Infinite spooky game
Chapter 347 Beware the Rabbit Bamboo Cage Eye Game
Chapter 347 Beware of the Rabbit (Part ) Bamboo Cage Eye Game
"Poor child, let him be our God..." An old voice sounded behind him, hoarse and low.
Qi Si put away the carving knife and turned to look.
The smoke from the incense burner spread out, outlining a phantom.
The naked boy sat cross-legged on a cushion, his face pale and his eyes closed, like a corpse, but his chest was rising and falling slightly and his heart was still beating.
The old priest in black hunting clothes was hunched over, holding a piece of longevity incense in his left hand, and standing with his back to the statue of the Rabbit God.
He held the carving knife wrapped with a red ribbon in his right hand and gently brought it down on the boy's back, piercing his skin. The blood that flowed out was golden red in color.
Dense and strange symbols were carved on the blade, and bright red threads connected the boy and the rabbit statue.
The boy's body and appearance were changing at a speed visible to the naked eye: his body became slender and well-proportioned, and his face became soft and featureless.
It's like a piece of marble being chiseled out of it with a chisel and axe to form a human-shaped statue.
A new god is being carved, or rather, someone is trying to carve a god.
"The body suffers, but the soul is immortal... The Rabbit God descends into human form, bestowing blessings on generations..."
The priest lowered his voice and recited the words very quickly, his voice as quiet as the whisper of a mouse.
The runes all over the boy's body glowed with a sacred golden light. Looking closely, it was discovered that it was not light, but the color of blood.
——The golden blood of a divine being.
The shadow of the Rabbit God rose from the shrine and slowly attached itself to the boy. Fine hairs grew on the boy's face and his eyes suddenly opened, emitting the blood red of a rabbit's eyes.
Not only his face, but his naked body was also covered with rabbit fur. Combined with his protruding mouth and nose and sharp teeth, he was clearly a human-shaped rabbit!
The Rabbit God had already been imprisoned in the young boy's body, but the priest's face did not show the relief of having accomplished a great task. Instead, he showed an emotion of loss.
Wind chimes swayed outside the house, and wooden signs vibrated. He trembled as he placed the carving knife on the table and sighed, "Failed... It has been polluted by the Rabbit God again. There will be another ghost in the forest..."
The picture stopped abruptly here. Qis pondered the information in it and vaguely came up with some guesses.
The purpose of the three families holding the Rabbit God Festival is definitely not just to imprison the Rabbit God and avoid revenge and curses.
Otherwise, they can reach a new contract with the Rabbit God under the witness of the rules.
The Rabbit God hopes to break free from the constraints of the three families, and the heads of the three families hope to get rid of the shadow of the Rabbit God. They all want something, so why not take what they need?
The answer is simple, it’s just because one party is unwilling.
The good thing that only requires sacrificing one person to realize one's wish has continued for a hundred years. The greed and laziness in people's bones have taken root and cannot be shaken off.
Human desires are eternal and endless. On the one hand, they fear the curse of the Rabbit God, and on the other hand, they are unwilling to give up the benefits that are within their grasp.
So... they wanted to create a new god.
A god who inherits the power of the Rabbit God, is completely under their control, and will not or dare not betray them.
Based on this, many of the five points of attention regarding the [Lord God] can be explained.
The first one is that they are afraid that the Rabbit God will reveal many secrets that are unfavorable to Rabbit God Town, so they ask the God Lord not to trust what he sees and hears after entering the God's residence.
If Qi Si was a native of the Three Families, he might really think that the illusion he saw was a false image made up by ghosts to confuse him.
Unfortunately, based on all the information, he was able to judge that what he saw was most likely something that had actually happened, but was being reproduced at this time.
The third and fourth articles are preparations for carving the deity into a god. In the deification ceremonies of many religions, there is a requirement to keep the body clean.
As for the purpose of the second and fifth items, there are too few clues to make a definite judgment for the time being.
The wind chimes outside the door were blown by the wind, making a crisp tinkling sound, mixed with the "pa pa" sound of the wooden sign hitting the wooden window.
The window was locked from the outside and had not been opened for a long time. When it was slammed, a cloud of dust fell like rain and snow.
Qi Si stepped closer to the door and tentatively turned the doorknob, but found that the door was locked and could not be opened.
The lots have not been cast yet and his identity as the god has not been confirmed. Why would he lock the door today?
No one else was here just now, and he was the only one in the shrine. Who locked the door?
"Bamboo cage eyes, bamboo cage eyes, when will the bird in the cage be released to fly?"
The sound of children's songs rang out in the house, and several children in kimonos were holding hands and dancing around a shadow.
Their faces were pale, their eyes were dark and lifeless, and their mouths opened and closed as they uttered words that sounded eerie in the cold and lonely night.
"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 children stopped and turned to look at Qi Si. They raised their hands stiffly, and their joints made the "clicking" sound of old puppets.
The "Bamboo Cage Eyes" game is a weird game in which one person is chosen to play the role of a "ghost" and sit in the center of a circle formed by other people. The player is asked to guess who is behind the person.
In the horror legends that Qis learned about, the person chosen as the "ghost" will bear all disasters and misfortunes, and often ends up dying a miserable death.
His only chance is to speak to the person behind him in the Bamboo Cage Eye game and let that person become the "ghost" instead of him.
Someone has to sacrifice, it's just a matter of who will do it. The core of this seems to be similar to the Rabbit God Festival, or in other words -
The idea of sacrificing one person to achieve the majority runs almost throughout history and the present, and often gains the support of many people.
Of course, for Qis, if he is among the majority, the act of sacrificing one person for benefit is naturally worthy of applause.
If he were in the minority, then the death of millions of lives in the world would be far less important than his momentary happiness.
But what does the appearance of the game "Bamboo Cage Eyes" at this time and place mean?
"Xiao Qi, what's wrong with you? You look very different today. Is it because you were asked to play the ghost game yesterday? Are you unhappy?"
"Next time, I'll be the ghost. If they insist on you playing the ghost, I'll quietly stand behind you and pat your shoulder..."
The cheerful voice of Reiko from Rabbit God Town echoed in my ears, but was immediately replaced by the malicious whispers of the students from Hope Junior High School.
"What bad luck! I just played the bamboo cage game and asked her to be a ghost, and she looked like this. She pretended to be dead very well."
"Who wants to play bamboo cage eyes? Let's let Lu Ming play the ghost. He can't catch us, so he has to be the ghost among us forever!"
It seems that there is a clue connecting Rabbit God Town and Hope Middle School hidden in the dark, which has only quietly surfaced at this moment.
"Kannashiro, do you want to play bamboo cage eyes with us?" The children looked at Qis and laughed.
The faces of several of them began to rot, and dark green juice flowed down.
One of them had its entire face skin gone, leaving only a white skeleton; the other had a few pieces of flesh hanging on its face, floating with the laughter.
Qi Si held the carving knife in his left hand, and covered the fate pocket watch on his left wrist with his right hand, looking at the children indifferently. In the silence, his inspiration came to him, and he couldn't help but grin: "Okay, let's play together. Who will play the ghost?"
"Of course it's you! That's what we agreed on last time!" The children didn't seem to realize that he had any ulterior motives, and they ran over and surrounded him with laughter.
They took each other's hands again and spun in a circle.
"Bamboo cage eyes, bamboo cage eyes, when will the bird in the cage be released to fly?"
The moment the song started, Qis suddenly lost his vision, and there was only darkness in front of his eyes, as if the lights were turned off or he had become blind.
He pinched his own pulse and counted the seconds silently in his mind.
"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 singing stopped for exactly thirty-two seconds, and a voice asked coldly, "Who is standing behind you?"
The other children began to count down: "Ten, nine, eight..."
"Edo Reiko." said Keith.
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Reiko said that she would play the ghost in the next Bamboo Cage Eye game. Even if she was not chosen at first, she would stand behind Kanna Shichiro and replace him.
Just like in the world line of Hope Middle School, the students said that they wanted Lu Ming to play a ghost, but in the end it was Lingzi who died in the Bamboo Cage Eyes game.
Although Reiko has died in this world line, this bamboo cage eye game is undoubtedly the "next time" in her context.
Qi Si was betting that even if Reiko's soul leaf in Rabbit God Town had been shattered by him, the progress of this word game would still run according to the written pattern and achieve a certain image that corresponded to what happened in Hope Middle School.
If you lose the bet, you can only use the fate pocket watch to go back once; if you win the bet, the authenticity of this Rabbit God Town time and space is questionable...
"Congratulations, you guessed it right!" The children applauded.
With a "bang", something fell down and rolled to Qis's feet.
Lingzi's head was lying in front of Qis with her lifeless eyes wide open, facing the sky.
Qi Si was always good at memorizing the details of corpses. He was absolutely certain that the head in front of him was the one lying in the utility room of the cafeteria of Hope Middle School...
Is Rabbit God Town really located in the past?
Are the remains of Rabbit God Town really under the foundation of Hope Junior High School?
The children skipped away, and Lingzi's head on the ground turned into a pool of blood, seeping into the vermilion ground.
Originally, Qi Si thought that the color of the ground was cinnabar, but now the more he looked at it, the more he felt that it was blood all over the ground.
The wind chimes outside the window were ringing wildly, and a few gusts of wind penetrated the room through the cracks, blowing the ends of Qis's hair beside his ears, and rippling the red kimono on his body like waves.
The light from the oil lamp flickered twice and became dimmer.
The rabbit god in the shrine opened his eyes at some point, his blood-red eyes staring at Qis, his mouth stretched into an exaggerated arc, revealing his fine fangs.
He leaned forward, and stretched out his skinny claws from the shrine, as if he wanted to grab something, but retracted them at the last moment.
Judging from the direction his arm was pointing, his target seemed to be Qis' neck.
The Rabbit God wants to escape from Rabbit God Town and continue to exist; and the gods who enter the God's residence, whether voluntarily or by being deceived, will eventually have the opportunity to seize the Rabbit God's power and become new gods.
The two are undoubtedly in opposition.
Telling the truth to the children who were chosen as the gods and forming an alliance with them would be too troublesome and unrealistic; for the Rabbit God, the easiest way is to kill all the gods.
As for how those gods who entered the God's Residence in the past lived to see the Rabbit God Festival...
Qi Si remembered the second point of attention.
【2. You should recite the blessing at least once a day on the cushion, and you must be sincere and not stop.】
The adults in Rabbit God Town clearly want the children to replace the Rabbit God, yet they make them believe in the Rabbit God devoutly. They clearly know the secret, but they spread the legend of the Rabbit God among the people. There must be some reason behind this.
"Faith is poisonous." A voice in the memory chuckled at the bottom of the mind, and behind it bloomed golden giant trees and blood-red vines.
Qi Si knelt on the mat and read aloud word by word: "The Rabbit God descended to the northwest, wearing red and colorful clothes and sitting on a high platform, bestowing blessings on generations. Three families celebrated with fireworks, and the carriage passed through the southeast street and was buried deep in front of the cave."
He recited without a trace of emotion, and no sincerity could be heard in his voice, yet several blood-colored threads condensed in the air and entangled the Rabbit God from all directions.
The ends of the threads were connected to the base of the shrine, pulling the rabbit god's limbs backward like chains.
On the surface, the rules have always been fair and ruthless. The gods enjoy the sacrifices of believers and in return should satisfy the wishes of believers. The beliefs of believers can even influence the gods, imprison them, and bind them...
When he was sixteen, at the Libra Church's summer camp, Qi appeared beside Qis and said to him -
"It is a ridiculous joke that believers who are trying to find God have imprisoned their God."
At this moment, Qis took out a tape recorder from the prop bar, called up the previously recorded story of the Rabbit God told by Lingzi, and set it to play in a loop.
The girl's soft and sincere voice lingered in the room. Under Qis's gaze, the rabbit statue slowly retreated back into the shrine and resumed its cross-legged sitting posture with its eyes closed.
Only the slightly trembling black robe on his body revealed his inner unwillingness and resentment.
Qi Si stood up with the tape recorder in his hand, stepped over the mat, approached the shrine, and looked at the bottom of the shrine through the statue.
A portrait is painted on the dark brown background, and the figure of a person wearing a red hunting robe and a fox mask is blurry.
But almost the moment he saw it, Qis confirmed its identity——
Contract.
The Rabbit God was imprisoned in the shrine of the Rabbit Shrine and was not allowed to leave for two hundred years.
Qi Si laughed out loud: "Interesting, can a god who is constrained by others and trapped in the world still be called a god?"
There was only one person and one god standing opposite each other in the room. The god had his eyes closed and remained silent. No one responded to Qis' words.
New text appears on the game panel:
[Obtain save point ⑤ Imprisoned God]
[After Lingzi died, you became the shrine master in her place and were imprisoned in the shrine. You saw the rabbit god imprisoned in the shrine.
[In this destined to be an uneasy night, you were frightened by illusions and disturbed by ghosts, but fortunately you finally resolved them one by one.
[You have learned a lot of secrets about Rabbit God Town and the Rabbit God faith, and you have also realized that your situation is full of dangers. On the day of the fireworks festival on August 7, if nothing unexpected happens, you will die in the Rabbit God Festival.
[How can you fight against the malice of the Rabbit God? How can you survive the Rabbit God Festival? Is there really a way to have the best of both worlds? You are not sure, but there is still a lot of time...]
(End of this chapter)
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