Kaleidoscope of Death

No one knew what happened last night except Jian Qianyuan and her hapless companion who had died.

Lin Qiushi remembered that during the day yesterday, Jian Qianyuan was also one of those who disliked the bad taste of lunch, but facing today's equally disgusting and bland dead fish lunch, her strange behavior gave Lin Qiushi a bad guess.Could it be that Jian Qianyuan was also affected by that monster...

Jian Qianyuan didn't care about other people's thoughts at all. After eating enough, she left the restaurant contentedly touching her slightly bulging stomach. When she walked out of the restaurant, she seemed to notice that all the people on the deck were looking at her in horror. He smiled indifferently, and said to himself: "It actually tastes good, if you like it, you can try it too."

No one responded to Jian Qianyuan's words, so she shrugged her shoulders to make fun of herself, and turned to leave.

Lin Qiushi saw her randomly enter a room, and then the room changed, and Jian Qianyuan disappeared in front of everyone.

Room changes are happening all the time, and every few minutes, new rooms appear in front of the deck.

Some people are lucky, and the things in the room are taken out by others, but some people are unlucky and never find the original house again.

However, Lin Qiushi made a new discovery. When they were shuttling through the corridor, they were lucky enough to see the locked room they discovered yesterday.It's just that this time is slightly different from yesterday. The door of that room is wide open at this time. The chain that originally locked the door from the room fell to the ground in a mess and broke into several pieces. It looks like it was destroyed by violence. .

"I remember this one." Lin Qiushi said, "It's 201." He looked at the house number, and the house number he saw yesterday appeared in his mind, "Is there anything in it now?"

Ruan Nanzhu stood at the door without moving, looked into the dark door, and asked, "Is there any movement inside?"

"No." Lin Qiushi shook his head after listening for a while, he was sure he didn't hear anything.

"That thing should have left." Ruan Nanzhu took a step forward, stepped in, and lit the kerosene lamp on the table next to him.

The dim light illuminated the small room, allowing them to see clearly what the interior looked like.

This is an ordinary and extraordinary room. What is ordinary is its furnishings, which is the same as the place where Lin Qiushi and the others live. What is unusual is the extra things in the room - some fish scales.

These scales were almost all over the house, and even the house was filled with a disgusting fishy smell.Lin Qiushi also noticed that on the floor of this room, there was a layer of liquid that looked like water but was more viscous than water, which made people feel very uncomfortable.

And the marks scratched by sharp claws on the surrounding walls and furniture also told them that this room was once the room where the monster was held.

Lin Qiushi inspected these scratches and saw that these scratches are very deep, which is so true for a solid solid wood floor. Presumably, a fragile human body is even more vulnerable in front of it.

Gu Longming was disgusted by the things inside, but Ruan Nanzhu took out a tissue from his bosom, and collected some scales of this thing into it.

Although I don't know what the purpose of these fish scales is, but be prepared, just in case.

Lin Qiushi was looking for other traces in the house, and soon he found a man's shoe in the corner of the house. This shoe reminded Lin Qiushi of the man who was eaten yesterday.Did the monster drag its prey back into the room?Lin Qiushi was thinking about this, and Gu Longming said: "The time is almost up." He started counting the time after he came in, and at this time it was tens of seconds away from 5 minutes.

"Let's go, go out first." Ruan Nanzhu said, "There should be no other use for this place."

Lin Qiushi hummed.

Not long after the three of them left the room, the location of that room changed to another room, and Lin Qiushi's expression was slightly silent.

Ruan Nanzhu asked him what he was thinking.

Lin Qiushi said: "I think things may be a little worse than we thought."

"How to say?" Gu Longming asked doubtfully.

"Is the monster's position really fixed?" Lin Qiushi said, "or can it move?" Before seeing that room, he always thought that the monster's position was fixed.But seeing the broken chain at this time, he had a bad guess. The monster can move, and he can walk through this maze. Although he can't find the exit like a human being, he is lost in the maze. Human beings are like food in his eyes.

"Your guess should be right." Ruan Nanzhu looked at his watch, "There are still thirteen people, enough for him to feed him for ten days."

Gu Longming laughed dryly: "Are you guys joking?"

Ruan Nanzhu shrugged: "If you like this joke."

At dinner time, Lin Qiushi originally thought he would see the NPC covered in bugs, but found that the NPC did not appear. It seems that he will only appear in the restaurant during lunch, and it is a fixed NPC...

Everyone still ate dinner listlessly, except Jian Qianyuan.

She appeared in the restaurant again, and continued to feast on the fish in front of her. Because of Jian Qianyuan's unrestrained eating, everyone lost their appetite even more, and left the restaurant after eating some noodles casually.

The same is true for Lin Qiushi and the others, but before leaving, Lin Qiushi carefully observed Jian Qianyuan, wanting to see if there was any change in Jian Qianyuan.

However, what he was puzzled about was that Jian Qianyuan was still a pure human being at present, and there was no other abnormality except that she suddenly became fond of eating fish.

"I'm really afraid that I'll see her become that thing when I come over tomorrow." Gu Longming now has complicated feelings about Jian Qianyuan, he and Lin Qiushi are thinking about the same thing.

Neither Lin Qiushi nor Ruan Nanzhu spoke.

That night, Lin Qiushi didn't fall asleep much, and he kept thinking about Jian Qianyuan, the changes in her body, and the connection between the clues.

Ruan Nanzhu took out fish scales from his pocket and placed them on the table, observing them carefully.

There was no rain tonight, and the bright moon hung in the sky, casting a pale silver on both the cabin and the sea.The sea breeze came in through the window with a salty smell and heat, and the bed under him was shaking slightly. If it wasn't inside the door, the atmosphere would have been a bit like a leisurely journey.

Lin Qiushi looked out sideways, and the scenery outside the window would change every 5 minutes.

Sometimes he could see the deck, sometimes he could see the side of the ship, and sometimes it was a dark wall. The two people lying behind him seemed to have fallen asleep and their breathing became even.However, just as Lin Qiushi was about to fall asleep, he heard a very subtle sound—something was walking on the board. The sticky sound of skin touching wood can be heard.

And the sound got closer and closer, and finally stopped near their window.

Lin Qiushi held his breath, half-closed his eyes, and saw a tall shadow blocking the light from his window.Lin Qiushi...smelled a familiar fishy smell—he knew what the thing standing against the light in front of him was.

It was the huge monster with a fish head and a human body that they saw last night.

It was standing in front of Lin Qiushi's window at this moment, as if twitching its nose in search of something, Lin Qiushi held his breath and did not dare to move.

By the moonlight, Lin Qiushi saw that thing slowly stretched its hand to the window, and began to shake the window vigorously with its webbed hands.

The window was not firm, and there was a loud noise when it was pushed out. Ruan Nanzhu and Gu Longming, who were still asleep, woke up instantly. When they woke up, they saw the huge figure standing outside the window, and heard the low, like The roar of a wild animal.

Lin Qiushi originally thought that Gu Longming, who was sleeping, would cry out in horror when he saw this scene, but he didn't expect that he just shivered, and lowered his voice: "Fuck, am I having a nightmare? Why is this thing in our The door—”

Ruan Nanzhu was also very calm. He had already pulled out a table knife from the restaurant from his pocket, and said, "Maybe it's because we look delicious?"

Gu Longming touched his face, not daring to say anything: "...do I look delicious?"

Ruan Nanzhu looked at him sympathetically: "There are always monsters who like heavy flavors."

At this moment, Lin Qiushi almost admired the great nerves of these two people.

The monster stretched out its hand and pushed the window out of a big hole. All the glass on it shattered and shattered all over the ground. Then it tried to get in through the window, but when it found the window was too small, it moved the double convex. He raised his white eyes and set his eyes on the wooden door next to him.

"Fuck." Gu Longming cursed, "Is this thing really planning to come in?"

"It seems so." Ruan Nanzhu frowned, "Is death random? No...it's impossible! We missed something!"

While they were talking, the murloc began to hit the wooden door in front of him forcefully. The weak wooden door quickly became crumbling under its impact. Lin Qiushi could even hear the sound of the planks breaking.

"It will rush in later, I will stop it and you run away from the window." Ruan Nanzhu's voice sounded, still very calm, he said, "Did you hear that, Lin Lin?"

"No." Lin Qiushi said, "I won't leave you alone, don't make the same mistake." He frowned, his expression very unhappy.

Ruan Nanzhu was silent for a moment, and sighed as if giving up something, "Okay, as you wish." He handed Lin Qiushi a table knife.

"I'm not leaving either." Gu Longming said nervously beside him.

Ruan Nanzhu showed helplessness, but he didn't try to persuade him anymore. He looked at his watch and said, "30 seconds, hold on for another 30 seconds, stop it outside—"

Lin Qiushi and Gu Longming understood instantly—after 30 seconds, the room will change again, and the changed room can leave here and shake off the monsters outside.

But these 30 seconds are not so easy to win, because the murloc has already split half of the door panel with its sharp claws, and it is about to squeeze the scaled body through the gap.

Gu Longming turned around and moved the table against the door, while Ruan Nanzhu planned to pull the bed over to block the door.

Lin Qiushi looked at Ruan Nanzhu's actions, but suddenly remembered something. He remembered that when the murloc came to their window, the first thing he did was to sniff his nose——

"Give me the scales you collected during the day!" Lin Qiushi yelled.

"What?" Ruan Nanzhu was slightly taken aback.

"The scale you found in the monster's room—" Lin Qiushi repeated loudly again.

Fortunately, Ruan Nanzhu reacted very quickly. After understanding what Lin Qiushi meant, he took out a small paper bag from his pocket and threw it out through the gap in the window.

All the scales wrapped in the paper bag were scattered in the corridor outside, and the murloc, who had been concentrating on knocking on the door, paused and walked towards the paper bag, bending down as if trying to pick up the scales.

Seeing this scene, Lin Qiushi felt relieved, but the next moment, after discovering that the paper bag was just scales, the murloc uttered an angry roar, turned around and rushed towards where they were.

But these few actions were enough to survive the long 30 seconds. Just before the murloc was about to smash the door panel, their room changed position and the murloc disappeared in front of them.

Lin Qiushi quickly opened the wooden door that had been broken into several pieces, and after confirming that there were no murlocs outside, he moved to the next room with Ruan Nanzhu and the others.

And his worry soon became a reality, because about two or three minutes later, the murloc found the room they were in again, completely destroyed the door panel, and jumped into the room.

At this time, Lin Qiushi and the others were hiding in another small room not far from that room, and saw everything happening outside through the window.

The sound of smashing things kept coming. After confirming that his prey had escaped, the murloc left with a heavy panting sound, but judging from its appearance, it seemed that it had a new target, and its huge mouth opened slightly. Open, revealing the white and fine fangs, and the saliva flowing down the corner of the mouth.

The three of them hid in the house and didn't dare to make a sound until the murloc walked away, and Gu Longming breathed a sigh of relief: "Damn it, it came here with the smell of fish, I thought we were dead !"

They didn't expect the fish to play such a role here. If Lin Qiushi hadn't reacted fast enough, at least one of the three of them would have lost here.

Although the murloc left, Ruan Nanzhu's expression still did not relax. His serious expression made Gu Longming a little uneasy. He said, "What's wrong? Zhu Meng?"

"I think Jian Qianyuan is going to die." Ruan Nanzhu said.

Just as Gu Longming wanted to ask why, he remembered the abnormal situation that happened to Jian Qianyuan during the day.She seemed to have eaten so much fish that even when they left the restaurant, they could smell the strong fishy smell on Jian Qianyuan's body.And since they can smell this smell, there is no doubt that the monster can also smell it easily.

Sure enough, not long after the murloc monster left, Lin Qiushi's keen hearing caught a woman's scream. The scream seemed a little far away from them, and Lin Qiushi could only hear a general idea, while Gu Longming and Ruan Nanzhu There seemed to be no way to hear it.

The screaming continued, accompanied by crying and wailing, and finally became faint, leaving only the numbing roar and chewing sound.

The voice came from the deck, and Lin Qiushi didn't want to know what they would see on the deck the next day.

Presumably it was another hollowed out corpse, the internal organs were gnawed off, leaving only an empty skeleton.

Ruan Nanzhu seemed to realize that Lin Qiushi couldn't fall asleep, so he sat on the edge of Lin Qiushi's bed, lay down with Lin Qiushi, rested his chin on the top of Lin Qiushi's head, and kissed his hair gently.

The warmth of the body coming from behind comforted Lin Qiushi's cold voice, but the terrifying voice seemed to continue to echo in Lin Qiushi's ears, as if he could still hear Jian Qianyuan's crying...

"She's dead." Lin Qiushi said.

"Yeah." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Go to sleep, this is normal."

Lin Qiushi sighed: "Maybe I have some way to save her."

"But you have to save yourself first." Ruan Nanzhu ran his fingers through Lin Qiushi's hair, "We are still short of a long sword that can kill it."

In mythology, Theseus used a long sword to kill the tauren, but now they didn't see any weapons on the ship that seemed to be able to hurt the murlocs-the table knife certainly couldn't.

"The thread was found." Lin Qiushi said, "the aperitif was also found." After Jian Qianyuan's death, he understood the meaning of the aperitif.

Ruan Nanzhu kissed the tip of Lin Qiushi's ear and said, "Go to sleep, we'll talk about it tomorrow."

Lin Qiushi hummed and closed his eyes.

He said it was sleep, but he actually didn't sleep too much, but stayed up until dawn in a daze.

The weather was bad today, the thick clouds covered the sky again, and the light was scary.

Lin Qiushi got up early and went to the deck with Ruan Nanzhu and the others. It was no surprise that he saw a corpse on the deck. Although the face could not be seen clearly, judging from the clothes, it was indeed Jian Qianyuan's.

Her stomach was cut open, all the fish that she ate yesterday were gone, and her internal organs were also missing.

"Ouch—" Shen Juexin, who was originally seasick, vomited again, and there were also a few girls who were weaker than him who vomited with him.

Lin Qiushi also saw Xiaomo who reminded him that day. Some of the rawness of a newcomer faded from her body, and her expression became much numb, as if she had accepted the terrifying scene in front of her.

Two days later, Jian Qianyuan was the second sacrifice to be eaten.

Everyone simply disposed of Jian Qianyuan's body, saying that it was disposed of, but they just threw it into the sea and watched the rest of her being eaten by fish.

"I also saw that monster yesterday." There were more people who saw the monster, and someone tremblingly described what happened yesterday, "It just walked past my door and walked to Jian Qianyuan's room, then opened the door and put Jian Qianyuan was dragged out of the house..."

"That thing is terrible," said the man. "I can't save her. I'm no match for the monster."

No one can fight a two-meter-tall monster. If there is a hot weapon, they may be able to struggle, but when there is only a table knife, no one dares to take their own lives.

Lin Qiushi looked a little tired, he found a seat in the restaurant and sat down, fiddled with the plate with beans.

The NPC who distributed food to them also appeared. He was exactly the same as when Lin Qiushi saw it on the first day, and his expression did not change at all.

Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu looked at each other, Ruan Nanzhu got up first and walked towards the NPC.

"Hi sir." Ruan Nanzhu greeted him.

The NPC didn't speak, but gave Ruan Nanzhu a cold look, as if he was just a robot, and the fact that others greeted him was not in the program he wrote.

"Hi sir." Ruan Nanzhu said to him a second time.

The man was still silent.

Ruan Nanzhu tilted his head, stretched out his hand and pushed the dinner plate in front of him directly to the ground. The dinner plate and the fish inside fell to the ground, and it fell to pieces.

"What are you doing?" The man finally opened his mouth, his tone very unpleasant.

"I want to ask you." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Did you carry so many bugs with you when you were cooking food?"

The man said, "I don't understand what you're talking about."

Ruan Nanzhu casually grabbed a mosquito with a human face circling around the man, and said, "Don't understand?"

Seeing this scene, the man put down the spoon he was using to prepare food, turned around and was about to leave, but Ruan Nanzhu grabbed his shoulder: "Where are you going?"

The man began to tremble violently.

Lin Qiushi watched from a distance. At first he thought the man was afraid or angry, but soon he realized that it was not fear or anger, but the man was melting.

His body began to shrink rapidly, from head to toe, turning into a pitch-black mass, which spread out in the dining room with a buzzing sound—it turned out to be densely packed mosquitoes.

Everyone else in the restaurant was stunned by this scene and began to slap like crazy.

But the mosquitoes came and went quickly, and disappeared into the restaurant just like that, while the NPC standing in front of them just now was left with only an empty set of clothes.

"Fuck." Gu Longming didn't expect this at all, and said in a daze, "This brother is actually a mosquito spirit?"

Lin Qiushi: "..." He didn't know what to say for a moment.

Ruan Nanzhu scratched his head, turned to look at Lin Qiushi: "Is it true that no one will give us fish in the future?"

Lin Qiushi: "...it seems to be."

Ruan Nanzhu spread his hands and made an innocent expression, but the expressions of other people in the restaurant became complicated, and they didn't know what they thought.

Ruan Nanzhu: "That's quite a pity."

Everyone: "..." I'm not sorry, okay, thank you.