Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

Today's snow is much smaller than yesterday, and the vision is also very clear.I don't know if it was the shadow left by being chased by the monster yesterday. The four of them were a little nervous, for fear that the scalp-numbing sound of grinding teeth would come from the wind again.

"Ah!" Jiang Li, who was walking in the middle of the team, suddenly yelled and fell to the ground.

"A Li!" Wang Yuan hurried to help her, "What's wrong? Are you okay?"

Xu Rendong and Lian Qiao turned their heads and saw a big rock at Jiang Li's feet.The stone was mostly covered by white snow, it seems that Jiang Li accidentally tripped over it.

"Are you okay?" Xu Rendong squatted down, "Can you still go?"

"It's okay..." Jiang Li showed a strong smile, "Twist it a little, it's okay." She tried to stand up, but a look of pain flashed across her face.Wang Yuan was a little anxious, and found a branch to use as a splint for her, but couldn't find a suitable bandage for a while.

"Use my tie." Xu Rendong pulled out his tie and handed it to Jiang Li.

Jiang Li was taken aback for a moment, hesitating a bit, as if he was not too embarrassed to accept it.Wang Yuan took it with his hands, thanked her repeatedly, and fixed the branch with her ankle with a tie.But he was clumsy, the branches were tied crookedly, not only failed to fix it, but also made Jiang Li gasp in pain.

"...I'll do it myself." Jiang Li said tenderly, lowering his head to bandage himself.She seemed to be very good at doing this, with dexterous and skillful movements, and quickly fixed the injured joint, and stood up with Wang Yuan's support.

"Have you ever learned bandages?" Xu Rendong looked at the neat bandages. This technique was obviously professional.

Jiang Li nodded: "Well, I'm a doctor."

Lian Qiao asked: "Is the church still far away? Why don't you go back first, and we will go there by ourselves."

Jiang Li said: "I'm fine. There's still a long way to go...or let A Yuan guide you? In case you get lost..."

Wang Yuan said helplessly: "How can this be done? What if you are in danger like this?"

Jiang Li showed guilt.Xu Rendong said: "Let's go together. You can sit down and rest when you get to the church. Lian Qiao and I can just go in and explore."

Jiang Li nodded happily, and the other two had no objection.So the four of them set off again, and after about ten minutes, they finally arrived at the church.

This is a medium-sized church. The first thing you see when you enter the gate is the spacious and solemn chapel.The rows of benches were neatly arranged and covered with dust.Jesus on the cross is still bowing his head and frowning, with a compassionate expression.The pool of blood on the ground was still there, completely dried.There were several animal paw prints on the bloodstain, Lian Qiao inspected it and guessed it was the paw of a rabbit.

It seems that their decision to leave the church yesterday was not wrong. The black mosaic rabbit came out of the church.

Wang Yuan helped Jiang Li to the side of the bench, carefully wiped off the dust on the chair, and asked her to sit down and rest.Lian Qiao said: "Then you wait for us here, brother Lendong and I go in and have a look."

Xu Rendong glanced at the statue of Jesus, turned his head and said, "If there is anything wrong, you should run first."

Jiang Li quickly waved his hands, saying that we should not be bothered.Lian Qiao picked up the crowbar and explored the church with Xu Rendong.

They walked around the chapel first, but found nothing special, so they came to the side corridor.This corridor is very long, and there are candle-shaped lamps on the wall.The inside of the lamp was dirty, full of signs of aging tungsten filaments.The circuit also seemed to be poorly connected, and the lights flickered on and off, which made people feel flustered.

There were no windows in this hallway, and it was pitch black when the lights were out.There are two doors in the hallway, far apart.Xu Rendong pushed open one of the doors and found that vestments, sacred vessels and other religious items were displayed inside.Lian Qiao was still a little scared at first, holding the crowbar tightly, but suddenly became excited again when he saw this scene, he didn't even want the crowbar, and went up to use his hands and feet on the magic weapon.

"Wow! The Bible! Wow! The Holy Grail! Wow! The Gun of Longinus! (Note 1)" Lian Qiao wanted to hold them all in his hands when he saw one loved the other.When he turned his head and saw a wardrobe, he was so excited that he couldn't control it, "Wow! Priest's outfit! Really priest's outfit!"

Xu Rendong was helpless: "You don't want to move all these things away, do you?"

Lian Qiao held this large pile of dusty religious items and asked hopefully, "Is it possible?"

Xu Rendong: "No. This is stealing."

Lian Qiao: "How can the work of the brave be called stealing! Searching! I call it searching!"

Xu Rendong: "...Your statement is not much better."

Lian Qiao hugged his baby tightly, with a reluctance on his face, like a hamster protecting its food.Xu Rendong said: "Let's put it down, you can't take all these things with you, what if there are ghosts chasing you, don't you still have to throw them away?"

Lian Qiao probably recalled the horror scene of being chased and killed by ghosts in the past two days, and his expression was a little shaken.

Xu Rendong said: "Be obedient."

This sentence seemed to hit Lian Qiao at a certain point. Lian Qiao opened his eyes wide and said "Damn it" in a low voice, his face flushed suddenly, and he finally obediently put the things down.

Xu Rendong said: "You are covered in dust, pat."

"Oh, good." Lian Qiao obediently began to pat the ashes, but the corners of his mouth were still raised.

Xu Rendong put the religious utensils back to their original places one by one, turned to look at Lian Qiao's smiling face, and suddenly felt that there was a naughty taste in that smile.Xu Rendong looked at him from top to bottom, and pointed to his bulging trouser pocket: "What are you hiding?"

"Woo..." Lian Qiao reluctantly took out a piece of sanctuary when his little thoughts were exposed.

Xu Rendong was speechless.The sanctuary was so moldy that it turned green. I don't know how long it had been left there, and it was still covered with dust.Lian Qiao's problem of picking up trash is really carried through to the end, it's hard to say, right?

Seeing that the trouser pocket on the other side was also full of things, Xu Rendong frowned: "Where is it?"

"Oh, this is a matryoshka." To prove his innocence, Lian Qiao took out the doll neatly and unscrewed it for him to see, "I didn't hide it here...huh?"

Inside the doll are those two candies.At this time, some brown sticky liquid seeped out of the gaps in the candy paper, which not only stained the candy paper, but also stuck to the inner wall of the doll.Lian Qiao took out the candy and flattened his mouth in disgust: "It's so disgusting..."

"Is this chocolate?" Xu Rendong said, "Maybe you put it next to your body and it melted."

Lian Qiao said angrily: "It turned out to be chocolate! I ate it if I knew it. I really wanted to eat chocolate yesterday..." After all, the roof of this church looks like kisses.

"Eat it after you go out. You can eat as much as you want then." Seeing that there was nothing to investigate in the room, Xu Rendong turned his head and walked out.

Lian Qiao caught up: "Brother Liandong, can we still meet after we go out?"

Xu Rendong said: "Let's go out first."

Lian Qiao was a little disappointed: "Oh..."

Another door near the end of the corridor is the prayer room.This room is not big, only two chairs and a small compartment are placed for believers to pray and repent.The inside of the cubicle was pitch black. Lian Qiao turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone, got in to have a look, and then crawled out with a bitter face: "It stinks inside, it smells like chest hair."

Xu Rendong: "..." He couldn't help thinking about the smell of chest hair.

The two groped carefully in the prayer room, but couldn't find anything of value, so they had to go back to the corridor.

"Are there any other rooms here?" Lian Qiao asked.

Xu Rendong imagined the structure of the church: "The width of the sacristy and the prayer room is the same as that of the chapel. This church should have a 'mesh'-shaped layout...but the corridor has reached the end." He knocked on the corridor At the end of the wall, I heard a muffled echo, "This wall seems to be solid."

"'Mu' font?" Lian Qiao wrote the word "mu" in the palm of his hand, showing a thoughtful expression.He looked at the door of the prayer room, and then at the door of the sacristy at the other end of the corridor. Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration and said happily, "I see! These two rooms—"

Before the words were finished, all the lights in the corridor suddenly went out, and the entire field of vision was plunged into darkness!

Lian Qiao's voice stopped abruptly.Xu Rendong was startled, and subconsciously groped in his direction: "Lian Qiao! Where are you? You——hmm!"

His mouth was suddenly covered by someone, and then he dragged back forcefully!Xu Rendong was caught off guard and was dragged a few steps.There was endless darkness in front of him, but for some reason, he felt something shaking.

Immediately afterwards, something cold pressed against his neck.

not good!

Alarm bells were ringing in his heart, Xu Rendong instinctively wanted to push away the hand covering his mouth.He found that the hand was very small, like a woman's hand, but at this moment it tightly pressed his mouth and nose, preventing him from making a sound.

Then, that cold thing slashed his neck open!

Fear was like a piece of ice suddenly sticking to his back, which made him tremble and his whole body became stiff.

At first, he didn't feel any pain.He just heard the faint sound of the wind.Hoo, hoo.It's like the sound of the sea when you put a conch shell to your ear.

"Uh, uh..." He wanted to call for help, but he could only make a soft noise like the sound of wind.

Some kind of warm liquid splashed on his chin, on his chest, and wet his clothes and pants.The wind grew louder and he began to feel pain.There was a sharp pain in the neck, and the wound seemed to be pulled by some force, and it was torn bigger little by little.He instinctively covered his neck and touched the blood hole that kept gushing out.The wound was long and deep, almost cutting him to pieces.

Despair is like a big hand, kneading his soft and fragile heart.He tried to block the opening in his throat, but accidentally touched the severed trachea.It was a flexible hardness, and under the moistening of the warm liquid, the trachea slipped away from his fingers.

His fingers were inserted into his windpipe (note 2).

Suddenly, the eyes lit up, as if someone had turned on the light switch.Xu Rendong found that he was in a room he had never seen before. This room was empty, and there was a silver-gray elevator standing abruptly in the middle.

Elevator...so the elevator is here...but where is it?

A man stood by the elevator.Seeing his appearance, the man ran towards him in shock.It wasn't him, but the person behind him that his eyes were looking at.

"You..." He only said this word, and immediately closed his mouth as if he was scrupulous about something, and at the same time glanced to the side.

Xu Rendong's eyes were a little blurry, but he still recognized the man's face.

Wang Yuan.

So whoever cut my neck was...

The person behind him was still holding Xu Rendong firmly.Xu Rendong turned his head with difficulty, and found that the direction Wang Yuan was looking at was a wall.There was nothing on the wall, but Lian Qiao's trembling voice could be faintly heard behind the wall.

"Brother Lonicera? Where are you? Brother Lonicera..."

I am here.

Xu Rendong couldn't make any sound and could only stretch out his hand towards the wall.He saw that his entire arm was soaked in blood, and the blood on his neck was still gushing, like a small fountain, hot and humid, sticky and very warm.There was blood pouring into the trachea, it was fishy and painful, and it made him cough uncontrollably.The coughing action in turn tore at the wound on the neck, making the opening bigger and bigger.He could almost hear the sound of skin tearing.

it hurts……

His lips moved, and he tried to cry out countless times, but he could only feel more blood gushing from his neck.

It can't be blocked, nothing can be blocked.The carotid artery is like a broken water pipe, constantly gushing wildly.

The massive blood loss made him unconscious. He couldn't stand up anymore, and his body limply leaned against the person behind him.The man slowly lowered him to the ground, allowing him to finally see who had killed him.

Jiang Li.It really was Jiang Li.

The previous tenderness had long since disappeared from that beautiful face, instead there was only coldness and determination, with a few drops of blood splashed on it.

And she even had his tie tied around her ankle.

...It hurts...so dizzy...the whole world starts to spin.

Jiang Li's hands were covered with blood, and he lowered his head to search for something on his body.Wang Yuan knelt down next to Xu Rendong limply, and asked in a trembling voice: "Ah Li, why... how can you..."

Jiang Li reached into Xu Rendong's inner pocket, rummaged through it roughly, and gave Wang Yuan an almost paranoid look: "I can't watch you die."

At the same time, Lian Qiao from behind the wall cried out, "Brother Liandong...I'm so scared...where are you...I'm so scared...don't leave me..."

I'm here.I did not abandon you.

Xu Rendong stretched out his hand weakly, but he couldn't reach the wall.His eyes began to darken, and his vision gradually blurred.

"Found it!" Jiang Li lowered his voice, but couldn't suppress the joy in his voice.She held up the blood-stained doll with joy, like a little girl eager to be praised, "A Yuan, you won't die! You have a doll too, we can leave from here!"

Wang Yuan looked at her with a complicated expression, and finally took the doll with trembling fingers.He lowered his head and said softly to Xu Rendong: "I'm sorry."

Xu Rendong could no longer see anything.He had lost too much blood, and his body gradually became stiff and cold, as if the remaining blood in his veins was beginning to coagulate.For a moment, he had the illusion that he was lying on the snow, and there was a vast expanse of white everywhere.He no longer felt pain, just despair.

In this cold despair, the last sound he heard was Lian Qiao's bird-like cry.

"Don't leave me..."

The author has something to say:

Note 1: The Holy Grail and the Gun of Longinus are both sacred objects of Jesus.There is a symbolic display of such things in the sacristy of churches.Everyone probably knows about the Holy Grail. Longinus copied a piece of popular science: This is a gun that once pierced Jesus Christ.According to the Bible, when Jesus was crucified, a centurion stabbed him in the side with a spear.The centurion was called Longinus.When the blood of Jesus fell into the eyes of Longinus, Longinus was instantly influenced, and then gave up his original identity, became a monk, and possessed the ability to perform miracles.He was later posthumously considered a saint, known as "Saint Longinus".

Note 2: About cutting the throat.The anatomical structure of the neck is that the trachea is in front (that is, where the hard, Adam's apple is), and the carotid arteries on both sides are on both sides of the trachea.Most people will choose the front when wiping their necks. In fact, it is the trachea that is cut.Here, Jiang Li knew the anatomical structure, and he couldn't accurately locate the carotid artery in the nitrogen darkness, so he directly cut deep, cutting off the trachea and the carotid artery together, causing severe severe trauma.After the trachea leaks, people cannot speak, and it can also prevent Lian Qiao from hearing the cry for help.In addition, regarding the previous "hearing the sound of the conch", in fact, the sound similar to the tide heard when the conch is placed next to the ear is the echo of the blood flow in the ear blood vessels in the conch.I haven't personally heard the sound of blood rushing at close range, so I use this sound as an analogy...