Chapter 3 Chapter 2 Strange Things Happen Again

I don't know Luo Ding, nor do I know Chen Mao, and I've been friends with Xiao Guo for many years. Xiao Guo didn't specifically mention this matter to me, but I just met by chance and talked about it. I didn't think about it: "Some people can't be in a narrow space. In a narrow space, like in an elevator, they will feel inexplicable fear and have many fantasies." Xiao Guo said: "I think the same way, this Luo must be a very neurotic person, that's why he is like that, but what happened to him seems to be true!" I said again: "There is a kind of people who take fantasies as reality. We can often see this kind of people. This is a very serious psychological problem!"

Xiao Guo laughed: "You can be a psychiatrist, but the most unlucky thing is me. My car was just shipped from Italy. It was specially designed and handmade. It was hit by him and cannot be repaired locally. , there will be no car for several months!" I patted him on the shoulder: "You are getting bigger and bigger!" Xiao Guo happily said: "There are so many people willing to spend a lot of money to invite me, what can I do!" We talked about other things, and I asked him casually: "So, have you bought that house?" Xiao Guo said: "I would like to buy it, but my wife said that it is not a good omen to see a house collided with a car, so I canceled my original intention."

I asked again, "So, you didn't even go up there?" Xiao Guo shook his head and said, "Of course not!" I laughed, "If you went up to see it, you might have the same experience as that Mr. Luo!" Xiao Guo said happily: "I hope so—" When he said this, he suddenly showed an excited expression: "Anyway, I'm free, and you'll be fine. Let's go and have a look, how about it?" I shook my head and said, "What's so good about that?" Xiao Guo insisted: "Go and see what's the matter, the environment of the building is really good."

The encounter with that surnamed Luo was very interesting, or very exciting. I think it was the hallucination of this Mr. Luo. However, there is nothing to do anyway, so what does it matter if you go for a walk? I nodded in agreement, and went to see the building with Xiao Guo. The road leading to the entrance of the building is indeed quite inclined, so when the car drives up, the whole building can be seen very clearly.When we arrived, it was beginning to get dark. In the twilight, the 20-story building stood tall and magnificent. Parked the car at the entrance of the building, got out of the car with Xiao Guo, the building was not occupied yet, the lobby had lights on, we opened the glass door and walked in, Xiao Guo shouted loudly: "Uncle Chen, Uncle Chen!"

After a while, a person came down the stairs.This person is naturally Chen Mao, the administrator of the building. My first impression of Chen Mao was that his expression was very strange.It was an indescribable feeling, perhaps people with small eyeballs tended to give this impression to others. Chen Mao was all smiles, he naturally knew Xiao Guo, and shouted: "Mr. Guo!" Xiao Guo said: "I wanted to come and see the house last time, but I crashed into a car, so I didn't come to see it again. Have the high-rise units been sold?" Chen Mao frowned: "No, it's very strange that not a single unit in this building was sold!"

After I heard it, I couldn't help being stunned.Because no matter from the perspective of the environment or the architecture, this building should have been sold out before it was completed, but it is a bit unbelievable that not a single unit has been sold. Not only was I in a daze, but Xiao Guo was also surprised. He asked strangely, "How could that be?" Chen Mao said: "I don't understand either. There are a lot of people who came to see the house, but after seeing it, no one bought it." I smiled and said, "Then, isn't the owner of the building unlucky?"

Chen Mao spread his hands: "Our boss doesn't care, he has a lot of money. Originally, when people build a building, they always advertise for sale as soon as they have a design, but he doesn't do that. He must wait until the house is built. Let’s sell it when it’s done, but now it’s impossible to sell even one floor, if it’s advertised earlier, it’s probably sold out.” Xiao Guo said: "Please give me the key to the higher level, I'll go up and have a look!" Chen Mao said: "It's getting dark, I'll lend you a flashlight!" While handing over the flashlight to Xiao Guo, he also gave Xiao Guo two keys. Xiao Guo specifically asked for the one on the 22nd floor.

Chen Mao didn't go up with us, Xiao Guo and I got into the elevator, and when the elevator door was about to close, I asked loudly, "Have the row of small lights in the elevator been repaired?" Although the elevator door closed immediately, I could hear Chen Mao's answer. He said loudly, "It's already been repaired!" Xiao Guo pressed the button for the word "twenty-two", and the elevator began to ascend. Of course, Xiao Guo and I are not neurotic people, but when the elevator started to ascend, I exchanged glances with him. From the look on his face, it could be seen that he was somewhat nervous, and I thought I must be too.

After we glanced at each other, what we thought in our hearts was naturally what happened to Luo Ding in this elevator, so we smiled at the same time. I looked up at the row of small lights, the numbers were jumping rapidly, and I reached the fifteenth floor in a flash, then sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and then the twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-second floors. In less than a minute, the elevator reached the 22nd floor. After a slight vibration, the door opened. Xiao Guo and I looked at each other again and shrugged our shoulders. Luo Ding is an unconscious psychopath, there is no doubt about it.We got out of the elevator, Xiao Guo used the key to open a door and walked in, it was already dark, so Xiao Guo turned on the flashlight, the building was well designed, opened the glass door, and came to the balcony, the twilight was getting thicker The city, with twinkling lights, is extremely beautiful.

Xiao Guo was very satisfied. There were four rather large bedrooms, and he also looked at them one by one. Then, he washed his hands in a bathroom, shaking his hands to shake out the water drops, and walked out. . He said to me: "Very good, I decided to buy it." I smiled and said, "If no one visits a building at all, there must be something wrong!" Xiao Guo spread his hands: "Problem? What's the problem? I don't think there's anything wrong at all!" I started and said, "If only your family lives after you move in, wouldn't it be too deserted?"

Xiao Guo laughed: "That's better, I just like quiet." We talked and laughed, and went to another residential unit on the same floor to take a look. Except for the different directions, the layout was exactly the same. We got into the elevator again and went down to the lobby. Chen Mao was waiting for us below. Xiao Guo said: "Very good, I decided to be the first buyer. No one buys such a good house. I really don't know what to buy!" Xiao Guo returned the key to Chen Mao, and went out with me. I got in the car first, and he opened the door and was about to get in the car. , forgot to put it on!" I smiled and said, "What a good watch is yours!" Xiao Guo said: "It's worth a second-rate sports car, just wait for me, I'll get it back." I nodded, I didn't think of going up with him at all, and I can be sure that he will come back soon with the watch he forgot to wear. I saw him enter the building again, asked Chen Mao for the flashlight and keys, and saw him enter the elevator. I waited in the car and yawned. I had many thrilling and exciting things with Xiao Guo, but this time was probably the most boring. I actually accompanied him to see the new house together!I shrugged, made myself more comfortable, tucked in a music box, and listened to "Moon River." When "Moon River" finished playing, I straightened my body. Counting four minutes for this song, then it should be five minutes for Xiao Guo to enter.Five minutes, he should be back! I stopped the recording box and looked towards the building. The lights in the lobby of the building were still on, and the manager Chen Mao had gone somewhere.I looked up and saw the building. The entire building has no lights at all, and it looks like a monster in the dark, giving people a very scary feeling. At this moment, I couldn't help but think of what happened to Luo Ding, but then I laughed to myself. Xiao Guo has only been there for a little over five minutes, what am I worried about? I lit a cigarette, but when the cigarette was more than half smoked, I couldn't hold my breath. I opened the car door, walked out, and came to the glass door of the building. See the elevator. For any elevator, on the lowest floor, you can see which floor the elevator stops on. There is a row of lights to show this. I just want to see if Xiao Guo has started to come down. However, the row of lights were all off, and none of them were on. That is to say, I have no way of knowing which floor Xiao Guo is on. I was stunned again, pushed open the glass door, and shouted: "Uncle Chen, Uncle Chen!" Chen Mao came down from the second floor again, saw me, and said strangely: "Mr. Guo hasn't come down yet?" I said: "Yes, he has been up for a long time, why is the light of this elevator not on?" Chen Mao glanced at the elevator, frowned and said: "It's broken again, alas, it breaks often, how annoying!" I walked back and forth in the lobby, until the second cigarette was about to run out, and I said, "No, Uncle Chen, there is only one elevator?" Chen Mao said: "Yes, there is only one elevator in the whole building!" I hurriedly said, "Where's the rear elevator?" Many buildings, especially expensive buildings like this, usually have rear elevators, so I ask this question. Chen Mao shook his head: "No, maybe this is the reason why it can't be sold. Many people have asked about it. There is no rear elevator, and customers don't like it!" I looked at the elevator again and pressed the button hard. At the same time, I put my ear on the elevator door. I seemed to hear a little sound. It was like the sound of the elevator steel cable moving. If my judgment is correct, the elevator is not going up. , that is, it has already begun to decline. Of course, the possibility of the elevator descending is high, because Xiao Guo has been up for so long, so he should naturally come down.I waited patiently, but three minutes passed, and Xiao Guo still hadn't come down. I looked towards Chen Mao, only to see Chen Mao staring at me with wide eyes, his face was very pale, and it seemed that his expression was also very strange. I yelled at him loudly, he took a sign, and I said, "I'm going up the stairs to find Mr. Guo. If Mr. Guo comes down, you must remember to ask him to wait for me and don't come up to find me again!" Chen Mao stared at me: "Sir, the 20th floor, you go up?" I ignored him and ran to the stairs, I hurried up the stairs. Ordinary people, if I go up the stairs at my speed, I believe that when I reach the tenth floor, I must be out of breath, but I am a person who has received strict Chinese martial arts training, and I can last longer. On the first floor, I walked out to see which floor the elevator was on. I didn’t have a flashlight in the panic, so I had to use a lighter to look after it. The digital lights of the elevators on each floor were all off. When I reached the twentieth floor, I started to pant. It was an extremely long journey, but I only had the last two floors left. I ran to the next floor and shouted: "Xiao Guo!" In the building where no one lives, my echo resounds. I ran up another floor, and I was already on the 22nd floor, and I shouted again: "Xiao Guo!" Still no response, I pushed hard on the door, the door was locked, I knocked on the door hard, there was no response at all, I yelled loudly, and slammed on the elevator door, because I thought Xiao Guo might be trapped in the elevator, But there was still no echo at all. At this time, I only felt chills all over my body. I ran to the next floor and yelled loudly again. There was still no response at all. I saw Xiao Guo walk into the elevator with my own eyes, and kept staring at the gate of the building.It's absolutely impossible that Xiao Guo came out and I couldn't see it, but Xiao Guo didn't know where he went. Of course, he is most likely still in the elevator. I feel so stupid. I should call the elevator company. Come.As soon as I thought of this, I immediately turned back and ran downstairs. Running up to more than 20 floors in a row, the feeling is not too far from running a 10,000-meter race. When I ran to about the fourth or fifth floor, I had already heard Chen Mao from below. He was shouting, "Mr. Guo, what's wrong with you?" I heard Xiao Guo uttered an extremely abnormal yell again, and then, there was a sound as if someone had hit something. When I heard these voices, I jumped and ran downstairs. When I arrived at the lobby, I saw Chen Mao lying on the wall next to the mailbox, struggling to stand up. I hurried over and helped him up. At the same time, I also saw that the elevator had reached the ground floor and the door was open. I hurriedly said, "Where is Mr. Guo?" Chen Mao pointed to the outside, and was speechless for a while. I immediately looked up and saw Xiao Guo was opening the car door and getting into the car.At that moment, I couldn't see the expression on his face clearly, but judging from his actions, it looked like he had just killed someone, and there were hundreds of policemen chasing him! I shouted loudly: "Xiao Guo!" I yelled and ran out, I ran so fast that I forgot to open the glass door for a while, so that there was a "bang" sound, and I bumped my head against the glass door. That hit made me feel dizzy for a while! This delay was already too late, when I pushed open the glass door, Xiao Guo had already started the car, the car made an extremely unpleasant creaking sound, turned a corner sharply, and rushed straight down! I chased after a few steps, and Xiao Guo's car was no longer visible. There is one thing that I can be sure of, that is, Xiao Guo must be extremely nervous and panicked, because when he drove straight down the ramp, he didn't turn on his headlights at all! In fact, there is no need for such a thing, his panic is certain.Because he seemed to have completely forgotten that he came with me, and left alone like that! At that time, I stood there in a daze, not knowing what to do for a while, and I didn't turn around until Chen Mao also walked out. Chen Mao's expression was also very alarmed. He didn't wait for me to speak, and said, "What's wrong with Mr. Guo?" I said, "I was about to ask you, what happened to him?" Chen Mao cried and said: "I waited below, when the elevator door opened and he came out, I wanted to tell him that you went up to find him, but before I could say anything, he pushed me away. Call him, he yelled loudly, pushed me again, pushed me down, and ran out, at that time, you also came down." I said, "He didn't say anything?" Chen Mao shook his head. I asked again, "How was his expression at that time?" Chen Mao rolled his eyes: "It's scary, it's like... like..." He hesitated and didn't continue, but I immediately connected. "Like Mr. Luo last time?" When Chen Mao heard what I said, he nodded repeatedly, and I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart!Same as Luo Ding, that is to say, when he got on the elevator alone, the elevator kept going up. Calculated from the time, the elevator went up thousands of feet without stopping! I took a quick breath: "Chen Mao, have you taken this elevator before?" Chen Mao also showed a horrified expression: "Sir, don't scare me, I go up and down in a day, I don't know how many times I have to ride!" I looked at him, knowing that this question was unnecessary, but I still asked: "Have you ever encountered any strange things?" Chen Mao couldn't help shaking his head. I walked to the lobby of the building again, Chen Mao followed me, pushed open the glass door, and came to the elevator door, I stepped in, Chen Mao wanted to follow, I waved him out. I pressed the "twenty-two" button, the door of the elevator closed, and the elevator began to ascend. The speed of the elevator was quite fast, and it reached the tenth floor in no time, and then continued to ascend. When I passed the word "twenty", my mood became tense. However, my nervousness only lasted for a few seconds. As soon as the word "twenty-two" was illuminated, the elevator vibrated slightly, then stopped, and the door opened automatically. I walked out, it was a hallway, I ran up it just now, it was like that just now, and it is still like that now. I stayed for a while, then got into the elevator, raised the elevator to the top floor, and then lowered the elevator to the lobby. When the elevator door opened, Chen Mao was standing in front of the elevator door, he looked at me in horror, and then said: "Sir, is it all right?" I didn't answer his question because my heart was full of doubts.Elevator is normal, nothing at all. However, a man named Luo Ding once encountered strange things in this elevator, and Xiao Guo obviously encountered something, so why? I lowered my head and walked out. I was approaching the glass door when I suddenly remembered something. I turned around and asked Chen Mao who was still standing there: "When I went up just now, did this row of small lights Can't catch it?" Chen Mao nodded and said, "Yes." I pushed open the door and walked out. This area is very deserted. I had to walk down a rather long inclined road and waited for another ten minutes before I stopped a streetcar. When I was waiting for the car, I realized that the bump I just had on the glass door was really hard, and a large lump was swollen on my forehead, and it still hurt like a needle prick. When I got in the car, I told the driver the address of Xiao Guo. Ten minutes later, I pressed my forehead with one hand and rang the doorbell with the other, and it was Mrs. Guo who opened the door. As soon as Mrs. Guo saw me, she exclaimed happily: "You are so welcome, long time no see!" As soon as I heard her say that, my heart sank, because it proved that Xiao Guo hadn't come back yet. I hurriedly said, "Where is Xiao Guo?" Mrs. Guo smiled and said, "Please come in and sit down. He is a man of no direction. He might come home when he comes home!" I stood at the door and didn't go in. Mrs. Guo may also have seen the difference in my expression. She became surprised and looked at me. I took a breath: "Just now, I was with him." Mrs. Guo was even more surprised, and I said again: "I went to that building with him to look at the house. You remember, last time, a daredevil rushed down the ramp and hit the building where your car is!" Mrs. Guo nodded and said, "Of course I remember, what happened to him!" I smiled wryly, I didn't have time to explain to Mrs. Guo, because I was afraid that something would happen to Xiao Guo, and I still wanted to find him, so I just said: "We went together, maybe there was a little accident, he was alone Drive away in a hurry, I'm going to find him now!" Mrs. Guo cried out anxiously: "What happened?" I had already reached the stairs, and turned my head: "I don't have time to explain to you, because the speed of his car rushing down the slope is faster than that daredevil!" I ran down the stairs and heard Mrs. Guo calling me, so I raised my head and shouted loudly: "Contact anytime!" I went downstairs and stopped another streetcar.Throughout the night, I directed the streetcar driver to drive around the street. Of course, the main roads I passed were between that building and Xiao Guo's residence. Whenever there was a telephone booth, I would come down to call and ask Mrs. Guo if Xiao Guo was back, but Mrs. Guo would always answer anxiously and crying: "No!" The streetcar driver almost regarded me as crazy, and I kept calling the police to ask if there was a car accident.In big cities, there are car accidents every night, and there were a few this night, but it was not Xiao Guo. I hoped to see Xiao Guo's car hit the lamp post on the street, but I never found it. Until dawn, the streetcar driver said: "I'm sorry, sir, I have to rest!" I paid him the fare and got out of the car. Where did Xiao Guo go?Now, I don't care about what happened to him in the elevator of that building, I just care about where he went! He should go home immediately, or else, he should go back to the office. However, I kept calling in these two places, and the answer in one place was Mrs. Guo's increasingly anxious crying, and in the other place, No one listened at all. When I made the last phone call with Mrs. Guo, it was already eight o'clock in the morning. I suggested that Mrs. Guo go to the police. Go to the police station together to report the case and report Xiao Guo's disappearance. I have a lot of acquaintances in the police station. Several senior police officers greeted me. I was not in the mood to respond to them. After I finished asking all the questions, a police officer came over and said: "There is a car floating on the seashore. We are salvaging it. The license plate number is—” He said the license plate number, and I was stunned for a moment, while Mrs. Guo opened her mouth to scream, but she didn't scream, and she had already passed out. The ensuing hustle and bustle was really dizzying. Mrs. Guo was sent to the hospital. I rushed to the beach, which was full of onlookers. , was slowly hoisting a car in the sea, and the sea water poured out from the body. I also felt a sudden blackness in front of my eyes. It would be a pity if Xiao Guo drove straight into the sea in a panic and drowned! Arranged by the police, when we arrived on the ship, the car had been moved to the deck, there was no one inside, and the door of the car was tightly closed. With a strange look on his face, the police officer reached out to open the door, but all the doors were locked. It seemed that Xiao Guo drove the car into the garage, locked all the doors, and then left, but the fact is that However, the car was picked up in the sea. I also felt very strange, and at the same time, I couldn't help but feel happy, because judging from this situation, when the car fell into the sea, Xiao Guo was not in the car! Because there is absolutely no possibility that after falling into the sea together with people and the car, there is a way for people to get out of the car, and then turn around and lock the doors one by one.