Kaleidoscope of Death

There are only two beds in this house, so it is a given that one person will sleep on the sofa. Lin Qiushi consciously showed the good virtue of respecting the old and loving the young, and giving priority to women, and said firmly that he could sleep on the sofa, while Cheng Yixie and Ruan Nanzhu could sleep on the bed.

She didn't ask Lin Qiushi to be polite, so she changed into her pajamas and got ready for bed.

Ruan Nanzhu sat on the edge of the bed and watched him for a while.

Lin Qiushi was inexplicably creeped out by his gaze, "Why are you looking at me?"

Ruan Nam Candle: "Because you're good looking."

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

Ruan Nan Candle: "Want to squeeze in with me?" He patted the bed beneath him.

Lin Qiushi refused, saying that he would come back if he really couldn't sleep. Ruan Nanzhu tilted her head at the words, and didn't force her to ask, but said yes.

In fact, the sofa here is very wide and soft, so there is nothing uncomfortable about sleeping on it. A thin blanket was placed on Lin Qiushi's body, and he put his eyes on the mirror on the floor where it was. At that time, the mirror had been covered with a layer of bath towel, and the bright mirror surface was covered, so that the people below could no longer see the scene in their house. They also checked the other mirrors in the room and found that there were both double-sided and single-sided mirrors in the room, so they took the time to cover all the mirrors with a towel.

The apartment was new and seemed to have been renovated only recently, so Lin Qiushi cowered in the sofa and fell asleep.

Lin Qiushi thought he would sleep until the next day, but he was awakened by Cheng Yicher in the middle of the night.

When Lin Qiushi woke up, he saw Cheng Yixie sitting by the bedside with a frown on his face, his nose opening and closing as if he was sniffing something.

"Yixie, what's wrong?" Lin Qiushi opened his mouth in confusion and asked.

"It smells." Cheng Yixie whispered, "...the smell of something being burnt, do you smell it?"

Lin Qiushi was stunned at the news, he tried to move his nose, but he didn't catch any scent, so he shook his head, "No, I can't smell it."

Cheng Yicher stopped talking, he stood up, walked over to the wall and began to crouch down to observe.

This action looked really strange, Lin Qiushi looked at his back and was about to ask a question when he heard Ruan Nan Candle on the bed next to him ask softly, "What's wrong?" Ruan Nan Candle is also awake.

Cheng Yi-xie was still observing the corner.

The pale gold wallpaper covered almost every corner of the house, and Lin Qiushi saw Cheng Yixie get up, go to the table and pick up a fruit peeler, then return to the wall and start scraping the wallpaper.

A few minutes later, the wallpaper was scraped down, revealing a dark color.

Lin Qiushi saw the wall behind the wallpaper through the dim light. He had a slightly startled expression: "There was a fire... in this room?" The walls actually took on a charred black color, so it was obvious that something had happened in this room.

Cheng Yi-xie began to cough lowly, as if choking on some smell.

Ruan Nan Candle looked at Cheng Yixie's appearance, got up and went to the bathroom, took a moistened towel in the toilet and handed it to Cheng Yixie, "Cover it."

Cheng Yixie took it and covered his mouth and nose, his coughing only slightly eased.

"It seems there was an accident in this apartment." Ruan Nam Candle, "There has been at least one fire."

As soon as he said this, Lin Qiushi actually smelled the smell of something burning as well, he initially thought it was his own hallucinatory smell and looked towards Ruan Nan Candle. Ruan Nan Candle, however, nodded at him, "I smelled it too."

He quickly went into the toilet, prepared two more wet towels, handed one to Lin Qiushi, and said, "I'll go out and take a look."

Lin Qiushi covered his mouth and nose with the towel and said, "Come along, I'll go too."

Ruan Nanzhu didn't refuse and lifted his steps towards the door.

It was silent outside the house, and no one else seemed to notice this difference in scent. But once Cheng Yixie left the house, his brows furrowed even more.

Ruan Nan Candle looked at him, "The smell is even stronger?"

Cheng Yixie nodded, his eyes darted down the corridor as if he was trying to identify something, and Lin Qiushi also faintly heard some strange noises that were subtle, some like people scratching at the door... His eyes looked over in the direction of where the noises were, and at the same time, Cheng Yixie also pointed to the end of the corridor.

The ones at the end of the corridor were all big bedrooms, and it seemed like the only two girls living there were two girls.

They took a few steps towards that side, and Lin Qiushi was about to walk towards the place that made the sound, but was stopped by Ruan Nanzhu's outstretched hand.

"What's wrong?" Lin Qiushi was slightly stunned.

Ruan Nan Candle didn't say anything, but suddenly lifted his head.

Lin Qiushi followed his gaze and realized that the corridor was actually also pressed with a row of mirrors at the head, reflecting the entire corridor inside. At this time, the image in the mirror also raised its head and made the same move as Lin Qiushi.

Ruan Nanzhu pointed to the end of the corridor again.

Lin Qiushi understood, and looked up from the mirror to the end of the corridor, and at this glance he held his breath.

The fire came out from the door, along with the flame is thick black smoke.

The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the mirror and see that the end of the hallway in the real world is still stuck in darkness.

"Cough cough cough." Cheng Yicher couldn't help but cough.

Lin Qiushi said, "Will this fire come?"

Ruan Nan Candle shook his head, "I don't know."

Lin Qiushi looked at the end of the corridor in the mirror, the flames burned even more fiercely, the security door made of iron seemed to be roasted and transformed, that sound of banging on the door began to become sharper, along with a low howl - inside that door, there seemed to be someone.

"Help, help..." someone was calling for help.

Lin Qiushi wasn't sure if it was just him or if they could all hear it, so he asked, "Did you hear it?"

Ruan Nan Candle and Cheng Yicher both shook their heads, indicating that they hadn't heard anything.

But Ruan Nam Candle said, "I didn't hear it, but I saw it."

"Seen what?" Lin Qiushi asked in confusion.

Nguyen Nam Candle said, "There's a hand sticking out of the house." He observed carefully, "Now there are two."

Lin Qiushi was thinking that he hadn't seen anything when his back was lightly patted by a hand, he was shocked out of a cold sweat, turning his head he actually saw a man and a woman standing behind him, these two Lin Qiushi had some impressions, they should be the ones he had seen underneath the apartment before and belonged to the team.

"What are you guys looking at?" The female asked a question.

These two appeared so silently that the three of them actually didn't even notice, if they hadn't seen them before, Lin Qiushi would have thought they were ghosts.

Lin Qiushi thought to himself, this ninth door is truly a place where crouching tigers hide dragons.

When Ruan Nanzhu saw these two people, he appeared calm instead and said, "Look at the fireworks."

The woman laughed at the words, "Fireworks?" She said, "Does it look good?"

Ruan Nam Candle: "So-so."

Woman says, "Better looking than me?"

Ruan Nan Candle also laughed, he said very calmly, "Better looking than you, not as good looking as me."

The smile on the woman's face was gone, and anger began to show inside her eyes as she stared at Ruan Nam Candle's face, looking quite unkind.

The man next to the woman stepped forward at the right time and briefly introduced himself, saying that he and the woman were brother and sister, his name was Luo Qianshan and his sister's name was Luo Qianshui.

Luo Qianshan said, "There was a fire at the end of the corridor?"

Lin Qiushi and the three of them didn't answer Luo Qianshan's question; after all, they were all competitors in a way, and it really wasn't wise to give a clue to a competitor.

"It's on fire." Luo Qianshui also saw a completely different scene in the mirror than in reality, she looked towards Luo Qianshan, "Will the people inside be burned to death?"

Luo Qianshan said, "I don't know."

So it became five people standing in the hallway and continued to watch quietly.

The fire didn't seem to be spreading outwards and was limited to that one room, Lin Qiushi looked out the window at the sinking night and yawned a little.

Ruan Nan Candle looked at him and said, "Let's go, go back to sleep."

Lin Qiushi: "Don't you want to keep watching?"

Nguyen Nam Candle said, "Is it going to be here all night watching?"

That was true, and there were two odd people standing around. The three of them no longer paid attention to the pair of siblings, intending to turn around and go back to their rooms.

Cheng Yixie's sense of smell was a bit overly sharp, and because of that, he was coughing and looking very pale from choking on these smoke smells.

Ruan Nanzhu was the last one to enter the room, he took another look towards the end of the corridor before going in, but frowned slightly.

Then after entering the room, his first words to Lin Qiushi and Cheng Yixie were, "The house is out."

Lin Qiushi said, "What is it?"

"The burned man." Ruan Nam Candle answered. A moment before he entered the room, he saw two more figures at the end of the corridor, one large and one small, seemingly an adult holding a child, they were charred black and flaming, standing so quietly at the end of the corridor, gazing at all the rooms on the floor. It made people feel uncomfortable to look at them.

Lin Qiushi listened to Ruan Nanzhu's words, but remembered a hint in the clue: using the old as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall. Is this ancient, refers to the things that happened in this apartment?

The trio contemplated the smell of burning, but it was fading.

"Let's sleep first." Ruan Nan Candle looked at the time, "Think about it tomorrow, or your body won't be able to take it."

Then the three of them went to their respective beds.

To be honest, normal people who had encountered these things would probably have those horrific images in their heads that made it hard to sleep, but Lin Qiushi now felt that they no longer belonged to the normal range. Not only did he fall asleep quickly, he also had a good quality of sleep and slept until the next morning.

The sun rose with a grey smell, and Lin Qiushi was awakened by the light coming in from outside the floor-to-ceiling window, opening his eyes in confusion.

"Good morning." Ruan Nan Candle greeted him.

"Mm." Lin Qiushi rubbed his eyes and sat up from the couch, going into the bathroom to wash up.

Cheng Yixie, however, seemed to have woken up early and was now dressed, standing silently by the window and looking out at the scenery.

"Breakfast is on the second floor." Ruan Nan Candle said, "Let's go, I'm still a bit hungry."

The three of them went down to the room and saw that quite a few people had gathered inside the restaurant.

Lin Qiushi's gaze swept over the crowd and saw the person he was looking for - it was the two girls who lived inside the big bed room.

They were vibrant and still chatting happily, as if everything that had happened last night had no effect on them.

Lin Qiushi had been observing them, but the sound of Ruan Nan Candle's seemingly laughing voice could be heard in his ears as he said, "Looking at the others so seriously, what, are they even better looking than me?"

Lin Qiushi looked helpless at the words, "You're naturally the best looking."

"Why are you talking so reluctantly." Ruan Nan Candle took a bite of bread and said, "Those two people are also here."

Those two people were referring to the siblings Luo Qianshan and Luo Qianshui who they met last night above the corridor, they came in from outside, one smiled at Lin Qiushi while the other hated Ruan Nan Candle.

It seemed that Luo Qianshui already harbored a grudge against Ruan Nanzhu's provocation last night.

Ruan Nan Candle wasn't afraid at all, raising her chin at her and leaning on Lin Qiushi's shoulder, her voice wasn't too loud: "Aigoo, that woman's eyes are so scary, it's scaring people."

Lin Qiushi couldn't laugh or cry.

Cheng Yixie, however, seemed to have long been used to Ruan Nanzhu's drama and was expressionlessly munching on bread the entire time.

When they were almost done eating, the waiter who gave them their room cards yesterday appeared with a stack of things in his hand, which should be the travel guide he mentioned.

The waiter said, "I wonder if everyone slept well last night?" He smiled, "This is the travel guide here, you must read it carefully after you get it oh." Then began to distribute it to the crowd.

Lin Qiushi also got a copy of it, and after he flipped it open, he found that it was actually an introduction to some of the attractions in this city, including this mirror exterior apartment.

Looking at the information, one could tell that this apartment was a local landmark, having been renovated two years ago, and its appearance before the renovation and after was simply very different. The outside of the apartment was plastered with countless mirrors, which looked exceptionally strange.

Lin Qiushi was flipping, but he heard Cheng Yixie start coughing lowly again.

"Cough cough, cough cough." Cheng Yixie covered her nose and managed to say, "Something's burning..."

"What?" Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nam Candle were both baffled, they both didn't smell anything.

But soon, they didn't need to smell anything, because there was smoke before their eyes - what was burning up was a person, one of the girls who lived inside the big bed room.

At first it was just some smoke that began to rise from her body, but when the crowd turned their startled eyes on her, she actually sprang up with blinding flames directly from her body. These flames seemed to emerge from inside her flesh and blood, but in an instant, they burned all over her body.

"Ahhhhh!!!" The girl let out a miserable scream and started rolling on the ground as if she was crazy, however the flames were burning from the inside out, her rolling was to no avail, Lin Qiushi grabbed the milk on the table and tried to pour it over her to extinguish the fire, but it was also useless.

In just a minute or two, the girl, who was as delicate as a flower, turned into a charred corpse in front of everyone.

"Vom-" someone threw up on the spot, and the faces of the others didn't look too good either.

It was said that burning was the most painful way to die, but Lin Qiushi slowly walked back to Ruan Nan Candle's side and put down the milk can in his hand.

It seemed that what happened last night was the reason why this girl died.

"Xiao Yan!!! YAN!!!" The remaining girl bawled and threw herself next to the charred corpse looking close to collapse.

Lin Qiushi looked on without speaking.

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Is everything alright?"

Lin Qiushi shook his head, indicating that he was fine. He had actually seen a lot of bloody scenes, but the scene in front of him was too terrifying... it was worthy of the difficulty of the ninth door. On the first night in, someone had been hit.

"It's disgusting." Luo Qianshui, who was sitting not far away, coldly said, standing up to leave, "Disgusting."

Her brother followed behind her and left the restaurant.

Luo Qianshui's attitude was too indifferent, but in fact, this attitude of hers was the mainstream. After what happened, most of the people in the room looked numb, only inside that group of five with some newcomers, some people were vomiting and others showed a cowering expression.

"I'm so scared, Natsu." There was a young boy who said to the woman leading the group.

The woman called Sister Xia should be the one who brought them in, and she said, "Don't be afraid, there's nothing to be afraid of, just be good and follow the rules, nothing will happen." She said so.

Although this was like a perfunctory statement, it seemed like that was all that could be done, the fear on the young man's face did not diminish.

Ruan Nan Candle also stood up, "Let's go, let's take a walk around the area."

They left the restaurant and went to the streets near the apartment.

Unlike the previous world, this world seemed to be open. Crowds of people flowed endlessly above the busy streets, surrounded by all kinds of shops and buses that could reach other places, and even the currency used was the same as the world they were originally in.

Lin Qiushi looked around and was genuinely curious, "Can we go somewhere else?"

"Yes." Ruan Nan Candle said, "As long as you make it back before it gets dark."

Lin Qiushi: "What if I don't make it back?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "Then you'll be able to see a thousand strange ways to die." He spoke with certainty, clearly having seen these situations before.

"Is this world complete?" Even though he had restrained himself, Lin Qiushi still had so many questions in his mind that he wanted to ask, he looked at the crepes on the street, "Things are edible?"

"Mmm." Ruan Nan Candle said, "It should taste good."

So Lin Qiushi paid for three of them, one each.

Lin Qiushi chose the chocolate flavor, and the crepe was filled with ice cream, he took a bite and thought it was really quite tasty, vaguely saying, "Then what's the difference between this world and the real world?"

Nguyen Nam Candle said, "The difference? The biggest difference is probably that there are ghosts in this world." He continued, "I'm going to make some inquiries about the apartment."

He went to the small shop near the apartment and asked some of the shopkeepers.

It had to be said that the advantages of women's clothing were evident at this point, and these shop owners treated Ruan Nam Candle in a very friendly manner, and there was even a thirty-something candy shop owner who gave Ruan Nam Candle a box of candy and said that if he was free in the evening, he could meet up....

Ruan Nan Candle was very straightforward in rejecting his invitation.

It had to be said that the NPCs in front of him were completely different from those inside the gate before, they were more like normal humans and couldn't tell the difference from the real world from their words or actions.

Even Lin Qiushi was in a bit of a trance, "Are we really inside the door?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "Of course." He looked at Lin Qiushi, "The higher the difficulty of the door, the greater the coincidence with reality, the tenth door of my advance..." he stopped here, his eyes showing some gloomy taste, as if he had recalled some unpleasant memories.

Lin Qiushi didn't ask questions even when he saw it, just pretending that he didn't see it.

Other than that, they still managed to find out quite a bit of information about the apartment.

This apartment had a fire two years ago, in which two people lost their lives and one went missing, and it was said that these three were also a family of three who happened to be visiting this city....

"The apartment was burned down to the ground floor?" The place where Ruan Nam Candle found out about this was a small newsstand next to the apartment, this newsstand seemed to be a bit old, and the person selling newspapers was a boss.

"Yes, a whole floor of it." The boss said, "And then the apartment was redecorated, and the outside walls were all covered with mirrors because they were blackened by smoke." He pushed up his glasses and said in an old voice, "The reflected light is really harsh..."

Lin Qiushi thought of the mother and daughter he saw in the mirror, it seemed they were the victims of the fire.

"You'd better not live inside, it's haunted." The boss said, "It's said that people are crying every night..."

"What floor was the one where the apartment burned down?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"Thirty-four floors." The boss answered.

Thirty-fourth floor - exactly where they lived, it seemed like the key should have some connection to the fire.

After wandering around outside, it was lunchtime and the trio planned to return to the apartment.

It was now midday, and the sun was casting down from the sky, hitting the mirror outside the apartment and reflecting a dazzling light. The entire apartment was so bright that one couldn't look directly at it, the entire building seemed to be caught in a blinding flame, and Lin Qiushi's eyes were stirred to tears after just one look.

Ruan Nan Candle came beside him: "Why are you crying so cute."

Lin Qiushi looked at Ruan Nan Candle with red eyes.

As a result, this product drama instantly came and went to the restaurant in front of everyone and said to Lin Qiushi to stop crying and that he would be responsible for him.

Lin Qiushi: "....... "Never mind you're happy.

Cheng Yicher didn't say a word, and cleverly pretended to be a background board. Lin Qiushi strongly suspected that he had been teased by Ruan Nanzhu many times.

Lunch time, but there were many people who didn't come here to eat. After all, outside was the busy street, there were plenty of options to choose from, so you didn't have to squeeze into a restaurant.

However, Luo Qianshan and Luo Qianshui, who had met before, were also here, and Luo Qianshui saw Ruan Nancandle throwing two more white eyes at him.

Ruan Nancandle smiled and took the white eyes, patting his chest and saying how he felt like he was being chased by a dog.

It almost didn't make Luo Qianshui angry enough to rush over and fight with her.

Lin Qiushi is once again impressed with Ruan Nan Candle's ability to provoke a girl, except that the word provoke has a new note on Ruan Nan Candle's body, and rounding up basically equals provocation. If an angry girl was a bull, then Ruan Nam Candle was the red cloth that provoked the bull....