Kaleidoscope of Death

After sitting at Cheng Qianli's house for a while, Lin Qiushi got up and took his leave.

Cheng Qianli looked at him with a dazed look in his eyes, but was reluctant to part with him, so he said, "Are you leaving already? Aren't you staying at my house for dinner? My mom will be home soon..."

Lin Qiushi looked at him with a somewhat helpless expression, "If your mother came back and saw me, wouldn't she just kick me out?" With such a strange person suddenly in the house, I'm afraid no parent would be happy, that is, that Cheng Qianli, an empty-headed little fool, would so easily welcome a stranger into the house and have someone stay for dinner.

"But I don't think you're a bad person." Cheng Qianli's expression was sincere, "You didn't steal anything or anything..."

Lin Qiushi looked at his appearance, reached out and pinched him on the face, leaving a bright red mark on Cheng Qianli's skin.

Cheng Qianli was baffled by the pinch, and his face showed aggravation, "What are you pinching me for?"

Lin Qiushi said, "Let's keep you awake, don't just bring anyone home." He raised his hand and looked at his watch, walking to the door, "I'm leaving."

Cheng Qianli felt that he and the person in front of him were like old friends at first sight, and was quite sad to see him leaving, "Where do you live? I'll have nothing to call you for later?"

Lin Qiushi smiled, "No, if there's a chance, I'll come back to find you..." if there wasn't a chance, maybe he'd forget about Cheng Qianli.

Cheng Qianli still wanted to say something, but he saw that Lin Qiushi had already pushed out the door, he looked like he was in a hurry, and although he looked like he was in love, his steps didn't stop for a moment.

Lin Qiushi also wanted to chat more with Cheng Qianli, but it was a shame that the time to board the plane was coming up. He didn't want to try what it would be like to spend the night in a strange city.

He had already been delayed at Cheng Qianli's place for a while, if he stayed any longer, he wouldn't be able to get on the plane.

Lin Qiushi hurriedly took a taxi and headed to the airport.

But when he arrived at the airport, he received a terrible news - because of the weather, the plane was late.

It was normal for planes to be late, yet Lin Qiushi couldn't bear the cost of being late at the moment.

His flight was scheduled for around 7:00 pm, and according to the plan, he should arrive at his original city at 10:00 pm, and it would take him an hour to go back, and he would arrive home at exactly 12:00 pm, so time was already very tight.

However, the airport told him that the flight was late, and it didn't look like it would be able to take off for a while.

Lin Qiushi sat in the terminal building, anxiously watching the time pass by.

It was already five minutes past eight o'clock and there was still no news from the plane.

Lin Qiushi sighed and dragged his luggage out of the airport back to the city, trying to find a suitable hotel.

The floor of the hotel should not be too high so that you could come down without taking the elevator, the floor you lived on should preferably have many passages leading down to the floor below, and the simpler the room structure, the better.

After searching for more than an hour, Lin Qiushi checked into a fast hotel near the airport at around ten o'clock, the hotel's environment is not too good, but the floor is low enough, only three floors, if you want to come down from above, you can directly take the fire escape. Lin Qiushi took his room card, stored his luggage in the house, and then briefly organized his backpack.

In the following time, Lin Qiushi edited a few text messages that he wanted to send to Ruan Nanzhu, the content of the text message was to tell Ruan Nanzhu that he was fine, inquire about his current situation, and also mentioned about Cheng Qianli and Tan Zaozao, of course, did not forget Le Dongyuan - although Le Dongyuan and Ruan Nanzhu were not quite on the same page when they were alive.

After editing the text message, Lin Qiushi quietly waited for nightfall.

He sat in the unfamiliar city and watched the sky darken, the bright sun falling into the horizon, leaving behind only a brilliant sunset, stars and the moon appearing in the dark sky, the air still filled with the heat belonging to summer.

Lin Qiushi went downstairs to buy a popsicle and sat at the window to eat it while watching the people come and go outside the window. He knew that with the arrival of twelve o'clock, all the people outside would disappear and he would enter another world. The noisy scenery in front of him at this time, instead, made him particularly attached to it.

The sweet taste spread on his tongue, reminding Lin Qiushi of the sugar Ruan Nan Candle had once stuffed into his mouth, and he lowered his head, remembering the text message Ruan Nan Candle had sent him yesterday, a smile lifting the corners of his mouth.

Tick-tock, the hour and minute hands reunited, and twelve o'clock arrived.

The world seemed to quiet down for a moment, entering another dimension.

As soon as twelve o'clock arrived, Lin Qiushi sent a message to Ruan Nan Candle, and at the same time, he received a text message from Ruan Nan Candle as well. This caused the boulder hanging in Lin Qiushi's heart to fall to the ground, and he flew through the message that Ruan Nan Candle had sent him and saw that Ruan Nan Candle had reported peace in the message.

Just as Lin Qiushi lowered his head to read the text message on his phone, the knock on the door was as piercing as the signal gun that started the match.

Knock, knock, knock, knock, the person knocking on the door was like trying to smash the door and bang the entire door.

From the cat's eye, Lin Qiushi saw the person standing outside the door. Through the shape-shifting glass, he saw the man standing outside the door. The man looked ordinary, human looking, and he looked up at Lin Qiushi with intense malice in his eyes. Although the man's face looked unfamiliar at first glance, Lin Qiushi still recognized him, this was the same person they had killed inside the Mt. Weyfli Sanatorium, Ruan Nan Candle - Jiang Yingrui.

At that time, Lin Qiushi had also helped Ruan Nan Candle hide his murderous methods so that Jiang Yingrui couldn't figure out what had happened to him, so Jiang Yingrui couldn't even avenge himself in the door.

"Open the door, open the door!" Jiang Yingrui said fiercely, "Open the door!"

Naturally, Lin Qiushi couldn't open the door for him, he turned around and set his eyes on the window behind him.

After the window opened, there was a canopy below, if he wanted to leave here, he only needed to climb up to the canopy from the window and jump down from the canopy to the first floor.

Jiang Yingrui saw that Lin Qiushi refused to open the door, his mouth let out a strange laugh, he turned around and left for a moment, when he came back again, but there was an extra house number in his hand. The number on the door number was familiar to Lin Qiushi - 502, the cursed door number, everyone who lived inside this door had to die.

Lin Qiushi didn't hesitate when he saw this and directly climbed out of the window.

At the same time, Jiang Yingrui seemed to have hung the house number in the house where Lin Qiushi lived, the house began to undergo strange changes, the walls began to ooze bright red blood stains....

Lin Qiushi jumped onto the canopy from the window and was about to continue jumping down, but he felt something pull on his clothes. This pull made him pause in his movements, but it was such a small pause that saved his life, as a broken corpse smashed directly into the spot where he should have jumped, the corpse was wearing a nurse's uniform, and although it was thrown to pieces, it still jerked to its feet. Lin Qiushi sucked in a breath of cold air, and he turned his head to look behind him, but he actually saw a pale little girl sitting on the window, smiling at him.

Lin Qiushi instantly recognized the little girl's identity... it was one of the ghosts he had helped, Miss Satoko.

"Thank you." Lin Qiushi thanked her.

Satoko didn't say anything, but she stretched out her finger and pointed at the wall, and a row of blood characters appeared on the wall, which was clearly the song that was killing people, Lin Qiushi took a look at the song and said very calmly, "Sorry, I really can't read."

Satoko: "......."

Lin Qiushi said, "Why don't you go find the one inside? He's a high achiever then." He pointed at Jiang Yingrui who seemed to still be at the door waiting for something to happen to him.

When Satoko heard this, she actually looked back, showing a thoughtful expression.

Lin Qiushi looked at her and thought to himself that certain ghosts in here really did have spirits and were even capable of thinking.

He took advantage of the time when the nurse was still struggling to get up, jumped down from the other side of the awning and left the hotel.

After two nights of experience, Lin Qiushi felt that the ghost attacks were also spaced out and wouldn't keep appearing, for example, if he escaped the first wave of attacks, then he would have a short respite. It was just that he didn't know if it was the same on Ruan Nanzhu's side.

Although Ruan Nan Candle had experienced many ghosts and monsters, there were just as many partners around him who could help him, and Lin Qiushi was confident that he would be able to pull through.

As Lin Qiushi walked forward along the road, he felt a layer of fog rise up around him, this layer of fog was thin and light at first, but it gradually started to become thicker, and the surrounding scenery became blurred because of the fog.

In the center of the fog, a tall figure began to appear, with long, slender arms and legs like a snake, wearing the iconic hat on top of his head that made Lin Qiushi recognize him at once - it was the long, thin ghostly figure he had once seen.

Standing in the fog, it followed Lin Qiushi not too far away from him, like a beast snooping in the shadows, it could attack Lin Qiushi at any time and anywhere. All Lin Qiushi could do was to flee in a poor condition.

The fog was like a maze that enveloped Lin Qiushi, and the worst part was that Lin Qiushi was already unfamiliar with his surroundings, and with the interference of the fog, he unexpectedly got lost. The road that should have continued on under his feet actually appeared as an obstacle, with rows of low buildings blocking Lin Qiushi's path.

These buildings cut the road apart, forming a narrow alleyway, and Lin Qiushi looked at the long, black, slender figure still following behind him, actually having the illusion that he was a sheep being driven by wolves.

There was no other path to take, so Lin Qiushi looked at the alley in front of him and gritted his teeth as he flashed into it.

The alley was narrow, just enough for one person to walk along, the road underneath was also broken, and there were still piles of water stains at the roots of the walls. Lin Qiushi didn't want to stay here any longer and quickened his pace, he looked behind him and noticed that the shadow that was following him had actually disappeared after he entered the alley.

Why didn't he continue to follow him? As Lin Qiushi was wondering, he felt a cold and gloomy air, his hurried steps instantly stopped, his expression stiffened as he slowly looked up, seeing above his head, no longer a dark starry sky, but a blank face.

The long face had no eyes, only an open mouth and a row of thin white teeth attached to the top of the mouth, this was exactly the face of the long and thin ghostly shadow, its long legs like a snake were standing on the houses on both sides of the alley, looking condescendingly at the pale Lin Qiushi standing in the alley, and stretched out his hand towards Lin Qiushi....

Lin Qiushi's breathing stopped for a moment, and he turned around to escape, but the ghost shadow was extremely fast, and the next moment Lin Qiushi was grabbed by those dry, tree-trunk-like arms, and his whole body was picked up by the neck, like a doll caught in a trap, struggling helplessly in the ghost shadow's hands.

The ghost shadow grinned with a satisfied smile as he cupped Lin Qiushi's neck with one hand while slowly reaching for his own head with the other, then took off the black hat and placed it over Lin Qiushi's head.

Lin Qiushi couldn't move at all, his human strength was like overrate in front of the ghosts, even though he knew exactly what would happen when the black cap was placed on his head - he would become the next successor of the long and thin ghostly figure, but he couldn't do anything about it.

Lin Qiushi felt a bone-chilling coldness emitting from his backpack as he watched the cap about to cover his head, and he even thought it was an illusion before he died. In the next moment, the ghost in front of him let out a miserable scream, Lin Qiushi's neck was loosened and he fell to the ground, he covered his neck and coughed heavily, while two clouds of black smoke in the shape of a child rose beside him, the smoke completely enveloped the ghost, he heard the roar of the ghost and the silver bell-like laughter belonging to the girl.

Lin Qiushi didn't have time to think, he quickly jumped into the alley, turned around and fled in panic, only when he reached a slightly safer place did he regain his senses and felt that the image before him was somewhat familiar. On second thought... wasn't this something that had once happened in the world of the Black Ghost Shadow?

Lin Qiushi flipped open his backpack, and sure enough, above the second page of the notebook, he saw yet another bright red dead letter, which was also marked with a large black cross. He was saved by the notebook again, and Lin Qiushi was a little out of breath, but he still didn't dare to stay where he was and held on to the wall as he struggled to continue on.

"Cough cough, cough cough." Because his neck was being pinched hard, Lin Qiushi couldn't stop coughing, his phone made a vibrating sound, Lin Qiushi was delighted and pulled it out to see the text message sent to him by Ruan Nam Candle.

Inside the text message, Ruan Nan Candle also put a photo that answered Lin Qiushi's question - Lin Qiushi asked him how he was during the day.

In the photo, there is actually a beautiful young man who looks like an androgynous woman, the eyes are not yet indifferent to the adult, with a little smile to the camera, this is actually a young Ruan Nancandle, pinching the phone Lin Qiushi could not help but smile, fingers fondled the phone screen, and even could not help but fall a soft kiss on it.

The daytime Ruan Nan Candle seemed to return to the time when he first entered the door, still childlike and green, so it would make sense that the place he entered the door was at the school.

Lin Qiushi looks at the text attached to the photo, and Ruan Nam Candle asks him if he likes it.

Lin Qiushi texted back quickly: like hell, are you busy over there right now?

A little better tonight, Nguyen Nam Candle replied, I saw the senior who picked me up into Obsidian, how about you?

Lin Qiushi replied: since I was able to find the time to text you, I'm naturally not particularly busy. After he finished replying to this one, he put away his phone, although it was nice to talk to Ruan Nanzhu, he couldn't lose his life over it - he heard some bad sounds again.

It was the sound of heavy objects falling continuously, and Lin Qiushi, standing in the fog, saw the nurse jumping from a tall building not far away.

Her body smashed into the ground and shattered in pieces, then slowly recovered, then appeared on the roof of the next building. Normally this should have nothing to do with Lin Qiushi, but it was a shame that the location of her jump was getting closer and closer to Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi didn't doubt at all that if given the chance, she would just smash into herself and smash herself open like a watermelon.

The ghostly shadow also appeared behind Lin Qiushi again, only this time Lin Qiushi had learned his lesson and didn't go inside the alley again. As he walked on the road, he felt like a traveler looking for an oasis in the desert, and all he could see at a glance was long yellow sand and endless despair, with no trace of water.

The song belonging to Soko came and went, adding a few more ghosts to the already dark night.

But Lin Qiushi didn't want to give up, he still had a lot of things he wanted to do, and Ruan Nanzhu was waiting for him, looking at the nurses who kept jumping down from the building, he had an idea.

Lin Qiushi changed his direction and walked towards the place where the nurse was jumping from.

"Bang, bang, bang." The nurse was still falling. Through the night, Lin Qiushi saw her shattered body, they said that jumping from a building was the worst way to die, Lin Qiushi had a deep feeling at this time.

The nurse's head was splintered, and her body was like a shape-shifting playdough, white and red mixed together, and even the white bones from her flesh could be seen. But Lin Qiushi was completely numb to this, he had seen this kind of horrific scene so often that when he saw the nurse's corpse, he didn't even change his eyes.

Lin Qiushi's footsteps stopped below a certain high-rise building, and he looked back at the ghostly figure that continued to follow him, roughly calculating the distance.

He didn't know if his plan would work, but it was still a long time before dawn, so it was impossible for him to continue to dwell with the ghostly figure. Moreover, Lin Qiushi also had a vague feeling that although it seemed like a dead end every time, there was still life hidden within.

As Lin Qiushi continued to walk forward, the nurse was still jumping, only this time, she also began to move closer towards Lin Qiushi's position.

The black shadow was getting closer and closer to Lin Qiushi, Lin Qiushi stopped and looked at the location of the ghost. He had already started to calculate an interesting mathematical problem in his mind.

The distance between them was currently shrinking at a fixed distance, the order of the nurse's jumps was also fixed, Lin Qiushi had the answer to the question in his mind, and his steps forward suddenly stopped.

The shadow didn't know what Lin Qiushi's stopping meant, he was still approaching towards Lin Qiushi, while the nurse who fell to pieces turned onto the roof again and leapt down towards the bottom-...

Lin Qiushi held the bag in his arms and waited for the final result.

A shadow fell over the ghost's head, and he seemed to be smashed before he even realized what the shadow meant.

The two ghosts collided head-on, and the image Lin Qiushi was most looking forward to appeared. The ghostly shadow was smashed right through, and his entire body shriveled to the ground. The nurse's flesh and blood mixed with his body, as well as the white bones.

Lin Qiushi heard the ghostly figure growl in anger, it didn't simply die like that, and its body began to slowly recover, but it recovered much slower than the nurse, while one of its hands had a death grip on the nurse's head, preventing it from returning to her body.

The nurse seemed to get angry as well, and she began to scream and cry, her body huddled with the ghost.

The image was grotesque and absurd, and Lin Qiushi felt like he should be smiling, but after tugging at the corners of his mouth, he realized he couldn't smile at all.

The ghosts grabbed the nurse's head and wouldn't let go, but the nurse seemed to give up, and she turned around again, returned to the stairs, and leapt down - and just smashed into the ghosts a second time.

The two ghosts strangled ferociously, and Lin Qiushi patted himself on the back and turned to leave.

He found a quiet corner at random and opened his phone to the sound of Satoko's song, but he didn't see any new messages back from Ruan Nam Candle.

Lin Qiushi was a bit tired, his shoulder was still aching and he hadn't slept well for days. At this time sitting on the side of the road, he looked at the phone screen, want to call Ruan Nam Candle to listen to his voice, but did not dare, he was afraid that his one phone call will be the life of Ruan Nam Candle.

When will the night like this end? Is there really a door here? Can he really get out? Countless thoughts flooded into Lin Qiushi's mind, and for a moment he was lost in thought.

It was still over an hour before dawn, but the fog in the sky faded first, the sounds of nurses jumping stopped, and Lin Qiushi looked up to see Satoko standing in front of him, smiling at him.

Lin Qiushi looked at Sako and asked about the situation with his eyes.

Satoko smiled sweetly, her originally horrible face actually became lovely because of her smile, she walked in front of Lin Qiushi and handed Lin Qiushi something.

Lin Qiushi took it over, it was a photo of a smiling Satoko and her classmates, it was the most cherished photo of Satoko, Lin Qiushi remembered it very clearly.

Lin Qiushi vaguely understood what Satoko meant, he laughed bitterly, he didn't think he would have a day to be comforted by a ghost.

Satoko laughed again, and her figure faded away.

Lin Qiushi, however, covered his face, he now just wanted to meet Ruan Nanzhu, they embraced each other and slept well. But he hadn't thought that what was once commonplace would become so difficult in this door.