Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

Victims have begun to appear in the ranks, and everyone is in a bad mood.After checking the corpse, Yuan Xueming announced: It is better to start the task as soon as possible, otherwise there will be more and more victims.

Xu Rendong took out the compass: "This may be useful, I found it in the kitchen yesterday."

With a compass, they will not get lost in the snow when they are out exploring.Everyone's tense emotions eased a little, but Lian Qiao looked at Xu Rendong thoughtfully.He only said that he had found the compass, but did not mention the nesting dolls.Even after thinking about it for a while, Qiao understood.

Under the guidance of Xu Rendong, everyone easily found the known dolls and the elevator in the hidden room.In the process, although sacrifices were inevitable, finding the elevator was already half the battle, and everyone's emotions gradually stabilized.Coupled with the fact that they started getting the dolls very quickly this time, even though the time limit is only four days left, they are very optimistic and have no doubts about their ability to go out.

Only Xu Rendong knows that in the coming time, everyone will be more and more desperate day by day, because he no longer knows where the next nesting doll is.If they couldn't find new clues, they could only watch the passage of time as they did last time, until the end of the seven days, when the rabbit ran away and wiped them all out.

On this day, everyone followed Xu Rendong as usual and explored around.Although nothing was found this afternoon, everyone's morale was still high, and they were talking about tomorrow's plan.

Only Xu Rendong remained silent, holding a compass in his hand, walking alone at the front of the team.Although there are so many partners around him, he still looks like he is walking alone in the snow, alone and helpless.Lian Qiao followed behind him, watching him silently, finally couldn't help but chase after him, and called out: "Brother Liandong."

Xu Rendong: "What's wrong?"

Looking over with beautiful light brown eyes, Lian Qiao was inexplicably palpitated, feeling that he had seen through his behavior of deliberately striking up a conversation without saying anything, and even forgot the topic he had prepared.

Xu Rendong just looked at him quietly, neither urging nor disgusting.Lian Qiao suddenly found that when he looked at people, his eyes were very focused, and he even turned his head slightly, as if listening carefully.It can be seen from this small gesture that he respects others very much.And this is not putting on airs to pretend, he is showing good upbringing unconsciously.

There are two sources of upbringing, one is parental precepts and deeds, and the other is self-discipline.Xu Rendong is an orphan, and the orphanage probably won't teach him so thoughtfully.Clearly, then, his upbringing was the result of self-discipline.

Thinking of this, Lian Qiao's favorability for him soared.He felt that although Xu Rendong looked a little cold, he was actually not an arrogant and rude person, and he was a little happy for a while.

He collected himself and said, "Do you think there is something wrong with the nesting doll that was buried in the snow just now?"

He was talking about the first-time killing doll who can twist people into twists.

Xu Rendong nodded: "I understand what you mean. If the rest of the nesting dolls are as hard to find as this one, and if there are monsters hidden in them, then we will all die here."

Lian Qiao: "I thought so too, but it seems a bit wrong. Do you still remember that when the rabbit came to announce the task on the first day, he accidentally slipped the tongue and said "player"?"

Xu Rendong: "Do you still think this is a game?"

Lian Qiao: "Yes. There are missions and npcs who issue missions, monsters guarding treasures, mechanism traps, and time limits for escaping dungeons...these settings are too similar to the game. In addition, there are The most important thing is the rules."

Xu Rendong was puzzled: "What rules?"

Lian Qiao: "Any game must have rules, otherwise it cannot be called a game. For example, flying chess, you can only leave the cabin when you roll a six. If two planes from different camps meet in the same grid, one will crash. .In the end, the one whose planes reach the finish line first wins. This is the rule of flying chess. The whole game is based on the rules, otherwise the game will not stand. Rules are the most important elements of the game. Don’t you think Yuan Ge Is the death condition mentioned actually a rule?"

Before, Xu Rendong always believed that it was a naive idea for Lian Qiao to treat the world of ghosts and monsters as a game.After all, people will really die here, which is no longer the level of playing games.But listening to his analysis now, it seems to be quite interesting.

Xu Rendong: "Go ahead."

Lian Qiao said: "Then let's take this ghost world as a game for now. It has two rules: one is to find a gift and give it to the rabbit within the limited seven days. will be killed by rabbits. But the problem now is that it is almost impossible to find all sets of dolls. In fact, all games must follow a basic rule, that is, it cannot set an absolute dead end. It can be difficult, but it can give you Set up obstacles, but there is no way out. And do you remember, the rabbit said 'find the gift', not 'find the set of dolls'. Think about it, in fact the rabbit did not promise to find the set of dolls, we can Leave. So I think, we may have preconceived it at the beginning. Maybe the condition for escaping is not to find the set of dolls?"

Xu Rendong finally understood, nodded and said: "Yes. Our real goal is to find the elevator and the button, but the question is where is the button?"

Lian Qiao pondered for a moment and said, "I want to go back to the stele and see if Brother Sledgehammer is still there."

Xu Rendong nodded: "I will accompany you."

Lian Qiao was surprised that he agreed without the slightest hesitation, and asked in surprise: "Don't you ask me why I went back? After all, Brother Sledgehammer is quite dangerous..."

Xu Rendong said: "I know you know it well. I trust your judgment."

Lian Qiao looked at him sideways, bent his eyes and smiled.

Dinner is still Leba and milk.Xu Rendong has long been tired of eating, and now he feels like vomiting when he sees these two things.But for the night's plan, he still forced himself to eat some to replenish his strength.

But if he didn't go out again, he might really be driven crazy.Not only to go crazy, but also to be constipated.This is so inelegant.

After everyone went back to their room to rest, Xu Rendong and Lian Qiao quietly put on their coats, took a crowbar, and stepped into the forest again.

The path in the forest has long been covered with thick snow. Fortunately, Xu Rendong has walked this path back and forth several times, and he still roughly remembers the direction.After walking for an unknown amount of time, the two finally came to the vicinity of the open space. From a distance, they saw the standing stone tablet and the tall figure walking back and forth near the stone tablet.

At this time, it had been four days since they took away the doll, but Brother Sledgehammer was still wandering in place.It has snowed several times in the past few days, and Brother Sledgehammer's body is already covered with snow, which keeps falling as he walks.There was even ice on the eyebrows and hair, which looked pitiful.

Xu Rendong was a little surprised, and gently said to Lian Qiao who was at the side: "You guessed it, he is really still there."

Lian Qiao took out the smallest nesting doll, and thoughtfully said: "Look, does this look like an egg?"

Xu Rendong was taken aback.This set of dolls is round and colorful. If you don't look at the weird smiling face pattern, it really looks like an egg.Xu Rendong didn't quite understand: "What do you mean?"

Lian Qiao said softly: "I have been thinking these days why the rabbit is unwilling to tell us what the holiday is in seven days. I guess it is Christmas or Easter. Easter is more likely. But why is the rabbit unwilling? Admit it?"

Xu Rendong nodded, this is also a question he has been thinking about.

Lian Qiao said: "So I guess, this 'holiday' may be related to the clues for customs clearance, so it doesn't want to tell us easily. Do you still remember the word 'Russian doll' written in Russian in the elevator that brought us here? ? This should also be a prompt for customs clearance, but because we found the real dolls right away, everyone didn't pay attention to this problem, and I didn't think much about it... Until today, a trap was opened in the dolls, and I suddenly understood. These Matryoshka is actually not a nesting doll, but an Easter egg.”

Xu Rendong was a little surprised: "Eggs for the Easter bunny?"

Lian Qiao: "Yes. Easter eggs mean surprises. Didn't we always think that there were positive props in the matryoshka dolls, but this time there were ghosts, and all of us were really 'surprised'."

Xu Rendong thought for a moment: "I think your explanation is a bit far-fetched, and the easter eggs seem to be forced onto it."

Lian Qiao said with a smile: "From this point of view, it is indeed far-fetched. But there is another point... Do you know that Russian nesting dolls were originally made to celebrate Easter?"

Xu Rendong was taken aback.

Lian Qiao said: "The original Russian matryoshka was not the image of a big doll inside a small doll, but a crown with a hen, a hen with an egg, and an egg with an egg yolk, and the innermost part was chocolate. Later, after a Painter... um..." He suddenly got stuck, thought for a while, and scratched his hair in embarrassment, "It's over, the pretense failed, I forgot the name of the painter."

Xu Rendong was helpless: "It's not important, continue."

Lian Qiao: "Well, it's not important. Anyway, after improvements, the nesting dolls became what they are now. So I guess, the prompt in the elevator is to emphasize the importance of nesting dolls, which is also the key to solving the puzzle - nesting dolls A doll is not just a nesting doll, it's an Easter egg. So..."

Lian Qiao stared at the giant hammer in Brother Sledgehammer's hand, his expression suddenly excited: "I have a bold idea."

Xu Rendong smiled and said, "Me too."

Lian Qiao didn't expect Xu Rendong to go with him, he was a little surprised and secretly happy.He looked at Xu Rendong, with a gentle smile in his eyes: "But this is very risky. If there is really nothing in this doll, then we have destroyed the key props, and all of us are dead gone."

Xu Rendong comforted: "It's okay, we are already dead."

Lian Qiao: "...what you said makes sense."

Xu Rendong: "The question is how do you borrow a hammer from Big Hammer?"

Lian Qiao raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "I'll seduce you."

……seduce?

Xu Rendong looked at Brother Sledgehammer with big arms and round waist, and Lian Qiao with thin skin and tender flesh, and suddenly had many bad associations.He frowned, held Lian Qiao who was eager to try, and said in a deep voice, "Don't go."

Lian Qiao: "Huh?"

Xu Rendong said displeased: "I didn't expect you to be this kind of person. Such a trivial matter would betray your appearance. Are you worthy of your parents?"

Lian Qiao: "..." He finally realized that Xu Rendong had misunderstood, and couldn't help but burst out laughing, "No, no, no, what I said to seduce is to attract his attention and let him run with me. In this way, you Can you help me put the nesting doll on the stele? Then I will lure him back to the stele and avoid his attack, so that I can use his hammer to smash the nesting doll. Seduction is a game term, I usually say it fluently, so I didn’t pay attention.”

Xu Rendong: "..." He silently turned his head away, was silent for a moment, and choked out the word "oh".

I thought it was the other party's dirty mind, but I didn't expect that I was thinking too much.Xu Liandong is so embarrassed that he is so embarrassed now that he accuses others righteously.

Lian Qiao added fuel to the fire: "Oh, I didn't expect you to be this kind of person..."

Xu Rendong's ears turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Lian Qiao looked at him so shy that his whole body was stiff, and thought he was extremely cute.Suddenly, I wanted to tease him, and even dared to touch his ears.

Lian Qiao faintly felt that this was not good, and Brother Liandong might be angry.But he couldn't control himself, and when he realized it, his hand had already stretched out to Xu Rendong's earlobe, just a thin line away from the small and soft tender flesh.

Gudong.

Lian Qiao swallowed nervously and excitedly.