Kaleidoscope of Death

The ghost shadow saw the hat in Ruan Nam Candle's hand and rushed towards him, his tall body was very nimble, like a beast, he lunged towards Ruan Nam Candle, watching Lin Qiushi break out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, Ruan Nam Candle's physical strength was higher than normal people, he dodged backwards, dodging the ghost's attack in an impossible position.

But at this time, the ghostly shadow was no more than a few meters away from Ruan Nanzhu, so it would be difficult for Ruan Nanzhu to avoid it if he struck again.

Lin Qiushi shouted at the side, "Throw me the hat - quick -"

Ruan Nanzhu looked at Lin Qiushi, his hand raised, and the black hat flew towards Lin Qiushi. The atmosphere was tense to the extreme, but Lin Qiushi felt he had never been so calm before, he grabbed the hat thrown by Ruan Nanzhu, turned around and ran.

Behind him came the angry roar of the ghosts, accompanied by the sound of running feet on the ground, Lin Qiushi did not dare to stop and ran forward with all his might.

"This way - throw it to me!" Ruan Nan Candle's voice came from the distance, but Lin Qiushi turned around to see that the ghostly figure had reached a few meters behind him, and in just a few seconds, he would be pounced upon by this thing himself. He saw Ruan Nam Candle with a taut expression and followed his example, throwing his hat back.

Ruan Nam Candle managed to catch it, once again attracting the attention of the ghostly figure.

While Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nam Candle were stalling for time, Dong Tianwei, who was standing under the notice board, called out, "The door is open? Come on!"

Lin Qiushi looked up and saw that a piece of the wooden board beneath the notice board had been removed, revealing a soft white light inside, a light Lin Qiushi was all too familiar with - meaning departure and new life.

"Go to the door-" Ruan Nanzhu gritted his teeth, as if he didn't want to throw his hat at Lin Qiushi anymore, instead choosing to bring it over himself. But apparently the ghostly figure was so much faster than him that he was about to be caught up as far as the eye could see.

"Give it to me, quick! Give it to me!!!" Lin Qiushi was scared out of a cold sweat and shouted loudly at Ruan Nan Candle.

Ruan Nan Candle, however, was still hesitating.

"Don't hesitate any longer, you'll die-" Lin Qiushi was so anxious to swear as he watched Ruan Nan Candle's movements, "Quick-" the ghostly figure had already arrived behind Ruan Nan Candle!

After a slight hesitation, Ruan Nan Candle still threw his hat, and this time after Lin Qiushi caught it, he didn't run with it, but grabbed it in his hand and threw it in the opposite direction of the door with all his might-!

After the hat appeared, all of Ghost Shadow's attention was on the hat, and Lin Qiushi threw the hat, and although he was very angry at the two humans who were teasing him, he eventually chose to go after the hat. Lin Qiushi was relieved at the sight and quickly ran towards the door.

The rest of the team had already entered the door, leaving only Ruan Nan Candle and Lin Qiushi, Ruan Nan Candle was slightly closer to the door, he reached the door first, but he didn't rush in after he arrived, but waited for Lin Qiushi to come over.

Lin Qiushi looked at the ember just in front of him with a shallow smile, and was about to say that they had finally escaped, but he saw Ruan Nan Candle's face change greatly, "Lin Qiushi-"

Not knowing what he saw, he didn't even control himself to call out Lin Qiushi's real name.

Lin Qiushi reflexively turned his head, only to see an afterimage, which arrived in front of him in an instant, then stopped and grinned at Lin Qiushi.

The remnant shadow was actually the Noodle Man, after he had gotten his hat, his strength had increased greatly and his speed had become so fast, if he had followed his previous speed, Lin Qiushi would have been able to reach the door, but now... he seemed to have lost his chance of escape...

The ghostly shadow stretched out its hand towards Lin Qiushi.

Everything around him seemed to become very, very slow, Lin Qiushi felt his neck being heavily cupped by a pair of cold hands, his eyes began to darken and his body became cold.

Was he going to die... Lin Qiushi thought calmly, as if death... wasn't as painful as he thought it would be.

Just as the darkness was about to cover his eyes, Lin Qiushi's body loosened and the ghostly figure let out a miserable scream, like it was in pain.

Lin Qiushi fell to the ground and couldn't stop coughing.

Ruan Nan Candle seized the opportunity to rush to his side, picking him up across the room and turning to rush through the glowing door behind him.

In his last moments away from this world, Lin Qiushi saw what was attacking the ghostly figure, a black mist of two children in human form, somewhat holding hands, standing in front of the ghostly figure, the black mist covering it halfway. The ghostly figure was still struggling. The source of the black mist, however, seemed to be on Lin Qiushi himself, who looked down slightly and saw that the black mist was flowing out of his backpack... so what was in his backpack, anyway?

After being carried inside the door by Ruan Nan Candle, the cold feeling was finally gone. Only a little soft, Lin Qiushi leaned on Ruan Nan Candle's shoulder and coughed lowly.

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Is everything alright?"

Lin Qiushi shook his head, signaling that he was fine, and he said, "What was that black mist just now?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "I don't know."

Lin Qiushi: "It seems like it came out of my bag..." he opened the bag to reveal its contents.

Every time they entered the house, they would bring some supplies and emergency food, and this time Lin Qiushi also brought them, and the only thing in the bag that was special besides these things was a notebook - the diary belonging to his sister that Ruan Nanzhu brought out that time in Ah Sister's drum world and later gave to Lin Qiushi.

"Is this it?" Ruan Nanzhu had always said that this notebook should have a special effect, but Lin Qiushi hadn't researched it out, and didn't expect it to have such an effect today.

Lin Qiushi took out the notebook and after flipping it open, he found that on the first page of the notebook, there was an additional blood-red character for "death", and then this character for "death" was marked with a huge black cross.

"It should be..." Nguyen Nam Candle Dao, "Good thing you have it with you."

Lin Qiushi laughed bitterly, "I always carry it with me... but how many times can I use this notebook?"

Ruan Nan Candle shook his head, "There won't be many times, it's a low level door, even if there are props, it's a low level prop, once or twice at most."

Lin Qiushi sighed: "Good thing I'm out."

Ruan Nan Candle mmmed, "Let's go."

With more doors in, it would become normal to encounter threats to life, and Lin Qiushi was lucky enough to follow Ruan Nan Candle's group. So it didn't feel that dangerous, but after passing through this door, Lin Qiushi realized clearly that they would die at any moment inside the door.

The tunnel was long, and neither of them spoke much.

It wasn't until they were about to reach the end that Ruan Nan Candle turned his head and asked, "Scared?"

Lin Qiushi shook his head.

Ruan Nan Candle: "Not afraid?"

Lin Qiushi said very honestly, "I don't feel as horrible as I thought." He was talking about the matter of dying.

In the meantime, Ruan Nanzhu listened to it, but he gazed at Lin Qiushi for a moment, his eyes unfamiliar as if it was the first day he knew the person in front of him.

Lin Qiushi was a bit baffled by his look: "What?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "Nothing." But he refused to say anything.

After leaving the tunnel and returning to reality, Lin Qiushi appeared on the couch in the living room, he had gotten up to go upstairs to look for Ruan Nan Candle, who knew that as soon as he got up, he went soft and black in front of his eyes, and fell straight to the floor. By the time he opened his eyes again, he was already lying in the hospital with a drip in his arm.

Cheng Qianli sat next to him playing with his phone, saw him wake up sighing and said, "Qiushi ah, how are you so unlucky, people are coming out of the door getting healthier and healthier, as a result you came out and went into the hospital...."

Lin Qiushi: "I want to know too." There was a black handprint all over his neck now, it looked like he had been mercilessly abused, the hospital had even attempted to call the police, and in the end it was Nguyen Nam Candle who took care of the doctor.

"How did he explain it?" Lin Qiushi curiously asked Cheng Qianli.

Cheng Qianli's expression twisted, "Do you really want to listen?"

Lin Qiushi: "Listen."

Cheng Qianli: "He said it's a love affair between you..."

Lin Qiushi: ".......Damn no wonder the nurse's expression was so strange when she came to change his medicine just now.

It's impossible to have reputation, Lin Qiushi looked at the ceiling sadly thinking that next time he will be injured he must change to another hospital, ghost knows what strange parts he will hurt when he comes out of the door.

After Cheng Chien-li told Ruan Nam Candle that Lin Qiu Shi woke up, he came to the hospital soon after.

After he changed into men's clothes, his demeanor expression always looked so cold, even when he was greeting people.

"Feeling so?" Ruan Nan Candle asked him.

Lin Qiushi: "It's still... successful." It's actually not very good, it's hard to talk.

Ruan Nan Candle: "It's fine, now that you're in good health, you'll be able to recuperate for another three or four days."

Lin Qiushi nodded.

Then Ruan Nan Candle left, and as he left, Lin Qiushi saw with his own eyes a few little nurses surrounding the door, with a strange look in their eyes. Lin Qiushi thought at first that the group of little nurses were interested in Ruan Nan Candle, but in the next few days, he was faced with the same question.

"Is he your boyfriend?"

"How long have you been together?"

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

The first thing you need to do is to take a look at this.

Lin Qiushi was so angry that he almost didn't come up to his head.

But even so, Lin Qiushi didn't dare to find Ruan Nancandle to complain, after all, Ruan Nancandle outside the door, but it wasn't like he was easy to talk to at all.

After being discharged from the hospital, there was a period of rest, during which Lin Qiushi listened to some gossip about the industry. It was said that the door that the White Stag member entered with Zao Zao's friend Zhang Yiqing had gone wrong, and that the movie emperor almost didn't die in the second door - you know, the second door is the easiest.

Lin Qiushi was a little surprised to hear that, "He almost died? How so, Li Dongyuan should be pretty strong, right?"

Although Cheng Qianli's IQ wasn't high, he was still very good at these gossips, he said, "This time it wasn't Li Dongyuan who personally brought it, it was also Bai Lu's bad luck, they had a traitor in the team, it's fine to have a traitor, but they actually made a bunch of fake clues."

Lin Qiushi: "....... "When he mentioned fake clues, he thought of the time when Ruan Nan Candle pitted Le Dong Yuan before.

Apparently he wasn't the only one who thought so, because the day after this happened Le Dong Yuan rushed to their villa to ask for an explanation.

"Ruan Nan Candle, you're not human!" It had to be said that compared to him inside the door, the baby-faced Li Dongyuan outside the door was like an angry Chihuahua, standing at the door after jumping to his feet, attracting a crowd of pitying gazes.

Lu Yanxue was still discussing the evening's dinner with Lin Qiushi, but after seeing him, she was so motherly that she said, "Yuan Yuan, do you want something to drink?"

Li Dongyuan: "Who the hell is Yuanyuan-"

Lu Yanxue didn't say anything, but went to the refrigerator and took out a bottle of milk and handed it to Li Dongyuan.

Li Dongyuan originally wanted to refuse, but he was really thirsty after standing at the door for so long, so he took two sips of it.

Lin Qiushi was watching from the side and really wanted to laugh.

This laugh was seen by Li Dongyuan, who said angrily, "Lin Qiushi, are you still laughing? You're still laughing, I almost got cold feet from Ruan Nam Candle-"

Lin Qiushi calmly retorted, "I'm not smiling."

Li Dongyuan looked at him suspiciously, "You didn't smile? Then why are you shaking?"

Lin Qiushi: "I'm cold." He looked at the big sun outside and added, "It's cold inside."

Le Dong Yuan: "........ "You Obsidian really are all talents.

Lai Dongyuan argued downstairs for a while before Ruan Nam Candle slowly came down from the second floor, he wore a simple white shirt on his upper body and straight jeans on his lower body, an otherwise ordinary outfit, but he was hardened into a fashion show feeling. He walked up to Li Dongyuan, his 1.9 meters tall and looked at him condescendingly, and said, "I give you three minutes, either you get out or I'll throw you out."

Li Dongyuan: "......." he silently drank a mouthful of Wang Chai and gave Lin Qiushi a pitiful look.

Lin Qiushi had nothing to say and thought to himself, "What are you looking at me for, can't I still persuade him?

Ruan Nam Candle began to roll up his sleeves, "It seems you've chosen the latter."

Le Dong Yuan drained the Wantzai in one gulp and turned around to slip away, he knew that Ruan Nam Candle wasn't joking, Ruan Nam Candle was a son of a bitch who would do anything.

Lin Qiushi withdrew his gaze from Lai Dong Yuan's back, but found Ruan Nan Candle watching him, he inexplicably had a layer of cold sweat on his back and laughed dryly, "What's wrong?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "You know him well?"

Lin Qiushi straightened his back and quickly explained, "I don't know him well, I knew his name, I didn't even say a few words?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "Then what did he just look at you for."

Lin Qiushi: "...I want to know too!

Ruan Nan Candle said indifferently, "Stay away from him, Le Dong Yuan is not as simple a person as he appears to be."

Lin Qiushi nodded his head like pounding garlic, begging for his life to once again express his love for Obsidian Stone, his disdain for White Stag, and his anger at Le Dong Yuan.

Although Ruan Nanzhu's expression didn't change much, he should still be happy to hear it, nodded his head in satisfaction and turned around.

After Ruan Nan Candle left, Lin Qiushi said, "That product Lai Dong Yuan is just trying to divorce me and Ruan Nan Candle, right?"

Cheng Qianli was watching the show and eating snacks like a hamster beside him, agreeing with Lin Qiushi's assumption: "Yes, he's a shameless cheap hoof."

Lin Qiushi was a little shocked to hear this word, "Where did you learn that word?"

Cheng Qianli: "Drama ah."

Lin Qiushi looked at the drama that was playing, and in the top left corner was the name of the drama: The Tyrannical Prince's Runaway Princess.

Lin Qiushi: "...watch less of these dramas." The IQ was already low, so would it become even more stupid to be tormented again.

All in all, Bai Lu could be said to have been very unlucky this time. Internal and external problems were basically unbroken, and the worst part was that it had also offended Zhang Yiqing.

Lin Qiushi originally thought that it had nothing to do with him and that he would just watch the show, but who knew that a few days later he received a call from Zaizao Tan. As soon as the call was connected, Tan Zaizao's cryptic voice came over, and she said, "Qiushi, I really can't help it, you must help me."

Lin Qiushi: "What's happened?"

Tan Zao Zao: "Come out, I'll buy you dinner and we'll talk slowly."

Lin Qiushi agreed.

In the evening, the two of them sat in a certain restaurant's private room, and after ordering the food, Tan Zao Zao began to talk things over with Lin Qiushi. Actually, Lin Qiushi had guessed a bit about this matter, and it probably had something to do with Zhang Yiqing. Tan Zao said that after coming out of the door, Zhang Yiqing was quite stimulated and had been closed and had a tendency to self-harm.

Lin Qiushi sipped his tea: "What did he encounter?"

Tan Zao Zao: "I asked, he wouldn't say, he's too stubborn, if he didn't listen to me and insist on going to the White Deer, none of this would have happened ah..." she laughed bitterly, "Now it's good to offend Ruan too. "

Lin Qiushi said, "What do you want to say to me this time?"

Tan Zao Zao whispered, "I just want to ask if you can help me persuade Brother Ruan..."

Lin Qiushi sighed, "What do you think?"

Tan Zao Zao said, "I know Ruan's temperament." She had been in the entertainment industry for decades and had met all sorts of people, yet she still had nothing to do with Ruan Nan Candle, so she could only sigh, "But you are indeed special."

Lin Qiushi was stunned.

Tan Zao Zao: "You didn't feel it?"

Lin Qiushi thought, "Nan Candle does treat me quite well."

Tan Zao Zao: "Look, you don't even call him Brother Ruan."

Lin Qiushi: "I do want to call him that." He was helpless, "But I'm older than him, I can't call him brother Ruan, right?"

Tan Zao Zao: "......." she hadn't thought of that.

Actually, Lin Qiushi had attempted to call Ruan Nanzhu Ruan, but was stopped by Ruan Nanzhu, and Ruan Nanzhu very ruthlessly stated that he was only twenty-five this year - one year younger than the twenty-six year old Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi deeply experienced the cruelty of the years to himself after knowing this.

Tan Zao Zao wanted to laugh a bit at Lin Qiushi's words, but she didn't feel it was appropriate, so she had to hold it in as she said, "Anyway, Qiushi, you're the only one who can persuade Ruan. Just help me, please." It had to be said that such a pretty girl was still very cute when she pampered herself, but Nai Lin Qiushi was very clear-headed and wasn't the kind of person who would faint for a woman - otherwise he wouldn't have been single for twenty-six years.

Come to think of it, this was a sad realization.

Lin Qiushi said, "It's not that I won't help you, it's that I don't have the confidence to be able to persuade you either, so let me tell him about it, and if he doesn't want to, there's nothing I can do."

Tan Zao Zao sighed, and that was all she could do.

In fact, there were quite a few organizations in the Gate's circle that took on this kind of work, but the ones that were as efficient and safe as Ruan Nan Candle were few and far between. In addition it is only Obsidian can do the thing of brushing the clue, other organizations, even if the members of the team into the door, not necessarily every time there will be a clue to defend themselves.

All in all, Obsidian was the best choice. But Zhang Yiqing was biased by White Deer at that time. At the mention of White Deer, Tan Jujube hated it and said that Li Dongyuan could be a real thing....

After talking for a while longer, they separated, and Lin Qiushi drove back to the villa, but went in to see some strangers sitting in the living room, seemingly discussing something with Ruan Nam Candle.

Seeing him return, Ruan Nan Candle waved at him.

Lin Qiushi obediently walked over.

"Sit." Ruan Nan Candle pointed to the sofa next to him, "Listen."

Lin Qiushi nodded his head.

He sat and listened for a while before he realized that these people had actually come to buy the clues and were now bargaining with Ruan Nan Candle to buy the clues away at a lower price.

All of these clues for sale were low level doors, almost all of them were third or fourth doors, with a small amount of fifth doors, and only one clue for the sixth door. And the price was now called up to eight figures.

Because he had been hanging out with Ruan Nan Candle for a long time, Lin Qiushi was completely unaware of how precious the clues were, but only after seeing the scene in front of him did he have a visual understanding of what Tan Zao Zao had said.

"Brother Ruan, it's not that we're unwilling, it's just that the price is a bit too high." Someone who looked like he was also the leader of the other organization smiled bitterly, "Seeing as we bought so much, can't we get it cheaper?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "It's cheap." He lifted the water on the table, took a sip, and said indifferently, "What do you need so much money for when your life is gone?"

The crowd laughed bitterly.

"The price won't change again." Ruan Nan Candle's tone was flat, but everyone knew he was serious, "Whether you buy or not is your business."

In the end, these people discussed for a while and decided to do it.

Then Lin Qiushi saw Ruan Nam Candle pull out a Pos machine from somewhere and put it in front of them for them to swipe their cards.

Lin Qiushi: "..." he really felt that Ruan Nan Candle's pretty face that wasn't food for thought and the Pos machine in front of him were full of contradictions.

Lin Qiushi didn't know exactly how much these clues had bought, but eight figures was definitely something.

After the money and goods were cleared, Ruan Nan Candle waved his hand rudely and said, "Go ahead, everyone, I won't see you off."

Those people laughed bitterly, "Brother Ruan, you're too ruthless, at least send us to the door ah."

Ruan Nan Candle was relentless, "You're giving me a raise?"

So those people didn't say anything and turned around and left.

After these people left, Ruan Nan Candle placed his gaze on Lin Qiushi, and he said without salty words, "Where did they go?"

Lin Qiushi knew that there was no way to hide this, so he could only honestly say, "Went to have dinner with Tan Zao Zao."

Ruan Nanzhu: "Oh, it's about Zhang Yiqing, isn't it."

Lin Qiushi: "Yes, she wants me to persuade you."

Ruan Nanzhu raised his eyebrows: "Then how are you going to persuade her?"

Lin Qiushi: "..." what does that mean.

Ruan Nam Candle: "You have to show some sincerity, right?"

Lin Qiushi looked at Ruan Nan Candle and the Poser in front of him and suddenly understood, "Oooooh, I see." He pulled out a bank card from his pocket, "Swipe it?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "......."

There were no words between them for a long time, and finally Lin Qiushi was frightened by the look in Ruan Nan Candle's eyes and whispered, "Nan Candle...?"

Ruan Nanzhu picked up the POS machine and got up to leave.

Lin Qiushi looked at his back in confusion and called out, "If you don't want to swipe your card, you can go by Alipay, I know there's a fee for swiping your card-"

Ruan Nan Candle turned around and went upstairs, and a moment later, Lin Qiushi heard the sound of slamming the door from upstairs.

Then for the next three days, Ruan Nan Candle didn't say a word to Lin Qiushi, completely treating him like air.

Lin Qiushi: "???" What the hell happened?

Ruan Nan Candle: Lin Qiushi, your EQ can be half of your IQ and now it's time for your child to play soy sauce.

Lin Qiushi: .......

Did Lin Qiushi get the hang of it today? None.