Chapter 272 Monkey’s Paw
“Click.”
After a brief fall, with a crisp sound, the elevator stopped moving.
Su Chengyi had already half-crouched down just now, hugging Chu Qingmian, who was in a ball of fright.
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 floor.
I have heard vaguely 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 clarifying 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 in the past.
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 more at ease, and she bravely opened her eyes.
"Will we be suffocating due to lack of oxygen? Will no one come to save us?"
Miss Chu was very worried.
“We won’t starve to death, no, no, I haven’t even eaten enough for lunch.
I also want to eat steamed lamb, steamed bear paws, steamed deer tail, roasted duck, roasted chicken, roasted rice Goose braised in braised duck sauce, chicken, bacon and pineapple.”
“Don’t speak.”
Su Chengyi groped and covered her mouth.
"Woo."
Chu Qingmian groaned pitifully.
Su Chengyi suddenly felt like a human trafficker who abducted 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 hand around his neck, raised her head and asked angrily.
"Then don't save me."
Su Chengyi replied casually.
Chu Qingmian obviously 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 whisper again.
"There are still a lot of things to do. 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 can’t joke anymore.
After a long 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."
"Yes."
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 much inferior in quality and appearance.
When I first came in, I didn’t feel anything. Now, the smell of damp rust and dust is vaguely present.
I don’t know if he hates the smell, but the person on his chest is clinging to him more and more like an octopus.
".Are you hot or not?"
Su Chengyi tried to struggle.
Miss Chu immediately acted coquettishly and rolled around.
"Hug, I'm scared."
"They all said it's okay."
"What if there is 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 have 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.
".Huh?"
"Su Chengyi, tell me a story, I'm scared!"
Chu Qingmian closed her eyes again, trembling. Said eloquently.
"What story?"
"Whatever, you 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.
This structure seems to only appear in compositions.
Seeing that he didn't respond for a long time, Chu Qingmian changed her explanation.
“If that doesn’t work, you can just sing.”
It’s better to tell stories.
Su Chengyi paused for a moment, and suddenly felt blessed, so he said seriously:
"In that case, let me recite a sutra for you."
Before Chu Qingmian had time to refute, he took care of himself. Recite from the beginning:
"This is what I have heard. At one time, the Buddha was in the country of Savatthi, and he only planted trees in the lonely garden.
With the great monks, one thousand two hundred and fifty people, then the 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 almost felt like a 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 after one paragraph, 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. Tao can be Taoist, but it is not Taoism."
"What's the difference?"
"Okay."
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 let out a "hum" and guessed that it was something good. story.
"Chu Xiaomian needs to take the elevator every night when she goes home. However, she is very timid and an out-and-out coward.
So she will ask her roommate every time, Su Yiyi went downstairs to pick her up."
"It's not a roommate, it's her boyfriend, okay?"
Hearing the names of the two protagonists, Chu Qingmian couldn't help but laugh. interjected.
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 and said nothing. "
Chu Qingmian obviously had no sense of horror stories, she thought at this time. What a sweet little love story.
"As soon as the two got on the elevator, Chu Xiaomian's cell phone rang suddenly, 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 his head 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 a ghost story!!!"
Su Chengyi secretly felt funny and continued to say seriously:
"Guess which one is true?"
As a result, Chu Qingmian covered her mouth before she finished speaking.
"Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it! I hate you so much!"
Finally, Su Chengyi calmed down, and when Su Chengyi was about to speak, Chu Qingmian gave a stern warning:
"Su Chengyi, if you use our names to tell ghost stories to scare me again, I will bite you to death."
Su Chengyi coughed and said nonchalantly:
"It's not our name. It's clearly called Su Yiyi."
".No way, I'm not allowed to say it! You tell me another one, I want to hear a healing story."
This is quite difficult. 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 is not scary, any story is fine; Su Chengyi promised that there is no ghost, but whether it can be cured is another matter.
So he told the famous story - the monkey's paw.
Once upon a time, there was an old man. He 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. 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 hope to get two hundred pounds."
My wife and son both found this ceremony funny and laughed immediately.
But the laughter was quickly interrupted by the old man’s panicked shouts.
“Oh my god, the monkey’s paw is alive. It’s twisting 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 like the wind at night, dull and complicated.
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 the 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 for a solatium."
The old man couldn't stop trembling all over his body, and asked in disbelief:
"Yes. How much?”
“Two hundred pounds”
The monkey’s paw fulfilled the old man’s wish in this way.
The son was buried in a cemetery two miles from home.
The old man and his wife were bored all day long and spent a difficult week like this.
At nightfall, the wife’s spirit finally collapsed, and she shouted frantically:
“Where is the monkey’s paw? Please make a wish to bring our son back to life!”
< br>She acted so crazy that the old man had to get the monkey's paw, raised his right hand and made a wish:
"I hope my son can 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 clock is ticking, and the night is eerily silent.
Just when the wife felt disappointed and the old man felt happy, there was a soft sound 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 room.
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 had to lie down 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 latch of the door, the old man finally found the monkey's paw, and tremblingly said his third and last wish.
“I hope my son can 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.
The flickering street lights illuminate the silent and desolate road.
There is nothing outside.
“Although there are no ghosts, but.”
Chu Qingmian shivered.
"Why are you 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, okay!”
Chu Qingmian took a deep breath. She was frightened by the story just now and 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 would say you didn't want anything."
Su Chengyi couldn't think of any reason why Chu Qingmian needed to make a wish with the monkey's paw.
“No.”
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 the last wish. You should 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.
"The third wish, I hope we can go out now!"
As her voice fell, 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 his hands vigorously.
Lin Tong followed beside him and took a hard look. He was relieved when he made 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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