Chapter 37 Xu Jin’s Older Sister
If they are in the normal world, the full moon appears once a month. But the world inside the door is unreasonable. According to the things we have experienced in the past few days, they were constantly repeating the life of that day. What we eat every day is the same, Where we go every day is the same as well, even though, the guide says the same thing every day.
The next morning, there were no bloody handprint in the room. Lin Qiushi’s speculation was confirmed. Only the night when they went to the tower, Xu Jin would quietly leave at night and tear off the skin of her own body.
Today, they are going to the tower again.
Ruan Nanzhu has decided to bring out the drum in the tower today. Although this decision sounds very risky, there were no other clues at present, so I can only try as much as possible.
After a long trek, they finally reached the tower.
The tower that had become a bone tower before was restored to its original appearance. The tower tip towered into the clouds, and almost half of it was buried in the rich mountains.
Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi handed Xu Jin to Li Dongyuan before they went straight to the top of the tower. Of course, the excuse is that the tower is more dangerous. If Xu Jin is afraid to do this, it is best to stay below.
Xu Jin saw this and tried to say something but stopped, it looks like that Xu Jin want to go up with them. Li Dongyuan smiled and held her shoulder. He said, “Don’t worry, just wait for them with me, They will be fine.”
Xu Jin nodded hesitantly.
When Xu Jin was settled, Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi continued to climb again. In the process of climbing, Ruan Nanzhu: “didn’t we have seen the mural before the accident happened yesterday?”
“You mean the one in the house?” Lin Qiushi also remembered it.
“Yes.”Ruan Nanzhu replied, “I thought about the contents of that mural carefully last night, and I almost understood it up to now.”
Lin Qiushi: “So what does it mean?”
As they spoke, they had climbed to the top of the tower. However, when they passed the last corner, Cheng Qianli, who was in the forefront, suddenly stopped. Although he did not speak, Lin Qiushi could feel fear from his eyes.
“What’s wrong?” Lin Qiushi was shocked and asked in a low voice.
“There are…someone…” Cheng Qianli twisted his head stiffly. “A person…were sitting on the drum…”
Lin Qiushi stepped forward and saw what Cheng Qianli saw. There’s a woman indeed sitting on this red drum, although the woman was backing to them, they could also recognize that the woman was Xu Jin who was just downstairs with Li Dongyuan from her dressing up!
Xu Jin was half-squatting on that drum, and her posture looked very awkward. She slowly raised her hand and was going to strike against the drum under her body. Ruan Nanzhu shouted: “Xu Jin, your elder sister was looking for you -”
Xu Jin’s action stopped.
Ruan Nanzhu said: “She asked you when you could return her skin to her.”
Xu Jin turned her head slowly. When she turned around, everyone’s breathing was stopped because of the shock. It wasn’t Xu Jin, it was a human skin.
The human skin was still in the shape that has just been peeled off, as if supported by a skeleton so that it could stand on the drum like this. From the front, even the body tissue inside the human skin can be seen. Cheng Qianli almost slammed directly and screamed, but he grabbed his mouth with his hands at the crucial moment.
“Xu…Jin?” Lin Qiushi’s breath was slightly messy, but he began to be unsure that the skin in front of him is Xu Jin or Xu Jin’s sister
Ruan Nanzhu were still the coolest one of them. When facing the horrible scene in front of him, his voice has not even changed much. He took out the bone flute from his arms and put it on his lips to play music.
“Ahhhhhhhhh!” A shrill scream voice came from the skin’s mouth.
Lin Qiushi was originally a sharp-eyed listener. He was shocked by this huge cry, meanwhile, He was directly dizzy. Before he fainted, he seemed to see the human skin rushing toward them.
Some people were arguing, the voice of quarreling was getting fiercer and the noisy made Lin Qiushi a headache.
He barely opened his eyes and saw Ruan Nanzhu and Li Dongyuan were arguing about something, and the atmosphere was very bad.
Li Dongyuan said: “Zhu Meng, I apologized, this incident was indeed beyond my expectations.”
In the face of Li Dongyuan’s softness, Ruan Nanzhu is very disdainful and said to Li Dongyuan: “if apologizes works, there was nobody have to die.”
Li Dongyuan: “There will always be a remedy.”
Ruan Nanzhu was trying to refute while he found Lin Qiushi was awake, his eyes turned, and he immediately rushed to Lin Qiushi and said with crying voice: “Old Yu, you finally woke up, I was bullied when you were away. It’s so miserable, some others thought of us as orphans and widows, and didn’t give us a way to live…”
Lin Qiushi: “…orphans and widows?” Even if the widowed mother was here, where was the orphan?
Ruan Nanzhu reached out hands and gives Cheng Qianli, who is eating dry food, a knock on his head “Stupid son, your dad was calling you.”
Cheng Qianli put down the dry food and cried: “…hey, Dad, my mom was bullied.”
Lin Qiushi: “…” Cheng Qianli, you need to be sober enough and don’t follow the play of Ruan Nanzhu!
Li Dongyuan looked at the two men’s acting, and tried his best to make his expression distorted. He took a deep breath and seemed to suppress some emotions. He said, “When I go out, I will settle with you.”
Ruan Nanzhu sneered without talking.
Lin Qiushi thought, let it go, I am afraid you would like to get more stimulation when you met Ru Nanzhu after you went out.
He got up from the ground and rubbed his ears, but the ears are still squeaking: “Just… what happened?”
Ruan Nanzhu said: “It rushed over to us.”
Lin Qiushi: “And then?”
Ruan Nanzhu: “Then I talked to him for ten minutes.”
Lin Qiushi: “…”
Ruan Nanzhu: “It feels that I am right, and then just left.”
Lin Qiushi: “… are you so happy with your deadpan humor?”
Ruan Nanzhu: “It’s quite happy.”
Lin Qiushi: “…well.”it’s ok if you are happy.
After the deadpan humor was finished, Ruan Nanzhu chose to explain what just happened. It turned out that after the skin monster called Lin Qiushi dizzy, it offended Ruan Nanzhu as well, and took advantage of the effort of the skin. I rushed to the side of the red drum, and I took out the bone flute and pointed it at the drumhead. I threatened that if I made another demon, I would smash it directly. The human skin seemed to have wisdom, but actually stopped the action, and then directly into the wall, disappeared in front of them.
Ruan Nanzhu and Cheng Qianli dragged the stunned Lin Qiushi down the building, but saw Li Dongyuan stood alone on the first floor.
Ruan Nanzhu asked him where was Xu Jin, Li Dongyuan pointed to the outside and said that he had smoked the cigarette. As a result, Xu Jin disappeared and he did not know where she was going.
When Ruan Nanzhu heard about this, He got angry and said that the person gave it to you. Did you see it this way? You can’t rely on the white deer to do things. One of the bosses can actually lose such a clue.
Li Dongyuan was also in a loss, unable to refute. Fortunately, Lin Qiushi, who woke up in the end, distracted the attention of Ruan Nanzhu, so that he did not care about him again.
Li Dongyuan smiled in his heart, and his heart was more and more curious about the identity of Ruan Nanzhu. In reality, such a girl is really rare.
After Lin Qiushi woke up, he also knew that Xu Jin was gone.
“Let’s take a look at the drums tomorrow.” Now Xu Jin was missing, and they didn’t know if she will appear again. Raun Nanzhu didn’t have a good face when he saw Li Dongyuan. He said coldly, “You can only try this first. ”
Li Dongyuan touched his nose and smiled twice.
Lin Qiushi patted his shoulder sympathetically.
Cheng Qianli still kept stuffing in his mouth. His appetite was really surprising. No matter how disgusting the scene is, he can continue to eat without any obstacles.
At the end of the day, the face of Ruan Nanzhu was dark, and as expected, until he left the tower, Xu Jin did not return.
Others saw Lin Qiushi. They had one less here. They also asked a few words. Ruan Nanzhu directly said that she was gone, and did not know where to go.
Li Dongyuan did not dare to come to Ruan Nanzhu until he arrived at the residence, fearing that he would be provoked. After the meal, he euphemistically asked Lin Qiushi a few words, let him go back to persuade Ruan Nanzhu, let Ruan Nanzhu not regenerate his gas.
Lin Qiushi was awkward. There is a reason for the anger of Ruan Nanzhu. He can’t dare to persuade him. Moreover, He still doesn’t know whether Li Dongyuan is an enemy or a friend. He does not want to be too familiar with him.
Because of Xu’s disappearance this evening, they were finally able to sleep alone.
Ruan Nanzhu brought the drum back, and the drum was not too big, just the size of the palm of two adults. The drum body is lacquered solid wood, the drum surface is delicate human skin, knocked up, the tone is very beautiful. Ruan Nanzhu sitting on the edge of the bed, stroked the drum surface, “I will confirm my guess when I take it over tomorrow.”
“What do you want to say at that time?” Lin Qiushi remembered that when he climbed to the top of the tower, what Ruan Nanzhu had wanted to say, only half said, was interrupted by something else.
“Sisters are sisters, and it is another matter if they are have a good relationship.” Ruan Nanzhu said, “If she has such a good relationship with her sister, how can she not go to see it?”
He reached out and touched the drumhead, and at first glance, it was a bit gentle.
After dinner, everyone rested early.
The place to go today is the tower group, and don’t know if Xu Jin will appear again.
Before Lin Qiushi fell asleep, he was a little uneasy, lying in bed and turning over and over.
Ruan Nanzhu was next to him and whispered to him that he could not sleep.
Lin Qiushi said: “Well…”
Ruan Nanzhu stood up and lay down beside him, reaching out and grabbing his waist. This action he did, he is already very skilled, Lin Qiushi’s body is inexplicably relaxed, he vaguely said: “Why do I sleep very deep when you hold me?”
Ruan Nanzhu said: “Maybe I am a sleeping pill?”
Lin Qiushi: “…” Yes.
Although he doesn’t know why Ruan Nanzhu was very comfortable when he was around him, in short, Lin Qiushi quickly fell asleep.
He thought he would sleep until the morning, and he still woke up in the middle of the night. When he woke up, he felt a cool sight. Lin Qiushi slowly opened his eyes and saw the sleeping face of Ruan Nanzhu. He slowly sat up and looked around the house, and found nothing strange. . However, when Lin Qiushi thought that the sight was his own illusion, his forehead suddenly cooled down, and a drop of water slides down his forehead to the chin.
Lin Qiushi’s body suddenly froze, and he slowly looked up and saw a bloody person squatting on the ceiling, squinting at him to reveal a weird smile.
Lin Qiushi: “Fuck!” Even if he was psychologically prepared, he was shocked by the shackles. Lin Qiushi shuddered and forced himself to stabilize his body.
The thing and Lin Qiushi looked at each other for a moment, and the long fingers stretched out toward Lin Qiushi. Her goal was very clear, that is Lin Qiushi’s scalp.
Lin Qiushi bowed her head and escaped her attack, and he was scared of a cold sweat. The monster’s nails have been turned into sharp edges. As long as they are touched, it must be a layer of skin.
“Skin… skin…” The monster’s mouth whispered constantly. Her black-eyed eyes greedily looked at Lin Qiushi’s young and white skin, and her expression could almost be described as coveted.
Lin Qiushi went down from the bed with a roll of climbing, and Ruan Nanzhu was still in deep sleep, and it seemed that it was completely unaffected. Fortunately, the monster seems to be not interested in other people, and rushed over at the position where Lin Qiushi was.
Lin Qiushi turned around and ran to the door but found that the door could not be opened.
“Skin…Skin…” Faced the prey in front of her, the monster opened her mouth and smiled. She gave a giggling sound and squeezed out the voice from the throat. “Skin… I want your skin… …”
Lin Qiushi’s head was cold and sweaty. After looking around, he saw the bag of Ruan Nanzhu placed next to the pillow. The bag is full, the drum that was taken from the tower, was stuffed inside.
Suddenly, the soul was blessed, and Lin Qiushi turned around and ran towards the bag. Then he quickly pulled the drum out of the bag and knocked it hard twice.
“Dong,dong,dong,dong.” Crisp drum sound came out, and the monster’s expression immediately froze. Then she looked like she was afraid of something. She looked around and panicked out of the window.
Lin Qiushi looked at her as she fled, and finally he was relieved. However, when he lowered his head, his expression froze again.
He saw the soft drum surface, probably because he was too hard to make a hole in the drum, and inside the big hole, there was something that made him stunned.
It was a beautiful bronze key, but it looked unremarkable, but Lin Qiushi was very familiar, because he used the same key to open the heavy iron door inside the door.
“God!” Instantly understood what happened, Lin Qiushi sighed Li Dongyuan in his heart.He never imagined that Li Dongyuan would give them an identical fake key!
“But what about the drum.” After Lin Qiushi took the keys out, he looked at the broken human skin drums in front of him and started to have a headache. “Can I fix it well…” He rubbed his hand twice and decided to give up and want to ask for help from Ruan Nanzhu.
Thinking about it, Lin Qiushi slept in the past.
The next morning, Lin Qiushi was awakened by the sound of Ruan Nanzhu.
When he blinked, he saw that Ruan Nanzhu is criticizing Cheng Qianli. He said that Cheng Qianli, did you secretly play the drums last night!
Cheng Qianli: “I am not, I don’t have it. This is a human skin drum. What is fun?”
Ruan Nanzhu suspected: “You really don’t?”
Cheng Qianli: “Why don’t you believe me…”
Ruan Nanzhu: “I want to believe you, but the keyclue of the last door is that you have broken it.”
Cheng Qianli: “Isn’t that boring me…”
Ruan Nanzhu: “Are you not bored now?”
Cheng Qianli almost cried out, because his predecessor, his own rhetoric has no credibility, how can he explain Ruan Nanzhu believes that this thing is not broken by him.
While Cheng Qianli was sadly thinking about this problem, Lin Qiushi, who was sitting on the bed, raised his hand weakly and said, “It’s me…”
Ruan Nanzhu: “Oh, it’s you.”
Cheng Qianli straightened his waist and was about to listen to his boss reprimanded Lin Qiushi. The next sentence of the big man was: “Nothing, be careful next time.”
Cheng Qianli: “????” God fucking next time to be careful, is he a stepmother son or a charge?
Lin Qiushi was also a little too embarrassed, and quickly said what happened last night. Ruan Nanzhu asked him if he was injured. Lin Qiushi shook his head and took out the key from his pocket and said, “I found a key from the drum…”
Ruan Nanzhu saw the key silence for three seconds, then swore a dirty swearing.
Apparently Li Dongyuan is not as naive as he has shown.Did not know what he saw in the bone tower, but he took out a fake key to charge.Fortunately Lin Qiushi was chased by monsters last night. When he took the drum to save his life, he got the keys out, otherwise they are still deceived by that person.
“I said that he did not hand over the keys so easily,doesn’t he want the hint of the next door?”Ruan Nanzhu held the key and sneered. “He also played such a trick.”
Lin Qiushi also admire these people, and still come up with the idea of preparing a fake key.
Ruan Nanzhu put the key into his pocket and said: “Xu Jin is very afraid of this drum. Since the drum is gone, we don’t have much time. If you meet her again next time, I am afraid it will be difficult to run away.”
Lin Qiushi nodded, and he agreed with Ruan Nanzhu.He doesn’t know why, anyway, Xu Jin has a special interest in him. Others sleep deep, and he has to wake up every night.
“Today I took the drum to the temple and looked at it.” Ruan Nanzhu sinks. “This world is about to end.”
It is a good thing to be able to end the world earlier. Lin Qiushi never wants to meet Xu Jin at night again.
Li Dongyuan apparently did not know that the bad things he had done had already been revealed, and he also cheeked and greeted Ruan Nanzhu. This has to say that his appearance is quite deceptive, even if Lin Qiushi already knows that he is a bad person, but he will hesitate for a moment when he looks at his gentle smile.
Ruan Nanzhu’s attitude towards him was not so good. He did not give him a face today. He took a few words and then drove him off.
“Hm.” Looking at the back of Li Dongyuan’s departure, Ruan Nanzhu was very rude and sneered. “I have to look at it. If this job is bad in Bai Lu’s hands, how should Li Dongyuan be responsible?”
After breakfast, everyone set off for the temple.
Xu Jin still has no shadow, but since she appeared in Lin Qiushi’s house last night, it means that she must have come back with the guide. At this time, it should be hidden in the dense jungle around.
See the temple again, Lin Qiushi’s heart is already calm. He and Ruan Nanzhu found the platform that climbed the roof before, and planned to go up again.
Going up this time, He will give the drum in his hand to the monster on the roof.
It is very dangerous to send the drums Although Lin Qiushi repeatedly reiterated, Ruan Nanzhu still insisted on going with him, leaving the eye-catching Cheng Qianli to look at the ladder.
Two people one after another, cautiously climbed to the high platform. Lin Qiushi first went to the wooden table. When he arrived, he found that there was some fresh flesh and blood on the wooden table. It seems that the two people who were stripped the day before were left behind.
Ruan Nanzhu came up behind him. He arrived at the roof for the first time. After observing the surroundings, he looked at the nearby jungle.
“What’s wrong?” Lin Qiushi noticed that his expression was wrong.
“It seems that something is following us.” Ruan Nanzhu said, “It has been following since we came out.”
Lin Qiushi: “Is it Xu Jin?”
Ruan Nanzhu: “It is possible, give her the drum first.”
Lin Qiushi nodded.
The two walked along the edge and slowly walked toward the center of the temple. Their feet stepped on the human skin drum and hit the rhythm of the drum.
The temple is very quiet, and there is no fog that Lin Qiushi saw before. Everything is calm and some are not normal.
Ruan Nanzhu didn’t go too deep. He chose a suitable position and put the drum on the roof. Then he said, “Your sister refuses to come. We brought a drum from her. “”
When he said this, the whole world seemed to have fallen into a strange silence, and the breeze that had been stopped.
The drums rang loudly, and the thick mist rushed out of the air and began to invade their location.
“Dong,dong,dong,dong.” Deep in the fog, something is madly tapping the drumhead, and the rhythm of anger seems to vent the anger that can’t be suppressed in the heart.
“Where is she?” The voice of the girl rang again. “Where is she? I hurt so much – I hurt so much -”
Lin Qiuishi saw the girl crawling out of the fog. She saw the drum brought by Ruan Nanzhu, and climbed to the side of the drum with both hands, then put her hand on the broken drum.
“Not mine, not mine -” the girl yelled wildly. “Take her over, bring her over!!”
She grabbed the drumhead hard and began to tear it.
Doesn’t know if it is Lin Qiushi’s illusion. When the girl tears the drumhead, he faintly hears another scream.
The girl seems to have noticed the cry. Her had a bloody mouth instantly opened a ecstatic arc: “You are – you are -” She slammed the drumhead under her feet, and instantly in the temple, that monster with a sharp knife, rushing toward the jungle not far away.
Lin Qiushi looked at this scene almost stunned. Ruan Nanzhu was greatly relieved. He smiled helplessly, “It is not a sister.” He looked up and looked toward the dense forest in the distance.
Lin Qiushi said: “Is it all over?”
Ruan Nanzhu: “Maybe.”
Who does not want this hellish world to end earlier?
NovelBear Translation 