Kaleidoscope of Death

After making the call, Lin Qiushi sat up from his bed. He went to the living room and checked the door and the TV set, making sure that they were all still in the same condition as they were seen yesterday during the day, and that there was no damage.

After confirming these things, Lin Qiushi hurriedly left the house, and halfway there, he received a call from Kurezaki asking why he hadn't gone to work.

"I'm a bit busy." In the car, Lin Qiushi actually completely forgot about the fact that he had to go to work, and he perfunctorily said, "Please take a leave for me."

Kurezaki said, "Oh, for how long then?"

Lin Qiushi: "Six months?"

Kuzaki was shocked, "...six months? Are you planning to resign?"

Lin Qiushi lifted his hand to look at his watch, not having the heart to care about his work, "Or help me just quit."

Wu Ze seemed to want to say something, but the words didn't come to his lips, he just sighed, "Alright, I'll take your leave, make sure you talk to me if you have anything to say, don't carry it on your own."

Lin Qiushi mmmed, his expression still very heavy.

The car went forward, about an hour later, and arrived at the place Lin Qiushi wanted to go, Lin Qiushi got off the car, went upstairs, and knocked on the door, all in one motion, but in fact it was such a few simple actions, but he had made mental preparations for a long time in the car.

The door he knocked on opened a few moments later, revealing the beautiful face of a middle-aged woman - it was Ruan Nam Candle's mother.

Because before entering the door, Ruan Nan Candle had taken Lin Qiushi home for a trip, so Lin Qiushi clearly remembered the location of Ruan Nan Candle's home, and he was looking for her this time to make sure of one thing....

"Hello auntie." Lin Qiushi greeted her politely.

"Hello." The middle-aged woman looked at Lin Qiushi in confusion and asked, "May I help you?"

"I wanted to ask you if you know the man Nguyen Nam Candle?" Lin Qiushi cautiously asked.

"Ruan Nan Candle?" The woman's suspicious tone caused Lin Qiushi's heart to sink and the confusion on her face to intensify, "I'm sorry, I don't know this person."

"Then do you know Ruan Bai Ye?" Lin Qiushi uttered another name, which was the name of Ruan Nam Candle's brother.

"Cypress Leaf? He's my son..." said Nguyen's mother, "He's not at home right now, he won't be back until the evening, do you have something for him?"

Lin Qiushi said, "You... only have one son?"

Mother Ruan nodded her head, looking at Lin Qiushi with increasingly strange eyes, and right, suddenly coming to the door and asking these questions, how did Lin Qiushi not look like a normal person.

Lin Qiushi didn't know what he should say anymore, after he said goodbye to Mother Ruan, he hurriedly went downstairs and rushed to another place.

Ruan Nan Candle's existence had been erased, no one in the world knew anyone called Ruan Nan Candle at all, including even his parents, so even Obsidian Stone ceased to exist....

This time, the location that Lin Qiushi went to was the White Deer under the leadership of Li Dongyuan.

After arriving at the stronghold of White Deer, Lin Qiushi found that a building there that originally belonged to White Deer had turned into a commercial office building, with the words XX Bank marked on it. Lin Qiushi was standing at the door, pondering how to get upstairs, when he saw a familiar face walk in from the door, the person was wearing a suit and was saying something to the person next to him, from the looks of it, he was Li Dongyuan who had a baby face.

When Lin Qiushi saw this, he rushed forward and called out, "Li Dongyuan!"

Li Dongyuan stopped in his tracks and looked in his direction, his eyes distant and cautious, "Who are you? Please make an appointment with my secretary first if you need anything."

"I-" said Lin Qiushi, "do you know me?"

Li Dongyuan raised his eyebrows, he didn't say anything, but his expression already gave Lin Qiushi the answer, he didn't know Lin Qiushi and even found Lin Qiushi's question very strange.

"You don't know me?" Lin Qiushi couldn't tell how he felt at this point.

"Should I know you?" Li Dongyuan seemed to be smiling, his eyes sizing up Lin Qiushi's body.

Lin Qiushi suddenly thought of something else as he said, "Then do you know Zhuang Ruyoung?"

Li Dongyuan was silent, still looking unfamiliar with the name.

"Where is Jin Yu Rui?" Lin Qiushi tried again.

"You know her?" Li Dongyuan's smile however faded, "You're one of her people."

Lin Qiushi could now finally determine why some people in this world didn't exist because they were still alive and living outside the door, so they didn't exist in this door. Both Lai Dong Yuan and Jin Yu Rui were dead, so they had a brand new identity inside this door.

And excluding these people who died inside the door, the others who had nothing to do with the door didn't seem to be affected by this law, they existed outside and inside the door and had nothing to do with life or death.

"Do you still have business?" Li Dongyuan looked at the thinking Lin Qiushi and raised his chin slightly, looking indifferent, "If there's nothing else, go out first, this is the office."

Lin Qiushi looked at him, turned around and left.

"Who is this person?" The person beside Li Dong Yuan watched Lin Qiushi walk away and asked a question.

"I don't know." Li Dong Yuan said, "It just looks a bit familiar, forget it, you bring the information over again, I'll confirm it..."

Lin Qiushi left White Deer's stronghold, he looked at his watch, it was already 12:00 noon. A thought rose in his head, Lin Qiushi took out his phone and booked a ticket online for tomorrow morning, to and from C City.

There were some things he wanted to go to C-City to confirm, and it would definitely be too late to go over there today, so he would only have to hurry up tomorrow morning and try to get back and forth in one day.

In fact, Lin Qiushi didn't want to try to spend the night on the plane, hell knows what terrible things would happen then.

After casually finding a place to settle his lunch, Lin Qiushi returned home and took a nap. Thinking about all the things that were about to happen at night, Lin Qiushi thought that he would have insomnia, but in fact he slept so well that he fell asleep as soon as he got into bed, and by the time he woke up it was five o'clock in the afternoon. Chestnut was sitting next to him, meowing and looking hungry again.

Lin Qiushi got up, and after fixing some food for Chestnut, he ordered a takeaway for himself as well, and watched TV while he ate.

He saw the promotion of Zaizao Tan's new movie. From the promotion, Lin Qiushi realized that Zaizao Tan had already won an award, and the movie was exactly the same as the one outside the door, but the director was a different person, no longer Zhang Yiqing.

The world here and Lin Qiushi's world were so identical, yet there was a fundamental difference - the person Lin Qiushi wanted to see most, Ruan Nanzhu, was not here.

Thanks to that, I'm afraid that this door is about as difficult to overcome as it is for many people. Such as Zhuang Ruyue, or Cheng Yixie, for example, because they can see the person they love the most here again....

As the night grew darker, Lin Qiushi made all preparations.

At around ten o'clock, it suddenly started to rain outside the house.

As the pouring rain washed over the sun-scorched earth, Lin Qiushi stood by the window and watched some of the people walking on the side of the road rush back home in disarray, leaving only empty streetlights outside and the occasional car driving by.

Chestnut was asleep, it was lying on the couch, its breath became quiet, the TV was still playing boring programs, but a strange silence began to spread in the house.

The first thing you need to know is how to get rid of the fishy smell of rainwater, and you can't do that.

The hour hand was turning little by little, and it would soon be twelve o'clock.

Lin Qiushi was sitting inside the living room, like a soul waiting for the judgment of death. The alternation of day and night was approaching, and the clock hanging on the wall finally rang, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong... Twelve chimes announced the arrival of another world.

As soon as twelve o'clock arrived, the door of Lin Qiushi's house was knocked once again, and he carried his bag to the door, and through his cat's eyes, he saw a woman standing outside his door, smiling at him.

He remembered the woman's name, it was the NPC hidden in the crowd inside Ah Sister Drum, Xu Jin.

"Hurry up and come out." Xu Jin said to Lin Qiushi, "Hurry up and come out, my sister is here to see you."

Lin Qiushi didn't open the door, he heard a soft noise coming from over the window, Lin Qiushi turned his head and saw a person stuck outside his window.

It was a skinned person, all blood and flesh, her blood-red face pressed against Lin Qiushi's glass, her mouth grinning open, showing her white teeth at Lin Qiushi. She seemed to be attempting to open the window that Lin Qiushi had locked up, and from the way she was doing it, she was about to succeed.

Seemingly the only option at this point was to open the door, Lin Qiushi gritted his teeth, twisted the door handle, and faced Xu Jin outside the door.

Xu Jin was obviously aware of Lin Qiushi's concern, and her mouth giggled as she said, "How could I ever be willing to do anything to you." She paused for a moment, her gaze resting on Lin Qiushi's backpack, "My diary, but it's still in your hand, have you looked at it properly ah."

Lin Qiushi: "...Why does he feel like he's being molested.

But he didn't have much time to dwell on that at the moment, because Seojin's sister was about to climb over from the window, Seojin grabbed Lin Qiushi's wrist, turned around and ran, and they went down the corridor all the way to the elevator.

"Go inside, but be careful," Xu Jin said, "There are other things that want you dead."

Lin Qiushi said, "What about you?" He remembered that Xu Jin's relationship with her sister didn't seem too good.

Xu Jin said, "Me?" She curled her eyes and smiled suddenly, "How do you know again that I don't want you dead?" After she said this, the skin on her body actually started to fall off piece by piece, Lin Qiushi was shocked and hurriedly entered the elevator and pressed the number button.

Xu Jin giggled again, her laughter brittle as silver bells, a stark contrast to her terrifying appearance at the moment.

Although her appearance became frightening, Xu Jin had no intention of chasing after Lin Qiushi.

The elevator started up, and it was reasonable to say that Lin Qiushi should be safe, but that strange feeling of danger he had hit him again.

Lin Qiushi looked around and after seeing something hanging in the elevator, goosebumps rose all over his body. He only saw that behind him, on the walls of the elevator that should have been empty, there was a huge black frame hanging on the wall, the frame was empty, but the direction the frame was facing was exactly where he was standing.

Lin Qiushi reacted swiftly and pressed the nearest floor, but at the same time, some faint black water stains seemed to float on the white paper inside the frame, at first it was just a drop, then it began to spread over the paper.

The shape of the seeming water stain, but more and more like a woman's appearance, faint on the paper, expand, in a very short period of time will occupy the entire huge picture frame.

Fortunately, the elevator just happened to arrive at the nearest floor, so Lin Qiushi turned around and left, and as soon as he left the elevator, a pair of pale hands stretched out from the drawing paper, groping around as if they were trying to grab something.

The floor Lin Qiushi was on was the sixth floor, and after he left the elevator, he turned around and entered the safe passage next to it, then followed the stairs all the way down.

The light in the staircase was dim, barely able to see the path beneath his feet, but Lin Qiushi ran down two floors, but he didn't feel quite right, and upon closer inspection, he found that he was actually circling the sixth floor.

The staircase seemed to have turned into a Möbius ring, and whether it was up or down, the front and back were all on the sixth floor.

Lin Qiushi stopped his galloping pace and observed the surroundings for a moment, noticing that a black cloud of water stains had also started to appear on the white ceiling of the stairwell, and even the air was filled with that chilling smell of water.

The thing came after him, and Lin Qiushi made a quick decision to turn around and leave the stairwell and go above the walkway. However, as soon as he returned to the walkway, Lin Qiushi noticed that the walkway's scene had changed horribly, the walls on both sides were filled with black picture frames, and inside the picture frames was a human with a hideous expression, while the original ceramic paved floor was covered with a thick black blanket - the blanket's pattern was the same as the one he had once seen in the door Exactly the same.

Lin Qiushi raised his head and looked towards the end of the corridor, there was also a painting hanging at the end of the corridor, the painting was of a woman dressed in black with a long, pointed hat, her eyes were half closed, but it seemed as if she was gazing at Lin Qiushi who was gazing at him at the end of the corridor.

Lin Qiushi wanted to leave the corridor, but when he turned back, he found that the stairwell he had just come from had actually disappeared, while the distance between the corridors seemed to be slowly getting shorter, Lin Qiushi clearly felt that the woman's painting was getting closer and closer to him....

Just then, a drop of water landed on Lin Qiushi's forehead, and Lin Qiushi reached out to wipe it off, only to discover that it was blood. He raised his head reflexively and found that at some point a black hole had appeared above his head, blood dripping down from the hole, a pair of black eyes, looming in the dark, then from the hole a pair of flesh and blood hands reached over towards Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi reflexively wanted to retreat, but strangely, the hands stopped in front of him, and he miraculously didn't feel any danger from them.

The corridor was shrinking as if it was a cage trying to trap Lin Qiushi inside, Lin Qiushi gritted his teeth and raised his hands to hold those flesh and blood hands, then felt a force that brought him out of the smaller and smaller corridor.

"Geez, it still doesn't seem to work without me." This was Xu Jin's voice, but she was just completely unrecognizable from the outside, all the skin on her body was gone, leaving only scarlet flesh and blood, and now her eyes were smiling at Lin Qiushi, this strong contrast was grotesque, but Lin Qiushi didn't find it horrifying.

"Thank you." Lin Qiushi thanked her.

Xu Jin, however, did not say anything, her gaze crossed over to Lin Qiushi and looked behind him.

Lin Qiushi seemed to have noticed and turned his head to look, finding a pair of red glowing eyes on the other side of the darkness.

"Sister, my sister." The owner of the eyes, who was also a monster that had been skinned, she had no legs and could only walk with her hands, but she didn't move slowly, she stared at Lin Qiushi with malicious eyes, showing her teeth like a hyena looking for prey, the malice in her eyes almost about to turn into substance, she said, "Why did you betray me? Do you like him that much? Since you like him, shall I let him keep you company?"

Xu Jin tilted her head and laughed as well, she said, "But sister, even if you did that, I wouldn't like you ah."

After she said this, she said to Lin Qiushi to run quickly, and jumped towards her sister in front of her, the two monsters tangled together.

Lin Qiushi stood up and ran towards where there was light, and when he ran into the light, he realized that he had run out of the apartment and was standing in the courtyard of the neighborhood.

It was still raining outside, so Lin Qiushi pulled out his umbrella from his backpack, slowly branching out into the rain.

It was loud, loud, and the road was empty above, with only rainwater splashing on the ground. The rain was originally noisy, but now this noise instead set the world even more silent.

"Help - help -" miserable cries for help were suddenly heard, and in the rain curtain, a stumbling figure appeared, and Lin Qiushi could barely see the person's appearance, it was a The poor girl, wearing a long skirt, staggered and ran in the rain, she seemed to be chased by something, after seeing Lin Qiushi standing not far away, as if she had found an oasis in the desert, she ran over towards Lin Qiushi: "Help! Help!!!"

She said, "Please help me, something is trying to kill me..." she fell to the ground and looked at Lin Qiushi pitifully, "You're also a passerby right? I've been through the door too, and it's a terrible door-"

If this had been in the real world, Lin Qiushi would have moved forward to help the girl up, but at this point he didn't move and knitted his brows, in fact he felt that the person in front of him looked familiar, to be precise, everything that appeared at night looked familiar, he was sure he had seen this person somewhere before.

"Sir, sir." The woman who fell in the rainwater saw that Lin Qiushi was indifferent, so she slowly climbed up on her own, she raised her hand to wipe the rainwater from her face and said in a trembling voice, "I know a safe place to take you there, will you come with me?"

Lin Qiushi said, "I know you?"

The woman said, "We met once inside the door, and you helped me." Her eyelashes quivered lightly and she looked pitiful, "It's just that I didn't fight and I still didn't survive."

"Seen inside the door?" Lin Qiushi was the one who thought her eyebrows looked familiar, and he said, "Which door?"

The woman came towards Lin Qiushi and she said, "That's the fan."

Lin Qiushi looked at her, but suddenly spoke, "There's something behind you."

The woman's footsteps stopped.

"A huge picture frame." Lin Qiushi said, "She's coming after us."

The woman turned back in fear, but didn't see anything behind herself, she suddenly woke up and knew that Lin Qiushi recognized her, her original pitiful expression suddenly turned cold.

"Long time no see." Lin Qiushi said, "Yang Mei Shu."

The woman sneered, "You actually recognized me?"

Lin Qiushi spread his hands, "I didn't want to, but people who have malice towards me can be counted on one hand, and since you're not a ghost, you must be someone who hates me..." he trailed off and flew off, "She's really coming after me! ."

Yang Mei Shu, however, didn't believe Lin Qiushi's words as she said, "Do you think I'm stupid? You cheated me once, now you want to cheat me again? I..." she was speaking excitedly, but she felt a gust of wind rising behind her, Yang Mei Shu turned back and saw a woman in black standing behind her, her pale face expressionless, holding a black picture frame in her hand, smashing it towards Yang Mei Shu.

Yang Meishu knew she was in danger, and her mouth let out a miserable scream, but after the scream, she turned into a picture in the woman's hand, soaked to the skin, her expression terrified with resentment, yet so vividly alive.

Lin Qiushi, on the other hand, took this opportunity to run towards a place further away. The woman didn't seem to have any intention of chasing after him, only staring coldly at Lin Qiushi's distant back.

The rain was pouring down and Lin Qiushi was soaked to the skin, the umbrella was almost useless in such a heavy downpour, as he ran forward, he pulled out his phone and sent a text message to Ruan Nan Candle.

"How's it going over there?" Lin Qiushi thought about it and sent another, "I'm pretty good here, don't worry."

The text message was sent out and there was no response for a long time, it wasn't until Lin Qiushi found a shelter from the rain that the text message rang again, it only showed six words: "I'm quite fine, don't worry.

Lin Qiushi laughed bitterly at the text message, where would he have never thought that if Ruan Nanzhu was really fine, he wouldn't have only sent such a short message over. Ruan Nan Candle had swiped so many doors, God knows how many NPCs with malicious intent he had to encounter during the night and the humans who died inside, with Lin Qiushi's knowledge of him, if he wasn't taking care of himself, he would have taken the initiative to send a message to Lin Qiushi to inquire about the situation. Now that he was even texting back so briefly, the situation there was definitely not good.

I really wanted to be there for him, Lin Qiushi gripped his phone, thinking bitterly that no matter what he was going through, it would be good to just be by his side.