Kaleidoscope of Death

Finally, with the key in his hand, Lin Qiushi quickly returned to the corridor where Ruan Nanzhu and Gu Longming were. But when he reached the corridor again, he only saw an empty stool and bed sheets scattered on the floor, Ruan Nanzhu and Gu Longming, who should have been tied to the stool, were nowhere to be seen.

Seeing the scene in front of him, cold sweat instantly appeared on Lin Qiushi's forehead, his mind spun rapidly, and many thoughts appeared inside, then he turned around and rushed towards the direction of the restaurant.

When Lin Qiushi arrived at the entrance of the restaurant, before he entered, he heard a creepy chewing sound coming from inside.

Hearing this sound, Lin Qiushi had a very bad premonition, he didn't dare to go in directly, but moved slowly to the window and looked inside.

They were gathered around a round table, holding those white-colored dead fish in their hands, stuffing them into their mouths, indulging in an indulgent manner that made people look creepy. Next to Gu Longming was Ruan Nam Candle, who Lin Qiushi was most worried about.

Ruan Nanzhu was also eating fish, although his actions were not as rude compared to the people around him, but he was indeed using chopsticks to pick up the fish and put it into his mouth to taste.

Lin Qiushi looked at the scene in front of him, he didn't know how to react for a moment, he looked at the fish meat on the table for a moment, and a strange craving arose in his heart, just like what Ruan Nanzhu had said before... as if the flesh of the dead fish in front of him wasn't that bad.

This thought flashed through Lin Qiushi's mind, and he was acutely aware of the wrongness of his state. He looked down at the key in his hand. Lin Qiushi who knew that something was wrong bit his teeth and flashed into the restaurant.

The people in the restaurant who were eating fish with their heads down were completely unaware that someone had walked in beside them, all their attention was focused on the table in front of them, unconcerned about what was happening around them. This was convenient for Lin Qiushi, as he walked around the restaurant without finding what he was looking for, he came up with another location - the ship's kitchen.

The dining room and the kitchen were the only two rooms on the ship that wouldn't change, and Lin Qiushi had found the key, so he guessed that the door to leave here would be one of the two rooms.

There was none inside the dining room, and the rest was the kitchen.

As he was about to leave the restaurant, Lin Qiushi looked at the people eating fish near the round table, and when he saw a detail, a deep chill rose up in his back.

It looked like this change had been going on for quite a while, and if it continued, there was no telling what it would eventually become.

But no matter what it was, it was something Lin Qiushi didn't want to see.

So he quickly walked out of the restaurant and took one last look at Ruan Nam Candle.

Ruan Nan Candle still had his head down, mindlessly eating the fish in front of him, and his indifference made Lin Qiushi feel bad inside, but Lin Qiushi didn't dare to delay any longer because he found that he actually seemed to hate fish less, and even swallowed his saliva involuntarily.

Lin Qiushi turned around and left the restaurant and went to the nearby kitchen.

The kitchen was empty at this time, and all that could be seen were the dead, unfresh fish all over the room, on the case board, on the floor, in the bucket, all filled with fish, and the house was filled with that nauseating fishy stench. But Akashi wasn't in the mood to worry about that anymore, he lowered his head and began to rummage through the room for what he wanted.

Soon, underneath a huge barrel, Lin Qiushi found a black tunnel, he crawled into the tunnel and saw a black iron door at the end of the tunnel, it was so invigorating, Lin Qiushi couldn't care about anything else, he just used the key in his hand and unlocked the lock on the door and watched a tunnel filled with light appear before his eyes.

Then, Akashi bent down and picked up the note that had fallen on the floor, and without bothering to look at it carefully, he put it into his jacket pocket.

He then turned around and went towards the restaurant.

The people in the restaurant still continued to eat fish, and this time, Lin Qiushi walked directly in front of Ruan Nam Candle and he called his name: "Zhu Meng."

Ruan Nan Candle looked up at him with a glance, "Lin Lin."

"Would you come over here with me for a moment?" Lin Qiushi asked.

Ruan Nam Candle said, "But I want to eat fish."

Lin Qiushi said, "I know, you can eat while you come over with me, just for a moment, I found more fish in the kitchen."

Ruan Nan Candle was quiet for a moment, but still agreed to Lin Qiushi's proposal, he stood up with the plate containing the fish and said, "Really?"

"Really." Lin Qiushi replied affirmatively.

It was only then that Ruan Nan Candle followed Lin Qiushi towards the outside.

Lin Qiushi was relieved at the sight, knowing that Ruan Nan Candle hadn't been nightmared too deeply, or else he would have had to be rough with Ruan Nan Candle. But roughing up was the worst option, because according to Lin Qiushi's own estimation - he couldn't beat Ruan Nan Candle at all, and that would be tragic.

Ruan Nam Candle followed Lin Qiushi to the kitchen and was actually quite happy to see a room full of dead fish, but while he was happy, Lin Qiushi pushed him into the tunnel where the door was.

Pushed down Ruan Nam Candle looked baffled, standing below with an aggrieved face, "What are you pushing me for?"

Lin Qiushi didn't respond, just went down inside the tunnel with Ruan Nan Candle, took his hand and brought him to the front of the leaving tunnel, pointed and said, "There are many fish in there, just go inside and take a look."

"Really?" Ruan Nan Candle was a bit skeptical.

"Really." Lin Qiushi nodded.

Ruan Nan Candle laughed, actually really believed Lin Qiushi, turned around and entered the tunnel, once this tunnel was in he disappeared, Lin Qiushi looked relieved at the disappearing Ruan Nan Candle. He lifted his wrist and looked at his watch, bit his teeth and turned around again, returning to the restaurant.

In fact, Lin Qiushi also felt that he didn't have much time left, because the fish in the kitchen also had a strong attraction to him, these should have been disgusting fishy meat, but in the eyes of Lin Qiushi, but became delicious, he could only use all his will to resist this thought.

Facing Gu Longming, Lin Qiushi didn't have the gentleness he had for Ruan Nanzhu, he chose the easiest way and walked up behind Gu Longming, who was addicted to fish and meat, and knocked him out with a hand slash, directly resisting him on his shoulder. As he carried Gu Longming away, Lin Qiushi thought about it and took the girl called Xiao Mo with him in passing, as for the others... he was really powerless, and could only do his best to save one as many as he could.

After bringing the two to the tunnel entrance and throwing them inside the tunnel, Lin Qiushi breathed heavily and climbed in after them.

He didn't dare to tarry in there any longer as he realized that he was starting to want to eat those dead fish as well. What exactly would happen to those who continued to eat fish inside the restaurant, Lin Qiushi didn't know, but it was by no means a pleasant thing to think about.

Following the light-filled tunnel, Lin Qiushi returned to reality.

As he sat back down in the living room, smelling the familiar scent and feeling the warm air, he once again felt the beauty of life.

Ruan Nan Candle also appeared beside Lin Qiushi, he looked so ugly that he rushed straight into the toilet, then the sound of vomiting came from the toilet.

Lin Qiushi thought with a sigh, it's a good thing he didn't eat those dead fish, otherwise he might have to vomit with Ruan Nam Candle now.

It was only about twenty minutes later that Ruan Nan Candle came out of the toilet, he threw up for a long time and took a shower, now with his bottom half wrapped in a towel, rubbing his wet hair with an unhappy face.

"Is everything okay?" Lin Qiushi was eating sugar, his mood following the sweetness spreading on his tongue and becoming calm.

Ruan Nan Candle shook his head to show that he was fine.

"Why is that?" Lin Qiushi was a little confused, "Why is everyone suddenly eating fish? Aren't the monsters dead?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "There might not be enough people."

Lin Qiushi: "Eh?"

Ruan Nam Candle, "Not enough people died, we solved the puzzle too fast." He sighed and also took a candy and stuffed it into his mouth, "I've only encountered a situation like this once, that time an old hand took me, there was a powerful character inside, he found the key before the dead started to die."

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

Ruan Nan Candle: "Then everyone went into an abnormal state."

Lin Qiushi: "...and it's actually still like this?"

Nguyen Nam Candle: "It's very rare, and I didn't realize we would encounter it." Everyone aims to get out the door quickly, and who would think that fewer people dying would still be a problem? Moreover, most of the doors were painfully dead, even this one, they only found the key after a full three people died.

But I didn't expect that this wasn't enough to satisfy the number of deaths hidden inside the door.

Lin Qiushi said, "Then why wasn't I affected?"

"You can hear voices that no one else can hear, right?" Ruan Nan Candle said, "This is a gift from the door to you."

Lin Qiushi continued to listen.

"I can also see things that others cannot see." Ruan Nam Candle said, "Everyone has light in them."

Lin Qiushi: "Light?" He vaguely remembered that Ruan Nan Candle seemed to have mentioned it once before, but he just didn't take it to heart.

"Yes, light." Ruan Nan Candle said, "The brighter the light on your body, the less you are affected by the door, you are the one with the brightest light that I have ever seen, so you are very suitable for the door."

Lin Qiushi didn't really know what to say for a moment, but judging only from between Ruan Nan Candle's words, this should be a good thing.

It was true that he wasn't affected by too much negativity inside the door, many people, including Ruan Nan Candle from the door, would have to take a few days off, but he didn't have to, he would only sleep at the most and recover.

This was Lin Qiushi's best talent.

"Let's go for a big dinner tonight." Lin Qiushi looked at Ruan Nan Candle's not-so-good face and said, "Shall we go?"

Ruan Nan Candle nodded his head, sort of agreeing to Lin Qiushi's proposal.

After that, Lin Qiushi went back to his room to contact Gu Longming and asked him how things were going over there.

Gu Longming replied back that he had vomited up everything in his stomach, he was now sick at the thought of the taste of the fish, and said that he probably wouldn't eat fish for a long time. Lin Qiushi laughed and ridiculed, "You were in there but you were eating quite well."

Gu Longming: "Isn't that the same as being possessed... In other words, what kind of landmine did we step on that suddenly turned into this?"

Lin Qiushi told Gu Longming the theory that Ruan Nan Candle had said, and Gu Longming was dumbfounded, saying, "How else?" But there was no need to be too concerned about this matter, after all, there were so many doors, the ones that could easily come out without killing a few people were almost equal to none.

Then they agreed on a time to meet, and Lin Qiushi told Gu Longming the address of this city, but of course it wasn't precise to the exact location, just that they would go over to pick him up when Gu Longming arrived.

Dinner was heavy Hunan cuisine, originally the shop's signature was minced fish head, but Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu saw that page of the menu, both very tacitly and silently turned the page.

Ruan Nancandle still looked like he had a poor appetite and was eating the food in front of him, obviously what happened inside the door had affected him badly.

It's been a long time since Lin Qiushi had eaten hot food inside the door, almost all of it was instant noodles and compressed biscuits, so it's very comfortable to improve his diet.

They came home from dinner just in time to see Cheng Qianli and Cheng Yixie sitting in the house discussing something, and Lin Qiushi walked in only to find out that the two of them had also just come out of a low-level door.

Cheng Yicher was summarizing the mistakes Cheng Qianli he had made in the lowly door, Cheng Qianli was holding his toast and listening with his eyes wide open, when he saw Lin Qiushi was back, he quickly got up and said, "Qiushi, you're back, Sister Lu has stewed crucian carp soup, do you want some?"

As soon as they heard the word fish, Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu both turned pale and immediately declined Cheng Qianli's good intentions.

How could Cheng Yicher not be aware of his brother's little plan in his stomach, and said coldly behind Cheng Qianli, "What, you've only had three bowls, and you're about to drink the fourth? Don't tell me you want to go to the bathroom later."

Cheng Qianli instantly wilted, with his knowledge of his brother, he knew that his brother was capable of doing something like not allowing him to go to the toilet.

In desperation, Cheng Qianli could only cast a look of distress at Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi's eyes and nose only took it as unseen, the twins would soon be entering the senior gate as well, and it would be good for Cheng Yicher to give the nervous Cheng Qianli more lessons.

Three days later, Gu Longming flew to this city.

Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu went to pick him up personally.

Lin Qiushi had thought that Gu Longming who was a muscular man inside the door should also be fit and strong outside the door, but who knew that he was greeted by a gentle looking young man wearing glasses who didn't look very old, at least Lin Qiushi guessed that he should be much younger than himself.

"Gu Longming." The youth extended his hand towards Lin Qiushi.

"Lin Qiushi." Lin Qiushi shook his hand and said, "How long have you been waiting?"

"Not long." The young man with the pseudonym Gu Longming, whose real name was Ye Bird, laughed, and he looked at Ruan Nan Candle, who was standing next to him with an imposing presence and an expressionless face that hadn't spoken, and asked in a low voice, "Who is this?"

Lin Qiushi smiled: "Your sister-in-law."

Ye Bird: "......." his expression was heavily distorted, apparently contrasting the appearance of Zhu Meng haha laughing and lifting his skirt inside the door with the appearance of the handsome man with no expression in front of him, this strong contrast caused Ye Bird to fall into a brief confusion.

Lin Qiushi had already guessed YeBird's reaction, to be honest, his initial reaction was similar to that of YeBird. Ye Bird finally slowed down and looked at Lin Qiushi and came in a difficult sentence, "Brother, you have good eyes."

Lin Qiushi finally couldn't help it and laughed.

Ruan Nan Candle also hooked the corner of his mouth.

Ye Bird looked at Ruan Nan Candle and looked slightly trance-like.

"Let's go, go back first." Lin Qiushi said, "Knowing that there are newcomers joining, they have specially cooked a meal."

"Thank you." Ye Bird said gratefully.

Then Ye Bird got into Lin Qiushi's car and the three of them returned to the villa together. On the way back, Ruan Nan Candle inquired some personal information about Ye Bird without being salty.

Ye Bird's answer was sincere and not much different from what Ruan Nan Candle investigated.

Ye Bird was born into a Feng Shui family, but studied Western medicine in college, and after graduation, he joined the police department, stating in the car that he was once a staunch materialist...until he learned of the existence of the door.

"So that's why you almost died?" Lin Qiushi waited for the red light to ask a curious question.

"I went on a mission," Ye Bird said, "and then all of a sudden I went through the door, and after coming out of the first door alive, I was shot in the abdomen by the criminals." The wounded man was taken to the hospital, and the doctor even exclaimed after removing the bullet, saying that Ye Bird was really lucky, and that it was incredible that he had been shot in the abdomen only with a flesh wound, and that no part of his internal organs had been injured.

It was conceivable that if Ye Bird hadn't managed to get through the door, he would have ended up dying of his wounds.

"But why did you dress up as a high school girl?" Lin Qiushi looked at him, remembering the first time he crossed the door with Leaf Bird, who looked so hot in her little dress.

"Isn't it easy for a high school girl to let her guard down?" Ye Bird said, "See, you've just been hit." He originally said this with a smile on his face, but after saying it, he found that Ruan Nan Candle who was sitting next to him looked at him with an expressionless face, so his smile was instantly frozen on his face, and he quickly explained awkwardly, "Of course, with sister-in-law, other women are nothing, and it doesn't matter if high school girls come ah.... "

Ruan Nan Candle glanced at him and ignored him.

Ye Bird was made to break out in a cold sweat by Ruan Nan Candle, how could he have thought that the Zhumeng who liked to act inside the door was actually like this outside the door, if it wasn't for Lin Qiushi's sure attitude, he would have thought they were joking.

And this contrast reached its peak when Ye Bird returned to the villa and knew that Ruan Nan Candle was the boss of Obsidian Stone.

Ye Bird quietly asks Lin Qiushi in the kitchen why Ruan is wearing women's clothes ah?

Lin Qiushui looked at him, but it was as if he had seen his curious self in the beginning, and he said, "Or would you go ask him yourself?"

"Where would I dare." Leaf Bird said, "Nguyen looks so scary..."

"Is it scary?" Lin Qiushi said.

"It's scary." Ye Bird, "It's like the most dangerous criminals I've ever seen."

Lin Qiushi: "Well..." he didn't say anything.

Leaf Bird: "So..."

"So why am I wearing women's clothes?" Ruan Nan Candle's voice, however, came out from behind the two of them, and Ye Bird shivered, looking towards Ruan Nan Candle in fear.

But Ruan Nan Candle smiled, her beautiful eyes, curving a gentle curve: "It's easy to know the answer to that."

Leaf Bird: "........"

Ruan Nan Candle's smile grew cold: "Won't you know if you try it yourself?"

Leafbird: "But..."

Ruan Nam Candle: "What? You can wear women's clothing in front of Lin Qiushi, but not in front of me?"

Leaf Bird cast a frightened look of distress towards Lin Qiushi, who pretended not to see it.

So once again, Leaf Bird became the next target of Ruan Nanzhu's torment, and the others in Obsidian cast pitying glances at him, but there was a little gloom and doom in the pity, and even more so in Lin Qiushi's case - God knows he doesn't want to be some poor little mute girl anymore.

After throwing a welcome party for Leafbird, Obsidian had welcomed a new member, but had no idea how far this new member would go. But there were some things where the outcome was rather less important, at least that's what Lin Qiushi currently thought.

As the time passed, it was time for Cheng Qianli and Cheng Yicher to enter the house.

The atmosphere in the villa was tense once again, with few people talking loudly throughout the house, but what was rather surprising to Lin Qiushi was that Cheng Yicher hadn't announced his clue until he entered the door.

At this time, Lin Qiushi wasn't a naive newcomer, and he understood from Ruan Nanzhu's attitude why Cheng Yicher did what he did.

It was because Cheng Yicher's clue could be special.

The kind of clue that had to be obtained after only one person survived, such a clue could ward off a ghost attack in the next door.

Lin Qiushi didn't know exactly how Cheng Yixie had gotten this clue, the only thing he knew was that the day before Cheng Yixie and Cheng Qianli entered the door, Cheng Yixie and Ruan Nanzhu had another big fight.

In the end, they broke up unhappily.

Cheng Qianli looked a little down as he stood downstairs and said to Lin Qiushi, "I wish I had been smarter."

Lin Qiushi touched his head and whispered comfortingly, "You're good enough right now."

Not everyone could be as powerful and clever as Ruan Nan Candle Cheng Yicher, but there were ways of living that weren't clever, and one couldn't always demand perfection in everything.

Moreover, Cheng Qianli might not realize that it was his existence that gave Cheng Yicher the courage to go forward.

Cheng Yicher loves his brother deeply, and they are each other's strongest spiritual support.