A single divination predicts life and death; the entire internet begs me to start a live stream.

Chen Bufan felt a sudden burning sensation in his chest.

The Book of Destiny was turned over again.

Splash!

Seven gray-white life marks.

They appeared on the pages almost simultaneously.

There is no complete picture.

Only a fleeting glimpse of the fragment.

A shoe that rolled off the escalator.

Behind the glass.

The child's terrified face.

A steel cable stretched to its limit.

The floor numbers kept changing.

The car headlights circled back to their original position in the dark underground parking garage.

Under the rolled-up curtain.

A hand that couldn't be pulled back in time.

At last.

It was a human figure.

The body has collapsed.

But the shadow was still standing.

Seven places.

Seven life-severing marks.

It turns red at the same time.

Chen Bufan suddenly looked up.

"Lin Wanqing".

"East District Escalator"

"Children's area".

Above the central courtyard.

"Sightseeing elevator".

"Basement".

"Internal fire zone"

He spoke at the end.

I glanced at the solitary figure standing on the page.

People will die.

Lin Wanqing didn't ask any further questions. She simply picked up the walkie-talkie and gave instructions to the police officers she had brought.

"Everyone should be grouped by region!"

"quick!"

Eastside.

There were still dozens of people standing on the escalator.

The tourists at the top were just about to move forward.

Gah!

A piercing metallic scraping sound suddenly rang out.

next second.

The escalator, which was going up, suddenly stopped.

A plot twist!

"what!"

The person at the very top was the first to lose their footing.

It crashed directly into the back.

The people on the escalator fell down like dominoes.

The elevator was still accelerating.

Just then, a gentle female voice came on from the overhead loudspeaker right on time.

The East District access road is safe.

Please use the escalator to proceed to the upper safe area.

The people behind heard this.

Instead, they started moving in this direction.

"It's safe up there!"

"Hurry up!"

"Don't go over there!"

Lin Wanqing rushed over.

He snatched the megaphone from the staff member.

"Everyone, get off the escalator!"

"Don't believe the radio!"

"Those in the back, step back!"

The staff were sweating profusely with anxiety.

"power supply!"

"Cut off the power!"

Snapped!

The escalator lights are off.

But the steps are still moving.

The speed did not decrease at all.

The staff members turned pale.

"The power is out!"

"Why is it still spinning?!"

Luo Tiancheng pushed through the crowd to take a quick look.

"It's not a motor."

"The location of this thing has been compromised!"

He flipped his wrist.

Two copper coins popped out.

clang!

One is pressed at the top.

clang!

The second pin is placed at the bottom.

"The Luo family of the Southern School."

"East is inseparable from Zhen."

"The west does not offend the west."

"Stop it right now!"

boom!

The escalator shuddered violently and finally jammed.

The people at the very bottom have already fallen into a heap.

They were pressed together, less than half a meter apart.

Luo Tiancheng finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The loudspeaker blared again.

The East District access road is safe.

Please continue forward.

Luo Tiancheng looked up.

"Safety my ass!"

Children's area.

Green arrows have covered the entire electronic navigation screen.

[Emergency Exit →]

Several parents are holding their children.

I subconsciously followed the green arrow and walked forward.

Qin Ruoxue only glanced at it.

His steps abruptly stopped.

"wrong."

There was no exit ahead.

There are only two layers of glass railings.

And that navigation screen.

Displaying it in a very serious manner:

[Emergency Exit →]

A woman carrying a child had already reached the railing.

Right at her feet.

Click.

The first crack appeared on the glass.

The navigation screen even lit up again.

[Safe ahead]

Click.

The second one.

The third way.

In the blink of an eye.

Cracks have spread wildly from the bottom of the guardrail.

It looks like there's something there.

They're grabbing at the glass from inside.

Qin Ruoxue shouted.

"return!"

The woman instinctively turned around.

boom!

The glass shook violently.

Only then did she see the entire railing behind her.

His face turned pale on the spot.

"Everyone back off!"

Qin Ruoxue snatched the walkie-talkie.

"Clear the lower-level children's area!"

"Push all the cushions over there!"

"Unfold the protective fabric!"

The person in charge was taken aback.

"President Qin, this needs to be done first—"

Qin Ruoxue turned her head.

"immediately."

Two words.

Definitely.

"quick!"

Everyone immediately sprang into action.

Soft cushion.

Awning.

Protective cloth.

It has just been rolled out.

boom--!

The entire glass railing shattered.

Countless panes of glass cascaded down from the second floor.

Like a transparent downpour.

It smashed all over the lower level with a crackling sound.

The child screamed.

The parents, holding the child, retreated as if in a frenzy.

The last staff member had just rolled out of the area.

A piece of glass about the length of a palm.

puff!

He plunged straight into the spot where he had just been standing.

Halfway into the ground.

Everyone's face turned pale.

It can be on the top of the head.

The navigation screen was still lit up.

[Emergency Exit →]

Green arrow.

It still steadily points to the now-vanished guardrail.

Take another step forward.

It's the outer edge of the second floor.

Wang Tianhao arrived.

"What else do you mean?"

He grabbed the fire extinguisher.

boom!

It smashed onto the screen.

The screen exploded with large cracks.

The green arrow flashed twice.

Just before it went completely out.

The two ends of the arrow slowly curve upwards, forming a smiling face.

:)

The fire extinguisher in Wang Tianhao's hand fell to the ground with a clatter.

"Oh shit……"

"It can even laugh?"

The voice just fell.

Snapped!

Above the central courtyard.

The first cable snapped.

Everyone looked up at the same time.

Snapped!

The second one.

The third one!

A giant opening light stand is suspended high in the atrium of the sixth floor.

It begins to tilt slowly.

Dozens of LED screens.

Glass lightbox.

Steel decorative rack.

It made a teeth-grinding friction sound in mid-air.

squeak--

There are people everywhere below.

But the mall's public address system rang out at that very moment.

It's still that gentle, comforting female voice.

[The lucky draw in the central courtyard is about to begin.]

Please proceed to the atrium area in an orderly manner.

[Exciting events you won't want to miss!]

Several people on the periphery couldn't see what was happening above them at all.

It actually stopped.

"lottery?"

"Has it recovered?"

Some people even started walking back.

Luo Tiancheng's face changed.

"Don't come back!"

He zoomed in on the engineering drawings like crazy.

"Pillar number three!"

"Pillar number four!"

"Southwest corner!"

"That area is a structural blind spot!"

"That way!"

Rescuers immediately rushed into the crowd.

"Everyone, evacuate to the southwest!"

"Don't look up!"

"quick!"

overhead.

The fourth steel cable.

Breakage.

The giant light fixture suddenly dropped half a meter.

"run!"

The last woman was dragged out of the central area by firefighters.

boom--!!!

The remaining steel cables broke at the same time.

Tens of tons of light frames, steel beams, and glass light boxes.

It crashed down from a height of six stories.

The entire atrium looked like it had been bombed.

The ground suddenly shook.

Large shards of glass were swept away.

The light bulb exploded.

The steel beam smashed through the stage.

Smoke and dust instantly shot up more than ten meters high.

Screams.

The sound of crying.

Alarm.

Everything was mixed together.

Someone was lying face down on the ground, covering their head.

Some people had blood all over their faces.

Some people are still desperately calling out for their children.

None of the twelve large commercial screens overhead went black.

On the screen.

The courtyard was brightly lit.

The stage is intact.

Fresh flowers.

LED strip lights.

Colored paper.

Not one was missing.

The Sakuragawa Dance Troupe is standing in the center of the stage.

He bowed with a smile.

The anchor is holding up his phone.

"Babies, it was so lively here today!"

The audience applauded.

The child is laughing.

Staff members smiled and maintained order.

In contrast to the real-life courtyard filled with smoke and dust and covered with steel frames.

They are completely two different worlds.

"When was this video taken?"

Someone murmured something.

A firefighter looked up.

His face turned pale instantly.

On the big screen.

He is there.

Same location, same firefighter uniform.

Even the serial numbers on their chests are the same.

In reality, he had just cut his forehead on glass, and his face was covered in blood.

Half of his face was covered in blood.

"He" on the screen.

Yet he stood beside the perfectly intact stage.

Smiling.

They are giving directions to tourists.

The firefighters froze.

Slowly lower your head.

My real self.

They were still standing amidst the ruins.

Look up again.

"Myself" on the screen.

Suddenly, he also raised his head.

Through a large screen.

He looked into her eyes.

then.

The "firefighter" smiled and raised his hand.

Pointing to the center of the recently collapsed atrium.

A line of text pops up at the bottom of the screen.

[The central courtyard area is secure.]

Please enter in an orderly manner.

Someone's voice trembled.

"it……"

"It's trying to trick us into going in."

Chen Bufan stood in the smoke and dust.

Looking up at the twelve large screens that were still beaming with joy.

"more than."

The life-saving money in my hand vibrated violently again.

Lin Wanqing looked at him.

Chen Bufan scanned the constantly changing navigation, broadcasts, and crowds.

"It controls the direction."

Luo Tiancheng frowned.

"Where to?"

Chen Bufan did not answer.

Three sightseeing elevators.

The incidents occurred almost simultaneously.

Inside the sedan chair.

It was full of people.

The numbers started to decline.

6.

5.

4.

3.

2.

1.

Ding.

The door opened.

Some people burst into tears on the spot.

"arrive!"

Available in the next second.

Everyone stopped talking.

Outside.

It's still on the sixth floor, the same milk tea shop, the same opening poster, even the trash can lying on the ground at the entrance is exactly the same.

"Why are we still on the sixth floor?"

Nobody dared to go out.

The elevator doors slowly closed.

The numbers started jumping again.

6.

5.

......

1.

Ding.

The door opened again.

Still on the sixth floor.

This time.

The milk tea shop has turned off its lights.

The entire corridor was deserted, and the trash can that had been overturned on the right had moved to the left.

Some people's voices have changed.

"Just now……"

"Isn't it over there?"

The door closed again.

the third time.

The numbers continue to decline.

But then the people in the elevator noticed something.

There was no feeling of the elevator falling, nor any vibration.

There wasn't even a sound of the steel cable running.

It didn't move at all.

The numbers are still rolling:

4.

3.

2.

1.

Ding.

The door opened.

Still on the sixth floor.

This time.

Behind the counter of a milk tea shop in the distance.

There was a shop assistant standing there.

Turn your back to them.

"Someone's there!"

A man was about to go out.

The little girl next to her suddenly clung tightly to her mother.

She shook her head, crying.

"no……"

"That auntie's head."

"It's not that way."

Everyone froze instantly.

The woman behind the counter didn't move her body, but her head slowly turned towards her.

Ninety degrees.

180 degrees.

Directly facing the elevator.

Ding.

The door suddenly slammed shut.

"ah--!"

The sedan chair was in complete chaos.

Someone is banging on the door.

Someone frantically pressed the emergency stop button.

Someone was crouching in a corner crying.

Monitoring center.

All three elevators are still showing a green status.

[Operating normally]

Current floor: 1F

Passenger capacity: 0

Lin Wanqing stared at the screen.

"Don't touch the backstage."

The engineer turned pale.

"But the system shows they are already—"

"The system is lying to you."

Lin Wanqing turned around immediately.

"Go to the maintenance well."

"Manually positioned elevator car".

A few minutes later.

The first one has been found.

It is actually suspended between the fourth and fifth floors.

Part Two.

It's stuck below the third floor.

The third one is the most bizarre.

According to the system records.

It has already run up and down seven times.

Mechanical positioning display.

From the moment the incident occurred.

It didn't move an inch.

The safety rope is lowered.

The roof of the car was forcibly pried open.

One.

two.

Five.

At last.

The little girl was carried out of the elevator by rescue workers.

She leaned on the firefighter's shoulder.

Still looking back.

"uncle……"

There are still people down there.

The firefighter paused.

"There's no one here."

"have."

The girl was crying and trembling all over.

He pointed down into the dark sedan chair.

"The lady who sold milk tea earlier."

"She's coming in."

Everyone bowed their heads.

Inside the sedan chair.

Empty and desolate.

next second.

Deeper into the elevator shaft.

A crisp notification sound rang out.

Ding--

Followed by.

That gentle female voice.

It rang out from the deepest part of the darkness.

We've reached the first floor.

Pause for two seconds.

[Attention passengers.]

Descend the stairs in an orderly manner.

Everyone's face turned pale.

That elevator was still suspended on the fourth floor at that moment.

And at the very bottom of the elevator shaft.

Something knocked three times on the floor of the car.

thump.

thump.

thump.