Kaleidoscope of Death

The mild hot water washed away the sweat stains and heat from his body, Lin Qiushi sat down in front of the computer after taking a shower, typing four words on the keyboard: Phil Summer Bird.

The four words written on the note he found in the door were Phil Summer Bird, and Lin Qiushi couldn't figure out what it meant, so he thought of going online to find the answer.

A few seconds after zero, the web page appeared with what Lin Qiushi wanted, he clicked on the first link, and found that it was a forum, on which people were discussing Grimm's fairy tales, and one of the fairy tales was called the Fierce Summer Bird.

The story is about three sisters and a wizard who disguises himself as a beggar.

The story goes that the wizard disguises himself as a beggar and goes around catching brides, and when he catches her he gives her a key and an egg and tells her that he will be out for a few days so that she won't go into a certain house. The girl, however, out of curiosity, uses the key to open the forbidden door after the boy wizard has gone, and when she sees a mass of bodies inside the door, the egg falls to the ground in her hand.

The egg falls to the ground, stained with red blood, and the girl can't wipe the blood off the egg anyhow. When the boy witch returned and saw the red marks on the egg, he dragged the girl to her room and chopped her into pieces with a knife. Only the youngest of the three sisters in the story is spared, and in the end she uses her wits to save her sister and kill the wizard.

They said that fairy tales were for children, but Lin Qiushi felt creeped out when he read this story. Especially the scene where the youngest sister put her sisters' corpses together and happily watched them come back to life was always extraordinarily creepy.

The story was somewhat similar to Bluebeard's, but it always felt a little bloodier than that.

But what did the Phil Summer Bird on the note mean? Lin Qiushi was in deep thought, he wanted to relate these words to his own experience, but felt that it was a bit far-fetched.

But since it wasn't a previous experience, was it a prophecy for the future? Lin Qiushi remembered the twelve black-hole doors, and the bad feeling grew stronger and stronger.

Unable to get an answer, he lay back on his bed and began to stare at the ceiling.

He had recently planned to quit his job and go back to his hometown, but now that something had suddenly happened, all his plans had been disrupted.

What happened in the door was completely beyond his comprehension, and became unexplainable by common sense. He couldn't find a clue for a while, and he was only confused.

Just thinking about it, Lin Qiushi slowly fell into a shallow sleep. The quality of his sleep was very ordinary, he would wake up immediately if there was any noise in the house, and in his confusion, Lin Qiushi heard a slight noise. He thought that the sound was made by Chestnut, so he called out vaguely, "Chestnut..."

There was no response.

The sound disappeared, but a faint aroma appeared in Lin Qiushi's nose, it was somewhat special, like the smell of ice and snow, at the same time, with his eyes closed, he felt a strange line of sight.

It was a feeling that was hard to describe, although Lin Qiushi had his eyes closed, he could clearly feel someone looking at him, the sight was burning hot, causing goosebumps to slowly float up his back that was about to sleep.

...There was someone in his house, Lin Qiushi's consciousness gradually woke up and became clearly aware of it.

"How did you wake up so easily." An unfamiliar male voice suddenly sounded, the voice was close at hand, and the hot breath seemed to pound on Lin Qiushi's ears.

Being found pretending to be asleep, Lin Qiushi had to open his eyes.

There were no lights on in the house, and he could only barely see the face of the person through the moonlight. It was an extremely beautiful looking man, although beautiful, there wasn't a trace of femininity to be seen, he was now slightly off his head, smiling and looking at Lin Qiushi, his black eyes hidden in the darkness, making Lin Qiushi unable to properly judge his emotions at this time.

"Awake?" The man gently touched Lin Qiushi's lips with his fingers, his fingers were cold, not as warm as a human should be, but delicate enough to be like jade.

Lin Qiushi reflexively tried to dodge, but the man directly grabbed his wrist, the man's strength was so great that his hand was like iron forged into shackles, and even when Lin Qiushi tried to struggle, he would feel a faint pain in his wrist - as if if if the man used the slightest force, his hand would just break off.

"Who are you?" Lin Qiushi said, "It's against the law to break into a private house-"

The man, however, was amused by Lin Qiushi, he slowly approached and carefully observed Lin Qiushi's appearance, then whispered, "As cute as I imagined."

Lin Qiushi was creeped out by the words.

Just when he thought the man would do something even more outrageous, the man, however, simply let go of his hand and then casually turned on the lamp on the bed.

The light once again enveloped the entire room and dispelled the unknown and fear brought by the darkness, Lin Qiushi could finally see the person in front of him clearly.

The man's appearance was even better looking than he had imagined, but it was also unfamiliar, their eyes met, and about the time they saw the vigilance and subtle panic in Lin Qiushi's gaze, the man smiled again, he stretched out his hand towards Lin Qiushi, his tone gentle, "Welcome to the world of doors."

Lin Qiushi didn't take it, he looked suspicious: "Who are you? Why did you show up at my house?"

The man also didn't mind Lin Qiushi's cold attitude, he said, "Hello, Lin Qiushi, my name is Ruan Nanzhu, I know you have many questions, but now I can answer them all with you."

Lin Qiushi pursed his lips, his expression looking a bit stubborn.

Ruan Nan Candle raised her hand and looked at her watch, "You now have ten minutes to get dressed, then I will take you to a place."

As soon as Lin Qiushi opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Ruan Nan Candle, this beautiful and seemingly unthreatening man, but what came out of his body was a strong sense of oppression, he smiled, making his nerves tense: "You don't have the right to refuse."

Lin Qiushi looked helpless. He had just tried Ruan Nanzhu's strength and knew that if he confronted it head-on, he would indeed have no chance of winning.

The atmosphere became somewhat frozen, and just as Lin Qiushi was pondering whether or not to follow the man's orders, the chestnut that was originally lying down in the living room suddenly appeared in the bedroom, mewing softly in his mouth, and started rubbing his head against Ruan Nan Candle's calf.

Ruan Nan Candle that strong feeling of oppression instantly disappeared, he bent down, picked up the chestnut and scratched up its chin with a skillful movement: "You still have a cat?"

Lin Qiushi said, "Well... you..." he still wanted to ask Ruan Nanzhu's identity, but the words came to his lips and he felt that Ruan Nanzhu would not answer his question as he wanted. But then he remembered something and hesitantly asked, "What is your relationship with Ruan Baijie?" The surname Ruan was not common, and besides, the man had said that he was welcome to the world of doors, that must have something to do with those twelve iron doors.

Ruan Nanzhu didn't answer, "You still have seven minutes."

Lin Qiushi looked helpless, thinking that although this person was good-looking, his temper was really harder than a rock. So he admitted his bad luck and put on his clothes. Thanks to the fact that it was summer, it was only a few minutes to get dressed.

Seven minutes later, the two of them appeared downstairs on time.

Lin Qiushi left his home very confused and observed the lock of his door, seeing that it was intact and had no signs of being tampered with.

Ruan Nan Candle seemed to have guessed what he was thinking and casually pointed: "I came in through the window."

Lin Qiushi: "...Haha, you really know how to joke." He lived on the sixteenth floor, what kind of shelter was outside, did Ruan Nan Candle fly in through the window?

When Ruan Nanzhu saw that he didn't believe him, he didn't explain and turned around and left.

Lin Qiushi followed him and muttered quietly that it was against the law to break into people's homes.

Ruan Nam Candle: "You try calling the police?"

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

They went downstairs to the garage, not expecting that there were other people sitting in the car in the garage, the man sitting in the driver's seat looked like he was about to fall asleep.

Ruan Nan Candle reached out and just slapped his hand on the glass, "Cheng Qianli."

The young man called Cheng Qianli woke up only then, rubbed his eyes and said, "Brother Ruan, are you done so soon?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "Let's go."

Cheng Qianli hmmmed and turned his head to check out Lin Qiushi, "It really is quite cute."

Lin Qiushi: "......." he really wasn't happy at all to be said cute by a teenage boy. Honestly, if it wasn't for the fact that Ruan Nanzhu had mentioned the door earlier, he would have thought it was a group of human traffickers.

While being sized up by Cheng Qianli, Lin Qiushi was also sizing him up, the boy should only look like he was sixteen or seventeen years old, his voice was still in the voice changing stage, and his face had traces of childishness on it.

Observing this situation, Lin Qiushi suddenly sat up straight in the back seat, and he thought of a key question....

Ruan Nan Candle saw him looking nervous and said, "What?"

Lin Qiushi: "At the risk of asking, how old is your friend?"

Ruan Nam Candle: "?"

Cheng Qianli who was sitting in front: "I'm sixteen." He had thought that Lin Qiushi was going to lament his young age and was planning to show off, but who knew that Lin Qiushi would beep in a small voice: "Sixteen... no driver's license, right."

Cheng Qianli: "....... "Not worthy of being the man Ruan sees, this brain circuit is not quite the same as normal people ah.

Ruan Nan Candle also laughed as he said, "I've met so many people, you're the first to ask this question."

Lin Qiu Shi: "So do you have a driver's license? I just saw one dead in a car accident today. Should I drive? I'm a pretty good driver."

An inexpressible silence fell in the car.

Cheng Qianli let out a long sigh and said you don't worry, I've been driving for three years, as long as I don't encounter any traffic police....

As a result, as soon as they drove out of the entrance of the neighborhood, the three saw a traffic cop standing not far away, doing an impromptu random DUI check.

Cheng Qianli: "Fuck."

Lin Qiushi with an I told you so expression.

So Cheng Qianli inside expressionless and Ruan Nan Candle switched places, watched his own boss sat in the cab, and also stared at Lin Qiushi after he sat next to her.

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The author has something to say: Ruan Nancandle: My name is Ruan Nancandle.

Lin Qiushi: Great name!

Ruan Nan Candle: ...you'll try it?

Lin Qiushi: Slipped away.