Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

It has been nearly an hour since she left the station, Xu Rendong decided to go back first.

In front of the boiler room, he squatted down and carefully checked the coal ash at the door. The coal ash remains as it was, and there are no signs of trampling. It appears that the medical student has not left the boiler room during this time.

"Ginseng is sweet and invigorating the vitality, quenches thirst, promotes body fluid and regulates nutrition and health. Astragalus is warm and sweating to solidify the surface, sore and muscle qi deficiency is not less. Atractylodes is sweet, warms the spleen and strengthens the stomach, stops diarrhea and dehumidifies and eliminates Phlegm and phlegm. Poria is light in taste, infiltrating dampness and inducing orifices, whitening phlegm and saliva, and clearing waterways…”

Compared to the beginning, he is much more proficient, it seems that he is really serious about his endorsement.

Xu Rendong thought it was better not to disturb him. He came to the console and pretended to start working, but he was sorting out the clues he had so far.

When they encountered danger just now, both he and Zhang Xiaoxiao felt nervous and nauseated. Zhang Xiaoxiao was more serious than him and spit out live moths directly. But the hint clearly says "butterfly", why are moths here? this is a problem.

Also, Doctor Bird's Beak and Foreman seem to be opposites, and Bird's Beak's fighting power is not as good as that of Foreman, otherwise, he would not have run away. Xu Rendong originally thought that the foreman was the boss in this dungeon, and the death conditions were also related to the foreman, but now a second force has appeared, which made him confused.

He always felt that the most crucial mystery in this dungeon had not been solved, but he had no clue what it was. But today is still a harvest, at least he got the key to the factory director's office, and Zhang Xiaoxiao also survived.

At night, medical students are still reading by candlelight. Unlike last time, this time Zhang Xiaoxiao also slept in the same room with them. After today's events, Zhang Xiaoxiao's reliance on gentlemen has been transferred to Xu Rendong. After all, the gentleman has turned into coke and soaked in the molten pool, and she can't rely on it.

"It turned out that the prompt this time was not as simple as I thought. The prompt was a skeleton in the cupboard, and we did find a skeleton in the cupboard. But the skeleton here also implies another thing , is the skeletonkey, the skeleton key, which is the meaning of the master key. Finally, we used a finger bone of the skeleton as the key to open the secret room in the castle, and then we completed the whole set of puzzles..."

"I didn't think of this at all, and I didn't pay attention to that finger bone. Fortunately, there was a middle school student in the team who was developing a new concept. Then I discovered that the skeleton's finger bone can be used as a key. If you think about it, this dungeon is actually quite difficult. If no one knows the allusions, we will not be able to clear the level at all."

"Brother honeysuckle, where are you? Did you find any clues later?"

Xu Rendong talked about the situation during the day. Shortly after he returned to the boiler room, the foreman came on his second patrol. The foreman was wounded and had a stinky expression, but he didn't mention the bird's beak. The bird's beak doctor never showed up again, and it was like this until he got off work. Everyone returned to the dormitory, and only after the exchange did they learn that only Xu Rendong and Zhang Xiaoxiao left their workstations and explored the factory. Another middle-aged man who tried to leave the workshop was caught by the foreman and beaten to death by the whip as soon as he walked out of the workshop. Others did not dare to come out after watching the torture, so they did not get any useful information, let alone the existence of Doctor Bird's Mouth.

Xu Rendong said: "So I plan to go again at night."

Lian Qiao: "I agree. You have more pig teammates this time, so there is no burden to go alone. You can do it, boss, I believe in you."

Xu Rendong thought to herself: Don't call me a boss anymore, it's embarrassing.

A dark night enveloped the industrial town. Xu Rendong and everyone else fell asleep and quietly left the dormitory.

At this time, it was nearly two in the morning, and there were no street lights in the town. Fortunately, the moon tonight was big and round, illuminating the road in front of me. Accustomed to the bright lights in the city, walking on the dirt road illuminated by the moon at this time, there is quite a sense of tranquility back to nature.

When Xu Rendong looked up at the moon, he found that there was also a moon in the field of vision of his left eye. At this moment, even Joe is looking up at the moon. Xu Rendong suddenly had an illusion, as if even Qiao was by his side, looking up at the same sky with him.

When you come to the edge of the town, you can see a huge shadow in the distance, which is a factory in the dark. In the guard room at the entrance of the factory, a man with a long beard was dozing off. Xu Rendong bent over, quietly walked past the guard room, walked into the factory alone, and closed the factory door.

The molten pool was surging, and the orange-red fiery light illuminated the entire central area. Xu Rendong felt warm on his face, and this feeling well dispelled the unease of walking alone at night. Still, he walked very carefully. The factory in the middle of the night was so quiet that only the slightest sound of my own footsteps could be heard. Not long after, he came to the factory director's room on the fourth floor, holding the steel rod he picked up on the road in his hand, took a deep breath, and opened the door of the factory director's room with the key.

Contrary to what I imagined, nothing in the director's room rushed out to attack him. Xu Rendong protected himself with a steel rod in one hand, raised a flashlight in the other, and cautiously entered the factory director's room.

The decoration of this room is obviously more luxurious than those of the offices outside. The furniture is all solid wood, and the wallpaper is painted with dark patterns. Opposite the door is a set of leather tables and chairs, with a stack of blueprints spread out on the table, and a few documents on the side. I don't know if the owner went too hastily, the lid of the ink bottle was not closed, and there was still a quill in it.

Xu Rendong walked behind the table and her eyes lit up. It turned out that the floor plan of the entire factory was spread out on the table. He turned to the part of the underground area and found that the underground area was indeed as he expected, the terrain was very complicated, it was a labyrinth. There are a lot of dead ends inside, and some places are marked with strange symbols.

Lian Qiao said, "Did you see that escape sign? In the deepest part of the maze, it should be where the elevator is."

Xu Rendong nodded slightly. Pick up the quill in the ink bottle, start from the end of the maze, and draw a route to the beginning of the maze. He took a picture of the map with his mobile phone, and then began to investigate the folder beside him.

In the folder is a stack of employee information, and the first page is the brutal foreman. In the photo, his eyes are fierce, and the bloodthirsty violence almost rushes out of the photo. The foreman's name, age, and work history were recorded in handwritten squiggles on the side. Xu Rendong briefly read it, turned to the next page, and was stunned.

On the second page, it's actually that beak doctor!

The difference from the previous page is that a big cross was painted with red paint on the photo of Doctor Bird's Beak. The text was also blurred, as if the ink had smeared, and it was impossible to make out what was originally written.

The whole face of the person in the photo is hidden behind the beak mask, and the black goggles are bottomless, like two black holes, which makes people panic. Xu Rendong suddenly had a creepy feeling, as if he was not alone in the factory director's room. He suddenly raised his head and looked around, clenching the steel rod tightly in his hand.

Lian Qiao: "What's the matter? Did you hear anything?"

Xu Rendong sighed: "No, I'm too nervous."

Continue to flip through the file, the next few pages are all articulated dolls in the workshop. He was surprised to find that these dolls had different names, and even their gender and family situation were clearly written, and none of them were repeated. It's obviously a fake, but it looks like a living person. Xu Rendong recalled the numbness of those knuckle dolls working in the workshop, and couldn't help but feel a chill.

It is worth noting that the bottom of the information of each joint puppet is marked with a line of capital letters, which translates as: working hours seventeen hours, rest time seven hours. Because the work is too hard, they must not be disturbed during the breaks.

This seems to be some kind of hint, Xu Rendong took it down in his heart.

Flip back and the remaining pages are almost blank, except for a different symbol in the middle of each page. Xu Rendong looked familiar, and even Qiao suddenly said, "Map sign!"

Xu Rendong suddenly realized, took a look at the map, and sure enough, all the symbols that appeared in the underground labyrinth appeared here.

Lian Qiao: "...So this is a monster illustration."

Xu Rendong: "What do you mean?"

Lian Qiao: "That is to say, you haven't encountered those monsters in the maze yet, so the picture book is blank. When you see it, their information will appear in the picture book."

Xu Rendong thought for a while, turned back to the page of Doctor Bird's Beak, and looked at the red cross in the photo.

Lian Qiao: "This fork may mean 'dead'."

Beaten to death by the foreman?

Xu Rendong pondered: "I always feel that something is wrong."

Lian Qiao: "Huh?"

There are too many mysteries in Xu Rendong's heart. For example, who was the one who killed him unwittingly in the dormitory for the first time? For example, what kind of taboo did the gentleman violated and would be thrown into the lava by Doctor Birdbeak?

Unfortunately, none of these issues can be verified. Xu Rendong could only sigh and put his attention back on the drawing in front of him.

He estimated the distance from the entrance to the end of the maze. Even if he successfully avoided the unknown monsters on the road, it would be impossible to go back and forth within an hour. So he typed on his phone: "I'll go underground now."

Lian Qiao: "Okay. I'll show you the way."

Xu Rendong put the folder into the backpack, holding the steel rod, and walked cautiously towards the underground area. When passing by the molten pool on the first floor, he subconsciously glanced into the molten pool. There was so much fire in there, and even though it was so far apart, the heat wave scorched my cheeks.

The scene of the gentleman falling into the molten pool and turning into coke is vivid in his mind. The strange face of the bird's beak and the big scissors also appeared in front of him, awakening an indescribable sense of fear.

He looked back, suppressed the faint uneasiness in his heart, and walked quickly towards the underground entrance.

Therefore, he did not notice that behind him, the factory door that he had closed with his own hands had opened a crack at some point.