Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

The speed of the passage of time has become very strange.Most of the people in the villa have nothing to do all day long, feeling that time flows extremely slowly, and days seem like years.And when the hour hand slowly pointed to twelve midnight, they stared at the clock closely, hoping that the second hand would beat a little slower, wishing that time would stop here.

Everyone gathered again in the glass room on the top floor.There was still endless darkness outside the glass room, and the sense of despair as if being in an isolated island enveloped everyone again.Only this time, everyone's mood was heavier than last night.

Ghost stories told here will come true.Now the ghost in the dream in the first story has terrified everyone so much that they can't sleep. If there is another monster tonight, everyone's situation will be even more difficult.

But the paper clearly requires them to tell a story every night.If you don't speak up, I'm afraid everyone will be punished.This is the practice in the world of ghosts: Although you may not be able to live if you do the task honestly, if you don't do it, you will definitely die.

In the end how to do?

Everyone sat around the center of the glass room.There were only [-] people sitting on the original [-] chairs.The night outside the glass room, just like their current situation, was dim.

Lian Qiao glanced at the clock and said, "There's 1 minute left. If you don't say anything else, it will be too late."

Xu Rendong nodded.Everyone remained silent, and no one wanted to speak.

The stagnant atmosphere made everyone feel extremely depressed.The wind whizzed by, making a whining sound, like something howling and flapping against the window in the dark.The three members of the film club leaned together tremblingly, and the rock monk was holding rosary beads and turning them one by one, his eyes were closed, his lips were moving, and he did not know what scripture he was chanting.

Xu Rendong felt nothing in his heart.He wanted to see what would happen if the story wasn't told.The worst result is total annihilation, as long as you die happily, it's not a bad thing.The beginning of this reincarnation was ruined by the president's ghost story. The ghost who killed people in the dream was too difficult to deal with. He hadn't slept for more than [-] hours in a row, and his body couldn't hold on.

The worst was Zhong Xiu, who was seriously ill.Although entering the elevator world allowed her to recover some physical strength, it was still at the end of her strength after all.At this time, her complexion was extremely pale, frighteningly white, and with her bony figure, she looked like a skeleton, which was more frightening than the howling wind outside.

"It will be over soon." Xu Rendong said lightly, but he didn't know who he was comforting.

As soon as the voice fell, there was a "click".The lights in the entire glass room were extinguished.

No one touched the switch.Everyone gasped at the moment the lights went out, and then felt the cold wind pouring straight into their necks.The helplessness of being in the wilderness returned.Everyone in the darkness grabbed the people around them in horror.Someone tried to turn on the phone's flashlight, only to find that the phone wouldn't turn on.

It turns out that the lights will be forced to turn off.Xu Rendong thought about it calmly, suddenly the back of his hand felt hot.Lian Qiao held his hand tightly.

How can he always pinpoint me in the dark?

Xu Rendong wanted to laugh inexplicably.

Various sounds intertwined in the darkness, everyone's teeth chattering, rapid breathing, the rustling of clothing, and the noise of the wind beating against the windows... The restlessness in everyone's hearts was piled up in this mess of voices , pushing himself step by step to the peak of fear.

At this moment, the floor suddenly shook violently!

Xu Rendong got up immediately, and heard the sound of the chair falling on the ground behind him: "Earthquake?"

Everyone also stood up.In the darkness, no one could clearly see what was going on, and the rapid breathing was in a mess.

Lian Qiao's calm voice came from the left: "The house is shaking."

The glass frame above his head made a strange sound of steel bars twisting, and the floor tiles under his feet began to crack and bulge.Everyone felt dizzy and dizzy, and they couldn't stand still, and fell to the ground.

"What are you doing standing still, run!" Someone shouted, and everyone came to their senses, and quickly got up from the ground again.

Not long after, there were "bang bang" sounds from all around, and several people hit the glass curtain wall, yelling ouch.

Xu Rendong and Lian Qiao didn't intend to move. They both knew in their hearts that if the house was really going to collapse, it would be useless to run anywhere.The surrounding shouts and footsteps were chaotic, but Lian Qiao leaned close to Xu Rendong's ear and said in a low voice:

"Air wall."

Xu Rendong let out a "hmm".He also noticed that the glass room was obviously very spacious, and everyone ran for their lives in different directions, but they all hit the glass wall and were bounced back, and the collision was very close to them.I'm afraid that what they hit was not the real glass curtain wall, but an invisible air wall.

Sure enough, the punishment for violating the mission requirements cannot be avoided so easily.

Just when Xu Rendong was thinking this way, there was a loud noise above his head.Lian Qiao exclaimed, "Lonicera!"

Before he could react, Xu Rendong was thrown down by Lian Qiao and crushed under him.There was the sound of huge glass smashing to the ground in front of him, and many glass shards even hit Xu Rendong.Fortunately, the shards of glass did not scratch him through his clothes.He quickly reached out to confirm Lian Qiao's safety.

"Lian Qiao? Are you okay?"

"It's okay, how about you?" Lian Qiao helped him to sit up, slowly pulled him into his arms, and fumbled up and down worryingly, "Did it hit you?"

"I'm fine." After Xu Rendong finished speaking, he suddenly felt that his pants were wet, and some warm liquid flowed down the floor tiles.He stretched out his hand to touch it, and the warm and wet texture filled the air with a strong smell of blood.

Xu Rendong's heart tightened: "Zhong Xiu!"

He actually forgot about Zhong Xiu!

After the lights went out, Xu Rendong has been waiting for the mutation to appear.Zhong Xiu didn't make any sound from the beginning to the end, and she didn't hold his arm tightly like Lian Qiao, with such a sense of presence that Xu Rendong accidentally forgot her existence.

Xu Rendong's heart was instantly filled with guilt.Fortunately, Zhong Xiu's response came from not far away.

"I'm fine...uh!"

Hearing that muffled groan, Xu Rendong's heart also tightened.He subconsciously broke free from Lian Qiao's arms and ran towards the source of the sound.Lian Qiao felt that his arms were empty, and he stretched out his hands to grab them, but he couldn't catch anything.

"..." Lian Qiao's fingers slowly tightened, his eyes narrowed dangerously.It's a pity that in the darkness, no one noticed his subtle changes.

"Where are you!" Xu Rendong moved forward while groping, and soon found a thin and small body.

"Why do you..." Zhong Xiu whispered in surprise, before she could finish speaking, there was a sudden sound of breaking through the air above their heads.

Xu Rendong raised his hand to block it without thinking, only to feel severe pain in his arm.He gritted his teeth and suppressed the pain in his throat, and dragged Zhong Xiu to hide in the corner.The surrounding chaos has not stopped, men and women are crying and crying, and there is also the sound of glass being smashed.He couldn't see anything clearly in the dark, and he protected Zhong Xiu behind him.The glass and steel bars on his head did not hit them again, but the people running around kicked him several times.

Going on like this is not an option.Xu Rendong shouted: "Don't run away!"

Before he could say the next sentence, another bell-like roar overwhelmed him:

"Fucking stop for me! Don't move!"

Everyone was taken aback by the violent drinking, and they all stood there dumbfounded.The shaking of the ground continued, and the cracks on the ground were getting bigger and bigger. It seemed that the house was about to split in the middle.The glass on the head also kept falling down, hitting the ground with a clatter, which made people tremble with fear.

Only then did Xu Rendong realize that the sound came from the Rock Monk.His voice is thick and magnetic, very recognizable, like a shooting star across the night sky, instantly grabbing everyone's attention.

After a pause of less than a second, the monk slowly said, "The story I want to tell today is a fairy tale."

Is he going to tell a ghost story?at such a time? !

Everyone felt both anticipation and fear at the same time.The expectation is that the earthquake may stop because of his story.The fear is that everything he says will come true.

However, at this moment, there is no better way.Everyone stopped in place without saying a word, waiting for the monk's next story.

What the monk told was a fairy tale called "The Juniper Tree".The protagonist of the fairy tale is a little boy who lost his mother when he was young.As in all unfortunate fairy tales, the boy's father marries a vicious woman to be his stepmother.The stepmother also brought a little sister named Marlene.The vicious stepmother treats the boy very meanly, and the father doesn't care about it, but the cute little Marlene still maintains her innocence and treats the boy as her own brother.

One day, the stepmother bought some apples.The boy saw it and was very greedy.The stepmother said: "The apple is in the box, go and get it yourself."Just as the boy was poking his head into the box, the bad stepmother suddenly turned violent and closed the box hard, pinching the boy's neck off.Little Marlene was terrified to see her brother separated, but her stepmother warned her not to tell her father.At night, after the father came back, the cruel stepmother boiled the boy's body into broth.The father, who didn't know about it, thought the broth was extraordinarily delicious, so he drank all the broth, spit out the bones, and threw them under the table.

Little Marlene felt sorry for her brother, so she knelt under the table, collected the boy's bones one by one with a silk handkerchief, and buried them under the juniper tree in front of the house.Suddenly a golden bird appeared on the tree. The bird flapped its wings and left the juniper tree.

It flew into the city and sang as it flew:

My mother she killed me,

my father he ate me,

My sister, little Marlene,

She picked up all my bones,

Wrapped in a silk handkerchief,

Buried under that juniper tree.

Kway, Kway, I become a,

What a beautiful bird!

The birds sang so sweetly that the jewelers of the city poked their heads out.He asked the bird to sing for him again, and the bird said: Unless you give me a gold necklace.The jeweler gave him the gold necklace, and he sang it again, and flew away with the gold necklace.

It flew and flew, and came to the shoemaker's window again.Attracted by its singing, the shoemaker asked it to sing for him in exchange for a pair of red dancing shoes.The bird got the red dancing shoes and flew to a mill again.

This time, when the miller begged it to sing again, what the bird asked was—a millstone.

At last the bird returned to the juniper tree. "My mother killed me, my father he ate me..." It kept singing and singing, and finally caught my father's attention.

Father came under the tree, looked up at the bird, and praised.The bird let go of its paw, and a gold necklace fell into the hands of the father.

"This is really a strange thing." My father murmured when he came home. "A bird sang a strange song and gave me a gold necklace!"

Little Marlene was also attracted by the singing and came under the juniper tree.The golden bird let go of its other paw, and a pair of red dancing shoes landed in front of little Marlene.

"Look, mom, the bird gave me a pair of red dancing shoes!" She told her mother excitedly.

And the wicked woman was feeling guilty about the murder of her stepson, and she was restless all day.After hearing what her husband and daughter had said, she decided to meet this amazing bird too.

When she followed the song to the juniper tree, and raised her head—

"A millstone fell from the sky and crushed her to death."

The monk's deep and powerful voice came to an abrupt end.The story is over.

Everyone followed with a sigh of relief.In fact, as early as halfway through the story, the shaking of the floor gradually subsided.By the end of the story, the surroundings had returned to normal.Like a baby crying and restless in the dark, it was finally soothed and fell asleep again.

However, Xu Rendong sighed lightly.

This fairy tale is spooky, but not terribly scary.The bad guys are punished at the end, and there are no horror elements such as ghosts and beasts in the whole story.

Obviously, this is an attempt: Does a story that isn't scary get the job done?

At this time, with a "click", the light suddenly turned on automatically.The cold incandescent light illuminated the glass room, and everyone's expressions were also lit up, and their eyes glowed with life again.

Xu Rendong barely adapted to the sudden light, he quickly looked around: Lian Qiao was standing not far away, except for some messy clothes, he was unscathed.There was a large pool of blood on the ground, and in the middle of the pool of blood lay a man with a large piece of glass shard stuck in the back of his neck. He was probably killed on the spot when the ceiling fell.

When he saw the dead body, he felt relieved, and then turned to look at Zhong Xiu, only to find that there were only some minor scratches.It seems that the pool of blood just now did not come from Zhong Xiu.He was just a false alarm.

Everyone was scattered around, with more or less injuries on their bodies.Broken glass and steel bars are everywhere on the ground, a mess.The rock monk stood in the middle of the ruins, with a shiny bald head and a clean yellow robe without any wrinkles.Compared with the embarrassment of other people, he seemed to stay out of it, as if none of these worldly things could hurt him.

Xu Rendong was amazed that this person was so lucky, could it be that he was really protected by Buddha?But he put his hands together, closed his eyes, and said in a very pious voice for the first time:

"Amitabha, if I don't go to hell, whoever goes to hell."

Xu Rendong was taken aback, and then someone screamed: "Monk, your legs!"

Xu Rendong looked down and saw that the monk's feet had been frozen into ice.The cold air climbed up the calves, and soon spread over the knees, then the waist, chest...

The monk smiled heartily at the crowd, stretched out his somewhat stiff arms, and waved boldly in front of the crowd.All eyes could not help but focus on him, and he clenched his fists contentedly, as if he had really stood in the center of the stage, grabbing everyone's attention.

"Let's go first, poor monk. I'll wait for you in the Land of Ultimate Bliss." The monk left the last irritating words, and his humble expression finally froze, becoming a lifeless ice sculpture.

Afterwards, countless cracks appeared on his body.With a snap, he shattered to the ground.

The monk died so suddenly that no one could accept this fact.Everyone stared blankly at the shattered ice, with mixed emotions in their hearts, and didn't know what to say.

However, this level should be passed temporarily tonight.The monk told a ghost story that was not scary, violated the task requirements, and all the punishment fell on him alone.His self-sacrifice made everyone understand the rules of the game.For Xu Rendong, this is even more meaningful.

Xu Rendong stared at the pile of crushed ice on the ground, unable to calm down for a long time.

Suddenly, Lian Qiao's voice sounded behind him.

"You are hurt."

The voice was very low, and there was a hint of anger.Xu Rendong turned around in surprise and saw Lian Qiao staring straight at his left arm.

Xu Rendong looked down, only to realize that a big gash had been drawn on his left arm at some point.Blood was dripping down.

Zhong Xiu beside her screamed, and she didn't realize that Xu Rendong was injured until then.She held up Xu Rendong's hand in a panic, and worried: "How is it? Can you still move?"

Xu Rendong moved his fingers, but fortunately, he didn't hurt his muscles or bones.He said casually: "It's okay, a glass fell just now, I blocked it..."

Lian Qiao stepped forward suddenly, pulled Xu Rendong hard, and forcibly snatched his arm from Zhong Xiu's hand.The action was very rough, completely ignoring that Xu Rendong still had injuries on his hands.Xu Rendong's facial features were distorted in pain, and he asked him in a trembling voice: "What are you doing!"

Lian Qiao gave him a fierce look, gritted his teeth and said, "Go and bandage!"