Chapter Twenty-Four: The Haunted Elevator

  "I'm a living person, male." Ling Fei said with a smile, and then sat back in the car, joking with Hong Jie. His mind was already very satisfied, he could tell that her family was very good, and estimated that he had no chance, but being able to seize the opportunity to flirt a bit more also satisfied his vanity.

  "Go, I'm asking you a serious question and you're talking nonsense." Hong Jie scolded, her eyes flashing with anger again, but somehow they seemed to be electrifying, Ling Fei's body suddenly felt numb all over, oh no, it looked like he hadn't been wrong in calling her a seductress after all. Whoever married her would probably have a short life, but even that was okay, such women were truly rare.

  All the way they were joking around, and soon they got off at the evening paper place. Hong Jie said: "I'm going to pick up some things, are you coming with me?"

  "Let's go, now I'm going to find Qin sister, it's a bit inappropriate." Ling Fei said, and didn't know what Qin sister looked like now. What if Qin sister hugged him and cried? That would be troublesome. In fact, many women are prone to emotional breakdowns when their feelings are hurt, and at this time, if a man tries to comfort them, they will just cry and use his clothes as a handkerchief.

  "Let's go, I'm heading to 17F, just in time to pick up some stuff." Hong Jie said. Actually, going alone at night to a place where only a few people were working overtime was a bit scary, even if she knew martial arts. Having more people around made her feel safer.

  As they arrived at the elevator entrance, Ling Fei was about to press the button when the elevator door suddenly opened by itself.

  "Let's go." Hong Jie said, seeing that there was no one inside, and at the same time wanting to enter, but she had only taken a step when Ling Fei pulled her back. At the same time, Ling Fei looked up at the top of the elevator door and said: "There's a problem, what do you see in the numbers above?"

  Hong Jie was suddenly pulled by Ling Fei, and she felt inexplicably tense and shy. Now, subconsciously, she raised her head to take a look, and she was stunned. Because the number on top showed 4, which means the elevator should be on the 4th floor now. What's going on? And there's no one around, how did the elevator door open? Ling Fei didn't even press it.

  Ling Fei's heart was aching at this time, perhaps it was his right hand playing tricks on him. Now looking at the open elevator door, he felt a sense of disgust in his heart. Many faint shadows almost filled the entire elevator, but he could still see some decorations inside the elevator, feeling like seeing through transparent people. A million grass mud horse gods rushed past his head, what a haunted elevator.

  "It's crowded, let's take the next one." Ling Fei hastily said as he rushed into the elevator, then pulled Hong Jie to a side and thought to himself: Don't make a fuss, kids don't understand, you go play your part, we won't interfere.

  "There's no one in the elevator... uh..." Hong Jie was about to speak when Ling Fei covered her mouth, and in an instant her face turned red. How dare Ling Fei do this? But then her eyes widened because when Ling Fei's right hand covered her mouth, it seemed like flowers bloomed in her eyes, and when the elevator doors closed, she saw that there were indeed many people inside.

  After a minute, Ling Fei finally realized that his hand was still tightly covering Hong Jie's mouth. A warm feeling was emanating from his right hand, and Hong Jie's beautiful eyes were wide with fear, staring fixedly at the elevator door. From his hand, he could feel that Hong Jie was trembling, and under the light, there were beads of sweat on her forehead.

  "What's going on?" "What just happened?" The two people asked each other at the same time, and then they both froze.

  "What did you see?" "Is that a ghost?" The two people asked each other again at the same time, and then there was a scream. Hong Jie directly pounced into Ling Fei's arms and hugged him tightly, while Ling Fei was also frightened by her action and forgot to move, just standing there stupidly.

  "Ding." Another soft sound, the elevator door on the side opened, and a security guard holding a mobile phone walked out, his eyes still staring at the screen in a daze, looking like he was playing WeChat, almost bumping into Hong Jie.

  "Hey, you're playing with your phone during work hours, are you crazy?" Ling Fei hastily backed away two steps while holding Hong Jie, his left hand also raised to block the security guard. This time it was a living person; if it were a ghost, Ling Fei would have probably run away too.

  "No, I was just reading a message. Hmm, it's so late, are you guys going to have tea or find someone? Register first." The security guard was stunned for a moment, and then said, "This reaction is quite quick, immediately shifting the topic."

  "Take something and go have some tea," Ling Fei said, as long as it's alive, subconsciously, he asked again: "Right, nothing has ever happened in this building before, has it?"

  Just after asking, Ling Fei saw the security guard's face suddenly change, and then the security guard asked nervously: "What's wrong? Is something not right?"

  "There's something wrong with this place, and that security guard must know something too," Ling Fei said. "No, just now I thought it was strange. We were about to go up, but before we even pressed the button, the elevator door opened. But the display above says it's the fourth floor. Is there a problem with the elevator?"

  "Are you referring to this elevator of mine?" The security guard's body trembled slightly, looking at the elevator he had just come out of with some fear.

  "No, wait... " Ling Fei suddenly froze, what's going on? Just now he and Hong Jie were facing a place that was actually a dead end wall. Where is the elevator? Did they both hallucinate at the same time, staring at a wall waiting for an elevator?

  "What's going on again?" The security guard muttered in a low voice, but then his tone became louder: "Sir, have you guys been drinking? There are only four elevators here, where is the elevator at the place you're standing? Are you blind?"

  Hong Jie's hand tightened around Ling Fei's waist again at this moment, and a sharp pain immediately emerged. Ling Fei's face twitched slightly, and he muttered, "Uh, you can tell I've had too much to drink."

  That's why he answered like that, Ling Fei remembered what his grandfather said when he was a kid, if you encounter something absurd and inexplicable, don't be afraid, don't think about it in a confusing way, use scientific explanations to deal with it, then the strange will defeat itself, the more you think it's terrible, the more you'll make a big fuss, before he didn't believe it, now he does, hasn't his hand turned into a ghost claw?

  "Right, you must have had too much to drink." The security guard said, but the security guard glanced at the wall again before saying: "Come on, go and register, it's nothing, seeing flowers in your eyes is normal, let's go."

  Although the security guard seemed calmer than Ling Fei on the surface, as soon as he lifted his leg, he let out a "thud" and directly sat on the ground. He fell so hard that his phone flew out with a "slap" and broke into several pieces.

  "Hong Jie" suddenly let out a soft laugh, then released Ling Fei's waist. The security guard stumbled and fell, looking so disheveled that it made her feel less fearful and somewhat amused. However, the previous hug also made her feel a bit shy, and she didn't dare look at Ling Fei again.

  "What's going on, is it a leg cramp?" Ling Fei saw Hong Jie let go of him and he squatted down to pull the security guard. Of course, he still kindly found a reasonable excuse for this security guard. After all, falling in front of such a beautiful woman was quite embarrassing, wasn't it?

  "Yeah, I've been lacking calcium lately." The security guard said awkwardly as he pulled Ling Fei's hand up, whispering in his ear: "Thanks, bro. And, try to come here less often, especially after 10 pm. I won't say why. I'm quitting tomorrow too."

  "I understand, we have a bottom line." Ling Fei said, but he was worried in his heart. The beautiful woman's store is located here, although they only met once, but to let a beautiful woman continue to open a tea house in this noisy place, he was worried that something might happen.

  "Take calcium supplements if you're lacking, and get more sun." Hong Jie said, she had heard Ling Fei say this to a customer during an afternoon treatment, she didn't remember the specific reasoning, as long as it made sense that was enough.

  "Yes, need to sunbathe more." The security guard said awkwardly, then with Ling Fei's support, he went to the hall, watching Hong Jie register while quickly opening the drawer and putting two yellow paper triangular boards into Ling Fei's hands: "Take it, it was begged from the temple, just for peace of mind."

  A bit of magical power, but I won't be able to use it. Ling Fei suddenly thought this in his mind, and then he was stunned, right, he couldn't use it himself. Just now when the elevator door opened, his right hand had a feeling of wanting to eat something, probably because the ghostly hands were looking at those ghosts as food. But since it's someone's kind intention, of course, he should accept it and give one each to Hong Jie and Qin Jia.

  The security guard was scared, but the security guard was fine, and he also saw a red rope on his neck, maybe it's because of this kind of thing, this superstitious thing, can't be explained clearly, doesn't take up space.

  "Hey, Song sister, I'm Little Red. My friend has something on hand, so I won't come up to get it. Can you send it to the tea house later?" Red Sister finished filling out the registration book and dialed a phone number with one hand, saying this while her eyes looked at Ling Fei in an unusual way, because Ling Fei didn't care whether she agreed or not, directly opened her bag and put the triangular board inside.

  "She'll send it to the teahouse, we don't need to go up anymore, anyway it's on the fourth floor." Hong Jie said after hanging up the phone.

  "The fourth floor, you'd better take the stairs, it's good exercise," said the security guard, his eyes quickly glancing at the location of the elevator again. Ling Fei also took a look and was suddenly startled - the God Beast Mud Horse began to trample his heart again. Now, there were five elevators there, weren't there?