Under the winter night, long queues of people were dragging along the quiet streets. In front of them, the entrance to the underground parking lot was already in sight.
It was also pitch black.
The world at this moment seems to have been pulled down by the invisible gods in an instant.
"Hey!"
Suddenly, a surprised cry came from the front: "There is power! The indicator light in the underground parking lot is still on!"
"The entrance to the facility is on the second underground floor, let's get down quickly!"
Gao Yi stuck his head out among the crowd.
There is still light inside the underground parking lot. Is this an official backup measure in case of a power outage?
Later, Gao Yi turned around and found another sign indicating an emergency escape route.
[?exit?].
Different from usual, the indicator lights below, whether it is "Power" or "Standby", are completely dim.
"The entire Fushun shopping mall has no electricity at all."
For some reason, an indescribable feeling of discord filled Gao Yi's heart.
"Since there is no power, how come the lights at the entrance to the underground parking lot come on?"
Gao Yi quietly left the team and turned into a dark corner.
He felt the need to check it out.
【Mysterious Surprise】,Equipment!
Whoosh!
The windbreaker fell with a splash, and Gao Yi moved close to the corner, like a well-trained agent, slowly approaching the light while observing carefully.
I've been bitten by a street lamp head once.
To be honest, Gao Yi didn't want to be bitten by the same wound again.
The lighting on the steep slope of the entrance to the underground parking lot basically relies on small wall lamps installed on the walls on both sides. But as far as he knows, such small wall lamps do not seem to be within the scope of their camouflage.
The reality is also the same. Gao Yi's investigation was fruitless, and there were no traces left on these wall lamps.
Are you overthinking it?
Back on the second underground floor, everyone has completed their escape and has safely entered the facility.
In front of the facility, an uncle was shouting: "Hey, brother, come in quickly! The security guard is announcing that we are about to close!"
"Oh good!"
Gao Yi woke up from his thoughts and ran quickly towards the entrance of the facility.
The security officers were already inside taking charge of the overall situation. It seemed that they were a little nervous.
The interior of the facility is full of bright lights. According to the instructions in the escape book, people found plastic partitions in the large warehouse and are building simple partitions in the designated personal areas.
Because it is an emergency evacuation facility, it cannot be built like a hotel, with each person having a suite.
Everyone will not shy away from living in this area, and it is a blessing that the facilities are willing to provide plastic partitions.
"Uncle, are you a security officer?"
Gao Yi turned to look at the uncle who was closing the protective door.
The somewhat balding uncle smiled: "Of course I am not a security officer. The security officers are all in the main control room. There are a lot of things to worry about in such a large facility."
"No, what I'm doing now is what they just taught me on the radio."
[Close the door - please enter the key].
With a freehand smile, the uncle pressed a red button.
Wuwuwu——!
[Protective door emergency closing!]
[The facility has triggered automatic protection procedures!]
"what happened!"
The outside scene was divided by protective doors, which were completely closed in an instant.
Gao Yi rushed into the protective door control room, but no matter how he typed on the keyboard, there was only one line of red and eye-catching fonts on the monitor in front of him.
[Self-protection program has started!]
[Please enter the key again after 24 hours to operate!]
[Remaining time——23:58:45]
"Uncle, what have you done!" Gao Yi was shocked and angry, and turned around to ask.
"What...what's going on, I can't come here!"
The uncle was also confused: "I did it according to the safety officer's instructions!"
"Instructions from the security officer?!"
Gao Yi slapped the table: "Is this an operation that a security officer with normal intelligence can do? Where is the main control room? I want to sacrifice..."
boom.
boom.
boom.
All the lights went out in response.
The facility was suddenly enveloped in darkness.
"ah--"
The crowd in the open space was in an uproar and panic.
"Who turned off the lights? Are you sick?!"
"Where is the switch? Do any of you see the switch?"
"These lights have no switches at all! The programs that control the lights are all in the main control room."
"This, this, this..."
Gao Yi glanced at the frightened uncle, who thought he had made a big mistake. He sighed and patted his shoulder.
"Uncle, this is not your problem."
"Really...really?"
The uncle almost cried.
"There is a problem in the control room." Gao Yi looked solemn and shook his windbreaker.
Among the people taking refuge, several young and strong men also came out at this time. They looked evil and had the same purpose as Gao Yi, and they all planned to find the main control room.
Several people came to an intersection that sloped downward. On the signboard in the darkness, the words "Idle people stop" could be faintly seen.
"Hmph, idlers stop..."
A man looked ugly and strode down: "First, you disturbed the people in the middle of the night and did some exercises, and now you come in and suddenly turn off the lights. You really think we have no temper."
At this moment, the graffiti on Gao Yi's blue windbreaker suddenly emitted a faint fluorescent light. He was a little surprised and hurriedly looked around himself.
What is this situation? It seems that I have never encountered it before?
Gao Yi discovered that the little monsters with graffiti on their clothes, who were originally laughing and joking, seemed to have changed in unison.
They seemed to be...crying in fear?!
Don't go down...
Don't go down!
Gao Yi's heart trembled suddenly, goosebumps gathered urgently, and Youran felt the indescribable pulse of this windbreaker.
This is an intuition.
A sense of crisis unique to investigators who specialize in tracking down mysteries!
"What happened down there..."
Everything tonight seemed to have been planned. They just walked into the cage set up calmly and allowed themselves to be slaughtered.
"Brother? Brother, are you okay?"
The uncle followed over, feeling a little embarrassed: "I thought about it and decided to go down together. After all, it was more or less the power outage caused by my incorrect operation."
"no!"
The uncle looked strange and looked at Gao Yi, who was obviously in a bad state: "Brother?"
"Don't go down, you all don't go down."
"I'll go down..."
Gao Yi murmured, and suddenly made a determined decision: "I'm going down!"
The protective door has been closed. In these dark 24 hours, no matter how he escapes, he will eventually face reality.
"Uncle, remember this... you must remember it. No matter what noise is made below, you must never come down!"
Without looking back, Gao Yi quickly rushed down.
Taking into account the placement of various pipelines and the isolation and protection of equipment, the main control room is located deeper than the living area.
A beam of bright flashlight pierced the darkness. Gao Yi easily reached the door of the main control room, but when he saw the scene in front of him, he was stunned.
I saw that the main control room door seemed to have been torn apart by something, and it fell to the side in pieces.
In the main control room, the equipment was lying in a mess, and the ground was covered with countless documents that looked like flying snow. Several men who arrived quickly were standing in the mess, with expressions of surprise and uncertainty on their faces.
"Why is there no one here?"
"Ahem, they didn't turn on the exhaust, why is there so much dust?"
"The equipment is completely out of order! There is no power here..."
One person was suddenly horrified: "But the radio...how did the radio come out?"