Kaleidoscope of Death

On this day, accompanied by Zuo Zi, Lin Qiushi ushered in the irresistible deep drowsiness. When he woke up, it was another new day.Lin Qiushi sat on the edge of the bed, looking out the window into the bright sunlight, under the shroud of light, everything seemed full of hope.

Lin Qiushi sat up from the bed, feeling extremely tired. After washing up casually, he carried his luggage and set out on the road again.

This time, the flight was not delayed, and Lin Qiushi arrived in the city where his home was located on time.After the flight landed, he was not in a hurry to go home, but took a taxi to another place - the school mentioned by Ruan Nanzhu in the text message.

That school is a high school in the suburbs.

In May, it happened to be near the end of the period and the time period for the college entrance examination, and the students were studying intensely.Lin Qiushi took advantage of the unpreparedness of the guards and sneaked into the school through the back door, seeing the whole picture of the school.

Many years ago, Ruan Nanzhu entered the door here. Looking at the neat teaching building in front of him, what Lin Qiushi thought was that he and the young Ruan Nanzhu saw the same scenery.At that time, Ruan Nanzhu was only a child, and he would definitely be very helpless when he just entered the door, but fortunately, he met a good enough guide, and also met a large group of friends who benefited a lot from the obsidian. It was a bumpy road, but it finally came to today.

Lin Qiushi walked slowly in the school. Although he knew that Ruan Nanzhu and him were in different timelines at this time, and there was no possibility of the two meeting each other, he had a magical illusion, as if separated by time and space, They were standing at the same spot, looking at the same scenery.

I just don't know what the school looks like at night.

After running around for two days, Lin Qiushi was a little tired after all. He randomly found a corner of the cafeteria, sat down on the spot, lay down on the table and fell asleep deeply.

When he woke up, the sun was already in the west, and Lin Qiushi was tired, knowing that the night like a ghost walk was coming again.

Every night he kept running for his life, even his body couldn't stand it anymore, but some things can't be stopped when he feels tired. Lin Qiushi doesn't want to die, so he still has to keep up his spirits to face what's coming next everything of.

He left the school in a hurry with his luggage and returned to his home before dark.

In fact, Lin Qiushi wanted to stay at the school to meet Ruan Nanzhu, but he was afraid that he would not only bring him, but also the ghosts that came with him.

The pressure on Ruan Nanzhu was already great enough, and Lin Qiushi really didn't want to cause him more trouble, so he could only endure the longing for Ruan Nanzhu in his heart and choose a safer way.

Sitting on the sofa in his own home, Lin Qiushi held a chestnut in his arms, thinking about the unsolvable clues in his mind.From the moment he entered the door until now, he had no clue about the key.As if the key is something that doesn't exist at all, he can't leave here at all.

So, is there any other meaning hidden in the two words "Unsolved" on the clue?Lin Qiushi closed his eyes, leaned on the sofa, and thought quietly.

This kind of thinking has no results. The strange world at night is like a ball of thread that is entangled, and there is no clue.

Lizi fell asleep in Lin Qiushi's arms, breathing evenly.Its warm body temperature passed to Lin Qiushi through the clothes, which made Lin Qiushi feel much calmer.

The room was very quiet, only the ticking of the second hand. The TV was on, but the volume was turned to the minimum. Lin Qiushi looked at the silent picture in front of him, waiting for the night to come.

At twelve o'clock, the clock struck twelve lightly on time.

Lin Qiushi was sitting at home, and a strong smell of burnt smell rushed into his nose. The smell was so strong that he couldn't help coughing lowly.The next moment, Lin Qiushi instantly realized that this was the smell of fire, which he had smelled inside the door.

Realizing what happened, Lin Qiushi rushed into the toilet, covered his nose and mouth with a wet towel, then turned around and opened the door to leave the room.As soon as the door opened, thick smoke billowed into his room. Lin Qiushi rushed to the corridor, and saw that a raging fire had already ignited in the corridor, and the fire was spreading towards him.

The towel on Lin Qiushi's face blocked the thick smoke and dust on his face, giving him a glimmer of life. He turned around and rushed into the fire escape next to him, heading downstairs.

"Cough, cough, cough, cough." With a violent coughing sound, Lin Qiushi's eyes were smothered with tears, and he staggered forward, not daring to stay for half a minute. After descending many floors, he finally arrived. Get a non-smoking floor.

Finally able to take a breath, Lin Qiushi supported the wall and panted heavily for fresh air. However, when he took a breath and raised his head to see the surrounding environment clearly, he couldn't help but sucked in a cold breath—— Next to the corridor where it is located, it is covered with dense mirrors.

A piece of mirror covered all the original walls of the corridor, and Lin Qiushi saw his embarrassed figure in the mirror.

Seeing these mirrors, Lin Qiushi immediately remembered the door he had entered and the fire inside the door.

A strong sense of danger hangs in Lin Qiushi's heart. He immediately sensed that something was wrong here, and turned around to leave, but when he returned to the fire escape, Lin Qiushi found that the door of the fire escape was closed. No matter how hard he tried, there was no way out. Pull it apart again.

Knowing that this road would not work, Lin Qiushi had no choice but to give up. He turned back to the corridor, looked at the mirror in this corridor, and shook his oxygen-deficient head from the smoke to make himself more awake.

In the dimly lit corridor, Lin Qiushi's shadow reflected in the mirror is everywhere.On the cold mirror, Lin Qiushi's appearance is layered on top of each other, giving people the illusion that the space here is extremely huge.

Lin Qiushi stopped walking forward, and at the end of the dark corridor, he saw two figures who did not know when to appear.It was a pair of mother and daughter holding hands. Their bodies had been scorched, showing a terrifying black charcoal color. The girl was holding an unrecognizable doll in her hand, and her black eyes were quietly staring at Lin Qiushi.There was no emotion in those two pairs of eyes, only the dead silence like a deep lake.

The corridor with only one road cannot turn back. Lin Qiushi standing in the middle of the corridor is like a caged animal, but the worst thing is that the mirror around Lin Qiushi also began to change.

The mirror surface began to distort like water waves, and soon Lin Qiushi realized that this change was due to the high temperature. The flame appeared at the end of the corridor—the scorched mother and daughter, and then began to move toward the place where Lin Qiushi was. The direction spread rapidly.

He was going to be burned to death - Lin Qiushi, who was clearly aware of this, turned around and wanted to escape, but the speed of the flames was extremely fast, and he even felt the scorching heat of the flames on his back.

At this moment, a pair of hands suddenly stretched out from the mirror beside him, grabbed Lin Qiushi's arm, dragged him into the mirror abruptly, and successfully escaped the attack of the flames.

Lin Qiushi was dazed when he was caught in the mirror, until he saw two familiar faces in front of him, they were Zhuo Feiquan and his younger sister Zhuo Mingyu, who often visited Obsidian.

"Long time no see." Zhuo Feiquan looked at Lin Qiushi condescendingly, and greeted Lin Qiushi lightly.

Still in shock, Lin Qiushi forced himself to stand up from the ground and said, "...Long time no see." He thought he was going to die, but he was unexpectedly saved by Zhuo Feiquan.

"Forget what my sister owed you before." Zhuo Feiquan said.

In the door with people as the mirror, Zhuo Mingyu came out of the mirror a few seconds ahead of schedule, causing Lin Qiushi to be locked in the bedroom. If Ruan Nanzhu hadn't used Zhuo Feiquan's life to force Zhuo Mingyu into the mirror again , I am afraid that Lin Qiushi's life will be confessed in that door.

Lin Qiushi said: "Are you also inside?"

"Of course." Zhuo Feiquan said, "Everyone who died inside the door is inside."

"Then did you see Ruan Nanzhu?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"Him? Why should I go to see him." Zhuo Feiquan obviously didn't like Ruan Nanzhu, and his tone was very rude, "I don't owe him anything."

Lin Qiushi showed helplessness.Entering the mirror world for the first time, he looked around and saw the scene around him.He was still standing in the corridor, but all the scenes were completely reversed.And through the mirror next to it, you can see what happened in reality. The corridor where he was standing before has been completely engulfed by the flames and turned into a scorched blackness. One can imagine that if he was still standing there just now, people might have been killed. burnt.

"Let's go first, don't stay here for too long." Zhuo Feiquan said, "That thing can enter the mirror."

Lin Qiushi nodded and followed Zhuo Feiquan into the fire exit in the mirror.

"We took you downstairs. When you see the mirror, remember to stay away." Zhuo Feiquan said, "That thing will definitely attack you again."

Lin Qiushi said: "Are you from the tenth door?"

Zhuo Feiquan nodded, his attitude towards this was quite calm, and he even glanced gently at Zhuo Mingyu who had been standing behind him and said nothing, "It's a good thing." At least he can be in the world inside the door. with her.

"Are you still brothers and sisters here?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"Yeah." Zhuo Feiquan said, "It's brother and sister, although they don't remember what happened inside the door during the day...but it's not a bad thing if they don't remember.

Lin Qiushi fell into silence, and the three of them went all the way down to the bottom of the building. When they were about to part, Lin Qiushi suddenly asked, "Is this real?"

Zhuo Feiquan turned his head to look at Lin Qiushi, and asked what Lin Qiushi meant with his eyes.

"Are you guys real too?" Lin Qiushi asked.

Zhuo Feiquan laughed, and he said: "If we are not real, how can you live till now?"

Lin Qiushi remained silent.

"At least for us, this place is real." Zhuo Feiquan said, "Probably it can be regarded as a kind of compensation for us..."

While speaking, Zhuo Feiquan had already arrived at the floor below. He took Lin Qiushi into a toilet at random, then pointed to the mirror in the toilet and said, "Go out."

Lin Qiushi stretched out his hand to the mirror, and then felt a pulling force, pulling himself out of the world inside the mirror.He returned to reality, but the surrounding environment was still not very friendly - it was still full of the smell of thick smoke, and there were burnt marks on the wall next to it.

Lin Qiushi looked at the brother and sister in the glasses, and thanked them softly.

Winding down the stairs, I want to get out of here quickly.

But things are obviously not as simple as he thought. Lin Qiushi was walking down, but he found that the number of floors in front of him was getting bigger—he was actually climbing upstairs, and the more he went up, the strong anxiety The smell became thicker, his footsteps stopped, but his ears caught some kind of sound.

The sound made Lin Qiushi's back sweat instantly, and he even stopped breathing for a moment.

That's right, he heard Ruan Nanzhu's voice.Ruan Nanzhu seemed to be yelling at someone angrily, which Lin Qiushi had never heard before.

"One minute less, your brother will die here!!" Lin Qiushi heard this sentence clearly, he walked to the edge of the fire door, and through the small window, he saw what happened on the other side of the door.

Standing in the corridor, Ruan Nanzhu told Zhuo Feiquan and Zhuo Mingyu what Lin Qiushi had heard.His expression was extremely gloomy, and there was a strong killing intent in his black eyes.

"Zhu Meng, you cheating liar!!" Zhuo Feiming roared angrily.

"Liar? Are you ashamed to call me a liar? You came out 5 minutes earlier than you promised. If he dies here, you will all be buried with him—" Ruan Nanzhu sneered back.

Hearing the content of the conversation between the two, Lin Qiushi finally realized that this happened inside the door.

At that time, he thought it was because he was a step too late and there was not enough time, but later he found out that Zhuo Mingyu had come out of the mirror ahead of time, which caused him to be locked in the door for getting the key.

Later, it was Ruan Nanzhu who risked being burned to death, rushed into the bedroom and rescued him from inside.

Everything in front of him seemed to be a replay of memory. Lin Qiushi saw the moment when the mother and daughter disappeared at the end of the corridor, Ruan Nanzhu ran wildly, rushed into the bedroom again, and hugged himself out of a coma.

Then they escaped along the fire escape, right?Although Lin Qiushi has no memory of these things, after he recovered from his illness, Ruan Nanzhu told them everything that happened inside the door.

During this short journey, Ruan Nanzhu's body was severely burned, and then he hugged Lin Qiushi and headed towards the fire exit.

Everything seemed normal until the four of them reached the door of the fire escape.

Flames suddenly appeared in the surrounding mirrors, blocking the way of the four of them. Ruan Nanzhu's body caught fire and fell down screaming, while Lin Qiushi in his arms was also engulfed in flames.

Standing outside the door watching all this, Lin Qiushi's eyes widened. He hadn't expected the scene in front of him at all.Ruan Nanzhu's body was on fire, and he kept screaming and rolling on the ground. The sharp scream was like a heavy hammer hitting Lin Qiushi's chest fiercely. He almost couldn't help but want to rush into the corridor and throw himself at Ruan Nanzhu extinguish the flames in him.

"All of this is fake, all fake." Lin Qiushi didn't dare to look any further, he grabbed his chest, panted continuously, his body bent down slowly, and almost fell limp to the ground.However, even though he couldn't see the scene in front of him, Ruan Nanzhu's screams could still be heard endlessly.

"Ah, it hurts, ah..." He rolled in the flames, his voice gradually weakened, and he called his name, "Qiu Shi, Qiu Shi... I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."

"Fake, fake, all fake." Lin Qiushi covered his ears, not wanting to hear any more.He was afraid that he would lose control and would rush in.

Ruan Nanzhu's voice finally stopped, but Lin Qiushi was already sweating profusely. He trembled slightly, and slowly straightened his waist. Through the small window, he saw everything in the corridor.

There were four charred corpses lying on the corridor, two of them were hugging tightly, Lin Qiushi judged from their only remaining clothes that they were Ruan Nanzhu and his corpse.

They died together.

With severe head pain, Lin Qiushi covered his face with his hands, telling himself repeatedly that what he was seeing was an illusion.

However, this was not the end. The scorched black corpse began to shake slowly, and slowly crawled up from the ground. The corpse had already been burned to the appearance of a skeleton, and the hideous appearance made people creepy.He opened his mouth and said Ruan Nanzhu's voice again: "Qiu Shi."

"Nan Zhu." Lin Qiushi was out of breath.

The corpse slowly walked towards him. Through the glass, one person and one ghost faced each other. The person in front of him couldn't see Ruan Nanzhu's handsome appearance at all, only terror remained. He looked at the person outside the door. Lin Qiushi said, "Actually, don't you remember?"

Lin Qiushi took a step back.

"Don't you remember?" The dead Ruan Nanzhu looked at Lin Qiushi with his black eyes, "Don't you remember that all four of us died here?"

Lin Qiushi said: "You are talking nonsense! We are not dead! You are fucking trying to lie to me!"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "But do you remember what happened after that?...I made up those memories to lie to you." His voice was full of sadness, "We died inside the door, but you don't remember gone."

Lin Qiushi really doesn't remember, he doesn't remember how he left the door, but this doesn't mean he will believe what the person in front of him says.

"I was burned alive to save you." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Then we appeared in the world we are in now, and I made up a brand new memory for you..."

Lin Qiushi didn't speak, he took out his mobile phone and quickly sent a text message.But there was no reply from the other end of the text message, maybe the real Ruan Nanzhu is experiencing something serious...

"The person on the other end of the phone is me." As if noticing Lin Qiushi's actions, Ruan Nanzhu on the other end of the door raised his mobile phone and grinned at Lin Qiushi, "Of course I won't get back to you in time." gone."

"No—" Hearing this, Lin Qiushi trembled all over his body. He quickly found out the address book, and was about to call Ruan Nanzhu, but his movements suddenly stopped.

He can't do this, if Ruan Nanzhu is really in a critical juncture, the phone ringing suddenly on his body will definitely kill him.

Lin Qiushi used his last self-control to stop himself from dialing the number. He said, "Don't you fucking try to lie to me! How could you be Ruan Nanzhu!"

"Why not?" The person at the other end of the door showed a sad look, "or is it just that you don't want to accept this cruel fact?"

Lin Qiushi gritted his teeth and remained silent.

"Didn't you already start to doubt." He said, "Doubt everything here, doubt the authenticity of everything, how can their appearance be so coincidental, and they will save your life every time it comes to a critical moment... Do you know why? ?Because all of this is a dream controlled by you.” He turned around and pointed to the motionless corpse lying on the carpet, with a horrible smile on his face, “You are already dead, Lin Qiushi .”

Lin Qiushi knew that he shouldn't be shaken, but he couldn't completely control some emotions.Following what the person in front of him said, many terrifying thoughts really ran through his mind.

Lin Qiushi said: "Shut up, I won't believe you." He wiped his face with his hand, turned around and was about to leave.

Ruan Nanzhu behind him began to cry softly, he said: "Qiu Shi, don't go, I'm so scared by myself."

Lin Qiushi choked for breath.

"I'm so scared in the door alone, don't leave me alone." He said, "It's so dark here, I'm alone, can you talk to me, I'm really scared..."

Lin Qiushi took a deep breath, but he calmed down. He didn't believe that Ruan Nanzhu would beg him in such a tone.

"You are not Ruan Nanzhu." Lin Qiushi said, "You are not Ruan Nanzhu." He seemed to say this sentence to himself, and repeated it several times.

"Lin Qiushi, Lin Qiushi, Lin Qiushi." The person inside the door was still calling Lin Qiushi's name with the same voice as Ruan Nanzhu.

Lin Qiushi went down the stairs expressionlessly. This time the number on the stairs did not appear again. Lin Qiushi went down and finally reached the bottom of the apartment building.It's just that Ruan Nanzhu's cry was still echoing in his ears. Lin Qiushi kept checking his mobile phone text messages along the way, but he didn't receive Ruan Nanzhu's meeting letter until he arrived at a place that seemed safe. .

How is he now?What's going on over there?Will it be in danger?Lin Qiushi's mind was in a mess, and even some thoughts secretly rose up. Isn't that person upstairs really Ruan Nanzhu?If it was really Ruan Nanzhu... then didn't he abandon him.

Uncertainty is always the most painful state. Lin Qiushi stood downstairs for a long time. He thought there would be ghosts attacking him again, but the neighborhood was extremely calm.

However, this kind of calm made Lin Qiushi's thinking even more confused. He stared at the mobile phone, wishing to travel to the other side through the radio wave, to confirm the safety of Ruan Nanzhu, and to see that he was still alive.

But all this is just his extravagant hope, Lin Qiushi thought with some despair, if something happens here, they can't even die together...