"Click."

After a brief fall, with a crisp sound, the elevator stopped moving.

Su Chengyi had already half-squatted down just now, and circled the frightened Chu Tianmian in his arms.

The elevator is out of order, and it doesn't look like the type of fault that can recover on its own.

But the good thing is that it must have run aground on some level.

I had vaguely heard before that it was not terrible for the elevator to fall, but it was terrible to rise at a rapid pace.

Because modern elevators are generally equipped with more than four wire ropes, the phenomenon of accidental breakage of one of them will not have much impact.

In addition to this, there are safety gears and speed limiters, so that even if the wire rope is completely broken, it will not fall to the bottom level.

But it's not the same when the elevator rises to the top.

A person inside an elevator may continue to move upwards due to inertia, hitting their heads directly on the ceiling and then falling down to the floor due to gravity.

I don't think I've heard of such a fatal accident.

After clarifying the current situation, Su Chengyi relaxed slightly.

He patted the man in his arms, huddled in a ball.

"Ostrich, out of the hole."

"What's the situation with Su Chengyi?"

Chu Tianmian replied tremblingly.

This eldest lady obviously has never experienced such a thing, although she also has an elevator at home.

"The elevator is out of order."

Su Chengyi has long been used to it, although the family lives in a staircase, but he has never encountered accidents with old elevators in residential buildings before.

He took out his mobile phone from his pocket, looked at it, and sure enough, it showed no signal.

The signal of the fruit machine has been like this since ancient times, and it has not improved even after ten years.

He looked up, and through the narrow gap in the elevator door, he could tell that it was pitch black outside, and he guessed that it had fallen to the basement.

Fortunately, Su Chengyi's unwavering, calm tone and state obviously made Chu Qianmian feel a little more at ease, and she also had the courage to open her eyes.

"Will it be suffocated by lack of oxygen? Will there be no one to save us? ”

Miss Chu was worried.

"We're not going to starve, no, I haven't had enough to eat at noon.

I also want to eat steamed lamb, steamed bear's paw, steamed deer tail, roasted duck, roasted chicken, goose stewed braised duck sauce, chicken bacon, pine flower tripe"

"Don't speak."

Su Chengyi fumbled and covered her mouth.

"Woo."

Chu Tianmian snorted pitifully twice.

Su Chengyi suddenly felt like a trafficker who abducted and kidnapped an ignorant girl, with ill intentions and bad intentions, so he had to let go of his hand again.

"Su Chengyi, what should I do, what if no one comes to save us."

Chu Tianmian stretched out his hand to wrap his neck, raised his head and asked angrily.

"Then don't save it."

Su Chengyi replied casually.

Obviously, I felt that Chu Tianmian stiffened for a moment.

"What's wrong? Die with me, you're not satisfied? ”

He teased himself and continued to talk nonsense.

"Not really."

Unexpectedly, Chu Tianmian's tone of reply was extremely serious.

Su Chengyi was stunned for a moment, and just as he wanted to speak, he heard her whispering again.

"There's a lot to do. You can't die now, you can later. ”

“.”

Su Chengyi could tell that she was completely serious when she said this.

I couldn't stop joking for a while.

After a long silence, he cleared his throat.

"Don't be stupid. After a while, Xu Yang, they will find out that we are not in sight, so they will come to look for us. ”

"Hmm."

Chu Qianmian nodded first, realizing that he might not be able to see before answering again.

Compared with the sightseeing elevator often used by customers, the standby elevator here is much worse in terms of quality and appearance.

I didn't feel anything when I first came in, but now the smell of damp rust and dust came back.

I don't know if I hate the smell, but the person on his chest became more and more entangled in him like an octopus.

"Are you hot or not?"

Su Chengyi tried to struggle.

Miss Chu immediately rolled coquettishly.

"Hug, I'm scared."

"It's all right."

"What if there are ghosts!"

Chu Tianmian was originally just looking for a reason, but when the words fell, she was really scared in hindsight.

She has always known how to avoid risks, and the first self-cultivation of being a genuine coward is to stay away from horror movies and ghost stories.

But when I grew so big, I still watched some clips by chance.

So this situation and this scene just made some scattered pictures appear in her mind.

When I went home alone in the middle of the night, I met the elevator ghost.,No matter which floor you press, you can only reach the negative floor of death in the end.,As soon as the elevator door opened, there was a grim face outside.

The more Chu Tianmian thought about it, the more scared he became, and tears were about to come out.

Su Chengyi was thinking about how to make her stand on her own, but she suddenly sniffed, which was completely a precursor to crying.

"Huh?"

"Su Chengyi, tell me a story, I'm afraid!"

Chu Qianmian closed his eyes again and said tremblingly.

"What's the story?"

"Whatever. Talk, it's too quiet here. ”

Chu Qianmian rubbed his shoulder and said with a sob.

Su Chengyi was silent for a long time.

Then I realized that I didn't know how to say anything.

He never seemed to tell a story, maybe not just a story, he rarely even told a whole thing to others.

The structure of the beginning and the end seems to have only appeared in compositions.

Chu Tianmian saw that he didn't react for a long time, so he changed his words.

"It's really not good, it's okay to sing."

That's better than telling a story.

Su Chengyi paused, and suddenly blessed his soul, so he said:

"In that case, I'll recite a sutra to you."

Before Chu Tianmian could refute, he began to read to himself:

"That's what I smelled. For a while, the Buddha was defending the country, and the tree was given to the lonely garden.

With the great bhikkhus, 1,250 people, then the world-honored one"

I have to say that Su Chengyi's voice and intonation are very suitable for chanting.

A smooth, completely emotionless chanting machine.

In the dark and confined environment of the faulty elevator, Chu Tianmian almost felt that a Buddha light appeared in front of her, and she was about to be overtaken in the next second.

She held up her spirit and listened for a while, thinking that Su Cheng's thoughts would be over for a while, but she didn't expect that this guy seemed to have memorized the whole book.

"Where should the clouds live, and where should the clouds subdue their hearts. The Buddha said, good and good. Subodhi"

"Oh, it's dizzy. I don't want to listen to this! ”

Chu Tianmian protested.

"That's for the Tao Te Ching. The Tao is very good, very good"

"What's the difference?"

"Okay."

Chanting does seem to be calming.

Now there is nothing in the world that he cannot forgive, and there is nothing that he cannot promise.

Su Cheng thought about it, but he really thought of a story related to the elevator.

"Once upon a time, there was a man named Chu Xiaomian."

As soon as he finished saying the first sentence, Chu Tianmian "hummed" and guessed that it would not be a good story.

"Chu Xiaomian needs to take the elevator every night when he goes home. However, she is very timid, an out-and-out coward.

So she would ask for her every time. Well, roommate, Su Mouyi went downstairs to pick her up. ”

"It's not a roommate, it's a boyfriend."

Hearing the names of the two protagonists, Chu Tianmian laughed and couldn't help but interject.

Su Chengyi ignored her and continued.

That night, when Chu Xiaomian walked downstairs, he just called Su Mouyi and saw that he was already standing at the elevator entrance.

So Chu Xiaomian was very happy, hung up the phone, and stepped forward to ask him why he came down early.

Su Mouyi smiled and didn't speak. ”

Chu Qianmian obviously didn't have a sense of smell for horror stories, and she thought it was a sweet love story at this time.

As soon as the two of them got on the elevator, Chu Xiaomian's mobile phone suddenly rang, and the caller ID was actually Su Mouyi.

Chu Xiaomian was shocked because the person next to him was not on the phone at all.

She picked it up suspiciously, and a familiar voice came from the other end of the phone.

'Hello? Chu Xiaomian, why did you call me and hang up again? Do you want me to come down and pick you up now? ’

Chu Xiaomian was startled, she stared at the person next to her and didn't dare to speak.

At this time, Su Mouyi in the elevator suddenly turned his head and asked with a smile, guess which side is real? ”

"Su Chengyi !!"

Chu Tianmian screamed and punched him in the shoulder.

"Who told you to tell ghost stories!!"

Su Chengyi secretly felt amused, and continued to say seriously:

"Guess which side is true"

As a result, before he finished speaking, he was covered by Chu Tianmian.

"Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it! Hate you to death! ”

Finally relieved, Su Chengyi was about to speak, and Chu Tianmian solemnly warned:

"Su Chengyi, if you tell ghost stories with our names to scare me again, I'll bite you to death."

Su Chengyi coughed and said casually:

"Not our name. The name of the family is obviously Su Mouyi. ”

Don't say it anyway! If you tell another one, I'm going to listen to a little story of healing. ”

That's too difficult.

Su Cheng thought about it for a long time and couldn't figure out what to say, so he had to take a step back.

Chu Tianmian said that as long as it is not scary, any story can be done; Su Chengyi promised that there were no ghosts, but he couldn't cure them.

So he told the famous story of the monkey's paw.

Once upon a time there was an old man who stumbled upon a magical object, a shriveled monkey's claw.

It is said that it can grant three wishes of a person, and all you need to do is pick up the monkey's paw with your right hand and make a wish out loud.

The old man was suspicious, and when he returned home in the evening, he told his wife and son about the incident.

At this time, he remembered that he still owed a loan of two hundred pounds because of the purchase of a house.

So he raised his monkey's paw and made a vow in a loud voice:

"I hope I can get two hundred pounds."

His wife and son found the ceremony funny, and they laughed.

But the laughter was soon interrupted by the old man's panicked shouts.

"Oh my God, Monkeypaw is alive. It writhed in my hand like a slippery snake. ”

His wife and son hurriedly comforted him, saying that it was okay, probably because of psychological effects.

Despite what they said, the mood of the three of them was as dull and complicated as the sound of the wind at night.

The next day, just as the old man and his wife were gradually relieving, a stranger knocked on their door.

"Your son was caught up in a meat grinder at work and died."

The old man and his wife were suddenly struck by lightning and did not want to accept the facts, but the man continued.

"The factory is deeply saddened by this sad news, and we are willing to compensate you two with a consolation payment."

The old man trembled uncontrollably, and asked in disbelief:

"How much?"

"Two hundred pounds."

Monkeypaw fulfilled the old man's wish in this way.

The son was buried in a cemetery two miles from home.

The old man and his wife had no interest all day, and spent a week in such a difficult way.

At nightfall, the wife's spirit finally broke down, and she cried out frantically:

"Where's Monkeypaw? Please go and make a wish to raise our son from life. ”

She was so mad that the old man had to go and get the monkey's paw, raise his right hand and make a wish:

"I hope my son can be resurrected."

The monkey's paw squirmed like the last time, and the old man threw it to the ground in a panic.

The wife waited in front of the window expectantly, while the old man secretly prayed that the monkey's paw would fail.

The bells were ticking, and the night was eerily silent.

Just when the wife was disappointed and the old man was rejoicing, there was a sudden sound at the door.

It's the sound of a knock on the door.

The old man turned and quickly locked the door, then ran back to the bedroom.

At this time, the knock on the door was so loud that it resounded throughout the room.

The wife cried out in surprise.

"Ah, ah, it's my son back! I forgot that the cemetery was two miles from home, and it would take him half an hour to walk back from there! ”

Then she rushed out to open the door.

The old man couldn't stop her, so he had to lie on the ground, looking for the monkey's paw that had fallen to the ground before.

Just as his wife was about to pull the last latch of the door, the old man finally found the monkey's paw, and he trembled and uttered the third and last wish.

"I hope my son can go back."

The frantic knocking suddenly disappeared, and at the same time the wife finally unlocked the door.

A bitter cold wind blew in, and the wife let out a fierce wail of pain, and the old man stumbled to the door.

Flickering streetlamps illuminate the silent and desolate road.

There was nothing outside.

"There are no ghosts, but."

Chu Tianmian shivered.

"Why is it still so scary!!"

Su Chengyi spread his hands and replied:

"Isn't this the dark version of Aladdin's magic lamp?"

"It seems to be the same. It's not, Aladdin's magic lamp is very cute, isn't it! ”

Chu Tianmian took a deep breath, she was terrified when she heard this story just now, and she didn't dare to breathe loudly.

Su Chengyi's image is really suitable to tell this kind of infiltrating story.

"If you had monkey paws, would you make a wish?"

Su Chengyi asked casually.

Chu Qianmian shook his head very decisively.

"Please, who would use it if the side effects are so big!!"

"I thought you'd say you didn't have anything you wanted."

Su Chengyi really couldn't think of any need for Chu Tianmian to make a wish with a monkey's paw.

"Not really."

Chu Tianmian thought about it seriously and counted on his fingers.

"My first wish, I hope Su Chengyi can like me a little more.

The second wish, I hope Su Chengyi can admit that he is my boyfriend.

The third wish."

Su Chengyi interrupted.

"One last wish, you can think about it."

"What, make it look like it's going to happen."

Chu Tianmian snorted, reached out and grabbed Su Chengyi's wrist, and raised his "claws" in a hurry.

"Third wish, I wish we could go out now!"

As her words fell, the elevator door "clanged" and slowly opened.

Although it is stuck between two floors.

The dazzling light sprinkled in, illuminating the extremely shocked expressions of the two of them clearly.

Ha?

Even Su Chengyi was a little in a trance.

If it's a coincidence, it's too much of a coincidence.

It's so clever that it makes people feel a little panicked.

"Hey, the elevator is out of order, freaking out, aren't you?"

A master in a worker's uniform peeked in, still holding a repair tool in his hand.

"Mr. Yi!! Are you all right?! ”

Xu Yang also appeared behind him and waved his hand vigorously.

Lin Tong followed beside him, poking his head out with great effort to take a look, and only breathed a sigh of relief when he was sure that both of them were standing properly.

"Sleep! What do you think? Pretty good! ”

The look on Han Bing's face was very anxious, and the hair on his forehead was scattered.

The two people trapped in the elevator had no intention of answering the concerns of outsiders for a while, but at the same time, they both deeply felt the absurdity of this world.

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