An intense doubt welled up in Lin Yi's mind, but the instant it did, his train of thought abruptly swerved like a car drifting through a drainage ditch, wrenching its rear end around to cut off the thinking that was about to unfold.
"Forget it. Leave it for now."
"I'll just keep my head down until I reach the dorm."
Like a cigarette already throwing off sparks, lightly pinched between two fingers and snuffed straight out, Lin Yi shook his head slightly and muttered to himself:
"Even if this dorm elevator turns out to be a fucking Transformer today, I don't want to deal with it."
He followed the crawling crowd, squeezing forward until he climbed the steps in front of the dormitory building and entered a brightly lit hallway.
As he stepped onto the stairs, he even remembered to glance down at the moss growing in the cracks.
The entire hallway curved, like the base of the dormitory building's hula-hoop-shaped structure.
There was an elevator every three to five meters along the hallway.
The elevator doors kept opening and closing. Around ten people entered each time, and three to five seconds after the doors shut, they opened again.
When the doors opened, the elevator inside was spacious and empty once more.
The people who had been inside had vanished without a trace, as though the elevator had eaten them.
Walking down the hallway, Lin Yi noticed a line written in front of every elevator:
[Each elevator has a capacity of ten people.]
So exactly ten people really did enter each elevator.
Soon it was his turn, but he happened to be the tenth person, so he chose to wait for the next elevator, letting the student behind him and Wei Liang take the tenth spot.
He glanced at the