Kaleidoscope of Death - Chapter 63.1: The Seventh Door
As the day to enter the door neared, Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu were almost done with their preparation as well.
This was the first time Lin Qiushui entered a door with someone from the website. Ruan Nanzhu told him that everything online was risky, so after entering the door, it was best for him to hide his true identity. If his true identity was exposed, then he would be in great trouble — but Lin Qiushui strongly suspected that this was just an excuse for him to crossdress.
However, after seeing that Ruan Nanzhu also changed into women’s clothing, Lin Qiushui felt a lot better.
As if knowing what Lin Qiushi was thinking, Cheng Qianli spent a long time persuading Lin Qiushi to persevere on his original ideologies and not be affected by Ruan Nanzhu’s brainwashing attacks.
Lin Qiushi glanced at him and didn’t reply.
“Why are you ignoring me…” said Cheng Qianli
Lin Qiushi typed on his phone: I’m trying to practice my role as a mute girl.
Cheng Qianli: “…” Liu Qiushi, I’m afraid you’re done for.
Sometimes, being able to adapt quickly might not be a good thing.
Finally, after wearing a skirt in the villa for a few days, the day for Lin Qiushi to enter the door finally arrived. That day, he was sitting at the dining table eating dinner when he suddenly felt a familiar mysterious feeling. Lin Qiushi placed down his chopsticks and turned around to push open a random door of the house. Sure enough, what appeared in front of his eyes were twelve iron doors.
Five of the iron doors were sealed, and the other six couldn’t be opened. The only one left was the one he must enter.
Lin Qiushi took a deep breath, grabbed the doorknob, and gently pulled on it.
The door opened, and the scene in front of Lin Qiushi changed. His surrounding suddenly turned into a long corridor, and he seemed to be standing in front of a staircase in a basement. The air around him smelled moldy, and the staircase was very long as if it were endless. Lin Qiushi walked up slowly; after several turns, he finally saw a few people waiting in a lobby.
He took off the bracelet from his wrist while observing his surroundings. He realized that where he was now was the sanatorium from the hint. Although this was a sanatorium, it had the unique smell of disinfectants of a hospital. There were abandoned hospital beds everywhere as well. When Lin Qiushi walked by one of them, he even saw some dry blood marks on it.
At this time, there were eight people here, adding him, which made a total of nine. Some of them saw him and then looked away without paying much attention, but others were studying him interestingly; the way they looked was very suspicious. Lin Qiushui’s expression remained unchanged as he pretended to not notice them.
One of them walked up to him and said with a smile as he held up his hand, “Hello, my name is Jiang Yingrui, may I get to know you?”
Lin Qiushi typed: Sorry, I can’t talk. My name is Lin Qiuqiu.
“Oh sorry, how many times have you entered the door?”
Lin Qiushi: Six times.
Jiang Yingrui seemed to be very interested in Lin Qiushi and didn’t go away after receiving Lin Qiushi’s cold attitude. So, in the end, Lin Qiushi had to tell him straightforwardly: Sorry, I want to have some peace by myself.
Jiang Yingrui smiled when he saw the words, “Okay.”
He stopped bothering him and turned away to leave. He wanted to form a team with Lin Qiushi, but he was obviously rejected.
The lobby they were in right now was on the first floor of the sanatorium. Outside was a courtyard overgrown with weeds, and above them were the sanatorium’s wards.
The sanatorium consisted of six floors, and each was specified with a clear purpose. However, the patients once here didn’t seem to be in a healthy mental state, since Lin Qiushi saw a lot of messy graffiti on the wall.
While Lin Qiushi was observing his surroundings, someone gently touched his shoulder. Lin Qiushi turned his head and saw an unfamiliar face.
Although the face was unfamiliar, the clothes he was wearing weren’t. “Hello, my name is Ruan Baijie,” he said.
Lin Qiushi understood what he meant and typed: Hello, my name is Lin Qiuqiu.
Ruan Nanzhu smiled, “Nice to meet you.”
This time, Ruan Nanzhu still looked incredibly beautiful, with long black hair and a white dress. Although he seemed to be a little tall for a normal girl, his unique temperament was very attractive. Even Lin Qiushi, who knew he was a man, almost fell for it.
Ruan Nanzhu placed a hand on his shoulder and suggested, “Shall we team up?”
Lin Qiushi nodded.
Other people’s looks landed on the two of them, and Lin Qiushi could feel that some of those looks were up to no good.
Although he had never encountered such a thing, after all, the place inside the doors was not restricted by law. One wouldn’t have to be responsible for anything he or she did in these doors. In addition, due to the threats of death, people here would often do some intemperate things. These were just some of the facts that Ruan Nanzhu taught Lin Qiushi.
When Lin Qiushi first heard that, he was worried, thinking that they would be in danger.
Ruan Nanzhu said, “You’re thinking too much.”
At that time, Lin Qiushi was still wondering what he meant by that, and today, he finally understood.
That was because an unfortunate person walked up to them and started to harass them with nasty words, and after he finished talking, Ruan Nanzhu showed an angry expression.
The man became even more excited when he saw this. He reached out to grab Lin Qiushi’s hair, and just when Lin Qiushi was still wondering how to “softly” beat him up, Ruan Nanzhu had already grabbed his hand and twisted it hard.
Lin Qiushi heard the crunch of broken bones and his painful howl.
Everyone’s eyes changed from being ambiguous to horrified. Of course, Ruan Nanzhu didn’t forget to weep in front of Lin Qiushi and said with a pitiful expression, “Qiuqiu, Qiuqiu, he’s so scary.”
Lin Qiushi: “…” I think you are the one who’s scary.
Now, no one dared to come over to talk to them at all, and in fact, they even quietly got away from them. In Lin Qiushi’s mind, he found this scene to be very hilarious.
At this moment, Lin Qiushi saw their target. He was a handsome teenager, about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a black T-shirt, jeans, and a black cap. As soon as he walked in from the courtyard outside, his eyes looked toward the two of them.
He hesitated for a moment and then walked towards Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu.
“Hello, my name is Feng Yongle,” introduced the teenager. It was the same nickname he told them on the website, “Can I team up with you?”
Hearing this, everyone else started looking toward the teenager with glances of sympathy, as if they could feel his hand breaking already as well.
Unexpectedly, Ruan Nanzhu smiled sweetly, “Sure!”
Feng Yongle let out a sigh of relief and noticed that the looks from other people didn’t look right. He asked confusedly, “What’s the matter?”
Ruan Nanzhu pointed to the person in the corner who was almost fainting from pain and said, “That person was harassing us, and I beat him up.”
Feng Yongle glanced at the man, then at Ruan Nanzhu, and was silent for a moment, as if wondering how Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi used their delicate and weak-looking bodies to beat that person up. Lin Qiushi could tell what he was thinking from his eyes… but he couldn’t explain it to him. He could only follow Ruan Nanzhu and pretend to be a cute little kitten who had no clue what happened — Lin Qiushi felt like he was already very proficient at acting.
Fortunately, Feng Yongle didn’t keep asking.
Translated by: UnderTheMoon
Edited by: Summit
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Nydia
Thank you so much!! I really missed this story
Muggelschmuggel
»“Shall team up?”« There’s a “we” missing, right?
Thx for picking this treasure up ;___; I’m glad to read about our crossdressing CP again :3
Mary
Thank you so so much for picking this story up!! I missed reading about the characters. <3
MushroomGongzhi
Thank you so much for picking this up!! Your translation is great, thank you for the chapter! 🥰💞
Lilly
So happy to read this again. Thanks for the chapter!
UnderTheMoon
I’m so glad. Thank you for reading! 😄