Kaleidoscope of Death

Hearing Lin Qiushi's words, Ruan Nanzhu's movements paused slightly, but his next action was to stop Lin Qiushi's attempts to continue observing and whispered, "Never mind that, find Cheng Qianli first."

Lin Qiushi then remembered that they had another companion. He hadn't seen Cheng Qianli since he arrived at the temple, and he didn't know where he was running off to now.

Xu Jin, who was following behind, saw them walking towards the temple and said, trembling, "Where are you going? Are we going back in? I think this place is scary."

"Well, let's go inside." Lin Qiushi responded to Xu Jin, observing the surroundings as he continued to walk inside the temple.

This temple was very big, and the outermost part was a large, empty hall. There was a statue of Buddha and some incense burners in front of the temple, and it looked like there were people worshipping in the temple.

Lin Qiushi saw through the window that there was something similar to a statue inside, only that the statue was covered with a red cloth curtain.

"I really want to go in and take a look." Ruan Nan Candle muttered inaudibly.

"What's in here." Xu Jin touched the goosebumps on his arm with his hand, "So scary..."

When Ruan Nanzhu heard this, she turned around and leaned on Lin Qiushi, softly saying Lin Lin, I'm scared too.

Lin Qiushi knew that he was the drama again, a little cryptic, held his hand and said, "Not afraid, I'm here."

Xu Jin was beside himself with hatred and probably cursed ten thousand words of dog and man in his heart.

A few people continued to move forward, and after passing through an aisle, they finally saw Cheng Qianli's figure.

Cheng Qianli was standing in the corner of a side hall, facing the wall, not knowing what he was looking at.

When he heard footsteps, he turned back and saw Lin Qiushi and the others and said, "Come over and take a look, there are murals on this."

Lin Qiushi walked over and said, "What mural? Little brother, my name is Yu Lin Lin, what's your name?"

Cheng Qianli said, "Just call me Mu Yu, where are these two pretty girls?"

Xu Jin and Ruan Nanzhu introduced themselves.

"Alas, you guys are really unlucky." Cheng Qianli said, "Such a beautiful girl, and you have to enter such a horrible world."

Xu Jin said, "Yes, I'm so scared." She finally had a target to vent her frustration and choked out, "It's so strange everywhere here, and I don't understand what's going on right now." She wiped the corners of her moist eyes with her hand, looking pitiful.

"This mural paints the local customs, right." Ruan Nan Candle's voice, however, stole Cheng Qianli's attention as he reached out and touched the wall, "This mural is either freshly painted or someone has been maintaining it regularly, the colors are fresh."

"Hmm, what's the painting? I can't see it very well." Cheng Qianli completely ignored Xu Jin beside him.

"It means that they are celebrating the newborn." Ruan Nan Candle, "There are two newborns, one representing the moon and one representing the sun..." he briefly described the pattern on the mural, "The newborn representing the moon likes to play the drum, the newborn representing the sun is hidden up." Some confusion appeared on his face, and he repeated, "Hid it?"

"What do you mean?" Lin Qiushi didn't understand what that meant either.

"I don't know." Ruan Nanzhu Dao, "That's how it's drawn in the mural, and I don't know what it means to hide it."

Xu Jin, who was once again taken away from the attention, sourly said beside her, "Miss, you know so much."

Ruan Nan Candle smiled slightly, "You haven't even asked my age, why are you calling me Miss, I'm twenty this year, how about you?"

Xu Jin: "Twenty-three..."

Ruan Nan Candle: "Oh, you're the young lady."

Xu Jin was pouting with anger at Ruan Nan Candle.

Lin Qiushi looked on beside her and thought it was really funny, Ruan Nan Candle this product was addicted to teasing little girls.

"Did you guys find the stairs to the second floor?" Cheng Qianli said, "The sound of music keeps coming from the roof, it should be the monks in this temple, right?"

Speaking of music, Lin Qiushi recalled the sound he had heard in the palace. His hearing was now very keen and he could easily distinguish the source of the sound. Because of this, he was also very sure that the sound did indeed come from the ceiling of the great hall and the further away it was, the less it sounded.

"It wasn't found." Ruan Nan Candle said, "Let's look for it again."

The sixteen people, who were still quite lively, were completely scattered in this empty and huge temple. They continued along the corridor, only encountering three or four of them halfway, and the rest of them had run off somewhere.

But at a time like this, Lin Qiushi didn't have any other energy to care about the others, he was more concerned about where in this temple he could find more clues about the key.

The four of them went forward and finally reached the end.

The end of the temple was an empty wilderness with many random rocks and a platform built out of wood. The platform seemed to have some special purpose, built extremely high, and they stood at the bottom, unable to see what was on top of the shelf.

"Should we go up and take a look?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"You can go take a look." Ruan Nan Candle said, "Together."

"You don't have to go." Lin Qiushi, however, didn't trust Ruan Nan Candle to go up, he said, "I'll be fine on my own."

Cheng Qianli said, "Let's go together, you two are down there, alert us if anything happens."

"Okay, you two go up and take a look." Ruan Nan Candle said, "If something is wrong come down immediately."

There was a wooden ladder next to the shelf that you could go up, but it was very narrow and high, so climbing up would be very slow. Lin Qiushi's main purpose for climbing up this ladder was to see what was on the platform, and secondly, the shelf was very high, so he could almost have a clear view of the surrounding scenery, so he should be able to take a general look at the surroundings after going up.

Cheng Qianli walked behind Lin Qiushi and whispered to Lin Qiushi, "What's the situation with Brother Ruan, why does he look so ugly."

"He's not feeling well." Lin Qiushi explained, "It should be that his spirit hasn't healed yet."

Cheng Qianli, "What about that Xu Jin?"

Lin Qiushi: "A newcomer, I was afraid of arousing suspicion so I brought her along."

While they were talking, they were about to climb to the top of a tall wooden platform. Lin Qiushi walked at the front and stepped on the last staircase, finally stepping onto that high platform, a move he immediately regretted. Only above the platform, there was a platform full of broken meat and bones, as well as some black hair, these broken meat and bones were still fresh, there were no signs of decay, it was like they had just been put up.

"Don't come up here." Lin Qiushi said, "It's full of dead people up there."

Cheng Qianli stopped in his tracks and opened his mouth to curse the fuck out.

Although Lin Qiushi wanted to lie to himself that these bits of flesh and bones were those of other creatures, he was able to clearly see several skulls belonging to humans among these things, and the dark eyes of these skulls facing Lin Qiushi actually gave him the horrible illusion of being gazed at.

"Go down." Lin Qiushi sensed that something was wrong and immediately turned around.

Cheng Qianli reacted quite quickly and began to back away after a hmmm, Lin Qiushi was about to turn down, but he heard Ruan Nanzhu, who was standing at the bottom, yell out, "Don't turn around-"

However his reminder was too late in the end, the moment Lin Qiushi turned his back to the platform, he felt a pair of hands pressed on his back, then a strong force came and his entire body was violently pushed.

The platform was about four meters long, and there were jagged rocks below, so if he really fell off, he would definitely be killed or injured.

Fortunately, Cheng Qianli was quick-eyed and grabbed Lin Qiushi, who was tilting at the center, and both of them rolled down the tall wooden steps in a messy manner, but it was good that nothing serious happened.

Lin Qiushi climbed up in a mess, didn't dare to stay on the steps, and ran down with Cheng Qianli.

"Fuck, fuck, that scared me to death!" Cheng Qianli was also scared out of a cold sweat, "Yu Linlin what's wrong with you, slippery feet?"

"Nope." Lin Qiushi, "Got pushed a little."

"Is no one really there? When you came down from there there was a pair of hands sticking out from above the platform." Xu Jin was filled with fear, "Then pushed Yu Linlin."

"Linlin." Ruan Nan Candle suddenly said, "There are two palm prints on your back."

Lin Qiushi was stunned, then he turned around, tugged at his t-shirt, and indeed saw two bloody palm prints on his back. The palm prints weren't big, somewhere between a child and an adult, and they were imprinted on his back like this, and they were particularly dazzling.

"This platform is not a sky burial platform, right?" After Lin Qiushi saw the bones and flesh on it, it was hard not to make that association.

"But this kind of dense jungle doesn't usually have large, scavenging raptors." Cheng Qianli said, "Then what was the thing that ate their corpses?"

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

"What else could it be, naturally it's something that pushed Yu Linlin down." Ruan Nan Candle closed his eyes, "I was careless, I shouldn't have let you guys go up to see it." A bit of tiredness appeared between his looks, his entire body was drowsy and looked in a very bad mental state.

"Are you not feeling well?" Lin Qiushi quickly asked, "Let's go back and rest first."

Ruan Nanzhu hmmmed.

So everyone started walking back again.

Xu Jin also saw what Ruan Nan Candle saw, her description was similar to Ruan Nan Candle's, both said that when Lin Qiushi turned around, there was a pair of bloody hands belonging to a child sticking out from the top of that platform, those hands only had flesh and bones without outer skin, the exposed muscles wrapped around the fragile bones, and then they were stuck on Lin Qiushi's back. This was the first time she had seen such a supernatural event, and her entire body was a bit stimulated.

But Lin Qiushi didn't have much energy to care about her because he found that Ruan Nan Candle was in a very bad state. When he saw that Ruan Nan Candle looked extremely ugly, he offered to simply carry him on his back, and Ruan Nan Candle didn't refuse, so he just quietly lay on Lin Qiushi's back.

As a result, before returning to the main hall, Ruan Nan Candle seemed to have fallen asleep.

"Why did you fall asleep?" The first thing that I want to do is to tell you that I'm not going to be able to do anything about it. I'm not going to be able to do anything about it.

Cheng Qianli said, "Maybe this girl is not feeling well."

Before they reached the main hall, they heard noisy people's voices, as if something was happening in the main hall.

"He just disappeared in the main hall!" A woman was crying out, "I just went to look at that Buddha statue, and when I turned around he was gone."

"But we've been around, and we didn't see anyone come out the front door." Another man said, "Did he go inside the hallway?"

The woman said, "No way, how could it be that fast, surely it couldn't have run inside the corridor..."

Lin Qiushi walked behind with Ruan Nan Candle on his back, while Cheng Qianli quickly stepped forward and asked what had happened.

It turned out that there were two people waiting for a gathering here, one person suddenly disappeared in the main hall and the remaining one stayed inside the main hall when they disappeared, and there was nothing unusual about the situation from beginning to end.

Disappearance in this world is almost like death, it's just not clear, what they did to trigger the death condition.

"What were you talking about while you were waiting in the temple?" Belinda Mong spoke up, "Did it say where you were going?"

The only remaining woman looked confused, she thought for a moment, then seemed to remember something and her body froze in place.

"What?" Belinda found something different about the woman.

The woman slowly looked up at the darkened roof and she said, "Before he disappeared, he was talking to me about what was on the ceiling..."

The crowd was silent at the news.

The music hadn't stopped since they entered the temple, at first they thought it was coming from the second floor, but upon closer inspection they realized that the temple didn't have a second floor at all. The darkness obscured the eyes of the crowd, making it impossible for them to see what was on the ceiling, which some might have thought was an obstacle, yet it never occurred to them that it was their protection.

The ceiling was something that would kill them if they saw it.

After hearing the woman's words, most people's reaction was to lower their heads.

Belinda, however, didn't seem to be afraid at all, he looked up at the observing head, "The building is at least six meters long, and without light it's impossible to see what's up there, so where did they get their light source from?"

"A cell phone?" Lin Qiushi got out of his mouth.

Belinda Mong turned her head to look at Lin Qiushi and said, "Also right."

In fact, most people wouldn't bring their cell phones when they entered here, Lin Qiushi had asked Ruan Nan Candle this question, and Ruan Nan Candle's answer at the time was that sometimes it was more dangerous to bring a cell phone, but there was no harm in bringing it, just lose it when you went in. Thus Lin Qiushi got into the habit, and when there was nothing to do at night, he could still play games with his phone.

"Let's go out first." Someone couldn't stand the atmosphere and whispered, "It looks like we can't find out anything anymore."

Belinda looked at the time, "If you want to go out, go out, there's still more than an hour before the time the guide agreed with us."

"But it's raining outside yeah." Xu Jin was now so scared that she wanted to stand in the most crowded place and shrink herself into a ball.

"Raining?" Lin Qiushi was stunned, "When did it start coming down?"

Xu Jin said, "Just now ah, when you guys were talking."

It was reasonable to say that when rain fell on the ground, it would make a rustling sound anyway, but this rain was like a pouring rain, but it didn't make any noise at all, like a mime. Lin Qiushi's sensitive hearing didn't even hear a single movement.

The rain was so strange that those who wanted to go out dared not move.

As the crowd watched the silent rain outside, the music that had been playing non-stop suddenly stopped, and the entire temple, fell into a terrifying silence.

"There's no sound." Xu Jin said, "It's so scary..."

In the meantime, however, Lin Qiushi raised his eyebrows, "Didn't you guys hear that?"

Xu Jin was foggy: "Hear what?"

Lin Qiushi: "Drumbeat... someone is beating a drum."

Everyone's faces were dazed at first when they heard the words, but soon the sound of this drumming became louder and louder, and when everyone heard the drumming, another sound accompanied the drumming.

It was the sound of a wooden door being opened and creaking, Lin Qiushi quickly sensed that something was wrong and he pushed Ruan Nan Candle awake: "Zhumeng, you can't sleep anymore, something has happened."

Ruan Nam Candle opened her eyes: "I fell asleep?"

"Hmm." Lin Qiushi said, "Something isn't right."

Ruan Nan Candle said, "What's wrong?"

Lin Qiushi: "There's a drum beat-" if it was just a drum beat it would be fine, he clearly heard something coming this way just down the corridor they had just come from.

Ruan Nan Candle was quiet for a moment, as if trying to wake himself up from his hazy sleep, he said, "Don't be afraid, everyone is here, there won't be a reunion."

Rustling, rustling, rustling, soon the others also heard the sound coming from the corridor. The sound was getting closer and closer, and although the lights in the temple were extraordinarily dim, everyone could still see exactly what was appearing in the corridor.

It was a group of skinned people who were half-squatting on the ground, dragging long, sharp knives in their hands, running towards the main hall.

Seeing this scene, everyone in the palace revealed an expression of utter terror. There were also some who were less able to withstand it and began to scream loudly.

"Everyone, calm down!!!" Belinda Mong, "They may not kill us!"

"What the fuck are you talking about, how this thing doesn't kill people!" The newcomer with the yellow hair who was a first time starter seemed to have an emotional breakdown, cursing profanities as he stormed out towards the door, "Just wait inside and die!!!! I'll go first!!!"

Belinda Mong's expression instantly went cold, his usual gentle smile seemed to have become an illusion, but the change was only for a moment, and he soon returned to his gentle appearance, "Don't worry everyone, the door won't set up a deadly game, it's impossible for so many people to trigger the death condition at the same time, so don't rush out yet!"

As if to corroborate his words, the blond youth who had just rushed out of the door let out a miserable howl and his body exploded with red blood.

Ruan Nan Candle, who was lying on Lin Qiushi's back, suddenly opened his mouth and said, "That's not rain."

"Huh?" Lin Qiushi was stunned.

Ruan Nan Candle: "That's a knife."

Lin Qiushi: "......." he seemed to understand what was going on.

The youth who ran out of the temple in a panic paid a terrible price. But in a split second, the skin on his body was cut by those sharp blades as if he was overtaken, and everyone could clearly see his entire body become blurry with blood and miserable screams.

The youth attempted to run back but stumbled and fell to the ground, yet even when he saw bones, his screams did not stop, as if the sharp blades had avoided places that could be fatal.

It was almost like being flayed alive.

Xu Jin's scalp was numb from watching it, and he couldn't help but dry heave.

And the flesh-and-blood monsters that had just rushed into the temple from the promenade were screaming excitedly.

Finally, the youth's screams stopped, and he fell straight to the ground, his entire body almost nothing more than a skeleton with little flesh left.

The monsters rushed to his side and began to chew and swallow loudly, and soon they ate all the peeled off flesh around the youth, not even a bloodstain could be seen.

After they finished eating, the monsters scattered again as if they didn't see any living people in the temple.

The atmosphere in the temple was terribly quiet, no one spoke or moved.

"How did this happen." Finally someone dumbfounded out, "What the hell are those things..."

Belinda Mong said, "Who knows."

"Will we ever get out?" Xu Jin trembled with fear as she said, "Are we going to die out here?"

"It shouldn't." Lin Qiushi said in a low voice, "The place that guide agreed with us is outside, and it's almost time."

"We're going out? What if it rains knives again?" Xu Jin still had palpitations, and the flesh-and-blood corpse was placed in the doorway, irritating everyone's eyeballs.

"I told you, there will be no design of a mortal death game inside the door." Belinda Mong accepted it all calmly, "If everyone does the same thing, then surely nothing will happen."

Ruan Nan Candle laughed lightly at his words, but Lin Qiushi asked him what he was laughing about, and Ruan Nan Candle said, "This Belinda Mong is a bit interesting."

Lin Qiushi didn't understand why Ruan Nan Candle would say that.

"What do you think would happen if everyone did the same wrong thing?" Ruanan Candle spoke in a very small voice.

"Death?" Lin Qiushi, "But didn't they say they wouldn't all die?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "Yes, it's true that they won't all die, but the monster can just pick who it wants to kill, as long as the last one is left behind."

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

Ruan Nan Candle: "So why did Mong Yu deliberately mislead everyone."

Lin Qiushi fell into silence.

While they were talking, but the voice of the guide came from outside, she said, "Assemble, assemble, come out quickly, I'll only wait for you for five minutes."

Hearing this, everyone was relieved and felt that everything should be fine outside, so they slowly walked out towards the outside of the temple.

The author has something to say: love and kill each other is my random choice, you should not take it to heart (Author vicissitudes lighting smoke)

The extras explain the door setup in detail.

Comparing doors to exams, divided into one to twelve levels, Ruan Nan Candle was the one who passed the tenth level exam, so coming back for the fifth level doesn't count. Doors could be jumped, and when certain conditions were met you could cross several doors, for example, Lin Qiushi had rubbed against Cheng Qianli's door and directly crossed two levels from the second level to the fifth level door.

But the newcomer's first door was special, equivalent to a qualification exam, the closer to death, the more difficult the exam was, for example, if someone was going to die in the next minute, then his first door could be someone else's fifth once he entered, and would be recalculated when he survived, so the most accurate statement was that the second door was actually the easiest, and it would get harder and harder after that.

Other than the newcomers, the number of other people passing through the door is relatively close to each other and won't be too far apart, except for the scuffed door of course.

Whether there will be others coming in with other clues is a hint, we'll find out as we continue to watch.

In the end, Lin Qiushi's cancer is actually terminal, and only becomes early after he passes through the first door.