Death Spiral [Infinite Flow] - Chapter 67

Chapter 67 – Three People Make a Tiger 3

Lian Qiao pretended to not have heard a thing, continuing to breathe evenly beside Xu RenDong. He wanted to see what kind of play the ex planned to make in front of him, the current partner.

He heard Zhong Xiu ask softly: “Have you been… have you been doing well recently?”

Lian Qiao sneered in his heart: Heh, asking although you already know the answer. With me here, how can he not be good?

Xu RenDong: “Not good.”

Lian Qiao:?

Zhong Xiu did not answer and the room fell into a strange silence. After a while, Xu RenDong said again: “However, it is better than you.”

Lian Qiao suddenly regained his confidence. He felt that the next sentence of RenDong should be the famous face slapping phrase: “I can rest assured now that I know you’re not doing well!” This would show that Brother RenDong no longer has any feelings for his ex!

Come on! I’m with you! Curse her fiercely!

Xu RenDong: “…I didn’t know you had such a bad life. I’m sorry.”

Lian Qiao: ???

Lian Qiao couldn’t wait to jump up and grab Xu RenDong by the collar and shake him: Yes she’s sick and has cancer! But so what! It’s none of your business. What are you apologizing for? !

Of course, Lian Qiao did not do this. In order to overhear more conversations and better anger himself, he chose to continue to pretend to be asleep.

Zhong Xiu smiled bitterly: “I deliberately concealed it from you… I didn’t intend to appear in your life again.”

Lian Qiao was a little surprised when he heard this. Listening to this, it seems that the news of Zhong Xiu’s serious illness didn’t seem to have been told to RenDong by her initiative? Who would it be, then?

…Forget it, it doesn’t matter who the microphone was. Lian Qiao recalled hearing the gossip of nurses in the hospital, saying that Zhong Xiu had no family members. After being diagnosed with cancer, she always came to see the doctor by herself and all her pains were carried by herself. He suddenly felt that this woman was really pitiful. In other words, if he were RenDong, he would also come to see her for the last time.

But Xu RenDong said coldly: “I really didn’t plan to come to see you, what does your death have to do with me?”

Lian Qiao: ??????

Boss, why don’t you play your cards according to logic!

Zhong Xiu asked the same question as Lian Qiao: “Then why are you still here?”

Xu RenDong: “…” Suddenly he stopped talking.

Lian Qiao: Don’t be silent, boss! Keep cursing her!

Lian Qiao only felt that his heart was being pushed around in a roller coaster and, while following the two people’s conversation, continued to whirl uphill and downhill 360 degrees. It nearly stimulated him into having a heart attack. He anxiously awaited Xu RenDong’s answer, wondering what kind of mood Xu RenDong was holding when he went to see Zhong Xiu for the last time. However, deep down in his heart, he was vaguely scared, afraid to hear the answer he didn’t want.

Ten thousand years seem to have passed.

Xu RenDong: “…” Still did not speak.

Lian Qiao was almost suffocated and, when he almost couldn’t help jumping up, a woman’s scream suddenly came from outside.

It was unknown if it was an illusion but Lian Qiao seemed to hear Xu RenDong breathe a sigh of relief.

Xu RenDong immediately pushed him “Lian Qiao!! Wake up, something’s wrong.”

Lian Qiao pretended to wake up groggily, his dramatic acting was very authentic. “Ah what? Who is yelling?”

Just then there was a pop sound. Zhong Xiu had turned on the light. Lian Qiao couldn’t adapt to the sudden light and was still rubbing his eyes when Zhong Xiu had already opened the door. She stood in the corridor looking around.

“It’s coming from the room of those people in the film club.” Zhong Xiu said.

When the three people reached the room where the accident occurred, the hallway was already full of people. However, everyone gathered around the door of the room and did not go in.

“What’s the situation?” Xu RenDong and Lian Qiao pushed through the crowd and squeezed to the front. A bloody person suddenly rushed up in front of him, Xu RenDong’s heart leapt but, before he had time to react, Lian Qiao had already kicked out reflexively but then he heard a familiar cry.

“Don’t kick! It’s me!”

Xu RenDong and Lian Qiao both froze: Isn’t this President Little Sun?

They saw the president clutching his kicked belly and rushing forward again but this time he knelt in front of Xu RenDong and he hugged Xu RenDong’s thigh.

“Please save her! I didn’t mean it… I really didn’t know it would happen!”

Xu RenDong and Lian Qiao’s attention had been attracted by the screams of the woman on the bed. They saw the delicate female member A lying on the snow-white bed alone, covered in blood, writhing frantically. She was covered with wounds all over her body, as if she had been slashed away by something sharp. Even bones could be seen in the deepest part of the wound and blood gurgled out of the blood vessels like a small fountain.

Even more shocking was that the wounds on her body were increasing one after another! Just in full view, the original intact skin splintered automatically again, and more blood poured out!

Member A closed her eyes tightly, her expression was miserable and the cries emanating from her were absolutely heartrending. No wonder everyone stood outside and refused to come in. Who could handle such a bloody scene?

Xu RenDong glanced around the room. Except for the president who hugged his thighs, the other two members were shrinking and shivering in a corner. All three of them were splattered with blood, especially the president who was totally immersed in blood. It seemed that he had tried to rescue member A but it had no effect except that he was sprayed with blood all over.

Xu RenDong lifted the president from the ground. The president at this time was no longer the warm little sun. His whole body was shaking like a sieve and even his teeth were chattering up and down. The expression of horror exposed his helplessness. If Xu RenDong hadn’t been holding him, he would knelt down on his weakened legs.

Xu RenDong frowned: “Please explain what’s going on, hurry!”

He shook the president vigorously to calm the president. The president swallowed, and his voice trembled: “It’s Freddy… Freddy is here… He is chasing her in her dream!”

Freddy?

Xu RenDong frowned, he had never heard the name. Member A’s screams continued. Xu RenDong turned his head and looked towards the bed but saw Lian Qiao walk to the bed. He straddled Member A using his long legs and sat directly on her chest.

Then he raised his hand and started to slap member A’s face left and right.

Everyone: “???”

Lian Qiao’s movements were not at all muddle-headed, as if he regularly took his little sisters to slap the mistress every day. His movements were so skillful. Even Xu RenDong was stunned by the constant sound of slaps on the face. He instinctively wanted to step forward to stop him but suddenly realized that Lian Qiao wanted to wake her up!

Just now, the president mentioned the “dream” just now. Although member A struggled and twisted, her eyes never opened. This shows that she was indeed trapped in a dream!

“It’s useless, it’s useless!” President Little Sun collapsed again, slumping on the ground with his head lowered, “I tried it all, I can’t wake her up…”

Lian Qiao’s hand stopped in the air.

Sure enough, even though she had been slapped a dozen times, the female member still had her eyes closed tightly. Her crying voice was getting smaller and smaller, and, because she had lost too much blood, even the struggle had turned into twitching.

Lian Qiao came down from the bed and said guiltily, “I’m sorry.”

It was unknown who he was apologizing to. No one in the room spoke, only the faint screams of the female member and the sobbing of three other members of the film club could be heard.

Xu RenDong beckoned to tell Lian Qiao to come back. Lian Qiao was full of blood, his head was downcast and his mouth was still muttering: “Why is it like this? In the movie, they can be woken up…”

Xu RenDong was looking for something to wipe the blood on him. Hearing this sentence, he suddenly looked up: “Movie?”

“En, ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’.” Lian Qiao glanced at the other three film club members who were sitting slumped on the ground. He had a thoughtful expression.  “What the president said just now is Freddy. That’s the scarred man in ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ who can kill in dreams. The person who enters the dream with him can’t wake up by themselves and will be killed with a razor. But if there is an outsider’s intervention, they should be able to be woken up…”

Just as the two were talking, the screams on the bed suddenly stopped. Everyone looked at the bed in unison and saw that the woman was full of blood and tears, her expression was horrified, her mouth was wide open and she was already motionless.

The blood soaked the sheets and even the carpet below was wet. If you hadn’t seen it with your own eyes, who would have imagined that there was so much blood hidden in a person’s body.

In this way, a female college student in her twenties was actually drained of blood right in front of them. Everyone heard her scream before she died, saw her writhing in pain and despair and finally witnessed that all her struggles were in vain. No one could save her and she died inside her dream.

“No… it’s not like this… it shouldn’t be like this…” The president’s face was desperate, blood and tears mixed on his face, streaming down his neck. His emotions had collapsed, his eyes gradually blurred and he seemed to be about to faint.

Lian Qiao suddenly went up and kicked him. He asked brusquely: “There are so many ghost stories to tell, why do you have to pick this one?” 

The president was so stimulated that his soul was forcibly pulled back into his body. He looked panicked, his lips trembled, and he didn’t speak.

Lian Qiao narrowed his eyes and a cold murderous intent flashed across his originally smiling eyes. Xu RenDong’s heart suddenly tightened and he recalled the Lian Qiao who had killed him in his hallucination. At this moment, the murderous look on Lian Qiao’s face was no different from then.

He saw Lian Qiao stretch out his hand and he easily pulled the 1.9-meter tall president from the ground. Immediately after he pushed the president against the wall. Everyone heard the heavily muffled sound of the president’s head hitting the wal, and it made their scalps tingle.

Lian Qiao pinched his neck, slowly tightening his fingers, and his eyes were cold: “Three people make a tiger, is it your experience?”

When Lian Qiao said the word “experience”, Zhong Xiu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly changed her face. There was a little more shock in her eyes when looking at Lian Qiao.

The president grabbed Lian Qiao’s arm in pain, desperately begging for mercy. Lian Qiao didn’t let him go but slammed his head against the wall harder. Bang Bang Bang, three times in succession. There was immediately a visible red mark on the wall.

“Lian Qiao!” Xu RenDong felt that Lian Qiao was in a bad mood and quickly stepped forward to stop him, “Calm down! What’s going on, tell me!”

When Lian Qiao heard his voice, he seemed to be awakened suddenly and showed a brief blank expression. He involuntarily let go of his hand and the president slid down from the wall to the ground and quickly climbed to the corner on his hands and feet, shivering with the other two members.

Xu RenDong asked: “What’s the matter with you? Why are you going crazy?”

Lian Qiao looked down at his hand, his eyes full of surprise and disbelief. After a long while, he said dully: “…I’m sorry.”

Xu RenDong didn’t mean to blame him but Lian Qiao’s violent behavior just made him scared. Lian Qiao didn’t show any mercy at all. If he hadn’t stopped him in time, then he was afraid that the president would have had his brains bashed out by now. At that time, Lian Qiao was full of violent hostility and looked as though he had no problem doing something like that.

… as if this was not the first time he’d killed someone.

Xu RenDong clearly felt fear and hostility radiating around him. He turned his head and saw the horror in everyone’s eyes. At this time, everyone’s fear of Lian Qiao was even greater than Freddy’s murder in a dream. Everyone was backing away quietly, and some even put their hands in their pockets calmly, probably already holding their weapons.

If this continues, then Lian Qiao will become the target of public criticism.

Xu RenDong dragged Lian Qiao to his side: “Let’s go back first.”

Lian Qiao was dragged by him. He lowered his head and gave an obedient “En”.

Xu RenDong led Lian Qiao to the door and everyone silently gave way to them. Zhong Xiu followed behind without saying a word, her eyes fixed on Lian Qiao’s back and her expression faintly worried.

Everyone watched the group of three walk out of the room. Even when Lian Qiao turned his head suddenly, everyone was taken aback and showed a guarded expression. Xu RenDong clenched his arm subconsciously, for fear that he would suddenly go crazy again and commit some violent behavior.

Lian Qiao seemed to be stung by their behavior, showing his wounded eyes. However, he quickly said: “Don’t sleep at night, you will die.”

Everyone looked at each other. Although they understood what he meant, they didn’t know what expression to make at this time. Lian Qiao didn’t speak any more and just lowered his head, following Xu RenDong in silence like a prisoner.

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