Kaleidoscope of Death

After the year passed, it was almost time to come in with Gu Longming.

Ruan Nanzhu selected the note of the sixth door, on which was a name that everyone knew by heart - Minotaurus.In ancient Greek mythology, a monster with a tauren and a human body guarding a labyrinth.

In myths, it is a hybrid species of humans and white cattle, with extremely cruel temperament, locked in a huge maze on the island of Crete, and eats seven pairs of virgin boys and girls every year.Afterwards, he was beheaded by Theseus, the illegitimate son of the King of Athens. All in all, from this myth alone, one cannot get much information about the door.

Lin Qiushi also showed this clue to Gu Longming in advance, and Gu Longming expressed his full gratitude to Lin Qiushi after receiving it.And Lin Qiushi also simply gave Gu Longming a vaccination, saying that they could not be responsible for Gu Longming's life when they entered the door this time, which made Gu Longming understand.

Gu Longming responded one by one, saying that he was already prepared not to come out.

The time to go in is the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, and the New Year has come to an end. Everyone has finished their leisure vacation and started to get busy again.

Lin Qiushi prepared everything and began to wait to enter the door.

The tenth day of the Lunar New Year came soon, and it was a sunny afternoon. There was no one in the villa, only Lin Qiushi was sitting in the living room eating the freshly fried pumpkin seeds that Lu Yanxue had made.Lu Yanxue's cooking skills are always good. The fried pumpkin seeds are five-flavored and very fragrant. Lin Qiushi can pass the whole afternoon with just a handful.

Ruan Nanzhu had already changed his clothes and was upstairs. Lin Qiushi saw that it was almost time, so he went up to find him with a bulging backpack on his back.

Because of the previous door, Lin Qiushi deliberately stuffed a lot of food in his bag.Some daily necessities outside the door can be brought inside the door, but more foul weapons are not, such as hot weapons such as guns cannot be brought inside the door.

Of course, there may be some special restrictions after entering the door. For example, in the door of the mental hospital, the NPC set a rule for them that they cannot eat food brought in from outside.In fact, most of the time, there are relatively few such restrictions, and Lin Qiushi can only be prepared. Anyway, the fact that he has to open the box if he wants to eat at the tenth door has left a big shadow on him.

Lin Qiushi entered Ruan Nanzhu's bedroom, sat on the bed with him for a while, and felt the atmosphere around him change, but in a blink of an eye, Ruan Nanzhu who was sitting beside him disappeared.Lin Qiushi got up and pushed open the door in front of him, and saw twelve black iron doors appearing in the original corridor, which looked so familiar.

He walked to the sixth door and stretched out his hand to open the iron door. The next moment, Lin Qiushi was instantly sucked in by a strong suction force, and the pictures around him also changed dramatically. When he opened his eyes again, He felt a slight shaking under his feet.

Lin Qiushi took a closer look and found that he appeared on a huge old ship.It was dusk at this time, and the black clouds in the sky were so low that it seemed that they were about to press down on the sea level in the next moment.The deep black sea water was rolling in front of his eyes, blown into violent waves by the wind.

Lin Qiushi smelled the salty smell of sea water. The old boat under his feet couldn't help shaking due to the excessive wind and waves. He lowered his head and saw the wooden floor with some seaweed creatures clinging to it, which made people feel very uncomfortable. Comfortable.

Lin Qiushi walked a few steps forward and saw the dim light emitting from the cabin. He walked into the cabin along the corridor and heard a sad cry from the cabin.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. , was a young girl, wiping her tears with her hand, "You perverts, you must have kidnapped me, I want to call the police and arrest you all!!"

Most of the people around were silently listening to her crying. Anyway, there were only a few reactions from the newcomers, most of them were crying, a few tried to escape, and some of them were mentally weak and broke down immediately when they came in.

Lin Qiushi stood there without moving. He noticed that there were a few people with unsightly faces around the little girl. These people's faces were full of panic. They were obviously not prepared for the matter of entering the door. This girl is also a newcomer.But they didn't cry like this little girl, and their emotions were calm.

Lin Qiushi searched the crowd, and soon found his target - a woman sitting in a corner, smiling at him.

The woman was wearing a long skirt, which was exactly what Ruan Nanzhu was wearing before entering the door.

Lin Qiushi had a score in his heart, walked slowly in front of the woman, and stretched out his hand: "Yu Linlin."

"Zhu Meng." The woman held his hand and said with a smile, "The marriage in the family is bound by a thread, cherish this fate."

Lin Qiushi laughed: "Yes, cherish this relationship."

This dramatist of his family really has no stage to make a stage, and he has to be on the stage.

While the two were talking, a young man entered the door rashly. Although the man's face was unfamiliar, his clothes told Lin Qiushi his identity. He was Gu Longming who had agreed with Lin Qiushi on the Internet.

Gu Longming was covered in water, and when he came in, he cursed in a low voice: "Damn, you actually threw me into the lifeboat—why didn't you just throw me into the sea, are you jealous of my beauty—"

Although his voice was very low, Lin Qiushi's hearing was excellent, so he easily heard what he was cursing, and felt a little dumbfounded for a while.

Of course, he didn't laugh, but coughed dryly, covered his mouth with his hand, and swallowed the smile.Gu Longming's eyes turned around in the crowd, and soon fell on Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu. He walked over with a smile, greeted them, and pretended to meet by chance.

In fact, this trick of pretending to meet by chance is also useful in the early stage of the door, but in the later stage of the door, everyone has become a fine fox, and people without partners are aliens.

As for whether they would be recognized by others as a group, Lin Qiushi was worried before, but now it doesn't matter.

The cabin of the old ship is not big, and the light is not bright. The lighting equipment is only a few small kerosene lamps above the head, which flicker from time to time with the shaking of the old ship.

It was getting darker outside, and the number of people in the crowd gradually increased, finally staying at the number fourteen.

Everyone looked around and talked to the teammates they found. The crowd was divided into several teams almost quickly, but the few newcomers were isolated and had to form a team by themselves.

While the crowd was discussing something noisy, a middle-aged man walked in from outside the door. The man was dressed like a medieval pirate, holding a dangling kerosene lamp in his hand.

"Welcome to the Black Lagoon." The man opened his mouth, his voice sounded very hoarse, as if drinking or smoking for a long time had caused irreversible damage to his throat, "I hope everyone can have a good time here." He said After saying this, he smiled nervously. The sharp laughter was like scratching the blackboard with his fingernails, which made people's scalp tingle.

"Ten days later, the Black Lagoon will reach the harbor." The man said, "The journey will be over by then, please enjoy this wonderful time."

As soon as the man finished speaking, someone rushed out of the cabin. Lin Qiushi originally thought that this person was afraid, but after a while, he heard violent vomiting from outside—it seemed that some unlucky guy was seasick.

"Where is this place?" The little girl who was crying before was also frightened by the man in front of her. She said, "Are we filming a show? I'm really scared. I want to quit, can I? I don't want to play anymore, please." Please……"

The man ignored her at all and just looked at the crowd indifferently.

The little girl wanted to step forward to hold him back, but stopped when she ran to his side, and then backed away with a pale face, as if she saw something extremely terrifying.

Lin Qiushi's eyes were not as good as Ruan Nanzhu's, because the light was dim and he couldn't see anything, but Ruan Nanzhu explained the situation in a low voice, he said: "The man's body is covered with a kind of black bug."

Gu Longming shivered and said, "Is he alive or dead?"

"I don't know." Ruan Nanzhu said, "It doesn't look very good anyway."

Under normal circumstances, only npcs who provide them with key information are relatively normal. If they are abnormal, there are almost no normal people.

Lin Qiushi did not expect that their door this time was actually an old ship, and it seems that the time limit is ten days.

"Let's go, I'll take you to a place to sleep." The man said, "It's getting dark...and it's going to rain soon." After he said a few words, he laughed nervously, and everyone who laughed became even more uneasy.

The man took them to the cabin on the ship and began to assign rooms.

Most of the rooms here are double rooms, and there are only a few triple rooms. Originally, Lin Qiushi was allocated a double room, but Gu Longming had the cheek to find a man to change the room number, and finally got a triple room.

"You dare to bargain?" Lin Qiushi looked at Gu Longming with admiration.

Gu Longming: "Isn't this afraid of death..." He doesn't want to live alone. Although it's not kind to be a light bulb, it's better to be a light bulb than to be a dead person.

Ruan Nanzhu had a smile on his face, and said, "That's right."

They also wanted to check the situation of the whole ship, but because it was getting late, it was really not safe to act outside.So I thought about resting first and making plans tomorrow morning.

So the three of them took the keys and went back to the room, and went to bed after a simple wash.

While Ruan Nanzhu was changing clothes, Gu Longming poked Lin Qiushi and said in a low voice, "Brother, you are too unkind, why don't you tell me you have such a beautiful girlfriend?"

Lin Qiushi said vaguely, "...well."

"It's amazing." Gu Longming said, "Oh, if I have such a girlfriend, I want to get tired of being with her every day."

As he spoke, he showed an envious expression to Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi looked at his appearance, but he began to think in his heart what would happen if he knew that Ruan Nanzhu was a cute girl.Of course, he can't tell Gu Longming now, after all, Gu Longming is not a member of Obsidian, and the fact that Ruan Nanzhu wears women's clothes is also the biggest secret in Obsidian...

Ruan Nanzhu over there changed his clothes, walked in and asked, "What are you two talking about?"

"It's okay." Lin Qiushi said briefly, "He praised you for looking good."

Ruan Nanzhu let out a meaningful sigh when he heard the words.

Gu Longming: "..." Why did he feel a little cold on his back?

The beds on the boat exude a damp smell, which makes it very uncomfortable to lie on. At this time, the wind and waves are getting bigger and bigger, and even the sleeping place is shaking.Lin Qiushi thought of the brother who was so seasick and dizzy at night, and kept throwing up when they left there, and thought that this person might be basically useless.

The sky outside completely darkened, only the sound of howling wind and waves beating each other remained. Lin Qiushi closed his eyes and gradually fell asleep, but before he fell asleep, he was awakened by a thunderclap.This thunder seemed to explode above their heads suddenly, and with a loud bang, the three of them woke up from their sleep in an instant.

Then there was the sound of raindrops crackling and falling, and the rain was splashing, accompanied by the whistling wind, as if it wanted to destroy everything.

The place where they were lying was shaking even more, Lin Qiushi sat up from the bed.

He looked out at the dark night through the window, but saw two lights on the deck of the ship.It seems that only kerosene lamps can be used for lighting on the boat, so how does this kerosene lamp stay bright in the rainstorm... Lin Qiushi was wondering, but suddenly felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the two lamps, Ruan Nanzhu who was sitting behind him whispered He opened his mouth: "Don't look."

Lin Qiushi: "Huh?"

"That's not a lamp." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Those eyes."

A pair of yellow eyes that do not belong to humans. The owner of the eyes is spying in the dark night, with an evil meaning, as if they are beasts looking for prey.

Lin Qiushi looked away instantly, and he said, "What is that?"

"I don't know, I can't see clearly." Ruan Nanzhu said, "There are human outlines, but they don't look like people."

Lin Qiushi frowned slightly, but when he glanced out of the window again, he found that those eyes had disappeared.

The sound of thunder sounded one after another, and the salty smell of sea water became more intense.

Ruan Nanzhu climbed onto Lin Qiushi's bed, the two embraced each other and fell asleep, and soon fell asleep again.However, Gu Longming, the only single dog, did not have such good luck. He was lying next to Lin Qiushi, his eyes extremely sad, thinking that he might have to eat dog food these days until he was full.

The heavy rain lasted until the early morning and gradually stopped. However, although the rain stopped, the weather still did not clear up.The black rain still shrouded the boat. When the alarm clock rang, Lin Qiushi even thought it was not dawn. He looked at the time and found that it was already eight o'clock in the morning, but it was still dark outside.

"Good morning." Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi greeted each other.

Lin Qiushi said: "Good morning, it's very dark today."

Ruan Nanzhu said: "It should continue to rain." He and Lin Qiushi walked to the deck and saw black sea water rolling around the hull.

Looking up, they couldn't see any land, only a vast sea, and only the old ship under their feet was the only reality.

This isolated environment can easily have a negative effect on people's spirits. Even Lin Qiushi feels that the picture in front of him feels a little uncomfortable.

"Let's go, go have breakfast." Gu Longming called to the two of them.

"He's quite nervous." Ruan Nanzhu said thoughtfully when he heard Gu Longming's shout.

"Yes." Lin Qiushi said, "He has a good mental quality."

Inside the door, you may not be so smart, but you must be brave enough.In the face of some horrible scenes, fear will make people lose most of their thinking ability. No matter how smart a person does not have a strong heart, he may not be as good as the nervous Cheng Qianli in the door.

The three of them went to the place to eat, and saw that the restaurant could almost be described as lifeless.

Lin Qiushi didn't know why at first, but after he read the menu, he couldn't help feeling a bit depressed.

All the fish provided on the boat were not very fresh. Gu Longming poked a fish head with dead eyes with his chopsticks, and said, "Is this edible?" Just looking at it made me feel sick.

"It looks terrible." Lin Qiushi said, "Would you like to taste it first?"

Gu Longming picked up some fish gills with his chopsticks, tasted it, and his expression twisted: "Fuck, this door has been deducted for food, right? Why is it so unpalatable? It seems like it's been left for three or four days. You Try it?"

Lin Qiushi said: "No, no, no."

Gu Longming: "..."

Most of the breakfast in the restaurant is stale fish, other than that there are only some tasteless noodles and beans. The environment here is already bad enough, but the food in front of us is simply worse.

But Lin Qiushi and the others were totally right. Seeing that they couldn't eat breakfast, they quietly went back to the room and took out the prepared food from their backpack.

Gu Longming watched them take out a bottle of Laoganma from their bags, his eyes straightened, and said, "You even brought Laoganma with you, are you here for a spring outing?"

"Do you want it?" Lin Qiushi poured the old godmother on the noodles brought out from the restaurant.

"If you want, more." Gu Longming shyly said.

They finally finished their breakfast and were ready to start exploring on the boat.

This ship has a total of three floors, and its structure is a bit like those ships in the medieval era of great navigation, but it is very old and full of traces of time.

Except for the Npc, no other crew members were seen on the boat. There should be only one Npc in the whole boat.Waiting on the boat to return was the task left by the NPC, but Lin Qiushi had every reason to believe that if they failed to find the door within ten days, the trip would go back and forth—another ten days.

When Lin Qiushi walked to the second floor, he heard a booming sound. He was not sure if Ruan Nanzhu and the others heard it, so he asked, "Did you hear it?"

"What?" Gu Longming didn't seem to hear it.

Ruan Nanzhu said: "I seem to have heard it, but it's not very clear."

"It came from the corner..." Lin Qiushi walked forward following the voice, and said, "Go and have a look."

However, before he got close to it, Lin Qiushi smelled a strong fishy smell, which was so disgusting that it made people feel sick when they smelled it. Fortunately, Cheng Yixie was not here, otherwise he might be fainted on the spot.

It was the same room that made the sound and smell, because they were close enough at this time, Gu Longming and Ruan Nanzhu also heard the sound.

The three of them slowed down and saw the scene in the house through the window.

This is a kitchen. There are some knives hanging in the kitchen, and the most eye-catching ones are the densely packed dead fish that are hung up next to it.

There was a man wearing an apron standing in the middle of the room, and he was cutting something with his back to them. Gu Longming observed for a while, but almost didn't spit it out, and said, "Don't tell me he's making breakfast for us—"

Ruan Nanzhu was very calm: "It's possible."

Gu Longming: "Ouch!!" He even tasted the fish in the morning.

Lin Qiushi patted Gu Longming's shoulder sympathetically.

But the man in the kitchen was the second living NPC they saw on the boat.

The three of them stood at the door of the kitchen and watched for a while, seeing that the man had no other actions except chopping fish, so they decided to go to other places to have a look first.

Soon, they found a rather special room. This room was locked, with curtains drawn on the windows. It was very quiet inside, but a strong fishy smell could still be smelled.At first Lin Qiushi thought it was the smell they picked up in the kitchen, but after smelling it carefully, he found that it was coming from the room.

"Do you want to go in and have a look?" Gu Longming leaned on the window and looked in, but he didn't see anything.

Ruan Nanzhu thought for a while and said, "Try it." Then he took out the issuing card and started to unlock it.

Gu Longming stared straight at his skillful movements, and he looked at Lin Qiushi again: "This...is this your basic skill?"

Lin Qiushi joked with a smile: "Yes, if you want to join us, you must first learn how to pick a lock."

When he said this, he heard a click, and Ruan Nanzhu really opened the lock, but it was very strange that after he opened the lock, he pushed the door, but found that although the lock fell off, it was still hanging inside. With another lock, the chain on the lock held the door, so that they could only push the door open a crack at most, and they couldn't push it completely open at all.

"Wait." Lin Qiushi suddenly made a sound, preventing Ruan Nanzhu from pushing the door any further. He said, "Stop first, there is movement inside the door."

Ruan Nanzhu's movements stopped, but at the moment he stopped, a hand covered with scales and sharp nails protruded from the crack of the door, as well as a pair of yellow eyes. Kindly peering outside.