Infinite Weird Game

Chapter 360 Incomplete
In the game forum, a large number of posts about the Sunset Ruins incident emerged all at once, overshadowing the previous condemnation of the Jiuzhou Guild, and instantly became the focus of all players' attention.

#The Sunset Ruins list stele was reorganized into the 'Twenty-two Identity Cards' stele. This time the news about the final instance is probably true#
[1st floor (Original poster): I can't describe what happened in detail. You can go to Sunset Ruins to see it yourself. I suggest you go and come back quickly. There are so many people that there is almost no room. I silently wrote down a list on the stone tablet and put it here first (picture).

[Honestly, I am totally confused right now. Originally, Jiuzhou organized a guild meeting and said that the final dungeon would be opened soon, which seemed to be true. But later, it was revealed that they had a conflict with the unnamed guild. I thought, how could there be a civil war when the war is imminent? I suspected that the previous news was a smokescreen to exaggerate.

[But now even the list of Sunset Ruins has changed. According to the ranking of the identity cards, it can be basically confirmed that the news released by Jiuzhou is true. The identity card is the ticket to the final dungeon. I don’t know if Jiuzhou and Tingfeng are ready. Looking at the new list, I always feel not optimistic...]

[2nd floor: Front row, I'll take a look at the game first, wait for my news]

[3rd floor: We both came back from Sunset Ruins, what the OP said is true. Am I the only one who feels excited? After being so sticky and dawdling in the game for so long, I can finally experience something different! ]

[4th floor: I agree with the above, it's better to end it like this. If you stick your head out, you'll get a knife. If you hide your head, you'll get a knife too. I just want to give it a quick death.]

[5th ​​floor reply to 3rd floor: If you want something different, don’t spend points on a specific instance if you have the ability, and go through the new instance via the TE route. ]

[6th floor: I am so unlucky. I finally earned enough points and figured out how to complete the dungeon, but this happened. I don’t know if there will be a future for me (crying)]

【7th floor: I'm back, don't panic, the bosses will take care of this. We should maintain the rhythm of entering the designated dungeon once every seven days, and just stay out of trouble and survive. If the bosses succeed, we will benefit from it; if they fail, we won't die.】

[8th floor (Original poster): It’s hard to say. A lot of people died years ago... This time our names have been cleared from the list. Does this mean that in the next game, we are just consumables? ]

[9th floor: Consumables are consumables. It doesn't matter where you are. As long as one person can clear the final dungeon, everyone else can survive. What's there to be afraid of? ]

[10th floor reply to 9th floor: Haha, regardless of who Qi, Li, or these three are, let's just talk about the puppet master and Bai Ya, one is Xila and the other is Tianping, do you think they can revive you? (sweating soybeans)]

[11th floor replied to 10th floor: Why don’t you hope for something good? I bet Fu Shen will win! ]

[12th floor: I've finished looking at the stone tablet. Who are the people on it? I've only heard of a few of them. There don't seem to be many people like Jiuzhou, Tingfeng, and the ones at the top of the list. Are they going to start over? ]

[13th floor: Maybe it will be another big purge like years ago. Last time, Fangzhou was split into Jiuzhou and Tingfeng. I don’t know what Jiuzhou will be split into this time.]

[14th floor: To be honest, whether you can get an identity card depends on luck. I have recorded the list of people on the stone tablet before it was broken. Half of the people on this new stone tablet are not on the overall list. I am as pessimistic as the original poster.]

[15th floor: The people above should have just entered the weird game not long ago, so they don’t know a lot. I saw Lin Jue and Xiao Fengchao, both of whom are characters from more than ten or twenty years ago, the presidents of Fang Zhou and Tingfeng. The problem is that they have been dead for a long time...]

[16th floor: This stone tablet doesn't seem that simple. It may not be the qualification or ranking as we preconceived. Qi Si and Si Qi are the same person occupying two positions. Just looking at this one item, we know something is wrong. ]

[17th floor: What are you discussing? I don't understand. Are you not going to continue to scold Jiuzhou today? ]

[18th floor replied to 17th floor: Stop cursing, if you continue to curse, we will all be in trouble. Go to Sunset Ruins and take a look. ]

……

In the Ruins of Sunset, under the World Tree, more and more players gathered in front of the newly appeared stone tablet, talking about it.

"What the hell? Twenty-two identity cards. Could it be that, as Jiuzhou said, only players who have bound their identity cards can enter the final dungeon, and everyone else can only stare blankly from outside?"

"It looks like it. The only qualified ones are those on the stone tablet. The others can go and take a rest. The final instance has nothing to do with ordinary players like us. If the sky falls, there will be tall people to hold it up."

Some people who like to do good things were indignant about being blatantly marginalized by weird games, but more people quickly accepted the fact that they were not on the list.

A copy once every seven days is enough to consume most of the emotions and energy, making a person dull and numb. Only a few people are interested in joining the change.

Some people also expressed their concerns: "Are you going to just leave your fate to these people you don't even know? What if one of them is a lunatic who wants to destroy the world?"

"Just leave it alone." The player next to him smiled bitterly, "Look, the Puppet Master and Bai Ya are ranked higher than Fu Jue. If I remember correctly, Bai Ya is a high-ranking official in the Libra Church. I didn't expect that she is also in this weird game..."

The worried players became even more worried: "These two lunatics... no matter who clears the final dungeon, it won't be a good thing for us..."

A player who looked less than sixteen years old pointed to the blank space on the left side of the stone tablet where the name of the ID card was written, and asked: "Does anyone know what the situation is with those blank spaces? Are the names hidden with props? Or are there no corresponding players?

Someone quickly responded: "There probably isn't a corresponding player. I have a friend of a friend whose friend is on the new list. She didn't set a display nickname, so the list used her real name directly. There's no such thing as a blank spot."

Someone who had discussed the matter in the forum even gave some advice: "There is no explanation for how this list is arranged, so don't make blind guesses. If you look at the back, you will see that Qi Si and Si Qi are the same person, but there are two records with different names. This is a big problem."

Qi Si stood in the crowd, still wearing a red suit and trousers, with a scarlet cloak embroidered with gold draped over his shoulders, the style of which was similar to that of a robe.

He was silent, invisible and traceless. The players passing by him were like passing through the void without causing a ripple.

Sounds, images and emotions from near and far flowed before his eyes, and after a moment of bizarreness, they were sorted out and analyzed into categories.

He stopped in front of the stone tablet, looking at the lines of names on it, from the supreme rules to the old gods, from human players to NPCs, knowing that the final ending was coming.

The temptations of the past billions of years were enough to make the gods realize that the rules for creating this world are not perfect, just like a bulky machine that is not completely precise, which will produce a lot of tiny wear and tear and errors during operation.

When the bugs accumulate to a certain extent, the machine will collapse and can no longer self-regulate through the established procedures, so more drastic measures can only be adopted. Then, the rules begin to take back all power and authority, release pollution, devour the gods, and then - the world restarts.

On the stage where the finale is played, the old gods are destined to become condiments, the new gods who attempt to take over power and open up a new world, the losers of the past, the survivors of the old days...all existences are chess pieces; under the rules, all beings are equal, and gods are just people who live longer.

Either you let the rules dictate your fate and willingly accept the fate of being sacrificed; or you try to break free from the shackles of fate and break the unfair rules.

Being in this position, there is never any other choice but to become a chess player and play chess. Qi Si's eyes lingered on the name "Or", and the relevant information flashed back in his mind.

The Lord of Life who is the incarnation of the origin of the World Tree, the Lord of Death who controls creation and annihilation, the holy existence that breeds wind, rain, and sea...

The mother goddess who created all gods under the manipulation of rules, the ancestor god passed down from the previous generation of gods to the second generation of gods, the giant skull that the rules ordered all gods to eat...

The symbols are spiders and frogs, the woman with a round belly and eight arms in the spider web that covers the world, and the colorful and bizarre creatures in the frog hospital...

Qis saw his death, his bones lying on the ground dripping with blood, and the young men surrounding him scraped off his flesh and blood, and sucked his marrow from his bones; the golden blood shone with a bright glow, staining the young man's face, looking eerie and murderous.

This is a lesson learned from previous failures. The newly born gods ignorantly followed the rules and did not know that the beginning of sharing the leftovers also reflected the destined ending.

Qi Si knew that being eaten felt terrible, as if something was being pulled out uncontrollably, with memories and emotions shattered and unable to be captured again after being lost - he didn't like it, and didn't want to try it again.

Therefore, he must win this game. Just as Lu Ming can imprison the gods in his human body, he will also imprison the rules in his divine body and eat him like he ate Qi, replacing him, even if the hope is slim.

Qi Si looked down and saw the vacant names of [Lord of Souls], [Lord of Fate] and [Lord of Death].

These are three ownerless identity cards. The rules may have been recycled, but they are just placed there to show that these cards exist; or perhaps they are intended to be released again as chips to lure players.

The identity card system does not have a hierarchy as many players think. Each serial number simply divides the authority and each has its own responsibilities.

But in Qis's memory, according to the three major systems of life, contract, and time and space, there are secret promotion routes within.

——For example, [Humanoid Evil], [Scarlet High Priest], [Fool Deceiver], [Blind Dictator], and [Soul Master] can be promoted to [Lord of the Gods].

The first three cards have been collected by him, and the [Blind Dictator] is in the hands of the puppeteer. He needs to kill the puppeteer to get that card.

Why? It doesn't matter.

There is no reason, just because it exists and is there, he must get it, just like a person needs to eat when hungry or drink water when thirsty.

A strong desire grew in the heart, countless pairs of scarlet eyes in the mind hall opened and closed together, and blood-red roses spread from the corners, growing wildly all over the sky.

Qi Si looked at the name "Zhou Ke" corresponding to [Fool Deceiver], and realized belatedly that the memory fused to him by Qi was incomplete.

The phantom from the beginning of creation and the ancient times was too vague. The sun, moon and stars had remained the same for billions of years.

But when the strange game was established, everything about the copy, the game, and the players seemed to be shrouded in a layer of fog, and only vague silhouettes could be seen.

Qis was not sure whether memory would indeed be lost in the process of transmission, or whether Qi deliberately blurred the key points as a funny easter egg, or to prevent "cognition" itself from acting as a interference factor and affecting the future.

But the fact is, even if he did regain control of the contract, there were still many things he couldn't understand.

For example, why he was able to occupy three places in the final copy; why he was still on the list even though he had lost the [Human-shaped Evil Spirit] card in "Shuangxi Town"; why he had never been bound to the [Fool Deceiver] card, but this card was linked to the pseudonym he had used.

He also couldn't understand what was going on between Lin Jue and Xiao Fengchao, why ghosts who had been dead or missing for many years would reappear in the world, and why the [Dark Judge] card that had been recovered by the weird game appeared in Lin Jue's hand.

All this information was hidden in the untraceable memories of the past thirty-six years. Maybe he didn't know it in the first place. Who can tell for sure?

There was a noise in the distance, and the crowds of people made way to both sides, and the players stopped and looked forward to it. Fu Jue, dressed in a black suit, appeared at the end of the road, his face cold and indifferent, and walked slowly towards the World Tree.

Qis was sitting on the World Tree, looking down at him. He seemed to notice something, and raised his light grey eyes behind his glasses, but in the end he saw nothing, and after a brief pause he looked away.

Soon, voices were heard from another direction, gradually becoming a commotion. Occasionally, someone said, "Lin Wu Ya is here..." "How mysterious! This is the first time I've seen him show up in Sunset Ruins."

Qis turned his gaze in the direction where the sound came from. Lin Chen's figure in a white suit and black cloak stood on the rocks at the edge of his vision, painted a dim yellow by the dusk color of the sky.

His face was as gloomy as water, and he also walked slowly towards the World Tree. His eyes met Fu Jue's across the sea of ​​people, without dodging or avoiding.

Qi Si could feel that the soul leaf corresponding to Lin Chen was vibrating wildly and sending a lot of information. First, he asked about the situation of the "Be Careful with the Rabbit" copy, then he described the encounter with Fu Jue and asked for a solution.

He was far from being as calm as he appeared, and still put himself in the position of a subordinate. When encountering problems, his first reaction was to seek Qis' help.

But this time, he got no response from any being.

Qis swooped down from the tree, no longer paying attention to the two people who were confronting each other silently, and walked towards the cliff at the edge of the square.

The marble ruins lie unchanged under the cliffs forever, and the abandoned temple that could not be opened before sits silently on the towering rocks. The light and shadow are blurred and dim in the twilight.

Qis walked over and stopped in front of the bronze door, placing his hand gently on the door as he did last time.

The same whisper echoed in my ears again: "You are still not complete enough to open this door."

Qi Si withdrew his hand, stood there in silence for a long time, his eyes slowly narrowed into a narrow line.

He thought seriously: What else did he lack besides soul and authority?

(End of this chapter)