Kaleidoscope of Death

If they were in a normal world, they would only experience a full moon once a month.But the world inside the door is completely unreasonable. Judging from what they have experienced in the past few days, they are simply repeating their lives that day.I eat the same food every day, go to the same places, and even have the same lines with the guide.

The next morning, there were no bloody handprints in the house, and Lin Qiushi's guess was confirmed—only on the night they went to the pagoda, Xu Jin would quietly leave at night and tear off the skin from her body.

And today, they are going to the tower again.

Ruan Nanzhu has already decided to bring out the drum in the tower today. Although this decision sounds risky, it seems that there are no other clues so far, so he can only try as much as possible.

After a long journey, they finally reached the towers.

The tall pagoda that had been turned into a bone pagoda had indeed returned to its appearance when it was first seen. The spire of the tower soared into the sky, and almost half of it was buried in the thick mountain mist.

Before Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi went straight to the top of the tower, they handed Xu Jin over to Li Dongyuan.Of course, the excuse they made was that the tower was more dangerous, if Xu Jin was afraid, it was better to stay below.

Seeing this, Xu Jin hesitated to speak, as if she wanted to go up with them, but Li Dongyuan smiled and stretched out his hand to hold her shoulder, saying: "Don't worry, just wait with me below, they won't Something will happen."

Xu Jin nodded hesitantly.

After Xu Jin was settled, Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi continued to climb up.During the climb, Ruan Nanzhu said: "Didn't we see that mural before yesterday's accident?"

"You mean the one in the room?" Lin Qiushi also remembered.

"Yes." Ruan Nanzhu said, "I thought about the content of the mural last night, and now I almost understand it."

Lin Qiushi: "So what exactly do you mean?"

When they were talking, they had already climbed to the top of the tower. However, when they turned the last corner, Cheng Qianli, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped. Although he didn't speak, Lin Qiushi could see it from his eyes. Clear fear.

"What's wrong?" Lin Qiushi was startled and asked in a low voice.

"There...someone..." Cheng Qianli turned his head stiffly, "on the drum... there is a person..."

Lin Qiushi took a step forward and also saw the scene in Cheng Qianli's eyes.There was actually a woman sitting on the small red drum. Although the woman had her back to them, judging from her attire, it was clearly Xu Jin who was just downstairs with Li Dongyuan!

Xu Jin was half-kneeling on the drum, and her body looked extremely hunched. She slowly raised her hand, and when she was about to beat the drum below her, Ruan Nanzhu yelled: "Xu Jin, your sister looking for you-"

Xu Jin's movements stopped.

Ruan Nanzhu said: "She asked you when you can return her skin to her."

Xu Jin turned her head slowly, and when she turned around, everyone's breath stopped—it wasn't Xu Jin at all, but a human-shaped human skin.

The human skin still maintained the shape it had just peeled off, as if supported by a skeleton, it just stood on the drum.Looking from the front, you can even see the body tissue inside the human skin, Cheng Qianli almost screamed without a scream, but fortunately he covered his mouth tightly with his hand at the critical moment.

"Xu... Jin?" Lin Qiushi's breath was also slightly confused, but he was beginning to be unsure whether the skin in front of him was Xu Jin or Xu Jin's sister.

Ruan Nanzhu was still the calmest among them. Facing the terrifying scene in front of him, his voice didn't even change much. He took out the bone flute from his arms, put it to his lips and blew it out. out of tune.

“啊啊啊啊！！！”尖锐的惨叫声从眼前的人皮口中发出，它被剖开的缝隙里如同一张大嘴，发出凄厉的叫声。

Lin Qiushi had keen hearing, but his eyes were darkened by the loud cry, and he passed out directly. Before he passed out, he seemed to see the human skin rushing towards them.

Someone was arguing, and the voices of the quarreling became more and more intense, and Lin Qiushi was in pain from the quarrel.

He barely opened his eyes and saw Ruan Nanzhu and Li Dongyuan. The two seemed to be arguing about something, and the atmosphere was very bad.

Li Dongyuan said: "Zhu Meng, I apologize, this incident really exceeded my expectations."

Faced with Li Dongyuan's softness, Ruan Nanzhu was very disdainful: "If the apology is useful, everyone doesn't have to die."

Li Dongyuan: "There will always be a remedy."

Ruan Nanzhu was about to refute, but saw that Lin Qiushi was awake. He turned his eyes, immediately became interested, threw himself on Lin Qiushi, and cried, "Old Yu, you finally woke up. I was bullied when you were not around." It's so miserable, others see us as orphans and widows, and don't give us a way to survive..."

Lin Qiushi: "...Orphans and widows?" Forget about widows, where did the orphans come from?

Ruan Nanzhu reached out and knocked on the head of Cheng Qianli who was eating dry food next to him: "Silly son, your father called you."

Cheng Qianli put down his rations and howled dryly: "... woo woo woo woo, Dad, our mother was bullied."

Lin Qiushi: "..." Cheng Qianli, be sober, don't follow Ruan Nanzhu's script! !

Li Dongyuan watched the two acting, and worked hard not to contort his expression. He took a deep breath, seemed to suppress some emotions, and said, "When I get out, I will definitely meet you."

Ruan Nanzhu sneered and said nothing.

Lin Qiushi thought to himself, forget it, I am afraid that you will be more stimulated when you see Ruan Nanzhu when you go out.

He got up from the ground, rubbed his ears vigorously, and felt that his ears were still buzzing: "Just now... what happened?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "It rushed towards us."

Lin Qiushi: "And then?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Then I talked to it for 10 minutes."

Lin Qiushi: "..."

Ruan Nanzhu: "It thought I was right, so it left."

Lin Qiushi: "...are you so happy just by looking at it?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "I'm quite happy."

Lin Qiushi: "...Okay." As long as you are happy.

After the leather was finished, Ruan Nanzhu explained to Lin Qiushi what happened just now. It turned out that the skin made Ruan Nanzhu angry after calling Lin Qiushi unconscious. Taking advantage of the time when the skin rushed over, Ruan Nanzhu directly He rushed to the side of the red drum, took out the bone flute and pointed it at the drum, threatening to smash the drum if it became a monster again.The human skin seemed to be intelligent, but it actually stopped moving, and then directly merged into the wall, disappearing in front of them.

Then Ruan Nanzhu and Cheng Qianli dragged the stunned Lin Qiushi downstairs with difficulty, but saw Li Dongyuan standing alone on the first floor.

Ruan Nanzhu asked him where Xu Jin was, and Li Dongyuan pointed outside, saying that he had smoked a cigarette, but when he turned around, Xu Jin disappeared, and he didn't know where he went.

Ruan Nanzhu became angry when he heard this, and said that someone would hand it over to you, is that how you see it?Can you Bailu be more reliable in doing things? A boss can actually miss such a crucial clue.

Li Dongyuan was also at a loss and was unable to refute. Fortunately, Lin Qiushi, who finally woke up, distracted Ruan Nanzhu's attention, so that Ruan Nanzhu didn't bother with him anymore.

Li Dongyuan smiled wryly in his heart, and became more and more curious about Ruan Nanzhu's identity in his heart - in reality, such a girl is really rare.

After Lin Qiushi woke up, he also knew that Xu Jin was gone.

"Let's take a look at it tomorrow with the drum." Now that Xu Jin is missing, and I don't know if he will show up again, Ruan Nanzhu didn't look good when he saw Li Dongyuan, so he said coldly, "I can only try this first. "

Li Dongyuan rubbed his nose and smiled wryly.

Lin Qiushi patted him on the shoulder sympathetically.

Cheng Qianli was still stuffing things into his mouth. His appetite was surprisingly good. No matter how disgusting the scene was, he could continue to eat without hindrance.

At the end of the day, Ruan Nanzhu's face was terribly dark, as expected, Xu Jin didn't come back until he left the tower group.

When other people saw that Lin Qiushi was missing one of them, they came to ask a few words, but Ruan Nanzhu directly said that she was missing and didn't know where she went.

Li Dongyuan didn't dare to approach Ruan Nanzhu until he arrived at the residence, for fear of angering him again.After eating, he tactfully courted Lin Qiushi a few words, and asked him to go back and persuade Ruan Nanzhu not to be angry with him again.

Lin Qiushi couldn't laugh or cry, there must be a reason for Ruan Nanzhu to be so angry, he didn't dare to persuade him, besides, whether Li Dongyuan is an enemy or a friend is still open to question, he didn't want to show too familiar with him.

Because of Xu Jin's disappearance tonight, they were finally able to sleep on the same bed, with the bed open.

Ruan Nanzhu brought back the drum, which was actually not too big, just the size of the palm of two adults.The drum body is made of lacquered red solid wood, and the drum head is made of delicate human skin. When knocked on, the sound is very beautiful.Ruan Nanzhu sat by the bed, stroked the drum and said, "Bring this over tomorrow, and it should confirm my guess."

"Speaking of which, what exactly did you want to say?" Lin Qiushi remembered what Ruan Nanzhu wanted to say when he climbed to the top of the tower, but he was interrupted by other things after he said half of it.

"Sisters are sisters. Whether the relationship is deep or not is another matter." Ruan Nanzhu said, "If she has such a good relationship with her sister, why wouldn't she want to go and see?"

He stretched out his hand to stroke the drum surface, and at first glance, his expression seemed a bit gentle.

After dinner, everyone went to bed early.

The place I went to today was the tower group, and I don't know if Xu Jin will appear again.

Lin Qiushi was a little uneasy before falling asleep, lying on the bed tossing and turning.

Ruan Nanzhu was next to him, and asked him softly if he couldn't sleep.

Lin Qiushi said: "Well..."

Ruan Nanzhu stood up, lay down beside him, and put his arms around his waist.He is already very skilled in this movement, Lin Qiushi's body relaxes a lot for no reason, he said vaguely: "Why do I fall asleep so soundly every time you hold me in your arms?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Maybe I'm a sleeping pill?"

Lin Qiushi: "..." Yes.

Although I don't know why he would sleep very comfortably when Ruan Nanzhu was by his side, but all in all, Lin Qiushi fell asleep quickly.

He thought he would sleep until dawn, but in the middle of the night, he still woke up.When he woke up, he felt a cool gaze. Lin Qiushi slowly opened his eyes and saw Ruan Nanzhu's sleeping face. He sat up slowly and looked around the room, but found nothing unusual .However, just when Lin Qiushi thought that the sight was his own illusion, his forehead suddenly felt cold, and a drop of water slid down his forehead and down his chin.

Lin Qiushi's body froze for an instant, he slowly raised his head, and saw a bloody figure squatting on the ceiling, tilting his head and showing him a weird smile.

Lin Qiushi: "Damn it!" Even though he was mentally prepared, he was still taken aback. Lin Qiushi trembled violently and forcibly stabilized his body.

That thing and Lin Qiushi looked at each other for a moment, then stretched out long fingers towards Lin Qiushi. Her goal was very clear, which was Lin Qiushi's scalp.

Lin Qiushi lowered his head to avoid her attack, and was covered in cold sweat from shock.The monster's nails had already turned into sharp blades, as long as it was touched, it would definitely lose a layer of skin.

"Pi...Pi..." The monster kept muttering, her dark eyes greedily stared at Lin Qiushi's young and white skin, her expression could almost be described as drooling.

Lin Qiushi rolled and crawled off the bed, while Ruan Nanzhu was still in a deep sleep, seemingly unaffected at all.Fortunately, the monster didn't seem to be interested in other people, so it rushed towards Lin Qiushi's position.

Lin Qiushi turned around and wanted to run, but when he ran to the door, he found that the door couldn't be opened no matter what.

"Pi...Pi..." Facing the bag in front of her eyes, the monster grinned contentedly, she made a giggling sound, and squeezed out a voice from her throat, "Pi...I want your skin... ..."

Lin Qiushi was covered in cold sweat, but after looking around, he saw Ruan Nanzhu's bag next to his pillow.The bulging bag, the drum that was taken from the tower before was stuffed in it.

Feeling blessed suddenly, Lin Qiushi turned around and ran towards the bag, then quickly took the drum out of the bag and beat it hard twice.

"Dong dong dong dong." Qingyue's drum sound came out, and the monster's expression immediately froze, then looked around as if afraid of something, and then jumped out of the window in a panic.

Seeing her running away, Lin Qiushi finally heaved a sigh of relief, but when he lowered his head, his expression froze again.

He saw a big hole on the soft drum surface, probably because of too much force, and there was something in the big hole that made him dumbfounded.

It was a beautiful bronze key, which looked ordinary at first glance, but Lin Qiushi was very familiar with it, because he had used the exact same key to open the heavy iron door inside the door.

"Damn it!" Instantly understood what was going on, Lin Qiushi couldn't help scolding Li Dongyuan for being such a bitch, he never expected that Li Dongyuan would give them a fake key that was exactly the same!

"But what about the drum?" After Lin Qiushi took out the key, he saw the broken human skin drum in front of him and started to have a headache, "Can it be repaired..." He picked it up twice with his hands and decided to give up, and ask tomorrow Can Ruan Nanzhu fix this thing?

Thinking of this, Lin Qiushi fell asleep in a daze.

The next morning, Lin Qiushi was woken up by Ruan Nanzhu's voice.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Ruan Nanzhu teaching Cheng Qianli a lesson, saying Cheng Qianli, did you secretly play drums last night!

Cheng Qianli: "I'm not, I don't have one, this is a human skin drum, what's so interesting about it!"

Ruan Nanzhu asked suspiciously, "You really haven't?"

Cheng Qianli: "Why don't you believe me..."

Ruan Nanzhu: "I want to believe you, and you don't want to think about who broke the key clue Rubik's Cube when you went to the next door?"

Cheng Qianli: "Isn't that because I'm bored..."

Ruan Nanzhu: "Aren't you bored now?"

Cheng Qianli almost cried out, because of his previous convictions, his words were not credible at all. How could he explain it to convince Ruan Nanzhu that he didn't break this thing.

While Cheng Qianli was thinking about this problem sadly, Lin Qiushi who was sitting on the bed raised his hand weakly and said, "It's me..."

Ruan Nanzhu turned around: "Oh, it's you."

Cheng Qianli straightened his waist and was about to listen to his boss reprimanding Lin Qiushi, but the boss's next sentence was: "It's okay, just be careful next time."

Cheng Qianli: "????" God damn it, be careful next time, was he born by his stepmother or picked up by phone bills?

Lin Qiushi was also a little embarrassed, and quickly talked about what happened last night.Ruan Nanzhu asked him if he was injured, Lin Qiushi shook his head, took out the key from his pocket, and said, "I found a key from the drum..."

Ruan Nanzhu was silent for three seconds when he saw the key, and then cursed a very dirty word.

Apparently, Li Dongyuan is not as harmless as he appears at all. He entered the bone tower and didn't know what he saw inside, so he took out a fake key to make up the number.Fortunately, Lin Qiushi was hunted down by monsters last night, and he got the key out while holding the drum to save his life, otherwise they would still be kept in the dark.

"I just said that he handed over the key so easily, don't you want to be prompted for the next door?" Ruan Nanzhu sneered while holding the key, "It turned out to be such a hand."

Lin Qiushi also admired these people for thinking of such a thing as preparing fake keys.

Ruan Nanzhu put the key into his pocket, and said: "Xu Jin is very afraid of this drum. Since the drum is gone, we don't have much time. If we meet her again next time, I'm afraid it will be difficult to escape."

Lin Qiushi nodded, agreeing with Ruan Nanzhu's statement.I don't know why, anyway, Xu Jin has a soft spot for him. Others sleep soundly, but he has to wake up once every night.

"Today I brought the drum to the temple to have a look." Ruan Nanzhu pondered, "This world should be coming to an end soon."

It would be the best thing to end this world earlier.Lin Qiushi never wanted to meet Xu Jin at night again.

Li Dongyuan obviously didn't know that his bad deeds had been exposed, so he had the cheek to come over to greet Ruan Nanzhu.I have to say that his appearance is quite deceptive. Even Lin Qiushi already knew that this guy was a bad guy, but he hesitated for a moment when he saw his gentle smile.

Ruan Nanzhu didn't treat him very well at ordinary times, and today he didn't give him any face at all, and drove him away with a few casual words in a cold tone.

"Hehe." Looking at the back of Li Dongyuan leaving, Ruan Nanzhu sneered very impolitely, "I want to see how Li Dongyuan will be responsible if this job falls into the hands of Bai Lu."

After breakfast, everyone set off towards the temple.

There is still no shadow of Xu Jin, but since she appeared in Lin Qiushi's room last night, it means that she must have returned with the tour guide, and she should be hiding in the surrounding dense jungle at this time.

Goodbye to the temple, Lin Qiushi's heart was already at peace, he and Ruan Nanzhu found the platform that climbed up to the roof before, and planned to go up again.

Going up this time is to give the drum in his hand to the monster on the roof.

Sending drums is very dangerous. Although Lin Qiushi repeatedly reiterated, Ruan Nanzhu still insisted on going with him, leaving Cheng Qianli eagerly looking at the ladder.

The two of them climbed up to the high platform cautiously, one in front of the other.Lin Qiushi went to the wooden platform first, and when he arrived, he found some fresh flesh and blood on the wooden platform, which seemed to be left by the two people who were skinned alive the day before yesterday.

Ruan Nanzhu also came up after him. It was the first time he reached the roof. After observing around, he looked into the nearby jungle a few more times.

"What?" Lin Qiushi noticed that his expression was wrong.

"It seems that something is following us." Ruan Nanzhu said, "It has been following us since we came out."

Lin Qiushi: "Could it be Xu Jin?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "It's possible, give her the drum first."

Lin Qiushi nodded.

The two walked along the edge slowly towards the center of the temple, their feet stepped on the human skin drum, hitting the rhythm of the drum.

The temple was very quiet, and there was no fog like what Lin Qiushi had seen before. Everything was calm and a little abnormal.

Ruan Nanzhu didn't go too far, he chose a suitable place, put the drum in his hand on the roof, and then said: "Your sister refuses to come over, we brought a drum from her .”

As soon as he said this, the whole world seemed to fall into a strange silence, even the breeze that was blowing stopped.

Drumming drums sounded fiercely, and thick mist rushed out from mid-air, and began to invade their position.

"Boom, boom, boom." Deep in the thick fog, something was beating the drum crazily, and the angry rhythm seemed to be venting the uncontrollable anger in my heart.

"Where is she?" The girl's voice sounded again, "Where is she, I hurt so much—I hurt so much—"

Lin Qiushi saw the girl crawling out of the fog. She saw the drum that Ruan Nanzhu had brought, so she climbed to the side of the drum with both hands, and then put her hands on the broken drum surface.

"It's not mine, it's not mine—" the girl yelled frantically, "Bring her here, bring her here!!"

She grabbed the drumhead hard and began to tear it hard.

I don't know if it was Lin Qiushi's illusion, but when the girl was tearing the drum, he vaguely heard another scream.

The girl seemed to have noticed the cry, and her bloody mouth instantly opened an arc of ecstasy: "You are—you are—" She slapped the drum head under her feet vigorously, and the temple jumped in an instant. Out of the monster dragging a sharp knife, it ran towards the jungle not far away.

Lin Qiushi was almost stunned when he saw this scene, but Ruan Nanzhu was greatly relieved. He smiled self-deprecatingly: "Sure enough, it's not some kind of sisterly love." He raised his eyes and looked towards the dense forest in the distance.

Lin Qiushi said: "Is everything going to end?"

Ruan Nanzhu lowered his eyes: "Maybe."

Who wouldn't want this hellish world to end sooner.

The author has something to say: Ruan Nanzhu is like a bear parent, Lin Qiushi did something bad: Qiushi is so cute, make another one, I love you, oh chirp.Cheng Qianli has done something bad: If you can't beat me to death today, I'm the loser.

Cheng Qianli: Whoa--that's too much--