Kaleidoscope of Death

The hostess' studio is on the seventh floor.

The former Xiaosu disappeared on the seventh floor, but according to the male companion who was with her, they did not enter the hostess's studio at that time, but just looked at other paintings nearby.

Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi climbed to the seventh floor and saw the corridor shrouded in shadows again.The corridor on the seventh floor is very long, and the floor is still covered with thick carpets. The carpet extends from the stairs to both sides, and finally stops in front of the studio at the end.

The studio is a bit different from other rooms, the door is tightly covered with a black cloth, it seems that the owner of the studio doesn't want light to pass through the crack in the door.

"Where is she now?" Tan Zaozao was a little scared, she touched the goosebumps on her arms and whispered, "It would be so embarrassing if we saw her painting inside as soon as we went in."

"I hope she's not in the studio now." Ruan Nanzhu said, "You wait here, I'll knock on the door first."

He said he was going to knock on the door, but he actually walked to the door of the studio in three or two steps, and knocked with his hand raised.

Tan Zaozao's eyes widened, and when she heard Ruan Nanzhu knocking hard on the door of the studio, she said, "Damn—why is he so courageous."

Lin Qiushi was calmer than her: "He has always been very courageous."

After the door was knocked, there was no response from inside. Ruan Nanzhu knocked again, and finally confirmed that no one was in the studio now.

"Go in." Ruan Nanzhu said.

"Isn't the top locked?" Tan Zaozao said, "How do we get in?"

Ruan Nanzhu took out a hairpin from his pocket, bent over to work with a natural expression.

Tan Zaozao: "..." She almost forgot that Ruan Nanzhu had this awesome skill.

After bending over for a while, the door lock made a light click and was opened by Ruan Nanzhu. He held the door handle and gently pulled it open. He first observed the interior structure of the studio at the door before facing Lin Qiushi. Waving: "You go in with me, Tan Zaozao, you let the wind out at the door, and call us if there is any movement."

Tan Zaozao nodded obediently.

Lin Qiushi took a step forward and entered the studio with Ruan Nanzhu.

The studio is not big, and the lighting conditions are very bad. The windows are firmly covered with black curtains, and they can only rely on the small light above the head for lighting. It takes a lot of effort to see the situation in the room clearly.

On the easel in the middle of the studio was a painting covered with cloth, and the whole room was filled with a strange smell of paint.

Ruan Nanzhu has always been straightforward in his work, walked to the easel and lifted the curtain directly.

After the curtain was lifted, an unfinished painting was revealed. Lin Qiushi was stunned when he saw the painting: "This is..."

"The last supper." Ruan Nanzhu said.

At first glance, this painting really looks a bit like the Last Supper. It depicts a group of people attending a dinner party at a long table, but if you look closely, you will find that the people participating in the dinner party are not the twelve disciples of Christ, but the twelve disciples of Christ. It's them.That's right, they are the ones who entered the door.

There were Ruan Nanzhu, Lin Qiushi, and Tan Zaozao. They sat at the long table, either eating food with their heads down, or talking to others in low voices.

If it's just like this, it's fine, but the characters in the painting almost have no faces. Lin Qiushi can only tell that the people in the painting are them from the clothes.

"Her face is drawn." Ruan Nanzhu pointed to a girl in the corner, "She must be Xiao Su."

Lin Qiushi also saw the picture that Ruan Nanzhu said. In the corner of the long table, a girl's face was drawn, but her face was not the joy and relaxation of eating, but the unspeakable fear. Touching the canvas, Lin Qiushi could feel the breath of despair.

Apart from this painting, there was nothing special in the whole studio. After checking around, Ruan Nanzhu didn't dare to waste any more time in it. He took Lin Qiushi out of the room and locked the door.

Seeing them coming out, Tan Zaozao hurriedly asked them what they saw inside.

"A painting." Lin Qiushi said, "A painting of us having dinner." He described the special situation in the painting. Tan Zaozao swallowed after listening, and tremblingly said, "That little girl Su, was it really put into the painting?"

"Yeah." Ruan Nanzhu said, "It should be like this, I still want to go to the sixth floor to see."

"Go." Lin Qiushi said.

The special place on the sixth floor is the unfinished exhibition room that the housekeeper told them not to go.

As the name suggests, that place should be a place for unfinished paintings.Ruan Nanzhu quickly found the room on the sixth floor, easily unlocked the door, and went in with Lin Qiushi.

The environment of the unfinished exhibition room is slightly better than that of the studio, at least the windows are not covered with black cloth, and the room is very spacious.

It was filled with dense paintings. Lin Qiushi looked at a few of them casually, and found that there were unfinished parts, and most of the paintings were vacant.

Ruan Nanzhu's observation ability is still strong as usual, his eyes scanned hundreds of paintings, and quickly found what he wanted in it, and softly called to Lin Qiushi who was still looking: "Qiu Shi. "

Lin Qiushi walked behind Ruan Nanzhu and saw something that attracted Ruan Nanzhu's attention.When he saw the painting pointed by Ruan Nanzhu's finger, Lin Qiushi felt a chill rushing up his back. He was silent for a while, and whispered: "This is my... bedroom?"

"Yes." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Your bedroom."

The structure is exactly the same, even the scenery outside the window is the same, the painting in front of him is clearly Lin Qiushi's bedroom.His bedroom door was open, and the floor was stained with eye-catching water stains, just like the horrible scene that night - but this painting is also missing a part, this part is near the door, it seems that it was specially reserved for Lin Qiushi himself. down.

"If you didn't recognize that Tan Zaozao was a fake that night." Ruan Nanzhu looked at the painting and narrated the terrifying facts in a very calm tone, "You probably filled in this part."

Lin Qiushi: "...um."

Ruan Nanzhu said: "This painting is a bit interesting, I don't know if I can take it out." Although he said so, he didn't mean to touch the painting with his hand, but turned around and said, "Let's go, it's almost done. .”

Lin Qiushi said, "Do you remember the paintings inside?"

Ruan Nanzhu said, "Probably."

Ruan Nanzhu probably remembered it, and as expected, he and Lin Qiushi explained after going out: "It's useless to remember, the scenes of these paintings almost include every corner of the castle, and you can't avoid it."

Lin Qiushi sighed.

"Be careful, it's not a big problem." Ruan Nanzhu said, "After all, it is a low-level door, and the death conditions are relatively harsh."

Tan Zaozao murmured that she was being harsh. If it was her that night, the grass on the grave would be five meters high. Under such circumstances, who can calmly recognize the abnormal situation around her.

Ruan Nanzhu glanced at her, comforted her rarely, and said, "Don't worry, if you become a painting..."

Tan Zaozao said anxiously, "Will you rescue me?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "We will definitely live with your last wish so that you can go away peacefully."

Tan Zaozao: "..." I was not comforted enough to thank you.

They went to two places, and it was almost dinner time when they came down from the stairs.

Everyone appeared in the restaurant and began to eat. After the meal, Lin Qiushi found that there was one person missing, and there were only seven people sitting at the long table.

"Is there another person?" Lin Qiushi asked everyone.

"He said he was not feeling well," someone replied, "rest in the room."

Lin Qiushi: "Aren't you coming for dinner?"

The man said: "I don't know...I'll go and see later."

Lin Qiushi hummed.

This old castle is too big, and everyone is scattered, so we can only confirm the number of people during the meal to see if there is any situation.

The person who answered Lin Qiushi's question also seemed a little uneasy, left in a hurry after eating half of the meal, and came back a few minutes later with a pale face, trembling: "He, he is gone, and he is not in the room."

Everyone fell into silence when they heard the words.

"Have you looked around?" Lin Qiushi said, "It's the corridors and toilets nearby..."

"I found it." The man said, "There is no response."

Ruan Nanzhu wiped his mouth: "Is there anything extra in the room, such as paintings?"

The man said: "...I didn't pay attention to this."

"Let's take a look together." Ruan Nanzhu said.

The man looked at Ruan Nanzhu and nodded gratefully. It seemed that he was too scared to go alone.

The group left the restaurant and went to the room of the missing person. As soon as Lin Qiushi entered the room, he smelled the unpleasant smell of water.There is no doubt that the owner of this room is very likely to have experienced the same thing as him, but that person's luck is not as good as his.

"There should have been a painting hanging here." Ruan Nanzhu glanced at the wall, "It's gone now."

"Painting doesn't mean anything?" With Xiao Su's example, everyone knew the truth, and the person who spoke was trembling with fear, "Is Yang Jie..."

Yang Jie is the name of the missing person.

"It's hard to say." Ruan Nanzhu shook his head, "I have to look for it again."

Everyone searched upstairs and downstairs again, but after searching several floors, they couldn't find the painting that belonged to Yang Jie. Until the next day, Lin Qiushi accidentally looked out of the window, but it was through the window. , I saw something in the bushes in the distance.

He ran to the bushes, and found a painting deep in the bushes.The black picture frame is so familiar, it is even covered with fresh soil - this is clearly the picture frame that Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu buried in the soil yesterday.

And Yang Jie was also found, and he appeared in the painting in Lin Qiushi's hands. The bushes in the painting seemed to blend with him, distorted and weird.

"I found it." Lin Qiushi returned to the castle with the painting.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..." The person who accompanied Yang Jie started to cry when he saw the painting. Are we all going to die here..."

As soon as his emotions broke down, he led the others to cry too, causing the whole room to cry one after another, making Ruan Nanzhu's face darken.

Lin Qiushi didn't know how to comfort these people, so he could only let them cry. In the end, Tan Zaozao couldn't take it anymore, and cursed and said, cry fart, crying can solve the problem?All the big men are less courageous than her girls.

"Then what do you say!" said the man, "Someone has become a painting again!"

"How do I know what to do." Tan Zaozao said very bluntly, "I'm your mother!"

Ruan Nanzhu was clearly in a bad mood, facing the collapsed crowd, he turned around and left without saying a word.Lin Qiushi and Tan Zaozao quickly followed behind him.

It wasn't until they got to their room that Ruan Nanzhu said, "I suspect there is an inner ghost

"Huh? What do you mean?" Lin Qiushi asked.

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Literally, someone in the team deliberately killed someone."

Lin Qiushi was startled: "Intentional killing?"

Ruan Nanzhu said calmly: "The picture frame pointed at your room may have been placed by someone."

Lin Qiushi: "..."

Tan Zaozao trembled because of Ruan Nanzhu's words: "But the basis... how did you guess it?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "It's just my guess now." He sat by the bed and said softly, "I just found time to look at the place where we buried the picture frame, there is an extra row of footprints, and the shoe size is around 35 , not from Tan Zaozao, nor from the hostess." He closed his eyes, as if recalling something, "Someone dug out the picture frame... There are five girls in the team except Tan Zaozao and Xiao Su, There are three remaining, two of whom meet the conditions."

Lin Qiushi said: "Is there that newcomer who came to you to form a team?"

Ruan Nanzhu said, "Yes."

Lin Qiushi: "Could it be her..."

Ruan Nanzhu: "It's possible." He said, "She's crying too today."

"Crying must be crying." Tan Zaozao said impatiently, "Since she came here, she has been crying every day."

Ruan Nanzhu hummed: "Look at the situation first, it's just my guess after all."

"Okay." Lin Qiushi said, "Then I'll sleep with you tonight."

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Okay."

At night, Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu slept on a big soft bed, and Tan Zaozao laid the floor next to her. She was used to how she was treated, so she didn't feel unbalanced at the moment.The floor is so good, Tan Zaozao thought while sleeping on the ground, she can roll as she wants, without worrying about being crowded with others, the floor is so good—it’s no wonder! !Ruan Nanzhu, this cheapskate! !She remembered! !snort!

Lin Qiushi had something on his mind. He thought he would not be able to fall asleep, but after all, there was a sleeping pill beside him, and he fell asleep quickly.

Lin Qiushi fell asleep until the next day, but when he opened his eyes, Ruan Nanzhu was nowhere to be seen.

What about others?Lin Qiushi sat up from the bed and saw that Tan Zaozao was still curled up in the bed, wheezing and sleeping.

"Zaozao." Lin Qiushi woke her up, "Have you seen Ruan Nanzhu?"

Tan Zaozao opened his eyes hazily, and said in a daze, "He's gone?"

"Yeah." Lin Qiushi said, "I haven't seen him since we came together."

"I don't know..." Tan Zaozao was also a little confused, "I didn't see him."

Ruan Nanzhu disappeared, and Lin Qiushi didn't see him until breakfast.If an ordinary person disappears, Lin Qiushi's first reaction may be that this person is gone, but Ruan Nanzhu is not an ordinary person, so Lin Qiushi wonders if he has gone to do something.

However, after breakfast, Ruan Nanzhu still didn't show up, and Lin Qiushi also became anxious.

"Where did he go?" Tan Zaozao said, "Could something have happened..."

Lin Qiushi could only comfort her: "Don't worry, let's find out again, Ruan Nanzhu is so powerful that nothing will happen, besides, he slept with us yesterday."

Tan Zaozao didn't speak, her brows were tightly frowned.

They searched floor by floor, and found the eighth floor from the first floor, but they still didn't see Ruan Nanzhu.

Tan Zaozao was really in a hurry now, and said: "There's nothing wrong with him, right? You didn't hear anything last night?"

"No." Lin Qiushi's hearing has always been sharp, and he would definitely hear if something happened, but last night he slept until dawn and didn't hear anything.

"What should we do?" Tan Zaozao worried.

"Let's... have a look at the portraits on these floors." Lin Qiushi's tone sounded a bit difficult, "First... make sure."

Tan Zaozao stopped talking.She knew what Lin Qiushi meant. Lin Qiushi was afraid that Ruan Nanzhu had been turned into a portrait. If that was the case... Tan Zaozao stopped talking and followed Lin Qiushi in the building to carefully observe the portrait.

They searched for the whole three floors, but they didn't see Ruan Nanzhu's figure. While they were relieved, their hearts were even more suspenseful.

Because Ruan Nanzhu couldn't be found, even though it was lunch time, neither of them had much appetite.

Tan Zaozao said lazily that she wanted to go back and rest for a while and continue to look for it in the afternoon. Seeing that she was not in a good state of mind, Lin Qiushi nodded in agreement.

However, who would have thought that the two of them had just returned to the house when they saw Ruan Nanzhu lying on the bed to catch up on sleep, his leisurely appearance didn't seem like something had happened.

"Ruan Nanzhu!!!" Tan Zaozao groaned, almost screaming, "Where are you going!! It's hard for us to find!!"

Ruan Nanzhu opened his eyes, and lazily yawned: "There's something wrong."

"What's the matter? Why didn't you say anything—" Tan Zaozao said, "Do you know how worried we are about you? We've been looking for you all morning."

Ruan Nanzhu: "I didn't know it would take so long."

Tan Zaozao: "Huh? Where did you go?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Go to the painting."

As soon as these words came out, Tan Zaozao became quiet for an instant. She was silent for a long time before tentatively asking: "In the painting? Is it in the painting I thought?"

Ruan Nanzhu nodded.

Lin Qiushi said in amazement: "How did you get in... Isn't that frame gone..."

"No." Ruan Nanzhu said, "We misunderstood one thing. Xiao Su is gone, but the frame is still there. Yang Jie is gone, and the frame will not disappear, or in other words, the old frame The mosaic becomes a painting, and there will always be new frames.”

Lin Qiushi: "..."

Ruan Nanzhu said: "The person who wanted us to die used a new frame." He smiled, "Fortunately, it has been resolved now."

Lin Qiushi: "What do you mean..."

Ruan Nanzhu: "Literally, and, I found a new note."

There was so much information that Lin Qiushi and Tan Zaozao couldn't fully understand it for a while. Both of them had blank faces, and it was obvious that they couldn't turn their heads.

Seeing the appearance of the two, Ruan Nanzhu's expression was quite kind, and he said: "No hurry, you can think about it slowly."

Lin Qiushi: "..." Is this tolerance for their IQ?

No, this is fatherly love and pity, Tan Zaozao sadly understood the meaning in Ruan Nanzhu's eyes.

Ruan Nanzhu probably saw from the expressions of Lin Qiushi and Tan Zaozao that they were still confused, so he sighed, sat up from the bed, and briefly described what happened last night .

It turned out that after Lin Qiushi fell asleep, Ruan Nanzhu woke up in the middle of the night. After waking up, he felt that something was wrong in the room. Then he got out of bed and went to the bedside, and found another picture frame appeared near his window.

This picture frame is hidden in the night, if it wasn't for Ruan Nanzhu's good eyesight, he might have missed it.

His intuition told him that there was a big problem with the picture frame. Ruan Nanzhu hurriedly left the room, trying to get the picture frame back, but when he went downstairs, he saw a woman in black standing quietly at the foot of the stairs. look at him.

If this was an ordinary person, he would have been scared to death, but Ruan Nanzhu was used to these tricks. Not only was he not afraid, but he also stared at the woman for a few minutes until she disappeared on her own initiative.

"Fuck!!" Hearing this, Tan Zaozao finally couldn't hold back, she said, "Aren't you afraid at all? Just staring at her like this?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "What's there to be afraid of? You see, she left first in the end."

Tan Zaozao: "..." Take it.

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Later she appeared several times. I wanted to go out quickly and remove the frame, but I felt something was wrong." He said, "I think she is driving me somewhere."

Lin Qiushi listened quietly.

"I thought about it carefully at the time, and found that the places where she appeared were the stairs, but she didn't attack me. Could it be that she didn't want me to go up the stairs?" Ruan Nanzhu said, "The only place that didn't appear was the door, so I guessed She wants me out."

"Outside is the world of painting?" Tan Zaozao said, "Isn't that so?"

"Basically, it's all thanks to the information Qiu Shi gave me." Ruan Nanzhu said, "I found that the scenery outside is indeed reversed." It was dark outside, and there were all black and identical bushes. It is impossible to find the difference.However, because of Lin Qiushi's precedent, Ruan Nanzhu observed carefully before going out, and finally confirmed that the scenery outside was indeed reversed.

"I didn't go out, I just waited in the room for a while." Ruan Nanzhu spread his hands, "Who knew I waited so long."

"You scared me to death." Tan Zaozao got Ruan Nanzhu's answer, heaved a sigh of relief, and said, "You don't know, Qiushi and I thought you had become a painting."

Lin Qiushi nodded.

"I'm fine." Ruan Nanzhu smiled.

Although Ruan Nanzhu described the scene with only a few words, Lin Qiushi knew it was dangerous. It was only a few steps away from Ruan Nanzhu being left in this world.

"What do you mean by the new note?" Lin Qiushi was more concerned about this.

"Nun." Ruan Nanzhu took out the note from his pocket.

Lin Qiushi took a look and found that there was a small poem on the note: You stand on the bridge to see the scenery, and the people watching the scenery look at you upstairs.The bright moon adorns your windows, and you adorn other people's dreams.

Lin Qiushi was startled: "This is... the clue inside the door?"

"Yes." Ruan Nanzhu said, "I got this clue from someone else."

"Others?" Tan Zaozao asked.

Ruan Nanzhu: "It's the rookie who tried to find me to form a team on the first day."

The author has something to say: Lin Qiushi: On the fifth day since Zhu Meng disappeared, I miss him.

Ruan Nanzhu: Lin?Autumn?stone? ? ?

Lin Qiushi beeped softly: I'm just kidding...