Kaleidoscope of Death

Under the darkness of the night, Lin Qiushi finally fell into a deep sleep, his sleep was a little restless, because of his hearing, even the smallest movement could wake him up from his sleep.

Because of his hearing, even the smallest movement could wake him up from his sleep. Today was no exception, but he heard a strange sound again.

At first, the sound was very faint and could not be heard clearly, Lin Qiushi was hazy from sleep and closed his eyes without opening them. However, as time passed, the sound started to get louder and louder, if I had to describe it, it would be similar to the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.

While Lin Qiushi was pondering what kind of sound it was, he was completely awakened by a loud noise, which was so loud that even Ruan Nanzhu on the upper bunk and Feng Yongle on the bed next to him heard it.

"What's wrong?" Feng Yongle's confused voice came out.

Ruan Nan Candle knew that Lin Qiushi must have woken up, and he said, "It's coming from the window."

Feng Yongle said, "Want to go take a look?"

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Wait a little longer."

So the three of them continued to lie on the bed, and a few minutes later another loud noise, this time much closer to them.

Lin Qiushi heard the noise of Ruan Nanzhu sitting up on the bed, and he slowly climbed down from the top bunk, as if he wanted to go see what was happening by the window.

Seeing this, Lin Qiushi also straightened up, wanting to get up and go with him to see.

Ruan Nanzhu looked at him and didn't say anything.

They left the bed, walked over to the window, they were worried that there was something outside and moved very carefully.

"There's nothing." Ruan Nan Candle looked out towards the window to make sure there was something outside.

Nothing? Lin Qiushi started typing: it sounded a bit like a heavy object landing on the ground.

Ruan Nam Candle: "Heavy object landing?"

He revealed a thoughtful look.

While Ruan Nan Candle was pondering, Lin Qiushi, who was facing the window, saw a shadow falling from outside the window, followed by a familiar bang - "Bang!"

This time, Lin Qiushi finally knew what the sound was, it was the sound of a person jumping down from a building and a body landing on the ground.

Ruan Nan Candle looked towards the window again, only to see an additional body on the previously empty ground that had been thrown to pieces. This corpse could not be seen clearly in the cover of the night, but Lin Qiushi could clearly see that the corpse was wearing this nursing home's nurse's uniform. A large amount of blood gushed out from her body, she seemed to have landed head first, her entire body standing in a twisted posture on the rigid concrete floor, her body still slowly twitching.

This was the source of the loud noise, Ruan Nan Candle looked at the corpse in silence for a moment and whispered, "So it was her."

Lin Qiushi didn't understand and cast a puzzled look towards him.

Ruan Nan Candle explained, "She was wearing those red high heels from earlier..."

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

As the two of them were talking, the body of the nurse who had been thrown to pieces actually began to move slowly, her legs seemed to be broken, so she used both of her hands to move, slowly crawling towards the building in front of her....

Feng Yongle also got out of bed, and once he reached the bed, he saw the scene, his face pale and cursed.

The nurse's body soon crawled into the building they were in, and the blood stains on the floor began to fade away.

Lin Qiushi was wondering what else was going to happen next, but he faintly heard a rustling noise coming from the direction of the stairs, and it was good that it wasn't approaching towards them, but was going higher up the stairs.

Three minutes later, the room above them suddenly leapt down with a shadow and another loud noise - the nurse had actually climbed into the room above them and jumped down again.

"I've heard that people who commit suicide keep going through the same scenario," Feng Yongle said, looking at the images in front of him, "It's horrible."

Ruan Nam Candle slowly said, "It is quite scary." He said scary, but his tone wasn't necessarily scary.

This nurse just kept climbing up the stairs and kept jumping down, from left to right, almost all of the upstairs row of rooms. It wasn't until the sky was flooded with morning light that it all finally ended.

Ruan Nanzhu looked at his watch and said it was almost breakfast time, let's go.

Lin Qiushi hadn't slept almost all night and his whole body was sleepy, he yawned and stretched his hand to rub his eyes.

The three of them went downstairs to the cafeteria just as they met the others, and it looked like they too hadn't slept all night, so they probably had been watching the jump all night.

"So sleepy." Feng Yongle grumbled, "Why don't we go back for a nap together later."

"Sure." Ruan Nanzhu said.

Lin Qiushi agreed in a heartbeat, now with two dark circles around his face, purposely looking even more haggard. The one who wanted to team up with him before at the cafeteria, Jiang Yingrui, was sitting next to them and smiled towards them when he saw them, Lin Qiushi pretended not to see it, but Ruan Nam Candle smiled in response.

"Good morning." Jiang Yingrui walked next to them, "Did you sleep well last night?"

"Not good." Ruanan Candle said, "Didn't you hear that noise?"

"Naturally, I heard it." Jiang Yingrui spoke with Ruan Nan Candle, but his eyes were on Lin Qiushi, "Did you guys watch all night?"

"I'm fine, Qiu Qiu seems to be a light sleeper and doesn't sleep much, so I stayed with her." Ruan Nan Candle replied, "Did you all go to bed?"

Jiang Yingrui: "Naturally."

"Oh, that's awesome." Ruan Nanzhu, "What else is there?"

"No more." Jiang Yingrui laughed, "Does breakfast still taste good?"

"Ordinary." Ruan Nan Candle put down the spoon in her hand, "You won't find it delicious."

Jiang Yingrui shook his head, pulled out a chocolate from his pocket and handed it to Ruan Nam Candle, "If you're hungry, you can eat some of this."

When Lin Qiushi saw the chocolate, he didn't move a muscle and looked at Jiang Yingrui.

Jiang Yingrui didn't notice his gaze and straightened up, "Then I'll take my leave."

"Okay." Ruan Nanzhu took the chocolate and put it in his pocket, smiling, "Goodbye."

Jiang Yingrui turned around and left.

"This chocolate looks delicious." Ruan Nam Candle said, "Let's try it properly after our nap later." He said this in a calm tone, just like he was discussing something insignificant, but Lin Qiushi, who knew him, knew that Ruan Nam Candle was angry.

Indeed it was time to be angry, Lin Qiushi wiped his mouth, this Jiang Yingrui, he didn't know what he had in mind.

Inside the door, certain key NPCs would give them clues and set a rule for them. Most of the clues were true, but the rules were both true and false.

For example, they can't skip the cafeteria and can't eat food brought from outside, which is one of the rules the nurse who led them upstairs said.

After the scene yesterday where the noodle-eating patient forked his own eyeball, you can learn that the rule of not eating anything is true.

Now it's the sixth door, that Jiang Yingrui is not a newcomer, so even knowing the rules, he deliberately came over to give Ruan Nanzhu a bar of chocolate, when his heart can be punished.

If you don't notice or don't pay attention to the rules the nurse said and eat the chocolate, who knows what will happen.

And even if nothing happens, it's just a false rule for others to rule out.

Back at the residence, Ruan Nanzhu took out the chocolate and observed it carefully, and after making sure it was just an ordinary bar of chocolate, he broke it up and threw it straight into the sewer.

When he did this, Lin Qiushi was standing next to him, Lin Qiushi was a bit confused and typed: as soon as I came that Jiang Yingrui wanted to team up with me.

Ruan Nan Candle: "Directly came over to team up with you?"

Well, Lim Chokshi-do, it was straightforward, like... locked me in the crowd. He couldn't quite figure it out: was there anything different about me?

Ruan Nan Candle gave a subtle smile at the news: "You do have something different for certain people."

Lin Qiushi: Eh?

Ruan Nan Candle: "It seems that he is somewhat similar to me."

Lin Qiushi looked at Ruan Nan Candle in confusion.

Ruan Nan Candle whispered, "Both can see something."

Lin Qiushi was stunned and still wanted to ask more, but Ruan Nan Candle had refused to say anything more. Lin Qiushi thought carefully, but then he remembered his first encounter with Ruan Nancang, when he felt that Ruan Nancang was special to him, although Ruan Nancang explained that he had mistaken the client, but Lin Qiushi didn't think that Ruan Nancang would make such a low-level mistake.

Now he had an answer to his question, however.

Ruan Nam Candle could see something and there was something about him that caught Ruan Nam Candle's eye.

Lin Qiushi was wondering what that something was.

Ruan Nan Candle just leaned in to Lin Qiushi's ear and his lips gently pursed Lin Qiushi's ear: "Of course it's your beauty, little dumb girl."

Lin Qiushi got a shiver from the sip and wanted to take two steps backwards, but Ruan Nan Candle pulled his arm.

"Why else do you think you're special?" Ruan Nan Candle laughed lowly, his aggressive eyes actually did not contradict his beautiful face at all, but rather made people cringe.

Lin Qiushi was actually a little confused for a moment as to whether Ruan Nanzhu was serious or acting.

At this moment, Feng Yongle knocked on the door and said: "What are you two doing in there? Has it been this long?"

Ruan Nan Candle pushed out the door, "It's none of your business."

Feng Yongle's neck shrank at Ruan Nanzhu's rude stare, and he said a bit aggrieved, "I... I also want to go to the toilet."

Ruan Nan Candle: "Is your kidney so bad at a young age?"

Feng Yongle: "...and..."

Ruan Nanzhu: "Is it still okay."

Feng Yongle angrily said, "Are you going to try it?"

Ruan Nan Candle looked at Feng Yongle with a smiley expression: "Really try."

As a result, Feng Yongle wimped out and dejectedly went into the toilet, pretending that he hadn't said anything.

Lin Qiushi smiled and looked at Ruan Nam Candle.

Ruan Nan Candle showed an innocent color: "Baby, don't look at me like that. Don't worry, my heart is still with you."

Lin Qiushi didn't bother to pay attention to Ruan Nan Candle and turned around to go back to bed.

They took an hour's nap, then picked up their spirits to continue exploring the sanatorium.

The clue to this door was provided by Feng Yongle, and Ruan Nan Candle had chosen to take the job because the door had a detailed backstory and belonged to the world of traceability.

After the lead NPC gave the clue of the door and key, both Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nam Candle thought of a certain background that they found inside the clue.

It was the Mt. Waverly Sanatorium, which had a very special tunnel in it.

This tunnel was originally used for entering, exiting and transporting supplies, but as more and more patients died inside, the tunnel began to serve another purpose - to transport corpses.

After the corpses were wrapped and transported out of the Mt. Waverly Sanatorium from there, the tunnel's original purpose was instead diluted, even earning the name Death Tunnel.

"That tunnel should be the key clue," Nguyen Nam Candle said, "with an 80 percent probability that the door is there."

The nurse said that there were only seven days, after which they were to be treated, which was almost an indication that they only had seven days to find a way out of here.

If they hadn't left after seven days...there was no telling what would happen.

"If it's a tunnel then it must be somewhere lower in the ground, right?" Feng Yongle was also positive in his analysis, "Should we look around the sanatorium?"

"It's not necessarily in a low terrain." Ruan Nan Candle shook his head, "It could also be in a room somewhere, after all, this isn't a normal world that doesn't exist that has to meet building codes. Let's go to where the tunnel was originally located first."

"Good." Feng Yongle agreed.

Lin Qiushi now found that it was actually quite good to be a mute, not having to speak and having more time to think.

The original location of the tunnel in the Mt. Weyfli Sanatorium was the ground floor of the building, the three of them turned around on the ground floor and found nothing without surprise.

It did seem that the location of the tunnel had changed just as Ruan Nan Candle had said.

"Where is that?" Feng Yongle said, "This building is so big."

Ruan Nanzhu shook his head and didn't say anything.

Lin Qiushi typed, "Let's go to each floor first and look for any other clues.

This was the only way, so the three of them went from low to high and started looking for clues about the tunnel.

They encountered a few other teams during this period, and compared to their easy-going attitude, the other teams were much more agitated. After all, they didn't know about the tunnel or the background of this sanatorium, and they had to start with the most basic clues if they wanted to find a way to leave.

Lin Qiushi, on the other hand, once again felt the importance of the clues deeply.

After climbing three floors, they hadn't found anything special. They only saw a group of patients with extremely poor mental states.

The environment of the sanatorium was poor, some of the patients were even placed above the aisles, the weather was not so hot at this time, the wind blowing in from outside was chilly, but these patients were put in the windows to blow cold air - it was said that this would allow them to breathe more fresh air.

Lin Qiushi had seen this scene in the background, but when he actually saw it, he still felt uncomfortable... This kind of behavior was simply a straw man.

They went up to the fifth floor and took a look at that legendary room 502 first.

There was a large padlock on the room, but it was useless to Ruan Nanzhu.

So under Feng Yongle's astonished gaze, Ruan Nam Candle easily opened the big lock.

The door was pushed open, revealing the dust-filled room behind.

The room looked like it hadn't been used for a long time, it should have been an office or something like that before. Because there were no hospital beds in there, there were only some bookcases and desks.

What was more attractive to Lin Qiushi was that there were actually books on top of these bookcases.

The three of them walked into the room.

Lin Qiushi pulled out a book from the bookcase and discovered that it was about pathology. In fact, most of the books on the bookcase were related to treating patients, but in fact, there was a great misunderstanding in medicine at that time, and Lin Qiushi remembered that there seemed to be some kind of bloodletting and other treatments that seemed very absurd today.

"Fuck, what is this!" Feng Yongle was going through the cupboard when he suddenly took a few steps back, as if he was scared by something.

Lin Qiushi leaned over to take a look and saw the drawer in front of Feng Yongle was pulled open, revealing a dried skeleton inside, the skeleton was so small that it looked like a premature baby.

"What are you putting it here for." Feng Yongle said, "And didn't the clue say... a failed abortion?"

A botched abortion is not a very serious matter for today, nothing more than the need to re-scrape the uterus. But it was very deadly for the sanatorium, where medical treatment was limited at the time. And to top it all off, the child was actually an unrecognized illegitimate child.

"It was a botched abortion," Ruan Nam Candle observed for a moment, "This infant's body is missing a part."

Feng Yongle laughed bitterly, "You're so bold."

Ruan Nan Candle didn't say anything, but just when Lin Qiushi thought he wouldn't say anything, he suddenly spoke out, "This baby's skeleton was just put in.

"What?" Feng Yongle was shocked.

"There's no dust around." Ruan Nam Candle said, "...it's clean."

Everything in this room was covered in dust, except for here, the infant skeleton was not covered in dust, instead it was very clean, as if it had been carefully placed here.

Lin Qiushi walked around the place where the infant wreckage was kept twice and found a locked cabinet under the drawers, he waved at Ruan Nan Candle and pointed.

Ruan Nam Candle half crouched down and used a hairpin to open the cupboard as well.

Ruan Nam Candle looked at Lin Qiushi, reached out and opened the lid of the shoe box, and saw that inside the shoe box was a red high-heeled shoe - the same as the one they saw yesterday in the corridor.

The moment they opened the shoebox, however, Lin Qiushi suddenly heard a child's cry, and he stiffened slightly, then realized that the cry was coming from the drawer....

"Whoo, whoo." Like a newborn baby, the already dried up infant skeleton opened its eyes and began to wriggle its arms and legs.

He tried to climb out of the drawer, and Ruan Nan Candle reacted quickly, pushing the drawer right back into place.

"Go." Ruanan Candle said.

The three of them turned and walked away in good grace, not forgetting to re-close the large lock on their way out.

As soon as they left the house, the child's cries stopped.

A thin layer of cold sweat rose on Feng Yong Le's forehead and he swallowed, "That child, will it have anything to do with the key?"

"I don't know," Nguyen Nan Candle said, "but we can be sure it has something to do with the red shoes."

The three of them spoke and went back downstairs to their quarters

Because of yesterday's accident, before entering the door, Lin Qiushi had made a special effort to make sure that the house number of their residence hadn't turned into the strange 502 before he planned to enter.

But although their house number didn't turn into 502, the one next to it turned into 502, Lin Qiushi was planning to go and remind him, but Ruan Nan Candle held him back: "It's Jiang Yingrui's room."

Lin Qiushi's footsteps paced.

"Since he likes you so much, he even gave me a bar of chocolates on purpose." Ruan Nan Candle said this with a smile on his skin, "We have to return some gifts or something."

Lin Qiushi nodded his head, indicating that he understood.

The matter of Jiang Yingrui sending Ruan Nan Candle chocolates was definitely a hidden evil, Lin Qiushi was not naive enough to think that he really wanted to think that Ruan Nan Candle was not eating well specifically to care for Ruan Nan Candle.

Feng Yongle is also fine with this, saying that everyone in the troupe is a competitor except for their teammates, so it's okay if one of them dies.

They went back to the house and discussed the results of today's inspection.

While he was talking, Lin Qiushi heard tiny footsteps coming from their door, it was very soft and if it wasn't for Lin Qiushi's unusually sharp hearing, he would have missed it.

Lin Qiushi initially thought it was a case of running around on high heels like yesterday, but after the footsteps, he heard a little sound from the door, something like paper and wood rubbing against each other.

Lin Qiushi made a stop gesture, interrupting the discussion between Ruan Nam Candle and Feng Yongle, and extended his hand to point at the door.

Ruan Nan Candle understood and stood up, walking to the door and pulling it open.

When the door opened, there was actually a girl with an awkward expression standing outside the door, Lin Qiushi remembered her name, Xue Zhiyun who wanted to join them yesterday, but was ultimately rejected by Ruan Nan Candle.

"Something wrong." Ruan Nan Candle asked in a cold voice.

"No, nothing." Xue Zhiyun's expression was a bit panicked, "I... just wanted to come and say hello to you guys."

Ruan Nan Candle looked up, looking towards their door, only to see that the door number 406 had been taken off the door and was being squeezed in Xue Zhiyun's hand, while her other hand was hidden behind her, shaking slightly all over her body.

"What do you have in your hand?" Ruan Nan Candle's voice was very soft.

Xue Zhiyun's body trembled even more, the person in front of her didn't have a heavy tone, and her eyes couldn't say fierce, but she found him terrifying, even with goosebumps on her back.

"What are you holding in your hand?" Ruan Nan Candle asked again.

Lin Qiushi knew he was about to explode, and he rushed to grab it from Xue Zhiyun's hand hidden behind his back before Ruan Nan Candle could explode.

It was a house number, and the number 502 on it was so eye-catching that it hurt one's eyes.

When Ruan Nan Candle saw this house number, he smiled, he reached out and grabbed Xue Zhiyun's hair, lifting her face up hard and forcing her to look at him, "Xue Zhiyun, right? I remember you - no, it should be that I remember you."

Xue Zhiyun was trembling with fear, and with a crying voice and Ruan Nam Candle said sorry.

Ruan Nam Candle released his grip on Xue Zhiyun's hand and took the door number from Lin Qiushi's hand, his tone was calm, like the sea on the eve of a storm, "I suggest that you must sleep separately at night, and it's best to share several rooms." He laughed, "After all, who knows when the number plate will appear on your doorstep."

As soon as this was said, Xue Zhiyun bawled her eyes out.

Ruan Nanzhu, however, rudely closed the door.

Lin Qiushi looked at the closed door and frowned, "Why did they do that, didn't they say that killing someone inside the door would be avenged?"

Ruan Nan Candle faintly said, "It will indeed be avenged, provided that the person killed at least knows how they died and by whom."

If even one's own death was confusing, how could one talk about revenge?