Infinite weird games

"Poor child, let him become our god..." An old voice sounded behind him, hoarse and low.

Qis put away the carving knife and turned his head to look.

The smoke from the incense burner spread out, outlining a phantom.

The naked boy sat cross-legged on the mat, his face pale, his eyes closed, like a corpse, but his chest was slightly heaving, and his heart was still beating.

The old priest in black hunting clothes hunched over, holding a piece of longevity incense in his left hand, standing with his back to the rabbit god statue.

He held the carving knife wrapped with a red ribbon in his right hand, gently fell on the boy's back, pierced the skin, and the blood that flowed out was golden red.

Dense and strange symbols were carved under the blade, and strands of bright red silk threads were connected between the boy and the rabbit god statue.

The boy's body and appearance changed at a speed visible to the naked eye. His body became slender and even, and his face became soft and featureless.

It was like a piece of raw marble being chiseled out of the stone into a human-shaped statue.

A new god was being carved, or someone was trying to carve a god.

"The body suffers, but the soul is immortal... The rabbit god descends to human form, blesses and protects generations..."

The priest lowered his voice and recited the words very quickly, whispering like a mouse.

The runes all over the boy's body glowed with sacred golden light, but a closer look revealed that it was not light, but the color of blood.

-- The golden blood of the gods.

The phantom of the rabbit god rose from the shrine and slowly attached to the boy. Fine hair grew on the boy's face, and his eyes suddenly opened, emitting the blood red of rabbit eyes.

Not only his face, but his naked body was also covered with rabbit hair. With his protruding mouth and nose and sharp teeth, he was clearly a human-shaped rabbit!

The Rabbit God has been imprisoned in the body of the young man, but the priest's face does not show the relaxation of completing a great task, but a feeling of loss.

The wind chimes outside the house swayed, the wooden sign vibrated, and he trembled and put the carving knife on the table, sighing: "Failed..."

The picture stopped here, and Qi Si tasted the information in it, vaguely guessing.

The purpose of the three families holding the Rabbit God Festival is not just to imprison the Rabbit God to avoid revenge and curse.

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 shackles 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 needs to sacrifice one person to realize the wish has continued for a hundred years, and the greed and laziness in the bones have taken root and sprouted, and it is lingering.

Human desires are eternal and endless. On the one hand, they are afraid of the curse of the Rabbit God, and on the other hand, they are unwilling to give up the benefits that are within their reach.

So... they wanted to create a new god.

A god who inherited the power of the Rabbit God, was completely under their control, and would not or dare not betray them.

Based on this, many of the five precautions for the [God Lord] can be explained.

The first one was that they were afraid that the Rabbit God would reveal many secrets that were unfavorable to the Rabbit God Town, so they asked the God Lord not to trust what he saw and heard after entering the God's residence.

If Qis was a native child of the three families, he might really think that the illusion he saw was a false illusion made up by ghosts to confuse him.

Unfortunately, based on all the information, he could judge that what he saw was most likely a real thing that happened, but it was reproduced at this time.

The third and fourth rules were to prepare for carving the God Lord into a god. In the deification rituals of many religions, there is a requirement to keep the body clean.

As for the purpose of the second and fifth rules, 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 sound of dingling, mixed with the "pa pa" sound of wooden signs hitting wooden windows.

The window was locked from the outside and had not been opened for a long time. The slapping caused a shower of dust to fall.

Qi Si approached the door step by step and tried to turn the door handle, but found that the door was locked and could not be pushed open.

He had not cast the lot yet and his identity as the lord of the gods had not been confirmed. Why would he lock the door today?

No one else came just now. He was the only one in the shrine. Who locked the door?

"Bamboo cage eyes, bamboo cage eyes, when will the caged bird be released to fly?"

A crisp nursery rhyme sounded in the house. Several children in kimonos held hands and danced around a shadow.

They were pale, their eyes were dark and dull, and their mouths opened and closed to spit out words, which sounded gloomy in the cold night.

"In the early hours of the night, a crane and a turtle fell down, and the children behind them asked who it was?"

The children stopped and turned their heads to look at Qi Si, their hands raised stiffly, and their joints made the "click" sound of old puppets.

Qis remembered that this was a game called "Bamboo Cage Eyes", which originated from the traditional sacrificial activities of Sakura Mansion, and was intended to pray for the protection of the gods and dispel disasters.

The specific rules are to choose one person to be the "ghost", blindfolded and squat in the middle, and the others hold hands around to form a circle, singing and turning around.

After the song is finished, the "ghost" is asked to guess who is behind him. If the guess is right, the person guessed will replace the original person as the "ghost"; if the guess is wrong, the "ghost" will continue to stay in the middle.

But this game is not as simple as it seems on the surface.

In the horror legends that Qi Si knew, the person who was chosen as the "ghost" would bear all the disasters and misfortunes, and would often die miserably in the end.

His only chance was to say something to the person behind him in the game of Bamboo Cage Eyes, and let him become the "ghost" instead of himself.

There was always someone to sacrifice, it was just a matter of who to sacrifice. Its core seemed to be similar to the Rabbit God Festival, or in other words -

The idea of ​​sacrificing one person to achieve the majority has almost run through history and the present, and often won the support of many people.

Of course, for Qi Si, if he was in the majority, sacrificing one person in exchange for benefits would naturally be worthy of applause.

If he was in the minority, then the death of thousands of lives in the world would be far less important than his momentary pleasure.

But what does the appearance of the game of "Bamboo Cage Eyes" at this time and place mean?

'Xiao Qi, what's wrong with you? You look very different today, because yesterday when you played Bamboo Cage Eyes, you kept being a ghost. Are you unhappy? ’

‘Next time we play, I’ll be the ghost. If they insist on you being the ghost, I’ll quietly stand behind you and pat your shoulder…’

The brisk voice of Reiko from Rabbit God Town echoed in my ears, and was replaced by the malicious whispers of the students from Hope Middle School in an instant.

‘What bad luck! It was just a game of bamboo cage eyes. I asked her to be the ghost, but she looked like this. She pretended to be dead. ’

‘Who wants to play bamboo cage eyes? Let’s let Lu Ming be the ghost. He can’t catch us. He has to be the ghost among us all the time! ’

It seems that there is a clue connecting Rabbit God Town and Hope Middle School hidden in the dark, and it has not quietly surfaced until this moment.

“Kanna Shichiro, do you want to play bamboo cage eyes with us?” The children looked straight at Qi Si and laughed.

The faces of several of them began to rot, and black and green juice flowed down.

One of them had his entire face skin gone, leaving only a white skeleton; the other had a few pieces of flesh hanging on his face, floating with 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 heart was inspired, and he couldn't help but grin: "Okay, let's play together. Who will be the ghost?"

"Of course it's you! We agreed last time!" The children didn't seem to see his other intentions, and ran over to surround him with laughter.

They held each other's hands again and turned in a circle.

"Bamboo cage eyes, bamboo cage eyes, the bird in the cage, when will it be released into the sky?"

The moment the song sang, Qi Si suddenly lost his vision, and there was only a color of darkness in front of him, as if the lights were turned off, or he himself fell into a state of blindness.

He pinched his pulse and counted the seconds silently in his heart.

"In the early hours of the night, the crane and the turtle fell down, and the child behind them asked who it was?"

The singing stopped, 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." Qi Si said.

Reiko said that she would play the ghost in the next Bamboo Cage Eyes game. Even if she was not selected at the beginning, 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 the ghost, but it was Reiko who died in the Bamboo Cage Eyes game.

Although Reiko has died in this world line, the current Bamboo Cage Eyes game is undoubtedly the "next time" in her context.

Qi Si is betting that even if the soul leaf of Reiko in Rabbit God Town has been shattered by him, the process of this word game will still run according to the written mode, achieving a certain image corresponding 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 Qi Si's feet.

Reiko's head, with lifeless eyes wide open, stopped in front of Qi Si, facing up to the sky.

Qi Si has always been good at memorizing the details of corpses. He is very sure that the head in front of him is the one lying in the utility room of the cafeteria of Hope Middle School...

Is Rabbit God Town really located in the past time and space?

Are the remains of Rabbit God Town really under the foundation of Hope Middle School?

The children jumped away, and Reiko'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 paved with cinnabar, but now the more he looked at it, the more he felt that it was blood all over the ground.

Wind chimes rang wildly outside the window, and a few wisps of wind penetrated the room through the cracks, blowing the hair on the side of Qis's ear, and rippling the red kimono on his body like waves.

The light of the oil lamp flickered twice and became dimmer.

The rabbit god in the shrine opened his eyes at some point, staring at Qis with blood-red eyes, and his mouth opened an exaggerated arc, revealing fine and sharp teeth.

He leaned forward, and his skinny claws stretched out of the shrine, as if he wanted to grab something, but he retracted it at the last moment.

Judging from the direction his arms pointed, his target seemed to be Qis' neck.

The rabbit god wanted to escape from Rabbit God Town and wanted to continue to exist; and the gods who entered the shrine, whether voluntarily or deceived, would eventually have the opportunity to seize the power of the rabbit god and become new gods.

The two are undoubtedly in an opposing relationship.

It is too troublesome and unrealistic to tell the children who were chosen as the gods the truth and to establish an alliance with them; for the Rabbit God, the easiest way is to kill all the gods.

As for how the gods who entered the gods' residence in the past survived to the Rabbit God Festival...

Qi Si remembered the second point of attention.

[Second, you should recite the blessing on the futon at least once a day, and you must be pious and not interrupted. ]

The adults in Rabbit God Town clearly want children to replace Rabbit God, but they make them believe in Rabbit God devoutly; they clearly know the secrets, but they spread the legend of Rabbit God among the people. There must be some reason behind it.

"Faith is poisonous." A voice in the memory chuckled at the bottom of the mind, and behind it bloomed golden giant trees and bloody vines.

Qi Si knelt on the mat and read word by word: "The Rabbit God descended to the northwest, wearing red and colorful clothes and sitting on the high platform, blessing and protecting generations. Three families celebrated with fireworks, and the carriage passed through the southeast street and was buried deep in front of the cave."

He read without any emotion, and there was no sincerity, but several blood-colored threads condensed in the air, entangled with the Rabbit God from all directions.

The ends of those threads were connected to the bottom of the shrine, dragging the Rabbit God's limbs backwards like chains.

On the surface, the rules have always been fair and ruthless. The gods enjoy the sacrifices of believers and in turn should satisfy the wishes of believers. The beliefs of believers can even influence, imprison, and bind gods...

When he was sixteen years old, Qi came to Qis at the summer camp base of the Libra Church and said to him-

"The believers who tried to find gods imprisoned their gods. How like an absurd joke."

At this moment, Qis took out the recorder from the prop column, called up the story of the rabbit god told by Lingzi, and set it to play in a loop.

The girl's soft and sincere voice hovered in the room. Under Qis's gaze, the rabbit god statue slowly retreated to the shrine and resumed the posture of sitting cross-legged and closing his eyes to rest.

Only the slightly trembling black robe on his body showed his inner unwillingness and resentment.

Qis stood up with the recorder in his hand, stepped over the cushion, approached the shrine, and looked at the bottom of the shrine through the statue.

A portrait was painted on the dark brown background. The figure wearing a red hunting robe and a fox mask was blurry.

But almost the moment he saw it, Qis confirmed its identity -

Qi.

The Rabbit God was imprisoned in the God's Residence of the Rabbit Shrine by Qi and could not leave for two hundred years.

Qis laughed out loud: "Interesting, a god who is constrained and trapped in the world, can he still be called a god?"

There was only one person and one god standing opposite each other in the room. The god closed his eyes and did not speak. No one responded to Qis' words.

On the game panel, new text was refreshed:

[Get the save point ⑤ Imprisoned God]

[After Lingzi died, you replaced her as the god, and were imprisoned in the God's Residence. You saw the Rabbit God imprisoned in the shrine.

[In this doomed night, you were frightened by illusions and disturbed by ghosts, but fortunately you resolved them one by one in the end.

[You know a lot of secrets about Rabbit God Town and Rabbit God faith, and you also realize that your situation is full of dangers. When the fireworks festival comes on August 7, you will die in the Rabbit God Festival.

[How can you fight against the malice of Rabbit God? How can you survive the ritual of 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)