Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

    When the two returned to the study again, the three girls stood up excitedly.

    Ye Qingliu stuffed a book into Xu Rendong's hands: "Look at this!"

    "What is this?" Lian Qiao leaned over and saw that the cover was still in Greek, but the content inside was a lot of pictures, "Huh? Picture book?"

    Xu Rendong turned a few pages: "It seems to be a fairy tale. Look, there is a man here with a trident."

    "Poseidon, the **** of the sea!" Lian Qiao immediately understood what he meant, pointed to another man with a spear and a large shield and said, "This should be Zeus, and the one in his hand is ' Thunder' spear and 'Aegis' great shield."

    Xu Rendong quickly flipped through the whole book, and found that there are few words in this book, almost all of them are pictures. If there is a clue hidden in this bookshelf, then this picture book is undoubtedly the best answer. He then spread the book on the table so that everyone could find clues together.

    The five children gathered around the table to read picture books together, and the atmosphere was unexpectedly warm.

    From the perspective of content, this picture book is really about Greek mythology. For example, Prometheus steals fire, Hercules obtains the golden apple, and Sisyphus pushes the boulder (note)…

    Even if there is no systematic study of Greek mythology, these myths have been heard more or less in childhood. Therefore, although there is no text, everyone just looks at the pictures and has a general idea of ​​what these stories are talking about. But the last story in the picture book, everyone does not understand. It depicts a beautiful woman, who at first hugged Zeus, but another goddess suddenly descended from the sky, turning the beautiful woman into a man-eating monster. Interestingly, all she eats are children.

    "Who is this?" Ye Qingliu scratched his head, pointed to the goddess who fell from the sky and said, "I think it looks like Zeus's wife is here to catch an adulterer... But hasn't Zeus cheated on him many times? Which time was it?"

    Xu Rendong shook his head, his knowledge of Greek mythology was limited to the stories he heard as a child. Lian Qiao suddenly said, "It's Lamia."

    Lamia?

    No one had heard of this name, and everyone immediately looked at Lian Qiao in unison. Lian Qiao organized the language and began to tell the story of Lamia.

    It turned out that Lamia was favored by Zeus because of her beauty and became his mistress. But Hera, the queen of heaven, was jealous, and in her anger, she killed all of Lamia's children and cursed her, turning her into a terrifying basilisk. Under the influence of the curse, Lamia began to hunt and devour children everywhere. In order to make her suffer endlessly, Hera even deprived her of sleep so that she could not close her eyes, so that she would continue to see the scene of her son being killed, so that she lost control of her emotions and kept killing.

    "Can't close your eyes?" Xu Rendong recalled the white basilisk's blood-red eyes without eyelids, and couldn't help but tremble, "In this case, it is indeed very similar to this boss."

    "But there is a problem." Lian Qiao showed a thoughtful expression, "The clue of this copy is 'esophagus'... What does it mean?"

    Xu Rendong shook her head. Ye Qingliu was suddenly indignant: "Zeus is a scumbag! He hooks up with women from a good family all day long, and the girls who have been spoiled by him end up badly! So is Hera, the queen of the day, you are a scumbag when a scumbag cheats! What's the point of abusing a mistress? It's very pleasing to join forces with Xiaosan to abuse scumbags!"

    Xu Rendong is helpless. The three views in ancient Greece were different from today, and they were not as constrained as they are now about sex. Ye Qingliu has been taking care of Zeus for a while now. Sure enough, men and women look at things differently.

    Lian Qiao nodded and said: "You are right, in fact, Zeus also felt that he was a bit scumbag, and he was embarrassed and wanted to make up for Lamia. But he was also a strict wife, and he did not dare to disobey his wife. Directly lift the curse. In the end, he found a compromise and gave Lamia the ability to 'take off her own eyes'. When Lamia takes off her eyes, she can sleep, so that she can live in endless A brief respite from the killing and suffering."

    Everyone was silent after hearing this. It seems that the boss Lamia this time is actually the victim, but as the target of murder, everyone really has no position to sympathize with her.

    Lian Qiao said: "According to the myth, Lamia goes out to hunt children at night, and during the day she takes off her eyeballs to sleep. At present, it seems that this boss is indeed acting like this."

    Everyone nodded.

    "Then here comes the problem." Lian Qiao paused and looked at Xu Rendong.

    Honeysuckle instantly understood what he meant.

    Since Lamia sleeps during the day, if she steals her eyeballs while she is asleep, won't she be able to hunt them down?

    At this point, he and Lian Qiao exchanged glances. Lian Qiao bent her eyes and smiled, confirming that the two of them were thinking the same thing.

    The other three newcomers haven't reacted yet. Ye Qingliu said even more angrily: "What are you two doing so frowning? Can you make it clearer? We outsiders don't have the kind of tacit understanding you have."

    The word "tacit understanding" makes Xu Rendong in a good mood inexplicably. But he was not in a hurry to explain, just smiled: "I guess other people have explored almost the same. Let's gather people and share the information we have collected."

    The other group was led by the little fat man, there were about ten people. In addition to the little fat man and the biggest Ren Gaoyuan, there are also a few old players. They were a large team, and under the leadership of the old players, they explored all the rooms on the first floor separately.

    At the call of the boss of Honeysuckle, everyone gathered in the study room on the second floor. A dozen or so three- to five-year-olds sat in a circle on the carpet and held a serious meeting.

    Xu Rendong first spoke out about their group's achievements. Sure enough, after listening to Lamia's story, everyone's expressions on their faces were very bad. Although even Qiao proposed to sneak attack while Lamia took off her eyeballs, but so far no one has found Lamia's hiding place, so the sneak attack is naturally impossible to mention.

    "What about you? Did you find anything?" Xu Rendong asked.

    The little fat man frowned and said, "It's not as big as yours. We checked every room carefully, and we didn't find any clues."

    Xu Rendong nodded, and the little fat man said again: "The only harvest is a bag of milk powder, I brought it to you."

    Xu Rendong saw that it was the bag of milk powder in the kitchen. Before leaving the kitchen in the morning, he hid the formula in an inconspicuous place. But since half of their team are old players, it is normal to find milk powder.

    He took it and was surprised to find that the bag was much lighter than last night.

    "Did you drink milk powder?!" Xu Rendong's complexion suddenly changed.

    "That's right." There was a hint of arrogance and smugness in the little fat man's demeanor. If you have enough weight, half a cup per person is no problem." He said and winked at his teammates, "Everyone in our team only drank half a cup, right?"

    Little Fatty's teammates nodded. Xu Rendong's heart sank, knowing that these people have not lived long.

    This behavior of the little fat man is obviously establishing a position for himself, making everyone feel that he has something to eat. They deliberately left only a little milk powder, so that Ye Qingliu and the three newcomers regretted being on the wrong team, and even gave up on the spot and switched to his team. In this way, what he said "no clues were found" may not be the truth. But he foolishly revealed all the information they had here.

    …The abacus is good, but unfortunately, the little fat man does not know that drinking milk powder is a condition of death.

    Xu Rendong felt a deep powerlessness: "You are obviously an old player, how dare you eat anything here? Let everyone eat together..."

    The little fat man misunderstood the reason for his helplessness, and smiled slyly: "Don't think I don't know, you have already eaten it secretly. There is powder on the mouth of the milk powder bag!" He looked at Xu Ren Dong glanced at Lian Qiao with contempt again, "You two disappeared early in the morning, you must have been hiding in the kitchen to steal the milk powder! You even hid the milk powder, your heart can be punished, your heart can be punished! "

    Xu Rendong was speechless. He hid the milk powder just for fear that some newcomers would steal the milk powder and trigger the death conditions. As for the old players, he thought that experienced people would not easily take risks, let alone eat milk powder. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be self-defeating, causing the old player to misunderstand that he was hiding food, and he shared it with all his partners with confidence and boldness on the grounds of "he has eaten and he is still alive".

    All right, these dozen people are all dead tonight.

    Xu Rendong's silence made the little fat man more arrogant and domineering. He turned back to his teammates and said, "Hey, look, some people, relying on their rich experience, bully simple and ignorant newcomers. If I hadn't seen through his tricks in time, everyone would still be hungry by now. Where's the belly!"

    Ren Gaofei also snorted: "Oh, people are sinister."

    The three newcomers on Xu Rendong's side also didn't know about the conditions of death. At this time, they looked at each other with hesitation on their faces. Xu Rendong was afraid that they could not resist the temptation of food, and was about to tell the truth about the milk powder, but Lian Qiao squeezed his hand lightly and gave him a "no" wink.

    Xu Rendong was taken aback. Lian Qiao said: "Brother Rendong, let's go down and have a look. I don't worry about the room they explored, let's go and explore again."

      My rookie, when is it your turn to speak here!"

     Saying such words with the body of a five-year-old child looks very inconsistent and makes people feel very uncomfortable.

    Xu Rendong wanted to refute it, but Lian Qiao stopped him with his eyes. Xu Rendong realized that Lian Qiao had other plans, so he ignored the provocation of the little fat man and nodded to Lian Qiao: "Okay, let's go."

    The two held hands and walked towards the door, leaving the little fat man gnashing his teeth in anger, roaring behind them: "Why are you so unsocial! Is there any way for you to survive like this!"

    Xu Rendong took a step. The little fat man had a happy face, thinking that he had changed his mind, but Xu Rendong just turned around and called out, "Qingliu."

    "Come here!" Ye Qingliu picked up the baby and followed. After taking two steps and turning back, he picked up the remaining half bag of milk powder and said, "Thank you." Then he chased Xu Rendong without thinking.

    Little Fatty was so angry that his eyes burned, he turned his head and stared at the remaining two newcomers: "What do you say?"

    The two girls looked at each other, and one asked timidly, "Can we still join your team?"

    The other one pulled her and whispered, "But the milk powder is in Sister Qingliu's hands..."

    The little fat man changed his face in a second, his expression softened: "Don't worry, food is not a problem." He took out a small bag from his pocket, which was full of white powder. His eyes were full of sly and triumphant light, "There is more than one bag of milk powder in the monastery, all of them are with me!"

    The author has something to say:

    Note: Sisyphus pushes the megalith: Sisyphus is a figure in Greek mythology, similar to the more tragic King Oedipus, the founder and king of Corinth. He even kidnapped the **** of death once, so that there is no death in the world. In the end, Sisyphus offended the gods. In order to punish Sisyphus, the gods asked him to push a boulder to the top of the mountain, and because the boulder was too heavy, he often rolled down the mountain before he reached the top of the mountain. Do it over and over again, never ending—the gods thought there was no more severe punishment than doing this futile and hopeless labor. Sisyphus' life was slowly consumed in such an ineffective and hopeless labor. - The above is excerpted from Baidu Encyclopedia. Many works refer to this story, such as the movie "Terrorist Cruise" and the game "Stone Gate".