The Fifteenth Floor Was About to Close
Gu Yu pressed the elevator button again, but the electronic display still showed nothing but the number "15."
When she saw Xu Huo coming out of the restroom, she asked without thinking, "Did you find any clues?"
"The restroom's fairly clean," Xu Huo said.
"Hmph." Zheng Liang snorted and headed for the next elevator.
Gu Yu had some experience dealing with Xu Huo, so she didn't press him for more. Instead, she left with her companions.
Xu Huo returned to the place where he had entered the game and examined the bloodstains on the elevator doors and floor.
The bloodstains varied in age and overlapped. The handprints on the doors had been left both by people pounding from the outside and by people prying open the doors from within. The bloodstains on the floor were similar, some leading toward the elevator and others away from it. Compared with this area, the open office seemed quite clean, with only a few scattered bloodstains on the floor.
There were also some small scrape marks on the wall beside the elevator doors. Judging by their width, they were about the same size as the spikes on the Man-Eating Flowers.
There were more walls facing the open office area, while the walls along the offices and restrooms on either side were fewer—especially the wall beside the restrooms.
After standing by the wall for a while, he crouched by the window at the end of the hallway and pushed aside the vines, carefully checking the edge of the floor. When he found no scrape marks, he returned to the open area and checked its edges.
By then, the middle-aged man with the backpack and the others had used tape to cover the floor-to-ceiling windows with reinforced horizontal strips.