Kaleidoscope of Death

As Ruan Nanzhu spoke, he pulled out his cell phone from his pocket, flipped out the photos they took inside the shrine and handed them to Lin Xingping: "Look, we took a few photos on purpose... But Sister Lin, we really found something inside this shrine! "

Lin Xingping is quite deep in Taoism, when facing these words of Ruan Nanzhu, her expression is not flawed, after giving an ooh, she asked: "Oh? You found something in the shrine? What did you find out?"

"Wasn't it dark when we returned yesterday, when I thought I was dead," Nguyen Nam Candle said, "but we found out that after worshipping at the shrine... you don't get any more rain on your body!"

"What?" Cui Xueyi stared, "Are you serious?"

"Of course it's true." Ruan Nan Candle looked up at the sky, "Why don't we wait until it rains at night and test it out for you?"

"OK." Lin Xingping laughed, "About when did you arrive at the shrine?"

"It was around eleven o'clock at noon." Ruan Nanzhu was embarrassed, "I'm weak, I walked a bit slowly, I got there too late, I thought I wouldn't be able to come back then."

"It will come back." Lin Xingping smiled and lied, "Don't you see we'll be back."

"Shall we tell everyone about it?" Nguyen Nam Candle said, "Let's all go and worship, so we don't have to worry about getting wet, right? That way we can go out in the rain and look for clues!"

"Don't say it yet." Lin Xingping hurriedly stopped, "Let's go over there today and make sure you're not mistaken, if you are it's a matter of several lives." After she said this, she repeated the question, "Are you sure you won't get caught in the rain now?"

"I'm sure." Ruan Nan Candle nodded, affirming Lin Xingping's statement.

"Okay, I know, I'll go over there right away." Lin Xingping said.

They were obviously very interested in that shrine, but still had their doubts, and Lin Xingping and Cui Xueyi were still whispering as they said goodbye to them and headed for the door.

"They really didn't lie?" Cui Xueyi said, "If they lied, death wouldn't be until tomorrow."

"I don't think they lied, did you see the pictures on their phones?" Lin Xingping said, "We can't wait until tomorrow, everyone who's been drenched in the rain has already died, and tomorrow there might not be any more sunny dolls left, and then if it continues to rain during the day, we'll be stuck in the courtyard."

Cui Xueyi apparently felt the same way, so he silently agreed to Lin Xingping's suggestion of going to see the shrine.

"We have to go over there." Lin Xingping said, "That divine shrine, it's very important..."

"But it's too unsafe to go this way, and what if we don't make it back in time before it rains." Cui Xueyi was still a little worried about safety.

"The first two days of rain didn't go past 5:30 pm at the earliest, we just have to get back before 5:30." Lin Xingping was already sure of this, "They arrived at their destination yesterday at eleven o'clock, we will definitely arrive before them... If we didn't arrive first, that means they are lying." Indeed, in their eyes, they were no better than the soft and weak Ruan Nam Candle.

"Don't waste too much time there when the time comes, you can definitely make it back in time." Lin Xingping analyzed, "Inside the door, you must take some risks."

After hearing Lin Xingping's words, Cui Xueyi stopped saying anything, clearly convinced by her reasoning.

Instead, Gu Yuan Si looked like he was about to stop talking, Lin Xingping saw what he wanted to say and turned her head towards him, "You don't have to go if you don't want to, you won't be able to keep up with your physical fitness anyway, so don't hold us back when the time comes."

"Fine, then I won't go." Gu Yuan Si begged, his footsteps immediately stopped, "You guys come back earlier."

Lin Xingping sneered and turned around with Cui Xueyi to go out.

They left the courtyard, and only then was Lin Qiushi unable to continue listening to their conversation, he saw Gou Yuan Si slowly enter the courtyard and smile a stiff smile towards them.

Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi ignored him, and he asked himself to go into the house.

"Did you send your note out?" Lin Qiushi asked Ruan Nan Candle.

"Mm." Ruan Nam Candle echoed.

"Directly given, or stuffed pockets?" Lin Qiushi was more curious about the reactions of the others.

"Stuffed pockets." Ruan Nam Candle said, "But they should all have seen the note by now." He propped up his chin and tilted his head to look at the sunny doll that hung above the hallway, "It's about time."

"Yes." Lin Qiushi stood up, walked under the clear sky doll, and reached out to take it down. The doll was heavy, and through the thin white cloth, one could touch the features, a touch that made one feel extremely uncomfortable, and then thinking of the miserable screams the head would make at night, Lin Qiushi silently put it to the side.

"It's about to start." Ruan Nan Candle said.

Lin Qiushi nodded his head.

Ruan Nan Candle's thin lips lightly opened and recited a nursery rhyme: "O Sunny Doll, please let tomorrow's weather be sunny. Just like the sky in my dream, if it's clear, I'll give you a golden bell. Sunny doll, please let tomorrow's weather be sunny. If you obey my wish, I'll give you sweet wine to drink. O Sunny Doll, please let the weather be sunny tomorrow. If so, if tomorrow is still gloomy and rainy, I'll cut off your head..."

The moment the words fell, the expected downpour of rain suddenly arrived. Black clouds instantly filled the sky, and bean-sized raindrops smashed onto the ground from the sky.

The ear-piercing sound of rain swept Lin Qiushi's ears, and neither of them spoke, just waited quietly.

About a few minutes later, two wretched, rain-soaked wretched figures appeared in front of the courtyard, and after seeing the two of them return, Lin Qiushi quickly hung the Clear Sky Doll back up.

As soon as the Sunny Doll was hung up in the hallway, the sky instantly turned clear, and the two types of weather transitioned almost seamlessly.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck-" Cui Xueyi, who was covered in rainwater, was like a wretched chicken in soup, he staggered back to the courtyard, trying to dry himself off, "How could this happen, how could it suddenly rain-" as he said this, he happened to see Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi standing in the corridor of the courtyard, and viciously said, "Was it you two, was it you two who made the mess-" he seemed to be overwhelmed by fear, and stretched out his sleeves, and was about to attack Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu.

The first time I saw it, I thought it would be a good idea to go to the shrine, but then I heard Ruan Nanzhu say with a cry, "Brother Cui, go to the shrine with Sister Lin, there might be help. It suddenly rained on our first day, and I didn't expect it to suddenly rain today!!!"

Cui Xueyi and Lin Xingping's faces were originally paler than paper, they instantly felt a sense of slowing down after hearing Ruan Nan Candle's words, Lin Xingping smiled very reluctantly, "Yes... yes, maybe we're still, saved."

Cui Xueyi was shaking, scared and angry, he glared at Ruan Nan Candle with hatred and said, "You better not lie to me, or I'll get you dead when I come back tonight, come on, Xingping, let's go to the shrine." He seemed to be too flustered and actually called out Lin Xingping's real name right inside the door.

But Lin Xingping didn't notice this at this time, and turned around with Cui Xueyi before leaving the courtyard again in a hurry.

The back that Ruan Nanzhu watched disappeared in the doorway and lightly tsked, "But that's it."

Lin Qiushi said, "It's not that they're not but so, it's that you're too good." Lin Xingping was also quite clever, even if she believed that there was a divine shrine in the depths of the bamboo forest, she would never have risked going all the way inside, but no matter how cautious she was, she would never have thought of this sudden rain.

Now, I'm afraid the two of them were pinning their last hope on the divine shrine at the end of the bamboo forest.

Without fail, they were both dead, and the revenge of Wu Qi and Wu Qi's girlfriend was avenged, but Lin Qiushi felt like he couldn't be happy.

He remembered how Wu Qi had broken his heart to tell him to take care of his health and quit his job early, and sighed softly, wanting to spit out the frustration in his chest.

The rain had come and gone suddenly, but because of the note that Ruan Nam Candle had slipped earlier, the rest of the team hadn't gone out - they had been suspicious, but then a heavy downpour had come while they were watching from the courtyard, and this rain had washed away their doubts and confirmed the authenticity of the note.

So although the skies cleared again after that, no one dared to go outside, instead they all chose to stand in the hallway and watch the situation.

Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu, on the other hand, began to discuss the divine shrine.

"Shall we go see that divine shrine on a rainy day." Ruan Nam Candle said.

"Okay." Lin Qiushi said, "But after seeing that idol, I do recall the backstory you told about the Clear Sky Doll."

That idol was dressed like a monk, was it the monk whose head was cut off in the backstory?

"Well..." said Ruan Nan Candle, "I have the same guess." He propped up his chin and looked out at the sky, "In the end, it's a low level door, the death conditions are still quite harsh, we don't have to rush." And they were also given props they could use, but of course, it all depended on whether or not they could find the item.

Lin Qiushi nodded.

While the two of them were talking, that little tea who was previously on the bar with Lin Xingping suddenly walked up to them, and the first words that came out of his mouth were, "I saw you guys take down the clear sky doll and open it."

Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi both turned their heads to look at her.

"I thought you two were the ones who were pitied." Xiao Cha laughed to herself, "It turned out to be a deep hide."

"People can't understand what you're saying." Ruan Nan Candle began to routinely disgust people again as he leaned into Lin Qiushi's bosom and pampered himself with a goosebumps-inducing tone, "Darling, what this person says is so strange~"

Little Tea said, "Can you please speak normally?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "That's the way people talk."

Xiao Cha: "...What normal person talks like you?"

Ruan Nanzhu began to ooze.

As Lin Qiushi listened to his winging, he looked at the cherry blossom trees in the courtyard and somehow thought of a sentence, Falling Boinging....

Xiao Cha was disgusted enough by Ruan Nan Candle, but still resisted the desire to turn around and walk away, saying, "How many clues have you found? If you do find the door, can you let me know in advance, I have a lead on the key!"

"Didn't find it." Ruan Nan Candle blinked and continued to bully the little girl, "The door is so scary, people can't find it."

Little Tea got angry and pointed out the truth, "The note was stuffed by you guys, right?"

Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu both looked innocent at the news.

In the end, Little Tea couldn't take it anymore and stood up and turned around.

Only then did Ruan Nan Candle said, "Will tell you in advance, if we find it."

"Thank you." Little Tea wasn't stupid, knowing that Ruan Nan Candle and Lin Qiushi's strength was definitely not ordinary, both of them had unpleasant looks, especially Lin Qiushi, who belonged to the type that was a little too ugly, and to be honest, she really didn't want to talk to Lin Qiushi if she didn't have to.

"It looks like Missy is disliking you." Ruan Nan Candle was still saying sarcastic things in Lin Qiushi's arms, "People aren't even happy to have a look at you..."

Lin Qiushi: "... "Ruan Nan Candle, I urge you to be kind....

Because of this sudden downpour, no one dared to leave the house this day.

Ruan Nan Candle and Lin Qiushi didn't wander around so as not to appear to be a maverick.

At around 5pm, the weather started to become gloomy, about the same time as Lin Xingping had presumed, the sky was once again clear and it was going to rain.

But when the raindrops fell to the ground, neither Lin Xingping nor Cui Xueyi had returned. This was normal, after all, they had already been caught in the rain during the day, so getting caught again didn't seem to have any effect. Moreover, if the two of them didn't find a way tonight, I'm afraid that what would be hanging on the corridor the next day would be the heads of the two of them.

It was around eight o'clock in the evening that Lin Qiushi heard the sound of hurried footsteps coming from the entrance of the courtyard. During that time, there was also heavy breathing, as if the person had just encountered something extremely terrifying.

Lin Qiushi pulled the door a crack and saw Lin Xingping standing in the doorway, her face pale like a blistered and swollen corpse, while Cui Xueyi beside her had already disappeared, her gaze landing on the crack of their door and meeting Lin Qiushi's four eyes.

Lin Qiushi calmly pretended not to see it and silently closed the door crack, he looked at Ruan Nan Candle, "Back."

"Oh." Ruan Nan Candle said, "Hold the door against her, don't let her in."

Lin Qiushi nodded.

A moment later, the sound of pounding on the door came from outside, and Lin Xingping's voice was thick and hoarse as if it had been scalded by carbon as she pounded on the door and shouted, "Xiao Xiaoyu, get out of here, you actually dare to lie to me, you actually dare to lie to me, say, say! Did you guys do this!!!"

Ruan Nan Candle's tone was not salty: "Sister Lin, what are you talking about, what does it mean to lie to you, is there no shrine on the other side of the bamboo forest?"

"What's the point of having a shrine?" Lin Xingping raged, "I worship, but the rain still pours down on me!"

"Then I don't know." Ruan Nan Candle said, "After all, we didn't get wet on our bodies when we went there, and I don't know what will happen if you two get drenched and go, so why don't you tell me?"

Lin Xingping cursed at the news, which was roughly some curse words, and said that Ruan Nan Candle had lied to her.

"How have I lied to you." Ruan Nan Candle said, "You told me about the shrine first, I just went to see it according to your instructions, Sister Lin, it can't be that you yourself didn't know there was a shrine deep in the bamboo forest."

Lin Xingping heard here, no longer understand Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi are two people pretending to be a tiger is really stupid, she screamed for a long time, Ruan Nanzhu did not bother to pay attention to her, and finally the whole person softly fell outside the door and began to wail.

If this was an ordinary person, hearing someone cry so miserably, Lin Qiushi might have some compassion, but for Lin Xingping, he had no sympathy at all.

This group of people had never harbored any good intentions from start to finish, and had countless lives in their hands, and only now that the same thing had fallen upon them did they understand what it was like to feel this way.

Lin Qiushi whispered, "I want to ask her a few questions."

"Ask it." Ruan Nan Candle said, "If you don't ask now, you won't have the chance to ask later."

"Do you know Ho Frost Ya?" Lin Qiushi spoke to Lin Xingping outside the door.

Lin Xingping instantly listened to the sound of weeping as she heard the name He Frost Ya and fell into some sort of weird silence.

"You know each other, right?" Lin Qiushi said, "Not only did you know He Frost Ya, you also knew Wu Qi. Lin Xingping, do you still feel that you died in vain?"

Lin Xingping didn't speak for a long while, as if gagged by Lin Qiushi's question, before finally squeezing a sentence out of her throat, "That's because she's stupid, she deserves to die!"

"Right." Ruan Nan Candle answered with a smile, "So you're stupid, and you deserve to die."

Lin Xingping was mute, once again there were intermittent cries from outside the door, she said, "Please, help me, I don't want to die, I don't want to die ah..."

"Who wants to die." Lin Qiushi's tone was calm, "He Frostya probably thought the same as you did at this point before she died, so this is considered retribution."

However, any amount of reasoning would be too redundant for a dying person.

Lin Xingping's cries continued into the middle of the night, gradually covered by the sound of clattering rain, Lin Qiushi was sitting by the door without sleeping when he heard the sound of nursery rhymes coming from outside.

Lin Qiushi gently pulled the door open the crack and saw the voices of those children in the courtyard again, mixed with a few headless corpses.

The children, holding hands, gathered around Lin Xingping, who was kneeling in the middle, and asked the child's last question: "Who is the person behind you?"

What exactly Lin Xingping answered, Lin Qiushi couldn't hear, he only saw Lin Xingping's neck tilt, then it fell off the neck with a thud. It didn't move after rolling on the ground a few times.

The clear sky doll hanging in the corridor yesterday began to scream again, and the entire courtyard was filled with an indescribably strange atmosphere.

Only after he was sure that Lin Xingping was dead did Lin Qiushi return to his bed.

He looked at the ceiling with a blank expression for a moment, until Ruan Nan Candle shrank into his arms.

"What's wrong." Ruan Nan Candle asked him.

"I didn't think that this would involve Kuzaki." Lin Qiushi felt that he had nothing to hide from Ruan Nan Candle, "He's... quite nice." Enthusiastic and cheerful, otherwise he wouldn't be friends with such a slow person like him.

"Hmm." Ruan Nan Candle listened quietly, knowing that Lin Qiushi didn't need him to answer.

"I don't think I'm a qualified friend." Lin Qiushi said, "I didn't think to talk to him when something happened to him, and I didn't ask."

"It's not your fault." Ruan Nan Candle said, "You can't protect everyone."

Lin Qiushi turned his head to look at Ruan Nan Candle, "What about you? Can you protect every one of them?"

"Me?" Ruanan Candle was quiet for a moment, "I couldn't protect it either." He dropped his eyes and lowered his voice, "I entered the tenth door with a friend, I came out and he didn't."

Lin Qiushi remembered the Ruan Nam Candle who had come out of the tenth door, almost as if his entire body had shed its skin. But after resting for months in the hospital, even coming out of the hospital, it hadn't slowed down for a long time.

"You've done very well," Lin Qiushi said, "Without you, I probably wouldn't have made it past the first door."

Ruan Nan Candle was helpless, "Wasn't I consoling you, how come it's turned into you consoling me."

Lin Qiushi was dumbfounded.

How could they be so emotional on a normal day, this was just an occasional sigh, after sleeping for a while, the next day they had to be a hundred times more energetic to deal with the inside of the door.

The two of them lay on the bed, you said one thing, I said another, and they fell asleep in a daze.

The next day was a sunny day, and the clear sky doll in the hallway had a new look.

To be sure, Ruan Nan Candle took the clear sky doll off and opened it, seeing the head wrapped inside.

It was indeed the Lin Xingping who had died last night, her head and body were separated, and her eyes were still wide open.

It's just a pity that she didn't even know how the rain came about until she died, let alone what kind of tricks Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu had used, so she didn't even have the chance to turn into a fierce ghost and could only die so unwillingly.

I'm afraid that He Frostya had gone through the same thing as her, she knew that someone was taking her door away, but she didn't know where exactly she had fallen into the trap.

"Let's go to the shrine today," Ruan Nan Candle said, "When it's raining."

"Good." Lin Qiushi nodded his head in agreement.

Ruan Nam Candle wrapped Lin Xingping's head in a white cloth, then recited the long nursery rhyme once again.

After the nursery rhyme, the heavy rain arrived again and Ruan Nan Candle took the oil paper umbrella out of the bag, held it open and handed it to Lin Qiushi, smiling, "Let's go."

Lin Qiushi took the oil paper umbrella and walked with Ruan Nan Candle towards the direction of the bamboo forest.