Kaleidoscope of Death

The snow was so great that it was almost impossible to walk on the narrow mountain road.

Lin Qiushi was worried that Ruan Baijie's body couldn't take it and protected her all the way. Xiao Ke was beside her and said unkindly that you guys are so affectionate.

"Girls." Lin Qiushi said, "It's always right to take care of her a little more."

Ruan Baijie weakly stuck to Lin Qiushi's body and took a glance towards Xiao Ke, showing a pitiful expression.

Little Ke, on the other hand, averted his eyes with a blank expression, looking like he didn't treat her well.

Finally, we arrived at the place where the trees were cut, and the crowd moved again. This time, everyone chose two trees that weren't that thick and planned to cut them down in one go today. Although this weather was cold, his body became a bit hot after cutting down the trees for a while, Lin Qiushi reached out and unbuttoned his jacket, standing and resting for a while.

Ruan Baijie leaned on the tree next to her, her eyes thoughtful as she looked at Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi glanced at her, "What are you looking at?"

Nguyen Baijie: "Nice ass..."

Lin Qiushi almost flashed his back with the axe in his hand, he turned his head to stare at Ruan Baijie, "What did you say?"

Ruan Baijie: "I didn't say anything, you must have heard wrong."

Lin Qiushi was full of suspicion.

Ruan Baijie: "Or else you repeat what I just said?"

Lin Qiushi: "....... "This product just calculated that he was embarrassed, right?

As they chatted and cut down trees, occasionally taking turns resting with the other men in the group, they cut down two trees before it was completely dark.

The tree cutting was fine, but the carrying had become a demon in the hearts of the men.

The two teammates who were crushed to death by the trees yesterday had been buried by the thick snow, but even if they couldn't see the bodies, their miserable appearance was still fresh in their minds.

"No more carrying." Bear Paint, "Use a rope over it and drag it along."

"Then who will drag it." Zhang Zishuang asked.

Xiong Lacquer said, "The men split into two groups and both drag."

This method would be fair, everyone was doing the same thing, then dying again would simply be a bad life for themselves, no one else to blame.

Lin Qiushi didn't say much, reached out and took the rope in Bear Paint's hand, followed by the other teammate who hadn't spoken much, and began to work on dragging the heavy timber. Dragging timber on a narrow mountain road was even more difficult than a bar, but at least it was safe from accidents like the one before.

With the lessons learned from the previous trip, everyone was wary of the journey until they left the trail and arrived at the carpenter's house.

"Old man." Bear Paint called out, "We've brought the wood."

The sound of the door creaking and handling wood stopped, and a moment later an old, wrinkled face emerged from the doorway, and the carpenter slowly pushed the door out, gesturing for them to bring the wood in.

"Old man." Bear Paint reached up and wiped the white snow foam from his face, "We delivered the wood, do we need to bring anything to pay our respects at the temple afterwards?"

The old man took a drag on the long pipe in his hand, exhaled thick white smoke, and said vaguely, "Just take someone with you."

Bear Paint frowned at the words.

"It has to be at night." The old man said, "After dark, go into the temple one by one and come out after worshipping."

Ruan Baijie's expression changed slightly when she heard this request. Lin Qiushi thought she would say something, but in the end, she said nothing and only looked like she was smiling subtly.

"Must they go in one by one?" Bear Paint seemed to find the request a bit odd, "Can't we go in together?"

"Go in together?" The old man smirked, "You can try."

"Thank you." Xiong Lacquer didn't ask any further questions and turned around to greet everyone and left the carpenter's house.

Lin Qiushi always felt that this man was strange, he said, "Wouldn't anyone in the village lie to us?"

"Some will." Bearpaint said, "but the key people don't usually lie, and if they're giving us the wrong key clue, then what have we got to work on."

Let's just wait for death.

Lin Qiushi oh-said.

After everyone took the wood to the carpenter, they went back to their dwellings and built up the fire to start warming up plus discussing what to do afterwards.

Ruan Baijie said halfway through that she wanted to go to the bathroom and went out, but she didn't come back for half a day.

After waiting for a while, Lin Qiushi was a bit worried about her and went out, but he didn't see anyone in the toilet.

She seemed to have been sitting by the wellhead for a while now, with a layer of white snow piled on her body and head. Lin Qiushi tentatively called out her name, but Ruan Baijie didn't seem to hear her and didn't even turn her head back.

"Ruan Baijie?" Lin Qiushi walked towards her, "What are you doing, it's so cold outside."

"Don't move." Ruan Baijie suddenly spoke out.

Lin Qiushi's feet stopped.

Ruan Baijie said, "Don't come near me." Her tone was so cold, all of her usual gentleness was gone, "Stay away from me."

Lin Qiushi said, "What's wrong?" He was acutely aware that the sudden change in Ruan Baijie's attitude had a great deal to do with the well beside her.

Ruan Baijie shook her head and did not reply.

Lin Qiushi had the audacity to take two more steps towards Ruan Baijie, to the distance where he could see the well more clearly. It was good not to look, but after looking Lin Qiushi got goosebumps directly all over his body, only to see a layer of black stuff covering the inside of the wellhead, at first Lin Qiushi thought it was water, but then he noticed that those things were slowly squirming, and only then was he sure he wasn't mistaken - inside the wellhead, there was a pile of black hair.

Ruan Baijie's feet seemed to be tangled in these hairs, and her body couldn't move at all.

"Don't come over, Lin Qiushi." Ruan Baijie said, "You'll be pulled down with it."

"It's okay." Lin Qiushi's voice was soft, he was afraid that if he was too loud, he would disturb those black hairs, "It's okay, don't be afraid, I'll help you."

Ruan Baijie turned her head to look at Lin Qiushi, her eyes were not as soft as they were before, they had now turned into a deep and dark lake, the blackness was somehow scary, she said, "Why bother."

Lin Qiushi said, "You wait for me for a while, hold on." He remembered something and ran towards the house.

Xiong Lacquer, who was sitting in the living room, saw Lin Qiushi running wildly and wondered what had happened, but Lin Qiushi ignored him and went straight to the kitchen.

When he reached the kitchen, he picked up some firewood, quickly lit it with a flint, and then turned and ran out of the house.

In just a few minutes, but it seemed like centuries, Lin Qiushi's hands were trembling as he lit the fire, he was afraid, afraid that when he returned to the well, there would only be an empty well there.

The good news was that when he returned with the torch, Ruan Baijie was still sitting there.

"I'm back." Lin Qiushi panted, "I'll come over later and throw the fire into the well, you grab my hand...don't let go."

Ruan Baijie: "Aren't you afraid?"

Lin Qiushi was stunned, "What are you afraid of?"

Ruan Baijie said, "Of course I'm afraid of death."

Lin Qiushi laughed, "Who isn't afraid of death? But there's always something scarier than death." Although he still had some doubts about this world, he could still feel that Ruan Baijie had saved him several times. If it wasn't for Ruan Baijie, he might have been one of the bloody corpses that first night.

"Alright, I'm coming over." Lin Qiushi was afraid that if he delayed for too long, Ruan Baijie wouldn't have enough energy, so he moved slowly and walked over towards Ruan Baijie's side.

When he got close enough, he grabbed Ruan Baijie's hand and then threw the torch in his hand, throwing it into the hair that was still tumbling.

"Ah-" there was a miserable screech and a woman's voice came out of the well, those hairs were ignited by the fire and squirmed violently, and in a trance, Lin Qiushi actually saw a pale face in the well. Although it was only for an instant, Lin Qiushi recognized this face he had seen in the house before, the face of the female ghost who had disguised herself as Ruan Baijie's voice that night.

"Run!!!" As soon as the hair on Ruan Baijie's feet snapped, Lin Qiushi pulled her and began to run.

Ruan Baijie didn't resist, and by Lin Qiushi's movements, they rushed into the house, gasping wildly for air.

"What's wrong?" Everyone in the house was appalled.

"There's something in the well..." gasped Lin Qiushi, "Everyone stay away from the well, Bai Jie was almost pulled down just now." After he finished speaking, he turned to Bai Jie and asked if she was hurt.

"No." Ruan Baijie said, "I'm fine."

Lin Qiushi sniffed and cast his gaze to her feet, but he saw that Ruan Baijie's ankle was wrapped with a bloody red mark above it, and it was slowly dripping blood down, he said, "This is called fine? You quickly sit down, I'll bandage you up."

Ruan Baijie seemed to have realized with hindsight that she was hurt only then, she tilted her head, but finally listened to Lin Qiushi's words and sat down on the chair nicely .

Lin Qiushi found the wound medicine in the house and half-kneeled in front of Ruan Baijie, letting her feet rest on his knees and began to slowly treat the wound. His movements were light and serious, as if he was worried about hurting Ruan Baijie.

"Are you always so careful with girls?" Nguyen Baijie suddenly asked.

"What does this have to do with girls." Lin Qiushi casually replied, "Even if you're a guy, could it be that I'm roughing it with you?"

Nguyen Baijie: "Well..."

Lin Qiushi casually came to say, "You can't really be a man, you're so tall, and your chest is so flat." But Ruan Baijie was indeed pretty, at least Lin Qiushi didn't believe there was a man in the world who looked like this.

"Yeah." Ruan Baijie exclaimed, "The boobs aren't as big as yours."

Lin Qiushi: "........"

Ruan Baijie added, "The butt isn't as good as yours either."

Lin Qiushi: "...Why are you talking so much."

Ruan Baijie giggled.

Lin Qiushi helped Ruan Baijie with her wounds, which was why he told Xiong Lacquer and the others about what had just happened. The others reacted okay, but Xiong Lacquer and Ke didn't look too good, apparently remembering what the old man had told them about the last step in making a coffin - filling in the well.

What did a coffin have to do with a well? Was it a custom unique to this village or was it a trap laid for them by that carpenter.

Ruan Baijie, however, seemed as if she knew what Xiong Lac was thinking, smiling, "Don't think so much, what should be done is what should be done, such things as life are all set."

Xiong Lacquer sighed slightly, "We plan to visit the temple tonight, do you want to come along?"

"Me?" Ruan Baijie said, "My feet are injured and I can't walk, Qiushi, you carry me."

Lin Qiushi nodded his head.

Xiao Ke was beside him, "How come you can't walk with that much injury?"

Ruan Baijie was not angry at the news, but just smiled sweetly and said Miss, you are a little more tolerant, I am spoiled at home, out of nature also have to be spoiled.

Xiao Ke Dao: "You just flush Lin Qiushi good temper continue to toss it, this door in the world does not know who is who, why should I spoil you."

"Oh, I thought you and Xiong Lacquer knew each other." Ruan Baijie said this as if nothing had happened.

Who knew that as soon as this sentence came out, both Ke and Xiong Lacquer's faces changed, and a wary look even appeared in their eyes.

Lin Qiushi instantly sensed the change in the atmosphere.

"What do you mean by that?" Curt retorted.

"It's nothing interesting." Ruan Baijie said, "Just thought you two were close...it's not like you guys really know each other, right?"

"How could it be." Curt looked very uncomfortable.

Ruan Baijie smiled, but didn't continue this topic.

Of course Xiao Ke didn't pull at Ruan Baijie either, she didn't stop Ruan Baijie from letting Lin Qiushi carry her to the temple, and turned around with a sullen face.