Infinite weird games
Chapter 337 Beware of the Rabbit (XIX) The Trap of the Witch
Qisi slightly spread his hands, a relaxed and unguarded action, accepting the desires of believers as tolerantly as a real god, and the black-clothed rabbit god statue in his arms reflected the moist halo.
The head of the Kurokawa family was distracted for a moment, and then frowned: "Why did you, Kurokawa Akira, and Reiko leave Rabbit God Town without saying a word and appear in the mountains and forests in the middle of the night?"
Qisi lowered his eyes and said in a statement: "Kurokawa Akira told me and Reiko the secrets about the Rabbit God. Not everyone is willing to sacrifice their own interests for the desires of others.
"Even gods are unwilling to damage their souls to satisfy the wishes of believers."
The head of the Kurokawa family pondered for a moment, and then asked: "Then why are you willing to give your life for the Rabbit God Festival now?"
"Because I know the consequences." Qisi raised the corners of his lips, smiling kindly and selflessly, "The Rabbit God is about to break free, and then the entire Rabbit God Town will bear His wrath. I was born in Rabbit God Town, and I was loved by adults, so I naturally have to bear some responsibility.
"Sacrificing one person to save the majority is the rule that Rabbit God Town has adhered to for two hundred years. It is better to die than to let everyone die together, isn't it?"
These words were said with great righteousness, and they were not mature enough for a child of this age, but they undoubtedly solved the biggest crisis facing Rabbit God Town and were in the interests of most people.
"Shichiro is such a good child, he has such a responsibility at such a young age."
"We still have to discuss this matter with the Kanna family, but since Shichiro has this intention, there must be no problem."
"Shichiro himself is the child who looks most like Rabbit God, and the head of the Kanna family will definitely put the overall situation first."
The voices of the retainers became joyful and relaxed, and they praised Qis without hesitation, completely forgetting that the cause of Reiko's death was still in doubt, and it was related to the two children who forced her to flee Rabbit God Town.
The little fat boy squatted nearby, feeling at a loss as to what to do about Reiko's death. Suddenly, he heard Qi Si spilling out everything and making the inexplicable decision to sacrifice himself. He couldn't help but widen his eyes: "Xiao Qi, are you going to..."
"Kurokawa Akira, don't you think you've caused enough trouble?" The head of the Kurokawa family glared at him coldly.
He immediately trembled and fell silent, biting his lips and not daring to say another word, only looking at Qi Si with puzzled eyes.
The head of the Kurokawa family also looked at Qi Si again, and his voice was different from the previous gentleness: "Shichiro, come back to Rabbit Shrine with us first, so that you can explain tonight's situation to your father.
"After tomorrow, if nothing goes wrong, you will be the chief priest of Rabbit Shrine. "
This is obviously a consoling attitude, just like an ordinary adult promising a crying child a birthday party or an exquisite gift.
Zis knew that the head of the Kurokawa family did not believe his words. His attitude changed too quickly, and he was too indifferent to the death of his companions. Any normal person could detect the weirdness.
But they had no choice. From the beginning, the sacrifice had to be made between Kanna Shichiro and Reiko; after eliminating one of the options, there was no suspense about the decision they would make.
The world line was fixed at this moment, leading to the only ending. This was one of the reasons why Zis killed Reiko-he needed to clear all interference and become the only choice of the Rabbit God.
Head of the Kurokawa family With a gesture, two retainers lifted Reiko's body and stood at the end of the team. The other retainers surrounded Qi Si and the little fat man in the middle, which was both a protection and a shackle.
The flickering firelight dispelled the ghosts and fog, and the crowd went down the mountain in a mighty manner, passing through the path they had taken when they came, and returned to Rabbit God Town.
It was clearly night, but the entire Rabbit God Town was brighter than daytime. Every household lit a lamp in front of the door, and residents of all ages gathered at the intersection, worried and anxiously waiting for the returnees who were brought back late at night.
The team passed slowly, and after seeing Qi Si and Kurokawa Akira, people's faces showed anger and confusion.
"It's really ignorant. The fireworks festival is about to start, but you run into the mountains and forests, which makes people worry for no reason. ”
“I hope it won’t affect the Rabbit God Festival, and I hope that Lord Rabbit God won’t blame me…”
When the team reached the end and saw Reiko’s body, everyone turned pale.
“It’s Reiko from the Edo family! She’s dead, why did she have to die before the Rabbit God Festival?”
“The child who looks most like Lord Rabbit God is dead, what should the Rabbit God Festival do? "
Everyone was genuinely and deeply worried, not out of sympathy and mourning for the deceased, but because they were afraid that the next rabbit god sacrifice would go wrong. The life of the child was insignificant, and praying to the rabbit god and fulfilling the wish was the most important thing.
The news that "Reiko is dead" was passed on in the crowd, and voices of fear or disbelief rang out one after another, and suddenly a sharp cry came through the darkness.
A woman dressed in white and with disheveled hair rushed out of the crowd and threw herself on Reiko's body: "Reiko, my daughter... They hurt you so much..."
The woman looked crazy, her face was as hideous as a ghost, and her tears splashed on Reiko's body. People reacted very quickly to pull her and dragged her back, muttering dissatisfiedly: "It's Reiko's mother, a crazy woman..."
"She's sick again, why did the people of the Edo family let this crazy woman run away? ”
Some people sighed with pity: "He was also a poor person. The head of the Edo family took a few retainers and left Rabbit God Town from the northwest on the eve of the Rabbit God Festival and never came back. She also went to the northwest and went crazy when she came back. "
"I'm not crazy! I'm not sick!" The woman didn't know where she got the strength to break away from them, and turned towards the head of the Kurokawa family, "You killed her! You killed my husband, and you also wanted to kill my daughter!"
Unable to dodge, the head of the Kurokawa family quickly drew out the katana from his waist and held it in front of him. His original intention was to scare the woman away, but the woman did not dodge and ran straight into the knife edge. Her skin and flesh were cut open, and blood spattered like a waterfall.
Screams exploded in the crowd, and the head of the Kurokawa family had a look of horror on his face. He hurriedly put away his knife and stepped back.
"Stop her! Find someone from the Edo family..."
The retainers came to protect the head of the Kurokawa family and stood between him and the woman. Several others left the queue and ran toward the southeast, probably to find the servants of the Edo family.
The woman didn't notice their movements and kept rushing forward. The blood on her chest gurgled down, blooming bloody flowers on her white clothes, and a few strands slipped from the knife edge on her arm, wrapping around her wrist like a ribbon.
She looked like a fierce ghost, stretching out her bloody hands to grab the people in front of her: "You evil ghosts... I will kill you to avenge my daughter!"
The fat boy Akira Kurokawa's retreat was half a beat too slow. The woman grabbed him by the collar and waved his limbs wildly, unable to get away.
His face was pale and wrinkled, and he was about to cry: "It's really none of my business. I didn't want to kill her, I wanted to save her...
"The one who wanted to kill her was the Rabbit God. I heard that she would die after the Rabbit God Festival, so I took her away with Qilang..."
He spoke incoherently, speaking out all the certain and uncertain information in his subconscious.
In his opinion, Reiko encountered ghosts as soon as she entered the forest. It was obviously the work of the Rabbit God in order to prevent the final Rabbit God Festival. Later, there were no scars or omens, and she died silently as if she was sleeping. It was most likely that she was killed by a god or something. His existence took his life.
After all, Kanna Shichiro has such a good relationship with Reiko, how could he possibly hurt her?
From the moment he entered Rabbit God Town, Zeiss deliberately concealed himself in the center of the group, with people on both sides blocking him so as not to attract too much attention.
He lowered his eyes and listened to the little fat man's indiscriminate rebuttal. He retreated into the depths of the crowd without leaving a trace, hiding himself in the shadows of the dimly lit place.
The woman tightly held the little fat man's neck and lifted him up from the ground. The dripping blood dripped on the hostage's face, causing waves of fearful trembling.
Pedestrians on both sides heard the words of the little fat man clearly, and the emotions revealed in them did not seem to be hypocritical, not to mention that children of this age simply did not have the courage to lie to the murderer when they were kidnapped.
They opened their eyes wide in astonishment, and regardless of the woman who was committing the murder, they unanimously turned their attention to the head of the Kurokawa family: "Master Kurokawa, is what your son said true?"
"Why would Lord Rabbit God want to kill Reiko? What does the Rabbit God Festival mean?"
There were also older people who remembered something and murmured: "The Rabbit God Festival eighteen years ago, the Rabbit God Festival thirty-six years ago, the chosen God Lord seems to have never appeared again..."
"Yes, they all say that the Lord God stays in the shrine to worship the Lord Rabbit God, but even if he is a pure monk, how come he never shows up?"
Human beings are all suspicious. The doubts hidden under the water only require a few splashes of water to attract people on the shore to look up like gulls.
A lot of information that had not been noticed or subconsciously ignored in the past was mentioned again now, unintentionally supporting Akira Kurokawa's remarks.
The servants of the Edo family finally arrived and hurriedly surrounded the unconscious mistress and rescued the pale fat man.
Without exception, they wore black clothes like mourning clothes, dragged the struggling woman, carried Reiko's body on their backs, and left in silence like stone, leaving behind a group of whispering residents.
Everyone was waiting for a response to the Rabbit God. The Kurokawa family leader said in a deep voice: "Tomorrow, I will give you an explanation together with the Kanna family leader."
The retainers began to drive people away with persuasive words, and the residents who gathered at the intersection finally dispersed in disbelief.
The little fat man's body was still stained with the woman's blood, his clothes were wrinkled, and he looked extremely embarrassed. He also knew that he had caused a big disaster, so he followed the Kurokawa family head tremblingly, lowering his head in silence.
The head of the Kurokawa family ordered his retainers to send the little fat man home. He took only a few followers with him and walked side by side with Qisi in the direction of Kannaji's family.
The lights on both sides of the street were gradually extinguished, and only the torches in the hands of the retainers were dimly lit. They were shortened by half and were still burning downwards.
In silence, the head of the Kurokawa family slowly spoke: "We have thought more than once about ending the Rabbit God Festival and ending this two-hundred-year cycle of fate.
“This is not to say that we are so desireless that we can resist the temptation to sacrifice one person to realize the wishes of the majority, but... we are afraid.
"The power of the Rabbit God is getting stronger and stronger, and the gods who used to imprison him in the past have been transformed into evil spirits, constantly harassing our three families. If things go on like this, he is destined to break free, and then it will be our death.
"We have been trying to escape from Usagi God Town. After the Edo family leader sent several retainers to leave and come back, he thought he could succeed, but he didn't know that it was Usagi God's trap.
"Back then, our ancestors set traps to trap Him, and He gradually learned the tricks and tricks to use traps to deal with us descendants..."
Another unknown side of the events two hundred years ago was revealed, and the complete iceberg emerged before the eyes as the head of the Kurokawa family told it.
Once a transaction under the witness of the rules begins, neither party can terminate it.
The people of Rabbit God Town imprisoned Rabbit God, so why didn’t Rabbit God imprison Rabbit God Town?
Bounded by the cave where the bones of the Rabbit God were found, the entire Rabbit God Town is isolated from the world. The so-called calmness is just because it is independent from the world.
Two hundred years of offerings and sacrifices, threats and collusion have exhausted both humans and gods.
But no one dares to stop first. Under the Prisoner's Dilemma, both parties do not trust each other and are unwilling to make concessions. The Rabbit God does not know whether he will let go of the past imprisonment, and the heads of the three families do not dare to take the risk of being retaliated by the gods.
When the Rabbit God was about to break free, the people of Rabbit God Town, under the guidance of the wizard, used their children's lives to fight back and maintain the precarious seal.
Rigid and unflexible rules form a cycle for generations, seemingly unsolvable; just waiting for the balance to be broken one day, with blood as the end of everything.
"Human beings don't trust the kindness of gods, but gods don't care about human happiness, anger, sorrow, and happiness. They observe each other based on their own thoughts and thoughts, and misunderstandings arise from this."
Qiss sighed softly, and his tone was melodious as if he was declaring: "As everyone knows, God himself has no desires, and what humans see is just the projection of their own desires on the gods."
The head of the Kurokawa family suddenly turned around, with a horrifying look in his eyes, as if he suddenly caught a glimpse of the face of the deceased in the reflection of the glass, but he was not sure of the suspicions and assumptions in his heart.
"You are not Shichiro Kanna, who are you?" he asked.
The firelight in the night trembled violently, and the shadows projected on the ground were elongated and distorted. The game panel of "Escape from Usagi Kamachi" shook left and right, which was a sign that the NPC noticed an abnormality and was about to fail to clear the level.
Qisi looked at the Kurokawa family leader calmly, with a smile on his lips like an evil god bewitching his followers: "I once told you - 'make a deal with him, and let him be used by you under the constraints of the rules.'
"I never thought that just two hundred years later, you would handle the situation I set up so badly. But fortunately it's too early. The Rabbit God has not yet broken free. There is still room for change. We might as well negotiate another deal."
Fine blood droplets seeped out of thin air, steaming and condensing into a long bright red scroll in front of the young man, with golden vine patterns rolling on it, and lines of gilded words written with claws and teeth.
At that moment, the figure of the young man in red seemed to coincide with the legendary wizard who changed the fate of everyone in Usagi Town. He was also so persuasive and promised a seemingly harmless deal with an attitude that could not be refused.
The trembling scenery slowly settled, as if he recognized the new identity Qis had fabricated for himself.
He has soul contract skills, is the past of the evil god contract, and has the [Scarlet Priest] identity card, so it is perfect for him to play the role of a shaman who conspires to imprison the Rabbit God.
"As expected, you are back again..." The head of the Kurokawa family looked sad and whispered to himself, "Two hundred years ago, our ancestors were bewitched by you and made a deal with the Rabbit God, which caused the descendants to be imprisoned here, shrouded in the fear of precariousness. Not allowed to leave.
"Fifty-four years ago, the then head of the Kanna family was bewitched by you and hunted the rabbits near Usagi-gami Town, which further loosened the seal. Maybe in the next generation, Usagi-god will escape from the trap and destroy all the descendants of Usagi-gami Town...
"How can I trust you again?"
Qisi tilted his head to listen to his words, but laughed out loud: "Since it is a transaction, how can there be no price? Just bearing the fear of death and suffering the shadow of precarious life is better than hunger, plague and war. There are too many, so why are you dissatisfied?"
The Kurokawa family advocated opening his mouth to say something, but he couldn't find the words to refute.
Qisi's smile became even wider and he put his index finger between his lips: "I know that human beings are all greedy. No matter how deep the pain of others is, it is not as shocking as the loss of oneself. Even if it is something that does not belong to oneself, once it is obtained, , I don’t want to throw it away.
"There is nothing wrong with this. Selfishness is an instinct engraved in the bones and blood of human beings, and it is passed down from generation to generation. Only in this way can the contract of every dollar be used."
He paused for a moment, waved his hand gently, and the long bloody contract spread out in front of the Kurokawa family master, flowing like a river of blood.
“To coerce gods with a mortal body is nothing more than relying on the protection of rules.
“When you bet on huge benefits with tiny chips, you should have the awareness that everything will be lost; since you are walking to the edge of the cliff, why should you be afraid of the illusory consequences?
"You have no other choice but to make a contract with me." (End of Chapter)
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