Chapter 818: The Elevator Scare (3)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Gu Xingze had a slight headache.
How did this happen to them?
Being over a decade in the entertainnt industry, he often flew across the world and encountered his fair share of elevator malfunctions, but this was truly the first ti it had happened to himself.
Experiencing it for himself now, he felt uneasy and panicky from being trapped inside an elevator.
He reached out to press the alarm bell for ergency, but even after pressing it for so long, there was no response at all.
“What’s wrong?” He was puzzled. “Is it out of order?”
She stood up and tried pressing the floor buttons, too, but the lights did not light up at all.
She then pressed the alarm bell; it rang for a bit, but no one responded.
“What’s going on? Why is there no response after pressing it?”
“Do you think it’s out of order?”
“It doesn’t seem like it! That’s weird. There should be people manning the elevator maintenance for twenty-four hours.” She brooded. “Why is this hotel like this? The safety asures are simply terrible.”
“This is a small hotel. Many are like this, too,” explained the man.
She asked, “Have you ever t this kind of mishap?”
“Yes, I have, and I’ve even seen it on the news.”
“Oh, I’ve seen it on the news, too. There’s an elevator malfunction in a university then, and a student passed away from being stuck in the cabin for long.”
He answered, “I’ve seen that one, too.”
“I didn’t think that it would ever happen to . It’s too precarious earlier.”
She caught sight of her fallen phone and hurriedly picked it up. The phone died from the impact. She hurriedly turned it on, wanting to call for help using the phone.
Seeing her actions, he said, “It’s futile. Phone signals are blocked in elevators, and there’s no mobile network coverage inside. Besides, we’re in the basent now.”
Sure enough, after she turned on the phone, there was no signal on its display, and she was unable to make a call.
“What to do? The phone really has no signal at all.”
With no Internet and signal, it was impossible to communicate their plight to the outside world.
She started panicking, feeling very helpless.
No one responded to the alarm bell, and the phone had no signal; it was as if they were lost in the wild, isolated from help and caught in a predicant like this.
He frowned as he patiently pressed the alarm bell repeatedly. It was unknown if the elevator lacked maintenance over the years or other reasons, but no one responded at all.
Were the people in the security room dozing off, or did they secretly leave their post to go play?
Half an hour later, no one still responded. Frustrated, he punched the tallic doors of the elevator and finally gave up.
She sighed.
“Are we now on basent three?”
“Mhm.”
She pressed on. “Then, will the elevator resu its braking?”
“It won’t.”
Turning around, he explained, “The elevator has an ergency device. In case of a malfunction, it will stop the lift’s braking.”
“So, now, we can only wait for the maintenance personnel to co, right?”
He pondered on this for a mont before he slowly answered, “Yes, that’s the only way.”
Suddenly, as if having lost her strength, she despaired, “When will they find out that there are people trapped in the elevator?”
He peered at her, suddenly walked up to her, and picked up a fallen blanket to cover her. “Don’t be scared. Soone will find out tomorrow morning at the latest, and that is just the worst-case scenario.”
The consolation on his face gave her a great deal of faith.
She cald down as a corollary. “Mhm.”
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