Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

    Xu Rendong woke up in the elevator.

    His shadow was reflected on the familiar silver-white metal body, and the scene repeated countless times, like a tarsus maggot, became his deepest nightmare.

    Xu Rendong unconsciously touched her heart. The severe pain of being pierced through the heart by the dagger still lingered in his mind, and his scalp was slightly numb, which could not be relieved for a while.

    "I can't find it..." Lian Qiao whispered softly in his ear, "What the **** is a lock that doesn't require a key..."

    Xu Rendong was inexplicably surprised, turned her head to the side, and looked at him blankly.

    "What's the matter?" Lian Qiao was startled by his strange reaction, and looked at him with wide eyes in confusion, "Did you think of something?"

    Xu Rendong withdrew his gaze and did not speak.

    The scene where Lian Qiao killed him just now was exactly the same as the scene that flashed in his mind at the comic exhibition.

    Why?

    Why did the flashing hallucination really happen? Why was there no trace of sadness when Joe attacked him?

    Xu Rendong clearly remembered his last look. Full of murderous, terrifying. His soaring hostility seemed to be facing not the lover who was about to lose, but the enemy.

    Perhaps Lian Qiao just didn't want him to suffer, so he made a clean shot and ended his life in the quickest way. Maybe after he died, Lian Qiao would hug his body and cry. Or maybe Lian Qiao just suffered a sudden change, and he couldn't accept such a blow mentally, so he showed an abnormal reaction...

    But...but...

    Xu Rendong imagined countless possibilities, but the feeling of loss in her heart could not be resolved.

    Xu Rendong suddenly remembered what Zhong Xiu had reminded him: Lian Qiao was hiding a lot of things from him.

    Lian Qiao is not as innocent and harmless as he looks on the surface.

    "Ding", the elevator door opened, interrupting Xu Rendong's thoughts.

    Xu Rendong took a deep breath and walked out of the elevator. Lian Qiao followed behind on crutches, looking at his back thoughtfully.

    The huge earth building that covers the sky and the moon is once again displayed in front of you. The gloomy wind was blowing, and hundreds of red lanterns were hung high, swaying slowly in the night wind, and there was a ghostly atmosphere in the air.

    Eighty-one players stood in groups in twos and threes, standing on the plaza. The circular pool in the middle of the square is bottomless, and the dark green pool water exudes a faint fishy smell, as if to imply that there is something terrifying hidden in the pool, which makes people afraid to approach.

    Everyone is still shocked that there are so many players in this dungeon, and the old lady in red has appeared.

    After a brief greeting, the old lady took everyone upstairs. One is to visit the tulou, and the other is to allocate rooms. After everyone settled down, the old lady left floating and let everyone have a good rest.

    It is impossible to rest. After all, there are life worries at any time, not to travel. Everyone took the time to go out and explore.

    Explore, but it's just a headless fly.

    The ancestral hall on the ninth floor is guarded by an old lady in red, and no one can enter. Although the water pool on Xiatang Square was of concern, everyone stood by the pool for a while, and no one dared to go into the water to find out, so they had to disperse.

    As for the kitchen on the second floor, the murloc is agile and can swallow a living person. If someone came across it, they would naturally yell. At this time, it was noisy outside, but it was all the sound of people going up and down the stairs. As for the screaming and crying, it was never heard.

    "The sound insulation of this floor is too bad." Lian Qiao pricked up his ears and listened to the footsteps on the stairs not far away, "There are people walking upstairs in the middle of the night, not scared to death but also scared to death. Noisy."

    Xu Rendong took a sip of tea and sorted her thoughts in her heart.

    Lian Qiao tilted her head to look at him and asked, "Brother Honeysuckle, when are we going to explore the map?"

    "Go later." Xu Rendong said, "It's too chaotic outside at the moment, and I look upset."

     Even Joe made an "oh". After a while, he couldn't sit still. He took the crutches and stood up: "I'll go check it out to see if they find anything."

    Xu Rendong didn't stop him, he went alone. I was still sitting in my room drinking tea.

    After more than an hour, Lian Qiao came back angrily.

    "Nothing." Lian Qiao pouted, "There are so many people that you can't see anything when crowded together. Rumbling a lot of people, like locusts crossing the border, making a mess everywhere . I thought that old woman would be angry, but she didn't respond. Now they are tired of tossing, and the girls are cleaning up the mess. "

    "So I said to go out later." Xu Rendong said lightly, poured him a cup of tea, "Drink some water."

    Lian Qiao drank the tea and turned to glance at the silhouette of the **** the window.

    "These girls look so scary. They seem to have only one expression, that kind of really creepy smile. But they seem to be really here to serve us. I just passed a room and saw There is a girl who is still washing her feet... I don't know how that person can figure it out..."

    Xu Rendong listened quietly, answering every now and then. The night was getting dark and the surroundings were quiet. Everyone seemed to have stopped.

    Lian Qiao rubbed his eyes, yawned and asked, "Brother Honeysuckle, aren't we going to explore the pictures? I'm a little sleepy..."

    Xu Rendong glanced at the time: "It's still early. Go to sleep first."

    "Um..." Lian Qiao blinked slowly, his head drooping lower and lower, "Brother Honeysuckle, this dungeon is so difficult...if..."

    He seemed to be so sleepy that he couldn't even open his mouth, the muttering in his mouth was getting softer and quieter, and he couldn't hear it vaguely: "...don't...help...uh..."

    Xu Rendong removed the teacup in his hand, stretched out his hand, and caught Lian Qiao's shaky head.

    Lian Qiao has fallen into a deep sleep, making a uniform "hu, hu" sound. He gently put Lian Qiao's chin on the table and stared at Lian Qiao's sleeping face.

    Lian Qiao's sleeping face was a little childish, her brows and eyes were fully stretched, and she looked like an unsuspecting baby. Xu Rendong watched for a while, took out the climbing rope from the backpack, flattened Lian Qiao's body, and tied it to the bench with no looseness or tightness.

    Even if he was tied into a roast suckling pig, Lian Qiao was not awakened.

    Because Xu Rendong put sleeping pills in the tea.

    This sleeping pill was put into the backpack by Lian Joe himself, just in case. Of course he would not have thought that Xu Rendong would actually give him medicine.

    Xu Rendong suddenly noticed countless eyes. He narrowed his eyes and looked around. I saw more than a dozen beautiful girls standing in the corridor of the earth building, all of whom were driven out of the guest room by everyone. These girls are so beautiful and enchanting, after all, everyone is reluctant to stay in the same room with them. Therefore, this row of girls stood in the corridor as if they were putting candles in, when they heard Xu Rendong come out of the room, they turned their heads in unison.

    "Guest."

    "Guest."

    "Guest."

    …

    One after another, like a broken tape, it came out one after another from those dozen mouths. The maids all had slightly stiff smiles on their faces, and a dozen eyes were staring straight at this place, and anyone would feel horrified.

    Xu Rendong had goose bumps on her body, but her face remained calm. He suddenly had an idea, and said to the maid beside him, "What's your name?"

    The maid said: "The slave and the maid are called Yuanzhu."

    "Okay." Xu Rendong pointed to the doll-like maids in the corridor, and instructed Yuanzhu, "You tell them to turn your back and don't look at me."

    The maid bowed slightly and answered "yes". However, before she could speak to the crowd, the girls turned around in unison. The movements are uniform, like sunflowers chasing the sun.

    It seems that these maids really obeyed his words and did not dare to question or disobey him. Just don't know where their bottom line is.

    Xu Rendong beckoned again: "Yuanzhu, come here. Kneel here on all fours."

    According to his instructions, Yuanzhu obediently knelt by the railing. She lowered her head, her bangs hung down, covering half of her face, so she couldn't see her expression.

    "Don't move for a while. I want to climb up on your back." Xu Rendong ordered.

    "Okay." Yuanzhu nodded meekly, and even adjusted her posture slightly to make her body more stable.

    Xu Rendong raised her foot and stepped lightly on the back of the kite bamboo. It was obviously a girl's back, slender and weak, unable to bear the weight of an adult male at all. But Yuanzhu didn't question his order in the slightest, just because he said so, so she did it. Even if it goes on like this, she will get hurt.

    Xu Rendong hesitated for a while, and finally retracted her foot.

    Even if the opponent is an NPC, he really can't do it. So he said, "Forget it, get up."

    The kite bamboo got up from the ground, and the fox eyes that slanted upward looked at him shyly and timidly, very lovable.

    Xu Rendong pointed to the red lantern above her head and said, "Go find a stool, climb up, and help me take off this lantern."

    The kite did so. Soon, the lantern arrived in Xu Rendong's hands.

    As Lian Joe said before, there is a strangely shaped candle in the lantern. Lian Qiao said it was a ring, but Xu Rendong originally thought it was a hollow cylinder, but only now did he know that it was really a ring.

    The white candle ring is erected on the candlestick, with a small candle at the top, which is particularly fragile after losing the shelter of the lampshade. Xu Rendong blew lightly, and the candle went out.

    He peeled off the candle from the outer layer of the ring. The residual heat of burning remains on the candle, so it is very soft and easy to peel. Soon, white debris fell to the ground, and the contents of the candle were exposed.

    It was a silver ring. It is engraved with fine textures, like some kind of text, and like a totem. The lighting is not good, so I can't see clearly.

    Xu Rendong thought it was a bracelet at first, but it didn't look like it in size. The diameter of this ring is about half the size of an ordinary bracelet, not to mention an adult man like Xu Rendong, even a girl with a slender wrist bone can never wear it. Of course, this will never be the size of the ring.

    Xu Rendong looked at it for a while, and really couldn't understand what it was.

    The only certainty is that it protects the wearer from evil.

    —This candle is so unique, it's clearly the key prop. And when everyone was under the control of evil, only Ishigami and him were unaffected. At that time, Iwami Chuan thought logically that he also carried such props. It can be seen that Iwami Chuan is immune to control precisely because of this ring on his body.

    …But what about him?

    There was no ring on his body at that time, why didn't he indulge in meat and appetite like Lian Qiao and everyone else?

    What was protecting him?

    Did…

    Xu Rendong sighed softly. He went back to the room and stuffed the ring into Lian Joe's pocket.

    When they came out again, those maids who were driven out still turned their backs to Xu Rendong, leaving him with a slender back that was reverie. Xu Rendong knew that soon, everyone would lose their minds and drag these girls into the room and do some beastly things.

    He didn't want to think about it, so he turned his head and went upstairs.

    Go to Iwami.