Chapter 93: Clues and Payment

At a time like this, there was no room for Xiao Fen to think further. He exerted force suddenly and rushed toward the elevator shaft.

With two “bangs,” a huge blood bubble on the ground and one on the ceiling suddenly exploded.

The huge impact made Xiao Fen almost fall. His ears were buzzing from the sound of the explosion, and even his vision was a bit blurry for an instant.

Xiao Fen pushed hard on the ground with one hand. Taking advantage of his body’s remaining forward momentum, he barely maintained his balance, leaped high, and just before the third blood bubble exploded, his body happened to jump into the small elevator shaft gap.

The bloody light disappeared suddenly behind Xiao Fen, and the sounds of those constantly exploding blood bubbles sounded like they were from another world. As Xiao Fen jumped into this elevator shaft, darkness instantly enveloped him.

Besides that, all sounds from the outside became extremely blurry. At that moment, Xiao Fen could clearly hear the sound of his heart beating rapidly in his chest.

He waved his arms a few times in the air and luckily grabbed a steel cable. The weight brought by his body made him unable to stop in the air immediately.

Almost within a second, his right hand holding the steel cable was mangled due to the constant sliding of his body.

This process lasted for 2 seconds. Just when Xiao Fen thought he couldn’t persist any longer, his body stabilized a bit, which allowed him to grab the same steel cable with his left hand and finally stop his body.

The surrounding air was filled with the smell of dust and decay. What surprised Xiao Fen was that there was actually no bloody smell in the air. The smell on the 3rd floor that had severely stimulated his nose did not appear in this dark, enclosed space.

Xiao Fen wrapped his legs around the steel cable, freed his hands, tore a long strip of cloth from the clothes on his upper body, and, with the help of his teeth, carefully bandaged his right hand.

Before this, he had never learned anything like battlefield bandaging, but now, he was able to wrap his right hand tightly in a decent manner, preventing the cloth strip from loosening.

After doing this, Xiao Fen looked around this elevator shaft. The faint sound of explosions coming from the 3rd floor allowed him to determine his position; it was some distance from the 3rd floor, probably between the 1st and 2nd floor.

Since the elevator door on the 2nd floor hadn’t opened, no light came in from there.

After thinking for a bit, Xiao Fen used his left hand and legs to slowly lower himself down. His right hand obviously couldn’t exert force now; continuing to climb up would only cause him more pain and wouldn’t solve any problems.

A dozen seconds later, the stuffy environment in the elevator shaft made Xiao Fen covered in sweat, but his feet finally stepped onto the top of the elevator.

Although this very thin ceiling made creaking sounds, sounding like the next step would break the ceiling, compared to the roaring explosions on the 3rd floor, things were much better now.

Xiao Fen exhaled a long breath and stomped hard. The steel cable and the elevator were constantly shaking.

Above Xiao Fen’s head, a large amount of dust and debris kept falling, forming a choking smoke. At the same time, banging sounds of things hitting the ground came from inside the elevator under Xiao Fen’s feet, seemingly from things on the elevator ceiling falling down.

Xiao Fen quieted down for a while. After determining that there were no other abnormalities with this elevator, he exerted force again and stomped once more.

He didn’t have an external light source and wasn’t clear about the elevator’s structure, so he didn’t know how to get in and out of the elevator freely like in the movies by just twisting a few screws. Therefore, he could only use this simple, crude, and clumsy method.

However, for an elevator decades old, Xiao Fen’s clumsy method was obviously effective.

It only took two stomps for a long crack to appear in the elevator ceiling, and light from the 1st floor shone up through the crack.

Subsequently, Xiao Fen stomped hard twice more, and the crack grew larger and larger. Finally, a crack big enough for a person to jump through appeared before Xiao Fen’s eyes.

He didn’t think much, used his left hand to tear open a larger gap, then jumped down. There were dense mold flagella everywhere at his feet, even longer than those on the Mutated Creatures.

He frowned and waved his hand. Just as he was about to leave the elevator, suddenly the whole elevator shook, and then there was a loud “bang” on the elevator roof. A long steel cable fell out from the crack Xiao Fen had kicked open.

If Xiao Fen hadn’t dodged quickly, this steel cable would probably have hit him.

At the same time, the entire elevator suddenly tilted. It turned out that Xiao Fen’s movements were too violent. While the elevator was constantly shaking, one of the steel cables maintaining the balance had snapped.

These steel cables were already decades old, and the environment in this building wasn’t very good, so the steel cables had become very fragile.

Xiao Fen was stunned for a moment. Just as he regained his balance and saw that he could leave the elevator, there were two more “bangs.” The crack overhead expanded further, and two more steel cables fell down heavily. The entire elevator was tilting badly.

The weight of these piled-up steel cables had obviously exceeded the maximum weight the elevator could bear. With a final loud bang, the entire elevator suddenly dropped, falling toward the direction of the basement.

Xiao Fen took a step back, stood in the corner of the elevator, and waited a few seconds. He only heard a loud boom, and his whole body almost flew up. This showed that the elevator had landed on the bottom floor; the distance was indeed not short.

Fortunately, Xiao Fen’s balance was excellent. In that instant, he hooked a steel cable, his body swung slightly to dissipate some of the downward force, then suddenly let go, did a forward roll, rushed to the elevator door, found a crack in the big door, pried it open with force, and then did another roll, rushing out of the elevator.

The next second, a clatter of noises came from the elevator; it was the sound of those fallen steel cables finally smashing the entire elevator flat.

Xiao Fen exhaled a long breath and looked up at this basement.

To his surprise, this basement was actually not dark. Although there were no electric lights, faint cold light sources were embedded in the walls everywhere, giving the entire underground space a dreamlike feeling.

Xiao Fen looked up; this basement was at least a dozen meters high, and the entire space was incredibly wide. At one end of the basement, there was a spiral staircase going upward, and on the other side was a large iron door tightly shut.

Besides the staircase and the iron door, what really occupied the main body of this basement was a huge boiler. Around this boiler, various human bones were densely scattered.

“Welcome to your arrival, Human from the surface. I thought I would need to wait longer before being discovered by you here.”

A voice suddenly sounded above Xiao Fen’s head.