Xiao Xingyu and Zhang Moyan walked to the elevator together.
Standing on the shiny marble floor, watching the constantly changing numbers above the elevator door, Zhang Moyan's heart beat faster, his breathing became shallower, and the sweat on his palms became more and more.
Xiao Xingyu was answering the phone next to her. The conversation was in English, and it sounded like someone was trying to send him an email.
Zhang Moyan pursed her lips. The emergency exit was only a dozen meters to the side. She could take the stairs... but this was the 36th floor, and there were other people around her.
Zhang Moyan glanced at Xiao Xingyu, who had just finished a phone call. Feeling her gaze, he looked back at her suspiciously.
Zhang Moyan responded hastily: "The elevator is a bit slow."
Xiao Xingyu glanced above the elevator and was about to say something when his phone rang and an email flew in. He lowered his head and clicked on the screen to check.
Zhang Moyan stared at the number on the elevator and realized that it was a high-speed elevator, definitely not slow.
The number quickly jumped to 30+, and Zhang Moyan's heart became more and more panicked. She hurriedly took out the earphones from her bag and put one into each earcup.
bite--
Before she could turn on the music, the elevator door opened in front of her like a bloody mouth.
"Isn't he here?" Xiao Xingyu said while looking at his phone.
Zhang Moyan walked into the elevator cautiously. Xiao Xingyu came in behind her, turned around and casually pressed the "B3" button by the door.
The frosted metal door slowly closed from both sides, and Zhang Moyan's eyes also closed tightly.
The moment the elevator sank, Zhang Moyan suddenly felt weightless and plummeted into a bottomless abyss. The air in the enclosed space seemed to rapidly thin, and a sense of oppression pressed in from all sides. Invisible fear seeped into every goosebump on her skin. Her heartbeat spiraled out of control, her stomach churned, and every cell in her body trembled.
Zhang Moyan silently prayed that time would pass quickly, but within ten seconds, the elevator suddenly stopped on the 31st floor. The elevator door opened automatically, and a male employee came up, holding a stack of documents.
"Good evening, Mr. Xiao!" The other party immediately bowed respectfully when he saw Xiao Xingyu.
Xiao Xingyu just hung up his phone and looked up at his employees: "Still working overtime this late? Didn't the company recently release a document to reduce unnecessary overtime?"
The male employee immediately said, "It's rare. I'll go to the 27th floor to deliver something and leave after that."
"Go back early. Those of you who are working overtime will have half a day off tomorrow morning. Just tell them what I said!" Xiao Xingyu said.
"Thank you, Mr. Xiao!" The employee was so happy that he almost dropped the file: "Thank you, Mr. Xiao, for caring about us!"
Soon they reached the 27th floor and the elevator stopped again. The male employee, holding the documents, respectfully bowed to Xiao Xingyu and took his leave.
This in and out only took half a minute, but it was infinitely magnified for Zhang Moyan. The torment had increased exponentially in her.
When the metal door closed again and the elevator car fell again, she was almost overwhelmed by fear.
"Will you hug me?"
Xiao Xingyu, who was putting his cell phone into his trouser pocket, suddenly felt a tightness on his arm.
He turned his head and met Zhang Moyan's flushed face and eager eyes.
"Here," Xiao Xingyu glanced at Zhang Moyan's dishonest hands and glanced at the elevator camera, "but this is a public place."
The tone is neither light nor heavy.
Zhang Moyan came to her senses immediately. Her previous cry for help was entirely instinctive, and now she was startled and hurriedly let go of her hand.
Using reason to control himself, he took two steps back to create some distance between them. Zhang Moyan secretly adjusted his breathing, keeping his entire back and palms pressed tightly against the metal wall.
Why is it only on the 21st floor?!
Fine beads of cold sweat emerged from her forehead like needles, and she felt that she could not hold on for even a second.
The feeling of near death is like a mountain collapsing and the ground sinking...
Suddenly, her feet stopped and before Zhang Moyan could react, she was dragged out of the elevator!
As his feet stepped on the hard tiles, the pressure in his body suddenly disappeared, and Zhang Moyan took a deep breath as if he had climbed out of a well.
"Why didn't you tell me that your claustrophobia was so severe?!" Xiao Xingyu almost questioned.
Zhang Moyan was so confused and dazed that she had no time to answer his question. It took her a long time to see the sign of the 17th floor behind Xiao Xingyu and realize that he had pressed the floor button in time.
"Thank you," she said, her voice very unsteady, and she slowed down, "I'm sorry, that's what happens when I take an elevator."
Xiao Xingyu remained silent for a long moment. Zhang Moyan covered her chest and breathed slowly. After a while, she heard his voice again: "How did you get up here?"
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"A staircase that climbs 36 floors at a time?"
"..." Zhang Moyan didn't want to admit that she had done such a stupid thing.
Xiao Xingyu curled his lips: "I'm in good health."
Zhang Moyan didn't hear his teasing: "Not bad..."
"Is climbing stairs a daily routine for reporters?" Xiao Xingyu frowned.
This time she understood and gritted her teeth and said, "It's just work. This is the only way I can do it, right?"
Xiao Xingyu turned his head and stared at Zhang Moyan, as if he had encountered a freak: "What kind of selfless personality is this?"
Zhang Moyan raised her eyes. What could she do? She wasn't the Creator, so she couldn't make all the news happen below the sixth floor! She was a shrewd person, and if she didn't want to climb the stairs to make her job easier, could she fly?
Xiao Xingyu seemed to have received this silent protest, and actually stopped what he was about to say, raised his chin to the side and said: "Let's take the stairs!"
Seeing Xiao Xingyu turn around, Zhang Moyan held him back: "Teacher Xiao, I can just walk up the stairs by myself."
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