Kaleidoscope of Death

Under the oil paper umbrella, all the rainwater was perfectly separated. Walking in the rain, Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu seemed to be wrapped in a boundary, not a single drop of rain would fall on them.

The road leading to the shrine was a bit long, the two of them walked slowly, not in a hurry.

This was the first time Lin Qiushi had left the courtyard on a rainy day. The whole town was shrouded in rain, the townspeople who were usually seen occasionally had disappeared, and the streets were empty, no one with an umbrella could be seen. Lin Qiushi guessed that he was the only one in the whole town with such an umbrella, after all, other umbrellas could not guarantee that not a single drop of rainwater would be touched.

When we reached the bamboo forest, we meandered up the path. The surrounding bamboo leaves by the rain hit the crackling, sometimes the wind blowing through the bamboo forest, bamboo leaves issued rustling sound.

Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi chatted occasionally, but neither of them said much, both were thinking about the shrine. There was also Cui Xueyi, who went to the shrine with Lin Xingping yesterday but didn't return today.

Lin Qiushi was actually a little curious as to what had happened to Cui Xueyi at the shrine, and judging from Lin Xingping's reaction, it definitely couldn't be anything good.

The rain continued to fall, as if it would never stop.

Lin Qiushi had thought that they would have to walk until at least noon to reach the shrine, but after about an hour or two of walking with oil-paper umbrellas, they saw the shrine that appeared at the end of the path.

The shrine in the rain had an additional hazy and mysterious flavor.

The original dilapidated building had a distinct change, no longer dilapidated.

"Here we are." Ruan Nam Candle stopped, he didn't rush over, observing the shrine first from the side.

"Hmm." Lin Qiushi said, "It seems to have changed quite a bit."

"Yes." Ruan Nam Candle said, "The broken places have all been repaired." This should be what the shrine looked like at its peak. The candlestick placed in front of it was filled with incense, while the altar next to it was filled with all sorts of offerings, and it could be seen that many people had come to worship here.

Lin Qiushi's gaze was placed on the well, he cautiously walked over to the well, not daring to get too close, just watching from afar.

He only saw that the ancient well, which had already dried up, was now filled with clear well water, the water rippled and the clear surface of the water was stirred up by the falling raindrops in thin waves. As Lin Qiushi looked at the well, what he was thinking was whether the skeletons inside the dry well were still in the water.

Just as he was thinking this, the well water, which originally had only tiny waves, suddenly tumbled violently, as if it had been boiled, and the well water gurgled as if something was about to gush out of it.

When Lin Qiushi saw this scene, he involuntarily took a step backwards, and the next moment, he saw countless pairs of withered hands that had turned into bones sticking out of the well water, and from the movement, it seemed like they were trying to grab the edge of the well mouth to climb out from inside.

The well mouth wasn't deep, it should be a simple matter to climb out of it, but after those bones grabbed the well mouth, an invisible force, one by one, broke their fingers, allowing them to slip into the well water again.

So the well continued to churn, literally like the legendary frying pan of hell.

"Let's go in first." Ruan Nan Candle pointed inside the shrine.

"Good." Lin Qiushi averted his eyes from the edge of the well and followed Ruan Nam Candle to the entrance of the shrine.

They collected the umbrella, and used the towel they brought to wipe the water off the top of the umbrella and hold it in their hands before pushing open the door of the divine shrine and walking in.

As soon as the door to the shrine opened, the wind from outside the house poured in, blowing the sunny doll hanging above their heads in a vigorous whirl.

After Lin Qiushi entered, his eyes were placed on the sculpture that was placed at the very center of the shrine. It was the same headless monk, but now there was an extra staff in the monk's hand, and at the top of that staff was actually a fresh human head, and by the looks of the head, it belonged to Cui Xueyi, who had been tricked by Ruan Nanzhu.

Cui Xueyi died, his head was cut off after death, and was strung on top of the staff held by the monk. His eyes were wide open, and there was still fear and dismay in them, and he looked like he was dying.

Lin Qiushi locked eyes with him, and although he wondered if he was mistaken, he actually felt as if he saw Cui Xueyi's eyes move.

Lin Qiushi gently tugged on the corner of Ruan Nan Candle's coat and said, "He seems to be moving..."

"Well." Ruan Nam Candle said, "I saw it too."

Then it seemed that Cui Xueyi's head was just really moving.

Lin Qiushi was about to say something when a strange sound came from above their heads, and Lin Qiushi looked up to see that the clear sky dolls above their heads had started to move. This trajectory of movement was clearly not blown by the wind, but rather they were moving on their own.

One by one, the clear sky dolls shook unceasingly, and in the next moment, cries of this and that erupted from their mouths.

"It hurts, it hurts... Help me, where is my body..."

"Help me, help me, help me..."

"Ahhhhhhhh it hurts..."

It was simply a hellish sight, all the Harutora dolls began to scream, the white fabric wrapped around them began to ooze bright red blood, they kept shaking and struggling on top of Lin Qiushi, the cotton thread that was wrapped around them was about to break as far as the eye could see, and these Harutora dolls were about to fall to the ground.

"Ahhhhh... help help help..." the Cui Xueyi who was forked up by the staff also made a sound, and Lin Qiushi saw his head begin to twist and struggle on top of the staff, while the statue of the monk who was sitting in a regiment actually stood up at an extremely slow speed, his other hand raised and pointed to the empty spot above his neck.

Lin Qiushi instantly understood what he meant.

Ruan Nanzhu also understood, and he raised his head to look at the clear sky dolls that were making screams together and said, "It's in these, right?"

"But how to find it?" With so many Sunny dolls, Lin Qiushi felt that finding the monk's head from within them would be like finding a needle in a haystack.

"There's always something special about his head." Ruan Nan Candle had already started pacing to check inside the shrine, he raised his head and carefully observed the clear sky dolls on top of his head, "Let's look for it first."

"Good." Although Lin Qiushi found it a bit difficult to do so, he always had to try. Following Ruan Nanzhu's pace, he also began to examine the appearance of the Clear Sky Doll.

Although they were all simple brush strokes drawing out their facial features, these Clear Sky dolls did in fact look different, some had a straight line and some had a round eye, all in all, there were no two dolls that were exactly the same.

While Lin Qiushi was searching carefully, he saw the statue of the monk take a step towards the front, aiming for the open door.

Lin Qiushi's heart chilled at the sight and said, "Nan Candle, hurry up, there seems to be a time limit!"

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Yes!"

Obviously, if the monk's statue had walked out of the house and gotten caught in the rain outside, something should have happened. Cui Xueyi, whose head was skewered on a staff, was proof of that.

There were so many sunny dolls, so dense and constantly shaking, that it was hard for Lin Qiushi to make out what was different about them.

The monk's footsteps were still going on, and he was about to reach the door as far as the eye could see, so the average person would have panicked already, but Lin Qiushi was surprisingly calm. The best way to stop everything from happening at this point was to find that particular doll, and the rest of the thoughts were unnecessary.

Lin Qiushi's gaze squinted through the clear sky dolls overhead and suddenly noticed a doll hidden in the corner.

That clear sky doll was still wrapped in a white cloth, still making miserable screams, but there was something completely different about it from the other clear sky dolls - it was crying, or rather, it was the simple drawing on its face that was crying.

The other clear sky dolls all had their mouths facing upwards, but this doll was the only one whose mouths were downwards, and the corners of his eyes were drawn in the shape of tears. When Lin Qiushi saw this doll, he moved in his heart and said, "Ruan Nanzhu, come over here, is it this one!!!"

Ruan Nan Candle quickly walked over and also saw the clear sky doll that Lin Qiushi was pointing at.

"Take it off and take a look!" Ruan Nan Candle.

The doll was hanging a bit high, so Lin Qiushi couldn't take it down by himself, so he picked up Ruan Nam Candle and asked him to reach it.

Ruan Nam Candle grabbed the sunny doll and pulled off the cotton thread to take it off the ceiling.

"I'm opening it." Ruan Nan Candle said this, and his hands began to move. They didn't have much time to hesitate, the monk had already reached the door and was no more than two or three steps away from leaving this shrine.

After the white cloth was peeled off, the head wrapped inside was revealed.

Lin Qiushi was slightly nervous, his eyes on the doll not daring to leave at all, until he saw a head that belonged to the monk inside after the white cloth was gone, then he heaved a sigh of relief.

This head had no hair, its head was burned with a ring scar, its eyes were closed, its appearance was calm, it didn't let out a miserable cry like the other sunny dolls, instead it had a merciful smile on its lips.

"What next?" Lin Qiushi looked at this head, then at the statue of the monk that had paused there, and said, "An up?"

"I'll try." Nguyen Nan Candle said, "There's no guarantee it's right..."

As he spoke, he approached the monk's statue cautiously with the head in his hand, then stretched out his hand and gently placed the head down on the monk's neck.

The next moment, the head opened its eyes, gazed into the air, and chanted Amitabha.

There was a sudden gust of wind in the house, the wind outside the house rolled rainwater into the shrine, Lin Qiushi was blown all over his face, he was worried, then he heard the crunching sound of bronze falling to the ground.

He was all too familiar with this sound, it was the sound of the key falling to the ground.

The monk's staff was seen transforming into a bronze key, and the hand he was holding the staff in was now holding Cui Xueyi's head.

"Help...help... "Cui Xueyi's cries faded, his resentful eyes grew rigid, and his skin began to show black spots, but in the end, it actually turned directly into a solidified stone sculpture.

The monk recited another Amitabha.

The rain outside the window stopped in an instant, and the dark clouds in the sky began to disperse. The monk slowly walked outside the house and threw the head he was holding into the well in front of him.

Then, leaping to his feet, he also jumped into the well in front of him.

The water in the well tumbled once again, and then the water level began to rapidly recede downward until it dried up again.

And the dead bones that had been inside the bottom of the well also disappeared, as if they had been released from their confinement after they had appeased the monks' anger.

Lin Qiushi heard a creak, and when he turned back, he found a dark iron door appearing at the place where the shrine had originally placed the monks' statues, while the bronze key, was being held by Ruan Nanzhu in his hand.

The sunny dolls, too, no longer cried out, and Ruan Nan Candle wondered, "What do you think they look like inside now?"

"I don't know." Where did Lin Qiushi guess.

"Open another one and take a look." Ruan Nan Candle said as he walked over to where the clear sky dolls were hanging inside the shrine and motioned for Lin Qiushi to pick him up.

Lin Qiushi was a bit helpless, but still obeyed him and walked over to him and picked him right up, allowing Ruan Nan Candle to take down another clear sky doll.

Ruan Nan Candle unwrapped the outer white cloth and saw the human head wrapped inside, the head still looked like a human head, but now it had turned into the texture of stone, Ruan Nan Candle muttered, "I don't know if it's useful to take it out..."

"What happens if it doesn't work?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"No means useless." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Things that aren't props can't be brought out of this world at all, they're gone when they go out."

Lin Qiushi thought about it, then he was really lucky, he didn't enter a few doors and there were three props.

"What about Kuhara Si over there, do we need to go back and tell Cha and the others that the door is open?" Lin Qiushi asked, the door got the key as well, they could just go out and go, but there was still a hidden danger on Kuhara Si's side.

"There's no need to go back specially, the sky is clear and there's nothing dangerous inside the door, they can find the door sooner or later. As for Kuhara Si - what do you think?" Ruan Nan Candle looked at Lin Qiushi, "If you want to get rid of him, we can indeed go out a few days later, it's more troublesome, but there's always a way."

"He... "Lin Qiushi actually had somewhat complicated feelings towards this person, both of them were in a mess, although the one who committed the crime was Lin Xingping and the others, but without Gou Yuan Si as the buyer, there wouldn't have been this deal. The saying that no trade is no harm is still very true.

"Then let the door judge him." Ruan Nan Candle said, "Cui Xueyi and Lin Xingping are dead, according to the rules of the door, Gu Yuan Si will inherit the door with the highest rank of the dead person inside the common entrant, Lin Xingping has passed at least six doors, and Gu Yuan Si's next one, at least the seventh."

A person who had only touched the door, the second door was the seventh, and in ten cases, it was more likely to be dangerous.

Lin Qiushi said, "Alright." He sighed, "Am I being too kind?"

"If you weren't kind, I wouldn't have invited you to join Obsidian." Ruan Nam Candle said, "There are some boundaries that can't be touched, and once they're breached, they'll keep going down, and no one knows where they'll end up." In the first door, if it wasn't for the way Lin Qiushi treated him, he and Lin Qiushi wouldn't be having these stories today.

"Mm." Lin Qiushi nodded his head, showing that he understood.

After following Ruan Nanzhu for so many doors, he could actually see that it was easy for Ruan Nanzhu to really want to take on his teammates inside the door. As long as he wanted to, he could have gotten the people around him dead first, and then leisurely search for keys and doors under the door's protective rules. After all, as long as he didn't do it directly, there was no way for those who died confused to take revenge.

However, Ruan Nan Candle did not choose this method of taking advantage of the situation and was very scrupulous about it. Lin Qiushi was inexplicably impressed by this persistence of his.

"Let's go out first."

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

Lin Qiushi nodded.

Ruan Nan Candle used the key to open the door, and the warm glowing road appeared in front of the two of them.

Lin Qiushi stepped into the glowing tunnel, Ruan Nam Candle followed, and they left the world within the door.

The image reversed, and Lin Qiushi was back in the hotel corridor.

He and Ruan Nan Candle arrived one foot ahead, and Lin Xingping and the others came out, only for Lin Xingping to take one look at them and lunge towards them, bellowing, "You - you bunch of liars - liars -"

Lin Qiushi dodged out of the way and looked at her indifferently.

Lin Xingping wanted to say more, but suddenly opened her mouth and howled a few words, then turned around and threw herself towards the glass window at the end of the corridor. She opened the glass window, as if her body was out of control, and directly tumbled down from the glass window, then Lin Qiushi faintly heard the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, and the noisy screams of the crowd.

Cui Xueyi and Gu Yuan Si also appeared, Cui Xueyi seemed to be extremely angry as well, just as soon as he left the door, his mouth spat out blood in large gulps and coughed violently, eventually fainting directly on the ground, unable to say anything.

Gu Yuan Si was trembling beside him, and the way he looked at Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nan Candle was like looking at some extremely terrifying prehistoric monster.

It was about his eyes that triggered Ruan Nan Candle's bad taste, and Ruan Nan Candle walked up to him and smiled, "You haven't got a human life in your hands yet, I'll let you off the hook this time, but if I find out you're hanging out with this group of people again, I'll be rude next time."

Gu Yuan Si was trembling and nodded his head vigorously, as if he was going to be scared and just convulsed.

"Give that man a call to 120, isn't this not dead yet, it's always necessary to resuscitate him." Ruan Nam Candle raised his chin and instructed Gu Yuan Si to call the emergency number for Cui Xue Yi, who had fainted in the corner, "The doctor and the police are here, know what to answer."

"En En, I know, I know." Gu Yuan Si's expression was quite tense, as if he was afraid that Ruan Nan Candle would throw him right out of the window if he didn't say the right thing, but this was more than twenty floors, it was simply a ghost to go down and still be alive.

"Let's go." Ruan Nan Candle said to Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi hmmmed, and they entered the elevator one after the other.

After getting on the elevator, but Lin Qiushi thought of the hotel's surveillance, saying, "What about this hotel's surveillance, will the police find out that we disappeared for no reason?"

"No." Ruan Nan Candle explained to Lin Qiushi, "In the eyes of the people without doors, we were just dazed for a while."

"Dazed for a while?" Lin Qiushi hadn't expected this.

"Yes, just dazed for a while." Ruan Nan Candle said, "It wasn't more than ten minutes, I guess in the CCTV footage, we were just standing in the corridor for a while, and then that Lin Xingping couldn't think of committing suicide." Although it seemed strange, but it didn't implicate them, besides, the two had tampered with their identities.

After leaving the hotel, Ruan Nan Candle and Lin Qiushi found a corner without surveillance and removed the makeup from their bodies. Ruan Nan Candle regained his gorgeous appearance with his chin slightly raised indifferent and arrogant, making it completely impossible to connect him with that obedient and tall woman.

Lin Qiushi also changed his appearance back, he actually didn't have a too clear perception of what he looked like, but after having a comparison, he still felt that he liked his original appearance a little better... After all, the makeup Ruan Nanzhu had put on him was really too hot for his eyes.

After getting this done, Lin Qiushi suddenly said, "Did you successfully bring out that umbrella?"

"No." Ruan Nan Candle opened his backpack, there was no sign of the oil paper umbrella inside, "It's not a prop, you can't bring it out."

"Oh... "Lin Qiushi was a little regretful, he actually found a lot of the world's things quite useful - if he could bring it out.

"So it's something that can't be found." Ruan Nan Candle said indifferently, "Not everyone has the same luck as you."

Lin Qiushi laughed.

The two returned to the villa and soon saw the news about Lin Xingping and Cui Xueyi. In this news, it only said that a couple had died due to martyrdom in an argument, there was no mention of them, so I guess that Gu Yuan Si really didn't give them up.

"Count him as sensible." Ruan Nan Candle changed the channel.

"What if he gives us up?" Lin Qiushi hadn't had such an easy door in a long time, and he didn't feel too tired after coming out, sitting on the sofa and slowly munching on a watermelon.

"Just give it up to go out." Ruan Nanzhu lazily said, "He definitely still has to find someone to take him through the door, if he dares to talk, I'll dare to kill him."

Lin Qiushi was dumbfounded, he knew that although Ruan Nan Candle's tone was careless, he was definitely not joking.

In fact, most of the time, Ruan Nan Candle didn't like jokes, at least not outside the door.

Lin Qiushi finished munching on the last piece of watermelon and was about to get up to wash his hands, but he saw Ruan Nan Candle staring at him.

"What's wrong?" Lin Qiushi was a little creeped out by the stare.

"You remember that, right?" Nguyen Nan Candle said.

"What?" Lin Qiushi was baffled.

"You still remember, what you owe me inside the door." Ruan Nan Candle said slowly.

Lin Qiushi was stunned for a moment, then reacted, the tips of his ears moving a bit red: "Ah... I thought you were joking."

"Naturally, I'm not joking." Ruan Nan Candle said, "I've never been one to joke."

Lin Qiushi: "......." for this point, they were quite in agreement.