Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

The voice paused for a moment, then spoke again:

"Lian Qiao...is your most important person...you have to...save him..."

Like an old radio with a bad signal, the sound was intermittent, with a little electrical interference.

Lonicera and Joe looked at each other with a strange expression on their faces.

"Go up and have a look?" Lian Qiao suggested in a low voice.

"..." Liandong felt inexplicably repelled.He couldn't tell why, but the voice didn't mean any threat, but he felt scared.He dare not go up.

But reason told him that the answer lay ahead.

He took a deep breath and nodded towards Lian Qiao.

The surrounding gears are uneven, and you can climb all the way to the top along the gears.The two carefully climbed among the gears, and the sound of darkness continued.

"You will experience... countless tortures, but this is not a punishment, but a reward."

"When you reach the end..."

The voice paused, seemed to take a deep breath, and continued:

"When you get to the finish line, it's all worth it."

"Live with him."

"To live with him..."

The last sentence was repeated twice.The strings of the honeysuckle heart were also plucked repeatedly, no matter how hard it was to calm down.

Seeing his complexion, Lian Qiao gave him a hand, and sighed: "Don't think about it. Be careful not to step on the ground. You will know when you get up."

Lonicera: "Yes."

Crawling among the gears is very strenuous. After all, all the gears are rotating. If you get stuck in the gap between the gears, you may not escape being crushed to death.

Liandong's mood was difficult to calm down, and she forced her attention to her feet.

"Lian Qiao is your most important person...you have to save him..."

Darkness, the voice repeated that passage, like a broken repeat.The higher they climbed, the closer they were to the voice.

Gradually, they discovered that there was a gear on the top that looked different from the others.The other gears are all gray, only this one is bright silvery white, and there are strange patterns engraved on the roulette.

That sound came from the silver-white gear.

The position of the silver-white gear was extremely high, and it was covered by many gears below, so they hadn't found this unusual gear before.

The silver-white gear stood abruptly in the air, not connected to other gears.But the distance is not too far.

The two stood on the gear closest to the silver-white gear, with a gap of more than half a meter between them.Lian Qiao estimated the distance, took a few steps back, and jumped over with a run-up, grasping the edge of the gear with both hands.

His feet volleyed in the air, and his whole body was shaking in mid-air.Liandong's throat tightened when he saw it, and he couldn't help but want to reach out to pick him up.

Fortunately, Lian Qiao's physical fitness is excellent, and with a vigorous arm, he propped up his body neatly.

Liandong raised her head and asked, "What's on it?"

Lian Qiao didn't speak for a while.After a while, he leaned out from the edge of the silver-white gear and stretched out towards him.

"Come on, come up and see for yourself."

With the help of Lian Qiao, Lonicera also climbed up.As soon as he came up, he was stunned.

Between the silver and white gears, there is actually a silver and white light curtain standing.

He couldn't help looking up.The light curtain seemed to be the Milky Way falling for nine days, pouring straight down from the sky, and it was impossible to see where the source was.It is also like a spear piercing the night sky, unstoppable, piercing the boundless darkness, and trying to lead people to the other end of the universe.

Lian Qiao circled the light curtain and scratched his head: "What is this? A teleportation array?" As he spoke, he poked the light curtain with his fingertips.

"Wait!" Lonicera was about to stop it, but it was too late.There was a flash of white light in front of him, and Lian Qiao disappeared.

"Lian Qiao?!" Liandong was shocked, and rushed into the beam of light.In an instant, warm and soft white light enveloped him, and he felt dazzled for a while.The feet are like stepping on cotton, soft, and there is no gravity.

However, in the next second, the sense of gravity returned to him.

"Ugh!" He lost his balance and fell forward, hitting something hard.

"Woo!" The thing was caught off guard, and he slammed it to the ground.

The two rubbed their bumped heads and got up from the ground dizzily.After confirming each other's safety, Lian Qiao looked around and said in amazement, "What kind of place is this? A library?"

I saw countless bookshelves standing around.All the bookshelves are connected in a row, with a slightly curved arc, forming a large circle with a diameter of tens of meters.

The place where the two fell was exactly in the middle of the huge circular bookshelf.Looking up, there is still endless darkness above, but the silver-white metal ground is under the feet.

The silver-white metal under his feet reflected the light from nowhere, reflecting the reflections of the two of them.Liandong just looked down and felt dazzled, as if there was another self under his feet, which made him inexplicably uneasy.

Lian Qiao was very excited, rubbing his hands together and said, "The beam of light just now seems to be really a portal! It sent us here! Hey, is there another gate over there?"

Liandong looked along where Lian Qiao pointed.Sure enough, a piece of the round bookshelf was missing there, forming an abrupt gap.

Liandong's heart moved: "Go and see?"

Lian Qiao said, "No rush. Study the bookshelves first."

The place where the two were standing was far away from the bookshelf, and they couldn't see the things on the bookshelf clearly.Now that I got closer, I realized that the bookshelves were full of books, not books, but wooden boxes.

The two blurted out at the same time.

"Treasure chest?"

"The urn?"

The two froze for a moment, and looked at each other in shock.

Lian Qiao was the one who talked about the treasure chest, because the shape of the wooden box was exactly the same as the treasure chest in the game.And Lian Dong can talk about urns because the wooden boxes are neatly arranged on the shelf, which is very similar to the funeral home where Zhong Xiu's ashes are placed.

Lian Qiao was a little excited when he saw the treasure chest, but when he heard what Liandong said, he couldn't help sticking out his tongue: "Indeed, there is a name on this box..."

Lonicera turned her head sideways, looking at every box on the nearby bookshelves.Sure enough, each box was engraved with a name and a keyhole.

With a thought in his heart, Liandong took out his own brass key and compared its size.

Just right.

Lian Qiao opened his eyes wide: "This... This key was originally used to open the lock here? Then my key..."

Liandong vaguely guessed something, and panicked for no reason.Suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, he smiled at Lianqiao and said, "Let's look for my name first."

Even Joe didn't know what he was thinking, and his expression became a little subtle.

The two began to look for the treasure chest with Xu Rendong's name on the bookshelf.

Each treasure chest is the same size, about ten centimeters in length and more than ten centimeters in width, which is the size that an adult man can easily hold in his arms.However, when Lonicera tried to take the treasure box off the bookshelf, she found that the treasure box seemed to be firmly nailed to the bookshelf, no matter how hard she tried, it would not move at all.

He tried to put his key in the keyhole of the treasure chest again, but it couldn't go in at all.It seems that these treasure chests with other people's names on them have nothing to do with him, and he still has to find the one that belongs to him.

The two split up and searched along the two ends of the bookshelf.The terrain here is simple and the field of vision is wide, so even if you move separately, you don't have to worry about any problems.

Liandong scanned the bookshelves carefully, saw countless strange names, but never saw herself.

Didn't see Lian Qiao either.

His heart was always hanging in the air, and he became more and more impatient.Just as he quickened his pace to inspect the bookshelves, Lian Qiao's call came from behind him.

"Lonicera, come and see!"

Liandong's ears perked up, and she walked towards him quickly: "Found it?"

"Uh, I found it, but it's not yours..." Lian Qiao stood in front of the bookshelf with a strange expression, "...it belonged to Shi Jianchuan."

Lonicera was taken aback.Only then did he realize that the treasure chest he was pointing at was actually open, and it was empty.And on the lid of the treasure chest was the word "Shi Jianchuan".

"Shi Jianchuan has been here too?!" Liandong was a little surprised, and then figured it out, "Well, this is also reasonable, after all, he is also the one who has the key."

"Then what's in his box?" Lian Qiao tried to move the box, but couldn't move it.He put his hand into the box and touched it a few times.

"Not even dust." Qiao Lian sighed and retracted, "I can't guess what was let go before."

"Forget it, don't worry about Shi Jianchuan." Liandong said, "Continue to look for our boxes."

Not long after, Liandong found a box with Lian Qiao's name on another bookshelf.

"Ahhh!" Lian Qiao yelled frantically, "I don't have a key! My treasure chest is ahhh!"

Lian Dong pursed her lips and did not speak.

As a looting maniac, seeing that his own treasure chest could not be opened, Lian Qiao's depression almost broke through the sky.What made his heart ache even more was that he could easily take the box off the bookshelf.The weight is not light, but I don't know what is hidden inside.

He tried poking the honeysuckle key, but of course it wouldn't go in at all.

"Ahhhhh!" Lian Qiao scratched his ears and cheeks, almost going crazy with curiosity, "Why don't you break open the box and have a look!"

Although Liandong felt that this was inappropriate, he didn't stop him, but let him smash it.Lian Qiao lifted the treasure box above his head and threw it on the ground with a loud shout.The wooden treasure chest hit the ground with a bang.

However, the wooden treasure chest was solid, and after being bounced on the ground a few times, there was not even a single crack.

Unwilling to give up, Lian Qiao climbed to the top of the bookshelf with the treasure box in his hand, and then slammed it down from a high place.Repeated this several times, I was exhausted, but the treasure box was not damaged at all, it was still tightly closed, and there was no sign of it.

Even Joe is crazy.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah it would be great if there was a crowbar!" He was so angry that he kicked the treasure box, "I can't open it I can't open it I can't open it, ah ah ah my treasure box!"

Lonicera has been silently watching.Only then did he say: "Perhaps this is the real price."

"Ah?" Lian Qiao raised his eyes aggrievedly.

Honeysuckle: "If you use the key in the dungeon, you won't be able to open the box here. This is the price of using the key."

Lian Qiao: "..."

Liandong sighed: "Look, I told you not to use the key a long time ago. Do you regret it now?"

Liandong originally thought that he would roll on the ground crazily, but Lian Qiao touched his nose and smiled at him.

"Ah, that's not true. If I had known that the price would be one less treasure chest to open, I should have used up the key in the first round. How much less suffering would you suffer in this way."

Lonicera was taken aback.The heart seemed to thump and fell into the rice balls, sweet and sour, warm and drunk.

"Forget it, let's go find your treasure chest." Lian Qiao simply kicked his treasure chest away, out of sight and out of mind.

Liandong didn't say anything, just sighed softly.

Soon, the two found the treasure chest with the words "Xu Rendong" engraved on it.

Honeysuckle's treasure chest is not far from Lian Qiao's, and it is exactly the same size.Lian Dongshen took the treasure box off the bookshelf, and as soon as he touched the treasure box, a strange feeling surged in his heart.

Through the wood, he felt an indescribable attraction.Reason told him that it was unknown whether it was good or bad, but he had a strong urge.

He wants to open the box!

He wanted to get back what belonged to him in it!

……what?

Originally belonged to him?

Lian Dong held the treasure box and stood there dumbfounded.

"Lonicera?" Seeing him standing still, Lian Qiao thought he was worried about opening something bad, so he stretched out, "Why don't I open the box? You stay away."

However, as soon as Lian Qiao touched the treasure box, Liandong protected the treasure box and took two steps back as if startled.

Lian Qiao was taken aback.Only then did Liandong come back to her senses, and raised her eyes in a daze.

"...No." Lonicera panted slightly, and said firmly, "I will do it myself."

Lian Qiao noticed his strangeness, and worried: "What's wrong with you? Is there something wrong with this box?"

"No." Lonicera shook his head slowly, and slowly slid his fingers across the wooden texture of the treasure chest. He felt his heartstrings twitching, and even the depths of his soul began to tremble slightly, "This is my chest... I can feel it. This is something very, very important to me..."

Lian Qiao scratched his head: "Really? Then why didn't I feel anything when I touched my box just now."

Lonicera raised the corners of her mouth, sort of smiling.The smile is a little forced.

Lian Qiao became more and more uneasy: "Is there really no problem? You don't look right. Why don't we open the box and go find a way out..."

Lonicera shook her head firmly again.This time he didn't say anything, but calmly inserted the key into the lock.

Turn the key.The treasure chest opened with a creak.

Then, everything in front of him shook like a wave.

A lot of emotions flooded into the brain in an instant.Liandong was a little dizzy for a while, unable to stand still.When he regained his balance and opened his eyes, he found that Lian Qiao was gone.

"Lian Qiao?" Liandong was startled, looked around, and found that she was still in the round bookshelf.

And at the gap in the bookshelf, the place they haven't had time to explore, there is a person kneeling on the ground at this time.

"... Lian Qiao?" Liandong hesitated, walking towards the figure.

That back figure was extremely familiar, it was the person he had embraced countless times.But at this time, it somehow made him feel a little strange.

When he got closer, he realized where this strange feeling came from.

It was indeed Lian Qiao, but he was covered in wounds and dripping with blood.The clothes were almost shredded into strips, hanging on his body in tatters, clearly exposing several wounds on the skin where the bones were deep.

Some of the wounds were smooth and flat, as if they were cut open by sharp blades; some had five parallel wounds, apparently scratched by some kind of beast's claws.There are more shallow and deep wounds of different shapes, some of which have scabbed and healed, and some are even bleeding down.

Lonicera's pupils shrank suddenly, startled.

The reason for his shock was not why Lian Qiao was injured so badly all of a sudden.It was because Lian Qiao was holding a man with mutilated limbs in his arms.

From this angle, it can be seen that the man's legs are broken at the knees.The arm hanging on Lian Qiao's shoulder was also missing, revealing the dense white bones with fascia adhesion.

The blood flowing from the severed arm had soaked Lian Qiao's back.The blood was no longer flowing, and the blood was all covered with dark red scabs.It can be seen that the blood of that person has stopped flowing for a long time.

The man was leaning on Lian Qiao's arms, his head was slightly tilted back, revealing a blue-gray face.

It was the face of a dead man.That is the face that Xu Rendong sees in the mirror every day.

—that was dead, himself.

"Lian Qiao..."

Xu Rendong felt that the blood in his whole body was congealed instantly.He murmured Lian Qiao's name and walked towards Lian Qiao.

Lian Qiao turned a deaf ear and just looked down at the dead man in her arms.It was as if the whole world had nothing to do with him.

Liandong stumbled to Lian Qiao's back, trying to push him.As soon as he lifted it, he suddenly heard a voice above his head.

"Congratulations player, all challenges have been cleared."

"Players can choose to leave or stay."

It was a non-male, non-female, emotionless mechanical voice.

Lonicera looked up in astonishment.Behind the gap in the bookshelf, there was a silver-white metal door.He was very familiar with the shape of that door, it was the entrance of the elevator.

Or is it...exit?

The mechanical sound seemed to come from the door.It continued: "If you choose to leave, the player will permanently leave this system and return to the life of ordinary people."

"If you choose to stay, you will unlock a new difficulty challenge. As a reward for the second week, players can fulfill any wish..."

Before Ji Sheng finished speaking, Lian Qiao, who was kneeling on the ground, suddenly raised his head.

"I want to stay!"

Lonicera trembled all over.Lian Qiao's eyes were red, tears mixed with blood, his face was dirty, and he looked extremely embarrassed.

"I want to stay." Lian Qiao paused every word, with a firm expression, "The wish is to revive Xu Rendong."

Suddenly hearing his name, Xu Rendong's heart trembled.He looked at Lian Qiao's blood-stained face, and suddenly wanted to wipe it off for Lian Qiao.So he squatted down slowly and reached out to wipe his face.

But just as his fingertips touched Lian Qiao, the scene in front of him shook again.

Lian Qiao suddenly disappeared.

Instead, there was a person who stumbled towards here.

The man staggered like he was drunk.After walking a few steps, his legs became weak and he fell to the ground.

"..." Liandong stood in front of the elevator door, looking at...himself who fell to the ground with complicated emotions.

That Xu Rendong was in a trance, also covered in wounds and blood all over his face.However, Lian Qiao was not by his side.

The only thing that accompanied him was a bloody crowbar and a split doll.

Where did Lian Qiao go?

A mechanical sound sounded from behind again.

"Congratulations player, all challenges have been cleared."

"The player can choose..."

The corner of Xu Rendong's mouth twitched, and suddenly he looked up to the sky and burst out laughing.

"Ha, ha ha ha ha ha!"

Sharp laughter echoed among the bookshelves, repeatedly bouncing, extremely ear-piercing.That Xu Rendong had obviously had a nervous breakdown, and was in a trance at the moment, with a smile on his face, but tears in his eyes.

"...As a weekly reward, players can realize any wish and get a mortgage exchange meeting."

Jiyin ignored his madness and dutifully finished the passage.Then stop and wait quietly for his reply.

That Xu Rendong finally had enough of laughing and was exhausted, so he panted slightly, and asked with a self-deprecating smile: "What's the use of keeping me?"

His throat was already hoarse from laughing, so his voice was choked up, like whining wind and sand, hard to recognize.

Ji Yin didn't answer him.

That Xu Rendong stroked the crowbar inside, and muttered to himself: "Live for me...what is 'live for me'...Why do you force me like this? You kill everyone, even yourself Come and pave the way for me... What's the use of keeping such a waste like me?"

Suddenly, with a ruthless expression, he raised the crowbar high and slammed it to the ground.The metal crowbar collided with the ground, making a sharp and screeching sound.

Xu Rendong raised his head, looked at the door behind the bookshelf, and asked, "What is the exchange meeting?"

Ji Yin replied: "mortgage the player's most cherished item in the system in exchange for an additional wish. After the mortgage is successful, a key will be generated, which can be used in the dungeon to unlock the clearance prompt. Once the key is used, the mortgaged item will never be available back."

"The most cherished thing?" Xu Rendong raised the corners of his lips, and that self-deprecating smile appeared on his face again, "My most cherished thing is gone. What can I exchange for it?"

Mechanical voice: "The system judges that the player still has something that can be exchanged."

"Oh, really." Xu Rendong lazily said, "Then take whatever you want."

"Please confirm the player, do you choose to stay and take the weekly challenge?"

"Ah."

"Please specify the wish of the player."

"First, I want Lian Qiao to be resurrected. Second..." Xu Rendong took a deep breath, "I want to have the ability to reverse time and space. I want to make up for all the mistakes that haven't happened yet."

"It is detected that there is a certain conflict between the player's wish and the system system, and the actual effect of the player's wish will be fine-tuned."

"Wait, what fine-tuning? What kind of fine-tuning?"

"The exchange was successful. The player has obtained: the ability to reset upon death. The new instance will be unlocked soon. The player Lian Qiao is about to reset. Extracting the pledge: all memories related to Lian Qiao. Due to the adjustment of the law of causality, it is also extracted from inside the player Lian Qiao : All memories related to Xu Rendong."

"Varied……"

Xu Rendong opened his eyes wide, and suddenly covered his chest.A ray of light overflowed from between his fingers, and then, a brass key engraved with the word "Xu Rendong" rose from his chest and slowly floated into the air.Floating side by side with another key engraved with "Lian Qiao".

Xu Rendong cried bitterly: "Impossible! How could you take away the memories of both of us at the same time! In this case—I—we—"

The emotionless mechanical voice sounded again: "The exchange has been completed. This command is irreversible. Player Xu Rendong is asked to prepare for the next round of dungeons."

"Xu Rendong!" His voice was already hoarse, and he desperately stretched out towards the two keys, "You have to remember—you must remember! Lian Qiao is your most important person! You have to save him !You will experience countless tortures, but this is not a punishment! It is a reward! When you reach the end you will understand that everything is worth it! Together with him-"

"With him—live!"

……

The scene in front of him swayed like water again.

Numerous pictures flashed before his eyes.Countless emotions flooded into my mind all at once, like thousands of ghosts squeezing into my body at the same time, squeezing Lonicera's soul to the point of being suffocated.

"Honeysuckle? Honeysuckle?!"

The arm was held tightly.The feeling of familiarity is like the bird you saw for the first time in this world when you first met.

"Lonicera? What's wrong with you? Look at me, talk..."

...No, that wasn't a first encounter at all.

It was a long-lost reunion after all kinds of hardships.

Xu Rendong raised his eyes in a daze.His vision was blurred and his eyes were filled with tears.The empty treasure chest that fell on the ground can be vaguely seen, as well as the familiar round bookshelf.

Lian Qiao was hugging him, wiping the tears on his face in a panic, and asked helplessly: "What's wrong with you, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me, Lonicera...Lonicera..." Lonicera struggled to speak, her voice Hoarse, whimpering like wind and sand: "Lian, Qiao..."

"I'm here!" Lian Qiao grabbed his hand and put it in his heart, "I'm right here, I'm right beside you!"

Liandong smiled slightly, and tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes.

I remembered, finally remembered.

It turns out that we have known each other for so long.It turns out that we have been in love for so long.

Even with all memory lost, we'll still love each other again.

Because our destinies, like gears, affect each other and are closely linked.

He smiled and held Lian Qiao's hand back.

"Let's go. Go home."

This time, we finally came here together.

For the rest of my life, we can finally walk together.

The author has something to say: It's over, let's spread flowers~

Next, there will be extra episodes to make up for some small settings~ Maybe Ishi Jianchuan will appear on the stage.

Thank you for your long-term company, bow

ps, all the answers to the mystery have been revealed.It is recommended to go back and watch it again, you can find a lot of volts, full of knives (laughs)

The new "You will be locked if you do this!" "Pre-acceptance for attention, the cover is super cute, you can see it by poking the column