Infinite spooky game

Lin Chen sat in front of the computer desk in a daze, unable to calm down for a long time.

He gathered useful information from bits and pieces of information on the forum and learned that there was an official force dedicated to combating weird games, which would investigate and arrest suspicious players.

But he never thought that he would become an official target one day.

Judging from the attitude of the two police officers, the current crisis is over, but what about the future?
He deceived the officials. Will he be investigated one day in the future and disappear from the face of the earth?
The fear of his future soon overwhelmed the guilt of lying. Lin Chen only heard a voice in his heart asking again and again:

what to do? How can I do?
He also realized belatedly that Qi Si had made him the president of the Unnamed Guild and told him about the worldview in the "Ghost" copy. It was very likely that he wanted to push him out as a shield, just as Tang Yu said...

Lin Chen didn't want to assume the worst about anyone, but when all the things came together, it was hard not to be suspicious.

"Lin Chen, I'm sorry that I dragged you into this again." Qi Si's voice sounded in his mind, very calmly, "Luckily they found me first, so I reacted in time and contacted you. Now it seems that the timing is just right."

It turns out that Qi Si was also found...

Lin Chen felt a little more balanced.

He hesitated and said, "Brother Qi, they asked me about the "Frog Hospital" and "Ghost" dungeons. I also want to ask, why did I become the MVP of the "Ghost" dungeon without doing anything?"

The voice in my mind was silent for a while, then sighed: "I didn't intend to tell you that, but I guess if I didn't explain it clearly, you would think I was setting you up, right?"

Lin Chen wanted to deny it, but he didn't say it out loud.

Qi Si chuckled and announced the answer in a tone of sentencing: "Because I am already a dead man, and the name of a dead person will not appear in any record.

"The Qisi who cleared the game with you was just a lonely ghost created by your skill. Isn't it normal that the performance points are attributed to you?"

The words were as light as casual chatting, but they hit Lin Chen's heart like a huge rock.

The scenes of his time with Qi Si flashed before his eyes, including the dying Qi Si at the end of "Frog Hospital" and the ghostly Qi Si in "Ghost"...

He originally thought that Qis's abnormality at that time was caused by the copy mechanism, but the fact seems not to be the case...

Qi Si was still not satisfied. He half sighed and half laughed at himself, and said in a long tone: "Why don't you think carefully about it? After coming out of "Frog Hospital", I walked such a long way with you. Have you ever heard my breathing?"

The answer is of course no.

Lin Chen realized that he had overlooked too many details, and couldn't help but ask hesitantly: "Qi...Brother Qi, what's going on?"

"Isn't the situation clear enough? I was supposed to die in the Frog Hospital due to the backlash of my skills, but you resurrected me with the effect of your identity card and turned me into a zombie-like living dead."

Qi Si announced the answer weakly, like a teacher who was helpless with his students' slowness: "According to the judgment standards of the Weird Investigation Bureau and even Kyushu, I should be considered to have been contaminated by the weirdness and degenerated into a ghost.

"If they find out, I'll probably end up in their holding cell tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

Lin Chen thought of countless answers, but never thought it would be like this.

But when I carefully recalled the various aspects of what happened in the past, I found that this answer was particularly reasonable.

Resurrection from the dead cannot be without a price. Identity cards are also a kind of weirdness. The activation of their effects is a process of contamination...

He had corrupted Qis, and naively thought that the matter was over, and that he had saved him...

Qi Si had been hiding it from him before, probably because he was afraid that he would feel guilty, right?
He had caused a disaster without even realizing it, and even suspected Qi Si for some inexplicable reason...

"What are you thinking about?" Qi Si smiled lightly, "In fact, I am still grateful to you. After all, if it weren't for you, I would have died in the true sense.

"Now I can still open my eyes and look at this world. Even though I have become neither human nor ghost, at least there is still hope of clearing the final dungeon, right?"

After saying a bunch of ambiguous words, Qi Si no longer paid attention to the still messy Lin Chen and exited the game space.

He got up from the bed, walked into the master bedroom next door, moved the two skeletons on the bed to one side, lifted the bed board on the other side, and pulled out a cardboard box from it.

The box contained discarded mobile phones of various models and more than a dozen phone cards, most of which had been processed by some means and were difficult to track when activated.

Qi Si took out a phone card and a cell phone and put the box back.

He thanked Ning Xu from the bottom of his heart for self-righteously visiting him more than half a month ago and alerting the enemy.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have changed his phone number and moved back to Qijia Village for a few days.

While in Qijia Village, he temporarily used the phone card left by his father for emergency use. As a result, he was contacted by people from the foundation, which caused him a lot of trouble.

As soon as he returned to Jiangcheng, he learned his lesson and hid a bunch of phone cards under his bed as a backup.

The phone number left for Lin Chen was just one of his many numbers. It was unknown which fake base station the people in charge of anti-tracking in the underground world connected it to and where it was located.

Even if the Weird Investigation Bureau wanted to investigate, they wouldn't be able to find anything on him.

Qi Si returned to the bedroom and poked the key of the phone with a wire, causing the SIM card slot to pop out.

There were two phone cards in the card slot. He picked out the one corresponding to the number left for Lin Chen, broke it in half and threw it into the trash can.

Then he put the newly taken out SIM card into the new phone.

Before today, he would put two frequently used SIM cards in the same phone to save trouble.

But now that I know I'm being targeted by the Weird Investigation Bureau, it's always better to be more cautious in the future.

I’ll find the new phone number in the game tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and then tell Lin Chen through the soul contract.

Well, it’s not impossible not to tell him. With the current rate at which his authority is growing, maybe after just a few copies, he will be able to communicate with Lin Chen directly through the soul contract in reality.

Qi Si was in a good mood and thought about it. He turned on his new phone, clicked into the app market, searched for "Happy Match 3" and downloaded it.

……

At Jiangcheng University, Lin Chen held the team ring and talked a lot. After waiting for a long time without getting a response from Qis, he knew that he had unilaterally terminated the conversation.

So many things happened in just one morning that Lin Chen felt as if he was in a dream and couldn't tell the difference between reality and illusion.

If he had some complaints about Qis's way of doing things before, now he no longer had the position to blame Qis.

Qi Si even lost his life to save him. As a vested interest, what right does he have to be pretentious and nitpicking?
Lin Chen closed his computer, climbed onto the bed and lay down, staring at the ceiling in a trance. The matter was still unresolved. As the president of the Unnamed Guild, he had cleared the "Ghost" dungeon as MVP at this critical juncture, and his ranking rose to 30th on the newcomer list. He had already entered the public's sight, and if he was not careful, he would be the target of public criticism.

What happened today is just the beginning. As long as he is still in that position, investigations from various forces will continue.

So, what should he do?

Lin Chen took out his cell phone and made a call.

Soon, a kind female voice sounded on the phone: "Chenchen, why are you calling at this time? Did something happen at school?"

"Mom, I did encounter some problems and I don't know what to do." Lin Chen said carefully, "There is a very powerful boss who has helped me many times..."

He used "school" to refer to "weird games" and "club activities" to refer to "copy", and roughly described the matter: "That big guy helped me stand out in several club activities, and even almost lost his qualification for me.

"In an event that just happened, he squeezed another big guy out of the event in order to get me to stay. I really wanted to stay, but he never discussed it with me beforehand...

"Because of this incident, many classmates think that I am a scheming villain, and some even questioned me..."

After speaking haltingly, the mother on the phone listened patiently and asked, "That qualification is very important to you. You don't want to give it up, right?"

Lin Chen said: "Yes."

"Then why do you feel wronged? You have already gained benefits, no matter what happens as a result, you should bear it, you can't have it all.

"People should be responsible and remember favors. You also said that if someone helps you, no matter what the motivation is, you should not harm them.

"If you don't like someone's behavior, tell them not to do it again next time. You can't take advantage of others and then act reluctantly. They don't owe you anything, you owe them."

Lin Chen listened to his mother's slightly harsh words and whispered, "But he harmed an unrelated person, and everyone else thought it was me..."

"Then you should go and pay it back, go to their house to apologize, send them some fruit, run errands, do some chores, and ask for forgiveness. Don't think that it's owed to you. You have no relationship with them, and they are thinking so much about you, don't let them down.

"As long as it's not illegal or disorderly, there's nothing wrong with school. If you don't know what to say, why not invite your classmates to your house for dinner tomorrow? You've been in college for so long, and Mom hasn't even met your classmates yet."

Lin Chen smiled bitterly in his heart. How could this matter be so simple? Not only was it against the law, but someone was killed...

But he said nothing in the end. It was not a good idea to involve his family on either side of the weird game and the federal officials.

My parents are ordinary people. Apart from unemployment, they have never experienced any major storms in their lives. Knowing too much will only cause them worry in vain.

Lin Chen evaded the question a few more times, hung up the phone, and lay quietly on the bed, thinking.

No matter what, his mother's words finally made his chaotic thoughts much clearer.

Yes, he owed Qi Si a life and also owed Tang Yu one, and he had to repay these two lives.

The only way to return these two lives is to clear the final copy and negotiate with the supreme rules of the weird game.

If the identity card really means divine authority as stated in the forum, he will hold the "Doctor Bird's Beak" card tightly in his hand.

Never retreat, but keep moving forward until you reach the long steps to godhood.

……

"I forgot something a long time ago and remembered it not long ago."

In the Jiangcheng branch of the Weird Investigation Bureau, in an observation room on the fifth underground floor.

The alienation degree meter outside the door was jumping around wildly, changing rapidly between 10% and 20%.

Inside the door, Chang Xu was sitting on an iron bed in the corner, holding a Rubik's Cube in his hands, rapidly repeating the process of restoration and scrambling, but his voice was very calm.

"When I first found out about everything, I felt angry, but I didn't know why. Maybe it was because I thought I was a human being, but suddenly I found out that you all thought I was a monster; or maybe it was just because it is natural for a person to be angry when he finds out that he has been deceived.

"I gradually calmed down and started to think about some things, only to find that I actually never had anything. I had no right to be angry, because even the feeling of having something was a deception.

"Director Mu once told me that deception is caused by fear. But I know that fear can never be eliminated. Is deception right?"

"Cheating is wrong." Ning Xu stood outside the door and spoke word by word, "But we have no choice.

“In the last round of the game, we lost everything because we pursued process justice too much; in this round of the game, none of us can afford to lose.

"Use the wrong means to achieve the right result, and put an end to all the mistakes in our generation so that more people can survive - this is our goal in this round of the game."

Chang Xu raised his eyelids and asked, "Is this the latest propaganda slogan?"

"This is what we are doing." Ning Xu said with a smile, "Jiuzhou Guild has expelled a thousand people in the past month. They will hide in the dark and do things that are not allowed by the purpose of Jiuzhou Guild.

“We need people who stand in the light and sing the praises of hope and ideals, and we also need people who walk in the darkness and deal with the filth and trivialities.

"All actions are just means. Right or wrong depends on the ultimate goal and result. You might as well ask yourself, what do you want?"

In the silence, the only sound you can hear is the "click-click" sound of fingers turning the Rubik's Cube.

Chang Xu was silent for a long time, and then said, "I want to live, let the people I love live, and let the innocent people I see live.

"Just like when I first arrived, everyone was still alive and full of hope, as if death was still far away. I didn't understand anything, and I felt that having enough food and clothes was all I needed.

"Later, many of the people I had eaten with died, and new people came, all of whom were unfamiliar faces that I could not recognize."

Ning Xu was silent for a long time. When he spoke again, his voice was a little bitter: "Yes, too many people sacrificed. In order to pass the final dungeon and let more people survive, there are some things we have to do."

"Including concealing the evil deeds committed by the Commonwealth Foundation in the past, like the Red Maple Leaf Boarding School incident?"

"Including." Ning Xu said firmly, "No matter how many sins and compromises there are, they are all internal affairs of mankind and cannot be infiltrated by weirdness."

"I understand." Chang Xu paused for a moment and asked, "Am I in the light or in the dark?"

Ning Xu smiled: "Fu Jue once wanted to put you in the light and take over his position one day in the future. But now, he thinks you should be given the right to choose.

"Let's go to the Guild Exchange Meeting the day after tomorrow." (End of this chapter)