Kaleidoscope of Death

The chewing sound continued for a long time, as if carefully chewing each bone, the sound of creaking and biting the bone produced physical discomfort, but we all silently endured.

Finally, when the sky is about to glow with morning light, the sound of chewing disappears, along with the disappearance of the woman outside the wall has been silently staring at the crowd.

I don't know if it was Lin Qiushi's illusion or not, but he always felt that before the woman disappeared, he vaguely heard a slight hiccuping sound... as if something had eaten enough.

It was finally dawn, and Lin Qiushi, who had been sitting in the courtyard all night, seemed to be in a different world as he said, "Is it all over?"

Ruan Baijie didn't comment, just said maybe.

After cutting down the trees, worshipping the temple, and filling in the well, the rest was to go to the carpenter to get the coffin.

Everyone's faces were tired, but underneath the fatigue, there was some hidden excitement. This should be the last step, once they got the key and found the iron door, they could leave this horrible world.

All of them thought so, and even their walking pace was lighter.

The village in the daytime was not as eerie as it was at night, as if it was just an ordinary village with a group of simple villagers, no ghosts and no death.

When they went to the carpenter's place, they had to pass by the place where Wang Qiuyi had died, but Lin Qiushi had seen nothing there. There was only white snow on the ground, and nothing of what had happened last night had left any trace here.

"Has her body been eaten?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"I guess so." Ruan Baijie, "That thing has a pretty big appetite."

When they arrived at the carpenter's house, they saw the carpenter sitting at the door slowly smoking, Lin Qiushi arrived first, so he greeted him and said, "Old man, we've come to get the coffin."

The carpenter didn't say anything and casually pointed to the house.

Everyone entered the house in turn and saw a beautiful red coffin standing in the modest room. The coffin was very beautiful and well made, every detail was tightly sewn, it didn't look like a product that was rushed in a short period of time at all.

Lin Qiushi always felt that the paint brushed on the coffin was a bit strange, he reached out and touched it, and found that the paint had a fishy smell and was a bit slippery to the touch.

Ruan Baijie was much quicker than him and took off, "It's blood soaked, right."

"It should be." Bear Paint said, "Where's paint like that."

"Forget it, whatever it is soaked in, bring it back first." Ruan Baijie said, "Let's go."

Originally, Lin Qiushi thought that the coffin should be heavy, who knew that it was actually light enough to be lifted, and two people could easily carry it.

Cheng Wen's current state was completely failing, and Lin Qiushi and Xiong Qi were the only ones left in the entire team who could do strength work. One by one, the two of them lifted the coffin and headed towards the residence.

"What should we do next?" Lin Qiushi carried the coffin and asked.

"Let's go back and see if there's anything in the coffin first." Ruan Baijie said, "I'm guessing that the key is inside the coffin, and when we get the key out, everything will be fine."

Lin Qiushi silently hoped so in his mind.

After arriving home, Cheng Wen, who had been knocked unconscious, woke up, sitting in the hall in a dazed state, and didn't greet everyone who saw him returning with the coffin, looking like a retarded person.

Lin Qiushi was a little worried at the sight and whispered, "I'm not going to hit him silly, am I?"

Nguyen Baijie: "Well..."

Lin Qiushi: "Fuck, I'm just going to take a random hit like that..."

Ruan Baijie comforted him: "Silly is silly, no one wants you to be responsible for it anyway, and silly isn't afraid of ghosts, which just happens to help him, you're his benefactor ah!"

Lin Qiushi: "... "Ruan Baijie why are you so skilled ah.

Because of Cheng Wen's performance yesterday, everyone didn't really want to pay attention to him, and Xiong Lacquer and Xiao Ke just pretended not to see it.

"Let's open the coffin." Xiong Lac announced after putting the coffin down.

"Good." Lin Qiushi nodded and lifted one side with Xiong Lacquer, then together they pushed and lifted the lid of the coffin.

With a creak, the coffin opened its lid, and a damp smell belonging to the wood came out. Curtis was the most emotionally nervous, and as soon as she saw the lid open, she propped her head in to see if there was anything they wanted inside the coffin.

"Found it!!! Keys!!!" The next moment, Curt's ecstatic voice was heard, and she was almost weeping with joy and emotion, "There really is, there really is!!!"

When Lin Qiushi looked at it, he found that there was an old bronze key in Ke's hand, it was simple and quaint, and it breathed the air of time. The handle of the key was stained with a red liquid, if it was before Lin Qiushi would have thought it was paint or something, but now he felt that the red was human blood.

"We have the key, we have the key!!!" Curtis was holding that key with tears streaming down her face, looking like she was on the verge of an emotional breakdown.

It seemed that although she acted calmly on weekdays, she was still about to be unable to bear the pressure of death in the end.

"The door should be out as well, so we can start looking for it." Bear Paint sounded a bit tired as he said, "Make sure to hurry, we don't have many people left."

"Where do the doors usually appear?" Lin Qiushi had little experience in this area.

"It's usually near where we live, so it's not particularly hard to find." Xiong Lacquer said, "But I've never experienced the world of thirteen people, so... I'm not sure."

"Okay." Lin Qiushi looked at the key in Curt's hand and thought that at least he had found the key.

Ruan Baijie, however, didn't show too much excitement as she said, "Where's the key, who keeps the key, I don't feel comfortable letting her come."

The challenged Ke was filled with anger, "What do you mean? What do you mean you're not worried? Don't you think we'll be relieved if you keep it?"

Ruan Baijie seemed to laugh rather than smile, "It's not just my business, if you lose the key, we all have to die in the door, are you sure you want to keep it? But think it over."

Xiao Ke's face was green and white, as if she was about to say something, Xiong Lacquer pressed her shoulder: "Qiushi, you keep it."

Lin Qiushi was stunned, not expecting this to suddenly fall on him, he was about to excuse himself, but Ruan Baijie agreed and even leaned in to Lin Qiushi's ear and softly said, "You can take it."

In the meantime, Lin Qiushi said, "But it's my first time entering the house, I don't have much experience..."

"It's okay." Bearpaint said, "We're all comfortable with you."

"Okay." Lin Qiushi had to agree.

After he reached out and took the key, he observed it carefully, feeling that if nothing else, it was just an ordinary brass key for him.

Xiong Lacquer suggested that everyone was tired from the night, so let's go have something to eat before discussing the location of the door, and Lin Qiushi agreed.

So Xiong Lac and Ke went to the kitchen to cook, while Lin Qiushi and Ruan Baijie sat in the living room to guard Cheng Wen.

"Why did they give me the key?" Lin Qiushi was still a bit puzzled.

"Because this key isn't a good thing." Ruan Baijie said, "The people who hold it are dying extremely quickly." She laughed and stretched out a finger on Lin Qiushi's forehead, "Of course, you don't have to worry."

Lin Qiushi said, "Huh?"

Ruan Baijie suddenly lowered her head and shallowly bit Lin Qiushi's ear and whispered, "I found the door."

Lin Qiushi instantly stared at it, "What?"

Ruan Baijie: "Shh, keep your voice down."

Lin Qiushi hurriedly shut up and pressed his voice: "What did you say? Did you locate the door?"

"Right." Ruan Baijie was smiling, she seemed to have taken a keen interest in Lin Qiushi's ears, her fingertips tracing and scratching the contours of Lin Qiushi's ears, causing him to tickle, "Do you want to know where it is?"

If this were a normal day, all of Lin Qiushi's attention would definitely have to be on the hands of Ruan Baijie playing with his ears, but what Ruan Baijie said at this point was too surprising for him to have time to worry too much, "Why didn't you say if you knew where it was... ah?"

There was a sudden stabbing pain in his earlobe, and Lin Qiushi sucked in a breath of cold air, "What are you doing?" He reached out and touched it, only to find that he had a hard earring pierced up above his right ear by Ruan Baijie.

"It's fine." Ruan Baijie was still full of innocence, "It's just that you should look pretty good with this earring."

Lin Qiushi was shocked when he touched the earring, and for a moment he was a little unsure whether to pursue the door or the earring first, Ruan Baijie didn't give him a chance to react and continued, "The door is very close to us, and we'll be able to go back at night."

"Where's Curt and Bear Paint?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"They?" Ruan Baijie didn't seem to have a good impression of these two people, "It depends on my mood."

Lin Qiushi said, "If you can... bring them back with you too." Although Ko was bad-tempered, Xiong Lacquer treated them well in the end, and besides, they had gone through so much together.

"You ah." Ruan Baijie, "You're just too soft." She laughed, "But I like you just the way you are."

Lin Qiushi inexplicably blushed a little at being said like that, he said, "Don't tease me."

Ruan Baijie but laughed without saying anything.

Being so interrupted by Ruan Baijie, Lin Qiushi directly forgot to ask about the earrings and all his thoughts were on the night. It wasn't until Xiong Lacquer and the others came back and asked him why there was something extra on his ear that it dawned on him that Ruan Baijie had fooled him again.

"Doesn't it look good?" Nguyen Baijie said, "Why do you dislike me, do you have another woman?"

Lin Qiushi: "...You shouldn't be unreasonable."

Ruan Baijie transformed into a Boinging Monster: "You actually said I was being unreasonable, you're too much, Boinging."

Lin Qiushi, who had never had a girlfriend, showed a desperate expression.

The author has something to say: ruan baijie: first mark up your stuff before anything else.

Lin Qiushi was full of confusion: stuff, what stuff?

Nguyen Baijie: You can eat the good stuff from ♂