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    Chapter 41 Frame

    If this is in the real world, I may feel nervous and think too much when I encounter such a thing. But why this is not the real world but in a treacherous door, so Lin Qiushi had to think more. He carefully observed the window and determined that the figure in the shrub was disappeared and returned to the bed. This time he didn't dare to turn off the lights, but tried to fall asleep with the light.

    Although he was very sleepy, after Lin Qiushi tried to remember the kind of peace of mind lying beside Ruan Nanzhu, he really fell asleep hazy -Ruan Nanzhuo was really a sleeping medicine, thinking about it, and thought of it. Can function.

    The next morning, Lin Qiushi was awakened by the alarm clock. After he simply washed, he planned to go to Ruan Nanzhu. Yesterday Lin Qiushi didn't sleep well, and there was a thick dark circles hanging under his eyes. The face of the person in the mirror was still unfamiliar, but if you look closely, he still feels that he has that or two in his temperament in the reality. Similar. Lin Qiushi changed his clothes and knocked on Ruan Nanzhu's door on the opposite side.

    The door of the room opened, but the person who opened the door was Tan Zaozao. Her face was ugly than Lin Qiushi. It looked like she was hard to sleep all night.

    "Early." Ruan Nanzhu also got up and washed, and his chin was still stained with water droplets. He just walked out of the bathroom and heard Lin Qiushi's voice, and turned his head to say hello.

    Tan Zaozao went to the bathroom.

    Lin Qiushi was inexplicable, but he quickly discovered the reason why Tan Zaozao was angry -the girl actually hit the floor shop in the room for one night, and the place of the ground was next to Ruan Nanzhu's big bed.

    "She slept on the ground?" Lin Qiushi looked at the ground for a few seconds.

    "Otherwise?" Ruan Nanzhu said, "I don't like to sleep with others."

    Lin Qiushi: "..." He remembered the day and night of sleeping with Ruan Nanzhu, and so on. How did this statement sound strange?

    Ruan Nanzhu said, "Except for you."

    Lin Qiushi was a little embarrassed to listen to this, and then turned off the topic: "How about sleeping last night?"

    "It's good." Ruan Nanzhu replied, "The bed is good."

    This bed is indeed very soft and soft. It is very comfortable to lie down, but no matter how comfortable, I am afraid that few people can enjoy it as frank as Ruan Nanzhu.

    Tan Zaozao murmured after washing his face and brushing his teeth, saying that Ruan Nanzhuo was really not an individual.

    Ruan Nanzhu started to ignore her. After seeing her endless, she said salty and indifferently: "Otherwise, you bed tonight?"

    Tan Zaozao: "Really really?"

    Ruan Nanzhu: "I can go squeezed with Lin Lin."

    Tan Zaozao: "..." You guys. Of course, she didn't dare to agree. Yesterday, she found that something was wrong, and she was afraid to go to Ruan Nanzhu's room to make up for a night. If she really dares to sleep alone, why would she run over to lie down.

    Breakfast was carried out upstairs. Lin Qiushi thought that the castle had only the housekeeper and the owner, but did not expect that there were still a few servants. After sending breakfast by these servants, they left quickly. There was no expression on their faces. The numbness was even more like a puppet without emotion.

    When ate breakfast, the owner who had seen one side yesterday also appeared. She still wore the long black skirt, wearing the strange hat, sitting on the side of the window, grabbing food with those white hands and slowly, slowly raised her food. Instead in the mouth.

    No one dares to talk to her, the atmosphere in the restaurant, quiet and scary.

    Fortunately, after eating, the owner disappeared again. According to the steward, she should go to the studio on the top of the building. The housekeeper said that the next time is the time of free activity. There are a few places that everyone should not go. One is the studio on the top of the building, and the other is the unparalleled warehouse on the sixth floor. They can watch at will else. don't like others to touch her painting ...

    Everyone said these contents carefully, and even in the team, there were even people taking notes, and they were afraid of leaking a word.

    After the housekeeper said, he left, leaving ten people in the restaurant.

    "I'm going out to see, someone is together?" Someone in the team started to stand up and want to go out to find the clues of the key.

    Then they left the two teams one after another, basically two groups.

    Lin Qiushi was about to invite Ruan Nanzhu, and saw the newcomer and little girl twisted and walked to Ruan Nanzhu, whispered, "Little brother, do you have a teammate? Can you bring me with me, I am so scared ... … "This little girl looks not bad, and the pitiful appearance of Chu does make life feel pity. Who is just a pity that Ruan Nanzhu is a professional women's clothing? He is much stronger than the girl in front of him, so even Lin Qiushi can see that Ruan Nanzhuo has no fluctuations in his heart, and even wants to even want to want to. Eat another white -boiled egg.

    "No." Ruan Nanzhu refused so simply.

    "But I'm really afraid, I will work hard not to drag your hind legs." The little girl started tears again.

    Ruan Nanzhu raised his eyebrows and gave Tan Zaozao in private.

    Tan Zaozao led the gods, stood up and walked to the little girl, and said, "I'm sorry, I asked him yesterday. You should go to someone else."

    The little girl saw Tan Zaozao, and there was a hint of disappointment in her eyes. She wanted to say something, but Ruan Nanzhu had already stood up and beckoned to Tan Zaozao and signaled to start.

    Tan Zaozao went out with the two behind him.

    Lin Qiushi sat next to him, and also made excuses. It seems that Ruan Nanzhu has a lot of benefits to dress up as a girl. At least you don't have to worry about some girls coming to him to form a team.

    "That newcomer is not right." After going out, Ruan Nanzhu said that.

    "Where is wrong?" Tan Zaozao didn't see it, "She cried so miserable yesterday ..."

    Ruan Nanzhao glanced at Tan Zaozao: "Do you think people who are so courageous dare to come to me?"

    Tan Zao Zao raised an eyebrow: "It's right."

    The beauty of Ruan Nanzhu is not the kind of gentle beauty. On the contrary, it is full of aggression and alienation. He is like a gorgeous flower in a jungle. He is telling others with dazzling colors that this flower is toxic. When you are a woman, you can show weakness, but Ruan Nanzhu, who is wearing men's clothing, obviously does not have the habit of being in the weak.

    He sat there, but he raised his brows, which made people shrink back, and dared not approach at all. Such a person, even Lin Qiushi, won't think of forming a team with him.

    "In case the color makes Zhizhi faint." Tan Zaozao and them looked at the painting next to them, "Maybe."

    Ruan Nanzhu said carelessly: "There are no more than ten people who take the initiative to team up with me, none of them are novice, she will not be the exception." Pretending to be a novice, it is good and bad. Alertly, the disadvantage is that once the identity is broken, it will become the goal of exclusion of the entire team. After all, no one knows what the person pretending to pretend to be a novice is.

    This ancient castle is too big. On the second floor and the first floor, there are countless rooms. They walked from the second floor to the third floor, and saw the same similarities that they were full of various paintings in this castle. Even where went to the toilet, didn't let it go.

    Lin Qiushi did not know the art and did not know what the painters of these paintings, but the only thing he could be determined was that these paintings were very uncomfortable. If he could, he would rather cover all with white cloth.

    "Can we not touch the painting?" Tan Zaozao also remembered the steward.

    "No, no." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Have you noticed his words?"

    "The owner doesn't like it?" Lin Qiushi remembered the original words of the housekeeper.

    "Yes, the owner doesn't like it, not absolutely unable to touch it." Ruan Nanzhu's footsteps stopped in front of a picture, and his brows frowned suddenly.

    "What's wrong?" Tan Zaozao saw that his face was wrong.

    "It's okay." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Do you know about painting?"

    Tan Zao Zao shook his head: "I don’t know, I haven't learned it."

    Ruan Nanzhuo said: "I don't know either. It seems that the three of us can't see anything from the painting. Go to the room upstairs to see it."

    Lin Qiushi sounded, and the three began to go upstairs along the stairs.

    This staircase is wood. Step on it will make a crispy sound, and the road leading to the top of the building will be more than this one. There are stone stairs on both sides of the castle that can climb from the first floor to the top floor.

    Most of the rooms in the castle are locked, and only a small part is opened. Almost all of these open rooms are filled with all kinds of paintings. There are still characters and scenery. However, they are discussing. When went to the studio on the top of the building, a scream came downstairs.

    It was the scream of a woman. When it came, when the others arrived, the screams were gone, only the empty stairs.

    "Who was calling just now?" A middle -aged man in the group asked.

    "I don't know, we have just arrived." Lin Qiushi said, "Did you rush from several floors?"

    The middle-aged man said, "The third floor."

    Lin Qiushi said: "We are on the sixth floor, and the sound must be between the third and fourth floors..."

    Because of this sound, most people arrived at the location of the screaming one after another, and soon, they discovered the identity of the screamer.

    "Her name is Xiao Su, she just joined me in the team." It was a man who spoke, but his expression was full of horror, "She said she was going to the toilet just now, but she disappeared."

    "What floor are you on?" Lin Qiushi asked.

    "The top floor." The man swallowed, "There is no toilet on the top floor, so she wanted to come down..." It turned out to be between the third and fourth floors, and disappeared after screaming. In the world inside the door, disappearing is equivalent to death, but no one knows how she triggered the death condition.

    "Look again." Ruan Nanzhu said, "What if there is a misunderstanding."

    It seemed like that was the only way, but the man who lost his companion in just a few dozen minutes seemed to be hit hard, and tremblingly joined another two-man group.

    Ruan Nanzhu glanced at Lin Qiushi and said, "Should we go to the roof to have a look?"

    Lin Qiushi said, "Okay."

    Tan Zaozao muttered beside you that you can run wherever you are in danger, and you are not afraid of accidents...

    Ruan Nanzhu said indifferently: "If there is an accident, it can happen anywhere. It is the right thing to get the key early. This kind of thinking is the misunderstanding of your newbies. Some things can't be avoided by hiding."

    Tan Zaozao snorted and didn't speak. These things are easier said than done, but they can really face death and ghosts calmly like Ruan Nanzhu.

    They went all the way up, and soon reached the eighth floor of the castle, which is the roof.

    The top of the building is an old attic, still full of paintings, but these paintings seem to be slightly different from the ones downstairs. Lin Qiushi observed it for a while, and then suddenly realized: "Are these paintings new?"

    Ruan Nanzhu sniffed: "It should be, there is also the smell of paint."

    Tan Zaozao's footsteps suddenly stopped in front of a painting. There was a little doubt in her expression, and after a moment of hesitation, she said, "Come and see, isn't your painting a bit strange?"

    Lin Qiushi walked behind Tan Zaozao and saw the strange painting in Tan Zaozao's mouth.

    It's really strange. This painting depicts the back of a woman. The style is always distorted. The back of the woman is infinitely elongated and circles the stairs again and again, like a huge vortex.

    "What do you feel like?" Tan Zaozao asked.

    "The back of a woman?" If you just look at the content, it's basically difficult to recognize what is in the painting, but both Tan Zaozao and Lin Qiushi, when they saw the painting, they thought of the same thing for the first time. The content - a terrified woman who is climbing the stairs, she seems to be chased by something, and there is an indescribable fear in her back.

    "Newly painted." Ruan Nanzhu's voice came, "The paint is not dry."

    Tan Zaozao and Lin Qiushi looked at each other and thought of the same thing. Tan Zaozao touched the goose bumps on his arm and forced a smile: "This, this shouldn't be..."

    "I guess so." Ruan Nanzhu said, "You can ask the girl's male companion to come and have a look." His eyes were fixed on the painting, and he said slowly, "Let's see if this is his teammate who disappeared."

    ...

    Xiaosu just wanted to go to the toilet.

    She came down from the seventh floor and hurriedly looked for the toilet on the sixth floor. There were many toilets in the ancient castle. She quickly found the place she was looking for at the end of the sixth floor.

    After entering the toilet, Xiao Su found a cubicle and was about to sit down, but noticed a strange portrait hanging on the wall in front of him. It was a woman wearing a black hat and a black long gown. Her face was pale, her eyes were half closed, and the rain fell down her chin along the brim of the hat. Her face was white and long, making people feel inexplicably panicking. Most of the paintings in the castle are abstract, and it is almost difficult to identify what the paintings are without knowing the background. However, the contents of the scroll in front of him were very clear, and even Xiao Su suspected at first glance whether it was a self-portrait of the hostess of the ancient castle.

    This painting may be an important clue... Xiao Su stood up and walked in front of the painting scroll, wanting to observe it carefully. However, some ghosts and gods made Xiao Su approach the picture scroll, and she reached out her hand towards the picture scroll as if possessed by a demon. When she woke up, her palm was already on the picture scroll.

    "Ah!!" Xiao Su was suddenly startled and retracted her hand. She felt a wet patch on her hand, with a smell of earth after the rain. She raised her head again, but the picture scroll changed. Su widened her eyes and stared at the painting in front of her in amazement... The painting was still the same painting, but the pale-faced woman in the painting had disappeared.

    Seeing this scene, Xiao Su did not dare to stay any longer, she turned and ran away. She wanted to go upstairs to find her teammates. She stepped on the sturdy wooden stairs and made a series of rapid noises.

    "Da da da da da." - The crisp footsteps echoed in the castle, Xiaosu ran, ran, ran, ran, ran around the stairs for a long time, but the stairs in front of her seemed to be endless reincarnation , all the scenes have frozen, only the stairs in front of them are still extending forward.

    "Ah, ah, ah." Panting violently, Xiao Su was covered in sweat, her physical strength was exhausted, and she was almost unable to run.

    However, the sound of da da da's footsteps was still ringing, and Xiao Su smelled the smell of rain again. She turned her head with trembling all over, and saw a black shadow standing quietly at the entrance of the stairs. No, it wasn't a black shadow, it was a woman in black, her body was soaked by the rain, her face was extremely pale, she was holding a huge picture frame in her right hand, and her black pupils were like two black holes, staring deadly. Xiao Su in front.

    Xiao Su was trembling all over. She opened her mouth to speak but was speechless. She used both hands and feet, and crawled forward with her last strength crying.

    "Da da da." The footsteps sounded again, but this time the footsteps were unhurried and followed behind Xiaosu.

    Xiao Su was covered in sweat, her whole body seemed to be wet with water, and her last strength was exhausted, she could only be like a pool of mud, lying on the ground unable to move.

    The woman walked in front of her. The room was dry, but the water droplets on her body continued to flow down, and some of them even fell on Xiao Su's body.

    Xiao Su raised her head and saw the woman take out a picture frame, an indescribable distorted smile appeared on her pale face, and her mouth covered with red lipstick grinned in a terrifying arc, and then, the woman Waving the frame, he smashed it down heavily at her.

    "Ahhhh!!!" Xiao Su let out a shrill scream, the darkness attacked her eyes, she felt her body start to get cold, her consciousness began to become blurred... It's all over.

    ...

    The male companion downstairs quickly returned to the roof, confirming the guesses Lin Qiushi and the others saw.

    "It's her, it's her!!" The male companion started roaring as soon as he saw the picture scroll, his expression was extremely frightened, "She is wearing this dress!"

    "What if this painting was painted yesterday?" Someone in the crowd said in a trembling voice, "Are you that sure?"

    "It can't be yesterday!!" The male companion's expression almost collapsed, he wanted to touch the picture scroll, but he didn't dare to reach out, "She didn't wear this dress yesterday! This dress was changed today!! "

    The castle did provide them with new clothes, and they were very beautiful. Lin Qiushi also saw those clothes in his closet, but almost everyone else in the entire team put them on - after all, this is a world of horror, whoever changes clothes casually know what to expect.

    I just don't know why this girl named Xiaosu suddenly changed her clothes.

    "She was turned into a painting." The man murmured in a low voice, "She was turned into a painting..."

    "What are you doing before she goes to the toilet?" Faced with such a horrific fact, Ruan Nanzhu's attitude was still very calm, and he said, "Tell me carefully."

    The man trembled: "I didn't do anything, I didn't do anything, I just came here to look at the painting, and then she was going to the toilet..."

    Ruan Nanzhu: "Is there any special painting?"

    The man shook his head.

    Ruan Nanzhu said: "Go, go to the toilet on the sixth floor and have a look."

    So they went to the women's toilet on the sixth floor.

    After checking around, there was nothing special about the toilet, but Lin Qiushi always felt that there was something inconsistent. Seeing that Ruan Nanzhu frowned, it was obviously similar to him.

    "Wait." Lin Qiushi suddenly remembered something. He looked around and finally determined what was wrong. "Why is there no painting in this room?"

    As soon as these words came out, everyone realized that something was wrong.

    There is almost no place in the castle without paintings, whether it is toilets, bedrooms, study rooms, corridors, almost every corner, there will be a bounded picture scroll hanging.

    But there is no toilet in front of me. have searched every corner, but there is no shadow of the painting.

    "I'm sure not." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Is it not there in the first place, or is the original painting taken away?"

    No one knows the answer to this question, the only one who does, has become part of the painting.

    A deadly silence spread through the crowd.

    The bell in the castle broke the silence. This was the bell announcing lunch time. Everyone heard it and began to walk towards the second floor.

    Although the atmosphere is terrifying, you still have to eat what you need to eat, and you still have to sleep when you need to sleep.

    Today's lunch is still steak.

    Everyone has no appetite, except Ruan Nanzhu.

    Ruan Nanzhu's movements are elegant and smooth, and cutting a steak is so artistic.

    It was probably because he ate so deliciously that everyone's eyes were focused on him. Ruan Nanzhu was obviously accustomed to this kind of high-profile feeling. After eating the steak very calmly, he wiped his mouth and said, "Why? ? Not to taste?"

    Lin Qiushi: "No... just a little lack of appetite."

    "It's delicious." Ruan Nanzhu looked around and smiled, "Maybe it's the last meal."

    Everyone: "..."

    Lin Qiushi looked helpless: "It's not auspicious to say that."

    Ruan Nanzhu: "Don't you have to die if you say a few auspicious words?" He said, "Gong Xi Fa Cai? Longevity?"

    Lin Qiushi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but what Ruan Nanzhu said did make sense. Death is never a matter of human beings. It's better to calm down and enjoy every minute of life. several.

    Under the kind comfort of Ruan Nanzhu, Lin Qiushi had to take a few more bites.

    The hostess didn't attend their lunch this time, and when they were about to leave, she came late and passed the crowd.

    Although it was only one aspect, Lin Qiushi still noticed that her pale face was filled with a hint of contentment, as if she had just finished eating some wonderful food, the corners of her eyes and brows were filled with joy, although this kind of joy on that weird face, only will look terrifying.

    "Let's take a nap." Ruan Nanzhu suggested after lunch.

    "Okay." Tan Zaozao didn't sleep well yesterday, and was out of energy this morning.

    Who knew that Ruan Nanzhu glanced at her and said, "You still lay the floor?"

    Tan Zaozao: "...Can't you put me in bed?"

    Ruan Nanzhu: "You can sleep on the bed in your own room. As for my bed." His tone was calm and cold, "You are not qualified yet."

    Tan Zaozao: "..." Ruan Nanzhu you are a dog.

    The author has something to say:

    Tan Zaozao: Why are you targeting me?

    Ruan Nanzhu: If you can't act like a spoiled child, you will be in a bad mood.

    Tan Zaozao: I'll let you wear women's clothes!

    Ruan Nanzhu: Hmph, he must like whether he wears women's clothes or not.

    Lin Qiushi: ... Are you talking about Sazi? ?

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