Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

Consciousness is like floating in water, swaying, at a loss, not knowing where you are.

The surroundings were completely dark, bottomless, and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make out anything.However, unlike before, the darkness this time did not make people feel scared, but rather reassuring.

As if in the mother's warm amniotic fluid.

Xu Rendong tried to reach out his hand, but couldn't feel the existence of the arm.It is also difficult to concentrate, and the consciousness can't help but slacken. If you don't work hard to stay awake, you will fall asleep again in the next second.

Although he didn't feel tired at all, his consciousness oscillated repeatedly between lethargy and waking.

Do you want to wake up?Or just sleep like this?

Lonicera thought in a trance.The strings of reason cannot be connected, he is like a child holding candy, not knowing whether to eat the left hand or the right one.

Suddenly, something in the darkness caught his attention.

Huh, what is it?

Lonicera was unconsciously attracted to that thing.When he tried to get closer, the spot of light suddenly expanded.Immediately afterwards, a warm and dazzling light enveloped his whole body.

"...!"

As if falling from a height, Xu Rendong was shocked and opened his eyes suddenly.

The slack pupils cannot focus, and the eyes are blurred, and nothing can be seen clearly.

He rubbed his eyes, but his vision was still blurry, and he could vaguely see a warm yellow object emitting a soft light in front of him.

Lonicera subconsciously stretched out her hand towards that thing.The fingertips touched the slender and hard texture, which was somewhat familiar.

The moisture in the eyes gradually dissipated.Liandong held the thing, brought it closer, and finally saw clearly that it was a brass key.The shape is simple and unadorned.It's just that there are three words engraved on the key handle.

"Xu Rendong".

...is this my key?

How come I also have a key?

Wait, the key has appeared, does it mean that the level has been cleared? !

Liandong's spirits lifted, and she sat up abruptly.When he got up, there was a light "click" sound under his body, which made him suddenly startled.

Looking around, the horror in his heart deepened.

This is a strange and dark space.Countless circular gears meshed with each other, hanging quietly in the air.There are big and small gears, the big ones are more than ten meters in diameter, and the small ones are only a few centimeters. They are all connected to each other at various angles, filling the entire space.

The number of gears is huge, and it is impossible to see the end when you look around.Beyond the gears is endless darkness.That kind of darkness has no sense of boundaries, like the end of the vast universe, so deep that it can contain everything.

However, the strange thing is that there are... people embedded in the middle of some gears.

It was undoubtedly a human being, with eyes closed and a calm expression, as if sleeping peacefully.Those people lay in the deep dents in the middle of the gears. Some gears were obviously vertical, but they still fit tightly with the gears, as if attracted by some invisible magnetic force.

The angle of each gear is different, and some people happen to be still in an inverted state.However, those people who stood on their heads didn't appear to be red-faced and brain-congested, so Lian Dong couldn't tell whether it was a living person or a corpse... or was it a prop?

The surroundings were so quiet that there was hardly any sound.Lonicera turned her gaze back from a distance to a near distance, only to realize that she was also on a huge circular gear.There was also a deep indentation where he sat, just the right size for him to lie down on his own.

It appears that before he woke up, he too lay quietly in gear like everyone else.

... But why was he the only one awake?

Is it because of the appearance of the key?

Also, that "click" sound when I woke up...

Lonicera thought about it, the sound was very crisp, like the sound of metal.Could it be that……

He stood up holding the key.The moment he got up, there were several "clicks" and "clicks" around him.At the same time, the gears under him started to rotate slowly.

Liandong lowered her head, stood still, and the gears under her feet also stood still.

When he took a step forward, the huge gear also started to rotate, making a crisp "click" sound again.

If you distinguish carefully, the sound seems to be concentrated behind you.Lonicera turned around and found that there was another huge gear closely fitting with his gear.When this gear rotates, it drives the one on the side to rotate together.

And among the gears, there is also a person lying.

A person he knew very well.

"Lian Qiao?!"

Liandong was shocked and ran towards Lian Qiao.

As soon as he ran, he moved his whole body, and the whole world seemed to come alive.The clicking sound was endless, and not only Joe's gear was driven, but other gears around him also started to rotate.

Even Joe's teeth are as small as his, and the two gears are closely connected, and the angle of rotation is exactly the same.

Liandong ran to Lian Qiao's side, knelt down on one knee, and reached out to hug Lian Qiao.

Contrary to what he imagined, Lian Qiao was not pressed into the notch of the gear by some strange force.He easily picked up Lian Qiao from the ground, and gently shook Lian Qiao's body.

"Lian Qiao? Can you hear me? Wake up, wake up!"

Lian Qiao's eyes were still tightly closed, but the eyeballs under the eyelids trembled slightly, as if struggling to wake up.

The surrounding gears are still turning slowly.This time, even though Lian Dong held Lian Qiao in place and did not move around, the gears started turning spontaneously.

The step he stepped over the gears to Lian Qiao's side seemed to be the first driving force of the entire universe.Time began to flow again, and the world woke up from the darkness and silence.

But Liandong didn't notice this at all, just calling Lian Qiao over and over again.

"Well……"

After an unknown amount of time, Lian Qiao struggled to wake up.He opened his eyes, misty and foggy in his eyes.The out-of-focus pupils were slack and unable to focus, and his eyes were erratic, as if awakened from a thousand-year-old dream, in a trance, not knowing what day and night it is.

Seeing that he finally woke up, Liandong finally let go of her anxious heart, and embraced him forcefully.The voice trembled.

"You're awake... great... you're awake..."

Although she also didn't know where she was, at least Liandong knew that she was no longer alone.

No matter what awaits him on the road ahead, he is no longer alone.Lian Qiao is still by his side, still his support.

"Nin... Dong?" Lian Qiao's voice was a little hoarse.He raised his hand in confusion, and touched Lonicera's waist, as if confirming whether the person in front of him was real or an illusion.

The familiar body temperature was transmitted from the fingertips.Lian Qiao stretched out his hands and put his arms around Liandong's waist.That warm and familiar feeling made him want to cry.

The two hugged each other speechlessly.The reunion after the catastrophe was so sweet, they quietly tasted the unspeakable happiness and felt each other's existence.

After an unknown amount of time, both of them gradually calmed down.

Lian Qiao leaned his head on Lian Dong's shoulder, rolled his eyes to look around, and asked curiously, "What is this place?"

"I don't know." Lonicera's fingers ran through his hair, stroking him fondly, "Wake up here."

The strength was just right, and Lian Qiao was so happy that he squinted his eyes in comfort.

Lian Qiao is like a little milk dog, with two small paws on Lonicera's waist, and his head is deeply buried in Lonicera's neck.While enjoying the extremely gentle caress, he hummed contentedly in his throat.

The two of them got bored for a long time, and then they calmed down and began to think about the situation in front of them.

"Is this the end?" Lian Qiao tilted his head and looked around, "I didn't see an exit, but there are a lot of gears... This scene is so familiar, it's like your butterfly copy, with a steampunk flavor. But why a gear?"

Lonicera pointed at the ground.Lian Qiao looked in the direction of his fingers, and saw that the two huge gears under his feet were tightly attached to each other and pulled each other.Those were the two gears that carried him and Lonicera respectively.

"Perhaps this is a metaphor for our connected destiny." Lonicera said.

Lian Qiao smiled: "Yes. Our destiny is connected." Then he interlocked his fingers.

Since Lian Qiao woke up, the surrounding gears began to rotate spontaneously, and finally stabilized to a fixed frequency.The whole space is like the inside of a giant machine, but they don't know what the machine is doing.

Thousands of gears are turning on their own, and there is still bottomless darkness beyond the gears.The two observed it and found that their two gears were closely connected, but independent of the other gears.

Other gears are also connected to each other, not all gears are connected together.Nevertheless, there seems to be some kind of force between the gears that are close to each other, and they are still influencing each other to a certain extent.

"How about we wake up the others?" Lian Qiao pointed.The one closest to them was seven or eight cogs away.Although these seven or eight gears are not tightly fitted, the middle distance is not large and can be jumped over.

Lonicera narrowed his eyes, because of the limited angle, he couldn't see the man's face clearly.Then he said casually: "Okay, go and have a look."

The two held hands and jumped cautiously between the gears.It's not that I'm afraid of falling into the darkness, after all, the gears in this space are very dense, even if I stumble and fall, I just fall onto the next gear.You can still climb back in a circle, but it takes a little time.

Soon they came to the gear, and after seeing the man's face clearly, both of them were taken aback.

"Aunt Long Hair?" Lian Qiao blurted out, "Didn't she die long ago? She's here too?"

Lonicera frowned, but said nothing.Lian Qiao resentfully said: "This is not a morgue..."

Liandong bent down and reached out to check her breath.Lian Qiao subconsciously protected him: "Hey, don't move, let me go. What if she cheats on the corpse..."

Liandong smiled: "It's okay. I'm still alive." As he spoke, he pushed Auntie Long-haired.

However, she never woke up.After a while, Liandong gave up, stood up and shook her head, "No, I can't wake you up."

Lian Qiao stared at the long-haired aunt curiously, suddenly her heart moved, she turned her head and asked, "When I asked you why you were so hostile to her, you said you were harmed by her before, and you were thrown sulfuric acid or something..."

"No. I lied to you." Lonicera said.

Just as Lian Qiao was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Liandong said lightly: "It was you who was thrown sulfuric acid by her. In the previous reincarnation."

Lian Qiao: "...All right. Then leave her alone."

"Ah."

Lian Qiao said to ignore her, and took two steps, but felt that she couldn't be angry.Then he stepped back and stepped on the long-haired aunt's face.

Liandong: "...what are you doing?"

Lian Qiao: "Test whether she is pretending to be asleep or unconscious. Well, she is really unconscious. Let's go."

Lonicera: "..."

The two passed Aunt Long-haired and walked towards another gear with people.When they got closer this time, they found that the one lying among the gears was actually a monk.

The two were overjoyed and tried to wake up the monk again.But this time, like Auntie Long-hair, the monk closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.His breathing was even, his chest rose and fell slowly, and he was undoubtedly alive.But no matter how I shake it, I can't wake up.

"No. Isn't his gear spinning?" Lian Qiao looked at the gears under him.This gear is a circle smaller than the two of them, but its rotation speed is about the same as theirs.In contrast, the gear that Auntie Long-hair was in just now was smaller and the speed was slower.

"At least he's still alive." Lonicera sighed, "It seems that the players in this dungeon are scattered on the gears everywhere. The question is how to wake them up?"

Lian Qiao asked, "How did you wake up?"

Lian Dong: "I saw a light in front of me, so I reached out to grab it... that's right!" He belatedly took out the brass key, "I forgot to tell you, I got this!"

Lian Qiao's eyes widened when he saw the words "Xu Rendong" on the key.

"How do you have a key?!"

"I don't know. When I opened my eyes, I saw this thing dangling in front of my eyes."

"Then... do you have a headache?"

"?"

"Try to think about me, hug me, kiss me, and see if you have a headache?"

"???"

Although Lian Dong didn't know why, she still did as he said, tilted her head and thought about him, stretched out her arms to hug him, closed her eyes and kissed him.

Then say, "It doesn't hurt."

"Oh, that's good." Lian Qiao put his arms around him, sucked his lips knowingly, and said in a dazed way, "Kiss again for a while."

Lonicera: "..."

Although those people on the ground are still alive, there is always a weird feeling of cheating in the morgue.

stimulate.