Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

Lonicera brought back a lot of homework.I don't know if it's because of his extraordinary talent or because he listens carefully in class, but he can do those weird primary school questions effortlessly.

In the evening, the monk picked up a math homework book that hadn't started yet, and was dumbfounded: "What kind of questions are these? Mom bought five pieces of cake and distributed them to four children. How should I divide them?" He scratched his bald head, truly Monk Zhang Er couldn't figure out what to deduce, "Is this a math problem?! Don't lie to me because I don't read much!"

Lian Qiao was delighted when he heard it: "I don't know how to divide five cakes into four, but I can divide nitrogen into four cakes among five people. As long as..."

Liandong, who was working hard, suddenly raised his head when he heard the words, and interrupted: "Don't hack the children to death."

Lian Qiao: "???" How do you know what I'm going to say!

The monk and Little Apple at the side didn't react at first, they looked at each other, and after belatedly understood, they couldn't help laughing.Little Apple asked Liandong: "Then what should you do with this question?"

"It's very simple." Liandong turned his eyes back to the Chinese exercise book in his hand, as if he didn't want to waste too much time, and said lightly, "Five cakes, four children, if you eat with your mother, you just happen to be alone One piece?"

"Huh?!" Lian Qiao was dissatisfied, "Then how can this be called a math problem? This is clearly an ideological and moral problem!"

Little Apple: "That's right. Why can't each cake be cut into four, and each child gets five quarters of the cake?"

Liandong said: "Because this is a topic for the first grade of elementary school. There are no credits for the first grade."

The monk suddenly slapped his forehead: "Then can you throw five cakes into the juicer to make a pulp, and then divide them into four cups, so that the points will not be used!"

Audience: "..." After imagining that scene, I couldn't help but feel a little disgusted.

In the end, of course, Lonicera did not adopt such weird answers as "hacking a cake", "five quarters of a cake per person", and "squeezing cake juice".He focused on writing down the words "Share with Mom" ​​in the blank space, stroke by stroke, earnestly.

Because the body is still very young, it is difficult to hold the pen, so the written characters are inevitably crooked, with a bit of childish innocence.

Lian Qiao tilted his head to see him write this line, and his heart was inexplicably filled with warmth.

"Okay, what are you going to do, don't bother him." Lian Qiao began to wave away the guests.

"You really throw it away when you're done using it." Little Apple threw down the handicraft that she just made, with a look of disgust on her face, "You scumbag."

Honeysuckle is also a lot of manual work.Little Apple was ingenious and contracted most of the work.The monk couldn't do it anymore. A big man took a pair of small scissors and cut himself into a sweaty sissy. He was so anxious that he even stuck out his orchid fingers, but he still couldn't cut a complete window grille.

Therefore, as soon as Lian Qiao chased away the guests, the monk happily took Little Apple away as if he had been pardoned.

Due to economic and security considerations, they lived together in the next room.Although it is said that men and women are not close to each other, the monk is an upright monk after all, and he can also chant scriptures.Little Apple not only didn't mind at all, but even felt very safe.

After the two left, Lian Qiao took over the unfinished work.In fact, he is not very good at this kind of thing, but when he thinks that this is the homework that Little Honeysuckle will hand in in class tomorrow, he becomes very patient and meticulous.

Working slowly and meticulously, the window grilles he cut out were so exquisite and beautiful that they could be sold for money.

He carefully held the window grilles in front of Lonicera, blinking his deer-like dewy eyes, waiting for praise with joy.

When Liandong saw her, she also showed surprise in her eyes, and said with a smile: "It's so beautiful, the teacher will praise me in class tomorrow."

"Hey hey hey." The silly son of the landlord's family became happy again when he heard it.

The next day, Lian Qiao woke up early, prepared breakfast for Lian Dong, and sent him to study.

Even though the school is just across the road, Lian Qiao still has a sense of ceremony, as if he is really a father of the child, and even carefully checks Lian Dong's small schoolbag before going out to see if he has all his homework books.

Liandong laughed at him for being too into the show, and he rubbed Liandong's little head with a smile, but he thought sweetly and slightly sourly in his heart: The love you didn't have a chance to get when you were young, now I will make it up to you twice.

It's not enough to be nice to you.

After sending off the little honeysuckle, Lian Qiao came back to join the monk and the others.

Yesterday, everyone explored the entire block individually, and because they were helping Lonicera with homework at night, they didn't have time to share clues.Sitting down to discuss it now, but still found no clue.

"Hey, maybe he has to be raised until he is 28 to unlock the next clue." Little Apple was worried, "But why do I feel that nothing good will happen on that day in 2020?"

"What is the key player for?" The monk scratched his head.He hadn't experienced the orphanage period with everyone, so he was still curious about Lonicera, a key player.

Lian Qiao said: "In the past dungeons, I met three..."

He originally wanted to say that he had met three key players, but after a second thought, he decided to hide that he was a key player in the Matryoshka dungeon.Then he changed his mouth and said: "...Oh no, strictly speaking, there are only two times."

Little Apple keenly asked: "What do you mean? What do you mean 'strictly speaking'?"

"Because Liandong and I wrote the book separately once." He explained half-truthfully without changing his face, "We got a pair of eyeball props, and if equipped on two people, we can share vision. At that time Coincidentally, he and I happened to enter two dungeons at the same time. As a result, we saw the situation of the other dungeon in each dungeon."

"Is there such a thing?" Little Apple, as a senior gamer, became energized when he heard the word "props", and asked with glowing eyes, "And then?"

"He met a key player on his side, I didn't have one. So strictly speaking, I only met the key player twice."

"That's it?" Little Apple frowned and asked suspiciously, "There's no need to emphasize this, it's really strange for you to say that."

Lian Qiao originally thought that this matter could be resolved, but she didn't expect Little Apple to be so sensitive.He was secretly surprised, but on the surface he showed a look of displeasure: "Why? I'm not allowed to be strict?"

"Okay." Little Apple pouted, obviously not satisfied with the answer.

The monk scratched his head, looked at Lian Qiao and then at Little Apple.To be honest, he didn't quite understand what the two were discussing. He was just a weak, helpless and mentally handicapped rookie player, so he tried to turn the topic back to a level he could understand: "...So what is the key player? What is it for? Can you make it simpler?"

"The key player has two functions. One is to provide clues, and the other is to affect the difficulty of the dungeon." Lian Qiao said, "For example, I experienced a dungeon called 'Esophagus', and the final boss in it was a man named Lamia. A Greek female monster. If you want to clear the level, you must return her child, but she has the habit of eating children, so... well, it is a bit complicated to say. In short, you must know the legend of Lamia, otherwise you will not pass No way."

Little Apple was confused: "Wait, aren't we talking about key players? Why didn't I understand what you meant?"

Monk: "!" I am finally not the only retarded one!

Lian Qiao smiled and said, "Then let me ask you, do you know that the root of the name 'Lamia' in Greek is 'esophagus'?"

Little Apple was stunned.

Lian Qiao said: "Now I'll tell you that the monster is called Lamia, but at that time in the dungeon, the monster didn't have a name on its head, and it wouldn't tell you what it was called. What we saw was just a White basilisk. There are so many varieties of basilisks in myths and legends, who knows which one it is? And there is no internet in the dungeon, so there is no way to take pictures and recognize pictures. Even if you download an offline encyclopedia on your phone, if you don’t know it before If it is, who would have thought that it is Lamia?"

Little Apple finally came to his senses: "So that time, it was the key player who recognized Lamia?"

Lian Qiao: "Oh, it wasn't that time, it was me that time. After all, I am knowledgeable."

Little Apple: "..." Can't help showing a murderous expression.

Lian Qiao couldn't help laughing when she saw her sore face: "But later we found out that there was actually a little fat guy in the team who knew about it. He is a writer and he just published a book recently. The content is It’s about Lamia. The same is true for another key player that Lonicera met, and he already knew the true meaning of the dungeon’s name without checking the information, thus grasping the most critical clue to clear the level.”

Little Apple: "What about the third one?" Her tone gradually became serious, "Is increasing the difficulty of the dungeon...?"

Lian Qiao sighed: "The third key player is a big boss, whose strength is against the sky, so powerful that it is unscientific. That dungeon is his last level. According to him, the difficulty of the dungeon has increased due to his existence. A lot. In fact, that dungeon can no longer be called difficult, it is simply impossible to pass the level. There are a total of 91 players in that dungeon, can you believe it? But if you follow the normal process of the dungeon, the only one who is able to clear the level in the end Boss alone."

The amount of information is a bit large, Little Apple pondered for a moment, and asked: "Then how did you and Xu Rendong pass the level?"

"..." Lian Qiao sighed again, "I don't know."

Little Apple: "Huh???"

Lian Qiao: "We cooperated with that boss. It was Lonicera who went to talk about it. I don't know the specific content. When I came back to my senses, I was led by the boss to clear the level."

Little Apple: "Could it be that some kind of PY was carried out secretly..."

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly realized that the word "PY transaction" was a bit offensive to Liandong, so she quickly cut off the conversation, stuck out her tongue and apologized: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean that, I said I'm used to it... (Note )”

Even Joe was indeed a little unhappy, but Little Apple apologized, and he didn't pursue it.

The monk listened to the two people chatting back and forth for a long time, and felt that the question marks on his forehead had grown a lot.

"Amitabha, I'm afraid this poor monk is mentally handicapped." The monk sighed, "And he is the only mentally handicapped one in the current team, how desolate."

"It's okay, I understand. I'll explain it to you later." Little Apple smiled heartily, and then said to Lian Qiao, "Thank you for telling me this." The conversation changed, and she said with a sad face , "Hey, it would be great if Brother Honeysuckle was willing to tell me the reasoning process like you. After all, why didn't you want to tell me?"

"Of course he has his reasons."

"Even you don't know?"

"Ah."

Little Apple was surprised and said: "Then don't you think there is a problem? You are all in this relationship, what else can he hide from you? Besides, this is your last book, and the difficulty is so high. He is not afraid to hide it from you." Are you delaying things?"

"Don't ask, it means that I trust him." Lian Qiao said frankly, "Even if he kills me, I'd be happy."

Little Apple: "..." It really makes people blind to be gay.

The three of them sat together and discussed for a while the whereabouts of the elevator and the buttons.Still clueless.

"There are too few clues." Little Apple said, "The collection rate is not enough to solve the mystery."

really.In the past dungeons, the customs clearance conditions were basically hidden in the dungeon name. As long as the information mastered by the key players was obtained, the customs clearance would be a little bit of a clue.

And this dungeon is called "1992-2020". Xu Rendong is the only one born in 1992 among all players, and he has grown up from a newborn baby little by little.The dungeon name this time seems to only remind one thing, that is - Xu Rendong is a key player.

But what's the point of knowing this?What is the key information that the key players have this time?

"There are too few clues..." Lian Qiao muttered to himself, repeating what Little Apple said.

He unconsciously raised his hand and pressed it to his chest.Through the clothes, I felt a long, thin and hard object.

Little Apple's eyes moved, noticing his subtle movements, and asked, "What's that hanging around your neck?"

Lian Qiao's body trembled almost imperceptibly.He quickly came back to his senses, squinted his eyes, and said displeasedly: "My birthday present from my family's honeysuckle. Why are you jealous?"

Little Apple: "..."

Damn it, why do I have to talk so much.