Chen Ke raced upwards through the dark hallway, clad only in his suit. If he had worn his black armor, his ascent would have been much slower.
Upon checking the signs on the wall, he realized that in just a few minutes, he had already climbed more than twenty floors. Since he ran all the way and never slowed down, this speed wasn't too exaggerated.
The experience reminded Chen Ke of a painful past when he struggled to climb high floors on foot just after graduating from college and starting a new job at a company located on the 16th floor of a decrepit office building.
The office building was crappy mainly due to its subpar infrastructure: the toilets always had water outages, the flushes were weak, and the building's only two elevators were constantly malfunctioning.
Whenever the elevators broke down, everyone had to exercise their leg muscles along narrow, dark emergency stairways, trudging their way up to double-digit floors.
