Infinite spooky game

When Qi Si rushed back to the dormitory, the bell for the second evening self-study get out of class had already rung.

The students who had been ferocious and ferocious before returned to normal, talking and laughing as they headed towards the dormitory building.

The recorder had one bar of battery left, and Qis used its concealment effect to pass through the crowd and return to the dormitory building without attracting the attention of any NPC.

He moved much faster than the students who were playing and fighting on the road, so he was able to reach dormitory 0415 before his roommates and lie down on the bed in the dark.

And at the moment he lay down, the recorder, which had completed all its missions, had just used up the last bit of power, flashed twice, and went out.

About five minutes later, with earth-shaking footsteps, the dormitory head and the boy in bed number 2 came back shoulder to shoulder.

When they saw Qi Si lying on the bed, they looked disgusted, just like on the first day.

"Lu Ming keeps coming back earlier and earlier. Is this going to stop? If he's really that sick, he should go home as soon as possible!"

"I think he is just pretending to be sick and staying in school on purpose. I'm afraid he wants to steal our things, right?"

The two boys were talking to each other, with exaggerated expressions as if they were performing a drama.

Qi Si turned over and pretended not to hear, quietly thinking about how to deal with these NPCs created by Lu Ming after the Three-Line Divine Name spread out tomorrow.

Not long after, Yang Fang walked into the dormitory with his head down, sat down on bed number 4 silently, took out a notebook from under the pillow, and buried his head in writing something.

Qi Si suddenly asked: "Have you heard of the bamboo cage eye game? The children choose a ghost and sing the bamboo cage eye ballad together. All disasters and misfortunes are borne by the ghost..."

He lowered his voice to an extremely low level, as if he was whispering a secret ghost language, which made people feel cold in their hearts.

The dormitory head was a little scared by what he said, and pretended to be calm and said: "Lu Ming, you tell these ghost stories to scare us, thinking that you are powerful? It's a childish trick. We hate you because you are stupid!"

The boy in bed number 2 chimed in: "You have no parents, so listen to what Teacher Li says. Read more and study more, and stop doing these nonsense things!"

Qi Si was almost certain that in this timeline of Hope Middle School, the Bamboo Cage Eyes game had not yet spread too widely and was only known by a few people.

According to Lu Ming's design, the game would not be widely disseminated until August 3, when the booklet containing the Bamboo Cage Eyes ballad was returned.

Unfortunately, Qi Si had already torn up the original page of paper and replaced it with his own name of God. It was completely unknown whether Lu Ming could continue with the script.

Yang Fang frowned and thought for a moment, then said hesitantly, "I have heard of bamboo cage eyes. It was a part of ancient sacrificial activities, and later evolved into a children's game.

"I walked around the lake after evening self-study and I seemed to see some people playing games. I heard them reciting the words 'Crane and Turtle' and 'Bamboo Cage Eyes'..."

"Stop talking!" The dormitory head raised his voice. "Yang Fang, you are usually the closest to Lu Ming. What's the benefit of joining forces with him to scare us?"

The boy in bed number 2 echoed, "He's been fiddling with that crappy notebook all day, probably making up all sorts of nonsense stories... He looks quiet, but I didn't expect he's capable of so many bad things!"

The two of them had loud voices, but they didn't have much confidence.

After listening to what Qi Si and Yang Fang said, they looked at the lights in the corridor that kept flickering due to poor contact, and the more they looked, the weirder it seemed.

The thought of having to go to a dimly lit public bathhouse and passing through a large area of ​​darkness on the way made me feel even colder.

"Forget it, forget it. It's late today and I'm tired, so I won't take a shower." The dormitory head said, took off his shoes, lay down on the bed, covered his head with the quilt, and huddled in the corner.

"If you're not going, then I won't go either. Let's go to bed early today." The boy in bed number 2 had already taken out the foot basin and wash basin. He shuddered and put the toiletries back under the bed.

He was about to turn off the lights when the female dormitory manager shouted in the distance: "Everyone hurry up! I will check the number of people in each dormitory after 9:30!"

They didn't dare turn off the lights for the time being. The four of them lay straight on the bed, waiting for the female dormitory manager to arrive under the pale light.

Ten minutes later, the female dormitory manager, holding a loudspeaker in one hand and a roll call book in the other, pushed open the dormitory door and checked each bed one by one.

She frowned, with a worried look on her face, and ticked a box on the roll call list every time she passed a bed. She was so careful that it didn't seem like she was just completing a routine task, but rather like something big had happened...

When she reached bed number 3, Qi Si asked, "Teacher Qian, why do you suddenly have to check the number of people today? I remember that you didn't check very often before. Did something happen?"

The female dormitory supervisor had a good impression of Qi Si and answered truthfully: "Someone reported that a little girl from Class 10 ran away with someone and did not return home at night. We have not found her yet."

She said angrily: "These children are so ignorant."

Qi Si raised his eyebrows slightly: "Teacher Qian, can I ask who it is? Class 10 is the class next to ours, I might know what's going on."

"'Reiko' is a strange name."

The female dormitory manager walked to the door, turned off the light in the room, closed the door gently, and walked to the next dormitory.

The lights-out bell had already rung, and darkness enveloped the students, signaling the arrival of the sleep time. Even though no one was asleep at this moment, the students did not dare to violate school rules and used conversation to dispel their fear.

Reiko was missing, and Qi Si knew that she was probably dead by now.

Previously, after refusing to clear the level directly, the progress of the main quest [Find Lingzi's body] regressed to [6/7], which means that there is still Lingzi's body that needs to be found.

That might be Lingzi's true death, the cause of Lingzi's death in reality, rather than the Rabbit God's deliberate intimidation of Lu Ming, or Lu Ming's concealment in the space of consciousness.

[The girl died on August 6th, her body buried deep in the woods]

There is a clue in [Lu Ming's diary].

Today is [August 2nd]. Qis guessed that he might have to wait until the time of the copy advances to [August 6th] before he could find Lingzi's body.

Before the body is found, a person's disappearance is called "missing"; only when the body is found and the right and wrong are determined, "death" becomes a foregone conclusion.

Qi Si took out the small rabbit statue and held it tightly under the cover of the quilt.

The cold touch eroded the temperature of my palms, and white mist filled the darkness, diluting the pitch-black color into a thin gray.

The soul suddenly rose and fell. When Qi Si came to his senses, he was standing under the flying prayer belts and on the depreciated silk ribbons that had turned into mud, standing opposite Lu Ming.

["Escape from Rabbit God Town" third week]

[Mission Objective: Escape from Rabbit Town]

[Warm Tips: Be careful of rabbits]

[Save points: ① "Suspicious Questions"; ② Reiko's Rabbit God Mask; ③ Reiko's Prayer Belt; ④ Reiko's Death; ⑤ Imprisoned God]

[You have paused, do you want to continue the game? ]

The golden words floated before his eyes. Lu Ming looked at Qi Si calmly without saying a word.

Qi Si lifted his eyelids and scanned the text, then said, "Yes."

The ignorant gray and the tiny silk ribbons all dissipated, and the tip of the nose smelled of incense and rotten wood. The fragrance of cherry blossoms and rosewood from farther away was blown by the wind, trembling and growing among the various smells.

The tape recorder was tirelessly playing the legend of the Rabbit God. The crisp sound of wind chimes and the "pa pa" sound of wooden signs hitting the windows flickered alternately. The oil lamp was swaying, reflecting the changing light and darkness on his eyelids. Qi Si opened his eyes, sat up from the couch, glanced at the Rabbit God statue still sitting in the shrine, smiled and nodded in a very good mood, as a greeting.

It was still dark outside, and the trip back and forth didn't take too much time, without showing any signs of it in the world of Rabbit Town.

It really seemed like this was just a stand-alone game designed for him, and once he left, the world stopped moving.

On the table next to the door, there is a bright red color that is particularly bright and eye-catching.

Qi Si walked over and saw the [Divine Chisel] carving knife placed in the center of the table, his expression slightly stern.

What happened? Why is the divine chisel on the table?

Qis clearly remembered that after he found out that the Divine Chisel could be taken out of the dungeon, he put it into the item column.

He didn't remember taking it out from beginning to end, and he didn't even notice when the icon of this prop disappeared from the grid in the prop bar.

Is it a mistake in memory, or some mechanism of the copy?

Qi Si reached out to touch the divine chisel, and suddenly caught a glimpse of blood on his right wrist.

A blood-red blessing ribbon was tied there at some point, and it was tied with a bow in a humorous way.

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At this point, Qisi was certain that after he fell asleep in Rabbit God Town, someone must have come and done something to him while he was unaware.

The game "Escape from Rabbit Town" has been paused, so why does the plot in this time and space continue to develop?
Who is behind this? Lu Ming or the Rabbit God? What is the purpose behind this?
Qi Si pulled the blessing band off his wrist, and three words were written in gold on it:

[Weird games, rules, and transactions].

This was the prayer belt he had hung up himself. It was a token of his allegiance to the Rabbit God when he was still unaware of the full story. It was also a test of the Rabbit God.

Mixed in with countless prayer belts, this one is inconspicuous, and can only be discovered if the Rabbit God is willing to look through all the prayer belts.

A god who is willing to read millions of words word by word has either gone mad during his life in captivity, or is so persistent that he is unwilling to give up any hope.

Only in this way could Qisi feel comfortable talking to Him.

However, due to the cognitive distortion of the weird game, ordinary NPCs cannot see the words written on it.

The Rabbit God must be able to see and understand, which proves that He is an NPC with intelligence and can communicate, rather than a dead object or ghost with only divine power.

In this way, He would be worthy of Qis negotiating with Him on an equal footing and engaging in further cooperation and utilization.

So... was this prayer belt tied around his wrist by the Rabbit God to convey a request for cooperation?
Zeiss fell into thought.

If he had wanted to cooperate with him for a long time, why did he act so aggressively and as if he wanted to eat him alive?

Could it be because the Rabbit God just saw this prayer belt a few minutes ago?

The magic chisel on the table suddenly flew up and knocked heavily on the wooden table twice, making a dull "knock knock" sound.

Qi Si turned his head to look over, and at the same time put his right hand on the fate pocket watch on his left wrist, ready to start at any time.

A piece of wood flew out of the wooden box and landed on the table. The magic chisel raised the blade and carved words on it stroke by stroke.

The wooden block is fixed to the left of the center line, and the chisel hangs diagonally on the right side, as if an invisible person is standing there, holding the wooden block in one hand and the carving knife in the other, carving at a leisurely pace.

Qi Si held his breath and reached out to touch it tentatively, but his fingertips passed through the air without producing any feeling.

The divine chisel was still carving, and the first line of text had already revealed the whole picture:
[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)]

Is this a new rule, or just... a hint?
Qi Si's eyes fell on the words in brackets and froze slightly.

Did the other party see what he was thinking?

He has always been good at hiding his feelings and can see through other people's minds, but he never expected that there would be a day when he would be seen through... It was truly a novel experience.

[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.]

The divine chisel drew a big period to indicate completion, and then lay motionless on the table.

Qi Si remembered the ending of the game "Escape from Rabbit Town", "The seed of the evil spirit who committed murder."

The narration said that the character he played, Kanna Shichiro, was in association with an evil spirit. At the time, he guessed that it was not an exaggeration and that he might really have a connection with a certain "evil spirit".

I didn't expect it to be here.

Although its shape cannot be seen, it can manipulate props such as the prayer belt and the divine chisel, and give disrespectful hints at critical moments... It really fits the image of a legendary evil ghost.

Qi Si pondered for a moment, walked to the table, and asked with a smile: "Qi? Are you worried about me and come to see me on the way?"

There was no response. The divine chisel lay on the table as motionless as a mountain, like a dead object without its operator.

Has he left, or is it like in the "Ghost" copy where we can no longer hear his voice?

Qi Si picked up the magic chisel and carved on the wood: [契? ]

He put down the magic chisel, and this time, the carving knife wrapped with red silk floated up and made a big cross on the wood block.

Qi Si picked up the magic chisel again and carved: [Li? ]

The divine chisel's response was still a big X. I don't know if it was Qi Si's illusion, but this X was bigger than the previous one, and the edge was even shaking, as if it was trying to hold back a laugh.

The front of a narrow piece of wood is engraved with conversations. Due to the special nature of "paper and pen", the strokes of the words are sharp, the shapes are loose, and they are all ugly and identical, making it impossible to distinguish them from each other at first glance.

Qi Si narrowed his eyes slightly and engraved: [Me?]

This time there was no response. I don’t know whether the passing “evil ghost” really left or was too lazy to pay attention to Qis’s boring questions.

Qi Si used his magic chisel to carve patterns on the surface of the wooden block until no complete words could be seen, and then he threw it under the bed.

In any case, the words on the wooden block do suggest a new direction - to have a good talk with the Rabbit God.

Anyway, the man and the god will have to live together in the room staring at each other for five days, so there is plenty of time for bargaining.

Holding the tape recorder that was still playing on loop, Qi Si walked towards the shrine step by step and knelt on the cushion in front of the rabbit god statue.

He unfolded the prayer belt with the three words "Weird Game, Rules, Deal" written on it, held it up with both hands and handed it to the incense table. It was a sincere and unguarded gesture.

"Mr. Rabbit God, whether you believe it or not, I am not here to harm you, but to save you."

"Kanna Shichiro was still a child when he died"? Qi Si loves to fool children. (End of this chapter)