Kaleidoscope of Death

After returning from his hometown, Lin Qiushi had a quiet time again, during which he was introduced by Ruan Nam Candle, took two missions, and entered a few doors with other organizations. Of course, these were all low level doors, so be careful when there were clues, although there were some twists and turns, but in the end, they came out safely.

Ruan Nanzhu, on the other hand, started to make plans for the tenth door, they could have gone in with Cheng Yixie, but Cheng Yixie refused Ruan Nanzhu's invitation and said he would only enter the tenth door with his brother alone. Lin Qiushi wondered why Cheng Yicher was so stubborn, but it was only after a long time that he realized that Cheng Yicher had refused because he had gotten a note about the tenth door.

Only that note couldn't be shown to anyone else.

Ruan Nanzhu already knew about this, so he didn't bother with Cheng Yixie anymore, but instead focused on other organizations and started looking for anyone who had asked for the Tenth Gate.

With Ruan Nan Candle's face, it wasn't difficult to find such a person, and he soon got word that there was a girl in Bai Ming's organization who wanted to pass through the tenth gate, and she had even more gates than Bai Ming, making her a very powerful character.

Because of the difference in physical qualities, girls were generally less physically fit than boys, and would usually be at a disadvantage when confronting them. As a result, the survival rate of girls inside the doors was even lower, but those who survived were all top-notch characters.

The girl's name was Liang Mi Ye, whether it was a real name or a fake name wasn't certain, the only thing that was certain was that she was a patriarch of the White Ming Organization's White Bear, but she was usually very low-key and barely existed.

The people in the White Bear were similar to Obsidian, only six or seven in number, but they were all experts in the fine, not too many.

It was just that Bai Ming had entered a slightly lower door than Ruan Nanzhu, and he would only pass the tenth door at the end of next year.

So Liang Mi Ye was actually the first in their organization to pass the tenth gate.

"Do you have any clues about the tenth door?" Bai Ming asked very carefully when negotiating with Ruan Nan Candle, after all, he was an important figure in his own organization, and if something really went wrong, it would be a great loss.

"There are." Ruan Nan Candle said, "The clues are very detailed, but of course, if you have more detailed clues, we can also use yours."

"We don't have any clues for the tenth door." Bai Ming said, "There was an accident when we left the ninth door, and the others got ahead of us, what I mean is that if you don't have a clue for the tenth door, you'd better enter the ninth door again."

Ruan Nan Candle said, "You don't have to worry about that."

Bai Ming said, "Well, her door was at the beginning of this year, and it's about five months apart from Cheng Yixie's door."

Cheng Yixie's door was in May.

Ruan Nan Candle nodded, indicating that she knew.

"Then I'll leave her to you guys." Bai Ming smiled, "You guys can bring her out to me."

"Sorry, I can't make a promise on that." Ruan Nan Candle, however, didn't eat this, he said, "I can only provide clues, as to whether or not she can come out, I can't guarantee it."

Bai Ming raised his eyebrows, he said, "The tenth door is that scary?"

Ruan Nan Candle said, "A qualitative difference."

Bai Ming joked, he said, "Alright, I know, I wish you well in advance."

Ruan Nan Candle hmmed, he looked towards Lin Qiushi who was standing on the other side of the living room, playing with his phone with his head down.

Bai Ming seemed to catch some sort of emotion from Ruan Nan Candle's eyes as he said, "Finally willing to do it?"

Ruan Nan Candle didn't respond.

"It should be delicious," Bai Ming said, "After all, I've been looking forward to it for so long."

Ruan Nan Candle seemed to smile, "You think I'm you?"

Bai Ming leaned on the back of his chair, "I didn't wait that long, I'll do it when it's right, it's always good to do it in time." He was talking about Zhang Yiqing.

When Ruan Nan Candle introduced Zhang Yiqing to him, Bai Ming knew what he wanted, and now he did indeed get it. He was the same type of person as Ruan Nan Candle, with the slight difference that he was a bit more fearless than Ruan Nan Candle - though it wasn't obvious from the outside.

Ruan Nan Candle said, "You should leave."

Bai Ming stood up, "Won't you invite me to lunch?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "There's nothing to eat."

Bai Ming was helpless: "Alright." He looked at the kitchen and just happened to see Lin Qiushi standing in there with his head bowed to tie his apron, "You do have a mouthful."

Ruan Nan Candle: "I hope you do too."

Bai Ming smiled, didn't say anything, and walked away. How could that one in his family cook, he usually cooked himself, but he didn't care, anyway, spoiling Zhang Yiqing, his heart was also happy. As long as he was happy, why care about the unnecessary things.

After Bai Ming and Ruan Nan Candle reached an understanding, Liang Mi Ye moved over to Obsidian.

Lin Qiushi was a bit surprised when he first saw Liang Mi Ye, as she was a skinny girl with short cropped hair and a clear face, not the kind of girl with a full aura, but he could see something different about her in her eyes.

"Nice to work with you, Mr. Ruan." Liang Mi Ye extended her hand towards Ruan Nan Candle.

Ruan Nam Candle shook her hand, "Miss Liang."

"Mr. Ruan." Liang Mi Ye was not polite, "When can we see the clues?" She got straight to the point.

"After a while," Ruan Nam Candle said, "The clues aren't very malleable, I think we can have a run-in in the meantime."

Liang Mi Ye nodded, sort of agreeing with Ruan Nam Candle's words, she looked at Lin Qiushi who was standing very quietly at the side, "He's going in with us too?"

"Yes." Ruanan Candle said.

"Okay." Liang Mi Ye said, "Let's just run through it for a bit."

The three of them then started looking for someone to take the job and paint the low level door to get to know each other. Only after entering the door did Lin Qiushi know that the Liang Mi Ye inside the door was quite different from her outside the door, the Liang Mi Ye inside the door was a full-fledged goddess, one meter tall, wearing high heels, standing there and no one dared to talk to her. If Lin Qiushi hadn't known she was a girl, he would have wondered if she was another female big shot.

There were still three months left to enter the door, they had entered the door on average once a week for the first two months, and Liang Mi Ye's recognition of Ruan Nan Candle and Lin Qiushi's strength was shown by the fact that Bai Ming didn't come back to Obsidian Stone to ask questions.

The rest of the month, the three of them began to study the clues of the tenth door.

The tenth door's note had only two words written on it: box girl.

Box Girl, a horror-themed tabletop game, is somewhat similar in nature to Wolfenstein, except that the player, who plays as a human, fights against the player who plays as Box Girl.

The game is not complicated, and has a somewhat Japanese RPG-like feel to it.

The backstory of the Box Girl is about a girl who witnessed her father kill her mother, after which he forced her into a small box. The girl lives in the box in a twisted state for a while, then dies with a deep resentment. The player takes on the role of a passerby who has wandered into the house where the Box Girl is staying and must find a way to escape from the house or face death.

The player travels around the map, and in each house there are chests, which may contain the Box Girl, props and skills of the Box Girl. Players can choose to open the chests, but if a Box Girl appears inside the chest, then the player is declared dead and will turn into a Box Man, scourging the remaining survivors along with the Box Girl.

Lin Qiushi was new to this type of board game, though, and he said, "Looks like you're going in to play this game?"

"Not necessarily." Ruan Nan Candle lowered her head in her hands stacking the noise pieces needed for the game, Box Girl's actions, "This game will definitely change, but what kind of change, it's uncertain." The noise piece is a prop in this game of Box Girl, it's several small circular pieces, the player needs to stack these pieces on top of a small bump, once the pieces fail to stack and fall off, it means a noise has been made and Box Girl can act one frame.

It was almost equivalent to a dice roll, only the dice were in the player's hands.

Lin Qiushi watched as Ruan Nam Candle easily stacked all five noise discs, and although they sagged, they never fell, and Liang Miye, who was sitting next to him, said, "Ruan Nam Candle, do you mind telling us what you encountered inside the tenth door before?"

Ruan Nam Candle said looking up at Liang Mi Ye, "The tenth door I passed before was also a game."

"What kind of game?" Liang Miye asked.

"The Four Corners Game." Ruan Nam Candle said, "A very ordinary horror game."

Lin Qiushi was silent, without a doubt, this kind of horror game that was ordinary in reality was very deadly when put inside the door. Because after the game was over, it would definitely summon something.

"How did you get out?" Liang Mi Ye asked.

"Finish the game, of course." With a slight movement of Ruan Nam Candle's fingers, he pushed down all of the noise pieces stacked up in front of him and said indifferently, "As soon as it's over, you can come out."

"Oh." Liang Miye said, "Then this clue of ours should be pretty simple."

Because at least the box girl has a victory method, three victory methods exist in the game, one is to use a special item to overtake the box girl, two is to use a special item to kill the box girl, and three is to find the password to the study safe to take out the key and then find a tunnel to leave the foreign room.

"Which is that simple." Ruan Nan Candle lazily said.

It was indeed not simple, these things were hidden inside the boxes, and to find them, you had to open the boxes in front of you, yet what was hidden inside each box was not necessarily a prop, but possibly the twisted and horrifying Box Girl.

"Well." Liang Miye said, "There's always a way."

As they spoke, it was Lin Qiushi's turn, and he chose a box in his bedroom, and as soon as he flipped that box's card over, he saw the Box Girl's design appear on the back of the card.

The Box Woman stared at him with those black eyes and reached out towards him, her body taking up the entire small wooden box, Lin Qiushi covered the card back, "Alright, I've become the Box Man."

Ruan Nan Candle took Lin Qiushi's figure and gave him a card that represented the Box Man.

Some of this had a large element of luck, of course, there were also skills, randomly opening the box is not feasible, have to use some of the more important props in the game.

This game needs at least four people, three people play human, one person play box girl.

Because of the lack of people, Ruan Nanzhu called Cheng Yixie over to play the box girl, after playing a few games, Liang Miye sigh this game's focus is not the box girl's intelligence? If the box girl is smart enough and the human is unlucky enough, I'm afraid it would be hard to escape from inside.

Lin Qiushi was shady several times, but finally learned his lesson and stopped opening the box, waiting until he was sure that Cheng Yixie was indeed not in the room he was in before he dared to open the box to see what was inside.

But this slowed the game down a lot.

For the rest of the month or so, several people played the game, and as their proficiency increased, they understood the game's technique - chests could not be opened lightly, and it was very unwise to rely on luck all the time. The best way is to use a few items early in the game to determine exactly where the box girl is, and then proceed to open the box later.

Of course, the luck component of this game was also very important, because sometimes they were unlucky and never managed to find the key item, but instead kept helping the box girl open up new skills, and the more skills the box girl had, the easier it would be to kill.

Bai Ming would occasionally come to Obsidian to play a few games with them, looking at the game table and propping up his chin to laugh, "If I were Box Girl, none of you would be able to escape."

Ruan Nan Candle didn't say anything.

Liang Mi Ye poured in, "Boss you're too confident."

Bai Ming said, "It's not that I'm confident, it's that there's a huge flaw in this game."

"I know." Liang Mi Ye knew what Bai Ming was talking about, "But all of them are past the ninth door, and there's no way they'll be any newcomers." Who wouldn't be a human sprite if they could get to the tenth door?

This game is most afraid of the pig teammates, messing around not only may open up a full skill to the box girl, but also become a box man to increase the difficulty of the game.

Of course, Liang Mi Ye didn't think that the tenth door would have anyone too stupid, too stupid in the front of the door are definitely cold.

The time they crossed the door was almost in January, a month before the New Year.

Liang Mi Ye said, "I'm still kind of going back to my parents' place for New Year this year."

Lin Qiushi said, "It's not too late to go back after you come out."

But Liang Mi Ye laughed, "You don't know the survival rate of the tenth door, do you?"

Lin Qiushi said, "I know." A door that even Ruan Nan Candle found difficult would not be an easy scene.

"That's why I'm a little worried that I might not make it through this year." Liang Mi Ye said, "Aren't you worried?"

Lin Qiushi said, "I'm worried."

Liang Mi Ye said, "You don't look like you're worried."

Lin Qiushi was baffled: "Then what does it take to be considered worried?"

Liang Mi Ye was silent for a moment and sighed, "You Obsidian's people are truly all gifted."

Lin Qiushi: ".......have they?

Box Girl This game didn't have much background, it was just a simple board game, after playing for a month, they had eaten up everything they could, all that was left was to enter the door.

Because it was an advanced door, Liang Mi Ye could already accurately predict the time when the door would appear, and she said that on the 13th of January at 7pm, both Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nan Candle began to prepare the things they would bring in.

This time, Ruan Nam Candle was still dressed in women's clothes, and when he came down from upstairs in a long skirt, Liang Mi Ye's eyes straightened and said, "This, this is Mr. Ruan?"

Lin Qiushi: "You wipe your saliva..."

Liang Mi Ye wiped the corners of her mouth, "It's too pretty, how can I live as a woman."

To be honest, although she had heard about this from Bai Ming, she hadn't dared to think about how Ruan Nan Candle looked in female clothing. After all, although the male Ruan Nancandle was pretty, he didn't have any feminine aura at all, and just by sitting there, his powerful aura made people not dare to blaspheme at all.

It had been a while since Lin Qiushi had seen Ruan Nancang's female costume, and he actually missed it somehow, but of course he didn't dare to say what he was thinking.

A few days before entering the villa, everyone inside the villa got together for a meal, Lu Yanxue cooked a table of good food, and Lin Qiushi also drank some wine.

Cheng Qianli said, "You guys must come back well."

"Will do." Lin Qiushi patted him on the head, "You have to work hard too."

Cheng Qianli muttered, "I know, I'm not stupid..."

The crowd fell silent and didn't pick up the story, then stiffly changed the subject. It seemed that the entire villa crowd still had a tacit consensus on Cheng Qianli's intelligence.

On the evening of the thirteenth, everyone sat in the living room and waited, Lin Qiushi was watching TV, but when the big clock in the living room struck seven times, he clearly felt a change in the atmosphere.

Everyone around him disappeared, leaving him sitting alone in the living room, and the program playing on the TV became cold, Lin Qiushi put his backpack on his back and left the couch. He casually pulled open a door and saw a familiar sight.

Twelve doors stood in a long corridor, nine of them were sealed and only three remained.

Lin Qiushi walked to the tenth door, reached out and grasped the door handle and pulled it out. Then he felt a strong suction force, and when Lin Qiushi slowed down, he was already standing on a desolate path, and at the end of the path was the lone three-story house.

Lin Qiushi walked along the path and soon reached the house, he pulled open the door and saw a very beautifully constructed entrance door, there were already eight or nine people standing inside the entrance door, these people all revealed a wary look when they saw Lin Qiushi walk in.

Because it was an advanced door, everyone was a veteran, and most of them had come in with their companions. So the crowd split into several groups, all whispering and discussing the situation around them.

Lin Qiushi saw a familiar figure next to the sofa, he walked over and called out, "Zhu Meng."

Ruan Nan Candle turned back: "Lin Lin."

Lin Qiushi: "How's it going?"

Ruan Nan Candle Dao: "I've just arrived too."

Lin Qiushi oh-said and also began to observe the surroundings, because this game of Box Girl didn't have a map, all the rooms were put together individually by the players with individual cubes, all the maps of each handful were different, and the location of the study also differed.

Lin Qiushi felt that their most important task right now was to find the study and then look for that important safe.

Five or six more people walked in outside the door, Lin Qiushi clearly felt as if something was wrong with the number of people, he immediately remembered the Xia sister he had met when he passed the ninth door where the clue was a human mirror, and whispered, "Someone deliberately brought new people in?"

"Well." Ruan Nan Candle, in the meantime, he was clearly a little upset as well.

There was a limit to the number of people who could die every day, so bringing in more people for them to act as cannon fodder would instead increase their survival rate, but this door, these newcomers would obviously be badly counterproductive.

Liang Mi Ye said helplessly, "I remember when I went through the eighth door there were a full thirty people..."

"More than three dozen people?" Lin Qiushi was startled.

"Right." Liang Miye said, "and then two nights later half of them died..."

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

"Where in the world is there a free lunch." Liang Miye said, "A pie that falls from the sky, who knows what's wrapped inside."

There were more and more people inside the entrance, and finally the number was set at twenty-three, seven of them were all in a group, and you could tell from the expressions of all these people that they must be some newbies who didn't understand anything, and of course, there was an old man who existed as a leader.

Everyone was waiting for the NPCs, but the NPCs didn't come, but the door at the entrance suddenly slammed shut naturally, and a girl's howl came from the kitchen on the first floor, then the lights of the western house dimmed, and the entire house fell into a dull red color.

The game was on, Lin Qiushi realized clearly.

They had a clue that it was a game, but the newcomers were all confused, saying, "What the hell is going on? where are the NPCs, why aren't there any NPCs?"

"What do you want NPCs," said an impatient young man in a nose ring in the crowd, "don't you all have eyes? It's obviously meant for us to escape from here."

The doors were locked, the windows sealed with hard steel plates, the whole house solid as a cage, and they were the guinea pigs in the cage.

"Shall we take a look at the second floor?" Lin Qiushi suggested.

"Okay." Ruan Nan Candle stood up.

They went up the stairs to the second floor and saw the second floor hallway, there were also several wooden boxes that were out of place with the environment, there was no doubt that this was indeed the Box Girl's world.

Lin Qiushi found the study at the end of the second floor corridor, the door to the study began, pushing it open, one could see that it was filled with five or six wooden boxes, as well as an eye-catching safe.

Lin Qiushi walked up to the safe and saw the four-digit password on it.

The four-digit password had a total of ten numbers to fill in, which meant that there were ten thousand possibilities, and it was definitely impossible to try.

As Lin Qiushi was fiddling with his head, he heard a scream coming from downstairs.

Liang Mi Ye said, "It's over!"

Lin Qiushi: "Huh?"

Liang Mi Ye said, "I forgot to remind that group of sprouts that the boxes can't be touched!" Ghost knows what they turned up in the box.