The elevator was still slowing down when Tian Bufan suddenly spoke. "Lao Lin, feel how the elevator is moving."
"Huh?" Lin Yi froze, but his body was already doing as asked, sensing the subtle changes in the decelerating elevator.
As the elevator slowed, there was a distinct feeling of weightlessness, just like...
"No, wait!" Lin Yi instantly spotted the problem. "Weightlessness?!"
Lin Yi abruptly realized something. He glanced at Tian Bufan, only to discover that Tian Bufan had noticed long ago and was signaling with his eyes for him to continue.
He drew a breath and followed that line of thought.
"The elevator is going from the fourteenth floor to the first. Under normal circumstances, when an elevator slows down while descending, there should be an upward push. But weightlessness... that should happen when an elevator slows down while ascending!"
"But why is this happening now...?"
"When we went from the first floor to the fourteenth, the elevator kept accelerating until we arrived. But now... going from the fourteenth floor to the first, it's still accelerating forward?" He described what he had felt.
The elevator came to a steady stop. With a ding, a number appeared on the floor display.
"1."
They had indeed arrived on the first floor.
Clang... clank!
The elevator doors opened, and fresh air carrying a slight chill rushed inside. That wonderful feeling of reconnecting with the world returned to them all.
Stepping out of the elevator, Tian Bufan looked at Lin Yi with a smile. "So, what do you think the reason might be?"
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes at the elevator doors as they closed again and said hesitantly, "Could it be... that the entire elevator system is a closed loop, and all the cars can only move forward along the tracks? Wherever they