Everyone fell silent. Even Song Kai Fei froze in place.
Jiang Yan Hai pulled a glow stick from his gear, snapped it, and tossed it down.
He had thrown a glow stick, not a flare. Naturally, they carried both. The spot below was some distance from Jiang Yan Hai, and the Advanced Scanning Program could not penetrate something that thick from so far away, so he had not known there were people below.
The elevator shaft was not very deep, roughly twenty meters by visual estimate. The glow stick was not bright enough for them to see clearly, but Jiang Yan Hai had already seen during its descent that all the elevator doors were tightly shut.
"Keep going. There may be people trapped below, but we need to reach the fourth floor first," Jiang Yan Hai said.
"Yes!" Xu Tian Long immediately resumed operating the controls.
Song Kai Fei no longer dared to joke around.
"What? No more jokes?" Jiang Yan Hai asked with a smile.
"No. This place just gives me the creeps," Song Kai Fei said awkwardly. The others could not help but laugh. They all knew it was just a joke. This was reality, not Resident Evil. That kind of virus was far too absurd to exist in the real world.
"It's ready!" Xu Tian Long suddenly cut them off. As he pressed a key on the computer, several mechanical sounds came from the door outside, and the steel bars locking it shut retracted.
Jiang Yan Hai and Song Kai Fei immediately swung over, pulling open the elevator doors first. Then, using leverage, they slowly pulled open the inner doors as well.
After bracing the doors open, Jiang Yan Hai immediately jumped onto the floor. The passageway here was in even worse shape. Every emergency light had