Chapter 57: The Fourth Floor (1/2)
F*ck! He was trapped inside the elevator.
Bai Yan’s smile was a little stiff. He originally didn’t like the extra’s disappointing acting skills, but he didn’t expect to be slapped in the face this quickly.
The deserving president was a man that had lived through twenty or so ghost stories, each one having different patterns.
All the lights inside the elevator had gone out. Even the lights on the buttons had also gone dim, leaving him in total darkness.
However, even if there wasn’t any light, the reflection from the mirror before the lights went out was deeply engraved in Bai Yan’s heart.
He knew that the elevator was jam-packed with ‘people’ right now, and they were all standing near him, watching him amid the blackness.
The weightless feeling of hovering was still under his feet. Bai Yan was played by the president’s wrong methods, getting a strong feeling that he’d be finished here.
After a long time, the elevator still didn’t reach the third floor, but the feeling of it ascending remained.
He screamed at the top of his lungs, but there was no reply. So, he turned around and confronted the mirror, face to face.
Under the phone’s flashlight, his face was deathly pale, making him look more like a ghost than a real one.
However, Bai Yan knew his own face quite well, so he wasn’t startled when he saw himself. Rather, he was paying more attention to what was surrounding him in the distorted reflection.
In the mirror, the elevator was crowded with people, to the point of bursting.
Comparing the scene to the glimpse he saw before, not one of the ‘people’ inside was missing.
They still used their hungry eyes to stare at him, as if they were starving to eat someone.
Despite seeing this image for a second time, Bai Yan’s pulse still hastened.
He inadvertently swallowed, trying to move a bit inside the elevator.
Contrary to what he expected, he didn’t feel like he stepped on anyone. Thus, his courage flared out as he started to madly wave his arms in the air. It was still the same, he waved his arms around for quite some time, but he still hadn’t slapped someone in the face.
Granted that this type of ghost didn’t have a tangible body, with him passing through them, shouldn’t there still be some sort of reaction?
But other than their expressions getting fiercer, they unexpectedly didn’t react to him, not even one bit.
“So, you’re all inside the mirror…”
After a moment of hesitation, Bai Yan arrived at this conclusion.
Knowing that the ghosts that wanted to eat him were trapped inside the mirror, they couldn’t come out for the time being. Bai Yan eased up, regardless of these sinister ghosts maintaining their hungry stares at him, “It’s no problem. Excuse me, you guys continue.”
Bai Yan lightheartedly waved his hand to the people inside the mirror, adjusting his current position a bit.
He comfortably pressed his back against the wall furthest from the button panel. This way, he could observe both the panel and the mirror at the same time.
After getting in position, he stood there motionlessly with his phone at hand, its flashlight shining up ahead.
For approximately five minutes, the elevator finally stopped, and at this moment, the lights that went out abruptly came back.
With a ding, the elevator doors opened.
“Boom, boom, boom…”
“Boom-boom, boom-boom…”
The sounds of a ball landing on the floor came through the open doors, and a big sweaty male athlete was facing the elevator entrance, dribbling a basketball on the floor tiles.
“Playing basketball inside the elevator?”
Bai Yan’s complexion showed a twinge of confusion as he calmly gazed at the jersey-wearing guy dribbling the ball.
The waiting area for the elevator on the third floor was extremely lonesome, no other person was there.
Since it was the third floor, it wasn’t far from the first floor, so most of the students didn’t feel like taking the elevator. Not a lot of people took the elevator to the third floor, but a guy playing with his basketball in the elevator wasn’t totally unjustifiable.
However, since he was the one that saw the fourth ghost story in the forum, a normal situation would turn into a dangerous and unusual one.
There must be something strange going on here.
Furthermore, during the five minutes he stayed inside the elevator, the lift only went from the second floor to the third. Maybe this wasn’t the third floor of the real world, but an alternate dimension.
The most important point to focus on was that he didn’t push the third-floor button, so how could the elevator doors open by themselves?
Sure enough, he quickly found the mishap waiting to happen.
Under Bai Yan’s watchful eye, without even dribbling it for a couple of times yet, the guy slipped for a moment and lost control of the ball. The basketball bounced and quickly landed inside the elevator.
“Hey, brother! Do me a favor and kick the ball out!” The friendly guy smiled at Bai Yan, “I was practicing basketball. But since I’m still not good at it, I get embarrassed playing outside, so I practice right outside the elevator.
“…”
Bai Yan didn’t say anything.
“Brother, help me out?” Seeing that Bai Yan didn’t react to him, the guy hesitantly asked, “Are you mute?”
Having heard this, Bai Yan finally said, “Are we close?”
“No.” The guy was somewhat dense, not picking up the meaning behind Bai Yan’s question.
“Then, why should I help you?”
The guy forced out a laugh, saying dryly, “So you won’t help me with the ball? Do you have to go this far over something so insignificant?”
After saying his piece, he stared at and waited for Bai Yan, his eyes full of expectation as if he were waiting for something.
Bai Yan didn’t reply, and he also didn’t taunt this able-bodied person to come and pick it up himself.
What if the guy was waiting for him to say this, would he really go in?
Bai Yan didn’t utter a single word while the guy was just courting a rebuff(1), standing by the elevator door staring intently at the basketball inside.
Seeing that the guy only asked for help and did not pick it up himself, Bai Yan confirmed his guess and continued to ignore him.