Infinite spooky game

Except for the team of Qi Si and Nian Fu, the other player teams consumed four game coins and completed four rounds of games. Their points rankings were almost the same as before.

The first place is still the "Tiger" team of Chu Xun and Green, with a total score of 3,200.

Dong Xiwen and Ryan's "Leopard" team was second only to them, with a total score of 3,100.

Then came Qin Mu with 2,600 points and Chang Xu and Liu Yuhan with 2,500 points.

The "Lion" team of Lin Ye and Fan Zhanwei had 2,200 points, and the "Fox" team of Qi Si and Nian Fu was at the bottom with 2,100 points.

After running out of game coins, Lennarn replaced Dong Xiwen on the chessboard. He looked at the ranking and smiled shyly, "Qi's plan to delay time has failed. I think he will try his best to clear more levels later, right?

“Although I don’t know what the point ranking is for, but being at the bottom is definitely not a good thing. He needs to accumulate points as soon as possible while there is still time to reverse the disadvantage.”

"Not necessarily." Green crossed his arms and shook his head. "It's much harder to survive on the chessboard for four hours than for one hour. If he gets out right away, he'll probably die. If he stays in the tower for a while longer, he might still be able to survive."

Lin Ye sneered: "He is just trying to survive. What's the point of surviving today's beast fighting game? He is at the bottom of the points list, and there are plenty of opportunities for him to die."

Chang Xu stood there indifferently, and looked at Nian Fu at the right time: "Based on my understanding of Qi Si, he never cares about the life and death of his companions. For his own safety, he can forcibly delay time, causing your team's points to fall behind again and again, and he ignores your safety. I don't understand why you would rather take the risk of failure to help him."

Nian Fu glanced at him and smiled, "Chang Xu, I've watched your live broadcast. In the impression of most of us, you have always been good at martial arts and have never bothered to use rhetoric. Now it seems that this is not the case."

She shrugged. "Being able to make a top rookie condescend to sow discord, I feel even more that my investment was not wrong. Qi Si is a rare commodity."

Chang Xu's eyes dimmed and he said no more.

Except for Green who chose action points as a reward at the beginning and Chu Xun moved one square on the board, almost all players chose to rank by points.

The layout of the Beast Fighting Chessboard has never changed. Apart from arguing with each other, the players are eagerly waiting to see the movements of the Glazed Tower. As a show, it is ugly and boring.

The animals in the audience had already shown their dissatisfaction. The smaller animals sitting in the lower rows were making all sorts of noisy howls. The elephants in the highest row were waving their trunks angrily. One of them even picked up a lion in the lower row and was about to throw it into the middle of the field.

The goat who was presiding over the game beside the chessboard wiped the sweat from his forehead and announced loudly, "This time, several players are taking a cautious approach. It seems that I have to issue some rewards to stimulate their enthusiasm for the game.

"Next, I will set up a small game session for friends outside the tower: voluntarily sign up and fight against the 'rat' 1v1. The winner of each round will receive 500 points!"

At the edge of the venue, below the audience seats, a short iron door was opened from the inside, and two masked goat men walked out, dragging a monster with a rat head and a snake body.

The monster looked like the same species as the ratman that attacked the players last night, but it was more hideous and terrifying. Its white teeth protruded from its broken mouth, and its scarlet eyes stared at the players fiercely, as if it was ready to pounce and bite them at any time.

The goat pointed at the monster and grinned maliciously: "As long as you defeat him, you can immediately get 500 points. Do any of you want to give it a try?"

The players glanced at each other, all of them interested.

They had already found out last night that dealing with the ratmen was very simple, all it took was some bleeding.

"I'll do it!" Lin Ye raised his hand quickly, fearing that someone else would get there first.

But the goat slowly said the last sentence: "Let me make it clear in advance that the victory and defeat of this game are very strict. As long as you bleed, you will lose..."

……

On the ninth floor of the tower, after the fifteen-minute break, Qis pushed open the third door.

视线左上角的斗兽游戏倒计时显示为【04：00：00】，关卡倒计时为【03：00：00】，游戏币余额为零。

In other words, once he finished the game, he would have to leave the tower, and would be completely exposed to Chang Xu's threat for the rest of the time.

How long it took Chang Xu to kill him is a question worth studying.

But I can be sure that it will not take more than an hour.

Qi Si touched his chin, feeling troubled, and took another step forward in the darkness behind the door.

In an instant, the world was spinning and he lost his sense of direction in the dark vision. He seemed to be falling and rising at the same time.

At a certain moment, he felt something touching his back, a hard and cold long board, probably made of wood.

He stretched out his hand and felt around, but as soon as he moved an inch, he was blocked by the same wooden board. The same happened in all directions.

He seemed to be sealed in a wooden rectangle.

A nailed coffin, and he was the corpse buried alive inside it.

Qis lay flat in the coffin, breathing for the first time in a long time, and heard his long-lost heartbeat, beating clearly on his back, transmitted through the wooden boards to the soil, and aroused the dull echo of the earth.

He seemed to have become a human again, or returned to his own body, as if he was still alive, not a ghost.

"Double Happiness Town", this level is "Double Happiness Town".

Qi Si put his hand on his heart, felt his heartbeat in his chest, and instantly knew how to pass the level.

He was not in a hurry to come out for the moment, but instead sank his consciousness into the palace of thought to touch the only remaining scarlet leaf in the deepest part.

"Lin Chen, I'm about to die." He said this to the soul of his only believer.

……

"Damn it!" Outside the tower, Lin Ye was knocked to the ground by a rat man's punch, and he felt that all his internal organs were shattered.

A red python as thick as a wrist bit his wrist. He let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered. The injured part turned gray at a speed visible to the naked eye, taking on the texture of stone.

The animals in the audience cheered excitedly, and the elephant waved his trunk and shouted, "Tear him up, tear him up!"

"End! I want to end the game!" Lin Ye sensed the danger and shouted, "I give up!"

The goat seemed not to hear anything and watched the ratmen's one-sided slaughter with relish.

The screams became louder and louder, and Lin Ye was flattened and rolled into a ball by the rat man like a piece of rag.

Chang Xu stared at the battle situation intently, then suddenly took off his mask and threw it on the ground.

A black broken blade appeared in the void, he grabbed it, and appeared beside the rat man a second later, raising the sickle and chopping it down with force.

The expected warning sound to stop the player from killing the god never appeared. The sharp sickle actually cut off the ratman's head and embedded it deep into the ground. The splattered scarlet blood splashed on his face, and strands of it flowed down his fair cheeks and seeped into his black clothes, adding a bit of solemnity and weirdness.

Chang Xu maintained the knife-holding posture, standing still, slightly stunned.

Why was he able to kill the rat man?
Is it because the Nezumi aren’t gods?

Yes, if the Rat Man himself was a god, why would he pray for God’s mercy last night?
But why did almost all animals become gods, leaving them alone?

'I heard that every wolf pack has a tail wolf, who is the last one to eat, eats leftovers, is skinny and can be bullied by anyone.

'If it dies, the wolf pack will choose a new tail wolf. It is only because some wolves need to live miserably that other wolves will feel at ease when they realize that they are not the worst and most unfortunate ones.'

Qi Si's words echoed in his memory, and Chang Xu felt as if he had grasped the key, but there was no time to think about it.

The animals in the audience were stunned by the sudden change and fell silent for a moment, but two seconds later they burst into even more enthusiastic cheers.

"Wolf! Invincible wolf!"

They shouted and applauded Chang Xu's victory, even though the one who died was an animal that was closer to them, and the winner was a human.

Perhaps in their eyes, there is no difference between ratmen and humans; they are both inferior creatures abandoned by the gods.

They will flock to follow whoever can bring them drama and more fun.

Amusing ourselves to death—so what?

The goat was stunned for a moment, then he also clapped his hands, with an encouraging smile on his lips: "This friend from the Wolf Team showed us his bravery, but unfortunately, the dead rat man was the opponent chosen by the Lion Team.

"So in this game, the Lions get 500 extra points!"

Lin Ye's team's total score rose to 2,700, ranking third, surpassing Chang Xu and Liu Yuhan's teams.

There were dissatisfied boos from the audience, no one wanted to accept the unfair drama of saving someone and suffering the consequences.

The goat calmly made a downward gesture and changed the subject: "But don't be discouraged, there will be many more game opportunities in the future, and I believe that our friend from the Wolf Team can win a lot of points.

"Of course, the rules still need to be emphasized again. From now on, neither side is allowed to bring weapons onto the field!"

A new rat-headed monster was dragged out from behind the iron gate, looking more aggressive and stronger than the previous one.

The goat's horizontal pupils looked at Chang Xu jokingly: "I wonder if this friend dares to accept the challenge?"

……

"I will be killed by Chang Xu." On the ninth floor of the tower, Qi Si was lying in a pitch-dark coffin, and he said to Lin Chen calmly.

"During the eight-hour duration of the beast fighting game, players can hurt each other. I have three hours left before I have to leave the tower, and the remaining hour is enough for Chang Xu to kill me.

"Even if he can't kill me with one strike, he can still leave wounds on my body. As a ghost 'undead', I can't heal myself and will eventually bleed to death."

Lin Chen asked hoarsely: "Brother Qi, is there anything I can do for you? Weird games don't set up situations where you must die, there must be a way..."

"What if the weird game also wants to kill me?" Qis empty his pupils and let his gaze shatter into pieces.

A faint smile spread across his lips, and his voice was like a dream: "I remember I once told you about the existence of the gambling game of the gods. A game that gambles the past, present and future. Sunk costs are no longer important.

"Unfortunately, in this game, Chang Xu and I are both chess pieces on the gambling table, or in other words, candidates. If one party has been determined to be chosen, then I think the existence of the other party is no longer necessary.

"Destroying it casually, or giving a high-sounding reason for failure before destroying it, is something that the high and mighty gods can do at will.

"Lin Chen, can you understand?"

"But why?" Lin Chen spoke faster unconsciously, "Is it because of the ranking of the newcomers? But that only looks at martial arts and does not take intelligence into account..."

"Because of desire." Qi Si said with his eyes wide open, "I have no desire, but Chang Xu has desire. People without desire are not allowed to live. Because only with desire will one be willing to be a chess piece on the chessboard and be played around by the gods.

"People like me have no value to the gods. Instead, they may cause internal friction and are destined to be destroyed.

"After I die, you, as the leader of the Unnamed Guild, will help Jiuzhou Guild clarify the matter and say that I died due to the game mechanism and had nothing to do with Chang Xu. I believe they will remember your kindness and allow you to gain a foothold in Sunset Ruins.

"If you feel that you can't do it well, you can disband the guild immediately and pretend that nothing happened. They don't know what you look like, and you can easily blend into the crowd with your human skin mask..."

"Brother Qi, I found it." Lin Chen called out in a cold voice, interrupting the words that were almost like a last will.

He spoke each word clearly, "I found a live broadcast of a player named 'Lin Ye' and saw Chang Xu on the screen.

"Chang Xu is fighting a monster with a rat head and a snake body. Both sides are evenly matched and the battle will probably last for a long time.

"That monster was released from behind the iron gate under the audience seats... Brother Qi, if you leave the tower now, can you take advantage of Chang Xu being tripped by the monster, enter the iron gate, and then use those monsters to deal with Chang Xu?

"The straw tiger should be able to hold out for some time. Chang Xu doesn't seem to have a more effective way to deal with monsters... Brother Qi, can you survive as long as you kill Chang Xu?"

"Maybe. Thank you." Qi Si chuckled, pulled out a blade from the special bracelet, and cut his neck.

The moment his carotid artery broke, he felt like he had lost most of his weight, floating up from his body, and light gradually appeared in front of his eyes.

The solution to this level is exactly copied from "Shuangxi Town", that is, to face death and then survive.

Judging from the heartbeat and breathing sounds of the body in the coffin, this body does not belong to the player. After all, Qis is already a ghost that cannot breathe and has no heartbeat.

The reason why he was trapped in the coffin was that he was imprisoned by his heavy body and could not leave.

The body was a cage, and he broke the cage and was able to break out.

When his vision settled again, Qis found himself sitting on a coffin, with a statue of a god in black clothes and golden eyes standing in the shrine in front of him.

Three incense sticks, neither too many nor too few, neither too long nor too short, standing upright, look both sacred and eerie.

The statue's face is blurry, and it looks like a replica of the statue in the Temple of Funeral, but most of the details have been hidden away due to cutting corners.

Qis stood up, walked to the bottom of the statue, looked up for a while, and laughed: "Li, long time no see, are you interested in discussing a deal?" (End of this chapter)