, they will not betray Guan Tianxiang's ......
He fears betrayal most of all.
Thinking so much didn't help, he hurriedly opened the door of the storage room, and the door closed with a bang.
Outside the door was also a dark space, and in the darkness he could barely make out the "8" floor display in the lobby.
He subconsciously looked at his watch, and it was 12:56. It doesn't seem like he slept for long.
This sleep, after all, there is no dream of any persecution......
The lobby was empty and there was nothing. Dust fills every corner of the space, and smoke surrounds the surroundings, just like the scene after a disaster.
It's already noon, so why doesn't it seem to be very bright?
The light coming in through the window was faintly brighter than the wee hours of the morning.
Is it cloudy or even stormy?
Guan Tianxiang immediately laughed helplessly, he couldn't even determine whether the building was still in the original real world, how could he know what the weather was like outside the window, or even whether there was a so-called "weather"?
The fire alarm stopped suddenly, leaving only incomprehensible question marks.
He looked around the lifeless elevator lobby on the 8th floor, trying to find the footprints of everyone leaving......
Wait, what's that?
Due to the dim lighting, he could barely catch a glimpse of his hands, and the distant objects could only barely make out their rough outlines.
The surroundings were silent, and the silent atmosphere played a thick suspense.
Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a small object in the corner of the elevator lobby, about the size of a water bottle
He approached the object, and suddenly saw that it was what appeared to be a flashlight.
He stared at ...... Yes, it's a flashlight. And it's Toby's flashlight.
Why isn't Toby's flashlight in the storage room, but in the elevator lobby? That showed one thing: Toby or some of his companions probably took it and ran away.
However, why was the flashlight thrown here?
Did something happen to them? For example, caught by the gang? Just like last time, he was caught by Brother Eagle's men......
Guan Tianxiang bent down slightly, picked up the flashlight, in the absence of lights, it was difficult for him to judge what color it was, he could only barely aim at a button of the flashlight, and when he pressed it, the flashlight lit up, and a beam of light illuminated the floor display card with the word "8".
Somehow, he sensed that something was about to happen, and something weird.
So what should he do now? Find his companions?
Where did they go? Are they still alive?
Now he is confused, and there may only be two facts he can grasp:
One, Toby's flashlight was left in the elevator lobby on the 8th floor.
Two, Toby, Aisi, and Amau are all gone.
So next, Guan Tianxiang's first goal should be to find his companions first, so where should he start now?
He looked around at the doorways of the three units on this level. In direct light of the flashlight, he found that the doors of the three units were also made of dark wood, but all of them were closed.
One by one, he tried to open the doors, but all of them were securely locked.
It didn't seem like they were in any unit.
Then, there is only one reasonable route left to search - the back staircase.
The mass grave covered in a thick fog and covered with bloody corpses.
He took the flashlight and walked tremblingly in the direction of the fire door.
At this moment, he suddenly realized how happy and secure it is to have companions by his side, even in the face of so many crazy weirdness and blood, everyone can still encourage each other and share weal and woe.
At this moment, Guan Tianxiang is like a lost rabbit who has fallen into the trap of a hunter, struggling to survive alone.
He slowly pushed open the fire door, and then took a few steps back.
No, the light of the flashlight is too conspicuous on the back staircase, and if any ill-intentioned stranger passes by and notices the light, he becomes a fool who actively provokes the killing.
Awake, he turned off the flashlight before carefully pushing open the fire door again, making sure not to make any noise.
There was no figure in the back stairs, and he only vaguely smelled the smell of corpses. He hurriedly covered his nose with his clothes, which was really unpleasant.
The corpse had been exposed to the air for a long time, and it would always emit this disgusting stench, let alone in the cramped back staircase space.
Guan Tianxiang walked in the direction of the upper floor in a daze, and all he felt in the fog was endless loneliness, and of course, there were bursts of panic.
What happened to the building?
The strange thing is that although there are no strange changes around him, he gradually feels the oppression that strikes
He was stunned, staring blankly at the dark shadow in front of him.
The dark shadow was in the corner of the stairs above, two bright eyes staring at him.
That's Lang Lang, Toby's grey kitten. That's when he realized it wasn't in the storage room.
How did it end up here? What about Toby? Aren't they inseparable?
"Meow." The kitten climbed up from the upper level.
Guan Tianxiang hesitated: did the kitten's actions signal Guan Tianxiang to follow its steps?
Do kittens have such intelligence? Or is he trying to get into trouble? However, he didn't have a clue what to do next, so maybe he could just follow Lang Lang and see where it would lead him.
Guan Tianxiang slowly followed Lang Lang's pace, endured the strong swelling and pain in the heel of his right foot, and walked upwards with turns.
At this moment, the gray-haired kitten crawled up without saying a word, and the light pace somehow gave him complex emotions.
It seems that at the same time it is the thrill of hope, and the growing fear of oppression.
Why he felt this way, he didn't know.
Guan Tianxiang walked and looked around, beware of any ambush - even though a half-crippled only man could not withstand any kind of attack.
The uninhabited back staircase creates an even more eerie atmosphere. It seemed that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it......
At this moment, the back staircase seems to extend infinitely, as if you have walked for a long time, but you can't feel the existence of the end.
Stairs without an end, what a weird idea.
"Meow—" Lang Lang paused in front of him and sat in front of a fire door, looking like he was waiting for him.
Cats at this moment appear to be very spiritual, just like humans. This strange feeling actually existed in his mind for a long time.
Guan Tianxiang shone the light of the flashlight at the fire door, because he didn't count how many floors he had walked just now...... In fact, he felt as if he had already traveled more than ten floors. There must be at least fifteen or six floors......
He was on the 8th floor with a storage room, and if he had really walked more than 10 floors, shouldn't he have reached the top floor or rooftop?
Isn't there only 23 floors here?
Guan Tianxiang leaned on the handrail of the back staircase and stared up, under the white fog and the restriction of light, he could not see the end of the back staircase.
However, the most eerie of all, under the dense fog, there were at least ten more floors more visible from above the rear staircase.
That is, this building...... There are more than thirty floors?
Could it be that he was so tired that he overestimated his journey just now?
Maybe not the point...... It's just a trifle......
He slowly opened the fire door in front of him.
The surface of the fire door was covered with dust, as if it had not been moved in years.
The door was only halfway open, and the kitten had already "meowed" into the elevator lobby.
He walked into the elevator lobby, an empty elevator lobby.
God, maybe he's oversensitive.
Do you think you're the protagonist of a soap opera on a TV station? Do you think that if you have a sense of foreboding, you will really encounter a bad luck?
Juvenile, you're too young.
Guan Tianxiang smiled dryly and walked towards Lang Lang, the kitten curled up next to the ventilation window. It didn't move at the moment, like a stone statue, staring blankly at him.
Shocking, strange yet familiar.
His body shook violently, for he knew the meaning of the tremor.
He fumbled with his black cropped pants on his back, searching for the "epicenter".
The electronic device was vibrating violently and incessantly. He looked stunned and brought out the ...... That......
He couldn't even say its name for a moment.
Yes, yes, it's called a "mobile phone".
Guan Tianxiang smiled bitterly, because he hadn't used the mobile phone for a while, he didn't care that it had been in his pocket all the time.
The reason why he would ignore the phone is only because the phone has no role in this killing space.
In a place where there is no communication network and no Internet access, the role of mobile phones becomes hollow.
And at this moment, the mobile phone is shaking violently.
If your phone vibrates, there are several possibilities, most commonly someone calling or receiving a message.
Distraught, he unlocked his phone and saw that the upper right corner of the phone showed that the power was "11%".
The notification at the top of the phone reads: "47 chat messages".
How could it be?
Guan Tianxiang conscientiously pressed WeChat and stared intently at the mobile phone screen.
First of all, how he received a WeChat message was already extremely puzzling, even shocking, but what he witnessed next was even more terrifying.
That's not supposed to happen......