Kaleidoscope of Death

After telling the mayor about the discovery of the child's body, the three of them went to the cannery again.

But when he arrived at the place where he saw the corpse yesterday, Lin Qiushi found that the place where the corpse should have been was empty, only the hollowed out tree trunk was left telling Lin Qiushi that they did not have hallucinations yesterday, but everything that happened in reality.

Seeing this scene, Ruan Nanzhu frowned slightly and was about to explain, but the mayor seemed to have expected it a long time ago, sighed and said: "Actually, we usually can't find..." No one was found, The body could not be found, and the lost child just disappeared into the town out of thin air, and never appeared again, so even if the body disappeared, it was not a strange thing, besides, it has been one night since yesterday.

Ruan Nanzhu looked at the stake and fell into thought.

Later, the mayor left, but Ruan Nanzhu still didn't intend to leave. Lin Qiushi knew that he wanted to check the inside of the cannery again, so he waited quietly beside him.

"Why did you say that this noodle man suddenly changed his sex?" Ruan Nanzhu said, "Could it really become stronger?"

Lin Qiushi shook his head to indicate that he was not sure.

"Let's go, take a look inside." Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi entered the cannery through the side door.

This cannery has been out of business for a long time.

The machine was covered with rust spots. Lin Qiushi checked it and made sure that the power inside had been cut off, and neither the machine nor the lighting equipment could work.

Ruan Nanzhu's gaze stayed on the machine for making cans, and Lin Qiushi followed his gaze and saw nothing.But he felt that Ruan Nanzhu seemed to have noticed some details. Ruan Nanzhu stepped up to the side of the machine and said, "This machine has only been used in the past few days."

Lin Qiushi: "...Are you sure? But there is still rust on it."

Ruan Nanzhu: "I don't know what method he used." He looked around and said, "It's really uncomfortable."

It was indeed uncomfortable. As soon as Lin Qiushi came in, he felt that someone was staring at him, but he couldn't find out the specific source of the gaze.

Ruan Nanzhu seemed to think of something: "You said what will happen to the person wearing the top hat?"

Lin Qiushi: "Maybe it's missing? Maybe it's dead?"

Ruan Nanzhu smiled when he heard the words, and didn't answer.

Lin Qiushi thought at the time that he was just laughing casually, who knew that when he saw the man in the top hat again in the afternoon, he understood what Ruan Nanzhu was laughing at.

A strange change appeared in the man wearing the black top hat.

His hands and feet began to become thinner and longer, and his height also began to increase. Although the facial features on his face were still there, they gave people a very vague feeling, and even made people feel a little unclear.

If it is someone else who has no clues, seeing such a scene may only feel weird and terrifying, but both Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu are very clear about what the changes in the man mean—his body began to grow thinner. The ghost transformed.

His hands and feet were as soft and slender as snakes, and he grew taller and taller. Finally, his face turned white, and all his facial features seemed to be embedded in human skin.

Within a day, this person had such a change, which really made one's scalp tingle.

Lin Qiushi also saw this scene, and he silently looked away.

Who knew that Ruan Nanzhu suddenly stood up, wiped his mouth with a tissue, and walked directly in front of the man in the top hat.

When the man saw Ruan Nanzhu, he didn't speak, but raised his almost invisible eyes to look at him.

Ruan Nanzhu's next action frightened Lin Qiushi. He smiled, and suddenly reached out and grabbed the black top hat, and then pulled it hard——

"Ah!!!" The sharp cry came from the man's mouth. Lin Qiushi was stunned. He even suspected that he had misread it. The top hat was actually connected to the flesh and blood on the man's head. As far as a man is concerned, he wants to tear off a certain organ of his body, so it's no wonder he makes such a shrill cry.

The man seemed to be in great pain from being pulled, his eyes showed anger.

Ruan Nanzhu let go of the hat directly, and apologized calmly: "Sorry, I just think your hat is too pretty, and I can't help but want to take a closer look."

The man calmed down after being praised, and said vaguely: "I... also think... pretty."

Ruan Nanzhu turned around and left.

Other people in the restaurant also saw this scene, and finally someone broke free from the state of being trapped, and no longer thought that the man in the top hat was a normal situation, and looked at him with fear in his eyes.

The man ate and left the restaurant. Everyone looked at his back and fell into noisy whispers.

"What the hell happened to him, what happened to him? How did he become like this..."

"Why do you only find out that something is wrong with him now... Is he going to become a monster..."

"It's terrible, it's almost impossible to guard against."

There were countless remarks like this, but Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu seemed calm.

Lin Qiushi typed to Ruan Nanzhu: Aren't we going out to have a look?

Ruan Nanzhu thought for a while: "You wait here, I'll go out and have a look."

Lin Qiushi: Together.

Ruan Nanzhu stretched out his hand and pinched Lin Qiushi's face: "I told you to wait here and wait, the little dumb girl is obedient."

Ruan Nanzhu's attitude was firm, so Lin Qiushi had no choice but to nod to indicate his agreement.

Ruan Nanzhu stood up and walked out, probably following the man's trail.

Lin Qiushi lost his appetite and continued to eat, so he got up and planned to go back to the room, but when he walked to the door, someone grabbed his arm.Lin Qiushi turned his head and saw Wang Tianxin.

Wang Tianxin squinted his eyes and looked at him, his eyes were very unpleasant, and said: "Hey, little dumb girl, your friend is not here."

Lin Qiushi's expression was very indifferent. He glanced at the restaurant, thinking about how to smooth things over after beating Wang Tianxin here.

Fortunately, before he could figure out a way, Wang Tianxin dragged Lin Qiushi to the corner very consciously.

Lin Qiushi pretended to be powerless and was dragged away by him, and showed a terrified and frightened expression very cooperatively.

"Don't be afraid, this kind of thing is very interesting." Wang Tianxin smiled evilly. He looked at Lin Qiushi's frightened look, but felt more exciting.

Anyway, the person in front of him can't speak, no matter what he did to her...

"Has he already fucked you?" Wang Tianxin said, "I promise to be better than him..." The extremely vulgar words came out of his mouth.

Lin Qiushi looked around, and after making sure there was no one around, he smiled at Wang Tianxin.

Wang Tianxin thought he was willing, and was about to stretch out his hand to peel off Lin Qiushi's coat, when he heard the thin lips of the pitiful little dumb girl in front of him, uttering a sentence: "What a fart, I will kill you."

This voice belonged to a man, Wang Tianxin's expression froze the moment he heard it.

But this stagnation was only a momentary thing, because soon, he found that he was not the opponent of the person in front of him.

Lin Qiushi didn't fight with people very much, but he was a grown man after all. Facing a person like Wang Tianxin whose body had been hollowed out by wine and lust, he easily defeated him.

Wang Tianxin was beaten up by Lin Qiushi, his face was full of flowers, and he was tremblingly trampled under Lin Qiushi's feet.

Lin Qiushi said: "Didn't you say that you are better than him? That's it? Trash, get up—"

Wang Tianxin almost cried, he thought Lin Qiushi was pitiful, weak and helpless before, but only now did he realize that the poor young and helpless person was actually himself.He is not the dumb girl in front of him at all... Bah!The opponent of this women's tycoon!

Wang Tianxin said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was wrong... Brother, I was wrong!" He kept begging for mercy, pleading all over his face.

Lin Qiushi: "Who the hell is your brother, Wang Tianxin, please remember, if you dare to harass me again, or tell what happened today, I will kill you." Tianxin said coldly in his ear, "It's not illegal to kill people here anyway."

Wang Tianxin trembled, and nodded heavily to indicate that he knew.

Lin Qiushi breathed out a turbid breath, put his feet back and straightened his clothes, and after a while, he turned into that pitiful weak little dumb girl again.

He glared at Wang Tianxin, turned around and left.

Wang Tianxin looked at his back with a very dazed expression.

When Lin Qiushi returned to the restaurant, Ruan Nanzhu had already returned, saw him walk in, and asked, "Where did you go?"

Lin Qiushi typed: That Wang Tianxin tried to plot against me just now, and I beat him up.

Ruan Nanzhu looked at the words, and the corner of his mouth curled up: "It's amazing."

The eyes of the others were a bit subtle, and they didn't know if they thought of something else when they saw Lin Qiushi's slightly messy clothes.

Fortunately, there were still some people in the team who couldn't see it, so they came over carefully and told Ruan Nanzhu about Lin Qiushi being taken out.

Ruan Nanzhu probably came to play again. He slapped the table after hearing this, and said angrily: "He dares to touch my people!!" Then he left the table angrily, and Wang Tianxin's ghostly crying and wolf howling came from outside after a while , followed by an extremely miserable begging for mercy.

Lin Qiushi took a sip of the water in front of him, and pretended he didn't hear it. A dishonest bitch like Wang Tianxin should clean up.

The man in the top hat who went out just now disappeared completely, but disappeared in the small town in a short time.

Lin Qiushi was already mentally prepared, so he was not surprised, but in the evening after the end of the day, something happened to him.

At that time, Ruan Nanzhu was taking a bath in the bathroom, and Lin Qiushi stood by the window, looking at the woods and thick fog outside.

At this time, the night had just fallen, and there was still some faint light. The forest was shrouded in gloomy mist, and the scenery inside could barely be seen.

Lin Qiushi saw a tall figure appearing in the depths of the fog.

The figure was at least as tall as two people, standing quietly in the sparse woods, and seemed to be looking in the direction of Lin Qiushi.Its hands and feet are not in the proportions of a normal person, but are horribly long like a spider. The whole person is tall and thin against the slender arms, and it looks like a withered tree at first glance.

Lin Qiushi was going to look away after seeing this thing, but found that it seemed to have a new movement.

It slowly approached the window, step by step, and the target was exactly where Lin Qiushi was.

Lin Qiushi was taken aback. His first reaction was to close the curtains. However, when his hands touched the curtains, he felt that the texture of the curtains was not right. This was not a hotel curtain.

Lin Qiushi was very surprised. He turned around, but the hotel scene that should have appeared turned into another place—his home.

That's right, it's where Lin Qiushi lived before.

Same living room, same decor, same cat.

Li Zi stood in the middle of the living room, meowing at Lin Qiushi.

This was supposed to be a warming scene, but Lin Qiushi looked cold all over.Because there was a person sitting in the middle of the sofa in the living room, and that person looked exactly like him. At this time, his body was lying on the sofa. Even if he didn't get close and could only look at it from a distance, Lin Qiushi could be sure that this person was dead.

This man, who was exactly like him, had been dead for a long time.After the catalysis of time, his skin has begun to swell, and green water is coming out of his body.Li Zi jumped onto the corpse, rubbing against it, and meowing at the same time, trying to wake up the owner.

But how can a dead person wake up, so Li Zi began to bite Lin Qiushi's face.It seemed that it wanted to wake up the owner with pain, but it failed to control the strength and gnawed a hole out of the corpse in front of it until the bones were exposed.

Lin Qiushi knew what it was, it was something that he feared deeply in his heart.

He was afraid of a person's death, and he was afraid that even if he died at home, no one would find out that he was dead.

It may have been a week, or even a month, before his body was found after neighbors smelled the stench of decomposing corpses.

Seeing your own dead body being bitten by a cat is really not a comfortable thing.But Lin Qiushi quickly pulled away from the scene in front of him. He remembered the records about the noodle men in the clues. These monsters seem to be very good at taking advantage of human fear.

It knows what humans are most afraid of. What they fear is not ghosts, but the hidden meaning behind ghosts...death.

Few people are not afraid of death, and Lin Qiushi is not immune.

But the scene behind him now couldn't touch the deepest part of Lin Qiushi's heart. He turned his head, looked at the shadow standing outside the window, and said softly, "Sorry, should I tell you that I have moved."

The ghost stopped in its tracks.

Lin Qiushi said: "Now I have many friends around me. If I die, they will definitely find out." He thought for a while and added, "Maybe calling 120 can save me."

The ghost figure stood quietly in front of Lin Qiushi. Although the face without facial features was separated by fog, it gave Lin Qiushi a feeling of being stared at.

"So I'm not very scared." Lin Qiushi's tone was very calm, not trying to be calm, "Why don't you scare someone else?"

"Batt." Something fell from the treetops, and Lin Qiushi took a closer look and found that it was a black top hat.

Seeing the top hat, he immediately thought of the hat-wearing man in their team... that man seemed to be in danger.

The ghost slowly bent over and picked up the top hat.

Lin Qiushi originally thought that he would turn around and leave, but who knew that he was actually holding a top hat and bent over to Lin Qiushi—a gentleman's salute.Then he turned around and disappeared into the mist.

Lin Qiushi looked at his back with a dazed expression.Until a pair of hands patted Lin Qiushi's shoulder, Lin Qiushi trembled in fright, and turned his head to see Ruan Nanzhu.

"What are you looking at?" Ruan Nanzhu asked him.

Lin Qiushi pointed to the woods in front of him: "I just saw that thing."

Ruan Nanzhu raised his eyebrows: "Noodle man?"

Lin Qiushi nodded: "I saw the hallucination he created."

Ruan Nanzhu said, "What kind of hallucination."

Lin Qiushi said: "I died at home, and my face was bitten by a cat." His tone was light, as if he was describing a story that had nothing to do with him, "Now think about it carefully, Lizi despises me so much, I don't know if I want to willing……"

Ruan Nanzhu: "..." He despaired of Lin Qiushi's cat slave status.

But no matter what the process was, Lin Qiushi was still not bewitched by that thing. He guessed that if he was bewitched, he would be the next person to put on the top hat.

"Nan Zhu, what are you most afraid of?" Lin Qiushi asked him.

Ruan Nanzhu said: "I'm not afraid of anything."

Lin Qiushi: "Really?"

Ruan Nanzhu smiled, wrapped his fingers around Lin Qiushi's black hair, and rubbed them lightly on his fingertips, his voice was low and deep, "Really. I'm the same as you." His tone was determined, not like being brave at all.

Lin Qiushi believed it too.

"I discovered it when I was at the first door." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Lin Qiushi, you are very real... very suitable for this place."

Lin Qiushi raised his eyebrows: "What do you mean?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Literally, your ability to adapt is very good." It can even be said too much. After Ruan Nanzhu went out to investigate and found that Lin Qiushi was indeed entering the door for the first time, he knew that Lin Qiushi was an insider. It is not easy to find such a person who fits well with the world.

Ruan Nanzhu thought casually, fortunately he was lucky enough.

The night passed like this, without wind or rain, quiet and peaceful.

The next day, only eleven people remained in the restaurant—two more disappeared that night.

The two missing are girls. It is said that they were fine before going to bed last night, but when they woke up, they disappeared.

People in her room said someone had visited their room and the window by the woods had been opened.

"She must have been taken away by that thing." Someone said, "It's more ominous than good."

The others didn't speak, but their thoughts were similar to this person's.

Lin Qiushi thought of the ghost that appeared outside the window last night, and he didn't want to guess what would have happened if he hadn't calmly rejected the illusion.Could it be like this girl who suddenly disappeared into the silent night?

Before Lin Qiushi could come up with an answer, they made an even worse discovery—another child was missing.

"There are only eight children in the town." Ruan Nanzhu said, "I think the missing people in our team have any connection with these children."

Lin Qiushi also felt the same, he said: "Why don't we go and find the remaining children to see if there are any clues?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "I want to go to the cannery again." The two looked at each other for a moment, and then they had the answer, "Split the troops into two groups?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "It's also possible, but it will be more inconvenient if you can't talk."

Lin Qiushi didn't think it mattered: "Just bring your mobile phone."

Ruan Nanzhu: "Okay, if you can't find anything, go back to the restaurant and we will gather there."

Lin Qiushi nodded.

The two then parted ways on the street and went to their respective places.

The place Lin Qiushi went to was a dilapidated grocery store in the town. It is said that the son of the owner of the grocery store is a seven-year-old boy. After he went there and explained his intentions, the boss' attitude was very resistant.

"My son doesn't see strangers now," said the boss. "I'm not sure you can keep him safe."

Lin Qiushi persuaded him patiently: I understand what you mean, but you have to know that that thing is getting more and more powerful. If you can't find its lair early and wipe it out, your son may be the next one to go missing.Other children were also hidden in the home, but they still disappeared.

When the boss saw these words, his attitude was slightly relaxed.

Lin Qiushi persuaded him for a while, and the boss finally agreed with Lin Qiushi to talk to his son, but not for too long.

Lin Qiushi breathed a sigh of relief. After entering the room, he saw a little boy sitting on the sofa playing games with his head down.

Lin Qiushi stepped forward and greeted him with his mobile phone.

The little boy glanced at him, as if he didn't want to talk, he answered all the questions Lin Qiushi asked him, until Lin Qiushi mentioned the hat.

"Hat, do you mean that black top hat?" The child's expression showed a trace of panic, he seemed to have thought of something, and swallowed heavily, "I seem to have seen..."

Lin Qiushi's eyes lit up: Have you seen it?

The child's eyes moved to the stairs in horror.

According to the boss, the building has two floors. The first floor is used to sell groceries, and the second floor is where the family lives. The boy's room is on the second floor.

"I've seen..." The thing was hanging on the corner of the stairs. The little boy was trembling all over, and what he said was intermittent and illogical, but Lin Qiushi understood what he meant. A black top hat suddenly appeared on the floor, and everyone didn't think there was anything wrong with the top hat, so they just let the top hat be placed upstairs, and no one cared about it.

Lin Qiushi: The top hat is upstairs?Can you take me to see it?

The little boy nodded after hesitating for a moment.

Lin Qiushi and the little boy walked towards the stairs together. The two went up the stairs, and soon saw the second floor, and the black top hat hanging in the corner of the second floor that the little boy said.At the moment when he saw the top hat, Lin Qiushi suddenly felt that something was wrong. He stopped in his tracks, his expression full of suspicion: "You mean that this hat was at your house more than ten days ago? You...except for this hat, Didn't you encounter other strange things?" He didn't believe that the slender ghost would have such patience, waiting quietly at the little boy's house for more than ten days.

The child's footsteps also stopped, and he turned his head expressionlessly, looking at Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi was taken aback by his expression, and was about to speak, but saw the little boy tilt his head, and then his head fell straight to the ground.

Even though Lin Qiushi has encountered many such scenes, he was still suffocated by this scene. The child's fallen head rolled all the way downstairs. Lin Qiushi looked at the top hat again, but saw that there was something protruding from the top hat. A pale arm.

The pale hand stretched out longer and longer, as if looking for something, finally determined Lin Qiushi's location, and came running towards him.

Lin Qiushi turned around and ran wildly and was almost caught by that hand. He rushed downstairs and saw the head that rolled down the steps standing on the ground, grinning at him with a bright smile.

Lin Qiushi: "..." Mom's head is off and she's still smiling so happily, are you out of your mind? !