Chapter 9 Chapter 8 The Eerie Backside of the Building: The Elevator Slot

I snapped: "No one is joking. You are the supervisor of the computer management system. If the computer does something tricky, it must be hidden from you." The management director spread his hands wide: "What tricks can the computer do?" This person must be very cunning by nature, because his expressions and actions of denying and lying are endless and extremely stubborn. I sneered: "This is exactly the question I want to ask you: what kind of tricks does it have, how much is it ready to play tricks, and where did it get those documents and two people?" The management director actually sneered: "Sir, if you ask me these questions in public, who do you think will be sent to the mental hospital? Is it you or me?"

I have seen a lot of stubborn people, like this person in front of me, it can be said that it is difficult to deal with, I sneered: "If you don't tell what you know, I'm afraid you will go to a mental hospital and you won't be able to go." By saying that, I was implying to him that his "partner" was unreliable and would betray him--that was an assumption of complicity between him and the computer. I noticed that after I said such words, in a very short time, he had a look of panic. However, that was really less than a tenth of a second—it made me suspect that it was my subjective psychology.This proves that his ability to conceal his inner thoughts has greatly improved in just ten minutes.Huang Tang also noticed this, so he made a gesture to me, indicating that he would deal with it.He walked towards the management director, pointed at him, and said with a not very polite expression: "The police are investigating the disappearance of two people, and hope to get your assistance. Please come with me to the police station, okay?"

Huang Tang's statement was naturally to embarrass the management director on purpose, but unexpectedly, the management director immediately said: "Okay, let's go!" On the contrary, Huang Tang was taken aback, a bit difficult to deal with. The management director sneered, and went further: "Officer, I'm a taxpayer. Going to the police station will make me feel safe. It's much better than being here." Liang Chen said angrily, "What do you mean by that?" The management director raised his voice: "I don't think it's safe here—there are too many abnormal people here. Mr. Chen, I want to assist the police in the investigation. You don't want to hinder the police from carrying out their tasks, right?"

His diction was so aggressive that Huang Tang didn't know what to do.He took more action and walked outside, but instead urged Huang Tang: "Officer, hurry up." Huang Tang looked at me, I signaled him to follow out first, then I raised my voice: "Don't forget that you are human." This sentence is actually useless, because judging from the attitude of the management director, if he has a certain degree of collusion with the computer, then he must be an extremely stubborn guy. It is impossible to change his attitude. Sure enough, without turning his head back, he just responded with a sneer, and strode out, Huang Tang hurriedly followed behind, after the two of them walked out, the two Chen were very angry, they stretched out their fists together, and punched each other on a table. At this moment, Huang Tang's loud cry was suddenly heard from the corridor outside, the sound was extremely frightening.Liangchen Meijing reacted the fastest, and with a flash of red shadows, they had already rushed out.

I followed them closely, and as soon as I got outside, I saw Huang Tang's situation. He was very embarrassed. His hands were holding his tie tightly, and he was pulling it out, but one end of the tie was caught by the elevator door. Clamped, being dragged inward slowly and stubbornly. Huang Tang's face was also flushed, and when the beautiful scenery arrived on a good day, he saw a flash of light, and with a "chi" sound, Huang Tang's tie had been cut.Because Huang Tang was pulling back hard, he couldn't stand firmly, took a step back, and sat down on the ground.And the part of his tie that was caught by the elevator door was pulled into the elevator all of a sudden and disappeared.

All these changes happened very quickly, and there was no trace of the management director.When Huang Tang was struggling to stand up, he pointed to the elevator and was speechless for a moment. In this chaotic situation, I have to add that, just now, I saw the beautiful scenery of the beautiful day rushing out, each of my hands flashed, and Huang Tang's tie snapped off, which shows that they are there. He must have swung a very sharp weapon. But after the ties were broken, they didn't have any weapons in their hands, so we knew that the sharp weapon must be very small--and I never knew that they had such a small sharp weapon with them.

Since they never let others know that they have such small sharp weapons, I naturally pretended not to see them—maybe they have other secrets.Naturally, this kind of sophistication can only be understood after a certain age. When I was young, I didn't care so much. So, I immediately turned around and asked Huang Tang, "Where's that guy?" The two Chens also came out at this time, Huang Tang was still pointing at the elevator: "As soon as he came out, he rushed into the elevator, I wanted to reach out to grab him, but when he turned around, he grabbed my tie instead, and the door of the elevator opened When it was closed at that time, his strength...was so great that it almost strangled me to death."

I took a breath: "It's not his strength that wants to strangle you to death, but the strength of the elevator." The two Chens turned pale, turned around, and rushed into the conference room, and they notified the management office as soon as possible. It was only after half a minute that they realized what they were doing, which was so correct that they knew the changes in time. They later said: "We remembered that every elevator has surveillance equipment. The guy is in the elevator. We can see him on the screen through the surveillance equipment." After they rushed into the meeting room, within half a minute, they shouted: "Mr. Wei, come quickly."

They must have shouted very anxiously, after "Mr. Wei", they also omitted the beautiful scenery on a good day. Liangchen Meijing's action was really fast, even though I acted first, they picked up a gust of wind, and they still passed by my side. At this time, the Chen brothers were by the phone, and a panicked voice came from the phone speaker: "Director...he is opening... the small door at the top of the elevator, and climbing out, the elevator is descending, God, Director...what is he trying to do? He has crawled out...you can't see him anymore." The CCTV monitoring device is at the top of the elevator, and the management director has already climbed out of the elevator through the small door at the top, so naturally he cannot be seen.

The voice from the loudspeaker came from a staff member of the management office, who saw the management director climbing out from the top of the elevator. The two Chen immediately ordered: "Stop the operation of this elevator." The staff member agreed loudly, and then said: "The elevator stops between the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh floors." Liang Chen looked at me, and I said, "Start from this elevator, carefully check and search. I believe that the two missing persons also left the elevator through the small door of the elevator." Liang Chen smiled wryly: "Those two missing persons, why did they do that?"

I said, "I don't know—there are too many things I don't know." Then, all the people fell silent, looking at each other first, and then focused their eyes on me.I knew they were asking me to decide something because I was thinking the same thing. What needs to be decided is: take the stairs down, or take the elevator down? After thinking about it for about ten seconds, I made a decision: "Take the elevator—we can't escape, we must meet the challenge." Everyone had no objection, we walked into the special elevator, the elevator went down to the twenty-sixth floor, stopped, and no accident happened. By the time we reached the twenty-seventh floor, the staff had already arrived, and they had brought some equipment for checking the elevator and the elevator slot. At the same time, in the computer control room, there are also staff members waiting for orders and following orders. All this sounds like a big battle, but in fact, it is extremely common. Everyone who lives in the city , will have seen "elevator routine inspection".The staff stopped the operation of the elevator, installed lighting equipment in the dark elevator passage, and checked in detail. Now, the same is true for the work that the staff are doing. They open the elevator door first and see the lower half of the elevator. When they approach the door and look up, they can see the entire elevator. The small door at the top shows signs of being pushed open. . At this time, the staff in the control room accepted the order to lower the elevator slightly, stopping at the twenty-sixth floor. Then, the staff with lighting equipment walked into the elevator and opened the small door on the top of the elevator.I signaled them to exit, and holding a powerful light, I jumped up through the small door on the top and stood on the top of the elevator. Although elevators (or elevators) are already an indispensable part of urban life, without elevator equipment, it is impossible to have modern buildings. Every person who lives in the city is too familiar with elevators. They have to go in and out many times a day, but not many people have the experience of being on the top of the elevator. On the top of the elevator, that is, directly in the elevator slot, in the dark and narrow space, there are black light and shadow cables with engine oil hanging straight up and down, as if they are indicators leading to hell .The four walls of the trough are rough and primitive, completely unadorned, and separated from the well-arranged corridor by a wall, there is a world of difference. It is an abandoned part, and no one cares whether it is beautiful or ugly, so it also has a special It has its own unique indifference and gloomyness. Looking up, it is pitch black all the way up, I don’t know how high and deep it is, and the narrowness doubles the feeling of depth, as if looking up from hell.The convection of the air makes a very warm sound, which is not very loud, but it tries hard to get in from people's ears, and finally penetrates into people's brains to realize its unpredictable conspiracy. Everything is extremely weird. It is really hard to believe that there is such a component in a resplendent and magnificent building, and it is an extremely important part. Before I climbed to the top of the elevator, I asked the management room to change the automatic system back to manual control, which made me feel much more at ease, otherwise, if the elevator suddenly went up or down, it would be extremely dangerous. I used the lighting equipment to search in the elevator shaft, but I didn't find the management director. The management director climbed out of the elevator between the 50th and 20th floors. On the walls of the elevator shaft, there are many dark corners where people can hide—these are some recessed parts of the wall. , is reserved for the convenience of the construction project. Under strong lighting, the concave and convex parts of these four walls seem to form even more weird shadows. The elevator slot is bigger than the elevator, but not too big. Apart from the door, there are 50 cm gaps on the other three sides. Of course, people can pass through this gap. Therefore, after the management director got out of the elevator, he could go down or up. After thinking about it for a while, I decided to search up first.Because when the elevator descends, there is a steel cable going up correspondingly, and the management director may have grabbed the steel cable and went up. So, I asked Liang Chen to give an order, and the elevator slowly went up under the control of the management room.At this time, Liangchen Meijing also reached the top of the elevator—they were slender and good at lightness, they didn't climb up, but jumped out of the elevator and rushed up.They also have powerful lighting equipment in their hands, so the elevator shaft is very bright, and if someone is hiding, there must be nowhere to hide. The staff in the management room had another report: During the descent of the elevator, from the thirtieth floor to the ground floor, there was no record that the doors on each floor had ever been opened. That is to say, the management director did not leave after getting out of the elevator. Pass the elevator slot. When I was ascending in the elevator, I could still hear the two Chens ordering the guards of the building to keep a close watch on every exit of the building, keep an eye on the whereabouts of the director of management, and detain him immediately if he finds out—although until now, the director of management Whether there is any crime, we can't prove it at all, but his actions are too weird and suspicious.Liangchen Meijing and I were on the top of the elevator together, and the elevator went up until it reached the top, but nothing was found—please believe the sharp eyes of the three of us, let alone a person, even a fly, there must be nothing Hide away.I calmed down, and let the elevator go down again, all the way down to the bottom floor, but still found nothing. Liang Chen Meijing entered the elevator and discussed with the two Chens. I could hear them saying: "The entire elevator slot has been searched. It's really puzzling, that guy has no chance to leave." I also returned to the elevator, and pointed down with my hand: "It's not 'search all over', there is quite a large space below, which is equipped with strong springs that can reduce injuries when the elevator suddenly descends." .” As I spoke, the elevator doors opened, and the ground floor was below the lobby, which, unlike the lobby, was bustling with people coming and going, and only the building management staff went there. At this time, many staff members had already surrounded the elevator, and Huang Tang also led some policemen to guard it. I stepped out of the elevator first, Liangchen Meijing and Liang Chen followed, and I said to a staff member, "I have searched everything except the bottom of the tank." The staff member was very clever, and immediately understood what I meant. He used the walkie-talkie to communicate with the management room, and the elevator slowly went up again. At this time, the elevator door on the ground floor was not closed, and the elevator kept going up, and the bottom of the elevator slot was naturally revealed. , as soon as the strong light shone in, all the people exclaimed "ah": there are really people at the bottom of the elevator shaft, and there are not one, but three. The bottom of the elevator shaft is a very dirty place. There are quite large springs at the bottom, which are full of thick engine oil, and there are some debris left over from the construction period that will never be cleaned by workers. Workers use it to wipe Try the ball of cotton yarn, and so on. And in such a filthy environment, there were three people, huddled into a ball, squatting motionless, motionless.They maintained this posture so that they could not be hurt when the elevator descended and reached the bottom.The reason why everyone exclaimed these three people when they saw them was not because two of them, dressed brilliantly, should never be in such an environment, but because all three of them were wide-eyed. , Moreover, when the strong light hit them, their eyes did not respond at all, that is, they did not close or move. The strong light made their motionless eyes reflect a very weird light, which made people feel a chill involuntarily. Among these three people, one was the management director who climbed out from the top of the elevator less than half an hour ago, while the other two, as soon as Huang Tang saw them, called: "Missing persons!" The other two are Missing One and Two. Missing persons 1 and 2 were actually found at the bottom of the elevator shaft──I once speculated that they might have left from the top of the elevator, but since I really couldn’t figure out why they did this, I couldn’t be sure. Looking at it now Come on, of course the guess is right. I immediately looked at Huang Tang, Huang Tang naturally knew what he should do at this time, he was already in contact with the headquarters: "At the bottom of the elevator shaft, two missing persons were found, the situation of the rest of the missing persons is very likely to be similar, search immediately! The situation of the missing is extremely poor, and the medical staff should be prepared." The situation of the missing person was indeed extremely bad. At this time, the two Chens had already knelt down and reached out to the missing person 1 and 2.Missing persons 1 and 2, as long as they stand up and reach out to the two Chens, they can be pulled up from below by the two Chens. However, missing persons 1 and 2 were still squatting, motionless, not even blinking—if not for the death of one person, they would not have maintained such a posture. I really thought they were all dead. The two Chen didn't even think about it. After stretching out their hands, there was no response, and they jumped down. The strong light, the noise of the crowd, and someone jumping down, all these changes are very different from hiding at the bottom of the dark elevator trough. They must at least have a little reaction. But until the two Chens came to the side of the missing persons 1 and 2, supported them and made them stand upright, their reaction was only to blink their eyes two or three times. This kind of situation is very strange, Liang Chenmei lost her voice: "These are not two people, but two... bodies." The words of the two people made people feel even more chilled, but this kind of weird words also just explained the current situation - missing persons 1 and 2 are indeed just two bodies, living bodies. Missing person 1 and 2 came up first, followed by the management director. The situation of the three people was exactly the same. The medical staff arrived five minutes later, and except for blinking from time to time, the three of them were completely at their mercy. When they got into the ambulance, Huang Tang had already received the report: the rest of the missing persons were found at the bottom of the elevator shaft of the missing building.It's the same for everyone: total loss of sanity. Although the Chen brothers and Liangchen Meijing didn't ask anything, they kept their mouths tightly shut.In fact, they didn't make a sound, which was equivalent to asking, what happened? My thoughts were also very confused, I just lowered my voice and said: "Go to the management room to have a look." A group of people waited and entered the management room, and I couldn't help but take a breath. The situation of the Twin Towers is a bit special. The two connected buildings share a management room, so it looks extraordinarily large, but the Twin Towers only have six A ten-story building can only be regarded as a medium-sized building. A building with a higher floor area must have an equal-sized or even larger management office. There are not many staff members in the entire management room. The main staff members monitor the screens and pay attention to emergencies—in fact, most emergencies are monitored by computers. Issue a warning, or stop the operation by itself, or automatically change the operation procedure.Therefore, although the entire computer-controlled management room is large, there are not many people.But it is by no means empty, because various instruments, consoles, and fluorescent screens occupy a lot of space. A staff member led us to a console with 20 screens, which is the total system that controls the elevator. The staff member pointed to the screen: "20 plus elevators, during operation, the situation in the elevator, can be passed The monitoring device is displayed on the screen." This is a fairly common situation, and similar installations can be found in buildings not managed by computer systems. I glanced at the two Chens, and they immediately understood what I meant, and explained: "The special elevator is mainly used by the two of us. We don't like being watched, so we can't see what's going on in the special elevator." The staff pointed to one of the screens again: "I am here, and saw the director go out from the small door at the top of the elevator." I asked: "The up and down of the elevator, the opening and closing time of the door, and the speed of rising or falling are all fixed?" The staff member said: "The program can be adjusted, but once it is fixed, there will be no change." I said: "But in fact, there was a situation where the elevator closed suddenly—killed two dogs, and caught a police officer's tie." The staff showed a very confused expression: "I...don't know...why this happened...everything is managed by the computer...supposedly there will be no mistakes." Liang Chenmei muttered, "It's just the computer that's doing the trick." Although the staff member heard it too, he didn't mean anything, so he scratched his head, and I asked, "Apart from the director, who is the highest person in charge?" The staff hurriedly raised their voice and called, "Deputy Director." Following his call, a tall and thin middle-aged man walked in staggeringly.As I looked at him, I wondered in my heart: Is this person and the director also working together. The deputy director didn't seem to be very talkative. When he came to us, he didn't say a word, and he didn't say hello to the two Chens. In a very friendly manner, I first introduced myself.After he heard my name, he was taken aback for a moment, his indifferent attitude improved a lot, and he said repeatedly: "I have been admiring you for a long time, my name is Cheng Jinrun, and I study computer management." I start by asking, "How is your imagination?" He thought about it very seriously: "Generally. I can imagine many bizarre scenarios, but I may not really believe that it is true." His answer was very solid, and I was sure that he was not the same as the management director. This kind of answer also made me have a good impression of him from the beginning. I looked at Liang Chen and Liang Chenmei, and they obviously felt the same, because Liang Chen was reaching out to Cheng Jinrun.