Gray lines outlined a square space, emergency lights flickering with a fluorescent glow. Between splendor and decay, they formed an iron box that devoured people.
The living must never ride the elevator on Old Yu Street.
But now, a thought had taken deep root in Ji Li's mind, forcibly driving him to inch toward the elevator, like a lamb walking into a tiger's jaws.
He could still move, and nothing seemed abnormal, yet he involuntarily wanted to step inside the elevator and ride it somewhere.
Why ride it? Where was he going...?
He had no answers, but that thought came from nowhere and vanished just as inexplicably, as though it were an instinct.
Just as the hungry needed food and the thirsty needed water, entering the elevator had become an instinctive response for Ji Li. He felt uncomfortable if he did not go inside.
But this elevator... he could not enter it!
Ji Li had not known before, but now he was certain that the elevator before him had countless connections to the Root Ghost.
The ghosts of Old Yu Street all obeyed elusive rules.
Take the Big Eye Doll, for example. The only two things it avoided were Room 6002 and this elevator.
Now that the special nature of Room 6002 was clear, the elevator's anomaly was likely connected to some central clue as well.
But even if it represented an extremely important clue, even a path to survival, Ji Li could not enter it. At least, not now.
The Twin Female Ghosts, who had never appeared, had caused signs of something uncontrollable to emerge in Ji Li. He felt fine in every respect and had not lost control of his movements. It was just that something was goading his consciousness.
Forcing him to board the elevator in the