Eating the Man-Eating Flower
Zheng Liang and the Skull T-shirt Player were closest. One grabbed Tie Ge around the waist, while the other seized his shoulder and pulled him away. But the tug-of-war centered on Tie Ge's head. Neither side would let go, and blood streamed down his head. He began to howl, but then another flesh-colored sucker shot out of the elevator shaft and slapped over his mouth!
The Skull T-shirt Player's hands were already red with blood. As he watched the flesh-colored thing drag Tie Ge toward the gap in the elevator doors, he heard rustling from below in the shaft. He immediately let go and hurried aside to close the elevator, shouting back to his companions, "Come help! There are lots more of those things in there!"
Gu Yu and the others rushed forward. A bald player thrust a short knife into the gap and cut through the strip of flesh behind the sucker. Only then did they manage to pull Tie Ge free. The Skull T-shirt Player and two others then forced the elevator doors shut.
Bang! Bang! The elevator doors boomed as something pounded against them. Gu Yu and the others backed away, watching the trembling doors with grim expressions. The Skull T-shirt Player said, "It's dangerous outside, and there are monsters in the elevator too. Weren't we trapped on the fifteenth floor?"
"Is Tie Ge all right?" the Mole Player asked.
Tie Ge lay motionless on the floor. The flesh-colored "sucker" wrapped around his head and face hadn't come off. Some green liquid had sprayed from its severed end, but the sucker's head was still writhing and sucking, making a sound that caused Discomfort.
Seeing that the thing was still alive, everyone nearby backed away. Xu Huo stepped forward, pried up one edge of