Kaleidoscope of Death

After a simple dinner, the sky darkened.

Everyone went back to their respective rooms to rest, Lin Qiushi and Gu Longming were no exception.After Lin Qiushi simply washed up in the room, he was not in a hurry to go to bed, but stood by the window, observing the opposite room.

The place where Yingke cried yesterday was just across from them.Those rooms lived in two teams, that is, four, and the room that Lin Qiushi moved out in the middle of the night was right in the middle of them.

After checking during the day, Lin Qiushi did not find anything unusual in those rooms, except for the small holes on the window paper that were easily overlooked.

The windows here are separated by wood into small blocks, with glass on top and paper on the bottom. Lin Qiushi can see the outside through the glass when he stands by the window, but if he sits down, he can't see anything.

"What are you looking at?" Gu Longming, who was lying on the bed, turned his head to look at Lin Qiushi and asked.

"I want to see how that room is different from ours." Lin Qiushi said, "Go to bed first."

Gu Longming said: "Then let's go together."

Lin Qiushi said: "I can do it alone, and I won't stay there for too long. You go to bed first, and you won't be able to help you if you are awake anyway."

Gu Longming blinked and looked at Lin Qiushi, but didn't insist: "Okay." He yawned, turned over, and actually fell asleep within 2 minutes.

Looking at his appearance, Lin Qiushi couldn't help thinking of Ruan Nanzhu... Ruan Nanzhu's ability to fall asleep is also top-notch, but having said that, the people who came in to do tasks with him seem to sleep faster, even Cheng Yixie No exception.

The night was dark, and the cool wind hit the corridor, shaking the lanterns hanging in the corridor.

The fire was bright and dark, and Lin Qiushi could only vaguely see the scenery of the corridor outside through the darkness.He looked down at his watch. It was eleven o'clock in the evening, almost midnight.

Lin Qiushi was going to wait until twelve o'clock, and if there was no change in the opposite room, he would go back to bed and sleep.

Just thinking about this, Lin Qiushi noticed that at the end of the opposite corridor, a blurred red figure appeared at some point. The figure moved slowly in the darkness, and when he got under a lantern, Lin Qiushi finally saw clearly through the light of the lantern. What is that red figure?

It turned out to be seven or eight children in red clothes. They put their heads on the shoulders of the person in front of them and moved forward slowly step by step.I don't know if it's because the distance is too far, Lin Qiushi can't see their appearance clearly, but judging from their walking posture, these children are obviously not human beings.

They lined up and walked forward slowly, but when they came to a window, they stopped suddenly. The first child showed a strange smile on his pale face, and slowly turned to face him. The window, standing on tiptoe, stretched out a small finger, poked a small hole in the paper pasted on the window, and then stuck his face on the hole.

Seeing this scene, Lin Qiushi felt a layer of white sweat on his back. Now he finally understood why there were so many small holes in the window of the room he changed earlier... If he hadn't brought the baby with him Come out without changing rooms, then those little ghosts will see them from the other side of the window paper.

Those things seemed to find that there was no one in the room, so they turned around and went to the next room.Lin Qiushi remembered that the room was occupied by people, so he saw that after the children poked a hole, it turned into a stream of blood and flowed into the room along the hole on the window paper.

All this happened silently, but in the blink of an eye, calm was restored in the corridor again.

Lin Qiushi thought of what happened during the day, and whispered the clue several times in his mouth: "The sky is terrified, the earth is terrified, there is a crying boy in my house, the past benefactor read it three times, and fell asleep until the daylight..." He After reading it three times in a row, just as I was about to go back to bed, I saw the back of a woman appearing in the middle of the yard.The woman was wearing a long red dress and had long black hair. She looked like the hostess who received them during the day.

She stood there quietly, facing the room the children entered, her indifferent back was like a frozen statue.

Lin Qiushi didn't want to look any more, he turned around carefully and walked towards the bed.However, as soon as he sat by the bed, a bright light suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. Lin Qiushi was stunned, and found that the oil lamp on the table was lit for some reason.

The light of the oil lamp illuminated the whole room, drawing the attention of everything in the dark without a doubt—whether it was good things or bad things.

In the blink of an eye, Lin Qiushi flew in front of the oil lamp, ignoring other things, reached out and picked up the lampshade and quickly put it on the oil lamp.

The fire of the oil lamp went out instantly, but Lin Qiushi's body froze.He felt a vision, a vision projected from outside the window. He squatted halfway, not daring to straighten up, worried that things outside would see him.

I don't know if Lin Qiushi was too nervous, or what, he even heard the slight sound of the breeze blowing through the skirt outside.

Then, something slowly rubbed against the window paper, and a moment later, a finger painted with red nail polish pierced the thin layer of window paper.

Lin Qiushi was squatting next to the window, just at the dead corner of the hole, but the people inside the hole couldn't see him, but he could see the people inside the hole—a black eye appeared behind the window, malicious Peeking into the house, searching for the target.

Gu Longming on the bed was still breathing evenly, and was not woken up by all this.

Lin Qiushi held his breath, trying to make his sense of existence as low as possible.

Those eyes looked outside for a long time, but finally she didn't find Lin Qiushi squatting in the corner. She sighed with some regret, and slowly moved her eyes away.

But Lin Qiushi didn't dare to move, he had a feeling that this thing was still near the house...

Sure enough, after a few seconds, the black eyes reappeared. If Lin Qiushi had just believed that she had left, he would have been caught by this thing. As for what would happen, it is unknown.

Lin Qiushi was still not found, and there was anger and unhappiness in the black eyes. There was another sound of beating from outside Lin Qiushi's yard. After hearing this sound, the owner of the black eyes disappeared behind the window paper.

Lin Qiushi squatted on the spot for a long time, and after making sure that the things outside had left, he slowly stood up from the ground.His legs were numb, and he staggered back to the bed.

Gu Longming was still in a deep sleep, not aware of what happened just now.

Lin Qiushi let out a breath, and lay down beside Gu Longming, but what he was thinking about was those children and the mistress of the yard. He always felt that there were key clues hidden in this yard.

If this is an ordinary person, he would definitely not be able to fall asleep after experiencing the scene just now, but the rich experience of going through the door before made Lin Qiushi calm down quickly. He closed his eyes and began to try to recall the peaceful feeling lying next to Ruan Nanzhu, Actually fell into sleep very quickly.

It seems that Ruan Nanzhu's sleeping pill essence is really effective, basically he can fall asleep just thinking about it.

On the third day, the sound of Gu Longming waking up woke up Lin Qiushi too. He opened his eyes and saw Gu Longming greeting him carelessly: "Good morning, didn't anything happen last night?"

Lin Qiushi said: "I met it, I almost got cold."

Gu Longming: "...Are you serious?"

Lin Qiushi said: "Of course it is serious." He sat up from the bed and briefly described what happened last night.

Gu Longming didn't take it seriously at first, but when he heard that thing standing by the window and staring at him for a long time, he showed a frightened expression: "Damn it, did she just stare at me like this all night?"

Lin Qiushi: "Almost."

Gu Longming said: "Fortunately, I was wearing pajamas." He said shyly, "If I sleep naked like at home..."

Lin Qiushi: "..." You might die.

Gu Longming made a joke before he became serious again and said, "Then do we still need to change rooms tonight?"

Lin Qiushi thought for a while and said, "Let's go have breakfast first."

When he arrived at the breakfast place, Lin Qiushi found that there were two people missing from the team, and they were the two who lived in the room where the child stopped yesterday.

"Did the two of them come back last night?" Everyone was discussing the two missing people in low voices.

Lin Qiushi quickly settled the breakfast and winked at Gu Longming.

Gu Longming wasn't full yet, and after stuffing another steamed bun into his mouth, he said vaguely, "Let's go."

Lin Qiushi stood up and walked outside the house.

"Where are you going?" someone asked them.

"Let's go and check their rooms." Lin Qiushi replied, "See if they're still there."

"I'll go with you." Yan Shihe, who entered the ancestral hall after Lin Qiushi and the others yesterday, also stood up. His partner Xiaoqian seemed a little reluctant to go, but in the end he didn't say anything and came along with him.

The four were walking in the corridor, Yan Shihe asked them if they heard anything last night.

"No." Gu Longming said straightforwardly, "I sleep until dawn, and I don't hear anything."

Lin Qiushi also shook his head.

"Oh." Yan Shihe nodded, "I did hear a child crying last night... It probably came from the side where you live, so be careful at night."

Lin Qiushi didn't speak when he heard the words. He didn't hear any strange voice last night. As far as his hearing is concerned, even Yan Shihe could hear it. There is no reason for him to miss it.

When Yan Shihe said such words, he was either lying to them, or he was the only one who could hear the crying.

While talking, they walked to the door of the residence of the missing two.

Lin Qiushi raised his hand and knocked on the door. After waiting for a while, he was not surprised to find that there was no movement inside.

"Go straight in?" Lin Qiushi said.

"Okay." Yan Shihe didn't mind, "But it seems to be locked inside."

Lin Qiushi said: "Let me try." He has already started to learn the skill of opening the door with Ruan Nanzhu outside the door, but the progress is not fast, and he cannot handle some more complicated locks.The old lock in front of me is still fine. If you really can't open it, you can just break in. Anyway, if you really want to get in, it's not difficult.

After 1 minute, the lock opened in response.

Gu Longming cast an admiring look at Lin Qiushi: "Brother, you are so amazing, I now believe that you are a vagrant."

Lin Qiushi: "..." He always felt that there was something wrong with this sentence.

Yan Shihe stretched out his hand and pushed open the door in front of him, showing the scene inside the house in front of them.I saw blood everywhere in the small bedroom, but the blood didn't seem to be splashed out, but more like it was left behind after being dragged.

There is no doubt that the owner of the room is in danger at this time.

Lin Qiushi walked into the house, and after checking around casually, he walked slowly to the window.He saw those small holes again, but compared with yesterday, he felt a little more complicated when he saw the small holes today.

Yan Shihe was also very meticulous, and soon found the small hole in the window. He looked at the small hole, but couldn't find a clue, but Gu Longming pretended to be casual and said: "Why do I think of Mixiang in the martial arts drama?" , the ones who won’t kill them are people, right?”

Yan Shihe glanced at Gu Longming upon hearing this.

Inside the house, there is another thing that people are more concerned about. Lin Qiushi noticed that the oil lamp on the table was out of oil. The oil lamp was fully filled when they first moved in, and it only took two nights. Impossible to run out.But the oil lamp in front of him had been burned to dryness, and it was not known whether someone poured out the oil in the oil lamp or for some other reason.

"Where's the corpse? Where's their corpse?" After searching around the house, Yan Shihe didn't see the corpses of these two people. He was a little puzzled, "Even if they are dead, they must see the corpse."

But the body was gone. There was no place to hide the body in the small bedroom.

"I don't know." Xiaoqian replied, "Could it be eaten by those things?"

Yan Shihe frowned, but said nothing.In fact, there is such a possibility, after all, anything can happen inside the door.

Lin Qiushi was also thinking about the corpse, but what he wanted to know more was where the mistress was now.

It seems that there are no extra clues in the house, but Gu Longming found another bloody handprint of a child in a very remote corner. He didn't tell this to Yan Shihe, but after the four of them separated , quietly told Lin Qiushi.

"Well, I see." Lin Qiushi nodded, "Where do you think their bodies were taken?"

Gu Longming: "I don't know... Isn't it normal that there is no body after being killed by this kind of thing?"

Lin Qiushi said: "It's hard to say." What Gu Longming said actually made sense, but he just felt that something was wrong, and his intuition seemed to tell him that the whereabouts of the corpse was very important, but this was just a intuition, but there was no evidence to prove it.This is like the experience Ruan Nanzhu said, it is difficult to describe it in specific words.

"You care so much, why don't we look around?" Gu Longming noticed that Lin Qiushi was frowning all the time, and said, "There are still some places in this yard that we haven't visited."

"Then look for it." Lin Qiushi nodded.

The two started wandering around the yard again.

I have to say that the yard is very big, and the roads are messy, so it is easy to get lost in it.Fortunately, Lin Qiushi has a very good memory, and it is not difficult to take Gu Longming through it.

On the other hand, Gu Longming walked away confused, and said, "Didn't we just walk through here?" He remembered that the surrounding scenery seemed to be exactly the same.

"I haven't walked it." Lin Qiushi said, "The stone on the road just now is smaller."

Gu Longming: "..." He stared at the stone to see the flowers, but he didn't find any difference from the one just now, so he cast his admiring eyes on Lin Qiushi, and said, "You are really amazing... can be found.”

Lin Qiushi smiled and said nothing.

In fact, he didn't have such a memory before, but since he entered the door, his memory has improved. It is not difficult for him to remember this kind of fixed scene.

This yard seems to be deliberately getting people lost. Many places are built exactly the same, and even the potted plants and rockeries use the same pattern.

Lin Qiushi and Gu Longming spent the whole morning in the yard, and finally found the place they were looking for - they found the courtyard where the hostess lived.

Why is it sure that it is the place where the hostess lives, because Lin Qiushi saw a long red dress hanging on the treetops and swaying in the wind there.He remembered that this dress was exactly the one worn by the hostess last night.

"Did you smell something?" Gu Longming frowned when he came here, and sniffled, "It stinks."

Lin Qiushi also smelled it. It was a smell that was difficult to describe in words. It was a bit like blood, and it was a bit like something rotten. All in all, it was very disgusting.

Fortunately, Cheng Yixie was not here, otherwise it would have been very uncomfortable.

There is only an iron gate between the place where the hostess lives and where they are. The iron gate is half-closed, and the scene inside can be vaguely seen.

Lin Qiushi first observed outside for a while.

It was a big yard, but the yard was empty, except for a huge dead tree, no plants could be seen.And the long skirt worn by the hostess hangs on the top of this dead tree.

After confirming that there was no movement inside, Lin Qiushi pushed the door lightly, and the two walked into the yard.

After Lin Qiushi looked around, he soon found traces of blood in the corner of the yard. This trace seemed to have something dragged across the ground, very similar to the traces in the room of the two missing persons.

Gu Longming seemed to dislike this yard very much, he covered his nose with his hands, and looked disgusted.

"What's wrong?" Lin Qiushi asked him.

Gu Longming said: "The feng shui in this yard is so bad, it's like a place where dead people live."

Lin Qiushi said: "Isn't the place where we live is the place where the dead live?"

Gu Longming shook his head: "It's more serious here. A square house is better for a normal house, but the house here is missing a corner..."

Lin Qiushi took a closer look and found that the house here is really missing a corner, and the corner has been repaired into an arc shape, which looks extremely weird.

The two of them were talking, when Lin Qiushi's expression changed suddenly, and he said, "Hide, someone is coming." After speaking, he found a corner and hid in with Gu Longming.

After a while, the hostess in red appeared at the door, with an indifferent expression on her beautiful face, she didn't notice the existence of Lin Qiushi and Gu Longming, and went towards a certain room.

After she entered the room, Gu Longming breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a low voice, "I'm scared to death... Shall we go?"

Lin Qiushi said: "No, I want to go and have a look."

Gu Longming: "Go over and have a look? It's so dangerous and you still want to go?"

Lin Qiushi made a silent gesture.In fact, not long after the hostess entered the house, he heard a very subtle sound, which sounded like a sharp blade cutting something hard, one knife after another, with a bang.

Although Gu Longming disapproved of Lin Qiushi's behavior of going to see him very much, he still didn't object any more. Instead, he followed Lin Qiushi obediently and tiptoed forward, although it was really funny for such a big man to do this.

Lin Qiushi walked to the door of the hostess, turned his body sideways and looked inside cautiously.

The hostess turned her back to them, holding a long knife in her hand, and was chopping something with her head down. After Lin Qiushi looked carefully, she found that it was a large piece of meat... and from the position of the ribs, it was clearly a piece of meat. part of the human body.

Obviously, the bodies of the two people who disappeared last night should be what the hostess is dealing with at this time.

In the room where the hostess was, there were something even more strange that caught Lin Qiushi's attention.It was a row of shelves, and the shelves were filled with densely packed oil lamps. Some oil lamps were empty, and some oil lamps were filled with solidified lamp oil.

The hostess hummed a song, and easily disassembled several pieces of meat. Lin Qiushi saw the parts belonging to the hands and feet, and became more certain of his guess.After the hostess separated the meat, she started to light the fire and put an iron pot on the stove.

What is she going to do... Gu Longming silently asked Lin Qiushi with frightened eyes.

Lin Qiushi spread his hands, indicating that he didn't know.

Gu Longming's eyes were a little panicked, and he lowered his voice: "Damn it, the meat I eat during the day can't be..."

Lin Qiushi: "...Probably not."

Lin Qiushi's tone also contained hesitation, obviously not sure.Thinking of the delicious food he ate during the day and the bone soup he drank last night, Gu Longming almost wanted to spit it out on the spot. He tried his best to hold back, and told himself in his heart that he would obediently eat compressed biscuits inside the door in the future. Things are safer...

But the hostess has already heated up the pot and started to put pieces of meat into the pot.