Chapter 71 The Eighth Door

Soon, for Ruan Nanzhu's proposal, Lin Qiushi had an answer in his heart-he decided to enter Cheng Yixie's ninth door with Ruan Nanzhu.

Ruan Nanzhu was not surprised by Lin Qiushi's decision, he just asked Lin Qiushi again, "Have you made up your mind?"

Lin Qiushi nodded: "I think about it."

"The ninth door will be more difficult, and I can't guarantee that you can come out safely." Ruan Nanzhu said bluntly, "This may be your last door."

Lin Qiushi said, "It doesn't matter."

Ruan Nanzhu stared at Lin Qiushi's expression for a moment, and nodded to indicate that he knew.

Lin Qiushi always felt that he seemed to want to say something, although Ruan Nanzhu didn't say anything in the end.

After confirming that Lin Qiushi was going to enter the ninth door, Ruan Nanzhu told Lin Qiushi about the clue of the ninth door. Lin Qiushi took a brief look at the clue and showed a surprised expression: "This is the clue?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Well."

I saw a sentence written on the note: using copper as a mirror, you can correct your clothes; using history as a mirror, you can know the ups and downs; using people as a mirror, you can understand the pros and cons.

"What does this mean?" Lin Qiushi remembered that this was a famous saying by Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty, and it was included in the textbook, but in the environment inside the door, such clues were almost impossible to find.

"I don't know." Ruan Nanzhu said, "The clues to the door after that will be relatively vague, and will not have a clear direction like before, so the specific situation will have to be discussed after entering the door."

Lin Qiushi looked at the clue for a while, and said hello.

The specific time to enter the door is on the 15th of next month. This is what Cheng Yixie told Lin Qiushi. He knew that Lin Qiushi was going to enter the door with him and behaved very calmly. It seemed that he had long expected that Ruan Nanzhu would bring Lin Qiushi with him.

Cheng Yixie was probably the one who didn't like to talk the most in the whole villa, and was silent all day, except when he was teaching his younger brother.

Although Cheng Qianli and Cheng Yixie are twins, their personalities are quite different. Cheng Qianli babbles all day like a child who hasn't grown up, while Cheng Yixie is very mature.

There was still some time before entering the door, and Lin Qiushi continued to rest in the villa.

During this period, Tan Zaozao and the actor Zhang Yiqing also came over, along with the man who brought Zhang Yiqing through the door.

That person's name is Bai Ming, he is very sunny in both appearance and temperament, his hair is slightly curled naturally, and there is a cute pear vortex on his cheek when he smiles.

To be honest, for such a person, it is difficult for Lin Qiushi to associate him with the big guys in the door. He is really curious about what Bai Ming looks like in the door.

However, this question felt a bit invasive of people's privacy, so Lin Qiushi didn't ask it.

Zhang Yiqing's condition was much better than before, at least he didn't appear to be mentally broken down.

Bai Ming was also very interested in Lin Qiushi. Of course, he didn't dare to be too obvious in front of Ruan Nanzhu, but Lin Qiushi still noticed his scrutinizing eyes.

"Yiqing's movie will be released in May, you must watch it." The first thing Bai Ming did when he arrived at the villa was to distribute tickets for Zhang Yiqing's movie screenings, "I've already seen it and haven't seen it yet. The edited version is so beautiful."

Zhang Yiqing sat next to him and listened to Bai Ming selling Amway to him, his face was a little unsightly. Lin Qiushi guessed that it was because he felt ashamed...

"Yiqing is really amazing, I like him very much." Bai Ming's confession looks like a star-chasing idiot. Usually, it's okay, but now it's unbearable to praise him in front of the client. Lin Qiushi saw with his own eyes that although Zhang Yiqing's face was serious, but his ears were already red, he pretended to be calm and stood up and said that he wanted to go to the balcony to smoke a cigarette.

Lin Qiushi saw it in his eyes secretly funny, this Bai Ming can be considered to have cured Zhang Yiqing.

Tan Zaozao also laughed rudely.

"Zaozao, are you going to enter again?" Lin Qiushi calculated the time and felt that Tan Zaozao's next door should be coming soon.

"Yeah." Tan Zaozao nodded, "Chen Fei took me in this time... How about you, how many times did you pass?"

Lin Qiushi said, "It's still the sixth door." He didn't mention that he wanted to enter the ninth door with Ruan Nanzhu and the others.

"Oh..." Tan Zaozao was a little lost, as if thinking about something.

Lin Qiushi asked her, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay." Tan Zaozao sighed, "I'm just thinking about what to do with the door in the future." Like Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi, she couldn't completely give up her work in the real world and concentrate on going through the door, and she didn't have the courage to keep brushing the door. , which means that when she is facing the high-level door, she is more fortunate and less fortunate. Moreover, even Ruan Nanzhu hardly answers the door after six.

It is said that after six doors, there will be a qualitative change in the difficulty of the door. As for how to change Tan Zaozao, it is not clear, it is difficult anyway.

A few people chatted for a while and had lunch. Lin Qiushi learned from the conversation between Ruan Nanzhu and Bai Ming that they had known each other for four years, and they were old friends.

Bai Ming had passed the ninth door and was waiting for the tenth door to arrive.

After dinner, Bai Ming and Ruan Nanzhu went to the study, and the two seemed to have something to talk about in private.

Tan Zaozao pulled Lin Qiushi and Zhang Yiqing to play games downstairs.

Lin Qiushi didn't know what the two were talking about, but when the two of them came downstairs, their eyes were on him.

Lin Qiushi was stunned for a moment and asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay." Bai Ming smiled, "I'm just curious about you."

Lin Qiushi: "Curious?"

Bai Ming said: "Don't you think you have nothing special?"

Lin Qiushi thought for a while, and whispered, "You especially like cats?" When he said this, he was secretly pinching Chestnut's meat pad, and Chestnut looked at him with slanted eyes.

Ruan Nanzhu: "..." This is also a special feature.

Hearing this, Bai Ming laughed and said, "You're really interesting." He also stopped talking about Lin Qiushi, and sat for a while before leaving with Zhang Yiqing and Tan Zaozao.

Lin Qiushi looked at Ruan Nanzhu, who was sitting next to him, and asked in a low voice, "Is there anything special about me?"

Ruan Nanzhu glanced at him: "What do you think?"

Lin Qiushi shook his head, wondering.

Ruan Nanzhu: "You don't feel that something is wrong with you?"

Lin Qiushi: "No."

Ruan Nanzhu stood up: "No matter what." He turned around and left after saying this, without giving Lin Qiushi another chance to ask. Lin Qiushi felt inexplicably that Ruan Nanzhu was in a bad mood...

Cheng Qianli also knew that they were going to enter the ninth door. He was very worried, and he put an incense table in his room and worshipped seriously.

Lin Qiushi was dragged by him to the three sticks of incense.

"We must bless them to come back safely." Cheng Qianli's expression was very pious.

Lin Qiushi didn't believe this at first, but the world inside the door subverted his worldview, so he didn't say anything disrespectful in front of the incense case.

"I'm so scared." Cheng Qianli sat on the bed in his bedroom and muttered to Lin Qiushi, "I'm really scared."

"Don't be afraid, it will be fine." Lin Qiushi touched his head. Cheng Qianli was only sixteen years old, and he was only a half-year-old child. "With your brother Ruan here."

"Yeah." Cheng Qianli said, "I want to become more powerful. When the time comes, I can..." He seemed a little embarrassed when he said this.

Lin Qiushi asked him, "What can I do?"

Cheng Qianli said, "I can become me to protect my brother!" He raised his chest and looked proud.

Lin Qiushi smiled: "Well, then you have to work hard." Cheng Qianli looked really silly and cute sometimes.

Cheng Qianli said, "Although he has a bad temper and hates me, who calls him my brother." He lay on the bed and said to himself, "After all, he looks exactly the same as me..."

Lin Qiushi listened quietly beside him.

In fact, he didn't quite understand the brotherhood in Cheng Qianli's mouth. He had never been in contact with any family or other atmosphere since he was a child, and he had no brothers or sisters. He had lived to twenty-six, and he didn't even have anyone he liked. Lin Qiushi thought so, and suddenly felt a little regret in life. If he died inside the door, he felt that he had never experienced many things in his life.

Cheng Yixie's door opened little by little.

The atmosphere in the villa also became tense.

Except for Ruan Nanzhu, Cheng Yixie's door level is the highest. Lin Qiushi roughly calculated the time when Cheng Yixie opened the door, and found that he had already started to enter the door when he was eleven or twelve years old. Cheng Yixie is indeed amazing at being able to come out of so many doors at such a young age.

And his younger brother Cheng Qianli only opened the sixth door, and the time difference between the two of them for the first door was at least several years.

This time, Ruan Nanzhu did not let Lin Qiushi wear women's clothes. In addition to being fortunate, Lin Qiushi actually felt a trace of regret in his heart. He was taken aback when he noticed this feeling of regret. He didn't expect that things like wearing women's clothes could be addictive.

Of course, Lin Qiushi quickly dealt with this regretful emotion, and he was still very happy that he didn't have to pretend to be a dumb girl - as for the pseudo-voice, he still couldn't figure it out.

Time passed quickly, and it was almost time to enter the door.

The weather was gradually getting warmer. Lin Qiushi had dinner and was sitting on the balcony enjoying the shade when he saw Cheng Yixie standing in the garden downstairs. His expression was serious, and he was slowly smoking a cigarette in his hand.

Lin Qiushi looked down at him, thought about it for a while, and called him, "Cheng Yixie!"

Cheng Yixie looked up.

Lin Qiushi said loudly, "Minors can't smoke—"

Cheng Yixie frowned, his appearance was nine points similar to Cheng Qianli, the only difference was the cold temperament on his body. Although he is young, his temperament can clearly make people feel that this person is not easy to mess with. After listening to Lin Qiushi's words, he actually put out the smoke.

Lin Qiushi took out a handful of candy from his pocket and threw it down from the second floor: "Eat this."

The colorful candies fell on the green grass, like exploding fireworks, which looked very beautiful.

Cheng Yixie bent over, picked up a peeled candy wrapper and stuffed it into his mouth.

Lin Qiushi looked at him with a smile: "Is it delicious? It's purple and it's grape-flavored—" This candy was a marshmallow he bought online, and it tasted very good.

Cheng Yixie glanced at him, didn't say anything, just picked up all the candy carefully, stuffed it into his pocket and turned away.

Lin Qiushi was very happy to see his back. Although Cheng Yixie entered the door before him, in his eyes, Cheng Yixie was just a child under the age of eighteen.

The day before entering the door, Ruan Nanzhu put on a woman's clothes again, and the three of them put on the special bracelet and began to wait for the door to come.

Cheng Qianli's mood became very anxious, and he kept going around the room.

In the end, Cheng Yixie couldn't take it anymore, frowned and said, "Whatever you turn around, my eyes are going to die."

Cheng Qianli innocently said: "I can't even turn around."

Cheng Yixie: "No."

Cheng Qianli: "...Hmph, I won't, I want to turn." Although he said that he would continue to turn, he still sat back on the sofa obediently, grabbed the toast next to him and slapped it.

Toast was dazed by Cheng Qianli, staring with black eyes and screaming in grievance.

"Don't toss it." Cheng Yixie spoke again.

Cheng Qianli: "Wow, you're too much, don't let me do this, don't let me do it—"

Cheng Yixie didn't say a word, just looked at Cheng Qianli expressionlessly. The two were deadlocked for more than ten seconds, and Cheng Qianli lost again without any suspense. He let go of Toast Fat Lulu's buttocks with regret, and watched it run away.

Cheng Yixie looked at his watch.

Cheng Qianli watched Cheng Yixie's actions, and his emotions became more and more anxious. His lips twitched for a while, and he squeezed out an inaudible sentence: "You must come back."

Cheng Yixie looked up at him.

"Hey, I'm talking to you." Cheng Qianli said, "Did you hear that, Cheng Yixie, you must come back." He seemed to muster up the courage to say this, "You must come back!"

Cheng Yixie hummed softly.

Cheng Qianli was satisfied after that, and muttered some other words.

When the two brothers were interacting, Lin Qiushi was sitting next to him, and when he saw Cheng Qianli muttering, the corner of Cheng Yixie's mouth ticked upwards slightly, but the curvature was too small and it was fleeting, it was easy for people to think that this was his own illusion. .

The entry time is the evening of the second day.

After Lin Qiushi finished eating, he returned to his room.

He sat in front of the computer and just pressed the power button, but a very strange feeling appeared on his body. It felt familiar to him - the door opened.

Lin Qiushi got up, opened the bedroom door, and unsurprisingly saw twelve iron doors appearing in the corridor. Eight of them have been sealed, and the other three cannot be opened.

The only thing that could be opened was the ninth door belonging to Cheng Yixie.

Lin Qiushi walked to the door and opened the iron door - the surrounding scenery was reversed, and Lin Qiushi appeared on an empty road.

After he looked around the scenery, his expression was a little surprised, because the surrounding is not a desolate wilderness, but a bustling commercial street. Colorful signboards hang on both sides of the road. Although it is too late at this time, most of the shops have closed, but one can vaguely imagine the prosperous scene during the day.

The road under his feet was very flat. Lin Qiushi walked along the road and saw a towering apartment. The outer walls of the apartment are covered with special coatings, like a tall building paved with mirrors, which absorbs all the surrounding light and attracts people's attention in the dark night.

Lin Qiushi saw this apartment, but inexplicably thought of a word: phototaxis.

Phototaxis is a biological habit that manifests in animals and plants, most notably when bugs at night rush towards a light source, even if the light is the flame that burns them.

Humans are also a kind of creatures, Lin Qiushi thought, in the dark night, when he sees the light, he always wants to go there. Don't think about what's at the end of the light.

The door of the apartment was wide open, Lin Qiushi walked in slowly, and saw that eight or nine people were already standing in the hall. These people have already been divided into teams. When they saw Lin Qiushi walking in, most of them looked at or evaluated.

This time, Lin Qiushi did not see any newcomers who were not in the situation.

With the difficulty of the ninth door, if there is a newcomer, Lin Qiushi can only wonder if the newcomer is going to die in the next second before being pulled into the door.

Looking around, Lin Qiushi didn't find the person he was looking for, so he found a sofa and sat down, and began to observe the surrounding situation.

Now including him, there are nine people in total, five men and four women, roughly divided into three groups. They are probably all veterans, and these people no longer pretend to not know each other, but whisper to each other and discuss things about this door in a low voice.

Lin Qiushi sat on the sofa for a while, when he saw two people walking in. One is tall and the other is short, the tall one is a woman wearing a long skirt, and the short one is a boy with an indifferent expression.

Although they looked completely different, Lin Qiushi still recognized the identities of the two from their clothes and expressions - it was Ruan Nanzhu and Cheng Yixie.

The two of them also saw Lin Qiushi sitting on the sofa and came towards him.

"Are you ready?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"Probably not yet." Ruan Nanzhu sat down beside Lin Qiushi, "Someone is still looking outside, probably waiting for his teammates."

Hearing this, Lin Qiushi had to admire Ruan Nanzhu's observational power. It seemed that within a few minutes of walking into this place, he had collected almost all the information about the people around him.

Sure enough, about three or four minutes later, two more people walked in outside, also a man and a woman, and walked towards the corner as soon as they came in.

Lin Qiushi was a little surprised to see the direction they were going: "They... there are five in one team?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "It should be."

"There is an advantage in the number of people in the door?" Lin Qiushi thought about it and felt that something was wrong.

"To a certain extent, there is." Ruan Nanzhu leaned against the sofa and said, "If you bring more people, won't you be able to rule out a few more conditions for death."

Lin Qiushi: "..."

Ruan Nanzhu glanced at the corner and smiled coldly: "Some people will do anything in order to survive."

Some people will deliberately bring many new people in in order to eliminate the conditions of death when they pass through the door. These newcomers don't understand anything, and it's easy to have an accident inside the door. Of course, it doesn't matter if they have an accident. For the people who brought them in, this is a good thing - after all, they account for the number of deaths that day. According to the rules of the door, there is a limit to the number of people who die every day, so This way you are safer.

Lin Qiushi didn't expect to be like this: "Those newcomers are willing to come in?"

"Is there anything you don't want." Ruan Nanzhu said lazily, "Some people always want to eat a big fat man in one bite."

Who wouldn't want to dispense with those processes in the middle going straight through the ninth door. Risks and benefits are usually equal, and you have to give something to get something.

So is life.

The people finally arrived. There were seventeen in total, roughly divided into five or six groups. There were five in the group with the largest number of people. Lin Qiushi clearly felt that the woman with a bad expression was the leader. She seemed to be the leader of the five.

Everyone gathered in the hall, and the noise became louder and louder.

At this moment, a man in the uniform of a waiter came out from the direction of the elevator, holding a door card in his hand, smiling at the people gathered in the hall.

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting." The waiter said, "Here is the key card for your room."

He started handing out key cards to everyone.

Someone in the crowd asked, "How many rooms is this? A single room or a standard room?"

The waiter said: "It's a standard room." He smiled, "The red door card is a double room, the white door card is a double room, and the green one can accommodate three people, but someone needs to sleep on the sofa." His voice Gentle, "Welcome to travel here, I hope you can have a good time here."

It turned out that their identities were tourists, and Lin Qiushi's heart moved.

"When will we end the tour?" the leader of the five-member group suddenly said, "Are there any tourist attractions around?"

The waiter smiled and said, "Tomorrow, we will distribute a travel guide for everyone, which will record the surrounding tourist attractions." He distributed the card in his hand, "Today, please have a good night's sleep."

Lin Qiushi got up and went to get a green card. The waiter said that the green card can sleep three people together, and the three of them are just right.

The room cards were issued one after another, and everyone dispersed.

Lin Qiushi's room was on the thirty-fourth floor. The floor is covered with thick carpets, and the corridor exudes a strong scent of incense.

The lights were dim, and when they got to the room, they plugged the card into the power supply, and the lights in the room turned on.

Lin Qiushi walked to the edge of the window and looked out through the glass. He saw the city in darkness. The atmosphere of the whole city was so dead that he couldn't even see a street lamp - but when he walked in from the outside, it was obvious that Saw the street lights on the side of the road were on.

Ruan Nanzhu said, "This house is really interesting."

Lin Qiushi turned his head: "Huh?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "There are mirrors everywhere."

Lin Qiushi looked around and found that there were indeed many mirrors in the room, the most incredible of which was that there was even one on the floor.

When he saw the mirror, Lin Qiushi couldn't help but think of the phrase in the clue, "Bronze is the mirror." He intuition that the key was related to the mirror, but there were too few clues, and he couldn't grasp it firmly for a while.

Cheng Yixie stared at the mirror under his feet and didn't speak for a long time. When Lin Qiushi was about to leave, he suddenly said in a low voice, "This is a double-sided mirror."

Lin Qiushi's expression froze.

Cheng Yixie's voice was very slow, he said, "The people downstairs can see our house."

When Ruan Nanzhu heard this, he suddenly lowered his head and glanced at his skirt: "Then I've been seen."

Cheng Yixie: "..."

Lin Qiushi: "..."

Ruan Nanzhu: "Thinking about it carefully, I'm a little embarrassed."

Lin Qiushi: "..." Why are you pulling up your skirt so embarrassed...