It was too quiet. The surroundings were too quiet. The elevator had arrived at the first-floor lobby. The place was crowded, and there were people waiting for the elevator. They had made so much noise, but there was no response, like… the world was dead. It was not normal. Slowly, people realised that, and the atmosphere shifted. “The phone… The calls aren’t going out.” A very young, female voice said, “My phone has no signal.” The emergency button in the elevator didn’t work. Darkness and silence pressed down on their hearts. Finally, someone lost it and switched on the flashlight on their phone. They didn’t aim the light at people but at the ground. The brightness was sufficient. They analysed the situation. Jiang Cheng was silent. He didn’t say anything. He felt that something was wrong, like something was missing. His eyes scanned the booth. Very soon, Jiang Cheng noticed something. The cleaner… was gone. This discovery chilled his spine. In the dim and rowdy environment, no one else realised that. After Jiang Cheng ensured Lin Wan ‘Er’s safety, he pulled her to the corner, furthest away from where the cleaner was. Then, he used his body to shield Lin Wan ‘Er. At that moment, the elevator shook. Then, it started to rise. The rising feeling was different from before. It didn’t feel like a machine was pulling them. Instead, a mysterious force was lifting them upwards. The acceleration speed kept changing. No one dared to say anything. The girl, who looked like a university student, had her teeth chattering. The trim panel inside the elevator showed the floor number. The colour of the number looked like blood. 5th floor. 10th floor. 15th floor… The elevator slowed down. There was even the sound of the metal ropes tightening. It was very abnormal. Eventually, the elevator stopped at the 17th floor. When they saw this number, Weiwei and Du Feng paled instantly. Jiang Cheng was better. When he noticed the elevator was climbing, he had a feeling the elevator was bringing them back to the 17th floor. Not the current one, but the 17th floor Nan Huaili disappeared from. There was an inexplicable sound of friction. The elevator door opened. Everyone took a step back from the door, as if monsters would charge through it. “What… is going on?” Weiwei gasped. The situation outside the elevator had changed. It was different from how they left it. The corridors on both sides had disappeared. The office area that was separated by a glass window was also gone. Instead, there was an endless and dark corridor that greeted them. The corridor was deep and fathomless. One had to wonder if it had an end. Just staring at it would make one shiver. “Everyone… don’t go out.” A young man stared at the darkness. His throat moved, and he said, “We’ll just wait inside the elevator. It’ll move again…” Read complete versıon only at 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭•𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮•𝘯𝘦𝘵 As if in response, the elevator suddenly trembled. The 40-something woman was unsteady and fell. After she fell, she looked up at the back of the elevator booth. Then, a scream cut through the silence. The woman used both her hands and legs to crawl out of the elevator. She charged into the dark. Soon, her figure was swallowed. Only stumbling footsteps came from the corridor. This triggered the rest. The outside was dangerous. It was not dangerous inside. Furthermore… following the shake, strange friction kept coming from above. It felt like the elevator could fall at any moment. They were on the 17th floor. If they fell… Without any leader, they soon left the elevator. After everyone left, the elevator door closed on its own. Then, it slowly went down. Without any other option, they could only explore the dark. Thankfully, they still had the flashlight on their phones. The woman’s sound had disappeared. As they ventured deeper, they noticed more strange things. The corridor looked old. At least it wasn’t built in the past twenty years. The bottom of the walls was sprayed with green hydrophobic paint. The wall was covered with cracks and mould. Small dust danced in the rays of light. They appeared to be the first batch of people to come here after it had been sealed up. With each breath, they smelled the scent of time. Jiang Cheng took out his phone. Compared to the others who focused on the path ahead, he cared more about the ceiling and their back. He could confirm that they were in a nightmare, or rather, a nightmare-like world. However, he didn’t know why the mechanism had changed. Was it as the middle-aged man claimed? Their world was invaded by the nightmare… He had encountered this once before. The taxi that shouldn’t exist and the missing driver appeared before him and Fatty. He even took a ride from the driver. He had a feeling that if he didn’t react and allowed the driver to keep driving, would they have been brought to a place ? It was possible. Lin Wan ‘Er stayed beside him. He had Lin Wan ‘Er walk in the middle while he stayed to the right, close to the wall. It allowed him to have a nice view of everything. Nothing was blocking his sight. “Do you see that?” After turning a corner, the deliveryman, who walked ahead, pointed at something in front. They had reached the end of the corridor. It was a door. However, it was not the black iron door that Jiang Cheng imagined. Instead, it was a standard door with light blue paint. The style and colour were very familiar to Jiang Cheng, but he couldn’t remember where he had seen it. The group approached the door cautiously. There was sound coming from inside it. It sounded like people. It wasn’t loud, but it sounded very chaotic and aggressive.