Kaleidoscope of Death

After the mosquitoes swarmed away, Lin Qiushi and the others left the restaurant.However, as soon as they walked out, they found some mosquitoes flying in the corridor. These mosquitoes flapped their wings, forming a light black line in midair, leading to an unknown room.

This is probably the meaning of the line. Lin Qiushi originally thought it would be more complicated, but he didn't expect that Ruan Nanzhu got the correct answer directly by mistake.He glanced at Ruan Nanzhu and said, "Do you want to follow along?"

"Yes." Ruan Nanzhu glanced at the time, making sure it was still early, "Let's go."

After they finished speaking, they followed the direction guided by the mosquitoes and headed towards the location of the house.

Every 5 minutes, the position of the house will change, and the directions indicated by the mosquitoes are also different at this time. They are suspended in mid-air and connected one by one.Lin Qiushi and the three of them kept moving forward in the direction guided by the mosquitoes, but soon, he discovered something was wrong—these mosquitoes were divided into two groups in a certain place, one group was facing left, and the other group was pointing to the right. different directions.

"How could this be?" Looking at the forked mosquito in front of him, Gu Longming was dumbfounded. He casually grabbed a mosquito and trapped it in his palm. When he released it, it quickly returned to where he was originally. Position, "Why are these mosquitoes forked, don't they..."

He wanted to understand something.He glanced at Lin Qiushi with an ugly face, "Could it be that there are two monsters?"

This seems to be the only answer, but Lin Qiushi always feels that things are not that simple, he said: "Take a look separately?"

Ruan Nanzhu pondered for a while: "Okay, Gu Longming will follow you to the left, and I will go to the right."

Lin Qiushi nodded, and didn't argue with Ruan Nanzhu, but told Ruan Nanzhu not to insist if he found anything abnormal, this time he mainly focused on collecting information.

Ruan Nanzhu couldn't help but smile when he heard Lin Qiushi's earnest advice: "My family, Lin Lin, has grown up and reached the age to worry about me. It's really gratifying."

Lin Qiushi: "...I'm serious."

"Okay, I know you're serious." He came over and kissed the corner of Lin Qiushi's lips naturally, "I'll be careful, see you later."

Lin Qiushi waved at him: "See you later."

Just as the two of them were talking, the surrounding environment changed again, and the location they were leading to changed again. This time, the mosquito seemed to be pointing to the cabin on the ground floor.

Lin Qiushi and Gu Longming didn't dare to waste any more time, and ran forward all the way, trying to find the room indicated by the mosquito before the room changed again.

The two were very fast, and it took half the time to find the room that the mosquito was pointing to on the ground floor.The human-faced mosquitoes flying in the air densely covered the door after arriving in this room. As soon as Lin Qiushi approached here, he smelled a strong fishy smell.

The smell was too strong, similar to what they smelled in the room that time, making people suspect that the huge murloc monster they saw last night was locked in the room in front of them.

After Lin Qiushi approached the room, he didn't try to enter it in a hurry, but put his ear on the door panel and listened carefully to the sounds in the room.The room was very quiet, as if there were no living things, but Lin Qiushi still heard something strange, a slight breathing sound came from the door panel... The breathing sound was so close to him, as if the things inside were just a door away from him .

Gu Longming stood at the window and looked in. He seemed to see something through the thick darkness, his face changed slightly and he took two steps back. He pointed to Lin Qiushi and pointed to the room, nodding in horror to indicate that there was something inside.

Lin Qiushi got up and looked towards the window.

Through the gap in the curtains, he saw a pair of yellow eyes hidden in the darkness. They belonged to fish eyes. The pupils were a standard circle, and the whites of the eyes were bright yellow. Peeking out the door.

The eyes of the thing moved slowly, as if it had noticed someone standing outside the door, Lin Qiushi saw it slowly opened its mouth, inside the mouth was a dense set of white teeth, and a blue tongue emitting faint light .

Wait...yellow eyes?Lin Qiushi held his breath. He felt as if he had caught something. He quickly took out his phone and turned on the lighting function, and then projected the light along the curtains.

The light shone into the room, and Lin Qiushi finally saw clearly what was in the room. It was an indescribable creature, at least Lin Qiushi had never seen it before.

It has a huge fish head and a fragile human body. Because the fish head is too huge and heavy, it can't stand upright at all. The slender body that doesn't match the head can only lie on the ground, and the most eye-catching Yes, it is the long spike on the top of its head. The spike looks sharp and sharp... Lin Qiushi immediately thought of the long sword that killed the Minotaur in the mythology.

Attracted by the strong light held by Lin Qiushi, the murloc let out a strange roar. Seeing its strange appearance, Gu Longming touched his arm involuntarily, and forced a smile, "What the hell is this?"

"What we saw in the room at first seemed to be this mermaid." Lin Qiushi said, "Do you still have those yellow eyes in the room?"

Gu Longming nodded, indicating that he remembered.

Speaking of yellow eyes, he was a little dazed.The eyes of the man-eating murloc monster are not yellow, but an uncomfortable paleness, but this detail is easily blurred under the impact of the picture, and he vaguely remembered it after Lin Qiushi reminded him .

"So there are two monsters?" Gu Longming swallowed, "Then the function of this monster is..." He moved his gaze to the sharp spikes on the top of the monster's head, and said something similar to Lin Qiushi's idea Then, "Is it a long sword?"

Lin Qiushi said: "It can be guessed like this."

At least for now, they haven't found anything else suitable that looks like a weapon on board.In fact, the moment Lin Qiushi saw the appearance of the murloc in front of him, a similar guess appeared in Lin Qiushi's mind, and Gu Longming obviously thought of it with him.

The sound of the two talking seemed to stimulate the monster inside, and it began to crawl around the house a little violently, with a distorted appearance that looked grotesque and terrifying.

Seeing its irritable appearance, Lin Qiushi had a bad premonition, so he grabbed Gu Longming and took a few steps back.

As soon as the two of them stepped back, a sharp thorn appeared on the solid wooden wall in front of them. It was obvious that something in the room used the thorn on the top of their head to pierce the wall abruptly. Several holes were left on the wall - one can imagine how painful it would have been if they hadn't retreated just now and were unfortunately stabbed by the sharp thorns.

However, after Lin Qiushi confirmed the identity of the things in the room, the time for the room change just arrived. The room in front of them disappeared and was replaced by another ordinary bedroom, and the direction of the mosquitoes also changed. position, moved to the deck.

Gu Longming feels disgusted when he thinks of the fish. In fact, he liked to eat fish before he came to this door, but under the influence of the fishy smell these days, now he thinks of the smell of fish and feels sick to his stomach. I'm afraid Even if you leave this door, you will have to maintain this state of nausea when you see fish for a long time.

Lin Qiushi said: "Let's go and see Zhu Meng."

Gu Longming nodded.

The two left the cabin on the bottom floor, and when they went up, they saw Ruan Nanzhu standing on the deck, looking up at the dark sea water with his head raised, and turned back when they heard their footsteps: "What did you find?"

Lin Qiushi said: "We seem to have found the long sword."

Ruan Nanzhu's eyes lit up when he heard the words: "Found it?"

Lin Qiushi nodded, and briefly described what they saw, emphasizing that he saw a long thorn on the head of the murloc monster. The thorn looked strong and sharp, and seemed to be a good attack weapon. .

And Ruan Nanzhu said that in the room he was looking for, he saw the huge murloc who ate people last night.

"But how do we kill that murloc." Gu Longming squatted on the deck, eating the candy Lin Qiushi gave him in dejection, and said, "I don't think that thing is any better than the murloc monster we saw before. Deal with it."

The most worrying thing about the wound is not the width but the depth. Once the wound is deep, it will be difficult to heal, especially on this ship that lacks medical care and medicine. It is conceivable that if you are stabbed by that sharp long thorn, even if you don’t die on the spot, you will die later. A few days will die of complications such as tetanus.

Ruan Nanzhu listened to Gu Longming's concerns and comforted him, saying don't worry, when the time comes, everyone will give you a good time.

Gu Longming: "...or not, thank you."

Lin Qiushi felt that this was simply a paradox. They had to kill the yellow-eyed murloc before they could kill the Minotaur, who represented the monster. Take a restaurant knife and fight that thing hard?

The three of them were discussing how to do it, but they heard a noisy sound from the restaurant, which was mixed with human exclamations and painful screams.

Hearing this voice, they knew that something must have happened again. Lin Qiushi gave Ruan Nanzhu a look, turned around and went to the restaurant. Before he entered, he smelled a strong smell of blood.Lin Qiushi looked down and found blood dripping all over the floor, and an injured man was lying on the floor inside the restaurant, covering his abdominal wound with his hands.The wound seemed to be very deep, and bright red blood was gushing out protrudingly.

Gu Longming stepped forward a few steps and said, "What's going on? How did you get hurt?" He took off his coat, used the coat as gauze, and began to skillfully treat the wound, as if he wanted to help the man stop the bleeding.

Looking at his movements, Lin Qiushi had some guesses about Gu Longming's occupation outside his family.

"He found those mosquitoes pointing out certain directions outside, so we went to have a look." It was the man's partner who was speaking. As a bystander, he had just witnessed the whole process of his friend's injury. His voice trembled. He said in a trembling voice, "But when we got there, a long thorn protruded from the room and directly hit his body."

Gu Longming frowned: "The situation is not very good, it seems to have stabbed the kidney." They don't have any medical supplies around them, and according to the amount of bleeding, it is estimated that this person may...

A girl next to him said, "I brought a hemostatic spray, can I use it?"

"Give me a try." Gu Longming said, "You can only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor."

He tied up the man's body as much as possible to reduce the amount of bleeding from the wound, and then sprayed most of the hemostatic spray, which at least stopped the continuous gushing blood.

"What exactly stabbed your friend?" Seeing that the situation had stabilized, someone turned their attention to the man who was still alive.

"Looks like a fish," the survivor replied, "I'm not sure...just one look, and something went wrong."

"Let's go and have a look." Everyone was obviously more interested in this fish and left the restaurant one after another.

After a while, there were only a few scattered people left in the restaurant.

"What's the matter? Can my friend be saved?" The man asked Gu Longming anxiously.

Gu Longming sighed, and said: "It may be possible to save if you go out early, but..." It's not like they can leave here if they want.

So everyone quieted down, Gu Longming looked at the blood in his hands, and said, "I'll wash my hands first." He got up and went to the toilet.

The breath of the person who was stabbed in the abdomen became weaker and weaker. Although Gu Longming tried his best, he still lost his breath after a few hours.

At this time, the entire restaurant was filled with a strong smell of blood. It happened to be dinner time, and the set meal of dead fish was also on the table, so the stench of dead fish and the smell of blood made everyone lose their appetite even more.Not even in a perfunctory mood, they each left the restaurant.

Ruan Nanzhu sat there without moving, and Lin Qiushi didn't urge him. He knew that Ruan Nanzhu must have his own ideas if he didn't leave.

Because of the death of that person in the afternoon, Gu Longming became a little silent, lacking energy, poking the noodles on the plate in front of him with a fork, seemingly without appetite.

After the people in the restaurant had almost left, Ruan Nanzhu took out a few plastic bags from his arms.

"What are you going to do?" Lin Qiushi was taken aback.

Ruan Nanzhu said: "I don't think the door will let us fight that thing by force, the difference in force is too great."

Lin Qiushi: "You want to..." He watched Ruan Nanzhu put all the dead fish on the table into his pockets, stuffed them full, "give the fish to that thing?"

"In the myth, it was the aperitif that got the Minotaur drunk." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Now we have almost understood the meaning of the aperitif."

The fish you eat is fermented in the stomach, and you can taste it when you open the pouch. It is really an "aperitif".

So Ruan Nanzhu wanted to use the dead fish to lure Minotaurus to the yellow-eyed monster fish, but he didn't know if it would work, but he had to give it a try.

After all, this method is much more reliable than finding that thing with a table knife to single out.

Ruan Nanzhu packed the dead fish, carried it and went out, and followed the traces of mosquitoes to find the room where the yellow-eyed strange fish was again.

At this time, there were already many small holes outside the yellow-eyed murloc's room, apparently made by it with the sharp weapon on top of its head.

Ruan Nanzhu asked Lin Qiushi and the others to stand a little farther away, stretched out his hand, and threw the fish in his hand through the gap in the window.

The dead fish slammed and fell to the ground. The yellow-eyed monster jumped onto the dead fish excitedly, picked it up with his hands and began to eat it roughly. It ate the fish very fast, and soon killed Ruan Nanzhu. The lost bag of fish was eaten.Fortunately, they had already prepared and quickly threw in the other bags of fish they brought.

While it was eating fish, Ruan Nanzhu had been standing by and watching, but Lin Qiushi was a little afraid that he would be injured, after all, the blood of the last injured person was still hanging on the window.

The yellow-eyed murloc ate ​​all the fish, not even the fish head was left. After it was full, it showed a look of satiety, and just lay down on the floor and fell asleep.

"Let's go." Ruan Nanzhu said to Lin Qiushi.

It was getting late at this time, and although he wanted to see what would happen here at night, it was not a wise move to stay outside.

The three of them went to find another bedroom where they could rest, and lay in bed waiting for the night to come.

The last ray of light disappeared into the sky with the sun setting on the horizon. Tonight is a moonless night, only the howling sea breeze and the dark clouds hanging in the sky like a curtain.

Lin Qiushi couldn't sleep well, staring at the window in a daze.

Ruan Nanzhu was originally lying on a different bed from him, but when he fell asleep, he came up behind him, and the two of them squeezed together.

Without talking or making eye contact, they seem to have experienced the scene in front of them thousands of times in a tacit understanding.

Both of them are waiting, waiting for the answer after the test.

At about three o'clock in the morning, their waiting finally came to fruition.

Lin Qiushi's ears caught a roar similar to that of a wild beast, followed by the sound of violent fighting. They were a little far away from that place, so they couldn't hear what happened clearly, but the sound of fighting did last for a long time. It didn't gradually disappear until it was almost dawn.

"Who do you think will win?" Ruan Nanzhu asked in a low voice.

"I don't know." Lin Qiushi said, "It's the same for everyone."

Although most of the things went relatively smoothly, there were still some accidents that exceeded their expectations.Not long after the sound of fighting stopped, human cries and screams sounded on the boat. Hearing this, Lin Qiushi was taken aback. He got up from the bed and walked to the window. He wanted to see clearly what happened outside. What, but the night outside was too dark for him to see clearly.

Fortunately, Ruan Nanzhu's vision played a key role at this time. He saw the murloc dragging a struggling man to the deck.

"How could this happen?!" Lin Qiushi was a little unbelievable after hearing Ruan Nanzhu's description, "It's clear that no one is eating fish in the restaurant today——"

Ruan Nanzhu frowned and said, "Do you... remember the person who was scratched by Jian Qianyuan yesterday?"

Lin Qiushi: "..." He nodded.

Ruan Nanzhu said: "It seems that he hasn't come to the restaurant today."

All Lin Qiushi's attention was on the two monsters today, but he didn't notice this: "But isn't it a good thing he didn't come to the restaurant?"

If you don't come to the restaurant, you don't eat fish, so why are you being targeted by monsters?

Ruan Nanzhu smiled wryly: "The place where there are fish is not just a restaurant."

Lin Qiushi: "..." He immediately thought of that dirty kitchen.

"There are still so many edible fish in the kitchen." Ruan Nanzhu said, "There must be sacrifices."

Lin Qiushi sighed.He originally thought that there would be no more victims tonight, but now that he thought about it, he was too naive, and there was no kindness in the door at all.The longer you stay here, the more dead and injured you will be.

The man's screams gradually subsided, and finally only a long silent night remained.

Lin Qiushi barely slept for a while before dawn, but he didn't know if he didn't sleep well and had a nightmare, or he didn't fall asleep at all. He always felt that the thing was wandering around the room where they were in the middle of the night.He even smelled that disgusting fishy smell again.

On the third day, the three of them were not in good spirits. They hadn't slept well in the past few nights and were troubled by various things.

After the baptism of the previous few days, everyone was numb to the corpses that appeared on the deck. They skillfully disposed of the corpses, cleaned the deck, and looked like nothing had happened.

Lin Qiushi's attention was not on the deck. He went to the restaurant early to look for traces of mosquitoes.But to his disappointment, the mosquitoes that had appeared as threads yesterday were gone.

"Don't rush." ​​Ruan Nanzhu looked at his watch, "It's still early."

Lin Qiushi hummed, indicating that he knew.

Without a line, they couldn't find the two monsters, so they could only continue to wait.

At about eleven o'clock, the scene that Lin Qiushi was looking forward to finally appeared. The NPC who turned into a mosquito reappeared in the restaurant yesterday, wearing the same clothes and maintaining the same expression, just like a fixed refresh NPC in the game.

This time without using Ruan Nanzhu, someone walked up to the NPC and patted him on the shoulder heavily.

So the same picture as yesterday reappeared, the mosquitoes swarmed and disappeared into the restaurant, and at the same time, two lines made of mosquitoes appeared outside the restaurant, leading to an unknown place.

Lin Qiushi and the others began to follow the line to find the place they were looking for. A few minutes later, they arrived outside a room. Compared with yesterday, this room was really different, because it could be clearly seen from the outside that This house experienced a fierce battle last night, the wooden windows were completely broken, and the lock hanging on the door was also violently removed.

It seemed that these two monsters had indeed fought fiercely.However, judging from the final situation last night, it seemed that the giant murloc had taken advantage of this battle.

The author has something to say: Monster: Eat my salty fish spurs!