Elevator Survival: Master of Every Floor - Chapter 44 - Return to the Blue Planet

“What is a vacation?”

Just as Lin Feng was puzzled, the elevator announcement promptly provided an answer.

Ding Dong! Vacation starts, Elevator Ascending, vacation duration is fifteen days.

The elevator began to travel upwards rapidly. Lin Feng gripped the handrails on the wall tightly. The speed was faster than ever before, and he had no idea what was going on.

Moments later, the elevator came to a halt.

Slowly, the elevator doors opened.

A familiar white screen appeared before Lin Feng.

Strangely, the system didn’t provide any prompts this time.

This left Lin Feng somewhat uncertain.

Ding Dong! The living are requested to exit the elevator and enjoy their vacation. All items obtained in the elevator world cannot be taken out, your elevator time will be in a time suspension state, and items obtained in the original world cannot be brought into the elevator.

The original world?

What did it mean? Could it be that the reality was just beyond this light screen?

Lin Feng glanced at the Little Velociraptor. If the elevator time was paused, it shouldn’t get hungry, which was a relief for him.

As he stepped out of the light screen, Lin Feng felt lighter and found himself in another elevator.

But this elevator had no screens, and the floor numbers on the side were all clickable.

Lin Feng tentatively clicked the button for the first floor, and the elevator began to descend slowly.

Through the mirror embedded in the elevator wall, Lin Feng noticed that his clothes had changed into casual wear.

He felt in his pocket and found his own phone.

“What on earth is going on?”

Just as Lin Feng was puzzled, the elevator doors opened.

Only then did Lin Feng realize that he was in a shopping mall.

However, most of the staff were middle-aged, and there were not many young people, probably all engaged in better jobs.

At this moment, Lin Feng suddenly realized that this mall looked familiar. Wasn’t this the mall he used to frequent?

Even the placement of all the counters was exactly the same.

He touched the wound on his face; it still hurt. He wasn’t dreaming.

A bold idea suddenly came to Lin Feng’s mind. Could he have returned to the Blue Planet?

In fact, verifying this idea was quite simple.

His world had suddenly lost over three billion people; there had to be news about it.

Lin Feng immediately started searching for recent key news on Baidu on his phone.

Sure enough, the top news was about the recent massive disappearance of the population.

The news was released a month ago.

It claimed that a large fog had appeared worldwide that day. After the fog had dispersed, they found that over half the human population had disappeared.

The governments quickly took emergency measures, and from a surplus of labor, there had become a shortage.

To avoid the outbreak of war, all the major powers also signed non-aggression treaties…

“I really have returned to the Blue Planet!”

Lin Feng exclaimed excitedly.

Thanks to the large population base of the Xia Country, even with the disappearance of so many people, the society was still relatively stable.

Just as Lin Feng was about to close his phone, he caught a glimpse of another piece of news.

Private yacht of Verde, a wealthy businessman from the Lighthouse Country, was hijacked. The identity of the hijackers is yet to be confirmed, suspected to be pirates. There were no casualties among the tourists on the yacht. Verde claimed he would thoroughly investigate the matter.

“This… can’t be…”

Lin Feng’s lips twitched slightly.

It had to be a coincidence, definitely a coincidence…

However, as Lin Feng was convincing himself that these were all coincidences, a text message came in.

Michael

“No, it can’t be…”

Lin Feng’s voice trembled slightly as he spoke.

“Hey, Lin! How are things in Xia Country? We’ve split the loot from the cruise ship heist, and your share will be transferred to your bank account soon.

Don’t worry, it’s all above board. I’ve arranged the transfer under the name of Trevor’s international trading company, and it should be divided into three parts within the next six months.”

Soon, Lin Feng received another text, this one from his bank. It stated that he had received a foreign transfer of a whopping sixty million Renminbi.

“No way!”

Lin Feng nearly choked on his own spit. The next moment, his phone rang. It was the bank, not asking about the origin of the transfer, but inquiring if Lin Feng would like to upgrade his membership level.

The transfer had been processed so legally that no one would be able to trace it back to him.

On the bank’s suggestion, Lin Feng decided to upgrade. After all, he had nothing to lose and he wouldn’t be staying here for long.

In fifteen days, he would return to the elevator world.

At this moment, Lin Feng wanted to see if there were any familiar events happening in the real world.

“Young man, can you please move aside? I need to mop this floor.”

As Lin Feng was standing in one place, engrossed in his phone, an elderly lady spoke from behind him.

“Oh, of course, sorry about that, ma’am.”

Lin Feng quickly nodded and stepped aside to give her room.

Standing in the middle of the mall, engrossed in his phone, did seem a bit foolish.

Lin Feng quickly left the mall, hailed a taxi, and headed to his rented apartment.

He figured he hadn’t been reported missing yet, given the bank’s reaction.

If he had been listed as a missing person and then suddenly reappeared, the police would probably be looking for him by now.

In the future, others who upgrade the elevator to level eight will get a vacation too. Let them explain it to the government then. Lin Feng certainly didn’t want to be interrogated until his vacation ends.

After returning to his room, he found a cup of leftover instant noodles on his desk, left there by Qin An that morning.

After grimacing and throwing away the noodle cup, Lin Feng started scrolling through the news on his phone again.

“Aeroflot SU207 flight disappears over the Pacific Ocean, crash site yet to be located, with 375 passengers on board….”

“Will house prices plummet after a significant reduction in the world’s population?”

“Today, governments around the world announce the release of child support funds….”

And so on….

Most of the news was a mishmash of articles, primarily written by independent media. Lin Feng could tell from their headlines that they were purely clickbait with no substance.

The only news of slight interest was about the missing Aeroflot flight, which had nothing to do with Lin Feng.

Or did it?

……

On a nameless island in the Pacific, a man armed with a fireman’s axe and lighter was valiantly fighting off a savage who wanted to eat him.