Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

With the sound of the second hand in the sky, the entire desert began to reverse.Xu Rendong grabbed Lian Qiao's hand and jumped onto the pipe.As soon as he went up, his center of gravity was a little unstable, and he was hugged by Lian Qiao.

"Keep balance." Lian Qiao tied one end of the climbing rope on his wrist, and then taught him to lower his center of gravity. "The pipe will slowly fall down after a while, and we will start running up."

Xu Rendong suddenly realized.

yes!The last time the hourglass was upside down, they had watched the pipe tilt.This should be an optical illusion, because they use the sand they are in as a reference system, and the sand is flowing, causing them to see the pipeline from an angle that is also deviated.

However, when the sand flowed, the direction of gravity they felt was also changing.

Xu Rendong remembered that when the hourglass was flipped last time, the first thing they felt was the suction from behind—no, or rather, the gravity from behind!

It stands to reason that if the direction of gravity remains the same, it should always remain perpendicular to the pipe.They should always feel a downward force.But in fact, when the hourglass is turned over, the direction of gravity changes by [-] degrees at once.

And the hourglass turned exactly ninety degrees in the end!

This shows that the source of gravity is the bottom of the hourglass!Once the hourglass starts to reverse, gravity will turn first!That's why they have the illusion of "being pulled backward by some kind of gravity"!

In fact, it is no longer "after", but "down"!

Well, this time the gravity flip - will be perpendicular to the pipe again!

Lian Qiao is really smart.Although he didn't solve the riddle this time, with just a single click, he was instantly enlightened, and he had already thought of a solution.

Sure enough, as the clicking sound became more frequent, Xu Rendong felt that his body was gradually getting lighter.

The change in the direction of gravity made both of them feel that their feet were light and they lost their balance.Fortunately, Lian Qiao was well prepared. He wrapped a climbing rope around the pipe, tied a knot in the middle, and held the two ends in two hands.In this way, even if you lose your balance and fall from the pipe, you can pull it back by the climbing rope.

"run!"

Lian Qiao gave an order, and the two started running along the pipeline.

This feeling is very strange.Xu Rendong felt like an astronaut without clothes.Even though the pipe was vertical, he was able to step on the pipe and run up instead of sliding down.

He heard the sound of sand and gravel flowing behind him, and couldn't help turning his head, seeing an extremely spectacular scene.

The entire desert was floating.

Gravels rose slowly, swaying at first, like thousands of dandelions scattered in the air.With the inclination of the angle and the increase of gravity, the gravel became like rain falling to the sky, flying straight and fast to the sky.

The whole world—falls down.

Shocked by the thrilling beauty, the two kept turning their heads while running, staring at the magnificent sand rain.

Yes, the desert has become sand rain.One after another, they fell into the sky.

Inadvertently, Xu Rendong met Lian Qiao's gaze.Both of them saw a smile that was too excited to hold back from the other's face.

"I suddenly want to sing a song for you!" Lian Qiao shouted with a smile.

"Go back and sing—" Xu Rendong also responded with a smile, "Wait for us to go out together!"

"Okay—" Lian Qiao frowned.

So the two stopped being distracted, but seized the time to run towards the other end of the pipeline.

The change in the direction of gravity made the two of them fly and walk on the pipe wall as if they were walking on flat ground.The wall of the pipe is very smooth, fortunately there is Lian Qiao's climbing rope as a guarantee.Xu Rendong slipped down several times, but was dragged up by Lian Qiao, avoiding the tragedy of going to the sky with Sha Yu.

Running on the pipe wall is much easier than trekking in the desert, but this is a desert climate after all, dry and hot.The two ran wildly all the way, panting like dogs.I don't know how long it has passed, but the eyes finally light up.

It's the door!

I saw a dark golden gate floating by the pipe out of thin air.The metal texture is warm and cool, standing in the scorching midair, it is out of place.

The scorching sun scorched the wind and sand extremely hot.The two of them had just run wildly for a while, and their mouth and tongue were dry enough to describe. They felt that their lungs were about to be burnt, and all the cells in their bodies were like poached eggs on a frying pan, sizzling.

"What's written on the door?" Liandong panted slightly, her vision was a bit blurred.

"He...fire...it's 'autumn'!" Lian Qiao murmured thoughtfully after confirming the words on the dark gold gate, "It really is the four o'clock..."

Liandong was puzzled and said: "Spring, summer, autumn and winter plus long summer, there are obviously five, why are they four seasons?"

Lian Qiao said: "If there is no such long summer, I would think that what is written on the door is the ordinary spring, summer, autumn and winter. But since there is a long summer, it corresponds to the five internal organs."

Honeysuckle is still in the dark.

At this moment, the clicking sound in midair had ended, and the desert returned to calm again.Lian Qiao stood on the metal platform, feeling that there was no danger here, so he patiently explained to Lonicera.

He took out his mobile phone, quickly entered the five words "spring, summer, long summer, autumn, winter", and then pointed to "spring" and said: "In ancient times, the air of the four seasons corresponded to the south, east, north and west. For example, Spring corresponds to the east, and the corresponding color is blue."

Lonicera nodded.He has also heard about blue dragons and white tigers in the southeast, northwest, and so on.The question is why there is an extra "long summer"?

"As for this long summer..." Lian Qiao thought for a while, and wrote "中" under the word "long summer".

As soon as he finished writing, Liandong couldn't help but read: "White in the southeast and northwest?"

Lian Qiao laughed out loud: "No, no, it's not in mahjong... Well, it can't be said that it's not at all. In fact, the southeast, northwest wind in mahjong also corresponds to ancient Chinese philosophy. In fact, it is like this, There are indeed only four directions and seasons, but in order to correspond to the five elements, 'long summer' and 'zhong' were added."

Lonicera suddenly blissed to his heart: "So it corresponds to the five internal organs?"

"Yes." Lian Qiao showed a happy smile of "my partner is awesome", "In this case, we can make up this corresponding relationship."

He wrote these five lines on the sand:

Spring—wood—liver—east.

Summer—fire—heart—south.

Long summer—soil—spleen—central.

Autumn—Gold—Lung—West.

Winter—Water—Kidney—North.

Xu Rendong stared at the five-line characters for a long time: "No wonder there are so many corpses whose internal organs have been hollowed out along the way."

Lian Qiao sighed, "I'm afraid they were all sacrificed."

A flash of light flashed in Xu Rendong's mind, and he subconsciously looked at the door.In the carved pattern, the bright red blood is shocking.The blood should have been stained not long ago.Xu Rendong stretched out his hand, the dark brown blood was still sticky.

He suddenly remembered the message that the fresh ghost who died tragically in the bathroom in the fire mall wanted to convey before disappearing.

It turned out that it was not "South", but the unfinished word "xian"!That person wanted to remind them that only the sacrifice of organs can open the door to the next level, and at the same time alert them——

Someone is going against them!

Where do the organs come from?Of course it comes from a living person!

This copy does not know how many players there are in total.Regardless of the total number, most of them are probably folded in the dark forest.There are very few who can enter the second gate, the "heart gate", not to mention the three gates of "earth", "metal" and "water".

No wonder Lian Qiao would collect fresh dead bodies beside the pipeline, because the internal organs were definitely not enough.

It can be seen from this that the murderer who hollowed out the internal organs must be waiting for them ahead!

After thinking up to this point, Xu Rendong shuddered suddenly.

In this dungeon, besides the gentleman, there is actually another murderer.

He recalled the excited and bloodthirsty look in the gentleman's eyes when he saw the disemboweled corpse.At this moment, he suddenly understood the gentleman's thoughts.

This is a murderer. Seeing a murderer, both tears are tearful.

I just don't know if these two killers will cherish each other or kill each other, or will they hold some kind of perverted killing contest?

Liandong told Lian Qiao what she thought, and Lian Qiao shook his head and said, "Don't try to understand what the killer is thinking. When you understand him thoroughly, you will not be far from becoming a pervert."

He made a lot of sense.

Behind the golden gate is still a thick white mist that cannot be removed. After the white mist, there is no danger.

Lian Qiao looked at the door, dejectedly: "Oh, I thought we were fast enough, but I didn't expect someone to be faster than us!"

Xu Rendong said: "The front two doors have already been opened by others, and it is normal to maintain the lead now."

Lian Qiao: "I don't know if the first person to open the door can get the hidden reward..."

Xu Rendong was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly remembered that they hadn't bought hidden props for a long time.

Except for the brass key in the first copy of Matryoshka and the eyes of Lamia in the second copy, they came out empty-handed the next few times.

Just kidding, I have to do my best just to come out alive, how can I have the spare time to find hidden props?

Xu Rendong has been with Lian Qiao for a long time, and has played many games with him. At this time, he understands Lian Qiao's obsession with hiding props and achievements.What's more, Lamia's eyeballs are so easy to use. If he didn't have that thing, he might have collapsed in the butterfly dungeon.

So he thought for a while and said, "Why don't we go through the door and walk along the pipeline for a while?"

The Golden Gate is not at the end of the pipeline, there is still a long pipeline behind it, extending into the clouds, I don't know what is behind the clouds.

Lian Qiao's eyes lit up, eager to try was written all over his face.But soon he shook his head again.

"No, it's too late. If we continue to run forward, we won't be able to run back before the hourglass flips again. At that time, the direction of gravity will change again, and we won't be able to come back."

Xu Rendong thought to himself: what are you afraid of, at most you die and start over.

But he couldn't say that.

So he looked into Lian Qiao's eyes and said seriously: "With me here, you don't need to hide props. I am your strongest prop."

Lian Qiao was amused by his sudden confession, reached out and stroked his hair, and said sweetly: "Well, you are enough for me. My Jiuguan boss."

Xu Rendong: "..." How dare you rua the boss's head when you worship the boss!How decent!

The two recuperated in front of the door for a while, and after regrouping, they stepped into the mist side by side.

The slightly cool and moist mist permeated the skin, making it indescribably cold.

Lian Qiao shrank her neck and stuck out her tongue, "Fortunately, it was late autumn when we came in, and we were wearing a lot of clothes, otherwise... um!"

Before he finished speaking, he stopped abruptly.

The white mist in front of him just dispersed.Liandong turned her head in surprise, and saw Lian Qiao covering her mouth with a strange expression.

"What's the matter?" Seeing that his expression was different, Liandong subconsciously became on guard.Looking around, it is a wilderness wasteland.There are sparse stones and dead trees scattered on the wasteland, the weeds are withered and yellow, and it is desolate.

The view of this wilderness is surprisingly wide.Liandong didn't see anything that could pose a threat, but Lian Qiao's complexion became worse and worse, and his expression became serious.

Without waiting for Liandong to ask again, Lian Qiao spread the palm covering his mouth.Liandong looked down, and there was a small pool of blood on that palm!

Liandong was startled, and was about to speak, when suddenly he heard a gust of wind.Then there was a pain on his face.He subconsciously reached out to touch it, and his expression changed drastically.

blood.

There was an extra gash on his face out of thin air!

"...Is someone ambushing?" Xu Rendong looked around in shock.However, with them as the center, within a radius of a few hundred meters, there is nothing but dry grass.There are not even stones and trees to hide in.

Lian Qiao shook his head slowly: "Not human."

Lonicera: "Ghost?"

"I'm afraid... I'm afraid it's not..." Before Lian Qiao finished speaking, he suddenly covered his mouth and coughed.Soon, blood was seeping between his fingers.

Liandong turned pale with fright, just opened her mouth when she suddenly felt her throat was cut by a knife.A tearing sore stretched from the throat to the lungs.He couldn't help covering his mouth and coughing violently.

"Cough cough, cough cough..."

The two coughed for a while, and their hands were covered with blood.After finally coughing for a while, the two were surprised to find that there had been several bloody cuts on the other's face at some point.

The blood was very shallow, like being scratched by a cat.It's just that the cat probably has a very bad temper. In the blink of an eye, it scratched the faces of the two of them more than a dozen times, and blood was seen every time.

Lian Qiao was stunned for a moment, then suddenly thought of something, took off his coat decisively, and pulled Lian Dong to his side:

"Quick! Get in!"

Liandong reacted quickly, and hid in the coat with Lian Qiao.

The two of them looked as if they were hiding from the rain, but apart from the sound of the wind, there were no raindrops in the wilderness.Even so, the exposed palm still feels tingling from time to time.Occasionally, there was the sound of cloth being torn from the coat, as if invisible knives were flying in the air.

"really……"

The two got so close that Lian Qiao's lips almost brushed Lonicera's earlobe.The slightly deep voice is like caressing the eardrum.

"...It's the wind." Lian Qiao said.

At this time, both of their faces were blown into more than a dozen cuts by the wind, and their bodies were not much better.In fact, these superficial injuries are all right, the key is that the air sucked into the lungs seems to have a knife, which scrapes the lung lobes, so they vomit blood one after another.

Xu Rendong couldn't help but wanted to sigh, but he didn't dare to take a big breath, so he could only whisper: "Is autumn so terrible?"

Lian Qiao said: "This kind of obstructs the sight." He tried to pull the coat a little bit, but as soon as his head was exposed, his forehead was stabbed, which made him quickly withdraw his head.

Xu Rendong frowned: "This wind is too evil. Be careful, don't hurt your eyes."

Lian Qiao: "I'm not worried about the wind."

"Ok?"

"I was thinking, where are the people walking in front of us hiding?"

In an instant, Xu Rendong felt like a flash of lightning flashed across his mind, and many clues connected in series, pointing to the same answer.

He couldn't help blurting out: "Gentlemen and killers are waiting for us to deliver..."

Before the words fell, Xu Rendong suddenly felt a chill in his heart.Immediately afterwards, Lian Qiao's frightened and furious expression came into view.

Xu Rendong subconsciously touched his back, it was warm and full of blood.He found a knife.

Unlike the invisible sharp blade in the wind, it is a real sharp knife.The blade was completely submerged in his back, almost brushing past his spine.In an instant, he seemed to be drained of all his strength, and his whole body fell limply.

Before he fell down, Lian Qiao jumped up and hugged him, and at the same time let out an inhuman roar behind him.

"You actually—I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!"

Seeing Lian Qiao's sudden surge of murderous aura, Xu Rendong suddenly felt extremely far away.He felt like a bystander, feeling no pain, no sadness and unwillingness.He saw Lian Qiao's eyes reddened by anger and murderousness, and felt like he was looking at a stranger.

He even thought a little self-deprecatingly: Have I ever opened my mouth?