Kaleidoscope of Death

Using people as a mirror can tell gains and losses, but Lin Qiushi still doesn't know what the word gain and loss in the clues means.

The girl who was burned to death suddenly appeared in the restaurant intact last night. Lin Qiushi noticed some uncomfortable expressions on the faces of some people in the restaurant.These people should be relatively close to the room where the accident happened last night, so they also saw what happened in the corridor.Knowing that the girl in front of me is not human...

And as the culprit who killed the girl, sister Xia obviously didn't know what happened.

She was still chatting with the girl as if nothing had happened, and said: "Wen Jing, nothing happened last night, right? How did you and Xiao Mian sleep at night? Nothing happened, right?" The name of the girl who was burned to death was Wen Jing, and Xiao Mian is the girl who lives with her.

"It's okay, sister Xia." Wen Jing showed a quiet smile, and she spoke very slowly, "Nothing happened last night..."

Sister Xia smiled when she heard the words: "It's fine if you don't have one."

The restaurant, which was originally quite lively, became a little strangely quiet because of Wen Jing's sudden arrival.People who knew what happened last night started to get up and leave one after another, and when they left, they put strange eyes on Wen Jing.

Sister Xia also seemed to have noticed these strange eyes. She thought for a moment, and her expression, which was still smiling a little, became a little serious and indifferent. Then she stood up from her chair and found an excuse to leave the restaurant—— It seems that she is still very sensitive in observing the atmosphere.

Wen Jing watched Sister Xia go away, but she didn't reach out to stop her, she just smiled and looked at Sister Xia's back. No matter how she looked at her eyes, it made her back feel cold.

Cheng Yixie said, "Shall we go too?"

Ruan Nanzhu nodded: "Let's go."

At this moment, there were not many people left in the restaurant, except for Wen Jing who was still eating slowly, there were only a few dull people still sitting in their seats, looking at a dazed look of not knowing what happened.

However, just as Lin Qiushi and the others walked to the door of the restaurant, they heard a fierce argument coming from outside.

Lin Qiushi went out to take a look, and found that it was Sister Xia who was arguing with her quiet roommate, Xiao Mian.

"It's all your fault, it's all your fault—if it weren't for what you said, Wen Jing wouldn't have died at all!" Xiao Mian is Wen Jing's roommate, who witnessed Wen Jing's tragic death last night, and her emotions were close to collapse. There was resentment and anger hidden in the crying voice, "You just want to kill us, Wen Jing is back now, and I'm here to seek revenge from you! Bastard, just wait!!"

Sister Xia sneered, and retorted very bluntly: "What do you mean I killed her? Did I know that breaking a mirror would kill people? Little girl, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately."

Listening to the conversation between the two, Lin Qiushi asked Ruan Nanzhu next to him in a low voice: "Isn't this Wen Jing who killed sister Xia?"

Ruan Nanzhu shook his head.

"Then what counts?" Lin Qiushi was a little confused about the method of judging the murder inside the door.

"Usually you have to do it yourself to kill someone." Ruan Nanzhu explained, "Take their case as an example. Sister Xia really didn't know that smashing a mirror would kill someone."

Lin Qiushi: "..."

Ruan Nanzhu: "She just gave Wen Jing a suggestion. Whether Wen Jing should follow this suggestion is another matter."

This is probably a loophole in the rules of the door.

If so, it means that people who enter the gate can kill each other, but the method of killing can't be so rough, at least not by yourself, and besides doing it yourself, there are obviously many other things if you want to die method.

Lin Qiushi let out an oh, understood.

Xiao Mian was still crying, she seemed to have known the girl named Wen Jing outside the door, she said: "You damn liar, it's all your fault, you promised to protect us—"

Sister Xia said coldly when she heard the words: "Are you a three-year-old child? Do you believe what others say?" After she finished speaking, she waved her hand at Xiao Mian annoyedly, turned around and planned to leave.

However, at this moment, Xiao Mian actually took out a bread knife from his pocket, and stabbed at Sister Xia.Although this table knife is not sharp enough, it is also very sharp. If it really stabs into the human body, it will definitely kill someone.

Sister Xia's reaction was extremely fast, and she dodged, dodging Xiao Mian's blow with all her strength.She saw the table knife in Xiao Mian's hand, and said angrily, "You fucking want to kill me?" She grabbed Xiao Mian's arm and pushed Xiao Mian hard against the wall.

"Ah!" Xiao Mian seemed to be no match for Sister Xia at all, her body hit the wall with a loud bang, and then she fell limply to the ground.

Sister Xia didn't think it was enough, grabbed Xiaomian's hair and continued to throw it in another direction. Her strength was so strong that Xiaomian, a girl who was nearly 1.6 meters tall, looked like a doll in her hands.

Lin Qiushi frowned slightly when he saw this scene, and was about to step forward to stop him, but he heard Xiao Mian let out a scream, and then bright red blood flowed from his cheeks.

Sister Xia also froze slightly when she saw this scene, she didn't intend to kill Xiao Mian directly, she just wanted to teach her a lesson.She slowly lifted up Xiao Mian's body, and saw that there was a sharp nail inexplicably added to the picture frame that Xiao Mian was leaning against, and the back of Xiao Mian's head was just pierced by the nail. .

"No, no—I didn't intend to kill you, I didn't intend to kill you—" Sister Xia panicked all of a sudden, she let go of Xiao Mian's softened body, and stepped back involuntarily, "I didn't I wanted to kill you, it wasn't me, it wasn't me—"

Lin Qiushi was also taken aback, he didn't expect things to develop like this.

Blood kept pouring out from Xiao Mian's body. She opened her eyes, staring at Sister Xia with resentful eyes, and just lost her breath.

Sister Xia's emotions seemed to have collapsed, she kept shaking her head and said no, and staggered away from the restaurant with an extremely flustered expression.

Lin Qiushi looked at this scene with a very complicated mood. He asked, "Does this happen often?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Not often." He glanced at Xiao Mian, "It's just that this woman's luck is relatively bad." I didn't expect Xiao Mian to die in such an accident.He walked to Xiao Mian's side, squatted down, and carefully observed the nail that led to Xiao Mian's death, "This nail is really interesting."

Lin Qiushi: "Interesting?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Not yet yesterday."

Lin Qiushi was taken aback: "Are you sure you didn't have it yesterday?" This corner is not a place that is easy to notice. In fact, if someone hadn't died here today, Lin Qiushi might not even look at it when he left this world.

"Of course." Ruan Nanzhu was very confident, he said, "Either this nail was nailed last night, or this morning... Was there anyone in the restaurant when you came?"

Lin Qiushi immediately thought of Luo Qianshui who came to the restaurant before him, and he said, "Luo Qianshui came first."

"Oh." Ruan Nanzhu stood up, "That's it."

Lin Qiushi said: "She nailed this nail? But..." He originally wanted to say how she knew that Xiao Mian and Sister Xia were going to quarrel or even fight here, and finally Xiao Mian was pushed against the window frame.But if you think about it carefully, this is the world inside the door, and nothing seems impossible.Those who can go to the ninth door are obviously not good.It is not impossible for someone to predict what will happen today by some means, and it is not impossible to use their hands and feet.

Thinking of this, Lin Qiushi really saw Luo Qianshui and her brother in a corner.

The two of them stood in the crowd, and it was not easy to find without looking carefully. After meeting Lin Qiushi's eyes, Luo Qianshan smiled at Lin Qiushi, while Luo Qianshui still maintained a look of disdain.Then the two turned and walked away, as if they lost interest in what happened next.

Ruan Nanzhu stood up: "Let's go too, I have a place I want to visit."

"Will Xiao Mian seek revenge on Sister Xia?" This is what Lin Qiushi is more concerned about.He has been inside the door for a while, but he has not often seen the scene of people outside the door turning into ghosts and taking revenge... It seems that he has only seen it once in his impression, and it should not be a pleasant scene this time, "Will it be implicated?" to us?"

"No." Ruan Nanzhu said, "This is only her business."

Lin Qiushi was relieved now, and he said, "Where do you want to go?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Didn't we go to the burning room to see it during the day?"

Lin Qiushi was stunned.

They went back to the 34th floor and found the room that had been burning all night.

Looking at it during the day, there is nothing special about this room and their house, it is a very ordinary big bed room.

But after Cheng Yixie entered the room, he didn't feel very well and kept coughing.

"Do you smell burning again?" Ruan Nanzhu asked him.

"Hmm." Cheng Yixie said with difficulty, "Very thick."

Ruan Nanzhu looked around, took out a table knife from his pocket, walked to the corner and began to peel off the wallpaper.

Lin Qiushi looked at the table knife in his hand and was stunned: "When did you get it?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "When eating boiled eggs."

Lin Qiushi was sitting next to Ruan Nanzhu. It stands to reason that he could see everything Ruan Nanzhu did, but he didn't notice Ruan Nanzhu's movement of hiding the table knife at all. He showed helplessness: "Why didn't I see it?"

Ruan Nanzhu took a meaningful look at Lin Qiushi: "There are many things you haven't seen."

Lin Qiushi had nothing to say.

After the wallpaper peeled off, revealing the scorched wall behind, it was confirmed that a fire accident had indeed occurred in this room.

Lin Qiushi looked around the room, and suddenly, he noticed an interesting little object.

It was a bronze mirror, placed next to the dressing table.

Mirrors are not a rare item here, but the mirror in front of him is the first bronze mirror Lin Qiushi has seen here.

This bronze mirror is only the size of a palm, surrounded by patterns of flowing clouds, and has a small handle, delicate and simple.

Lin Qiushi picked up the mirror and looked down.

Probably because of the difference in the manufacturing process, the portraits in the bronze mirrors are not as clear as those in the aluminum-coated mirrors, and they look blurry and distorted.

Lin Qiushi rubbed the mirror lightly with his hands, and felt that the mirror was covered with a layer of light dust. He put the dust in his nose and sniffed it, and smelled a burnt smell—it was not ordinary dust, but The ashes left after something burns.

"Bronze mirror?" Ruan Nanzhu walked to Lin Qiushi's side and saw the mirror in his hand.

"Using copper as a mirror..." Lin Qiushi whispered the clue, "Can you straighten your clothes?"

Ruan Nanzhu didn't speak, and took the mirror from Lin Qiushi.

"But what does this dress mean?" Lin Qiushi was a little confused, "Does it mean that you can see those things mixed in from the crowd?"

Ruan Nanzhu tilted his head: "You will know if you try it."

Lin Qiushi: "Well..."

It's okay to try, after all, they have now identified a person with a problem.They checked other places in the house, and Cheng Yixie found a photo in a corner drawer of the toilet that had been burnt to a third.

The remaining two people in the photo are a woman and a child. The woman smiled sweetly and held the child in her right hand, which was somewhat the same as the posture Lin Qiushi saw in the corridor that day.And the part on the right side of the child was burned by the fire. You should know without thinking that this part belongs to the child's father.

"A family of three lives in an apartment." Ruan Nanzhu said, "In the end, only two corpses were found, what about the remaining one?" He said, rubbing the edge of the photo lightly with his hand, " And one more, where did it go?"

No one has the answer, and after the fire in the apartment, everyone around seems to have been replaced.They didn't know much about the fire, and some didn't even know the apartment had ever caught fire.

For the rest of the time, Lin Qiushi and the others wandered around the apartment, taking a look with the bronze mirror in their hands when they saw someone they knew.

But what made Lin Qiushi very puzzled was that they first used the bronze mirror to take a picture of Wen Jing who was not supposed to be human, but Wen Jing's face in the bronze mirror did not change, and still maintained a human appearance.

Even the dead Wen Jing has not changed, and the others are even more so.

Lin Qiushi couldn't figure it out. He looked at the mirror and said, "Isn't this what the mirror is for?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "How else can it be used?"

Lin Qiushi smiled wryly: "How would I know." He thought carefully about the sentence in the clue: "Using copper as a mirror can straighten your clothes... Did they misunderstand this sentence?"Wait...Correctly dressed...?

"Correct dress." Ruan Nanzhu thought of the same thing as Lin Qiushi, and even said this sentence a step faster than Lin Qiushi, "Did we just take pictures of Wen Jing's face?"

Lin Qiushi: "Try again?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Yes."

So they went to the restaurant on the second floor again, but they saw that Wen Jing who had been sitting here in a daze had disappeared.

"It's a step late." Lin Qiushi felt a little regretful.

Ruan Nanzhu: "It's okay, she will definitely appear again." He was very sure.

"What does Wen Jing want to do in the crowd?" Lin Qiushi didn't understand why she came back, "Kill someone? But didn't you say she couldn't take revenge?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Wen Jing can't take revenge, but it's not certain whether this person is Wen Jing." Maybe what appeared in front of them was not Wen Jing at all, but the ghost inside the door who imitated Wen Jing. look.

Lin Qiushi felt that this made sense.

While discussing, they planned to go back to the 34th floor.The elevator opened with a ding-dong, and Lin Qiushi saw that the waiter who gave them room cards before was also in the elevator, and smiled politely at them: "Good afternoon."

"Good afternoon." Ruan Nanzhu replied casually.

Cheng Yixie frowned suddenly, his eyes were on the waiter, and he seemed to feel a little uncomfortable.

Lin Qiushi noticed Cheng Yixie's strangeness, his heart moved slightly, and he took out the bronze mirror from his pocket.Then, using his body as a cover, he carefully photographed the waiter.

There is nothing unusual, the waiter in the bronze mirror still maintains that formulaic smile, Lin Qiushi thought of what they had discussed before, and slowly moved the bronze mirror, from the top of the head, to the shoulders, to the waist and abdomen... until, the bronze mirror Moved to the foot of the waiter.

The picture in the mirror finally changed.

In the bronze mirror, the waiter's feet were turned upside down.

The heel is in front and the toe is behind, which is weird and creepy.

Lin Qiushi's body tightened slightly, and Ruan Nanzhu noticed his strangeness, and also glanced at the mirror in his hand.He also saw something unusual about the waiter, but there was no change on his face, he was still chatting about things with the waiter.

"How long have you been working here?" Ruan Nanzhu asked.

"Two years," replied the waiter, "that's a long time."

Ruan Nanzhu: "Two years? You were there when the fire broke out?"

The waiter said: "I wasn't there at that time, and I didn't apply for a job as a waiter here until after the fire."

There was a soft ding dong, and the elevator door opened in response.

The waiter made a gesture of invitation, signaling them to go first.

Lin Qiushi followed Ruan Nanzhu out of the elevator door. Although he didn't look back, Lin Qiushi knew that the waiter had been watching them quietly in the elevator—because the elevator door hadn't closed until they reached the door of their room. Lin Qiushi heard another ding-dong, and his tense heart relaxed.

"It turned out to be him." Ruan Nanzhu said, "I didn't expect that."

Under normal circumstances, the key NPCs are not ghosts inside the door, but this time the key NPCs inside their door are obviously different from the past.

"I didn't expect that either." Lin Qiushi said, "Yixie, did you smell something?" If it wasn't for the change in Cheng Yixie's expression, he would not have thought of taking a look at the waiter with the bronze mirror. In fact, until just now, they The target range is all people who come in from outside the door.

Cheng Yixie nodded: "Yes, he also has a burnt smell."

Obviously there is more than one way to discover the difference in the identity of this person inside the door, and the bronze mirror is one of them. If you have Cheng Yixie's keen sense of smell, you may be able to find it without using the bronze mirror.Of course, this ability also has certain flaws, that is, if people are together, it will be difficult to distinguish the taste carefully.

"Do you think that waiter is the father of the family of three?" Ruan Nanzhu sat by the bed.

Lin Qiushi shook his head: "I don't know, but this possibility cannot be ruled out."

Ruan Nanzhu stopped talking, he took out a candy from his pocket, peeled off the candy wrapper and stuffed it into his mouth, he said vaguely, "Would you like it?"

Lin Qiushi was a little strange: "Why did you start eating sugar?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Isn't this about quitting smoking?"

Lin Qiushi: "Why did you quit smoking suddenly?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "You have liver cancer." He said this in a natural tone, "You can't always smoke in front of patients."

In fact, Lin Qiushi almost forgot about his liver cancer. Most people suffer from liver cancer, but he was lucky enough to enter the door, feeling stronger than before.

Lin Qiushi said: "Okay, give me one too."

Cheng Yixie glanced at Tangtang, then extended his hand.

So the three big men began to sit by the bed and eat fruit candy, and the room was filled with a faint aroma of fruit.

The clues about the key are still very vague. Lin Qiushi feels that the key has a lot to do with the father of the family of three who disappeared.

Ruan Nanzhu agreed with Lin Qiushi's statement, thinking that their top priority is to find their missing father.

While the three of them were discussing, there was a sudden knock on the door. Lin Qiushi walked to the door and saw an acquaintance Luo Qianshan through the cat's eyes.

At this time, Luo Qianshan stood alone outside the door, smiling at the cat's eyes.

Lin Qiushi turned his head and asked Ruan Nanzhu: "It's Luo Qianshan, do you want to open the door?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Open." He wanted to see what Luo Qianshan wanted them to do.

Lin Qiushi opened the door, and when Luo Qianshan saw him, the smile on his face widened, and he said, "I have something to talk to you—do you mind if I go in and talk about it?"

Lin Qiushi: "Please."

Luo Qianshan nodded to him and entered the room.As soon as he came in, his eyes fell on Ruan Nanzhu, and then he looked away as if nothing had happened, and said, "Do you have any clues about the key?"

Ruan Nanzhu was very rude: "If you came to ask this, you can leave."

Luo Qianshan smiled wryly: "Why do you have to be so aggressive?"

Ruan Nanzhu raised his chin. From his appearance, he looked like an arrogant queen: "I never talk nonsense with my defeated subordinates."

Luo Qianshan had nothing to say.

He has never hit Ruan Nanzhu, so he probably has already marked his own life as a stain—Lin Qiushi wondered if he would feel better if he knew that the person in front of him was a big guy in women's clothing.

"I came to talk to you guys very sincerely." Luo Qianshan said, "My sister and I have found clues to the key."

He originally thought that when he said this, the three people in front of him would be very excited, but who knew that the expressions of these three people were more indifferent than the other.

Not to mention Cheng Yixie's facial paralysis, Ruan Nanzhu had seen countless big scenes, and Lin Qiushi had already been mentally prepared, so he didn't think there was anything to be surprised about.

In the end, it turned into Luo Qianshan himself in shock, and he said, "Don't you guys want to say something?"

Lin Qiushi: "Congratulations?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Oh."

Cheng Yixie didn't speak.

Luo Qianshan: "..." He is already thinking about whether the three people in front of him have found the key...

Fortunately, Ruan Nanzhu's next words dispelled his worries, Ruan Nanzhu said: "Well, what do you want us to exchange for your clues?"

Luo Qianshan: "I..."

Before he could speak, Ruan Nanzhu leaned on Lin Qiushi's shoulder, and said softly, "Let me explain first, he has a boyfriend, so don't make any unreasonable demands."

Luo Qianshan: "..." I'm not, I haven't.His expression twisted: "Don't think too much." Although the person in front of him is indeed beautiful, who would dare to hit her with that skill? If there is any dispute in the future, it's not sure who will beat the other.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Oh, you really have no vision."

Luo Qianshan: "..." I'm sorry, I apologize.