Infinite Weird Game

After Rabbit God Town was destroyed, the Rabbit God Statue in Qis's hand lost its original function. No matter how he fiddled with it, the prompt text could not be refreshed, and naturally, he could not start a new week of the "Escape from Rabbit God Town" game.

Qi Si fiddled with the bed for a while and successfully gave up the idea of ​​replaying the game. After calming down, he quickly fell into a deep sleep. When he opened his eyes again, the alarm clock was deafening.

Hope Middle School held an exam on the morning of August 3. Qi Si entered the exam room as Lu Ming and completed all the test questions with his remaining memory of middle school knowledge.

The Rabbit God's divine power surged in his body. He could extricate himself from the copy at any time. He was even almost kicked out of the weird game by the rules. At this moment, he was not in a hurry to pass the level.

He silently went through the established plot, experiencing with great interest the high school life he had been away from for many years. He watched the development of events like a ghost wandering in the campus, strolling leisurely and enjoying himself.

In the afternoon, the teachers in the Academic Affairs Office returned some of the items that had been confiscated from the students as a prelude to the long vacation, including the booklet recording strange stories that had been modified by Qis.

In the chaos, the booklet was widely circulated by nosy students. By the time it returned to its real owner, evening self-study was over and almost half of the school knew the legend of the Rabbit God.

The young boys fell asleep with their own thoughts, and on August 4th, they passed on the information they knew and their fantasies of realizing their wishes from mouth to mouth. Yang Fang added the legend of the bamboo cage eye game that Qi Si had told him.

The exam that just ended is enough to create a sense of urgency for students of this age. They begin to worry about the future and are eager to try the rumored methods of realizing their wishes. After all, it doesn't seem difficult and it's worth trying.

More and more people tried to recite the name of God recorded in the book. Qis gradually eroded his control over the copy and was gradually able to control most of the NPCs in Hope Middle School.

On August 5, the strange game of bamboo cage eyes was played in every corner. People were beaten to death and fell into the lake. As one of the most innocent bystanders, Yang Fang died in a corner of the campus in the evening.

What seems chaotic at first glance is actually well-organized. Qis is pulling the strings behind the scenes, using all ordinary NPCs as puppets to direct an absurd drama.

On August 6, Lingzi went to see Qi Si as usual, carefully walking past the crazy students who were addicted to the bamboo cage game, unable to hide her panic.

Half a year ago, Lu Ming said those words to her, and then he seemed like a different person, timid and cowardly.

Although she couldn't understand the reason, she knew that Lu Ming was caught in the center of the vortex and was excluded and bullied by everyone. He was suffering for her.

Because, "someone has to suffer through this."

Her subsequent memories were confusing. She remembered that Lu Ming was dead, but he seemed to be still alive, staying with her as "Lu Ming".

Or perhaps there was only one timid "Lu Ming" from beginning to end, and that sunny "Lu Ming" was nothing more than a golden dream that would be shattered by the slightest shock, it was her fantasy and hysteria.

In the memories day after day, the boundary between dream and reality is always so easy to blur. Lingzi gradually stopped worrying about the truth and just wanted to protect "Lu Ming", just like "Lu Ming" protected her...

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The NPCs controlled by Qi Si danced around Lu Ming's body, swearing at him one after another.

"Let's play a game of Bamboo Cage Eyes. As long as we can please the Rabbit God, our wishes will come true!"

"Let Lu Ming play the ghost. No one likes him anyway, and no one will care if he dies."

"It only takes one person's death to make our wish come true. What a wonderful thing!"

Qi Si, who was holding Lu Ming's face, stood in the center, his face pale, his eyes lowered, looking innocent and harmless.

Lingzi watched this scene with her own eyes, and walked forward as if possessed by a ghost, saying, "If one person must die, then I am willing to die in place of Lu Ming."

"Okay." The NPCs clapped their hands, happily surrounded Lingzi and sang the song of Takebaby's Eyes.

"Bamboo cage eyes, bamboo cage eyes, when will the bird in the cage be released to fly?"

"In the early hours of the night, a crane and a turtle fell over each other, and the child behind them asked who it was?"

The shadows trapped Lingzi, separating her from Qi Si and blocking their view.

Qi Si retreated step by step to the dark corner of the corridor, looking at the girl's thin back from afar, and a gentle smile appeared on the corner of his lips: "Lu Ming, I suddenly remembered that I forgot to tell you that I have always hated saving people, and I also hate happy endings in the secular sense. After all, tragedy is often more unforgettable."

Lu Ming's shadow appeared in the void, his eyes were sad and angry, and he muttered: "You want to kill Lingzi, you actually want to kill Lingzi, why..."

He has always been so naive. He first hoped to exchange death for the truth, and then trapped the Rabbit God with his own sacrifice, leaving the right to act and choose to the players, expecting redemption from others - even irrelevant strangers.

Little did he know that kind-hearted people in the world are a minority after all, and he was even more unlucky as he had to meet Qi Si, an extremely evil villain, scum, and psychopath.

"Because I want to." Qi Si laughed, as unscrupulous as a devil who had succeeded in his plan at the trading table. "I have the ability to kill you and authority far higher than yours, and I am interested in making you unhappy and painful, so I did it - what a simple thing."

The blood-colored threads cut through the space, entangling Lu Ming's body like a spider web, binding his limbs layer by layer. He was unable to move for a moment and could only struggle wildly.

This world is no longer under his control. Lingzi cannot see his existence and cannot know his situation. She will die with false hopes for this outsider who is full of lies.

Lu Ming glanced towards the classroom and saw the girl being forced towards the window by the aggressive NPCs. She seemed to have finally made a decision, closed her eyes, and jumped.

He could no longer ignore it and struggled violently, letting the red line cut into his flesh, leaving behind strings of blood, and roaring at the top of his lungs like a mad demon.

The sleepy afternoon sun shines through the window lattices and slants into the corridor.

Qi Si yawned, tilted his head and looked at Lu Ming with a smile: "Why are you so angry? I am just replaying what happened that year. She died for you, didn't you accept it happily?"

The young man seemed puzzled and shook his head. Then he heard Lu Ming grit his teeth and say, "God promised me that as long as one player can achieve a perfect ending, Lingzi and I can be resurrected... You only need to do nothing..."

"So what?" Qi Si sighed, "I have no obligation, mood, or interest to resurrect you. And I have always felt that resurrecting idiots is a waste of life, a waste of resources, and a pollution of the gene pool."

He lowered his upturned mouth corners, his eyes filled with ironic pity: "Since you can't adapt to the rules of the game, you might as well die early. Having already failed once in the competition for survival, what's the point of resurrection? Continue to struggle in this pyramid-like world, begging for mercy as the consumables and condiments at the bottom?
"They are all aware of their own death, but they dare not even take revenge. They would rather be a domesticated rabbit, obeying orders, fearing change, and being obedient enough. Even if they are resurrected many times, they will only become sacrifices that can be used continuously by violent people.

"To be honest, I'm really curious about why you and Lingzi always feel that one person must be sacrificed to break the impasse, and why you are so moved to throw yourself into this self-sacrificing drama."

Lu Ming calmed down a little and asked word by word: "So, what should I do in this situation?"

Qi Si grinned, revealing a ghostly smile.

"If it were me, if I got into trouble, I would definitely drag everyone down with me to hell; if I was unhappy, I would definitely make the whole world unhappy as well...

"You said, if I'm going to die, why do I need peace and tranquility in this world?"

He chuckled, leaving Lu Ming who was still in a daze behind him, and walked slowly downstairs to the open space where he expected to find the body. The girl's bloody body was lying on the ground after falling from the building. The blood and flesh were scattered like a bouquet of roses with new petals blooming. This was exactly the seventh death of Lingzi, and it was also the most real truth -

Out of some kind of self-sacrifice complex, she became a sacrifice and died in place of Lu Ming.

[Main quest progress has been updated]

[Main Quest: Find Qi Lingzi's Body (7/7)]

[The main mission has been completed and the entire world view has been cracked]

Three lines of text scrolled and refreshed. Qis walked towards the scattered body fragments, lowered his eyes and stood still, with his toes landing half a meter away from the pool of blood, just enough to avoid being stained by the slightest dirt.

A light grey outline appeared above the corpse, twisting and lingering, and its shape could not be seen. It was a sign of the gathering of a ghost.

The image of the girl appeared in the air, her limbs were bent, broken, and covered with cracks, and her bloody face was still oozing blood.

Qi Si looked up at the girl's empty eyes, with a smile on his lips: "The dead are destined to lose the right to speak to the world, and allow the living to whitewash and distort it. Do you accept such an ending?"

The girl shed tears of blood, opened her bloody mouth, and made an ambiguous "woooo" sound like a wild beast.

Qi Si looked at her with gentle eyes, as if he was looking at a finely carved work of art.

He raised his right hand and let the red prayer belt with gold patterns fall in front of the girl's eyes. His voice was persuasive, but particularly convincing: "In this case, the only thing you can do is to transform into the most terrifying and ugliest ghost and seek revenge on all those who have hurt you."

The gray shadow drilled into the prayer belt, replenishing the soul trapped in it and making the props complete.

[Name: Lingzi's prayer belt]

[Type: props]

[Effect: Summons the evil ghost Lingzi for one minute, can only be used once in each copy]

[Note: All love and kindness have been worn away by the world, leaving only the purest evil and hatred]

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The system's narration, accompanied by the sound of fireworks, echoed clearly between heaven and earth.

[Congratulations to player Qi Si for completing the single-player puzzle dungeon "Beware of the Rabbit"]

[Behind the absurd belief is blatant blasphemy, pragmatic behavior is covered with the shell of justice and morality, and the century-old tragedy has already been written in the genes]

In front of Qis' eyes, misty clouds rose up and swirled in the air, forming scenes that were the ending of the original timeline.

Reiko was chosen to be the incarnation of the Rabbit God, but because of her feelings for Kanna Shichiro, there was a loophole in the rules.

In order to fulfill Reiko's wish, the Rabbit God caused Kanna Shichiro to die of a sudden illness, and then used his resentment to break free from the shackles and destroy the entire Rabbit God Town.

A hundred years later, a school was built on the ruins of Rabbit God Town. Reiko and Shichiro entered reincarnation and met again at Hope Middle School...

Is the game "Escape from Rabbit God Town" really just a fictional word game? Is the plot of the middle school line of Hope really just a nightmare written by Lu Ming?
Perhaps, repeated reincarnations and time travel have already connected the past and the future into a circle without anyone noticing, and the butterfly effect makes the ending completely different.

But no matter how the world line is changed, the final story cannot avoid the proposition of individuals being coerced by group violence...

[The sacrifice of one person in exchange for the benefit of the majority, the countless reincarnations of history repeat this outcome, this is fate]

["Be Careful with the Rabbit" True End-"Fatalism" has been included]

[A copy will be automatically sent out after three minutes]

Amid the thick smell of blood and the overflowing pool of blood, the school uniform on Qis's body melted at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving behind the red suit pants he wore when entering the dungeon.

The icons of [Rabbit Corpse], [Reiko's Prayer Belt] and [Divine Chisel] are all displayed in the prop column. Among them, [Rabbit Corpse] that allows players to travel through time and space cannot be taken out of the copy. Qis only has the last three minutes to say goodbye to this prop.

He stroked his chin and thought for a moment, then activated the effect of [Rabbit Corpse] again and returned to Rabbit Town in the early morning of August 2nd.

He walked slowly on the street filled with hanging prayer ribbons, and followed his memory to find the prayer ribbon he had hung up with the three words "Weird Game, Rules, Deal" written on it, and then headed straight for the shrine's residence deep inside.

In the center of the divine abode, the one living in the body of Kanna Shichiro was sleeping soundly. Qis directly tied the prayer belt around his right wrist, and took out the divine chisel from his pocket and placed it in the center of the table.

Soon, the person on the bed woke up, and naturally could not see Qis who possessed divine power. After discovering that the position of the divine chisel had changed and there was a blessing band on his wrist, he stood still and fell into deep thought.

Qis picked up the magic chisel and knocked on the table twice, which led him to put his hand on the pocket watch of fate and come to the table as if facing a great enemy.

Qi Si took out another piece of wood from the box and carved lines of words on it with the magic chisel:

[1. You can communicate with the Rabbit God, but don't overestimate His wisdom. When Kanna Shichiro died, he was still a child and couldn't understand the subtext; (The blessing belt was brought back by me. If you have any ideas for a deal, talk to the Rabbit God directly)]

[2. When carving the Rabbit God statue, do not carve it according to the Rabbit God statue in the shrine, otherwise you will only become a new shell of the Rabbit God; just carve it according to the Rabbit God statue in your hand, and you can add some details as appropriate.]

"Qi? Are you worried about me and come to see me on the way?" Qis heard his past self ask with a smile. This was obviously the most reasonable guess based on the information available.

Qi Si smiled silently, and then he carved a word on the wood block: [契? ]

Qi Si grabbed the magic chisel and carved a fork on it.

【Li? 】

Zeiss made another cross.

【I? 】

The answer was correct, but unfortunately the three-minute countdown had ended. Qis didn't intend to disturb the rules again, so he just left.

The remaining questions will be left to the other him to continue to worry about. Anyway, this is how he has been troubled. In the end, he will know the answer, right? (End of this chapter)