Kaleidoscope of Death

It was getting dark, because the previous room had completely changed its location, so the three of them had to choose a random room on the second floor and move in.

Fortunately, after the room had changed, it could only be locked from the inside, so they didn't have to worry about not being able to get in.

The room they chose is also a three-bedroom, and there are a few bags in the bedroom, which must have been dropped by someone yesterday, Lin Qiushi said he will take them out tomorrow, don't put them in the house, so that they won't find them again.

Ruan Nanzhu nodded and agreed to Lin Qiushi's words.

Soon after they returned to the room, it started to rain again.

The stormy wind made the rain even stronger, the whole boat looked so thin on the vast sea, as if it would be overturned in the black water.

The boat was swaying constantly, and even the bed turned into a hammock that was swaying from side to side. This was a very uncomfortable feeling, and even Lin Qiushui, who was not seasick, had to get up from the bed to make himself feel better. Even Lin Qiushui, who was not seasick, had to get up from his bed to make himself feel better. It could be imagined that a seasick person would have to throw up everything in his stomach.

"Lin Lin, are you alright?" Ruan Nanzhu saw Lin Qiushi's face was not good, opening his mouth to ask, this shaking bed rather seemed like it didn't have much effect on him, still lying on the bed without changing his face.

Lin Qiushi shook his head, indicating that he was fine, and he said, "A little dizzy, get up and sit for a while."

The position he looked out of the window was also changing, sometimes he saw the cabin, sometimes he saw the side of the ship, when he happened to be able to see the deck, and the rainwater that washed over the deck.

Lin Qiushi watched for a while, and when the rain subsided a bit, he planned to lie back on the bed and sleep, but when he was about to lie on the bed, he noticed two vague figures appearing on the deck.

One of the figures was standing, about two meters tall, and the other was down on the ground, being dragged along the deck in the hands of the taller one.

There were no two-meter tall people in their team, and it was obvious that what appeared before Lin Qiushi's eyes was not a human, and the one he was dragging in his hands....

Lin Qiushi turned around and gave Ruan Nan Candle a look.

The two didn't need to talk to each other before they understood, and Ruan Nan Candle quietly walked behind Lin Qiushi and also followed Lin Qiushi's gaze to look outside.

He saw that tall figure and his expression suddenly became serious.

Lin Qiushi didn't dare to speak, it was very close to them at this point, and if it made a sound, it would most likely attract its attention. What would happen then was unknown.

The tall figure stopped on the deck and bent down, burying its head into the other figure it was dragging along. The next moment, on the other hand, Lin Qiushi heard a very unpleasant sound, the sound of gnawing on raw meat, sharp teeth slicing through the skin and tearing off pieces of fresh meat, followed by rude chewing and swallowing. The air began to fill with a fishy smell that belonged to blood.

Lin Qiushi understood what was happening in front of him, the rain outside was becoming lighter, and the rain on the sea was coming and going quickly. The dark clouds dispersed, revealing a bright white moon, and under the cold moonlight, he finally saw what was happening in front of him clearly.

What appeared in front of Lin Qiushi's eyes was a tall monster with a head like a long-dead fish, gills that were opening and closing on its neck, and a body that was a disgusting dark green color. What attracted the most attention was its two huge white eyeballs, without eyelids, so abruptly set in their sockets, now focused on the prey beneath them.

In front of it, there was a half gnawed human lying in front of it, its face was gone, so it couldn't see its face clearly, and could only barely tell from the human's clothing that it was a man.

Looking at what was in front of him, Lin Qiushi held his breath, he thought of Minotaur, the monster in the labyrinth, did it look the same as the monster in front of him when it ate the human.

The monster ate most of the flesh from the human's body in slow motion, its face was covered in blood, and it made a strange hissing sound in its mouth, as if it was squeezed out of its throat hard. Although it didn't understand what it was saying, Lin Qiushi could still hear satisfaction from it.

It seemed to be satisfied as the food in front of it was very tasty and it had been satiated.

After it had eaten its fill, it turned around and walked into a house nearest to it, then the environment changed and both the house and the deck disappeared in front of Lin Qiushi's eyes.

Lin Qiushi finally dared to speak, and he said, "What is this-"

In the meantime, Ruan Nan Candle said, "Mermaids?"

Lin Qiushi: "...In a way, it's really a kind of mermaid.

"This is a Minotaur, isn't it." Lin Qiushi said, "We can beat this thing?"

Ruan Nan Candle's finger tapped his chin: "Give me a gun to try."

But you can't bring a gun inside the door, and the door wouldn't support reckless behavior, there must be a way to easily kill the monster in front of you without having to fight it.

Lin Qiushi thought of the myth of Minotaur, the cluster of lines mentioned.

Ruan Nan Candle also thought of it, the two of them were thinking, next to the sleepy and confused Gu Longming woke up, he said: "Why are you guys still not sleeping? I've slept through it all..."

Ruan Nan Candle looked at Lin Qiushi, "He usually sleeps that much?"

Lin Qiushi: "He said he's only like this when I'm with him."

"Oh." Ruan Nan Candle, "Then you all shouldn't enter the house together from now on."

Gu Longming looked confused, clearly not understanding what was going on.

"Sleep first." Ruan Nan Candle said, "We'll gather information tomorrow, we know too little about the ship."

Lin Qiushi nodded and agreed to Ruan Nam Candle's proposal.

The two of them got back into bed, this time without the sound of rain and waves, and soon fell asleep.

The next morning, a few people woke up early and went to the deck.

The deck was already crowded with people who saw the gnawed corpse of yesterday that had been reduced to a mere bone and were making noisy noises of discussion.

"How can it be, how can it be-" cried a woman in the crowd, and she said, "There's a monster, there's a monster on this ship!!!"

"What the hell happened last night?" Song Yongning asked.

"We heard a little noise in the room last night." The woman replied sluggishly, "Then he went out to check on it and never came back."

"I think I saw that monster yesterday." The speaker, a young girl, who didn't look too old, whispered, "It had the head of a fish and dragged the man up on the deck and ate...ate him."

"Then why didn't you save him!!!" The woman who heard the little girl speak but seemed to have found an outlet for her anger, she growled angrily and even tried to lunge towards the little girl, "Are you just going to watch him get killed!!!"

The little girl was shocked, whimpered and cried, "I'm scared too."

"Okay." The sidekick stopped the woman with one hand and said, a little bored, "What are you blaming someone else for, if you're really worried, don't you know to come out and find out? The deck didn't change places."

The woman looked at the speaker with resentment and tried to say something else, but the man then said coldly, "You can't blame anyone else for your own incompetence."

The woman wailed.

Lin Qiushi hadn't made a sound, instead quietly observing the corpse in front of him.

I could tell that the monster liked the food in front of it so much that it had not only eaten the soft internal organs, it had also gnawed most of the flesh and blood, leaving only the worst of the skull, and limbs that had little meat.

"What about this corpse?" The place was hot, and after last night's night the bodies on the deck had begun to rot, and there were even mosquitoes hovering over it, making it very uncomfortable to watch.

"Throw them in the sea." Someone said in a lazy tone, "It can't be left here."

The woman who had been howling before didn't even offer an opinion at this point, just sobbing quietly, not daring to look at the hideous corpse again.

So a few men casually found a piece of rag and wrapped up the corpse and threw it directly into the nearby seawater.

As soon as the corpse entered the sea, it tumbled, and only when Lin Qiushi looked carefully did he discover that the seawater was actually full of small fish with sharp teeth - thanks to the fact that these small fish didn't appear when XiaoMo fell into the water before.

It seemed that the door was quite tolerant of newcomers who entered the door for the first time and attempted to escape, at least giving them a chance to mend their ways.

The body was gone, and only striking blood stains remained on the deck.

Song Yongning went and got a mop from the side and mopped up all the blood on the deck, so the last traces of the man's existence were gone.

Everyone stood on the deck and started talking about the monster.

"That's a fish man." The little girl who had seen the monster said, "It was very tall, at least two meters, and very strong... It dragged the man onto the deck and went into a random room after it all chewed it up."

"And after that?" Song Yongning asked.

"The room changed after that." The little girl said, "I don't know where it went."

Now that the room was changing constantly, it was simply impossible to find the monster from the countless rooms, and besides, even if they found it, it wasn't certain if they could fight it or not.

Ruan Nanzhu seemed to be thinking about something and hadn't spoken.

Lin Qiushi's eyes, on the other hand, fell on the mosquitoes that were still hovering on the deck, he walked over to the mosquitoes, reached out and grabbed one, seeing the mosquitoes in his hand and knitted his brows slightly.

"What's wrong?" Ruan Nan Candle spotted the difference in Lin Qiushi's expression.

"Have you ever seen a mosquito like this?" Lin Qiushi spread out his palm to reveal the mosquito insect he had just caught.

Ruan Nanzhu was stunned when she saw the mosquito in Lin Qiushi's hand.

I saw that the mosquito actually had a human face, although the human face was very hideous, but it was indeed human, with eyes and nose, and a long needle-shaped mouth that existed like a mouthparts.

The mosquito was no more than the size of a grain of rice, requiring a very close look to see its appearance.

Looking at this mosquito, Ruan Nan Candle, however, remembered something, he said, "Do you remember the NPC that appeared before our eyes at the beginning?"

Lin Qiushi thought about it and understood what Ruan Nanzhu was trying to say as he said, "You mean those bugs on him?" The NPC did have dense insects attached to its body, but at the time they did not look closely, when they saw the horrific appearance of these mosquitoes, it was associated with those things on his body.

"Well." Ruan Nan Candle said, "He seems to be in the restaurant."

Lin Qiushi looked at his watch, it was almost time for lunch now, and said, "Let's go over and have a look."

The food they ate every day now was served over by this NPC covered with mosquitoes. It was honestly not a pleasant thing to see, because looking at the insects densely covered on his body, one could always wonder if a few would drop inside their plate.

Ruan Nan Candle did come up with a solution, he took out a baby warmer from his backpack, then tore off the back side that was used to paste it, then went around that NPC, and came back a short while later, the baby warmer was covered with dense black mosquitoes.

After observing, they determined that the bugs on the NPC were the same kind they'd seen on the deck - bugs with a human face.

"How disgusting." Gu Longming expressed extreme disgust at this, "It's not like all the mosquitoes on this ship are this stuff, right? I killed a few of them in passing last night."

"Probably." Lin Qiushi looked at the mosquitoes, thoughtful, "Do you think... the mosquitoes could have something to do with the maze?"

"What you mean is... "Ruan Nan Candle looked at Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi nodded and uttered one word: "Line."

Apparently, the labyrinth they were in was very different from Minotaur's labyrinth. Every room was constantly changing, so it was definitely impossible to find out the monsters hidden deep in the labyrinth with just cotton threads, was there another way for threads to exist, such as the worm in front of them....

Gu Longming brightened up, "It's possible!"

This human-faced mosquito seems to have a special sense for blood, so after monsters eat people, their bodies will definitely be stained with a lot of blood, so maybe the mosquitoes can really help them find the monsters.

"The source of the mosquitoes... "Gu Longming shifted his eyes to the blank-faced NPC and said bitterly, "It's not going to be from him, is it."

"Likely." Ruan Nan Candle said.

Gu Longming: "......." honestly, he felt disgusted to even look at that NPC a few more times.

"If mosquitoes are threads, then what's wine?" Lin Qiushi propped up his chin and fiddled with the dead fish in front of him that looked unappetizing, "I think this is more important."

Mythological legends say that Theseus killed Minotaur, who was drinking an aperitif, after using a ball of thread to enter the labyrinth and find him.

Apparently, wine has other imagery here as well, but we just don't have a clue yet.

Aperitif? There was no alcohol at all on this ship, but yesterday Gu Longming had complained that it was simply unusual for a ship like this to have no alcohol.

The three of them didn't touch the dead fish on the table and continued to eat the dried food they carried with them. These dry rations could still last for at least ten days, perfectly enough for them to leave this door.

The door NPCs gave them a time limit of ten days, which meant that if they didn't find the door leaving here within ten days, there would definitely be some bad changes on the ship.

"Will the ship really reach the shore after ten days?" Gurung asked.

"It's impossible to reach the shore." Nguyen Nam Candle said, "The most likely thing to happen is that the time limit is up, the monster goes crazy, kills a bunch of people, and then goes through the cycle again." Ten days again, and then the cycle repeats until only one person is left on the ship - that person is invincible under the protection of the door rule, and it's only a matter of time before they can screw around as much as they want to, and find out the key and the door.

"But..." said Gu Longming, feeling that there was something wrong with this, "But if it's an ordinary person, they can't easily associate it with things, like this mosquito." He clicked on the human face insect that was placed on the table by Lin Qiushi, "Ordinary people can notice it?"

Ruan Nam Candle, "There's plenty of time inside the door, you can take your time thinking about it." His tone was light, "Just get out before you go crazy."

Gu Longming: "..."

Lin Qiushi, however, remembered from Ruan Nan Candle's words that Obsidian had once brought back a newcomer, Qin Bu Dao, who seemed to have taken too long to get in the door and was unable to recover even after he went out and ended up being disposed of.

While they were talking, the NPC finished distributing the food and turned around to leave.

Lin Qiushi saw the situation and followed, but saw the NPC casually enter a room and then disappear before their eyes.

But the NPC should appear at a fixed time, so there was no need to worry about him disappearing, just how were they going to collect the mosquitoes on him... that was a bit of a problem.

With a bottle? With blood? But where did the blood come from? While they're discussing, an argument breaks out again in the restaurant, this time between the seasick Shen Juexin, who seems to be on the verge of collapse, and a woman named Jian Chianyuan, who lost her partner this morning.

She is very irritable because she has seen her partner being eaten in half, and her mood seems to be affected.

But her grumpy mood wasn't what made it the strangest, the strangest thing was her horrible eating face.

While everyone was showing their disgust at the unfresh dead fish in front of them, she seemed to love this kind of food, stuffing the whitish and stinky fish into her mouth vigorously, and her face was full of terrified colors, looking exceptionally happy.

Shen Juexin, who was already seasick, watched as she gorged herself on fish and finally ran out of the ship, vomiting everything in her stomach on the deck.

His actions, however, seemed to have stimulated Jane Chianyuan's already fragile nerves, and she yelled loudly, even slapping the table hard and roaring angrily, "What are you vomiting for, do you think I'm disgusted!!!"

Shen Juexin was baffled by the yelling and explained that he was just seasick.

"Then why didn't you vomit just now." Jane Qian Yuan coldly said, "Why did you throw up while I was eating-"

Shen Juexin said, "I didn't mean to, I've been holding back just now, but I just can't help it now."

The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the newest version of this article. The two of them quarreled with each other, and in the end, Shen Juexin almost didn't throw up again in front of Jane Chianyuan.

The others, seeing the situation, quickly pulled them apart.

Jane Chianyuan's mood, however, was still very irritable, scratching out a few bloody marks on the hand of the puller, so in desperation, the crowd had no choice but to find a random object and tie her up, and then tell Shen Juexin to leave the restaurant quickly.

"Forget it, you know her friend just died, she's a girl, so don't bother with her." Everyone advised Shen Juexin to calm down.

"She's simply inexplicable." Shen Juexin said aggrievedly, "It's not like I want to vomit, and how can she eat that fish......."

Everyone didn't say anything, what Shen Juexin said was actually somewhat reasonable. This fish simply didn't taste like it was for human consumption, the texture of the meat was powdery and crumbled as soon as it was sip, no salt was put in, as if it had been put in for a long time, and you could even smell a faint smell of rottenness. A few days ago, Jane Chianyuan herself complained about the fish, but today she actually ate it with relish, even nibbling the head of the fish together, looking at the people next to her in a much more complicated mood.

Now that Jane Chianyuan was tied to the chair, her emotions had finally calmed down, and she said, "You guys let me go, I won't fight with him anymore."

"Chien Yuan, calm down, we know you're upset." Someone was still advising, "You have to be strong."

Jane Chianyuan didn't say anything, just nodded her head.

The bystanders then loosened the ropes for her and let her down. They thought that Jane Chianyuan would leave after being released, but they didn't want her to sit in front of the table again and continue munching on the disgusting fish.

The crowd looked at this scene with ugly expressions.

Gu Longming really couldn't resist and whispered, "Is it good?"

Jane Qian Yuan looked at him and said coldly, "So what if it's not delicious, do you have something else for me to eat?"

Gu Longming: "..."

Although received such a reply, but look at the appearance of Jane Chianyuan eating, obviously very enjoyable, she seemed to find the fishy flesh in her mouth particularly delicious, the action completely without any pause, non-stop stuffing her mouth with dead fish.

In the face of such a situation, everyone left the restaurant very tacitly and walked towards the outside, obviously feeling a bit disgusted, and if we continue to watch, I'm afraid someone will not be able to hold on like Shen Juexin directly vomited out. By then, when Jane Chianyuan saw it, I'm afraid it would be another scene.

"How can she eat it all." Gu Longming said with a livid face.

"Do you think that Jane Chianyuan is lying?" Ruan Nan Candle suddenly opened his mouth.

"What?" Gu Longming was stunned.

"You're saying that what happened last night, Jane Chien Yuan hid something?" After Lin Qiushi said this, he looked towards the restaurant.