manynovel Chapter 14 Death Penalty Section 3
Chapter 14 Death Penalty Section 3
At this moment, Liu Runyu couldn't help but panic. Looking at the increasing number of prisoners who were about to "escape," he quickly pressed the close button, his heart pounding like a drum in his chest.
The first prisoner, writhing against his own physiology, stepped into the elevator.
Yellow Hair's legs buckled, and he fell backward to the ground. Then, gritting his teeth, he hardened his heart and kicked the prisoner fiercely.
After several kicks, the elevator doors finally began to close. The seemingly old elevator doors were surprisingly powerful, forcefully snapping half of the prisoner's body in half.
After the elevator doors closed completely, Liu Runyu and his companion breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let's go downstairs, Brother Liu."
Looking at the half-corpse lying in the elevator, Huang Mao only wanted to get out of this hellish place as soon as possible. He vowed in his heart that if he could leave this place, he would never push anyone again in his life.
"You think you can just go down and leave? Don't forget, you tried to open the door when we first arrived."
"Then tell me what we should do!" The blond-haired man, already in despair, became hysterical, and his voice rose considerably.
Liu Runyu frowned and stomped his feet anxiously.
Just as he was hesitating about which floor to go to, he heard a "ding" sound.
"Damn it..." Liu Runyu cursed inwardly. Without further hesitation, he quickly pressed the seventh button while frantically pressing the close button.
Those were the monsters trying to open the elevator door. If they had actually managed to open it, he would have been done for.
Fortunately, the elevator started going up to the seventh floor. However, since the two of them hadn't stepped out of the elevator, they didn't notice that the number on the sixth-floor elevator display screen had changed from 5 to 4.
At this time, changes also began to appear on the sixth floor, with damp mold suddenly starting to proliferate along the walls.
Dark green mycelium enveloped the elevator's display screen at a visible speed, and a large number of spores began to float in the air.
"Looks like... I'll have to find another exit later." As Liu Runyu silently planned how to escape, his thoughts were pulled back to reality when the elevator doors opened again.
It's been so long since they came in that Liu Runyu's mind was reeling from the fragmented clues and the scene he'd just witnessed. "Don't you feel the musty smell getting stronger?"
"I smell it..." The blond-haired man scrambled to his feet, but before he could finish speaking, he felt something wet and sticky on his hands and pants. He stared blankly at the sticky liquid on his hands and fell silent.
Liu Runyu also noticed these anomalies. When he pressed the elevator button on the sixth floor, he felt something was wrong. He found that the elevator button was oily.
At that moment, when Liu Runyu looked at the elevator button panel again, he noticed that a large amount of oily viscous liquid had seeped out from the panel and the gaps around the buttons.
A sense of crisis suddenly washed over me. "Something's wrong, get out here quickly!"
Ignoring the blond-haired guy behind him, he ran out of the elevator first. He wanted to turn back and help the blond-haired guy, but after seeing the scene in front of him, Liu Runyu slowly backed away.
Suddenly, the blond-haired man fell silent, and the skin on his face and body began to peel off rapidly, making him look like a zombie.
His neck was bent backward, the back of his head almost touching his spine, and thick, labored breathing could barely escape from his bent throat.
"Help...me..." The blond-haired man's plea suddenly turned into a hoarse, four-tone scream, "I...I remember...help...me..."
He raised his cracked hand toward Liu Runyu, the cracks filled not with flesh and blood but with charred ash.
At this moment, strange things began to happen in the elevator. A large number of mold spots appeared on the ceiling, followed by a large amount of viscous liquid seeping out and dripping down.
The liquid swelled and turned into maggots the size of fingernails upon contact with his skin. The mold and maggots were spreading outwards at an alarming rate.
Liu Runyu felt a churning in his stomach, and then vomited with a "whoosh".
Because the elevator had not been in use for a long time, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded.
Seeing that Huang Mao was beyond saving, Liu Runyu didn't bother to wipe the filth from his mouth. He suppressed the churning in his stomach and staggered to the elevator, pressing the close button and the down button.
He looked at the person in the elevator with a complicated expression until the person's desperate eyes were gradually obscured by the elevator doors.
The elevator, which had been running smoothly, began to rise rapidly the moment the doors closed. After the eleventh floor, the entire space suddenly flipped 90 degrees, and the original steel walls were replaced with glass.
Yellow Hair crashed heavily onto the top of the sedan chair. He barely managed to hold his broken head as he looked down. In the mirror image, there was a mountain of corpses, and he saw his own corpse among them—there were 12 in total, so... he was the last one.
Before long, the elevator plummeted downwards at breakneck speed, and the sound of gears crushing skulls came from deep within the elevator shaft. The car had become the feed inlet of a meat grinder, and shark-tooth-shaped metal barbs grew out of the surrounding glass.
"Damn it..."
Then, Huang Mao's last scream was shattered by the sound of metal scraping.
The desperate figure in the three glass walls was shattered simultaneously. The blond-haired man's body in the elevator began to turn charred black, and then slowly dissipated until it was completely reduced to a pile of charcoal dust.
Liu Runyu was outside the elevator. He only saw the elevator rise rapidly and then fall quickly. Then he heard Huang Mao's scream. The sound made his hair stand on end and goosebumps rise on his arms.
He didn't know what had happened inside, and he had no time to care at the moment; he just felt a little sorry for him. Just now, the blond-haired guy seemed to have remembered something, but in that situation, there was definitely no way to save him.
"Sigh... Huang Mao finally remembered something, but now this clue has been cut off." Liu Runyu rubbed his face, trying to cheer himself up, and walked towards the seventh floor.
The seven-story building is quite large, with hundreds of glass jars filled with brains placed in the entire single-level space. Each jar is labeled with the name and number of its owner.
These jars were arranged in circles around the wall, with red wires connected to the bottom of the jars like those used in server racks. This greatly impressed Liu Runyu, who was not very knowledgeable about such things.
All the wires converge at a control panel at the very back of the room.
Even if Liu Runyu was stupid, he could figure out what the purpose of this was. Someone had taken out the criminals' brains and made them into "brain computers," and it seemed to be much more useful than ordinary computers.
Thinking of all this, Liu Runyu shuddered and carefully went to the control panel. The screen lit up as Liu Runyu tapped it.
"Password required."
Liu Runyu frowned slightly. He knew very well that with his intelligence level, he definitely wouldn't be able to find the password.
"Cough—cough—"
Moreover, he had been feeling a sharp itch in his throat and a throbbing, throbbing pain in his head since earlier. "I can't stay here any longer."
Liu Runyu covered his mouth and nose with his arm and began to grope around the room. There was no light source here; the only light he could rely on was the green glow emitted by these hundreds of jars.
Surrounded by enclosed walls and completely blocked by jars, he focused his gaze on the ceiling and paced back and forth.
Soon, four vents were discovered on the ceiling, three of which were located above several tanks, and one was located diagonally above the communication station.
The jar is heavy and made of glass, so it's best to forget about climbing on it. If you accidentally knock it over, you might get into big trouble.
Mold began to grow on the walls of the seventh floor, and it looked like it would engulf the area in half an hour at most.
The maggots that had just fallen out of the elevator now burst open like popcorn, with each bursting open giving birth to several smaller ones, multiplying at an extremely fast rate.
Without further hesitation, Liu Runyu quickly climbed onto the communication platform and, using the dim light, began to tighten the screws on the baffle with his fingernails.
Fine beads of sweat trickled down Liu Runyu's forehead and into his eyes; he could only squeeze the sweat away with difficulty using his eyelids.
With his mouth and nose uncovered, he inhaled a large amount of musty smell and spores floating in the air, causing his throat to itch unbearably and making it difficult to breathe.
By the time he had removed all four screws, his clothes were soaked with sweat, and the tips of his ten fingers were already a bloody mess.