And the international news media that paid attention to this kidnapping incident were already thinking about the changes in international relations between the ancient eastern countries and European and American countries after this incident, as well as the latest changes in the attitude of European and American countries towards the ISIS organization, and also the measures to protect the personal safety of their own citizens. Obviously, in the eyes of these news media, Zixuan and Mary were already unable to escape the identity of the victims.
On the fifth night of the ten-day deadline (this was thanks to Mike and Sam who left a pocket bedside alarm clock in the cell, otherwise, Gao Zixuan and Mary who lived six to seven meters underground would not be able to distinguish between day and night), to be precise, it was past three o 'clock in the night. Gao Zixuan and Mary were sitting side by side on the bed of the bunk single bed, waiting for the last five days of their lives to pass with a deathly pale face. Suddenly, they heard a light "Da" sound, and the lights in the room suddenly went out.
The two women were stunned for a moment before they reacted to this sudden change, but soon they heard a light "Deng" sound from the iron door, as if something tightly pressed down was suddenly released.
Gao Zixuan's mind had just turned to the thought of "power failure" when she heard Mary softly exclaim, "The door is open!"
"What?" Gao Zixuan had been tortured by the huge pressure of death in the past few days, and her brain was not enough to process. Hearing this, she was somewhat confused.
Mary excitedly shouted, "It should be a sudden power failure that caused the entire building to lose power, and the iron door that locked us relied on the electromagnetic door lock. Now that there is no power, the electromagnetic door lock is naturally ineffective, and the iron door can be opened!" Her voice was very low, naturally for fear of being heard by outsiders.
"So … So what?"
Mary was so excited that she couldn't control herself. She pulled Gao Zixuan up and said in a low voice, "What do you say? The door is already open, let's hurry and run. If we don't seize such a good opportunity and wait for the two terrorists to rush over, then we can only wait for death. "As she spoke, she quickly pulled her toward the iron door.
The two women came to the door, and Mary groped for the door handle in the dark. She gently twisted and pulled, and the iron door really opened. It turned out that Mike and others had too much faith in high-tech, and thought that with an electromagnetic door lock, they could firmly lock the two women, but they never considered the situation of a sudden power failure, so they did not add another iron lock outside the door. Now that the power was out, the electromagnetic door lock was ineffective, and the two women opened the iron door effortlessly.
Mary was not completely sure that she could open the door, but when she heard the sound of the suction force of the iron door failing during the power failure, she realized that she could give it a try. Now that the iron door was actually opened, she was really overjoyed. Joy fell from the sky, and she was so excited that she wanted to dance for joy on the spot, but she also knew that now was not the time to be happy, so she suppressed the excitement in her heart and whispered to Gao Zixuan, "Don't talk, let's escape, God bless us not to be discovered." After that, she pulled her and tiptoed out of the door and escaped along the corridor.
The cell where the two women were in was not the last one in this corridor, and the two women were brought to the cell wearing headgear, so it was reasonable to say that they couldn't distinguish the escape route, but these days, Mike and Sam came over from time to time, and the two women could clearly hear the sound of their leather shoes walking when they came and went from the room, so they naturally knew that they should turn right after going out.
Sure enough, the whole building had lost power, and it was pitch-black everywhere. The two women didn't have any tools to remove the light, so they had to walk forward with the help of the wall. They didn't know how long they walked in the dark in fear, but they finally reached the end. In front of them was a wall, and the middle of the wall was about ten centimeters indented. When they reached out and touched it, they felt a cold iron plate.
"It's the elevator! The elevator we took when we were caught that day! "
Mary first touched the elevator door, and then the buttons on the wall, and said very confidently.
Gao Zixuan also reached out and touched the elevator door a few times, but found that the elevator door was tightly shut. She used her fingers to dig the gap in the middle of the two doors, but she couldn't get in at all. She said in a panic, "Now the elevator is out of power, we can't get in, and we can't escape. What should we do?"
Mary also felt a shadow in her heart, and comforted her, "Don't worry, see if you can open the elevator door."
Gao Zixuan sighed bitterly, "So what if we can open the elevator door? If there's no power, the elevator won't go up. "
Mary was quick-witted and said, "Let's look left and right to see if there's a stairwell that can lead to the ground. An underground building like this should have a fire escape."
She had a good idea, but the reality was very cruel. The corridor was only two meters wide, and the elevator door took up about one meter. There was only half a meter of space on the left and right, and there was no stairwell at all. There was another discovery. There was a four-wheeled plastic car parked on the left side of the elevator door. The car was not tall, only reaching up to the waist. It was wide and square, and there was a roof on the car. When they got closer, they could smell the leftovers and the garbage from the bathroom.
Gao Zixuan was the one who found the small car. She told Mary about it after she found it. Mary approached the car and touched it. Then, she lifted the top of the car and smelled it. She confirmed that it was a mobile trash can. The trash in the dining room and bathroom were created by the two of them.
After the two of them were imprisoned here, they had to eat and drink every day, so naturally, they created garbage every day. Mike and the others were obviously very concerned about the cleanliness of this place. Every day, they would send someone — a black woman in her twenties with a fierce face — to collect the garbage from the two women's room after meals, and every two days, they would collect the garbage from the bathroom's trash bin.
According to the current discovery, the black woman who temporarily acted as a cleaner had temporarily piled all the garbage collected from the two women's cells into this larger garbage bin. When the garbage bin was completely filled, she would take it to the ground and dispose of it.
However, Gao Zixuan and Mary did not show too much attention to this garbage bin. After all, escaping was the priority at the moment.
"Now that the elevator can't be used, we can only wait for the call. But I'm worried that the two terrorists will come soon to see if we took the opportunity to escape, so now … now … my mind is blank. I don't know what to do at all. God, this world is too scary. Why was I born?! Why did I come to the United States?! "
As Mary spoke, she was already a little frantic. Her hands unconsciously grabbed her hair, and her face was full of anxiety, but there was nothing she could do.
At this time, Gao Zixuan was much calmer. She whispered, "I don't think they will come down to check immediately. After all, it's now three o 'clock at night. It's the time when people are the most sleepy and at the same time sleep the deepest. It's very likely that they don't even know that the power in the building has been cut off. They are still sleeping soundly."
Mary cried and said, "That doesn't mean anything to the two of us. Even if they don't appear and give us time to escape, we can't escape now. We can't even reach the ground. "
Gao Zixuan said, "Don't worry, and don't panic. Calm down and use your brain. At most, we will die. Is there anything worse than death? Since there is no such thing, then let's try a dead horse. If we can find a way to escape, then we will be lucky. If we can't escape, then it's just the result that was destined in the beginning. "
The two women calmed down and used their brains. In the end, they decided to check the rooms on both sides of the corridor to see if they could find anything new.
This corridor was not long, but it was not short either. It was about 20 meters long, and there was a door every three or four meters on both sides. But strangely, these doors were not electromagnetic locks, but old-fashioned mechanical locks. The power outage had no effect on them. The two women searched around the corridor and found that except for the prison cell that could be opened, all the other rooms were tightly locked. None of them could be opened. Naturally, there was no new discovery. Of course, there were no traces of people living here. It seemed that only the two women lived here.
To summarize the situation of the two women now – they were trapped in a place six or seven meters deep underground. It was dark everywhere. The only elevator that could connect to the ground couldn't operate because of the power outage. They could only look at the elevator and sigh. Of course, the two women could also return to the prison cell, but that was meaningless.
"What should we do now?"
Mary was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, pacing back and forth in front of the elevator door. She had no choice but to be anxious. The sudden power outage seemed to be a blessing from God, giving the two women a chance to save themselves. The two women had successfully escaped from the prison cell, but just as they were about to return to the human world again, they were blocked by the elevator that had lost power. It was really like "just out of the prison cell, and then there's the iron door." Anyone would be so anxious.
Gao Zixuan calmly analyzed, "The biggest problem now is that we don't know when the power will come back. If the power comes back soon, then we can wait. When the power comes back, we can take the elevator back to the ground and escape. But if the power comes back at dawn, then the terrorists may have already woken up and come down to check on us. Then we can't escape. Mary, you've lived in the United States for a long time. Have you encountered a similar power outage? "
Mary was stunned. After thinking carefully, she shook her head and said, "There are power outages, but they are extremely rare. They are all caused by extreme natural weather. The weather has been so good recently, so there shouldn't be such a problem. The remaining possibility is that there is a problem with the wiring or the power supply system. This kind of problem is usually fixed very quickly. It won't take too long. "
Gao Zixuan thought about it and said, "Then let's wait and see if the power comes back. Of course, there is no other way now except to wait."
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