Chapter 14 Overload

Seeing that there was no way to escape, Jiang Cheng spoke, "Don't all crowd into the elevator!"

After saying that, he was the first to rush out, followed by Cao Yang, gritting his teeth.

Yu Yu was stunned at first, and it took her a while to react.

By this time, it was already chaotic outside.

Seeing Jiang Cheng and Cao Yang, Wang Changguo finally breathed a sigh of relief, feeling like an orphan who had found his home. He said excitedly, "I finally found you..."

"Bang!"

Just as Wang Changguo was excitedly running towards Jiang Cheng, Jiang Cheng also sped towards him, and then, in Wang Changguo's vision, Jiang Cheng raised his leg and delivered a flying kick.

This kick sent Wang Changguo flying backward. He almost passed out on the spot, unable to catch his breath.

Falling to the ground, Wang Changguo's mind was buzzing, and he was seeing double. Before he could react, Cao Yang had already arrived, swinging his club and beating him mercilessly.

Unlike Jiang Cheng, who left some room for error, Cao Yang was really hitting him hard. If the club wasn't so unwieldy, Wang Changguo wouldn't even have had a chance to speak.

"Don't... don't hit me!" Wang Changguo shouted, covering his head with his hands as he rolled around on the ground. "I'm Wang Changguo! I'm..." Ouch!"

Cao Yang kicked Wang Changguo in the face, sending the words back into his mouth.

"Waa... I'm... a person!" Wang Changguo pleaded incessantly.

At first, Cao Yang had rushed up fueled by nothing but courage, engaging in close combat with the ghost. It was a desperate measure.

Now that he was slowly calming down, Cao Yang also noticed something was wrong.

Wang Changguo was lying on the ground, his face covered in blood, constantly begging for mercy. His clothes were torn, and he looked as miserable as could be.

Cao Yang wasn't sure what kind of personality a ghost would have, but he thought they probably couldn't act this convincingly.

What would be the point?

Slightly embarrassed, Cao Yang put away the iron club, realizing that he had probably beaten the wrong person.

But if he beat the wrong person, he beat the wrong person.

It's not like he could let him hit back, right?

Besides, who told him to wander around down here alone?

"What's going on?" Jiang Cheng asked, looking at Wang Changguo on the ground. "Why did you come down here by yourself? Did something happen upstairs?"

It was obvious that something must have happened upstairs, or Wang Changguo wouldn't have dared to come down in the elevator alone, especially from the 4th floor.

Before leaving, Jiang Cheng remembered that they were all on the 2nd floor.

"Ghost, the ghost came," Wang Changguo said, his face covered in blood, his words slurred.

"Explain clearly!" Yu Yu asked anxiously.

Wang Changguo reached out and touched his lips, which now felt as swollen as sausages, burning with pain.

Moreover, several of his front teeth were loose.

After listening to Wang Changguo's story, Jiang Cheng temporarily breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Lin Wan'er was safe for the time being.

But they couldn't delay any longer. After killing Wei Wei, the ghost would either come after them or go after Lin Wan'er and Huai Yi.

Now it seemed more likely that the ghost had gone after Lin Wan'er and Huai Yi.

"Squeak—"

Another scraping sound came from the direction of the morgue. Compared to before, those things seemed to be more active.

"What... what is that?" Wang Changguo asked in terror.

Before, he thought it was Jiang Cheng and the others making the noise, but now he realized he was clearly mistaken.

And what could be in the morgue...

He immediately remembered what the old man had said about the corpse that could walk around on its own...

He had been there at the time.

"Let's go," Jiang Cheng said, not wanting to stay here any longer. He was still worried about Lin Wan'er. Although she was smart, she didn't have any experience.

Looking at the pitiful Wang Changguo, Cao Yang helped him up.

Jiang Cheng turned around and left.

The four of them entered the elevator. Yu Yu nervously pressed the floor buttons in the elevator. This time, the elevator wasn't completely unresponsive. It trembled for a while, then stopped again.

It felt as if there was nothing wrong with the elevator itself, but... for some reason, it couldn't start.

"What... what's going on?" Wang Changguo asked, hunching over. His chest felt tight. Cao Yang's beating was one thing, but Jiang Cheng's kick had really caught him off guard.

Yu Yu was trembling, her eyes fixed on the elevator screen.

A line of red words was scrolling across it.

Overload...

Overload...

Perhaps this elevator had been specially designed so that even if it was overloaded, the buzzer wouldn't be triggered. Otherwise... the current scene would be even more exciting.

Following Yu Yu's gaze, Wang Changguo also saw the line of words, his face even more miserable than if his family had died.

He didn't know the elevator's design load capacity, but it couldn't be that low.

Including him, there were only four people in the elevator.

And none of those four people were particularly large.

Yu Yu was on the thin side, while Cao Yang was quite strong.

At the same time, Jiang Cheng realized that everything had suddenly become quiet. The sounds from the morgue... were all gone.

A cold aura spread through the elevator. Cao Yang kept swallowing, and Yu Yu swayed, her expression showing that she understood. Other things had mixed into the elevator.

And the number... was probably not small.

It wasn't a solution to just wait it out. Jiang Cheng was the backbone of the group. Yu Yu wanted to turn around and ask for Jiang Cheng's opinion.

But before she could turn around, a hand pressed down on her head.

For a moment, Yu Yu, who was on edge, almost screamed. But then, the hand gently patted her head.

The hand was warm. Yu Yu knew it was Jiang Cheng's hand.

Because he was the only one behind her. It seemed his goal was to prevent her from turning around.

As for why...

Out of the corner of her eye, Yu Yu secretly glanced at the elevator wall beside her.

The elevator wall was made of stainless steel, nothing special. It seemed to have been there for a long time, with many scratches on it.

But it could still barely leave a reflection.

Yu Yu saw that in the back of the elevator, beside Jiang Cheng and behind him, were people standing everywhere.

She couldn't see their faces clearly. Their faces seemed to be covered with a layer of mist, but Yu Yu recognized the clothes they were wearing!

The same as... as the two corpses they had seen before!

Biting her lip, Yu Yu didn't dare to make a sound. It seemed Jiang Cheng was worried about scaring her, so he stopped her from turning around.

Cao Yang's face wasn't much better than Yu Yu's. She could feel his body stiffening. He kept glancing at the elevator wall beside him, his neck unmoving.

Clearly, he had seen it too.

"Overload," Jiang Cheng's voice sounded, with an icy calm.

Wang Changguo was about to cry. He wasn't blind. Everyone knew it was overloaded, but the problem was, how to solve it?

These guys who had been dead for who knew how many years... didn't seem like they were easy to talk to.

If they asked them to get off the elevator, they might just tear them apart.

Jiang Cheng's senses were more acute than everyone else's, probably because he possessed the Gate. He could clearly feel that... these guys were becoming more and more impatient.

The icy coldness began to spread wantonly. The elevator was as cold as a large morgue.

Jiang Cheng slowly raised his leg and kicked the hunched-over Wang Changguo out.

Wang Changguo wasn't prepared at all and fell face-first to the ground. "Ouch!"

"Overload, the last one who came in gets out!" Jiang Cheng scolded. "You're so old, don't you know any manners? Making everyone wait so long!"

Almost immediately after he finished speaking, the elevator doors closed.

The elevator steadily went up.

After noticing that the coldness beside him had dissipated a lot, Jiang Cheng's heart, which had been in his throat, gradually went back to its place.

Fortunately, they had met people who were reasonable.