Murder Bureau within Bureau

  Panzi was scared off by these two strips, he retreated and stuttered "this, this" repeatedly, almost as if I had said something, then he turned around and ran downstairs in big strides.

  I'm also curious, but I still want to go inside the 18th floor and take a look, to figure out what's really going on in there.

  I comforted Panzi a few words, then opened the spring knife and slid it against the seal in the middle, pushing open the staircase door.

  The first thing I saw was a black wall. The wall should have been milky white, but it had obviously been burned by fire and was covered with various dark marks.

  I suddenly understood that a fire had occurred on the entire 18th floor. This made me feel slightly relieved, thinking that the whole 18th floor might not be as eerie as I thought.

  I took Panzi in and shone a small flashlight back and forth.

  If the seventeenth floor was just a desolate darkness, then the eighteenth floor revealed a hint of bleakness at all times, and some places could still see bloodstains, which also restored the helplessness of the fire scene at that time.

  I didn't come here to sightsee, from the bottom of my heart I'm analyzing which room the spirit medium is most likely hiding in.

  Panzi is now completely silent, half hiding behind me. I invited him to go inside and take a look, but he didn't move at all, and even pulled me back.

  I was really helpless and wanted to encourage him, but at this time, I didn't know which room's door or window wasn't closed, and suddenly the entire 18th floor started blowing a gust of cool wind.

  Under the foil of the environment, this cool wind also has a gusty feeling, I was caught off guard and blown to the point where I couldn't open my eyes.

  Panzi was really anxious now, didn't even care about me, turned his head and ran away. The shoes he wore were hard, stepping on the corridor, making a loud "dang dang dang" sound.

  I have no choice but to follow him since I've come this far.

  Panzi leaned against the wall next to the 17th floor elevator, constantly rubbing the elevator button with his hand. Seeing me coming over, he said, "Xiaobai, let's just go downstairs and wait, that spirit medium will come home sooner or later, won't she?"

  I think this idea is also right, otherwise we'll just be stuck on the 18th floor, and the spirit medium will slip away without us even knowing.

  I compromised and when the elevator door opened, I went in with him again.

  Pan Ziren pressed a floor and we all fell silent, waiting for the elevator to take us down. But when it reached the ninth floor, the entire elevator paused for a moment, accompanied by a "ding".

  This is the rhythm of opening the door, I thought there was someone on the 9th floor. The two of us were in front of the elevator door, so crowded that new people couldn't get in. So I beckoned to Panzi to retreat together.

  It's strange that after the door opened, outside was empty.

  Pan Zib was already unhappy in his heart, and at this time he couldn't help but scold a sentence, saying who was so boring, pressing the elevator button but not getting on.

  I didn't think much of it because this kind of situation is very common, I was about to press the button to close the door.

  But suddenly the entire elevator shook slightly. I was stunned, and a thought flashed through my mind - someone must have gotten on, otherwise the elevator wouldn't be acting up for no reason.

  But there was no one in front of me, which made me think of a chilling possibility. I felt my lips were a bit dry, and I glanced at Panzi, who was also staring at me, his face even turned pale.

  Neither of us knew who led the way, and we both rushed out of the elevator together. Fortunately, at this moment, the elevator door was about to close automatically.

  I really didn't want to take this elevator, so I hastily pressed the open door button. Pan Zi even risked using both hands to grip the elevator doors and tried to pry them open with force. But our efforts were in vain, and we couldn't stop it at all. We could only watch as the elevator doors closed before our eyes.

  It's not over yet, and the lighting in the elevator suddenly dimmed a bit, making the environment here even more gloomy.

  Pan Zi couldn't help but let out a loud cry, and he hastily retreated backwards, sticking closely to the wall. He looked around cautiously, raising his stick.

  I didn't have it easy either, but I still had a shred of courage left in my heart and was able to endure without losing control.

  I kept muttering to myself, thinking that even if we had to ride the elevator with a ghost, it didn't matter, as long as we each stuck to our own business and just rode together to the first floor.

  But then the elevator didn't go down, instead it slowly went up. I stared with wide eyes at the row of floor buttons, we hadn't even pressed the button to go up!

  I stared blankly at the numbers on the electronic screen as they soared all the way up: 15, 16, 17... 18!

  I didn't misread it, this time the elevator took us to the eighteenth floor.

  This time I couldn't hold back my patience either, scared to retreat two steps, and grabbed the whip and spring knife in one hand each.

  I'm afraid that suddenly a ghost will appear and rush towards me, I've also thought about it, if I really see the ghost, whether or not I can kill it with a knife or stick, at that time I'll definitely go crazy and attack it.

  The elevator doors opened with a ding. It was unbelievable that there were no signs of fire on the 18th floor, and outside the door was a sea of lights, even music could be heard coming from somewhere, just like someone was having a party in their house.

  I and Panzi didn't dare to go down, we both leaned towards each other at the same time, squeezing together. This feeling of relying on each other could comfort our fragile hearts a little bit.

  I don't know if that ghost went down or not, anyway, the elevator door slowly closed again and slowly descended.

  I was stunned for a few seconds, and after coming back to myself, I stretched out the cane and used it to aim at the floor buttons, pressing all the floors.

  I don't expect this elevator to take us all the way down to the first floor, I just hope it opens on any floor.

  When the elevator stopped at the 15th floor, the door opened for a moment, and I and Panzi rushed to squeeze out. At this time, Panzi was very strong, and I couldn't squeeze past him.

  As soon as we both got out of the elevator, without anyone giving orders, we tacitly turned to the staircase and rushed down two steps at a time.

  We held our breath and ran non-stop to the first floor, looking at the big "one" on the staircase door, my hanging heart fell.

  Pan Zilei smiled, but his smile had a sense of being left over from a disaster, and he still pushed the door open to walk out first.

  I followed closely behind him. I didn't expect that the moment we just stepped out, someone blocked our way and asked, "What are you two doing here?"

  He asked questions without fear, but his dark and unkempt appearance gave me another fright. I took a closer look and it was Hei Ling Mei.

  I thought he had gone to the 18th floor, how did he appear on the first floor again? Could it be that while Panzi and I were running down the stairs, he also took the elevator down?

  We had a nodding acquaintance with him before, so I forced out a smile and took it as a greeting.

  The medium looked at us coldly and continued, "Why don't you two listen to advice? You've been having such bad luck recently, instead of staying home, you're running around outside, and even came to this infamous haunted building. Aren't you afraid of dying?"

  I couldn't think of a way to continue the conversation with Panzi, and my mind was a bit rusty. For a moment, I couldn't come up with an excuse for us to be in this building.

  Since I couldn't explain it, I lazily explained it and casually called out to Panzi before leaving.

  When we brushed past him, the black spirit medium stopped us and took out his mobile phone to take a photo of us.

  I didn't understand why he did this, thinking that we hadn't even asked to take a photo, wasn't this an invasion of our privacy? Before I could ask, Hei Ling Mei let out a sigh and flipped through the photos she had just taken on her phone, handing them over for us to see.

  I clearly saw that in this photo, on the back of me and Panzi, there was a cluster of white misty gas, which I couldn't tell what it was. Then I looked at Panzi in reality, and there was nothing behind him.

  The medium spoke through a photo, his final reminder to us was: if we don't hurry back home and hide, we won't see the sun for several days.

  Panzi ran away after listening, I was embarrassed and left a sentence saying thank you to the master.

  I followed Panzi out of the building and got into that black sedan together. Panzi looked disoriented, driving aimlessly on the streets, fortunately there were no cars on the road during this time period, otherwise I would have worried about a car accident.

  Finally, Panzi drove the car to the side of a square, which was brightly lit and illuminated our car as well.

  He lit a cigarette and puffed it out in one breath, then said to me, "Let's not investigate any further, let's go home!"

  In Suifeng Village, he had been a deserter before, and now this momentum has come again. I also especially want to end it here and go home to rest well, but when we were scared by the elevator, we gave up our mission and went back, Afeng will not know how to scold us two.

  After some thought, I came up with a compromise solution.