Kaleidoscope of Death

After that, Lin Qiushi sent several text messages to Ruan Nanzhu, and asked where Ruan Nanzhu was, but there was no response to Lin Qiushi from the other end, and Lin Qiushi became more worried.

As the rain continued, Lin Qiushi sat on a bus stop.The empty road was shrouded in rain, and the originally not bright street became darker because of the continuous heavy rain. The whole world was like a gradually melting oil painting, which was very blurry.

Lin Qiushi felt a little cold, and coughed lowly. He knew he had to go again, because at the end of the rain curtain, he saw a black figure approaching slowly.Although I can't see the specific appearance of that figure, but thinking about it...it won't be something that makes people feel happy.

So Lin Qiushi stood up and continued to walk forward.As he walked further and further away, there were more black picture frames on both sides of the empty road. These picture frames were hung on the tree trunks on both sides of the road. Some of the canvases were painted with hideous figures, while others were empty. .

The road in Lin Qiushi's eyes seems to have become a gallery, with the owner's beloved paintings on both sides, but some paintings have not been filled, and Lin Qiushi is the one that has been targeted.

Lin Qiushi glanced at his watch. It was at least two hours before dawn. Just as he was thinking about how to make it to dawn, he heard the sound of footsteps getting closer behind him.

Lin Qiushi turned his head and saw a skinless person staring at him in the dark street - she was Xu Jin's sister.My sister was lying on the wet ground, her black hair was scattered on her shoulders, and because she had no feet, she could only use two hands to move, but her speed did not slow down, as if she was out of a cage The wild beast ran towards Lin Qiushi.The rain fell on her body, continuously washing away the bright red blood, and Lin Qiushi also ran wildly, but his speed was completely incomparable to that of Xu Jin's sister, and he was chased behind in a blink of an eye.

Feeling a strong wind coming from behind, Lin Qiushi dodged an attack with a short body. He hid in the grass next to him and watched the monster pounce on the position where he was just now.

But this is just the beginning, without Xu Jin's stop, her sister made no secret of her murderous intent towards Lin Qiushi. It seemed that she wished Lin Qiushi could die in the most miserable state.

When Lin Qiushi left the door, she slapped her across the face, causing severe pneumonia and staying in the hospital for a long time. If Lin Qiushi could kill Lin Qiushi in front of her, she would naturally not be merciful.

Lin Qiushi rolled around in the mud, completely embarrassed. He got up from the ground and wanted to leave here, but the muddy ground made him fall directly to the ground.Xu Jin's sister, taking advantage of his fall, quickly crawled in front of him.

She was lying on top of Lin Qiushi's head, looking at Lin Qiushi with her head propped up. The transparent rain washed over her skin and turned into a scarlet liquid with a fishy smell. The liquid fell drop by drop on Lin Qiushi's face and body. From this angle, one can even see a scarlet tongue from her grinning white teeth...

The monster showed a ferocious smile at Lin Qiushi. She looked into Lin Qiushi's eyes, as if she was enjoying the dying fear in Lin Qiushi's eyes.

"Why does she like you so much?" The monster lowered its head and whispered in Lin Qiushi's ear. The long nails scratched Lin Qiushi's skin, leaving a damaged scratch on his cheek. Bright red blood flowed out slowly from the rupture, and Lin Qiushi felt the warm temperature of the blood.

It seemed to be a dead end at this moment, but Lin Qiushi looked past the monster, and saw an empty black picture frame hanging beside it.

He took a deep breath and said, "Aren't you afraid that your sister will hate you if you kill me?"

"Hate me? Why does she hate me? She lied to me for my skin and legs. She owes me." The monster giggled, but the laughter was so harsh, hoarse and sharp, it seemed to be Scratch the glass with a knife.

Lin Qiushi smiled: "Really? But that's not what her eyes said."

The monster was stunned for a moment looking at Lin Qiushi's smile, and then quickly looked back. After seeing that there was nothing behind her, the anger after being deceived was instantly ignited. She grabbed Lin Qiushi's shoulder and pulled hard. A piece of flesh and blood came down.But taking advantage of this gap, Lin Qiushi resisted the severe pain and jumped up from the ground, grabbing the black photo frame hanging next to him.

The monster saw Lin Qiushi's movement, but she didn't realize what Lin Qiushi's movement meant. It was just a photo frame. Even if it hit the body, it wouldn't hurt too much. It was just the dying struggle of the person in front of her. ... Such thoughts disappeared the moment the photo frame touched her body. She felt an indescribable coldness sweeping her whole body. The picture in front of her began to distort. Can no longer move an inch.

The monster disappeared before Lin Qiushi's eyes, replaced by a blood-red picture.In the picture, a monster without skin seems to be struggling to break out of the drawing paper.

Lin Qiushi loosened his hand holding the scroll, and the scroll hit the ground, splashing a layer of water. He covered the bleeding wound with his hand, and got up from the ground with difficulty.

The clothes on his body were stained red with blood, but they quickly returned to their original color due to the washing of the rain. The injured area was washed pale by the water. Lin Qiushi took out a roll of bandages from the backpack behind him, roughly The wound was wrapped up.

The backpack was completely soaked in water, but fortunately, Lin Qiushi had put everything into plastic bags in advance, so the things could still be used.

Lin Qiushi sat on the ground panting, feeling that he was in a terrible state of distress, but the picture scroll that fell to the ground next to him began to make strange noises, as if something trapped inside was struggling unwillingly, trying to break through the shackles of the picture frame.

Lin Qiushi stood up staggeringly, leaning on the wall and continuing to walk forward.

His mobile phone trembled slightly, and a new text message came. Lin Qiushi hurriedly picked up the mobile phone, and saw that Ruan Nanzhu had sent a text message back.

Ruan Nanzhu told him where he was, which was actually a school in the city center, but he told Lin Qiushi not to go to him for the time being, saying that his situation was not very good. If Lin Qiushi came, he might Encountered more and worse situations.

That's right, Ruan Nanzhu has been through the door for so many years, and he has encountered many more monsters than Lin Qiushi. At this time, all the ghosts rushed out, and the ghosts of the night were nothing more than that.

Holding the phone, Lin Qiushi read Ruan Nanzhu's message word by word several times. When he realized it, he found himself back in the middle of the road.The long black figure appeared behind him again, approaching Lin Qiushi not too far away, but no matter how fast Lin Qiushi speeded up, he couldn't get rid of her.

Because of the injuries on his body, Lin Qiushi's footsteps became slower and slower, and his strength continued to flow from him. Just when he felt that he was about to be unable to hold on and fell to the ground like this, a soft voice called him the sound of the name.

"Lin Qiushi..." It was a girl's cry, the voice was as sweet as an oriole, Lin Qiushi even thought it was an illusion when he was dying at first, but the cry kept ringing, "Lin Qiushi, Lin Qiushi, Lin Qiushi..."

"Who..." Lin Qiushi's keen hearing played a key role again at this time. He avoided the noisy rain and finally found the source of the sound, but the place where the sound came out was a bit unbelievable—it was in front of Lin Qiushi. On the road, but the road is obviously empty, there is nothing.

Lin Qiushi said: "Is it you? Zaozao? Is it you?" He thought the voice belonged to Tan Zaozao, but he couldn't be sure, so he could only call her name and walked towards the road where the sound came from

When Lin Qiushi arrived at the place where the voice came out, he still didn't see anyone, until he heard Tan Zaozao's calling from the ground in front of him.

Lin Qiushi lowered his head in astonishment, and saw the rainwater accumulated on the road.

Because the rain was too heavy to drain away quickly, there were large and small puddles on the road at this time.The light from the street lamp projected Lin Qiushi's appearance on the puddle, but in the puddle in front of him, there was a woman in a red dress who was eagerly waving at him: "Here, hurry up!" come here."

Lin Qiushi said: "Zaozao?"

"Qiu Shi, come down quickly." Tan Zaozao said, "She's coming!"

Lin Qiushi didn't need to turn his head to know that the thing was not far behind him, because he had already heard the sound of the footsteps in the rain.He looked at Tan Zaozao, gritted his teeth, and tentatively stepped his foot into the puddle in front of him. As a result, he missed his foot and fell into the puddle that was only shallow.

Fortunately, the place where he fell was not too deep. Lin Qiushi took a few breaths before realizing that he appeared in a dilapidated room, and the top of his head was not the ceiling, but a thin layer of water...

"Long time no see." Tan Zaozao smiled sweetly, her hair was loose, and she was wearing the beautiful dress that Lin Qiushi wore when she last saw her, "Qiu Shi."

"Long time no see." Lin Qiushi replied.

Although Li Dongyuan was already mentally prepared yesterday, when he saw Tan Zaozao, he still had indescribably complicated emotions in his heart, and he said, "How are you here?"

"It's good." Tan Zaozao said, "At least I can help the people I like." She frowned and smiled happily.

"That's good." Lin Qiushi had a lot to say, but he couldn't say anything for a while, so the two were silent for a moment, and Tan Zaozao said softly, "She is coming, no matter what you see, don't talk."

Lin Qiushi nodded.

The footsteps of the rain stopped above their heads. Through the shallow puddle, Lin Qiushi saw the girl's black skirt and pointed hat brim. She also discovered the existence of Lin Qiushi and Tan Zaozao. He lowered his head slightly, revealing half of his pale face.

Lin Qiushi at the bottom met her eyes.

The girl grinned and gave Lin Qiushi a weird smile, then she turned around and left just like that.

"Leaving?" Tan Zaozao seemed a little strange, she said, "It shouldn't be..."

Before she finished speaking, the sound of the girl's footsteps came again. Lin Qiushi was thinking about what she was going to get when she turned around, and then saw her raise her hand, revealing a picture framed by a black frame.

After seeing the appearance of the person on the scroll, Lin Qiushi almost stopped breathing—it was a handsome man with a frightened expression, and he made a gesture of reaching out his hand.And the appearance of the man is Ruan Nanzhu when he entered the girl in the rain.

Tan Zaozao also saw the picture scroll, and after a moment of astonishment, he quickly covered Lin Qiushi's mouth with his hands, obviously afraid that he would yell out.

Lin Qiushi stared at the picture scroll, his emotions kept churning, but the girl grinned and laughed. She said, "Don't you like him very much? Why don't you come to save him?"

Lin Qiushi took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. He took out his mobile phone and sent Ruan Nanzhu a message again, asking him how the situation was.

There was no response from Lin Qiushi at the other end. Lin Qiushi stared at the scroll, his eyes seemed to make a hole in it.

The girl looked at Lin Qiushi's expression and laughed out loud. Then, she took the scroll out of the frame and made a look of tearing up the scroll. She said, "If you don't come out, I'll tear up the scroll. You'll never see him again."

Hearing this, Tan Zaozao kept shaking his head at Lin Qiushi, signaling that Lin Qiushi must not make a sound.

Lin Qiushi held the phone tightly, and because of too much force, the white wound on his body that had been soaked by the rain began to bleed again.

Seeing that Lin Qiushi remained indifferent, the girl let out a low growl. Then, she tore the scroll in her hand into two and threw it on the ground roughly.

Lin Qiushi watched her movements and gritted his teeth.

Tan Zaozao looked at Lin Qiushi worriedly, until the girl turned away and walked away, she whispered: "It must not be Ruan's painting, you have to trust Ruan."

Lin Qiushi glanced at his mobile phone, noncommittal to Tan Zaozao's persuasion.

"Qiu Shi..." Tan Zaozao said, "She must have lied to you, that painting may be just a simple painting."

Lin Qiushi was a little tired. He sat on the edge of the bed, leaned against the wall and looked at the rainy sky overhead, and said two words: "It's okay."

But Lin Qiushi's expression didn't seem to be all right. Tan Zaozao sat beside him, trying to find a topic to make the atmosphere easier.

"What state are you in here?" Lin Qiushi asked, "Do you have daylight? Or will you be trapped here forever?"

"Me." Tan Zaozao said, "I'm in a strange state now. I have memories of the day at night, but I don't remember what happened at night during the day." She said while observing Lin Qiushi's expression, "Maybe it happened at night. Everything is just a dream to me during the day."

Lin Qiushi was silent for a moment: "Have you ever seen Qianli?"

"Qianli? Why did I see Qianli?" After Tan Zaozao said this, he suddenly realized the hidden meaning in Lin Qiushi's words, and his eyes widened all of a sudden, "Qianli - no! How could it be!"

In Obsidian, apart from Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu, Cheng Qianli has the best relationship with Tan Zaozao. She never thought that Cheng Qianli would also...

Lin Qiushi sighed softly. Since Tan Zaozao reacted like this, it means that she must not have seen the journey.

Just as Lin Qiushi was about to continue talking, he suddenly felt a heavy drowsiness. He could see Tan Zaozao's mouth opening and closing, but he couldn't understand what she was saying at all.

The irresistible drowsiness made Lin Qiushi close his eyes. He fell into a corner and fell asleep like this.

After an unknown amount of time, the sound of the alarm clock woke Lin Qiushi from his sleep. He opened his eyes and saw the warm sunshine outside the window.

Lin Qiushi got up from the bed, checked the time, washed up hastily, and went out to the airport.

In the car, he checked the text messages on his mobile phone, but he didn't see the message Ruan Nanzhu sent him back. Everything that happened last night seemed to be just a weird dream.Only the aching shoulder was reminding Lin Qiushi that this had really happened.

There were blue and purple handprints on the shoulder injured by the monster. Although it looked scary, it didn't hurt very much, so Lin Qiushi didn't care about it.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Lin Qiushi got on the plane, and it was more than two hours before he arrived at his destination.He was very sleepy, but he couldn't sleep. He kept repeating in his mind what he saw last night. He didn't know if the torn portrait was Ruan Nanzhu. This matter hung in his heart like a big stone.

Things will eventually have an answer. Lin Qiushi decided to wait for Ruan Nanzhu's text message tonight. If Ruan Nanzhu didn't give him a message, he would go directly to the school Ruan Nanzhu said to find him.

Caring makes chaos, Lin Qiushi understands this truth, but when it really happened to him, he couldn't be indifferent.

He reluctantly took a nap on the plane, and when the plane arrived at its destination, he rushed out of the airport, took a taxi and went straight to a certain location.

In the taxi, the driver thought that Lin Qiushi was a tourist, and he was still enthusiastically introducing the scenery of the city.Lin Qiushi responded one after another, raising his wrist from time to time to look at the time.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Qiushi arrived in an ordinary residential area. Relying on his memory, he went straight to a certain house number of a certain building.

Ding dong ding dong, after the doorbell rang twice, a young and immature voice came from the door: "Who is it?"

Lin Qiushi's lips moved, but he couldn't speak.

After a while, the door in front of him opened, and a boy's face appeared in Lin Qiushi's field of vision. He stared at Lin Qiushi with those beautiful cat eyes, and said, "Who are you looking for?"

Lin Qiushi looked at his face, tears fell like this, he stretched out his hand, hugged him firmly in the child's frightened eyes, and finally called out the name: "Qianli."

Cheng Qianli in the door was frightened and stupid. He wanted to struggle reflexively, but facing Lin Qiushi who was crying, he could only whisper: "Brother, did you recognize the wrong person? I don't know you?"

Lin Qiushi let go of him, reached out to wipe his tears, and said, "Qianli, are you doing well?"

Cheng Qianli was so frightened that he quietly shrank back into the door. Lin Qiushi saw through his trick at a glance, pressed the door directly, and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm not a strange person." After he finished speaking , smiled wryly, judging from his words and deeds, he didn't look like a normal person no matter what.

"Oh." Cheng Qianli replied, "But I... I really don't know you."

"You..." Lin Qiushi said, "Are you the only child?"

Cheng Qianli nodded.

Lin Qiushi let out a breath, and said: "I..." He swallowed the words again, and said, "Forget it, it's nothing." He turned around and was about to leave.

Cheng Qianli's hesitant voice came over, and he said, "Well...would you like to come to my house and eat some popsicles?"

Lin Qiushi said: "Aren't you afraid that I'm a bad guy?"

Cheng Qianli: "I'm afraid." He scratched his head, "Don't steal from my house, I will call the police."

Lin Qiushi looked at him and thought to himself, Cheng Qianli, Cheng Qianli, even if you live your life again, you are still just as stupid... If you bring a stranger into your home like this, what would he really do? How can you resist as a child?He sighed, and taught him seriously: "In the future, you must never bring strangers into your home."

Cheng Qianli: "Huh?"

Lin Qiushi said: "Have you heard that, you can't bring strangers into your home!"

Cheng Qianli looked at him in horror: "But you are also a stranger?"

Lin Qiushi said: "Your name is Cheng Qianli, and my name is Lin Qiushi. Well, now we know each other and are no longer strangers."

Cheng Qianli snorted, but he always felt that something was wrong, but before he could figure it out, Lin Qiushi had already walked into his house.

After entering the house, what Lin Qiushi saw was the living room of Cheng Qianli's house. The furnishings here were the same as he remembered, but there was one thing missing - the photo of Cheng Qianli's posthumous photo placed in the center of the living room.

The first time Lin Qiushi came to Cheng Qianli's house was to send Cheng Qianli's parents back. They cleaned the whole house, then carefully placed the black and white photos in the center of the living room, lit incense below, and put Cheng Qianli's favorite food.The mother said in her mouth that her son was so stupid, and she didn't know if he could find his way back.Father said nothing, smoking one cigarette after another.Cheng Qianli's elder brother, Yixie, stood in front of the portrait for a long time, but he could no longer shed tears. He stared at the younger brother in the photo with his dark eyes that had lost his vitality.

"It's all my fault." Cheng Yixie said something that Lin Qiushi had remembered for a long time, and he said, "If it wasn't for me..."

Lin Qiushi came back from his memory, looked at the scene in front of him and wiped his face, he thought, at least in this world, Cheng Yixie's wish was realized in another way.