Death Spiral [Infinite Flow]

The next day, Lian Qiao rented the apartment opposite Xu RenDong.

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The apartment opposite Xu RenDong was already empty.
The landlord was eager to find a new tenant and Lian Qiao was anxious to move in.
So the two hit it off and quickly signed a rental contract.
When Xu RenDong came home from work at night, Lian Qiao had finished cleaning and had started to move things in.

Lian Qiao was anxious of course because of the ghost world.
According to his investigation, this elevator will appear every once in a while, forcibly sending people into the world of ghosts.
Supposedly after clearing a certain number of instances, you can get rid of the elevator completely and your life will be smooth sailing in the future.
But the number of times was unknown because, until now, he couldn’t find anyone who claimed to have cleared all the instances.

Are the instances too difficult and hence no one has successfully cleared them all or was it for some particular reason that the person who had cleared them didn’t want to let their name be known and preferred to stay anonymous?

He didn’t know.

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The world of ghosts and monsters in the future will only get harder and harder and those who can survive are rare.
Therefore, the two decided to enter the world of ghosts and monsters together so they could rely on each other.

On the surface they talked about cooperation but in fact, both of them are thinking the same thing: Hugging a thigh.

Lian Qiao thought that Xu RenDong was the boss, and Xu RenDong knew that Lian Qiao himself was the actual boss.
To be honest, Xu RenDong was not a person who liked to be fake but due to the restriction of his rebirths, he couldn’t tell the truth so he can only hold back.

Being forced to be a fake boss was actually quite uncomfortable.

After a few calm days, Xu RenDong returned to his normal working condition.
Every day from 5AM to 9PM, he was very busy.
Although his body is tired, the spirit gradually relaxed.
After all, there were no ghosts in the company and no teammates who would kill him if they didn’t agree with him.
This is in sharp contrast with the ghost world and he deeply felt the superiority of a civilized society.

That night, Xu RenDong returned home at half past nine.
After eating, he had nothing to do, he suddenly remembered something.
At this point, Lian Qiao should be broadcasting live.
So he found Lian Qiao’s live broadcast platform, registered an account and clicked on Lian Qiao’s live broadcast room.

Lian Qiao was still playing that bloody game.
He seems to have adapted to this style of graphics and was no longer scared by the monsters.
Instead he was chatting with the audience, laughing and joking.

Xu RenDong watched for a while and gradually figured it out.
In the process of exploring the map, this player can pick up a variety of props and continue to grow stronger.
Gradually they would change from being chased by monsters to chasing down monsters.
Xu RenDong watched him play a few games and found that every time he cleared a level or died, the game would generate a brand new map.
The monsters, terrain, and props encountered on the road were all different from before.     

There were many kinds of props in this game.
Xu RenDong watched him play for half an hour and hardly encountered any duplicate props.
Therefore, every reopening is a brand new game experience.
It was no wonder he would get addicted to it.     

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Xu RenDong thought that this game was really interesting but unfortunately he had no energy or time to play.
Besides, watching Lian Qiao playing games is far more fun than playing it by himself.
After all, Lian Qiao had good skills and no matter how bad the props were or how strong the monster is, he could always make a comeback.
And if he was lucky and encountered a good item, he would ascend to heaven in one step and become an existence that was stronger than the boss.
Watching him abuse all the monsters was very cool.

Seeing that it was almost ten o’clock and Lian Qiao was about to finish his broadcast, Xu RenDong went to take a bath.
When he came out of the bathroom, he found that Lian Qiao had quit the game but had turned one the camera and was chatting to the audience with a smile.
The barrage was full of comments like: “Milk Qiao has finally shown his face again, I am deeply grateful.”, “I want to possess this second’s Milk Qiao!”, “The host is so cute, I want to X him!”.
There were also comments like, “My screen is dirty, I need to lick lick” and other similar terrible comments.

Who are these people watching the live broadcast?     

Xu RenDong felt inexplicably unhappy.
He unplugged his earphones and was about to turn off the computer but suddenly heard in the live broadcast room, Lian Qiao speaking in a soft and gentle tone: “…He respects others very much and when talking with anyone, he looks at them very seriously.
It makes people feel that he is listening to you attentively.
”     

Huh, he wasn’t talking about games anymore?    

 Xu RenDong was a little surprised and couldn’t help but go back to the screen. 

He saw Lian Qiao speaking in the live broadcast room with a reminiscent look.
There was a small smile on his mouth which made his expression look particularly gentle: “…His eyes are also very beautiful, black and white and so very bright.
How do I say it… I’ve seen a sentence before that goes “Inside a pool of white mercury, two pills of black mercury are kept.” It’s like that kind of feeling.”” {This is from a Classic poem, my translation is probably not accurate.}

The bullet screen was filled with comments: “What the hell is mercury?” and a bunch of hahahahas.
Suddenly a line of distinctive line appeared in the barrage,

“ ‘That pair of eyes are like autumn water, cold stars or pearls.
Like a pool of white mercury, there are two pills of black mercury within.’ – The Travels of Lao Can.”

Xu RenDong was taken aback.
It turns out that Lian Qiao’s words have a source? He was shocked that Lian Qiao had actually read The Travels of Lao Can.
He really saw a different side of this internet addicted youth.

When Lian Qiao also saw this passage, he said happily: “Yes, that’s it.” He looked at the barrage and read it again seriously, “That pair of eyes are like autumn water, cold stars, or pearls.
Like a pool of white mercury, there are two pills of black mercury within.”    

The tone of his reading the passage sounds like a poetic recitation, every pause is just right and every syllable has a long aftertaste.
The feelings are naturally revealed every word but they weren’t exaggerated.
The gentle voice seemed to be gently massaging the ears, which made people feel very pleasant.    

When Lian Qiao was reading aloud, the number of barrages obviously decreased.
All the way until he stopped speaking, Xu RenDong was spellbound.
Even after he was still immersed in a slight feeling of intoxication.
He heard Lian Qiao said say gently:     

“When I read this paragraph before, I couldn’t really understand it.
Why would the author think of using mercury as a metaphor for the eyes? It’s strange, even a bit scary.
After all, mercury is poisonous… But after I saw him, I realized that human eyes can look so beautiful, really like mercury, and are so radiant… I wonder if you have ever seen mercury flowing, it’s shiny silver, liquid metal, glowing while flowing… It’s so beautiful.” 

The barrage were all stunned by his description and started to frantically bombard the screen, begging Lian Qiao to release the photo of this fairy person.     

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Lian Qiao replied proudly and firmly: “I won’t!” 

The barrage was full of wails.

Xu RenDong watched Lian Qiao interact with the audience and couldn’t help but feel amused.

At this moment, someone in the barrage asked: “Who is the host talking about?” “Is it a celebrity?” “Seeking pictures to see the truth!” 

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A few seconds later, a large number of barrages floated by.

“Newcomer in the front,  you don’t even know about Milk Qiao’s Goddess?” {Although it’s written that Lian Qiao says “he”, there is no difference to ‘he’ and ‘she’ when said out loud in Chinese, i.e.
the audience will assume he’s talking about a woman.”

“It’s the girl Milk Qiao has a crush on!”

“Fuck, Ah-Qiao has a crush? Why don’t I know! Within three minutes, I want all the information on this lucky girl!”

“I really want to know what this goddess is like ahhhhhhhhhhh”

“Pleading for you guys to appear in the frame together! Pleading for a stream together! Hurry up and let us see your goddess!”

Crush? Goddess?

Xu RenDong couldn’t help being curious.
His gaze searched through the dense barrage and, after a while, he finally found the answer.

“It’s HuaHua oh.
The goddess of Milk Qiao, HuaHua~” {Hua means flower.
Remember RenDong is an alternate name for the honeysuckle flower.}

HuaHua? Sounds like a dog’s name…

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No, no, this is Lian Qiao’s goddess.
Be serious!

Lian Qiao suddenly uttered “Ah” before returning to the soft cotton candy-like voice: “You guys are making me hungry! Humph, I won’t go running tonight! I’m going to have a barbecue!”

Only then did XuRenDong realize that the barrage was densely packed and was filled with a lot of “burn” characters.
There are also some strange and weird sentences on the screen, such as “where is my tiger skin skirt”, “true love does not burn”, “I want one with cumin, thank you”.     

These sentences were soon covered by layers of “Burn!!!” and the screen was full of red flames.
Xu RenDong was almost blinded by it.
Then Lian Qiao laughed and said, “Okay, okay, sprinkle the host with cumin, set it up and roast it.
You can’t eat it anyway.”   

In Xu RenDong’s mind floated the image of a group of wild men wearing tiger skin skirts and dancing around the fire, but what is on the fire is not barbecue but Lian Qiao and there is a word “HuaHua” over his head…

A matchstick person.

Xu RenDong couldn’t imagine what the girl Lian Qiao liked would be like, so he could only make up a stick figure with matchsticks.

After this wave of “burn” characters passed, everyone began to write “Ask HuaHua out to eat!”.
Lian Qiao bent his eyes and laughed: “It’s so late, he might already be asleep.”

The barrage immediately changed direction.
Xu RenDong blinked and suddenly hundreds of comments like “If you don’t ask her out, you’re a coward!” and even a few “woof woof woof woof!” and “dog food is so delicious” assaulted his eyes.

Xu RenDong ws too dazzled and closed his laptop.
After a while, his phone vibrated.
He looked down and saw that it was a message from Lian Qiao.

“Brother RenDong, are you asleep? Do you want to have barbecue together?”

Xu RenDong was confused.
Aren’t you going to ask HuaHua out? Did you get the wrong person?

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He thought about it calmly and quickly came up with the answer: Oh, it must be that HuaHua is asleep.
After all, girls needed to have beauty sleep.

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Xu RenDong felt his stomach.
He didn’t have the habit of eating supper but the word “burn” on the computer screen just now gave him a mental push and he felt a little hungry.

Then he would go eat.
After all, they have become neighbors and it’s not bad to have supper to increase their relationship with each other.

When he walked out of the apartment, Lian Qiao happened to open up his door.
As soon as he saw him, Lian Qiao curved his eyes and smiled.
He spoke joyfully: “Brother RenDong.”

He was like a marshmallow, sweetly melting into people’s hearts.
Looking at him made you unable to not smile.
Xu RenDong nodded at him and said, “Good evening.”

Lian Qiao smiled and greeted him: “Let’s…”

However the smile in his eyes disappeared instantly in the next second.
Because-

The stairs vanished.

What was supposed to be a staircase had turned into two elevators standing side by side.

The silver-gray metal body reflected icy light.
The chill rose little by little from behind, cruel and merciless, breaking the vision of beautiful daily life.

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The author has something to say:

Lian Qiao: Hey~ the favorability level rose +5! How come~~~

RenDong: Because you have culture.

Lian Qiao: Then why is it -5 again wuwuwuwu….

RenDong: Because you eat supper and have bad living habits.

Lian Qiao:? ? ? ? ? ?