Sure thing — here’s another one for you:
At exactly 3:03 a.m. every night, the elevator in the abandoned office building would arrive on the
ground floor—even though no one had pressed the button.
Locals avoided the place. They said it was cursed. That after the tech company inside went bankrupt
overnight, the building just… stopped being part of the city. No birds flew over it. No windows
reflected sunlight. GPS didn’t register its location. It was like it didn’t want to be remembered.
But one night, a curious urban explorer named Nia decided to investigate.
Armed with a flashlight and a half-charged phone, she slipped inside. The lobby was perfectly clean.
No dust. No debris. Just silence… and that glowing elevator, doors wide open, humming gently.
She stepped in.
The panel had only one button: "–1"
Not 1, not G, not B1. Just "–1"
She pressed it.
The elevator shook slightly and began descending. Slowly. Then faster. And faster.
The numbers on the screen started counting down: –1… –2… –3…
Then they stopped making sense: –π… –∞… –?
Nia gripped the rail as her ears rang.
Finally, it stopped. The doors opened.
She was no longer in a basement. She wasn’t even underground.
Before her stretched a massive open landscape. Sky of purple clouds. Mountains floating sideways.
Giant machines walking in the distance like ancient animals. And at the center: a glass tower,
glowing with pulses of data and memories.
She stepped out. A voice echoed in her mind:
"Welcome, User 445. Memory restoration in progress."
And suddenly, she remembered things she'd never lived.
Cities made of music. A war between timekeepers and dream-eaters. A promise she made before
she was even born.
Back in the real world, the elevator returned to the ground floor at 3:04 a.m.
Empty.
But in that other place… Nia had just arrived.