Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

After turning right there is a long corridor.Holding the flashlight, Xu Rendong proceeded cautiously.He has been in the underground labyrinth for more than half an hour, and his eyes have almost adapted to the dark environment, so he can see clearly everything in the light of the flashlight.

The flashlight swept into the distance, and suddenly something moved in the field of vision.Xu Rendong once again shone the light straight ahead, and saw a lot of joint puppets in the distance, and was immediately taken aback.

A bunch of articulated dolls crowded in the corridor, moving in different ways, completely blocking the corridor.After being illuminated by the light of the flashlight, they also seemed to be frightened, and the puppets twisted here one by one, and then all the joints twisted frantically!

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like you are welcoming him, but rushing over to kill him with bitter hatred.

Xu Rendong gasped: so many!how to spell!

He glanced over and saw that there were at least thirty joint dolls crowded there, and the ones in the front row reacted the fastest, rushing towards him at a speed of 50 meters.Xu Rendong turned around and ran away without any hesitation.The flashlight in his hand turned accordingly, illuminating the direction he came from.

Lian Qiao had already given instructions, this time he did not say left and right in Chinese, but used arrow symbols.Xu Rendong ran for a while according to the instructions, and suddenly felt the pressure behind him disappear, and the sound of frantic footsteps disappeared at some point.

Xu Rendong turned around in surprise, Lian Qiao asked, "What's wrong?"

Xu Rendong: "They stopped chasing."

Lian Qiao: "Is there a defensive range?"

Xu Rendong didn't answer.The articulated puppet is stuck on the only way to the finish line. He has no choice but to pass this level.So he turned back to the corridor of the joint dolls, and felt that the surrounding air was stagnant and there was no sound. It seemed that the dolls had really stopped moving.

Xu Rendong stood at the corner, with his back against the wall, and carefully shone the flashlight on the doll.I felt a blur in front of my eyes, and the puppet where the light of the flashlight reached turned its head around in an instant, staring straight at the flashlight, and its uncoordinated limbs began to twist again, and it rushed towards here with unrecognizable steps.

Xu Rendong was startled, and instinctively turned his head and ran away.After running two steps, I found that the dolls behind stopped and stopped chasing.

what happened?Just turn your back on them and stop chasing them?

Lian Qiao was suddenly excited: "SCP173!" (Note)

Xu Rendong: "?"

He didn't have time to think about what Lian Qiao was excited about, but looked down at the flashlight in his hand.Suddenly there was an idea in my heart.

He turned around and pointed the flashlight at a puppet tens of meters away again.The moment the light fell on the puppet, the puppet immediately gained life and ran furiously.

This time Xu Rendong didn't turn his head and run away, but pressed the flashlight switch again.With just a click, the entire corridor was plunged into darkness.The running sound of the joint puppet also stopped, without any muddling.

Got it, it turned out to be light.

Xu Rendong immediately recalled the description on the employee profile: seventeen hours of working time and seven hours of rest.Because the work is too hard, they must not be disturbed during the rest time.

It seems that this is where the joint dolls rest. Once stimulated by light, they will violently beat people.

...Are you angry when you wake up?

Okay, that makes sense.

It seems that as long as you don't turn on the flashlight, you can avoid retaliation.That being the case, then this level is not too difficult, as long as you walk through the puppet formation in the dark.

After turning off the flashlight, the entire corridor was plunged into complete darkness, not to mention that he couldn't see his fingers, Xu Rendong almost couldn't feel the existence of his body.He walked along the wall towards the puppet pile, Lian Qiao: "Spicy chicken camera, there is no infrared night vision."

Xu Rendong didn't reply.

Lian Qiao: "Boss, what are you doing?"

Xu Rendong: "..."

After being speechless for a moment, Lian Qiao suddenly realized: "Oh, it's the light, right!"

Xu Rendong nodded in the dark.I don't know if his meaning has been passed on, anyway, Lian Qiao didn't type any more for a while.

His toe suddenly bumped into something hard.Xu Rendong's heart trembled, and he reflexively took several steps back.Probably because he was in a completely dark environment, his nerves were highly tense, and such a small stimulus actually made his whole body stiff, with chest tightness and palpitations. It took a while before he summoned up the courage to move on.

He adjusted his direction to avoid the puppet he just bumped into.Suddenly, another punch was punched in the stomach.

Like a frightened cat, Xu Rendong curled up and took a big step back.His heart was beating wildly, almost smashing his chest.Even the roots of the teeth began to tingle, and the head was covered with cold sweat.

He wanted so badly to turn on the flashlight to see what was going on, but he couldn't.Therefore, he could only cautiously move forward to confirm the situation in the dark.It turned out to be a puppet stagnant in a running posture, waving its arms and clenching its fists.He happened to hit a fist just now, and the speed wasn't really fast, but because of his high concentration and tense abdominal muscles, he had the illusion of being punched in the stomach.

It's okay, it's okay, as long as the lights are off, they won't move.

Xu Rendong tried his best to calm down, but the frantic heartbeat couldn't be calmed down no matter what.His chest was so tight that he really didn't want to stay in the dark any longer.So he forced himself to pull himself together, and once again stepped into the darkness.

The articulated puppet's response to light appears to be related to the intensity of the light.The puppet standing in the front row was directly irradiated, so it reacted the most and ran the fastest.After Xu Rendong passed a few scattered dolls, he soon came to the part where the joint dolls were most concentrated.

He stuck out his left foot and kicked something with his left foot.Stretch your right foot and kick something with your right foot.After adjusting the direction, I stretched out my hand towards the darkness, only to find that puppets were everywhere, blocking the road.

Although the dolls are crowded together, because each doll is slender and distorted in movement, and after receiving the light stimulation just now, the original dense formation was disrupted, so it is still feasible to sneak through the dolls.But this meant that he had to have a lot of physical contact with the puppet, groping his way through the gap.

...Don't be afraid, they won't move.

Xu Rendong tried his best to comfort himself in his heart, but when he squeezed into the cold puppet and was forced to make the same twisted posture, he felt his scalp numb again, his tongue was numb, and even his breathing became stiff.

...How can you not be afraid, how can you do it?

He was squeezed in the middle by dozens of puppets. If the lights were accidentally turned on, even if the puppets didn't attack him, they could crush his chest and crush his limbs just by twisting them casually.

At this moment, he hoped that Lian Qiao was by his side.Even just groping along in the dark with him, even just standing quietly beside him made him feel better.

It's really hard for a person to struggle in the dark.

Suddenly, in the vision of the left eye, Lian Qiao's fingers moved, and quickly typed out a line of words: "Let me sing a song for you."

Xu Rendong was taken aback.Sing?What song are you singing at this time?And the voice cannot be shared, how can he hear Lian Qiao singing?

Lian Qiao typed in: "Now, please enjoy the theme song of Journey to the West: "Yungong Xunyin". Let's begin!"

"Did it go!"

"Deng, wait for the light, wait for the light, wait for the light, wait for the light, wait for the light, wait for the light, d

Xu Rendong: "..."

Why can you make a voice!

Seeing the magical line of Deng Deng waiting for the lights, the melody of the theme song of Journey to the West actually echoed in Xu Rendong's mind.This song is so familiar that Lian Qiao just started it, and Xu Rendong automatically completed the whole song, and even added a picture of Monkey King flying through the clouds.

I couldn't help humming along in my heart: "Dang! Dang! Dang Dang Dang—Dang Dang!"

With Journey to the West as the background music, the previous sense of terror was instantly wiped away.Before he knew it, Xu Rendong had already walked out of the puppet circle.

He continued to walk along the wall for a while, and after turning the corner, he was finally able to take out the flashlight.The vision regained its brightness, and Xu Rendong let out a long sigh of relief.

Lian Qiao: "You come out!"

Xu Rendong: "Yes, thank you. But why did you suddenly think of singing?"

Lian Qiao: "It's so dark in the maze, you can't turn on the lights, and there are a lot of puppets around me. I feel terrible just looking at it here. So I think you may be afraid too. But there is no one around you, and you can't Talk to me. You're walking alone in the dark. Feeling helpless."

Xu Rendong looked at the phrase "walking alone in the dark", and the most vulnerable place in his heart was suddenly poked, feeling sour.

In the field of vision of the left eye, Lian Qiao's fingers moved again.

"Shall we live together?"

Xu Rendong was taken aback.

Lian Qiao quickly deleted the jargon, and corrected in a hurry: "I don't mean the kind of cohabitation, I mean simply living together. This way we don't have to make copies separately..."

Xu Rendong: "..."

Lian Qiao: "I'll move here, or you can move here and live with me, okay?"

Xu Rendong: "..."

Looking at the phrase "OK", he seemed to hear Lian Qiao's soft voice ringing in his ears.He could even imagine Lian Qiao pulling his sleeve, looking at him expectantly and anxiously, and asking him, "How is it?"

A crisp, itchy feeling suddenly rose in the stomach, warm, like a kitten's paws being scratched.

Then, a tickle in the throat.With a "wow", he vomited.

Lian Qiao: "???"

However, there was no vomit in front of him.When Xu Rendong opened his eyes, he saw a sapphire blue butterfly flying in front of his eyes.The butterfly is very small, and the scales on its wings are shining with fine light, dancing leisurely in the dark.

Lian Qiao: "???!!!"

Xu Rendong stretched out his hand in a daze, the butterfly wobbled and slowly landed on his palm.

Then, disappear.There is only a piece of silver-white round metal left in the palm.

Elevator button.

Butterflies... Ah, so it is.The butterfly in the stomach refers to the feeling that your heart beats faster when you fall in love.

Lian Qiao: "Brother Lonicera..."

Xu Rendong's blood rushed to his cheeks all of a sudden, he was almost out of breath.The metal button was firmly stuck in the palm of his hand, and he clenched it tightly, finally recovering.

Even Qiao didn't speak, and Xu Rendong gradually calmed down.

He suddenly remembered——Lian Qiao has a girl he likes, named Hua Hua.

The butterfly just now seemed to be Xu Rendong confessing, as if it was directly declaring: I like you.But... Lian Qiao likes girls.

Lian Qiao must be very surprised, suddenly being confessed by the same sex.But he was so gentle and unwilling to say hurtful words, so he kept silent.

By the way, the cohabitation he proposed just now should only be for safety reasons.There is really no other meaning, it is because I think too much.

...don't embarrass him anymore.You can't even make friends like this.

A strong sense of shame clogged his chest, mixed with bitterness.Xu Rendong took a deep breath, trying to make Lian Qiao forget about it, but Lian Qiao typed:

"If I were by your side now, I would definitely push you against the wall and press you hard..."

Before he finished speaking, Xu Rendong suddenly raised his head—another unknown monster appeared in front of him.He instinctively picked up his weapon and stepped forward.Lian Qiao deleted the jargon and changed it to "Forget it, you can fight monsters at ease first. I'll talk about it when you come out."

While fighting monsters, Xu Rendong thought sadly: this time he really can't even be friends, he actually wants to put me in the wall and beat me hard!

The author has something to say:

Who will tell Liandong what Lian Qiao wants to do by pinning him against the wall?

Note: SCP173: The SCP Foundation is a series of works about various supernatural phenomena, individuals and other events. Due to the large number of authors and the global orientation, eligible articles can be accepted.The core setting is to lock abnormal phenomena, individuals, events, etc. into the Foundation for "containment" to prevent harm to humans.Among them, the more famous SCP173 is a humanoid object made of concrete and steel. When it is in front of you, you must keep looking at it without blinking.Once it's out of anyone's sight, it'll snap your neck in an instant.