Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

Xu Rendong made a decisive decision, hid his backpack, and went to the boiler to pretend to study the boiler. With the heavy sound of the door, the foreman walked into the boiler room. Xu Rendong pretended to look back in surprise.

The foreman was holding a pen and paper, and the whip was hanging around his waist. He pointed at Xu Rendong with the tip of his pen, and then at the medical student who was sitting on the ground to endorse the letter, tick two ticks on the paper, whispered something, and quickly left.

The door of the boiler room was hit hard again, Xu Rendong breathed a sigh of relief.

He turned his head to look at the medical student who was burying his head in the endorsement, and sighed from the bottom of his heart: "You are really amazing, you can still memorize the book in this environment."

The medical student was addicted to endorsements and ignored him at all. Xu Rendong made fun of himself, took out his backpack from the corner, and walked out of the boiler room carefully.

The foreman hadn't gone far when footsteps were nearby. Xu Rendong was in the middle of the corridor. He listened to the sound to identify the position and determined that the foreman was on his left. Then he was faced with two choices: should he go left and quietly follow the foreman, or go to the right and avoid the foreman?

Xu Rendong quickly made a decision, and as soon as her toes turned to the left, Lian Qiao sent him a message: go to the left, first find out the foreman's patrol route, and it will be convenient to hide later.

It turns out that Lian Joe and he thought the same. Xu Rendong raised the corner of his mouth and followed silently.

The factory is divided into two parts above ground and underground. The area under the ground is very complicated, with various forks leading in all directions, which makes people confused. If there is no map, you will definitely get lost underground.

The structure on the ground is much simpler, basically a structure with an inner circle and an outer square. The molten pool is located in the center of the factory, and above it are giant gears that are constantly operating, forming a central circular area. Four straight corridors form a square around the central area. The workshops are located on the outside of the corridor, and the inside is a metal fence. Standing on the edge of the fence, it seemed that as soon as you reached out, you could reach the overly huge metal gear in mid-air. The rough but fine industrial beauty is shocking. If not in the ghost world, Xu Rendong would definitely stop and appreciate this giant machine that can almost be called a work of art.

The workshop on the ground has three floors, and there seems to be another floor above, but it is blocked by mechanical gears and the ceiling, and the specific situation cannot be seen.

The boiler room where Xu Rendong is located is the only underground workshop, and the other teammates are upstairs. Probably because of this, the foreman started from the boiler room and patrolled up layer by layer.

Just arrived in the first workshop on the ground floor, the foreman pushed open the door, glanced in, and the expression on his face became ugly. He raised the notepad in his hand and slapped a fork somewhere. Then turned to the next workshop.

Xu Rendong cautiously followed behind the foreman. When I passed the first workshop, I glanced inside and found that only NPC workers were working numbly in this workshop, but the teammates who were originally assigned here were gone. No wonder the foreman was so angry. It turned out that someone was absent from work.

Xu Rendong recalled, this is the station where the gentleman and Zhang Xiaoxiao exchanged. Where has the gentleman gone?

The foreman walked to the next workshop with a sullen face, but before taking two steps, the door of the second workshop opened automatically, and a middle-aged man sneaked out.

The middle-aged man is also one of the teammates. He looked around in a ghostly way, and when he turned his head, he saw the gloomy foreman. The middle-aged man was so frightened that he took a deep breath, and instinctively stepped back, but was picked up by the foreman like an eagle grabbing a chicken, and threw it to the ground.

Only hearing a loud bang, the middle-aged man fell heavily to the ground, and his facial features were twisted in pain.

"Sorry, sorry! I was wrong! I'll go back to work right away!" The middle-aged man begged for mercy while struggling to get up from the ground. But the foreman did not give him a chance to atone for his sins, so he pulled out the leather whip around his waist, and once he raised his hand, he whipped it.

The whip cut through the air and made a rustling sound, which made people feel pain just listening. The man on the ground was hit by a whip on his leg, and he immediately clutched his thigh and screamed. The foreman had a gloomy expression, and then drew a second and third stroke. The middle-aged man was whipped and wept bitterly, rolled around in a curled body, trying to avoid the whip that fell from the sky. The foreman was condescending, looking coldly at the middle-aged man's painful reaction, and there was a perverted smile on his fierce face.

Are you going to save someone?

Xu Rendong hid in the dark and quickly denied her own thoughts. The only weapon in his hand was the little Swiss Army knife, and he had no chance against the Schwarzenegger foreman. What's more, he is also in a state of leaving his post without authorization. If he is seen by the foreman, he will definitely be punished.

At the same time, Lian Qiao in the left eye field of vision also typed two words: Don't go.

Xu Rendong nodded slightly, indicating that she knew. He suddenly noticed that other people in the workshop also stuck their heads out, watching the corporal punishment from a distance. The shrill screams of the middle-aged man echoed in the factory, like a terrifying midnight opera, which was horrifying to hear.

After an unknown amount of time, the foreman exhaled a long breath and finally put down the whip with satisfaction. The man on the ground was covered in blood, his skin was ripped open, and he had stopped moving.

He was actually beaten to death.

The foreman went up and kicked him, but the man did not respond. The foreman looked at the blood on his leather shoes, scolded something in a low voice, wiped the leather shoes clean on the man's clothes, and left proudly.

The meaning of killing chickens to warn monkeys is very obvious. Onlookers in other workshops saw that the foreman continued to patrol, and quickly hid back to their workshops, waiting to check the post.

Lian Qiao said: It seems that this is the condition of death. Don't get caught.

Xu Rendong sighed inwardly, regained her energy, and followed over the blood.

There are several workshops on this floor, but only two of them are arranged with living people, and the others only have articulated dolls working. Xu Rendong noticed that the foreman did not only inspect the workshop with living people, but would inspect every job position, so the patrol speed was very slow. He estimated that it would take about twenty minutes to complete the tour of one floor.

Nothing unusual on the second floor, everyone is at their posts. However, as soon as the foreman went up to the third floor, a whistle sounded from the center of the factory.

The sound was like boiling water, high-pitched and harsh, like a knife stabbing into the eardrum. Xu Rendong covered his ears, wondering if he had guessed wrong? But seeing the foreman's expression changed, he immediately ran to the edge of the fence and looked towards the gear area in the center. Only then did Xu Rendong notice that the largest gears had stopped turning, as if they were stuck by something.

The foreman cursed angrily, turned his head and ran to the control room. His irritable roar soon came from the broadcast, saying that there was a safety accident, and he ordered everyone to gather on the first floor immediately.

Security incident? Is it...

As the foreman left, Xu Rendong also came to the edge of the fence, squinting and looking at the central gear. This time he finally saw clearly what was stuck between the gears.

A **** corpse.

After half an hour, everyone gathered beside the molten pool on the first floor. Beret, who had already returned to the town, hurried over after hearing the news, flatteringly apologized to the foreman. The foreman scolded him in the face, and continued to instruct the NPC workers to operate the robotic arm to take out the corpse in the gear.

The body was badly damaged, the torso was almost crushed by gears, and the spine was broken into several pieces. There was a big hole in the stomach, all the internal organs fell out, and part of it fell into the molten pool below, and it burned away with a squeak.

However, it was easy to tell that it was a female corpse.

The crowd stood silently beside the corpse. There are only seven people present, except for the middle-aged man who was caned to death, Zhang Xiaoxiao and the gentleman were also missing. The female corpse is obviously Zhang Xiaoxiao, so gentleman...

"It must be the man!" Suddenly a girl called out, "I'm in the same group with this girl! She said she was going to find the man, and this happened. What! Now that man is gone too, he must be guilty of being a thief!"

"I don't think so." Another person pondered, "Maybe he was also killed, but the body has not been found."

"Yes, there may be more than one death condition this time. Let's look for it, maybe there is a body hidden in the gear?"

Everyone was talking about it, only Xu Rendong quietly stood beside the corpse.

Lian Qiao is suddenly excited: VR autopsy, exciting!

Xu Rendong ignored Lian Qiao and approached to observe the fragmented corpse. The corpse was covered in blood, and the crushed internal organs gave off a suffocating stench, very disgusting. Xu Rendong felt a tickling in his throat and forced himself to observe the corpse carefully.

Cut open.

Lian Qiao: What is that? In the stomach, one grain at a time.

Xu Rendong looked at the stomach of the corpse, the stomach bag was also crushed by the gear, and only the upper part was connected to the esophagus. But as a result, the stomach contents were completely exposed, and a few gray-white objects the size of thumb caps could be clearly seen on the stomach wall.

Xu Rendong endured the discomfort, looked closer, and saw that the gray-white object was round and short, and there were circles of lines on it, it looked like…

Pupae? !

The pupa was attached to the stomach wall, and it was even wriggling slightly. They don't seem to notice that the owner of the stomach bag is dead, and they still greedily absorb the nutrients of this body.

Xu Rendong couldn't bear it any longer, walked to the side, bent over and vomited.

The teammates behind him noticed his strangeness, and someone came up to care about him. Xu Rendong told everyone what he had found, and everyone's expressions suddenly changed.

"Insect chrysalis? Could there really be butterflies growing in the stomach?!"

"In this way, the other man is also much less fortunate. I just don't know what they did..."

"It's horrible...I can't take it anymore! I want to go home! I want to go home woo woo woo..."

Beret suddenly shouted: "Quiet! Quiet! The foreman knew that everyone had lost a partner on the first day of their arrival, and he must have been uncomfortable, so he sent you a kind heart to let you go back to rest in the afternoon and come back tomorrow. work!"

Everyone was a little surprised, but accepted the decision. The girl who was crying and wanted to go home also stopped sobbing and stood tightly in the middle of the group, indicating where everyone is going and where I am going.

On the way back to the dormitory, everyone was still whispering about what just happened. Xu Rendong walked at the back of the team and gradually recovered from the discomfort of vomiting. He suddenly remembered that he forgot to take off Lamia's eyeballs when he vomited just now. Lian Qiao must have seen that indecent picture.

A burst of embarrassment came to his heart, his first reaction was to apologize to Lian Qiao, but Lian Qiao sent a message first, he asked: Are you okay? The bag contains water and wipes.

Xu Rendong took out the wet wipes from her backpack and wiped her face. Then he took out his phone and replied, "I'm fine. Sorry for making you see bad stuff.

Lian Qiao: It’s okay, an autopsy is a necessary process, and a corpse will carry a lot of information.

Xu Rendong: I'm not talking about corpses...

Lian Qiao: Uh...that's okay, I vomited just now, and I accidentally let you see it. We're even.

Xu Rendong thought about it, um, what Lian Qiao said made sense. He couldn't help nodding his head, the vision of his left eye suddenly flickered, a fountain of vomit flashed in front of him, sprayed forward in a parabolic shape, and finally landed on the ground into a yellow greasy pool.

This first-person visual effect is too realistic, this vomit fountain seems to be sprayed out of his mouth, Xu Rendong only feels tired in his throat and almost spit it out.

He was still in shock, and then he remembered it later, and he made another big nod.

Xu Rendong hurriedly typed and apologized. Lian Qiao vomited for a while before typing out the next line tremblingly.

"This time I made money."

Xu Rendong was taken aback for a while, staring at the words "I earned" for a while before understanding what Lian Qiao meant, and couldn't help laughing.

After returning to the dormitory, everyone gathered together to discuss what just happened. Xu Rendong told what he saw when he followed the foreman, and everyone had different opinions. The biggest point of disagreement is where the gentleman is, dead or alive.

There is no answer at all based on the current clues. In the end, everyone decided to wait for the opportunity tomorrow and sneak out to explore the factory. The method is also very simple, just sneak out after the foreman has inspected his room. The foreman starts patrolling from the boiler room on the negative floor. It takes about 20 minutes to patrol the first floor, and there are three floors of workshops on the ground. This cycle takes one hour at a time. That is to say, as long as you punch the card at the foreman, you will have an hour of exploration time. During this period, you only need to be careful to avoid the patrol route of the foreman, and then return to the post before the foreman's next patrol.

Judging from the number of participants, this copy should not be difficult. But three people died on the first day, and everyone's heart was very heavy. It was already evening after the discussion was over. There is no electricity in this shabby apartment, only candles are lit at night. Of course, it was impossible to take a bath, and everyone could only lie down in the smell of sweat and oil.

Elevator buttons? ! Found it so soon? !

Xu Rendong wasn't over surprised, only to see the perspective slowly moving, and another elevator appeared in the field of vision. Lian Joe pressed the button into the groove beside the elevator door and made a "V" gesture.

Xu Rendong was so shocked that he watched Lian Qiao's teammates walk into the elevator one by one, and then the elevator door slowly closed, but Lian Qiao did not go in.

He leaned against the elevator car and sat down, took out his mobile phone and entered: I have it done, how are you doing?

Xu Rendong was deeply hit, and finally calmed down, and replied: There is no progress.

Lian Qiao: I was playing boss in the afternoon and didn't pay attention to your situation. What did you all talk about?

Xu Rendong repeated the content of the conversation. After listening to Lian Qiao, he took out a gun from his bag and said regretfully: If only I could send this to you.

Xu Rendong: ... shoot the foreman and then you can explore freely, right?

Lian Qiao: Exactly!

Xu Rendong was amused by his simple and rude thinking, but thinking about it carefully, if everyone worked together, it would not be impossible to kill the foreman. However, I am afraid that the foreman, like the black rabbit of the Russian nesting doll, will be resurrected immediately after being killed, and will enter the second form. This is terrifying.

Xu Rendong and Lian Qiao chatted casually for a while, felt a little tired, put away the phone and was about to go to sleep, suddenly noticed that the medical student was still sitting in front of the table, swaying by candles for a while Bean lights are studying hard.

It's not easy.

Xu Rendong sighed inwardly and slowly fell asleep.

When he woke up, he felt sore all over his body, as if he had been beaten, and his muscles and bones were hard. His eyes were dry and unable to open due to the strong light. He rubbed his eyes and sat up, thinking that the sun has risen so high, why is no one coming to rush him to work?

Elevator.

Xu Rendong was startled and jumped up from the ground. He looked around in astonishment, certain that this was the elevator he had come from. The five big characters "Butterfly in the Stomach" appeared in front of him, and Lian Qiao in his left eye field was typing fast with his mobile phone in his hand.

"Butterfliesinone in the stomach'sstomach: refers to the flapping of wings like a butterfly in the stomach, describing a constant feeling of fear, tension, worry."

He couldn't hold it any longer, and he bent down and retched violently.