[Infinite Stream] Destiny Rubik's Cube

Xu Chi looked into those eyes full of light smiles, and caught a strange little hook that could be called anticipation at a deeper level—for some unknown purpose, Zhou Qi seemed to be cautiously probing, as if Fear of rejection.

Alcohol not only infiltrated and corroded his lungs, but also softened his extremely aggressive appearance, making him look like some kind of fragile little animal at this moment.

As we all know, Admiral Xu is self-disciplined to the point of being harsh and never drinks alcohol.

But now, as if bewitched by something, he removed the hand covering the empty cup.

The entrance is full-bodied and the aftertaste is sour. This is an unknown fruit wine.Xu Chi took a sip, and the wine rolled down his throat, sweet and lingering.He was a little surprised, it was hard to imagine what kind of decent fruit could be grown on this barren island, and it could be made into such fine wine.

Zhou Qi still stared at him with one hand, and shook the wine jar: "It seems that you like it a little bit."

Xu Chi flicked his fingers on the wall of the cup, noncommittal.

If he likes it, he likes it, but after a little taste, he put down his cup and didn't take a second sip to save face.

After a meal until dark, old Hughes cleared the table, watched the fire and meditated, and the two ladies lay down together on the stone bed covered with animal skins.The stone bed was big enough to be separated by a cloth curtain, and Zhou Qi and Xu Chi occupied the other side.

All of a sudden, there is only the crackling sound of burning firewood all over the world, and the night here is so quiet that one feels lonely.

Zhou Qi drank wine, became slightly tipsy, and became extremely silent. He sat with one leg bent and leaned against the wall, his distracted eyes fell on the animal skulls hanging on the wall, and he said nothing.

At night, the temperature dropped sharply on the basis of the daytime. Xu Chi still felt chilly even though he was wrapped in a blanket made of fox fur. The cold invaded every nerve of his body, making his teeth tremble and unable to fall asleep.He adjusted his posture, lay on his side, facing Zhou Qi, his cold voice sounded like metal at night: "Why drink?"

At first glance, this opening remark sounds like nothing.

Zhou Qi was playing with a small wooden doll with his hands on his knees. He accidentally found the doll under the cushion on the bed. The craftsmanship looks exquisite and modern, and it doesn't seem like something that will appear here.He studied it intently, and replied casually, "Because I'm thirsty."

It's too perfunctory, and the people next to me have nothing to say.

Zhou Qi turned his head, the tails of his eyes were reddish from the smell of alcohol.

Xu Chi's black and white eyes were scrutinizing him in the darkness.Zhou Qi smiled: "Don't look at me like that."

"What do I think of you?"

"From your eyes, I read the words "There is no cure."

Xu Chi narrowed his eyes and looked away.

A muffled voice came from the other side of the curtain, it was a girl surnamed Leng talking in her sleep.

Zhou Qi's fingers still had the tactile sensation from when he clenched Xu Chi's wrist just now. It was as cold as white porcelain, and his pulse was not even beating warmly, but for some reason, it gave him the illusion of being licked by a tongue of fire.

Until now, the strange burning sensation still lingers in my heart.

"Before I was inexplicably dragged into the Rubik's Cube, I had quit drinking for a full 140 days, and I was only one step away from success." Zhou Qi smiled wryly, "This is an epic achievement for alcoholic Zhou Qi."

Xu Chi understood: "Oh, it seems that you have been in prison for a full 140 days. Fortunately, it's not too long."

"Hiss..." Zhou Qi wiped his face and nodded at him from the air, "You are just too smart sometimes."

"May I take that as a compliment?"

"..."

Zhou Qi laughed sullenly.

Xu Chi shivered under the quilt, and his teeth collided loudly: "I have seen many drunkards."

"is it?"

"Well, I know once this thing is addictive, it's hard to quit."

Zhou Qi raised his eyebrows: "Now I want to shout out long live understanding."

There was no decipherable expression on Xu Chi's face: "But if they miss the job due to alcoholism, and then their superiors put a gun in the forehead, they will swear not to drink for the rest of their lives."

"Tsk." Zhou Qi made a terrified expression on purpose, "I take back the words that I understand long live."

Xu Chi asked, "Is it difficult to stay awake?"

Zhou Qi didn't answer directly.

"Before answering this question, you need to know one thing first." Zhou Qi fiddled with the movable arms of the little doll, his expression was different from usual, lazy and decadent, "For us hopeless heavy alcoholics, The basic law of survival is drunkenness, followed by life, and life is composed of drunkenness and the interval between drunkenness, which part of the two is the real life, this is a fucking philosophical topic, I have until now Haven't researched it either."

Xu Chi lowered his eyelashes and listened intently.

He didn't say just now that the drunkards he knew were all soft-hearted people.To be sober means to face the blood and pain directly. They don't want to, so they can only use alcohol to paralyze their nerves and implement a short-term escape.

"It's not difficult to stay sober, but it's very tiring, boring, and unbearable." Zhou Qi shrugged and spread his hands, saying that he couldn't help it. "The reason for me to stay sober has never been principled, it's just practical. Because I still have tasks to complete, I can't die drunk like this, or I will be punished by God."

Xu Chi rolled his eyes lightly: "What task will be punished by God if you don't complete it?"

If you ask this question, the chances of getting an answer are basically zero.

Sure enough, Zhou Qi raised the corner of his mouth and smiled at him, ending the conversation.

Then he threw the doll aside, lay down, and faced Xu Chi face to face.

They were very close, their eyes facing each other.

In an instant, the rich and hot smell of wine rushed over.

This distance made Xu Chi vigilant. He could even see the brown irises around Zhou Qi's pupils clearly, but strangely, he didn't just back away.

In the next second, Zhou Qi stretched out his arms naturally, surrounded him with a blanket, and pressed him into his arms.

Xu Chi's body was numb from the cold, and now even his brain was numb, like a rusty gear that couldn't turn.

It took him a while to realize what had happened.

After two seconds of silence, a slender hand stretched out from the blanket and grabbed Zhou Qi's neck. Someone threatened with a deadpan expression: "Do you want to taste the taste of one-shot death?"

"I don't want to." Zhou Qi pulled down the warm hand and stuffed it back into the blanket again, "What about you? Do you want to taste what it's like to be frozen to death?"

Of course not.

His body has been frozen for nearly 20 years, he is really afraid of the cold.

In the face of physical needs and personal emotions, the former gradually gained the upper hand.

Xu Chi stared at Zhou Qi's chin with blue stubble for a while, and finally compromised. He relaxed his tense back, straightened his curled toes, and slowly buried his head in the blanket.

Zhou Qi's arms are very warm, like a life-saving charcoal fire in the severe winter.Through the cloth, Xu Chi moved his stiff hand secretly, trying to get it into Zhou Qi's steaming armpit little by little.

Zhou Qi noticed his sneaky little movements, didn't hold back, and laughed out loud.

Like a little rabbit being shotgun-pointed and fleeing in panic, Xu Chiceng withdrew his hand, closed his eyes and pretended to be dead.

"Now let's go back to the first question you asked me tonight." When Zhou Qi spoke, his vocal cords resonated with his chest, and a little laughter was magnified in the distance, "Why do you ask me to drink? Because wine can keep out the cold, Xu Jiao Jiao, I'm hot right now."

Xu Chi pretended to be asleep.

"Okay, don't carry it too hard. We are all brothers, so don't be polite to me." Zhou Qi didn't look at it, lifted the hem of his clothes, grabbed those two hands and stuck them to the muscles of his waist and abdomen, gnashing his teeth at the same time Leaning, cursing, "You fucking have two hands? Those who don't know think I'm sleeping with two ice bumps in my arms in winter!"

The stickers are all posted, it is comfortable, and there is definitely no reason to withdraw.

Xu Chi was as indifferent as a scumbag who had to let the woman suffer because of his poor technique but didn't want to stop at all: "Be patient."

Zhou Qi: "???"

Now that he had taken that step, the two big men had nothing to avoid, and Xu Chi curled up in Zhou Qi's arms and fell asleep.In the middle of the night, Zhou Qi woke up from the wine and began to feel the cold. He wanted to slap the two crampons on his stomach away.As a result, as soon as he touched it, his hand was held.After being dazed for a few seconds, he was completely awake, and held it back, wondering in his heart: Why can't this icicle get hot even after covering it for so long?

He didn't know at that time that ice couldn't be warmed up, if you cover it forcibly, it will only melt.The melted water forms a deep sea, which makes people willing to drown in it.

It was just dawn, and there was a dull sound of drumming outside the house.

Zhou Qi sat up in shock, his arms were empty, the quilt beside him was cold, the two girls on the other side of the curtain were still sleeping, the figure was nowhere to be found in the room——Xu Chi had already gone out at some point.

His eyes darkened, he stretched, picked up the animal skin jacket, and got off the bed with a swing of his legs.

The stone houses on the island are all built on the slope, which just corrects the original slope of the island, so the house can be realized as if walking on flat ground.However, as soon as you go out, if you don’t use your feet hard, you will involuntarily slide down. Fortunately, the bottoms of the shoes given by the local aborigines are equipped with non-slip wooden nails, which can save some effort to a certain extent.

There is a high stone platform in the open space not far away, and a paradoxical sacrificial ceremony is going on on the stone platform.

I saw two middle-aged men stepping on the high platform with simple and rough drumbeats, and they carried two sheep, one male and one female, on their shoulders.The two sheep are tied with their front and rear legs and placed opposite each other on colorful cushions.The shaman, wearing a bone helmet and wearing a divine costume, holds a drum in his left hand and a mallet in his right, beating, jumping and singing around two shivering sheep, with a slow rhythm and deep tones.Suddenly, the drum beats became denser, and one of the strong men pulled out a dagger at his waist and cut the ram's throat. The ram screamed and wailed with its eyes full of tears, and he lifted the ram high.The other man took off his shirt and lay on the ground with a rope around his neck. He buried his head in the belly of the ewe. The man holding the dying ram sprinkled fresh warm blood all over his body.

The scene was full of bloody smell, which made people feel sick and uncomfortable.

After the ceremony, the surviving ewes were sent back to the flock. The man cut the rope around the neck with scissors, and then went to the river to wash off the blood on his body with icy cold water.

There are two shamans in the village, one civil and one military. The old Hughes, the cultural shaman, is gesticulating with Xu Chi in the audience.

Zhou Qi walked over, and Xu Chi bowed slightly to him with folded arms as usual.

Old Hughes gestured a few more words, shook his head, and went back to the room to prepare breakfast.

As they passed each other, Zhou Qi saw old Hughes' eyes full of fear.

"There is no obstacle in your communication?" Zhou Qi's eyes slid across Xu Chi's pale lips, joking intentionally, "Hold me last night, did you sleep well?"

Xu Chi automatically ignored the second half of the sentence: "Language is not the master key, sometimes body and demeanor can convey more accurate information."

"So what information did you get?"

"This is a blessing ceremony before childbirth." Xu Chi pointed at the man covered in goat blood with his sharp chin, "The whole process of the ceremony is parallel to the process of birth: through the birth canal, covered with blood cut the umbilical cord, and then washed it with water. The woman in his family will give birth soon."

Thinking back on the ceremony, Zhou Qi scratched his head and said with emotion, "It was quite grand."

"Because the survival rate of their offspring is extremely low." Xu Chi raised his eyes and looked into the distance, "Old Hughes said that because of the inclination, the island is divided into two completely different parts, the tilted side and the tilted side. There is a kind of Terrible monsters that follow the scent of newborns and snatch and eat them."

"monster?"

"Well. According to Hughes' description, this monster-like insect can fly and spray strong corrosive venom, occupying the top of the island's food chain for a long time."

Hearing this, Zhou Qi was silent for nearly half a minute, and cursed Gou Niang in a low voice.

"So this alien is what we're dealing with in this level?"

"It should be." Xu Chi looked serious, "But we still have more urgent tasks."

Zhou Qi felt a headache: "It's so early in the morning, can't you bring me some good news?"

Xu Chi showed a pale smile: "You can choose not to listen."

"Can you survive without listening?"

"It depends on luck."

"I've never been lucky. Tell me."

"Did you smell it? The salty smell of the sea has grown stronger in the air."

Zhou Qi shook the tip of his nose.

"The sea level is rising at a rate of five meters per day. Soon, the entire inclined surface will be submerged in seawater." Xu Chi gathered his collar, turned his heels and walked back, "We will drive out the aliens within ten days , Occupy the raised face."