Doomsday Wonderland Vol. 12: New Game Launch [Complete]

1462: High-Rise Game

The Life Coach truly lived up to his high fees.

Perhaps he had been alert from the moment the elevator began to hum. When Lin Sanjiu was lying on top of the elevator, soaring upwards with it, the place where the first floor had been pried open turned into a fleeting portal of light. In that split second, she didn't even have time to roll out as she passed the door, but she felt a hand touch hers.

The moment their hands gripped tightly, the brightness disappeared before her eyes, and Lin Sanjiu plunged straight into the darkness above. The Life Coach, yanked up by the rapidly ascending elevator, first hit the edge of the elevator door with a clang and was forcefully squeezed into a space less than a hand's width, scraping against the elevator shaft's walls with a cringe-inducing noise. Had he been human, his skin would've been scraped off, and even his muscles, bones, and organs would've been shredded like a grated carrot.

"Conve-ahhh!" The Life Coach couldn't even finish. Technically speaking, there wasn't enough space between the elevator and the shaft's walls for a head, yet somehow, he still had one. Lin Sanjiu quickly turned him into a card and slapped it on top of the elevator. He reappeared, continuing, "Convert me into... Eh?"

Lin Sanjiu wiped the sweat from her forehead and shouted amidst the loud sound of the rapidly ascending elevator, "Are you alright?"

In the darkness, she couldn't see if the Life Coach was injured, but being a Special Item, he shouldn't be damaged by physical force. The Life Coach quickly turned over and lay on the elevator, shouting, "What do we do now?"

If the elevator were to stop midway on any floor, it would be a relief. Lin Sanjiu's biggest fear was that it was heading to the top floor, where the rocketing elevator would smash her against the ceiling of the elevator shaft. With its current momentum, it could easily crush her spine and sternum, turning her into a bag of crushed chips.

Given her understanding of her luck, this elevator would probably not stop anywhere but on the top floor.

"You ask me, I ask who?" After exchanging a few words, Lin Sanjiu felt she had already shot up several floors. The dark elevator shaft walls surrounded her, and there was no place to leverage. Even if she could grab something like a cable, the elevator's momentum could snap her arm in a blink. No matter how strong she was, she was still a body of flesh and cells, unable to withstand such rapid and intense tugging.

In her desperation, Lin Sanjiu suddenly had an idea. She quickly flipped over, laying on her back atop the elevator, and bent her legs upward. Sensing her movement, the Life Coach asked, "What are you doing?"

"If we reach the top floor, I'll use my legs to brace..."

"A lift weighing one or two tons, rushing upward at least forty meters per second, and you want to stop it with your legs?" The Life Coach's voice was filled with astonishment. "You've exhausted yourself today. If your strength isn't enough, your legs could be crushed into your spine."

"What should we do then?"

In a few moments, the elevator would reach the top floor—Lin Sanjiu could feel it. The elevator showed no signs of slowing down, and she had lost all hope of it stopping halfway.

"I have no idea! Why not try teleporting through space?" the Life Coach said, sounding equally frantic.

The situation now was undoubtedly worse than before. Earlier, when she was trapped in the elevator shaft, she had no target destination and a vague sense of location. Now, lying on the roof of the rapidly rising elevator car, she was even more disoriented. If she rashly tried to teleport, she might drop from the highest point of a sixty-story elevator shaft. Before she could gather her senses, she would already be splattered.