Mysterious country

There were thirty or forty people standing crowded in the corridor outside the elevator. These people were both men and women. They looked young, on average they should be about thirty years old.

Everyone had anger and anxiety on their faces, but when they saw Xia Qi and the others coming up in the elevator, the emotions on their faces instantly changed to surprise.

"Did they come up by elevator?"

"Aren't you talking nonsense? These people are in the elevator. How did they get up?"

"But isn't the elevator broken? How can it still come up?"

"Maybe it will be better now."

"..."

Everyone in the corridor was talking a lot, and their emotions became more and more excited. However, when they saw Wu Dagang lying in the elevator like a dead dog behind Xia Qi, many people couldn't help but exclaimed.

"Look, there's a guy lying down in the elevator. Is that blood on his face?"

"Dead?"

"What exactly is going on?"

Listening to everyone's discussion, Xia Qi suddenly had a guess in his mind. As for He Yuying, Nie Feng and others who were also standing in the elevator, they looked at each other and didn't know what to say.

But before Xia Qi and the others could speak, someone from the residents standing in the corridor stood up and asked:

"Are you from this apartment too?"

"What happened to that man? Is he injured?"

After hearing the residents' inquiries, Xia Qi walked out of the elevator unhurriedly, and then said to everyone with a smile:

"We are not residents of this apartment. As for this person, he is our friend. He was slightly injured, but it should be nothing serious."

Xia Xia Qi didn't say much. After all, he didn't know much about what was going on in the apartment. He just knew that the apartment was sealed, and he could only enter but not leave.

Xia Qi's explanation did not arouse the residents' suspicion. It was not that what he said seemed true, but that the residents did not care about Wu Dagang's life or death at all.

Then I heard someone say:

"Since the elevator can go up, it may also be able to go down. Let's go in and try."

Hearing this person's suggestion, most of the forty people immediately crowded towards the elevator. Seeing this, Xia Qi had no choice but to hide aside and watch the situation in the elevator coldly.

"Can you stop squeezing? If you can go down, do you still care about this moment?"

"You said it was easy. This elevator is good and bad sometimes. Who knows whether it will be able to go down next time."

"Can you step back? You stepped on me."

"Hey, the elevator is full. Can the people behind you stop being so damn crowded? With so many people crowded in, no one can get in if the elevator is overweight."

The elevator was overcrowded and chaotic, which can be said to be a vivid display of people's selfishness and brainlessness when encountering crises.

But there is no shortage of calm people. Just when people outside were still trying to squeeze into the elevator, they heard a woman with a long face say:

"Don't crowd. Even if the elevator goes down this time, it will be broken next time. But as long as someone can get out and can contact people outside and contact the property management, the remaining people can still get out.

There are so many people squeezing into the elevator. Even if the elevator door is smashed, it is impossible to fit them all in, and people are easily injured when they are crowded. "

The woman yelled and said it several times, until a few people heard it and thought it made sense, and then they started to join in and mobilize the people around them to exit the elevator.

Just like that, another seven or eight minutes were wasted before the residents who had been crowded in the elevator reluctantly came out.

The elevator was no longer overcrowded, and those who stayed in the elevator repeatedly promised that they would contact the outside world after they got out, and then pressed the button to the first floor.

It's just that the elevator door just closed, and then opened again without warning.

"Can't you go down?"

"No way?"

"You guys are trying. Try a few more times. If they can come up, they will be able to go down...!"

While the people in the elevator were trying again and again, Xia Qi found a nearby resident who seemed easy to talk to, and asked the person very curiously:

"So many people are rushing to get into the elevator. What happened? Is the elevator broken or something?"

"Forget it, there is suddenly no signal at all in this broken building, and no one's mobile phone can get through. Not only that, the elevator is also out of order, and no one can get out."

"There is no signal on the mobile phone? Doesn't that mean we can't ask the property management people to repair it?"

Xia Qi also pretended to be surprised after hearing this.

"Hey, so when I saw you guys coming up in the elevator, I thought the elevator was ready, but you're all trying to get down there. I'll see, but there's still no chance."

Xia Xia Qi nodded symbolically, and then asked as if he suddenly remembered something:

"Are all the residents here? Or are there some who are at home but haven't come out?"

"There must be some people who don't know what happened. The reason why so many people are crowded here is because if you take the elevator down from upstairs, you can't get down to this floor."

"If that's the case, how did the elevator get down to the first floor?"

"It went down on its own. We tried desperately to open the door but it didn't open. We could only watch it go down."

"Oh, that's it. We can't get out now. Hey."

Xia Qi sighed empathetically, and the man shook his head and sighed:

"Just wait, what else can you do?"

Just when Xia Qi learned about the situation from the resident's mouth, the people in the elevator had tried repeatedly no less than ten times, but the elevator was motionless and showed no intention of going down. Although the elevator door would close, it would not go down again. will open again.

"Okay, I say don't bother with that. The elevator is still out of order. It can probably go up but won't go down. You'd better just wait for the property management company to repair it."

Seeing that the people in the elevator were working in vain for a while, the residents outside were very disappointed and felt a little uneasy in their hearts.

Just when the people in the elevator were about to give up and leave the elevator, Xia Qi thought for a while and shouted to the people inside:

"Don't come out yet. Since you can't go downstairs, can you go upstairs?"

"What's the use of going up there? There's no cell phone signal and there's no way to contact the outside world."

"If we can go up, we can just go back and wait for someone to come to repair it and then come out."

Xia Qi just wanted to confirm whether the stairs could move between the 9th and 15th floors. The result actually aroused the resonance of many people, who didn't want to wait here in the sweltering heat.

Seeing that people outside suggested going up and taking a look, the people in the elevator didn't say anything more and tried pressing the floor upstairs. As a result, the elevator actually went up slowly after closing the door.