Infinite spooky game

On the homepage of the game forum, a large number of posts with the keyword "Unnamed Guild" appeared.

Since Qis had done a good job of keeping the secret - of course, it was mainly because there were too few people in the guild - all the information that players knew was the full game broadcast when the guild was established, and the line of hand-filled information that appeared at the end of the leaderboard.

Some people expressed their anticipation and curiosity. The name "Unnamed Guild" sounds cheerful and fits the hedonistic trend that has been spreading in Sunset Ruins during this period. These people are happy to join the new guild to join in the fun, and maybe they can even become veterans.

Another group of people expressed their concerns and condolences. They claimed to be knowledgeable people, and they were best at talking about conspiracy theories. They talked about inside information all the time, and proposed possibilities including but not limited to "old guilds harvesting new guilds" and "old guilds building empty shell guilds for experiments".

A small number of people showed their excellent memory and noticed the name that Qi Si filled in the vice president column.

#Personal prediction: The most complicated person in the Unnamed Guild is the vice president named "Siqi"#
[1st floor (Original poster): Everyone should feel the same way. The name "Siqi" is too special and too rare. The possibility of having the same name as someone else is very low. If it looks familiar, then you must have encountered it before.

When the poster saw the name, he felt that there was something wrong, so he did an advanced search in the forum and found out that he was the new player who was parasitized by the puppeteer in the "Hopeless Sea" dungeon and was said to have successfully escaped from the control.

Why is he not simple? The story of "Hopeless Sea" is not over yet. There are only two possible outcomes.

The first is that Siqi has not escaped the control of the puppeteer at all, and the information he conveyed is just a smokescreen. The puppet is equivalent to the puppeteer's agent. Suddenly appearing in our sight in a high-profile manner, it is not difficult for us to infer that Xila must have a big move and a big plan.

The second possibility is that Siqi escaped the control of the puppet master and cleared the "Hopeless Sea" dungeon as MVP. This shows that he has the same skills as the puppet master and may reach that level after growth; secondly, the dungeon that can attract the puppet master must be very difficult, and his gains may be more than we imagined.

From Chang Xu's live broadcast video, we can indirectly see that Si Qi's intelligence is above average and he is meticulous enough in details. Why would he take the risk of being noticed and fill in his real name in the vice president column?

Either his strength has reached a level where he is not afraid of being deliberately targeted by others; or he intends to attract the attention of certain forces and has other plans. 】

[2nd floor: I got it, so is there a possibility that some idiot used Siqi's name to establish a guild? As we all know, the name can be filled in randomly, as long as there is a connection. ]

[3rd floor: The author's essay is way off topic. What does "most difficult" mean? Someone of Si Qi's caliber can only be the vice president. Obviously, Lin Wu Ya, as the president, is even more difficult.]

[4th floor: I think the author's analysis makes sense. Siqi is too mysterious. He never broadcasts live, and no video has been released. His sudden appearance at this moment is likely a deliberate move by a certain force. The question is, which force does he belong to?]

[5th ​​floor: I suspect that the Unnamed Guild has some connection with Libra. The guild leader is named Lin Crow, and the "Crow" is obviously a code name. I heard that Libra members have always had a tradition of using animal names as code names.]

【…】

Jiangcheng University, Library.

Lin Chen was holding a tablet computer, sitting in the corner of the study room, browsing the weird game forum conscientiously.

Qi Si had told him before that he could be upgraded to level two by replying to a post a hundred times. After seeing more core information, he kept it in mind and planned to complete the upgrade task within one day.

The forum has no privacy settings. All replies can be seen by clicking on the homepage. They cannot be deleted actively and can only be edited one by one.

Copying and pasting slogans of solidarity and criticizing the Xila Association are such meaningless replies. There are a hundred of them, which is simply a black history.

Lin Chen couldn't bring himself to do that, so he simply pulled out the posts he had collected that he thought were useful, reviewed the content, took notes, and then posted the key points he had summarized in the comments section.

It shouldn’t affect the layout.

Two hours later, Lin Chen finally reached level two.

He exited the favorites interface and returned to the forum homepage, where he was overwhelmed by a bunch of discussion posts about the unnamed guild.

He somehow clicked on the post with the word "Siqi" in the title.

……

In the temple, Qis combined the information provided by Qi and the puppeteer, added some specious statements, and conveyed a confusing oracle to the high-ranking official of the Libra Church named "White Crow".

——Interpreting oracles is the job of charlatans, and imagining divine revelations is the job of believers. It doesn't matter what the gods' original intentions are. It is enough to sit in the shrine and act as a banner.

Qis believed that the Libra Church had been dormant for many years, waiting for an opportunity to emerge, and would be happy to get involved in the upcoming muddy waters and make them even more muddy.

He studied for a while the automatic points deduction setting he had made earlier using the Scepter of Poseidon.

The newly formulated rules were running quite successfully. In just one day, 42,000 points accumulated in the points pool, some corresponding scarlet points were also distributed, and most of the daily necessities on the shelves were exchanged.

Qis bought a new batch of daily necessities from the game mall, set a fairly high price, and put them on the shelves.

As for whether the monetary system will collapse and whether the unlucky people under his control will die, this is not something he needs to consider.

With a huge population base, consumables can be found everywhere. Just kill the disobedient ones, and then replace them with new ones.

The 99% at the bottom of the pyramid support the 1% at the top. The pyramid structure is stable in every sense. Under the rules set by the vested interests, if one does not have the absolute power to resist tyranny, one can only accept exploitation and oppression.

"It's still too troublesome to calculate the scarlet points according to the points ratio. Most of the time, the total number can't be rounded up... Maybe we can consider keeping the total number of scarlet points issued each time constant and decide how to distribute them based on the contributions of the players?"

Qi Si thought aimlessly, slowly closed his eyes, and silently said "exit the game space".

After the consciousness was pulled away, it floated up, and at some point it sank down, as if it was caught in a fishing net, passed through the sticky water, and fell on the dry shore.

The exhaustion from establishing the guild spread throughout his limbs and bones, and his soul seemed to be stuffed into a plastic sealed bag filled with sleepiness. Without even opening his eyes, Qis turned over and fell asleep.

He had a strange dream, in which he saw Jin Yusheng.

Jin Yusheng was wearing a red Tang suit, holding a folding fan, sitting in a pure white room, playing Go with himself.

After seeing Qi Si standing at the door, he smiled and waved: "Old Qi, come and play a game with me. I'm playing alone here, and people will think I'm a fool."

Qis knew he was dreaming, and he didn't want to use his brain to play chess with others in his dream, so he turned around and left, not forgetting to close the door.

Unexpectedly, there was another room connected to the room. Jin Yusheng was sitting beside the chessboard, inviting people to play chess with an expression, movements and tone that were almost the same as in the first room.

Qiss: "..."

The new room had several doors. He chose the one farthest from him, pushed the door open, and once again saw Jin Yusheng holding the chess piece...

We entered a few more rooms and the situations were all the same. The scenes were a bit scary for ordinary people.

Qis could only sit down on the other side of the chessboard and pick up the black piece, placing it in the upper right corner of the board.

After a fierce battle, he lost, and the loss was without any suspense. He was almost defeated in an overwhelming manner.

Jin Yusheng put all the chess pieces into their respective chess baskets, and smiled as they scattered into spots of light in the sky.

Although Qi Si originally just wanted to deal with it casually, the feeling of failure was really unpleasant.

So he went into another room and sat down in front of the chessboard.

This time he changed the placement of several chess pieces, and the decline was not so obvious, but he was still surrounded and killed by the white pieces at the last moment. The rest of Jin's life was scattered into dots of light again, and Qi Si stood up and walked into the next room...

After losing forty-six games in a row, Qi Si sat in front of the chessboard in the forty-seventh room, staring at Jin Yusheng with his chin in his hand.

Jin Yusheng suddenly said, "Old Qi, why don't you learn how to play chess? You always simply avoid losing routes, but you don't know exactly where you lose. You won't win no matter how many times you repeat it."

Qis had indeed never learned to play Go, he just knew the rules of the game; he had no intention of learning it either, as it was boring and a waste of time.

He let out an "oh" and picked up the iron chessboard and smashed it on Jin Yusheng's face. There was a crisp "crack" sound as a hard object smashed his skull.

If it were in reality, Qis would not do this. After all, it is not easy to find a useful tool person, especially the kind that has been PUA for six years and has been trained.

But since I'm dreaming, there's no need to worry about that.

Qi Si held the chessboard expressionlessly and smashed it on Jin Yusheng's head, again and again...

It was not until a dent appeared on "Jin Yusheng's" head and silky blood flowed out like a spring that he threw the chessboard aside.

When the time was almost up, Qisi fell backwards and woke up from his dream.

The time on his cell phone showed that it was six o'clock in the morning on April 4. He slept for sixteen hours without eating.

There were seven records of missed calls, all from Lin Chen; there were also three text messages received, all from Lin Chen.

——I guess there was some disturbance in the forum related to him.

Qi Si had no intention of answering the phone or reading text messages, and he was too lazy to go to the forum to take a look.

The cloudy morning was as gray as the evening. Standing at the window and looking into the distance, large areas of reinforced concrete buildings were hidden in the dark clouds, as if covered by a thick, opaque tablecloth, and their heads were being swallowed by invisible monsters.

Qi Si played Candy Crush for a while, then got up from bed at 6:30 sharp, and took out a white shirt from the all-white shirts in the closet to replace the one he was wearing that had been wrinkled by being pressed.

The air was very humid, and the white floor tiles in the bathroom were covered with tiny water droplets as dense as insect eggs. The worn glass on the washstand was foggy in many places.

After brushing his teeth and washing his face, Qi Si went to the toilet and crushed the water droplets on the ground into a water film.

He left the house, took the elevator downstairs, walked out of the community, and went to the morning market next door.

When he passed by the breakfast shop he often went to, the proprietress greeted him and said, "Young man, it's been a long time since you bought food from me!"

Qi Si turned around and entered the breakfast shop: "Well, an egg-filled pancake."

He swiped nine yuan and said casually, "I went back to my hometown a few days ago to deal with some things. I just came back yesterday and made myself a bowl of instant noodles to get by."

The proprietress threw the dough into the pot, cracked an egg on top, and said calmly, "Alas, your generation are all only children, and you have to take care of everything by yourself. It's really not easy."

Qi Si found a plastic stool and sat down, staring at the people passing by on the street in a daze.

He still remembered the familiar feeling he had felt at Sunset Ruins yesterday. Someone was spying on him. It was an acquaintance.

As his understanding of the strange game deepened, he was certain that his entry into the game was not an accident.

Qi tried to pull him into the game countless times before he was sixteen, but failed every time. The question is who has the ability to accomplish what Qi cannot do within the constraints of the rules.

The guild's power is complex and intertwined. It is unimaginable that a being with such power can mobilize so many forces. To be able to grow to that level, he must be cautious enough. It is very likely that he has already made some arrangements and conducted a lot of investigations and surveillance on him...

So, who could it be?
"My aunt is going back to her hometown in a couple of days, so this store will be closed for half a month."

The proprietress put the sausage on the dough, flipped it with a spatula, and rolled the dough into a tube: "One of my little sisters died, I have to go and see her off..."

Qi Si has never been able to understand feelings like friendship and family, and he doesn't know what's the point of attending a funeral when someone is dead.

He was like a cold-blooded animal like a venomous snake, accustomed to treating the people around him as part of the environment. He didn't care about closeness or distance, only familiarity and unfamiliarity, danger and safety...

But at this moment, he just listened silently, pretending to be mourning and compassionate.

The lady boss sighed: "Alas, our generation is getting old one after another, dying at any time...

"To be honest, I've lived for fifty or sixty years. I've lived enough. The only thing I can't let go of is my children and grandchildren..."

The egg-filled pancakes are ready.

Qis, carrying a plastic bag, mixed with the endless stream of people rushing towards the exit of the morning market.

I had only taken a few steps when I heard a young man's voice behind me shouting, "Mom, can you lend me some more money? I'm going to see Xiaojuan, and I can't just wear this..."

Two seconds later, the boss lady's voice rang out: "The money has been transferred to your WeChat account. Dress up nicely and take Xiaojuan out for a good meal... but don't gamble with it anymore."

"Got it, Mom, I'm leaving!"

Qi Si looked back and saw only a thin figure. He was about the same age and had a similar body shape as him. He should be the proprietress's son.

He did not stop and walked to the trash can in the corner of the morning market as usual, fed the dog with the sausages, and returned home with the remaining omelets.

He took small bites of the omelet and finally had time to study the text message sent by Lin Chen.

The first message said that many people in the forum had noticed his existence, and the discussion was getting more and more heated, and some even suspected that the Unnamed Guild was related to Libra.

The second text message expressed concern and worry, asking why he never answered the phone and whether he was in any trouble.

The third text message was carefully worded to make an invitation, saying that since he had helped her so much, if it was convenient, she hoped to treat him to a meal.

Qi Si suddenly realized that many relationships need to be maintained.

Most of the relationships he has been dealing with have been one-time relationships and relationships of interest. He is often too lazy to put on a smile when dealing with acquaintances with whom he has worked together many times.

This may be able to effectively reduce unnecessary energy consumption and avoid wasting time, but it is undoubtedly inconsistent with the conventional understanding of maintaining cooperative relationships.

Not all people are profit-oriented animals. Long-term indifference will lead to alienation of relationships and may cause a series of troubles.

"So, should I be thankful that Jin Yusheng didn't cause any trouble in the past six years?"

Qi Si smiled humorously, entered a mobile shopping app, bought a box of oranges, and filled in Jin Yusheng's address in the delivery column.

(End of this chapter)