Chapter 67: Wang Family Funeral Home
“Don’t be afraid, it’s only the first day, nothing should happen.”
Chen Hai and Meng Ning’s platform experience wasn’t much, so these seemingly “experienced” words were actually from the forum.
At this moment, the two could only comfort themselves this way.
“We’ll just take a look, just one look and then leave.”
“No matter what’s wrong, just pretend we don’t know.”
It’s impossible for people to confront ghosts, even if something’s wrong, for them now, besides escape, there’s no other way.
The two trembled as they walked toward the underground morgue.
The “power outage” mentioned by the young man didn’t happen, but their moods didn’t relax because of it.
They walked toward the morgue entrance, the light from their two flashlights only properly illuminating the path ahead, and their gazes restrained from looking around randomly.
Afraid that if they weren’t careful, they’d see a figure in the darkness that shouldn’t exist.
The patrol continued.
They soon reached the stairwell door.
At a time like this, no one would choose to take the elevator.
But the elevator was right next to the stairwell entrance, and Meng Ning and Chen Hai’s gazes still involuntarily fell on the elevator for a look.
Nothing abnormal.
This made the two feel slightly better, but the tension and fear didn’t subside because of it.
In the dark night, everything was very quiet.
“Let’s go.”
The stairwell door was wide open, Meng Ning and Chen Hai suppressing the fear in their hearts, walked into the stairwell.
A faint chill hit them, Meng Ning felt the hairs on her arms stand up, she wanted to say something, but didn’t dare to speak and distract herself at this time.
The sound under their feet carried a shallow echo, the flashlight illuminated the stairs, but could only light up the few steps in front of them.
The narrow line of sight made Meng Ning feel unease, the short few flights of stairs tormented her endlessly.
Many times, she wanted to turn back and look behind, but she forcibly restrained herself.
“It’s fine, it’s fine, nothing is following behind, I can’t scare myself.”
In constant psychological comfort, the two finally walked down most of the stairs, and soon, only the last few steps remained.
After walking these, and turning out the door, they could see the morgue door.
As long as they saw it, the patrol would be complete, no need to go inside.
—Buzz
In the silence, a faint sound came from not far away.
The source of the sound was just a few steps away outside the stairwell door, or perhaps next door separated by a wall.
Meng Ning and Chen Hai’s footsteps stopped.
“This… what sound is it?” Chen Hai’s voice trembled slightly.
—Buzz buzz
The sound didn’t stop, instead it became more obvious.
It sounded… as if it was slowly coming from above their heads to beside them.
“Is it the elevator sound?”
From the first floor, to the negative second floor.
Was there someone, in the elevator?
“Just now… was there someone beside us?”
Chen Hai’s face was pale, his voice extremely weak.
No.
No need for Meng Ning to answer, he already had the answer in his heart.
Meng Ning only felt her mouth dry, cold sweat constantly breaking out from her back, she simply couldn’t open her mouth to answer Chen Hai’s question, fear had occupied all her mind.
She could confirm that just now on the first floor, beside them, there really was no living people.
But whether something was following behind them, no one knew.
Just like now, no one knew what was in the elevator that suddenly operated in the dark night.
“Can’t… can’t wait for the elevator door to open.”
Under extreme fear, survival instinct gave a hint, Meng Ning suddenly accelerated, they were right at the stairwell entrance, taking three steps as two, in less than two seconds, she had already run to the entrance, glanced at the morgue door, then ran upward without looking back.
Chen Hai behind her, though his brain was somewhat blank from fear, instinctively imitated his teammate’s action.
But his steps were a beat slow.
He heard a ding sound.
That was the sound of the elevator door opening.
The elevator had indeed come down from the first floor.
Cold sweat instantly dripped from his forehead, Chen Hai felt his whole body go numb, he could no longer do any thinking, his brain only left with fear and numbness.
Even if his usual personality was cheerful, at this moment, he couldn’t comfort himself anymore.
Chen Hai’s expression twisted from fear, at the moment he heard the [ding] sound, he had just stood at the stairwell entrance, he knew clearly that he and the thing in the elevator were separated by only one wall.
Meng Ning’s hurried footsteps came, when Chen Hai turned his head, he could only see her back constantly going upward.
His usually agile legs now felt like they were trapped in a quagmire, unable to exert force, even though his brain had become slow from fear, Chen Hai still instinctively ran toward the upper stairs.
He realized too late that he had made a mistake.
He was too slow!
Clearly his stamina was better than Meng Ning’s, but his reaction was too slow.
If he had reacted first, he would definitely have already run upstairs!
He began to pray in his heart, praying to go faster himself, and also praying… for Meng Ning to go slower.
Wait for him, don’t let him fall behind
In a daze, Chen Hai heard the sound of a bell and thumping footsteps.
He realized everything was too late.
He would pay the price of his life for his judgment that was two seconds late.
“Huff huff… huff!”
Urgent breathing came from Meng Ning’s mouth and nose, she had already rushed out of the stairwell to the first floor in an extremely short time.
The adrenaline burst made her steps unprecedentedly fast, she couldn’t feel the fatigue of her body, the only sensation was the near-blank stimulation in her brain.
She didn’t dare stop here, running toward the duty room.
She couldn’t go straight back to the dormitory to find companions, she was on night shift, except for patrol time, at other times, she should follow the rules and stay in the duty room.
Unless she encountered a life-and-death crisis.
“Is now… a life-and-death crisis?” Meng Ning kept thinking.
Her steps began to hesitate, to the duty room, or to the dormitory to find companions?
Instinctively, she wanted to find companions, but reason told her she should go back to the duty room.
Returning to the dormitory during night shift would definitely result in being held accountable.
If she got “fired” because of it, that would be certain death!
But… the abnormality that happened tonight made her certain there was a ghost behind her!
That elevator definitely had a ghost in it.
Just didn’t know if the ghost had caught up.
Meng Ning couldn’t be sure, her experience was really insufficient, she didn’t know what to do now was correct.
When she ran to the intersection of the dormitory and duty room, her steps slowed down.
Which direction should she go?
Which was the way to survive that could let her live?
There was no sound behind her.
Meng Ning realized belatedly, the ghost seemed not to have followed, and Chen Hai… hadn’t followed either.
Had he… died?
A bone-deep chill surged from the bottom of her heart.
The person who had worked hard to liven up the atmosphere during the day, very talkative, seemed like he could live a long time, after starting the mission at night, in less than two hours, had already died.
