Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

The two came to the hut and knocked on the door.Soon, a thin middle-aged man opened the door.His cheeks were deeply sunken, his face was yellow and thin, he looked like he was dying, but he was in good spirits.The middle-aged man looked behind the two and asked, "Is there anyone else behind?"

This seemed to be a hunter's hut in winter. The room was decorated with some animal furs, and the fireplace was burning brightly, making crackling noises.

There were more than a dozen people sitting in the room, both men and women, at this moment they all raised their heads to look at Xu Rendong and Lian Qiao.Xu Rendong said: "No more, just the two of us. Excuse me..."

The excessive tension of the nerves sharpened his powers of observation.He noticed that after seeing his face, the expressions of two young girls suddenly changed, and then they immediately lowered their heads, not daring to look at him.Another young man also showed a very subtle expression when he saw the girls' reactions.

...Why are these people so suspicious.

The middle-aged man smiled kindly: "Come in first."

Xu Rendong and Lian Qiao looked at each other and walked into the warm hut.

The dozen or so people sat around the dining table without saying a word.The middle-aged man who just opened the door came forward and said, "Hi, my name is Yuan Xueming. You can sit down wherever you want."

Xu Rendong and Lian Qiao also reported their names.Yuan Xueming nodded in greeting, but the others didn't respond, with complicated expressions on their faces.The atmosphere in this room is very strange, Xu Rendong was about to ask, Yuan Xueming said: "Is this also the first time for you to enter the elevator?"

and also?

Could it be that everyone here came in through that unreasonable elevator?Also, what does the first time mean?

Xu Rendong didn't know whether it was the "first time" or the "third time", so he remained silent.Lian Qiao nodded, with a look of wanting to ask questions.

Everyone else present also responded.Yuan Xueming said: "Now it seems that everyone here is a newcomer, and only I am an old man. There should be everyone here. Let me explain to you. You probably also discovered that this is not our world. I want to leave here Had to find the lift and the button."

"But the elevator has disappeared." Someone questioned.

Yuan Xueming said: "That's the entrance. There will be an exit elevator near here, but the elevator has no buttons. We just need to find the button and install it on the elevator, then we can leave here."

As soon as they heard the word leave, everyone's expressions finally eased up, and someone said anxiously: "Then let's find it quickly! I don't want to stay in such a ghostly place for a moment!"

At the same time, a woman asked suspiciously: "Is this really a reality show?" She looked around, probably looking for a hidden camera, "I warn you, bring us here without consent, you This is kidnapping! It's against the law!"

A man said: "No way? Didn't we just watch the elevator disappear?"

The woman snorted coldly: "That may be a trick, or a mechanism. I just got kidnapped and I don't know the situation, so it's easy to be fooled."

Even Qiao had had such doubts before, and everyone began to waver at this time.After all, it is much easier to accept being cheated and kidnapped than suddenly traveling to another world. Thinking like this is also a kind of evasion psychology.

Yuan Xueming sighed helplessly.

As a person who has died tragically twice, Xu Rendong has no doubts about the horror of this world, so he understands Yuan Xueming's mood very well.He said, "This is indeed not the real world."

Everyone looked at him in unison.

Xu Rendong said: "Because I already..."

Before the word "death" came out of his mouth, he suddenly felt his mouth astringent, his tongue seemed to be nailed, and he couldn't move.His expression changed drastically, but he found that not only could he not make a sound, he couldn't even open his mouth.

However, in the eyes of others, it seemed that he suddenly remembered something, and suddenly stopped talking.

The woman sneered and said, "What's the matter? If you have anything to worry about, just keep talking."

Xu Rendong tried a few more times, but his mouth seemed to be filled with paste and he couldn't move.But apart from being unable to speak, there is nothing abnormal about his body.Could it be that some mysterious force is stopping him?

what does this mean?

Seeing Xu Rendong hesitate to speak, everyone believed the woman's words more and more.The irritable man from before was even more outrageous, and said violently, "Fuck you! You can't continue acting! I think you are the insider!"

Xu Rendong frowned.He couldn't argue for himself.Fortunately, the impatient man didn't stare at him. Instead, he looked around and shouted angrily, "Where are the other staff members! Get out of here! What kind of show is this! I'm going to sue you all to court!"

Lian Qiao, who had been silent all this time, suddenly burst out laughing.Xu Rendong glanced at him, and Lian Qiao came close to his ear, holding back a smile and whispering: "If the staff really get out, I'm afraid they will smash his dog's head with a sledgehammer."

The huge figure of the butcher immediately appeared in Xu Rendong's mind, and he couldn't help feeling a headache.

"What are you two talking about sneakily!" The impatient man jumped up, his face bursting with veins, and he looked really angry.

Xu Rendong frowned, and was about to explain, when the wooden door suddenly rang.

Xu Rendong and Lian Qiao were startled and looked at each other at the same time.

"Damn it!" Lian Qiao cursed in a low voice, "He won't really come after him!"

Xu Rendong shook his head.At the same time, Yuan Xueming had already reached the door, Xu Rendong had no time to stop him, he had already opened the door.

When the door opened, everyone froze.Because standing outside the door is not a person, but a rabbit.

A fluffy gray rabbit half as tall as a man.

The rabbit stood on two hind legs like a human being, and was also wearing a little gold glittering dress, looking as if it was going to some celebration.It glanced at Yuan Xueming with its black eyes, and then swept across the people in the room.Then, the pink three-petal mouth suddenly moved.

"You must help me!"

The rabbit actually spoke human words?

Everyone in the room was shocked.

Lian Qiao: "Damn it! Rabbits can actually speak human language! ... Well, common settings, common settings."

Xu Rendong couldn't help but glance at Lian Qiao, wondering why this young man talked so much.

At such times, Yuan Xueming showed a distinctive calmness.He ignored Lian Qiao's interruption and asked the rabbit, "What do you want us to do for you?"

The gray-haired rabbit sucked its pink nose, brewed some emotions, and cried: "The festival is coming, but the presents I prepared for everyone have disappeared! You have to help me find them! Otherwise, we will not be able to celebrate the festival properly La!"

Lian Qiao was a little excited, and whispered: "Here we come, the task has been sent!"

Yuan Xueming asked, "When is the festival?"

Rabbit said: "Seven days later."

Yuan Xueming asked again: "What are the gifts? How many are there?"

The rabbit stared at the round eyes, and said confidently: "The gift is a surprise! I can't tell you!"

Yuan Xueming was helpless: "How can we help you find it if you don't tell us?"

At this time, Lian Qiao suddenly took out the wooden doll with a strange smile and asked, "Is it this?"

When the rabbit saw the doll, his eyes lit up.The fluffy lips suddenly grinned, revealing a strange smile similar to that of a doll: "So you have already found the gift? Since you agreed to help, you must do it well! Don't be lazy! The festival is coming soon!"

After saying this, the rabbit turned around and got down on the ground, kicked its hind legs, and hopped away.

Everyone: "..."

Lian Qiao complained in a low voice: "You can speak human language, and you can stand up straight like a human, but you still have to walk on all fours? Yes, this is a rabbit."

Xu Rendong: "..." He couldn't help but glance at Lian Qiao again.Even Joe's real-time broadcast with complaints made the atmosphere of terror disappear.If he hadn't died tragically twice, he would have suspected that this place was really a crappy large-scale live-action horror game.

Yuan Xueming turned around and said to everyone: "You all understand what to do?"

The woman who questioned before was still unwilling to accept the facts in front of her, and said with a sneer, "Is this trying to deceive me? This rabbit is either a child pretending to be, or a robot! Let me tell you, I..."

Yuan Xueming looked at her with a complicated expression on his face: "If you still don't want to believe it, please do it yourself. You can do whatever you want and go wherever you want, and I won't stop you."

Although his voice was gentle, there was a subtle look in his eyes.

Lian Qiao said in a low voice: "His eyes seem to be looking at a dead person..."

Xu Rendong suddenly realized why Yuan Xueming's eyes were so uncomfortable.

The woman gave him a hard look, turned her head and went upstairs.The creaking sound of high-heeled shoes on the old stairs made everyone tremble.

Yuan Xueming said: "It's too late today, let's allocate a room and go to bed early."

The irritable man had already climbed up the wall: "Didn't the rabbit tell us to find a gift quickly? It's just that kind of wooden doll, right! Let's find it quickly so we can go back!"

Yuan Xueming sighed: "The time limit is seven days, don't rush at this time. And it's dangerous at night, I don't recommend going out for activities." After a pause, he changed his tone and said solemnly, "After all, this place is haunted."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions changed.Everyone wanted to ask something more, but Yuan Xueming was unwilling to say anything, and just asked everyone to rest early.Everyone had no choice but to go upstairs.

Xu Rendong and Lian Qiao came together, so they were naturally assigned to the same room.The hunter's hut looked dilapidated, but it was fairly clean.As soon as Lian Qiao entered the room, he rummaged through the cabinets, and actually found winter clothes and thick quilts in the cabinets.

Xu Rendong originally wanted to remind Lian Qiao not to touch things randomly, but he was only wearing a thin shirt and suit, and at this moment he shivered even more disappointingly.Reluctantly, he took the clothes from Lian Qiao and made the bed with him.Soon after, the two got into bed separately.

The bed was spacious enough for two grown men.Xu Rendong felt that the bed was cold, but sleepiness still surged up.He had been working overtime until midnight, and he had experienced so many things in a short period of time. At this time, it could be said that he was physically and mentally exhausted, and he was about to fall asleep as soon as he touched the pillow.

Lian Qiao lay beside Xu Rendong, and suddenly said to himself: "This should be the smallest doll, after all, there are no seams on this doll. But how many dolls are there..."

Matryoshka?

Xu Rendong looked around in a daze, and found that he was holding the wooden doll picked up from the stone tablet in his hand.Can't help but wonder: "Is this a Russian nesting doll?"

"That's right. Isn't it written in the elevator?" Lian Qiao murmured a word, which made Xu Rendong dumbfounded.

"What did you say?"

Lian Qiao repeated: "матрёшка, it's a Russian matryoshka."

Xu Rendong asked: "Are you studying Russian?"

"No, I know this word." Lian Qiao seemed to want to take apart the doll, but after playing with it up and down, he finally gave up.

Xu Rendong watched him study the nesting dolls, and felt drowsy again and again.Just when he was about to fall asleep, Lian Qiao suddenly said pitifully: "Brother, I can't sleep..."

Xu Rendong felt very tired, but he still suggested patiently: "Let's count the sheep."

Joe Lian: "Sheep are useless. Do you know why there is a saying that you have to count sheep if you can't fall asleep? Because sheep in English is 'sheep', which is similar to the pronunciation of 'sleep', so foreigners can't sleep. Count sheep ...We Chinese should count 'Shui Dumpling'."

Xu Rendong is kind and kind: "Then count the dumplings."

Lian Qiao said: "It's useless... My biological clock is not up. I'm still running at this point."

Xu Rendong: "Running in the middle of the night?"

Lian Qiao said: "That's right. I download the broadcast at eleven o'clock every day, then go out for a run, and then come back to take a shower..."

Xu Rendong: "Download?" Excessive fatigue reduced his ability to think, and he felt that he had become a repeater, repeating the key words in Lian Qiao's words foolishly.

Lian Qiao: "Ah, I forgot to mention, I am a game anchor, and my job every day is to live broadcast and play games. By the way, I think this world is also like a game. You see, the rabbit is an NPC, and he released a gift collection guide for us. Main storyline. That Big Hammer is the first mini-boss..."

Brother Sledgehammer... refers to the butcher who hammered him, right?

Xu Rendong felt that the name was very vivid, and it was actually a little friendly, so that the shadow of his face being hit by a sledgehammer was relieved a little.

At this point, Xu Rendong remembered another important thing.The whole person immediately became energetic.

"Lian Qiao." He interrupted, "Actually, I have..."

This time, before the word "death" reached his lips, his tongue froze.

Sure enough.

"Huh?" Lian Qiao turned his head, only to see his hesitant expression.

Xu Rendong only felt numbness in his mouth, and he regained consciousness after a while.Lian Qiao got it wrong, and apologized repeatedly: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, are you sleepy? I'm too noisy... I'm sorry, don't mind, I'm still a little scared, but I feel better talking to you Yes. Hey, I seem to be a bit imprinted, after all, you are the first person I met in this world...

Xu Rendong: "Yin Sui effect?" He suddenly found that in front of Lian Qiao, he could no longer get rid of the fate of the repeater.

Lian Qiao, on the contrary, was a little embarrassed: "Uh, it's the baby bird complex, that's it. After the baby bird is born, doesn't it regard the first thing it sees as its parents, and then it is very dependent and follows behind..."

Xu Rendong immediately understood, and interrupted him calmly: "Isn't the first person you met Brother Sledgehammer?"

Lian Qiao was silent for a moment: "...You are right. But Brother Sledgehammer is too ugly, I don't want to recognize him as my father."

Xu Rendong also fell into a mysterious silence.According to the context, he judged that Lian Qiao was praising him for being better-looking than Brother Sledgehammer, and thought he was more suitable to be a father...but he couldn't be happy because of this at all.

"How old are you?" Xu Rendong finally thought of a topic.

Lian Qiao said: "25. What about you?"

"28." Xu Rendong said seriously, "I'm only 3 years older than you, so it's not suitable to be your father."

Lian Qiao: "..." After a while, he finally choked out a sentence, "You make a lot of sense."

"Yeah." Xu Rendong said, "Then go to sleep."

Lian Qiao turned his head and saw Xu Rendong closed his eyes, with thick eyelashes as black as crow feathers.He fell asleep soon, and the expression that was always repelling people thousands of miles away finally relaxed, and the thin lips that were slightly pursed seemed to have a touch of softness.

This defenseless handsome sleeping face struck Lian Qiao like a bolt of lightning, leaving only one sentence in his head.

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