Kaleidoscope of Death

The lady's studio was on the seventh floor.

But according to the man who was with her, they didn't enter Mistress' studio, they just looked at the other paintings.

Ruan Nam Candle and Lin Qiushi climbed up to the seventh floor and saw the corridor shrouded in shadows again. The corridor on the seventh floor was very long, with a thick carpet on the floor, stretching from the stairs to both sides and finally stopping at the end in front of the painting room.

The door was covered with a black cloth, as if the owner didn't want the light to penetrate through the door.

"Where is she now?" Tan Zao Zao was a little scared, she whispered, feeling the goosebumps on her arms, "What if we go in and see her painting in there? How embarrassing."

"I hope she's not in the studio right now." Ruan Nam Candle said, "You guys wait here while I go knock on the door."

He said he was going to knock, but he actually took three or two steps to the door of the painting room and raised his hand to knock.

Tan Zao Zao stared at her, hearing Ruan Nanzhu knocking hard on the door of the studio, she said, "Fuck - how dare he be so bold."

Lin Qiushi was a bit calmer than her: "He's always had a lot of guts."

After the door was knocked on, there was no response from inside, Ruan Nanzhu knocked again, finally making sure no one was inside the studio now.

"Go inside." Ruan Nam Candle said.

"Isn't the top locked." Tan Zao Zao said, "How do we get in?"

Ruan Nan Candle pulled out a hairpin from his pocket and bent over to work with a natural look.

Tan Zao Zao: ".......she almost forgot that Ruan Nam Candle has this awesome skill.

After bending over for a while, the door lock was opened by Ruan Nan Candle with a soft click, he held the door handle and gently pulled it open, first observing the internal structure of the studio at the door before waving to Lin Qiushi: "You and I will go in together, Tan Zao Zao you keep an eye out at the door, call us if there is any movement."

Tan Zao Zao nodded obediently.

Lin Qiushi stepped forward and entered the painting room with Ruan Nanzhu.

The drawing room was not large, the lighting was very bad, the windows were covered securely with black curtains, and one could only rely on the not-so-bright small lamp overhead for light, requiring a lot of effort to see the room clearly.

On the easel in the middle of the studio was a painting covered with cloth, and the entire room was filled with a strange smell of paint.

Ruan Nancandle has always been crisp, walked to the easel and directly lifted the cloth drape.

After the curtain was lifted, an unfinished painting was revealed, and Lin Qiushi was stunned when he saw it: "This is..."

"The Last Supper." Ruan Nan Candle said this.

The painting at first glance looks a bit like the Last Supper, depicting a group of people attending a dinner at a long table, but a closer look reveals that the people attending the dinner are not the twelve disciples of Christ. That's right, they are the ones who enter the door.

There was Ruan Nam Candle, Lin Qiushi, and Tan Zao Zao, who were sitting at the long table, either bowing their heads and eating their food or whispering to the others.

It would have been fine if that was all, but the figures in the painting were almost all without faces, and Lin Qiushi could only identify the people in the painting as them from their clothes.

"Her face is drawn." Ruan Nam Candle pointed to a girl in the corner, "She's Xiao Su, right?"

Lin Qiushi also saw the picture that Ruan Nan Candle was talking about, in the corner of the long table, a girl's face was painted, but instead of the joy and relaxation of being eating, her face was unspeakable fear, even through the canvas, Lin Qiushi could feel the desperation.

There was nothing else special in the entire studio except for the painting, and after Ruan Nanzhu inspected the circle, he didn't dare to waste any more time in there, and took Lin Qiushi out of the room, locking the door smoothly.

Tan Zao Zao saw them come out and quickly asked what they saw inside.

"A painting." Lin Qiushi said, "A painting of us having dinner." He also described the more unusual situation inside the painting, and Tan Zao Zao gulped and shuddered after hearing that, "That Xiao Su, was really put into the painting?"

"Well." Ruan Nam Candle said, "That should be it, and I'd like to go to the sixth floor."

"Go." Lin Qiushi said.

The sixth floor was rather special, it was the unfinished exhibition room that the butler had instructed them not to go to.

As the name implied, that place should be where the unfinished paintings were kept. Ruan Nan Candle quickly found the room on the sixth floor, easily opened the lock on the door, and went in with Lin Qiushi.

The unfinished exhibition room was slightly better than the painting room, at least the windows weren't covered with black cloth and the room was very spacious.

It was filled with densely packed paintings, Lin Qiushi casually looked at a few of them and found that they all had unfinished parts, most of the paintings had a blank space on them.

Ruan Nan Candle's observation ability was still consistently strong, his eyes swept over hundreds of paintings and quickly found what he wanted in them, calling out softly to Lin Qiushi who was still searching, "Qiushi."

Lin Qiushi walked behind Ruan Nan Candle and saw something that caught Ruan Nan Candle's attention. While looking at the painting that Ruan Nan Candle was pointing towards, Lin Qiushi felt a chill rush up his back, he was silent for a moment and whispered, "Is this my... bedroom?"

"Right." Ruan Nan Candle said, "Your bedroom."

The exact same structure, even the view from the window was the same, and the painting in front of him was clearly depicting Lin Qiushi's bedroom. His bedroom door was open, and the floor was stained with eye-catching water stains, just like the horrific situation that night - except that the painting was also missing a part, which was near the door, and it was simply as if it had been left specifically for Lin Qiushi himself.

"If you didn't recognize Tan Zao Zao that night, it was a fake." Ruan Nanzhu looked at the painting and narrated the horrifying truth in a very calm tone, "Probably this piece would have been filled in by you."

Lin Qiushi: "...hmm."

Ruan Nan Candle: "This painting is kind of interesting, and I don't know if I can take it out." Although he said that, he didn't mean to touch the painting with his hand, but turned around and said, "Let's go, it's almost time to look at it."

Lin Qiushi said, "Did you remember the painting inside?"

Ruan Nam Candle said, "Probably."

Ruan Nan Candle's probably that was basically remembering, and as it turned out, he went out with Lin Qiushi and explained, "It's no use remembering, the scenes of these paintings include almost every corner of the castle, there's no hiding."

Lin Qiushi sighed.

"Just be careful, it's not a big problem." Ruan Nan Candle said, "After all, it's a low-level door, and the death conditions are still quite harsh."

Tan Zao Zao muttered where is it harsh, if she was in her place that night she might have five meters of grave grass, who could calmly identify the abnormalities around her in that situation ah.

Ruan Nan Candle had a glance at her and gave her a rare comforting word, saying, "Don't worry, if you turn into a painting..."

Tan Zao Zao's eyes said, "Will you get me out of here?"

Nguyen Nam Candle said, "We will definitely live with your last wishes to let you go more peacefully."

Tan Zao Zao: "..." wasn't comforted enough to thank.

They went to two places and it was almost dinner time when they came down from upstairs.

Everyone appeared in the dining room to start the meal, and after the meal started, Lin Qiushi noticed that one person was missing, only seven people were sitting at the long table.

"There's one more person?" Lin Qiushi asked everyone.

"He said he wasn't feeling well." Someone answered, "Resting in his room."

Lin Qiushi: "And he's not coming to dinner?"

The man said, "I don't know... I'll go check it out later."

Lin Qiushi mmmed.

This castle was too big and everyone was scattered, so it was only possible to determine the number of people during the meal to see if there was any situation.

The person who answered Lin Qiushi's question also seemed a little uneasy, and left in a hurry halfway through the meal, returning a few minutes later with a pale face and trembling, "He, he's gone, and he's not in the room."

The crowd fell silent at the words.

"Have you looked around?" Lin Qiushi said, "It's the nearby corridors and toilets..."

"Looking for it." The man said, "No response."

Ruan Nan Candle wiped his mouth, "Is there anything extra in the room, like a painting or something?"

The man said, "...I didn't pay attention to that."

"Let's go together." Ruan Nan Candle said.

The man looked at Ruan Nam Candle and nodded gratefully, it seemed that he was also too scared to go alone again.

The group left the restaurant to go to the missing person's room, and as soon as Lin Qiushi entered the room, he could smell the unpleasant smell of water. There was no doubt that the owner of this room had most likely experienced the same thing as him, but that person's luck was not as good as his.

"There was supposed to be a painting hanging here." Ruan Nan Candle looked at the wall, "It's gone now."

"What do you mean the painting's gone?" With Suu's example, everyone had an idea of what to expect, and the person who spoke trembled with fear, "Is Yang Jie..."

Yang Jie was the name of the missing person.

"Can't say." Ruan Nan Candle shook his head, "We have to look again."

Everyone searched upstairs and downstairs again, but after searching several floors, they didn't find the painting that belonged to Yang Jie until the next day, Lin Qiushi accidentally looked out of the window, but through the window, he saw something that seemed to be in the bushes in the distance.

He ran to the shrub and actually found a painting placed deep within the shrub. The black frame of the painting was so familiar, there was even fresh soil on it - it was clearly the same frame that Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nancandle had buried in the soil yesterday.

And Yang Jie was also found, appearing in the painting in Lin Qiushi's hands, the bushes in the painting seemed to blend in with him, distorted and strange.

"Found it." Lin Qiushi returned to the castle with the painting.

"Wooooo..." the people accompanying Yang Jie started to cry when they saw the painting, a big man was shaking like he had been electrocuted and kept wiping his tears, "Are we all going to die here, wooooo, are we all going to die here..."

As soon as his emotions broke down, he brought the others to cry along with him, making the entire house cry, listening to Ruan Nan Candle's face turn black.

The first thing you need to do is to get rid of the problem, and then you need to get rid of the problem and get rid of it. A grown man was more cowardly than a girl like her.

"So what do you say!" The man said, "Someone else has turned into a painting!"

"How do I know what to do." Zao Tan said rudely, "I'm your mother!"

Ruan Nan Candle was clearly in a bad mood, and he didn't say a word to the collapsing crowd, turning around and walking away. Lin Qiushi and Tan Zao Zao hurriedly followed behind him.

It wasn't until they reached their room that Ruan Nan Candle said, "I suspect there's a mole!

"Well? What do you mean?" Lin Qiushi Dao.

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Literally, someone in the team intentionally killed someone."

Lin Qiushi was shocked: "Deliberately kill someone?"

Ruan Nam Candle said calmly, "That picture frame aimed at your room was probably put there by someone."

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

Tan Zao Zao shivered because of Ruan Nan Candle's words, "But the basis... how did you guess?"

Ruan Nam Candle, "Now it's just my guess." He sat on the edge of the bed and whispered, "I just found time to look at the place where we buried the picture frame, there was an extra row of footprints, shoe size around thirty-five, not Tam Date's or the Mistress's." He closed his eyes, as if he was recalling something, "Someone dug out the picture frame... There were five girls in the team excluding Tan Zao Zao and Xiao Su, there were three left, two of them met the conditions."

Lin Qiushi said, "Is there that newcomer in there who came to your team before?"

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Hmm."

Lin Qiushi: "Could it be that she..."

Ruan Nam Candle: "It's possible." He said, "She's crying along today, too."

"Crying for sure." Tan Zao Zao said impatiently, "She's been crying every day since she arrived here."

Ruan Nan Candle hmmmed, "Let's see what happens first, it's only my guess after all."

"Good." Lin Qiushi said, "Then I'll sleep with you tonight."

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Good."

In the evening, Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nan Candle slept on the soft bed, while Tan Zao Zao was on the floor next to her, she was used to her treatment, so there was no mental imbalance at the moment. The floor bed is so good, Tan Zao Zao sleeps on the floor thinking, roll as much as you want, and you don't have to worry about squeezing with others, the floor bed is really good - it's weird! Ruan Nan Candle is such a stingy bastard!!!! She remembered!!! Huh?

Something was going on inside Lin Qiushi's mind, and he had thought he would be unable to sleep, but in the end, there was a sleeping pill essence lying next to him, and he actually fell asleep quickly.

Lin Qiushi slept until the next day, and when he opened his eyes, he didn't see Ruan Nanzhu's figure.

Where was he? Lin Qiushi sat up on the bed and saw that Zaizao Tan was still curled up in his blanket puffing out his chest and sleeping.

"Jujube." Lin Qiushi woke her up, "Have you seen Ruan Nan Candle?"

Tan Zao Zao hazily opened her eyes, confused, "He's gone?"

"Hmm." Lin Qiushi said, "I haven't seen him since we got here."

"I don't know... "Tan Zao Zao was also a bit confused, "I haven't seen him."

Ruan Nanzhu had disappeared, and Lin Qiushi hadn't seen him until breakfast time. If this was an ordinary person missing, I'm afraid Lin Qiushi's first reaction would be that this person was gone, but Ruan Nan Candle was not an ordinary person, so Lin Qiushi was wondering if he had gone off to do something.

However, after breakfast, Ruan Nan Candle still hadn't appeared, and Lin Qiushi was getting anxious.

"Where the hell did he go." Tan Zao Zao said, "Could it be that something happened..."

Lin Qiushi could only comfort her, "Don't worry, we'll look for more, Ruan Nan Candle is so powerful that surely nothing will happen, besides, he slept with us yesterday."

Tan Zao Zao didn't say anything, her eyebrows furrowed to death.

They searched layer by layer, from the first floor to the eighth floor, but they still didn't see Ruan Nan Candle.

Tan Zao Zao was really anxious now, saying, "He's not really in trouble, is he? You didn't hear anything last night?"

"No." Lin Qiushi's hearing had always been keen, if something happened he would have heard it, but nay, last night he was the one who slept until dawn, and he didn't hear anything.

"What are we going to do." Tan Zao Zao was worried.

"Let's... take a look at the portraits on these floors." Lin Qiushi sounded a bit hard, "First... make sure."

Tan Zao Zao did not speak. She knew what Lin Qiushi meant, Lin Qiushi was afraid that Ruan Nan Candle had already been turned into a portrait, and if that was the case... Tan Zao Zao stopped talking and followed Lin Qiushi in the building and started to carefully observe the portrait.

They searched the entire three floors without seeing Ruan Nan Candle, and while they were relieved, their hearts hung even more.

Because they couldn't find Ruan Nan Candle, though neither of them had much appetite by lunchtime.

Tan Zao Zao wilted and said she wanted to go back to rest for a while to continue looking in the afternoon, Lin Qiushi saw her mental state was not good, nodded his head to agree.

However, who knows that just after the two returned to the house, they actually saw Ruan Nanzhu lying on the bed to catch up on sleep, that laid-back look how not like something happened.

"Ruan Nan Candle!!!" Zao Tan whined and almost screamed, "Where have you been! It's making us look for it!!!"

Ruan Nan Candle opened his eyes and yawned lazily, "Something's up."

"What is it? Why didn't you tell us-" "Tan Zao Zao," "Do you know how worried we were about you? We've been looking for you all morning."

Nguyen Nam Candle: "I didn't know it was going to be this long."

Tammy: "Huh? Where the hell have you been?"

Nguyen Nam Candle said, "Go to the painting."

The words instantly quieted Zaizou Tan, and she was silent for a while before she asked tentatively, "In the painting? Is it the one I'm thinking of in the picture?"

Ruan Nan Candle nodded.

Lin Qiushi was astonished, "How did you get in there... Isn't that picture frame gone...?"

"No." Ruan Nam Candle said, "We misunderstood one thing, Xiao Suo is gone, but the frame is still there, Yang Jie is gone, the frame will also not disappear, or to put it another way, the old frame is set into the painting, there will always be a new frame."

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

Nguyen Nam Candle said, "The man who wished us dead, used a new frame." He smiled, "Well now, it's settled."

Lin Qiushi: "What do you mean..."

Nguyen Nam Candle: "Literally, and a new note from one I found."

There was too much information, causing Lin Qiushi and Tan Zao Zao to be unable to fully comprehend for a while, both of their faces were blank, their heads clearly somewhat spinning.

Seeing the two of them, Ruan Nan Candle's expression was rather loving as he said, "There's no rush, you can take your time to think."

Lin Qiushi: "......." is this tolerance for their intelligence.

No, this was fatherly love and compassion, and Tan Zao Zao sadly understood the meaning in Ruan Nam Candle's eyes.

Ruan Nan Candle probably saw from Lin Qiushi and Tan Zao Zao's looks that these two were still in a fog, so he had to sigh, sit up from the bed and briefly recount what had happened last night.

It turned out that after Lin Qiushi was asleep, Ruan Nanzhu woke up in the middle of the night, and after waking up, felt that something was wrong in the house, then got out of bed to the side of the bed, and found that near his window, there was actually another picture frame.

The frame was hidden in the night, and if it wasn't for Ruan Nam Candle's good eyesight, he might have missed it.

His intuition told him that there was something seriously wrong with that frame, and Ruan Nam Candle hurriedly left the room to retrieve that frame, but as he descended the stairs, he saw a woman dressed in black, standing at the top of the stairs quietly watching him.

If this were an ordinary person, he would have been scared silly, but Ruan Nan Candle was used to these tricks, and not only was he not afraid, he even stared at the woman for a few minutes until she disappeared of her own accord.

"Fuck!!!" Hearing this, Tan Zao Zao finally couldn't hold back as she said, "You're actually not afraid at all? Just stare at her?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "What's there to be afraid of? You see it wasn't her who ended up leaving first."

Tanzanian date: "..." served.

Nguyen Nam Candle said, "Then she showed up a couple of times, and I was going to go out and take the frame off quickly, but something didn't feel right." He said, "I felt like she was herding me towards something."

Lin Qiushi listened quietly.

"I was thinking about it carefully and realized that the places she appeared were stairways, but she didn't attack me, did she not want me to go up the stairs?" Ruan Nam Candle said, "The only place it didn't appear was the doorway, so I guess she wanted me to get out."

"Outside is the painted world?" Tanzanian dates said, "Is that right?"

"Pretty much, thanks to the information I got from Qiushi." Ruan Nan Candle said, "I found that the scenery outside is indeed the opposite." With the black lights and all the distinctive bushes with black holes outside, it was impossible for an ordinary person to notice the difference anyhow. However, because of Lin Qiushi's precedent, it caused Ruan Nan Candle to take a good look before preparing to go out, and finally determined that the scenery outside was indeed the opposite.

"I didn't go out, I just waited in the house for a while." Ruan Nam Candle spread his hands, "Who knew that one waited so long."

"You scared the hell out of me." Tan Zao Zao got Ruan Nan Candle's answer, heavily relieved, and said, "You don't know, both Qiushi and I thought you turned into a painting."

Lin Qiushi nodded.

"I'm fine." Ruan Nan Candle smiled.

Although the scene described by Ruan Nan Candle was only a few words, Lin Qiushi was aware of the danger, and Ruan Nan Candle was only a few steps away from being left behind in this world.

"What do you mean by a new note?" Lin Qiushi was more concerned about that.

"Mumble." Ruan Nan Candle pulled the note out of his pocket.

Lin Qiushi took a look at it and found that on the note was a small poem: You stood on the bridge and watched the scenery from upstairs. The bright moon decorates your window, you decorate someone else's dream.

Lin Qiushi was shocked: "Is this... a clue from inside the door?"

"Right." Ruan Nam Candle said, "I got this clue from someone else."

"Someone else?" Tan Jujube asked.

Ruan Nam Candle: "The newcomer who attempted to find me a team on the first day."

The author has something to say: Lin Qiu Shi: The fifth day that Zhu Meng disappeared, missing him.

Ruan Nam Candle: Lin? Autumn? A rock?

Lin Qiushi beeped quietly: I'm kidding....