Kaleidoscope of Death

The first time Cheng Yixie realized that he didn't live long was on his fifth birthday.Other children were still ignorant when they were five years old, and had no special concept of life and death, but he realized something in his mother's tears and his father's frown.He spent his fifth birthday in the hospital, with his silly younger brother Cheng Qianli, with a drip in his hand, ate bitter and unpalatable medicine, and made a wish on a beautiful cake with five candles.

Cheng Yixie looked at the lit candles on the cake, and whispered in his heart that he hoped that he could grow up quickly, and he also wanted to see other parts of the world.

Cheng Qianli obviously didn't think as much as Cheng Yixie thought. He had a bright smile on his face, in stark contrast to the expressionless Cheng Yixie next to him. All his attention was on the sweet and soft cake in front of him.A fool is better off than a smart person, as long as a sweet candy can make him smile from the bottom of his heart.

Cheng Yixie and Cheng Qianli were born of compatriots, but apart from their looks, they seem to be very different from each other.

Cheng Yixie realized early on that they were different from other children. He had even heard doctors and mothers talking about their physical condition in private.During this conversation, there was a sentence that was deeply imprinted in his mind. Their attending doctor said that with the current medical level, he and Cheng Qianli would not survive to be sixteen.

Sixteen—sixteen, life has just begun, Cheng Yixie returned to the ward, and saw his younger brother Qianli sitting in front of the hospital bed, giggling at the cartoon on TV, there was no trace of haze in his eyes, bright Like the blue sky outside the window.

Cheng Qianli is much thinner than him, and his body is also weaker. Although he is almost ten years old, he still looks like a malnourished bean sprouts.In order to treat the disease, none of them grew their hair. On the top of their heads and on their wrists, there were bruises left by pinholes.

When Cheng Yixie walked into the ward, Cheng Qianli raised his face towards him, and called out sweetly to his brother, those cute cat eyes overflowed with intense joy, and he never concealed his love for Cheng Yixie.

"Brother." The little Cheng Qianli looked left and right, and waved to Cheng Yixie cautiously.

Cheng Yixie walked to his bedside, and Cheng Qianli motioned him to bend down. Cheng Yixie thought he was going to say something to him, so he did so according to the law, but just as he bent down, a small candy was stuffed to his lips.

"Hush." ​​Cheng Qianli said, "Don't tell the nurse sister, it was secretly given to me by my grandma. I licked it and it was delicious."

Because of their illness, their diet was strictly controlled, and there were only a handful of snacks they tasted throughout the year. Cheng Yixie thought, if they were just ordinary children, then Cheng Qianli could eat all the food he wanted, and would not Like the pitiful look in front of me.

"Give me back what you've eaten." Cheng Yixie responded to Cheng Qianli's kindness, "It's so dirty."

"You lied." Cheng Qianli snorted, "You obviously like sweets too, bad brother."

Cheng Yixie didn't speak, the sweet taste of candy melted in his mouth, but he only had their future in his eyes, he couldn't imagine that he would lose this stupid brother in front of him, how much he wanted to watch him grow up and have his own life.

Cheng Yixie thought that surviving was just his extravagant wish, until he was selected by the door.

The terrifying world inside the door is a terrible torture for many people, but for Cheng Yixie, it is a generous gift from heaven.

He wasn't even 16 when he walked in, so out of place among the grown-ups.

The first door was very difficult, Cheng Yixie once thought he would die inside, but he was lucky, he met an old hand who often passed the door, the old hand opened the door, Cheng Yixie finally left this grotesque world smoothly.

After coming out of the door, Cheng Yixie's physical condition began to improve rapidly.

The doctor said it was a miracle. Although the same medicine and method were used, Cheng Yixie's body was rapidly recovering towards normal, while Cheng Qianli was getting weaker and weaker.

Cheng Yixie knew what was going on, and he tried to tell his parents about this absurd but very real thing, but his parents thought he was joking.

In the eyes of others, Cheng Yixie just sat on the bed in a daze for a while, and didn't go anywhere. Everything he said was probably the child's imagination.How can conjecture be taken seriously.

The smart Cheng Yixie knew that he would never be understood by adults.This matter is beyond the scope of common sense, and he has no evidence to prove the existence of the door.

Then what should Cheng Qianli do, Cheng Yixie thought, what should his silly brother do.

Before Cheng Yixie got the answer, he entered the second door, and in the second door, he met Ruan Nanzhu, the leader of Obsidian.

Ruan Nanzhu was wearing women's clothing at the time, and smiled and called him a child.

Cheng Yixie just gave him a cold look and didn't bother to refute.So what if you take advantage of your mouth?In the first door, he saw a lot of adults who were complacent one second, but died in the next second.

Cheng Yixie thought that Ruan Nanzhu was the same, but he found that Ruan Nanzhu didn't seem to be what he saw.Ruan Nanzhu was very strong, and Cheng Yixie keenly grasped this from his next actions.

When Ruan Nanzhu was about to leave, he gave Cheng Yixie a contact information and told him that if he wanted to know more, he could contact himself.

Cheng Yixie glanced at the contact information, then secretly wrote it down.

After going out through the second door, Cheng Yixie contacted Ruan Nanzhu and knew about the existence of obsidian.

"Do you want to come to Obsidian? Maybe you can live longer here." Ruan Nanzhu said on the phone.

Cheng Yixie agreed, and without even consulting his parents, he left the hospital and flew to the city where Ruan Nanzhu was located that night.

This gambling behavior is actually very risky, because Cheng Yixie is not sure whether Ruan Nanzhu really has good intentions for him, he is just a child with no power to restrain the chicken, if Ruan Nanzhu really wants to treat him Do something, he doesn't even have a chance to resist.

But Cheng Yixie can only gamble, because Cheng Qianli's time is running out.

In stark contrast to Cheng Yixie, who was gradually recovering, Cheng Qianli was like a plant that had entered winter, and vitality began to flow from his body at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After Cheng Yixie arrived at Obsidian, the first question he asked when he saw Ruan Nanzhu was: "Can other people have doors?"

Facing Cheng Yixie's question, Ruan Nanzhu was silent for a moment, and said, "Yes, but I won't tell you."

"Why?" Cheng Yixie asked.

"Because other people's lives need to be exchanged." Ruan Nanzhu said, "You can do such a thing?"

Cheng Yixie was silent.

Ruan Nanzhu didn't continue this topic, but simply introduced the door to him, about clues, about obsidian, and some other content.Of course, from the beginning to the end, he didn't tell Cheng Yixie how to snatch other people's doors, but told Cheng Yixie to hide his identity inside the door, otherwise there would be danger.

Cheng Yixie listened carefully. While listening, he was thinking about Cheng Qianli. He thought, even if Cheng Qianli took the door, would he really be able to get out of it?

The world inside the door is so scary, and it is so incompatible with the innocent Cheng Qianli. Even if he helped Cheng Qianli snatch the door as Ruan Nanzhu said, would this be another kind of torture for Cheng Qianli?

He is so small, so afraid of the dark, completely different from himself, just an ordinary child.

Cheng Yixie sat alone in the yard for a long time that day. When the morning light appeared on the horizon, he rubbed his dry eyes and entered the room expressionlessly.

No one knew what Cheng Yixie was thinking, anyway, after that day, he did not return to his hometown, nor did he contact Cheng Qianli again.

Is your brother too stupid?So you don't like him anymore?Someone questioned Cheng Yixie, Cheng Yixie didn't say anything after listening, but cast a cold look.

He didn't go back and didn't contact Cheng Qianli, just because he was afraid that he would lose control and do things beyond the limit.

He didn't even dare to imagine Cheng Qianli's death, as long as he thought about it, many terrible thoughts came to his mind.

Cheng Qianli is a calamity that Cheng Yixie cannot escape in his life. He knows that for this younger brother, he can break the lowest bottom line.

When he realized this, the only thing Cheng Yixie could do was to downplay Cheng Qianli's influence on him, although the downplaying process was tantamount to forcibly cutting off a part of his body that originally belonged to him.

They are twins, twins connected by blood, they can understand what the other is saying and thinking with just one look and one expression, even thousands of miles away, Cheng Yixie can feel Cheng Qianli's gradual weakening.

Cheng Yixie thought that everything would end like this, but one afternoon, he received a call from Cheng Qianli.

To this day, Cheng Yixie can still think of the weather that day.

It was a spring day with light rain, the shrubs in the yard were lush and verdant, and everything was full of revival of life. Cheng Qianli's voice came from the phone, a little weak and crying, and he called him: "Brother, brother, I am really scared--"

Cheng Yixie said: "What's wrong?" He had a premonition of something, and his voice became tense, which was rare.

"I went through a door." Cheng Qianli spoke intermittently, still a little weak, "There are a lot of ghosts inside, I finally came out, am I dreaming... When will you come back... I miss you so much... "He seemed to be starting to lose consciousness, and he was talking nonsense.

Cheng Yixie listened, but laughed softly, and laughed out his tears, he said: "Don't be afraid, brother is here, waiting for brother to come back."

Brother will protect you.

At this point, Cheng Yixie understood that he could not escape Cheng Qianli's calamity.He wants to use all means to protect Cheng Qianli's life, and watch him grow up, marry a wife, have children, a house full of children and grandchildren, rich and prosperous.

The author has something to say:

Here is the long-awaited Gemini episode for everyone, the memory is based on the modified memory version in No.12 door (laugh cry