Chapter 49 Escalator

After deciding what to do next, Lin Han looked back and forth between the emergency exit and the stairs.

He actually preferred to go down the escalator, at least there was light there, and light always made people feel a little more at ease. In layman's terms, it gave them hope.

The emergency exit is not a bad option, after all, it must be connected to the emergency exit on the next floor, but again, there is no light inside, no light source has been on from beginning to end. Lin Han can't help but feel nervous, so he naturally has to rule it out.

Lin Han was about to tell Wen his thoughts, thinking that the other party would not disagree with him here, but when he looked down, he found that Wen had not stood up yet.

He is still writing.

You made the right choice

Lin Han was stunned and looked over blankly, not knowing what he was referring to for a moment.

Wen obviously had no intention of explaining to him in detail. He threw away the crumpled poster and stood up, just looking at Lin Han quietly. After about ten seconds, seeing that Lin Han still looked dazed, he raised his hand and shook the key that was still hooked on his fingertips.

The key they were about to use to lock the door was found by Lin Han in the cabinet to the left of the counter.

The silver key bumped in front of Lin Han's eyes. After letting him stare at it for a while, Wen lowered his hand, and the key was blocked by his sleeve again.

He didn't move anymore, so there was no sound.

Lin Han then realized that Wen was comforting him.

He felt that Lin Han seemed to be hit by his "wrong choice", so he told Lin Han that his choice was not wrong.

If Lin Han had really chosen to open the cabinet on the right without hesitation at the first moment and got the key to the "Horror High School" scene from the female ghost, it might not have been so easy for them to get the other keys.

During the first search, Lin Han had already made an oversight and did not discover the clue hidden in the corner of the cabinet. So after solving the biggest problem at hand, they would probably not go back to search the places they had searched before, but instead set their sights downstairs, which is close to the rest of the scenes.

This is a very common way of thinking.

If they take another route, they could easily miss out on valuable items.

With the remaining six scenes clustered together, they wouldn't have enough time to find the key and lock the door, let alone get back upstairs - via the escalator that only rotates in reverse and the dark emergency passage.

The short four words "Wen" made Lin Han think too much.

He felt that Wen was comforting him, and he was not being sentimental.

So Lin Han smiled, looking unusually happy.

After entering this copy, Lin Han had actually been suppressed for a long time. He was forced forward by all kinds of high pressure, and it seemed that he would die if he took a step back. He also witnessed many bloody and cruel scenes, and he was under a lot of pressure.

Now, he relaxed a little. Although he was still quite clear about his future, he felt much better at the moment.

Lin Han pointed to the escalator and asked, "Should we go down from there?"

This time Wen nodded, but he didn't move. He probably wanted Lin Han to walk in front. Lin Han didn't hesitate and walked forward first.

The closer he got, the more Lin Han realized that the problem with this escalator was much bigger than he had imagined.

The handrail was broken, with some glue still sticking out of it when it turned, and others showing only bare metal, covered in rust, as if it had been raining for a long time. The stairs were also intermittent, and from time to time, a dark void would appear below, revealing some metal parts that were still stubbornly working. Lin Han felt as if the entire escalator would collapse into a pile of rubble in the next second if he stepped on it.

Both escalators were the same, with no side visible. Obviously, when the middle stair collapsed, they also suffered great damage.

Lin Han stood at the escalator entrance on the right and didn't dare to get closer.

The cover on the upper side of the escalator had disappeared without a trace, and the closest thing to him was the rotating tracks and chains. The sound of metal scraping was so close to him that he felt that in the next second two hands would reach out from the hole, grab his feet, drag him in, and crush him to pieces.

Lin Han leaned back a little more.

The lights in the corridor below the escalator came on again, illuminating the paths to the left and right. Lin Han's eyesight was good enough that he could see the sign with the name "Silent Castle" on the wall to the left.

When the light was on, Lin Han took out his small flashlight and shone it towards the emergency exit behind him. The tiny beam of light passed through the door frame and disappeared at a distance of less than half a meter, not even illuminating the steps of the stairs.

He shone his light towards the bottom of the stairs. Broken bricks and cement were covered in a thick layer of black ash, completely blocking the area. If the emergency exit on the next floor was in the same location as this one, it would probably be blocked by the collapsed stairs, making it difficult to get out.

They can only take the escalator.

Lin Han subconsciously lowered his head to look behind him. After confirming that there were familiar shoes beside him, he turned around and looked over, trying to get some advice from Wen.

Perhaps he had experienced enough horrible things, so at this moment he didn't even feel how disgusting Wen's mouth was. He even tried to see clearly the wound on Wen's lips where the black line had appeared.

Fortunately, the lights were off and Lin Han couldn't see clearly, but he did understand that something was wrong with him. It might be that he caught a cold from wearing wet clothes and using the air conditioner. When people are not feeling well, they always do strange things and their thoughts are not as normal as when they are healthy.

Lin Han still had some strange thoughts.

As an ordinary person, he naturally couldn't jump down directly, but Wen was different. He was able to block the ghost in the door just now, and he also had a magical self-healing ability. Even his mouth was hurt like this and it didn't hurt at all. He was definitely not an ordinary person. He could definitely take him and jump down from here easily. This should be an easy thing.

Lin Han was lost in thought.

In the "New World", he is the only one who has switched from "Normal Mode" to "Fantasy Mode". Wen is not one of them, so it is normal for him to have some special abilities.

But even though Lin Han had already found an excuse for Wen, the other party obviously did not appreciate it. He had no intention of taking Lin Han to experience the fairyland. He just took a step forward. This action told Lin Han that they still had to take the escalator to the next floor.

Lin Han naturally had no choice but to follow Wen's lead, so he took a step forward and looked at the stairs that rose from under his feet. He said, "Remind me when it's time to go up."

Lin Han knew very well that he was incapable of making the right choice.

Wen didn't nod or say anything, but after turning a section of track without steps, he pushed Lin Han, and Lin Han stepped forward without hesitation. The steps under his feet made a "creaking" sound that seemed unbearable, but he still put both feet on it.

Lin Han knew that something was definitely wrong with him. He didn't even have time to think about what if the person who pushed him from behind wasn't Wen. By the time he thought about it, he was already standing steadily on the shaky steps.

He subconsciously wanted to hold onto the handrail next to him, but unfortunately there was no rubber covering, leaving only cold, rusty metal, which made him shiver all over, but fortunately he managed to stand firm.

He must have a cold, his mind is a mess.

When the conveyor belt took him down, Lin Han didn't dare to look back until he saw the familiar pair of shoes stepping on the same step. Then his heart, which had been hanging in the air, quietly settled down.

The escalator was not big and the steps were not spacious either. With Lin Han standing on the left, it was not easy for Wen, who was taller than him, to squeeze in on the right. Lin Han was squeezed to the side and staggered a bit at the first moment, but he felt at ease.

Wen's shoes were brown leather shoes. Lin Han couldn't see them clearly. In fact, he couldn't remember them clearly. He only remembered the slightly glowing shoe surface and the reflection when the light was on. He had clearly seen it just now, but such a short time had passed that he had lost his clear memory.

He lowered his head and caught a glimpse of the brown shoe upper out of the corner of his eye, and a sudden warmth rose in his palm.

It is smell.

Further up, there were black pants of unknown fabric, but they were definitely not reflective and were exactly the same as in Lin Han's memory.

It is smell.

Further up, it is...

The lights are out.

The green light of "Emergency Exit" went out, the ceiling light in the hall went out, and the lights in the corridor on the underground floor where he was about to arrive also went out.

Lin Han's vision suddenly turned black and he could not see anything again.

The handrail without rubber covering that his left hand was holding was icy cold. Cold wind was blowing in front and behind him, blowing Lin Han forward and pulling him backward. The wind seemed to come from the corridor and was blown all the way into the dark stairwell under the emergency exit. Lin Han could hear the whistling wind.

It wasn't necessarily the wind, it might have been the cold air from the air conditioner. Lin Han was shivering with cold, from her feet all the way up to her head.

He just saw Wen's shoes and pants. What was above him? Lin Han didn't dare to turn around at that time and didn't know anything. He vaguely remembered that Wen seemed to be wearing a coat?

Is it a coat? Lin Han wondered, but to no avail.

He quietly moved his stiff right fingers and grabbed at his side.

He and Wen were so close, he could definitely grab Wen's clothes. As long as he could, he... but he didn't catch anything.

Lin Han's hand froze, and he shrank back with a slight tremor, finally curling up at his side.

Is it really smell beside him?

How come he didn't seem to feel any heat at all? In such a dead silence, he didn't hear Wen's heartbeat, and he couldn't even catch the corner of his clothes.

So was the thing that just squeezed him really a smell?

The person standing next to him at this moment...

Is there really someone standing next to him?

Darkness enveloped Lin Han, and the coldness that seemed to freeze him to death filled every direction. Even his feet seemed to be empty. Lin Han could only hold on to the cold handrail. He could hardly even tell what he was holding on to. He was about to lose his balance. The "boom" sound of the escalator came to his ears, and his legs softened. Then he felt dizzy and almost fell down.

If he remembered correctly, there was a huge gap in front of the step he was standing on, and there were rotating mechanisms inside.

Lin Han leaned forward. He didn't feel desperate at all. He had no time to think about those things. He just felt a little dizzy.

The next second, his cold and stiff right fingers were caught by something warm.

Warm fingers pried open his fingers, which were almost about to clench into a fist, one by one, and then pulled him forward a step. He was pulled forward a step, and his body was still moving forward by inertia, so he took another step.

When he stopped, the warmth disappeared. He subconsciously reached out to grab something, but caught nothing. But then the warmth patted the back of his hand, and he felt like there was a "bang", as if something rushed out of his body, exploded, and broke open the thing that had been tightly wrapped around him.

It was like breaking through a layer of cold membrane that wrapped around him, and after that he could hear.

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The author has something to say: Lin Han is still a normal person now, but he will go crazy when he opens the cheat code_(:зゝ∠)_