May 7, X023, 21:06.
"Ding!"
With a crisp chime, the moving elevator came to a perfectly steady stop.
All five wary people in the elevator turned their eyes to the floor display.
"14."
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes. They had reached their floor.
The whole process had been free of danger or even a scare, simply because he had followed one of the most basic rules-[Do not attempt to understand how the elevator operates].
But he did not let his guard down. Instead, he became even more cautious.
Because he understood perfectly well that the main event was still ahead.
The elevator began to tremble slightly. Faint sounds of friction traveled through the car to the soles of Lin Yi's feet. His breathing steadied, and his whole body went still, but his muscles slowly tightened like a bow being drawn.
In the space of a breath, Lin Yi had mentally prepared himself to handle any sudden developments.
"Clang... clank!"
The elevator doors slowly opened. Like a wine jar with its mud seal knocked off, cold air began pouring inside.
"Whoosh-"
Through the gaps in the elevator's outer walls, the wind hissed with a strained urgency that sent chills down the spine.
Lin Yi and Wei Liang stepped out of the elevator.
"Clank!"
As the elevator doors closed, Lin Yi felt as though nothing remained behind him but a cold wall.
He lowered his head to check his watch.
21:07.
An express elevator carrying ten passengers in total had taken several minutes to go upstairs.
That kind of travel time would have been absolutely staggering anywhere.
There's still nearly an hour to walk back to the dorm... If nothing goes wrong, that should be enough, Lin Yi thought.
But... after everything he had experienced, he increasingly felt that putting the words