Elevator Game
The next morning, Ye Jingan's specially set alarm went off early. He jumped out of bed without even bothering to get up. He packed up a bit and went out to buy breakfast and snacks. Not long after, he ran to Liu Muze's room with a bunch of things in his arms: "Brother Liu, are you awake? Open the door."
Liu Muzhe hasn't even changed out of his pajamas. I wonder what this kid wants to do so early in the morning.
Ye Jingan went into the room and put the food on the table: "Brother Liu, come and eat it while it's hot."
Liu Muze looked at the food on the table, all of which were his favorites, and said, "What's the matter? Tell me."
"My sister encountered some problems at her company and asked me to go take a look. Brother Liu, would you like to go with me?" Ye Jing'an moved his stool closer to Liu Muzhe.
"What happened?" Liu Muzhe stopped picking up the dumplings with chopsticks.
Ye Jingan told him what his sister said that night.
"Elevator Game?" Liu Muze finished his steamed bun, thought for a moment, and said, "I haven't heard of it. I'll check it out when the time comes. Is Qiu Zimu up? Ask him to come and eat with us."
"Well, if you encounter danger or get hurt this time, you can't keep it to yourself!" Seeing that he kept eating without any reaction, Ye Jing'an reached out and snatched the dumplings away.
Since there was a lot of food on the table, he ignored Ye Jingan and started eating some steamed dumplings.
"Did you hear that?" Ye Jing'an snatched the chopsticks away.
Liu Muze stood up, sighed, and said helplessly: "I heard you, give me back the chopsticks."
"All you do all day is eat!" Ye Jing'an put down his chopsticks, cursed and ran away.
"You unlucky child!" Liu Muzhe said.
In the afternoon, Ye Jingning came to the hotel to find Ye Jingan with two large bottles of white wine in his hands, with his brows furrowed. When he arrived at the room, he didn't even take a glass, but took a big sip directly from the bottle of white wine.
Needless to say, the problem was definitely not solved. Ye Jing'an's eyelids twitched when he saw her handing him a large bottle of white wine. After waving his hand to refuse, he asked what the current situation of the company was.
"The police stayed up all night, and the surveillance footage wasn't tampered with. They checked everything, and that girl just disappeared right under everyone's noses." Ye Jingning let out a long sigh and patted Ye Jingan's arm. "Everyone in the company urged me to find someone to take a look. You go there tonight!"
"At night?" Ye Jing'an thought that the haunted house was only visited at night, and he was definitely not happy about it.
"Then go now." Ye Jingning didn't care whether he was willing or not, and pulled him out.
"Hey, wait, I'll ask Brother Liu to come with Qiu Zimu." Ye Jing'an hooked the door with his foot.
Ye Jingning was drunk, so Ye Jingan had to drive.
"Are you okay? I've never seen you drive a car." Qiu Zimu checked the seat belt several times, but still felt uneasy.
"Of course you can. You can pass the driving test in one try." Ye Jingan threw the driver's license to him.
"Ah... I just got my driver's license." Qiu Zimu gripped the seat belt nervously.
His worries were right. Ye Jing'an was not skilled at all. He even took the wrong road when using the navigation system, took the wrong lane at an intersection, ran a red light, and almost hit someone or a car.
"Did you get your driver's license through a backdoor?" Ye Jingning was almost angry at him.
"Oh, I studied for a few days and then scheduled the exam, and I actually passed it in one try. Please be understanding." Ye Jing'an laughed dryly.
“…”
It took him twenty minutes to drive a distance that should have taken more than ten minutes, but fortunately he finally arrived at the company safely.
The company's manager, Wu Jia, saw Ye Jingning coming back, and smiled as she stepped forward and said, "Sister, you're back. Are these three handsome guys the masters you're looking for?"
"This is my brother and his friend." Ye Jingning patted Ye Jingan's shoulder, "Jia Jia, take them to the monitoring room first. I'll get some information from Officer Zhang and come back later."
"Okay, sister." Wu Jia greeted the three people with a smile, "Hello, my name is Wu Jia, please follow me."
On the way, Wu Jia gave them a brief introduction to the basic situation of the two girls.
The missing girl was Yuan Kexin, who had recently been transferred to the company. The terrified woman was Huo Shu, and they had known each other before and were close friends. Yuan Kexin had come to the company specifically because Huo Shu was there.
The two are well-known for their courage in the company. They love to participate in adventure activities, play some popular horror games, and often tell ghost stories to everyone in the company.
"Sister Jia Jia, when did they start playing this game?" Ye Jing'an asked.
Wu Jia thought for a moment and said, "It was around eleven o'clock the night before yesterday, maybe close to twelve. They were both working overtime that day."
The group went to the surveillance room, and Wu Jia opened the footage from that day, finding the moment the two played the elevator game. The elevator was fine from the moment they entered until they pressed the button for the first floor, when it went up instead of down. When the doors opened on the tenth floor, the two girls seemed to see something terrifying. One of the girls fainted from fright, while the other huddled in a corner, trembling.
But no one saw anything in the video. The moment the elevator door closed, the video flashed black and white snowflakes, and the girl lying on the ground disappeared. Ye Jingning just walked in at this time and saw the girl who had disappeared from the surveillance camera. He asked the others if they had found anything.
Ye Jingan nodded and said, "Well, a girl is missing."
"What you're talking about is nonsense!" The paper in Ye Jingning's hand quickly wrinkled.
"Brother Liu, did you find anything?" Ye Jing'an asked, tilting his head.
Liu Muzhe shook his head and asked how to play the elevator game, wanting to give it a try.
"There are many versions online. I just found the one they played." Qiu Zimu sent a screenshot of the gameplay to their WeChat group.
Ye Jingning became interested. She also wanted to see a ghost once and wanted to go with them to play.
The company had sixteen floors, two passenger elevators, and one freight elevator. Ye Jingning told them that the passenger elevator on the left had the problem, and asked Wu Jia to inform everyone that the elevator was out of service.
The four of them walked into the elevator and looked at the game rules on their phones. It was not as complicated as they had imagined. They just had to press the elevator floor buttons, with some precautions in between.
"First press the button for the fourth floor. When you reach the fourth floor, don't go out. Then press the button for the second floor, then press the button for the sixth floor, and then press the button for the second floor again. Stay in the elevator and don't go out. Then press the button for the tenth floor. After you reach the tenth floor, press the button for the fifth floor." After reading the rules of the game, Ye Jing'an pressed the elevator buttons in sequence according to the steps.
The most important thing to note in the game is that when the elevator reaches the fifth floor, a young woman may enter the elevator. Don't look at her or talk to her.
The bell on the fifth floor rang and the elevator door opened, but no young woman appeared. A male employee even passed by and greeted Ye Jingning.
Everyone: “…”
There is one last step, press the button for the first floor.
As expected, the elevator went down to the first floor instead of the tenth. The game was lost. Everyone walked out, each in silence. Ye Jingning didn't understand how this game had made him disappear.
Qiu Zimu was the first to break the quiet and awkward atmosphere and said, "Maybe we're playing at the wrong time, or with the wrong number of people? I saw a lot of people saying they want to play at night, and some said they can only play alone."
"The two of them had a successful time, but maybe the timing was wrong. Let's try again tonight." Ye Jingning poked Ye Jingan with his arm and said, "Brother, how about we go tonight?"
"I'm not going." Ye Jing'an took a step back and moved away from her. In the closed and narrow elevator, if the ghost came, he wouldn't be able to escape, and he couldn't even use his fists or feet. He would just go there and die.
Liu Muze also knew that he had not yet recovered from the haunted house, so he said to Ye Jingning: "I'll go with you."
Ye Jingning nodded. She just wanted to see a ghost and it didn’t matter who she went with.
Ye Jingan was stunned when he saw the two of them. He remembered that when they were empathizing in the haunted house, Brother Liu took care of him, stayed with him for two more nights after returning, and even held him to sleep. If his sister encountered the same thing, would Brother Liu treat her the same way?
It just so happened that his sister was a woman, about the same age as Brother Liu. His sister was beautiful, rich, and capable, while Brother Liu was handsome, considerate, and had a good temper. The two of them looked quite compatible together, and both were good at fighting and drinking, and could even exchange a few moves when bored. It was quite a match!
Brother Liu can also catch ghosts. With the way he smashes people's places and steals treasures, it's no wonder he's an antique dealer. While others deal in antiques by purchasing and profiting from the difference, Brother Liu likely buys from unlucky monsters with a lot of treasures and then simply raids their lairs, pocketing a 100% profit. Although he's quite modest in his daily life, wearing only two identical sets of clothes and devouring even white steamed buns, one might think he's living in poverty. But this Liu guy must be well-off, probably fabulously wealthy, otherwise why would he spend his days idle and wandering around?
Dad used to think my sister wouldn't get married, but if he'd known about Brother Liu, he'd definitely have supported them being together and welcomed him to the Ye family with great fanfare. They were a perfect match in every way, a perfect match of talent and beauty, a perfect match!
If the two of them really met a ghost when they entered the elevator, the elder sister would be so scared that she would hug Brother Liu tightly, and Brother Liu would take care of her and comfort her. It would be weird if they didn't develop some feelings for each other. We absolutely cannot let these two go together!
"No!" Ye Jing'an shouted excitedly.
"Are you sick, kid?!" Ye Jingning glared at him. "You don't want to go, and others won't let you go, so who do you want to go?"
Brother Liu and Qiu Zimu? As for Qiu Zimu, that rat-like guy, he'd probably stick to Brother Liu like a mousetrap. If Qiu Zimu and his older sister went, what would they do if they ran into danger?
"I'll go, I'll go, Brother Liu and I, okay?" Ye Jing'an looked reluctant, but then he thought it wouldn't be bad to hug Brother Liu if something happened.
Liu Muze didn't know what he was up to. He thought he was afraid that his sister would be in danger, so he didn't let her go. Thinking that this kid had just been in such a state of empathy and pain in the haunted house, and now he was willing to go in his sister's place, he was quite responsible. Liu Muze smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you this time."
Ye Jing'an forced a smile. As long as he didn't die, he really hoped that something would happen.
At night, the two of them walked into the elevator. Qiu Zimu and Ye Jingning were watching them from the monitoring room. Ye Jingan pressed the buttons again in the same order as during the day, but still did not see any young woman on the fifth floor, and the elevator did not go to the tenth floor. Ye Jingan asked, "Why didn't I meet her at night?"
"She doesn't dare to come out. Maybe she's afraid of you." Liu Muzhe looked at him with a smile.
"Hmm?" Ye Jing'an rolled his eyes. "What should I be afraid of? I'm afraid of her..."
Liu Muzhe couldn't hold back his laughter when he saw that this silly child took it seriously again.
"..." Ye Jingan said, "Brother Liu, please stop teasing me."
Ye Jingning walked to the elevator entrance and said anxiously, "What should we do? The police can't find any clues, and we have no idea where to start. The company is in a panic now. Please don't let my company go bankrupt!"
Liu Muze said calmly: "No, let's try again tomorrow. Go back and rest today."
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