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 and the wooden sign shook. He trembled and put the carving knife on the table, sighing: "Failed... It was polluted by the Rabbit God again, and there will be another ghost in the forest..."

The picture stopped abruptly, and Qi Si tasted the information in it and vaguely had some guesses.

The purpose of the three families holding the Rabbit God Festival is not just to imprison the Rabbit God to 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 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 linger.

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

So... they want 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.

Based on this, there are many explanations for the five precautions for the [God Lord].

The first one is that they are afraid that the Rabbit God will reveal many secrets that are unfavorable to the Rabbit God Town, so they require the God Lord not to trust what he sees and hears after entering the God's residence.

If Qis was a child born and raised in 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 can judge that what he sees is most likely a real thing that happened, but it was reproduced at this time.

The third and fourth items are preparations 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 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 sound, 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. Being hit like this, it shook off a shower of dust like rain and snow.

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 god was not confirmed. Why would he lock the door today?

No one else came 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?"

A crisp nursery rhyme sounded in the house, and 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.

The "Bamboo Cage Eyes" game is a weird game in which one person is chosen to play the "ghost" and sit in the center of a circle formed by other people, and he is asked to guess who is behind him.

In the horror legend that Qi Si learned, the person chosen as the "ghost" will bear all disasters and misfortunes, and often ends up with a bad end and a miserable death.

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

Someone has to sacrifice, it's just a matter of who to sacrifice. Its core seems to be similar to the Rabbit God Festival, or in other words-

The idea of ​​sacrificing one person to achieve the majority has been almost throughout history and the present, and it often wins the support of many people.

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

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

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 always asked to play the ghost when playing Bamboo Cage Eyes yesterday? Are you unhappy? '

'Next time I will play the ghost. If they insist on asking you to play the ghost, I will 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 of Hope Middle School in an instant.

'It's really unlucky. I just played the game of Bamboo Cage Eyes for a while and asked her to play the ghost. She looked like this, pretending to be dead. '

'Who wants to play Bamboo Cage Eyes? Let's let Lu Ming play the ghost. He can't catch us. He will always be the ghost among us! '

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

"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.

The whole face of one of them disappeared, leaving a white skeleton; another one had a few pieces of meat hanging on his face, floating with laughter.

Qi Si held the carving knife in his left hand, covered the fate pocket watch on his left wrist with his right hand, and looked 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 play 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, when will the caged bird fly?"

The moment the song started, Qi Si suddenly lost his vision, and there was only darkness in front of him, as if the lights were turned off, or he was blind.

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

"In the early morning, the crane and the turtle fell, and the child behind them asked who it was?"

The song 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 eye game. Even if she was not selected 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 the ghost, but it was Reiko who died in the bamboo cage eye 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 Reiko's soul leaf 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 the bet is lost, it is just a matter of using the fate pocket watch to go back once; if the bet is won, 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 opened her lifeless eyes and 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 skipped 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 gaps, blowing the ends of Qi Si's hair beside his ears, and the red kimono on his body also rippled 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, and his blood-red eyes stared at Qi Si, 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 arm was pointing, his target seemed to be Qi Si's 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 opposition.

Telling the children who were chosen as the gods the truth and establishing an alliance with them is inevitably too troublesome and unrealistic; 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...

Qis remembered the second point of attention.

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

The adults in Rabbit God Town clearly wanted children to replace the Rabbit God, but they made them believe in the Rabbit God devoutly; they knew the secret, but they spread the legend of the 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 blood-red vines.

Qi Si knelt on the futon 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 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 silk threads condensed in the air, entangled with the Rabbit God from all directions.

The ends of those silk threads were connected to the bottom of the shrine, dragging the Rabbit God's limbs back 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...]