Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

    …

    Xu Rendong suddenly opened her eyes: "Lian Qiao!"

    His shouts crashed back and forth in the metal elevator, making the eardrums buzz. Xu Rendong never knew that he could still make such a mournful voice. Sitting in the silver-gray elevator, he rubbed his neck blankly. The skin there was smooth and soft, intact, with no signs of being cut.

    …back again?

    He got up slowly, his suit jacket slipping from his arms. The surrounding temperature dropped little by little, and soon, "ding", the elevator door opened again.

    Outside the door, there is an unchanging snow scene.

    As if nothing had happened, as if the pain he experienced was an illusory dream.

    But...

    He looked down and saw the tie on his chest. He still clearly remembered the tie that was exposed on Jiang Li's ankle to fix the joint when he was lying on the ground with blood flowing. He was in the fear of dying at the time and had no time to think about it. Only then did he realize that he had been betrayed.

    He was betrayed by those he helped.

    Xu Rendong clenched her fists tightly, her fingertips sinking deep into her palm.

    The anger seemed to have a body, and it was hard to block his chest, making him unable to breathe. For a moment, he didn't even want to go out of the elevator. Anyway, no matter how hard he struggles, he will die, so what else is he struggling with? It's better to just accept the arrangement of fate and die here peacefully... It's better to be trapped in this place forever...

    —but why me?

    Obviously, other people in the team do not have the ability to resurrect after death, otherwise there will be no dead people in this world. But why, only I can be resurrected?

    Why do I have to experience death repeatedly? What did i do wrong? Isn't one tragic death enough?

    Why me?

    Despair plundered the temperature of his heart little by little, making him feel cold from the inside out. He clasped his arms silently, but his heart suddenly moved, and a strange and familiar feeling emerged.

    …He remembered the feeling of Lian Qiao holding his arm.

    By the way, Lian Joe!

    Xu Rendong looked out of the elevator, and sure enough, the series of footprints in the snow were still there.

    The world resets after his resurrection, which means—

    Lian Joe is in danger now!

    Before the brain can figure it out, the body has already responded. He strode out of the elevator and began to run wildly in the snow, following the footprints.

    The forest was as silent as ever, except for the sound of his own breathing and footsteps on the snow. Xu Rendong didn't know how long he ran, until the pain in his chest was about to split open, and the smell of blood came out of his throat, and he finally saw the figure standing in front of the stone tablet in the open space.

    "Lian Joe!" He shouted with all his strength, "Don't touch the nesting doll!"

    "...?!" The slender boy withdrew his hand like an electric shock, turned around, and widened his eyes in surprise, "Who, who are you?"

    Xu Rendong ran in front of him, clutching his chest and panting violently. He was speechless for a moment, so he grabbed Lian Qiao's hand and motioned him to stay away from the nesting doll.

     Even Joseph shrank, as if he wanted to withdraw his hand, but he didn't dare. There was a little panic in those always smiling eyes, and he asked timidly, "How do you know my name?"

    By the way, the world resets, so even Joe doesn't remember him anymore.

    Xu Rendong said: "I know you, I..."

    This time, before the key part was said, his voice could not come out. The throat felt as if it was blocked by a blood clot, and it hurt so hard.

    "...?" Lian Qiao looked at him uneasily, his long eyelashes fluttering like bird wings. Clearly, he was afraid.

    He's afraid of me.

    He doesn't remember me anymore, he lost all memory...

    He doesn't remember me.

    Xu Rendong suddenly felt a pain in her heart and let go of Lian Qiao's hand little by little.

    "...I have no ill intentions." Xu Rendong felt a tight throat.

    "Hmm..." Lian Qiao showed a thoughtful expression and rubbed his wrist quietly. Seeing that his wrist was red, Xu Rendong realized that he was grabbing too hard just now, and it hurt Lian Qiao.

    I was about to apologize, but saw Lian Qiao touch her nose and asked embarrassedly, "Have you watched my live broadcast?"

    Xu Rendong was silent for a moment, then said: "Well."

    Lian Qiao whispered: "I still have such a good-looking male fan..."

    Xu Rendong did not hear clearly: "What?"

    Lian Qiao smiled, he seemed a little shy, and changed the subject: "Where is this?" He looked at the nesting doll on the stone tablet, "Why don't you let me touch this?"

    Xu Rendong tried to explain the elevator and the ghost world to him, and found that there was no obstacle this time. But when he mentioned the bunnies and the task of collecting nesting dolls, the voice froze again. It appears that he cannot reveal what has not yet happened.

    After the initial surprise, Lian Joe gradually calmed down and walked side by side with him towards the hunter's hut. The closer he got to the hut, the more complicated Xu Rendong felt. He knew that he was about to meet those people again, the gentle Yuan Xueming, the irascible Xu Hong, several people who had already died, and... Jiang Li.

    En revenge and brutally murdered Jiang Li.

    He didn't know how to face them.

    "That's right." Lian Qiao said suddenly, interrupting his thoughts, "I don't know what your name is."

    Xu Rendong answered him, Lian Qiao said with a "huh", and said in surprise, "Is it honeysuckle's honeysuckle?"

    This exact same line made Xu Rendong stab in the heart again. He twitched the corners of his mouth and drew a bitter smile: "It's the honeysuckle that 'endures the winter'."

    "Oh." Lian Qiao showed the same lost expression as last time.

    When they came to the hunter's hut, Yuan Xueming opened the door for them. Like last time, after Rabbit released the task, Yuan Xueming briefly explained the rules of this world. Then Xu Hong became angry and slapped her face.

    This time, Xu Rendong quietly paid attention to the reactions of Jiang Li and Wang Yuan, and found that they were like water droplets that melted into the river, without any sense of existence. When others are flustered, they are flustered, and when others are nervous, they are also nervous, and they behave very naturally, not like an old man who has experienced it once.

    No, maybe they lied about their experiences too. With such a layout of acting skills, such a neat and tidy killing technique, if Jiang Li was not gifted, he would have experienced the horror world more than once.

    At this point, Xu Rendong's expression became colder. He didn't notice that he pursed his lips slightly, and there was a kind of indifference in his eyes.

    "..." Lian Qiao wanted to say something, but when he saw his attitude of rejecting people thousands of miles away, he involuntarily flinched.

    Everyone looked different and fell silent, only the firewood in the fireplace was crackling.

    Yuan Xueming said: "Let's allocate a room and rest early."

    Xu Rendong offered to share a room with Lian Qiao, and grabbed the room with hidden nesting dolls before everyone else.

    He didn't rush to get the nesting doll behind the curtain, but opened the cabinet and took out the winter clothes and quilt from inside. Lian Qiao made the bed with him, and then went to bed separately. Xu Rendong glanced at the time, it was half past eleven. Even Joe's biological clock hasn't arrived yet, and it is estimated that he will have to nagging for another half an hour before falling asleep.

    Although Xu Rendong was tired, she still cheered up and waited for Lian Qiao to speak. Unexpectedly, this time Lian Qiao just stared at the ceiling in a daze. After a while, he turned around and fell asleep with his back to him.

    "..." Xu Rendong felt the unease and precaution in this little action, and couldn't help but feel lost.

    Xu Rendong waited for Lian Qiao to fall asleep and quietly got up. After finally covering the bed to warm up and wrapping it in a cold coat, Xu Rendong couldn't help shivering, and looked back at Lian Qiao with some nostalgia.

    Sleep well.

    Although rabbits won't come to their room on the first night, they still have to be prepared just in case. He unscrewed the nesting doll in the corner, took out the basement key, and gently hid the nesting doll on Lian Qiao.

    After doing this, he went downstairs alone in the cold of midnight.

    According to the original method, he climbed to the top of the tree with the help of a ladder, and successfully got the nesting doll in the bird's nest. Like last time, the nesting doll contained two chocolates. Xu Rendong touched the hard chocolate, and suddenly remembered what Lian Qiao said: The top of the church looks like kisses.

    I don't know if this chocolate is delicious.

    When he was about to go back to the house, he thought of something, and went to the basement again and took the crowbar.

    Everyone slept peacefully in the room, the lights were not turned on in the stairs, and it was too dark to see anything. Xu Rendong took out his mobile phone and used a torch to illuminate it. As soon as he went up to the second floor, he ran into a gray-haired rabbit covered in blood.

    "..." Xu Rendong looked at the room where blood was oozing.

    "..." Rabbit looked at the crowbar in his hand.

    The atmosphere was suddenly deadlocked.

      It said reluctantly: "You, have you..."

    Xu Rendong took out the matryoshka she just started and shook it in front of it. The rabbit saw the nesting doll clearly and let out a sigh of relief. It seemed to be very happy, and it stomped away again.

    Xu Rendong watched it disappear into the darkness, and suddenly felt that it was a bit like a hard worker who had completed today's target and really didn't want to work overtime.

    It's pretty... grounded?

    In the early morning of the next day, after everyone found the body, they fell into panic again. Lian Qiao was so frightened that she hiccupped again, and it took a while to recover. After breakfast, Yuan Xueming led the crowd to look for dolls in the house, and easily found the one in the kitchen cabinet. So start with the compass.

    "I also saw one on the way here." Xu Rendong said calmly, "But there seems to be something around guarding the nesting doll, I thought something was wrong, so I didn't take it. "

    After this rebirth, Xu Rendong concealed the fact that he had a nesting doll in his hand. He can't believe others, but he doesn't want to easily deprive others of their right to live. Therefore, he only collected two hidden nesting dolls that were not easy to find, and left the easy-to-get nesting dolls for everyone.

    Yuan Xueming asked the location, nodded and said, "Then let's go get this nesting doll first."

    Xu Rendong made a random excuse to say that she didn't want to go, and even Qiao also expressed that she wanted to explore the house again. Yuan Xueming did not force it, and everyone followed him. Xu Rendong noticed that Jiang Li glanced at him vaguely when he was leaving. Xu Rendong looked back coldly, and Jiang Li immediately turned his head away.

    While Lian Qiao was rummaging through the box, Xu Rendong bent down, picked up the crowbar from behind the curtain, and pretended to be surprised and said, "Hey, there's a stick here."

    Lian Qiao's eyes lit up when he saw the crowbar: "The holy sword of physics!"

    Xu Rendong couldn't help raising the corners of her mouth, but still asked lightly: "Is it useful?"

    "There are some! It's very useful!" Lian Qiao was excited for a while, and gave him 100 ways to use the crowbar, and then looked at him eagerly, with a "want" expression on his face .

    "Then take it." Xu Rendong said.

    Lian Qiao was pleasantly surprised: "Really? But you found this..."

    Xu Rendong said: "dirty, I don't want to take it."

     Even Joe happily hugged the crowbar in his arms. His expression of satisfaction from the heart reminded Xu Rendong of a hamster with a bulging mouth. Xu Rendong recalled the sad expression he had in the sacristy of the church when he wanted to pack everything away but didn't take anything, and suddenly wanted to satisfy his little wish, so he asked: "Do you have hamster disease, like Stock up?"

    Lian Qiao was taken aback: "How do you know..." He quickly responded, "Oh, oh, you watch my live broadcast!"

    Xu Rendong smiled and did not explain. He glanced at the curtain, stretched out his hand, and pulled the whole curtain down with a slap. Lian Qiao's eyes widened in surprise, only to see Xu Rendong shaking off the dust on the curtains and saying, "This piece of cloth can be used as a backpack temporarily." , "This way it shouldn't leak."

    Lian Qiao was stunned by this operation, and said happily: "Really! Brother Honeysuckle, you are amazing!...But your tie..." He looked at Xu Rendong's loosened neckline and slightly exposed The delicate collarbone, I don't know what I thought, and looked away a little uncomfortably, "Aren't you cold? ... The neckline."

    Xu Rendong threw the simple backpack to him and said, "It doesn't matter, you can take it."

    Lian Qiao covered her face: "What should I do, I feel like I've been spoiled by true fans..."

    Xu Rendong didn't hear clearly: "Huh?"

    "It's nothing, nothing." He was holding a crowbar in one hand and a simple backpack in the other. His fingertips touched the dark tie and found that there was still a little warmth on it. Thinking that this tie and that beautiful collarbone used to be only separated by a thin layer of shirt, even Qiao felt numbness in his fingertips, and a tingling feeling crawled into his heart along his fingers.

    Xu Rendong has already walked out of the room: "Let's go, let's go outside and have a look."

    Lian Qiao looked at his back, rubbed his face quickly, and solemnly warned himself: "No, no, I'm not a fan!"