Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

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Xu Rendong suddenly opened his eyes: "Lian Qiao!"

His shouts collided back and forth in the metal elevator, making eardrums buzz.Xu Rendong never knew that he could make such a shrill voice.Sitting in the silver-gray elevator, he touched his neck blankly.The skin there is smooth and soft, intact, without any trace of being cut.

...is it back again?

He got up slowly, his suit jacket slipping from his arms.The surrounding air temperature dropped little by little, and soon, "ding", the elevator door opened again.

Outside the door, there is an unchanging snow scene.

It was as if nothing had happened, as if the pain he had experienced were all illusory dreams.

but……

He looked down and saw the tie on his chest.He still clearly remembered the tie that was exposed on Jiang Li's ankle to fix his joints when he was lying on the ground bleeding.At that time, he was in the fear of dying and had no time to think.It was only at this time that he realized that he had been betrayed.

He was betrayed by those he helped.

Xu Rendong clenched his fist, and his fingertips sank deeply into his palm.

Anger seemed to have a shape, and it was firmly stuck in his chest, making it difficult for him to breathe.For a moment, he didn't even want to get out of the elevator.Anyway, no matter how hard he struggles, he will die, so why is he still struggling?It's better to just accept the arrangement of fate and die here quietly... It's better to stay in this place forever...

——But why me?

Obviously, other people in the team do not have the ability to resurrect after death, otherwise there would be no dead people in this world.But why, only I can be resurrected?

Why do I have to go through the pain of death repeatedly?What did i do wrong?Isn't one tragic death enough?

why me?

Despair plundered the temperature of his heart bit by bit, making him feel cold from the inside out.He hugged his arms silently, but suddenly there was a movement in his heart, and a strange and familiar feeling emerged.

... He remembered the feeling of Lian Qiao holding his arm.

By the way, Lian Qiao!

Xu Rendong looked out of the elevator, and sure enough, the string of footprints in the snow was still there.

After his resurrection, the world will be reset, that is to say——

Lian Qiao is in danger now!

Before the brain figured it out, the body had already reacted.He strode out of the elevator and began to run wildly in the snow, following the footprints.

The forest was as silent as ever, only the sound of my panting and footsteps on the snow could be heard.Xu Rendong didn't know how long he ran, until his chest was so painful that it was about to split open, and the smell of blood came out of his throat, he finally saw the figure standing in front of the stone tablet in the open space.

"Lian Qiao!" He shouted with all his strength, "Don't touch the nesting doll!"

"...?!" The slender boy withdrew his hand as if electrocuted, turned around, and opened his eyes wide in surprise, "You, who are you?"

Xu Rendong ran up to him, clutching his chest and panting violently.He couldn't speak for a while, so he grabbed Lian Qiao's hand and motioned him to stay away from the nesting doll.

Even Qiao flinched, as if he wanted to withdraw his hand, but he didn't dare.There was a little fear in those eyes that were always smiling, and he asked timidly, "How do you know my name?"

By the way, if the world is reset, Lian Qiao will no longer remember him.

Xu Rendong said: "I know you, I..."

This time, before the key part was mentioned, his voice could no longer come out.The throat seemed to be blocked by a blood clot, and it was so hard that it hurt.

"...?" Lian Qiao looked at him anxiously, his long eyelashes fluttering like a bird's wings.It was obvious that he was afraid.

He is afraid of me.

He doesn't remember me anymore, he lost all memory...

He doesn't remember me.

Xu Rendong suddenly felt a pain in his heart, and let go of Lian Qiao's hand bit by bit.

"...I have no malicious intentions." Xu Rendong felt his throat astringent.

"Hmm..." Lian Qiao showed a thoughtful expression and rubbed his wrist quietly.Seeing that his wrist was red, Xu Rendong realized that he had scratched too hard just now, which hurt Lian Qiao.

Just as he was about to apologize, Lian Qiao touched his nose and asked a little embarrassedly, "Did you watch my live broadcast?"

Xu Rendong was silent for a moment, then said, "Yes."

Lian Qiao muttered softly: "I actually have such a good-looking male fan..."

Xu Rendong didn't hear clearly: "What?"

Lian Qiao laughed. He seemed a little shy, so he changed the subject and said, "Where is this?" Then he looked at the nesting doll on the stele, "Why don't you let me touch this?"

Xu Rendong tried to explain to him about the elevator and the ghost world, and found that there was no obstacle this time.But when he mentioned rabbits and the quest to collect nesting dolls, his voice faltered again.It seems he can't reveal what hasn't happened yet.

After the initial surprise, Lian Qiao gradually calmed down, and walked side by side with him towards the hunter's hut.The closer he was to the hut, the more complicated Xu Rendong's mood became.He knew that he was about to meet those people again, the gentle Yuan Xueming, the irritable Xu Hong, the few people who had died, and... Jiang Li.

En will avenge Jiang Li, who brutally killed him.

He didn't know how to face them.

"By the way." Lian Qiao said suddenly, interrupting his contemplation, "I don't know your name yet."

When Xu Rendong answered him, Lian Qiao said "huh" and said pleasantly, "Is it honeysuckle's honeysuckle?"

This exact same line made Xu Rendong's heart stab again.He twitched the corner of his mouth and made a bitter smile: "It's the honeysuckle that 'endures winter'."

"Oh." Lian Qiao showed exactly the same disappointed expression as last time.

When they came to the hunter's cabin, Yuan Xueming opened the door for them.Like last time, after the rabbit released the mission, Yuan Xueming briefly explained the rules of this world.Then Xu Hong lost her temper and threw her face upstairs.

This time, Xu Rendong quietly paid attention to the reactions of Jiang Li and Wang Yuan, and found that they were like water droplets melting into the river, without any sense of existence.They are also flustered when others are flustered, and they are also nervous when others are nervous. They behave very naturally, not at all like old people who have experienced it once.

No, maybe they lied about their experiences too.With such a layout of acting skills, such a clean and neat method of killing, if Jiang Li hadn't been exceptionally talented, he might have experienced the horror world more than once.

After thinking up to this point, Xu Rendong's expression became colder.He didn't notice that he pursed his lips slightly, and there was a kind of indifference and self-control in his eyes.

"..." Lian Qiao originally wanted to say something, but seeing his attitude of rejecting others thousands of miles away, he flinched involuntarily.

Everyone had different expressions and fell silent, only the crackling of firewood in the fireplace was left.

Yuan Xueming said: "Let's allocate a room and rest early."

Xu Rendong offered to share a room with Lian Qiao, and picked out the room with the hidden doll before everyone else.

He didn't rush to get the doll behind the curtain, but opened the cabinet and took out the winter clothes and quilt from inside.Lian Qiao made the bed with him, and then each lay down in the quilt.Xu Rendong glanced at the time, it was 11:30.Even Joe's biological clock hadn't set yet, so he probably would have to chatter for another half an hour before falling asleep.

Although Xu Rendong was exhausted, he still cheered up secretly, waiting for Lian Qiao to speak.Unexpectedly, this time Lian Qiao just stared at the ceiling in a daze. After a while, he turned around and fell asleep with his back to him.

"..." Xu Rendong sensed the uneasiness and precaution in this little action, and couldn't help but feel lost.

Xu Rendong waited until Lian Qiao was fast asleep, and got up quietly.After finally warming the bed and wrapping it in a cold coat, Xu Rendong couldn't help shivering, and looked back at Lian Qiao with some nostalgia.

sleep well.

Although the rabbit will not come to their room on the first night, just in case, they still have to be prepared.He unscrewed the doll in the corner, took out the key to the basement, and gently hid the doll on Lian Qiao.

After finishing this, he went downstairs alone in the midnight cold.

According to the original method, he climbed to the top of the tree with the help of a ladder and successfully got the doll in the bird's nest.Like last time, there are two chocolates in the nesting doll.Xu Rendong touched the hard chocolate, and suddenly remembered what Lian Qiao said: the roof of the church looks like kisses.

I don't know if this chocolate is good or not.

When he was about to go back to the house, he thought of something again, so he went to the basement again and took the crowbar.

Everyone was sleeping peacefully in the room, and the lights were not turned on in the stairs, so it was too dark to see clearly.Xu Rendong took out his mobile phone and used a flashlight to illuminate it. As soon as he went up to the second floor, he bumped into a gray rabbit covered in blood.

"..." Xu Rendong looked at the room that was seeping blood.

"..." The rabbit looked at the crowbar in his hand.

The atmosphere suddenly reached a deadlock.

The rabbit twitched its pink nose, pouted its three-petal mouth, and showed a somewhat tangled expression.It reluctantly opened its mouth: "You, have you..."

Xu Rendong took out the matryoshka he just bought, and shook it in front of its eyes.Seeing the nesting doll clearly, the rabbit let out a long sigh of relief, seemed to be very happy, and left with another kick.

Xu Rendong watched it disappear into the darkness, and suddenly felt that it was a bit like a hard-working worker who had completed today's quota and didn't want to work overtime.

Pretty... down to earth?

In the early morning of the next day, after everyone found the body, they fell into panic again.Sure enough, Lian Qiao was hiccupped again, and it took a while before he recovered.After breakfast, Yuan Xueming led everyone to look for the nesting dolls in the house, and easily found the one in the kitchen cabinet.So the compass started.

"I also saw one on the way here." Xu Rendong said calmly, "But there seemed to be something guarding the doll around, and I thought something was wrong, so I didn't take it."

After this rebirth, Xu Rendong concealed the fact that he had a doll in his hand.He could no longer trust others, but he didn't want to easily deprive others of their right to live.Therefore, he only collected two hidden dolls that were not easy to find, and left the easy-to-get dolls for everyone.

Yuan Xueming asked the direction, nodded and said: "Then let's go get the doll first."

Xu Rendong made an excuse casually and said that he didn't want to go, and even Qiao expressed that he wanted to explore the house again.Yuan Xueming didn't force it, and everyone set off with him.Xu Rendong noticed that Jiang Li glanced at him nonchalantly when he was leaving.Xu Rendong looked back coldly, and Jiang Li immediately turned his head away.

While Lian Qiao was rummaging through the box, Xu Rendong bent down, picked up the crowbar from behind the curtain, pretended to be surprised and said, "Hey, here's a stick."

When Lian Qiao saw the crowbar, his eyes lit up: "The Holy Sword of Physics!"

Xu Rendong couldn't help raising the corners of his mouth, but still asked lightly: "Is it useful?"

"Yes, yes! Very useful!" Lian Qiao was excited, and gave him 100 ways to use the crowbar, and then looked at him eagerly, with a "want" expression on his face.

"Then you take it." Xu Rendong said.

Lian Qiao was pleasantly surprised: "Really? But you discovered this..."

Xu Rendong said: "It's dirty, I don't want to take it."

Lian Qiao happily hugged the crowbar in his arms.His heartfelt satisfaction reminded Xu Rendong of a hamster with a stuffed mouth.Xu Rendong recalled his frustrated expression in the sacristy of the church where he wanted to pack and take everything away, but he didn’t take anything. He suddenly wanted to fulfill his little wish, so he asked, “Do you have hamster syndrome? Stock up?"

Lian Qiao was stunned: "How do you know..." He quickly realized, "Oh oh oh, you watched my live broadcast!"

Xu Rendong smiled and didn't explain.He glanced at the curtain, stretched out his hand, and tore off the whole curtain with a swish.Lian Qiao opened his eyes wide in surprise, only to see Xu Rendong shaking off the dust accumulated on the curtains, and said, "This piece of cloth can be used as a backpack temporarily." After thinking for a while, he untied the tie around his neck and tied the four corners of the curtains with ties. , "This way there should be no leaks."

Lian Qiao was stunned by this operation, and said happily: "Really! Brother Liandong, you are so amazing!...But your tie..." He looked at Xu Liandong's loose neckline and slightly exposed delicate collarbone, and he didn't know what to expect. What, looked away uncomfortably, "Aren't you cold?...neckline."

Xu Rendong casually threw the simple backpack to him and said, "It doesn't matter, you can take it."

Lian Qiao covered her face: "What should I do, I feel like I have been doted on by a true fan..."

Xu Rendong didn't hear clearly: "Huh?"

"Nothing, nothing." He held a crowbar in one hand and a simple backpack in the other.Touching the dark tie with his fingertips, he felt that there was still a little warmth on it.Thinking that this tie and that beautiful collarbone were only separated by a thin layer of shirt, Lian Qiao felt numb in his fingertips, and the itchy feeling crawled into his heart along his fingers.

Xu Rendong has already walked out of the room: "Let's go, let's go outside and have a look."

Lian Qiao looked at his back, quickly rubbed his face, and told himself solemnly: "No, no, I'm not a fan!"