Kaleidoscope of Death

After a simple breakfast, everyone dispersed in the dining room.

This time, Wang Tianxin, who had lost his female companion, had no intention of going out, and wanted to go back to his room with a embarrassed expression.Someone asked him very bluntly, saying: "Wang Tianxin, are you going to stay in the house and not go out?"

Wang Tianxin was suddenly asked, although he looked a little embarrassed, but his attitude was very firm: "Yes, I don't feel well, I don't want to go out today."

The person who asked him sneered: "I'm afraid you will feel uncomfortable in the next few days."

Wang Tianxin became angry from embarrassment: "It's none of your business, so what if I'm uncomfortable, if you have the ability, you will be uncomfortable with me!"

These words were very shameless, and everyone showed contempt for him after hearing it.

Except for the two newcomers, most of the people here are people who have been through several doors, and they have also encountered participants like Wang Tianxin who are extremely passive in the door.

This kind of person will not take the initiative to find clues, all he thinks about is how to save his life, and has no team value at all, it is purely a burden.

Ruan Nanzhu glanced at Wang Tianxin, said nothing, and left with Lin Qiushi.

After leaving the hotel, Ruan Nanzhu said nonchalantly: "According to my previous temper, people like Wang Tianxin don't want to leave here alive."

Lin Qiushi: "Didn't you say you can't kill people inside the door?"

Ruan Nanzhu smiled, "I'm a law-abiding citizen, how can I kill people? There are so many ways to kill people, why should I do it myself?"

Indeed, the world inside the door is inherently dangerous, as if human life has become the most worthless thing.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Once there are two or three people like him, they will be easily wiped out."

Lin Qiushi: "How to say?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Think about it, people will compare each other. You are working hard to find clues, but someone hides in the room and does nothing. Can you balance in your heart?"

Lin Qiushi: "That's true..."

Ruan Nanzhu didn't continue this topic, but his expression was very obvious. As long as Wang Tianxin dared to make any fuss, he might really not be able to get out of this door.

Today they plan to go to the houses with children in the town to see again. Although Dong Tianwei in the team said that those houses would not allow them to watch their children, Lin Qiushi still feels that these children may be the key clues for a breakthrough.He and Ruan Nanzhu walked through the town and came to a row of dilapidated two-story buildings.

The walls painted on these buildings have almost fallen off, traces of rain erosion can be faintly seen on the corners of the walls, the doors of the houses are locked, and the small yard is separated from the outside world with barbed wire, and it is full of dense weeds—— To be honest, if it weren't for the lights in the house, this place really doesn't look like a place where people live.

However, the styles of these rows of buildings are very similar, and they all have an atmosphere that no one can enter.

Lin Qiushi asked Dong Tianwei about the situation of these families in detail in the morning. Dong Tianwei's answer was: Although they successfully entered these houses at that time, they did not see the children at all. The attitudes of these families were very indifferent. answer.

Lin Qiushi said: "Then have you checked the room?"

Dong Tianwei: "The inspection was done, but nothing was gained. Anyway, there are no children inside."

Lin Qiushi understood.

Just as Lin Qiushi was thinking, Ruan Nanzhu had already rang the doorbell.

After the crisp doorbell rang, the old door in the house creaked lightly. An old lady showed a gloomy face from the other side of the door. She looked around with cloudy eyes and saw Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nan standing at the door. candle.

Lin Qiushi originally thought that she would ask them why they came here, but who knew that the old lady walked up to them and opened the door without saying anything, then turned around and went back to the house, acting like I won't tell you anything, you guys Convenience.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Old man." He called out, but the old lady didn't pay attention at all, and went back to the house as if she couldn't hear anything.

Since she didn't want to talk, Lin Qiushi and the others didn't force her.

Before entering the house, they checked the small yard in front of them, but found no useful clues.Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi said: "The information given to us by the town is that there is a seven-year-old girl in this family, and she has not disappeared yet. If the mayor's information is correct, there must be a child here, but the family's Hidden."

Lin Qiushi nodded, Dong Tianwei also said this.

"So, let's look for it." Ruan Nanzhu pushed open the wooden door in front of him, and the two entered the house.

The room was very messy, and all kinds of strange sundries filled the room. The old lady who opened the door for them just now was sitting on a rocking chair, looking drowsy.The whole room was lit by the faint light from a small light bulb above the head, making it look dim and old.

"Look for it separately, and call if you have something to do." Ruan Nanzhu said to Lin Qiushi in a low voice, "Don't worry too much at critical times." After all, people are designed to deceive people, and their lives are almost gone. .

Lin Qiushi nodded, pointed to the second floor, and typed: I'll go to the second floor to have a look.

Ruan Nanzhu hummed.

When Lin Qiushi said that he was going to the second floor to take a look, the old lady raised her eyes and glanced at him. Although the movement was very subtle, Lin Qiushi still caught it.He knew something in his heart, and felt that the child should have been hidden on the second floor.

After crossing the long stairs, Lin Qiushi went upstairs.

The second floor should be the owner's bedroom and study, which are equally old, but at least there are no messy things downstairs.

Lin Qiushi checked room by room, but found no trace of the child. He even checked the closet and under the bed, but still found nothing.

This room is so big, where can a living person hide?

Lin Qiushi really couldn't figure it out.

Just when Lin Qiushi was in doubt, his keen hearing caught an unusual voice.

The sound was a bit like fingernails scratching on wood, very subtle, but Lin Qiushi was sure he heard it.He raised his eyes, looked around, and quickly found the source of the sound...it was the corner of the room.

Lin Qiushi looked over and saw a wooden box about half a meter in the corner.With the size of this wooden box, it must not be able to hold a person, maybe there is a secret passage in the box.

Thinking so, Lin Qiushi bent down and checked, and was sure that the wooden box was the source of the sound, but there was a copper lock hanging on the wooden box. After thinking about it, Lin Qiushi decided to call Ruan Nanzhu from downstairs and let him The lock opens.

"Is there a voice here?" Ruan Nanzhu asked Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi typed it to him: Yes, there should be a secret passage here.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Okay." He squatted down and started to open the lock.

The lock was not complicated, and Ruan Nanzhu opened it in just a moment. However, at the moment the lock was opened, Lin Qiushi's eyes suddenly widened—he saw the scene inside the box.

"Ah... ah..." The child whose body was broken and trapped in the box in a distorted posture groaned weakly. Her body was almost completely distorted, and it was stuffed into the box in front of her. Just looking at her It's hard to imagine that she's still alive.

Seeing this scene, Ruan Nanzhu frowned.

Lin Qiushi was about to step forward to get the child out, but Ruan Nanzhu reached out to stop him: "No need, she is already dead."

Lin Qiushi: "What... but... she..."

Ruan Nanzhu: "Look at her neck."

Lin Qiushi took a look, only to find that the child's neck was bent at almost [-] degrees. It is absolutely impossible for a normal person to be alive after being bent like this.This is impossible to happen outside the door, but inside the door, it is possible because she is no longer a living person.The child in front of him raised his black eyes and looked at Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu resentfully, his pale lips murmured unintelligible words, as if he was cursing something.

Lin Qiushi cursed in a low voice.

"The way they hide children is really incomprehensible." Ruan Nanzhu was speaking when a roar came from behind him.

Lin Qiushi turned his head and saw the old woman who was originally sitting on the first floor appeared outside the door at some point.She saw Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi open the box, screamed angrily, and rushed towards them.

After Lin Qiushi dodged flexibly, he found that the old woman had a knife in her hand——

"Let's go!" Ruan Nanzhu yelled and planned to leave. Lin Qiushi followed him and ran towards the stairs. The two hurried downstairs and left the yard. They thought that the old woman would chase them out, but they didn't expect the house to be quiet. Quietly.

"She didn't come out?" Lin Qiushi panted heavily, staring at the wide open door in a daze.

"It doesn't seem to be there." Ruan Nanzhu was also watching, and after confirming that no one was chasing him, he said strangely, "Why don't I go back and have a look?"

Lin Qiushi: "...Do you really want to go back and watch?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "You stay here, I'll go back and watch."

Lin Qiushi thought for a while: "Forget it, let's stay together, in case something happens, we can take care of it."

Ruan Nanzhu said: "OK."

So the two people who ran out went back to the house again, this time they were very careful, they first observed carefully outside the door to make sure the old woman was gone before going in again.

The two cautiously climbed up the stairs to the second floor. As soon as Lin Qiushi reached the stairs, he heard an ominous sound... the sound was very crisp, a bit like the sound of bones being broken.

Ruan Nanzhu glanced at Lin Qiushi, obviously he heard it too.

The two walked towards the room just now, and after walking to the door, they saw clearly what happened inside.

The old lady was grabbed by a pair of hands. Those hands protruded from the box. They were slender and slender, with pale skin. They wrapped the old lady around like a snake, and then grabbed the old lady's body and began to drag it into the box.

The small box was already full, but because of the strength of the hands, the old lady was forced into half of her body. Her bones were obviously broken, and her body twisted and twitched in an abnormal posture... Also lost his life.

This scene was so horrifying that Lin Qiushi had a layer of white sweat on his arms after watching it.

"What should I do?" Lin Qiushi asked Ruan Nanzhu.

Ruan Nanzhu was silent for a moment, then lit a cigarette: "Go and see other houses."

Lin Qiushi: "Well..."

The two tacitly closed the wooden door in front of them, turned and left.

"Is that girl stuffed by the old man? Is she afraid that she will be taken away by the noodle man?" On the way, Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu were discussing.

"It should be." Ruan Nanzhu said.

This is very strange. It is reasonable to say that the family should protect the children, but in order to "protect" these children, they even put them in that small box and let them die miserably.Even so, they don't want to watch the child being taken away by the noodle man.

"Hey, why is that person's back so familiar?" Just as the two of them were walking towards the remaining houses, Lin Qiushi saw a familiar back. After carefully identifying it for a while, he was surprised: "This is not the one from Wang Tianxin." Missing female companion??"

Ruan Nanzhu took a look: "It's really her."

Standing by the side of the road, the two saw the girl named Liu Ya passing through a remote path in the town and walking towards the desolate jungle. Please.

"Follow up and take a look?" Ruan Nanzhu suggested.

Lin Qiushi nodded.

Then the two followed behind Liu Ya, wanting to see where she was going.

Liu Ya moved forward all the way, and soon left the town, and walked into the desolate bushes. These bushes were surrounded by fog, and only the path in front of her was clear.

"Will following her go out of bounds?" Lin Qiushi asked Ruan Nanzhu in a low voice.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Probably not, her current state is very wrong... I think she should be inhuman."

Lin Qiushi pursed his lips. In fact, they knew that when Liu Ya left with Lauren's sister yesterday, they felt that the girl was in danger.After all, it is the world inside the door at this time, even if you see a person, it may not really be a "person".

Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu were afraid that Liu Ya would find out, so they didn't dare to get too close. Through the mist, Ruan Nanzhu saw Liu Ya's footsteps stop, and he stretched out his hand to hold Lin Qiushi to signal Lin Qiushi to stop.

At this time they came to a ruin, which was once part of the town, but is now abandoned.There are wreckage of buildings and overgrown weeds everywhere, and it looks full of a kind of eerie desolation.

Liu Ya stood quietly in the depths of the ruins, as if waiting for something.

Lin Qiushi heard a rustling sound coming from the dense fog, as if something was walking inside.

Ruan Nanzhu and him crouched behind a piece of ruins, holding their breath, not daring to make any noise.

Soon, a black figure came out from the depths of the thick fog.

It was a tall man, wearing a black suit and a tall top hat. He had no facial features, his face was white, his hands and feet were slender, and he wriggled like a snake. He walked slowly in front of Liu Ya, stopped.

Liu Ya silently stared at the person in front of her.

Then, the noodle man made a move that Lin Qiushi didn't expect. He reached out, grabbed his top hat, and started to take it off.

However, the hat seemed to be glued to his head...Lin Qiushi even heard a sound like a brocade being torn—the slender ghost actually tore off his skin and the hat.

This scene looked too painful, Lin Qiushi felt uncomfortable watching it.

Ruan Nanzhu gently held Lin Qiushi's wrist to calm his emotions.

Lin Qiushi wanted to say that he was fine, but was afraid of making a sound, so he had to give up.

After tearing off the top hat abruptly, the slender ghost handed the hat to Liu Ya.

Liu Ya took the blood-stained top hat solemnly, stroked it gently for a moment, and then put the top hat on her head.

Then, a strange change began to take place in her body.

Her body shape began to grow taller, her hands and feet began to become slender, her skin became paler, and her facial features began to disappear... In short, Liu Ya was changing into the appearance of a slender ghost.

With the change of Liu Ya, the original slender ghost made a sharp cry. He opened his mouth, revealing a big blood-red mouth and fine teeth... To be honest, this is the first time Lin Qiushi saw the slender ghost Shadow opened his mouth.

The original slender ghost began to grow shorter, as if its body had been drained, it became shorter and shriveled.

In the end, it directly turned into a piece of human skin, and the flesh and blood seemed to have evaporated.

Liu Ya has completely turned into a slender ghost. Her clothes were torn due to the change in her body, so she bent down, picked up the suits that fell on the ground, put them on one by one, and then helped her The top hat, after making a weird laugh, reached out to pick up the shriveled human skin.

Lin Qiushi watched helplessly as the newborn slender ghost stuffed the shriveled human skin into his mouth, and then swallowed it mouthful.

This scene was supposed to be very disgusting and terrifying, but Lin Qiushi focused his attention on something else—he clearly saw that there seemed to be a metal-like thing wrapped in the human skin, although Lin Qiushi wanted to deceive himself. , but he was very sure that he saw what that metal was... yes, it was the key to leave this door.

The key to this door is actually inside the body of the slender ghost.

For a while, the atmosphere between Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu became heavy.

Liu Ya ate the human skin of her predecessor, showing her satisfaction, she turned around and disappeared into the thick fog. Looking at his leaving back, Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu didn't speak in tacit agreement, but turned around and left. It wasn't until I returned to the town that I finally let out the breath I was holding.

Ruan Nanzhu had a deep expression on the side: "Did you see it?"

Lin Qiushi: "I see."

Ruan Nanzhu: "It's very long..."

Lin Qiushi's expression froze: "What's so long?" Hands and feet?

Ruan Nanzhu smiled and said nothing.

Lin Qiushi sensed a teasing taste from his smile, and finally realized what part Ruan Nanzhu's sentence is very long, he twisted his face: "...Did you look so carefully?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Actually, I don't want to, it's all because my eyesight is too good."

Lin Qiushi: "I wronged you?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "It's okay."

Very good, great, now after their perverted follow-up, it is finally determined that the slender ghost is a man, or a man with a standard or even a long part. Their harvest is really great... Lin Qiushi is so sad thinking.

"It seems that they all have a unified template for turning into slender ghosts." Ruan Nanzhu finished joking and started to get down to business, "The hat is the passing object."

Lin Qiushi: "What about the key?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Two ways, one, let's turn over the slender ghost and cut the key out of his stomach."

Lin Qiushi: "I'd better choose the second." He didn't think that his combat power was capable of defeating that thing. In fact, even if Ruan Nanzhu was added, he still felt that this matter was quite hanging.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Second, do it while they are exchanging."

Lin Qiushi was lost in thought.

Ruan Nanzhu: "I guess that hat is very important, so when the first ghost took off his hat, we did it to interrupt their inheritance."

Lin Qiushi: "It makes sense."

The reason is reasonable, but how to interrupt is indeed a problem, and the worse thing is that if the interrupt fails, they will probably have to stay on the spot.The lanky ghost doesn't look like a good-natured character.

"It doesn't have to be done by the two of us." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Although clues are important, lives are more important. We can tell everyone about this, and then everyone will come together."

Lin Qiushi thinks it makes sense. At any rate, there are more people and more power, and more people have more solutions, but the problem still exists: "What if they don't want to?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "I don't want to..." He sneered, "If you don't want to, just wait and die." He smiled, looked at Lin Qiushi and said seriously, "I promise they will die before us."

Lin Qiushi felt that Ruan Nanzhu was not joking.

The two of them had been running around for a day, and they were a little tired now, so they planned to go back to the hotel to rest.

When passing by the square, Lin Qiushi found that the missing person notice posted by him yesterday appeared on the bulletin board again, but this time there was another one.

Lin Qiushi saw the picture posted on it, which was the girl who was forced into the box by her parents.

"I always feel like we are disaster stars." Lin Qiushi said casually, "All the children we have talked with will be unlucky."

After hearing what he said, Ruan Nanzhu said, "Maybe it's true."

Lin Qiushi: "Huh? What do you mean?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "It means that we are actually the accomplices of the slender ghost. Not only do we want to become that thing, but we also have to find a child for him."

Lin Qiushi: "..." He actually felt that what Ruan Nanzhu said made sense.

However, Lin Qiushi always felt that he seemed to have forgotten something, but he couldn't remember it. He pursed his lips and looked worried.

"What's wrong?" Ruan Nanzhu asked him.

Lin Qiushi: "...I feel like I have overlooked something." This feeling is very strange, as if he didn't remember it for a while, but his intuition kept reminding him.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Don't worry, just think about it slowly."

Lin Qiushi nodded.

The two went back to the hotel and ate something casually.

Lin Qiushi originally thought that Ruan Nanzhu would tell everyone about it directly, but he didn't expect him to mention it at all.

Facing Lin Qiushi's doubts, Ruan Nanzhu's explanation was very reasonable. He said: "Let's talk about it when we are sure that we are going to get the key. After all, there may be some people here who will become that thing, so don't tell the enemy the clues. .”

Lin Qiushi: "Yes."

He was sitting by the window, looking at the scenery in the distance, and suddenly he felt blessed: "I remembered!!"

Ruan Nanzhu: "What?"

Lin Qiushi: "I remember what I overlooked - do you remember when I said that I saw a few slender ghosts?"

Ruan Nanzhu nodded to indicate that he remembered.

Lin Qiushi said: "But none of the slender ghosts I saw were wearing hats."

Ruan Nanzhu frowned.

Lin Qiushi asked in disbelief, "Could it be that there are actually two slender ghosts in this town?"

Ruan Nanzhu's eyes were dark, and his voice was a little low: "It's very possible."

If so, things are even worse.