The moment he recognized Ouyang, Li Xiu's body tensed, as if he accidentally found a snake crawling on the instep of his foot while walking.
"Li Xiu, come here, the teacher has something to tell you."
In the shadows, Ouyang said to him in a low voice.
Li Xiu bit his lip unconsciously, he took a deep breath, and then reluctantly answered: "I...... I'm going to class, and the next class is about to start. “
"Li Xiu, obedient."
However, in the face of Li Xiu's shirk, Ouyang was still very persistent.
He straightened up one of his arms and hooked his hand towards Li Xiu.
The man's movements looked like a subtle sense of incongruity, but at this moment, the resistance to Ouyang was like a black balloon that was blowing, completely occupying Li Xiu's brain. Li Xiu was powerless to perceive anything at all.
He just instinctively felt that the air conditioner in the complex seemed to be turned on too coldly, and the cold made his body stiff and dizzy.
"But ......"
Li Xiu's lips were closed, and he struggled to squeeze out two syllables, and was about to stubbornly resist the last round of pushing, but suddenly there was a strong force on his arm.
It was Fang Qian'an who grabbed Li Xiu in front of Ouyang.
At this moment, there was a "ding" sound from the elevator behind them, and the silver-white metal hissed and opened to both sides, revealing an empty car.
"Ah, the elevator is coming."
The tall boy raised his voice and shouted in Ouyang's direction without respect.
Immediately afterwards, he didn't give Li Xiu a chance to react at all, so he directly hooked the boy and stepped into the elevator one by one.
“…… Teacher, I'm injured and can't take care of myself, I need Li Xiu to send me off, the teacher doesn't mind, teacher, let's go. ”
In Fang Qian'an's voice, the elevator door slowly closed, completely blocking the figure of the man in the distance behind the door.
From beginning to end, the tall man named Ouyang stayed in the shadows and never stepped forward. And in the face of Fang Qian'an's slightness and snatching, he didn't make any sound.
It's just that in the light of the light, the handsome face that once made many people crazy reveals a calm cyan.
At the last moment when the door was closed, Fang Qian'an couldn't help frowning when he met Ouyang's gaze in a casual manner.
It was because of the light, Ouyang's eyes looked extremely resentful and empty, as if he was about to rush up and eat people. Fang Qian'an, as a pampered young master, has been in Qiming for so long, and he has never seen a teacher dare to look at him with such eyes.
"Tsk, what kind of eyes is that old man—"
Fang Qian'an couldn't help but complain.
"So, when did you get injured and couldn't take care of yourself?"
A faint question sounded in his ears, and Fang Qian'an immediately forgot about Ouyang and turned his head to look at Li Xiu, who had a strange look beside him.
was caught off guard by Fang Qian'an, Li Xiu couldn't tell whether he was in a good or bad mood now, after all, unlike a young master like Fang Qian'an, after offending Ouyang, Li Xiu didn't know if he would be able to get a scholarship from the school in the future, and whether he could continue to live a peaceful life.
But it is undeniable that just like that, slipping in front of Ouyang, Li Xiu's mood suddenly relaxed.
As for Fang Qian'an, he was stunned at first after hearing Li Xiu's question, and then raised his finger towards Li Xiu confidently.
"My hands hurt." He said, "Ah, it hurts to death, I can't press the elevator." ”
The one-meter-nine boy was like that, pretending to be weak and said to Li Xiu.
Li Xiu: "......"
Okay.
At this time, the elevator had already begun to go down on its own, and Li Xiu didn't care too much, thinking that someone should be pressing it downstairs.
casually pressed the "1" button on the elevator panel, and Li Xiu stood quietly and waited for the elevator to reach the first floor. However, the boy beside him obviously didn't intend to leave him a quiet, and after a few seconds of silence, he spoke: "Hey, that old man seems to be quite popular in school?" ”
Li Xiu: "...... Possibly. ”
Fang Qian'an put his hands around his chest and glanced at Li Xiu, the latter's body was indeed tense again.
"Tsk, I don't understand the aesthetics of those little girls," After a pause, Fang Qian'an looked at Li Xiu intentionally or unintentionally with his spare eyes, and said in a low voice as if talking to himself, "I don't think that kind of man is so handsome." ”
There was a hint of coldness in Li Xiu's eyes: "What does it have to do with you." ”
"It's okay." Fang Qian'an shrugged his shoulders and said, "I just don't like him, this kind of old man who is still pretending to be old is not a good thing under normal circumstances." That, next time you don't bother to pay attention to him, just say I'll have something to do with you. Anyway, no one in the old school dared to trouble me. ”
There was two seconds of silence in the elevator car.
Li Xiu: "Oh. ”
He lowered his eyes and stared at the ground as if there was some ingenious math problem on the floor of a fake marble elevator car beneath his feet.
In fact, it was precisely because he didn't know what expression to use that Li Xiu continued to choose to be expressionless.
He didn't understand Fang Qian'an a little.
Generally speaking, people who engage in school bullying are usually a group of stupid people with empty brains who will only show their empty hearts through bullying.
But Fang Qian'an didn't seem to be as empty-headed as he thought.
Li Xiu thought that his emotional control ability was quite good, but Fang Qian'an seemed to see his resistance to Ouyang at a glance...... Also, Fang Qian'an seemed to be the first person he met in this school who obviously showed disgust for Ouyang.
Mixed feelings.
In the brief moment when Li Xiu fell into silence, Fang Qian'an squinted his eyes, he didn't miss the small change that Li Xiu's body suddenly tensed just now, and then he couldn't help relaxing. Thinking of Li Xiu's whole person instantly stiffening and his face turned pale when he saw Ouyang, there was suddenly an indescribable strange emotion in his chest that began to surge.
"Ahem, you can come to me for other things."
Fang Qian'an put his hands in his pockets and said a little abruptly.
He could feel that Li Xiu seemed to be glancing in his direction.
"I don't have anything to look for you."
Li Xiu's tone was cold.
Fang Qian'an raised his eyebrows: "Hey, you-"
"Fang Qian'an." Li Xiu interrupted Fang Qian'an's words, and the young man pointed to the number of words beating on the elevator panel, and his expression became serious, "...... The elevator is not out of order. Why haven't we reached the first floor yet? ”
Was reminded by Li Xiuyi, Fang Qian'an came to his senses.
yes, both of them had been standing in the elevator talking for so long, but the elevator had been going down smoothly. Although the complex building is a high-rise building with more than ten floors, it will not be so long before reaching the first floor when no one frequently goes up and down.
Fang Qian'an and Li Xiu looked at the number of words on the floor of the elevator together, and soon found that something was wrong.
13th Floor, 12th Floor, 13th Floor......
10th Floor, 9th Floor, 8th Floor......
12th Floor, 7th Floor, 3rd Floor......
B2F, 5F, B12F......
……
"The floor is jumping all the time."
Li Xiu pointed this out.
"But isn't the elevator going down all the time?"
Fang Qian'an frowned and said.
Yes, although the floors on the panel are chaotic, from the physical senses, the elevator where he and Li Xiu are located has been descending steadily, and there is no inertia brought by one card after one card when the elevator fails.
"Hmm." Li Xiu was pressing the emergency button of the elevator.
However, no matter how much he pressed, there was silence on the other end of the emergency help channel, and no one answered.
A few minutes have passed, and the numbers on the elevator panel have long since become floors that normal elevators don't have at all, and what "minus 18 floors" and "minus 27 floors" are coming, and their elevators are ...... It's still declining.
"There's no mistake."
Li Xiu muttered, his face a little more panicked, he raised his hand and pressed all the buttons on the panel - and then, he saw that the button light, which was originally orange and yellow, turned blood red at the same moment.
"What's going on?"
"Wait, I'm calling—, no signal?"
Fang Qian'an's expression was solemn, and a trace of disbelief flashed in his eyes.
You must know that in order to prevent k********g or other dangers, his mobile phone has undergone special modifications, not to mention in the elevator, even in the deep mountains and old forests, the signal should be full.
But now, the expensive mobile phone lying in Fang Qian'an's hand has directly turned into bricks in such a small scene.
Moreover, the elevator, which has been down for so long, has not stopped, is also very counterintuitive.
Fang Qian'an was not stupid, and he also realized that there seemed to be a kind of ...... in things Weirdness beyond the realm of science.
"Anyway, Li Xiu, you go to the corner first. If the elevator crashes, the person in the corner has a better chance of surviving. "Fang Qian'an said in a tense voice, and as he spoke, he couldn't help but snort.
Sure enough, is the elevator malfunctioning? Why is it so cold here.
This thought quickly crossed Fang Qian'an's heart, but it didn't stay long.
"Ding-"
Because at this moment, the elevator stopped.
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【B13】
Negative thirteen floors.
Before the elevators slowly opened, Li Xiu subconsciously raised his eyes and glanced at the display screen.
A faint flickering red electronic light indicates the level they are on at the moment.
…… The wrong floor, of course.
After all, it's not Chongqing's subway, and their school's comprehensive building has three underground floors at most, so how can it be dug up to minus thirteen.
Li Xiu felt that his mind was in a mess, and countless thoughts slipped through his mind in a chaotic manner.
Especially at the moment when the elevator door opened, Li Xiu's heart was about to jump out of his throat.
When the elevator doors opened, it was pitch black before his eyes.
A piercing chill instantly enveloped Li Xiu the moment he opened the door, he trembled, and a burst of white mist rose from his mouth and nose.
"Hey, Xiu'er."
With one hand, the palm of his hand was hot, and he reached over and grabbed Li Xiu.
"You...... You lean behind me, this thin arm and thin leg, blocking the door, do you think you are the door god? ”
Fang Qian'an took a step forward and pulled Li Xiu to his side, intentionally or unintentionally.
Because of this little action that was almost protective, Li Xiu's lips moved slightly, and he didn't have a good mouth to care about the inexplicable title of "Xiu'er".
"Damn, where the hell is this broken elevator?"
Fang Qian'an raised his mobile phone, turned on the light and shone into the darkness, judging from the environment that the mobile phone light could illuminate, it seemed that the outside of the elevator was a corridor - this very netherworld pattern was similar to other floors. However, this floor is currently not used at all, there are no lights, and there are no emergency exits.
Best of all, it's as cold as a morgue.
Li Xiu raised his hand and found that the cold hairs on his arms stood up.
Just when Li Xiu and Fang Qian'an were standing in the elevator looking at the completely unfamiliar floor outside, the elevator suddenly made a piercing "crunch" sound, and the entire elevator car shook vigorously.
That feeling is like the whole elevator is going to collapse in the next second.
"f**k,f**k,f**k—"
Fang Qian'an let out a curse, dragged Li Xiu and rushed out of the elevator.
As a result, as soon as he and Li Xiu stepped out of the elevator, the elevator closed directly against their heels.
"Ding-elevator-go dowm,go dowm,go dowm-go dowm"
I don't know if there is a problem with the sound generator in the electronic sound of the door closing reminder, and the sound is so long that it looks like something is wailing.
And most importantly, the elevator is still running down?
But at this time, Li Xiu and Fang Qian'an couldn't complain about this kind of minutiae, because as soon as the elevator door closed, the only lighting source they had left was the mobile phone in their hands.
"What kind of elevator is this?! Where the hell did the money you donate to this s**t school go every year, such a rubbish ......"
Fang Qian'an stared at the lifeless elevator door and complained in a rough voice.
Then he turned around and said to Li Xiu, who was speechless: "Yes, let's go, go to the emergency exit and take the fire escape." ”
"…… Good. ”
Li Xiu said in a low voice.
He was uncomfortable, his head and shoulders were so heavy that it was as if he was carrying a corpse when he didn't know it, and the chill spread, leaving his hands and feet cold. Every time he entered a dark and damp place where few people passed, Li Xiu would feel unwell, and his low-grade fever today made this situation even worse.
There was a stale smell in the darkness, a mixture of dust and moisture peculiar to long-vacant buildings.
It's a bit like the smell in the Xiao family's villa.
Li Xiu thought as he followed Fang Qian'an and walked forward slowly.
Along the way, Qian'an was trying to shake his mobile phone, trying to find the emergency exit as soon as possible, but the narrow corridor seemed to be an infinitely extended labyrinth, and after searching for a long time, except for one locked door after another, they had not been able to find the fire staircase, and the iconic green light sign near the emergency exit.
After walking for a while, it may be that the rustling footsteps of the passage were indeed too depressing, Fang Qian'an finally couldn't hold it back, coughed lightly, and took the lead in opening his mouth.
"This place is well designed for garbage."
"Hmm."
"I said that I invited such a famous designer, but in fact, the appearance of this building is also very ugly."
"Hmm."
"Oh, by the way, you should know, right?"
"Know what?"
"It's that this building actually has a history," Fang Qian'an said, as if he had forgotten the bad temper caused by the previous elevator failure, and there was a hint of excitement in his tone, "Not many people think that this building looks particularly strange, in fact, this is deliberately designed - from a high altitude, this building is like a concave mirror, isn't it?" And the concave side is just facing the Xiao family's haunted house. In fact, this design is to continuously suck the ghosts in the Xiao family's haunted house into this building, and why the corridors here are designed to look like ghosts is also deliberate, so that once those ghosts enter here, they will never find their way out, and they will never be able to live forever and linger in these corridors......"
Li Xiu: "Oh, how do you get rid of it?" ”
Fang Qian'an: "Huh? Chemical, chemically what? ”
The young man's faint questioning in the dark made the young and tall school bully stutter inexplicably.
Only Li Xiu's voice was as calm as ever without the slightest fluctuation: "According to this statement, the complex absorbs the evil qi and ghosts of the haunted house into its own structure, so it must set up a layout that can dissolve the evil qi, right?" For example, large fountains, waterfalls, or spiral ornaments, but none of them are available in the complex. And if you only absorb evil qi and ghosts and don't want to dissolve them, over time, the entire building will become a place of great evil, and the ghosts that have been wandering will gradually become very fierce ghosts in the fierce place. ”
"Uh...... If it is designed like this, it can suppress the resentment on the side of the Xiao family's haunted house......"
Fang Qian'an's dry response revealed a hint of embarrassment.
"The recent transaction floor price of the real estate near the school is one square meter, although the land in the school cannot be calculated according to the business, but the purpose of building a building on the land at this price is to turn it into a big place, and it is still in the city center?" There was a hint of sincere incomprehension in the young man's clear voice, "So, if someone really deliberately arranges these...... What is he trying to do? ”
Fang Qian'an was completely stuck.
After a long time, I heard him say to Li Xiu very bluntly: "You...... Aren't you afraid of any of this? ”
Li Xiu sighed helplessly.
"Fang Qian'an, you used to bully on campus and bullied me so badly, isn't it because my family is a 'swaggering and deceitful jumping god'?"
Fang Qian'an suddenly heard Li Xiu's reminder, and he didn't notice it for a while, and was directly choked by saliva to the point of coughing.
"I forgot."
It took a long time to hear him say in a curt.
Li Xiu lowered his eyes behind him.
The corridor was very quiet, only the footsteps of Li Xiu and Fang Qian'an, coming out from afar, provoked a response in the empty corridor, and after overlapping with the original footsteps, it was like ......
It's like there's actually a lot of people walking here.
Gradually, Li Xiu's footsteps slowed down unconsciously. There was a sharp pain in the ankle of the stunted right foot, like a silent reminder of Li Xiu's humiliation because of her disability in the bullying she had been repeated again and again.
Because of his foot, he couldn't even run away.
"You're actually afraid of ghosts."
In the dark corridor, Li Xiu's voice suddenly became indifferent.
In the faint light of the mobile phone, Fang Qian'an's figure seemed to stumble.
"Huh? Me, I'm afraid of ghosts? ”
The boy's voice suddenly raised high, and he asked loudly, as if Li Xiu had said something particularly funny.
However, Li Xiu didn't pay any attention to the bluff of a certain boy at all.
"You're nervous from the elevator door." Li Xiu said lightly, "That's why you became very noisy...... Every time you allowed those people to bully me on campus, you would rather play on your phone than talk more. ”
"Hey, that's not interesting—"
"You wanted to scare me just now, but as soon as I said these things about evil ghosts, you became even more afraid."
Fang Qian'an, who was completely pointed out by Li Xiu, was not very good.
"I'm afraid of ghosts, how can I be afraid of ghosts?" Unconsciously, Fang Qian'an put on the arrogant and arrogant mask of the eldest young master of the Fang family again, "Xiu'er, it's easy to put it on, you're afraid of ghosts, right?" You're about to cut off my hands. ”
Hearing this, Li Xiu's pupils shrank.
Because it was too cold, Li Xiu held his hands on his chest all the way.
He...... I didn't touch Fang Qian'an at all.