Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115 - Lost Contact
Chapter 116 - Code
Chapter 117 - Reinforcements
Chapter 118 - Breaking Through
Chapter 119 - Way To Survive
Chapter 120 - Nightmare
Chapter 121 - Comfort
Chapter 122 - Twists And Turns
Chapter 123 - Cause Of Death
Chapter 124 - Meeting
Chapter 125 - Clue
Chapter 126 - Indulgence
Chapter 127 - Initiative
Chapter 128 - Broken Space
Chapter 129 - Crack
Chapter 130 - Nest
Chapter 131 - Peer
Chapter 132 - Nice To Meet You
Chapter 133 - Trap
Chapter 134 - Contribution
Chapter 135 - Travelling
Chapter 136 - Burrow
Chapter 137 - Middle East
Chapter 138 - First Love
Chapter 139 - Divine Light
Chapter 140 - Conflict
Chapter 141 - Trend
Chapter 142 - Siege
Chapter 143 - Biochemistry
Chapter 144 - Escape
Chapter 145 - Time Out
Chapter 146 - So Hungry
Chapter 147 - Return
Chapter 148 - Deviation
Chapter 149 - Garrison Field
Chapter 150 - Post-Bellum
Chapter 151 - Disparity
Chapter 152 - Important
Chapter 153 - Mission
Chapter 154 - Escape Route
Chapter 155 - Blackmail
Chapter 156 - Slinking Off
Chapter 157 - Lighthouse
Chapter 158 - Recuperation
Chapter 159 - Godfather
Chapter 160 - Future
Chapter 161 - Airport
Chapter 162 - Worry
Chapter 163 - Livelihood
Chapter 164 - Wronged
Chapter 165 - Being Named
Chapter 166 - Preparations
Chapter 167 - Cannon Fodder
Chapter 168 - 168: Start Filming
Chapter 169 - Public Persona
Chapter 170 - Serious
Chapter 171 - Disastrous Package
Chapter 172 - On A Beautiful Sunny Day.
Chapter 173
Chapter 174
Chapter 175 (End)
Categories Genre: Action, Adventure, All, Completed, Shounen, Supernatural Status: Completed ______
Total Chapters in book: 175
Estimated words: 441070 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2205(@200wpm)___ 1764(@250wpm)___ 1470(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 441070 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2205(@200wpm)___ 1764(@250wpm)___ 1470(@300wpm)
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Hey guys, so this is my first attempt at mtling Chinese. Therefore, don’t expect this to be 100% accurate.
This is a danmei novel (basically BL), but the world it is set it is extremely interesting. I hope you give it a shot.
I don’t have a set schedule, chapters will be done when I have time and finished the chapters for my main novels. But I am aiming for at least one chapter a week (probably more).
This isn’t edited. You are welcome to point out any errors in the comments, but I probably won’t have time to change them unless it is a huge error.
Elevator
Jian Hua’s eyes fell on the huge poster at the entrance of the cinema’s ticket office.
It was a desolate image with a large group of crows in the poster background, while a handsome man dressed in armour was looking up at the sky. His murderous eyes formed a perfect fusion with the fierce font.
He wanted to look at it longer, but the cinema’s staff were replacing it with a new poster for a movie that would be released tomorrow. As the stand holding it shook and suddenly fell, the man with the resolute posture in the poster also looked like he was suddenly collapsing.
Jian Hua slowly turned his head. Behind him, a young girl softly begged the staff to have the poster.
Jian Hua subconsciously reached into his pocket, but remembered that he had quit smoking two weeks ago. Now there were no cigarettes in his pocket, only a small can of chewing gum. He used to thumb to open the lid and under the warm lights, his fingers appeared exceptionally slender and elegant.
Jian Hua was a stuntman. A stuntman did particularly difficult or risky work, but their name wasn’t known to the audience. Jian Hua had no ambition compared to his abilities, but trouble still found his door as rumours spread about him. This caused him to lose his job and he couldn’t mix in the circle of stuntmen anymore.
He spent six months at home, until Jian Hua unexpectedly received a phone call this morning. It was from the agent of the emperor of movies, actor Li Fei. The actor wanted to sign with him. Jian Hua would be his exclusive stuntman and would receive favourable treatment.
Jian Hua made no oral promises, but his heart was shaken. He had seen Li Fei before and he worked in the movie of the poster that he came to see today . His conscience said that Li Fei was a good person, but-
Jian Hua was stuck in his thoughts and didn’t notice that the elevator was late to arrive.
He was a young and handsome man wearing casual brand name clothing. His long legs were wrapped in a pair of jeans and he carelessly chewed gum, while the warm yellow light turned his lips an ambiguous orange.
He was handsome like a movie star, so the two female students waiting for the elevator whispered to each other with bright eyes.
The cinema’s elevator could accommodate 10 people. Jian Hua had watched all the credits before leaving, so the people watching the movie with him were gone. The screen above the ticket bar showed that the current time was 22:44, and the waiting area was empty.
Ding.
The elevator slowly opened.
Jian Hua followed a couple still excitedly discussing the story into the elevator, with the two female students behind him. The elevator was filled with the strong aroma of a hot pot store from the floor below the cinema. Jian Hua’s brows wrinkled as his stomach protested the strong scent.
He became easily hungry after quitting smoking, so the fresh spicy flavour stimulated his taste buds. Jian Hua glanced at the hot pot restaurant ad that was posted in the elevator while mindlessly chewing his gum, when the entire elevator suddenly swayed.
The unprepared female students were scared and cried out. Jian Hua subconsciously attached himself to the elevator wall, while his arm reached out to maintain balance. However, he couldn’t judge the situation any further as the elevator’s swaying quickly disappeared, with only the screams lingering, as if nothing happened.
The five people in the elevator looked at each other, and then the flashing digital keypad.
“-The first floor.” A mechanical electronic voice was heard from the speaker, followed by the elevator doors smoothly opening.
The young couple were relieved, with the man muttering, “This broken elevator, there should be maintenance on it. Fortunately, there wasn’t an accident.”
The two female students still looked scared, because the shaking just then had been too violent. They had fallen against the elevator wall. Fortunately, there weren’t too many people in the elevator or else falling on unfamiliar people would’ve been embarrassing!
Jian Hua wasn’t scared, but who would be happy to encounter such a thing? Jian Hua’s eyebrows narrowed together as he stepped out of the elevator. He looked around the mall’s first floor, ready to find a help desk to talk about the elevator problem. Due to the risk in his own job, Jian Hua was more sensitive about such matters and wanted to emphasize to the shopping mall to pay attention.
Jian Hua didn’t move far from the elevator before he sensed something strange. 10:30 was the mall’s closing time, so some counters were covered with a thick layer of cloth and some areas had their lights turned off. The usually bustling place during the day was now deserted, but today seemed a bit strange. The place was completely empty.
There were no security guards patrolling, no cleaning staff and no salespeople doing their final business at the counter. There were open bottles of perfume on the counter, cleaning tools scattered on the ground. The shopping mall’s air conditioning was turned off, but a cold wind blew in from somewhere, making the lobby cold.
The couple pulled out their mobile phones and tried a taxi service app.
The two female students headed straight to a KFC in the mall. The fast food restaurant had a sliding door connected to the mall and when they entered, they cried out loudly for a waiter. There was no one in the fast food restaurant and through the glass, he could see the two girls wandering around blankly.
Jian Hua’s sense of foreboding became heavier and he quickly walked towards the door. The cold fall night blew in his face and Jian Hua’s body stiffened as he stood in the plaza outside the mall.
Under the neon lights, the bustling city that should be busy was still. Cars had stopped on the road, but there was no congestion. They were scattered across the viaducts and secondary roads. The dark night sky and the bleak silent streets, the city suddenly seemed to become a photo with no life.
Where had all the people gone?
Jian Hua felt his cheek muscles twitch. The gum was still in his mouth but he couldn’t taste it as a huge sense of absurdity engulfed him.
“What is this? There is no signal and even the Internet isn’t… eh?”
The couple followed him out of the mall and received the same shock. Their horrified eyes were wide open as they looked at the road in the distance. Their bodies involuntarily trembled as they huddled together and stammered.
“What is up with the people?”
“Is this a prank? Or maybe a variety show?”
The man barely calmed his mind and loudly said, “It is too boring, and it is late at night!”
The woman hurriedly pulled his arm and complained, “You should pay attention to what you are saying. This might be a live broadcast! Pay attention to what you will seem like on TV.”
Jian Hua hadn’t heard of any major program recently that would close off a few roads near the shopping district. In addition, if there was a large name guest on the show, wouldn’t there be many people passing by?
Jian Hua stepped back and ran into the mall. He rushed into the elevator and the moment the doors closed, he hard his rapid heartbeat and heavy breathing.
“
Ding
. Welcome to the sixth floor, Huan Yu Cinemas.” The warm yellow light shone on Jian Hua. It was much brighter and warmer than the first floor of the mall, but the bitter chill in Jian Hua’s heart spread.
The poster and brackets were on the ground but the staff replacing it and the fan wanting the poster were all gone. There was the sweet smell of popcorn in the cinema’s ticket area, but the ticket salesman playing on his phone was gone, like he had never existed.
Jian Hua frowned irritable as he couldn’t find any cigarettes in his pocket, then his ears faintly heard the panicked shouting of the two female students and the couple downstairs.
“Anyone? Is there anybody here?”
Jian Hua stepped on the edge of the poster, paused slowly and looked down at the young general in the poster.
The title of ‘Crow’ stood out sharply and seemed to poke the audience’s attention. The general looked resolute in broken armour as he stood in a barren desert. The poster also had a prominent line: starring actor Li Fei.
Jian Hua didn’t pick up the poster. Instead, he threw his chewing gum into the trash, once again stepped into the elevator and looked at the rolling electronic screen, where the current time was still 22:44.
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The other four people were still shouting uselessly as Jian Hua left the mall.
He entered his car in the parking lot and calmly left, driving a Mercedes Benz through a quiet city. His speed gradually increased as he bypassed the stopped cars on the road with nobody in them.
Sweat dripped from the palms of his hand, sticking to the steering wheel. Jian Hua’s heart sank as he changed the radio in the car. All stations only played a static sound and the on board system showed that time had stopped at 22:44 and didn’t change.
He took out his phone and dialled the numbers in his address book one by one, but none of them connected successfully.
There was a harsh sound as he pressed heavily on the brakes. Jian Hua leaned back in his seat, dropping his phone in the car box and pressing his right hand to his forehead in an attempt to hold back his anxiety.
This was really terrible! A ghost hit the wall when he entered the elevator, and the whole city disappeared.
Jian Hua restored his hair, started his car again and smoothly headed back home.
He pressed the button for the gate at his building, then left the car downstairs. Normally, his neighbour would still be watching TV at this time and his upstairs neighbour’s dog would bark several times. However, now there were no movements at all.
Jian Hua didn’t remove his coat. He just fell onto the living sofa and groped for the remote control to turn on the TV.
There were images, but each image was static.
The hosts giving the evening news, characters from a family drama, commercials, they were all stopped. Switching the channels was like watching a slide show. He never imagined that ordinary things like a stopped image would be so scary.
Jian Hua endured the urge to throw the remote control. If this was a nightmare, it was too realistic.
Total Chapters in book: 175
Estimated words: 441070 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2205(@200wpm)___ 1764(@250wpm)___ 1470(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 441070 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2205(@200wpm)___ 1764(@250wpm)___ 1470(@300wpm)
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