Kaleidoscope of Death

Lin Qiushi rushed downstairs, and the pale arm protruding from the hat upstairs followed directly.Seeing this scene, he didn't dare to stay in the house for a while, and rushed out of the house.

The owner of the grocery store saw Lin Qiushi rushing out in a panic, with a little doubt on his face: "Why did you run so fast, what happened?"

Lin Qiushi panted heavily, and pointed inside with his finger.

The boss looked puzzled and wanted to go over to have a look. Lin Qiushi took out his mobile phone and typed a few words: Is your son really your son?

The boss was stunned when he saw these words: "What do you mean by that?"

Lin Qiushi decided to tell the truth: his head fell off.

When the boss saw it, he immediately turned around and was about to enter the house, but Lin Qiushi wanted to stop him.But when the boss opened the door, Lin Qiushi actually saw the child whose head fell to the ground just now, sitting on the sofa and playing with toys—this was exactly the same as when he first entered the room.

"What happened?" The boss saw that his son was safe and sound, and looked back at Lin Qiushi, even more puzzled.

Lin Qiushi looked at the child, then at the boss, shook his head, turned around and left without saying anything.He didn't know whether it was his illusion or his nerves were too sensitive. He always felt that the child's eyes were almost attached to his back, and he watched him leave unwillingly.

After leaving the grocery store, Lin Qiushi went to several other places in town with children.

I met other teammates during the period. They didn't seem to have a good impression of Lin Qiushi, a dumb girl, and they didn't even say hello.Only a girl who seemed to have a milder personality talked to Lin Qiushi for a while.

"We didn't see the children, those children were hidden." The girl's name seemed to be Dong Tianwei, "Don't go, it's useless."

Lin Qiushi was a little strange: what does it mean to hide?

Dong Tianwei said: "It's just hiding. People in this town are very closed. If the child is gone, the whole family will be ruined, and there seems to be a rule in the town that divorce is not allowed. You can only live with guilt for the rest of your life."

Lin Qiushi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, what did he think of: Can't divorce?

Dong Tianwei: "Yes." She said, "Where is the person with you? Why doesn't he accompany you, your body is so weak, what if something happens to you?"

Lin Qiushi ignored Dong Tianwei's question: Are there any exceptions?

Dong Tianwei thought for a while: "No? Anyway, the quarrel between the two families I went to was almost upside down and they didn't leave."

Lin Qiushi nodded and thanked Dong Tianwei, then turned and left.

Dong Tianwei looked at his back and hesitated to speak, but the male companion beside him asked strangely: "Why are you talking so much to her?"

Dong Tianwei sighed: "Isn't it good to live one more life?"

The male companion did not answer.

Lin Qiushi's goal this time went straight to Lauren's house, which he had visited before.

He arrived at the house, knocked on the door, and saw Lauren's father, a middle-aged man who looked very bad-tempered and reeked of alcohol.

"What's the matter?" Lauren's father asked, with a very bad attitude.

Lin Qiushi: I want to ask, when did your daughter disappear?

My father didn't answer, and was a little annoyed: "Isn't the missing person notice hanging in the square? You won't go over to see it, you want to ask me?"

Lin Qiushi: I just want to get more clues from you.

After he finished typing, he suddenly remembered that he seemed to be wearing women's clothes, so he followed Ruan Nanzhu's example and made a deliberate and pitiful appearance, wondering if it would be useful.

Who knew that this expression actually had an effect, Lauren's father relaxed a bit: "It seems like two days ago..."

Lin Qiushi: Where did she disappear?

Lauren's father said, "Let's go home."

Lin Qiushi heard the uncertainty in his tone: Are you sure you are at home?

Lauren's father thought for a while: "I'm not sure. I didn't find out until after she disappeared for a long time. Who knows when she disappeared."

Lin Qiushi: Can I take the liberty to ask, when will your wife come back?

Who knew that when the word Madam was mentioned, Lauren's father immediately showed a fierce expression. Not only did he not answer Lin Qiushi's question, he even slammed the door heavily cursing.

Lin Qiushi looked at the closed door and fell into thought. He had a terrible guess at this moment.

After walking in the town for a day, the sky was getting dark, so Lin Qiushi planned to go back to the hotel before making any plans.

On the way back to the hotel, Lin Qiushi passed by the small square when he first arrived.This square is really not big, all the shops around are closed, leaving a emptiness, only the notice board with missing persons notice is particularly conspicuous in the center of the square.

Lin Qiushi walked to the notice board and carefully looked at the missing persons notice on it.

There are four missing person notices now, three of which are from before, and one was posted yesterday.

Lin Qiushi didn't know what he was thinking, he stretched out his hand suddenly, and pulled off the earliest missing person notice from the notice board.

The missing person notice was not glued too tightly, and it was easily peeled off. Lin Qiushi looked down at the missing person notice in his hand carefully, and suddenly made a new discovery... He found that the missing person notice was actually double-layered. of.

That's right, this missing person notice was actually two pieces of paper glued together.

Fortunately, the two pieces of paper were glued together a little bit. Lin Qiushi tried to separate the two pieces of paper, but in the end he only tore off a corner in failure.He was a little distressed, thought for a while, and the evil came out of his guts, so he simply tore off all the missing person notices, stuffed them into his pocket, and left as if nothing had happened.

Of course, when he tore it off, he took a rough look and found that all the missing person notices were double-layered.

Quickly returning to the hotel, Lin Qiushi saw Ruan Nanzhu sitting on the sofa at the reception on the first floor as soon as he entered, looking at his expression as if he was thinking about something.

Lin Qiushi walked up to him and patted his shoulder.

Ruan Nanzhu raised his head: "Are you back?"

Lin Qiushi nodded and pointed upstairs.

Ruan Nanzhu smiled: "Sleepy? Well, let's go back to sleep together."

The person sitting next to them cast a strange look at them.

Lin Qiushi communicated with Ruan Nanzhu with his eyes: Can you stop saying such misleading words.

Ruan Nanzhu shamelessly pretended not to see it.

The two returned to their room on the second floor. After closing the doors and windows, Lin Qiushi was finally able to speak. He couldn't wait to say: "I tore off the missing person notices on the square and checked them, and found that these missing person notices are on two floors. We See if you can find a way to peel off the other piece of paper." He said and took out the paper in his trouser pocket.

Ruan Nanzhu took a look and thought about it: "This should be able to be separated by soaking it in water, but I don't know if the handwriting will be blurred."

Lin Qiushi: "Try to separate one sheet first."

So the two went to the toilet, soaked the paper in it after receiving some hot water, and waited for it to soften before they could separate.Taking advantage of this time, Lin Qiushi asked Ruan Nanzhu if he had found anything else in the cannery.

Ruan Nanzhu looked at the basin in front of him, was silent for a while, and said, "I almost picked up that top hat."

Lin Qiushi was startled: "Huh?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "I was checking it at the time, and the top hat suddenly fell from the treetop. I don't know what magic power that thing has. I put my hands on it, and I managed to hold it back."

Lin Qiushi breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, you didn't pick it up."

Ruan Nanzhu nodded: "It is the sixth door after all."

After that, Ruan Nanzhu described the traces he found in the cannery, saying that Lin Qiushi hadn't eaten canned fish, and now he suspected that all the missing children had been canned.Because he found fresh flesh in a canning machine.Also on another dead tree, I saw the body of a child who had been hanged.

Of course, Ruan Nanzhu didn't dare to touch the corpse, just pretending he didn't see it.

"What about you, what did you find?" Ruan Nanzhu said.

"I feel like we're going in the wrong direction." Lin Qiushi told Ruan Nanzhu what he encountered in the grocery store, "What do you think that child is?"

"It's definitely not a person." Ruan Nanzhu said, "The paper has melted." He stretched out his hand and fished out the paper in the basin.

The glue between the sheets is melted by hot water, and the two sheets are easily separated.

Lin Qiushi was stunned when he saw the piece of paper behind, and saw that the piece of paper behind was actually a missing person notice, the font was a bit blurred and he couldn't see it clearly, but Lin Qiushi knew him in the photo... This is the person in their team. , the picture of the missing man in the top hat.

The remaining three missing person notices were also separated one by one. Three of them are currently missing, and their photos are all pasted on them. The only difference is the missing person notice of sister Lauren. The paper behind it is a blank paper.

Ruan Nanzhu frowned looking at the three pieces of paper.

Lin Qiushi said: "By the way... we haven't seen a child since we came to this town."

Ruan Nanzhu looked back at him.

Based on the results of his investigation, Lin Qiushi expressed his guess: "The only two I have seen are Lauren's sister and the son of the grocery store I saw today. I think there are problems with both of them."

Ruan Nanzhu: "That Lauren's sister has some problems." He said, "She has a strange sense of disobedience."

Lin Qiushi: "And one of the team members told me today that this town is very closed and divorces are almost impossible. Do you remember Lauren's life experience..."

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Well, his mother is married twice."

"This is very strange." Lin Qiushi sat on the sofa and looked at the three missing person notices, "Tell me, could there be no..."

Ruan Nanzhu took Lin Qiushi's words: "There are no children at all."

Their eyes met, and they both saw similar expressions in each other's eyes.

"Actually, there are still some." Ruan Nanzhu put the missing person notices posted on the table and spread his hands, "Isn't we replacing the role of the child?"

Lin Qiushi: "..." A group of children weighing more than 100 kilograms?

Ruan Nanzhu: "Who is not a little princess?"

Lin Qiushi: "Hey, now that we know that we are actually poor and helpless children, next, what does this mean? Where is the key?"

Ruan Nanzhu tapped his finger on the table: "If the children in the town refer to us, do those fake children refer to something else?"

Lin Qiushi: "For example?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "The noodle man."

Lin Qiushi immediately thought of the happy-faced son of the grocery store owner, and was silent for a moment: "It's possible."

Ruan Nanzhu: "But there are still some things that don't make sense now. If those children are noodle people, what happened to their corpses? Forget it, it's dark, let's go to bed first."

Looking at the dark night outside, Lin Qiushi agreed to Ruan Nanzhu's proposal.

Staying up late in the world outside the door is called cultivating immortals, staying up all night in the world inside the door may directly become an immortal the next day, there is no need to cultivate at all, and it is very easy to do it in one step.

Lin Qiushi hoped that he could fall asleep safely and have no dreams all night.

But there are some things that can't be done just by thinking. Although he was very reluctant, Lin Qiushi still woke up in the middle of the night.

He heard the cry of the child.

Its whine, like complaints and complaints, drifted from the window to Lin Qiushi's ears.He sat up from the bed and saw that Ruan Nanzhu was still sleeping.Inexplicably, there is a kind of resentment from the insomniac wife who wakes up at night to see her husband sleeping in a mess.Of course, this feeling also passed by in a flash, because Lin Qiushi poked Ruan Nanzhu up.

Ruan Nanzhu opened his eyes in a daze: "Huh?"

Lin Qiushi: "I can't sleep."

As soon as Ruan Nanzhu stretched out his hand, he put his arms around Lin Qiushi's neck and pulled him into his arms: "Hey, come here."

Ruan Nanzhu's arms are broad and warm, and there is a faint fragrance on his body, which is very helpful for sleeping.

But the cry was getting closer and closer, Lin Qiushi finally couldn't hold back, and glanced towards the window.

This look almost didn't scare him to sit up from the bed, only to see a child lying on his window.The kid defied gravity and stuck to the glass like a gecko.His hands and feet began to stretch slowly, as if he wanted to find a gap in the window to crawl in from the outside—seeing this scene, Lin Qiushi couldn't help secretly rejoicing that he and Ruan Nanzhu had a good habit of closing the windows every night.

Lin Qiushi was concentrating on watching, but felt that Ruan Nanzhu gently pressed his back, and then rubbed it: "Don't look at it."

Lin Qiushi: "Well..."

Ruan Nanzhu reached out and turned his face back, his tone a little unhappy: "If you can't sleep, just look at me."

Lin Qiushi raised his eyes.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Is there anyone better looking than me?"

Lin Qiushi stopped talking.

Ruan Nanzhu put his chin on the top of Lin Qiushi's head naturally, then slowly rubbed it, and muttered: "Sleep."

Almost the whole body of Lin Qiushi was wrapped by Ruan Nanzhu. Ruan Nanzhu looked like a male beast who had seen a cub, and his whole body was full of protective desire.Lin Qiushi felt an inexplicable sense of security. He tried to close his eyes to ignore the disturbing crying, and finally gradually fell into a sweet dream.

When they woke up the next day, the two almost hugged each other.

Lin Qiushi opened his eyes and saw Ruan Nanzhu's sleeping face with his eyes closed. He had to admit that Ruan Nanzhu was really good-looking, and he was very eye-catching whether it was inside or outside the door.At this time, his long eyelashes were slightly undulating with his breathing, just like a black phoenix butterfly about to spread its wings.

Lin Qiushi looked at it secretly for a while, but couldn't hold back and was about to reach out and touch it.Who knew that Ruan Nanzhu opened his eyes as soon as he stretched out his hand. There was no sleepiness in those eyes, but a faint smile: "Morning."

Lin Qiushi hurriedly stopped, pretending nothing happened: "Morning."

Ruan Nanzhu let go of Lin Qiushi's hand, yawned, and slowly got up: "How did you sleep last night?"

Lin Qiushi: "Very good." He got up from the bed, walked to the window, and unsurprisingly found many children's palm prints on the glass. It seems that the crying and the scene yesterday were indeed not his imagination.

After the two washed up, they went to the restaurant and found that there was another person missing in the line.

They are more familiar with the few people this time. They are Wang Tianxin's female companion, the girl he hooked up with.

When Lin Qiushi found out that the girl was missing, Wang Tianxin was still eating breakfast leisurely, and he typed on his mobile phone: Wang Tianxin's female companion is gone.

Ruan Nanzhu saw the font on Lin Qiushi's phone, stood up and walked to Wang Tianxin.

Wang Tianxin was taken aback by Ruan Nanzhu. He had been beaten by Ruan Nanzhu before, and he had no power to fight back the whole time. Although he pretended to be calm at this time, his trembling tone and glances everywhere revealed His fragile heart: "You, what are you going to do."

Ruan Nanzhu looked at him condescendingly, and said indifferently, "Where's your girlfriend?"

Wang Tian swallowed heavily, took a weak look at Ruan Nanzhu, and said in a low voice, "Isn't he enough?" Can such a terrifying lady-dressing boss not satisfy you?

Lin Qiushi heard it from the side, and his expression twisted for a moment... God damn it, he is not enough.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Are you asking me or am I asking you?"

Wang Tianxin quickly said: "I don't know, she didn't come back yesterday."

Ruan Nanzhu: "You didn't say you didn't come back?"

Wang Tianxin: "It's useless to say it... This, this is obviously gone." He seemed a little unconvinced, and muttered in a low voice, "I told her not to go to the cannery, and she didn't listen."

Cannery?Hearing this keyword, Ruan Nanzhu frowned: "She went to the cannery yesterday? When did she go?"

Wang Tianxin said: "I left in the morning and never came back."

Ruan Nanzhu: "I'm also in the cannery, why didn't I see her."

Wang Tianxin laughed dryly: "How do I know...maybe it's a different road?" This is pure nonsense, the town is so big, there is basically only one way to go anywhere.Besides, the cannery wasn't so big that two people couldn't touch each other in it, unless something happened to her on the way to the cannery.

Ruan Nanzhu asked him if he saw anything unusual, Wang Tianxin thought about it carefully, and said that when she was sleeping the night before yesterday, she had been looking out the window, and said that there seemed to be a child crying outside.

Lin Qiushi thought of the child lying on their window.

"But I didn't hear it." Wang Tianxin said, "My hearing is very good, but I didn't hear anything. She must be too nervous to hear it wrong..."

Lin Qiushi didn't think she had heard it wrong.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Is there anything else?"

Wang Tianxin shook his head, "It's gone."

Lin Qiushi stood up and walked to Wang Tianxin's side. Wang Tianxin was even more frightened when he saw him, smiling so forcefully that he almost seemed to cry.

Lin Qiushi typed: She only went to the cannery yesterday during the day?

"It seems that he only went to the cannery." As soon as Wang Tianxin finished speaking, Dong Tianwei stood up next to him, pointed at Wang Tianxin and said, "He lied, Liu Ya didn't go to the cannery at all yesterday!"

Liu Ya is the name of Wang Tianxin's female companion.

After being accused, Wang Tianxin immediately defended: "I didn't lie, she did tell me to go to the cannery!"

"Shit, we saw Liu Ya when we went to check on other children in the town yesterday, and there was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl with her!" Dong Tianwei said, "The two are holding hands, and they seem to have a good relationship! Don't you Tell me you don't know!"

Wang Tian said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about, I didn't know - I was just repeating what she told me, she obviously said that she was going to the cannery, how do I know where she went in the end!"

The two quarreled fiercely. From their resolute attitude, it can be seen that neither of them should have lied.

Liu Ya's destination was indeed a cannery, but on the way there, she met something else...for example, a strange girl.

Lin Qiushi shuddered at the thought of the mindless son of the grocery store owner.

So whose family is that little girl?Lin Qiushi asked by typing on his mobile phone.

"I don't know, I'm not very sensitive to the appearance of Westerners..." Dong Tianwei was a little embarrassed, "But I remember her hairstyle, it seems to be a ponytail, wearing a pink skirt, she looks quite cute. "

Lin Qiushi suddenly thought of something. He took out a few missing persons notices from his pocket, and found what he wanted on them—the photo of the fourth lost child, Lauren's sister.

As soon as Dong Tianwei saw the photo, she was stunned: "Yes, it's her." She saw the four words of missing person notice above, "She, she is one of the missing children? Then why did she appear again... Still holding Liu Ya...where is she going to take Liu Ya..."

Who knows, it's not a pleasant place for children who shouldn't exist to lead people in this world and want to bring them around.

Everyone looked at the photo and fell silent.

"We now suspect that there are no children in this town at all." Ruan Nanzhu said some information, "So you'd better be careful when you see children."

There was a noisy discussion in the crowd.

"Also, don't bring anything back casually." Ruan Nanzhu said, "That thing may be a reminder."

When he was talking, Lin Qiushi glanced out the window, and immediately stood up from the chair.I saw a tall and thin figure standing in a sparse jungle not far from the restaurant at some point. The figure was hidden in the thick fog, and I couldn't see it clearly, but I could vaguely tell that it belonged to a slender ghost contour.

It stood there quietly, like staring, and like watching.

Obviously this thing has no eyes, but Lin Qiushi just gave birth to an illusion of being observed.

He reached out and pulled Ruan Nanzhu's sleeve, motioning him to look outside the house, but when Ruan Nanzhu turned his head, the thing had disappeared.

"What?" Ruan Nanzhu asked Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi typed: That thing was standing outside looking at us just now.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Just now?"

Lin Qiushi nodded.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Oh, just look at it, anyway, this thing can't enter the house under normal circumstances." His tone was light, as if it was just a trivial matter, "If it can really get in, it can be regarded as his own. ability."

Lin Qiushi glanced at Ruan Nanzhu, but said nothing.

Others were not as calm as Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu. They looked out of the window, and most of them had strong fear in their eyes.

No one knows when they will be able to leave this terrible hell.