Kaleidoscope of Death

However, verbal comfort is just a drop in the bucket in the face of reality.

Whether it was the Cheng family's twins, or other people in the villa, they were all depressed because of this entrance.As a newcomer to Obsidian, Ye Niao didn't know much about this organization yet, but even so, he felt an extremely dignified atmosphere. He had a lively personality, but he didn't even dare to speak too loudly during this time.

Until a few days later, it was finally time for the twins to enter the door.

It was a very nice morning. Lu Yanxue made a rich breakfast, which contained Cheng Qianli's favorite steamed buns. Cheng Qianli ate very happily, almost eating one bite at a time, like a hamster hoarding food.

Lin Qiushi's appetite is very average. He feels that his state of mind at this time is a bit like a parent who is waiting to see his child's college entrance examination results. Others are probably in the same mood as him, but in fact, the price of failing in the door is more painful than the college entrance examination. too much.

While everyone was eating, Cheng Yixie and Cheng Qianli stood up suddenly, and they turned and went to the second floor.

Seeing their backs, Lin Qiushi instantly understood what was going to happen next. He was inexplicably nervous, and he couldn't even hold the chopsticks in his hand, and fell on the table.

Lu Yanxue was the only girl in Obsidian after Zhuang Rujiao left, she forced a smile: "Are they going to be okay? Brother Ruan?"

Ruan Nanzhu sat next to Lin Qiushi, his eyes were downcast, and he didn't give any answer to Lu Yanxue's question.

The tenth door, even he himself, cannot promise that he will come out alive.

Usually, the time of a door in reality is only ten minutes.

Lin Qiushi has never felt that 10 minutes can be so difficult. He stared at the watch in his hand, watched the second hand move forward little by little, and even held his breath involuntarily, until he found himself out of breath, and then gasped quickly Two breaths.

"I want to drink some wine, do you want some?" Chen Fei got up suddenly and asked anxiously.

"Yes." Lin Qiushi nodded.

Ruan Nanzhu glanced at Lin Qiushi, but he didn't persuade him.

So Chen Fei went to get a bottle of Moutai, and then a group of people started drinking in the early morning.

The sun cast mottled spots from the window, but it made people feel that there was no warmth. Lin Qiushi sipped the wine in the glass, and the atmosphere in the whole room was terrifyingly quiet.

However, the judgment they were waiting for finally came.

At [-]:[-] in the morning, there was a howl from upstairs.

Like everyone else, Lin Qiushi's complexion changed drastically. They hurried upstairs and saw the twins who were supposed to be sitting on the bed in the bedroom.

It’s just that one is hugging the other at this time, and the one being hugged can’t stop spitting out bright red blood—Lin Qiushi has never seen so much blood, mouthful after mouthful, staining the sheets, the carpet, and everything in front of him. .

"No!! No!!!" The roar sounded like a dying cry, and the one left behind wailed, "Don't leave me behind, thousands of miles, thousands of miles—"

Cheng Qianli, who was being hugged, didn't seem to put too much effort into it. He opened his eyes wide, but his eyes began to slacken. His fingers slowly slid across Yixie's cheeks, barely showing a smile, and yelled in a low voice. elder brother.

"Ahhhhh!!!" Cheng Yixie screamed like crazy, his grief-stricken appearance seemed to be watching a certain part of his soul dying slowly.

"120, hit 120!!" Lu Yanxue was already in tears, she hit 120 with shaking hands, then threw herself in front of Cheng Qianli, held Cheng Qianli's hand, and said: "Qianli, Qianli, keep going, Qianli—— "

Cheng Qianli didn't speak, the look in his eyes began to fade, and the breath on his body gradually weakened, like a painting that faded from color and became black and white, the cold breath swept his body, he opened his mouth hard, and called out He said, "Brother", and then exhausted all his strength to squeeze out a few words: "No...sad."

Seeing this scene, Lin Qiushi covered his face, he turned around slowly, leaned against the wall, and his whole body froze.

Next to my ears were the cries of Lu Yanxue and Cheng Yixie, like mourning music played.

What's the use of an ambulance, they all know what the price of failure is.

Cheng Yixie finally rejected the medical staff. When they came, Cheng Qianli had stopped breathing, and he was unwilling to let his beloved brother leave his arms for a moment.

Ruan Nanzhu didn't speak until Cheng Qianli's death was confirmed, then he turned and went into the toilet, took a clean towel, squatted in front of Cheng Yixie, and wiped off the blood stains on Cheng Qianli's face little by little. clean up.

Cheng Yixie quietly watched Ruan Nanzhu's movements, all the stars in his eyes fell, leaving only an endless darkness, he finally opened his mouth and said, "Brother Ruan."

Ruan Nanzhu looked up at him.

Cheng Yixie said, "I want to quit Obsidian."

Ruan Nanzhu didn't answer, the two of them made eye contact, he understood Cheng Yixie's eyes, and said, "I'll give you a vacation."

Cheng Yixie was silent.

Ruan Nanzhu stretched out his hand to hold his shoulder, his words were so powerless at this moment, he stretched out his finger, and gently touched Cheng Qianli's cheek, it was already icy cold, and the warmth from before was no longer there.

"I was wrong." Cheng Yixie said, "You are right."

Ruan Nanzhu didn't know what to say, he just coughed in a low voice, as if he wanted to suppress some emotions welling up in his throat.

"This door is too difficult, and there are only two of us left in the end." Cheng Yixie looked down at his younger brother's cheek, and said calmly, "He has been stupid all his life, and this is the only time he has become smart." There was no pain, but tears kept pouring out of his eyes, as if he could no longer control it.

"It's just this once." Cheng Yixie put his forehead on Cheng Qianli's, and said, "It's all my fault."

In his eyes, Cheng Qianli is a child who can't grow up, but now, he finally doesn't have to grow up anymore.

Cheng Qianli will never pass his birthday, his time is stuck at this moment, unable to move forward a minute and a second.

No one said a word of comfort, no one told Cheng Yixie to persevere and be patient, everything will pass.They all knew in their hearts that this matter would never pass.All the words were perfunctory and deceitful, and they completely lost the child who laughed like a fool.

Lu Yanxue howled, accompanied by Yi Manman's sobs.

Ruan Nanzhu turned and left the room, went downstairs, Lin Qiushi huddled in the corner, like a frozen stone statue.

I have seen too many partings, but I still can't get used to it. The little chieftain Corgi, who was sleeping downstairs, seemed to feel something, and ran up the stairs in a panic, but when he found that his master would never move again. When it was up, it let out a rapid roar, trying to wake up Cheng Qianli, who seemed to have woken up, from his dream.

But this is not a dream, or even if it is a dream, it is a nightmare from which he cannot wake up.

Lin Qiushi couldn't breathe, he was in such pain, not to mention Cheng Yixie, who was a twin with Cheng Qianli.That was a feeling that Lin Qiushi dared not imagine.

Lin Qiushi doesn't have much memory of how the day was spent in the end.

It's like the body's self-defense mechanism. In the face of certain memories, the conditioned reflexes are weakened.But Cheng Qianli's pale face was deeply imprinted in Lin Qiushi's mind. He remembered it so clearly that he couldn't sleep for a long time.

Then comes the funeral.

Gemini's parents hurried over.They originally wanted to take Cheng Qianli back to his hometown, but Cheng Yixie refused.

Cheng Yixie said he wanted Cheng Qianli to stay with him, but his parents couldn't persuade him, so they let him go.

In just a few days, Cheng Yixie lost her shape, and even white hair appeared on her temples.

He was only 17 years old at this time, which should have been a normal age.

Cheng Yixie held Cheng Qianli's urn and put it into the small grave.

The tomb is divided into two parts, with Cheng Yixie written on one side and Cheng Qianli written on the other.Cheng Yixie probably thought that he would go first, and even had his name plated in gold, but the reality was completely different from what he had expected.

"I'm the most selfish one." At the funeral, Cheng Yixie said to the tombstone, "I want to leave by myself and leave him behind."

However, the one left behind was the most miserable, he suddenly laughed and said, "At least he doesn't have to suffer all this."

Lin Qiushi looked at his smile and wanted him to stop laughing, but he couldn't say it. In fact, he could count on one hand the things he said these days.

After the funeral, Cheng Yixie disappeared.

His room is still the same, only a few clothes and a suitcase are missing.

Lin Qiushi was the first to discover this. He asked Ruan Nanzhu where Cheng Yixie had gone, and Ruan Nanzhu replied: "I don't know."

Lin Qiushi was silent.

"I don't know where he went, and I don't know where he can go." Ruan Nanzhu said in a calm tone, "He has been in Obsidian since he entered the door, and Obsidian belongs to him."

Lin Qiushi looked at Ruan Nanzhu, his eyes were a little dazed.

Ruan Nanzhu sighed softly, embraced Lin Qiushi in his arms, gave him a comforting kiss, and said, "Some things have long been expected."

"Does that include death?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"Naturally." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Everyone has to experience death, sooner or later."

Lin Qiushi said: "But their death came too early." They are still so young, they have never experienced anything, they should have more time, they...

Ruan Nanzhu said: "God is not fair."

If Cheng Yixie and Cheng Qianli were born with healthy bodies, they would not have entered the gate. The gate is a tribulation, but it gave them more time to take a good look at the world.It's just that the gift has an end, and falling from heaven to hell is the most painful thing.

That night, Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi slept together, and Lin Qiushi said, "Did Cheng Yixie get that kind of clue?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Yes."

Lin Qiushi was silent.

"Some things will have to pay a price sooner or later." Ruan Nanzhu said, "and the price is much more painful than you imagined."

Lin Qiushi was about to say something, but felt that Ruan Nanzhu stuffed a candy into his mouth. With the candy in his mouth, he mumbled, "Have you succeeded in quitting smoking?"

"Success." Ruan Nanzhu replied.

Lin Qiushi didn't know what to say again.During this period of time, his silences became more and more frequent and longer.

Ruan Nanzhu, however, seemed to sense his helplessness, stretched out his arms to hug him, and said softly, "Go to sleep."

Lin Qiushi closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

Cheng Qianli's death seemed to break the illusion of tranquility in the villa, and a certain heavy atmosphere began to spread in the villa.

Lu Yanxue often starts to shed tears while cooking, and she doesn't know if it's because she sees a certain food and thinks of people who like to eat it.

Toast was also depressed for a long time after he found out that his master was missing, and finally managed to recover under the comfort of Li Zi.

Regarding the departure of the twins, Lin Qiushi has always had an unreal feeling, as if the next moment he returns to the living room, he can still see Cheng Qianli sitting on the sofa watching TV silly.This illusion was not broken until one night.

When he came down from upstairs that day, he saw a horror movie playing on the TV in the living room, and the person watching the horror movie on the sofa was wrapped in a quilt, looking terrified.Looking at this scene, Lin Qiushi blurted out: "Thousands of miles?!"

However, Ye Niao's face was exposed under the quilt. He looked at Lin Qiushi and whispered, "Qiu Shi?"

The moment Lin Qiushi saw Ye Niao's face, Lin Qiushi finally realized that he would never see Cheng Qianli again. The brutal and bloody facts.

"It's okay." Lin Qiushi turned around.

Ye Niao called Qiushi again, only to see Lin Qiushi turned around and went upstairs. There was a little worry in his expression, because he clearly saw that after seeing his face, Lin Qiushi's cheeks were covered with tears.Lin Qiushi seems to have mistook himself for Cheng Qianli... For some reason, Ye Niao felt a little regretful. It would be great if he could join Obsidian earlier, and experience joys and sorrows with them, so as not to be isolated from the environment.

After Lin Qiushi returned to the room, he realized that he was crying. When Cheng Qianli left, he didn't cry. Unexpectedly, he couldn't control himself at this time.

He sat by the bed, and suddenly understood why Cheng Yixie left.Because in this villa, there are traces of Cheng Qianli's life everywhere, and these traces are like a blunt knife, cutting people's flesh one by one, but no blood can be seen.

Lin Qiushi lay on the bed, let out a long breath, let himself go, and fell asleep in a daze.

Ruan Nanzhu came back in the middle of the night and saw Lin Qiushi curled up on the bed. Instead of waking him up, he gently put a thin blanket on Lin Qiushi's body.

"Hmm." Lin Qiushi woke up with a start and called out vaguely, "Nan Zhu."

"Yeah." Ruan Nanzhu sat down beside Lin Qiushi, "I'm here."

"I miss thousands of miles." Lin Qiushi said.

Ruan Nanzhu said: "I miss him too." He admitted it quite frankly, "Every time I see toast, I think of Qianli."

I think of Qianli holding the toast, and think of that child's bright smile.

"What should we do at this time?" Lin Qiushi said, "I still think of Wu Qi, Tan Zaozao..." They are all passers-by in his life, coming and going.

"I can only bear it." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Just bear it."

Hearing Ruan Nanzhu's calm tone, Lin Qiushi suddenly felt distressed.After Cheng Qianli left, almost everyone was in a state of collapse. Only Ruan Nanzhu calmly dealt with the funeral. He notified the parents of the twins, contacted the funeral home, and chose the time for the burial.

Lin Qiushi didn't know how many such things Ruan Nanzhu had experienced before he became so calm.

However, Ruan Nanzhu understood Lin Qiushi's eyes. He sighed slightly, but laughed, and said, "Don't feel bad about me, I'm really not as miserable as you imagined."

Some things just have to get used to.

Three months after Cheng Yixie left Obsidian, he sent an unaddressed letter to Obsidian, in which he said that he was fine now and told them not to worry.

Lu Yanxue was the first to receive the letter. Seeing the familiar font on the letter, she almost fainted from crying on the spot. Holding the envelope and sobbing, she said: "This bad boy, why did you only send the letter now? This bad boy -"

"Can you find out where he is?" Chen Fei asked Ruan Nanzhu from the side.

After checking the letter paper, Ruan Nanzhu took the envelope from Lu Yanxue, and finally shook his head: "There are no clues, he is very careful."

Chen Fei sighed.

"Will he come back?" Yi Manman actually has an average relationship with Cheng Yixie, but a very good relationship with Cheng Qianli.

"I don't know." Ruan Nanzhu didn't give a definite answer.

"Whether he comes back or not, as long as he feels comfortable." After Lu Yanxue said this, she shed tears again, "But how is he going to get through it alone? Can he get through it?"

No one knows the answer to this question, but if you can't get through it, you have to get through it.That was the time bought by Cheng Qianli's life, Cheng Yixie couldn't give up.

Lin Qiushi stared at the lettering on the envelope and didn't speak for a long time.

Until Ruan Nanzhu pulled him back into the room, he said, "Qiu Shi, you seem to be in a bad state recently."

Lin Qiushi: "Huh?"

"You've been in a daze." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Didn't you notice?" He frowned slightly, his eyes fell on Lin Qiushi's face.

"Am I in a daze?" Lin Qiushi was inexplicable, "Is there?"

Ruan Nanzhu didn't speak, but his eyes gave Lin Qiushi the answer.

"Oh." Lin Qiushi touched his face and said, "I just feel a little tired."

Ruan Nanzhu said, "Let's go on vacation."

"Huh?" Lin Qiushi didn't expect Ruan Nanzhu to say that suddenly. He was stunned for a while, and his thoughts drifted away again, until Ruan Nanzhu gently twisted his cheek, "Dazed again?"

Lin Qiushi: "Cough." He realized that he was distracted again, and he was still staring at him with Ruan Nanzhu, so he coughed twice and said awkwardly, "I'm sorry."

Ruan Nanzhu sighed.

Seeing that Lin Qiushi's condition was not right, Ruan Nanzhu quickly started to prepare for the trip.

Spring was supposed to be a season of recovery and happiness, but because of thousands of miles away, their spring was even more difficult than winter.

Lin Qiushi couldn't even remember the scene of the trees sprouting new buds at all. By the time he realized it, it was midsummer.

The streets were lined with dense and tall trees, and it seemed as if some strange force had sucked them out of their lives in the past few months.

But life still has to go on, but during this period of time, there are no people who want to enter the villa, so everyone's life is very peaceful.Ruan Nanzhu also deviated from his usual state of non-stop entering the door, and planned to take Lin Qiushi out to play for a while.

"Where do you want to go?" Ruan Nanzhu asked Lin Qiushi with a map.

"Anywhere is fine. I haven't been abroad yet." Lin Qiushi said, "Have you ever been?"

"I used to go, but now I don't go often." Ruan Nanzhu replied.

Lin Qiushi: "Before?" He suddenly remembered that Ruan Nanzhu seldom mentioned his family background, and he almost never heard him mention his family.

"Well." Ruan Nanzhu said, "My family is good, but they all think I'm crazy." He spoke softly, as if talking about something that had nothing to do with him, "I didn't contact them again after that. "

Lin Qiushi said: "Oh." He felt that Ruan Nanzhu seemed to lack interest in talking about family, so he stopped asking.

"If you want to know, I can also take you back." Ruan Nanzhu said.

Lin Qiushi said: "I don't really think about it." He smiled, "I just need to understand you."

Ruan Nanzhu looked at Lin Qiushi: "Really?"

Lin Qiushi spread his hands: "Otherwise?"

Finally they settled on an archipelago near the equator and decided to go there for vacation.

When he knew they were going out to play, Chen Fei was still very surprised, saying, Brother Ruan, you haven't rested for several years, why did you suddenly want to go out to play this year.

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Is it strange to go on vacation when you're tired?"

Chen Fei smiled dryly: "It's not surprising, it's not surprising, you guys are having fun, call back if you need anything."

Ruan Nanzhu hummed, and when he turned his head to look at Lin Qiushi, he found that he was sitting on the sofa in a daze again. Ruan Nanzhu showed a little helplessness, walked to Lin Qiushi, bowed his head and took a bite on his cheek.

"Ah!" After being bitten on the face by Ruan Nanzhu, Lin Qiushi woke up startled, covering his face inexplicably, "Why did you bite me?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "I'm afraid that if I don't bite you back, your soul will fly away."

Lin Qiushi had no choice but to say, "It's not that serious." Ruan Nanzhu took a serious bite, and now his face is not only burning with pain, but also has a neat tooth mark.

"Don't be in a daze if you are afraid of being bitten." Ruan Nanzhu said very seriously.

Lin Qiushi's face showed embarrassment, and he didn't know why he likes to be in a daze so much recently... Besides, can things like distraction really be controlled?