Kaleidoscope of Death

After hearing Lin Qiushi's words, Zhou Hanshan's eyes fell on the statue, and he didn't speak for a long time.

The statue's tears had dried up, and the eyes had returned to their previous indifference, as if the hint given to them just now was just their illusion.

Gu Longming bent down and picked up the wooden man. He stared at the wooden man in his hand and said, "Zhou Hanshan, how long have you been in love with Zhu Ruyuan?"

"Half a year." Zhou Hanshan replied, he walked to the corner of the utility room, found a wooden stool at random, and sat on it regardless of the layer of dust on it, he said, "We usually meet at events ...She said she was busy with her studies, and I understood her." He complained that people in love would lower their IQ, and now that I think about it, it is true.They have been full of disobedience since they met each other, let alone know each other and love each other.

The beginning of this story was a mistake, but he, being stupid, continued this mistake and paid a painful price.

Lin Qiushi listened to Zhou Hanshan's words, but didn't respond. He didn't say anything until he had finished speaking, "Come to make a wish tonight."

"What?" Zhou Hanshan thought he had heard it wrong at first, but after seeing Lin Qiushi's calm expression, he was sure that Lin Qiushi had indeed said this, "You mean... let's make a wish on this statue again?"

"Time is running out." Lin Qiushi picked up the broken wooden figure in his hand, "You don't want to become like this, do you?"

Their wooden figurines were all shattered, and they were protected for a while, but not for a lifetime. An accident might happen around them at any time and take the lives of the three of them.

So leaving this world and ending all this is the best choice.Although making this decision is not an easy task.

"I don't feel any malice in it, what about you?" Lin Qiushi looked at the statue in front of him.

At this time, the statue in front of them was already very human-like, whether it was the temperature or touch of the skin, it was approaching people.Zhou Hanshan stared at the statue for a while, then suddenly got up and pressed his cheek to the statue's chest. After a while, his expression changed, and he turned to look at Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi guessed what he was thinking from his expression.

Sure enough, Zhou Hanshan's next sentence was: "I heard the sound of a heartbeat."

Gu Longming was taken aback: "Heartbeat?"

Zhou Hanshan was numb from the stimulation, he said: "Yes, the sound of heartbeat." He looked at the sculpture in front of him, and carefully touched her cheek with his hand, "Is she going to become a human..."

Although this sentence is a question, in fact, everyone knows very well that the statue in front of them should be able to become a human in a few days, but they don't know what price it will cost for her to become a human.

Lin Qiushi has decided to stay in the activity room at night and make another wish.

Zhou Hanshan sat in the activity room, looking silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

Lin Qiushi was playing Sudoku, and Gu Long lowered his head to study the wooden figure in his hand. The atmosphere in the room was frighteningly stagnant.

On the way, Lin Qiushi and Gu Longming went to the toilet together. On the way to the toilet, Gu Longming said, "What are you thinking, Yu Linlin?"

Lin Qiushi said, "I'm thinking about Zhou Hanshan."

"What do you want him to do?" Gu Longming's impression of Zhou Hanshan is much worse now. To put it bluntly, he was the one who caused this incident. "If he hadn't fallen in love with Zhu Ruyuan, this incident might not have happened."

"Yes." Lin Qiushi said, "Do you think he has something else to lie about?"

Gu Longming nodded.

Everyone has some secrets, but those secrets may be kept until the moment of death.

"At night, you have to be careful." Lin Qiushi said, "I don't think it's that simple to make a wish."

"Will she come to stop us?" Gu Longming asked.

Lin Qiushi washed his hands with his head down, watching the cold water washing away the neat lines on his palms, he said, "Where you are talking about, is it Zhu Ruyuan or Zhou Hanshan."

"Zhou Hanshan?" Gu Longming didn't understand, "Why did he stop us from making a wish?"

"Because maybe our wishes are contrary to his wishes." Lin Qiushi closed the water, took out a piece of paper and wiped his hands, "Do you remember where we met Zhou Hanshan?"

"It's in the classroom... wait, the three of them..." Gu Longming suddenly remembered something, he remembered what the three students did in the classroom, "The three of them are also making a new wish??"

"That's right." Lin Qiushi had a half-smile, "How much did you say Zhou Hanshan kept from us?"

Xiaohe who was cut in half, his friend who was beheaded, and the only remaining Zhou Hanshan. When he and Gu Longming first met the three of them, the three of them were wiping blood on the wooden figure in the classroom.According to Zhou Hanshan, smearing blood on it is one of the processes of making a wish, but there is a loophole that cannot be covered up—there are no statues in the classroom.

But if according to Zhou Hanshan's statement, the object of their wish is a statue, then why did these three people hold the ceremony in the classroom.Either the wish had no effect at all, or the statue had no effect at all.

"Actually, Zhou Hanshan is not the only survivor in the school." Lin Qiushi said, "Do you still remember the librarian?"

"Remember." Gu Longming's mind was in chaos, but he always felt that there was a most critical point among these tedious clues, and that point was to sort out all the threads, "Librarian...you mean..."

"He's still alive." Lin Qiushi said, "He also has the wooden figure on his body, which means that Zhou Hanshan is indeed lying."

Gu Longming smiled wryly: "I feel like I'm doing a difficult math problem."

Lin Qiushi spread his hands: "The math problem is much simpler than this one. It's just that we haven't thought about many details. The fact that the librarian is still alive proves one thing."

"What's the matter?" Gu Longming could only ask.

"If you make a wish, you will not die." Lin Qiushi said, "Maybe there is a price to pay, but that price may not necessarily be life."

Gu Longming was stunned, and then fell silent: "Then why-"

"I now suspect that the statue and Zhu Ruyuan are not the same thing at all." Lin Qiushi said, "The statue fulfills the wish, and the resentful spirits are killing each other. Of course, this is just my guess without any basis."

Gu Longming: "So you want to make a wish?" He was still wondering why Lin Qiushi would make a wish on the statue, but now it seems that he obviously wants to prove something.

"Yes." Lin Qiushi said, "At night, all the puzzles will be solved, and then you will keep an eye on Zhou Hanshan."

"Okay." Gu Longming nodded.

"Let's go." After Lin Qiushi finished speaking, he found that Gu Longming was staring at him. He was a little confused and said, "What are you looking at me for?"

"I just think that you seem to have changed a lot." Gu Longming said, "After entering the door with me, have you entered many doors again?"

"No." Lin Qiushi said, "I only entered a low-level door with my friend... What's wrong?" He felt that Gu Longming's question was a bit inexplicable.

"No, then you grow up really fast." Gu Longming said, "Compared to last time, you are even stronger." He sighed, "Maybe some people are naturally suitable for being inside the door."

Lin Qiushi frowned, he didn't expect to hear such a sentence from Gu Longming.Although Ruan Nanzhu said similar things before, he didn't have any special feelings about it, and he simply regarded it as Ruan Nanzhu encouraging novices.

The two returned to the room and saw Zhou Hanshan pressing his face on the table, looking listless.

Lin Qiushi looked at the time and said, "Let's go, you can have lunch."

"I'm not hungry." Zhou Hanshan said, "I don't really want to eat."

Gu Longming: "Aren't you afraid of staying here alone?"

Zhou Hanshan thought for a while, but he still seemed a little scared, and said, "Well, the lively cafeteria makes people feel comfortable."

They have something in their hearts, and they don't feel very happy when they eat.Lin Qiushi saw Zuo Sisi while eating, he thought about it, and went to say hello to Zuo Sisi.

"What are you doing?" Zuo Sisi said, "I haven't seen anyone all morning, and I still want to find you."

"In the activity room." Lin Qiushi said, "Is there something wrong?"

Zuo Sisi glanced over there: "Do you know who the NPC you are carrying is?"

Lin Qiushi said: "What happened to him?"

Zuo Sisi seemed to have found out something and came here to tell Lin Qiushi. She said, "His name is Zhou Hanshan... He has a very good relationship with those dead students."

Lin Qiushi nodded, indicating that he understood.

"His classmate said that he was dating a girl named Zhu Ruyuan." Seeing Lin Qiushi's calm attitude, Zuo Sisi lowered her voice, "But I checked, and there is no girl named Zhu Ruyuan in senior year."

"Thank you." Lin Qiushi thanked her, "Zhu Ruyuan is indeed not in her senior year."

"Then how old is she?" Zuo Sisi widened her eyes.

"She's a dead person." Lin Qiushi thought about it, and told Zuo Sisi about it.

Zuo Sisi: "..." Her expression twisted, "Are you serious?"

Lin Qiushi said: "Yes."

Zuo Sisi: "Then why are you so calm?" She immediately had a thin layer of goose bumps on her arms when she heard the news.

"No, I've already been scared." Lin Qiushi said.

Zuo Sisi sighed: "Okay, you guys are amazing, I found it with great difficulty, but you guys already knew... the door and the key, do you have any clues?"

Lin Qiushi said: "A little bit."

Zuo Sisi knew that this point must be more than theirs, but the two of them were not familiar enough to exchange information with each other casually, so she was very interesting and didn't ask, but just asked Lin Qiushi to be careful about Zhou Hanshan, saying that this NPC might have question.

After Lin Qiushi thanked her, he turned and went back to their table.

"What wishes do you want to make tonight?" Zhou Hanshan asked without appetite, poking the rice in the plate with his chopsticks.

"What do you think we wish for?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"Naturally let this end quickly." Zhou Hanshan was listless, "I can't hold on any longer."

"Okay." Lin Qiushi said, "Then let this end quickly."

The waiting time is long, and the nights that come quickly on weekdays, today make people feel like the days are like years.

The three of them were waiting in the activity room, but Zhou Hanshan fell asleep lying on the table.

Lin Qiushi didn't dare to rest. The damaged wooden man in front of him reminded him that accidents may happen at any time, and it doesn't care whether you are resting or not when it kills you.

It started to rain outside the house, and the hour hand turned round and round, and finally it was eight o'clock in the evening.

It was getting dark, and the whistling wind mixed with rain poured in from the edge of the window. Lin Qiushi raised his hand to look at his watch, and then looked at Gu Longming for a moment, feeling that the time was almost up.

Lin Qiushi woke up Zhou Hanshan, who was drowsy, and said, "Get up, it's getting dark."

Zhou Hanshan shuddered, got up from the table, and said vaguely: "I had a dream."

"What did you dream about?" Gu Longming asked him.

"I dreamed about my friends." Zhou Hanshan said, "They said they missed me very much." He stretched out his hand and wiped his face, "I... miss them too." After he finished speaking, he smiled wryly , "Maybe I will go to accompany them soon."

Gu Longming didn't speak, but patted him on the shoulder to show comfort.

After the sky darkened, they went to the utility room and pushed the statue out.

The statue still looks motionless, but it has the temperature and touch of human skin. This kind of quality makes the whole statue full of weird feeling. Zhou Hanshan touched it carefully, and murmured that he won't really become a human. What should I do if I become a human being?

Lin Qiushi said, "Can I make a wish?"

"Okay." Zhou Hanshan said, "cut your fingers, smear the blood on the wooden doll, and then make a wish on this statue..." He looked at Lin Qiushi, "What is your wish?"

Lin Qiushi did not answer, he took out the prepared dagger from his pocket, put it on his finger and was about to cut it off, but suddenly stopped.

"What?" Zhou Hanshan asked.

Lin Qiushi lowered his head and looked at the ground.

There were three people in the room, and they hadn't gone out since dinner, and the rain fell after dinner, but at this time, there were a bunch of wet footprints in the room, which were from The doorway extended to their feet, and judging from the size, they belonged to women's footprints.

Just like what Lin Qiushi had seen in the classroom before, there was another person in this room, but they couldn't see it.

Lin Qiushi stopped, handed the dagger to Zhou Hanshan, and said, "You come first."

Zhou Hanshan was taken aback, as if he didn't expect Lin Qiushi's reaction, he said: "...But I have already made a wish."

Lin Qiushi: "Who stipulated that you can't do it a second time?"

"I don't know what to promise." Zhou Hanshan seemed a little flustered, "I..."

Lin Qiushi looked into his eyes and said, "Zhou Hanshan, what exactly was your wish at that time?"

Zhou Hanshan: "I—"

"Don't lie." Lin Qiushi said, "If you lie, I will smash the statue in front of you." He walked up to the statue as he spoke, with an expression that didn't look like he was joking at all.

Zhou Hanshan stopped talking, his expression was extremely complicated, as if he wanted to say something.

"Make a wish." Lin Qiushi's voice was very soft, but no one would think he was joking, "make a wish to end this."

Zhou Hanshan held the dagger, his expression was unpredictable.

Gu Longming also noticed the change in Zhou Hanshan's attitude, he looked suspicious, stared at Zhou Hanshan and called out his name: "Zhou Hanshan?"

Zhou Hanshan laughed, put down the dagger in his hand, and said lightly: "You all know, right?"

Lin Qiushi sighed, his guess really became a reality, Zhou Hanshan still has something to hide from them, and this matter occupies a very important position in the whole incident.

Gu Longming also saw the change in Zhou Hanshan's attitude, and couldn't help swearing.

Lin Qiushi said: "Zhou Hanshan, let me take a guess. The wish you made at the time was indeed not realized...but it is about to be realized, right?"

Zhou Hanshan was expressionless, at this moment he was completely different from the timid and cowardly him.

"Very anxious?" Lin Qiushi said, "When you find out that the wish is realized in a different way than you imagined?"

Zhou Hanshan sighed a long time, and said: "I really hate dealing with smart people." He stood up from the chair, walked to the statue, stroked the statue's skin gently with his hands, and said, "Yes, It's different from what I imagined, so... I can't die." He turned his head and looked at Lin Qiushi, "So I will trouble you to die instead of me."

After he said this, there was a strong wind in the house, and the electric light above his head was creaked by the wind, and it was about to go out.

Lin Qiushi heard a sticky sound of water, turned his head, and saw Zhu Ruyuan standing behind him, Zhu Ruyuan was still wearing a long skirt, her face was pale, and she stared at Lin Qiushi with resentment in her eyes, but the original water stains turned red of blood.

Gu Longming was startled by her sudden appearance, and involuntarily took two steps back.

Lin Qiushi was very calm, he put his hand into his trouser pocket casually, and when he stretched out his hand again, there was already a smear of blood on his finger, he wiped the blood on the wooden man pinched in his hand, and said to himself Wish: "I hope Zhou Hanshan's wish will never come true."

Zhou Hanshan was very calm at first, but after hearing Lin Qiushi's words, his expression changed instantly. He roared, held his dagger and rushed towards Lin Qiushi: "How dare you—"

Lin Qiushi's reaction was extremely quick, and he directly dodged Zhou Hanshan's attack, kicked his hand, and kicked the dagger he was holding into the air.

Zhou Hanshan's body was already thin and weak, not to mention Gu Longming, he couldn't even beat Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi punched him in the stomach and knocked him to the ground. Behind Lin Qiushi, Zhu Ruyuan grinned, showing a ferocious smile, and said, "As you wish."

"No!!!" Zhou Hanshan screamed.

Then, there was the sound of stones breaking in the room. Lin Qiushi looked up and found that the statue standing beside them began to shatter piece by piece.

Zhou Hanshan threw himself on the statue, weeping and protecting the statue with his hands, trying to put it back together.However, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't stop the statue from falling apart. Zhou Hanshan took the fragments into his arms and cried more and more desperately: "It's only a little bit, obviously it's just a little bit--"

Lin Qiushi just looked at him like this.

Gu Longming's expression was very complicated, he said: "What the hell did you do... Are you exchanging the lives of your friends for something?"

Zhou Hanshan didn't answer Gu Longming's question. He focused all his attention on the statue in front of him. The statue was completely broken. Lin Qiushi walked up to the statue and saw a bronze key in the fragments.

Although he had guessed before, when he actually saw the key, he was still relieved.

Zhou Hanshan sat on the ground blankly, holding the statue in his arms.

"Zhu Ruyuan's wish is that the statue has a soul. Your wish is to be with Zhu Ruyuan." Lin Qiushi picked up the key and said to Zhou Hanshan, "There are two ways for you to be together. One is that you die. The second is that she becomes a human being, and you chose the latter."

Zhou Hanshan raised his head and looked at Lin Qiushi quietly.

Lin Qiushi: "It's probably not Zhu Ruyuan who can fulfill the wish, but the statue... right?"

Zhou Hanshan shrugged his shoulders, as if he was crying or laughing.

Lin Qiushi said, "Your wish is not to win an award at all...so the paradox does not exist, and the price they pay is just paying for the wishes of their friends."

It's not that easy to bring the dead back to life.

Lin Qiushi even suspected that Zhu Ruyuan's statue also had its own soul, but that soul looked exactly like Zhu Ruyuan.It is what satisfies Zhou Hanshan's wish.

"It wants to kill me." Zhou Hanshan's eyes were full of exhaustion, "Because it can't fulfill my wish." There is still a part of the soul missing, and without that part, Zhu Ruyuan will never be able to become a human.

"No." Lin Qiushi put the key into his pocket, "Haven't you ever thought that it was Zhu Ruyuan who wanted to kill you?"

Zhou Hanshan was stunned.

"Maybe she doesn't want you to continue." Lin Qiushi said, "Do you think it's a happy thing for her to change from a statue to a human?"

Zhou Hanshan looked down at the fragments in his arms.

"Of course, this is just my guess." Lin Qiushi said.

After he finished speaking, he said to Gu Longming, "Let's go."

Gu Longming nodded, and walked out with Lin Qiushi. When the two reached the door, they heard a muffled hum from the room. Lin Qiushi turned around and saw Zhou Hanshan lying in a pool of blood, with a sharp dagger stuck in his abdomen .

This picture is not surprising, but it makes people feel very uncomfortable.

Gu Longming sighed, Lin Qiushi turned his head, and walked out without stopping.

People always have to pay a price for what they do. Zhou Hanshan killed all his friends, whether it was intentional or not, he has to pay back this debt.