Kaleidoscope of Death

Lin Qiushi guessed that the key probably had something to do with the principal's office, and Ruan Nanzhu's guess was similar to his, so they were both waiting for the night to come.

When Feng Yongle saw them waiting calmly, he also restrained his anxiety.

The long day finally passed. When the hand pointed to eight o'clock, the sun set on the horizon, and the entire nursing home was once again engulfed in darkness.

Ruan Nanzhu, Lin Qiushi and the others were in their room.

When eight o'clock came, the sound of high heels did not appear. In contrast, Lin Qiushi heard a man's scream coming from a place not far from them. This scream was very familiar to Lin Qiushi, and it was the voice of Jiang Yingrui, the dean.

Feng Yongle was standing by the window, and when he heard this scream, he propped his head towards the outside and whispered, "You guys come and see..."

Lin Qiushi stood over and saw the scene outside.

Only at the bottom of the building, the nurse appeared once again in a twisted posture. She was dragging a corpse, whose face could no longer be seen clearly, in her hands, and slowly walked across the floor and finally climbed the stairs.

Although the corpse was unrecognizable, it could be judged to be the dean from its clothes.

Lin Qiushi heard the cry of a child, he looked at Ruan Nanzhu and saw that he looked calm, as if he hadn't heard anything.

Lin Qiushi hesitated for a moment, but still told Ruan Nanzhu about the sound he heard.

Ruan Nan Candle looked at the words he typed and recited a little: "I'll go to the roof to find the key, you guys wait for me at the tunnel entrance."

Lin Qiushi shook his head at the words, indicating that he disagreed: I want to go with you.

Feng Yongle accosted, "Then I'll go with you." Seeing two girls risking their lives for him was always a bit unbearable.

Who knew that Ruan Nanzhu had a look at him and said, "You'd better go to the tunnel."

Feng Yongle: "... Is it an illusion, he actually heard the taste of dislike from Ruan Nan Candle's tone.

Feng Yongle struggled to say something, but then Ruan Nan Candle waved his hand, grabbed Lin Qiushi and turned around, leaving Feng Yongle with a cryptic expression in place.

Ruan Nan Candle and Lin Qiushi went up to the sixth floor.

Today was very different from before, the nurse didn't run in the corridor anymore, nor did she keep jumping. She seemed to have found what she was looking for, so she calmed down.

Ruan Nan Candle and Lin Qiushi walked to the door of the dean's room.

The dean's room was dark and quiet, and there didn't seem to be anything unusual about it. Ruan Nan Candle reached out and grasped the doorknob, pulling gently and the wooden door in front of him opened in response to the sound. He stepped inside and groped the wall to turn on the light.

When the light came on, the entire room was in full view, and after Lin Qiushi's eyes adjusted to the bright light for a few seconds, he saw that the last remaining empty picture frame was indeed filled.

It was just that the picture in the frame was not just a person, but a couple.

The man's expression was slightly stiff, while the woman smiled sweetly as if she was satisfied.

Ruan Nan Candle looked at the picture frame and brought a chair over, because the picture frame was hanging a bit high and had to step on something to get it off.

Lin Qiushi's eyes were on other parts of the house, he suddenly noticed that the drawer in the house was open, so he slowly walked over to it.

There was still the baby's skeleton in the open drawer, Lin Qiushi stared at the skeleton and suddenly remembered something. He remembered that when the dean escaped yesterday, he seemed to value this skeleton, could it be that this skeleton was of some use... He hesitated slightly and stretched out his hand to pick up the skeleton.

Lin Qiushi had just picked up the skeleton, but over there, Ruan Nan Candle took the picture frame off. He turned the picture frame upside down and saw the key hanging behind the frame.

Ruan Nam Candle looked relieved, knowing that their guess was correct, he quickly removed the key and then tried to hang the picture frame back up.

As things went on, there was a huge problem - the picture frame wouldn't hang back up.

What was easy to do had become impossible to do, the picture frame kept slipping off the wall, and Ruan Nam Candle's appearance became serious.

Lin Qiushi noticed the change in the atmosphere in the room, and as soon as that picture frame was removed, the other portraits began to slowly move. At first it was just the eyes, then the expressions, and finally - they stretched out their hands, trying to climb out of the picture frame.

And the group photo in Nguyen Nam Candle's hand, the dean began to smile strangely, and the nurse actually looked somewhat similar to him.

These changes happened in an instant, Ruan Nam Candle quickly reacted, his expression changed dramatically: "Something is wrong, let's go -" he no longer tried to hang the picture frame back, called out and turned around and ran.

Lin Qiushi followed behind him.

As they rushed out of the dean's room, they ran towards the stairs.

But Lin Qiushi noticed something strange, the stairs that were easy to run down turned out to be incredibly long, they made several turns but they were still in the same place.

In the meantime, Ruan Nan Candle's footsteps stopped and he raised his eyebrows, "We're trapped."

Before Lin Qiushi spoke, he saw shadows appearing in front of the stairs, at first he thought there was only one, but soon, he realized that the figures were not one, but a group of them - the ones inside the portrait, all of them running out of the picture frame. They stood at the end of the corridor and grinned at Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nan Candle, their black-hole eyes and black-hole mouths making them look less like people and more like faces made of paper mache.

A layer of cold air rose up behind Lin Qiushi's back.

Ruan Nan Candle took a deep breath and slowly took out a blood red jade bracelet from his pocket, he handed it to Lin Qiushi and said, "Put it on."

Lin Qiushi looked at him, "What is this?"

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Something that can save your life." His appearance was rarely a little agitated, and it also gave Lin Qiushi a clear sense that the situation in front of him was very bad.

Lin Qiushi said, "What about yourself?"

Ruan Nan Candle said, "I have my own way." He gave the keys to Lin Qiushi as well and said, "We'll rush over later, you run straight downstairs."

Lin Qiushi looked at Ruan Nan Candle's face and asked once again, "What about yourself?"

Ruan Nan Candle didn't speak, his tone was light: "Shouldn't be able to die."

He said should, not can't die, Lin Qiushi looked at him, his tone firm: "No, I don't want to go alone."

Ruan Nan Candle was stunned at the words.

"I don't want to go alone." Lin Qiushi said, "If you want to go, go together."

Ruan Nan Candle: "Stop it-" he wanted to persuade Lin Qiushi again, but the figures in front of him started moving towards them.

The speed at which they moved was very fast, and in a split second, they were in front of Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nan Candle. Right at this moment, Lin Qiushi suddenly made a move, he reached into his bag and pulled out the skeleton of the baby he had just taken out in the dean's room.

This move was abrupt, Lin Qiushi didn't know if it was useful to do so, he was just going by his instincts-.

The silhouettes that were leaning towards him and Ruan Nan Candle suddenly scattered, their eyes were just black holes, but Lin Qiushi could see a taste of fear in their looks. These things were indeed afraid of this baby... Lin Qiushi was delighted.

Ruan Nan Candle also saw this scene, but at this moment, he didn't have the time to elaborate on anything, grabbing Lin Qiushi's hand and running straight through the shadows and continuing on.

This time, those shadows didn't dare to stop them.

Lin Qiushi's heart heaved with relief, knowing that they had escaped again.

But although the view of the staircase was starting to become normal, the situation around them was actually starting to go wrong, the air began to emit a strong smell of blood, and as Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu ran across the fourth floor, they saw blood spilled all over the fourth floor corridor. Ruan Nan Candle and Lin Qiushi looked at each other and both saw a bitter smile in each other's eyes, they were thinking the same thing - I hope Feng Yongle is alright.

The nursing home began to stir, and the patients who were sleeping in their rooms left their own rooms to attack each other.

Lin Qiushi passed by the second floor and witnessed one patient push another patient to the ground, then lowered his head and bit that patient's throat, hearing their footsteps, this patient lifted his bloodied face and smiled at them.

There were countless similar situations, it was simply as if the entire malice of the nursing home had been unleashed.

Ruan Nan Candle and Lin Qiushi finally arrived at the place they had agreed with Feng Yongle.

Feng Yongle was so happy to see them that he almost jumped up from the ground, he seemed to have suffered some injuries and had some scratches on his cheeks: "You guys are finally here - I'm fucking scared to death, what's wrong with these patients-! "

Ruan Nam Candle said, "Get in there!"

Feng Yongle nodded.

They had made sure during the day that the iron gate was at the end of the tunnel, and the location wasn't very far away, but it required them to pass through a section of road filled with shrouded body bags.

It was fine when they came in during the day, but now when they stepped into the tunnel, they found the body bags moving beneath their feet, and even bodies scratching the body bags and groping around with white hands sticking out of them - they wanted to catch anyone who passed by.

Ruan Nan Candle walked in front, bypassing those hands, with Lin Qiushi following his lead. Feng Yongle, on the other hand, was pale, but at least he didn't fall behind. All three of them were very careful, trying to stay as far away from those pale hands as possible.

But it was actually hard to avoid them completely, after all, the entire tunnel was filled with corpses, even as they stepped on soft corpses beneath their feet.

It was a terrible feeling, and a bit of cold sweat spilled out on Lin Qiushi's forehead.

"Fuck-" Feng Yongle, who had reached the end, suddenly let out a curse, and Lin Qiushi turned his head to see that his foot had actually been grabbed by a hand.

The hand's grip was extremely tight, and Feng Yongle almost didn't fall straight down with his entire body as he shuddered, "I... was caught..."

He struggled hard, but it was as if his hand was cast in iron and he couldn't get away.

Lin Qiushi looked at Ruan Nan Candle and saw that his brows were furrowed. Lin Qiushi took three seconds to hesitate, then he showed a determined expression and pulled out a folding knife from his pocket.

This folding knife was sharp, chosen for him by Ruan Nan Candle, and it was said to sharpen iron like mud....

Lin Qiushi walked up to Feng Yongle with a knife, and Feng Yongle stared at him, "Qiu... Qiu Qiu... what are you doing..." it had to be said that such a weak girl holding a knife and looking at you with an expressionless face, but there was a strange sense of horror.

Lin Qiushi ignored him and directly squatted down.

Feng Yongle said: "Don't - don't cut my foot -" he squeaked and was screaming, he felt a loose foot, looked down, but found that the hand holding him was cut off by Lin Qiushi's knife.

Then Lin Qiushi looked at him with a look that looked retarded.

Feng Yongle was a bit embarrassed and laughed dryly twice, "Haha, I'm just kidding."

Lin Qiushi thought to himself if you hadn't screamed so badly I would have really believed you were joking.

Over there, Ruan Nan Candle had already used the key to open the iron gate, which opened to reveal the path that emitted a glow from behind.

Ruan Nan Candle waved at them and said, "Come quickly-"

As the iron door was opened and the bodies in the tunnel became even more agitated, Lin Qiushi and Feng Yongle quickened their pace and finally arrived in front of the tunnel.

Feng Yongle wasn't polite this time, and after greeting Ruan Nan Candle and the others, he rushed directly into the back of the door.

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Go, go in."

Lin Qiushi nodded his head. Before entering behind the door, he took a glance towards the end of the tunnel, but he saw that nurse standing in the doorway, looking at him with no expression on her face. The dean was standing next to her, her eyes resentful and cold... one could imagine what people who hadn't arrived here yet would encounter when they encountered the two ghosts at the door.

Lin Qiushi withdrew his gaze and turned to follow Ruan Nanzhu into the doorway.

After passing through a long tunnel, they returned to the present world.

Lin Qiushi reappeared in the villa, and had a sudden feeling of being a world away.

Chestnut happened to pass by his side and meowed twice, actually rubbing his head against Lin Qiushi's feet in a rare way. Only then did Lin Qiushi regain consciousness and looked delighted, "Chestnut! You're finally willing to let Daddy hug you!!!"

He happily picked up Chestnut, then revealed Chestnut's furry white belly, then buried his face in it....

Ruan Nan Candle who came down from upstairs saw this looking Lin Qiushi as soon as he arrived at the dining room, his expression was frozen for a moment, but he quickly recovered and said, "Lin Qiushi."

Lin Qiushi was still addicted to sucking cats until Ruan Nan Candle called out to him again.

"Hm? What is it?" Lin Qiushi looked up.

It was now spring, the season for chestnuts to shed their fur, and when Lin Qiushi looked up, there was a white cat hair on his lips.

Ruan Nan Candle walked over, pressed his hand against Lin Qiushi's lips, gently rubbed it, and took the white cat hair off.

Lin Qiushi said, "It's finally out." He was relieved, feeling a little tired.

"Well, rest well." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Take a look at your bag."

Lin Qiushi nodded and opened his backpack, slightly stunned when he saw what was inside.

Only in his bag, he actually still had the skeleton of the baby he got from inside the dean's room, but this skeleton had undergone some slight changes after he brought it out, and the body became incomparably black.

Ruan Nan Candle: "It really is a prop that can be used."

Speaking of props, Lin Qiushi remembered the red bracelet that Ruan Nan Candle had given him, he hadn't looked at it carefully inside the door before, but now that he was out he realized that the bracelet was blood jade, it looked very beautiful, the color was transparent, there was red mist dotting it, it wasn't an ordinary item at a glance. He took the bracelet off and handed it to Ruan Nancandle, "Oh, this is returned to you, it's quite beautiful."

Ruan Nan Candle took it and said indifferently, "Pretty is pretty, but it's just something from a dead person, otherwise it wouldn't matter if I gave it to you to wear."

Lin Qiushi smiled, "I'm not a girl, what's the point of wearing this." He had no interest in jewelry or anything like that.

Ruan Nanzhu, however, raised her eyebrows: "Really."

Lin Qiushi: "..." he then remembered that he was still wearing women's clothes, sighing, he said, "What about this skeleton? Just leave it at home?"

Nguyen Nam Candle said, "There's a study in the house, and there are a couple of safes in the study, the kind of thing you usually lock in a safe and take with you when you come in."

Lin Qiushi tilted his head, "So what's the use of this thing..."

Ruan Nan Candle shook his head, "I don't know, but it's definitely useful."

As for what use, one still needed to find out for themselves, the same as the previous diary.

Lin Qiushi nodded his head, indicating that he knew, after which he went back to his room, changed his female clothes, took another shower, and sat in his bedroom to open the forum to surf the internet.

To be honest, it was indeed a very tiring thing to enter the house with such high intensity and frequency, at least Lin Qiushi felt very tired, and he didn't know how Ruan Nanzhu had survived it.

Lin Qiushi rested for the night before feeling better.

The next day, Cheng Qianli asked him how he felt inside the door this time.

Lin Qiushi said, "It was okay, I met someone quite similar to you inside the door."

Cheng Qianli: "Quite similar to me... what do you mean?"

Lin Qiushi: "Smart and cute?"

Cheng Qianli showed suspicion and said, "Really or not? Don't lie to me, though I am indeed smart and cute."

Lin Qiushi said, "Oh."

Previously Ruan Nan Candle had said that the later the door, the more accurate the premonition about the time to enter the door would be, and by the tenth door, you even knew exactly when you would enter the door, which minute and which second - this was probably a kind of tolerance of the door for them, or at least you could be well prepared before entering the door.

After Lin Qiushi came out of this door, he thought a lot about it, and he found Ruan Nam Candle on the third day, saying that he wanted to communicate with him.

Ruan Nan Candle seemed to be talking to someone online about something, and raised his chin to gesture Lin Qiushi to sit and directly said, "Go ahead."

Lin Qiushi said, "Actually... I've always wanted to know if anyone really came out of the Twelve Gates alive."

Ruan Nan Candle's hand typing on the keyboard paused slightly.

"Someone as powerful as you has only gone through ten gates." Lin Qiushi said, "Have you ever seen anyone who has passed twelve gates?"

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Haven't seen it."

Lin Qiushi was stunned.

Ruan Nam Candle said, "In fact, no one has ever seen it." He spoke very calmly, but his words were very surprising, he said, "But it can only be thought of that way." He paused for a moment, "It's the only way."

Lin Qiushi was silent.

"You're strong, that's good." Ruan Nam Candle said, "But not everyone can be as open to reality as you are, so they must have a goal."

So we all tacitly set that goal as the twelve doors.

And they firmly believe that once they pass the twelve doors, it is the new life they expect.

Lin Qiushi said, "Isn't there a bit of evidence to prove this?"

Ruan Nan Candle, "If it were anyone else, I might have said yes, but for you, I don't want to lie." He closed the laptop in front of him and turned his head, gazing at his teammate in front of him with deep eyes, "You're very much to my liking."

Facing Ruan Nan Candle's gaze, Lin Qiushi was slightly uncomfortable.

This gaze was too deep, and there were too many things hidden in it, too many for Lin Qiushi to decipher, he said, "Do they all know?"

Ruan Nam Candle, "Some know, some don't." He spread his hands and made a gesture of indifference, "What does it matter if you know or not, it's how you're going to live anyway."

It was going to go through so many doors anyway, whether voluntarily or not.

Lin Qiushi actually didn't expect Ruan Nanzhu to be so straightforward with him, he thought that Ruan Nanzhu would at least find some excuse to be perfunctory, who knew that he would just say it so frankly.

Lin Qiushi smiled bitterly: "Aren't you looking down on me too much."

Ruan Nan Candle blinked, "Am I wrong?"

Lin Qiushi was silent.

Ruan Nan Candle wasn't wrong, the answer to this question actually wasn't that important to him, he was just simply curious.

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Cheng Yicher is about to pass his ninth door."

Lin Qiushi was stunned at the words.

"I have to go in with him." Ruan Nan Candle said, "I'm still pondering if I should bring you along."

Lin Qiushi had passed six doors by now, if he could get out of Cheng Yixie's ninth door, then he would be able to skip straight through the seventh and eighth.

Lin Qiushi said, "Have you gotten any results from your pondering then?"

"No." Ruanan Candle said, "at least not yet, what do you think, what do you think?"

Lin Qiushi thought about it and said honestly, "I don't know."

Ruan Nan Candle looked at him, but he smiled, he said, "Lin Qiushi, I like you very much, we're perfect for working together, we're a natural pair."

He said this in a very honest tone, Lin Qiushi didn't feel that there was anything wrong, he and Ruan Nan Candle were indeed very happy to work together.

"Go ahead." Ruan Nan Candle, "Rest well."

Lin Qiushi nodded and stood up to go out.

Although Ruan Nan Candle had said it many times, the truth was that Lin Qiushi didn't have any special knowledge of his own specialness. Until the newcomer who had joined them before, called Qin Bu Dao, suddenly had an accident.

The accident or Lin Qiushi crashed it first, that day he suddenly woke up hungry in the middle of the night and wanted to go to the restaurant downstairs to find something to eat.

As a result, when he reached the door, he heard the sound of gobbling and chewing coming from inside.

Lin Qiushi's footsteps made a slight pause without turning on the light, and he softly walked into the kitchen, and through the not-so-bright moonlight, he saw Qin Buhe, who was squatting in the corner.

He didn't hear Lin Qiushi's footsteps, and almost indulged in it with his whole body and soul.

This scene was so bizarre that it even gave Lin Qiushi the illusion that he was still inside the door. It was a good thing that this illusion was only fleeting, as Lin Qiushi opened his mouth slightly hesitantly and called out his name: "Qin Bu Dang..."

Qin Bu Duan's movements stopped and his expression instantly froze as he slowly raised his head and saw Lin Qiushi standing in the doorway.

The moment he met his gaze, Lin Qiushi even felt that the person crouching in front of him was not a person, but a beast.

But Qin Bu Duan quickly regained his senses, he slowly stood up from the ground and threw the meat away, he said, "Listen to my explanation..." and he walked towards Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi involuntarily wanted to step back, but he endured the feeling and watched as Qin Bu Dao walked in front of him.

Qin Bu Duan said, "I don't want to, but I can't help it." He licked his lips and looked at Lin Qiushi's fair and slender neck for a moment, then dropped his eyes, "I really... can't help it."