Kaleidoscope of Death

The snow was so heavy that it was almost impossible to walk on the narrow mountain road.

Lin Qiushi worried that Ruan Baijie couldn't take it anymore, so he protected her all the way.Xiao Ke said casually beside him that you two have such a good relationship.

"Girls." Lin Qiushi said, "It's always right to take more care of her."

Ruan Baijie leaned against Lin Qiushi's body weakly, and glanced at Xiao Ke, showing a pitiful expression.

Xiao Ke looked away blankly, looking very displeased with her.

Finally, when they reached the place where the tree was cut, everyone started to act again.This time we chose two trees that were not so thick, and planned to cut them down in one go today.Although the weather was very cold, his body became hot after cutting the tree for a while. Lin Qiushi reached out and unbuttoned his coat, and stood and rested for a while.

Ruan Baijie leaned against a nearby tree, looking at Lin Qiushi thoughtfully.

Lin Qiushi glanced at her: "What are you looking at?"

Ruan Baijie: "The buttocks are pretty..."

Lin Qiushi was almost dodged by the ax in his hand, he turned his head and stared at Ruan Baijie: "What did you say?"

Ruan Baijie: "I didn't say anything, you heard me wrong."

Lin Qiushi looked suspicious.

Ruan Baijie: "Why don't you repeat what I just said?"

Lin Qiushi: "..." This guy is right, he's embarrassed, isn't he?

While chatting, the two felled trees, and occasionally took turns to rest with other men in the team. Before it was completely dark, they cut down two trees.

It was fine when cutting the tree, but carrying it became a demon in everyone's heart.

The two teammates who were crushed to death by the tree yesterday had been buried under thick snow, but even if the bodies were no longer visible, their miserable appearance was still vivid in my mind.

"Don't carry it anymore." Xiong Qi said, "Take a rope to it and drag it away."

"Then who will procrastinate?" Zhang Zishuang asked.

Xiong Qi said: "The men are divided into two groups, both procrastinate."

This method is very fair, everyone is doing the same thing, so if they die again, it is simply their own bad luck, no one else to blame.

Lin Qiushi didn't say much, and reached out to take the rope in Xiong Qi's hand, followed by another teammate who hadn't spoken much, and began to drag the heavy wood hard.Dragging wood on a narrow mountain road is more difficult than a bar, but it is safe anyway, and accidents like before will not happen.

With the lessons learned from the past, everyone was very vigilant along the way, and they were relieved until they left the mountain road and arrived at the door of the carpenter's house.

"Old man." Xiong Qi called, "We have brought the wood."

The sound of creaking and creaking wood inside the door stopped, and a moment later, an old wrinkled face appeared from the crack of the door. The carpenter slowly pushed the door out, signaling them to send the wood in.

"Old man." Xiong Qi reached out and wiped the white snow foam on his face, "We brought the wood, and we will go to the temple to worship later, do we need to bring anything?"

The old man took a puff of the long tobacco rod in his hand, exhaled thick white smoke, and said vaguely: "Just take someone with you."

Xiong Qi frowned upon hearing this.

"You must go at night." The old man said, "After dark, enter the temple one by one, and come out after the worship."

When Ruan Baijie heard this request, her expression changed slightly.Lin Qiushi thought she would say something, but in the end she didn't say anything, just smiled subtly.

"Do you have to go in one by one?" Xiong Qi seemed to find this request a bit strange, "Can't we go in together?"

"Go in together?" The old man sneered, "You can try."

"Thank you." Xiong Qi didn't continue to ask, turned around and greeted everyone and left the carpenter's house.

Lin Qiushi always felt that this person was weird, he said: "Won't people in the village lie to us?"

"Some will." Xiong Qi said, "but key people generally don't lie. If the key clues they give us are wrong, then what else can we work hard for?"

Just wait for death.

Lin Qiushi snorted.

After they sent the wood to the carpenter, they went back to their residence, lit a fire and started to keep warm, and discussed the next thing.

Ruan Baijie said that she wanted to go to the toilet and went out, but she didn't come back for a long time.

Lin Qiushi waited for a while, and was really worried about her, so he ran out, but he didn't see anyone in the toilet. After searching around the house, he saw Ruan Baijie sitting by the well mouth alone.

She seemed to have been sitting by the mouth of the well for a while, and there was a layer of white snow on her body and head.Lin Qiushi tentatively called her name, but Ruan Baijie didn't seem to hear her, and didn't even look back.

"Ruan Baijie?" Lin Qiushi walked towards her, "What are you doing, it's so cold outside."

"Don't move." Ruan Baijie suddenly said.

Lin Qiushi stopped at his feet.

Ruan Baijie said, "Don't come close to me." Her tone was extremely cold, completely devoid of her usual tenderness, "Stay away from me."

Lin Qiushi said: "What happened?" He was keenly aware that the sudden change in Ruan Baijie's attitude had a great relationship with the well beside her.

Ruan Baijie shook her head and did not answer.

Lin Qiushi boldly took another two steps towards Ruan Baijie, until he was at a distance where he could see the mouth of the well more clearly.It’s okay if you don’t look at it, but after looking at it, goosebumps appeared all over Lin Qiushi’s body, and he saw that the inside of the wellhead was covered by a layer of black things. At first Lin Qiushi thought it was water, but later he found that those things were slowly wriggling, Only then did I make sure that I was not mistaken—the inside of the wellhead was covered with black hair.

Ruan Baijie's feet seemed to be entangled by these hairs, and her body could not move at all.

"Don't come here, Lin Qiushi." Ruan Baijie said, "You will be dragged down together."

"It's okay." Lin Qiushi's voice was soft, he was afraid that if he was too loud, he would startle those black hairs, "It's okay, don't be afraid, I'm here to help you."

Ruan Baijie turned her head to look at Lin Qiushi, the tenderness in her eyes was gone, now it turned into a bottomless lake, so dark that it made people inexplicably scared, she said: "Why bother."

Lin Qiushi said: "Wait for me for a while, hold on." He remembered something and ran towards the house.

Xiong Qi sitting in the living room saw Lin Qiushi running wildly, and asked him what happened, but Lin Qiushi ignored him and went straight to the kitchen.

When he arrived in the kitchen, he picked up a few firewood, quickly lit it with flint, and turned around and ran outside the house.

In just a few minutes, it seemed as if centuries had passed. Lin Qiushi couldn't help shaking his hands when he lit the fire. He was afraid that when he returned to the edge of the well, there would only be an empty well left.

Fortunately, when he came back with the torch, Ruan Baijie was still sitting there.

"I'm back." Lin Qiushi panted, "I'll come over later and throw the fire into the mouth of the well, hold my hand...don't let go."

Ruan Baijie: "Aren't you afraid?"

Lin Qiushi was taken aback: "What are you afraid of?"

Ruan Baijie said: "Of course I'm afraid of death."

Lin Qiushi smiled: "Who is not afraid of death? But there is always something more terrifying than death." Although he still has some doubts about this world, he can still feel that Ruan Baijie saved him several times.If it weren't for Ruan Baijie, he might have been one of the bloody corpses on the first night.

"Okay, I'm coming." Lin Qiushi was afraid that there would be a long delay, and Ruan Baijie was exhausted, so he moved slowly and walked towards Ruan Baijie.

When he was close enough, he grabbed Ruan Baijie's hand, and then threw the torch in his hand into the tumbling hair.

"Ah—" There was a shrill scream, and a woman's voice came from the mouth of the well. Those hairs were ignited by the fire, and they writhed violently. In a trance, Lin Qiushi actually saw a pale face in the well.Although it was only for a moment, Lin Qiushi still recognized this face he had seen in the house before, it was the appearance of the female ghost who disguised as Ruan Baijie's voice that night.

"Run!!" As soon as the hair on Ruan Baijie's feet broke, Lin Qiushi pulled her and started running wildly.

Ruan Baijie didn't resist either, following Lin Qiushi's movements, the two rushed into the room, panting frantically.

"What's wrong?" Everyone in the room was surprised.

"There's something in the well..." Lin Qiushi panted, "Everyone stay away from the well, Bai Jie was almost pulled down just now." After he finished speaking, he turned to look at Bai Jie and asked if she was hurt.

"No." Ruan Baijie said, "I'm fine."

Lin Qiushi cast his eyes on her feet when he heard the words, but saw a circle of blood-red marks wrapped around Ruan Baijie's ankle, which was still dripping blood slowly. He said: "Is this all right? You sit down quickly Come on, let me bandage you up."

Ruan Baijie seemed to realize that she was injured only belatedly, she tilted her head, and finally listened to Lin Qiushi's words, and obediently sat on the chair,

Lin Qiushi found the wound medicine in the house, half-kneeled in front of Ruan Baijie, let her feet step on his knees, and began to treat the wound slowly.His movements were light and serious, as if he was worried about hurting Ruan Baijie.

"Are you so careful with girls?" Ruan Baijie asked suddenly.

"What does this have to do with girls." Lin Qiushi replied casually, "Even if you are a man, could it be that I treat you rough?"

Ruan Baijie: "Well..."

Lin Qiushi said casually: "You can't really be a man, you are so tall and have such a flat chest." But Ruan Baijie is indeed beautiful, at least Lin Qiushi doesn't believe that there are men like this in the world.

"Yes." Ruan Baijie sighed, "The breasts are not as big as yours."

Lin Qiushi: "..."

Ruan Baijie added: "The ass is not as upright as yours."

Lin Qiushi: "...Why do you talk so much?"

Ruan Baijie giggled.

Lin Qiushi helped Ruan Baijie treat the wound, and then told Xiong Qi and the others what happened just now.The reactions of the others were okay, but Xiong Qi and Xiao Ke's faces were not very happy, obviously remembering the last step the old man told them about making the coffin - filling the well.

What is the relationship between the coffin and the well?Is it a unique custom of this village or a trap set by the carpenter for them.

However, Ruan Baijie seemed to know what Xiong Qi was thinking, and said with a smile: "Don't think so much, what to do, how to do it, things like fate are all predetermined."

Xiong Qi sighed slightly: "We plan to go to worship the temple tonight, do you want to go together?"

"Me?" Ruan Baijie said, "My foot is hurt and I can't walk, Qiu Shi, you can carry me on your back."

Lin Qiushi nodded.

Xiao Ke said beside him, "Why can't you walk with such a small injury?"

Ruan Baijie was not angry when she heard the words, she just smiled sweetly and said, miss, please be more forgiving, I was spoiled at home, so naturally I should be more delicate when I come out.

Xiao Ke said: "Just continue to toss about Lin Qiushi's good temper. No one in this world knows who he is, so why should he spoil you."

"Oh, I thought you and Xiong Qi knew each other." Ruan Baijie said as if nothing had happened.

Who knew that as soon as these words came out, the expressions of Xiao Ke and Xiong Qi changed, and there was even a look of vigilance in their eyes.

Lin Qiushi instantly felt the change in the atmosphere.

"What do you mean by that?" Xiao Ke asked back.

"It's nothing interesting." Ruan Baijie said, "I just think you two have a good relationship... don't you really know each other?"

"How is it possible?" Xiao Ke looked very uncomfortable.

Ruan Baijie smiled, but did not continue this topic.

Of course, Xiao Ke didn't hold Ruan Baijie, she didn't stop Ruan Baijie from letting Lin Qiushi carry her to the temple, she turned around and left with a gloomy expression.