The Elevator's End

The elevator that spanned the Abyss finally reached the end.

What appeared before Duan Hong was a huge Stone Platform floating in the void.

It looked little different from the Void Stone Slabs they had encountered along the way. The only difference was perhaps that it was extremely vast, with no end in sight.

Not far from the elevator exit was a long path leading to a Wooden House in the distance.

Duan Hong glanced behind him.

The elevator was still running, but all the strange sounds that had appeared behind him along the way had completely vanished.

Some of those sounds had been screams, as if someone had suddenly been injured.

Some had been sobbing, their voices filled with grievance.

Others had been laughter, but the laughter was piercing and left him inexplicably irritated.

However.

Most of them had been fragments of conversations.

Some of those conversations had made Duan Hong feel that something was very wrong. Perhaps they were connected to the space here in some way.

For example.

The conversation between two young women had been rather bizarre.

One girl told her friend that she had arranged to go out with the other three girls from her dorm that night, but she could never get through to them and had no idea what they were doing.

The other girl said curiously, "How about I try calling them?"

Then.

Duan Hong heard the sound of a phone dialing behind him. The girl making the call seemed to have turned on the speakerphone as well. He did not know whether it was so the woman beside her could hear, or whether some supernatural phenomenon had prompted them to attract Duan Hong's attention ahead of them.

Unlike the first girl, this woman got through on her first call.

However, a