Kaleidoscope of Death

In the dark night, everyone walked in the bitter cold wind holding torches.

The heavy snow that had been falling before had stopped, but the wind was still frighteningly cold, and Lin Qiushi's feet made a crunching sound when he stepped on the ground.He was wearing thick clothes, his hat was pulled up to cover his ears and the lower half of his face, his body was slightly arched, and he carried a beautiful girl behind him.

No one talked to anyone along the way, and the atmosphere was eerily quiet.

When the temple that the carpenter mentioned appeared in front of everyone, someone finally broke the silence.

"Is this a temple?" Zhang Zishuang asked, "This temple looks... too weird."

The temple in the night looks really weird.At first glance it looks very old, but if you observe carefully, you will find that this temple is actually very delicate.The reliefs on the two pillars at the door alone are extraordinary.

Lin Qiushi put Ruan Baijie down, and held up a torch to look at the specific content of the relief on the pillar. He found that the carvings on the relief were about the scenes of the eighteen levels of hell. Whether it was evil spirits or suffering souls, they all looked lifelike on the pillar.

"This pillar is so beautiful." Ruan Baijie suddenly boasted.

"It's pretty." Lin Qiushi agreed.

These reliefs don't look like the products of this backward mountain village in front of me at all, and they are even close to being called handicrafts.

If it weren't for everyone's more important things now, maybe Lin Qiushi would take the time to observe carefully.

"Who will go first?" Xiong Qi asked.

He asked who would go in first, but no one answered.This kind of thing is really too dangerous. If entering the temple is a condition for triggering death, wouldn't those who enter first will become victims.

"Why do you have to go in alone." Ruan Baijie said suddenly, "What if that old man lied to us?"

Xiong Qi said: "But listening to him is better than fighting against him."

Ruan Baijie: "That's not necessarily true." She turned her head and looked at Lin Qiushi, "Qiu Shi, I'm afraid, let's go in together."

Lin Qiushi was a little hesitant when he heard the words: "But what if two people enter the temple is the triggering condition?"

Ruan Baijie said: "Now I don't know all the answers. I'd rather take a gamble. After all, if I go in alone, no one will know what happened." After she finished speaking, she glanced at the temple in the darkness in front of her, " After all...it’s a person who goes in, it’s not necessarily something else when it comes out.”

Her words made everyone have goosebumps, even Lin Qiushi was no exception.He reached out and rubbed his arm, looked at Ruan Baijie's expression, and finally gritted his teeth: "Okay."

Xiong Qi frowned: "Do you know what you are doing, if two people are..."

He seemed to be trying to persuade him, but was interrupted by Ruan Baijie, "What if there is only one person? Who can say for sure?"

This is indeed the case, Xiong Qi was silent.

"We don't care how you arrange the order." Ruan Baijie said softly, "It's too cold today, Qiu Shi, let's go in first, go home early and sleep."

Probably the word sleep was mentioned, reminding everyone that the terrible night was coming soon.If they linger here again, it is very likely that the whole thing will be wasted here, and what they will encounter by then is completely uncontrollable.

"Let's go." Ruan Baijie took Lin Qiushi's hand, and pressed her whole body against his body.

Lin Qiushi was used to Ruan Baijie's clinginess, he gritted his teeth and walked away after nodding his head.

The two of them walked towards the temple.

The others watched their backs and fell into a brief silence.

The temple is a wooden door, which is half-closed, and it is pitch black inside, and nothing can be seen.Ruan Baijie stretched out her hand and gently pushed open the door in front of her.

With a crisp creak, the door swung open, and the air inside rushed in.

Lin Qiushi smelled a faint fragrance, which was very faint, but it was very out of place in such an environment.

Lin Qiushi used the faint light of the torch to see clearly the decorations in the temple.

The temple is not big, and its structure is very simple. There are incense tables and some statues of gods in the middle, and a huge merit box next to it.There seemed to be some words engraved on the merit box, because Lin Qiushi couldn't see clearly because the distance was too far.

"Let's go." Ruan Baijie said.

The two continued to move forward, towards the futon in front of the statue.

The statue is a Buddha statue. Lin Qiushi doesn't know what kind of Buddha, but it looks kind and kind, revealing the taste of saving all sentient beings.

Ruan Baijie's expression was very calm. She knelt down on the futon and bowed to the Buddha statue.

Lin Qiushi stood by and held his breath.

After waiting quietly, nothing happened.The Buddha statue is still compassionate, silently looking at the believers in front of him with half-closed eyes.Except for the whistling wind, there is a reassuring tranquility in the temple.

Lin Qiushi breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's okay." Ruan Baijie stood up and wiped the dust off her knees, "Come on."

Lin Qiushi nodded, handed the torch to Ruan Baijie, and knelt down on the futon to worship.Lin Qiushi didn't know what Ruan Baijie was thinking when he worshiped. Anyway, he was very devout when he worshiped, praying for the protection of the gods in front of him.

"Okay." A few short movements seemed to exhaust people's strength. When nothing happened after the worship, Lin Qiushi was greatly relieved.

"Let's go." Ruan Baijie turned around, "We should go out."

So the two left the temple slowly.

When the people standing outside saw the two of them coming out intact, they all showed surprised expressions, and Xiong Qi asked, "Did something happen?"

Lin Qiushi shook his head: "No."

Although everyone didn't say anything, the expressions on their faces were very strange, and some people hesitated.

"Why don't we just go in two by two?" Xiong Qi said, "Since the people in front are all fine..."

"Are you sure they're all right?" A member of the group looked at Ruan Baijie and Lin Qiushi vigilantly, "Just now she said that what goes in is a person, but what comes out doesn't necessarily mean something. How can you be sure about the two of them?" Or a human?"

Lin Qiushi, whose identity was suspected, was about to explain, but Ruan Baijie waved her hand to stop him from speaking. She said indifferently: "We don't persuade you, you can do whatever you want."

"Brother Xiong, I'm afraid too." Xiao Ke said, "Shall we go in together?"

Xiong Qi seemed a little hesitant.

Among them, some timid group members began to look for partners, while some were still stubborn and refused to go against the old carpenter's statement.

"Then do it according to your own ideas." Finally, Xiong Qi made a decision, "Xiao Ke, let's go in together."

Xiao Ke nodded in surprise.

According to the order they decided before, the second group entered the temple was a celibate man.He went in alone and came out alone, and there was no accident during the whole process.It's just that when he came out, there was some confusion on his expression, as if he wanted to say something.

But before he could say anything, the third group had already entered.

"What did you see in the temple?" The only man who entered the temple asked Lin Qiushi in a low voice.

"I didn't see anything." Lin Qiushi said, "It's just statues and futons."

"Don't you think that statue is a bit strange..." the man said, "I've never seen such a statue before."

Lin Qiushi was stunned when he heard the words, but didn't understand what the man meant.

The man whispered: "Have you seen it? The appearance of the god is too strange..."

Lin Qiushi shook his head, he didn't quite understand what the man meant, but after he thought about it, a thought that made people's backs shudder appeared in his mind: "What do you... see the god like?"

"It's a woman." As soon as these words came out, the smile on Lin Qiushi's face disappeared, and the man was still whispering, but he didn't notice that there was something wrong with the expression on Lin Qiushi's face. Looking at me, what I hold in my hand is not like a magic weapon in the hand of a god statue, but more like..."

"Like what?" Lin Qiushi asked dryly.

"It's more like an ax for cutting trees." After the man said this, he glanced into the temple, "And after I finished worshiping, she seemed to move..." He finally found Lin Qiushi's body. The expression was wrong, "What about you? Did you see it too?"

"No." Although it was cruel, Lin Qiushi still told the man the truth, "The Buddha statue we see is different from yours."

"Why is it different??" The man's face changed instantly when he heard this, "What kind of statue do you see?"

"A Buddha..." Lin Qiushi said, "A man."

The man's face was as pale as paper, and he looked into the temple with eyes full of fear and despair. He trembled all over, and began to say in his mouth: "No, no, it won't be like this, how come, it must be you who have the problem , it must be you..." After he finished speaking, he looked around vigilantly, as if he was afraid that what he said would be heard by others.

The third group was Xiong Qi and Xiao Ke. When they came out, their expressions were also very calm, as if nothing strange happened.

Next is the fourth group... the fifth group... There are men and women in these groups, and one person has two people, but Lin Qiushi quickly discovered the pattern, as long as one person goes in, the expression is not very good when they come out.

When the last person came out, everyone finally determined a certain pattern - when one person went in and two people went in together, they saw completely different statues.

What Lin Qiushi and the others saw was a Buddha statue, while those who went in alone saw a woman with a strange smile and holding an axe.

"They must be wrong, we followed the carpenter's instructions..." Someone began to break down gradually after discovering this, and kept muttering, "There will be no mistakes, we will not make mistakes, the statue must It's that woman... yes, it's a woman."

Lin Qiushi could only comfort them: "This matter is indeed uncertain, so don't be too nervous."

In fact, everyone knew in their hearts that that woman could never be a god statue in the temple. Which temple would enshrine such a thing?

"Yes, not necessarily." Ruan Baijie laughed, stretched out her hand to brush her hair, and said softly, "Besides, so many people entered the temple together, even if they were going to die, it might not be me who died Well."

"Can you stop laughing." Xiao Ke said very bluntly.

"Why don't you laugh?" Ruan Baijie retorted coldly, "It's better to die laughing than to die crying."

After she said this, someone shouted: "Look at the pillars!!!"

Hearing this, Lin Qiushi looked up, and found the relief on the pillar, and began to squirm slowly.