Kaleidoscope of Death

Ruan Nanzhu looked serious, and he didn't seem to be joking at all. He slowly put the sunny doll in his hand on the stone bench next to him, and then untied the cotton thread wrapped around the white cloth.As soon as the cotton thread was unwrapped, it revealed what was wrapped in the white cloth——Lin Qiushi saw a whitish head covered in blisters.

The head seemed to have been soaked in the water for a long time, the skin was soaked into pale white like a dead fish, the eyes were wide open, showing horror and disbelief, and the eyeballs protruded as if they were about to fall out of the eye sockets.

As soon as Ruan Nanzhu let go, the head rolled from the stone bench to the edge of the wall and stopped with a bang.

Lin Qiushi looked at the head and said, "Someone died?"

"Perhaps." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Have you heard the legend of the sunny baby?"

Lin Qiushi said: "I have heard of it, but not many." He knew that there are legends about this kind of thing in both Japan and China, but the Chinese sunny doll is called Sao Qingniang and the Japanese sunny doll seems to be different.

Ruan Nanzhu's tone was slow: "In Japan, there is a legend about the sunny doll. A monk passing by a village said that he could stop the rain, but after chanting scriptures, the rain did not stop. The angry villagers They chopped off his head, wrapped it in a white cloth and hung it high... After that, the rain stopped."

Lin Qiushi looked at the head covered in water and fell silent.

"Japanese folks also have a nursery rhyme about Sunny Doll..." Ruan Nanzhu said softly, "Sunny Doll, please make tomorrow's weather sunny. Just like the sky in my dream, if it is sunny I will give you the golden bell. Sunny baby, please make tomorrow's weather fine. If you obey my wish, I will give you sweet wine. Sunny baby, please make tomorrow's weather fine. If so , if it is still cloudy and rainy tomorrow, I will cut off your head."

After Ruan Nanzhu finished reading the nursery rhymes, Lin Qiushi heard crackling sounds. He looked into the courtyard, but saw big raindrops falling from the sky.The rain is like a curtain, completely separating the courtyard from the whole world.

"That's the purpose of this head." Ruan Nanzhu said, "It really is a sunny baby."

Because the sunny day doll was taken down, it started to rain again in an instant when the weather was sunny. Lin Qiushi showed helplessness and said, "Can we save it by hanging this thing up again?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Try it." Then Ruan Nanzhu wrapped the head in a white cloth, wrapped it with cotton thread and hung it back to its original position.As they expected, after the head was hung back, it didn't take long for the weather outside to clear up again.The originally dense dark clouds disappeared in almost a moment.

"It's interesting." Ruan Nanzhu stared at the sunny doll made of human head and said.

"Let's go and see who died first." Lin Qiushi looked at his watch and said.

"Okay." Ruan Nanzhu nodded.

Then the two went to the restaurant.

At this moment, most of the people in the restaurant were eating, and Lin Qiushi saw Lin Xingping and a few of her friends.In less than a day, she became friends with the newcomer Wang Ronghua who just met inside the door. Wang Ronghua seemed to have completely regarded Lin Xingping as the most trusted person in the world.

Seeing them coming, Lin Xingping greeted them warmly, saying that they should come here quickly and have something to eat.

Ruan Nanzhu naturally stuck to Lin Qiushi's side, and said coquettishly: "Lin Lin, I'm hungry." If this is based on his height outside the door, coquettishness must be full of sense of disobedience.But in the Naihe Gate, he shrank a circle, so he is not very annoying.

Lin Qiushi stroked his hair and said, "Hey, let's eat."

Ruan Nanzhu nodded with a smile.

Cui Xueyi watched the interaction between the two, with disgust in his eyes, most likely thinking that these two people are really ugly.Anyway, the makeup Lin Qiushi painted outside did not disappear after entering the door, so at this time he was still the wretched man who made Cheng Qianli unable to eat.

The two sat down at a random place, counting the number of people while eating, and as expected, they found that the original fourteen people had become thirteen.

"Why is there one person missing?" Others also found out about this, "Is there anyone who didn't come? Still sleeping?"

"The one who... lived with me is gone..." In the corner, a man said submissively, "He went out in the middle of the night last night and never came back..."

"Why didn't you say it sooner?" The person who asked the question was a girl, and she said angrily after hearing the answer, "What are you going out to wander around without sleeping in the middle of the night, now you're gone."

"I... I don't know, I persuaded him, but he said he heard something." The man replied, "Who knows that after going out, he never came back..."

The girl sneered and stopped talking.

The restaurant also fell silent, and everyone fell into silence.

"It's alright, alright, don't quarrel." Lin Xingping said, "This time the NPC didn't give us a time limit, and the conditions should be quite relaxed. Don't be too nervous, everything will be fine." She actually looks good, The voice is also very gentle, the temperament is calm and capable, and he regards himself as a leader when people are panicking, and easily gains the dominance of the team.

Of course, this is in the low-level door. If it is changed to a high-level door, those veterans will definitely not take Lin Xingping seriously.

"We might as well take advantage of the good weather and go to other places." Lin Xingping said, "We haven't been to the courtyard yet."

"Okay, let's go together after dinner." Cui Xueyi answered from the side, "Everyone unite and find clues and doors as soon as possible, that's the right way."

So everyone planned to go out after dinner.

But when they walked to the corridor, someone also found the big and weird Sunny Doll at the end of the corridor.

"What's that?" someone in the crowd asked.

"It's a sunny baby?" Lin Xingping walked to the side of the sunny baby and said, "It's so big..."

She stood on tiptoe and made a pose that she wanted to take it off, but it seemed that she was not tall enough, "Someone take it off and see."

Someone nearby walked over and helped her remove the doll.

Lin Qiushi looked at this scene, and couldn't help raising his eyebrows. This Lin Xingping is indeed smart. She doesn't know the specific function of the doll, and she doesn't know if touching the doll will cause accidents, but the gesture she made is so natural and easy. Deceived these inexperienced people on the opposite side.

It was a man who took down the sunny day doll. After taking it off, he found that the weight was wrong. His expression immediately changed, and he said in a whisper, "It seems to be covered with a head..."

"Head?" Everyone's expressions changed drastically, and Lin Xingping also showed a look of fear, "You, you open it and take a look?"

The person who took off the sunny day doll carefully opened the white cloth again, revealing the swollen human head covered in blisters.

Everyone gasped when they saw this scene.

The person who claimed that his roommate disappeared immediately recognized the identity of the deceased: "Yes, it was him. After he went out at night, he never came back." And it seems that he will never come back.

"The deceased is gone, let's bury him." Lin Xingping said sadly, "Although his head is in a different place, we can't just let his body hang here like this?"

Some people in the crowd agreed, and some remained silent, but in the end everyone dug a hole in the yard and buried the head.

But Lin Qiushi was surprised that after these people took down the sunny doll, he thought it would rain outside, but who knew that the sky was still sunny, and there was no sign that it was going to rain at all.

Lin Qiushi was a little surprised, but immediately realized that Ruan Nanzhu seemed to be reading a long nursery rhyme when he took off the sunny doll. He looked at Ruan Nanzhu, who happened to meet Ruan Nanzhu's eyes.

Ruan Nanzhu leaned into Lin Qiushi's arms, his body was as light as a soft feather, he put his cheek on Lin Qiushi's chest, and said softly, "Would it be interesting if I read it now?"

The sunny baby was taken down. If Ruan Nanzhu read the nursery rhyme again at this time, there might be a downpour of rain hitting the entire yard. At this time, no one in the yard would be spared, including Cui Xueyi and Lin Qiushi who wanted revenge. His two accomplices.

Lin Qiushi's fingers slid across Ruan Nanzhu's hair, and he finally shook his head as he looked at the other people bent over digging for their dead companions in the yard.

After getting Lin Qiushi's answer, Ruan Nanzhu laughed, and said, "I like Lin Lin the most."

Lin Qiushi said: "I like you too." He asked his opinion and respected his opinion.

After burying our heads, we went around the town a few times.

This small town is not big, and some residents can be seen walking on the street. The environment of the town is still very good, with cherry blossom trees planted everywhere.There is also a small park and a clear river. All in all, if it weren't for the world inside the gate, I'm afraid I would really feel comfortable living here.

Lin Qiushi originally wanted to go to a few more places to see, but who knew that the sky began to darken in the evening.

Because he was afraid of rain, he and Ruan Nanzhu went back to the yard early and stood in the corridor.

Sure enough, within a short while, there were bean-sized raindrops in the sky, and the whole world was shrouded in the rain again.

Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu came back early and were not exposed to rain at all, but a few came back later and were drenched miserably.

Lin Xingping originally wanted to act with Lin Qiushi and the others, but she really couldn't stand the sticky appearance of these two ugly guys, so she found an excuse to slip away halfway.

Ruan Nanzhu also said in a very understanding tone, "Sister Lin, you have never been in a relationship before. If you meet someone you like, you will not be able to control it at all." Come over and kiss Lin Qiushi on the chin.

Lin Qiushi was very cooperative and agreed.

Lin Xingping's expression was visibly distorted, and after holding back for a long time, she finally managed not to swear, and said, "I still have other places I want to visit, so let's chat first."

"That's good." Ruan Nanzhu said, "I want to talk to my family Lin Lin for a while."

Lin Qiushi said, "Honey, let's find a small park..."

Then the two of them watched Lin Xingping go away in disgust.

Lin Qiushi watched Lin Xingping walk away, couldn't hold back, laughed, and said, "You are too funny."

Ruan Nanzhu said disdainfully: "I thought how long she could bear it. To be honest, I regret making you so ugly. It's really disgusting to say this to your face."

Lin Qiushi's face was full of innocence, and he thought that this was all done by you...why are you blaming me...

Not long after the two of them returned to the courtyard, it began to rain heavily. Lin Qiushi saw a few latecomers rushing back from the outside, and their bodies were drenched by the rain.

"It's raining as soon as it rains." Someone was still complaining when he entered the house. He went up the corridor, and his body soaked in water left a series of footprints on the wooden floor of the corridor.

Lin Qiushi suddenly noticed that when these people entered the house, the old man who brought them here on the first day was standing quietly in the corner, his eyes seemed to fall on the footprints on the floor, and he did not move away for a long time.Inexplicably, Lin Qiushi felt that his eyes made people feel a little terrified.

"He also told us to bring an umbrella, where is there an umbrella, really..." The man mumbled as he entered the room, his voice gradually disappeared.

But when they went out, they did look for an umbrella in the house, but they didn't see the shadow of the umbrella at all.Everyone saw that the weather was good, so they thought that it would not rain, so they went out directly. Who knew that the rain would come so suddenly, and those who were not prepared were directly drowned.

After Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu finished eating, they also went back to the house.

It started to rain heavily outside again. Lin Qiushi sat on the bed and played Sudoku with his head down for a while. Ruan Nanzhu was beside him, seemingly thinking about something.

Suddenly, he said: "I always feel that something is wrong."

"What?" Lin Qiushi turned to look at him.

"Generally, there is no time limit in the door. This door is too peaceful." Ruan Nanzhu said, "It's very wrong."

Lin Qiushi thought about it carefully, and it is true. Generally, there will be a clear time limit in the door, but this time the NPC did not say the final death limit.This is a very abnormal situation, he said: "Is there something we haven't discovered?"

"It should be." Ruan Nanzhu said, "But it's only the first day, so don't worry too much." Some laws must be confirmed with time. He has a guess now, but it's just a guess.

Lin Qiushi thought of the nursery rhyme that came from the rain yesterday, he said: "I... want to see outside tonight..."

Ruan Nanzhu blinked: "Aren't you afraid? What if seeing them is a condition for death?"

Lin Qiushi shook his head: "Probably not. Since someone left the house last night, there must be other people who heard the nursery rhyme, but none of them had any accidents."

"That's the reason." Ruan Nanzhu lazily said, "Wake me up when the time comes, let's watch together, if there is any accident, we can take care of each other."

"Okay." Lin Qiushi accepted Ruan Nanzhu's kindness.

The sound of clattering rain was a very annoying thing to Lin Qiushi, who had a keen hearing.Even though Ruan Nanzhu was lying beside him, he was so noisy that he couldn't fall asleep.Ruan Nanzhu suggested that he find a ball of paper to plug his ears, but Lin Qiushi refused.

"Let's talk about it after tonight." Lin Qiushi said, "If you fall asleep in the middle of the night, you will be in trouble."

"Okay." Ruan Nanzhu didn't force it.

The two shrank into the bed, Ruan Nanzhu fell asleep quickly, while Lin Qiushi was half asleep and half awake, having all kinds of bizarre dreams.

These dreams were messy and illogical. Lin Qiushi even had an inexplicable dream that he was married, but when he lifted the bride's red hijab, he found Ruan Nanzhu's face under the hijab.When he saw Ruan Nanzhu's face, Lin Qiushi woke up instantly from his dream. He panted slightly, stared at the dark ceiling with wide eyes, and heard the faint nursery rhyme again. : Bamboo gap... Bamboo gap... Caged bird...

Lin Qiushi sat up from the bed and woke up Ruan Nanzhu.

Ruan Nanzhu opened his eyes, and there was still some hazy sleepiness in his eyes, but the sleepiness disappeared quickly, and he lowered his voice: "Come?"

Lin Qiushi nodded and pointed to the door.

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Let's go."

The two slowly moved to the door, opened a gap in the wooden door, and saw the scene outside.

Because it was very dark, Lin Qiushi couldn't see very clearly, he could only vaguely see a few children in the yard, holding hands, circling around something in the yard. After Lin Qiushi carefully identified, he found that they were surrounded by something Is a trembling person.

"Bamboo cracks, bamboo cracks, the bird in the cage wants to be thrown out all the time, just before the dawn of the night, the crane and the tortoise slipped and fell, who is facing you behind?"... the song sang to the last line , the children stopped, their faces were pale, and their entire cheeks showed a kind of swelling caused by blisters, and they repeated the sentence: "Who is facing you from behind?"

The person surrounded didn't speak, maybe Lin Qiushi didn't hear what he said.

Then, he heard a soft bang, and the man's head and body were separated like this.

"Heck, heck!" The clear voices of the children rang out, and they seemed very happy, saying, "It's your turn to be a ghost, it's your turn to be a ghost."

The headless corpse slowly stood up, turned around slowly, and took over the position of the child behind him.

It was only at this time that Lin Qiushi discovered that another headless corpse was also among them, holding hands with two children.

The person who was killed, instead of the child... became a ghost.

Lin Qiushi finally understood at this moment.

The song sounded again, and the things in the yard happily turned around and headed outside. The heavy rain blurred their figures, making it difficult for Lin Qiushi to see clearly.But Ruan Nanzhu was leaning behind Lin Qiushi, but his breathing suddenly became rapid. He said, "Did you see it?"

"What?" Lin Qiushi didn't understand.

"There." Ruan Nanzhu pointed to the corner of the yard.

Lin Qiushi looked, but couldn't see anything. It was too dark in the corner. Although his eyesight was good, it was only that of ordinary people. It was nothing compared to Ruan Nanzhu: "I can't see..."

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Can't see it?" He raised his eyebrows, "Well, forget it if you can't see it."

"What is it?" Lin Qiushi asked.

Ruan Nanzhu: "It's a person standing there with an umbrella." He said, "It seems to be watching us."

Lin Qiushi: "..."

Ruan Nanzhu: "Forget it, don't worry about them, let's sleep, otherwise it will be bright."

"Okay." Lin Qiushi nodded.

After they closed the door, they lay back on the bed and were about to fall asleep when they heard the sound of bang bang coming from outside the house.

Lin Qiushi was really familiar with this voice, and his expression immediately changed: "There is the sound of a ball."

Ruan Nanzhu sat up from the bed.

The ball hit their door frame with a bang, Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu stood still, but saw the door in front of them was opened a small crack by a pair of small hands, and then a Black holes appeared on the other side of the gap.

A little girl's childish voice sounded, and she asked, "Have you seen my ball?"

Neither Lin Qiushi nor Ruan Nanzhu spoke.

So the little girl asked again: "Did you see my ball?" She opened the door a little, and Lin Qiushi saw her face, it was a half-rotten cheek, showing white teeth, she Water was all over his body, leaving a black water stain on the ground.

"You saw..." The little girl was going to repeat it a third time.

Ruan Nanzhu opened his mouth, and he said, "You wet the floor."

The girl's movements stopped suddenly, as if she heard something terrible, she turned around and disappeared at the other end of the door.Lin Qiushi heard the sound of thump, thud, and the ball stopped at their door as if it was alive.Then, a pair of small hands took the ball away from their door.

All fell silent.

"You can sleep now." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Go to sleep."

Lin Qiushi hummed, stood up and pulled the door over. There was no lock on the door at all, and it couldn't be easier to pull it open.But there is no safer place to sleep.

"Go to sleep." Ruan Nanzhu retracted into Lin Qiushi's arms.

Lin Qiushi hugged him, feeling inexplicably at ease. He stuffed the paper balls into his ears, and his breathing soon became even, and the two fell into a deep sleep.

The next day, Lin Qiushi slept until the sun was up.

When he woke up, he saw Ruan Nanzhu playing with his mobile phone with his head down, got up and said blankly, "What time is it?"

"Eleven o'clock." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Are you awake?"

Lin Qiushi was shocked: "It's so late, why didn't you call me?"

"You're too sleepy, it's good to sleep a little longer." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Get up."

Lin Qiushi nodded, and while he was getting dressed, he heard Ruan Nanzhu add: "They found a new sunny doll with the head of the person who died last night wrapped inside."

This matter was already expected by Lin Qiushi, and he only sighed softly after hearing this.