Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

    Though the people around are in a coma right now, who knows if they will jump up in unison in the next second, watching them playfully.

    Honeysuckle's face is thin, and after all, she can't help but mess with Qiao. The kiss was only a shallow taste, but the stimulating fantasy in his heart made Honeysuckle's earlobes hot.

    "Okay, restraint. Wait until you go out..." He blushes and pushes Lian Qiao away.

    Lian Qiao heard the word "going out", and his heart was suddenly touched, and he smiled softly: "Okay. We will talk about it when we go out."

    Honeysuckle turned the subject back to the key. The two found a cog where no one was standing and began to organize their thoughts.

    "What is the mechanism of this key? Will the key players have the key after they clear the level?" Lian Qiao stroked the three characters "Xu Rendong" engraved on the brass key and recalled, "Well, that's not right. Of the other three key players we met before, only Ishigami has a key. The other two, one is the little fat man in the esophagus, and the other is Zhang Xiaoxiao in your butterfly book. They have no keys in their hands. "

     Honeysuckle said in surprise: "How do you know? Have you gone to them?"

    "Hmm. I'd like to exchange leads with them."

    Honeysuckle recalled the characters of these two people. Zhang Xiaoxiao is a newcomer, so he is unlikely to hide clues. As for the scheming little fat man, it's hard to say.

    Lian Qiao seemed to have guessed what he was thinking, and said with a smile: "Little Fatty should not lie. After all, he was in a hurry to attend the press conference the day I went, and he was afraid that I would stalk him and have no time. Spend time with me, and I will honestly explain it all.”

    "What else did he tell you?"

    "Well, it's nothing useful. It's just those little tricks played in the dungeon, attracting teammates, hiding items, etc."

    Honeysuckle didn't bother to ask Lian Qiao what tricks he played at that time, so he pondered: "If they didn't lie, it means that the key is not a reward for key players after clearing the dungeon."

    "Yes." Lian Qiao said, "Actually, about the key, I asked Ishi Jianchuan at the beginning... um, it was in the nine-chain dungeon."

    Honeysuckle looked at him, for some reason he stopped halfway through. Lian Qiao looked at the clear black and white eyes, feeling a little guilty, and couldn't help sticking out her tongue: "Didn't you hit the ring debuff that time, lost your mind and was dragged away by Iwami Chuan's white snake? The white snake triggered again in one breath. I got all the debuffs, some arrow formation, some heavy rain, and it looks like the end of the world. I was so anxious and didn't know what to do, so I thought about using the key..."

    When Lian Qiao said this, his voice became softer and softer, and he squinted and quietly looked at the reaction of Honeysuckle. Seeing him like this, Ren Dong laughed a little: "What's wrong? Keep talking."

    Lian Qiao: "Aren't you angry?"

    "What are you angry about?"

    "Just...I actually knew about the key for a long time, but I kept it from you..."

    Lin Dong smiled: "It's okay to hide it. If I had known that using the key would have side effects, wouldn't I be worried about you every day? Besides, don't I have something to hide from you?"

    "That's right." Lian Qiao suddenly realized, "You have such an awesome plug-in as death reset, why didn't you tell me earlier? Are you not allowed to tell me about the skill limit?"

    "Hmm."

    "No wonder..." Lian Qiao sighed, "No wonder you always seem to be hesitant to say anything. I'm also stupid, thinking you have something else to hide and don't think deeply... "

    Honeysuckle smiled: "But it doesn't matter now. You are really good, you can actually guess the death reset. If it were me, on the premise that the other party could not reveal the clues, I am afraid You can't guess it 10,000 times over again."

    Lian Qiao felt a pain in his heart when he saw him smiling. He couldn't help raising his hand to touch his cheek, and sighed in a low voice, "You've already been driven crazy, how could I not see that something is wrong with you."

    Lin Dong smiled: "It's all over. My endless cycle has been broken by you, and I have been saved by you, haven't I?"

    Lian Qiao took a deep breath and recovered his thoughts.

    "Let's talk about the key." He picked up the brass key of Honeysuckle and asked, "When I got the key, I really didn't know anything at first. Do you remember anything about the key now?"

    Honeysuckle shook her head: "No. I don't know anything."

    "If you use this key, what will it cost you?"

    Honeysuckle tilted her head and thought for a while: "We've already broken it, can we break it again?"

    "Hmm..." Even Joe raised his chin in thought. After a while, he suddenly remembered something, and raised his head in surprise, "Wait, what did you say? We've all been broken?"

    "Yes." Ren Dong looked at him in shock, and quickly reacted, "Oh, you probably didn't see it. After you break it, I will break it too."

    "Huh?!"

     Even Joe opened his eyes wide and grabbed his arms subconsciously, as if he was nervous to death just listening to his statement. Ren Dong imitated his tone at that time, and smiled lightly: "It's okay, it doesn't hurt."

    Lian Qiao: "..." I was still very distressed at first, but it doesn't seem to hurt when I think about it carefully.

    No, it's terrible just to watch yourself shatter!

    Isn't he afraid of Honeysuckle's sadness when he pretended to be light and calm! What's more, he has to crack the debug, so there is no time to be afraid!

    He feels goosebumps just thinking about it now! Watching his corpse shattered into thousands of pieces, everyone collapsed, okay?

    "You..." Lian Qiao wanted to say something to correct the morbid mentality of "I'm used to being abused, it's nothing", but the more I thought about it, the more my heart ached.

    Honeysuckle relies on death to reset the instance every time. How many times has he experienced death? And from the current situation, everyone has no memory after being reset, and only Honeysuckle bears everything alone, drinking pain and walking alone.

    What was he going through when I didn't know?

    …No, how much have I forgotten?

    Honeysuckle: "?"

    Lian Qiao: "When we go out, can you tell me everything about the past?"

    “…” Honeysuckle was silent.

     Their chests were pressed together. Lian Qiao's heartbeat was a little faster, his body temperature was slightly higher, and his breathing rate was also a little faster. As if the heart is suffering from violent ups and downs of emotions.

    Honeysuckle listened to his heartbeat. The sour feeling of rising and rising seemed to come through his clothes, and it was so hot that he wanted to cry.

    Honeysuckle unconsciously raised her head slightly, closed her eyes, and concealed the warmth in her eyes. He smiled and said, "Okay."

    When Lian Qiao calmed down a little, Ren Dong pushed him away and said with a smile, "Okay, don't interrupt. Finding the exit early is the right thing to do."

    Lian Qiao pouted in dissatisfaction: "How can this be called interruption, this is called truth revealing! We have just experienced life and death! Can't hug?"

    Honeysuckle is helpless: "How long have you been holding this? Besides, we haven't released a copy yet, so we can't relax our vigilance."

    "When you say that, I have a question." Lian Qiao looked around and saw that the gears around him were still turning on their own, and no one woke up. He touched his nose and thought, "What the **** is this place?"

    "It should still be in the copy." Honeysuckle said, "It's not reality anyway."

    "Well, let's call this the gear room for now." Lian Qiao stepped on the gear and muttered, "There seems to be no mechanism on the gear, is it just a decoration? It's pretty nice."

    Honeysuckle thought for a while: "You said it would be like this, to start the gears in a certain order and order, and the people on the gears will wake up?"

    "Hmm..." Lian Qiao touched his chin and shook his head, "I don't think so. It doesn't feel like the internal space of the copy, but a space parallel to the copy. Wake them up, what I care more about is what kind of existence this gear room is. Why didn't this gear room exist in the previous customs clearance?"

    Honeysuckle tried to guess: "Probably because this is our last instance?"

    "In that case, there should also be a gear room after the nine-chain dungeon is over. But we went straight into the elevator at that time. The key player Ishimi Chuan also entered the elevator and left together..." Lian Qiaozuo He raised his brows and looked around, "Speaking of which, where's the elevator? Where's the button? We didn't find anything this time, so does it count as customs clearance?"

    Honeysuckle pondered: "The elevator would have appeared on the day I was 28 years old. As long as I follow the original trajectory of life and enter the financial firm, the elevator will appear at ten o'clock in the evening of 2020. As for the button, the last time I swiped out of the elevator, I committed suicide. As I was dying, I saw the button rise from my body. So the condition for the button to appear is that I will die in 2020.”

    Since the "bug" has been lifted, he has been able to speak about the past reincarnation smoothly. The mysterious power that restrained him from revealing the truth seemed to disappear.

    Lian Qiao added: "But as soon as you die, the entire dungeon will reset. This is the so-called infinite loop and the bug. Because then this dungeon is dead for everyone. ... it's against the rules."

    "Hmm."

    "So the second clue to unlock my key is to prompt me to find a bug. The conflict between your rebirth ability and the clearance conditions of the copy is a bug. In order to resolve the conflict, the copy directly forcibly terminated the loop, So the dungeon world collapsed, the sky was torn apart, and you and I were also torn apart... Huh?" Lian Qiao stopped suddenly in confusion when he said this.

    Honeysuckle: "What?"

    Lian Qiao touched his nose: "So why did you break it?"

    Honeysuckle: "The whole world has collapsed, what's the problem with me shattering along with it?"

    Lian Qiao: "Then... why did I break?"

     Honeysuckle was taken aback: "Isn't it the price of using the key?"

    When these words came out, Ren Dong also realized that it was wrong.

    Lian Qiao's way of breaking is obviously the same as him, and the whole world, which is a manifestation of the collapse of the copy. The collapse of the copy directly caused them to leave the copy and came to the gear room.

    If all this was caused by the use of the key, then this cannot be called a price or punishment at all - it is simply an escape door and they are sent out.

    Conversely, if the price of the key is other, and the broken body of Lian Qiao is a harbinger of the collapse of the copy, then it makes more sense.

    Honeysuckle speculated: "Maybe... the whole world started to collapse from you because you noticed a bug?"

    Even Joe nodded: "I think it's more reasonable. Then here's the problem."

    Yes, here comes the problem.

    —What is the real price of the key?

    As the two of them pondered, a voice sounded from above their heads.

    "Lian Joe..."

    The voice was unbelievably hoarse, whimpering like desert sand, as if suppressing some kind of strong emotion.

    The familiar voice is the riddle that I hear in the elevator every time after a successful escape.

    The two of them were shocked, and both suddenly raised their heads and looked up.

    However, there is nothing in the sky except the countless rotating gears.

    The sound seemed to come from the endless darkness.

    But why, "it"...calls Lian Qiao?