Kaleidoscope of Death

If it were in the real world, when encountering such a thing, I would probably feel that I am sensitive and think too much.But this is not the real world but the treacherous door, so Lin Qiushi had to think a little more. He looked out the window carefully, and returned to the bed after making sure that the figure in the bushes had disappeared.This time he didn't dare to turn off the light, but tried to fall asleep with the light on.

Although the drowsiness was very shallow, after Lin Qiushi tried to recall the feeling of peace of mind lying next to Ruan Nanzhu, he actually fell asleep dimly—Ruan Nanzhu really deserves to be a sleeping pill. can work.

The next morning, Lin Qiushi was woken up by the alarm clock.After washing up briefly, he planned to find Ruan Nanzhu.Lin Qiushi did not sleep well yesterday, and there are still thick dark circles under his eyes. The face of the person in the mirror is still unfamiliar, but if you look carefully, you will still feel that he has a temperament that is a little bit different from him in reality. similar to.Lin Qiushi changed his clothes, went to the opposite side and knocked on Ruan Nanzhu's door.

The door opened with a creak, but the person who opened the door was Tan Zaozao, her complexion was uglier than Lin Qiushi's, and she looked like she couldn't sleep all night, and said good morning to Lin Qiushi angrily.

"Morning." Ruan Nanzhu looked like he had just woken up and washed, his chin was still dripping with water. He had just walked out of the bathroom when he heard Lin Qiushi's voice and turned to greet him.

Tan Zaozao went to the bathroom angrily.

Lin Qiushi was puzzled, but he soon discovered the reason for Tan Zaozao's anger - the girl had been sleeping on the floor all night in the house, and the place where she lay the floor was next to Ruan Nanzhu's big bed.

"Did she sleep on the floor?" Lin Qiushi stared blankly at the floor for a few seconds.

"Otherwise?" Ruan Nanzhu said, "I don't like to share a bed with others."

Lin Qiushi: "..." He remembered the days and nights when he slept with Ruan Nanzhu, and so on, why does this statement sound weird.

Ruan Nanzhu said, "Except for you."

Lin Qiushi was a little embarrassed to hear this, so he changed the topic: "How did you sleep last night?"

"Very good." Ruan Nanzhu replied, "The bed is good."

The bed is indeed big and soft, and it is very comfortable to lie on. However, no matter how comfortable it is, few people can enjoy it calmly like Ruan Nanzhu.

After Tan Zaozao came out after washing her face and brushing her teeth, she murmured that Ruan Nanzhu was really not a human being, and that she was made to sleep on the floor, causing her to be sore all over...

Ruan Nanzhu ignored her at first, and after seeing her endless talk, he said casually: "Why don't you sleep in bed tonight?"

Tan Zaozao: "Really? Really?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "I can go and squeeze with Lin Lin."

Tan Zaozao: "..." You guys are a pair of dogs.Of course she didn't dare to agree, it was only yesterday that she found something was wrong, so she ran to Ruan Nanzhu's room in fear to make do with the whole night, if she really dared to sleep alone, why would she come here and lie on the floor.

Breakfast was served upstairs. Lin Qiushi thought that there were only the butler and the master in the castle, but he didn't expect that there were several servants.These servants left quickly after delivering breakfast. Their faces were expressionless, and their numbness looked more like puppets without emotions than human beings.

While eating breakfast, the host who met yesterday also appeared. She was still wearing the long black dress and the strange hat, and she was sitting by the window, grabbing the food with her big white hands and eating slowly. stuffed into the mouth.

No one dared to talk to her, the atmosphere in the restaurant was eerily quiet.

Fortunately, after the meal, the master disappeared again. According to the housekeeper, she should have gone to the studio on the roof.The housekeeper said that it is time for free activities. There are a few places that you should not go to, one is the studio on the roof, and the other is the warehouse on the sixth floor where the unfinished paintings are stored. They can freely view other places, but be careful, the master I don't like others touching her paintings...

Everyone carefully wrote down what he said, and some people in the team even carefully took notes, for fear of missing a word.

After the butler finished speaking, he also left, leaving ten people in the restaurant.

"I want to go out and have a look, is anyone with me?" Someone in the team started to stand up and wanted to go out to find clues about the key.

So they left the two teams one after another, basically in groups of two.

Lin Qiushi was about to invite Ruan Nanzhu, when he saw the young girl walking up to Ruan Nanzhu shyly, and whispered: "Brother, do you have any teammates? Can you take me with you, I'm so scared... ..." This little girl is not bad in appearance, and her pitiful appearance really makes people feel pity.I just feel sorry for who Ruan Nanzhu is. He is a professional women's clothing boss. He is much better at acting as a girl than the little girl in front of him, so even Lin Qiushi can see that Ruan Nanzhu's heart is not fluctuating, and he even wants to Have another hard-boiled egg.

"No." Ruan Nanzhu refused so simply.

"But, I'm really scared. I will try my best not to hold you back." The little girl began to cry again.

Ruan Nanzhu raised his eyebrows, and gave Tan Zaozao a wink in private.

Tan Zaozao understood, stood up and walked to the little girl, and said, "I'm sorry, I made an appointment with him yesterday, you should go find someone else."

When the little girl saw Tan Zaozao, there was a hint of displeasure in her eyes, she wanted to say something more, but Ruan Nanzhu had already stood up, beckoned to Tan Zaozao, signaling to go.

Tan Zaozao followed him and the two went out together.

Lin Qiushi sat next to him and made excuses to leave. It seems that Ruan Nanzhu's role as a girl does have many benefits. At least he doesn't have to worry about rejecting a girl who comes to him to form a team.

"The newcomer is not quite right." Ruan Nanzhu said after going out.

"What's wrong?" Tan Zaozao didn't see it, "She cried so badly yesterday..."

Ruan Nanzhu glanced at Tan Zaozao: "Do you think such a cowardly person dares to come to me to form a team?"

Tan Zaozao raised his eyebrows: "That's right."

Ruan Nanzhu's beauty is not that kind of gentle beauty, but full of aggression and alienation. He is like a gorgeous flower in the jungle, telling others with dazzling colors that this flower is poisonous.While pretending to be a woman, she can still show weakness, but Ruan Nanzhu, who is wearing men's clothes, obviously has no habit of putting himself in a weak position.

Sitting there, he just raised his eyebrows, which made people flinch involuntarily, not daring to approach him at all.Such a person, even Lin Qiushi, would not think of forming a team with him.

"What if it's the color that makes the mind faint." Tan Zaozao walked with them while observing the painting next to him, "Maybe."

Ruan Nanzhu said casually: "There are no more than ten people who have taken the initiative to form a team with me, and none of them is a novice. She will not be an exception." Pretending to be a novice has both advantages and disadvantages. Be vigilant, the downside is that once your identity is found out, you will become a target of rejection by the entire team. After all, no one knows what the purpose of that person pretending to be a novice is.

This old castle is too big, there are countless rooms on the second floor alone.They walked from the second floor to the third floor, and the only thing they saw in common was that there were all kinds of paintings hanging everywhere in the castle.Even the place to go to the toilet was not spared.

Lin Qiushi doesn't know much about art, and he doesn't know how the painters are, but the only thing he can be sure of is that these paintings make people feel very uncomfortable. If possible, he would rather cover them all with white cloth.

"Can't we touch paintings?" Tan Zaozao also remembered the butler's words.

"No, it's not." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Have you noticed his words?"

"Master doesn't like it?" Lin Qiushi still remembered what the butler said.

"Yes, it's because the master doesn't like it, not because he absolutely can't touch it." Ruan Nanzhu stopped in front of a picture, and suddenly frowned.

"What's wrong?" Tan Zaozao saw that his expression was not right.

"It's okay." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Do you know anything about Huahua?"

Tan Zaozao shook his head: "I don't know, I haven't learned it before."

Ruan Nanzhu said: "I don't understand either. It seems that the three of us can't see anything from the painting. Let's go to the upstairs room to have a look."

Lin Qiushi hummed, and the three began to walk upstairs along the stairs.

This staircase is made of wood, and it will make a crisp clicking sound when you step on it. There is more than one road leading to the roof. There are stone stairs on both sides of the castle to climb from the first floor to the top floor.

Most of the rooms in the castle are locked, only a small part is open, almost all of these open rooms are filled with all kinds of paintings, there are still figures and scenery, but just when they are discussing When I went to have a look at the studio on the roof, there was a sudden scream from downstairs.

It was a woman's scream, and it stopped at one sound. By the time other people arrived, the screaming person had disappeared, only the empty stairs.

"Who was calling just now?" A middle-aged man in the regiment asked.

"I don't know, we just arrived." Lin Qiushi said, "Which floor did you come from?"

The middle-aged man said, "The third floor."

Lin Qiushi said: "We are on the sixth floor, the scream must be between the third and fourth floors..."

Because of this sound, most people arrived at the location of the scream one after another, and soon, they discovered the identity of the screamer.

"Her name is Xiao Su, and she just formed a team with me." It was a man who spoke, but his expression was full of horror, "She said she was going to the bathroom, but she disappeared."

"Which floor are you on?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"The top floor." The man swallowed, "There is no toilet on the top floor, so she wanted to come down..." But it appeared between the third and fourth floors, and disappeared after screaming.In the world inside the door, disappearing is tantamount to death, but no one knows how she triggered the death condition.

"Let's look for it again." Ruan Nanzhu said, "What if there is some misunderstanding."

It seems that this is the only way to go, but the man who lost his companion in just a few 10 minutes seemed to be shocked, and tremblingly joined another two-person team.

Ruan Nanzhu took a look at Lin Qiushi and said, "Shall we go to the roof to have a look?"

Lin Qiushi said: "Okay."

Tan Zaozao muttered beside him, saying that you can run wherever it is dangerous, and you are not afraid of accidents...

Ruan Nanzhu said indifferently: "If something happens, it can happen anywhere. It's the right thing to do if you get the key early. This kind of thinking is a misunderstanding of your novices. Some things can't be avoided just by hiding."

Tan Zaozao snorted, but didn't speak.These things are easy to say but hard to do. If you can face death and ghosts calmly like Ruan Nanzhu, you don't know how many times you have to go through dangerous and desperate situations in the door.

They went up all the way, and soon reached the eighth floor of the castle, which was the roof.

The roof is an old attic, still full of paintings, but these paintings seem to be slightly different from those downstairs, Lin Qiushi observed for a while, and then suddenly asked: "Are these paintings new?"

Ruan Nanzhu sniffed: "It should be, there is also the smell of paint."

Tan Zaozao's footsteps suddenly stopped in front of a painting, and there was a little doubt in her expression. After a moment of hesitation, she said, "Let's take a look, isn't your painting a bit strange?"

Lin Qiushi walked behind Tan Zaozao and saw the strange painting in Tan Zaozao's mouth.

It's really strange, this painting depicts a woman's back, the style is always distorted, the woman's back is infinitely elongated, circles and circles around the stairs, like a huge whirlpool.

"What do you think it looks like?" Tan Zaozao asked.

"Woman's...back view?" If you just look at the content, it is basically difficult to recognize what is in the painting, but both Tan Zaozao and Lin Qiushi, the first time they saw this painting, they thought of the same thing The content-a frightened woman who is climbing the stairs, she seems to be being chased by something, and there is an unspeakable fear in her back.

"New painting." Ruan Nanzhu's voice came, "The paint is not dry."

Tan Zaozao and Lin Qiushi looked at each other, both thought of the same thing, Tan Zaozao touched the goosebump on his arm, forced a smile: "This, this could not be..."

"Probably so." Ruan Nanzhu said, "You can ask that girl's boyfriend to come over and take a look." His eyes were fixed on the painting, and he said slowly, "See if this is his disappearing teammate."

……

Xiao Su just wanted to go to the bathroom.

She came down from the seventh floor and hurriedly searched for the toilet on the sixth floor. There are many toilets in the castle. She quickly found the place she was looking for at the end of the sixth floor.

After entering the toilet, Xiao Su found a cubicle and was about to sit down, but noticed a strange portrait hanging on the wall in front of her.It was a woman wearing a black hat and a long black gown. Her face was pale, her eyes were half-closed, and the rain slid down her chin along the brim of the hat. That face was so white and long that it made people feel inexplicably terrified.Most of the paintings in the castle are abstract, and it is almost difficult to identify what the painted things are without knowing the background.But the content of the picture scroll in front of her is very clear, even Xiao Su wondered if it was a self-portrait of the mistress of the castle at first glance.

This painting might be an important clue... Xiao Su stood up and walked to the picture scroll, wanting to observe it carefully.However, by coincidence, after Xiao Su got close to the scroll, she stretched out her hand towards the scroll as if possessed by a demon. When she woke up, her palm was already pressed on the scroll.

"Ah!!" Xiao Su was startled suddenly and withdrew her hand. She felt that her hand was wet and had a smell of soil after the rain. When she raised her head again, the picture scroll changed. Xiao Su Su's eyes widened, and she looked at the painting in front of her in astonishment... The painting was still the same painting, but the pale woman in the painting was gone.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Su didn't dare to stay any longer, turned around and ran away. She wanted to go upstairs to find her teammates, but she stepped on the solid wooden stairs and made a series of hurried sounds.

"Da da da da da da."——The sound of crisp footsteps echoed in the castle, Xiao Su ran and ran, ran and ran, and ran around the stairs for a long time, but the stairs in front of him seemed to be endless reincarnation , all the scenes froze, only the stairs in front of him continued to move forward.

"Ah, ah, ah." Panting violently, Xiaosu was covered in sweat, her physical strength was exhausted, and finally she was almost unable to run.

However, the footsteps were still ringing, and Xiao Su smelled the smell of rain again. She turned her head trembling, and saw a black shadow standing quietly at the entrance of the stairs.No, that was not a black shadow, it was a woman in black, her body was drenched by rain, her face was extremely pale, holding a huge picture frame in her right hand, her black pupils were like two black holes, staring at Xiao Su in front of him.

Xiao Su trembled all over her body, opened her mouth to speak but was unable to speak, she used her hands and feet together, crying and crawling forward with the last of her strength.

"Da da da." Footsteps sounded again, but this time the footsteps were unhurried, just following behind Xiao Su.

Xiaosu was covered in sweat, her whole body seemed to be drenched by water, and her last strength was exhausted, she could only lie on the ground like a puddle of mud, unable to move.

The woman walked in front of her. The room was dry, but the water droplets on her body were continuously flowing down, and some of them even fell on Xiaosu's body.

Xiao Su raised her head and saw the woman took out a picture frame, an indescribably distorted smile appeared on her pale face, and her mouth covered in red lipstick formed a frightening arc. Afterwards, the woman Waving the picture frame, he smashed it down heavily at her.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Xiaosu felt that her body was getting colder and her consciousness became blurred...it was over.

……

The male companion downstairs quickly returned to the roof, confirming what Lin Qiushi and the others had seen.

"It's her, it's her!!" The male companion started to yell the first time he saw the picture scroll, his expression was extremely terrified, "This is what she's wearing!"

"What if this painting was painted yesterday?" Someone in the crowd trembled, "Are you so sure?"

"It can't be yesterday!!" The male companion's expression almost collapsed, he wanted to touch the scroll, but he didn't dare to reach out, "She didn't wear this dress yesterday! This dress was changed today!! "

They were indeed provided with new clothes in the castle, and they were very beautiful. Lin Qiushi also saw those clothes in his closet, but almost everyone else in the whole team changed them - after all, this is a horror world, whoever changes clothes casually Know what to expect.

I just don't know why this girl named Xiao Su suddenly changed her clothes.

"She was turned into a painting." The man murmured softly, "She was turned into a painting..."

"What were you doing before she went to the toilet?" Facing such a terrifying fact, Ruan Nanzhu's attitude was still very calm, he said, "Tell me carefully."

The man tremblingly said: "I didn't do anything, I didn't do anything, I just came here to look at the paintings, and then she was going to the toilet..."

Ruan Nanzhu: "Is there any special painting?"

The man shook his head.

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Go, go to the toilet on the sixth floor."

So they ran to the women's toilet on the sixth floor.

After checking around, there was nothing special about the toilet, but Lin Qiushi always felt that there was something wrong with it. Seeing that Ruan Nanzhu was also frowning, it was obviously similar to him.

"Wait." Lin Qiushi suddenly remembered something, he looked around, and finally determined what was wrong, "Why is there no painting in this room?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone noticed that something was wrong.

There are almost no places without paintings in the castle, whether it is the toilet, bedroom, study room, corridor, almost in every corner, there is guaranteed to be a framed picture scroll.

But there is no toilet in front of me. I searched every corner, but there is no shadow of the painting.

"I'm sure not." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Is there no painting in the first place, or was the original painting taken away?"

No one knows the answer to this question, and the only person who knows the answer has become part of the painting.

A deadly silence spread among the crowd.

The silence was broken by the ringing of the bell in the castle. It was the bell announcing the time for lunch. After hearing this, everyone started to walk towards the second floor.

Although the atmosphere is scary, you still have to eat what you should eat, and you still have to sleep when you should sleep.

Today's lunch is still steak.

Everyone has no appetite, except Ruan Nanzhu.

Ruan Nanzhu's movements were elegant and smooth, and such things as cutting steak were cut out of an artistic sense by him.

Probably because he ate too deliciously, everyone's eyes were focused on him, Ruan Nanzhu was obviously used to this feeling of attention, so he finished the steak very calmly, wiped his mouth and said: "Why? ? Not to your taste?"

Lin Qiushi: "No...it's just that I have no appetite."

"Eat well." Ruan Nanzhu looked around and smiled, "Maybe it's the last meal."

Everyone: "..."

Lin Qiushi showed helplessness: "It's unlucky to say that."

Ruan Nanzhu: "Don't say a few auspicious words so you don't have to die?" He said, "Gong Xi Fa Cai? Long life?"

Lin Qiushi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but what Ruan Nanzhu said made sense. Death is something that never changes. It's better to calm down and enjoy every minute of life. several.

Under Ruan Nanzhu's kind comfort, Lin Qiushi had no choice but to take a few more mouthfuls.

The hostess did not attend their lunch this time, and it was not until they were about to leave that they came late and passed everyone.

Although it was only one side, Lin Qiushi still noticed that her pale face was full of satisfaction, as if she had just eaten some wonderful food, and the corners of her eyes and brows were full of joy, although this kind of joy was only on that weird face. will look scary.

"Let's go take a nap." Ruan Nanzhu suggested after lunch.

"Okay." Tan Zaozao didn't sleep well yesterday, and she didn't have much energy this morning.

Who knew that Ruan Nanzhu glanced at her and said, "You still play on the floor?"

Tan Zaozao: "...can't you let me sleep in bed?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "You can sleep on the bed in your own room, as for my bed." His tone was calm and cold, "You don't have the qualifications yet."

Tan Zaozao: "..." Ruan Nanzhu, you bastard.

The author has something to say: Tan Zaozao: Why are you targeting me?

Ruan Nanzhu: If you can't act like a baby, you will be in a bad mood.

Tan Zaozao: I will let you wear women's clothing!

Ruan Nanzhu: Hmph, he must like it whether he wears women's clothes or not.

Lin Qiushi: ...are you talking about Sazi? ?

Thanks to the following babies for mine grenades and rocket launchers, especially thanks to the mine x46, shallow water bomb x1, grenade x6