Kaleidoscope of Death

Because of this sudden attack, the three of them sat in their room for the rest of the night.

The next day, after seeing the first rays of sunlight on the corridor, Lin Qiushi came out of the house. As soon as he arrived at the corridor, he smelled a strong fishy smell, which he was already very familiar with, and it was the smell of blood.

"Something happened?" Gu Longming also smelled the blood, and looked tense, "Where did it come from?"

Lin Qiushi sniffed, judging the direction the smell was coming from, he said, "It seems to be downstairs, let's go, let's take a look."

They turned down the stairs, and saw two people standing in front of the room on the far right downstairs, the door of the room was wide open, and the pungent fishy odor was coming from that room.

Gu Longming walked in front of them and said, "What's happened?"

"Dead man walking." Zuo Silk's tone was somewhat indifferent, she had apparently been very accepting of such things as death, Dao, "Two dead, don't know how the death condition was triggered."

Gu Longming leaned over to the window to take a look towards the inside, waving his hand with a somewhat unsightly face, "Well... the deaths are pretty tragic."

Lin Qiushi also took a step forward and walked to the window, "I'll take a look too."

Through the gap in the curtains, he saw the situation in the house. Seeing that the entire room was covered in blood, the dead two were standing in the very center of the room, their heads had been replaced by something and turned into two plaster statues of human heads, the white plaster was also covered in congealed blood, at first glance it looked very horrific.

"Where are their heads?" Gu Longming said, "Have you found their heads yet?"

"No." Zosi hugged her chest and said, "We just found out."

"No one knows these two?" Lin Qiushi asked.

Zuo Silk shook her head, "I don't know if there are any, you guys want to know you'll probably have to wait a little longer, there are still some people who haven't woken up... You guys keep watching, I'm going to go eat." She said and her partner turned around and walked away, her back looking unattached to the two bodies.

Gu Longming whispered to Lin Qiushi, "Shall we go in and take a look?" This place was really uncomfortable.

"Let's take a look." Lin Qiushi felt that there might be some clues on these two, though he didn't want to go in if he could.

While they were talking, Ai Wen Rui was standing at the back shivering hard, literally as if he had been electrocuted, and when he heard Gu Longming say that he wanted to go in, he almost cried out, saying, "I'm not going in ah, I'm not going in ah-"

"Alright, just wait outside, you weren't told to come in." Gu Longming didn't expect Evan Rui to have the guts to come in, and said he was the first to enter the house.

It seemed that someone else had already come in for a trip, and Gu Longming saw a few scattered footprints next to the house.

Lin Qiushi walked over to the bodies of these two people, and found that their bodies had undergone a strange change, although the people were dead, the bodies had not become soft, but rather like hardened concrete, showing a rigid state.

The heads of these two people were hardened and wrenched off, and you could even see traces of their neck muscles being torn open, Gu Longming searched around the room and didn't find either of their heads: "No heads."

Lin Qiushi nodded his head to show that he knew. He half bent down, carefully observed the two dead in front of him, but suddenly he found something. Then he cautiously stretched out his hand and tentatively pulled out the inside of one corpse's pocket. A moment later, he pulled out a small wooden man from his pocket....

This wooden man Lin Qiushi had seen yesterday, the same kind that Ai Wenrui's two friends were holding, but the wood was different from what Lin Qiushi had seen yesterday - the wooden man's head was missing.

Lin Qiushi took out a piece of tissue paper and wrapped the wooden man in it, and found an identical wooden man on the body of the other victim.

And apart from the wooden man, there didn't seem to be any other clues in the house.

Lin Qiushi left the room, showed the wooden man in his hand to Evan Rui and said, "You know this thing, right? Is it your friend's?"

"Where did you find it?" Evangeline's eyes straightened when she saw the wood, "Show me?"

Lin Qiushi handed the wooden man to Ai Wenrui.

After examining it, Ai Wen Rui's expression became a bit frightened, "Isn't this, isn't this Xiaosu's woodsman?"

In the meantime, Lin Qiushi heard, "What do you mean? Meaning that each of you has a different woodchuck in your hands?"

"Right." Evangeline said, "It's different, it's Hiosu's woodsman, I remember it well, because just her woodsman doesn't have a head-"

Lin Qiushi: "Where's your woodsman?"

"I threw it." Evangeline said, "We were all a little scared after the accident, so I just found a random place to throw the woodchuck...it, it..."

Gu Longming said, "Could this woodsman have something to do with the way they died?"

Lin Qiushi also thought of that, so they both turned their attention to Ai Wenrui.

When Ai Wen Rui heard the two of them talking, he obviously thought of something, and his expression was instantly filled with fear, "No, no way... But Yamato's wooden man, isn't he fine? Then why is he dead too?"

"Who said his wood was fine." Lin Qiushi asked.

"I saw it, you saw it, too - the one they had in their hands -" Evangeline said.

"That doesn't have to be Yamato's woodchuck." Lin Qiushi said, "Wasn't there another friend of yours there at the time? Is it possible that he's alive and this woodchuck is his?"

After such a reminder from Lin Qiushi, Evan Rui apparently figured something out, his face got worse and worse, and finally lost its color and was so pale that he mumbled his lips as if he had lost his strength and squeezed out through his teeth, "I don't know, by the time I arrived, they had already taken out the woodsman." So he couldn't be sure if the woodsman was the waifu's or the previous friend's who had escaped in a hurry.

"Let's look for information about Juru-won," Lin Qiushi said, "and where you lost your woodsman, exactly?"

Evangeline looked ashen, shook her head and said, "I don't know, I threw it in the trash-" who knows what it looks like now.

Gu Longming said, "Well, don't think too much about it, just throw it away."

Ai Wen Rui didn't say anything for a long while, completely looking like his soul had left his body.

Lin Qiushi somehow felt a little pity for this child and reached out to touch his furry head, "Go, let it be over sooner, so you don't have to worry."

Ai Wen Rui didn't respond.

It was five years ago that Zhu Ruyuan had happened, and the students inside the school didn't seem to react to the name, but the teachers with very long tenure mostly knew this person, and even when her name was mentioned, the reaction was very strong.

Lin Qiushi and the others asked many people, and finally a teacher gave them the key information: "If you want to know, why don't you ask the head of that class at that time."

"Oh, he's still in school?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"Yes." The teacher said, "But he's not teaching anymore, he's managing books over at the library."

Lin Qiushi immediately remembered the librarian, and after thanking this teacher, the three of them prepared to go to the library.

"I want to go to the bathroom first." Evan Rui hadn't looked too good since he knew about that wooden man, and Lin Qiushi was a little worried about him and said, "Go ahead, it'll be fine."

"Yeah." Ai Wen Rui nodded.

After he went inside, Lin Qiushi looked at Gu Longming and said, "What do you think of him?"

"Well? How about what?" Gu Longming was stunned for a moment and quickly said, "I don't like boys ah-"

Lin Qiushi: "..." he tried to control himself before his expression didn't become distorted, "I didn't ask you that!"

"So what do you mean? Oh...are you saying that Evangeline can't be trusted?" Gu Long Ming, "I think there's something he's hiding from us, but it's not likely to be anything particularly important."

"Hmm." Lin Qiushi chanted for a moment, pondering over certain issues.

Ai Wen Rui went and came back quickly, and soon the sound of rushing water came from inside, he went outside and said weakly to Gu Longming, "It seems like he has diarrhea, I feel really uncomfortable."

"Uncomfortable? Do you want me to carry you?" Ai Wen Rui was skinny, and Gu Long Ming had no problem carrying him, just like carrying bags of rice.

Lin Qiushi originally thought that Ai Wenrui would refuse, but he nodded his head and just agreed.

Gu Longming bent down and carried Ai Wen Rui on his back, saying, "Let's go, let's go, don't waste time."

Lin Qiushi hmmmed, and the three of them were taking a few steps forward and were just about to enter the elevator when they heard an incomparably frightened scream from behind them, which caused Lin Qiushi's body, including Gu Longming's, to instantly freeze, because the owner of this voice was precisely Ai Wenrui who should have been grieved by Gu Longming on his back.

"You guys-what are you guys carrying-" Lin Qiushi turned back and saw Ai Wenrui standing outside the toilet, casting a terrified look towards them.

Gu Longming also let out a scream and threw the object he was carrying behind him right to the ground.

Lin Qiushi heard the sound of a hard object shattering and looked down, but found that Gu Longming was actually carrying a plaster statue on his back, when the statue fell to the ground and directly shattered into several pieces.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck-" Gu Longming cursed obscenities and kept slapping his back, "What the fuck is this."

Lin Qiushi looked down at the statue, and slowly bent down, from inside the pieces of the statue, he flipped out a few scraps, in the meantime, "This..." he took the scraps out, and found that these wooden scraps, just happened to belong to the same puppet.

Ai Wen Rui's expression had been stunned, he slowly took a few steps forward and saw what was in Lin Qiushi's hand and trembled, "This, this is my wooden man."

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

Ai Wen Rui said, "This is my wooden man-" his wooden man was smashed apart, his limbs shattered into pieces that couldn't be put together, and if they were right, then he would also die in such a way that he would leave this world in a tragic way.

Lin Qiushi thought that Evangeline, who saw the wooden man, would cry, but instead he pulled out a smile that looked like a cry and said, "Am I, not, going to die too?"

To be honest, after entering the door for so long, Lin Qiushi had rarely seen such a vivid NPC, even giving Lin Qiushi the illusion that he was actually an outsider. Most of the NPCs inside the door were terrifying and bizarre, and the only NPC that left an impression on Lin Qiushi was Xu Jin, who was still an NPc disguised as an outsider.

"Don't worry, you'll be fine." Gu Longming said comfortingly, "Let's go to the library first, we'll find Zhu Ruyuan earlier and maybe we can get this over with."

Evan Rui didn't say anything, just nodded his head woodenly.

This time they didn't dare to waste any more time, the three of them went straight to the library.

The librarian that they had met earlier was now sitting at the front desk reading a book, and when he heard Lin Qiushi and the others' footsteps, he didn't lift his head too much and just said indifferently, "The files are upstairs, no one is borrowing them at the moment."

"Hello." Lin Qiushi said, "You're Zhu Ruyuan's class teacher, right?"

When the librarian heard the name Zhu Ruyuan, the movement of flipping through the books paused and her eyes became somewhat gloomy, "Where did you hear that name?"

Lin Qiushi said, "She's your student, right?"

The librarian said, "Well."

"Can you tell me a little bit about her?" Lin Qiushi pointed to the hall on the first floor, the various statues, "And these statues."

"She was my student and I was her teacher, that's all." He said, "What do you want to know?"

"How did she die?" Lin Qiushi said, "Or does her death have anything to do with these statues?"

The librarian put down the book in her hands and said indifferently, "She committed suicide, and as for the connection between these statues and her, have you seen the sculptures of Zhu Ruyuan?"

Lin Qiushi should have never seen it before, but he remembered the statue of a woman hidden inside the activity room and said, "A woman?"

Juru's homeroom teacher said, "Yes, a woman who modeled herself after herself." He said, "Pretty, but just pretty, missing something important." He stood up and pointed to the statues on the first floor that were in different poses but had very similar looks, "But these statues aren't missing anything like that, they're all perfect works."

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

Gu Longming, who clearly disliked the storied class teacher in front of him, said, "Perfect? How can something that looks similar be perfect?"

He said this, but the class teacher laughed contemptuously, "You guys don't know anything."

"What kind of person is Zhu Ruyuan?" Lin Qiushi continued to ask questions.

"She? A very harsh creator." As if fulfilling an obligation, the class teacher emotionlessly informed them of Juru-won's message, "She can't tolerate flaws..."

"What did she do with the defective items?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"Nature is destruction." Ban said, "Flawed pieces indeed have no value for existence."

Lin Qiushi said, "So when she discovered that the sculpture based on herself was flawed, she destroyed herself?" His eyes moved to the pocket of the squad master's shirt, "What do you have in your pocket?"

The class teacher didn't reply, only gave Lin Qiushi an indifferent glance .

Lin Qiushi said, "May I see what's in your pocket?"

He still didn't move, but Gu Longming was no longer patient enough to continue spending time with him, and reached out and grabbed him by the collar and dragged him over. His movements were very rude, and I could tell that he was already very impatient with the bad attitude NPC in front of him.

"What are you doing-" this class teacher shouted, and before he could react, Gu Longming directly dragged him by his shirt pocket.

Gu Longming took out what was in his shirt pocket, which was actually a wooden doll, just like the one they had seen before.

"A wooden doll?!" Evangeline glared at him, "Where did you get that from, too, Hokage?"

When the class teacher saw the wooden doll being squeezed by Gu Longming, he suddenly became nervous and said, "Give it back to me-" he reached out to pull.

Gu Longming, however, was unwilling to let go just like that, and the two of them pulled a cart like that, and the wooden doll that was already unexplained was just ripped apart.

"Ahhhh!!!" When the man saw the torn wooden man, his mouth howled in horror, his expression horrifying to the extreme, "Give it back to me, give it back to me!"

Gu Longming was startled by the man's scream, and reflexively let go, by the wooden man dropped on the ground.

And this librarian, panicked, picked up the wooden man, took a glance towards those statues on the first floor, and then turned and ran away in a panic, as if there was a ghost chasing behind him.

Gu Longming said, "Fuck, how did he get such a thing, did-"

His eyes and Lin Qiushi converged, and they both spoke the answer to what was on their minds, "Could it be that he might have wished?"

Now it seemed that there was no answer to this question for the time being, but it was clear that the source of everything was Zhu Ruyuan.

As Lin Qiushi and Gu Longming were talking, Lin Qiushi suddenly heard a subtle cracking sound, like a stone or something cracking, he immediately became alert and raised his head towards the source of the sound, but the huge chandelier hanging from the ceiling on the first floor was actually dangling.

"Get out of here!" Lin Qiushi immediately grabbed the two of them and left the spot, they just took two steps forward, the chandelier smashed directly into the ground, you can imagine that if they were still underneath, they would have been smashed directly like a watermelon.

Accidents happened more often than not, it wasn't the first time this had happened, the glass before, and now the chandelier, it was as if they were hyperventilating, telling Evangeline that his life seemed to be on a countdown and could be taken by a ghost at any moment.

"I don't know what to do." Evangeline crouched on the floor, as if she was scared out of her wits, "Am I going to die, I don't want to die..."

Lin Qiushi said, "Is there something else you're hiding from us?"

Ai Wen Rui looked at Lin Qiushi.

Gu Longming said, "At this point, your life is on the line, and you still won't say anything?"

Evangeline was silent for a moment and whispered, "I don't know if I should say it."

"Why shouldn't you say it?" Lin Qiushi didn't understand what he meant.

"Because they wouldn't let me talk." Evangeline said, "They asked me to keep it a secret..." he leaned against the wall, "I thought I'd keep it a secret for them."

"What's going on?" Gu Long Ming pursued the question.

Evangeline said, "Do you remember the man who survived in the group photo? It's the one whose name is Zhou Hanshan."

Lin Qiushi nodded, showing that he remembered.

"He's in love with Zhu Ruyuan." Ai Wen Rui said, "It's been a long time... at least six months."

"What?" Gu Longming couldn't believe it, "He's in love with a dead man?"

"Yeah, I find that unbelievable too," Evangeline was a little demoralized, "But they did fall in love, and I saw them kissing, but not many people know about it, they've been keeping it a secret..."

Lin Qiushi waited quietly for him to continue.

"This game was also suggested by him to play." Ai Wenrui said, "He said that he was idle anyway, so why not come and play the school's campus legend, and someone said to play Pensilon, and after playing it, there was no reaction, so Zhu Ruyuan said she knew a more interesting way to play it."

Gu Longming: "She took out all these wooden figures?"

Evangeline said, "Yes, she took them all out." He said, "But we're a sculpture club, it's not a strange thing to have these looks, nobody took it seriously, and then Zhou Hanshan took that statue out of the utility room..." he hung his eyes as if he was thinking carefully about what had happened that day What, "I don't think I've seen Juru-won since then."

"She's gone," Evangeline's telling slowed down, as if trying to contain the fear in his heart, and he said, "Then we went to the statue, cut open our own skin, smeared blood on the wooden man, and made our wish... After that, the wish was granted. "

Yet the price for making the wish come true is the young life of each of them.

When a statue is placed in a library, one person dies. The rigid appearance of these statues was horrifying, as if they had topographed all of the deceased's unhappy expressions.

"Zhou Hanshan, it's all him." Ai Wen Rui finally figured everything out, "He's the one who guided us to do this, he's the one who's helping Zhu Ruyuan, so..." he looked up a little confused, "Does he know that his girlfriend is dead? "

"Do you know that it's not enough to find him." Gu Longming clenched his fist, "This kind of person who traps his friends for his girlfriend can be a real fucking thing."

"Where could he possibly be now?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"It could be in the dorm," Evangeline said, "but...I can't be sure."