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Published at 4th of August 2023 11:55:48 AM


Chapter 175

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Chapter 175 – 1992-2020

 

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At this time, it was close to the meal time and the kitchen had already started preparing dinner for everyone.

The hotel was understaffed, so there was only one cook in the whole kitchen. The cold dishes are frozen in the refrigerator and the hot dishes are also cooked in advance. The dishes can be served only after the guests order.

After all, there were only six of them living in the hotel, so the chef lay down on the recliner and started playing with his mobile phone after preparing.

Lian Qiao and RenDong walked into the back kitchen and saw the hot dishes on the table at a glance. The position where they were standing happened to be in the blind spot of the chef’s sight, even if the chef turned his head, he couldn’t see them.

 Lian Qiao took out the bottle of 30% NaCN from his backpack, put on his gloves again and began to suck the liquid inside with a dropper.

“What the hell is this?” RenDong asked with a suppressed voice.

The range hood in the back kitchen was rumbling and the chef couldn’t hear the sound from here at all. Lian Qiao didn’t raise his head and concentrated on sucking up the liquid: “Poison.”

When Lian Qiao hinted at him going to the chemistry laboratory to steal reagents in the afternoon, RenDong had already guessed the answer. He just couldn’t believe it, did Lian Qiao really want to poison everyone together?

RenDong stared at the bottle of transparent poison with an extremely complicated emotion.

The reason why the chemical reagent cabinet was left open was because the long-haired aunt fiddled with the concentrated sulfuric acid. When Lian Qiao was trapped and killed them all, he forced out this information from her mouth. Therefore, he directly pointed the way to Xu RenDong.

At this time, Lian Qiao had already sucked a dropper full of poison. He noticed RenDong’s gaze, turned his head and smiled at RenDong.

“Do you want to stop me?” His voice was very gentle and calm, as if he would not resist no matter what RenDong did, “If you want to stop it, it has to be now. If they find out after poisoning, you and I will never be able to clean up.

“…No.” RenDong was silent for a moment, then took the dropper from his hand, “I’ll do it.”

Lian Qiao was taken aback.

RenDong moved the dropper to the hot soup and asked, “How much to drop?”

“One drop is enough.”

Lian Qiao watched him drop the medicine into the soup and a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: “I thought you would dissuade me. At least dissuade me and ask me to keep the monk alive.” 

RenDong also added poison to several other dishes and he said calmly, without raising his head: “I don’t want you to bear it alone. Just like in the Matryoshka instance, you wouldn’t let me open the nesting doll by myself. Now this sin, I don’t want you to be the only one who bears it.”

Lian Qiao muttered to himself: “… Matryoshka…”

 

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RenDong remembered that Lian Qiao should have no memory of that incident, because it was not the final reincarnation that was archived.

However, if Lian Qiao shouldn’t remember that incident, how could he say this?

In the reincarnation so far, all words related to the death circle will be blocked. Even this copy, when he inadvertently mentions the ‘Rock’ monk, will render him speechless. However, at this time, he easily said what he could not have said.

This weird thought flashed through my mind but, before he could think about it, the waiter outside suddenly shouted: “Master! The customer has ordered the dishes!” 

“Here we come!” The chef jumped up from the reclining chair, coming this way.

RenDong and Lian Qiao hurriedly hid. They watched the chef pour the poisoned hot dish back into the pot and stir fry it again. They then left the back kitchen and went back to the front hall.

Everyone was already sitting in the dining room, just waiting for them to come. The two of them didn’t waste much time in the back kitchen. And because the Monk described the pair’s obscene behavior with embellishments, no one suspected their late arrival.

Or, even if they were suspicious, there was nothing they could do.

As soon as he was seated, the Monk said happily: “Xu RenDong has signed a contract with the company and the scene can be changed tomorrow. While this scene is still safe, let’s celebrate quickly!” 

The man with the scar snorted: “Congratulations! So what? We still can’t find the button or the elevator, so what if the scene is changed? It’s just another place to die.”

“Don’t be so negative.” The Monk poured wine into his glass with a smile and comforted him, “It’s not the first time you have come in, you should learn to look down on life and death. If you have wine today, you will be drunk tomorrow. What are you afraid of when this poor monk is here to give you salvation?”

The man with the scar: “…”

The Monk maintained his usual irritating style and within a few words made the man with the scar blush with anger. However, he was probably afraid of Lian Qiao and it was inconvenient for him to have a face-to-face attack at the dinner table, so he just gave the Monk a vicious look.

At this time, the waiter came up with hot and cold dishes. The Monk poured wine and drinks for everyone and raised his glass with a smile: “I toast everyone!”

Lian Qiao said: “You monks can still drink?”

The Monk said: “I am about to die, the Buddha will forgive me.”

Lian Qiao couldn’t help but raise his glass. He said, “To be honest, I like your character very much. If we hadn’t met in this kind of place…”

The Monk patted him on the shoulder vigorously: “Brother, you shouldn’t say such things. Even if we meet in this kind of place, we can still be friends!”

Seeing the two clinking glasses, RenDong suddenly felt a little uneasy.

—After the death of Auntie Long-Hair, do the remaining people really have no idea?

 

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The fact that he and Lian Qiao could poison the dishes, doesn’t that mean they could poison the wine? Although they didn’t dare to take action against him, a key player, but Lian Qiao…

At this point, RenDong reached out and pressed Lian Qiao’s wine glass and said in a low voice: “Wait.”

Lian Qiao and the Monk turned their heads to look at him. RenDong thought for a while and snatched the wine glass from Lian Qiao’s hand: “I’ll drink first.”

The Monk was stunned. He then immediately realized and said with a wry smile, “Are you afraid that I will poison you?”

The wine glass was already stuck to his lips. After hearing this, RenDong felt extremely bitter in her heart.

Lian Qiao had a faint smile on the corner of his lips and he glanced at him affectionately. Then he turned his gaze to the crowd to see if there was any abnormality in the reaction of the crowd.

RenDong closed his eyes and drank the wine in the glass in one gulp. Until he put down his glass, no one did anything unusual. It seems that there is really no poison in this wine.

It is he who judges others using himself.

RenDong bit his lip and said to the monk, “I’m sorry.”

The Monk sighed and refilled his wine: “It’s okay. Anyone who stays in this kind of fucking dungeon for a long time will go crazy.” 

At this time, the knife sitting across the round table- the scarred Man suddenly slapped the table, startling everyone.

Everyone was wondering what he was going to do but they didn’t expect that he also grabbed the wine glass and drank it down, then slapped the glass on the table again and said with red eyes: “Yes! It’s all the fucking fault of the dungeon! Why should we suffer this? Bitter? Huh? We could be living well outside…”

He choked up his sobs as he spoke, wiped his tears and said, “If I had known, I wouldn’t have done that job! My brother’s tuition… Fuck! If I knew, I would have rather sold my body than do that job!”

Everyone looked at his face in shock and thought to themselves; do you really think your body can be sold?

Alcohol is the catalyst for the atmosphere. Everyone held their wine glasses and began to tell each other the stories in their hearts. Everyone came in for various reasons and they’ve been tortured by instances ever since. Only then did Xu RenDong realize that among the few remaining people, the one who cleared the most customs clearance times was the Monk andi t was just three times. The first time, RenDong took him to lie down and win.

The situation of other people is similar, they all met other bosses in the instances. The bosses  opened the elevator and left in a cool way, and they followed obediently, trying to save their lives.

The more Xu RenDong heard it, the more uncomfortable he felt. Lian Qiao shook his hand quietly under the table and then said to everyone with bent eyebrows: “Okay, stop chatting, and eat the food quickly. Otherwise, the food will be cold.” 

“…” Xu RenDong forced himself to control the turbulent emotions in his heart. He was afraid that he would show the slightest strangeness.

Everyone’s anxiety that had been tense for a long time was vented and they were all in a great mood. They picked up their wine glasses one after another and clinked glasses with each other again.

RenDong toasted everyone, suddenly feeling extremely sad. But he couldn’t say anything, so he drank the wine in one gulp.

 

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Everyone put down their wine glasses and started eating. RenDong drank two glasses of wine in a row. His throat was burning and his stomach began to feel uncomfortable. Dizzy in his head, he saw Lian Qiao put vegetables into his bowl.

“Why do you have to drink so much?” A reproachful and helpless voice sounded in his ears, but it was as far away as the sky.

RenDong glanced into the bowl, it was the celery he hated the most. Then he frowned, shook his head in dissatisfaction, and said, “I don’t want to eat this…I want to…”

His chopsticks stretched towards the tiger skin green pepper: “I want to eat…”

“RenDong!” Lian Qiao hurriedly held him down. Bending his eyes, there seemed to be displeasure in his eyes, “You’re drunk. Don’t mess around.”

RenDong took the chopsticks away from him, feeling an indescribable grievance in his heart. At this time, his stomach was churning again and again, RenDong clutched his stomach and cried, “I’m so uncomfortable… my stomach is so uncomfortable…”

Lian Qiao sighed and helped him up from the chair: “Go vomit it out.”

Everyone was enjoying their meal and when they saw that the two were about to leave the table, they all felt a little disappointed. The Monk said: “Go and come back quickly.”

Lian Qiao smiled and said, “Okay.”

After speaking, he helped Xu RenDong leave the restaurant.

Outside the restaurant is the hotel reception. Lian Qiao didn’t take him upstairs, but turned around and left the hotel.

Xu RenDong was so drunk that his legs became weak and his face was flushed. The cold wind outside made his stomach feel even more uncomfortable.

Lian Qiao raised his palm and pressed it over his mouth firmly. The other hand held him tightly like steel.

“Don’t vomit here. Go a little further away.”

RenDong was in so much pain that he was so dizzy and couldn’t stand up. He was almost carried away by Lian Qiao. He didn’t know where Lian Qiao was taking him and he didn’t know where he was. He just wants to throw up now.

But Lian Qiao didn’t give him a chance to rest at all.

Today is the day the seniors graduate. Many students have already left school, so there are few people on the road. The two of them were walking on the empty and spacious main road of the campus. RenDong only felt that the street lamps dazzled and hurt his eyes.

The pungent and bitter taste of the wine had come to the tip of the tongue and RenDong’s throat shook several times, almost unable to bear it but Lian Qiao held his mouth firmly, not allowing him to vomit.

So uncomfortable…so nauseous…

 

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RenDong struggled hard but, with his little strength, he couldn’t shake Lian Qiao at all.

He didn’t know how long he walked, but the street lights flickering in front of me finally disappeared. Lian Qiao finally let go of his hand. RenDong bent down almost at the same time, and vomited it out with a “wuuu”.

He drank two glasses of white wine without eating and all he spit out was alcohol. Immediately there was a strong smell of alcohol in the air, mixed with the sour smell of gastric juice, Xu RenDong himself felt sick when he smelled it and couldn’t stop vomiting.

Lian Qiao wrapped his arms around his waist and patted his back with the other, without saying a word.

RenDong vomited for a long time, until his stomach convulsed and he couldn’t vomit anything, then he regained his strength. The feeling of nausea was still lingering, he retched again and again, physiological tears and gastric juice mixed together, his face was a mess.

Lian Qiao helped him sit to one side and wiped his face with a tissue. RenDong leaned against something hard and rough, and through the wet vision he saw many large trees. So he understood that this is the back mountain. He is leaning against a big tree.

Why were they here?

His lips and cheeks were carefully wiped clean. RenDong looked at Lian Qiao in a trance, but Lian Qiao lowered his head and began to carefully wipe the dirt off his body.

“Are you sad?” Lian Qiao asked.

“I…” RenDong opened his mouth, only to realize that his voice was hoarse. It was stomach acid eating away at the throat, “…I don’t know.”

Lian Qiao lowered his head but raised the corners of his mouth slightly: “When they are dead, we are the only two left. Isn’t that good?”

RenDong subconsciously felt that what he said was very problematic, but his mind was dizzy. He can’t figure out what was wrong. So RenDong had no choice but to change the subject and said: “Why did we  come here… I want to drink hot water…”

Lian Qiao: “Because they will be poisoned soon. The lethal dose of sodium cyanide is very small and it takes about 20 minutes from the time you eat it for symptoms to appear. At that time, it will be too late for us to leave.”

RenDong tilted his head: “How do you know this?”

Lian Qiao laughed: “Do you still need to ask? When Little Apple died, the police took me away almost immediately. Of course I know how fast the police in this instance work.”

“I didn’t ask this…” RenDong shook his head in a trance. Although he vomited cleanly, he was still drunk. After such a flash, he fainted again, frowning in pain.

Seeing that he was about to fall down, Lian Qiao quickly helped him up. Seeing that he still couldn’t sit still, he simply pulled him into his arms and let him lean on his chest.

RenDong almost buried his face in his chest and asked sullenly, “How do you know… that… that poison… twenty minutes… how do you…” Probably Lian Qiao’s chest was too warm and the breath was too familiar, RenDong felt drowsiness hit quickly. He didn’t even finish a sentence, and fell asleep leaning on Lian Qiao’s chest.

 “…” Lian Qiao hugged him tightly, his eyes gradually turned away, looking at the dark night sky.

“How do I know?” As if talking to himself or laughing at himself, Lian Qiao smiled and whispered in RenDong’s ear, “Because, I’ve used it before.”





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