Infinite Weird Game

【Name: Rabbit Statue】

[Type: props (copies cannot be taken out)]

[Effect: The holder can use it to enter the space and time of Rabbit God Town]

[Note: This is a game played by many students of Hope Middle School. The mission goal is to rescue ## (data deleted). Unfortunately, no one has completed it so far.]

Four lines of item description refreshed on the rabbit stone sculpture in Lingzi's hand.

Qi Si glanced back and forth, lost in thought.

The "Rabbit God" should be the source of the divine power in this copy. Next, he may be able to meet the "Rabbit God" first to see if he can seize the divine power.

But how to transfer the power? Sign a contract? Judging from the rules and the bloody food chain of the gods, he can't eat the Rabbit God, right?

As for Rabbit God Town, as the name suggests, it is the place where the Rabbit God resides, but what does it have to do with the game played by middle school students? Is Rabbit God Town a location in the game?
Qis was unable to make an accurate judgment at the moment, but he could still understand the word "rescue" in the notes - this game requires players to rescue a certain existence, and many predecessors have failed.

Qi Si hated rescue missions as always. The memories of "Double Happiness Town" were bad enough for him. He had already made up his mind that if he encountered such a mission again in the future, he would turn the rescue target into a corpse and take it away.

But this copy is obviously not suitable for overly violent cracking methods. Firstly, the copy is positioned as a puzzle, and most of his props are sealed. The [Pocket Watch of Destiny] can at most save his life. Even if he goes back many times, he still cannot defeat the god.

Secondly... he had just found the clue of God. If he ended the instance too early, he might not have enough time to make further contact, which would be a waste of this opportunity.

Qi Si silently put away the blade that he subconsciously held between his two fingers, raised his right hand and pointed at the rabbit statue in Lingzi's hand, and pinched a nervous expression: "Lingzi, this thing in your hand seems to be... a rabbit statue?"

He looked around and whispered mysteriously, "I seem to have heard a rumor that if you sacrifice a person's life, the Rabbit God will grant the person's wish...

"So Reiko, are you trying to ask the Rabbit God for help?"

"Please ask the Rabbit God?" Lingzi's face was full of confusion, and her puzzled expression did not seem fake. "I have never heard of this matter. And how can a wish be fulfilled at the cost of a person's life?"

Qi Si recalled that in the "Colosseum" copy, Chang Xu risked his life to kill him, and Chu Xun and Fan Zhanwei died for some unknown reason.

He curled his lips and said, "Maybe I'm overthinking it. Lingzi, I still think this statue is a little weird. Can you let me take a closer look at it?"

Lingzi didn't suspect anything and stuffed the rabbit statue into Qis's hands.

The moment his fingers touched, Qis felt a cool breath penetrate into his skin through his fingertips and seep into every capillary.

Time stood still in an instant. Lingzi's action stopped at the moment of handing over the statue. The air became sticky, and countless golden and red fragments flowed around her body, rising to the top of her head like reversed rain and then falling down.

They were torn prayer ribbons, the words on them were blurred by stains, making it difficult to discern the specific content.

A figure in white quietly appeared in front of Qi Si, floating like a ghost.

Qi Si saw that the man had a face exactly like his, with an indifferent expression.

"Welcome to experience the game "Escape from Rabbit Town" that I made. The mission objectives are waiting to be explored. Warm reminder: be careful of rabbits." The man said calmly, gesturing with his hands open.

The prayer ribbons floating before my eyes weave together lines of text.

[Game name: "Escape from Rabbit God Town"]

【mission target:? ? ? 】

[Warm Tips: Be careful of rabbits]

[Save Point: None]

【Do you want to start the game? 】

There is actually a game nested inside the game copy, which looks like one of the literary games on the market that can be saved and rolled back.

Zis is in no rush to study the game.

He looked at the young man in front of him and asked, "Who are you?"

The young man who looked exactly like him said woodenly: "My name is 'Lu Ming', another you."

Qi Si smiled: "I don't think I would be such a boring person with low aesthetic tastes, who would come up with a text game that can be replayed and sit here waiting for others to play it."

The young man seemed not to have heard him and asked in a serious tone, "Do you want to start the game?"

Qis almost understood that this young man was different from the one he saw in the glazed tower in the "Colosseum" copy. He did not have his memories and his personality was different. He only had his appearance.

This is like a poorly made puppet, whose existence may be just to make it easier to explain that "Escape from Rabbit Town" is a game made by "Lu Ming" for himself.

Qi Si looked around. Lingzi stood nearby like a sculpture. The corridors, stairs, offices and other scenes were soaked in water with a variety of colors, as if they would melt at any time.

He walked to the windowsill and looked down. The students in school uniforms seemed to be frozen as if the freeze button was pressed. The running and jumping students were suspended half a centimeter above the ground, casting a cluster of small shadows.

He and the young man were the only ones who could move in the entire campus. The hands of the fate pocket watch stopped at five o'clock in the evening. The copy process was stuck and the NPCs were on standby.

The whole world seemed to be born for him, waiting for him to make a choice.

Qisi walked back to the young man and asked, "Can I ask what form this game takes?"

The young man replied expressionlessly: "You will enter the space of Rabbit God Town and play the role of a person living in Rabbit God Town. During the game, the time in the outside world will come to a standstill."

Qi Si asked again: "Can I answer 'no'?"

The young man nodded: "Okay."

It seems that this game called "Escape from Rabbit Town" is not mandatory to play.

If the player has no idea about completing TE and cracking the world view, he can choose to give up the game directly, spend the next seven days carefully in Hope Middle School, and complete the game through the NE route.

Unfortunately, Qis not only has ambitions to pass the level perfectly, but is also quite interested in the Rabbit God. No matter what his purpose is, he is destined to not be able to bypass this link.

He pondered for a moment, stroked his chin, and said, "Then let's start a game."

The surrounding prayer belts all sank, spreading layer upon layer on the ground, and flowing golden and red words floated up:
[The first week of "Escape from Rabbit God Town" begins]

Qi Si just felt his head was dizzy, and the scene in front of him was blurred inch by inch, like a bowl of mixed colors, a colorful whole.

In the mist, someone was whispering a strange ballad: "On August 7, fireworks will be held, and the ghosts will return on the seventh day..."

The murmurs were mournful and gentle, like complaints, but were soon drowned out by the noisy voices, leaving only the noisy noises. Qi Si saw two interfaces hanging high in the upper left corner of his sight.

The newly appeared interface is located at the lower part. It is a small golden box with information such as [First Week], [Tips], [Save File], and [Load File] written in blood on it. The [Mission Target] column is blank.

Two lines of text were slowly refreshed on the original system interface:

[The main mission has been triggered]

[Main Quest: Participate in the Fireworks Festival in Seven Days]

Seven days, another seven days.

There are seven days between August 8st and August 1th. Reiko's note says that she only has seven days left...

It seems that "seven days" is not only the time limit of the copy, but also the countdown to something big that is about to happen.

The mission objective of "Escape from Rabbit Town" is still unknown, but if it requires him to escape as the game title suggests, then it will undoubtedly contradict the main mission.

Unless he leaves immediately after attending the fireworks festival on the seventh day.

But after attending the fireworks festival, can you really leave?
Qis's right hand tightly grasped the rabbit statue that Lingzi had stuffed into his hand. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but after entering the game, the color of the statue became much brighter, with black, white and red clearly distinguished, and one could even see the gilded vine pattern on the black clothes.

Qis put the statue in his arms, raised his hand to rub his temple, and finally came out of the dizziness.

In front of me is a busy market street where men and women in kimonos come and go. Red or white lanterns are hung in front of the shops on both sides, and the tassels hanging from them flutter in the wind.

Between the shops, rows of red silk threads formed a light net that stretched across the street, with densely packed red silk hung on it, and golden words written in various fonts on the red silk.

Judging from the design, they are exactly the same prayer belts that were flying between heaven and earth before Qi Si entered Rabbit God Town, but they have not yet been depreciated.

This is undoubtedly closer to the CG at the beginning of the dungeon than Hope Middle School. Both are in Japanese style, and both reveal a kind of weirdness that is a mixture of gods, ghosts and humans...

Qi Si stood in the middle of the street, wearing a dark red long kimono with wide cuffs embroidered with blue and black cloud and crane patterns, and golden tassels hanging down and swaying.

Next to him was a girl wearing a red and white kimono. The vermilion front was adorned with golden butterflies, which made her skin look bright and fair.

She looked no more than eleven or twelve years old, with a pretty face and delicate features.

A very familiar face. Although her clothes and temperament are completely different, it is still possible to tell that this girl is Lingzi, the little corpse in the pit, and a classmate of Class 10 in the third grade of Xiwang Middle School...

The system prompt appeared, and Qi Si knew that her name was also "Lingzi", the same characters, the same name.

Lu Ming put Lingzi into the game he made, and arranged a death ending for her where she was buried in the ground and turned into a rabbit. I don’t know what his mentality was...

Qis opened his mouth to speak, but found that he could not make any sound. It seemed that the "speaking" function was disabled, and he could only watch the game CG passively.

At this moment, Lingzi was still alive and well, behaving like everyone else, and she didn't notice anything unusual about Qis at all.

She looked around curiously and said, "This year's fireworks festival will surely be very lively!"

Judging from her expression and tone, she seemed to be very familiar with the role that Qis was currently playing, or at least they were frequent playmates.

Just like Lingzi and Lu Ming in Hope Middle School.

Qi Si heard the character he was playing continue the conversation: "There are still seven days until the fireworks festival. How did Lingzi know that it would be so lively?"

"Have you forgotten, Xiao Qi? The Rabbit God will descend this year, and everyone will come to participate in the fireworks display!" Lingzi said with a smile, "When there are more people, of course it will be more lively!"

People were coming and going around me, and the fragrant breeze mixed with sweat made me feel a little intoxicated. The pedestrians immersed in it had happy smiles on their faces, and they were in a daze.

Qi Si suddenly realized that he could speak.

He lowered his voice and asked tentatively: "Reiko, can you tell me something about the Rabbit God?"

Lingzi stopped and looked him in the eyes seriously: "Everyone here knows the legend of the Rabbit God. Xiaoqi, you are the best among us. Why do you need me to tell you?"

Her tone was gentle and her smile was sweet, but Qis smelled danger from it.

He is now playing the role of "Xiao Qi" and cannot let the NPC notice anything unusual, otherwise it may lead to the failure of the game.

There are more and more people on the street. Although it is not crowded, the street is still crowded and there are occasional discussions.

"I heard that Kanna-sama is very ill and I'm afraid he won't live past this August..."

"Don't talk nonsense... Alas, it's rare to find a patriarch as kind and righteous as Lord Kanna. How could he get such a disease?"

"Let's make this year's fireworks festival a success, pray for Lord Kanna, and hope Lord Rabbit God will bless us!"

Qis could clearly hear the discussions of passers-by, and those voices seemed to be part of the background information of the game and needed to be known by the "players".

He seemed to be really playing a word game. Grey dialog boxes kept popping up in front of him, with the game character's lines written in white text on them.

"Xiao Qi, what's wrong with you? You look very different today." Lingzi in front of him was still staring at Qis with a smile, her lips becoming more and more prominent, and dense rabbit hair oozing out of her cheeks.

Her eyes were soaked in red and dripping with blood. Her hands with sharp nails rested on Qi Si's shoulders, transmitting cold wetness through the clothes.

Qi Si stared at the game panel of "Escape from Rabbit Town" for a long time, but couldn't find the option of "Exit Game", and the words "Load Game" were also gray.

There was no other way, so he pulled out a blade from his special bracelet and slashed the girl's neck at high speed.

Blood flowers bloomed on the fair skin, the rabbit hair on the girl's face retracted from the skin, and the world was suddenly painted gray, presenting the texture of an old black-and-white photo.

Lines of white characters were written in handwriting in the void before my eyes:
[End of the first week of "Escape from Rabbit Town"]

[Achieve ending ① The evil spirit who committed murder]

[You were in the company of evil spirits, but you were exposed while visiting the market, and were discovered by Lingzi who was traveling with you. In order to continue hiding, you killed Lingzi cruelly regardless of your friendship.

[The crimes committed during the day have no place to hide. The passers-by who witnessed your murder took you to the Rabbit God Temple. Shen Wu, the head of the family, killed his own relatives for the sake of justice and gave you a fair trial in front of the Rabbit God.

[You are imprisoned in the prison behind the Rabbit Temple and will be executed after the fireworks festival. No, there may not be an "after", but your death cannot be changed.

【You can never escape...】

[Obtain save point ① "Suspicious Questions"] (End of this chapter)