Kaleidoscope of Death

Because of yesterday's events as a prelude, today when everyone saw this sunny doll, the emotions were not very excited.

Lin Xingping originally wanted to follow the yesterday's practice, to have the sunny doll taken down and buried, but was stopped by a girl, this girl's name seems to be Xiao Cha, belongs to the newcomers who are more clear-headed. It seems to be a bit unused to Lin Xingping's ordering others around, and said, "Don't take it, we don't even know what purpose this doll has, what if the person who takes it will be cursed."

Lin Xingping argued, "Aren't the people who took it off yesterday fine?"

Xiao Cha sneered, "That's not likely, just in case it's just not their turn, in a couple of days it might be."

Lin Xingping said, "How can you talk like that..." she made a face like she was indignant because she had been wrongly accused, "Why do you take my good intentions for a donkey's liver and lungs?"

Xiao Cha doesn't take this at all, rudely saying, "Or I'll bring you a stool and you take it down yourself, and you'll be the good guy?"

Lin Xingping still want to defend, next to Cui Xueyi saw the situation is not good quickly come as a peacemaker, said well, well let's not fight, here we are a team, why make a mess so unhappy, do not take it, anyway, the person has died, hanging also does not matter.

Lin Xingping pretended to be angry, turned around and left.

Little tea spit towards the ground, cursed a swear word, its shrewd appearance is quite like Ruan Baijie's charisma. After the quarrel, Little Tea seemed to notice that Lin Qiushi was staring at her, and she gave Lin Qiushi a very unhappy glance and scolded, "What are you looking at, you've never seen a beautiful woman before." Then she turned around and left.

Ruan Nan Candle gloated beside Lin Qiushi and said, "This is the first time you've been treated in this manner oh."

Lin Qiushi: "......." as if it was.

Ruan Nan Candle turned her head to look at Lin Qiushi again and sighed, "It's all because of this face of yours."

Lin Qiushi: ".......that's about right, you've said it a few times, and how ugly his face is.

There are no mirrors in the washroom in this world, he has been here for two days and doesn't even know what he looks like.

Ruan Nan Candle looked at Lin Qiushi's dazed look and thought about touching the phone in Lin Qiushi's pocket, opening it to point out the front camera: "Mumble, look."

Lin Qiushi took a look at the phone and found that a face that was hard to describe with words appeared inside the camera, it was no longer possible to simply use the word ugly to describe it. Anyway, Lin Qiushi's next action when he saw his face was to turn off the camera and completely understood what was going on with Lin Xingping and the others' disgusted eyes.

Lin Qiushi wordlessly looked at Ruan Nan Candle.

Ruan Nan Candle made a show of hands: "I didn't know you'd become so ugly after entering the house."

Lin Qiushi said, "It's really hard for your eyes." This look is really a bit affecting your eyesight.

Ruan Nan Candle laughed, "Let's go, let's go have breakfast first and go out to look for clues before it gets dark."

"Good." Lin Qiushi nodded.

The two of them went to the restaurant for breakfast, saying it was breakfast, but it was actually close to eleven o'clock.

Lin Qiushi casually ate some and left the restaurant with Ruan Nanzhu.

Today, Lin Xingping had instead warmly invited Lin Qiushi and the others to travel with them, saying that they had found a bamboo forest on a mountain in this town, and inside the bamboo forest there was a stone path, not knowing where exactly that path led to....

Ruan Nam Candle listened to them but smiled and said but they wanted to go around the courtyard first.

"What's getting better?" Cui Xueyi said impatiently, "It's almost time to look around, you guys follow us there..."

"But walking is so tiring oh." Ruan Nan Candle leaned against Lin Qiushi's side, her voice whiny and soft, and deliberately pampered, "People don't want to walk at all." If a slightly prettier girl had said this, it might have been pleasing to the eye, but the Ruan Nam Candle of this world was not at all pretty, so Cui Xueyi's eyes very clearly showed an expression of disgust.

"Get over it, just hang in there." Lin Xingping was still not giving up.

"No way, we can't force my little princess." Lin Qiushi was now comprehending the essence of this face of his, he lifted Ruan Nan Candle's chin and spoke softly and tenderly face to face with Ruan Nan Candle, "After all, my little princess is walking too much, but I will be heartbroken."

Apparently, Lin Qiushi used this face to say such powerful words, he clearly saw that both Cui Xueyi's and Lin Xingping's faces darkened, his throat swallowed slightly, and he didn't know if he was forcing the feeling of wanting to be nauseous back as well.

"You guys can understand that, right?" Lin Qiushi who had gotten a bad taste was still continuing to be disgusting.

Lin Xingping very barely smiled, and Lin Qiushi suspected that she was about to lose it.

Lin Qiushi was still planning to continue, but Cui Xueyi turned around and walked away, looking like he was completely unable to endure any longer. And Lin Xingping and Gou Yuan Si followed him and left as well. This Gou Yuan Si, although he was the employer, hadn't spoken much the entire time and was very non-existent, it wasn't until he left that Lin Qiushi noticed such a person standing beside him.

Cui Xueyi had gone to the edge of the courtyard, probably thinking they couldn't hear, and whispered to Lin Xingping, "How did you choose such a disgusting one."

"How should I know." Lin Xingping was also complaining, "It was pretty normal a girl when I read the profile, who knew the boyfriend was so disgusting."

"Shit." Cui Xueyi spat, "I feel like vomiting even talking to him."

Lin Xingping, "I'm also a bit..."

The two of them spoke and walked away, Lin Qiushi wanted to laugh as he listened from behind, he was the one who didn't expect Ruan Nan Candle's makeup to have such an effect. It actually directly made Lin Xingping and the others stop harassing them, saving them a lot of trouble.

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Let's go out later, I have something I want to confirm."

"What kind of thing?" Lin Qiushi and he took a seat on a random stone bench in the courtyard.

"Do you remember that thing I saw last night?" Ruan Nan Candle's gaze swept across the courtyard.

"You mean the guy with the umbrella?" Lin Qiushi remembered that Ruan Nan Candle had said that, but with his eyesight he wasn't able to see it.

"Right." Ruan Nan Candle nodded, "I think this umbrella is the key." He pondered, "I'd like to look for it."

"By the way, why did you say that last night?" Lin Qiushi suddenly remembered what Ruan Nam Candle had said last night when that basketball picking brat suddenly appeared, "That's the one that got the floor wet..."

But Ruan Nan Candle smiled: "I just said it casually, but I didn't expect it to really work."

"Casually?" Lin Qiushi didn't quite believe it.

"Really." Ruan Nan Candle slouched, "Just a sudden inspiration from the man with the umbrella." He tilted his head, "When I saw that man, I thought he really looked like a parent who was guarding a small child's homework..."

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

"Parents, for one, definitely don't like kids being unruly," Ruan Nam Candle said, "especially things like getting the floor wet..."

As they spoke, the yard was almost gone.

The entire courtyard was empty, without the sound of the clattering rain, and the wind chimes in the courtyard were tinkling from the breeze. Ruan Nan Candle stood up from the stone bench and walked over towards one of the rooms.

"Didn't we check there?" Lin Qiushi remembered that they had inspected this room on the first day.

Ruan Nanzhu said, "Let's take another look."

Lin Qiushi then didn't try to persuade them anymore and followed Ruan Nanzhu to the outside of the room.

This room was occupied by the owner of the courtyard, and it was similar to their furnishings, just a bed, a few cupboards, and no extra decorations.

Ruan Nan Candle entered the room and started checking around.

Lin Qiushi was standing at the door, thinking about the scene he saw last night, but suddenly he felt his calf being touched by something, and when he looked down, his sweat hairs immediately rose. Only a dirty basketball was seen, slowly rolling to his feet.

Lin Qiushi looked over at the basketball and saw a pair of black eyes in the gap below the floor.

The floor surfaces of the buildings here were all insulated and not boarded up, so it was entirely possible to crawl in through the gap next to it...of course, no one would normally do that.

The pair of eyes flickered away, but when Lin Qiushi looked again, they were gone.

"Nan Candle-" Lin Qiushi opened his mouth to call out, "There seems to be something underneath."

Ruan Nan Candle came out of the house and said, "What?"

Lin Qiushi pointed at his feet: "There seems to be something under the floor here."

Ruan Nanzhu said, "What kind of thing?"

Lin Qiushi said, "A pair of eyes..." while most of the things inside the door wanted him dead, there were actually some sentient ghosts as well. This one under his feet, for example, he somehow felt like it was reminding him of something, "I want to look under the floor."

"I'll do it," Ruan Nan Candle said, "I'll look."

He took Lin Qiushi's phone and turned on the lighting function, ready to crawl under the floor to take a look. Lin Qiushi was still a little unsure, saying let's not look, we can't run away if something happens to this.

But Ruan Nanzhu refused, he said, "No, that umbrella is definitely around here, and now it's just the floor left unchecked."

Lin Qiushi wanted to say something else, but he was determined and had already climbed in.

It was dark under the floor, and one could only discern what was around with the faint light source.

Lin Qiushi squatted outside, looking at Ruan Nam Candle with worry, just in case something happened to him.

Ruan Nan Candle's pace of crawling inside was suddenly halted, as if he had found something, and a moment later, a sentence came from inside: "Found it."

Lin Qiushi shouted from outside, "Found what? An umbrella?"

"Um... Umbrella, like there's something else." Ruan Nan Candle said, "I'll drag it out first..."

With difficulty he crawled inside and dragged out what he had found under the floor. It was a black pocket, and next to it was a very crude oil paper umbrella, which looked very worn out and had a few patches of cloth on it.

Lin Qiushi reached out to help Ruan Nan Candle up and said, "What's in the bag?"

Ruan Nan Candle shook his head, "I don't know, you open it." He paused for a moment, "It might not be anything good."

What was hidden inside, naturally, couldn't be anything good.

Lin Qiushi bent down and opened the black bag and saw that inside was actually a bag of bones that had been crushed into pieces, from the structure of the bones, Lin Qiushi could identify that it definitely belonged to a human, and probably to a child....

"It's a child's skeleton." Ruan Nan Candle's words confirmed Lin Qiushi's suspicions, except that he seemed to be more skilled at distinguishing them, and he roughly examined them, "There's more than one."

"More than one?" When Lin Qiushi saw these bones, he inexplicably thought of those children who sang "Bird in a Cage" in the garden last night, did these skeletons have anything to do with them? He pondered for a moment, "I don't think I see a skull..."

"There is indeed no skull," Ruan Nam Candle said, "only bones from other parts of the body."

"Then what? Buried?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"Into the ground." Ruan Nam Candle put the bag down, "Though it always feels like the most important part isn't here." He said, looking up at the clear sky doll hanging at the end of the hallway.

It was still the same overly large clear sky doll, hanging above the corridor by cotton ropes, now swinging slightly with the wind, if one didn't know what was wrapped inside, one would probably find the atmosphere somewhat tranquil. It was just that Lin Qiushi felt sick to his stomach when he thought of the white head that was soaked by the rain.

When Lin Qiushi found a shovel in the corner of the courtyard, he planned to dig a hole to bury the black bag.

Ruan Nanzhu was too weak, and Lin Qiushi couldn't bear to see him work hard, so he let him sit beside him and watch. The pit was quickly dug, and as Lin Qiushi buried the bones in it, he always felt like there was something watching around him, but after searching carefully, he couldn't find the source of his sight.

Ruan Nan Candle was sitting not far from Lin Qiushi, studying the oil paper umbrella in his hand with his head down.

This oil paper umbrella was very ordinary, the umbrella bones were made of bamboo, the entire body had a pale white color, it looked like it had been used for a long time, there were several patches on the top of the umbrella, every part of the umbrella was giving off an air of old age.

Ruan Nan Candle opened the umbrella and saw some residual water stains inside, saying, "This umbrella should have been used recently, perhaps... last night?"

Lin Qiushi was filling in the dirt and heard this back, "Is that the one you saw last night?"

"It's possible." Ruan Nanzhu said, "This umbrella should be of great use, we have to find a chance to try it."

Lin Qiushi said, "How to try it?"

Ruan Nan Candle looked at the sky: "The umbrella, well, it's only useful on rainy days." Now the sky is slowly becoming cloudy again, and with yesterday's experience, we should all know that it's definitely going to rain in a little while. And as long as it was raining, it would turn into a sunny doll on the corridor after one night.

Lin Qiushi patted the soil down solidly, returned the shovel to its place, and said, "Let's go, they're almost not supposed to come back."

"Go." Ruan Nam Candle said.

They went back to the house and soon heard the sounds of conversations coming from outside the courtyard, the same Lin Xingping people who had returned from searching for clues outside.

The content of their whispered discussion was all heard by Lin Qiushi.

Lin Xingping and Cui Xueyi and the others had gone back to the path they had found inside the bamboo forest this afternoon, and had followed the path all the way up, but had not been able to reach the end of the path. Seeing that most of the daylight hours had passed, although they hadn't reached their destination, the three who cherished their lives still decided to return first, after all, if the rain fell halfway up, they would be in trouble.

Of course, they stopped their discussion instantly after they found Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu in the house.

Lin Xingping said, "Yo, you guys just stayed in the house all day, huh?"

At this moment, Ruan Nan Candle was leaning against Lin Qiushi's bosom, her voice soft, and said, "Yes, I wasn't feeling well, so my dear stayed with me for a day."

"Oh, okay." Lin Xingping said, "We made a big discovery out there, though." She laughed at that, "If you feel better tomorrow, we can split up and go see."

"Oh? What discovery?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"Didn't I tell you earlier that we found a path over the bamboo forest?" Lin Xingping smiled, her smile looked sincere, as if she was really a leader who cared about the newcomers, "We just came back from over there and really found something."

"What kind of stuff?" Ruan Nan Candle was curious.

"It's a courtyard." Lin Xingping sighed, "It's just a pity we got there too late and didn't have time to inspect it carefully before we came back, you guys will leave tomorrow morning and go over early, you should be able to find some other clues in the courtyard."

Cui Xueyi was beside him to help, "What did you tell them to do? They stay in the house all day long, and they want to sit back and enjoy their success, don't they? Such people, and you treat them so well!"

Lin Xingping said, "We can't say that, we're teammates after all."

These two, one singing white face and one singing black face, worked quite well together, if it wasn't for the fact that Lin Qiushi had already listened to their conversation I'm afraid he would have some faith.

Lin Qiushi looked at Ruan Nan Candle.

Ruan Nan Candle mumbled, "Sister Lin, don't be angry, I'm just not feeling well today, I'm sure I'll be fine tomorrow, you mean the courtyard right? I'll go over there tomorrow with my boyfriend and see if I can find anything."

"Well, okay." Lin Xingping said, "Actually there are still a few places we haven't explored, we'll just go over tomorrow to explore first, after all, there's strength in numbers, only if we help each other can we get out of here earlier."

Lin Qiushi nodded his head with a face full of sincerity at the words.

After Lin Xingping said this, he walked away with Cui Xueyi and the others again.

Ruan Nan Candle gave Lin Qiushi a wink and they left from the living room and went back to their own room.

Lin Xingping had really started to do something to them, there was obviously nothing on that path, if they were really stupid enough to believe Lin Xingping and the others and kept following the road, they might not be able to return until it rained. When the time is not right and they get wet outside, they will probably be hanging their heads on the corridor as sunny dolls the next day.

Whereas Lin Xingping was obviously light on this kind of thing, she didn't do it herself, Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu died at the hands of ghosts and couldn't be turned into harsh ghosts for revenge.

"What a bad thing." Ruan Nan Candle sneered, "But what's at the end of that path, I'm a bit interested."

Lin Qiushi heard the sound of rain falling on the ground again from outside, it was still dripping at first but soon became a crackling sound. He looked outside and saw that the courtyard was once again covered by a curtain of rain, the sky was overcast, and the entire world fell into a regular cacophony of noises.

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Let's go check it out tomorrow."

Lin Qiushu said, "That path?"

"Hmm." Ruan Nan Candle analyzed, "This town is very small, we've checked most of the places and there's nothing special, the end of the path they found might be something particularly important."

Lin Qiushi felt that Ruan Nan Candle's words did have some truth to them, he nodded his head, indicating that he agreed to his proposal.

The two of them sat in the house, waiting for the night to come.

By about nine o'clock, it was completely dark outside, and the few lights hanging in the hallway were completely useless, literally glowing like fireflies in the wrapping of the rain curtain.

The lights in the other rooms were extinguished one after another, and everyone was getting ready to rest for the night.

Ruan Nanzhu took out his umbrella and stood up.

Lin Qiushi stopped him and said, "I'll do it this time."

But Ruan Nan Candle laughed, "I won't just do anything risky, I have a card."

Lin Qiushi pursed his lips, "But..."

Ruan Nan Candle waved his hand, stopping Lin Qiushi from wanting to continue, his dark eyes gazed tenderly at Lin Qiushi and said, "Don't worry, I have a sense of propriety." Pausing for a moment, he laughed lightly again, "I won't let my boyfriend be a widower."

Lin Qiushi: "....... "You're still joking at this point.

As Ruan Nanzhu spoke, he had already walked down the corridor, held open the oil paper umbrella, and then cautiously walked towards the rain curtain.

Lin Qiushi watched him, holding his breath nervously, but when Ruan Nan Candle reached the courtyard, a magical scene happened, only to see the rainwater around him, all bounced away by an invisible force, with Ruan Nan Candle at the center, actually creating a vacuum with no water droplets splashing down.

"It really works." Ruan Nan Candle stood in the rain and smiled towards Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi looked at his smile and his heart heaved with relief... At any rate, there was no real trouble.

After standing inside the rain for a while, Ruan Nan Candle returned to the corridor and put away the oil paper umbrella. He casually shook off the water on top of the oil paper umbrella next to it and wiped it with the towel he had prepared, making sure that the drops of water on it wouldn't fall onto the floor before re-entering the house.

The umbrella was obviously very important, but no use for it had been figured out yet, but even if the key hadn't been figured out, they had an important thing to lean on at the moment... Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nan Candle could go out in the rain.