Kaleidoscope of Death

If they were in a normal world, they would only experience a full moon once a month. But the world within the gate made no sense, and based on what they had experienced in the past few days, they were simply repeating that day's life over and over again. Every day, they ate the same food, went to the same places, and spoke the same lines as the tour guide.

The next morning, there were no bloodied handprints in the house, and Lin Qiushi's suspicions were confirmed - only on the night they went to the tower, would Xu Jin quietly leave at night and tear off the skin on his body.

And today, they were going to the tower again.

Ruan Nanzhu had decided to bring out the drum from the tower today, a decision that sounded risky, but there were no other clues at the moment, so they could only try as hard as they could.

After a long trek, they finally reached the group of towers.

The towers that had been turned into pagodas of bones had indeed regained their original appearance, with their spires towering into the clouds, almost half of them buried in the dense mountain mist.

Before Ruan Nanzhu, Lin Qiushi and the others headed to the top of the tower, they first handed over Xu Jin to Li Dongyuan. Of course, the excuse they gave was that the tower was dangerous, and if Xu Jin was afraid, it would be better for her to stay down there.

However, Li Dongyuan smiled and put his hand on her shoulder, saying, "Don't worry, just wait down there with me.

Only then did Xu Jin nodded hesitantly.

After settling Xu Jin, Ruan Nanzhu, Lin Qiushi and the others only continued to climb up. During the climb, Ruan Nan Candle said, "Didn't we see that mural before the accident yesterday?"

"You mean the pair in the house?" Lin Qiushi also remembered.

"Right." Ruan Nan Candle, "I thought about the content of that mural again last night and now I almost understand it."

Lin Qiushi, "So what exactly does it mean?"

They had already climbed to the top of the tower as they spoke, but as they turned the last corner, Cheng Qianli, who was at the front, suddenly stopped in his tracks, and although he didn't speak, Lin Qiushi could see clear fear in his eyes.

"What's wrong?" Lin Qiushi was shocked and asked in a low voice.

"There's... someone... "Cheng Qianli turned his head stiffly, "On the drum... there's someone sitting..."

Lin Qiushi took a step forward and also saw the sight in Cheng Qianli's eyes. Seeing that there was actually a woman sitting on top of that modest red drum, and although the woman's back was to them, judging from her dress, it was clearly Xu Jin who had just been downstairs with Li Dongyuan!

Xu Jin was half-kneeling on that drum, her posture appeared unusually rickety, she slowly raised her hand, seeing that she was about to strike down on the drum beneath her, but Ruan Nanzhu shouted, "Xu Jin, your sister is looking for you-"

Xu Jin's movements paused.

Ruan Nanzhu said, "She asked you when she could return her skin."

Xu Jin slowly turned her head, and when she did, everyone's breath stopped - it wasn't Xu Jin at all, but a human-shaped skin.

The human skin still held the shape of the freshly peeled off skin, as if it had a skeleton to support it, and it stood on the drum surface like this. From the front, one could even see the body tissue inside the human skin, and Cheng Qianli almost didn't open his mouth with a cry straight away, but fortunately at the critical moment, he covered his mouth with his hand and died.

"Xu...Jane?" Lin Qiushi's breath was also slightly confused, but he was beginning to be unsure if the skin in front of him was Xu Jin, or Xu Jin's sister.

Ruan Nan Candle was still the calmest of them all, and his voice didn't even appear to change much in the face of the horrific sight in front of him as he pulled out the side of the bone flute from his bosom and blew out the tune when he put it to his lips.

"Ahhhhh!!!" Sharp screams emitted from the mouth of the human skin in front of him, its dissected slit like a gaping maw, screaming miserably.

Lin Qiushi's hearing was already keen, and his eyes were blackened by the loud scream, but he actually fainted straight away, but before he passed out, he seemed to see the human skin pouncing towards them.

Someone was arguing, and the noise of the argument was becoming more and more intense, causing Lin Qiushi a headache.

He barely opened his eyes and saw Ruan Nam Candle and Le Dong Yuan, who seemed to be arguing about something, and the atmosphere was very bad.

Le Dong Yuan said, "Zhumeng, I apologize, this matter has indeed exceeded my expectations."

Faced with Le Dong Yuan's show of softness, Ruan Nan Candle was very disdainful: "Apologize if it's useful then everyone doesn't have to die."

Le Dong Yuan: "There will always be a remedy."

Ruan Nan Candle was about to retort, but he saw that Lin Qiushi had woken up, his eyes turned, and he immediately acted on it, jumping on Lin Qiushi and crying, "Old Yu, you've finally woken up, I was bullied so badly when you weren't here, people looked at us as orphans and widows, and didn't give us a chance to live at all.... "

Lin Qiushi: "...orphaned and widowed?" Even if you're a widowed mother, where did the orphan come from.

Ruan Nanzhu stretched out his hand and gave Cheng Qianli, who was eating dry food next to him, a knock on the head: "Silly son, your father is calling you."

Cheng Qianli put down the dried food and dry howled: ".......oooooh, Dad, our mother is being bullied."

Lin Qiushi: "...Cheng Qianli you sober up, don't follow Ruan Nanzhu's playbook ah!

Le Dong Yuan watched these two acting and tried very hard not to let his expression distort, he took a deep breath and seemed to push down certain emotions and said, "When we go out, I will definitely meet you."

Ruan Nanzhu sneered and didn't say anything.

Lin Qiushi thought to himself, forget it, I'm afraid that when I go out you'll see Ruan Nan Candle get even more stimulation.

He got up from the ground and rubbed his ears hard, feeling them still buzzing, "Just now... what happened?"

Ruan Nam Candle said, "It jumped towards us."

Lin Qiushi: "And then what?"

Ruan Nam Candle: "Then I reasoned with it for ten minutes."

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

Ruan Nan Candle: "It felt I was quite right, so it left."

Lin Qiushi: "...are you that happy if you skin it?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "It's quite happy."

Lin Qiushi: "...Okay." It's good that you're happy.

After the skin was finished, Ruan Nan Candle still explained to Lin Qiushi what had just happened, and it turned out that the skin had pissed off Ruan Nan Candle after calling Lin Qiushi unconscious, and while the skin was pouncing, Ruan Nan Candle rushed straight to the red drum, pulled out a bone flute and pointed it at the drum surface, threatening to smash the drum directly if that thing did anything evil again. The human skin seemed to be wise, but actually stopped moving, and then directly blended into the wall and disappeared in front of them.

Ruan Nanzhu and Cheng Qianli then struggled to drag the shocked Lin Qiushi downstairs, but saw Li Dongyuan standing alone on the first floor.

Ruan Nanzhu asked him where Xu Jin is, Li Dongyuan pointed outside and said he smoked a cigarette, and as a result, he turned around and Xu Jin disappeared, not knowing exactly where he ran off to.

Ruan Nanzhu was furious when she heard this and said, "I'll leave you to look at him, is that how you see him? You white deer can't do things a little more reliable, a boss can actually look at such a crucial clue lost.

Li Dongyuan was also at a disadvantage, unable to argue, but it was good that Lin Qiushi, who woke up in the end, distracted Ruan Nancandle's attention, so that Ruan Nancandle did not bother with him about this matter.

Li Dongyuan laughed bitterly in his heart, his heart could be more and more curious about Ruan Nan Candle's identity - in reality, such a girl was really rare.

After Lin Qiushi woke up, he also knew that Xu Jin was missing.

"Let's take the drum over there tomorrow and take a look." Now that Xu Jin was missing, and there was no telling if she would ever appear again, Ruan Nanzhu didn't have a good face when he saw Li Dongyuan, and he said with a cold face, "We can only try this first."

Lai Dongyuan touched his nose and laughed bitterly twice.

Lin Qiushi patted him on the shoulder sympathetically.

Cheng Qianli was still around to continue stuffing things into his mouth, his appetite was really surprisingly good, no matter how disgusting the scene was, he could continue to eat without any obstacles.

At the end of the day, Ruan Nan Candle's face was black as hell, and as he had expected, Xu Jin hadn't returned until he left the tower group.

The others saw that Lin Qiushi and the others were missing one here and came to ask a couple of questions, but Ruan Nam Candle simply said that she was missing and didn't know where she had gone.

Li Dongyuan didn't dare to come near Ruan Nan Candle again until he arrived at his residence, for fear of pissing him off again. Only after eating did he politely ask Lin Qiushi for a few words, asking him to go back and persuade Ruan Nan Candle not to be angry with him again.

Lin Qiushi couldn't laugh or cry, there must be a reason why Ruan Nancandle was so angry, he didn't dare to persuade him, besides, whether Li Dongyuan was a friend or foe was still up for debate, he didn't want to show too much familiarity with him.

Tonight, because of Xu Jin's disappearance, they were finally able to sleep in one bed each, openly.

Ruan Nanzhu brought back the drum, which wasn't really too big, the size of two adults' palms. The body of the drum is lacquered red solid wood, the surface of the drum is a delicate human skin, struck on, the tone is very beautiful. Sitting on the edge of the bed, Ruan Nan Candle fondled the surface of the drum and said, "When I bring this over tomorrow, it should be able to confirm my suspicions."

"By the way, what exactly were you trying to say then?" Lin Qiushi recalled what Ruan Nanzhu wanted to say when he climbed to the top of the tower, but only halfway through, he was interrupted by something else.

"Sisters are sisters, whether the love is deep or not is a different matter." Ruan Nam Candle said, "If she and her sister are so close, why wouldn't she want to go up there to see it?"

He reached out and stroked the surface of the drum, looking a bit tender at first glance.

After dinner, everyone rested early.

The place we went to today was the Tower Cluster, and we didn't know if Xu Jin would appear again.

Lin Qiushi was a little uneasy before he went to bed and lay tossing and turning on his bed.

Ruan Nanzhu was beside him and asked him softly if he couldn't sleep.

Lin Qiushi said, "Hmm..."

Ruan Nan Candle then stood up, lay down beside him, and stretched out his arms to hug his waist. This action he came to do was already very skilled, Lin Qiushi's body somehow relaxed quite a lot, he vaguely said: "Why is it that every time you hug me I fall asleep especially well."

Ruan Nan Candle: "Maybe I'm a sleeping pill essence?"

Lin Qiushi: ".......It can be done.

Although he didn't know why he would sleep very comfortably when Ruan Nan Candle was next to him, but all in all, Lin Qiushi fell asleep very quickly.

He had thought that he would sleep until dawn, but he ended up waking up in the middle of the night. The moment he woke up, he felt a sight with a chill, Lin Qiushi slowly opened his eyes and saw the sleeping face of Ruan Nan Candle, he slowly sat up and looked around the house, he didn't find anything strange. However, just when Lin Qiushi thought that the sight was his own illusion, his forehead suddenly became cold and a drop of water, slid down his forehead to his chin.

Lin Qiushi's body instantly froze, he slowly looked up and saw a bloody, gooey figure squatting on the ceiling, tilting his head and smiling a strange smile at him.

Lin Qiushi: "Fuck!" Even though he was mentally prepared, he was still ruthlessly shocked, Lin Qiushi trembled all over and forcefully stabilized his body.

That thing and Lin Qiushi looked at each other for a moment, then her long fingers extended out at Lin Qiushi, her target was very clear, Lin Qiushi's scalp.

Lin Qiushi ducked his head to avoid her attack and was covered in a cold sweat of shock. The monster's nails had turned into sharp blades, and if they were touched, they would definitely lose a layer of skin.

"Skin... skin..." the monster mumbled incessantly, her black hole eyes greedily gazing at Lin Qiushi's young white skin with a look that could almost be described as salivating.

Lin Qiushi crawled out of the bed, and Ruan Nanzhu was still in deep sleep, seemingly completely unaffected. Fortunately, the monster also seemed to be uninterested in the others and pounced on Lin Qiushi's position.

Lin Qiushi turned around to run and reached the door but found that the door couldn't be opened.

"Skin... skin..." the monster grinned contentedly in the face of the sac in front of her, she made a gurgling sound and squeezed it out of her throat, "Skin... I want your skin..."

Lin Qiushi was covered in cold sweat, but after looking around he looked at the bag that Ruan Nanzhu placed next to the pillow. That bag was bulging, the drum that was taken from the tower before was stuffed inside.

Suddenly blessed with a blessed mind, Lin Qiushi turned around and ran towards the bag, then in a swift motion, he pulled the drum out of the bag and struck it twice with great force.

"Knock, knock, knock." The clear and pleasant sound of the drum came out, and the monster's expression immediately froze, then as if she was afraid of something, she looked around and flipped out of the window in a panic.

Lin Qiushi finally heaved a sigh of relief as he watched her escape, yet when he lowered his head, his expression froze once again.

He only saw that the soft drum surface, about because he was too hard, had actually shot out a large hole, and inside the large hole, there was something that stunned him.

It was a beautiful bronze key, which at first glance looked plain, but Lin Qiushi was familiar with it, as he had used the exact same key to open the heavy iron door inside the door.

"Fuck!" Instantly understanding what was going on, Lin Qiushi couldn't help but curse Li Dongyuan this son of a bitch in his heart, he was never expecting Li Dongyuan to give them a fake key that was exactly the same!

"But what about the drum." After Lin Qiushi took the key out, he looked at the broken human skin drum in front of him and started to get a headache, "Can it be mended..." he pulled it out twice with his hand and decided to give up and see if he could ask Ruan Nam Candle if he could fix it tomorrow.

Thinking so, Lin Qiushi fell asleep in a daze.

The next morning, Lin Qiushi was woken up by Ruan Nan Candle's voice.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Ruan Nan Candle lecturing Cheng Qianli, saying Cheng Qianli, did you girl secretly play the drum last night!

Cheng Qianli: "I'm not, I don't have one, it's a human skin drum, what's so funny?"

Ruan Nan Candle was suspicious: "You really haven't?"

Cheng Qianli: "Why don't you believe me..."

Ruan Nan Candle: "I'd like to believe you, but don't you want to think about who screwed up that key clue Rubik's Cube at the last door?"

Cheng Qianli: "Isn't that just me being bored..."

Ruan Nan Candle: "Aren't you bored right now?"

Cheng Qianli almost cried out, because of his record, which caused his words to have no credibility at all, how was he going to explain himself to convince Ruan Nan Candle that he hadn't cracked this thing.

While Cheng Qianli was sadly pondering this question, Lin Qiushi, who was sitting on the bed, weakly raised his hand and said, "It's me..."

Ruan Nanzhu turned back: "Oh, it's you."

Cheng Qianli straightened his back and was about to listen to his big brother reprimand Lin Qiushi, but the big brother's next words were, "It's fine, just be more careful next time."

Cheng Qianli: "What???" God damn it, be careful next time. Is he a stepmother's son or just a toll collector?

Lin Qiushi was also a bit uncomfortable and quickly said what happened last night. When Ruan Nan Candle asked if he was hurt, Lin Qiushi shook his head, pulled out the key from his pocket, and said, "I found a key in the drum..."

Nguyen Nam Candle saw the key go silent for three seconds, then cursed a very dirty swear word.

Apparently Le Dong Yuan this product was not at all as harmless as he appeared, entering the bone tower also did not know what he saw inside, but actually took out a fake key to charge. It was fortunate that Lin Qiushi had made the key out last night when he was being chased by monsters and holding a drum to save his life, otherwise they would still be in the dark right now.

"I told you he handed over the key so easily, don't you want a hint for the next door?" Ruan Nanzhu squeezed the key and sneered, "And ended up coming up with such a trick."

Lin Qiushi also quite admired these people, actually coming up with something like preparing fake keys.

Ruan Nan Candle put the key into her pocket and said, "Xu Jin is very afraid of this drum, since the drum is gone, we don't have much time left, if we meet her again next time, I'm afraid it will be hard to run away."

Lin Qiushi nodded, agreeing very much with Ruan Nanzhu's statement. I don't know why, but Xu Jin was quite fond of him anyway, the others slept deadly deep, and he was the only one who had to wake up once every night.

"I'll bring the drum to the temple today." Ruan Nan Candle chanted, "This world should be ending soon."

It would naturally be great to end this world sooner. Lin Qiushi never wanted to meet with Xu Jin at night again.

Le Dong Yuan obviously didn't know that the bad things he had done had been revealed, and he still had the cheek to come over and greet Ruan Nan Candle. It had to be said that his looks were quite deceptive, and even though Lin Qiushi already knew that this product was a bad thing, he would hesitate for a moment looking at his gentle smile.

Ruan Nan Candle's usual attitude towards him wasn't too good, and today, he didn't give him any face at all, his tone was cold and he casually dealt with a few words and then drove him away.

"Oh." Looking at Li Dongyuan's departing back, Ruan Nanzhu gave a very rude sneer, "I'd like to see how Li Dongyuan will be responsible if this job falls into the hands of White Deer."

After breakfast, the crowd set off towards the temple.

Xu Jin still didn't have a shadow, but since she appeared in Lin Qiushi's house last night, it meant that she must have returned with the guide and should be hidden in the surrounding dense jungle at this point.

Seeing the temple again, Lin Qiushi's heart was already calm, he and Ruan Nanzhu found the platform where they had climbed up to the roof and planned to go up again.

This time, he was going to give the drum to the monster on the roof.

Although Lin Qiushi repeatedly reiterated, Ruan Nanzhu still insisted on going with him, leaving Cheng Qianli to watch the ladder.

The two of them climbed cautiously to the top of the high platform. Lin Qiushi reached the wooden platform first, and when he arrived, he found that there was some more fresh flesh and blood on the wooden platform, which looked like it should be left behind by the two people who were flayed alive the day before yesterday.

Ruan Nam Candle followed him up as well, he was the first to reach the roof, and after observing the surroundings, he looked towards the nearby jungle a few times.

"What?" Lin Qiushi noticed his expression wasn't right.

"It seems like something is following us." Ruan Nanzhu said, "It's been following us since we came out."

Lin Qiushi: "Could it be Xu Jin?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "It's possible, let's give her the drums first."

Lin Qiushi nodded.

They followed the edge and slowly walked towards the center of the temple, their feet on the human skin drums, striking the rhythm of the drums.

It was quiet on the temple, and there was no fog that Lin Qiushi had seen before, everything was calm and somewhat abnormal.

Ruan Nan Candle didn't walk in too much, he chose a suitable spot, so he placed the drum in his hand on the roof and spoke, "Your sister refused to come over, so we brought one of her drums there."

As soon as he said that, the whole world seemed to fall into a strange silence, and even the whisking breeze stopped.

The drums sounded fiercely, and a dense fog ran out from mid-air and began to invade their location.

"Thump, thump, thump." In the depths of the fog, something was beating frantically on the drum surface, and the furious rhythm seemed to be venting the unsuppressed anger in their hearts.

"Where is she." The voice belonging to the girl sounded again, "Where is she, I'm hurting - I'm hurting so much -"

When Lin Qiushi saw the girl crawl out of the fog, she saw the drum that Ruan Nam Candle had brought, so she crawled to the drum with both hands and then put her hands on top of the broken drum surface.

"It's not mine, it's not mine-" the girl shouted frantically, "Bring her here, bring her here!!!"

She grabbed the drum surface with great force and began to rip at it.

Not sure if it was Lin Qiushi's illusion, but as the girl was tearing at the drum surface, he faintly heard another scream.

The girl seemed to have noticed the scream as well, her already bloody mouth instantly grinning in an ecstatic arc: "You're in - you're in -" she slapped the drum surface beneath her feet hard, and the monster dragging the spiked blade instantly sprang out of the temple and raced towards the jungle not far away.

Lin Qiushi was almost stunned at the scene, but Ruan Nanzhu was greatly relieved, and he laughed to himself, "It really isn't a sisterly affair." He raised his eyes and looked towards the dense forest in the distance.

Lin Qiushi said, "Is everything coming to an end?"

Ruan Nan Candle dropped his eyes: "Maybe."

Who doesn't want this hellish world to end sooner.

The author has something to say: Ruan Nan Candle is like a bear parent, Lin Qiushi has done something bad: Qiushi is so cute, make another one, love you oh Joomi. I'm not going to be able to do anything about it, but if I don't beat you to death today, I'm going to lose.

I'm not going to be able to do anything about it.