Infinite Weird Game

The gloomy scene shattered like glass hit by a heavy object, and Qis found himself still standing in the corridor of the teaching building. The stagnant scenes and characters around him resumed their dynamic state.

The thin evening glow cast a golden glow on the walls. The noise of students could be heard downstairs. The wind blew the waste paper balls in the corridor, making a rustling sound.

Reiko breathed softly, at a different frequency from the sound of the wind, which made the environment seem even more tranquil.

Qis lowered his head and saw the Rabbit God Statue lying quietly on his right hand. After he stared at it for two seconds, a countdown line was refreshed:
[The next game of "Escape from Rabbit Town" will be available at 11:59:59]

Although this text game embedded in the copy will not cause the player to actually die, it is not completely without restrictions.

It is only open every twelve hours, and players can only play it a maximum of fourteen times within seven days. It doesn't seem like a small number, but if it arouses the suspicion of the NPC in the game, it will fail, so the tolerance rate is not high.

Although he ended up in failure after just a few words in the game, Qis still got a lot of information from the text narration at the end and the save file.

First, the character he plays, "Xiao Qi", has some connection with a being called "evil ghost", but I don't know why;

Second, he is related to the head of the Kamashi family in Usagi-cho, and not too distantly, possibly father and son, grandfather and grandson, or uncle and nephew;
Third, a disaster will occur on the day of the fireworks festival, resulting in the absence of a "after" in Rabbit God Town, and "Xiao Qi" will also die in the disaster.

For more information, you will have to wait twelve hours and enter the game again to verify it.

Twelve hours later, it was five in the morning. I hoped I could find the alarm clock in my school dormitory...

"Lu Ming, what's wrong with you? You look so bad..." Lingzi's concerned voice rang out.

Qi Si raised his hand and touched his face, and felt a coolness, and then he realized that he was cold.

It was really strange. He clearly did not feel any fear or discomfort, but his body behaved as if it was frightened by the word game. His shoulders trembled and his heart beat faster.

Qi Si tilted his head slightly and caught a glimpse of his pale face on the iron door of the fire cabinet at the stairs. It was much more realistic than what he acted.

He raised the statue in his hand and put on a serious expression: "Reiko, this is the rabbit statue I told you about. I heard that it is cursed and will induce the holder to harm others for his own desires. We should throw it away quickly..."

Lingzi's expression became nervous when she heard this: "Yeah! Where should we throw it?"

"Just throw it down from the upper floor. The height of the third floor should be enough to break it into pieces." Qi Si said, grabbing the rabbit statue and throwing it out of the windowsill, and putting it into the prop column at the last second.

In Lingzi's eyes, the rabbit statue disappeared from Qis's hands, and was probably thrown downstairs and shattered to pieces as he said.

The girl was still a little worried: "Lu Ming, I heard that desecrating the statue may be punished by the gods. Will anything happen if you smash it?"

"If this so-called Rabbit God really had a way to punish me, he wouldn't have let me smash his statue." Qi Si forced a comforting smile, "Even if he really came looking for me, I'm not afraid. I've heard a lot of weird stories, and I'm never afraid of these. If something goes wrong, I'll always have a better way to deal with it than you."

……

The players squatting in the live broadcast room only saw the young man in the picture smiling selflessly and brightly. Knowing the truth, they all silently tapped a "6" in the barrage.

Although they would put themselves in Lingzi's shoes and would try to take the Rabbit God Statue from Lingzi, they really couldn't do it to get an advantage and then act selflessly like this.

As the live broadcast time lengthened, more and more players flocked to Qis's live broadcast room.

After all, the Unnamed Guild is too mysterious. No one can figure out the behavior pattern of this new force that has just emerged and is in conflict with Jiuzhou, and how many cards it has.

As the vice president of the Unnamed Guild, Qis started a live broadcast at the height of the storm, which undoubtedly provided players with a window to understand the Unnamed Guild. Even the most secluded free players could not help but take a look out of curiosity.

If nothing unexpected happens, he will soon be regarded as the spokesperson of the Unnamed Guild, and his every move will represent the style of the Unnamed Guild, just like Fu Jue to Jiuzhou.

Barrages of comments were flying all over the interface.

"This dungeon is quite interesting. There is actually a game within the game. The dungeon NPC designed a game for players to play. I didn't expect there is such a mode of dual-threaded parallel operation. It's really novel."

"What's the point of being novel? I just checked and there are more than a dozen records of people clearing this dungeon. The reason why it's not so popular is because it's so easy that you won't die as long as you don't commit suicide. It can be used as a novice pool dungeon."

"Everyone says it's easy, but has anyone cleared it as a TE? I think Siqi entered this dungeon with the intention of clearing it as a TE for the first time. We can also see how good he is at solving puzzles."

……

The little episode with the rabbit statue passed quickly. Qi Si followed Lingzi down the stairs, walked out of the teaching building, and turned into the cafeteria next to it.

The dark gate and concrete walls blocked out the light and noise. From a distance, the whole building looked lifeless. After stepping into the door, one could smell the damp smell of disinfectant. The walls seemed to have been soaked in water, with patches of mold growing here and there.

The space inside the cafeteria is quite spacious, but there are so many students that at a glance almost all seats are filled with people, with only a few empty seats scattered lonely in the corners.

The food windows are lined up in a row, and above each window there is an electronic board with the names of the dishes written on it. A quick glance shows that most of them are ordinary dishes such as "Stir-fried Vegetables".

Qi Si took a few quick steps to line up at a window. From the corner of his eye, he saw that half of the people in the cafeteria put down their chopsticks and turned their heads to look at her when Lingzi walked to the middle of the aisle.

Those eyes were filled with cold malice, like poisonous snakes, hissing and spitting out their tongues.

"It's Lingzi again. I heard that she loves to tell tattles to the teacher."

"She still has the nerve to live in this world. She killed her parents and a boy who treated her very well."

"You dress up so beautifully every day, I wonder who you'll harm next..."

This was undoubtedly bullying. All kinds of slander and defamation came from all directions. Lingzi didn't know whether she didn't care or she was used to hearing these words. She still had a smile on her face. She just took out a palm-sized rabbit doll from her pocket and held it tightly with her five fingers.

She kneaded the doll for a while, until it was crumpled into a ball, then she walked to the window, got a plate of food and brought it to the side.

For no reason, Qi Si suddenly thought of the story of Miffy Rabbit that he had heard in his childhood.

It was a horror story about rabbits: a girl became radical after being bullied by her classmates. After hearing the screams of her pet rabbits, she thought the rabbits were laughing at her, so she stapled the rabbits' mouths shut.

She placed the rabbit's body on the desk of the classmate who bullied her. The screams of the classmate made her feel the pleasure of revenge, so she killed more rabbits in the same way and took revenge on the classmates one by one.

Finally one night, she saw a rabbit with a bleeding mouth standing in front of her bed, calling her name over and over again, Miffy, Miffy...

She woke up with a start and suddenly felt pain in her mouth. What she saw in front of her was no longer the ceiling, but iron railings.

She found herself transformed into a rabbit, locked in a cage with staples in her mouth.

When the young Qi Si heard this story, he did not have much empathy. In his opinion, the most important thing after being bullied is to kill all the bullies. How can just scaring them be enough?

If he wanted to do it more beautifully, he would put a half-dead rabbit in the drawer of an unlucky classmate, so that the latter would be frightened and accidentally kill the rabbit. Then he would tell the classmates that the unlucky guy was a pervert who would cruelly kill small animals, and let everyone stay away from and be hostile to that person.

With a common enemy, unity is the easiest thing; conflicts can be easily transferred to the outside world, and the real monsters hide in the mob and make a living.

But at this moment, thinking about this ridiculous story again, Qis had a more concrete feeling about the four words "Beware of the Rabbit" in the previous prompt.

Rabbits are not as mysterious as cats, nor as hateful as mice. They are always harmless and innocent.

Being weak and vulnerable, and being unable to speak, these characteristics combined make her a perfect target for violence.

When the strong is angry, he draws his sword and attacks the stronger one; when the weak is angry, he draws his sword and attacks the weaker one.

Rabbits are undoubtedly weak creatures, and horror stories involving rabbits all seem to be related to bullying the weak.

Miffy and the five rabbits in "Ten Rabbits" are all victims.

Compared to the rabbit that has turned into a ghost, the player is undoubtedly weaker.

So, watch out for the rabbit!

"If the rabbit turns into a ghost, the players will most likely be in trouble. So... who is the 'rabbit' in this dungeon? Reiko?"

While Qi Si was thinking, he finally got to the window to get food.

He casually added some vegetables and rice to the plate, turned around and found a seat in the corner to sit down, and buried his head in his mouth, digging out the sticky food with chopsticks one by one and swallowing it.

I have to say that the food in all school cafeterias in the world is equally bad, and is not much different from the dark dishes he prepared in "Red Maple Leaf Boarding School" - he actually tasted the taste of plastic in the vegetables.

If he hadn't considered that he had to survive in this dungeon for seven days and would definitely starve to death if he didn't eat, he wouldn't have wanted to touch the food at all...

On the other side, Lingzi found an empty corner and sat down, ten meters away from Qis.

The distance was not close, but for some reason, the discussions around her sounded particularly clear to Qis's ears:

"People like Reiko can only sit in the corner by themselves."

"No one wants to bother with her, why doesn't she just die?"

"This kind of person should have died long ago. The Rabbit God should have taken her life."

Reiko kept her head down most of the time, eating quietly. She only raised her eyes slightly when she heard the word "Rabbit God", with a hint of strangeness in her eyes.

Qi Si had followed her all the way here, and until now, he suddenly felt a strange sense of disharmony.

Hope Middle School also seems to be a huge word game. Reiko is the main character in this game, and all NPCs perform around her; the player is the audience, or a perspective, guided by the existence behind the scenes to witness everything.

Obviously, in the classroom, Lu Ming was not liked by his classmates; but in the mass violence in the cafeteria, Qi Si, who played Lu Ming, stayed out of it like a transparent person, without being tainted by the smell of the gang violence.

It’s not because the copy is merciful, but because in this scene, "Lu Ming" is not the protagonist and has no role, so he shouldn’t take the spotlight.

Everything you see and hear is the title of a text puzzle game; the copy seems to be deliberately planning, hoping that the player will do something after solving the puzzle...

At this moment, the students were talking about the "Rabbit God".

"I heard that if we only need to sacrifice one person to the Rabbit God, any wish can be granted. Can we sacrifice Reiko so that all of us can get into a good high school?"

"I have asked someone to send the cursed rabbit statue to Lingzi. She will die in seven days, and our wish will come true."

"Keep your voices down. What if Lingzi finds out and smashes the Rabbit Statue or gives it to someone else?"

"It's okay. She has been cursed and is destined to be sacrificed to the Rabbit God."

Qi Si heard it clearly, and he lowered his eyelids slightly to look at the rabbit statue icon in the prop column. Sure enough, he saw an extra line of words in the [Effect] column.

[Effect ②: After sacrificing Lingzi at the right time, any wish can be fulfilled]

Any wishes?
Qi Si took out the Rabbit God Statue from the prop bar, quietly put it into his trouser pocket, stood up and walked towards Lingzi.

New prompts emerge in due course:

[NPC Lingzi in this time and space has been locked as a destined sacrifice by fate and cannot be sacrificed again]

...That's okay.

Qis was no stranger to the concept of "sacrifice locked by fate".

Activating the effect of [Pocket Watch of Fate] also requires sacrificing a life. He once thought about whether he could re-sacrifice the sacrificed offerings after going back, but he was immediately told by the strange game that the fate of those sacrifices had been locked.

I think the sacrifice of the [Rabbit God Statue] also follows the same principle, to prevent someone from exploiting a bug and repeatedly fleecing the Rabbit God.

Lingzi noticed Qi Si's approach and asked with a smile, "Lu Ming, what's wrong?"

Qi Si collected his thoughts and pretended to be sympathetic: "How could they do this to you? You didn't do anything wrong..."

Lingzi tilted her head to look at him, smiling brightly: "Someone has to suffer all this, this is fate. Since I'm used to it, let me continue to bear it."

Fate? Habit? Continue to bear it?

Why does this PUA routine look so familiar?

Qi Si narrowed his eyes and asked, "Who told you these words?"

"Lu Ming told me that." Lingzi's eyes were a little blurry, as if she was lost in memories.

"Lu Ming? My brother told you that?" Qi Si asked.

"Hmm?" Lingzi's face had a double image for a moment, and a ferocious rabbit face was looming, but it returned to calm in an instant.

She blinked: "Lu Ming, what are you talking about? You never told me that you have a brother." (End of this chapter)