As long as I hold the gold necklace and don't wear it, I'll be fine for the time being. As for the specific situation, Zhang Longming said he still needs to find the parents of the deceased students to confirm.
I was filled with anxiety, but with no other options, I put the gold necklace in my bag. Seeing it was already past eight, Zhang Longming and I entered the building, aiming for floors 30-32. We took the elevator directly up. However, perhaps because of that morning's experience, as the elevator passed the 32nd floor, something strange happened: the elevator was clearly headed for the 36th floor, but suddenly the lights on the 32nd floor came on...
It was still daytime, but it had already frightened us. Now it was night, so we took appropriate measures. I gave him a talisman and taped one to my chest. I also had yellow paper and date pits in my hands—inconspicuous, yet easy to use, tools to ward off evil spirits.
As for Zhang Longming, he held a flashlight in his left hand and a shark razor in his right. The blade was incredibly imposing, its cold, gleaming blade ablaze with energy. One stab would kill anyone, and it completely dazed me. If he hadn't agreed to investigate the building beforehand, I'd have thought he was out to kill someone...
"drop!"
The elevator stopped...on the 30th floor...and nothing happened.
The door slowly opened...
The 30th floor was completely dark. Even with the help of the light in the elevator, one could only see the edge of the corridor within two meters.
Listening carefully, the corridor outside was eerily quiet, you could hear a pin drop, and it didn't seem like there was any danger.
The tension Zhang Longming and I had previously felt gradually relaxed. We stepped out of the elevator, and the doors suddenly slammed shut, completely blocking out the last ray of light. In an instant, the corridor was completely dark, and we couldn't see a thing.
Zhang Longming quickly turned on the flashlight and glanced at the far end of the corridor. With the help of the flashlight, he found that the 30th floor was not as weird and scary as we imagined. At most, the floor was covered with dust, and the walls and room doors were also gray. There were also a few footprints of varying depths on some walls. I don’t know how long it has been since anyone came to clean it.
Snap! Snap!
"The lighting equipment on this floor is not working?" Zhang Longming frowned in surprise. He pressed the light button on the nearby wall several times, but no light came on.
We didn't know if it was a circuit problem or a broken light, so we had to give up the idea of turning on the lights on the floor. Zhang Longming could only use a flashlight to illuminate the corridor, but I didn't need one. Walking in the dark was not much different from walking in the daytime, at most it was a little dimmer.
I followed Zhang Longming and started from the rooms near the elevator, and checked room by room. These rooms were all empty. Some of the rooms were probably not ventilated because their doors and windows had been locked for a long time. When we entered, we were hit by a lot of unpleasant paint smell.
However, there was nothing special to discover. If there was one strangest thing, it was a box similar to a safe, embedded in the wall of a room. There were two number buttons on it, which could adjust any number between 0-9.
Apart from that, nothing unusual was found on the 30th floor.
Just as we walked out of the room with the safe, we suddenly heard footsteps in the corridor. The moment we came out, the footsteps quickly faded away, and in the blink of an eye, we could no longer hear anything.
Zhang Longming and I looked at each other. From the information we got from the previous exploration, we knew that after nine o'clock in the evening, we would hear strange footsteps and knocking sounds between the 30th and 32nd floors. But it wasn't even nine o'clock yet, and it really happened!
Even though we didn't see anyone, we could clearly hear the footsteps, and they seemed to be heading upstairs...
"Let's go up and take a look!" Zhang Longming said. My scalp tingled as I followed him up the stairs to the 31st floor.
The 31st floor is basically the same as the 30th floor, with dust all over the floor and footprints on the corridor walls. There is nothing special in the room, just a safe similar to the one in a room on the 30th floor, which can be adjusted to 0-9.
I asked Zhang Longming what this box was used for, but he shook his head and said he didn't know. There were no such safes in the rooms on other floors.
Suddenly, I was at a loss for words. Perhaps there was something strange about that box! But I couldn't tell what it was.
Click! Click! Click!
That strange sound of footsteps appeared again!
Wait! No, these footsteps seem a little different from the previous ones... The previous ones were calmer and more subtle, like the footsteps of someone walking quietly in the corridor in flat shoes; but the ones I hear now are more like the sound of high heels!
"Chase him!" Zhang Longming rushed out of the room and turned into the darkness.
"Hey, wait a minute..." I was fiddling with the safe when Zhang Longming suddenly rushed out. I quickly put down the safe in my hand, ran out of the room, looked around, and where was he?
The entire corridor was pitch black and eerily quiet. Not a single sound of footsteps could be heard. Even Zhang Longming, who had just run out, disappeared along with him...
this!
I stared, suddenly filled with horror. This was only the 31st floor, and all these weird things were happening one after another. It was too strange! But then I thought, Zhang Longming had been chasing the footsteps, and the direction of the footsteps seemed to be upstairs. Maybe Zhang Longming had already run to the 32nd floor.
Thinking of this, I hurried up the stairs, intending to go to the 32nd floor, but at the corner of the corridor, I saw a dark figure... I was startled, and when I looked closely, I found it was a boy in school uniform, apparently a student. But what was this student doing squatting in the corner of the corridor at this time of night?
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