Kaleidoscope of Death

But Lin Qiushi still didn't know the meaning of the word "gain" and "loss" in the clue.

The girl who was burnt to death last night suddenly appeared in the restaurant intact, and Lin Qiushi noticed that some people in the restaurant had an uncomfortable expression on their faces. These people should be close to the room where the accident happened last night, and thus they also saw everything that happened in the corridor. Knowing that the girl who appeared in front of him was not a human....

And as the culprit who killed the girl, Sister Xia, obviously still doesn't know what happened.

She also chatted with the girl as if nothing had happened, saying, "Wen Jing, did nothing happen after last night? How did you and Myun-soo sleep at night? There was no accident." The name of the girl who was burned to death was Fumio, and Mian was the girl who lived with her.

"It's fine, Sister Xia." Wen Jing smiled serenely, she spoke in a very slow voice, "Nothing happened last night..."

Sister Xia smiled at the news, "No is good."

The restaurant that was originally quite lively, became quiet and a bit strange because of Wen Jing's sudden arrival. People who knew what had happened last night all started to get up and leave one after another, leaving with strange looks on Wen Jing's body.

Sister Xia also seemed to have noticed these strange looks. She thought for a moment, and her expression, which had been slightly smiling, became slightly serious and indifferent, then stood up from her chair, and also made an excuse to leave the restaurant.

Wen Jing watched Xia walk away, but she didn't reach out to stop her, just smiled at Xia's back, how the look in her eyes made people feel cold.

Cheng Yicher said, "Shall we go too?"

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

There weren't many people left in the restaurant at this point, apart from Wen Jing who was still slowly eating, only a few of the slower ones were still sitting in their seats, looking like they were at a loss as to what was going on.

However, as soon as Lin Qiushi and the others reached the entrance of the restaurant, they heard fierce quarrels coming from outside.

When Lin Qiushi went out to take a look, he found that it was actually Sister Xia fighting with Wen Jing's roommate, Xiao Mian.

"It's all your fault, it's all your fault - if it wasn't for what you said, Wen Jing wouldn't have died at all!" Xiao Mian, Wen Jing's roommate, witnessed Wen Jing's miserable death last night and was close to breaking down emotionally, her cryptic voice hiding resentment and anger, "You just want to get us killed, Wen Jing is back now, looking for revenge! Just you wait, bitch!!!"

Xia sneered and retorted very rudely, "What do you mean I killed her? Did I know that smashing mirrors kills people? Little girl, you can eat food indiscriminately, but you can't speak indiscriminately ah."

Listening to their conversation, Lin Qiushi asked Ruan Nanzhu beside him in a low voice, "This doesn't count as the death of Wen Jing by Sister Xia?"

Ruan Nan Candle shook his head.

"How does that count?" Lin Qiushi was a little confused about the method of determining murder inside the door.

"Usually, you have to do it yourself to be considered a murder." Ruan Nan Candle explained, "In their case, for example, Sister Xia did not know that smashing the mirror would kill someone."

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

Ruan Nan Candle: "She also just gave Wen Jing a suggestion, as to whether or not Wen Jing should follow that suggestion, that's another matter."

This is probably the loophole in the rules of the door.

If we go by that, it means that people who enter the door can kill each other, but the method of killing can't be that crude, at least not by themselves, and there are obviously many other ways to want people to die besides doing it themselves.

Lin Qiushi oh-so-clearly understood.

Mian was still crying, she seemed to know the girl called Wen Jing from outside the door, she said, "You damned liar, it's all your fault, you clearly promised to protect us-"

Sister Xia sniffed coldly, "Are you a three-year-old child? You believe everything people say?" After she said this, she waved her hand in boredom at Xiao Mian, turned around and planned to leave.

However, at this moment, Xiao Mian actually pulled out a bread cutting knife from her pocket and stabbed it towards Xia. Although this knife was not sharp enough, it was also very sharp, if it really stabbed into the human body, it would definitely kill someone.

Sister Xia's reaction was extremely fast, dodging and dodging Xiao Mian's blow with all her might. She saw the dinner knife in Mian's hand and said angrily, "You fucking want to kill me?" She grabbed Mian's arm and pushed Mian hard right into the wall.

"Ah!" Xiao Mian seemed to be no match for Xia Xia, her body hit the wall with a loud thud, and then her whole body fell to the ground.

Xia was still not enough, she grabbed Xiaomian's hair and continued to throw it in another direction, her strength was so great that a girl of nearly 1.6 meters was like a doll in her hands.

When Lin Qiushi saw this, he frowned slightly and was about to go forward to stop her, but he heard Xiao Mian let out a miserable scream, and then bright red blood trickled out on her cheeks.

She didn't intend to kill Xiaomian directly, she just wanted to teach her a lesson. She slowly helped Xiao Mian's body up, and saw that the picture frame Xiao Mian was leaning against had a sharp nail inexplicably added to it, and the back of Xiao Mian's head, which was impartial, just happened to be pierced in by the nail.

"No, no- I didn't want to kill you, I didn't want to kill you-" Xia panicked all of a sudden, she let go of Xiaomian's already soft body and involuntarily took several steps back, "I didn't want to kill you, it wasn't me, it wasn't me-"

Lin Qiushi was also stunned, he didn't expect things to go this way.

Blood kept pouring out of Xia Mian's body, and she was out of breath with her eyes open, staring at Xia in front of her with a resentful death stare.

Xia's emotions, however, seemed to break down, constantly shaking her head and saying no, staggering and running away from the restaurant, looking panicked to the core.

Lin Qiushi looked at this scene with a very complicated mood as he said, "Does something like this happen often?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "Not often." He looked at Little Mian, "It's just that this woman's luck is worse." I didn't expect that Little Mian would die from such an accident. He walked to Mian's side and squatted down, carefully observing the nail that guided Mian's death, "This nail is interesting."

Lin Qiushi: "Interesting?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "Yesterday it wasn't."

Lin Qiushi was stunned: "Are you sure you didn't have it yesterday?" This corner wasn't an easy place to notice, in fact if there hadn't been a death here today, Lin Qiushi might have left this world without even looking at the place.

"Of course." Ruan Nam Candle, however, was very confident as he said, "This nail was either nailed last night or this morning... Was there anyone in the restaurant when you arrived?"

Lin Qiushi immediately thought of Luo Qianshui, who had arrived at the restaurant before him, and he said, "Luo Qianshui came first."

"Oh." Ruan Nanzhu got up, "So ah."

Lin Qiushi said, "Did she nail this nail? But..." he was going to say how she knew that Mian and Xia were about to have an argument or even a fight here and end up with Mian being pushed into the window frame. But on second thought, this was the world within the door, it didn't seem impossible. Anyone who could reach the ninth door was obviously not a bad person. It wasn't impossible for someone to use some method to anticipate what was going to happen today, and then move their hands.

Thinking this way, Lin Qiushi actually saw Luo Qianshui and her brother in a corner.

The two of them were standing in the crowd of onlookers, it wasn't easy to spot them without looking carefully, and after meeting Lin Qiushi's gaze, Luo Qianshan smiled at Lin Qiushi while Luo Qianshui still maintained a disdainful face. The two of them then turned around and walked away, as if they had lost interest in what was to come.

Ruan Nan Candle stood up, "Let's go too, I have a place I want to visit."

"That Mian will seek revenge on Sister Xia?" This was something that Lin Qiushi was more concerned about. It had been a while since he had come to the door, but he hadn't often seen scenes of people outside the door turning into ghosts with a vengeance... It seemed like he had only seen it once in his memory, and he figured this time it shouldn't be a pleasant image to see, "Will it involve us?"

"No." Ruan Nan Candle said, "It's just her alone."

Lin Qiushi was only reassured by this and he said, "Where do you want to go?"

Nguyen Nan Candle said, "Haven't we been to that burning room during the day?"

Lin Qiushi dawned.

They returned to the thirty-fourth floor and found the room that had been burning at night.

During the day, this room wasn't anything special from their house, it was a very ordinary room with a big bed.

But Cheng Yixie didn't feel very comfortable when she entered the room and kept coughing.

"You smell burning again?" Ruanan Candle asked him.

"Hmm." Cheng Yixie managed to say, "It's very thick."

Ruan Nan Candle looked around, casually pulled out a dinner knife from his pocket, walked to the corner and started peeling the wallpaper.

Lin Qiushi looked at the dinner knife in his hand and froze, "When did you take it?"

Nguyen Nam Candle: "When you eat boiled eggs."

Lin Qiushi was sitting next to Ruan Nan Candle, he could reasonably see whatever Ruan Nan Candle was doing, but he completely missed this action of Ruan Nan Candle hiding his dinner knife, he looked helpless: "How come I didn't see it."

Ruan Nan Candle had a rather meaningful look at Lin Qiushi: "There are a lot of things you didn't see."

Lin Qiushi had nothing to say.

After the wallpaper peeled off, revealing the charred black walls behind it, it was confirmed that there had indeed been a fire accident inside this room.

Lin Qiushi looked around the room, and suddenly, he noticed an interesting small object.

It was a bronze mirror, placed next to the dressing table.

Mirrors were not a rare object here, but the mirror in front of him was the first bronze mirror Lin Qiushi had seen here.

This bronze mirror was no more than the size of a palm, surrounded by a pattern of flowing clouds, and had a small handle, exquisite and primitive.

Lin Qiushi picked up the mirror and looked down at it.

Around because of the difference in the production process, the portrait inside the copper mirror wasn't as clear as the aluminum coated mirror, it looked a little blurry and distorted.

Lin Qiushi gently rubbed the mirror with his hand, it felt like there was a layer of light ash on top of the mirror, he put the ash between his nose and sniffed it, smelling a burnt smell - this wasn't ordinary dust, but the ash left behind after something had burned.

"A copper mirror?" Ruan Nan Candle walked to Lin Qiushi's side and saw the mirror in his hand.

"Using copper as a mirror..." whispered Lin Qiushi reading the clue, "can you straighten your clothes?"

Ruan Nan Candle didn't say anything and took the mirror from Lin Qiushi's hand.

"But what does this garment mean?" Lin Qiushi was a bit confused, "Meaning that you can see the things that are mixed in inside the crowd?"

Ruan Nan Candle tilted his head: "Go try it and you'll know."

Lin Qiushi: "Hmm..."

It's okay to try, after all, they've now identified someone with a problem. They checked the rest of the house again, and Cheng Yixie found a third of the photo burned out in a drawer in a corner of the bathroom.

The two remaining people in the photo were a woman and a child, the woman smiling sweetly and holding the child in her right hand, a pose somewhat identical to the one Lin Qiushi had seen in the hallway that day. The right part of the child, however, was burned away by the fire, and one should know without thinking that it belonged to the child's father.

"The family lived in the apartment," Nguyen Nam Candle said, "Only two bodies were found in the end, where's the rest of the one?" He said this, rubbing the edges of the photo lightly with his hand, "There's another one, where did it go?"

No one knew the answer, and after the fire in the apartment, all the people around the building seemed to be replaced. They didn't know much about the fire, and some of them didn't even know that the apartment had been on fire.

For the rest of the day, Lin Qiushi and the others all wandered around the apartment, using the brass mirror in their hands to shine a light on anyone they saw that they knew.

But what puzzled Lin Qiushi was that when they first used the mirror to look at Wen Jing, who wasn't supposed to be human, her face didn't change and she still looked like a human.

Even the dead Wen Jing hadn't changed, and the others were even more so.

Lin Qiushi was a bit confused about this, he looked at the mirror and said, "Isn't this how the mirror is used?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "How else can you use it."

Lin Qiushi smiled bitterly: "Where do I know." He mulled over the sentence in the clue: using bronze as a mirror to straighten your clothes... was it that they had some misunderstanding about this sentence? Wait...straighten up...?

"Straighten your clothes." Ruan Nan Candle, however, thought of the same thing as Lin Qiushi and even said the words one step ahead of Lin Qiushi, "Did we just take a picture of Wen Jing's face?"

Lin Qiushi: "Try again?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "Yes."

So they went back to the second floor restaurant, but saw that Vinh Trang, who was sitting here staring, had disappeared.

"I'm late." Lin Qiushi was a bit sorry.

Ruan Nan Candle: "It's fine, she'll definitely show up again." He was downright sure of that.

"What did Wen Jing want to do by mixing in the crowd?" Lin Qiushi was a little confused as to why she wanted to come back, "Murder? But I thought you said she couldn't take revenge."

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Wen Jing can't take revenge, but it's not certain if this person is Wen Jing or not." Maybe what appeared before their eyes wasn't Wen Jing at all, but rather the ghosts within the door mimicked Wen Jing's appearance.

Lin Qiushi felt that this made sense.

As they discussed, they planned to go back to the 34th floor. The elevator dinged open and Lin Qiushi saw that the waiter who had given them their room cards before was also in the elevator and smiled politely at them, "Good afternoon."

"Good noon." Ruan Nan Candle casually responded.

Cheng Yixie, however, suddenly frowned slightly, his gaze was placed on the waiter, who seemed to feel a little uncomfortable.

Lin Qiushi noticed Cheng Yixie's peculiarities, and with a slight movement in his heart, he took the copper mirror out of his pocket. Then using his body as a cover, he carefully shone a light on the waiter.

There was no difference, the waiter in the copper mirror still maintained that formulaic smile, Lin Qiushi thought of what they had discussed before and slowly moved the copper mirror, from the top of his head, to his shoulders, to his waist and abdomen... until, the mirror moved to the waiter's feet.

The image of the mirror finally changed.

In the brass mirror, the waiter's feet were actually reversed back and forth.

The heel was in the front and the toes were in the back, weirdly giving people a creepy feeling.

Lin Qiushi's body tightened slightly, and Ruan Nan Candle sensed his difference and also took a look towards the mirror in his hand. He also saw what was unusual about the waiter, but his face didn't show any change, still chatting with the waiter about these things.

"How long have you been working here?" Ruan Nan Candle asked.

"Two years." The waiter replied, "That's a long time."

Nguyen Nam Candle: "Two years? You were there when the fire happened?"

The waiter said, "It wasn't then, and I didn't apply for a job here until after the fire."

There was a soft dinging sound and the elevator doors opened in response.

The waiter made a gesture of invitation, indicating that they should go first.

Lin Qiushi followed Ruan Nanzhu out of the elevator door, and although he didn't look back, Lin Qiushi knew that the waiter had been quietly watching them from inside the elevator - because the elevator door hadn't closed until they reached the door of his room, Lin Qiushi only heard the ding-dong again, and only then did his tense heart loosen.

"It's actually him." Ruan Nan Candle said, "I didn't expect that."

Normally, the key NPCs wouldn't be ghosts inside the door, but this time, the key NPC inside their door was clearly not different from the past.

"I didn't expect it either." Lin Qiushi said, "Yixie, did you smell something?" If it wasn't for the change in Cheng Yixie's expression, he hadn't thought to shine a copper mirror on the waiter, in fact until just now, they had been aiming at the person who came in through the door.

Cheng Yixie nodded, "Yes, he smells burnt too."

Apparently there was more than one way to find out this person's identity was different inside the door, and the copper mirror was one of them, if one could have a keen sense of smell like Cheng Yixie, one might be able to find out without the mirror. Of course there is a certain flaw in such an ability, that is, if people are all together, then the smell will be difficult to distinguish carefully.

"Do you think that waiter could be the father of a family of three?" Ruan Nan Candle sat on the edge of the bed.

Lin Qiushi shook his head, "I don't know, but I can't rule out the possibility."

Ruan Nan Candle stopped talking, he pulled out a candy from his pocket, peeled off the sugar paper and stuffed it into his mouth, vaguely saying, "You guys either?"

Lin Qiushi was a bit strange: "Why did you start eating sugar?"

Ruan Nam Candle: "Isn't this about quitting smoking."

Lin Qiushi: "Why are you suddenly quitting smoking?"

Nguyen Nam Candle: "You have liver cancer." He said this in a matter-of-fact tone, "You can't always smoke in front of patients."

In fact, Lin Qiushi was almost forgetting about his liver cancer, usually people suffering from liver cancer, but he was lucky enough to enter the door and felt stronger than before.

Lin Qiushi said, "Alright, give me one too."

Cheng Yicher looked at the candy and extended his hand as well.

So the three grown men began to sit on the edge of the bed and eat the fruit candy, and the house was filled with a faint aroma belonging to the fruit.

The clues about the key were still very vague, and Lin Qiushi felt that the key had a lot to do with the father of the family that had disappeared.

Ruan Nan Candle agreed with Lin Qiushi that their top priority was to find the missing father.

While the three of them were discussing, there was a sudden knock on the door and Lin Qiushi went to the door and saw an acquaintance, Luo Qianshan, through the cat's eyes.

At that moment, Luo Qianshan was standing alone outside the door, smiling at the cat's eyes.

Lin Qiushi turned his head and asked Ruan Nan Candle, "It's Luo Qianshan, do you want to open the door?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "Open." He wanted to see what Luo Qianshan wanted to see them for.

Lin Qiushi then opened the door, and when Luo Qianshan saw him, the smile on his face grew as he said, "I have something I want to talk to you about - mind, shall I go in?"

Lin Qiushi: "Please."

Luo Qianshan nodded at him and entered the house. As soon as he entered, his eyes fell on Ruan Nan Candle, then as if nothing had happened, he moved away and said, "Do you have a clue about the key?"

Ruan Nan Candle was very rude: "If you're the one who came to ask this, you can leave."

Luo Qianshan laughed bitterly: "Why is the attitude so aggressive?"

Ruan Nan Candle raised his chin, looking like an arrogant queen from the looks of it: "I never bullshit with my defeated men."

Luo Qianshan had nothing to say.

Not having beaten Ruan Nan Candle, he had probably already been marked as a stain on his life - Lin Qiushi wondered if he would feel better if he knew that the one in front of him was a womanizing bigot.

"I've come to talk to you about things very sincerely," Luo Qianshan said, "My sister and I have found a clue to the key."

He had thought that the three people in front of him would be very excited when he said this, but who knew that their expressions were colder and colder one by one.

Let's not talk about Cheng Yixie, the face paralytic, Ruan Nanzhu had already seen countless big scenes, and Lin Qiushi had already prepared himself mentally, so he didn't feel surprised.

In the end, the one who was surprised turned out to be Luo Qianshan himself, who said, "Don't you guys want to say anything?"

Lin Qiushi: "Congratulations?"

Ruan Nam Candle: "Oh."

Cheng Yicher didn't say anything.

Luo Qianshan: ".......He is now pondering if the three people in front of him have found the key....

The good news was that Ruan Nan Candle's next words dispelled his fears, and Ruan Nan Candle said, "Well, what do you want us to trade for your clue?"

Luo Qianshan: "I..."

Before he said anything, Ruan Nan Candle leaned on Lin Qiushi's shoulder and said softly, "First of all, just to clarify, people have boyfriends, so don't make any unreasonable demands."

Luo Qianshan: "... I'm not, I don't have one. His expression twisted: "Don't think too much about it." Although the person in front of her was indeed pretty, but who would dare to take a shot at her with that skill ah, if there was really any argument later, who would beat up who was still uncertain.

Ruan Nan Candle: "Heh, you really have no eyes."

Luo Qianshan: ".......I'm sorry, I apologize.