He winked and tried to subtly inquire whether Cen Yu had let Xiao Le leave first, when he heard Cen Yu say, "Xiao Le won't be with me anymore."
What? They've seen through your true colors and abandoned you?
The man muttered to himself that Cen Yu was a big mouth who had previously boasted to him that Pei Leyun's identity was extraordinary and that after he successfully married into the family, he would soon resign from this stupid company and reach the pinnacle of his life.
Looking at Cen Yu now, it seems that Pei Leyun finally saw through Cen Yu's true colors and dumped him during their honeymoon.
"Did he have to go home for a while?" The man asked Cen Yu casually after entering the elevator.
“No.” Cen Yu followed closely behind, and the three unfamiliar men followed behind him... The three men, with completely different styles, made the neighbors a little unsure of their identities.
But it's also good. The neighbor thought that what happened in the afternoon still scared him a bit, and having more people around would give him courage.
"No?" the neighbor replied casually. He glanced at the floor number on the elevator and felt that the numbers were changing a bit slowly today. He was about to ask Cen Yu if he had seen the news about the Lide Building today when he heard Cen Yu say, "Xiao Le passed away."
"...?" The neighbor paused in turning around, staring at Cen Yu's face. "...A prank?"
“No,” Cen Yu said. “Pei Leyun passed away a few days ago.”
The neighbor looked somewhat embarrassed. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but then realized he didn't know what to say and could only awkwardly stammer, "...My condolences." But something still felt off, and he couldn't help but ask again, "What happened?"
“He drowned on the island,” Cen Yu said.
"Ah, I see." The neighbor regretted his earlier conversation, secretly hoping the elevator would reach his floor soon.
The screen inside the elevator kept displaying numbers, and when the elevator reached the 13th floor, it suddenly stopped.
The elevator doors opened immediately, but there was no one outside.
The neighbor casually pressed the close button, and after the elevator doors closed again, he was still thinking about how long it would take to get to his 20th floor... Then he suddenly looked at the buttons inside the elevator.
As a mid-to-high-rise apartment building, access to specific floors requires swiping a card.
His gaze swept over all the buttons in the elevator lobby—
10th floor, 11th floor, 12th floor, 15th floor.
There are no buttons for the 13th and 14th floors in the elevator!
Due to some taboo, the elevator at the time did not have buttons for floors 13 and 14. The so-called 13th floor should have been the 15th floor in name only.
What about the 13th floor...?
"Cen Yu," the neighbor's voice was a little hoarse, "did you see anything just now?"
"Was the elevator display showing the 13th floor just now?"
The more he thought about it, the more nervous he became, and he couldn't help but look up at the floor number on the elevator screen... The floor numbers seemed to him to be changing at a snail's pace. He felt like 5 minutes had passed, but the elevator still hadn't reached the 20th floor.
"What did you see?" Cen Yu asked from behind him.
“There’s no 13th floor in our building.” He looked at the elevator buttons with some anxiety, then looked up to see how long it would take to reach the 20th floor, but the number on the elevator screen was stuck at 16th floor. “But just now the elevator showed 13th floor, and the door even opened.”
He felt anxious, but suddenly sensed something was off.
There were clearly four other people in the elevator besides him. It's normal that the three strangers didn't know anything about the 13th floor and didn't react. But Cen Yu and he had lived here for at least two years... They shouldn't have had no reaction when the elevator announced the 13th floor.
The immense panic made his breathing slightly rapid.
Then he realized that the elevator was unusually quiet; apart from his own breathing, he couldn't hear anyone else breathing.
He glanced at the shoes of the person behind him out of the corner of his eye... and realized that there did seem to be someone standing behind him, but that person was standing with their back to him.
Her heels were facing him.
Panic made him feel suffocated for a moment. He dared not look anymore and could only pray that the elevator would return to normal soon.
He took out his phone, pretending to check messages, only to find that the phone had no signal.
He stared at his screen unconsciously, then found that the screen had suddenly switched to the chat page. An hour earlier, the video that had been sent to the group had been opened in front of him, and the video was now frozen on the person's head, which was slumped over his chest.
Suddenly, the head lifted up and smiled at him.
"!!!!!" He opened his mouth, but was too terrified to make a sound, and didn't even realize that his phone had fallen to the ground.
"I dropped my phone," the person behind me suddenly said.
He knew perfectly well that it wasn't Cen Yu's voice. He was standing in the corner of the elevator when he felt someone tap his shoulder. "Your phone."
“…Heh heh.” Only meaningless gasps could be heard coming from his throat.
"Are you watching a video?" the voice said again.
Immediately afterwards, a face bent down and came close to his face. "Are you looking at me?"
In his line of sight came a familiar face, its eyes rolled back and its neck limply hanging on its chest—that face was smiling at him.
...
Cen Yu was leaning against the elevator playing on his phone when he noticed that his neighbor had suddenly fallen silent after he mentioned Pei Leyun's death.
At first, he thought the other person simply didn't know how to comfort him and could only choose to remain silent... But after the elevator stopped on the 13th floor, Cen Yu realized that something seemed wrong.
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