Kaleidoscope of Death

Regarding the newcomer, Ruan Nanzhu seemed to be very resistant to her on the first day.

Lin Qiushi asked him if he had discovered something from the very beginning, but Ruan Nanzhu's answer was: "No, I just hate people who start crying as soon as they come in. People like this usually have a lot of problems." He said After finishing this sentence, he glanced at Lin Qiushi with great satisfaction, and smiled, "You don't like to ask why, I like it very much."

Lin Qiushi: "..." Should he be grateful for his lack of curiosity?

Yang Meishu is the newcomer's name.Her biggest mistake, perhaps, was to pretend to be cute, and started crying as soon as she entered the door, which aroused Ruan Nanzhu's disgust.If she changed to a new way of pretending to be cute, she might still have a chance to get close to Ruan Nanzhu—just like Xu Jin in the previous world.

"Didn't it mean that there is only one clue for each door?" Tan Zaozao was a little puzzled after reading the note in Lin Qiushi's hand, "Then what is the situation with this note?"

"Not necessarily, it's just that such a situation is rare." Ruan Nanzhu explained, "I have encountered it a few times, and I don't know exactly why two notes appeared. Maybe it triggered some special events. Conditions?" He pinched the note, thinking, "Or... the person with the note is more special." Of course, these are his guesses, and none of these guesses can be confirmed at present.

"How is Yang Meishu doing now?" Lin Qiushi asked, "She knows that you have discovered her identity?"

Ruan Nanzhu smiled: "I don't know for now, but I will soon." He said in a relaxed tone, "I hope she is still alive when she finds out."

Lin Qiushi: "..." He saw an obvious malice in Ruan Nanzhu's eyes.

……

The night was like water, and Yang Meishu was lying on the bed.

That beautiful man didn't come to the cafeteria to eat with everyone during the day. It seems that her plan worked. Who told him that he didn't want to bring her, Yang Meishu thought regretfully, she had a good impression of him, and he could have Got out alive.

Two people have died now, but it is still far away from Yang Meishu's ultimate goal, but she is not in a hurry because everything is under her control.As long as the people inside the door are killed one by one, according to the rules of the door, then she will be in an invincible state inside the door. At that time, whether she wants to find the door or the key, things can be easily resolved.

As for the requirement not to kill people in the door - those who died wanted revenge, at least they had to know who the enemy was, but unfortunately they died so wrongly that they turned into ghosts and didn't even know how they died, let alone revenge.

Thinking of this, Yang Meishu smiled with satisfaction, she hummed a song, looked at the ceiling, and fell into a deep sleep drowsily.

Tick, tick.

There was cold water dripping on Yang Meishu's face, she opened her eyes, and with her sleepy eyes, she found a dark spot of water on the top of her head.The water stains smeared on the snow-white ceiling, and the transparent water droplets fell on her cheeks bit by bit.

Yang Meishu woke up in an instant. She got up from the bed and found that the window that had been closed was wide open at some point, and the cold wind mixed with rainwater poured in from the window.

Yang Meishu was shivered by the wind. She walked to the bed and tried to close the window, but saw a black figure by the window.

It was a woman, wearing a long black dress and a black hat. She raised her head slightly and stared at the position of Yang Meishu with her dark eyes. corpse.

"Ah!!!" Shocked by this scene, Yang Meishu took a few steps back, and Yang Meishu broke out in cold sweat.Tick, tick, the water stains on the ceiling became more and more obvious, and Yang Meishu's hair became wet. She suddenly remembered something, and rushed to the bedside table with a brisk walk, picked up the bag she was carrying, and began to rummage through it.

No, no—the things that were supposed to be inside were gone, Yang Meishu’s back was sweating more and more, she finally broke down and cried out: "Where is the note, where is my note—"

There was no note, nothing, the most important clue was missing, Yang Meishu was shaking like a sieve, she raised her head stiffly, and saw the water stains on the ceiling, which had formed the shape of a person.

Shocked by this scene, Yang Meishu got up and wanted to rush out of the room, but when she went to the door and tried to turn the doorknob, she found that the doorknob was locked.

"Help—is there anyone, help—" Yang Meishu began to scream miserably, and she watched the water stains on the ceiling start to writhe, as if trying to break free from it, she seemed crazy Had to knock on the door, trying to get out of the house.

"Help, help me——" The pungent smell of water poured into the nostrils, and Yang Meishu began to cry loudly, tasting the taste of despair for the first time.

She looked around and found that at some point, the original landscape picture in her house had turned into a weird figure picture. The woman in the figure picture was [-]% similar to the mistress of the castle, almost a self-portrait of the mistress .

"Ahhh..." Yang Meishu was overwhelmed by fear, she rushed in front of the portrait recklessly, casually picked up the fruit knife placed next to it, and began to stab the portrait in front of her forcefully.One slash, two slashes, three slashes... piercing the expressionless Girl in the Rain in front of her, Yang Meishu panted heavily, and finally put down the sharp weapon in her hand.

"I'm not afraid of you." Yang Meishu said to himself, "I'm not afraid of you..."

However, the next second, when she looked at the window again, she was stunned.

I saw the woman who was supposed to be under the window, but now she appeared by her window, her tall body indifferently cast a black shadow, covering Yang Meishu inside, holding a black picture frame in her hand , Yang Meishu was very familiar with the picture frame - it was the black picture frame she used to kill people.

"No, no, no!!" At this moment, Yang Meishu finally understood. She looked around in horror, trying to find the frame that framed her, but it was too late.

The woman walked up to her, raised the picture frame in her hand, and slammed it down heavily towards her.

"Ahhh!!" Unlike Xiao Su who lost consciousness directly, Yang Meishu was not directly put into the painting. The frame of the painting seemed to be turned into a sharp weapon, breaking open the skin and bleeding out bright red blood.

Yang Meishu turned around and wanted to escape, but the strength in her body began to lose, she lay on the ground, her eyes stayed on the fragmented painting that she stabbed in front of her.

Finally, darkness enveloped everything, and Yang Meishu closed her eyes.

Until she died, she didn't figure out what caused her death.

……

Lin Qiushi slept well that night, and Ruan Nanzhu woke up early. He seemed to be in a good mood, and greeted Lin Qiushi with a smile.

"Good morning." Lin Qiushi stroked his messy sleeping hair, "In a good mood?"

"Of course." Ruan Nanzhu glanced at the time, "I can't wait to have breakfast."

Lin Qiushi didn't take Ruan Nanzhu's words at ease, he only thought he was hungry, but Tan Zaozao looked thoughtful.

Then the three went to the restaurant together, Ruan Nanzhu found a place to sit down, and began to look around, as if looking for something.

"What are you looking at?" Lin Qiushi asked him while eating bread.

"Looking at people." Ruan Nanzhu said, "It seems that one is missing."

It is true that one is missing. The newcomer Ruan Nanzhu talked about yesterday did not appear.They were not the only ones who discovered this abnormal situation, so someone asked about Yang Meishu's male companion, who was Yang Meishu.

"I don't know, she didn't open the door when I knocked on it today." The male companion replied, "Maybe she was sleeping."

It was originally a temporary team from the world inside the door, so naturally it was impossible to expect the other party to do their best, but this answer was too perfunctory, and everyone frowned.

Zhang Tao, who found the photo frame before, said: "How could he be sleeping? Something must have happened. Let's go and have a look together." When he said this, his eyes were on Ruan Nanzhu.

"Okay." Ruan Nanzhu nodded.

Although Ruan Nanzhu seldom spoke or offered advice in the team, somehow, his unique temperament allowed him to occupy a major position in the team.When making certain decisions, everyone will refer to his opinions. This may be the legendary personal charm, Lin Qiushi thought so.

A group of people came to the door of Yang Meishu's house. Before entering, Lin Qiushi smelled a strong smell of water.As soon as he smelled this smell, Lin Qiushi knew that something was wrong, and after forcibly breaking in, his guess was confirmed.

Yang Meishu is gone.

But everything about the mess in the house, what happened before telling everyone here.

The windows were wide open, and the rain poured in from the outside, making a mess of the carpet.The landscape painting hanging on the wall of the house was stabbed into pieces, and the broken glass also fell to the ground.

"Where are people?" Zhang Tao asked.

No one could answer his question. In fact, everyone's eyes were involuntarily focused on the picture scroll hanging on the wall at the door.Apparently, they all felt that Yang Meishu was more dangerous than good, and turned into a painting.

"Let's look for it." Ruan Nanzhu said, then turned and left.

The others followed him out of the room and began to look around for paintings about Yang Meishu.

This matter is related to Ruan Nanzhu's performance, and it must have something to do with him, but Lin Qiushi didn't dare to ask on the spot, and only whispered after everyone else left: "You did it?"

"I just returned her things to her." Ruan Nanzhu said indifferently, "Who knew she was so stupid."

"Where did you put the picture frame?" Tan Zaozao asked after she figured out what was going on.

Ruan Nanzhu didn't speak, but waved at them.

A few minutes later, they returned to Yang Meishu's room again.

Ruan Nanzhu closed the door, then walked to Yang Meishu's bed, bent down and half knelt on the carpet.

Seeing his movements, Lin Qiushi also guessed where he hid the picture frame—he actually put the picture frame under Yang Meishu's bed.

"That's okay too?" Tan Zaozao widened his eyes.

"I also want to know if it works, but I didn't expect it to be effective." What Ruan Nanzhu put under the bed was a picture frame, but when he took it out, it turned into a painting.

It's just that the content of this painting is so messed up that people don't understand what is painted.However, judging from the colors in the painting, it was obvious that blood had been seen.

"You can't see Yang Meishu at all." Tan Zaozao looked down at the portrait, "At least you can see the person in the painting from the front..." I don't know what she did to make her painting look like this .

"The appearance of her painting here means that she has never left this room." Ruan Nanzhu analyzed, "Since she has never left this room, she must have triggered other death conditions." His eyes Moving on to the scrambled landscape painting stabbed on the wall, "She made a move on the Maid in the Rain."

"Well." Lin Qiushi agreed with Ruan Nanzhu's reasoning, "When framed by a picture frame, the paintings in the room will indeed become other things."

Ruan Nanzhu finally said, "Fighting with others is a lot of fun."

Tan Zaozao and Lin Qiushi both smiled wryly. They didn't have Ruan Nanzhu's mentality. When facing ghosts, they also had to face teammates who might betray them at any time. This was really not a pleasant experience.

Yang Meishu's painting was found, but if one only looked at the painting, no one would recognize that it was the pretty girl.

Three people have died so far, Xiao Su, Yang Jie, and Yang Meishu, but it is still unknown how far away they are from finding the key.

The hostess was still painting, but at this time, two more faces were added to her banquet picture.

"You stand on the bridge and look at the scenery, and those who look at the scenery look at you upstairs. The bright moon adorns your window, and you adorn other people's dreams." Ruan Nanzhu pinched the note that should have belonged to Yang Meishu, " We must be the scenery, and the person who sees the scenery is the hostess, why Yang Meishu's note is so much more detailed than ours..." He seemed a little puzzled by this.

"I don't know." Tan Zaozao said, "Maybe the quality of the door she entered is relatively high?"

I don't know what Tan Zaozao's words reminded Ruan Nanzhu. He was silent for a moment and said, "Maybe it's the way she goes out, which is quite special."

"What do you mean?" Tan Zaozao was puzzled, "Can you go out in other ways?"

"Who knows." Ruan Nanzhu said.

It stands to reason that if the cause of death is found, the risk should be avoided until the key is found.However, things were not as simple as they imagined. On the third day after Yang Meishu died, Lin Qiushi encountered another accident.

At that time, he had just finished dinner and went to the toilet at the end of the corridor, but when he came out of the toilet, he felt something was wrong sensitively.

The originally familiar corridors became a little strange.

This is an indescribable feeling. Although the scenery is exactly the same, Lin Qiushi feels that this corridor is strange.

He hesitated a little in his footsteps, not knowing whether he should continue to move forward.

The corridor was very long, and the oil lamps on the side gave off dim light. Countless picture frames were hung on both sides of the corridor, but it was not clear what they looked like.

Lin Qiushi heard the sound of thin and dense rain, which came from the toilet behind him. It was very uncomfortable to hear.

Lin Qiushi took a few steps forward tentatively and came to the middle of the corridor.

The carpet on the floor is soft, the walls are icy, and the picture frame is wet...

Wait, the frame is wet?Lin Qiushi was taken aback for a moment, turned his head to look at the wall, and saw that all the paintings hanging on the wall around him began to drip, and the water flowed down the wall and into the soft carpet.

At some point, a standing figure appeared in the depths of the corridor. The appearance of that figure was very familiar. Even just looking at her back, Lin Qiushi recognized it. That was the mistress of the castle, the girl in the rain.

"Yu Linlin." Ruan Nanzhu's voice suddenly came.

Lin Qiushi looked for his reputation, but saw that the painting on the wall on his right hand had changed into Xiaosu's appearance. In the painting, she was still beautiful, and she was waving at Lin Qiushi with a smile, "Lin Qiushi."

Lin Qiushi suddenly felt very cold.

"Yu Linlin, come and accompany me." Xiao Su said in the painting, "It's so boring to be alone in there."

As she spoke, she reached out her hand from the painting, trying to grab Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi was taken aback by this scene, and reflexively took a few steps back.

However, Xiaosu's arm was like a long snake, getting longer and longer, running towards Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi turned around and wanted to run, but the surrounding portraits stretched out countless slender arms, some grabbed Lin Qiushi's body, and some grabbed Lin Qiushi's feet.

"Ruan Nanzhu——" Lin Qiushi wanted to escape, but the corridor was very narrow, his feet were caught by something in the painting, and then he was dragged out of the toilet abruptly.

The woman in black stood in front of Lin Qiushi at some point.

She looked down at Lin Qiushi, her huge body cast a black shadow on Lin Qiushi's body.

Lin Qiushi was forced to raise his head and look into the woman's eyes.

The woman still didn't speak, just staring at Lin Qiushi with her black eyes.The two got closer and closer, so close that Lin Qiushi could even smell the weird smell of paint on her body.

Lin Qiushi was stiff all over, like a frog that had been targeted by a snake.

The woman reached out and grabbed Lin Qiushi's wrist, and lifted him up.She is extremely powerful, lifting Lin Qiushi, who is 1.8 meters tall, is like lifting a chicken. Lin Qiushi was grasped by her wrist, and he was powerless to resist.

The woman carried Lin Qiushi and started walking towards the roof.

Lin Qiushi began to struggle hard. In front of the woman's terrifying power, Lin Qiushi was like a six-year-old child. He had no room to resist at all. He was dragged up the stairs by the woman and headed towards the roof.

He is going to die!He is going to die! !For the first time, Lin Qiushi felt the breath of death so clearly. He had a strong premonition that he was approaching death step by step. As long as he reached the top of the building, he would be dead!

"Fuck!" A rare swear word, Lin Qiushi firmly grasped the handrail of the stairs next to him, he didn't understand why he was suddenly dragged into the world in the painting, not according to what Ruan Nanzhu said, as long as he was not painted Is it okay to frame it...Could it be...there are other frames that they haven't found?

The armrest was full of water stains, and Lin Qiushi couldn't hold it steady at all. Facing his dying struggle, the woman's face still showed no expression. keep going.

There was no other way, Lin Qiushi smiled wryly in his heart.

However, just when he was about to give up, Lin Qiushi heard a crisp sound of glass, the picture in front of him began to shatter and distort, and the figure of the woman began to blur.

"Lin Qiushi—" This is Tan Zaozao's crying voice, "You come back—"

"Lin Qiushi!" Ruan Nanzhu was also calling his name.

Lin Qiushi tried hard to open his eyes, but he couldn't.

Finally, the sound of glass breaking became clearer, and the light began to hurt Lin Qiushi's eyes. He opened his eyes with difficulty, and saw Tan Zaozao, who was full of horror, and Ruan Nanzhu, who was frowning.

"What's wrong with me?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"You almost died—" Tan Zaozao's voice was terrified, "If Ruan Nanzhu didn't find out quickly..."

Lin Qiushi lowered his head and found himself lying in the toilet with a broken mirror next to him.

"I seem to be caught by her into the world inside the painting." Lin Qiushi was a little confused, "But isn't there no frame?" Yang Meishu died, so there should be no frame, so why would he still...

"A painter who draws pictures, why doesn't he have a frame? Isn't Yang Meishu's frame provided by her?" Ruan Nanzhu said helplessly, "I thought it was common sense..."

Lin Qiushi: "..." This is actually common sense, I'm sorry, it's really difficult for his IQ to survive in the door,

Tan Zaozao was crying softly beside her.

"But it's not your fault." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Who knew that thing was so smart." He pointed to the broken mirror in front of him, "Look."

Lin Qiushi looked up and found that there was a black picture frame behind the broken mirror, and the mirror turned out to be a double-sided mirror, which meant that everyone who looked in the mirror was framed by the picture frame.

Lin Qiushi's expression was distorted: "Is it this side or all the mirrors..."

Ruan Nanzhu shrugged: "This is her castle, what do you think?"

Lin Qiushi: "So Yang Meishu is actually unnecessary—"

Ruan Nanzhu: "It's not just Yang Meishu, even I did it too much." He said: "What did you do in it just now? How did you get into the painting?"

Lin Qiushi: "I just walked a few steps into the corridor..."

Ruan Nanzhu: "The next time something like this happens, stand still."

Lin Qiushi covered his head and sighed. He really felt that these things were hard to guard against, and he suddenly remembered something: "How do you know where I am? After I enter the frame, can I be rescued?"

Ruan Nanzhu didn't speak when he heard the words, but reached out and gently pinched Lin Qiushi's earlobe: "Fate."

Lin Qiushi suddenly realized that it was Ruan Nanzhu who gave him the earrings.

"What should we do now." Tan Zaozao was at a loss, "If there are picture frames behind the mirror, wouldn't we all be the ones she wants to kill?"

Ruan Nanzhu shook his head: "Impossible, this is not a high-level sect. The conditions for killing people are actually very harsh, and the situation of group destruction will not easily occur." He calculated, "Didn't you find that every time she pulls a person into the painting Can I pull the second one after a while?"

Tan Zaozao: "So...?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "So let's try to see if we can get the key out."

Tan Zaozao looked at Ruan Nanzhu suspiciously: "What do you mean get the key out?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "You said that if I set fire to her painting when she couldn't kill..."

Hearing Ruan Nanzhu's words, the expressions of Tan Zaozao and Lin Qiushi were distorted.

Tan Zaozao was terrified and said: "Ruan Nanzhu, don't try it on the verge of death, okay?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Oh, I was just joking."

Both Lin Qiushi and Tan Zaozao showed expressions of disbelief, and Ruan Nanzhu's tone didn't look like he was joking at all.

The author has something to say: Ruan Nanzhu took out the lighter: I was really joking...

hostess:? ? ? ?

Lin Qiushi: Are you so happy just by skinning...