CH 183

Chapter 183 – 1992-2020

The company was located on the fifteenth floor. Although climbing the stairs is tiring, the two of them would not be so stupid as to take the elevator at this time.

The two went to the escape stairs, pushed open the door and found that the corridor was pitch-black. Only the green “escape route” light sign was on. They ate biscuits here at noon. At that time, the sun shone in through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows and the whole staircase was brightly lit, without a trace of gloom.

But now it’s like a haunted house.

In the darkness, there was something faintly rustling on the stairs, like a snake walking on the sand, which made people feel uncomfortable.

The two looked at each other and, without hesitation, took out the flashlight and illuminated the stairs.

The beam of light from the strong flashlight pierced through the darkness and shone straight down. Only then did the two see clearly that there was really something crawling on the floor of the corridor.

—It was hair.

Strands of hair, thick or thin, twisted and writhed on the ground like black snakes. The hair was illuminated by the flashlight and, as if stimulated by something, they all scampered aside.

“Fortunately, it’s afraid of light.” RenDong shone the flashlight towards the bottom of the stairs. The stairs spiraled layer by layer, with no end in sight. This feeling made him very uncomfortable.

Lian Qiao came to him. The corridor door behind him made a heavy creaking sound and then closed heavily.

The two couldn’t help but look back, feeling like they were locked up here.

“This glass looks fake.” Lian Qiao pointed the flashlight at the window glass but the light beam of the strong flashlight couldn’t penetrate the thin layer of glass and the glass was still pitch black, making it impossible to see the situation outside .

He then shone the flashlight towards the top of the corridor. The stairs going up are also empty and you can’t see the end at a glance. Lian Qiao frowned and murmured: “How many floors are there in this building?”

“Thirty floors, we are in the middle.” RenDong sighed: “If I knew this, I should have found a lower floor company when I graduated…”

Lian Qiao laughed: “Don’t think so much, let’s go.”

“Yeah.”

So the two of them held a bright flashlight in one hand and a weapon in the other, and walked downstairs side by side.

The silence in the stairs made people flustered and the sound of footsteps echoed in the corridor. It was obviously their own noises but it was extremely permeating. The two turned their heads from time to time to be vigilant for any changes behind them. However, apart from the hair on the ground curled up in the corner, there was nothing unusual so far.

“DO you think this is Auntie Long-hair?” RenDong suddenly felt a little funny.

“Disgusting while alive and even more disgusting when dead.” Lian Qiao said lightly.

RenDong suddenly remembered that Lian Qiao still had the knife wound on his back from that time. His eyes were filled with pity: “How is your back injury?”

“It’s nothing major and won’t affect my movements.” Lian Qiao seemed to smile, “Don’t worry. There’s only one hour left anyway, so it doesn’t matter if the wound opens. Just wait until we get out.”

“En…” Although RenDong said this, he still couldn’t let go of the worry in his heart .

Those hairs on the ground were afraid of light, so when they were illuminated by the flashlight, they twisted and fled to the corner, curling up into a ball. It doesn’t look like much damage but it would be terrible without a flashlight.

RenDong couldn’t help but recall the scene in the “Temple of Five Internal Organs” instance where he was dismembered by vines in the dark forest. He was terrified of such things. However, it seems that whatever he was afraid of was destined to occur. The further down they went, the more hair there was on the ground. In the end, it was almost impossible to settle down.

Although the hair is afraid of light but, because the number was really large, so when the flashlight shines on it, the hair is crowded with each other and no one can avoid it.

Under the stimulation of the light, countless hairs twisted wildly, like a mosaic of movement. RenDong walked cautiously, always feeling that the next step would be stepping on hair. He had to focus the light near his feet to avoid getting caught in his hair.

“Wait, something’s not quite right.” Just as RenDong was concentrating on his feet, Lian Qiao stopped suddenly.

“What?” RenDong looked at him, saw him turn sideways and shine the flashlight downstairs.

Both of them were shocked by this image.

They saw that the corridor below was completely filled with hair! The thick black hair surged up the corridor like a tide, completely blocking the corridor. It was impossible to go any further.

Unless they wanted to pass through the middle of the hair!

RenDong imagined the sensation of hair sliding across his body and couldn’t help feeling sick.

“…” Lian Qiao was silent for a moment, then took out a lighter from his backpack, “See if  burning works?”

RenDong looked at the hair entangled around the two of them and said with a wry smile: “Even if it can be burned, the lighter would probably ignite a fire.”

Before they entered the company in the morning, Lian Qiao uttered the wild words, “If there is a fire, there is no place to run.” This is great, the FLAG has been completely drawn.

“Not necessarily. They are afraid of light. They should be more afraid of fire. I guess they will avoid it.” Lian Qiao said and walked towards the ocean-like hair downstairs.

RenDong felt an inexplicable uneasiness in his heart and he subconsciously pulled Lian Qiao: “Wait, don’t go.”

Lian Qiao: “What’s wrong?”

RenDong looked up at the upstairs, frowned and said: “How long have we walked? How many floors?”

Lian Qiao was taken aback for a moment, but also showed a thoughtful expression.

After a while, he hesitated and said : “…Fifteen?” RenDong shook his head: “I’m afraid it’s more than that.” He looked at the time, “We came out of the company at nine o’clock,and we can go down one floor almost every minute, but now it’s almost half past nine…”

Lian Qiao’s expression changed slightly: “It’s already half past nine? Time flies so fast?”

“Probably because our attention is too concentrated, so we don’t feel the passage of time.” RenDong stared at the dense hair at the bottom of the corridor. He frowned and said, “So… we may have walked more than fifteen floors…”

When he said that, Lian Qiao noticed the exhaustion of his body. In terms of his physical fitness, fifteen floors should not be a problem. But now his legs felt a little weak and even his muscles trembled a little.

In fact, at the very beginning, he also went downstairs while secretly counting the number of floors. But there were more and more hairs around his feet and he forgot what he counted.

How many floors did they go down without knowing it?

Lian Qiao looked around, trying to find the floor number. RenDong was wary of the hair underneath and, at the same time, shone the flashlight on the wall, looking for it with him.

However, the corridor number that was originally posted at the exit of each floor has disappeared at this time.

“It doesn’t look like an illusion.” RenDong sighed, “Our attention was all attracted by the hair and we didn’t realize it. In fact, the whole staircase has already undergone a change.”

“Endless staircase?” Lian Qiao narrowed his eyes,

” Then these hairs…”

RenDong smiled wryly: “Maybe this is Auntie Long-Hair’s trick?”

Auntie Long-Hair was very cunning and was full of bad ideas when she was a human being. After becoming a ghost, it really got worse and she even played real “ghost numbers”.

Lian Qiao narrowed his eyes and stared coldly at the black cloud-like hair: “If I had known this, I should have made her suffer more while she was alive…”

Before he finished speaking, RenDong’s face suddenly changed drastically!

Before Lian Qiao could react, RenDong lost his balance instantly and fell down the stairs! Lian Qiao was startled and subconsciously reached out to grab it, only grabbing on to his collar in a panic. Only then did he realize that something was dragging RenDong down!

Just listening to bang bang bang bang, something rolled down the stairs. Lian Qiao’s gaze moved down, only to realize that the pitch-black hair in the corner had somehow climbed up to RenDong’s ankle and entangled him tightly!

RenDong bit his lips: “The flashlight fell down!”

“It’s okay! Hold on to me!” Lian Qiao grabbed him desperately with one hand and reached for the handrail of the stairs that was close to him firmly with the other.

RenDong’s ankles were entangled by the hair and half of his body gradually rose into the air, showing how strong the hair was pulling him. And Lian Qiao stood on the stairs, his center of gravity was unstable and he would be taken down if he was not careful. When the time comes, the two of them will fall into that mass of black deadly hair together and they will definitely both be killed on the spot!

More and more black hair wrapped around RenDong’s ankles and the black hair was even tightening a little bit. RenDong’s ankles were already a little bit bloodshot. Lian Qiao gritted his teeth, exerted all his strength and dragged RenDong back more than ten centimeters.

RenDong was also quick-sighted and took this opportunity to grab the handrail. Now there was finally a point of support. Even though the hair in the back was still terrified of him, at least he wouldn’t fall into the pile of hair right away.

“Hold on!” Lian Qiao yelled, quickly took out a bottle of transparent liquid from his backpack, lit a lighter and threw it directly into the pile of hair.

It was a special windproof lighter so, although it spun a few times in mid-air, the flame did not go out. It’s just that the little flame seemed too small in the pile of hair surging like a black tide, and it was about to be swallowed by the hair.

But at this moment, Lian Qiao unscrewed the bottle in his hand, slammed it and poured it straight towards the flames!

There was a crackling sound and the flame followed the liquid parabola and burned up all of a sudden!

It was alcohol!

“Aaaahhhhhh!” The thick black long hair twisted wildly. The hair on Xu RenDong’s ankles was also burnt and the flames climbed directly onto RenDong’s pants.

However RenDong was finally liberated. He fell from mid-air all of a sudden but quickly got up from the ground without even making a muffled groan.

“Run!” Lian Qiao grabbed RenDong’s arm and started running up!

Listening to the crackling and burning sound behind him and the woman’s screams, RenDong followed Lian Qiao and ran wildly without looking back. The strangled place on his ankle was excruciatingly painful and every step felt like running on the tip of a knife. Xu RenDong bit his lip and ran desperately, not wanting to drag Lian Qiao down.

The hair was already aflame and, with the help of alcohol, the fire spread all at once. The thick black hair was constantly struggling and twisting in the flames and the flames were mixed with the painful female screams.

The screams echoed throughout the corridor, piercing people’s eardrums. The two ran up desperately but they still felt that the screams were in their ears.

The fire below began to emit thick smoke and the flames became brighter and brighter. The  surrounding air became hotter and hotter. The two ran more and more strenuously. Not only did they consume a lot of physical strength going upstairs, but the fire was also consuming the oxygen in the corridor at this time, making the two people who were already deprived of oxygen due to strenuous exercise even more dizzy.

RenDong’s legs became weak from running and the large amount of physical energy consumption caused too much burden on the body. RenDong soon couldn’t breathe and the lung tubes hurt like they were about to burst. Every breath was scorching air, which made him feel that living was no better than death.

His feet felt weak and every step he stepped on was soft.

And Lian Qiao, who was close at hand, was obviously extremely exhausted. His chest was heaving violently, his forehead was covered with sweat and he didn’t even have room to speak. But he still tightly gripped RenDong’s hand, trying to give him a hand.

No! He can’t drag Lian Qiao down!

With this thought in mind, RenDong took a deep breath, forcing out strength from the depths of his body.

However, as he ran, he felt more and more that something was wrong.

The touch under her feet was astonishingly soft, like… like stepping on human skin…

RenDong lowered his head subconsciously and couldn’t help being shocked when he looked at it!

He saw that the floor tiles under the two people’s feet had changed their appearance before they knew it! From the original white tiles to dark yellow, it was terribly soft to step on, and the texture is as soft as human skin! There was even –

Even – a scar lying across the stairs!

RenDong was horrified,and couldn’t help exclaiming: “Lian Qiao… Lian Qiao! There’s a face on the ground!”

RenDong turned pale with fright and subconsciously grabbed his arm. Before Lian Qiao could stabilize his figure, the watermelon knife in his hand had already swung away. There was only a blunt sound of “poof” as something was hit.

RenDong hurriedly pulled Lian Qiao back. Lian Qiao stood still and took a flashlight to shine around. Then he froze, shocked.

He saw two legs standing upright on the top of the stairs.

Those two legs stood so abruptly at the top of the stairs, empty from the waist up. At this time, Lian Qiao had cut its thigh with a knife and it was gurgling blood. Even the bones are clearly visible at the break.

Lian Qiao narrowed his eyes, as if he wanted to go up and give it another stab, but RenDong suddenly screamed: “Lian Qiao! Look up!”

Lian Qiao raised his head and his expression changed instantly.

Unexpectedly, many pairs of eyes appeared on the ceiling! Those eyes are more than ten centimeters in size and they are turned upside down on the ceiling like a washbasin. All the eyes are pitch-black and the pupils are dilated to the side. They are clearly the eyes of dead people!

What’s even more frightening is that those eyes can still move. Like watching a joke with cold eyes, slowly—blink, blink, blink.

“…” Even as calm as Lian Qiao was, he couldn’t say “don’t worry about it” at this moment. He gritted his teeth, cut off a bunch of hair that caught up with him and turned his head. His voice trembled slightly, “What time is it?”

RenDong looked at the time: “…nine forty-five.”

Lian Qiao looked at the stairs up and down. No exit, no exit anywhere. There was only weird stumps and organs and the rustling hair that keeps climbing up the stairs.

A look of despair finally appeared on his face.

“You can’t get out now…” Lian Qiao muttered to himself in a trance.

RenDong’s heart tightened: “What did you say? What do you mean ‘you’ can’t get out now? You…”

In an instant, countless terrifying thoughts came to his mind. RenDong didn’t have time to think about it but subconsciously grasped Lian Qiao’s hand and placed it on his chest.

He had a very bad feeling!

He felt that he was going to lose Lian Qiao!