Kaleidoscope of Death

It was a seemingly ordinary clock that had existed since Lin Qiushi had rented this room. The clock chimed the time at every hour, from one to twelve... Ding dong, ding dong, the sound of the clock was clear and bright, reminding Lin Qiushi that time was moving forward relentlessly.

Lin Qiushi took down the clock. Because it had been hanging on the wall for too long, a thin layer of dust had fallen on the face of the clock, so he wiped it off with a paper towel and gently removed the lid.

He stared at the complicated structure of the back cover of the clock, and after a moment of silence, he pressed the button that controlled the minute hand with his hand and gently twisted it backwards.......

When the hour hand turned counterclockwise and crossed the twelve o'clock, pointing to the number "11" on the clock face, Lin Qiushi's movements stopped - he saw before his eyes many complicated images of beautiful men in women's clothes pointing at him. Showing a bright smile, he said to him, "Lin Qiushi, I like you so much." Then there were more images that Lin Qiushi was familiar with, some of them Lin Qiushi still remembered, some of them were already blurred, but they were like slides that flashed through Lin Qiushi's mind.

When the recollected images stopped, Lin Qiushi moved his finger slightly and turned the hour hand to the number "10", and in the time of "10", he saw the world of the Box Girl.

Immediately afterwards, without Lin Qiushi's control, the minute hand on the watch in front of him began to move slowly, countless memories swarmed towards Lin Qiushi's mind, Lin Qiushi's head was in severe pain, he involuntarily let go, and the clock fell heavily to the ground.

"Ah!!" Covering his head with his hand, Lin Qiushi's mind seemed to be filled with a huge kaleidoscope, and in the kaleidoscope was the world of doors, he saw countless ghosts and monsters, saw his deceased friend, and saw Ruan Nan Candle.

In the image, Ruan Nan Candle smiled brightly at him, extended her hand towards him, and said, "Hello, I'm Ruan Baijie."

The picture turned and it was another looking Ruan Nan Candle with a cold expression, who looked up at Lin Qiushi and said, "Welcome to Obsidian."

Lin Qiushi didn't know how long this lasted, but by the time the intense pain was removed from his head, the sky outside had already darkened.

With silence all around, Lin Qiushi barely managed to get up from the ground and stumbled over to the clock that had fallen to the ground, picking it up.

However, the moment he picked up the clock, something seemed to have fallen from the dial, baring it and making a crisp sound on the ground.

At first, Lin Qiushi thought that the clock was broken, but when he lowered his head and looked at the object that had fallen at his feet, his entire expression froze.

What had fallen from the clock was actually a bronze key - and there were two of them.

Looking at the keys at his feet, Lin Qiushi took a deep breath and steadied his mind before bending down and picking them up.

These were two identical bronze keys, the only difference was the vaguely visible writing engraved on the surface of the keys.

The key was originally icy, but Lin Qiushi felt incomparably hot when he held it in his hand, and when he carefully observed the key, he found that one of them had four small characters engraved on it: illusory birth. And on the other one were four other words: real death.

Illusory Life, Real Death? Lin Qiushi, who was holding the key, was stunned, he couldn't figure out what the four words meant for a moment . He rubbed the surface of the key with his fingers and was about to take a closer look at it, but he felt a coldness in his hand, and then the key with the four words Illusory Life written on it actually shattered into powder in his hand... So he was left with only Real Death.

Real Death? Lin Qiushi thought of something, he tightly gripped the key and quickly walked to his door, and after taking a deep breath, he solemnly pushed open his own door.

Only after seeing the room door, a familiar corridor actually appeared, and above the corridor, it was those twelve pitch-black iron doors. It was just that eleven of the doors were sealed, and only the twelfth door, standing alone at the other end of the corridor, was sealed.

As Lin Qiushi walked down the corridor, he saw a large black lock hanging above the twelfth door, and looked down at the key in his hand again.

At this moment, he understood the meaning of unreal and real.

The world he was in was unreal, everything continued to develop in the same trajectory as if there was no door, all the people who died inside the door were revived in another form, they were living beside Lin Qiushi, if Lin Qiushi wanted, he could start over with them.

The truth, on the other hand, meant that Lin Qiushi could return to the original world.

By the twelfth door was a question of choice, and the power to choose was in Lin Qiushi's own hands.

He could stay in this world and meet again with Ruan Nan Candle, who no longer knew him, or he could leave, but after he left there was a question in front of him - how did Ruan Nan Candle choose, did he find the key, and if Ruan Nan Candle, who found the key, ended up choosing Unreal, then Lin Qiushi, who left here, would never see him again.

Lin Qiushi held the key in his hand in a death grip.

He looked back to the corridor behind him, and above the corridor, every door with a seal on it, were his memories of Obsidian Stone. These memories might not be good, but they were all true.

But how would Nguyen Nam Candle choose?

Lin Qiushi's family ties are indifferent and he doesn't have many friends at all, his only tie is just Ruan Nam Candle . But Ruan Nan Candle was different, if there was no door, yet he could maintain a good relationship with his family of origin and he could avoid losing so many friends....

Lin Qiushi laughed bitterly, he finally understood why almost no one mentioned the twelfth door, because the twelfth door, simply didn't exist.

When one had experienced countless ghost domains and a perfect paradise was displayed before one's eyes, it was inevitable that anyone would be shaken.

Lin Qiushi thought, but his answer was already predetermined.

The world without Ruan Nan Candle was all fake to him, he didn't have to hesitate to make a choice.

Lin Qiushi laughed, he reached out and wiped his face, trying to erase something, his hand held the key and inserted it into the iron lock hanging from the iron door.

With a click, the iron lock fell in response and a path filled with white light appeared in front of Lin Qiushi's eyes.

Lin Qiushi turned his head to look at the corridor behind him and softly said, "Goodbye." Then he lifted his steps and stepped into it.

The corridor in front of him was longer than any corridor Lin Qiushi had ever walked, and the light emanating from the surroundings made Lin Qiushi's heart calm down unexpectedly, he kept going and finally reached the end of the corridor, the image in front of him turned and he finally saw a familiar scenery.

Lin Qiushi had returned to his original world and was now sitting on the bed in Ruan Nan Candle's bedroom. After he came back, the first thing he did was to look for Ruan Nan Candle, but he didn't see the figure belonging to Ruan Nan Candle that should have appeared.

Lin Qiushi hurriedly went downstairs and saw YeBird sitting on the sofa in the living room, walked over and said to YeBird: "YeBird? Have you seen Ruan Nam Candle?"

When Ye Bird heard Lin Qiushi's words, he said in surprise, "You came out of the door!!!"

Lin Qiushi said, "Right - have you seen Ruan Nanzhu?"

Leaf Bird said, "Lou made you food!"

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

Leaf Bird said, "Since you're out, it's only natural to celebrate-"

Lin Qiushi said, "A leaf bird?"

Leafbird said, "Well?"

Lin Qiushi said, "Aren't you going to ask me about the eleventh door?"

When Ye Bird heard Lin Qiushi's words, some bewilderment appeared in his expression. I couldn't hear."

Lin Qiushi said, "The contents of the eleventh door..." he repeated, but found it to be in vain, for Ye Bird's confused look didn't disappear with his words, but rather intensified, "Brother Lin, what are you saying? ?"

Lin Qiushi closed his mouth, he bit his teeth and his tone took on a bit of a hiss, "Do you... know Ruan Nan Candle?"

Leafbird's expression paused for a moment, then Lin Qiushi looked at him and shook his head cautiously.

"I don't know." Ye Bird said, "Ruan Nan Candle... who is he?"

Dizzy and dizzy, Lin Qiushi nearly fell to the floor, barely holding onto the couch to steady his body as he mumbled, "You don't know Ruan Nan Candle? Who is the leader of that obsidian?"

"Not you?" Leaf Bird was frightened, "Brother Lin... are you... okay?"

Lin Qiushi stood still for a long time, in the panicked eyes of the leaf bird, Lin Qiushi hurriedly went upstairs, he arrived in front of Ruan Nam Candle's bedroom and started looking around trying to find any signs of Ruan Nam Candle's existence, but he failed.

There was only one sign of a person who had lived in the house, Ruan Nam Candle became a non-existent person.

Lin Qiushi was stunned in place, he thought of something and rushed downstairs, saying to Ye Bird, "Ye Bird, which door am I passing?"

Ye Bird's eyes became more and more frightened as he looked at Lin Qiushi and said carefully, "The... twelfth fan ah."

A long silence.

Ye Bird saw something in Lin Qiushi's expression as he said, "Brother Lin, are you alright?"

Lin Qiushi, however, laughed so hard that tears came out of his eyes as he laughed and waved his hands as he staggered out of the living room.

The leader of Obsidian had managed to get out of the twelfth door from Lin Qiushi, something that should have been celebrated, but a strange shadow was inexplicably cast over Obsidian. Everyone thought that Lin Qiushi's brain was malfunctioning, overstimulated, and had fabricated a non-existent character.

Lin Qiushi, on the other hand, took a night to slow down, and the next day, he found Ye Bird and reconciled some information with him.

Then Lin Qiushi discovered that all of his memories were correct, except for Ruan Nan Candle.

Tan Zao Zao and Cheng Qianli were indeed gone, Cheng Yixie had left Obsidian, and the others were recruited by Lin Qiushi, including Chen Fei and Lu Yanxue and Yi Manman.

Lin Qiushi was the core of Obsidian, and he was even good friends with Bai Ming.

Up until this point, Lin Qiushi had been unable to figure out whether he had really fabricated Ruan Nan Candle himself, or whether the door had erased Ruan Nan Candle's existence.

Or perhaps, Ruan Nan Candle was his twelfth door, his heart robbery.

It was reasonable to say that to be able to come out of the twelfth door, Lin Qiushi would definitely be the focus of everyone's attention, as he possessed the crucial twelfth door information. But strangely, Lin Qiushi's presence was faded, and he thought of the vague senior that Ruan Nan Candle was talking about.

Ye Bird and the others began to unconsciously ignore his presence, and even though he was right next to them, it was as if they couldn't see him at all, and none of them even came to ask about the door.

Lin Qiushi found it all so absurd and ridiculously funny that he went to Ruan Nam Candle's house the next day to look for him and found that there was no such person.

Ruan Nan Candle didn't exist, and all the people were telling Lin Qiushi the same answer.

But Lin Qiushi didn't believe it, so he moved out of Obsidian and went back to his rented house.

The people in Obsidian Stone were trying to persuade him, but Lin Qiushi had already made up his mind, so he just told them not to have evil intentions when passing through the door, or else everything would be punished. Probably because it was said rather tactfully, the words were actually not watered down and everyone heard them. But even though they heard it, none of them opened their mouths to ask Lin Qiushi the question he most wanted to hear, "What exactly did you go through with your twelfth door?"

About the contents of the door to prevent the leakage of secrets, that's why such encryption means in front of the eyes, Lin Qiushi felt really funny, tugging the corner of the mouth, but found that he could not laugh.

The only consolation after going out was that the huge amount of assets earned inside the bank card was still there, and Lin Qiushi spent a fortune to buy the rental house he once owned outright, hugging the chestnut and living there again, renovating the rental house to its original appearance. It's as if one day when you open your eyes, you'll see Ruan Nam Candle sitting by his bedside, saying good morning to him, just like the first time you met him.

Lin Qiushi thought, even if the world forgets Ruan Nam Candle, he won't forget, this is the promise he made to Ruan Nam Candle. Maybe Ruan Nan Candle had finally chosen the illusory everything in the door and left him alone in the cold reality, but he still loved him and couldn't have any blame.

Time went on ahead, and before you knew it, Lin Qiushi had been out of the door for a year.

From the beginning, when he was frantically searching for traces of Ruan Nan Candle's existence, to accepting this cruel fact, Lin Qiushi had gone through a long period of psychological adjustment.

He had even been unable to sleep for more than a month, because every time he closed his eyes, it was as if he heard Ruan Nam Candle's whispers in his ear.

He went to the school where Ruan Nam Candle used to go, and even had people look for everyone named Ruan Nam Candle in this country, but all the signs were telling Lin Qiushi the fact that there was no such person as Ruan Nam Candle in the world.

Lin Qiushi thought he would go crazy from this, but he still survived. During the long night, all he could do was sit in front of the TV with his chestnut in his arms, watching reruns of the news program inside, expecting someone to knock on his door.

But when all his hopes were dashed, Lin Qiushi began to grow numb, and he lost all hope in life.

Until one day, Lin Qiushi suddenly received a phone call.

The phone number was from Ye Bird, and when the call came through, he sounded incredibly excited and said, "Brother Lin, Brother Ruan is back!"

Lin Qiushi was stunned for a few seconds when he heard this, "What did you say?"

"Nguyen's back-" said Leafbird, "he's looking everywhere for you!"

Lin Qiushi had been walking, as all his attention was on the words of the leaf bird, he accidentally tripped over a stone on the side of the road and dropped his phone with a snap, and when he picked it up in a panic he found that the screen of the phone was already covered with dense cracks, and naturally the call was cut off.

"Fuck." Lin Qiushi didn't hold back from cursing obscenities and turned around and took a taxi next to him and headed straight for Obsidian.

When he arrived at the door of Obsidian, but he was a little too afraid to go straight in, as if he was near the countryside, Lin Qiushi was afraid that his expectations would be dashed again.

He hesitated and finally made up his mind, raising his hand just as he was about to ring the doorbell, when the door in front of him creaked open.

Ruan Nan Candle's face appeared behind the door, and when he saw Lin Qiushi instantly, he reached out and heaved Lin Qiushi into his arms with such astonishing strength that he simply couldn't wait to rub Lin Qiushi directly into his body.

"Sorry." He said, "I'm late back."

Lin Qiushi didn't know what he should say, his face buried in Ruan Nan Candle's shoulder, sniffing the scent that belonged exclusively to Ruan Nan Candle, he said in a mute voice, "Why the fuck did you only come back now - did you look for the key for so long?!"

Ruan Nan Candle smiled bitterly, "I didn't expect it to be hidden inside the clock."

Lin Qiushi wanted to say a lot of words, but Ruan Nan Candle lowered his head first, letting all the words melt into a gentle kiss.

Lin Qiushi felt his body soften and he murmured, "I thought you wouldn't come back."

Ruan Nan Candle looked at him.

"I thought you chose the unreal world." Lin Qiushi said, "I thought I could only be alone."

"I told you." Ruan Nam Candle, "The world without you is all fake."

"But that world also has me." Lin Qiushi looked suspiciously at Ruan Nan Candle, "Did you see the me when you were young?"

Ruan Nan Candle said, "No."

He answered too simply and instead made Lin Qiushi feel suspicious, when he finally understood Ruan Nan Candle's feeling of eating his own jealousy when he was young, and Lin Qiushi said, "Ruan Nan Candle, you can ah - make me wait for you for so long."

Ruan Nan Candle quickly apologized, then asked Lin Qiushi what had happened in the past year.

Lin Qiushi said, "Let's find a place to eat first, I'm hungry."

Ruan Nan Candle nodded.

So the two drove to a nearby restaurant, it wasn't that they didn't want to stay in Obsidian to exchange, but the content of their exchange would probably be mercilessly downplayed because of the door, the feeling of being ignored was very bad, rather than that, the two of them should find a private place to talk.

Lin Qiushi spoke in a few words about what had happened to him over the past year, and although the language was simple, Ruan Nanzhu could understand just how difficult it had been for Lin Qiushi over the past year.

"I'm sorry, I came back too late." Ruan Nan Candle kissed the tips of Lin Qiushi's fingers, trying to ask for his lover's forgiveness.

In fact, before seeing Ruan Nan Candle, Lin Qiushi really had a lot of anger, but after seeing Ruan Nan Candle, all of this anger and resentment instantly dissipated, and he said, "As long as you're back, I won't blame you."

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Well, I'll definitely come back."

Lin Qiushi smiled.

As they ate and chatted, Lin Qiushi listened to what Ruan Nan Candle said about the inside of the gate. He did go looking for Lin Qiushi when he was younger, and they even became friends, only for Ruan Nan Candle to then finally discover the location of the key and eventually choose to leave.

Lin Qiushi had been pouring wine into his mouth, and he said, "You don't know, after you disappeared, none of them remembered you, and I was the only one who did... I thought I was crazy."

Ruan Nan Candle smiled lightly.

"I even thought you were my twelfth door." Lin Qiushi said, "I was really going crazy."

Ruan Nan Candle filled Lin Qiushi's glass with wine and said, "There's no rush, we still have plenty of time."

Lin Qiushi's eyes swirled with a thin watery light and he said, "Good thing you're back."

"Yeah." Ruan Nan Candle held Lin Qiushi's fingers, "I'm back."

That night, Lin Qiushi had no memory of how he came home, anyway, by the time he woke up the next day, his entire body was sore and weak, and looking at the face of the sleeping man on his side, he didn't have to think about what had happened between the two of them.

Lin Qiushi looked at Ruan Nan Candle's sleeping face and stretched out his fingers to carefully touch his skin, making sure that there was a warmth coming from his fingertips before letting out a long breath.

This wasn't his dream, Ruan Nan Candle, had really come back.

Lin Qiushi didn't hold back, and pulled out a cigarette from his nearby clothes, lighting it and starting to smoke slowly.

Ruan Nan Candle woke up from his dream, confused, "Why did you start smoking again, no smoking allowed..." he reached out and took the cigarette out of Lin Qiushi's mouth, threw it into the ashtray next to him, and landed another kiss on Lin Qiushi's mouth.

"Didn't hold back..." said Lin Qiushi, "You're back, so you won't smoke."

Ruan Nan Candle sat up and began to dress, "What do you want to eat?"

Lin Qiushi said, "Both are fine." He lazily played with his phone and watched as Ruan Nan Candle went to the kitchen topless to make him breakfast.

Lin Qiushi yawned and habitually boarded the door's forum, but he found that today's forum was exceptionally difficult to get into, it was hard to squeeze in, it was dense with almost the same topic - "Why is the twelfth door sealed, ah?" "I thought I was mistaken, but the twelfth door was really sealed? Is that a bug in the door or something?" "Oh my God, does this mean we can go through one less door from now on?"

In the meantime, Lin Qiushi was about to take a closer look, so Ruan Nan Candle leaned against the doorframe and said, "Eggs eating candy hearts?"

Lin Qiushi: "All right..."

Ruan Nan Candle tilted his head: "What are you looking at? Better looking than me?" He walked to Lin Qiushi's side and pulled the phone out of his hand.

"Of course it's not as good looking as you." Lin Qiushi said, "Our Meng Meng, naturally, is the best looking."

Ruan Nan Candle laughed, he licked Lin Qiushi's lips and said in a mute voice, "Hungry again."

Lin Qiushi: "Hey...?!" Before he had time to react, he was thrown down on the bed again by Ruan Nan Candle.

Forget about it, as long as Ruan Nan Candle returned, he didn't bother to go into details about the rest.

END

The author has something to say: finally finished la la la la, a big sigh of relief, thank you for your company over the past few months, the next will be some daily life of the extra, because some friends do not like to read daily life, so I will not put in the text of it. The next will be some daily life, because some of you don't like to read daily life, so I won't put it in the text.

Opened a new pit called "fantasy farm" is about the main character and his pigs together with high math research story (not, if you like it, you can collect it, probably after a break and start updating.