Chapter 4 Chapter Four

April 1.Sunday.Night, 22:10. The night, the endless night. The crescent moon is like a hook, hanging in the yellow sandy sky, the moonlight illuminates a lonely big cactus, and the spire of the half-collapsed wooden church, the cross has long been broken between the half-waist of the dilapidated house.A crooked street, the houses on both sides are almost all built before World War II, and there is no light in the closed doors and windows.In the wilderness a mile away, a male wolf raised its head to the sky and howled terrifyingly. As if to match the howling of wolves in the distance, a creepy scream sounded at the same time in the two-story house at the end of the town.As these terrifying voices sounded everywhere, the surviving people in the whole town were shivering under the covers, under the window sills, in the closet, and in the bathroom.

You follow the sound to the big house, the door opens automatically, the dark living room is full of fishy smell, and the soles of your feet are disgustingly slippery.A gleam of light shone from nowhere, and it happened to illuminate a row of old green wooden stairs.Walking up carefully, the stairs made the sound of breaking and falling at any time.The light swept across the white wall, and it was covered with shocking blood—not a pool of blood, but a red color that almost covered the wall, gradually flowing and covering the entire staircase.The narrow corridor on the second floor, from the ceiling to the wall to the floor, was all smeared with bright red blood.A red stream flowed from the crack of the bedroom door, and the doorknob was clearly printed with bloody handprints that hadn't dried up.The moment this door opens, you collapse.

On such a gloomy thunderstorm night, watching an American horror film that is said to scare people to death on the other side of the ocean, five or six couples of young men and women screamed in horror together in the No. Boys who start a relationship take advantage. With one exception, she was huddled alone in the last row, with no boys or old men around, just popcorn and soda. Two hours ago, Mo Xing'er came to the ninth floor of the Future Dream Building alone, and bought a movie ticket for "Bloody Town" at the ticket window of the movie theater.Future Dream Studios has eight screens, and it is often full on Tuesdays and Wednesdays on half-price days, but it looks a bit cold tonight.

The conductor frowned in disbelief when he saw this pretty young woman watching a horror movie alone on a rainy Sunday night.Mo Xing'er felt that she was being treated as a monster or a pervert, so she slapped her swollen face to pretend to be a fat man and emphasized: "Cough! Cough! I specialize in studying American horror films." After she finished speaking, she regretted it. Almost put two words on the forehead - loneliness. A twenty-five-year-old white-collar beauty, wearing a large casual sweater and skinny jeans, sat in the corner of the last row of the cinema.A flickering beam of light from the projector shoots from above her head, projecting a terrifying and bloody picture of a small western town on the screen in front of her.She looked back at the projection window, imagining what terrible secrets would be hidden in the small house with white light.

When the most terrifying love affair was staged on the screen, Mo Xing'er let out a scream that shocked the audience.Other audience members screamed, and the theater staff came to see what happened.It turned out that she felt itchy on the soles of her feet, and she didn't know what was rubbing them back and forth. She took a photo with her mobile phone, only to find that it was a huge gray mouse scurrying around her sneakers!The staff were also so scared that they almost fell down.The nasty big mouse then ran into a dark corner. She was no longer interested in watching movies, and she asked sharply why there were mice in the movie theater.The answer is that Future Dream Studios has been in operation for three years, and this is the first time that rats have been found.She subconsciously said: "Could it be an earthquake, and the mice and cockroaches will come out?"

In order to calm the matter, the duty manager refunded the full price of the movie ticket as compensation. Finally, Mo Xinger ended this special movie watching amidst the double fear of the small town in the western United States with blood flying all over the screen and the small animals that might appear under his feet at any time. He walked out of the cinema in a panic, surrounded by young men and women who came out together.Mo Xing'er leaned against the railing of the atrium, overlooking the ground floor, and felt dizzy for a while. There is a landscape elevator with a glass curtain wall at the entrance of the theater, in which you can see the panoramic view of the atrium of the building.She squeezed in with several lovers, and a man and a woman were next to each other, kissing passionately as if no one else was there, which made her turn her head away blushing and heartbeating.

April 1.Sunday.Night, 22:19. The elevator shook slightly.The others hadn't responded yet, but Mo Xing'er's heart beat wildly, and she subconsciously grabbed the elevator handrail.In less than two seconds, the elevator shook again, and everyone screamed, as if returning to the bloody night in the American western town in the movie just now. The man and woman who were kissing madly lost their balance and fell on Mo Xing'er.She screamed instinctively, trying to use her back to withstand the weight.The elevator swayed in the opposite direction again.Amid the screams of seven or eight people, she was pushed into a corner, fearing that the glass curtain wall would be crushed and she would be the first to fly out.

The lights of the elevator flickered rapidly, and the entire shopping mall also flickered on and off.The boy near the elevator door wanted to press the emergency button, but in a panic, he pressed the emergency call by mistake, and there was a piercing howling sound, just like the horror noise at the end of the movie.This elevator carrying many people is like a toy in the hands of a child.Mo Xing'er looked through the glass, but there was no sign of shaking in the atrium and the various floors of the mall—only, in the Jack Jones men's clothing store on the seventh floor, the tall and tall mannequins in casual suits and shirts fell down one after another.

Although dizzy from being hit, Mo Xing'er realized that it wasn't the elevator shaking, but the entire Future Dream Building was shaking violently!The elevator did not shake relative to the building, but the building and the elevator shook relative to the ground. In an instant, the lights inside the elevator and the entire shopping mall went out, and with the terrified cry for help in the elevator, in the darkness, Mo Xinger's legs rushed to the floor——the elevator stopped. The entire building was without power. In the narrow space where you can't see your fingers, the light on the mobile phone screen keeps turning on, illuminating the faces of dead ghosts in horror movies.Mo Xing'er was too lazy to take out her phone, she quietly closed her eyes, and shed a hot tear against the cold glass.She was not crying because she was about to die, but because she was too late to do something.

April 1.Sunday.Night, 22:20. The shaking of the elevator and the building basically stopped. This small elevator will become the coffin of the living dead. Suddenly, the elevator descended rapidly, and the inertia made everyone feel ecstatic. The depth of the descent was unknown——according to the descending speed just now, at least 20 more floors had descended!There are only nine floors from the cinema to the ground floor. Could it be that the elevator landed directly in hell? Just when everyone was desperate for not knowing when they would fall to the bottom, the elevator suddenly stopped again.

Mo Xinger kept staring out of the glass wall, she had a strange feeling - the elevator didn't descend inside the mall.Although nothing can be seen outside, nothing seems to have changed. The opposite is still on the fourth and fifth floors. The light from a mobile phone tens of meters away can illuminate the billboard of a Rolex watch.Just as the elevator is not shaking relative to the building, at this time, the elevator is also not descending relative to the building—but the entire Future Dream Building is descending rapidly! The second time it fell, everyone didn't make any more noise, but they stopped and screamed again. I don't know who touched a certain button, and the elevator door opened automatically.Perhaps, there is also a backup power supply for elevators?People fled out one after another, but the first person hit the reinforced concrete heavily, and fell on everyone with a scream. Mo Xinger's judgment was correct. The elevator was still inside the mall, but it didn't stop right on the floor, but landed between the fourth and fifth floors. After the elevator door opened, it faced the floor between the fourth and fifth floors. . Everyone used their mobile phones to take random photos and found that the middle of the elevator door was completely blocked, but there was a gap of about 50 centimeters above to the fifth floor, and a gap of about 40 centimeters below to the fourth floor.No matter the fourth floor or the fifth floor, if you use the beam of your mobile phone to shine through the narrow gap, it is like an ancient tomb buried deep in the ground. From time to time, you can hear the sound of walls collapsing, glass breaking, panicked running footsteps, and the cries of dying people... …The unpowered elevator hangs in the air, and it may fall at any time, directly hitting the ground floor. Even if the glass curtain wall is not smashed to pieces, if it is smashed, it will become a sharp blade.Escaping is the only option, waiting to be buried in this steel coffin sooner or later. From time to time, the atrium of the mall flickered with tiny lights, probably from the mobile phones of the survivors.Mo Xing'er took out his mobile phone, but there was no signal at all.Normally, the mobile phone signal here is very good. Whether it is China Mobile or China Unicom, there are base stations nearby—have all the communication networks in the city been interrupted? Someone wants to risk climbing out.It is more convenient to choose to climb from the bottom, but there is a suspended fourth floor below. If you drill out in the dark and don't know the distance from the ground, you may break your neck.Although it is difficult to climb to the gap above, climbing up is the ground of the fifth floor.The only danger is that it is impossible to climb out of such a small gap in a second. If the elevator cable breaks and falls, the person will be cut in two! Who dares to be the first to take risks? Everyone used their mobile phones to take pictures of each other's faces, each of which looked so scary, as if there were some ghost faces mixed in. A small boy volunteered, and with the help of his girlfriend, he climbed out of the upper gap using hands and feet.His girlfriend grabbed his outstretched hand and was about to climb up when a man next to him went up first.The elevator suddenly became chaotic, everyone was scrambling to be the first, and mobile phones dropped from time to time, only the sound of men cursing angrily, women crying terribly, and the sound of slaps and fists when they were fighting. Mo Xing'er curled up in the corner alone, closed her eyes and waited for them to disappear or die. Two minutes later, a few people finally escaped from the elevator. You can imagine their bruised noses and faces covered with blood. However, there were still two people left in the elevator car.two women. Mo Xing'er used his mobile phone to illuminate her, it was the woman who kissed her boyfriend before the earthquake.The woman threw herself at the elevator door and slapped frantically, shouting a certain man's name.But there was no response, and those who had climbed out of the elevator probably all ran down the escape route—including her dearest man. "He ran away." Mo Xing'er said softly behind her, completely breaking down the woman who was still immersed in sweet happiness just now.She cried out in despair, cursing the man to die.Mo Xing'er said, "I'll lift you up." She turned her head in surprise, her face full of tears was particularly scary in the light of the phone screen.Mo Xing'er nodded sincerely, not knowing what kind of image she would be under the beam of the other party's phone.Mo Xing'er squatted down, and supported her lower body vigorously, almost letting her step on her back.The survival instinct made this woman extra vigor, she grabbed the upper edge of the elevator door, and saw that most of her body was about to go out... There was a crisp cracking sound above her head! Mo Xing'er's heart almost shattered, just about to yell "Quick", the elevator plummeted down! Poor woman, before she could climb out, the top of the elevator hit her waist. Flesh and blood couldn't stop the steel, and in the darkness above Mo Xing'er's head, there was the sound of some kind of material shattering.At the same time as there was a piercing scream, a fishy and thick liquid splashed on her face.