Infinite spooky game

"The adults of Rabbit Town are greedy and arrogant, and want to create a god under their control. Whoever that god is, they will be imprisoned here and fulfill their wishes.

"Your Excellency Rabbit God, or Kanna Shichiro, you should know that I am just a player passing through this world, and I have no intention of getting involved in this endless cycle of sin. It is not my intention to be used by them to deal with you."

Qi Si lowered his eyes and sighed softly: "I already have the power of the contract. It is obviously not worth it to trap myself in Rabbit God Town for insignificant divine power. Unfortunately, things have come to this point, and I can't leave here...

"So I was thinking, can we work together? I won't cooperate with the Rabbit God Festival, so you can have a chance to escape from your restraints; and you can save my life so that I can escape from Rabbit God Town alive?"

A bright red scroll of contract appeared in front of him, with lines of terms written in gold-plated text.

The three incense sticks in the incense burner burned quietly, and the curling green smoke rose upwards, blurring the face of the statue in the shrine.

Qi Si knelt for a while, but when he didn't get a response, he said no more.

The Rabbit God was no longer ignorant of the ways of the world, having gone through hundreds of years of ups and downs; it was impossible for him to believe the promise of a strange player at the first time, not to mention that the player had a lot of connections with the authority of the contract.

But there is still a long time. In five days, Qis believes that there are many opportunities to convince the Rabbit God and successfully sign a contract with Him.

The black-haired young man lowered his eyes, took small steps back to the wooden couch, slowly lay down, and after closing his eyes, he looked as innocent and harmless as a real child.

In the darkness, the words "Pause, fast forward, exit" appeared on the game panel.

Qi Si silently repeated the word "fast forward" in his heart. The sound of wind chimes in his ears rang rapidly and noisily. The sound of wind and the collision of wooden signs was loud and chaotic. After a certain moment of roar, it gradually faded away, and the sound of birds singing was melodious.

He opened his eyes, and a ray of morning light leaked in through the cracks in the nailed-up window, casting a narrow and crooked light on his face. The oil lamp on the table had gone out, and the incense on the table had burned down to only three short stubs.

Its daybreak.

"Master Divine Master, today is the second day of August. You should go and cast the lot."

The waiter's old voice came from outside the door, his tone gentle and patient: "You only need to win once after throwing three lots, which means that you are similar to the Rabbit God and can accommodate his child."

The so-called throwing of lots is not as common sense suggests, where the gods make the choices and decisions, and then use the wooden sticks to convey His will to those who believe in Him.

From what the waiter said, it seemed that the people of Rabbit God Town had learned a ritual from somewhere, which allowed them to judge whether a child's body could contain the power of the Rabbit God by throwing wooden sticks.

Only by staining the child with rabbit blood to blind the vision of gods and ghosts can the ritual be rendered ineffective or the child no longer be connected to the rabbit god.

"Please wait a moment, I'll tidy it up." Qis turned off the recorder and politely responded to the waiter outside the door.

He took out the exhausted recorder from the prop column and placed it under his pillow. Although the prop was no longer effective, he still planned to handle it with caution so as not to affect the lottery process.

At this point he also figured out some things. The head of the Kamashi family believed that "the dead rabbits no longer bleed" was the revenge of the Rabbit God, but in fact it was just a misjudgment based on unilateral and limited information.

The Rabbit God would rather Kamwu Shichiro not be chosen, so he naturally had no position to stop the head of the Kamwu family from making small moves; it was estimated that the plan to use rabbit blood to disrupt the ceremony was spread by him on his own initiative.

Unfortunately, Lu Ming hopes that Kanna Shichiro will replace Lingzi as the Lord of God. Lingzi is chosen again and again, so he restarts the world line again and again until the result satisfies him.

One man and one god send off generations of players, but the dungeon time always cycles between August 1st and August 7th.

Lu Ming and Rabbit God started a game with Rabbit God Town and Hope Middle School as the chessboard. Rabbit God could use ghost stories and rumors to erode the minds of NPCs, while Lu Ming could modify the underlying logic, such as stopping rabbits from bleeding.

And now, players are involved in this game...

Qi Si did not take off his kimono before going to bed, but he casually shook the wrinkled fabric to smooth out the wrinkles, thus tidying up his outfit.

He picked up the wooden board on the table with five precautions written on it and pushed the door open to walk out.

The wooden door that I couldn't open last night, when I pushed it again this morning, I found that it was not locked, but just slightly ajar.

The white-haired waiter was waiting outside the door with his head bowed. When he saw Qi Si coming out, he said in a gentle voice, "Master God, after you throw the wooden sticks, burn incense, wash, and change into sacrificial clothes, you will be the real Master God.

"I have informed several family heads of your request. Your friends can accompany you outside the God's Residence, but they must leave after the sun sets."

"Thank you." Qi Si handed him the wooden board and smiled politely, "I saw this wooden board on the table last night, and there were several things written on it, and I have a lot of questions.

"Why are there no more food supplies after August 3? What are the uses of the rabbit statues and prayer plaques I carved?"

[3. The deity should keep his body clean. No food will be provided after August 3, but drinking water is allowed.
[5. There are carving knives and wood blocks under the couch. The deity should carve as many rabbit statues and blessing plaques as possible.]

The two rules written on the wooden board were not very clear. Qi Si pointed them to the waiter with a puzzled look and asked humbly.

The waiter stared at the wooden board for a while and sighed: "This is a rule set many years ago. Perhaps only the family heads know the reason.

"After the prayer plaques are carved, according to the rules, they should be distributed to your family, Lord God, to pray for blessings and avoid disasters.

"As for the Rabbit God statue, it is only to help the Lord God know what the God in his heart looks like."

The chosen child may not necessarily be able to seize the power of the Rabbit God and become a new god; and there is a high probability that he will fail, be corrupted by the will of the Rabbit God, and turn into an evil ghost who only wants revenge.

Fearing being harassed, relatives who shared the same blood had their children carve prayer tablets in front of the Rabbit God in order to avoid revenge from his ghost.

The head of the Kamashi family does not want his child to be chosen, not necessarily because he really pities his young son, but because he does not want to take the risk of being haunted by evil spirits.

Qi Si asked: "Why do we need to know what the god in our hearts looks like? Aren't the gods in our hearts all rabbit gods?"

The waiter sighed again: "If you can only carve out the Rabbit God, then the Lord God will completely become the Rabbit God."

As they were talking, the two of them walked one after the other through the winding corridor, passed the worship hall where cushions were neatly placed, and entered the main hall where the tablet of the deity was placed.

All irrelevant people were cleared away, and there were only a few people in the empty hall. The head of the Kanna family, the head of the Kurokawa family, and an old priest stood in the middle of the hall, and it seemed that they had been waiting for a long time.

Under the vermilion roof, a bright red silk ribbon strung with copper coins hung from high above. The fragrance of rosewood and the incense of cherry blossoms permeated the red silk, and after touching the soft coolness on the cheek, it seeped into the skin.

There was no Rabbit God in the temple where the statue was supposed to be enshrined. There was only a wooden stick holder. The old priest walked towards Qi Si holding three sticks and said in a hoarse and long voice: "Calm your mind, abandon distracting thoughts, and forget all desires."

The two family heads stared at Qi Si intently, with inquiring and nervous expressions on their faces. The head of the Shenwu family was wrapped in a heavy robe, leaning on a cane, and coughing weakly.

Qi Si lowered his eyes and responded, took the wooden stick, and walked towards the stick box step by step.

The sound of wind chimes seemed to ring in his ears again, and there were gentle female voices and serious male voices whispering something. He couldn't hear a word and didn't know who it was, but he became inexplicably irritated.

"Throw the lots--" the priest shouted at the top of his voice.

The lottery ticket box was just three steps away. Qis couldn't understand why someone would miss the throw at this distance. Was it intentional, or were there some variables encountered during the throwing process?
He tentatively threw a wooden stick in his hand into the stick tube, and with a "click", the stick fell into the tube.

"It's successful." A smile appeared on the lips of the head of the Kurokawa family. "It went really smoothly. Shichiro is the Lord God of this generation." The head of the Kanna family remained silent with a gloomy face. His haggard face became even more haggard, as if he would die in the next second.

The priest shouted again: "Throw the lot——"

The female and male voices in his ears became louder, with urgent tones, as if they wanted to say something important, but Qis still couldn't hear clearly, and didn't understand what the two were so anxious about.

He made another throwing motion, and the second stick fell into the stick tube.

"Throw the lot—"

Qi Si seemed to hear someone crying, but the sound disappeared in just a few seconds, as if it came from the bottom of the water far away, separated by water vapor and fog.

He threw the last wooden stick into the stick tube, and all the sounds disappeared in an instant. It was hard to find what he had heard before, as if it was a confused dream.

The head of the Kamashi family finally smiled, his beard trembling with excitement: "Shichiro, you really are the child who looks most like the Rabbit God. No one has ever been able to hit three wooden sticks at once! You will become our new god..."

He knew he had said something wrong, so he covered his mouth and started coughing, but his eyes were filled with joy.

If only one or two lots are drawn, Kanna Shichiro will become a victim just like the previous gods. He will become a ghost after death and disturb the Kanna family day and night.

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But it would be different if three lots were drawn. Kamiya Shichiro might truly become a god and bring protection and blessings to the Kamiya family.

The head of the Kurokawa family said to the waiter, "Please take the Lord to rest first. I will send the ritual robes to him later and help him put them on."

The waiter responded and led the way with his head down.

Qi Si followed him obediently and walked out of the hall.

Behind him, the old priest said in a deliberately low voice: "Qilang has no desires, and is the most suitable material to become a god, but there is still a hurdle to overcome.

"Let him have the desire, the desire to have what he wants in his heart, to know what he really wants to be.

"Only in this way can we avoid being deceived by the Rabbit God and becoming a puppet controlled by him."

Adults need children to be like the Rabbit God, that is, to be without desires like gods. Only in this way can they accommodate the power of the Rabbit God.

But adults need children to be less like the Rabbit God, not to become a replica or puppet of the Rabbit God, but to become a new god that truly belongs to Rabbit God Town.

Human beings have always been such a contradictory species, making those with insatiable desires indifferent and making those who have no desires greedy. They are obsessed with flattening and rounding the weak and shaping them into the shape they want.

Qi Si pretended to be unaware and said softly, "I don't think it's that difficult to cast lots. Why didn't the previous gods cast three lots correctly?"

The waiter turned his head to look at him and asked, "Master Shenzhu, did you see or hear anything when you cast the lot?"

Qi Si did not intend to tell the NPC about the existence of the male and female voices. He shook his head and said, "No."

"That's because you have no desire."

The waiter smiled bitterly: "It is said that when you cast the first lot, you will see the most important thing you have lost; when you cast the second lot, you will see the thing you want most; when you cast the third lot, you will see the thing you fear the most.

“If you have desires, your vision will be obscured by what you want, what you seek, and what you fear, and you will not be able to see the stick box or yourself clearly. If you have no desires, you will not have fears, and your vision will be clear, so you will be able to easily put the stick into the stick box.”

Qi Si said "Oh" and didn't say anything else.

He was led back to the shrine by the waiter, sat down in front of the table, took out a piece of wood from the wooden box and placed it on the table, picked up the sacred chisel in his right hand, and quietly began to carve the statue.

The waiter left and he uttered a low "hmm" without even raising his eyelids to look at the people around him, as indifferent as a god.

You and I carved out a god that belongs only to us.
We speak to each other, entrusting our desires to the new God...

People without desires cannot carve new statues of gods. They can only imitate the rabbit statues in the shrines of gods, repeating the old patterns and carving soulless copies.

But an "evil ghost" came unexpectedly last night and told Qis the solution to this deadlock -

Just carve it according to the Rabbit God wood carving that Lu Ming used as the entrance to the game "Escape from Rabbit God Town". It must not be the same as the Rabbit God statue in Rabbit God Town.

All things in the world are unable to contain their entire selves, just like a glass jar that can contain a world, but in the world it contains, it is impossible for it to contain another identical creation.

This is a cheating method that exploits a game bug, and it also seems to be the only solution.

The carving knife fell on the wood block again and again, shaving off pieces of wood chips, large and small, which fell like snowflakes and stuck to the back of Qis's hand, causing a slight itch.

Under the cherry tree not far from the window, the waiter sighed and said to himself:

"Poor child, if he had no desires, he would never suffer. Why do the adults want him to suffer from desires?"

"To make a child who has no desires have desires but not satisfy them, is it just to make him afraid, to make him suffer, to make him sad?"

The sound was drowned out by the joyful sound of wind chimes and crackling wooden signs, shattered and drifting like a dream.

Qi Si's hand paused slightly, leaving a shallow scratch on the face of the statue.

The block of wood in his hand already had a rough outline of a human figure, but he had no idea what the final product would be.

Qi Si let his heart carve and suddenly felt that he also had desires, because people without desires could not stay in the world for long.

It's just that his desire was too distant, too shallow, and lost for too long, and had faded into an almost transparent white under the wash of time. He couldn't see or hear clearly, so he mistakenly thought it didn't exist.

His desire should be related to the two voices he heard, but unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried, he could not figure out what the voices were saying, nor could he remember where he had heard them before.

The magic chisel was picked up again, and Qis continued to carve the block of wood in his hand.

He followed inertia and instinct, calmly carving the face and body of the statue again and again with his knife.

The block of wood was chipped smaller and smaller, until finally only a thin slice was left. The original human figure disappeared, and there was no formed object at all.

Qi Si began to carve the prayer plaque with malicious intent, and engraved the strange lyrics of the ballad "Bamboo Cage Eyes" on it, and a bright smile slowly appeared at the corner of his lips.

He is not good at saving himself, nor is he good at figuring out what he really wants, but when it comes to making people unlucky, he has always had a great passion and is quite good at it.

Maybe his wish is to make everyone in the world feel bad, who knows? (End of this chapter)