Kaleidoscope of Death

A total of fourteen people who entered the gate, gathered one after another in the town square.

Lin Qiushi grasped the time and kept observing his surroundings. The town looked very dilapidated, most of the shops on the streets were closed, and occasionally the wind blew by, raising dust from the roadside, making the town look even more desolate.

Next to the square they were in, there was a notice board. Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu walked up to the board and looked at it. They found that there were three missing persons notices on it, and the ones they were looking for were all seven or eight years old children, both boys and girls, all recently posted.

When he saw the posters, Lin Qiushi immediately remembered the long and thin ghostly figure in the clues, although this long and thin ghostly figure also attacked adults, but in fact the first target was usually children.

He introduced himself in front of the crowd, claiming to be the mayor of this town, and then told them who they were in this door.

"I hope you can help us find the lost children," the mayor said, "these children." The mayor said, "All of these children have been missing for a week, and we have searched the entire town without being able to find them. I hope you can complete the commission and find the missing children."

That was the clue to this door.

After the mayor finished speaking, he led them to the hotel where they were staying.

When he saw the mayor coming with his men, he didn't open his eyes to greet them, but just threw out a bunch of keys in a perfunctory manner and went back to sleep with his eyes closed.

The mayor, apparently used to it, said, "We seldom have outsiders here, and since we have lost a child, we are all very sensitive, so please be tactful when you are asking for some clues."

The hotel was a two-person room, and everyone quickly and spontaneously found a companion to stay with them.

Lin Qiushi unsurprisingly stayed in the same room as Ruan Nam Candle, who hadn't spoken much the entire time because of his role as a mute girl, and he pretended not to see when someone cast their eyes on him.

That Wang Tianxin seemed to have some interest in him, but hid it well, and only occasionally Lin Qiushi would feel his watchful gaze.

Lin Qiushi just pretended not to see it.

After separating the rooms, the town mayor said something about the town.

Their town used to be a fishing village, but then a dam was built upstream and the fish became scarce, so it fell into ruin. There wasn't much industry in the town, except for a canning factory in the far west of the town. To the far east was the village cemetery, and the mayor told them not to go there if nothing happened.

Everyone listened quietly, and there were people taking notes. Usually the main clues were provided by the NPCs, and buried in those clues was the location of the key.

After a while of this, we were all a little hungry. So we grabbed a quick bite to eat at the restaurant downstairs.

The taste of the food here is very bad, the bread is hard and dry, eating people's teeth, in addition to the bread there is a look to let people have no appetite for fried fish, Lin Qiushi looked at the fried fish staring at the dead fish eyes, really did not dare to fork down the knife. This stuff really won't be poisoned if you eat it.

Ruan Nanzhu also did not touch the fish, only ate a little bread. He hadn't spoken much since he entered the hotel, looking like he was thinking about something.

After this terrible dinner, everyone was planning to go back to rest so they could meet the next day.

Lin Qiushi did the same, he simply washed up and climbed into bed.

It was a standard room with two beds, his by the window and Ruan Nam Candle's by the door.

Ruan Nan Candle took a shower and came out of the bathroom naked, wiping her hair as she said, "What do you think?"

Lin Qiushi hunkered down on his bed and played with his phone, "Let's go ask the parents of those missing kids first tomorrow and see if there are any clues." He pondered for a moment, "Since that mayor mentioned the cannery, maybe we should go over and explore it." It's a small town, there are only so many clues, so it stands to reason that the cannery would have what they were looking for.

Ruan Nam Candle: "Well, how does it feel?"

Lin Qiushi thought that Ruan Nanzhu asked him how he felt about this door, so he answered obediently, "It's okay, but the food is really awful."

Ruan Nan Candle raised his eyebrows: "I'm asking how you feel about pretending to be a mute girl."

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

Ruan Nam Candle: "Aren't you happy?"

Facing the imposing Ruan Nan Candle, Lin Qiushi turned into a wimp and said with a fake smile, "Happy, happy." Why in the world did he have to be mouthy to ask that in the first place.

It had to be said that Lin Qiushi, dressed as a woman, made such a face, but it was very cute, whether Lin Qiushi was willing or not, at least this answer satisfied Ruan Nancandle, he smiled delicately and said warmly, "It's good that you like it."

Lin Qiushi: "......." why did he have a bad feeling about it.

The two of them chatted a few more times before going to bed separately.

The window next to Lin Qiushi's was a folding window, and you could faintly see the shadows cast by the treetops outside. The breeze rustled the treetops. Although the hotel looked shabby, the environment inside was actually okay. The only thing that was not good about it was that it was so cold, there were mosquitoes and the humming sound was really disturbing. Lin Qiushi lay on the bed, trying to empty himself, trying to make himself want to fall asleep early.

However, just as he was about to fall asleep, he was gently poked by Ruan Nan Candle from behind, and he was about to turn his head, but he heard Ruan Nan Candle's low voice: "Don't move, there's something outside."

Lin Qiushi was shaken and instantly awake.

He looked carefully and found that at some point, there was something very hard to describe attached to the tree outside, it was attached to the trunk of the tree, almost becoming one with the trunk, but it was wriggling, thin and long, like a snake, it was impossible to see without looking carefully.

The thing slowly stretched out a hand and stuck it to the top of the folded window.

When Lin Qiushi saw that hand flip open one of the pages of the folding window, he had expected to see a pair of black eyes, but instead, he only saw a pale white... The thing had no eyes at all.

"Close your eyes." Ruan Nan Candle suddenly said.

Lin Qiushi immediately obeyed and closed his eyes, his sense of hearing was very sharp and he could very clearly hear the sound of the folding window being flipped.

It was followed by rustling footsteps, like something walking away from the grass.

Ruan Nan Candle never let Lin Qiushi open his eyes, Lin Qiushi endured at first, then finally couldn't bear it anymore and said, "Is it ready?"

There was no sound.

Lin Qiushi's heart was tight, worried if something had happened, but when he opened his eyes and turned around, he found that this product, Ruan Nanzhu, had actually fallen asleep.

Lin Qiushi: ".......It seems that this sleeping pill essence not only sleeps others, but also sleeps itself ah.

Calm was restored outside the window and Lin Qiushi closed his eyes and slept.

The next day was a rainy day.

The temperature was a bit cold, and there were pattering raindrops in the air.

Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu got up early and went to the restaurant downstairs. As soon as they entered, Lin Qiushi heard the sound of Wang Tianxin and the girl laughing, and their relationship seemed to have grown closer after one night. The girl who had been seduced by Wang Tianxin was now smiling and feeding each other breakfast with him.

Lin Qiushi had a look at him, really admiring this kind of person. To be able to happily date even in such an atmosphere within the door, he was also a talent in a way.

Ruan Nan Candle followed him and also came in, and as soon as they entered, they attracted most of the attention in the restaurant. Some people were looking at the still conspicuous-looking Ruan Nan Candle, while some were casting their ambiguous eyes on Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi was baffled at first, until halfway through he went to the bathroom, and after looking in the mirror for a while, he suddenly felt that something didn't seem right....

He stretched his neck and took a closer look, and found that at some point, there was a quick red mark below his ear, it was a bit itchy, it should be the result of a mosquito bite, but he knew it was a mosquito bite that no one else knew about, and besides, the location was so ambiguous.

Lin Qiushi simply couldn't laugh or cry, he scratched twice with his hand, feeling even more itchy.

There was no way for this to go away for the time being, Lin Qiushi sighed and could only give up, he washed his hands, turned around and was about to leave, but he saw Wang Tianxin walk in from outside the toilet.

This hotel was very small, there was only one toilet on the ground floor, and it was still a mixed gender.

When they met in the narrow toilet, Lin Qiushi deflected his body and gave him a way to show him the way to go first.

Wang Tianxin smiled at him and suddenly spoke, "Why are you afraid of me?"

Lin Qiushi was stunned.

"Obviously, he and I are both doing the same thing, so why do we have to act like I'm the bad guy?" Wang Tianxin actually had a pretty good voice, and a pair of pretty peach blossom eyes, this kind of put outside is also very attractive to girls, he stretched out his hand, grabbed Lin Qiushi's arm and said, "Right?"

Lin Qiushi knew that he was mistaken, he wanted to pull his hand out of Wang Tianxin's hand, but was afraid that he was too strong to expose his identity, so he could only use his other hand to take out his phone and type: we are not like that, you are mistaken.

Who knew that Wang Tianxin saw this word but sneered and said, "You take me for a fool, that mark on your neck, is it a mosquito bite?"

Lin Qiushi: Hey, it's still a fucking mosquito bite.

Wang Tianxin looked outside and suddenly smiled wickedly, "Do you think he'll find out if I do you right there in the toilet?"

Lin Qiushi: "......." he silently looked at Wang Tianxin's not so strong body and thought to himself, friend, it's not certain who's going to run who.

I don't know what illusion Lin Qiushi's expression gave Wang Tianxin, but he smiled, "What, you know you're scared now?"

Lin Qiushi's eyes darted around the toilet, and he was already starting to think about how he would be more relieved to fuck over the person in front of him later.

But just as Lin Qiushi was about to do it, the sound of other people's footsteps suddenly came from outside.

Wang Tianxin actually refused to let go of Lin Qiushi until Ruan Nanzhu appeared in the doorway, staring at him with a bad eye, before he reluctantly let go with a fake smile.

"Qiuqiu." Ruan Nan Candle's voice was cold, "Is someone giving you a hard time?"

Lin Qiushi looked at Ruan Nan Candle, and the moment their eyes met, he suddenly understood, at this moment, Lin Qiushi's jokester possessed him, and he sobbed and threw himself into Ruan Nan Candle's embrace, looking like I've been bullied so badly.

Ruan Nan Candle raised his head and looked at Wang Tianxin.

It was about the fact that Ruan Nan Candle's eyes were really too terrifying, and Wang Tianxin, who was bullish just now, instantly withered and smiled awkwardly, "Misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding, I didn't do anything to Qiuqiu..."

Ruan Nan Candle said, "One last time." His voice was as cold as ice, "If I find out what you attempted to do to her again, I'll get you killed." This get you killed didn't seem like harsh words at all, even Lin Qiushi, who was leaning against Ruan Nan Candle's bosom, sensed the strong killing intent.

Ruan Nan Candle was serious.

Lin Qiushi knew it, and so did Wang Tianxin.

So he responded in a panic, turned around and left, not even going to the toilet.

Lin Qiushi simply wanted to spit as he looked at his back as he fled in defeat.

"Is everything alright?" Ruan Nan Candle asked him.

Lin Qiushi shook his head, then pointed to the bite marks below his ear.

Who knew that in the next moment, something warm and soft was attached to it and sucked for a moment, and Lin Qiushi stared at it, reflexively trying to push the person in front of him away, but Ruan Nan Candle laughed lowly and said, "Little dumb girl, do you really think I'm some kind of good person?"

Lin Qiushi: "...Big Brother, are you that happy if you act a bit?

"I'm not a good person either." Ruan Nan Candle's fingers rubbed heavily on that spot, causing Lin Qiushi to shiver, and he opened his mouth to speak, but Ruan Nan Candle made a shushing gesture, indicating that he had ears through the wall.

"If you're good and obey me, I'll take you out." Ruan Nan Candle said, "If you're not good, don't blame me for leaving you in there alone."

Lin Qiushi: "......." that's about right.

Ruan Nan Candle: "Got it?"

Lin Qiushi could only nod his head.

So Ruan Nan Candle showed a satisfied expression and held Lin Qiushi's hand and went out.

At this moment, Lin Qiushi finally understood the sinister intentions of Ruan Nancandle's goods to make him act as a dumb girl.

Lin Qiushi finished drinking the milk in front of him, sighing in his heart that the human heart was really sinister....

The others looked at Ruan Nan Candle and Lin Qiushi with even more ambiguous eyes, probably treating them as a dating duo as well.

Lin Qiushi is now really dumb, unable to say anything, can only stare at Ruan Nancandle.

Ruan Nanzhu said shamelessly, "Don't stare, stare again hard ah."

Lin Qiushi: "???" God is fucking hard.

Finally settling the breakfast, Lin Qiushi hurriedly dragged Ruan Nanzhu out of the restaurant, they planned to go to the homes of the missing children for a few days yesterday to check on them first.

This town has a small population, it is said that there are only eight or nine children in the whole town, and the loss of three all at once is naturally considered a big deal.

Ruan Nancandle and Lin Qiushi soon arrived at the first place where the children were lost, and along with them, a few old people from the team.

When the family saw them, their attitude was indifferent, almost like asking and answering a question, and they didn't offer any information from start to finish.

Good enough to be willing to answer just fine, Nguyen Nam Candle asked a few key questions - when the child disappeared, where he disappeared, who he last saw before he disappeared, and if there was any warning before he disappeared.

"He's already weird-tempered." As a parent, having a child go missing should have been very sad, but the family's attitude was very strange, as if they didn't want to talk about it at all: "He didn't come home all day, he disappeared one dusk six days ago, went out and didn't come back. Before he disappeared, he met with his sister, and as for omens, would he still be missing if there were omens?"

Everyone jotted down these clues one by one, and it so happened that the missing child's sister was also there, so Ruan Nam Candle found his sister and asked about it too.

It was about the fact that he was really pretty looking and could easily win the favor of young girls, so that sister was nice to them.

She should be seventeen or eighteen years old, not too outstanding in appearance, with some freckles on her cheeks, but the pretty blonde hair behind her was very conspicuous, she said: "My brother Lauren said someone was following him before he disappeared, but this town is so big and there are no outsiders, who would follow a child? We didn't even take his words to heart at the time..." she seemed to feel a little guilty, her eyes moistening.

"Would you mind if we went to his room, please?" Ruanan Candle asked.

"Come on, we'll take you there." Sister said.

The missing child's name was Lauren, and the room was a penthouse on the top floor, very narrow and cluttered, with a small bed stuffed into the modest room, as well as an assortment of books and a few random things.

Because the attic was so narrow, we couldn't all go in together, we had to go in in batches to check.

Lin Qiushi, Ruan Nanzhu and another girl were the first ones to come in.

Ruan Nan Candle went straight to the bookcase, while Lin Qiushi started to check Lauren's bed.

Soon, Lin Qiushi made a discovery, he saw a notebook with a lock under Lauren's pillow, he reacted quickly and in a flash he picked up the notebook and stuffed it into his clothes, pretending as if nothing had happened. It was only then that Lin Qiushi felt that women's clothing was a bit of an advantage, after all, boys were wearing simple clothes, it was not easy to hide something.

Ruan Nan Candle, on the other hand, found a lot of notes on the bookcase that Lauren had made, Lauren had been looking up about local urban legends before she disappeared, and these urban legends were rich, including the long, thin ghostly figure mentioned in the clue.

"Looks like he had a hunch," Ruan Nan Candle analyzed, "There was an omen for this death within the gate."

Lin Qiushi nodded, indicating that he knew, and pointed at the door.

Ruan Nan Candle looked at him and understood what he meant, "Come on, let's go out."

They walked outside the house on the pretext of getting some fresh air and found a deserted corner where Lin Qiushi pulled out Lauren's diary from his clothes.

Ruan Nan Candle smiled at him like this, "Very skilled."

Lin Qiushi was suffocated: "Stop it, quickly look at what's inside."

Ruan Nan Candle nodded, he easily opened the lock on top of the notebook and saw the contents inside.

The front of the notebook was full of the contents of a little kid's daily life, complaining about his parents, complaining about school, etc., and school?

Lin Qiushi said, "There are still schools in this town?"

Ruan Nam Candle: "Some of them, but not here, it should be in the next town."

Lin Qiushi: "Oh... I haven't heard from the town mayor."

Ruan Nam Candle: "He turned out not to be his real son, no wonder the parents have that kind of attitude."

Lauren is not his father's child, but his mother took him and remarried him, while his stepfather has always disliked him and has often picked on him, even beating him. He had also acted carelessly after his disappearance, as if he didn't care about the fact that his child was missing.

"Where's Lauren's mother?" Lin Qiushi was a bit strange.

"There wasn't much mention." Ruan Nan Candle, "...that's very strange."

It was strange indeed, they hadn't seen the mistress when they entered the house, and no one had mentioned that there had been a mistress in the house.

Continuing to scroll down, Lin Qiushi saw a clue about the disappearance.

In the notebook, Lauren had been complaining about someone who seemed to be following him from his way to and from school, but couldn't find the person.

At first the tone of Lauren's complaints was just anger and boredom, but soon the anger and boredom turned into fear, and Lauren seemed to have found something....

"It appeared outside my window again, and I hid under the bed, hoping it wouldn't find me."

"This time I hid in the closet, but luckily not under the bed, I saw it bend down and reach towards the bottom of the bed to remove it, like it was looking for me."

"No one believed me, they all thought I was crazy, the thing almost squeezed through the crack in the window, I didn't know what it was."

"I knew its name, but there wasn't enough time, it was too late..."

"It's all over."

These were the contents of Lauren's recent diary, which had jotted down the last five words a few days before: it's all over.

It was the last diary entry, after which Lauren disappeared and the diary stopped.

"Looks like that's what took the baby." Lin Qiushi finished reading the diary, "The long, skinny ghost..."

Ruan Nan Candle: "Where would it take him..."

Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nan Candle looked at each other and laughed awkwardly, "It won't be brought to the cannery."

This town seems to have just one particular location.

Ruan Nam Candle: "So did you eat canned fish in the morning?"

Lin Qiushi quickly shook his head, the canned fish didn't look like it tasted very good, he had a light breakfast and was even less interested.

But although he didn't eat it, the others ate quite a bit, especially Wang Tianxin who seemed to have a fondness for fish.

Lin Qiushi: "Can't think about it in detail, it's too disgusting."

Ruan Nanzhu: "Where do you want to go next?"

Lin Qiushi: "Aren't there still a few missing children, go and see them, if there's anything in common it would be good."

Ruan Nan Candle nodded and agreed to Lin Qiushi's proposal.

So the two of them headed towards the home of the two remaining missing children, discussing some details about the town in passing on the way.

Of course, in order to maintain the mute girl persona, Lin Qiushi didn't dare to say too much and used the voice function of his phone to communicate with Ruan Nan Candle almost the entire time.

Ruan Nan Candle looked at him as he bowed his head and typed, smiling, "Qiuqiu, you're so cute."

Lin Qiu Shi: Where is it cute?

Ruan Nam Candle: "Everywhere is cute, I want to carry you back and lock you up and show you only to me."

Lin Qiushi: "... "Ruan Nam Candle do you know you look like a pervert like that?

Ruan Nan Candle: "Haha, I'm just kidding."

Lin Qiushi: ".......Seriously, every time Ruan Nan Candle said this, he felt that Ruan Nan Candle was serious.

The author has something to say: note: no surprise every day is updated at 10 am, the rest of the time are correcting typos, don't say I'm not on time la, I'm just an innocent fat dog.

The 2 7 chapters seem to have a very contradictory bug, Ruan Nam Candle said it was his own note, now modified, everything is subject to the later settings, thank you for helping me sort out (author demented face).

Some readers have asked why it's the sixth door, so I'll help you straighten it out, here's the order in which Lin Qiushi entered the door

First door: meet with Nguyen Nam Candle.

Second fan:, Phil Summer Bird, Lin Qiushi's second door, and Nguyen Nam Candle.

Third fan: Ah Sister Drum, the fifth fan of the scuffed Cheng Qianli, so it's a straightforward jump from the second to the fifth fan of difficulty.

Fourth fan: the rainy girl, which belongs to the pickup, scuffs the door of Tan Zao Zao, as the door is lower than fifth, and doesn't count for the entry count.

Fifth fan: zozi, which rubs against Xia Rupei's door, as the door is lower than level five and does not count towards the entry count.

Sixth door: the slender ghost shadow, Lin Qiushi's own door.

Regarding getting the note, for example: if A didn't scuff the door, then if he entered the fifth door, then he took the clue for the sixth one.

If A scuffs the door, then he takes the clue from the next door of the person he scuffed. In other words, if A came out of the fifth door, but kept rubbing other people's fifth door to get the note, then he could get a lot of clues about the six doors, and the doors were matched based on the clues, which meant he could pick a clue to enter the door himself.

That's why Lin Qiushi never knew what happened to his sixth door note, because the clues for his sixth door were obtained after Ruan Nanzhu rubbed against other people's doors, not by him.

I don't know if you know how to light a cigarette or not (with a vicarious expression)