I'm afraid I'm not interested in love

Chapter 272 Monkey's Paw
"Crack."

After a brief fall, the elevator stopped moving with a crisp sound.

Su Chengyi had already half-crouched down just now, holding the frightened Chu Qingmian in his arms.

The elevator broke down, and it didn't look like the type of fault that would fix itself.

But fortunately, it should have been stranded on a certain level.

I have vaguely heard before that the falling elevator is not scary, but the scary thing is that it rises very fast.

Because modern elevators are generally equipped with more than four steel wire ropes, the accidental breakage of one of them will not have much impact.

In addition, there are safety gears and speed limiters, so that even if all the wire ropes break, they will not fall to the bottom.

But it's different when the elevator rises to the top.

People inside the elevator may continue to move upward due to inertia. After their heads hit the ceiling directly, they fall downward to the floor under the action of gravity.

I seem to have heard of such a fatal accident somewhere.

After understanding the current situation, Su Chengyi felt slightly relieved.

He patted the person huddled in his arms.

"Ostrich, come out of the hole."

"What's going on with Su Chengyi?"

Chu Qingmian replied tremblingly.

This eldest lady has obviously never experienced this kind of thing, although she also has an elevator in her home.

"The elevator is out of order."

Su Chengyi has long been used to it. Although her family lives in a stairwell, she has often encountered accidents involving old elevators in residential buildings.

He took out his cell phone from his pocket and took a look. Sure enough, it showed no signal.

The signal of the fruit machine has been like this since ancient times, and it has not improved even after ten years.

He raised his head and looked outside. From the narrow gap in the elevator door, he could see that it was pitch black outside. He must have fallen to the underground level.

Fortunately, Su Chengyi's calm and calm tone and attitude obviously made Chu Qingmian feel at ease, and she plucked up the courage to open her eyes.

"Will we be suffocating due to lack of oxygen? Will no one come to save us?"

Miss Chu was worried.

"We won't starve to death, no, I didn't even eat enough for lunch.

I also want to eat steamed lamb, steamed bear paws, steamed deer tail, roasted flowers, duck, roasted chicks, roasted goose, braised braised duck in sauce, chicken, bacon and loose flower belly.”

"No talking."

Su Chengyi groped and covered her mouth.

"Woooo."

Chu Qingmian groaned pitifully.

Su Chengyi suddenly felt like a human trafficker who kidnapped an ignorant girl with ulterior motives and had no choice but to let go.

"Su Chengyi, what should we do? What if no one comes to save us?"

Chu Qingmian put her arms around his neck, raised her head and asked in a low voice.

"Then don't save me."

Su Chengyi replied casually.

Chu Qingmian clearly felt stiff.

"What's wrong? Are you not satisfied with dying with me?"

He thought of teasing and continued to talk nonsense.

"That's not true."

Unexpectedly, Chu Qingmian's tone of reply was extremely serious.

Su Chengyi was stunned for a moment, and just as he was about to speak, he heard her whispering again.

"There are still a lot of things that haven't been done. You can't die now, but you can later."

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Su Chengyi heard that she was completely serious about what she said.

I couldn't joke anymore.

After a moment of silence, he cleared his throat.

"Don't be stupid. Soon Xu Yang and the others will come looking for us when they find out that we are missing."

"Ah."

Chu Qingmian nodded first, and then answered again after realizing that he might not be able to see.

Compared with the sightseeing elevators often used by customers, the backup elevators here are far inferior in quality and appearance.

I didn't feel anything when I first came in, but now the smell of damp rust and dust is vaguely present.

He didn't know if he hated the smell, but the person on his chest became more and more clinging to him like an octopus.

".Are you hot or not?"

Su Chengyi tried to struggle.

Miss Chu immediately rolled around like a coquettish girl.

"Hug, I'm scared."

"It's all right."

"What if there's a ghost!"

Chu Qingmian was just looking for a random reason at first, but after she finished speaking, she became truly scared.

She has always known how to avoid risks. As a true coward, her first rule of self-cultivation is to stay away from horror movies and ghost stories.

But growing up, I still watched some clips more or less accidentally.

So this situation just made some scattered pictures appear in her mind.

I encountered a ghost in the elevator when I was going home alone in the middle of the night. No matter which floor I pressed, I could only reach the death minus floor. When the elevator door opened, there was a spooky face outside.
The more Chu Qingmian thought about it, the more frightened she became, and she was about to burst into tears.

Su Chengyi was thinking about how to let herself stand properly when she suddenly sniffed, which was a sign that she was going to cry.

".what?"

"Su Chengyi, tell me a story, I'm scared!"

Chu Qingmian closed her eyes again and said tremblingly.

"what story?"

"Whatever, just talk, it's too quiet here."

Chu Qingmian rubbed his shoulder and said coquettishly.

Su Chengyi was silent for a long time.

Then I realized I didn't know how to speak.

He seemed to have never told anyone any stories, maybe not just stories, he rarely even told a complete story to others.

The structure of beginning, succession, turn and combination seems to only appear in compositions.

Seeing that he didn't respond for a long time, Chu Qingmian changed her explanation.

"If it doesn't work, you can just sing."

That might as well tell a story.

Su Chengyi paused for a moment, and suddenly felt blessed, so he said seriously:

"In that case, let me read a sutra for you."

Before Chu Qingmian could refute, he started to read:

"That's what I heard. At one time, the Buddha was in the country of Sravasti, and only the tree was given to the Lonely Garden.

Together with the great monks, a thousand and two hundred and fifty people, the then World Honored One"

I have to say that Su Chengyi's voice and intonation are very suitable for chanting sutras.

A smooth, completely emotionless chanting machine.

In the dark and airtight environment of the malfunctioning elevator, Chu Qingmian felt as if Buddha's light appeared in front of her eyes, and she would be saved in the next second.

She braced herself and listened for a long time, thinking that Su Cheng's idea was over, but she didn't expect that this guy seemed to have memorized the entire book.

"Where should the clouds live? How can the clouds subdue their hearts? The Buddha said, it is good, it is good. Subhuti"

"Oh, it makes people dizzy. I don't want to hear this!"

Chu Qingmian protested.

"Then change to the Tao Te Ching. The Tao can be Tao, but it is not Tao."

"Then what's the difference?"

"Ok."

Chanting does seem to bring peace of mind.

There is nothing in the world that he cannot forgive, and there is nothing that he cannot agree to.

Su Chengyi thought about it, and actually thought of a story related to elevators.

"Once upon a time there was a man named Chu Xiaomian."

As soon as he finished his first sentence, Chu Qingmian snorted, guessing that it wasn't going to be a good story.

"Chu Xiaomian needs to take the elevator every night when she goes home. However, she is very timid and is an out-and-out coward.

So every time she would ask her, um, roommate, Su to come downstairs to pick her up. "

"I'm not a roommate, I'm my boyfriend, okay?"

Hearing the names of the two protagonists, Chu Qingmian laughed and couldn't help but interject.

Su Chengyi ignored her and continued.

"That night, when Chu Xiaomian walked downstairs, he just called Su Mouyi and saw that he was already standing at the elevator entrance. So Chu Xiaomian was very happy, hung up the phone, and went up to ask him Why did you come down early?

Su smiled intentionally and said nothing. "

Chu Qingmian obviously had no taste for horror stories, so she thought it was some sweet love story.

"As soon as the two got in the elevator, Chu Xiaomian's cell phone suddenly rang, and the caller ID turned out to be Su Mouyi.

Chu Xiaomian was shocked because the person next to him was not talking on the phone at all.

She answered the call suspiciously, and heard a familiar voice on the other side of the phone.

'Hello?Chu Xiaomian, why did you call me and then hang up?Do you want me to come down and pick you up now? '

Chu Xiaomian was startled. She stared at the person next to her and did not dare to speak.

At this time, Su Mouyi in the elevator suddenly turned around and asked with a smile, guess which side is true? "

"Su Chengyi!!!"

Chu Qingmian screamed and punched him on the shoulder.

"Who asked you to tell ghost stories!!!"

Su Chengyi secretly felt funny and continued to say seriously:

"Guess which side is true"

As a result, Chu Qingmian covered her mouth before she finished speaking.

"Don't tell me, don't tell me, don't tell me! I hate you so much!"

After finally regaining his composure, Su Chengyi was about to speak when Chu Qingmian gave a stern warning:
"Su Chengyi, if you tell ghost stories using our names again to scare me, I will bite you to death."

Su Chengyi coughed and said calmly:

"It's not our name. His name is obviously Su Yiyi."

".Don't say it anyway! Tell me another one. I want to hear a little healing story."

This difficulty is too high.

Su Chengyi thought for a long time but couldn't figure out what to say, so he had to take a step back.

Chu Qingmian said that as long as it was not scary, any story would be fine; Su Chengyi promised that there was no ghost, but whether it would be cured or not was another matter.

So he told the famous story - the monkey's paw.

Once upon a time, there was an old man who accidentally got a magical object, a monkey's paw that shriveled into a mummy shape.

It is said that it can grant a person three wishes, just pick up the monkey's paw with your right hand and make a wish loudly.

The old man was doubtful, so he returned home at night and told his wife and son about the incident.

At this time, he remembered that he still owed a loan of two hundred pounds for buying a house.

So he raised the monkey's paw and made a wish loudly:
"I wish I could get two hundred pounds."

Both my wife and son found this ceremony hilarious and burst into laughter.

But the laughter was soon interrupted by the old man's panicked shouts.

"Oh my God, the monkey's paw came to life. It writhed in my hand like a slippery snake."

His wife and son hurriedly comforted him and said it was okay. It was probably psychological.

Despite what they said, the three people's moods were as dull and complicated as the wind at night.

The next day, just as the old man and his wife were gradually relieved, a stranger knocked on their door.

"Your son was caught in a meat grinder while at work and died."

The old man and his wife felt as if they were struck by lightning and were unwilling to accept the facts, but the man continued to talk.

"The factory is deeply saddened by this tragic news, and we are willing to compensate you two with a solatium."

The old man couldn't stop trembling all over his body and asked in disbelief:
"how many?"

"Two hundred pounds."

In this way, the monkey's paw fulfilled the old man's wish.

The son was buried in a cemetery two miles from home.

The old man and his wife had no interest in life all day long, and they spent a difficult week like this.

At nightfall, the wife's spirit finally collapsed, and she shouted frantically:

"Where's the monkey's paw? Please go and make a wish to bring our son back to life!"

She acted so crazy that the old man had to get the monkey's paw, raised his right hand and made a wish:

"I want my son to be resurrected."

The monkey's paw squirmed like last time, and the old man threw it to the ground in panic.

The wife waited expectantly at the window, while the old man secretly prayed that the monkey's paw would fail.

The clocks were ticking, and the night was eerily silent.

Just when the wife felt disappointed and the old man felt lucky, there was a soft knock at the door.

It was a knock on the door.

The old man turned around and quickly locked the door, then ran back to the bedroom.

At this time, the sound of knocking on the door was so loud that it resounded throughout the whole house.

The wife shouted in surprise.

"Ah, ah, my son is back! I forgot that the cemetery is two miles away from home. It will take him half an hour to walk back from there!"

Then she rushed out to open the door.

The old man couldn't stop her, so he lay on the ground, looking for the monkey's paw that had fallen to the ground.

Just as his wife was about to pull the last bolt of the door, the old man finally found the monkey's paw, and tremblingly said his third and last wish.

"I wish my son could go back."

The crazy knocking on the door suddenly disappeared, and at the same time, the wife finally unlocked the door.

A biting cold wind blew in, and the wife let out a violent wail of pain. The old man stumbled to the door.

Flickering street lights illuminate the silent and desolate road.

There is nothing outside.

"Although there is no ghost, but..."

Chu Qingmian shivered.

"Why is it still so scary!!!"

Su Chengyi spread his hands and replied:
"Isn't this the dark version of Aladdin's magic lamp?"

"It seems so. No, Aladdin's magic lamp is very cute!"

Chu Qingmian took a deep breath. She was so frightened by the story she just heard that she didn't dare to breathe loudly.

The image of Su Chengyi is really suitable for telling such a touching story.

"If you had a monkey's paw, would you make a wish?"

Su Chengyi asked casually.

Chu Qingmian shook her head very decisively.

"Please, who would use it if the side effects are so severe!!"

"I thought you were going to say you didn't want anything."

Su Chengyi really couldn't think of any reason why Chu Qingmian needed to use the monkey's paw to make a wish.

"certainly not."

Chu Qingmian thought about it seriously and counted on her fingers.

"The first wish is that Su Chengyi can like me more.

The second wish is that Su Chengyi can admit that he is my boyfriend.

The third wish."

Su Chengyi interrupted.

"This is my last wish, please think about it before you make it."

"What? Make it look like it will really come true."

Chu Qingmian snorted, stretched out her hand to grab Su Chengyi's wrist, and raised her "paw" in a serious manner.

"Third wish, I hope we can go out now!"

As she finished speaking, the elevator door slowly opened with a clang.

Although it is stuck between two floors.

Dazzling light spilled in, clearly illuminating the extremely shocked expressions of the two people.

ha?
Even Su Chengyi was in a daze.

If it was a coincidence, it would be too much of a coincidence.

It's such a coincidence that it makes people feel a little panicked.

"Hey, the elevator is out of order, are you scared?"

A master in a worker's uniform peeked inside, holding a maintenance tool in his hand.

"Mr. Yi!!! Are you okay?!"

Xu Yang also appeared behind him, waving vigorously.

Lin Tong followed beside him and took a hard look. He didn't let out a sigh of relief until he was sure that both of them were standing properly.

"Mianmian! How are you? Are you okay?"

The look on Han Bing's face was very anxious, and the hair on his forehead was scattered.

The two people trapped in the elevator had no intention of answering the concerns of people outside, but at the same time they both deeply felt the absurdity of the world.

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