Kaleidoscope of Death

Chapter 9 - The Human Heart

Lin Qiushi had heard screams before, but tonight's screams seemed different from before. The screams were accompanied by the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground and angry curses, and he could even hear someone running hurriedly down the corridor, their mouths unceasingly miserable as they begged for help.

"Help - help - someone is trying to kill me, help -" this voice was slightly familiar, and Lin Qiushi was sure that it should have originated from a certain girl in the team, who was screaming at the top of her voice as if she had used up all her strength.

Lin Qiushi couldn't be sure if the voice was real or if it was his own delusion, his breathing was slightly chaotic as the screams were getting closer and closer to him.

"Help-" the screamer seemed to be on the second floor, she was a runner in the corridor, pounding on every door in the corridor, "Someone is trying to kill me, help, please open the door!!! Please open the door-"

There was no sound of a door opening, and it was as if the crowd had fallen into a deep sleep, unable to hear the piercing cries for help.

Lin Qiushi didn't move even as he lay on his bed until the distress caller arrived at his door.

"Help, help." The girl cried out, slapping the door heavily, "Please open the door, he's crazy, he's going to kill me, please, please - I don't want to die, please help me!!!"

Lin Qiushi slowly sat up from the bed, but he didn't move, silently pondering whether to open the door or not.

Ruan Baijie, who was supposed to be sleeping on his side, opened his mouth softly, "Do you want to save her?"

Lin Qiushi said, "I can save?"

Ruan Baijie blinked and took a moment before saying, "If you want."

Lin Qiushi felt that there was a high probability of human voices outside, and seeing that Ruan Baijie wasn't going to stop him, he quickly stood up and walked to the door, gritting his teeth and pulling the lock.

This opened the door, the scene outside the door shocked him, only to see the girl who shouted for help was covered in blood, her arm seemed to be injured and she was crying while covering it with her other hand, seeing that Lin Qiushi had opened the door, he pounced over like a madman, "Help - help me! "

Lin Qiushi said, "What's happened?"

"He's trying to kill me-" cried the girl, "he's trying to kill me!!!"

Lin Qiushi stepped back and let her enter the house first, "Who wants to kill you?"

The girl said, "Cheng Wen!!!"

The name Lin Qiushi had a bit of an impression, it seemed to be one of the men in the regiment, he wanted to ask something else, then he heard the clanging and smashing of the door from the stairs. There was a broken wooden door between the first and second floor that everyone would close when they slept on weekdays, and it was about this door that had saved the life of the girl in front of him.

Lin Qiushi motioned for her to come in, and then casually locked the door.

The girl's sobbing and shaking all over her body, looking like she was scared.

The door clanged outside, the wooden door from the first to the second floor finally couldn't hold up under the violent destruction, and soon the sound of hurried footsteps could be heard in the corridor outside them. The man called Cheng Wen in the girl's mouth was obviously looking for her, and Cheng Wen said, "Where are you running to - you guys hurry up and hand over Wang Xiaoyi, don't let her in the door!!!"

Wang Xiaoyi sobbed quietly out of fear.

Ruan Baijie also got off the bed, but she was in no hurry at all in the face of such a situation, and was still slowly tidying her hair.

Cheng Wen's footsteps stopped outside of Lin Qiushi's house, the blood stains on the corridor broke at Lin Qiushi's door, this trace was too obvious, allowing him to find where Wang Xiaoyi was at once.

"Open the door! Lin Qiushi!!!" Cheng Wen shouted, "Is Wang Qiayi in your house!!!"

Lin Qiushi didn't say anything.

Ruan Baijie opened her mouth petulantly, "What are you guys making a fuss about at this late hour?"

Cheng Wen said, "You have to hand her over quickly - she's not human! Don't let her fool you!!!"

Lin Qiushi: "What do you mean?"

Cheng Wen seemed very irritated, full of impatience and ruthlessness: "She really isn't human, you guys believe me-"

Wang Xiaoyi cried out at the news, "You're the one who's not human, Cheng Wen, you actually want to use this excuse to kill me, do you think you can live after killing me?"

When Cheng Wen heard this, his tone was suddenly hideous as he said, "Wang Qiye, don't pretend, you're the monster hiding among us, I've discovered your secret!!!! Get the hell out of here!!!" He said and began to bang heavily on the door, acting like he vowed not to stop.

The door was already a bit worn out, and with the strength of a grown man if he ironically wanted to bang it open he probably wouldn't last long, Lin Qiushi stood by the door and scolded, "If you kill Wang Xiaoyi, even if you get out alive, you're still a murderer!"

Cheng Wen said, "Lin Qiushi, don't mind your own business!"

Lin Qiushi said, "I'm still fucking in charge today, if you're capable of coming in, I can't kill you." He was jerked right up by this angry man outside and gasped for breath as he began to search the house for tools to fight back.

Cheng Wen also sensed Lin Qiushi's anger, the door banging action stopped slightly, and finally he said in a mute voice, "Lin Qiushi, I'll be the bad guy today, you get her out, and we can go back as soon as someone is dead."

Lin Qiushi: "You're dreaming."

Cheng Wen: "You-"

Lin Qiushi said, "Go away, I won't let you kill her."

It was quiet outside for a moment, but there were actually footsteps leaving, Lin Qiushi didn't expect Cheng Wen to give up so easily, he was stunned for a moment before he said to Wang Qiaoyi, "He's gone."

Wang Qiaoyi sobbed again.

For most of the night below, the three people in the house didn't sleep much. While Lin Qiushi was helping Wang Xiaoyi with her wounds, Ruan Baijie was sitting by the window looking out in silence.

When Lin Qiushi asked her what she was looking at, Ruan Baijie said, "I'm looking at the well outside."

"What's there to see here?" Lin Qiushi had no good impression of that well.

Ruan Baijie said in a warm voice, "It's quite good to see more, maybe I'll end up going to the well."

Lin Qiushi said, "I won't let you go to the well." He slowly wiped the blood stains on the floor and said seriously, "Even if I were to go, I'd be the one to go first."

Ruan Baijie laughed and finally said, "You're a very interesting person."

Wang Xiaoyi still survived, and although her right hand was injured, it was already a blessing in disguise that she was able to stay alive.

Lin Qiushi had thought that Cheng Wen would be guilty of not showing up the next day, but who knew that in the morning he looked as if nothing had happened and sat in the hall on the first floor, eating breakfast.

Wang Qiaoyi ducked behind Lin Qiushi when she saw him, and almost didn't cry again.

Lin Qiushi coldly said, "Cheng Wen, you still have the face to appear?"

Cheng Wen looked at Lin Qiushi indifferently, "Why can't you appear."

"You actually wanted to kill Wang Qiuyi." Lin Qiushi couldn't understand his reasoning, "She's a living person!"

Cheng Wen sneered and didn't speak.

When the others on the team heard the conversation between the two, some of them cast disgusted looks at Cheng Wen, while others were numb-eyed and simply indifferent, as if killing their teammates was nothing at all.

Xiong Lacquer seemed to be a little upset as well, and he said, "Then have the ability to go kill a ghost, what's the point of doing anything to your own teammates."

Cheng Wen stuffed something into his mouth, and should not speak at all. Lin Qiushi was afraid of his sudden violent outburst and had been observing him cautiously, he always felt that something was wrong with Cheng Wen's state, but for a moment he couldn't find where the offending point was.

Until he and Ruan Baijie returned to the house after eating, Ruan Baijie suddenly asked, "Do you think that ghost will still kill in the next three days?"

"What do you mean?" Lin Qiushi was stunned.

"That thing is obviously intelligent." Ruan Baijie said, "If I were her, I wouldn't kill a single person for the next three days."

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

Ruan Baijie's slender fingers slowly peeled off the skin from the sweet potato, her thin lips lightly opened, leaving a neat row of teeth marks on the soft sweet potato, "If after three days, we don't have any dead things to fill the well, guess what will happen?"

Lin Qiushi understood Ruan Baijie's meaning and his throat moved, "There will be more than one Cheng Wen in the team."

Ruan Baijie nodded.

Lin Qiushi suddenly started to miss the phrase of looking for the police if there was a problem... Cheng Wen this was going to go in, basically sitting tight for attempted murder and getting a sentence of three years above or below ten years.

Lin Qiushi sighed: "What to do then."

Ruan Baijie said, "Wait, things will always end." Whether it was better or worse.

Everyone was waiting for the night to fall, and although no one said anything, most people were secretly expecting the first victim to appear in their hearts. However, things didn't go as planned, for two nights in a row, nothing happened, and the originally dangerous night was now incredibly peaceful, as if there was nothing left but snow and wind.

Lin Qiushi found a time to ask the carpenter what would happen if the well could not be filled within three days, and the carpenter said, "Then you will have to cut down the tree and worship the temple again.

This answer made everyone's heart even heavier, they didn't have that much time now, and if they repeated what they had done before, the entire group could be wiped out.

"There's actually no need to be too nervous," Curt said, "Every Ben will survive at least one person." She laughed to herself, "What if that person is yourself."

But no one else said anything, because we all knew in our hearts that the gamble was too costly, and no one could afford to bet that they would be that last survivor.

The author has something to say: there's actually another place to find dead things, anyone guessed ah hee hee hee.

Modify the previous bug and change the people who enter the temple alone to two.