Kaleidoscope of Death

Because of Ai Wen Rui's words, the three of them all wore a hesitant look on their faces.

Lin Qiushi said, "I'll go over and take a look." He walked over to the statue, cautiously pinched a corner of the white cloth, then raised his hand and gently lifted it.

The white cloth fell down, revealing the object wrapped inside - it was a beautiful statue. She was sitting on a chair, wearing a long skirt, her long hair over her shoulders, with graceful lines, so vivid that it seemed as if she would move at any moment to become a human being.

Although Gu Longming didn't know much about art, he was still amazed by the statue's appearance and exclaimed, "So beautiful...."

But upon seeing the statue, Evangeline turned pale and took two steps back, shuddering, "No... no!"

"What's wrong?" Lin Qiushi looked at him.

"This statue wasn't like this before!!!" Ivory was clearly shocked by the statue's appearance and spoke fast, "This statue we saw back then obviously only had a head, how could it have a body!!!"

"What do you mean?" Gu Longming stared, "You mean this statue grew up?"

"Yes, there's an extra part of her body-" said Evangeline, "When we came to make a wish earlier, I was sure that this statue, this statue really only had one head!"

But now, she had a body, and not only did she have a body, but she even looked more and more like a person.

Because of Evangeline's words, the otherwise beautiful statue took on a bit more of a weird flavor, and even the gentle smile on her face became subtle and inexplicably creepy to look at.

"What exactly was going on at that time, tell me more carefully." Lin Qiushi always felt that Ai Wenrui was still hiding something.

Ai Wen Rui cautiously looked at the statue and was a little scared: "Let's not talk about it here, okay?"

"Okay." Lin Qiushi agreed, he also felt uncomfortable with the statue.

So the three of them left the room and locked the door on their way out.

However, they didn't notice that after they left the room and unlocked the door, the gentle smile on the woman's statue's face gradually disappeared and turned into an indifferent expressionless face. The eyes, made of plaster, also blinked slowly.

Lin Qiushi and Ai Wenrui returned to the activity room.

Evanri touched his arm, still in a fearful mood, his eyes looking towards the utility room from time to time, clearly fearing the statue that had produced the change.

"What kind of ritual were you performing?" Lin Qiushi asked him.

"It's the senior sister who taught us!" Ivory said, "She gave us a small wooden doll and told us to drip blood onto it, then make a wish on the statue..."

"Schoolgirl?" Lin Qiushi said, "Where is she now?"

Evangeline looked at the time and said, "I think he's still in class at this point."

"She's actually okay?" Gu Longming was a bit incredulous, "In this kind of scenario, shouldn't the first person to offer to die be the fastest to die?"

Ai Wen Rui had nothing to say about Gu Longming's bluntness.

"After all that happened, you didn't talk to her?" Lin Qiushi felt something was wrong, "She must know something, right?"

"We're all scared to death, where we dare to get together again." Ai Wen Rui laughed bitterly, "If I wasn't in the same class as Xiao He and the others, I'm afraid we wouldn't even want to meet." Speaking of Little Harmony, Ai Wen Rui's demeanor darkened again, as if he was thinking of his own future in association with Little Harmony's death.

If this matter wasn't dealt with sooner rather than later, it was only a matter of time before Evangeline's death would occur.

"Go find her." Lin Qiushi said, "She's definitely a key person, and..." he pulled out a group photo from his pocket, "Do you know the person in the group photo?"

"Recognize." Evangeline gave the answer with a quick glance, "They...they were the first three to play Dripping Blood."

"The last one that didn't play?" Lin Qiushi remembered there was a survivor up there.

"Didn't play." Evangeline said as if it was a bit strange, "No... he had the best relationship with Hokage and was there, so why didn't he play?" He scratched his head, a little confused, "And I can't believe I didn't notice this at the time..."

Lin Qiushi looked at the time, it was about to be the last class, it would soon be night and they wouldn't be able to go anywhere at night, Lin Qiushi said, "You take us to our senior sister, I want to talk to her."

Ai Wen Rui nodded.

The senior sister was a sculpture major like them and was a fourth year student. The place where this class was held also happened to be next to the playground, so you didn't have to walk too far to get there.

Outside the classroom, Lin Qiushi heard the bell ringing, and then students were coming out from inside one after another.

Ai Wen Rui supported his head and stared inside, but he didn't see the person he was looking for for a while, and he muttered a bit confused, "Did she skip class, or did something happen..."

Lin Qiushi said, "Let's find a student to ask."

"Mm." Ai Wen Rui nodded, reached out to stop a student who was walking out and said, "Student, do you know Zhu Ruyuan?" Zhu Ruoyuan was the name of that school girl.

"Who?" The student looked confused, "I don't know her."

Evangeline froze, "You don't know her?" With a bit of a bad feeling, he quickly went to stop the next student and continued to ask him if he knew of Zhu Ruyuan.

Who knew that after asking four or five students in a row, they all shook their heads at Ai Wenrui's question, saying that there was no such girl named Zhu Ruyuan in their class.

Now Ai Wen Rui was completely furious, goose bumps all over his skin, and his emotions broke down a bit: "How could- how could she not know, she obviously still had class with these people!"

Lin Qiushi thought about it and walked into the classroom to stop the teacher, asking him if he knew Zhu Ruyuan.

Who knew that the teacher's face changed slightly after hearing the name and said, "Who are you, what are you doing coming to our school to ask this!"

"We were hired by the school to investigate the school deaths." At times like this, the identity the NPCs gave them was quite useful, Lin Qiushi explained, "You know Zhu Ruyuan right? Can you tell us about her?"

The teacher looked hesitant, hesitantly saying, "She... her matter was actually quite famous... in the school at that time, but then because it was a few years since the change of students, no one knew about it gradually. "

Evan Rui had heard the hidden meaning in his teacher's words and said in horror, "Has Zhu Ruyuan already-"

"Yeah, she's dead," The teacher said, "It's been over five years since she's been dead."

Ai Wen Rui was trembling at this statement.

Gu Longming was afraid that he would start crying again, so he pressed his shoulder to comfort him and said, "It's okay, don't be nervous, we're all here."

Ivory mmmed with a cry.

"What's wrong with her?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"She was a student in the sculpture department." The teacher said, "It seems like she was participating in an award outside the school at the time, and the fact that she didn't get a grade hit her hard, so she committed suicide later."

He said simply, but from the teacher's expression, it definitely wouldn't be just about that, as he also looked vaguely fearful as he said these things, as if he didn't want to talk about it much.

"Suicide, how did you commit suicide?" Lin Qiushi, however, wasn't going to muddle this matter just like that, "Can you elaborate on that?"

The teacher said, "I'm not really sure..." he kind of didn't want to talk about it.

"If this matter is not dealt with, more students may suffer." Lin Qiushi said, "You really don't know anymore? These students were all in their twenties, and they died in vain..." he looked at Evinrary next to him, and the guy started sobbing again.

I don't know if it was Lin Qiushi's words or Evinrary's tears, but the teacher finally relented and he said, "She killed herself inside the school."

"Inside the school?" Lin Qiushi was a little surprised.

"Yes, inside the school, and the way she died was... a bit strange." The teacher said, "Not getting an award was a big blow to her, she poured her blood on her work after slitting her wrists... By the time she was discovered, the person was already gone."

Speaking of the work, but Lin Qiushi immediately remembered the statue, he was busy asking, "Have you seen her work?"

"Saw it once." The teacher said, "It was a statue of a woman, it was quite beautiful, but the work lacked soul and it's reasonable that it didn't win any awards."

He sighed, with some regret between his words, "She was a good seedling, it's a shame she's gone like that." After saying this, he looked at his watch and said, "I have to leave first."

"Thank you, Teacher." Lin Qiushi thanked him.

The teacher nodded at him and left the classroom with his briefcase.

Ever since he knew that his senior sister wasn't human, Evan Rui had been in a dumb state, and now that the teacher was gone, Gu Longming slapped him on the back and said, "Brother, are you okay?"

"I'm not good-" said Evangeline.

"How long has she been mixed up in you anyway?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"I don't know, I don't remember." Ai Wen Rui said, "It's like, it's like she's been inside the club's activity room since the beginning, and we were joking about how senior sister was making the activity room her home..." he shivered, "Yeah, she's not even human, putting Shouldn't it be normal to be in charge there?"

Lin Qiushi didn't know what to say, he looked at the sky and said, "Let's go have dinner first, we'll talk about it in detail when we get back tonight."

The three of them went to the cafeteria and ate some random food.

Ai Wen Rui had been wanting to talk the whole way until the food was finished, then he twisted and said, "That, where are you guys staying at night?"

"Classroom dorms ah." Gu Longming understood what Evan Rui meant, "What are you doing? Not trying to live with us, are you?"

"No?" Evangeline said, "You can't take me when you need me during the day and then lose me when you don't want me at night, you can't be that heartless, can you?" He was particularly emotional as he said this, drawing some sort of odd looks from the students around them.

This was an art school after all, and both gays and lesbians were very common, so it was only natural that people would think a little more about it.

Gu Longming: "I didn't don't want you..." he felt a little misunderstood after saying this and quickly explained, "You can squeeze in with us too if you want!"

"That's great," Ai Wen Rui said, "I'll just stoop to squeezing in with you guys."

Lin Qiushi looked at Gu Longming's bitter face and somehow wanted to laugh a little.

After they finished eating, they went back to the classroom dormitory, and the others inside the team came back one after another, either going into the house or standing in the corridor to rest.

From the looks on everyone's faces, it didn't look like everyone had progressed too well today.

But Lin Qiushi felt that they were okay because at least they had found the key person - a fourth year senior who shouldn't exist.

"Yo, who's this?" That pretty girl, Zuo Silk, who Lin Qiushi was somewhat impressed with, saw that Lin Qiushi and the others had brought back Evinrude and said curiously, "Are you guys bringing n...bringing students here too?" She guessed she was going to say NPC's, but swallowed back down.

"Mm." Lin Qiushi said, "Gu Longming's fancy."

Gu Longming: "???"

"Oh, it's nice to be idle." Zuo Silk looked at Gu Longming, "Take care of yourself young man."

Gu Longming had nothing to say but to glare at Ai Wenrui, who was staring at him innocently and tried to explain something, but then stoically rested his voice under Gu Longming's stare.

The three of them returned to their room, and after Lin Qiushi simply washed up, he began to sort out the clues he had gotten today.

That senior sister wasn't human, she had mixed in with the sculpture club that Evan Rui was in and had guided the students to make a wish under a strange statue. Eventually the students' wishes come true, only to pay a heavy price - they are all dead.

There are four beds in this room, and Ai Wenrui sits on Gu Longming's top bunk, leaning against the blanket and looking like he's about to die.

Gu Longming felt a tomato out of nowhere and said as he nibbled on it, "So what exactly did you wish for then?"

"Me?" Ivory said, "I wished the same as they did..."

"Same?" Kulong chirped, "So did you win an award with them?"

"No." Ivory answered honestly.

"Actually no?" Gu Longming was incredulous, "Couldn't even unnatural forces help you win the prize? How badly you've carved it."

"It's not that it's bad." Evangeline raged, "It's that I didn't participate at all." He sighed, "Do you think I'd be sitting here talking to you right now if I didn't?"

The winners died one by one, and in a miserable manner, so where would Evangeline have survived six months later if he had entered the competition.

Only though his wish hadn't come true, the thing's power seemed to be slowly growing stronger, even trying to get at him.

Lin Qiushi, however, was looking down at a group photo and he said, "The last survivor in the photo is named Zhou Hanshan, right?" He'd seen the man in the library files.

"Yes." Ivory nodded, "The four of them were close, who knew this would happen later."

He thought about it, "But it did seem like there was one place in particular that was strange at the time."

"What place?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"He wasn't involved in this game," Evangeline had said this before, only now in a little more detail, "It's actually really weird now that I think about it, because he was the one who came up with this game in the first place."

"And where is he now man?" Gurung asked.

"It's still in school," Evangeline said, "It's junior year now, and we're about to start working on our graduation project, and we're going to start looking for jobs, and we're all busy, so we should all be in school."

"He must know something." Lin Qiushi said, "This person might have a connection with Zhu Ruyuan."

Ai Wen Rui nodded as he said, "But then again, Senior Sister won't come to us now..."

Gu Longming and Lin Qiushi didn't respond to Evan Rui's words, and it was clear that none of them were very sure about this matter.

The night was sinking, shrouding the school in darkness.

Ai Wen Rui got into bed early and tossed and turned, unable to sleep, and Lin Qiushi actually couldn't quite fall asleep, but he didn't like to move even if he couldn't sleep, because moving around made him more energetic.

The two of them couldn't sleep, but Gu Longming wasn't affected at all, and soon the sound of his steady breathing sounded in the house.

"Are you asleep?" Ivory asked in a small voice.

Lin Qiushi was silent for a moment: "No."

Evangeline: "What if I can't sleep..."

Lin Qiushi: "Close your eyes, don't play with your phone, you'll fall asleep later."

"But I'm scared." Ai Wenrui said, "I'm afraid she'll come looking for me."

Lin Qiushi: "If you don't sleep she won't come to you?"

Evangeline: "..." actually makes some sense.

"Sleep." Lin Qiushi said, "It's a blessing not a curse, it's a curse that can't be avoided."

I don't know if it was Lin Qiushi's words that comforted Evan Rui, but he rolled over a few more times and calmed down, seemingly falling asleep as well.

Lin Qiushi's eyes were half-closed, in a state of half-asleep, a state where he could shift from sleep with just a little sound.

"Thud." The subtle sound woke Lin Qiushi up, and he opened his eyes in the darkness to see where the sound was coming from... it was the ceiling.

The sound wasn't really audible from the wall they seemed to be separated from...if it was the first floor it was fine, maybe it was someone moving around on the second floor, but they were living on the second floor right now, which meant that the roof of their building...was empty.

"Knock knock." The noise from the ceiling continued.

Lin Qiushi listened to the sound and it didn't feel good because it literally sounded like someone was banging on the ceiling, acting like they were looking for something.

When Lin Qiushi thought of something, he immediately got up from the bed and went over to Evan Rui to shoot him awake.

Evan Rui woke up from his sleep in a daze, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Lin Qiushi's face close at hand, and was about to scream, but Lin Qiushi covered his mouth.

"Get off the bed." Lin Qiushi whispered in his ear, "Don't speak, don't make a sound."

Ai Wen Rui nodded heavily, he apparently also heard the subtle noise coming from above his head, it definitely couldn't belong to a human, so since it didn't belong to a human... Ai Wen Rui panicked and climbed up from the bed and hurriedly got off the bunk.

As soon as he got out of his bunk, a loud noise came from the ceiling, Lin Qiushi looked up and found that the ceiling had actually been directly smashed by a huge sculpture. The sculpture was a bust that had fallen directly onto Ai Wen Rui's bunk, smashing the steel plate on the bed into shape.

It could be imagined that if Evan Rui was still lying on the bed at this moment, it would definitely be murderous.

"Fuck!" Gu Longming was also awakened by the noise and opened his eyes to ask, "What's wrong!"

Lin Qiushi said, "Get up quickly - something's happened."

Gu Longming hurriedly got up from the bed, only then did he see that there was an additional large hole in their ceiling, but this hole wasn't the most terrifying, the most terrifying thing was that he clearly saw that next to the large hole, a pair of black eyes emerged, the eyes didn't have white eyeballs, only black pupils, and they were unkindly sizing up the house from inside the large hole.

After the eyes took some measurements, they didn't seem to find what they were looking for, so a bit of anger surfaced in their eyes, and then they disappeared into the night.

None of the three people in the house dared to speak, and Gu Longming looked at the large hole for a long while to hold it in, and finally stifled out, "Is this still fucking sleepable?"

"I was unable to sleep-" Evangeline wanted to cry again.

"Let's change the room." Lin Qiushi looked at Evanri, "It's almost morning."

It was good that there were still quite a few extra rooms, so the three of them silently packed up their things and moved to another room, but of course before changing rooms Lin Qiushi went to check the statue that had smashed into Evinriry's bed. It was found that the statue looked almost exactly the same as the statue inside the library....

Lin Qiushi thought to himself that it was quite hard to be a ghost, killing someone and having to move the statue all the way over here.

The three of them changed rooms and were completely unable to sleep.

Ai Wen Rui was sitting by the window, staring out of it.

The Dragon asked him what he was thinking about.

"I was thinking how nice it would have been if I had changed my wish," Ai Wen Rui said, "You said that if I had wished that I could live forever..."

Gu Longming: "..."

"Wouldn't I be making a lot of money then?" Ivory repented.

"Yes." Gloom came grudgingly, "But haven't you ever thought that there are many ways to live? It's not a way to live if you've become a vegetable."

Evangeline: "...right oh." He got sad again, "I shouldn't have gone through with this death, even if you're the main character, most of them don't end well in a horror movie."

Gu Longming patted him on the shoulder, "Besides, you're not necessarily the main character."

Ai Wen Rui: "I'm going to cry ah."

Gu Longming quickly added, "Even if you're not the protagonist you're still an important male number two!"

Evangeline: "...but don't all the male secondaries in horror movies die one fucking death after the other?