Chapter 55: Hidden underground 18th floor

Kai Wei came to Xiaofeng Villa where Nick Nie lived and learned about the situation:

Every plan sounded clean until real people, real money, and real fear started typing back.

Sure enough, according to Nick Nie's informant, the guy they were following named Guan Lu entered an underground bar called Hell Gate three times this week at night.

The Hell Gate Bar looks like just a bungalow from the outside, but there are eighteen floors from the ground down. It is the busiest entertainment venue in the city. It has hotels, dance halls, billiards, chess and cards, shops, game rooms, baths and massages. Due to the large number of people, there are three elevators used as transportation to go up and down the stairs. There are nineteen buttons in each elevator to indicate the floor, which are 1, 1, 216, 17, and 19. Only there is no 18. The guests all say that 19 means the eighteenth level. Because some people are cautious when mentioning the eighteenth level of hell, so they use 19 instead of 18. However, if you are so superstitious, why do you name the bar Hell Gate?

There is another thing that is even stranger. The entrance to the bar via the walking stairs is always locked.

The stalkers arranged by Nick Nie also arranged for a stranger brother who had been in prison for voyeurism to watch Guan Lu's every move at close range. The brother walked into the elevator with Guan Lu. Guan Lu first asked him which floor he wanted to go to. The brother said he hadn't decided yet and let him go first.

Then the pipeline went to the seventeenth floor. In order to avoid the suspicion of the pipeline, the brother took the elevator and stopped on a certain floor before starting the elevator and going up to the first floor. After he came out, two more brothers went in and went to the seventeenth floor. They walked around in a big circle while playing, but they didn't find any trace of the pipeline.

After listening to the reports of Nick Nie's men, Kai Wei was impressed by the careful actions of the spies and marveled at the wit of the peepers.

"The Hell Gate Bar is so big, it's probably their hiding place. How about I go to the scene and have a look?" Kai Wei volunteered and saw some clues. In order to calm down the matter as soon as possible, Kai Wei was also eager to find out.

Nick Nie was a little worried, "You were their target. Maybe they already knew who you were. It would be more dangerous to go to their stronghold. I think it's better to follow them for a while longer."

Kai Wei doesn't think so. He feels that following him all the time is not an option. The other party is a spy and has top-notch anti-tracking capabilities. If this continues for a long time, our tracking may be discovered. By then, it will be even more difficult to investigate. With this point of view, Kai Wei advised Nick Nie.

Nick Nie suddenly stood up and said, "What you are saying is that the longer time goes by, the more passive we become. Hey, we have been comfortable for too long. The murderous aura of the past has been turned into a rotten aura. We have even forgotten the principle of striking first to gain the upper hand. Do you dare to take a gamble?"

"Gamble" Kai Wei was confused.

"Either you succeed in one fell swoop, or you lose all your efforts," Nick Nie said. "Men are not afraid of playing big, but they are afraid of not being able to lose." As he said this, he pulled out a butterfly knife from his pocket, flicked it with great force, and inserted it into the marble table.

After hearing Nick Nie's words, Kai Wei's blood rushed to his head. Yes, he has been depressed for long enough. If he continues to be so lifeless, the road ahead will only become darker and darker, and the enemy will only become more and more rampant.

"Either you don't want to play, or you want to play big." As he said that, Kai Wei also took out the butterfly knife and swung it, and Ding was bounced off the marble table.

It was so embarrassing that Kai Wei was secretly unhappy.

Nick Nie put his hand on Kai Wei's shoulder, "You have to think clearly. If we can't find anything, we will completely alert the enemy and everything will have to be investigated again."

"Not afraid" Kai Wei patted his chest: "Teacher Liu Huan once sang, if the heart is in a dream, it is between heaven and earth, and there is true love. True love is not suitable for the occasion. I remember that is not the word."

"That's the next sentence," Nick Nie reminded.

"Yes, yes, yes, success or failure, the heroic life is just starting over from scratch."

Three days later, at seven o'clock in the afternoon, Nick Nie received a call from his subordinates again, saying that the pipeline had taken the same route to the Hell Gate Bar again.

When Kai Wei, Nick Nie, and Grant Guo, who had already rented a hotel near Hell Gate, heard the news, they immediately left the hotel and drove a van straight to the Hell Gate Bar.

As Grant Guo drove, Nick Nie took out a fluffy white rabbit hat and put it on his head to hide his conspicuous white hair.

Looking at the little white rabbit on Nick Nie's head, Kai Wei wanted to laugh. He tried not to smile, but his stomach couldn't help but tremble.

"Is it funny?" Nick Nie asked.

Kai Wei didn't dare to answer because he would laugh when he did.

"Hahahahaha of course. Hahahaha. I'm laughing so hard." Grant Guo, who was driving, suddenly laughed.

Nick Nie looked embarrassed.

The ground floor of Hell Gate Bar has a traditional bar layout, and downstairs are various entertainment venues.

According to the tip, it took about fifteen minutes for the pipeline to arrive at the bar. Kai Wei and the other two decided to take the elevator and walk underground first. Nick Nie had been to this kind of place for a long time and had no interest in going there again. He just drank alone in the bar on the first floor. After all, there might be a big fight later, so he didn't dare to drink and ruin things.

Kai Wei and Grant Guo entered the elevator. The deeper they got, the more curious they became about the underground. So Kai Wei directly pressed the button for the nineteenth floor.

"Hehehehe, what a weirdo. It's called Hell Gate, but there's no button for the 18th floor. It's 19 instead of 18. You're deceiving yourself and others," Grant Guo said with a smile.

The elevator descended slowly. Maybe it was too early and no one entered the elevator halfway. Just like that, the elevator went straight from the 1st floor to the 19th floor. Looking at the elevator indicator light changing from 1 to 19, Kai Wei suddenly frowned. "Something's wrong" he said and pressed the button to the 1st floor again. The elevator went up. After reaching the first floor, he closed the door again and pressed the 19th floor button again.

Grant Guo didn't pay attention just now and asked, "What's wrong?"

Kai Wei pointed to the floor indicator light on the right, "Look carefully, the numbers above, every time it jumps from one number to the next, it takes about one second, but when it comes to switching between 17 and 19, it seems to take two seconds."

"There is such a thing." Grant Guo also concentrated on staring at the changes in the numbers above.

15, 16, 17, 19

"Sure enough," Grant Guo exclaimed, and turned to Kai Wei, "What do you think?"

Kai Wei closed the door again, pressed the first floor button, then glanced at the indicator light, pointed at the floor buttons one by one, and said, "I finally know why the entrance to the walking stairs is locked."

"Why?" Grant Guo didn't understand.

Kai Wei said slowly: "On the surface, there are eighteen floors underground in the bar. For the sake of luck, 19 is used instead of 18 on the elevator button. In other words, the nineteenth floor does not exist. But the actual situation is that the 19th floor has always existed since there is a 19th floor."

Kai Wei paused again and said sternly, "In other words, the eighteenth also exists but was missed by the elevator. The reason why the elevator takes half the time to switch between 17 and 19 is half as slow as other numbers is because there is an 18th floor in the middle, which prolongs the elevator walking time. The entrance to the pedestrian staircase in the bar is locked because we don't want people to go down and discover the existence of the 18th floor."

Grant Guo suddenly realized, "I didn't expect that a bar that has been here for more than ten years would have such a shocking secret. Boy, you are more suitable to be a police officer than me."

"Hehehehe, I'm just making random guesses. Maybe the 18th floor is just someone else's power distribution room."

"I pour"

The elevator stopped on the first floor, and Kai Wei and Grant Guo walked out solemnly. Grant Guo went to report his new findings to Nick Nie, while Kai Wei stood under the crystal lamp with alternating red and green lights, testing his ability to flash the future.

According to Ty Ye's reminder at that time: lower frequency light can enhance his ability to see the past. Red light has a lower frequency. According to Ty Ye's theory, red light should be able to enhance his ability more.

Kai Wei tried to use the light to see the future. As soon as he exerted his strength, he suddenly felt dizzy. As the light turned red and green, the scene in front of him flickered, sometimes moving forward and sometimes moving backward in time.

But he did get the results of the experiment, which was exactly the opposite of what Ty Ye wanted: the low-frequency red light weakened Kai Wei's ability, and he could only see a few tenths of a second into the future, while the slightly higher-frequency green light greatly increased his ability, and he actually saw about thirty seconds into the future.

Visible rays with high frequencies are: purple, blue, and green. Purple light has the strongest frequency and red light has the weakest frequency. Kai Wei had bought sunglasses in two extreme colors in advance: purple and red. He put his hands in his pocket, took out the purple sunglasses and put them on.

Kai Wei has already thought of a plan: after Pipeline enters the bar, he will approach the elevator with him. Of course, Pipeline will definitely not let Kai Wei know which floor he is going to. At this time, Kai Wei uses his future flash ability to see where Pipeline is going. If there is a problem with the Pipeline, he should find a way to turn on the switch on the 18th floor.

Kai Wei's phone vibrated. He took it out and saw that it was Nick Nie calling.

Nick Nie told him that the pipeline was coming to the bar.

Kai Wei hurriedly walked to the door of the bar. He had seen the pipeline from the monitoring room. After a few minutes, a slender and fair young man walked to the door of the bar. It was the pipeline.

Kai Wei took out his phone and pretended to make a call. When Guan Lu passed by, he followed him.

Guan Lu approached an elevator near the back, and Kai Wei followed.

The elevator door opened, and Kai Wei pretended to his phone: "The signal in the elevator is not good, I'll call you later, little bitch."

Kai Wei followed Guan Lu into the elevator. As expected, Guan Lu first asked Kai Wei which floor he was going to.

Kai Wei directly said the second floor because he wanted to see the future. He was not sure how long into the future he could see through purple sunglasses. The sooner he went out and the sooner the pipeline was opened on the 18th floor, the more likely he would be able to see it.

The pipeline pressed the button on the second floor

Kai Wei stared at his phone, pretending to send a private message, and glanced at the elevator button from time to time. Suddenly, I laughed secretly in my heart, so this is it