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The Nemesis approached the elevator step by step, full of oppressive presence. In its hand, it was still holding a person, exactly that middle-aged man. He was not dead yet, but also not far from death, because the Nemesis had already crushed his ribcage. The three people inside the elevator could clearly see the broken ribs piercing out of his chest.
"Hurry up and close it already!"
Brad was frantically pressing the door close button, but the elevator door, which was usually complained about for closing too fast, didn't respond at all.
Seeing the Nemesis getting closer, Aiden and Jill simultaneously opened fire on it. The dense bullets were like a rainstorm.
Both he and Jill were using classic AR-15 rifles. The 5.56 caliber bullets had enough penetration to tear through the black coat on the Nemesis. Although they couldn't cause effective damage, they still slowed its steps.
After both emptied a magazine at the same time, there was a "ding", the elevator doors began to slowly close.
At that moment, the Nemesis threw away the middle-aged man who had been put out of his misery by Aiden, and charged toward the elevator in big strides.
However, the elevator door had already closed. It could only swing its fist, which was like a battering ram, and smashed it onto the elevator door.
With a loud bang, the double-layered elevator door was actually smashed into a large dent. The force was so strong that even the running elevator inside shook violently.
Luckily, this elevator was also used for freight transport and was extremely sturdy. After a few shakes, it returned to normal operation and slowly started ascending.
All three people inside the elevator simultaneously let out a sigh of relief. But they hadn't been happy for long when the elevator shook again, and then climbing sounds came from within the elevator shaft.
"It followed us!" Brad was so scared his voice cracked. He turned his gun and pulled the trigger at the elevator floor.
But Brad forgot that he was only using a standard-caliber Glock handgun. The 9mm bullets couldn't pierce through the thick freight elevator floor. After a few shots, at least half of the bullets ricocheted.
"Damn it, Brad, do you want to kill us?!" Jill cursed. Just now, one of the ricochets had brushed past her scalp, scaring her so much her face turned pale.
Brad also realized he had messed up. Before he could apologize, there was another "ding", a prompt that the elevator had reached the top floor, and then the doors opened.
However, the elevator door did not open fully like usual. The damage caused by the Nemesis had jammed most of it, and only a gap wide enough for one arm to fit through had opened.
Jill stepped forward and tried to push both sides, but as an ordinary human, the elevator door didn't budge. She anxiously shouted, "What should we do?!"
"Let me try." Aiden squeezed past Jill, stretched out both hands, gripped the elevator doors, and then tensed all his muscles, using all his strength to force them apart.
Amid the ear-souring screech of steel, the doors were actually forced open quite a bit by brute strength.
But that was the limit. After all, the middle part of the elevator doors was the most deformed, and he couldn't fully open them. The doors got stuck again.
But the gap had widened by more than double. Jill decided to let Brad go through first.
As a helicopter pilot, Brad's body was a bit slimmer than the other male S.T.A.R.S. members. With some effort, he managed to squeeze through.
Jill was second, as Aiden was still holding the doors. But she wasn't as lucky as Brad.
In fact, Jill was much slimmer than Brad, but her figure was too good. She struggled for a bit and only managed to get her upper body out.
"Jill, who would've thought a good figure could slow you down." Watching Jill twist her butt overhead, Aiden teased.
"That's it, I've decided. After we get out, I'm going to lose weight, especially my damn butt." Jill said, gritting her teeth while squeezing through.
With Brad pulling, Jill still managed to get out.
"Aiden, it's your turn," Jill said while holding her butt.
Aiden nodded. Then he slowly let go of both hands. Seeing the elevator doors didn't close, he first stuck his head out.
But just as he poked his head out, the elevator suddenly dropped sharply, scaring him into pulling his head back.
"What happened?" Seeing the elevator going down, Jill rushed to the door, trying to pull Aiden out, but Aiden and Brad stopped her at the same time.
Feeling the constant tremor beneath his feet, Aiden frowned and cursed, "Damn it, that guy is smashing the elevator!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the elevator shook again. A clear bulge appeared on the floor, and the elevator dropped even more from the vibration, completely cutting off the idea of crawling out through the door.
Fortunately, the tenser the moment, the faster Aiden's mind worked. He glanced at the maintenance hatch on top of the elevator and quickly had a plan.
"Jill, catch this." Aiden took off his gun holster and passed his rifle through the gap, which was now only a third of its original size.
Then he drew his pistol, bit it in his mouth, and opened the maintenance hatch above. Using both hands and feet, he climbed out.
But just as his head got out, he felt something wrap around his leg. Then his entire body was dragged back into the elevator.
Smack!
Aiden crashed heavily onto the floor. He endured the pain and turned his head to look. His leg was entangled by a disgusting tentacle.
The Nemesis had smashed through the floor and forced its upper body into the elevator. Ridiculously, it also got stuck, so it could only attack Aiden with tentacles.
Taking the pistol from his mouth, Aiden fired several shots at the tentacle and broke it. Then he quickly got up and continued shooting at the Nemesis's head.
Then he regretted it, because he had given all his long guns to Jill. With only a pistol, there was no way to deal with the Nemesis, even if every bullet hit its head.
After a few shots, he stopped and climbed toward the maintenance hatch again.
This time he was successful. The Nemesis didn't use its tentacles to attack him again until he fully climbed out.
But just as he was preparing to jump out of the elevator with Jill's help, he heard a faint bang. The elevator under his feet started falling rapidly.
The elevator, worn down by the Nemesis's abuse, finally couldn't hold up. That sound was the steel cable snapping.
Faced with this situation, Aiden jumped straight up on the spot. With his enhanced physique, he leapt nearly three meters high.
But he still couldn't reach the edge of the top elevator hatch. He was still about half a meter short.
Seeing that the strength from his jump had faded and he began falling, Aiden grew anxious.
At that crucial moment, a hand grabbed his arm.
Looking up, it was Jill. At this point, her whole upper body was inside the elevator shaft. If Brad hadn't desperately held onto her legs, she might've fallen too.
"Aiden, how do you plan to thank me?" Seeing Aiden's stunned expression, Jill smiled and asked.
"That depends on your request, as long as it's within my ability." Aiden carefully observed Jill's expression and said.
Jill winked at him and chuckled, "You can definitely do it."
"Alright then." Aiden nodded.
"So, how long do you two plan to talk? I can't hold on much longer," Brad couldn't take it anymore and shouted from behind.
Aiden responded immediately, "We're done talking. Brad, hold steady, I need a boost."
The combined weight of him and Jill was over 200 pounds, so Aiden didn't expect Brad to pull them both up.
After reminding Brad, he gripped Jill's arms, using them like a rope, and kicked the wall to swing himself.
As the swing got stronger, Aiden let go at the right moment and, to Jill's scream, jumped to the other side of the elevator shaft.
That side had a ladder, probably for elevator maintenance. Aiden had been in too much of a hurry earlier and didn't notice it until the firelight outside illuminated everything after the elevator dropped.
Using the ladder, Aiden climbed to a higher position and jumped out of the elevator shaft, landing steadily on the rooftop.
As soon as he landed, Aiden turned to help Brad pull Jill up. But without his weight, Brad had already pulled Jill up by himself.
Aiden let out a sigh of relief and walked to the elevator entrance to look down. Although it was pitch black, he could hear angry roars and impacts. It seemed the Nemesis couldn't get up for now.
Thinking it was stuck down there, Aiden decided to do something, at least make it suffer.
With no heavy weapons, Aiden had to think of another way. He looked at a car parked on the rooftop, then looked at the elevator shaft big enough to fit a car, and smiled slightly.
He quickly ran to a muscle car, smashed the window with his pistol grip, dragged out the corpse inside, and checked the fuel gauge, pleasantly surprised to find more than half a tank left.
"Jill, Brad, help me push the car," he shouted.
"What are you trying to do?" Jill asked, confused.
Aiden opened the car door from inside, climbed halfway in to control the steering wheel, and explained, "I'm preparing a dish. It's called fireplace roast duck."
Jill and Brad had never heard of that dish, but from the literal meaning, they guessed it involved fire. They didn't ask further and ran to help push the car.
Once the car was pushed to the elevator entrance, Aiden waved for them to stop.
He got out, opened the fuel tank, and stuffed long strips of toilet paper he found in the car into the tank.
Once the gasoline soaked the paper, he lit it with a lighter.
It was an extremely dangerous move, so the moment the paper lit up, Aiden signaled Jill and Brad to push the car down.
The elevator shaft was very spacious. The car dropped vertically without hitting anything. Soon, boom, the car landed. A moment later, an explosion echoed from the shaft, followed by scorching flames that turned the whole shaft red.
"Will that kill it?" Brad asked while staring at the elevator shaft.
Aiden shook his head, "No. At most, it'll make it suffer."
"Oh well," Brad said, disappointed. He'd hoped to kill that monster in one go.
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