Kaleidoscope of Death

There were not many things in the backpack, Lin Qiushi controlled his slightly trembling hands, and quickly found what he wanted.It was a silver-white gun, which looked no different from ordinary guns, with three bullets in the magazine.

This is a prop that Lin Qiushi obtained from other people in the door of the oil lamp. Although he has never used it, according to his and Ruan Nanzhu's guesses, it is considered to be a rare destructive prop in the door, and it is very precious.

The howling of the box girl came from the kitchen, which meant that she was definitely not on the second floor, so the things in the box in front of them were most likely box people, and box people could be killed.

Lin Qiushi can only gamble once, and even if he loses, he still has a last resort.At this time, Liang Miye was almost unable to control Ruan Nanzhu. She exhausted all her strength to barely slow down Ruan Nanzhu's pace, and could only look at Lin Qiushi with anxious eyes.

Lin Qiushi took a deep breath, stood up, turned around and pulled the trigger in his hand directly at the box in front of him.

"Bang bang bang!" There were three loud gunshots accompanied by screams, and the bullets from Lin Qiushi's hand penetrated the wooden box, blasting three large black holes in the wooden box, and the boxman hidden inside issued a There was a scream, and bright red blood overflowed from the hole and flowed all over the floor.

Ruan Nanzhu seemed to be frightened by the loud noise and paused slightly, but continued to walk towards the box.

When Lin Qiushi saw this scene, his heart sank. He gritted his teeth and rushed towards the box.

Liang Miye was slightly taken aback when she saw Lin Qiushi's actions. At first she didn't understand what Lin Qiushi was going to do, but soon she came to her senses and said in amazement: "Lin Lin—you—"

Before she finished speaking, she saw Lin Qiushi grabbing the lid of the box with her hands, and opened the wooden box in front of Ruan Nanzhu before she approached the wooden box.

I have to say that even though he was mentally prepared, Lin Qiushi's heart stopped for a moment when he really opened the box. He saw what was inside the box... It was a completely distorted person, all limbs were broken , trapped in this narrow wooden box in a strange posture, his eyes turned a terrifying gray color, like two black holes... At this time, he was wide open unwillingly.And on his forehead, there was a big blood hole, which was obviously blasted out by Lin Qiushi with a gun just now.

Lin Qiushi paused for two seconds before realizing that he was fine. He let out a long breath, relaxed his tense body, and turned his head to look at Ruan Nanzhu, who also stopped.

Ruan Nanzhu stood there without moving, a trance appeared in his expression, he seemed to be slowly withdrawing from that abnormal state, after about a moment, he opened his mouth in a hoarse voice: "I... What did you do just now?"

Hearing his voice, Liang Miye knew that the skill time was over, she let out a long sigh of relief like Lin Qiushi, and limp on the ground: "Zhu Meng, you almost died just now!"

Ruan Nanzhu was a little puzzled, he said: "I..." He was silent for a while, and then completely let go of the influence of the box girl's skills, "I was tricked?!"

"Yes." Lin Qiushi looked up at him, "It's a good thing I brought props..." He hadn't really realized the importance of props before, but at this moment he finally felt that these things are really life-saving. Gun, there must be at least one between him and Ruan Nanzhu.

Ruan Nanzhu stretched out his hand and pinched the corner of his eyes. He looked at Lin Qiushi and the box that had already been opened, and almost gritted his teeth: "Even if I got hit, you can't open the box first—" If the gun destroys the box, it's useless ?Isn't Lin Qiushi gone? !

Lin Qiushi made a dazed look on purpose, and said, "But I'm sure the box man is dead, why can't it be opened."

"Don't take me for Cheng Qianli." Ruan Nanzhu is not a fool, how could he be so easy to fool, how could he not guess what Lin Qiushi wanted to do.

Lin Qiushi was not sure whether the prop gun would work, so he was gambling with his life. If it didn't work, he was trading his life for Ruan Nanzhu's.

"Insulting Cheng Qianli, I want to report you with his brother." Lin Qiushi stood up from the ground, looked back at the box, "Can you deal with this thing, it can't be kept in our room all the time, right?"

"According to the practice inside the door, this thing is probably gone after we go out for a while." Liang Miye is very experienced.

"Okay, let's discuss it in another place." Lin Qiushi stood up.

Ruan Nanzhu's expression was still not very good-looking. Lin Qiushi hurried over to hug him and said that he was really scared just now. If he hadn't brought this gun, things would have been terrible.

Ruan Nanzhu remained silent with a sullen face, no matter how coaxed Lin Qiushi was, he would not open his mouth, apparently because he was very dissatisfied with Lin Qiushi's self-assessed behavior of opening the box just now.

Lin Qiushi had no choice but to think that Ruan Nanzhu would stop being angry after a while.

They changed rooms and began to discuss the matter.

"Do you remember the box girl's rules?" Ruan Nanzhu frowned and said, "It's about information disclosure."

"Remember." Liang Miye said, "You mean..."

Ruan Nanzhu said: "I suspect that the rules inside the door are similar to those at that time."

"How to say?" Liang Miye asked.

When playing board games, because everyone is sitting at the same table, when the player draws a card in the box, he can choose to disclose the information or choose not to disclose the information.There is a huge advantage of disclosing information, that is, other players can also know the status of the props, but when disclosing the information, the player playing the box girl will also know the information and know the props the player has obtained.

"So you mean that the box girl can also know the information we released?" Liang Miye stared, "That's right, when we release the information, we are always in the dining room, next to the kitchen!"

"She must know, otherwise she wouldn't choose me." Ruan Nanzhu said, "At least for now, I am the only one who shows that he knows the detailed rules." The action of the skill will be very convenient, because no one among the players even knows what the use of the instruction card of that skill is.

"But wouldn't this be too foul?" Lin Qiushi frowned. The door would not deliberately set up a dead end. In a board game, if you don't know the rules, it's almost impossible to solve it.

"Yes, so I think we have missed very critical information." Ruan Nanzhu said, "If I'm not here, there must be other ways to know the rules of the game, but we haven't found the rule book yet, or..."

"Or it has been found, but the person who was found has not been made public!" Liang Miye said, "Is that so!"

Ruan Nanzhu nodded.

"But why did that person hide the rules?" Lin Qiushi said, "Or, how sure is he that he will go out..."

"It's purely a matter of probability." Ruan Nanzhu said, "He doesn't have to guarantee that he will be able to get out, he just needs to guarantee that he is the last one to die."

As long as there is only the last person left inside the door, the rules of the door will take effect. At that time, there will be no problem for that person to open the box casually, because he is already in an invincible state.

Liang Miye and Lin Qiushi didn't speak after listening to Ruan Nanzhu's analysis.

"Of course, this is just my guess." Ruan Nanzhu spread his hands, "Maybe we all guessed wrong, it's just that the difficulty of the door has become greater."

"Sigh." Liang Miye sighed, "I don't even dare to think about what it would be like to enter the tenth door without any clues..." Let alone No.11.

The three of them were talking when they heard shouts from the corridor. Someone was calling Zhu Meng and Yu Linlin, asking if they were okay. It seemed that the people downstairs had heard the gunshots and came over to look.

"I'll go out and have a look." Liang Miye stood up.

"Go ahead and tell them we're fine." Ruan Nanzhu said, "I want to talk to him alone." He pointed to Lin Qiushi.

Liang Miye felt that the atmosphere between the two was not right, and knowing that Ruan Nanzhu must still be angry at Lin Qiushi's risk of life just now, she smiled and said, "Okay, don't talk for too long."

She stood up, walked out of the house, and closed the door behind them.

How could Lin Qiushi not know what Ruan Nanzhu was going to say? Before Ruan Nanzhu opened his mouth, he quickly made a stop gesture and said, "Nan Zhu, I only ask you one question before you speak."

Ruan Nanzhu: "Huh?"

Lin Qiushi said: "If this happened to me, would you open the box for me before I opened it?"

Ruan Nanzhu fell silent, the answer to this question was clear to both of them.

There is only one piece of chocolate, and he will give half of it to Lin Qiushi, and hide the remaining half and return it to Lin Qiushi tomorrow.

"So don't be angry." Lin Qiushi said, "We all know what the other party will do." He comforted Ruan Nanzhu's emotions, "Okay, Nanzhu?"

"I just want you to live." Ruan Nanzhu said, "At least, don't die because of me."

Lin Qiushi looked into Ruan Nanzhu's eyes and whispered, "Has there ever been such a thing?"

Ruan Nanzhu pursed his lips, just when Lin Qiushi thought he would not answer, he nodded: "Yes."

Lin Qiushi didn't know what to say, so he reached out and hugged him.

"He also has a three-year-old daughter." Ruan Nanzhu said, "I was very weak at that time."

Lin Qiushi had never heard Ruan Nanzhu mention these things, and he thought they had been buried in Ruan Nanzhu's heart for a long time.

The language was weak at this time, Lin Qiushi didn't speak, but hugged Ruan Nanzhu tightly, trying to give him strength.

"Dong dong dong." There was a knock on the door, and Liang Miye said from outside: "Are you two finished, can I come in?"

"What's going on in just 3 minutes?" Ruan Nanzhu replied, "You think I'm your boss?"

Liang Miye: "..." Friend, do you know too much?

But despite saying this, the two still opened the door, and saw Liang Miye and Sun Yuanzhou standing outside the door, their expressions looked very subtle.

Especially Sun Yuanzhou, his eyes secretly looked at Ruan Nanzhu, as if he wanted to find some strange traces from him.

Ruan Nanzhu ignored his gaze, approached Lin Qiushi's arms directly, and said, "Is there something wrong?"

"Someone has issued a prop again." Sun Yuanzhou said, "I want to ask you how to use it."

Ruan Nanzhu said: "What props." He asked.

Sun Yuanzhou said, "A fire extinguisher."

As soon as the words "fire extinguisher" came out, the eyes of the three of them lit up.

"Why, is this prop useful?" Sun Yuanzhou also sensed the joy on the faces of the three of them.

"Of course—" Ruan Nanzhu said, "This prop can interrupt one of the box girl's actions."

"What do you mean?" Sun Yuanzhou said, "Be more specific."

"For example, I was tricked just now." Ruan Nanzhu said, "The box girl used 'I really want to open it' on me."

Sun Yuanzhou's expression twisted for a moment: "What did you say?? Then why are you still here——you issued other props?"

"No, it was cracked by the things we brought in." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Did you hear the gunshot just now?"

"Yeah." Sun Yuanzhou calmed down now, "Go on."

"As long as the fire extinguisher is used, the skills used by the box girl will be interrupted." Ruan Nanzhu said, "That means at least this round, her skills are invalidated."

Sun Yuanzhou thought for a while: "How many times can the box girl's skills be used?"

"This is uncertain." Ruan Nanzhu said, "In the game, her skills can only be used once, and they have to be put back into the deck. After that, she needs to draw cards to continue using them." His finger pointed Chin, "but don't know it inside the door."

"Oh." Sun Yuanzhou nodded.

"By the way." Ruan Nanzhu said, "My friend has indeed opened up a new prop, so don't tell others."

"What?" Sun Yuanzhou didn't expect Ruan Nanzhu to say this suddenly.

"It's a rag doll called Miss Mary." Ruan Nanzhu said, "The props to save the box girl... But if the box girl knows, it will be more troublesome."

"Then why did you tell me?" Sun Yuanzhou looked around and frowned, "Aren't you afraid that she's hiding in the box in this room?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "She's in the kitchen." He said, "If you find the remains of the box girl, you must tell me. If you save her, we can go out."

"Okay." Sun Yuanzhou nodded.

The two exchanged some more information before dispersing.

When Sun Yuanzhou left, Lin Qiushi looked at Ruan Nanzhu in surprise: "When did you find Miss Mary?" Miss Mary is the box girl's favorite doll, and it is one of the most important props in the game. Get Miss Mary After finding the remains of the box girl, you can open the bungalow and leave here.

"I didn't find it." Ruan Nanzhu spread his hands.

Lin Qiushi was stunned for a moment, and then understood Ruan Nanzhu's meaning, he said: "You are doubting..."

"Hush." ​​Ruan Nanzhu made a silent gesture.

Lin Qiushi didn't say anything.

Liang Miye looked at the interaction between the two at a loss. She also knew the usefulness of Miss Mary, but she didn't understand why Ruan Nanzhu wanted to lie to others. He had already found Miss Mary.

But it seemed that Ruan Nanzhu had no intention of explaining, so Liang Miye didn't bother to ask any more. Anyway, Ruan Nanzhu would definitely not intentionally harm anyone.

Today passed like this, and no one opened the box in the afternoon, so nothing special happened.

But when eating, Lin Qiushi obviously felt that the atmosphere in the room was not right. Those who hadn't eaten for two days were almost staring at the people who were eating on the table with green eyes.

After being stared at for a while, Xiaoji was a little annoyed, and said bluntly: "Do you think it's useful? Why don't you find a box and open it, so you can come and eat something."

They can bear it for two days, but it is difficult for three days. I have to say that the door can really think of a way to force them to be active.

Lin Qiushi reckoned that they would persist for one more day at most, and by the fourth day, someone would definitely be unable to bear it and open the box.

"Wei Xiude, you are really nothing!" The hungry and panicked newcomers, seeing Wei Xiude's appearance of feasting, gritted their teeth with hatred, "You brought us in and treated us like this? Didn't you say that you are very experienced? !"

Faced with such doubts, Wei Xiude ignored them at all, and just wanted to say in a calm tone: "You cannot kill people inside the door. As long as you touch your companion, you will definitely die at the hands of your companion who has turned into a ghost."

What he said was obviously telling these people that if you want to kill him, you'd better weigh your own strength.

Everyone looked at him and wanted to tear him apart, but there was nothing they could do.

After dinner, everyone dispersed.

Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu also went back to the room and went to bed to rest.

Now there are a total of twenty living people in the bungalow, of which only eleven have opened the box, and the remaining nine are still carrying it.The three people who died all became boxmen, but one was disposed of by Lin Qiushi during the day, so there were only two boxmen left.

The person who opened the box today has no loss, but Lin Qiushi has a premonition that something will happen tomorrow, because hunger can make people crazy, and the box girl will never miss this opportunity.

At present, there are two box girl skills and three props, one is a stethoscope, the second is gasoline, and the third is a fire extinguisher. Their daytime harvest is a code for the safe.

After sorting out the information, Lin Qiushi was about to go to sleep. Ruan Nanzhu slipped onto his bed again, put his arms around his waist, and said in a low voice, "Lin Lin's waist is so thin."

Lin Qiushi said: "..."

Ruan Nanzhu said: "It's really easy to touch."

Lin Qiushi bowed his head and kissed him: "Go to sleep."

Ruan Nanzhu laughed, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

They originally thought that these people would be able to carry them until the next day at least, but in the middle of the night, there was a mournful howl from downstairs.

After Lin Qiushi was awakened by the crying, he was stunned for a moment, saw Ruan Nanzhu also woke up, and asked, "Did they open the box?"

"Probably so." Ruan Nanzhu rubbed his eyes, "I thought I could make it until tomorrow." There was food in the refrigerator in the kitchen, but people who didn't open the box couldn't eat it either. These people probably couldn't make it until tomorrow morning. Forced by hunger, I still opened the box, but my luck seemed to be unlucky.

The crying came from the kitchen. When Lin Qiushi walked in, he saw a girl crying on the wooden box, shouting: "Xiaoqian, Xiaoqian—"

Lin Qiushi remembered that she seemed to be one of the newcomers Wei Xiude brought in, and she had a close relationship with another boy named Xiaoqian, and it seemed that she was a couple outside the door.

"Xiaoqian, Xiaoqian!" The girl slapped the wooden box vigorously, her whole body was about to twitch from crying, and beside her was a card and half-eaten bread.

Undoubtedly, this was just as they had guessed. The couple, who couldn't bear the hunger, came to the kitchen, opened two boxes after they were opened, and were dragged in abruptly by the box girl or box man.

Ruan Nanzhu walked to her side, bent down to pick up the card, and saw the words on the card: My Miss Mary—this is another skill of the box girl.

Lin Qiushi also saw the content of the card, and he gasped: "This skill was actually issued."

"It's a matter of time." Ruan Nanzhu was very calm, and put away the card casually.

The girl was still crying, and after a while the kitchen was full of people, including Sun Yuanzhou, who came over and asked, "Is the box girl or the box man he drove out?"

The girl didn't answer, and continued to beat the wooden box.

Sun Yuanzhou pulled her up and said, "Can you be more sober, if you really want to go with him, go and open the box."

The girl turned her head numbly, and the crying finally stopped.

"Is the box man or the box girl inside?" Sun Yuanzhou continued to ask.

"I don't know," replied the girl.

"How could you not know?" Sun Yuanzhou frowned.

"I was eating," the girl said, "when I turned around, he was pulled in." As soon as she finished speaking, her lover's miserable cry came from the wooden box.

"Help, it hurts, Xiaomei, I'm in pain, help me—" The voice was completely human, and when Xiaomei heard the cry, her expression froze, she turned around and was about to rush towards the box, but He was grabbed by Sun Yuanzhou.

"Wei Xiude, this is your man, don't you fucking care?" Sun Yuanzhou was furious.

Wei Xiude smiled: "We are all adults, why do we always have to let others take responsibility."

Sun Yuanzhou said: "Fuck you—" He rolled up his sleeves and was about to fight, but was stopped by the people around him.

"Forget it, don't care about this kind of beast." Sun Yuanzhou's friend said disgustedly, "He will be unlucky sooner or later."

Sun Yuanzhou spat.

That Xiao Mei just sat on the ground blankly, staring at the wooden box in front of her, without moving. Ruan Nanzhu looked at her appearance, walked over slowly, and said something in her ear.

Xiaomei's sluggish expression gradually faded away, her expression changed from sadness to anger, and she stared at Wei Xiude who turned and left with a gloomy look that made people's backs shudder.

"What did you say to her?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"It's nothing." Ruan Nanzhu said, "People always need something to live on, whether it's happiness or anger."

Lin Qiushi fell into silence, not knowing what to say for a while.