Chapter 1509 – Elevator Scare
”Off duty?”
”Yeah, it’s so late, why is your department still working overtime?”
”Don’t mention it, an hour ago the leader said to redo the project again, I guess we won’t be able to go back tonight until three or four in the morning.”
”Tsk, that Zhou Pickpocket is really disgusting ……”
”Alright, you go back first, I’ll continue to work overtime.”
”See you tomorrow.”
As the night grew thicker, inside an office building in the center of Shangjing, numerous hitmen, one holding a briefcase and the other a jacket, squeezed towards the elevator room one after another.
It was now 9:30 pm, for the vast majority of companies in Shangjing, this off-duty time was already considered early, the surrounding several office buildings were still brightly lit, countless figures were sitting in front of their computers clutching steaming hot coffee, touching the fish as they waited for the time to clock out of work.
Dingdong–
”The eighteenth floor is here.”
As the elevator doors slowly opened, the crowd squeezed in, although they worked in the same company, they didn’t seem to know each other very well, they just lowered their heads and played with their respective phones, waiting for the elevator to gradually descend.
Just then, a young girl squeezed in the corner frowned, somewhat suspiciously scanning around, her nose sniffing something in the elevator.
”Is something rotting …… Why does it smell so bad?”
She quietly came over her head and spat in a low voice to the female coworker beside her who had a good relationship.
”I smell it too.” Disgust surfaced on the female coworker’s face, “It’s so disgusting, I feel like I’m going to spit out the milk tea I drank ……”
Dang-!
Just as the two of them were talking, the descending elevator gave a violent thump, a dull and loud sound came out in the elevator shaft, the lights inside the elevator instantly went out, and several cries of alarm rang out.
”What’s going on? The elevator malfunctioned?”
”This building was just built not long ago, how did it break down so quickly? Tofu dregs construction!”
”Don’t panic, there’s an emergency distress button here, soon the engineering master will come to save us.”
”Yes, the elevator is broken only, I was trapped in the elevator several times when I was in my hometown, no big deal, everyone is slightly close to the edge of the elevator to stand one stop, find something to support the body.”
”This …… this elevator won’t suddenly fall down, right?” The young girl worriedly opened her mouth.
”Don’t worry, nowadays elevators have emergency brakes, even if it falls, it will be fine, unless ……”
”Unless what?”
”Unless, it goes up ……” The male colleague hemmed and hawed, his voice lowered a little, “The brakes of the elevator are all prepared for the fall, if it really goes out of control and rushes upwards, it is said that it is certain death without ……”
”Qiu Chunjun! Is it fun to scare other little girls?!”
The female colleague shouted somewhat angrily, and was about to say something when the entire elevator suddenly surged upwards at an extremely fast speed!
In the darkness, almost everyone’s face was scared white, especially the man named Qiu Chunjun, his features directly twisted up in horror.
At the same time, a strong stench filled everyone’s nostrils.
Bang–!
A sharp tearing sound came out from above everyone’s head, only to see the top of the elevator violently break open a hideous gap, like paper-like fragile, gusts of wind poured into the elevator, and in the dim alert red light, a strange meatball shaped like a rugby ball slowly peeked in from within the gap, and the surface of the meatball’s countless tiny tentacles wildly twisted!
Seeing this scene, everyone inside the elevator stared in horror, under this unspeakably bizarre image, everyone’s sanity was madly lost!
”Ah ah ah ah ！！！！”
Just at the moment when that tentacle was about to touch these people, the ceiling at the very top of the elevator shaft suddenly burst into pieces, and a warhorse covered in ghostly green flames darted along the vertical walls of the shaft, rapidly darting towards the ascending elevator!
On top of that warhorse, the eyes of Chen Han, who was clad in a military overcoat, erupted with biting killing intent, and the straight sword at his waist suddenly came out of its sheath!
A flash of blade light was like thunder falling from the sky, fiercely chopping at the back of that prostrate monster on the elevator, a sharp hiss echoed in the elevator shaft, a pair of membranous wings opened up behind that black shadow, directly flinging away from the elevator, and flew towards Chen Han, who was constantly approaching on his warhorse!
Until this moment, Chen Han borrowed the moonlight that fell from the roof of the building to see the monster’s full appearance.
It was a pink-colored, two-man-high monster, and from its appearance, it looked like some kind of crustacean creature, with a pair of insect-like membranous wings growing behind its back, and several pairs of articulated limbs that looked like thin feet hanging down below its body, without a head, or rather, its head was a mass of rugby ball-like sarcoma full of tentacles.
Although Chen Han’s time as a night watchman wasn’t too long, he had seen a lot of “mysteries” in Shangjing, but it was really the first time he had seen such a weird and oozing monster, and just by looking at it, he felt uncomfortable.
Chen Han frowned tightly, and did not have the intention to directly fight with this monster, to know the following damaged elevator, there are still more than a dozen human lives.
Just as Chen Han was about to skim over this monster, in the darkness, a shadow suddenly outlined itself, the moment Chen Han’s afterglow saw this shadow, he slightly froze, then a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
”Ah ah ah ah–!!!”
Terrified cries for help came out from within the shattered elevator, at this moment, most of the original dozen or so people in the elevator had directly fainted the moment that monster probed, and the few that were still awake had also been paralyzed with fear.
The appearance of that monster seemed to have destroyed the braking device of the elevator, the elevator was caught by the monster more than twenty floors after falling, the speed is getting faster and faster, a strong sense of weightlessness filled everyone’s mind and soul.
Right at this moment, the elevator body gently shook, and the descending speed slowly weakened, as if it had fallen on cotton, and finally stopped steadily at the bottom floor of the elevator shaft.
A figure clad in a crimson cloak, outlined out of thin air from the darkness, he stood at the top of the shattered elevator, his eyes swept over the few people who were still awake, nodding his head slightly, “The mental quality is good …… All of them will sleep.”
Lin Qiye gently waved his palm, and a touch of darkness engulfed them all, and in the next moment, all of them appeared in the dimly lit stairwell on the first floor, all of them with their eyes closed as if they were asleep.
After sending these ordinary people away, Lin Qiye raised his head to look over the elevator shaft, those pale golden eyes narrowing slightly:
”It’s really Cthulhu’s aura …… Shangjing City, how could this kind of thing appear?”
His figure shifted and directly disappeared into the darkness.
Clang-!
The straight blade chopped through the monster’s armor, only leaving behind a faint long scar, Chen Han leapt up from the warhorse burning with green flames, the blade sliced through the top of the monster’s head, then landed steadily on top of the rooftop of the top floor of this office building.
Sharp hissing came out once again, a pair of membrane wings trembling rapidly, that figure similarly flew up from within the elevator shaft, its writhing tentacled head facing Chen Han’s direction dead on.