Chapter 42 The Black Frame

It is impossible to sleep in a bed, it is impossible to sleep in a bed in this life, the floor is straight and hard, she likes it very much - Tan Zaozao, who is lying on the floor, comforts herself so.

Under Ruan Nanzhu's ruthless refusal, it finally turned into a situation where two big men squeezed a bed, and Tan Zaozao was weak and helpless to lay the floor. Of course, when she was laying the ground floor, she didn't forget to whisper in her heart, hoping that Lin Qiushi would wake up later and kill Ruan Nanzhu.

After the afternoon nap, it started to rain outside again.

Thick dark clouds gathered in the sky, and the light rain fell on the ground with a crisp ticking sound. After Lin Qiushi woke up from his nap, he stood by the window for a while.

Through the window, he saw the dense bushes outside the castle.

The bushes were supposed to be some Rosaceae flowers, but they looked very messy because the branches were not pruned.

The rain made the air moist, and the strange smell of water began to permeate the surroundings, but the smell was not as strong as last night, just faintly looming.

"What are they doing outside?" Tan Zaozao also tilted his head and saw three people walking outside the door with umbrellas.

These are people on the team who look like they're looking for something.

"Look for clues." Lin Qiushi also saw them, "Did you find something?"

Tan Zaozao said, "Are we going to follow?"

Lin Qiushi turned to look at Ruan Nanzhu, who was still lying lazily on the bed.

Ruan Nanzhu received his gaze and said lazily, "No." He looked indifferent, "I hate rain."

Lin Qiushi said, "Then don't go."

The people outside the house walked into the depths of the bushes and disappeared in front of Lin Qiushi.

"It's really uncomfortable to be wet." Ruan Nanzhu put on his coat and started putting on shoes, "We haven't finished exploring this ancient castle, let's go."

The castle is so big that it is difficult to inspect it thoroughly in the morning.

Because of what happened to the girl group member named Xiaosu in the morning, if the atmosphere in the team was still described as rigid before, it can only be described as lifeless now. Most of the people were sitting in the cafeteria and didn't go anywhere .

In this way, the day passed, and after dinner, everyone in the team went back to their rooms to rest.

Ruan Nanzhu asked Lin Qiushi if he was afraid alone.

Lin Qiushi: "It's okay, but if something happens, I will come to you."

Ruan Nanzhu nodded and watched Lin Qiushi enter the door before turning around and pushing the door into his bedroom.

Because of the rain, it was only about six o'clock, and it was already dark outside. Before Lin Qiushi took a shower, he looked at the window for a while. With the faint light in the house, the dense bushes outside the house spread across the walls like hands with claws and claws.

The place where saw the silhouette last night was still empty, and nothing strange appeared.

Lin Qiushi watched for a while before turning around and taking a shower.

After washing, he wiped his hair and walked to the bed, but his footsteps suddenly stopped... He saw a black figure outside the window.

A black figure with his back turned to him.

The figure was dressed in black and wore a wide-brimmed hat, standing silently in the rain with his back to Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi felt a gust of cool air, rushing up from his back. He licked his dry lips, trying to calm himself down.

Although it is very vague, this figure should be the hostess of the castle. What he saw yesterday was indeed not a hallucination.

It's just so late, what is the hostess of the old castle doing in the bushes.

There seems to be no answer to this question for now.

The figure in the rain turned into an immobile statue, standing stiffly and motionless.

Lin Qiushi watched for about ten minutes, but the figure didn't move too much. In the end, he felt tired first. After checking the time, he returned to the bed and lay on the soft big bed.

However, Lin Qiushi, who was just lying in bed, noticed a terrible thing. There was an extra picture frame on the wall in front of him that should have been nothing.

In the frame is an expressionless woman, wearing a black dress and a black hat. The rain is slowly flowing down the brim of her hat. Her eyes seem to be half-closed, and her face is as pale as a piece of paper. That one, girl in the rain.

Lin Qiushi froze all over, he slowly got up from the bed and wanted to leave here.

When he walked to the door, his nostrils began to be filled with the fishy smell belonging to the rain. The smell was so strong that it made people feel as if they were breathing in water. Lin Qiushi clearly noticed that behind the painting Black stains began to appear on the walls.

The stains are like accumulated water stains, showing strange patterns on the walls, like a face and a person.

Lin Qiushi twisted the door handle, knocked on his door and left his room in a hurry, knocking on Ruan Nanzhu's door.

After a while, the door of the room opened. It was the door that Tan Zaozao opened for Lin Qiushi. When she saw Lin Qiushi's face was wrong, she immediately realized what happened: "What's wrong? Something happened?"

"Well." Lin Qiushi said, "The situation in the room is not right."

"Come in." Tan Zaozao made way for Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi sighed and was about to enter the door, but noticed something wrong... The door in front of Tan Zaozao opened to the left.

In the castle, all doors open to the right.

Lin Qiushi's expression froze for a moment, he did not move forward, but took a step back slowly.

"What's wrong?" Tan Zaozao asked with a puzzled expression, her expression was normal, as if she was the Tan Zaozao who was with them during the day.

"What's your name?" Lin Qiushi said, "What's your name, I forgot."

"My name is Xu Xiaocheng." Tan Zaozao looked at Lin Qiushi strangely, as if he was looking at some monster, "Are you okay? Are you scared?"

Lin Qiushi really couldn't laugh. When no one was there, they called Tan Zaozao by their real names. He didn't talk to Tan Zaozao again, turned around and ran back to his room.

Tan Zaozao seemed to be taken aback by his actions. She didn't react until Lin Qiushi closed the door. She walked to Lin Qiushi's door and knocked several times, saying, "Yu Linlin, are you alright? Yu Linlin? What's wrong with you? ?"

Lin Qiushi stood by the door and said nothing.

Tan Zaozao's voice continued, she said, "Yu Linlin, come out quickly, didn't you say something happened in the house? Yu Linlin—"

Lin Qiushi looked down at the carpet near the door.

The position of the edge of the carpet began to slowly change color - this change Lin Qiushi is very familiar with, it is the change after being contaminated with water. The voices of the people outside the door were familiar, but Lin Qiushi couldn't be sure what it was. He turned his head and glanced at the wall next to him, and saw that shallow water droplets also began to appear on the photo frame of the girl in the rain, flowing down the frame little by little, like rain falling from the brim of the girl's hat.

"Lin Lin, Lin Lin—" Tan Zaozao's voice began to become weird, and it became more and more sharp and distorted. She slammed the door heavily, as if to smash the door in front of her hard. Rotten, "Lin Lin, come out, come out—"

Lin Qiushi didn't respond. He calmly pulled the stool next to him to the door.

The floor next to the crack of the door was even more wet, as if the "Tan Zaozao" standing outside was running water all over his body. If possible, Lin Qiushi naturally wanted to see what was going on outside, but he was not bold enough to lie on the ground and stare at the crack of the door. God knows how terrifying it would be to see a pair of eyes in the crack of the door.

Listening to the knock on the door, Lin Qiushi suddenly regretted not taking Ruan Nanzhu's cigarette. At this time, he had nothing else to do. It seemed that he could only smoke a cigarette to calm down.

The strong fishy smell of water, the choking person's nose hurts, Lin Qiushi stood quietly by the door, listening to Tan Zaozao's voice gradually distorted.

In the end, she started to howl. If Ye Xiao cried at midnight, the scalp of the person who heard it would go numb.

"Come out, come out." Something was wailing outside, and a pair of hands began to grope towards the crack of the door.

Lin Qiushi took a few steps back and watched as a few pale fingernail tips emerged from the crack of the door.

The originally closed window was actually blown open by the wind again, and the window smashed violently against the window frame, making a screeching sound. The bed curtains blown up by the wind, like two huge hands, stretched out towards Lin Qiushi in the room. Although it was a bit far away, Lin Qiushi could still see clearly. Outside the window, the figure standing in the bushes turned around and looked like Lin Qiushi, and just as he guessed, she It really is the mistress of the castle.

The woman's pale face was full of rain, and her dark eyes stared silently at the location of this room.

Lin Qiushi didn't dare to look any further, so he looked away and prayed in his heart that the morning light would come soon.

I don't know how long it took, and Lin Qiushi, who was in a daze, heard a loud knock on the door.

After rubbing his eyes, he realized that he was sitting next to the door and fell asleep against the wall. He got up from the ground, but a familiar voice came from outside the door, Tan Zaozao was calling him: "Lin Lin, you Are you alright? Open the door - if you don't open it, I'll break in!!"

When Lin Qiushi heard this, he glanced out the window in a conditioned reflex, and saw that the rain had stopped outside. At this time, the clouds on the horizon showed a little sunshine. Although it was weak, it was enough to make people feel at ease.

Lin Qiushi said, "What's your name?"

"What the hell happened to you? Your brain broke after a nap?" Tan Zaozao was inexplicable.

Lin Qiushi was silent for a moment, then twisted the door handle in front of him.

The door opened, and Tan Zaozao really stood outside. She scratched her head: "You look so bad, what happened last night?"

Lin Qiushi didn't answer, but instead asked, "What about him?"

Tan Zaozao knew that Lin Qiushi was asking Ruan Nanzhu, and she said, "I'm still washing."

Lin Qiushi: "Well..."

Tan Zaozao: "What's the matter?"

Lin Qiushi said, "I almost got cold last night."

Tan Zaozao: "..." Why can you say such a terrifying thing so calmly?

A few minutes later, Lin Qiushi told Tan Zaozao and Ruan Nanzhu what he had experienced last night. Although what he said was simple and his tone was calm, Tan Zaozao had goose bumps on her back. She swallowed and whispered, "Then you haven't slept all night?"

"No." Lin Qiushi said, "I took a nap when it was almost dawn."

Ruan Nanzhu didn't speak after listening to it, and seemed to be thinking about something.

Lin Qiushi felt at ease when he saw Ruan Nanzhu, and he did not rush, leaving room for Ruan Nanzhu to think.

Who knew that Ruan Nanzhu waved his hand and said, "Let's have breakfast first, the blood supply to the brain is insufficient, and I can't think of anything."

Lin Qiushi: "..." Yes.

The three went to the restaurant on the second floor and saw other members of the team coming. They counted the number of people. It seems that no one else was killed last night.

The hostess is still sitting in the innermost position, but her mood seems not as good as yesterday, her face is pale and gloomy, making people even more reluctant to approach.

After what happened last night, Lin Qiushi always felt that when he entered the restaurant, the woman glared at him.

The taste of breakfast was very good, especially the newly baked bread was fragrant and soft. Lin Qiushi ate several with jam.

Seeing that he had such a good appetite, Tan Zaozao euphemistically expressed admiration, saying that if he encountered what happened yesterday, he probably wouldn't be able to eat anything for a day.

"In case it's the last meal." Lin Qiushi said what Ruan Nanzhu said yesterday, he said, "Always let yourself leave this world full."

Tan Zaozao: "..." Why did you start.

Ruan Nanzhu was thinking about something while eating, and didn't say much the whole time. Until he finished eating, he found a place and said what he thought.

"Yesterday, she wanted to kill you." Ruan Nanzhu said, "but you didn't trigger the death condition, so she didn't succeed."

Lin Qiushi said: "She wants to deceive me into the house, and if I go in, I will definitely be finished, it's okay..."

Ruan Nanzhu: "That should be the world of paintings. Only in this way can we explain why the door is reversed." He glanced at the paintings hanging beside him, "Did you move the paintings on the wall?"

"Well." Lin Qiushi said, "When I first came here, I felt that the paintings hanging on the wall were uncomfortable, so I took them off and put them in the drawer."

Ruan Nanzhu said: "This may be a condition." He said, "But it is definitely not a death condition." The ghosts in the door are not soft-hearted, as long as the conditions are triggered, they will definitely not survive that night. If Lin Qiushi hadn't recognized the fake Xu Xiaocheng last night, they probably wouldn't have seen him today.

Ruan Nanzhu said, "I want to go and see the painting from yesterday." He was talking about the girl Xiaosu who was inlaid into the frame. This is the only clue at present.

So they went upstairs again and looked at the frame carefully, but still couldn't find anything in common.

"Wait and see." Ruan Nanzhu said, "There must be other clues."

The action of the ghosts will not stop and will provide them with more clues.

Then they went to the group who had drilled the bushes yesterday and asked if they had found anything special.

"I found it, but why tell you?" The leader of the group was a 30-year-old man named Zhang Tao. He took the new girl and another young man, and showed his expression to Ruan Nanzhu's inquiry. serious resistance.

"We can exchange clues." Ruan Nanzhu said, "We know a condition that triggers death."

Zhang Tao asked suspiciously, "Really?"

"Of course it's true." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Our team members almost died."

Zhang Tao said: "You talk about it first."

Ruan Nanzhu raised his eyebrows: "You haven't said what clues you found in the bushes, let's talk about it first? Who knows what your clues are for."

Zhang Tao said, "What should we do then?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "It's better than this, we all write it on a note, and then exchange."

Zhang Tao hesitated a little and nodded.

The group of people who entered the door should all belong to a team, but because of the existence of the note, everyone has reservations. Who doesn't want to be the first to leave here and get a clue to the next door. Besides, some of these people are not organized, and they don't even understand the rules of the door. Sharing with such a novice, the veteran will hesitate.

After Ruan Nanzhu and Zhang Tao shared the note, they left with Lin Qiushi and Tan Zaozao.

Tan Zaozao whispered what Ruan Nanzhu had given Zhang Tao—the content must be fake, after all, they don't know the conditions that trigger death now.

"Just write something." Ruan Nanzhu said, "It's just my guess, just let them try it."

Tan Zaozao: "How to try?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "If one of them dies, it means that the conditions are not right."

Tan Zaozao: "..." Take.

But it's no wonder that Ruan Nanzhu was insincere. The note Zhang Tao gave them was quite perfunctory, but it said that there was a black picture frame in the bushes.

"The black frame..." Lin Qiushi remembered the person he saw outside the window yesterday, "Could the figure I saw yesterday have something to do with this?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Go and see and you'll know."

Before it rained, they hurriedly went to the bushes where they saw Zhang Tao and the others yesterday. Sure enough, they found a black picture frame in a corner near the edge. The picture frame was inserted obliquely into the ground, and the surface was still stained with water droplets.

After Ruan Nanzhu saw the picture frame, he squatted down and seemed to be looking for something. After a while, he snorted heavily and waved at Lin Qiushi: "Come and see."

"Huh?" Lin Qiushi walked to Ruan Nanzhu's position and squatted down.

"Did you see it?" Ruan Nanzhu pointed at the frame and said.

Lin Qiushi watched for a while before he realized what Ruan Nanzhu was saying. It turned out that from this angle, his room was just framed by a picture frame. The angle of the picture frame was very tricky, and he wanted to look from other directions. All he could see was the dense bushes, and only his window was exposed in the black frame.

"This should be the reason." Ruan Nanzhu said, "The frame is probably moved by someone."

Lin Qiushi said: "Because there is also soil on it?"

"Yes." Ruan Nanzhu said, "I was turned around by someone... No, maybe it's not a person."

Lin Qiushi said: "Then take this thing down first." Thinking about it carefully, the figure standing outside the house last night seemed to be about the same position as the picture frame. Could it be that the owner of the picture frame treats him as a part of the painting... Those things happened to him?

Ruan Nanzhu nodded.

Because he didn't know if the picture frame had any other function, Lin Qiushi didn't dare to take it back. Instead, he found a place for identification, dug a hole and buried the picture frame.

After the burial, they returned to the castle.

Shortly after returning home, it started to rain again. From here, the rain has almost never stopped. It can fall for seven or eight hours a day. At most, it will be sunny for a while in the morning, and the next noon and night will be continuous drizzle, which makes people feel very uncomfortable.

Lin Qiushi doesn't like the watery smell of the rain. As long as he smells it, he will think of what happened at night.

Because of this, he was a little absent-minded at lunch, and his attention was almost outside the window.

"What?" Ruan Nanzhu asked him.

"Will those things happen tonight?" Lin Qiushi said, "Oh, it's so annoying."

Ruan Nanzhu said calmly, "Come and sleep with me?"

Lin Qiushi: "...I think about it."

Ruan Nanzhu: "You think about it." He seemed a little unhappy about Lin Qiushi's hesitation, and put down the knife and fork in his hand and stopped eating.

Tan Zaozao was cool beside him, thinking that Ruan Nanzhu, you have today too.

Ruan Nanzhu seemed to know what Tan Zaozao was thinking, gave her a nonchalant look, and said coldly, "Do you think you are fine?"

Tan Zaozao: "...No, no, boss, boss, I need you. Lin Lin, why are you hesitating? How safe is it for three people to be together? If you encounter anything, the boss can help you. The thief is at ease!"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Oh."

Tan Zaozao was distressed for his dog's legs.

Lin Qiushi thought for a while, and felt that it really made sense, and nodded: "Okay, let's go together."

Ruan Nanzhu hummed.

Tan Zaozao sighed deeply.

Lin Qiushi was inexplicable and didn't understand what Tan Zaozao's sigh meant.

During lunch, everyone shared the clues they had found together. Of course, most of them had reservations.

Lin Qiushi talked about what he encountered in the house last night. After everyone heard it, their expressions were horrified and happy. Some people patted Lin Qiushi on the shoulder and said that brother, you are really lucky.

Lin Qiushi could only smile bitterly.

Said he was lucky, but he became the target of being attacked, and said he was unlucky, but if it wasn't, he would definitely not be sitting here today.

So luck is really hard to say.

Ruan Nanzhu asked if anyone had been to the studio on the roof and the exhibition of unfinished products.

Everyone shook their heads to indicate that they had not been there. Others said, "Didn't the housekeeper say that we can't go to these two places? Why are we going there? Looking for death?"

Ruan Nanzhu replied coldly: "You won't die if you don't go?"

That person: "..."

"Let's go, there are no clues here." Ruan Nanzhu took Lin Qiushi and Tan Zaozao out of the house, he said, "The quality of the people in the door is very poor this time, it seems that they can't be counted on."

"Poor quality? How did you see it?" Tan Zaozao blinked curiously.

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Will you obey Npc 100%?"

Tan Zaozao said, "No."

Ruan Nanzhu pointed behind him: "They will."

Tan Zaozao thought about it for a while, and felt that what Ruan Nanzhu said was quite reasonable. The newcomers seem to be timid this time. Since the accident of the girl named Xiaosu on the first day, most of them seem to be scared. Courage, only two or three people are still searching, the others are either hiding in the room or waiting in the restaurant, and they don't know what they are waiting for.

"I'm going to take a look at the studio." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Although it is more dangerous, this place must be visited." He rolled up his cuffs, revealing his graceful wrists, "After all, these NPCs are a Everyone wishes we all died inside the door."

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Ruan Nanzhu: Hug.

Lin Qiushi: Tan Zaozao, Brother Ruan wants to hug you.

Tan Zaozao: ? ? ? ?

Zhu Meng: To hug.

Lin Qiushi blushed: Hug and hug.

Ruan Nanzhu tore off his skirt: Damn Lin Qiushi, I will kill you!

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