Kaleidoscope of Death

When Ruan Nanzhu saw the dumbfounded expression on Lin Qiushi's face, she said, "What, you don't even want to kiss?"

Lin Qiushi looked helpless: "Zhu Meng, stop it..."

Ruan Nanzhu leaned in, "I'm not joking, I'm serious."

After Lin Qiushi looked into his eyes, to make sure he was indeed not joking, he lowered his head, lifted up his hair, and printed a serious kiss on his forehead. The kiss had nothing to do with lust, it was as if he was facing his unreasonable sister.

"It's done, right?" After the kiss, Lin Qiushi asked.

Ruan Nanzhu was silent for a moment after being kissed, then sighed quietly, but he didn't say anything else, but beckoned to Lin Qiushi, beckoning him to come over with his ears.

Lin Qiushi thought he was going to tell himself the answer, so he obediently lowered his head, but who knew that Ruan Nanzhu pressed the back of his head and their lips touched.

Lin Qiushi: "???"

Ruan Nan Candle tasted what he wanted to taste, and smiled in satisfaction: "That's right."

Lin Qiushi: "You-"

Ruan Nam Candle: "What's wrong with me?" His eyes quirked, "You want to try again?"

Lin Qiushi: "Forget nothing." He now finally found out that Ruan Nanzhu was deliberately teasing him, this person was obviously quite normal in the outside world, why did he feel like the painting had changed once he got inside the door. Lin Qiushi gave up looking for an answer and stuffed a steamed bun into his mouth with sadness.

What Ruan Nanzhu and Meng Yu had actually said became a mystery, and he had no intention of deciphering it. After seeing what happened to Lin Qiushi, Cheng Qianli shamelessly went to ask him a question, but who knew that Ruan Nanzhu had a squinty look at him and said, "What, you want to kiss me too? I'm not interested in children."

Cheng Qianli: "If you'd like..."

Ruan Nan Candle: "I think you're Pikachu's brother's skin is itching."

Cheng Qianli instantly wilted.

As they were talking, the tour guide just happened to come, she stood in the open not far away and waved the small flag in her hand again, calling out to the crowd, assemble.

The people in the team came to the guide one after another, and the guide counted the number of people in a circle, "Everyone is here, twelve, we can go now!"

When the number twelve came out, the crowd whispered, and people who had misunderstood the phrase finally understood what it meant.

"How can it be twelve?" Someone shuddered and said, "Is there someone in us who isn't human?"

"It should be, NPCs don't normally lie, so who is that ghost hiding inside us..." the noises grew louder and louder, suspicion spreading through the crowd like a plague. The already tense atmosphere became even more tense and even suffocating because of the guide's short sentence.

There were thirteen of them, usually split into two or three teams of one, and now the previous two-person teams were looking for new partners, wanting to make sure they had at least two people by their side.

Lin Qiushi and the others always walked together as a group of four, so it didn't affect them much.

"Are there really ghosts among us?" Xu Jin trembled, her face white as a rabbit, she swallowed her saliva and carefully shifted her eyes to Ruan Nan Candle, stopping her gaze....

"What?" Ruan Nan Candle noticed Xu Jin's gaze and he walked up to Xu Jin's side, seemingly smiling, "You think I'm more like a ghost?"

Xu Jin: "No, nothing of the sort!"

Ruan Nan Candle turned to look at Lin Qiushi: "Lin Lin, she said that people look like ghosts."

Lin Qiushi: "....... "Big brother you're the drama again right.

Xu Jin quickly explained and said, "Zhu Meng don't misunderstand, I didn't say you, it's just that you're the prettiest among all these people..."

Ruan Nanzhu: "Oh, so."

Xu Jin nodded quickly.

Ruan Nan Candle: "Lin Lin, who do you think is the prettiest?"

Lin Qiushi was really miserable inside, as a normally oriented male, he really didn't want to admit that Ruan Nan Candle, the big hanging cute girl, was the cutest among the dozen or so people, but that was the truth, Ruan Nan Candle's pitiful staring appearance was really hard to hold, so Lin Qiushi nodded his head in a very lame manner.

"Thank you, Sister Xu Jin." Ruan Nan Candle smiled in satisfaction.

Xu Jin looked pained, obviously in her eyes, the possibility of Ruan Nan Candle being a ghost was extremely high, otherwise what kind of person entering such a world would still have the heart to talk about love and have two feet....

Of course she didn't dare to say any of this, she could only think in silence.

The place to go today was the Tower Cluster.

After a long trek, the crowd arrived at their destination. Because of the experience of the previous two days, the crowd arrived at their destination in a much better condition today, and instead of all hiding inside the tower, everyone started searching around for more clues.

Although he knew that there was one more non-existent person in the team, Ruan Nam Candle appeared to be very leisurely as he circled around the tallest tower before suddenly pulling out a sharp tool and started to move against the wall tiles on the tower.

Lin Qiushi was shocked by his movement and said, "What are you doing?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "I want to see if there's anything inside the tower."

Lin Qiushi: "Stuff?"

Ruan Nan Candle turned his head, "Didn't you say earlier that you heard someone scratching the wall inside?"

Lin Qiushi: "Then in case it's my illusion..."

Ruan Nan Candle, however, calmly said, "It's fine, I trust your ears more than you do."

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

Ruan Nan Candle was knocking on the wall with her head down, but beside her, Xu Jin carefully tugged on Lin Qiushi's clothes, "I want to go to the bathroom, can you go with me?"

Lin Qiushi was stunned, "Me?"

Xu Jin nodded.

Lin Qiushi: "I... it's not quite right, why don't I let Zhu Meng accompany you..."

Halfway through his words, he saw Xu Jin shaking her head frantically, she carefully looked at Zhu Meng and deliberately lowered her voice, "Brother Lin Lin, I have something I want to tell you."

Lin Qiushi saw her expression and hesitated slightly, "Is there anything you can't say here?"

Xu Jin's voice was inaudible: "Don't you think... Zhu Meng is especially... unlikeable?"

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

Xu Jin: "Whether it's looks or personality, where is a girl like her, who is so bold..."

Lin Qiushi agreed with this, where could there be a girl like Zhu Meng, so she wasn't actually her, but him.

Xu Jin: "Don't you think so?"

Lin Qiushi looked embarrassed, he could actually understand Xu Jin to a certain extent because Ruan Nan Candle was indeed very suspicious, but Naijin had known them for so long, and Ruan Nan Candle and Cheng Qianli were the only two people in this team whose identities he could be sure of.

"I... don't think so." Lin Qiushi could only give this answer to Xu Jin, "He is very suspicious, but he does lead us in trying to live, if he is a ghost, what is the appeal?"

Xu Jin looked a bit embarrassed at the words, her lips moved a bit to not say anything in the end, but looking at her reluctant appearance, it was obvious that she continued to insist on her answer. Lin Qiushi couldn't, so he could only whisper a few more words to reassure her.

While they spoke on their side, Ruan Nan Candle's side was also productive, he actually cracked open a piece of the wall brick by the tower to reveal the core inside.

Cheng Qianli had been watching, and when Ruan Nan Candle knocked the wall brick open he sucked in a breath of cold air and cursed the fuck out.

"What's wrong?" Lin Qiushi took a few steps towards Cheng Qianli's direction when he heard the sound, and also saw what Ruan Nan Candle had pulled out from inside the wall.

Only inside the cement behind the wall tiles, there were actually densely embedded human skeletons, which were overlapping and stacked together, but at least three or four human bones were visible within an inch of the wall.

"Well... "Ruan Nan Candle wasn't surprised to see this scene, "I told you there must be something in the walls."

Lin Qiushi recalled the scratching sound he heard in the wall and his face went white.

Xu Jin even shuddered and hid behind it, crying in fear.

"Alright, now we know what's inside the tower." Ruan Nan Candle stood up and patted the ash on his hands, "What were you two talking about just now?"

"It's nothing." Lin Qiushi looked at Xu Jin, "It's just something small."

"Oh, is it a small thing." Ruan Nan Candle, however, looked at Xu Jin thoughtfully, got up and walked to her side, reaching out to press Xu Jin's back, "Xu Jin, what are you afraid of?"

Xu Jin was shaking like a sieve.

"Is it because you're afraid of me?" A subtle smile hung on Ruan Nan Candle's face, it was hard to describe in words, although it wasn't ugly, but when it really was the kind of expression that a child would have nightmares about, "What's so scary about me?" Xu Jin just shook her head, not daring to speak at all.

Lin Qiushi couldn't laugh or cry, "You don't tease her."

Ruan Nanzhu spread his hands and acted helpless, "Fine, fine, don't tease." He got up and went to the tower to continue studying the bones.

Xu Jin at least slowed down, she quietly looked at Ruan Nan Candle and wiped her tears away in aggravation.

Lin Qiushi: "...Is Ruan Nan Candle that scary, scaring someone's little girl like this.

"This tower used at least a thousand bones." Ruan Nam Candle said, "If the bones of that man's sister are in here..."

"How will it be built?" Cheng Qianli stared at this dense mass of bones, "Even if we were all dead, this person wouldn't be able to find it."

"Well." Ruanan Candle, "So there's another way."

Cheng Qianli picked at his scalp, "What method?"

Ruan Nan Candle's eyes flowed, looking at Cheng Qianli's back, and as expected, he held out his hand to Cheng Qianli: "Where's that bone flute you secretly picked up yesterday?"

Cheng Qianli: "Fuck! You're not supposed to!"

Ruan Nam Candle: "Yeah."

Cheng Qianli's expression was instantly filled with horror as he said, "Are you really going to do this? That's a human leg bone, and there's no telling what effect blowing it out will have..."

"It's just because I'm not sure that I want to try." Ruan Nan Candle, "Bring it."

Cheng Qianli silently pulled out the bone flute from the pocket he was carrying and handed it over to Ruan Nan Candle.

Ruan Nan Candle held the flute and observed it carefully, then he moved naturally and placed the flute to his lips, opening his mouth to exhale, and the sound of the flute came out of his mouth.

He played the tune of Ah Sister's drum, melodious and melodious, but somehow with a bizarre hint of bleakness.

"Clacking..." there was a slight noise coming from Lin Qiushi's side, Lin Qiushi was stunned for a moment and realized that the source of this sound was the tower next to him. That sound of someone scratching in the wall became more and more obvious, at first it was just him who could hear it, but then Cheng Qianli and Xu Jin also heard it, and both of their faces changed.

"Zhu Meng, don't blow it, something seems to have happened." Lin Qiushi stopped Ruan Nanzhu.

Ruan Nan Candle stopped moving and looked towards the top of the tower, but saw that the circle hanging from the top of the tower suddenly began to tremble slightly....

"Let's go farther, this tower looks like it's going to collapse!" Ruan Nan Candle said this and turned around.

Lin Qiushi and the others followed closely behind Ruan Nan Candle.

The others also noticed the abnormality of the place and began to scatter towards the side, and not long after the crowd had scattered away, the tower let out a loud bang and collapsed to the ground, revealing the countless bones inside.

What suffocated the crowd, however, was that the bones began to slowly wriggle, moving slowly at first, then faster, the bones groaning and climbing over each other, eventually forming a tall tower - only this one was built of bones.

Everyone was stunned at the sight, not only in dismay, but also in deep fear.

The drumbeat from somewhere began to sound again, and a young girl's voice sang along with the drumbeat and, "Om Om Mani Padme Moo, Om Om Mani Padme Moo..."

It was more like a scripture reading than a song.

"We're not going into that tower, are we?" Xu Jin choked out a sob.

"It seems so." Ruan Nan Candle put down the bone flute and gently rubbed his fingers on it, he looked a little complicated, as if he had remembered the background of the song.

The sister who loved her sister so much was madly pursuing her sister's footsteps until she heard the scripture and realized that the person she was pursuing had turned out to be the drum in her arms. With what feelings did the sister accept the harsh truth when she learned the truth.

"Let's go." Lin Qiushi's mood was unexpectedly calm.

"I'm not going, I'm not going." Xu Jin, however, seemed to be scared and cried out vigorously, "I don't want to go over there..."

She said, stumbling towards the back and running out, falling down in a mess as she ran out, not even picking up the satchel she was carrying if it fell on the ground.

"Xu Jin-" Lin Qiushi was about to go after her, but he was directly stopped by Ruan Nan Candle, who said, "It's fine if she doesn't go, there's no need to force her, as long as the door is open, anyone can go in anyway."

Lin Qiushi sighs.

Cheng Qianli walks forward and picks up the bag Xu Jin dropped, he says, "So light... didn't she put two bottles of water in it? Why can't I feel it." They would prepare the lunch they were going to have outside when they came out, and Cheng Qianli saw Seojin stuff both bottles of water into her bag. They hadn't been separated since arriving here, and Cheng Qianli remembered not seeing Xu Jin drink the water.

"Open it." Ruan Nanzhu suddenly spoke out.

"Is it okay to just open it like this?" Cheng Qianli was a bit embarrassed, "After all, it's her personal belongings."

Ruan Nan Candle: "Life is almost gone, and you still talk about privacy?"

Rather so, Cheng Qianli reached out and opened Xu Jin's bag. Xu Jin's bag was a cream-colored backpack, seemingly made of sheepskin in an ordinary style, which she had carried on her back since she arrived here, occasionally containing some food and daily necessities.

After Cheng Qianli opened Xu Jin's bag, he saw that it was empty, but there was nothing there, he was stunned for a moment: "Nothing..."

Ruan Nan Candle: "You show it to me." He took the bag and after carefully examining it, he found a page of stale paper in the compartment of the bag.

"What's this?" Cheng Qianli was dumbfounded when he saw the paper, "This is..."

"Isn't that the diary we saw at the top of the tower?" Lin Qiushi immediately remembered, "Nan Candle, do you remember when you were going through that diary and found that a page had been torn out of it?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Cheng Qianli also soul blessed, "I remember, it's the notebook that Ruan Nan Candle took away!"

Ruan Nan Candle listened to the conversation between the two and smoothly unfolded the folded paper.

There was only a picture printed on the paper, on the picture was a pair holding hands, they were wearing long dresses and their young faces were smiling with satisfaction. There was nothing special about this drawing, however, after looking at it carefully, Lin Qiushi realized that the two girls in the portrait looked exactly the same as Xu Jin.

Because of this, Lin Qiushi felt a cold air rush from his back to his head: "When did she... rip off this portrait."

"I don't know." Cheng Qianli's tone was also dry as he said, "It's true that she didn't come up to the top floor with us at that time."

At that moment, Lin Qiushi recalled a detail from the illusion he had seen at the topmost floor, which was Xu Jin walking up to the drum and striking the first beat.

Strange things that he hadn't noticed before also came to mind, and as a newcomer to this world, Xu Jin had inevitably behaved too well. Although she had always said that she was afraid, she had never done anything wrong, and even sometimes, Lin Qiushi would forget that such a person existed beside her.

"So... she's actually not human?" Cheng Qianli swallowed his saliva.

Ruan Nan Candle: "It seems so."

"Then what happens if she finds out that we find out she's not a person?" Lin Qiushi looked at the paper.

Ruan Nan Candle folded up the paper and put it back in his bag, "This is complicated and divided into many situations, let's go into more detail later." He looked up at the bone tower in front of him, "It's almost dark, let's go in first."

"Mm." Lin Qiushi nodded.

As they walked inside, they saw Belinda Mong standing at the door, he was alone and smiling, he saw them coming over and greeted them, "You guys are here."

"You want to go in together?" Ruan Nan Candle asked.

Belinda Mong: "Yes, the key should be inside, it's always a bit unnerving to let someone else go." He carelessly uttered words that were almost dismissive, yet it didn't seem awkward because of his powerful presence.

When Ruan Nan Candle heard this, he laughed, "Then we won't go, just ask Mr. Lai Dong Yuan to bring out the key."

Belinda Mong's face changed slightly at the words, "How did you know my name-"

Ruan Nan Candle: "What's not to know about this." He raised his chin slightly, his look indifferent and full of sarcasm, "Everyone knows that White Deer has received a big order, and I'm afraid that only you, Mr. Dong Yuan, can be responsible for this order."

Li Dongyuan listened to Ruan Nanzhu's words, his eyes were filled with intense interest, he looked Ruan Nanzhu up and down, "I've never heard of a girl like you anywhere, interesting, very interesting, when I go out, I'll definitely find you for a good chat." He laughed, "After all, such an interesting girl is really rare."

Lin Qiushi heard this and thought beside him, yes, it is indeed interesting... who has ever seen a girl who is thicker than himself.

After Li Dongyuan finished speaking, he actually turned around and went into that tower alone.

Lin Qiushi was shocked at the sight, "He's fine on his own?"

Ruan Nan Candle, however, seemed very indifferent and said, "It's best if you can come out, we have nothing to lose if you can't, so let's wait."

So the three of them waited outside the tower, discussing about Xu Jin in passing.

They don't know if Xu Jin will come back, and what expressions they should use to face her when she comes back, and Lin Qiushi politely reminds Ruan Nanzhu not to tease Xu Jin anymore. But Ruan Nan Candle righteously refused, stating that it was a very bad deal not to molest at this time, waiting for Xu Jin to really identify himself, then wouldn't he be even more unable to molest.

Lin Qiushi: "...Is teasing a little girl that happy?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "It's actually happier to tease you."

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

Seeing that the sky was about to darken, Le Dong Yuan hadn't come out of it yet.

Lin Qiushi should have been worried, but when he saw Ruan Nanzhu looking like an old man, he strangely calmed down as well.

Just when they were still five minutes short of the agreed time with their guide, a strange sound finally came from inside the Bone Tower.

Crunching... like the sound of bones cracking, the entire tall bone tower began to fall apart, bones scattering from side to side.

At the entrance, a black figure appeared, and Lin Qiushi fixed his eyes to see that it was that Li Dongyuan.

But the most attractive thing was not Li Dongyuan, but in Li Dongyuan's hand, the beautiful bronze key.

The key appeared, and Lin Qiushi was relieved.

Lai Dong Yuan walked up to them with the key and extended his hand: "The next step is up to you, Miss Zhu."

Ruan Nan Candle smiled in amusement, so she grasped the key in her hand: "Happy cooperation."

"Pleasure to cooperate." Lai Dongyuan said.

Lin Qiushi didn't expect him to hand over the key so easily and was slightly surprised, but Cheng Qianli seemed calm, as if this sort of thing was commonplace.

As soon as the appointed time arrived, that guide appeared on time, she waved a small flag and began to urge everyone to leave. And at the same time, the sky began to gradually darken.

When Lin Qiushi saw Xu Jin, who had just run away crying, Cheng Qianli handed her the bag, so she took it with a natural movement, seemingly completely unaware of what was in the bag.

"Did you guys really get inside that tower?" Xu Jin whispered, "Have you found your sister's bones?"

"No." Ruanan Candle replied, "We found nothing."

"Oh." Xu Jin responded listlessly, she seemed to have something she wanted to say, but the words came to her mouth but she swallowed them hard.

Normally, Cheng Qianli would have definitely asked her what she wanted to say, but after learning about the fact that Xu Jin wasn't human, he always felt a bit distant from her and was afraid of asking any questions he shouldn't.

So everyone was silent all the way until they reached their residence.

The guide said the time of the next day and left as usual. Everyone gathered for a simple dinner, during which Lin Qiushi noticed that Xu Jin's eyes kept darting to Ruan Nam Candle's pocket.

There was only one rather special thing in Ruan Nanzhu's pocket, a bone flute made from her sister's leg bone.

Seo Jin seemed to have developed a keen interest in this item.