Infinite weird games

When Qisi rushed back to his dormitory, the bell for the second period of evening self-study had already rang.

The students who had previously shown their teeth and claws and looked ferocious returned to normal, chatting and laughing as they rushed towards the dormitory building.

The recorder still had one charge left, and Ziss 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 around on the road, so he was able to reach dormitory 0415 before his roommates, and lay down on the bed in the dark.

And at the moment he lay down, the recorder that had completed all its tasks had consumed its last power, flashed twice and went out.

About five minutes later, amidst the earth-shattering footsteps, the dormitory manager and the boy in bed No. 2 came back side by side.

When they saw Qiss lying on the bed, they looked as disgusted as they did on the first day.

"Lu Ming has been coming back early every day. Are you done with it? If you are really sick, go home as soon as possible!"

"I think he just pretended to be sick and stayed in school on purpose, maybe to steal our things?"

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

Qisi turned over and pretended not to hear, quietly thinking about how to deal with these NPCs created by Lu Ming after the name of the three-line god was spread tomorrow.

Not long after, Yang Fang walked into the dormitory with his head lowered, sat down on bed No. 4 silently, took out his notebook from under the pillow, and buried himself in writing something.

Qisi asked abruptly: "Have you ever heard of the Bamboo Cage Eye game? Children choose a ghost and sing the Bamboo Cage Eye ballad together. All disasters and misfortunes are borne by the ghost..."

He kept his voice very soft and low, as if he was whispering secret ghost words, which made people's hearts tremble.

The dormitory manager was a little embarrassed by what he said, and he pretended to be calm and said: "Lu Ming, you are telling these ghost stories to scare us, do you think you are powerful? It's a childish trick, we hate you just because you are stupid!"

The boy in bed No. 2 helped: "You have no father or mother, listen to Teacher Li, read more and study more, and do less of these things!"

Chiss is almost certain that in this timeline of Hope Middle School, the bamboo cage eye game has not spread too widely and is only known to a few people.

According to Lu Ming's plan, the game's widespread dissemination would probably have to wait until August 3rd, when the booklet containing the Ballad of Bamboo Cage Eyes was returned.

Unfortunately, Qisi has torn up the original page and replaced it with his own god's name. It is completely unknown whether Lu Ming's script can continue.

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

"I went for a walk around the lake after my self-study in the evening. I seemed to see people playing games and heard them reciting the words 'Crane and Turtle' and 'Bamboo Cage Eye'..."

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

The boy in bed No. 2 echoed: "I play with that old notebook all day long, probably just making up random stories... Looking at it silently, I didn't expect it to be so bad!"

The two of them had loud voices, but they were not very confident.

They listened to what Qisi and Yang Fang said, and then looked at the lights in the corridor that kept flickering due to poor contact. The more they looked at it, the weirder they felt.

The thought of going to a dimly lit public bathhouse later and passing through a vast expanse of night on the way made my spine shiver even more.

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

"If you don't want to go, then I won't go either. Go to bed early today." The boy in bed No. 2 had already taken out the footbath and washbasin, but now he shivered and put the toiletries back under the bed.

He was about to turn off the lights when the female dormitory shouted in the distance: "Everyone, hurry up! After nine-thirty, I will go from dormitory to dormitory to check the number of people!"

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

Ten minutes later, the female dormitory manager held a loudspeaker in one hand and a roster in the other. She opened the door to the dormitory and checked the beds one by one.

She frowned, with a worried look on her face, and checked a box on the roll call every time she passed a bed. He was so careful that it didn't look like he was completing a routine task, but as if something big had happened...

When she walked to bed No. 3, Qisi asked at the right time: "Teacher Qian, why do you suddenly need to check the number of people today? I remember that I didn't check the number of people before. Did something happen?"

The female dormitory manager had a good impression of Chiss and answered truthfully: "Someone reported that a little girl from Class 10 ran away with someone and stayed out all night. No one has been found yet."

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

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

"It's called 'Lingzi', what 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 bedroom.

The lights-out bell has rang long ago, and darkness under the hood signals the arrival of sleep time. Even if no one is asleep at the moment, students do not dare to violate school rules and use conversation to dispel fear.

Reiko is missing, and Qisi knows that she is probably dead at this moment.

After refusing to clear the level directly, the progress of the main mission [Find Qi Reiko’s Body] has regressed to [6/7], which means there is still another Reiko body that needs to be found.

That might be the real sign of Reiko's death, the cause of Reiko's death in reality, rather than the Rabbit God's deliberate intimidation of Lu Ming, or Lu Ming's secretive cover-up in the conscious space.

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

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

Today is [August 2nd], and Qisi guessed that he might not be able to find Reiko's body until the dungeon time is pushed to [August 6th].

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.

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

The cold touch erodes the temperature in the palm of the hand, and white mist fills the darkness, diluting the dark color into a thin gray.

His soul suddenly rose and fell. When Qisi came back to his senses, he was standing under the prayer ribbons flying in the sky, on top of the worn-out silk ribbons that had fallen into mud, facing Lu Ming.

[The third episode of "Escape from Usagi Kamachi"]

[Mission goal: Escape from Usagiami Town]

[Warm reminder: Be careful with rabbits]

[Archive points: ① "Suspicious Question"; 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? 】

Golden text floated in front of his eyes. Lu Ming looked directly at Qisi calmly without saying a word.

Qisi raised his eyelids and scanned the text before saying, "Yes."

The ignorant gray and fine silk ribbons all dispersed, and the tip of the nose smelled the smell of incense and rotten wood. The fragrance of cherry blossoms and rosewood from further away was blown by the wind, and tremblingly grew among various smells.

The tape recorder plays the legend of the Rabbit God tirelessly. The crisp sound of the wind chimes and the "pop" of the wooden sign hitting the window alternate with each other. The oil lamp flutters, reflecting on the eyelids, changing light and darkness.

Qisi opened his eyes, sat up from the couch, glanced at the rabbit statue still sitting upright in the shrine, smiled in a good mood and nodded, as a greeting.

The sky outside was still dark, and it didn't take much time to come and go. There were no clues in the world of Usagi Kamachi.

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

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

Qisi walked over and saw the [divine chisel] carving knife placed in the center of several cases, with a slightly stern look on his face.

What's going on? Why does Shen Chi appear on several cases?

Zeiss clearly remembered that after he discovered that the Divine Chisel could bring out a copy, he put it in his inventory.

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

Is it an error in memory, or some mechanism of the copy?

Qisi reached out to touch the divine chisel, and from the corner of his eye suddenly caught a glimpse of blood on his right wrist.

I don't know when a blood-red prayer belt was tied there, and it was tied with a bow in a playful manner.

At this point, Qisi was sure that someone had definitely been here after he fell asleep in Usagiami Town and did something to him while he was unaware.

The game "Escape from Usagi Kamachi" is obviously suspended, why does the plot in this time and space continue to develop?

Who caused the trouble? Lu Ming or the Rabbit God? What's the purpose behind it?

Qisi pulled the prayer belt off his wrist, and three words were clearly written on it in gold——

[Weird games, rules, transactions].

This is the prayer tape he hung up himself. It is the declaration of surrender he gave to the Rabbit God before he knew the full story of the incident. It is also a test of the Rabbit God.

This one among the countless prayer tapes is not eye-catching, unless the Rabbit God is willing to look past the prayer tapes to find it.

And a god who is willing to read thousands of words word for word has either gone crazy during his imprisonment, or is so persistent that he is unwilling to let go of a glimmer of hope.

Only in this way could Zisi dare to talk to Him with confidence.

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

The Rabbit God must be able to see and understand it to prove that he is a communicative and intelligent NPC, rather than a dead object or ghost with no power.

In this way, he has the value of letting Qiss negotiate with him on an equal footing and carry out further cooperation and utilization.

So... was this prayer ribbon wrapped around his wrist by the Rabbit God to convey a request for cooperation?

Zeiss fell into thought.

If you had wanted to cooperate for a long time, why did you show such an attitude that you wanted to eat him alive?

Is it because the Rabbit God just saw this prayer tape a few minutes ago?

The chisels on the tables suddenly flew up and hit the wooden table twice hard, making a muffled "knock-knock" sound.

Qisi looked sideways, and at the same time put his right hand on the fate pocket watch on his left wrist, ready to activate it at any time.

A piece of wood flew out of the wooden box and landed on the desk. The chisel raised its blade and carved characters on it stroke by stroke.

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

Qisi held his breath and tried to reach out to touch it. His fingertips slipped through the air without any touch.

The divine chisel was still carving on its own. The first line of text had already revealed the full picture:

[1. The Rabbit God can communicate, but don't overestimate His wisdom. When Shenwu Shichiro died, he was still a child and couldn't understand the subtext; (I brought the blessing belt back. If you have any ideas for a deal, just tell the Rabbit God directly)]

Is this a new rule, or... a hint?

Qisi's eyes fell on the words in brackets, and he froze a little.

Did the other party see his thoughts?

He has always been good at hiding his feelings and seeing through the thoughts of others, but he didn't expect that there would be a day when he would be seen through... It was really a novel experience.

[2. When carving the Rabbit God statue, don't carve it according to the Rabbit God statue in the shrine, otherwise you will only become the new body 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 that it was finished, and lay still on the table.

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

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

Unexpectedly, it was exactly here.

Although he could not see the body, he could manipulate props such as the blessing belt and the divine chisel, and give hints of disrespecting the gods at critical moments... It really fits the image of the legendary evil spirit.

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 still as a mountain, as if it had lost its operator.

Has he left, or is it like in the "Changui" copy that his voice cannot be heard?

Qi Si picked up the divine chisel and carved on the wood block: [Qi? 】

He put down the magic chisel. 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 magic chisel responded with a big cross. I don’t know if it was Qi Si’s illusion. This cross 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 the narrow wood block was full of dialogues. Because of the special nature of the "paper and pen", the strokes of the words were sharp, the shapes were loose, and they were ugly and exactly the same. At first glance, it was difficult to tell them apart.

Qi Si narrowed his eyes and carved again: [I? ]

This time there was no response. I don’t know if the "evil ghost" who passed by really left, or was too lazy to pay attention to Qi Si’s boring questions.

Qi Si carved the surface of the wood block with the magic chisel until no complete words could be seen, and then threw it under the bed.

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

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

Qi Si held up the tape recorder that was still playing in a loop, 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, Transaction] in his hand, held it with both hands and handed it to the incense table, with 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 likes to fool children the most. (End of this chapter)