Kaleidoscope of Death

Although Ruan Nanzhu said so, but Luo Qianshan really did not dare to have this vision.

At the end of the day, anyone who could walk through this door with some leisure, no matter how harmless they appeared, was probably not a good person, and a beautiful woman like the one in front of him, who called herself Zhu Meng, was even less likely to be a target to mess with.

"Tell me, what exactly do you want to come and talk to us about." Ruan Nanzhu spoke up and asked.

"It's about the key." Luo Qianshan said, "We found the place where the key is, but..." his tone became a little harder, "But we couldn't get our hands on it."

Ruan Nanzhu: "What do you mean, no way?"

Luo Qianshan said very directly: "Strength is not enough."

Ruan Nanzhu's expression was laughable when he heard this: "Not enough strength? I do think that you siblings are quite strong."

Luo Qianshan didn't defend himself, just spread his hands in a helpless pose.

"Continue." Ruan Nanzhu knew that Luo Qianshan still had something he wanted to say that he hadn't finished.

Luo Qianshan said, "So I want to make a deal with you guys, I'll tell you the clue about the key..."

He said here, paused for a moment.

Ruan Nanzhu waited for his next words, there was no such thing as a free lunch in this world.

"But when you leave here, you have to call me and Qian Shui." Luo Qianshan spoke out his conditions.

"Just like that?" A bit of estimation appeared in Ruan Nan Candle's eyes, as if he was judging how much truth there was in Luo Qianshan's words.

"Just so." Luo Qianshan's tone was firm.

Nodding his head, Ruan Nan Candle said, "Go ahead."

He sort of agreed to the deal.

"The key is in that charred house." Luo Qianshan opened his mouth, "But the conditions for obtaining the key are very special, you have to go in at night..."

Lin Qiushi asked back at the news, "You've been there?"

Luo Qianshan shook his head, "No, we only saw the key at the door, we didn't go inside."

"Then how are you sure the key is inside?" Although Luo Qianshan acted sincerely, Lin Qiushi always felt that there was something wrong with him, the key inside the door was too important, the person in front of him gave the location of the key so easily, was it really as he said or did he have other intentions?

"We saw it." Luo Qianshan said, "The door was open..."

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Why can't you guys go in when the door is open?"

Luo Qianshan's expression was slightly embarrassed, he said, "Because that mother and son are in there."

Silence.

Ruan Nam Candle spoke up, "So you've come to tell us that you want us to go in?" He said, "You didn't see our house number?"

Luo Qianshan knitted his brows.

Ruan Nanzhu: "See the numbers on it? Our house is the last one, even if this floor is all ablaze, we'll be the last to die."

Luo Qianshan sighed: "I don't mean for you to go and die, if you are willing, we can cooperate."

Ruan Nan Candle: "How to cooperate?"

Luo Qianshan said, "We are responsible for leading the mother and daughter in that room to another place, and you are responsible for taking out the key."

Ruan Nan Candle raised his eyebrows at the words, "Are you sure?"

Luo Qianshan said, "I'm sure."

"I don't believe it." Ruan Nan Candle, however, did so, "Unless you show your sincerity first, or at least make a demonstration."

Luo Qianshan was silent for a moment, "It's too dangerous, we can't do a demonstration."

Ruan Nan Candle said, "I'm sorry then."

Luo Qianshan and Ruan Nan Candle met their eyes, both saw unchangeable stubbornness in each other's eyes, he sighed and actually didn't try to persuade any more, he stood up from his chair and walked to the door, looking back at Ruan Nan Candle as he was about to go out, "Just wanted to tell you guys, if it really comes to the end, the ones who will survive will definitely be me and Thousand Water."

Ruan Nam Candle looked at him coldly without speaking.

"Goodbye." Luo Qianshan smiled and pushed out the door.

Ruan Nan Candle looked at his back, her eyebrows knitted up.

Lin Qiushi said, "Where did he get the confidence?" He had also just used a copper mirror to shine his feet while Luo Qianshan was talking to Ruan Nan Candle to make sure that Luo Qianshan was a living person.

Ruan Nan Candle shook his head as he said in a deep voice, "Since Luo Qianshan can say that, he must have his own trump card."

Lin Qiushi didn't speak.

Ruan Nan Candle intoned, "Let's see if there's a chance to go to that room tonight."

Lin Qiushi nodded, Cheng Yixie hadn't spoken during their exchange until now, when he suddenly opened his mouth softly, "Luo Qianshan's body also has that burnt smell."

"What?" Lin Qiushi was stunned.

"It's also on him, though it's very faint." Cheng Yicher said, "But I did smell it."

As soon as this statement was made, Ruan Nan Candle and Lin Qiushi both fell silent.

Luo Qianshan also had the smell of burning on him? Did he also have something to do with the people who were burned to death? But Luo Qianshan was indeed a person again, how could a person's body smell like that.

"Was it there yesterday?" Ruan Nan Candle asked Cheng Yicher.

Cheng Yicher shook his head and said with conviction, "No."

This matter is very strange.

Ruan Nanzhu's expression was cloudy as he said, "Maybe Luo Qianshan is telling the truth."

Lin Qiushi: "Eh?"

Ruan Nan Candle Dao: "He really does have an ace in the hole that he has survived to the end."

They just didn't know what Luo Qianshan's trump card was yet.

The sky was darkening and another night was coming.

On his way back to his room, Lin Qiushi noticed that Xia was standing at the edge of the corridor, shattering her words at the wall, her expression hideous and horrifying.

Although she was whispering, Lin Qiushi could still hear what she was mumbling, repeating one sentence over and over again: don't kill me, don't kill me, don't kill me, don't kill me--.

Lin Qiushi remembered Xiao Mian who died in the morning because of an accident in the hands of Sister Xia. According to the rules inside the door, I'm afraid that Sister Xia won't survive the night. Lin Qiushi thought so, didn't look towards Xia and turned around to enter their own room.

The darker the sky, the quieter the entire city became. The darkness was like a shroud that enveloped everyone.

Around nine o'clock, Lin Qiushi heard the sound of breaking glass coming from the corridor. He looked towards Ruan Nanzhu and Cheng Yixie and found that neither of them seemed to have heard it.

Lin Qiushi hesitated for a moment and said, "Did you guys hear any sounds?"

Ruan Nan Candle shook his head, "What's that noise?"

Lin Qiushi: "The sound of a mirror shattering..." he said, "Should I go check it out?"

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Let's see."

So Lin Qiushi stood up, walked near the cat's eye, and took a look towards the outside.

Because of the angle, he could only see Sister Xia.

Sister Xia was still standing where she was just now, but her mouth wasn't broken anymore, her eyes were staring straight forward, and her eyeballs were bulging as if they were about to fall out of their sockets, Lin Qiushi couldn't know what exactly Sister Xia had seen, but he saw a pair of hands - a pair of hands that were slowly peeking out from the mirror in the ceiling.

Those hands, still dripping with blood, reached behind Xia, from behind, and held Xia's head.

Xia shuddered, as if she wanted to scream, but the scream stuck in her throat, she wanted to turn around to see what was holding her head, yet when she turned her body backwards, her head remained in a forward position.

"Cracking", Lin Qiushi heard a crunching sound, the sound of bones snapping.

The slender arm that came out from inside the ceiling held Xia's head and then twisted it counterclockwise with such force that it actually wrenched Xia's head, hard, from her body just like that.

It all happened in silence and Lin Qiushi held his breath.

Those hands slowly withdrew, and in a trance, Lin Qiushi seemed to hear a delicate laugh that belonged to a young girl.

Xia died just like that, her body falling straight onto the floor, blood gushing out to moisten the carpet.

At this moment, Lin Qiushi's body suddenly paused, and he felt a cold sight projected above his head. Lin Qiushi slowly raised his head and saw that at some point, in the mirror above his head, there was actually a person holding Xia's head, and from the looks of it, she was the little Mian who had died during the day....

Xiaomian was in the mirror, and Lin Qiushi was outside the mirror.

They were looking at each other in silence through a thin piece of glass.

When Lin Qiushi saw that Little Mian's eyes had an additional intense malice in them, she slowly let go and Xia's head fell out of the mirror, smashing directly onto Lin Qiushi's body.

After that, her figure also disappeared on the other side of the mirror.

"Poof" was the sound of a heavy object landing on the ground.

Ruan Nan Candle and the others looked towards Lin Qiushi and saw Lin Qiushi's body half covered in blood and the dead head beside him.

Lin Qiushi had a wooden face and turned his head to look at Ruan Nan Candle, "What should we do?"

Ruan Nan Candle walked up to Lin Qiushi and saw the bloody head, he tilted his head and thought, "Throw it out?"

Lin Qiushi: "I... don't want to use my hands to hold it."

Ruan Nan Candle: "Oh, then use your feet." He said pulling the door open a crack and directly kicked out the head on the floor. The entire movement was flowing as if he had become very skilled.

Lin Qiushi coughed twice: "She won't come to seek revenge on us, will she?"

"Why seek revenge on us." Ruan Nan Candle indifferently said, "It's not like we killed her, besides since we dared to do such a thing and still fear death?" He was talking about the matter of Xia intentionally bringing in a few newcomers and then taking their lives to try the death condition.

Lin Qiushi let out a breath as he looked at the mirror above his head, "Those things seem to be able to travel around through the mirror..."

Ruan Nan Candle also looked at the glasses, but didn't say anything.

Xia died as they had expected, and it was a particularly tragic death. Probably because he was prepared, Lin Qiushi didn't feel much excitement...if Mian hadn't thrown her head at him.

While they were talking, the strong smell of something being burnt outside began to appear again. Contrary to what they had guessed was different, the charred room continued to extend out today.

Lin Qiushi opened the door a crack and saw a charred blackness at the other end of the corridor, during which there were still flames looming in the building.

After the flames, the charred mother and daughter were still standing, but this time they were standing a little further forward.

At the same time, there were also people from other houses who opened the door, and Lin Qiushi saw Luo Qianshan and Luo Qianshui coming out from inside the room as well.

"There's not much time left." Luo Qianshan suddenly said this.

After he said this, Lin Qiushi actually noticed that the room in front of him began to rapidly turn black - there was actually more than one room that had been burned down tonight.

"Cough cough cough." Cheng Yicher choked on his cough once again.

"I hope you can think about it." Luo Qianshan's voice was faint.

Nguyen Nan Candle said, "We've thought about it." He and Luo Qianshan looked at the same place - the same mother and daughter who were standing quietly across the corridor, "You show sincerity, we'll take the risk."

Luo Qianshan still wanted to say something, but Luo Qianshui reached out his hand to stop him.

Lin Qiushi had expected that according to Luo Qianshui's personality, he would say something drastic, but she nodded coldly and she said, "Fine, I'll show you our sincerity."

She walked to the edge of a mirror next to the corridor, then stretched out her hand.

A miraculous scene appeared, only to see Luo Qianshui's hand actually reach into the mirror in front of her without any obstruction - she was actually able to move between the world of the mirror and the outside world!

Lin Qiushi revealed a startled look, and even Ruan Nan Candle was slightly surprised.

But Luo Qianshui quickly withdrew her hand as she said, "But I can't stay in there for too long." She looked towards the burned mother and daughter at the end of the corridor and said, "That's the world that belongs to them, if I stay in there for too long, I won't be able to get out."

Ruan Nan Candle tilted her head, "If you can distract them alone, why doesn't your brother go get the key?"

"I need his assistance to get in and out of the mirror, and he's not free to get the key." Luo Qianshui seemed a little tired of explaining, "Are you guys going to do this or not?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "We'll think about it." He did not respond in one breath.

Luo Qianshui sneered and pulled Luo Qianshan and went back into the room.

Ruan Nan Candle, Lin Qiushi and the others also returned to the room.

Ruan Nan Candle asked him, "What do you think?"

Lin Qiushi thought to himself, "I think it's acceptable." If the key was really in that room, it was worth the risk.

"I also think it's feasible." Cheng Yixie obviously hated this world so much that his sensitive sense of smell was an unspeakable torture in an apartment that was smoked everywhere.

Ruan Nan Candle, however, was thinking about something.

"Let's sleep first." But in the end, Ruan Nan Candle didn't say anything, just said, "It's getting late."

Lin Qiushi didn't force the matter and went to bed after washing up.

Just before going to sleep Lin Qiushi touched his pocket, where he had that beautiful bronze mirror in his pocket. He thought of something and his eyes sank slightly, but quickly closed them gently and fell asleep.

The next morning, Lin Qiushi and Luo Qianshan and the others met in the restaurant.

Every day at breakfast time, when the team was probably at its most complete, Lin Qiushi sat in a remote corner and began to confirm the identities of the people around him with a copper mirror.

Ruan Nan Candle was sitting next to him, munching on a boiled egg and saying vaguely, "How was it?"

Lin Qiushi: "...not so good." There were a total of seventeen people in the team, and the ones who could be identified as dead were Xiao Yan, who was burned to death by fire, Wen Jing, who smashed the mirror and died, and Xia Mian, who was killed by Xia's revenge. There should be thirteen people left alive.

But when Lin Qiushi used the mirror to look around him, he found that there were not as many living people as he thought there were.

Within these thirteen people, there were at least four of them, and their feet all switched directions - heels forward, toes backwards. The way they walked was no different from normal people, but it was because of this appearance, which was no different from normal people, that a creepy feeling arose.

Cheng Yicher frowned, "No wonder it's getting smelly." These smells were really bad.

As they were talking, Luo Qianshan and Luo Qianshui also happened to come in from outside.

Lin Qiushi was moved, so he used the copper mirror in his hand to shine a light on where Luo Qianshui was, however, the sight displayed inside the mirror made him freeze.

Lin Qiushi even rubbed his eyes to make sure it wasn't a mistake on his part.

The mirror that was supposed to show two people was now actually showing only the figure of Luo Qianshan, who turned his head and smiled gently at the air around him, his mouth still talking in a low voice.

Lin Qiushi: "...Luo Qianshui, unable to appear in the bronze mirror, what does that mean? She's not human?

Without saying anything, Lin Qiushi extended his hand and handed the mirror to Ruan Nan Candle, then raised his chin at Ruan Nan Candle's position towards Luo Qianshu's location, indicating that he should look at the scene in the mirror.

When Ruan Nan Candle took the bronze mirror and saw the empty scene beside Luo Qianshan, he gave a low, interesting sound.

In the meantime, Cheng Yixie also saw Luo Qianshui's strange appearance and he said, "She's not human?"

Lin Qiushi felt like he couldn't say it right.

If Luo Qianshui wasn't human, then only she was special? Everyone else's feet were reversed direction, but she couldn't even see her shadow.

And what was her relationship to Luo Qianshan who was human? Were these two both NPCs inside the door? Lin Qiushi thought so, but then felt that something was wrong.

The original doubts hadn't been resolved yet, but new problems had appeared.

Lin Qiushi fondled the smooth surface of the bronze mirror and sighed slightly in his heart.

Ruan Nan Candle, however, directly stood up and walked over towards Luo Qianshan and Luo Qianshui.

Lin Qiushi was shocked at the sight and was about to get up to follow, when he heard Ruan Nan Candle faintly say, "You guys wait here, I'll go over and talk to them."

Lin Qiushi could only say yes.

Cheng Yicher nodded.

Ruan Nan Candle walked up to Luo Qianshan and Luo Qianshui's table, Luo Qianshui had always been unhappy with Ruan Nan Candle, and this time was no exception, seeing him, he said in a bad mood, "What? Figured it out? To talk about standing and waiting, I'm still hungry."

Ruan Nan Candle didn't speak, gazing at Luo Qianshui in silence.

"Something wrong?" Luo Qianshan asked in a warm voice. Personality-wise, Luo Qianshan should be much gentler than Luo Qianshui, but Lin Qiushi was more willing to deal with someone like Luo Qianshui, at least her likes and dislikes were showing on her face.

Ruan Nanzhu was still silent.

Luo Qianshui was obviously a bit hairy from Ruan Nan Candle's gaze and sat restlessly, "What's wrong with you? What are you staring at me for..." she seemed to think of something and blurted out, "My brother has a girlfriend, don't even think about it!"

Luo Qianshan was beside himself with a helpless face.

Lin Qiushi somehow wanted to laugh.

Cheng Yixie suddenly whispered, "What are they talking about?"

Lin Qiushi was stunned at the news, before reacting that according to normal human hearing sitting so far away wouldn't be able to hear what Ruan Nan Candle and the others were saying.

"Luo Qianshui told Ruan Nanzhu that her brother has a girlfriend." Lin Qiushi held back a smile to translate for Cheng Yixie.

Cheng Yixie's eyes also showed some laughter at the news.

"Are you thinking too much?" Ruan Nan Candle, "What misunderstanding do you have about my vision?"

Luo Qianshui slapped the table in anger at the words, "What do you mean! My brother is so good, why should you look down on him!"

Nguyen Nam Candle said, "But I already have someone I like."

Luo Qianshui: "Who? Who do you like!!!"

Luo Qianshan showed a headache expression and said, "Excuse me... May I ask what you want to see us about? Thousand water, you stop talking."

Luo Qianshui clearly wanted to continue, but only after Luo Qianshan grabbed her wrist did she rest her voice with a resigned expression. But it was obvious from the look in her eyes - she already had a myriad of opinions about Ruan Nan Candle deep inside.

"I've come to want to talk to you about the proposal you made yesterday." Ruan Nan Candle pulled out her chair and sat down in front of Luo Qianshan in a natural movement, "I think we can work together."

Luo Qianshan brightened up.

"However, the clue to this door must be taken by us." As Ruan Nan Candle spoke, he observed Luo Qianshui's expression with his remaining light, "Is there a problem?"

"No." Luo Qianshan said, "We can agree on that."

Ruan Nan Candle tilted her head, "Are you guys brother and sister?"

"Yeah, what's up?" Luo Qianshan laughed, "Unlike?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "Unlikeable."

Luo Qianshui frowned: "Where are my brother and I unlike each other..."

Before she could finish her sentence, she heard Ruan Nan Candle lightly come, "Where do the living and the dead resemble each other?"

The air seemed to freeze for an instant, and Luo Qianshui stared in dismay while Luo Qianshan's eyes sank like twilight as he said, "What do you mean?"

"Literally." Ruan Nam Candle said, "What door did your sister die in?"

Luo Qianshan stood straight up from his chair and he bellowed, "Shut up!"

Ruan Nan Candle had already gotten the answer he wanted from his reaction and nodded, "Don't be nervous, I don't mean any harm to you, I just want to confirm one thing."

Luo Qianshui frowned at Ruan Nan Candle.

"Good cooperation." Ruan Nan Candle got up and left. It seemed that these two people had indeed come in through the door, not the NPCs inside the door, and if the answer he got was the latter, then there was no need for them and Luo Qianshan, to continue working together.