Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

In the early morning of the next day, Xu Rendong woke up from the cold.Lian Qiao beside him was soundly asleep.Xu Rendong turned his head and glanced at him, suddenly his heart moved.

There is a familiar feeling, as if I have seen him somewhere?

Xu Rendong thought about it for a while, but he really couldn't think of any intersection between the two of them.But since Lian Qiao is a network anchor, maybe I saw his photo on the Internet accidentally.

Lian Qiao, who was sleeping, seemed to notice something, and suddenly opened his eyes, his black and white eyes were frighteningly bright.Xu Rendong was taken aback, and subconsciously turned his face away, pretending to look at the snow scene outside the window.

"Hmm..." Lian Qiao rubbed his eyes and sat up, looked around, then looked at Xu Rendong, and said in doubt, "Brother Liandong, I feel something is staring at me..." He even shivered, Rubbing his arms, he said, "It's so scary, my hairs are standing on end."

"..." Xu Rendong refused to admit that he was that "thing", and said very calmly, "It's too cold in the room, it must be freezing."

"Oh." Lian Qiao nodded, suddenly sneezed and sniffled, "It's quite cold."

Xu Rendong still felt very embarrassed, so he quickly sat up and put on his clothes: "It's only 06:30, I don't know if other people are awake. I'll go and see if there is anything to eat."

Even Joe jumped up and said tremblingly; "Wait, wait, I'm with you! Don't leave me alone, I'm afraid!"

The two swayed around the room, but the others did not wake up.There was bread and milk in the kitchen.The bread was hard and the milk was cold.Xu Rendong found a small pot to warm up the milk, Lian Qiao suddenly said, "This is Lieba."

"Huh?" Xu Rendong turned his head and saw that Lian Qiao broke the big round bread into two pieces, revealing the extremely fine texture inside the bread.Lian Qiao weighed the weight of the bread and said with certainty: "This is Leba, a traditional Russian food. Leba is much heavier than ordinary bread, so it's easy to distinguish."

Xu Rendong: "You mean this is Russia?" As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he realized that this conclusion was unreasonable.Everything yesterday has fully proved that this is not the real world, but subconsciously he still hopes to get a logical explanation.

This is a mindset at work.

Sure enough, Lian Qiao shook his head and denied him: "I don't think so. But this may be a hint. After all, there are Russian words in the elevator, and the key props are Russian dolls. But what does it want to tell us?"

Of course Xu Rendong couldn't give him an answer.

Xu Rendong poured warm milk into the cup, and the two of them ate a hot breakfast, warming up their bodies.Just as he was about to go upstairs to wake up the others, a woman's scream suddenly came from upstairs.

"Ah ah ah ah ah--"

Xu Rendong and Lian Qiao looked at each other, and quickly ran up.

The source of the sound was on the second floor. A pale woman was standing in front of a room, trembling all over.Xu Rendong recognized the person who questioned Yuan Xueming last night, his name was Xu Hong.Lian Qiao asked: "What's wrong?"

"Something...something happened..." Xu Hong tremblingly pointed at the ground.The two looked along her fingers and found a large dark red blood oozing from the crack of the door.The bloodstain had dried and even turned to ice.Judging from the amount of bleeding, the people inside the door were probably already cold.

Xu Rendong turned the door handle, it was locked.He looked back at Lian Qiao and said, "Let's knock the door open."

Lian Qiao nodded.There was a bang, and the two knocked open the wooden door.Xu Rendong stepped into a pool of blood and almost slipped, but fortunately, Lian Qiao had quick eyesight and quick hands, and grabbed him.He subconsciously wanted to say thank you, but when he looked up, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

The amount of blood in the room was much more spectacular than the pool of blood at the door.The floor, the bed, the windows... Even the ceiling was splattered with blood.A large number of pieces of bright red meat were scattered messily on the floor, and the bones and blood vessels at the fractures were clearly visible.In fact, if it’s just meat, it’s okay, after all, everyone has seen pork stalls in the vegetable market.However, there are fingers, eyeballs, hair, and other things with human characteristics mixed in this piece of meat, so people can tell at a glance that this is a human corpse.This is scary.

Fortunately, Xu Rendong's psychological quality is not bad.After all, he himself had died tragically twice, and it was still within his tolerance to see a dismembered corpse.

Probably because of being stuffy in a closed room all night, the smell of blood in the air was so strong that it irritated the eyes.Xu Rendong covered his mouth and nose and coughed twice, turned his head and was about to speak, when he saw that Lian Qiao's face was pale and his eyes were about to pop out.

then.

"belch."

Scared, to, hiccup, hiccup.

Xu Rendong: "..."

Others rushed after hearing the screams.Seeing the tragic situation in the room, they turned pale with shock at first, and then looked at Xu Hong who was sitting outside the room trembling, and showed strange expressions of "it's not you who died".

Xu Hong was angry: "What are you doing!"

Everyone silently turned their eyes away, pretending to be watching the murder scene.

Xu Rendong walked out with Lian Qiao, who kept hiccupping, and met Yuan Xueming.

"Dead?" Yuan Xueming was also very calm, and seemed to be used to it, "What's the situation?"

Xu Rendong glanced at Xu Hong.Xu Hong hadn't recovered from her anger, and said angrily, "I don't know."

"Did you hear anything at night?" Yuan Xueming asked, "You live in the next room, right?"

Xu Hong said that she went to bed early last night and heard nothing.Yuan Xueming went into the room to inspect the corpse, and was soon choked by the smell of blood, and walked out frowning.

"Both are dead," he said. "Let's go downstairs to eat first."

Everyone was shocked that he was still thinking about eating at this time.A girl asked, "Don't you need an autopsy?"

Yuan Xueming said helplessly: "Ghosts kill people, what's the point of an autopsy? Do you want to know whether ghosts tore people up with their bare hands or with their teeth?"

His words made sense, Xu Rendong nodded in agreement.

Everyone: "..."

Yuan Xueming reassured: "Let's go find gifts after dinner. It's business to finish the task and leave here as soon as possible."

Everyone no longer had any objections, and followed downstairs.Lian Qiao suddenly said: "I, I have eaten. Hiccup."

Yuan Xueming subconsciously looked at the corpse in the room, and the expression on his face froze instantly.Xu Rendong knew that he had misunderstood, and quickly explained: "We ate downstairs, there is bread and milk in the kitchen."

"... Oh." Yuan Xueming took a deep look at Lian Qiao and left.

Lian Qiao said, "I want to check the corpse again."

Xu Rendong was a little surprised.Lian Qiao had already hiccupped and shivered into the room.He bent down and carefully observed the body parts on the ground.He was very uncomfortable by the smell of blood, his brows were slightly frowned, but his eyes were eager to try.

"I'll go down for a while." After he finished speaking, he ran downstairs.Soon, he ran up again, holding a pair of knives and forks.

Xu Rendong was puzzled: "What are you doing with a knife and fork?"

Lian Qiao: "Because I didn't find the chopsticks."

Xu Rendong: "???" What's the matter, didn't you have enough for breakfast?

Lian Qiao was in a state of bewilderment and excitement. He didn't notice Xu Rendong's indescribable expression, and walked into the room full of broken corpses with a knife and fork.He walked carefully to the middle of the body parts, squatted on the ground, added the body parts, and studied them over and over in his hands.Only then did Xu Rendong realize that he was performing an autopsy.

But using a knife and fork to do an autopsy... is really perverted.

After a while, Lian Qiao announced the conclusion: "This corpse was crushed by teeth, and the teeth marks are still there."

"Chew?" Xu Rendong was surprised, "Couldn't it be that ghosts killed people, and a bear ran in?"

"No. Look at the scene of the crime. The doors and windows are locked. It's a secret room." He pointed to the door that was knocked open by them, "It's impossible for ordinary beasts to come in. And the tooth marks on the corpse are very small... "

Xu Rendong was very surprised: "The tooth marks are very small?"

Lian Qiao's complexion is not very good: "Yes. Compared with a large beast, I think it is more like... a rabbit. A big rabbit."

The image of the gray-haired rabbit holding an arm and gnawing off its fingers like a carrot suddenly appeared in Xu Rendong's mind, and he couldn't help feeling chills down his back.

Lian Qiao threw the knife and fork aside, walked out of the room, and closed the door behind him.He wiped the sweat off his face, showing a thoughtful expression.

Xu Rendong: "What are you thinking?"

Lian Qiao: "During my autopsy just now, a familiar melody kept echoing in my head, but I couldn't remember what it was... Let me hum it to you, it's like this: ummm~mmmmmm..."

Xu Rendong was silent for a moment: "...China on the tip of the tongue."

Lian Qiao: "...Oh."

Two seconds later, Xu Rendong finally couldn't bear it and laughed out loud.

"You..." Xu Rendong said with a smile, "When you see a dead person, you will be scared to hiccup, but when you do the autopsy, you can still think about food shows. Are you brave or cowardly?"

Lian Qiao said with a bitter face: "Actually, I'm very timid, but the audience masters like to watch me play horror games, and I can't help it..."

Xu Rendong nodded: "It's not easy for you."

Lian Qiao asked: "By the way, Brother Liandong, what do you do?"

Xu Rendong: "I'm an ordinary..."

Lian Qiao laughed suddenly: "Male high school student?"

Xu Rendong: "Financial analyst."

Lian Qiao said "Oh" in disappointment: "Brother Liandong, you look so good-looking and have a good figure, I thought you were a star or a model or something."

Xu Rendong ignored the compliment, but he was a little concerned about what he said earlier, and asked with a frown: "I'm already 28, how can I still be a high school student? Do I look like someone who often repeats grades?"

Lian Qiao hurriedly said: "No, no, uh, actually this is a meme... because the hero who saves the world in Japanese anime is forcibly set as an ordinary male high school student, so..." He secretly glanced at Xu Rendong , found that he wasn't angry, so he smiled again with crooked eyebrows, "But Brother Honeysuckle, you have good skin and look really tender. I believe you even if you say you are a college student."

Xu Rendong: "Then you still wanted to call me Dad yesterday."

Lian Qiao: "I'm not! I don't!"

Xu Rendong: "Okay. Let's go, let's go down and discuss with everyone."

Coming to the first floor, Xu Rendong told everyone about Lian Qiao's discovery. Yuan Xueming said: "It is also possible for rabbits to kill people. But you don't have to worry too much. Although there are ghosts in this world, they have conditions for killing people."

Lian Qiao's eyes lit up: "Like the rules of the game?"

Yuan Xueming: "Yes, it's like the rules of the game. But it won't tell us the rules, we need to find out by ourselves. The rules of each world are also different, and there are no rules to find. Anyway, we have to wait until the dead to figure out the conditions. Nothing, so there's no use worrying."

Someone nervously asked, "Will eating bread..."

When everyone heard this, they dropped the bread in their hands.Yuan Xueming said: "I don't know if I will die if I eat it, I only know that I will be hungry if I don't eat it."

Everyone looked at the bread in confusion, with complicated expressions on their faces, and they didn't know what they were thinking.

After dinner, Yuan Xueming suggested that everyone explore the house separately to see if they could find nesting dolls.Since Yuan Xueming is a veteran, everyone has regarded him as the leader of the team and obeyed his instructions.Even Xu Hong who lost her temper obediently followed behind everyone.

It didn't take long for everyone to make a new discovery.

"There's a puppet in the kitchen!"

"There's a basement here! But it's locked and can't be opened!"

Everyone explored the whole house, even the room of the dead, but they couldn't find the key to the basement, and couldn't get more information.So they gathered in the kitchen again to study this new wooden doll.

This doll is a little bigger than the one in Lian Qiao's hand, and the smile is the same weird, but it is more like a Russian doll than that one, because it has a slit in the middle, which looks like it can be unscrewed.

Lian Qiao shook the doll, and there was a gurgling sound inside, and said, "There seems to be something inside."

"Could it be the key to the basement?" Everyone was curious about this, but no one did it.After all, we don't know whether "opening the nesting doll" is a condition of death. Who would like to try the risk with their own body?

Lian Qiao reached out to take the doll and was about to unscrew it when Xu Rendong pressed his hand and said, "Let me do it."

Lian Qiao was taken aback, Xu Rendong had already unscrewed the doll.Inside is a tiny compass.

Not the key, everyone was a little disappointed, Yuan Xueming also frowned.

But... a compass?

Xu Rendong and Lian Qiao looked at each other.For some reason, they both felt that the other party and themselves should be thinking the same thing at this moment.