Hidden Floors

In any residential building with a lift, there is bound to be a lift engine room for maintenance purposes on top of the lift. For instance, if the building is said to have 7 floors, then the lift engine room is on the 8th. 
However, if you happen to live in any residential college with 8 floors, you might want to check the lift engine room, perhaps, for a little bit of distraction from your monotonous college life. Maybe. Or if you just want an excuse to write a fanfic of the backrooms, but you are in denial. Or another episode of college ghostbusting activity that is probably disappointing, since you won't see any ghosts there. I don't know.
First, get yourself a clock, watch, or any device that has a clock on it, such as a smartphone. Calibrate the clocks to your standard national time; you'll need it. Then, with precise timing, open the lift engine room exactly at the time when the hours, minutes and seconds are the same. With 24-hour systems, for instance, one example is 23:23:23, or 11:23 pm and 23 seconds. One second too late or too soon and you will you need to wait for another time. 
If you manage to open the door at the exact time, you'll be greeted by a lift inside the engine room. It will look exactly like your regular lift, but yes, it will be inside the engine room. Go inside. 
Here, you can access floors that have two-digit numbers. For example, floor 13, 28, and so on, despite the fact that you're living in a block with 8 floors only. The way to do it is to pretend the buttons on the lift are a calculator's input and press the buttons for the desired floors. To get to floor 9, press the emergency button, or, if you really don't know what the emergency button is, it's the horn button, the button that makes the lift ring. This is called the hidden floor. Congratulations, you've accessed the hidden part of your boring residential college block. Some lucky souls have managed to access floors with 3 or 4 digits by opening the door at the exact "parallel" time of the "parallel" date, for instance, 6:06:06 on the 6th of June. Some records have even suggested that someone once scored a jackpot of 6-digit floors by opening the door at 1:01:01 at the new year of 2001.
Now what? Obviously, you wanted to explore the newly discovered floors, right? After all, this is a whole new adventure that the others might never have heard of. Okay, okay, feel free to do just that, as long as you adhere to these rules for your safety. They guarantee that you will come out unscathed.
#Never exit the building while you're on the hidden floor, except by the lift itself. To do this, simply input any 1-digit floor, then hit close. You'll end up being back on the normal floors and you'll need to wait for the specific time before you can do this all over again.
#Every hidden floor is a carbon copy of a normal floor, with the water and electricity intact. They even have furniture and stuff inside the rooms, if you're interested in that. With that being said, refrain from entering the carbon copy of your own room. For example, if your room number is 7-47 (that is 47th room of Floor 7) do not enter rooms 17-47, 27-47, and so on. While the other rooms have nobody inside, the carbon copy of your room might have someone living there. Trust me, you don't want to see him/her/whatever.
#Never attempt to access floors which are a factor of 10, i.e. floor 70, 80 etc. They are inaccessible via the lift, so the only way to access them is through the stairs, which I prohibit you from doing it. In fact, never, ever touch the stairs. Only access the floors via the lift. 
#Bring as many friends as you like, but their restrictions in rule 3 will apply to you as well. It's not a big deal if they don't live in the same building as you.
#The safest place while you're on the hidden floor is the lift itself. Even in blackouts. You might want to have a working flashlight to feel more safe, despite the fact that nobody except whatever you brought inside the lift can hurt you. 
#Never access floors that ends with 1. For example, floor 21, 31 and so on. If you accessed these by accident, close the door as soon as it opens. Even if you're curious enough, refrain from going to the lobby or other exit doors. Always remember, you're not on floor 1. Feel free to ignore this if the lobby is on the ground floor and if 'floor 1' to you means a floor above ground floor. 
#If you decide to enter a room that is not prohibited under rule 3 and you see anything that has a screen on it, do not turn it on. Do so when you're back on the normal floor. If you take it home, do not even think of returning it later, as it will be magically replaced the next time you enter the same exact room. Since it is a carbon copy of the original room, you might want to attempt an item glitch. Do so at your own risk. 
#If you hear any stepping sounds of someone walking with shoes with heels, RUN. Don't even look back, RUN! Run to the lift and never go back. That said, for your own sake, I hope you never had to take a dump in the toilet, because if you hear it while you're in there...
Well, that's all the essential rules, I think. Now, I'd like to share some of the testimonies that I found, scattered everywhere, from the Internet, random notebooks left to be recycled, or papers left when I was travelling through the hidden floors.
Mark Twain, MySpace, 21th June 2004. - "Bro you gotta see this. I am writing this while I am on the 14th floor of my college with just 8 floors. I don't know how, I just fucked around by entering the engine room and boom, a lift. 
I don't know if it will ever happen again, maybe it will never happen again so while I'm at it, I'll let this post reach you guys. You gotta try this, man"
Fact Checker, Facebook, 17th January 2008, retrieved 23th May 2021. - "DO NOT ENTER THE ENGINE ROOM AT 2:02 AM WORSE MISTAKE OF MY LIFE". 
Probably a very old account hacked by some kind of bot. Poor guy.
A notebook I found while I was helping in community block cleaning back in September 2018. - "day 3. managed to enter in 0303. lol"
This notebook also comes with drawings of layouts of floors 25, 78 and 81. Really descriptive, I must say. Too bad that's all that I can tell you, as the notebook is now gone and I am writing this based on my own memory.
A piece of torn paper inside of the engine room. - "warning. never come to floor 25, room 31. that is my room on alternate universe. i tried to enter and was greeted with another me, but oh my god. it chased me with a knife. it said there can only be one. barely escaped. i left this here to warn you guys. probably won't tweet this. i hope nobody ever finds this paper if possible; i don't want anyone to experience my horror."
Well, that is all. I hope you enjoyed your unique experience. Just be safe there. Seriously.
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