Kaleidoscope of Death

There are only two beds in this room, so it is destined that someone will sleep on the sofa.Lin Qiushi very consciously showed the good qualities of respecting the old and loving the young, and giving priority to women, and firmly stated that he can sleep on the sofa, and Cheng Yixie and Ruan Nanzhu can sleep on the bed.

Cheng Yixie was not polite to Lin Qiushi, changed into pajamas and climbed into bed to prepare for sleep.

Ruan Nanzhu sat by the bed and watched him for a while.

Lin Qiushi was inexplicably horrified by him: "Why are you looking at me?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Because you look good."

Lin Qiushi: "..."

Ruan Nanzhu: "Do you want to squeeze with me?" He patted the bed under him.

Lin Qiushi refused, saying that he would come back if he really couldn't sleep.Ruan Nanzhu tilted his head when he heard the words, and said hello without forcing it.

In fact, the sofa here is very wide and soft, and there is no discomfort when sleeping on it.Lin Qiushi put a thin blanket on his body, and he put his gaze on the mirror on the ground.At this time, the mirror has been covered with a layer of bath towels, and the bright mirror surface is covered, and the people below can no longer see the scene in their room.They also checked the other mirrors in the room and found that there were both double-way mirrors and single-way mirrors in the room, so it took some time to cover all the double-way mirrors with towels.

This apartment is very new, it seems that it has just been renovated, Lin Qiushi huddled on the sofa, and fell asleep in a daze.

The first night in this world is usually relatively peaceful. Lin Qiushi thought he would sleep until the next day, but he didn't expect to be woken up by Cheng Yixie in the middle of the night.

When Lin Qiushi woke up, he saw Cheng Yixie sitting on the edge of the bed frowning, his nose constantly moving as if he was sniffing something.

"Yixie, what's wrong?" Lin Qiushi asked in a daze.

"It smells." Cheng Yixie whispered, "...the smell of something being burnt, have you smelled it?"

Lin Qiushi was taken aback when he heard the words, he moved his nose hard, but he couldn't catch any smell, so he shook his head: "No, I can't smell it."

Cheng Yixie stopped talking, he stood up, walked to the wall, and began to squat down to observe.

This behavior seemed a bit weird. Lin Qiushi looked at his back and was about to ask a question, when he heard Ruan Nanzhu who was on the bed next to him ask softly: "What's wrong?" Ruan Nanzhu also woke up.

Cheng Yixie was still looking at the corner of the wall.

Pale gold wallpaper covered almost every corner of the room. Lin Qiushi saw Cheng Yixie get up, walked to the table and picked up a fruit peeling knife, then returned to the wall and began to scrape the wallpaper.

After a few minutes, the wallpaper was scraped off, revealing a patch of inky colour.

Lin Qiushi saw the wall behind the wallpaper through the dim light.He showed a slightly stunned expression: "There was... a fire in this room?" The wall turned out to be a kind of burnt black, and it was obvious that something had happened in this room.

Cheng Yixie began to cough in a low voice, as if he was choked by some smell.

Ruan Nanzhu looked at Cheng Yixie's appearance, got up and went to the toilet, took a wet towel from the toilet, and handed it to Cheng Yixie: "Hold on."

Cheng Yixie took it and covered his mouth and nose, and the coughing eased slightly.

"It seems that there was an accident in this apartment." Ruan Nanzhu said, "There was at least one fire."

Just after he finished speaking, Lin Qiushi also smelled a smell of something being burnt. At first, he thought it was a hallucination in his sense of smell, and looked at Ruan Nanzhu.Ruan Nanzhu nodded to him: "I smell it too."

He quickly went into the toilet, prepared two more wet towels, handed one to Lin Qiushi, and said, "I'll go out and have a look."

Lin Qiushi covered his mouth and nose with a towel, and said, "Let's go together, I will go too."

Ruan Nanzhu didn't refuse, and walked towards the door.

There was silence outside the house, and no one else seemed to notice the strange smell.But as soon as Cheng Yixie came out of the room, his brows frowned even more.

Ruan Nanzhu glanced at him: "The smell is stronger?"

Cheng Yixie nodded, his eyes wandered in the corridor, as if he was discerning something, and Lin Qiushi also vaguely heard some strange voices, these voices were very subtle, a bit like someone scratching the door panel... His gaze was on the sound He looked in the direction where he was, and at the same time, Cheng Yixie pointed to the end of the corridor.

At the end of the corridor are all big bed rooms, it seems that there are only two girls living there.

They walked a few steps over there, Lin Qiushi was about to walk towards the place where the noise was made, but was stopped by Ruan Nanzhu.

"What's wrong?" Lin Qiushi was slightly taken aback.

Ruan Nanzhu didn't speak, but raised his head suddenly.

Lin Qiushi followed his gaze, only to find that there was also a row of mirrors on the top of the corridor, reflecting the entire corridor inside.At this time, the image in the mirror also raised his head, and made the same movement as Lin Qiushi.

Ruan Nanzhu pointed to the location at the end of the corridor.

Lin Qiushi understood, and raised his head to look at the end of the corridor from the mirror. At this moment, he held his breath, and saw in the mirror that the end of the corridor was actually burning with raging fire.

The raging fire burst out from the crack of the door, and thick black smoke accompanied the flame.

Lin Qiushi finally knew where the choking smell came from. He looked away and looked at the corridor again. He saw that the end of the corridor in the real world was still in darkness, without a trace of fire.

"Cough, cough, cough." Cheng Yixie coughed uncontrollably.

Lin Qiushi said: "Will the fire come over?"

Ruan Nanzhu shook his head, "I don't know."

Lin Qiushi looked at the end of the corridor in the mirror. The flames burned more fiercely. The iron security door seemed to be baked and deformed. The sound of knocking on the door became sharper, accompanied by a low howl— — There seemed to be someone inside that door.

"Help, help..." Someone was calling for help.

Lin Qiushi wasn't sure if he could hear the voice alone or if they could all hear it, so he asked, "Did you hear it?"

Both Ruan Nanzhu and Cheng Yixie shook their heads, indicating that they didn't hear anything.

But Ruan Nanzhu said: "Although I didn't hear it, I saw it."

"What did you see?" Lin Qiushi asked suspiciously.

Ruan Nanzhu said: "A hand stretched out from the room." He observed carefully, "Now there are two."

Just when Lin Qiushi was thinking that he hadn't seen anything, a hand patted his back lightly. He broke out in a cold sweat from fright, and when he turned his head, he saw a man and a woman standing behind him. The impression should be that I have seen it under the apartment before, and it belongs to the people in the team.

"What are you looking at?" the woman asked.

These two people appeared silently, and the three of them didn't notice it. If they hadn't seen these two people before, Lin Qiushi would have thought they were ghosts.

Lin Qiushi thought to himself, the ninth door is indeed the place where Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is located.

Ruan Nanzhu looked very calm when he saw these two people. He said, "Watch the fireworks."

The woman laughed when she heard the words: "Fireworks?" She said, "Does it look good?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "General."

The woman said: "Better than me?"

Ruan Nanzhu also smiled, and he said calmly, "Better than you, not as good-looking as me."

The smile on the woman's face disappeared, and anger began to show in her eyes. She stared at Ruan Nanzhu's face with a rather unkind expression.

The man next to the woman stood up at the right time, and briefly introduced himself, saying that he and this woman are brothers and sisters, his name is Luo Qianshan, and his sister's name is Luo Qianshui.

Luo Qianshan said, "Is there a fire at the end of the corridor?"

Lin Qiushi and the three of them didn't answer Luo Qianshan's question. After all, they were all competitors to some extent. It was indeed not wise to provide clues to competitors.

"It's on fire." Luo Qianshui also saw a completely different scene in the mirror and reality. She looked at Luo Qianshan, "Will the people inside be burned to death?"

Luo Qianshan said: "I don't know."

So five people stood in the corridor and continued to watch quietly.

The fire didn't seem to spread outward, it was limited to that one room. Lin Qiushi looked at the dark night outside the window and yawned a little.

Ruan Nanzhu glanced at him and said, "Let's go, go back to sleep."

Lin Qiushi: "Stop watching?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Is it possible to watch here all night?"

This is true, and there are two strange people standing beside him.The three of them ignored the pair of brothers and sisters and planned to turn around and go back to the room.

Cheng Yixie's sense of smell was a little too sensitive, and because of this, he was coughing because of the smell of smoke, and his face was very ugly.

Ruan Nanzhu was the last one to enter the room. Before he went in, he glanced at the end of the corridor, but frowned slightly.

After entering the house, his first words to Lin Qiushi and Cheng Yixie were: "The things in the house came out."

Lin Qiushi said: "What?"

"People who were burned to death." Ruan Nanzhu replied.The moment before he entered the room, he saw two figures at the end of the corridor, one big and one small, it seemed that an adult was leading a child, their bodies were scorched black, and they were still blazing, standing quietly at the end of the corridor , staring at all the rooms on this floor.It makes people feel uncomfortable when they see it.

Lin Qiushi listened to Ruan Nanzhu's words, but he thought of a hint in the clue: using the ancient as a mirror, one can know the ups and downs.Could it be that this ancient refers to what happened in this apartment?

The three of them pondered, but the burning smell gradually faded away.

"Go to bed first." Ruan Nanzhu glanced at the time, "I'll think about it tomorrow, or my body won't be able to take it."

Then the three of them went to bed.

To be honest, when normal people encounter these things, it is estimated that those horrible pictures will be in their minds and it is difficult to fall asleep, but Lin Qiushi now feels that they are no longer within the scope of normal people.Not only did he fall asleep quickly, but he also slept so well that he slept until the next morning.

The sun rose, with a gray smell, Lin Qiushi was awakened by the light coming in from the floor-to-ceiling windows, and opened his eyes in a daze.

"Good morning." Ruan Nanzhu greeted him.

"Yeah." Lin Qiushi rubbed his eyes, sat up from the sofa, and went to the toilet to wash.

Cheng Yixie seemed to have woken up early, she had already changed her clothes, and stood silently by the window looking at the scenery outside.

"Breakfast is on the second floor." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Let's go, I'm really hungry."

The three of them got out of the room and saw that many people had already gathered in the restaurant.

Lin Qiushi glanced across the crowd, and saw what he was looking for—the two girls who lived in the big bed room.

They were full of vigor and were still chatting happily. It seemed that what happened last night had no effect on them.

Lin Qiushi has been observing them, but Ruan Nanzhu's voice that seems to be a smile is not a smile, he said: "See how others look so seriously, why, are you prettier than me?"

Lin Qiushi showed helplessness when he heard the words: "You are naturally the prettiest."

"How to say so reluctantly." Ruan Nanzhu took a bite of bread and said, "Those two people are here too."

Those two people were brothers and sisters Luo Qianshan and Luo Qianshui who they met in the corridor last night. They came in from the outside, one smiled at Lin Qiushi, and the other looked at Ruan Nanzhu bitterly.

It seems that Luo Qianshui already has a grudge against Ruan Nanzhu's provocation last night.

Ruan Nanzhu was not afraid at all, raised his chin at her, leaned on Lin Qiushi's shoulder, and said in a moderate voice, "Oh, that woman's eyes are so scary, she scared people."

Lin Qiushi couldn't laugh or cry.

Cheng Yixie seemed to have long been used to Ruan Nanzhu's drama, and he gnawed on the bread expressionlessly the whole time.

When they were about to eat, the waiter who gave them room cards yesterday appeared, holding a stack of things in his hand, which should be the travel guide he mentioned.

The waiter said: "I wonder if everyone slept well last night?" He laughed, "This is the travel guide here, everyone must read it carefully after you get it." Then he began to distribute it to everyone.

Lin Qiushi also got a copy. After he opened it, he found that it was actually an introduction to some scenic spots in the city, including this apartment that looked like a mirror.

Looking at the information, we can know that this apartment is a local landmark building. It was renovated two years ago. The appearance before and after the renovation is quite different.The outside of the apartment was covered with countless mirrors, which looked very eerie.

Lin Qiushi was turning the pages when he heard Cheng Yixie start coughing again.

"Cough, cough, cough, cough." Cheng Yixie covered his nose and said with difficulty, "Something is burning..."

"What?" Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu were inexplicable, neither of them smelled anything.

But soon, they didn't need to smell it, because there was thick smoke in front of their eyes-the burning thing was a person, one of the girls who lived in the big bed room.

At first, it was just smoke coming out of her body, but when everyone looked at her in astonishment, glaring flames shot out of her body.These flames seemed to emerge from her flesh and blood, but they burned all over her body in an instant.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!" the girl screamed, and started to roll on the ground like crazy, but the flames were burning from the inside out, and her rolling was of no avail. Lin Qiushi grabbed the milk on the table and tried to pour it on She put out the fire on her body, but it didn't work either.

In just a minute or two, the girl who was originally as delicate and beautiful as a flower turned into a charred black corpse in front of everyone.

"Ouch—" Someone vomited out on the spot, and the expressions of the others were not very good.

It is said that burning to death is the most painful way to die, Lin Qiushi slowly walked back to Ruan Nanzhu's side, and put down the milk jug in his hand.

It seemed that what happened last night was the cause of the girl's death.

"Xiaoyan! Xiaoyan!!" The remaining girl wailed loudly and threw herself next to the charred corpse with a nearly collapsed expression.

Lin Qiushi watched from the side without saying a word.

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Are you all right?"

Lin Qiushi shook his head, indicating that he was fine.In fact, he has seen many bloody scenes, but the scene in front of him is too terrifying... It is worthy of the difficulty of the ninth door.On the first night of coming in, someone was tricked.

"It's disgusting." Luo Qianshui, who was sitting not far away, said coldly, stood up and was about to leave, "It's disgusting."

Her brother left the restaurant after her.

Luo Qianshui's attitude was too indifferent, but in fact, her attitude was the mainstream.When such a thing happened, most of the people in the room looked numb, only in the group of five with some newcomers, some were vomiting, and some showed shivering expressions.

"I'm so scared, Miss Xia." A young boy said to the leading woman.

The woman called Sister Xia should be the one who brought them in, she said: "Don't be afraid, there is nothing to be afraid of, as long as you are obedient and follow the rules, nothing will happen." She said so.

Although these words seem to be perfunctory, it seems that this is the only way to go. The fear on the young man's face has not diminished.

Ruan Nanzhu also stood up: "Let's go, let's take a look around."

They left the restaurant and went to the street near the apartment.

Unlike the previous world, this world seems to be open.There is a constant flow of people on the bustling street, surrounded by various shops, and there are buses that can go to other places, and even the currency used is the same as the world they were originally in.

Lin Qiushi looked at everything around him, and was really curious: "Can I go to other places?"

"Yes." Ruan Nanzhu said, "As long as you come back before dark."

Lin Qiushi: "What if we don't hurry back?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Then you will be able to see all sorts of strange ways of dying." He spoke with certainty, apparently having seen these situations before.

"Is this world complete?" Even though he had restrained himself, Lin Qiushi still had a lot of questions in his mind. He looked at the crepes on the street, "Is it edible?"

"Yeah." Ruan Nanzhu said, "It should taste good."

So Lin Qiushi paid for three of them, one for each person.

Lin Qiushi chose the chocolate-flavored crepe with ice cream inside. He took a bite and thought it was really delicious. He said vaguely, "Then what is the difference between this world and the real world?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "The difference? The biggest difference is probably that there are ghosts in this world." He continued, "I'm going to inquire about the apartment."

He went to a small shop near the apartment and asked some shopkeepers.

It has to be said that the advantages of women's clothing are undoubtedly revealed at this time. These shop owners have a very friendly attitude towards Ruan Nanzhu. There is even a candy store owner in his thirties who gave Ruan Nanzhu a box of candy, saying that if he is free at night If you can make an appointment...

Ruan Nanzhu rejected his invitation very bluntly.

I have to say that the npcs in front of me are completely different from the npcs in the previous doors. They are more like normal human beings, and we can't tell the difference from the real world from their speech or behavior.

Even Lin Qiushi was in a daze: "Are we really inside the door?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Of course." He glanced at Lin Qiushi, "The higher the difficulty of the door, the greater the coincidence rate with reality. The tenth door I entered..." He stopped here, There was a gloomy look in his eyes, as if recalling some unpleasant memories.

Lin Qiushi didn't ask when he saw it, he just pretended that he didn't see it.

Apart from this, they still found out a lot of news about the apartment.

There was a fire in this apartment two years ago. In the fire, two people were killed and one person was missing. It is said that these three people were still a family of three. They happened to be traveling in this city, but they encountered such a thing...

"Did the first floor of the apartment be burnt down?" The place where Ruan Nanzhu heard the news was a small newsstand next to the apartment. This newsstand seems to be quite old, and the newspaper seller is an old man.

"That's right, there's a whole floor." The old man said, "The apartment was redecorated later, and the outer walls were all blackened by smoke, so mirrors were pasted on all of them." He pushed his glasses and used his old The voice said, "The reflected light really hurts the eyes..."

Lin Qiushi thought of the mother and daughter he saw in the mirror, and it seemed that they were the victims of the fire.

"It's best not to live in it, it's haunted." The old man said, "It's said that people cry every night..."

"Which floor is the one where the apartment was burned down?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"The 34th floor." The old man replied.

The 34th floor - it is where they live, it seems that the key should have something to do with the fire.

After walking around outside, it was lunch time, and the three of them planned to go back to the apartment.

It was noon at this moment, and the sun was projected from the sky, hitting the mirror outside the apartment, reflecting a dazzling light.The entire apartment was so bright that it was impossible to look directly at it, and the whole building seemed to be engulfed in a glaring flame. Lin Qiushi just glanced at it, and tears flowed from his eyes.

Ruan Nanzhu said next to him, "Why are you crying so cutely?"

Lin Qiushi glanced at Ruan Nanzhu with red eyes.

As a result, the show came in an instant, and when he arrived at the restaurant, he told Lin Qiushi to stop crying in front of everyone, and he would take responsibility for him.

Lin Qiushi: "..." Forget it and you are happy.

Cheng Yixie kept silent, pretending to be a background board very cleverly, Lin Qiushi strongly wondered if he had also been teased by Ruan Nanzhu many times.

During lunch time, many people did not come here to eat.After all, there are bustling streets outside, and there are many options to choose from, so you don't have to squeeze into the restaurant.

However, Luo Qianshan and Luo Qianshui, whom he had met before, were also there, and Luo Qianshui saw Ruan Nanzhu throwing two more blank eyes at him.

Ruan Nanzhu closed his eyes with a smile, patted his chest and said why he felt like being chased and bitten by a dog.

Luo Qianshui almost rushed over angrily to fight her.

Lin Qiushi once again expressed his admiration for Ruan Nanzhu's skill in teasing his sister, but the word teasing has a new annotation on Ruan Nanzhu's body, and rounding up is basically equal to provocation.If the angry girl is a cow, then Ruan Nanzhu is the red cloth that makes the cow angry...