Kaleidoscope of Death

In the blink of an eye, before Lin Qiushi's brain could react, his body rushed forward.He wanted to extinguish the oil lamp like yesterday, but because of his flustered action, he knocked down the oil lamp directly. Although the wick was extinguished, the oil lamp made a crisp sound when it fell to the ground, and the lamp oil dripped all over the floor.

The room fell into silent darkness again. Lin Qiushi half-kneeled by the window, and suddenly felt a very bad feeling - the sound of fingers rubbing the window paper sounded above his head. There is not only one person with window paper.

Lin Qiushi held his breath, raised his head slightly, and through the faint moonlight, he saw countless pairs of children's hands patting and scratching on the window paper. The next moment, there was a crisp sound on the window, and Lin Qiushi clearly saw a pair of pale children's hands. His hand pierced through the thin layer of window paper, and stretched straight in from the outside.

As if it was a signal, those small hands began to try to make a hole in the window paper. Behind the hole, a pale child's face was revealed. The child opened its bloody mouth and let out a mournful cry.

The child began to try to squeeze in through the window. Its eyes were a black slit, and its pupils could not be seen at all. Its skin was pale and blistered and edematous.

It stretched out its arms and struggled to crawl into the room through the hole where the window paper was broken. Seeing that half of its body had been squeezed in from the outside, it was about to fully enter the room.

Lin Qiushi backed a few steps involuntarily, but the crying of the child reminded him of something. He quickly remembered the sentence in the clue, and quickly said in his mouth: "The sky is panic, the earth is panic, my family has a Crying boy, the past benefactor read it three times, and fell asleep until the daylight—" After this sentence was read, the child's movements were obviously much slower, but he was still crawling vigorously into the room

Lin Qiushi quickly read the second and third times. When he finished reading the third time, the little ghost who was about to climb in finally stopped and froze on the window paper, as if he had fallen asleep. Seems like.

Lin Qiushi felt relieved.When he saw people in the small town chanting this sentence during sacrifices by the river before, it played a protective role, so he dared to read this clue boldly, but he didn't expect this sentence to be so useful.

The little ghost's body was stuck on the window, and he didn't get in any more.

However, Lin Qiushi didn't dare to move. In fact, he could still see the tall black silhouette of the woman outside the room through the window paper.

She walked back and forth outside the window, anxiously waiting for something.

However, when she found that the little ghost stuck on the window didn't seem to be moving anymore, she fell into extreme anger. Lin Qiushi saw her stretch out her hand and drag the little ghost's body back little by little, and then the pale face appeared on the window From behind, he peeped into the room angrily, even cursing in a low voice.

Lin Qiushi squatted under the window, not daring to move.

This place happened to be in a blind corner of the window, and he would definitely not be seen from the perspective of a woman.The woman's black eyes rolled around the room, and after she didn't find what she wanted, a series of angry growls erupted from her mouth, like an enraged beast.

Lin Qiushi pretended that he didn't see or hear anything.

The two of them stood in a stalemate for a long time, the woman did not leave, and Lin Qiushi did not move.

The woman seemed sure that someone in the house had woken up, and she stood by the window without moving for a long time. It was not until a crisp cock crowed from the courtyard that Lin Qiushi heard the sound of footsteps leaving outside.It was only accompanied by the footsteps, and the sound of sharp objects being dragged on the ground——Lin Qiushi thought of the long knife he saw in the yard yesterday that a woman used to chop up corpses, and he suspected that the woman was holding it in her hand.

There is no doubt that if he hadn't reacted quickly enough, he might have disappeared by now.

Lin Qiushi looked at the sweet Gu Longming who was sleeping on the bed, and couldn't help but have a certain degree of respect for him, and at the same time confirmed his thoughts.

Where Gu Longming sleeps, women can be seen from the outside, if he can do something to Gu Longming who is lying on the bed, Gu Longming may have been cold for a long time.

That is to say, there must be at least two conditions for a woman to kill someone, one is that someone is awake, and the other is that she sees the person who is awake.

Lin Qiushi sat next to him all night, his legs were numb at this moment, he stood up staggeringly, rubbed his numb thighs with his hands, returned to the bed, and saw through the broken window paper Faint morning light.

It was almost dawn, but Lin Qiushi hadn't slept all night. He lay back on the bed, and after a short nap, he felt Gu Longming get up.

"Fuck, fuck." Gu Longming, who woke up from the dream, saw the broken window paper beside him at a glance, and exclaimed a few times, he quickly shook Lin Qiushi up, and said, "Lin Lin, Lin Lin , The window paper is broken! The window paper is broken!!"

Lin Qiushi opened his eyes, a little helpless: "I know."

Gu Longming was surprised and said, "You know?"

"Yeah." Lin Qiushi said, "Last night, both the kid and the woman came."

Gu Longming: "..." With his messy hair on his head, he looked at Lin Qiushi with dull eyes. His brain just woke up and couldn't completely process the information Lin Qiushi said.

Lin Qiushi leaned against the bed and briefly told Gu Longming what happened last night.

After hearing this, Gu Longming's expression was very complicated, he held back for a long time and said: "You are awesome." Then he said in fear, "Then she just stared at me outside the window all night?" Thinking of that pale face Staring gloomyly at himself through the window paper for a whole night, Gu Longming shivered involuntarily.

"Yes." Lin Qiushi said, "Just keep an eye on it, and you have nothing to lose."

Gu Longming said: "Don't say that, after all, I am a poor female high school student who is not full."

Lin Qiushi: "..." A muscular female high school student who is 1.8 meters tall is fine.

Gu Longming and Lin Qiushi discussed what happened last night while they were waking up.By the way, Lin Qiushi also told Gu Longming the clue that the kid could fall asleep.

Gu Longming was amazed after hearing this, and said: "You are too courageous, what if you read this clue and it will kill you?"

Lin Qiushi: "Boldly assume, carefully verify. If this sentence is a curse, then the people in the small town will definitely not read it. Since they all dare to read it, and there is nothing wrong with it, then it should not have a negative effect. "

Gu Longming knew this was the truth, but he was able to react before the accident and read this sentence, he felt that it must be very rare, and seeing Lin Qiusi's calm face after going through such a thing last night, he couldn't help Admiringly said: "As expected of Obsidian, awesome."

Lin Qiushi: "...It's okay." In fact, he was also frightened at first, although he calmed down quickly.

"By the way, who do you think replaced the oil lamp in our room?" Lin Qiushi asked suddenly.

"I don't know." Gu Longming said, "I think there are two suspects, either the hostess, or someone from our team."

Lin Qiushi pointed to the ground: "I knocked down the oil lamp you stole yesterday."

Gu Longming waved his hand: "It's okay, let's go to other rooms to see if there are other oil lamps."

After a simple wash, the two went out, and first went to the unoccupied room to look around.But what surprised them was that most of the oil lamps in these rooms had been replaced, and all the original oil lamps made from human oil had disappeared.

"Where are the lamps?" Gu Longming said, "Someone took all the lamps away?" He analyzed, "Could it be Yan Shihe who made it? I looked at it and it seems that only he, us and another person kept the oil lamps." Team."

Lin Qiushi said: "He probably wouldn't do that."

Gu Longming: "Why?"

Lin Qiushi: "At present, the conditions of death cannot be completely determined. If human oil lamps are the conditions of death, wouldn't he die faster if he took them all away, unless...he has already obtained more clues about the light of oil lamps."

Gu Longming said: "More clues about the oil lamp?" He frowned, a bit puzzled by this guess.

Lin Qiushi shook his head and didn't say any more. He had many thoughts in his heart, but these thoughts were not supported by actual evidence, so he didn't bother to speak out to add trouble to Gu Longming.

Gu Longming is also a smart person. Seeing that Lin Qiushi didn't say anything, he didn't keep asking, but just sighed: "Then what should we do next?"

Lin Qiushi said: "Let's go have breakfast first, and see if there are any missing people in the team." Make sure if any accident happened to those who didn't use oil lamps yesterday.

As soon as eating was mentioned, Gu Longming's spirit improved a lot, and he said happily: "Okay, okay."

A few minutes later, the two showed up at the breakfast place.

Breakfast time is very important, almost everyone will come, because this is the first time of the day to determine whether there was any death last night.Lin Qiushi walked into the room and began to look around to count the number of people. Yan Shihe happened to be next to Lin Qiushi. Seeing Lin Qiushi's eyes, he smiled and said, "Don't count, there are seven people, and none of them is missing. How did you come here today? It's late, I thought..."

Lin Qiushi looked at him: "You thought we were dead?"

Yan Shihe spread his hands and admitted: "After all, this is a world where everyone may die."

Lin Qiushi didn't answer.

Including him and Gu Longming, there were a total of nine people in the room, except for the three who died a few days ago, which means that no one had an accident last night.

Lin Qiushi found a place to sit down, took something casually and thought while eating.Could it be that the accident that happened in their house last night attracted the attention of ghosts and ghosts, resulting in no reduction in staff?As he was thinking this, a man sitting in the corner of the room suddenly stood up and started vomiting non-stop.

They were not familiar with this man, not even his name, but Lin Qiushi vaguely remembered him and the group of unlucky ghosts who were dragged into the water when he went to see the sacrifice by the river on the first day.

"Whoa, whoa..." The loud vomit made the other people around look disgusted.

"Big brother, are you okay?" Gu Longming put down the midweek food, stood up and was about to ask, but Lin Qiushi grabbed his arm.

"What?" Gu Longming showed doubts.

Lin Qiushi said: "Don't go there, something is wrong."

Gu Longming: "What's wrong?"

Lin Qiushi: "I can't tell... There is something on this person..." In fact, while the person was vomiting, he also heard a very subtle voice coming from the person.The sound sounded like something was tearing and chewing. Although it was subtle, it was still caught by Lin Qiushi's ears. He was very sure that the source of the sound was the man in front of him, even though he hadn't eaten anything.And looking at the reactions of other people, they obviously didn't hear the voice.

Not long after Lin Qiushi stopped Gu Longming, the man in front of him who vomited up his breakfast began to vomit blood, and a big mouthful of blood mixed with broken internal organs vomited out of his mouth.

The faces of most people in the crowd changed, apparently frightened by this scene.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Then the man started to roll on the ground. He seemed to be suffering from some extreme pain. He covered his abdomen with his hands and kept screaming.

The screaming lasted only for a moment and then stopped. The man's breath gradually weakened, and finally he lay on the ground and couldn't move anymore. He died like this.

The atmosphere in the crowd was eerily quiet.

Some people couldn't stand this scene, turned and left the room, but Lin Qiushi stood there without moving. Standing next to him had a somewhat similar expression to him, it was Yan Shihe who exchanged clues with Lin Qiushi and the others yesterday.

"He... is dead?" Gu Longming said, "How come..."

Lin Qiushi frowned and didn't say anything. His eyes fell on the man's abdomen. In fact, the sound of chewing continued. Even though the man was out of breath, the sound was still coming from the man's abdomen.

Just when Lin Qiushi was wondering, he saw that the man's abdomen began to wriggle abnormally, as if something was about to struggle out of it.

This scene was very obvious, and everyone present saw it.

Gu Longming said with a dry smile: "Well, this is not about to give birth, is it?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that the skin of the deceased's abdomen was stretched out in the shape of a palm. Judging from the size of the palm, it obviously belonged to a child.

Seeing this change, Gu Long didn't dare to continue joking, but fell silent together with Lin Qiushi.

The chewing sound gradually stopped, and was replaced by the sound of flesh tearing. Lin Qiushi saw the skin on the abdomen of the deceased began to bulge, and finally it seemed to be torn apart by something, exposing the red inner cavity.

A pair of blood-stained little hands stretched out from inside, and then the owner of those little hands began to try to crawl out from inside.

It was a small baby with blood stains all over its body, but its head was huge. Inside the wide open mouth were fine and dense teeth, and there were still bits of meat hanging on the fine teeth.

After seeing such a thing, everyone backed back involuntarily, Gu Longming said: "Damn it, it really happened."

Not long after the baby crawled out of the deceased's abdomen, it turned into a pool of blood and disappeared before their eyes.Only the hideous corpse was telling everyone that what happened just now was not an illusion, someone else died, and he died in such a horrific way before their eyes.

Just when everyone fell silent, the hostess appeared outside the house. She walked slowly to the corpse, then bent down and grabbed the corpse's wrist, and lifted the whole corpse up like a cargo.After the hostess showed a weird smile to everyone, she grabbed the corpse and walked away slowly.

Looking at her back, no one spoke, but Lin Qiushi thought of the scene when she boiled corpse oil yesterday.

Yan Shihe said indifferently: "Oh, it seems that the oil lamp mentioned yesterday is not a condition for death."

This sentence awakened the stunned crowd. Two people in the crowd showed rejoicing, obviously the two who did not throw away the oil lamp, while the rest got up and left one after another. They were in a panic when they left, probably wanting to go Get back the human oil lamp that was lost yesterday.

Lin Qiushi originally thought that these people would be able to find at least one or two lamps, but after a while, everyone who returned to the house turned pale, and some began to curse uncontrollably. After listening carefully, Lin Qiushi realized that they had lost the lamp. All the oil lamps were collected and destroyed.

"Damn, someone wants us to die, someone wants us to die here—" someone yelled, "don't let me find out who that person is!"

"It's too much, it's too much." Someone was crying helplessly, "What should we do?"

Seeing this scene, Yan Shihe seemed to lose interest in what happened next, he stood up from his chair, and politely said goodbye to everyone.

Lin Qiushi and Gu Longming looked at each other, got up and left.

The two of them went to a slightly remote corner and began to discuss what to do next.

"Let's steal another lamp." Gu Longming said, "It seems like this is the only way to go."

Lin Qiushi sighed: "It's all my fault. If I had been more careful last night, I wouldn't have knocked down the lamp."

Gu Longming shook his head: "I think you are quite powerful."

Lin Qiushi: "Huh?"

Gu Longming said: "To be honest, in the world inside the door... I rarely fall asleep."

Lin Qiushi: "..." You rarely fall asleep when you fall asleep?

Gu Longming was a little embarrassed, and said awkwardly: "It wasn't until I entered this door and lived in the same room with you that my sleep quality improved. I don't know what happened. Anyway, when I sleep with you I've fallen asleep."

Lin Qiushi: "..." After listening to Gu Longming's words, he fell into a long, long silence. He felt as if he had misunderstood something from the beginning to the end. If what Gu Longming said was true, then Ruan Nanzhu was not at all. sleeping pills...

After Gu Longming was a little bit at a loss by Lin Qiushi's silence, Lin Qiushi sighed: "I thought your sleep quality was always like this."

"Hahaha." Gu Longming laughed dryly, "Although I know it's safer to fall asleep at night, but I don't have such a big heart. And if I really fall asleep at night, I will miss some important clues."

Speaking of clues, Lin Qiushi remembered what happened last night, and he said: "If you can't sleep until the daylight is bright, you are crying at night. If there is a crying boy, the lamp will light up to attract women." He pondered. , "But she doesn't seem to be able to enter the house, so I can only let the little ghost in, but the little ghost is afraid of that spell..." Even as long as she hears that spell, she will fall asleep directly.

At present, there are two conditions for death. One is that no human oil lamp is used. Such a person will die directly whether he wakes up or not.The second is to use a human oil lamp but fail to fall asleep. There is still a glimmer of life, as long as the little ghost enters the room and repeats three spells...

"Don't you think the relationship between women and little ghosts is a bit weird?" Lin Qiushi said, "If human oil lamps are a restriction for little ghosts, why does she cook so many human oil lamps?"

Gu Longming thought it made sense: "That's right, and she didn't provide us with oil lamps for so many people, instead it seemed..."

The two of them said the same sentence: "I am using it myself."

After figuring this out, Lin Qiushi suddenly said, "Do you still remember the ancestral hall?"

Gu Longming nodded: "What's wrong?"

Lin Qiushi said: "When I went in, I felt that there was something wrong with the ancestral hall, and now I finally understand it!"

Gu Longming said, "What's wrong?"

Lin Qiushi said: "If you think about it carefully, do you think the ancestral hall is too bright?"

Obviously there is only one door and none of the windows are open. Entering the ancestral hall under cloudy weather, it feels like daytime. Now that I think about it, I am afraid it is the credit of those few oil lamps.

Gu Longming said: "If you don't mention it, I still don't think... I'm used to modern lighting facilities, and I really don't notice anything wrong with oil lamps."

Lin Qiushi: "So..."

Gu Longming: "So?"

Lin Qiushi smiled: "What do you think will happen if we extinguish all the oil lamps in the ancestral hall..."

Gu Longming was startled when he heard Lin Qiushi's proposal: "Are you serious? Stop it!" If Lin Qiushi's guess is correct, it means that the human oil lamp has a suppressive effect. Once such a lamp is extinguished, the suppressive thing It is estimated that they will all run out, who knows what will happen then.

"Don't be so nervous." Lin Qiushi said warmly, "I'm just joking."

Gu Longming: "..." Actually, you are joking now, right?

"I'm really joking." Seeing that Gu Longming's expression was still tense, Lin Qiushi laughed, "Really, don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who has no sense of proportion."

Gu Longming showed suspicion.

Lin Qiushi skipped the topic directly and said, "When are we going to steal the lamp?"

Gu Longming breathed a sigh of relief: "Whatever, why don't we go and have a look first?"

Lin Qiushi said: "Yes."

Seeing that Gu Longming's expression was relaxed, he somehow felt that he had some bad taste, but thinking about it carefully, Ruan Nanzhu seems to be teasing him like this usually...