Why it never ends

Chapter 547 Escape
The density of the crowd is slowly decreasing, and about one-third of the people have left the dinner party. Tasia is still sitting at the bar, looking at Philip who is chatting passionately with several men in the distance.

"Would you like another drink, ma'am?" the bartender asked.

"Thank you, no need," Tasia turned her head, "When does the banquet usually end?"

"Not necessarily," the bartender replied, "sometimes early, sometimes late, if you want to go back to rest, you can go now."

"Okay..." Tasia yawned, "Then I'll stay for a while."

"Do you like this place very much? I haven't seen you wandering around other places all night."

"It's okay," Tasia looked into the distance, "I think my friend seems to be still having a good time, so I'll just stay a little longer..."

"It's better not to go back too late, too late, it will not be safe outside."

"what time is it now?"

"Five minutes to eleven."

"Okay," Tasia said softly, "Then I'll sit for another 5 minutes, thank you for reminding me."

"You're welcome."

The bartender put down the last glass, turned around and pushed open the wooden door next to the bar, and left.

Across a few sofa and wine tables full of people, Tasia saw that Philip was gesturing excitedly with the people around him. His face was slightly red, and the blood vessels on his neck emerged from time to time with his movements.And the few men around him were equally excited and devoted, they slapped the table or the sofa from time to time, and burst out laughing.

This kind of Philip made her feel a little strange. In her impression, Philip seemed to be a person who was not good at dealing with such situations like herself. She was shy and introverted, but...

While they were beaming, their eyes met inadvertently. Philip's expression froze for a moment. He smiled at Tasia with a complicated expression, and then quickly turned around, changing his original side-to-Tasia posture to his back.

Tasia looked up at the time—it was ten fifty-nine.

She stood up and walked towards Philip, and just about to call his name, the whole hall suddenly dimmed, and all the electric lights were suddenly extinguished, leaving only the dining table and the candles on the walls that were still dimly flickering.

The crowd fell into uneasiness. Everyone stopped enjoying themselves and began to ask each other what happened. At this moment, the door of the hall opened, and an old man in a suit and leather shoes stood there. He held a gas lamp in his hand, but the light was extremely weak. The light coming in from behind him made his face even more unpredictable.

The old man coughed lightly.

"I declare that the banquet will end immediately, and the third security check will start on this deck in 10 minutes."

In the brief silence, the old man faced the hall and stepped back.

Immediately afterwards—almost in an instant—the entire hall fell into complete chaos.

……

At exactly eleven o'clock, Su Lei brought most of the passengers to the Grace Theater on the sixth deck.People looked at each other nervously, tacitly confirming the absentees tonight—except for Tasia and Philip who were attending the dinner at the moment, there were obviously some people who were also absent, such as Helen and Gustav.

After a while, Rico appeared at the entrance of the theater with Gustav.

"Okay," Li Ke patted Gustave on the back, signaling him to go to the crowd by himself, "you find a seat for yourself."

Gustav panicked: "...May I ask if something major happened?"

"It's nothing serious, but there will be a security check tonight. This is a temporary shelter." Li Ge stepped out of the door again with half a foot. "In half an hour, everyone can go back to sleep. Anyway, just listen to Si Lei's instructions."

"Ms. Li Ge, wait a minute!" Someone in the crowd suddenly said, "...Ms. Hesta, doesn't she need to come with us to a temporary shelter?"

Rico smiled, "No need."

The door slammed shut.

"Okay, everyone don't talk, keep quiet." Su Lei glanced at his watch, "From now on, everyone is forbidden to talk."

……

"Philip!!"

Tasia yelled, and she tried to move towards the position where she saw Philip just now, but it was completely futile under the crowd rushing towards the gate.

Even though the guests at the banquet were only two-thirds full, when everyone was running in one direction, the scene was still difficult to control.

Tasia was dragged into the corridor, and one of the shoes on her foot was trampled off. However, what made her even more alarmed was that she could not find Philip's face among the crowd leaving Bishop's restaurant.

Hundreds of people flocked to the elevator entrance, but the elevator's passenger capacity was less than 13 people. People scrambled to get into the car, squeezing every bit of space that could carry people.But at the other end of the elevator entrance, there was an escape passage with a half-closed door, but no one cared about it.

Tasia tried her best to make room for herself to breathe, and slowly moved against the crowd. When she finally came to an open space, she rushed back to the lobby—there were no normal passengers at this moment, only a few people in disheveled clothes crazy man sitting in the corner laughing wildly with a wine bottle.

Tasia didn't dare to go deep, so she had to turn back and shout Philip's name towards the twisted crowd, but still no one answered.

Six minutes have passed—there are only three minutes left before the "6 minutes" mentioned by the old man... Looking at the absurd crowded scene in front of her, Tasia gritted her teeth and turned towards the exit of the escape passage. direction to run.

Sure enough, behind the concealed door was a dark staircase.

She walked a few steps with one deep foot and one shallow foot, then simply dropped her other shoe and went downstairs quickly.It seems that this is not the stairwell she walked through before, the distance between the corridors is narrower, and there is no night light.

In the dark, she quickly came to the lower deck, only when she tried to open the door leading to the cabin, it was locked.

Tasia banged on the door, asking if anyone heard.The sound of knocking on the door and inquiry overlapped, echoing in the originally silent corridor.The eerie echo hit the back of her head, which was extremely weird... However, at this moment, these things that should have scared her made her feel numb instead.At this moment, she has no second thought other than leaving here.

Tasia went downstairs one by one, and every time she went down, she seemed to be one level closer to hell.The only courage she had was shrinking, and her physical strength seemed to be running low. She couldn't remember how many doors she had already knocked on, but she knew that if she walked any further, she would really have no strength to turn back.

"Is anyone there? Is anyone there? Is anyone there..." Tasia asked in a trembling voice.

After the usual silence, she heard the sound of a key unlocking the lock.

The fire of hope rose instantly.

The door opened quickly, and a familiar face appeared in front of her—it was the bartender at the bar just now.

"Tasia?" She looked at Tasia's face in surprise, "Why are you here... Come in!"

(End of this chapter)