Infinite spooky game

Qisi's resurrection plan is based on Chang Xu's choice.

At the end of the "Frog Hospital" copy, Lin Chen used the effect of [Bird-beak Doctor] on him, but it failed to have any effect on him, which is enough to prove that the resurrection mechanism of [Bird-beak Doctor] is useless to players in the ghost state.

Even if he shed his last drop of blood, according to the description of the [Undead], he would only fall into eternal sleep instead of death, and would not meet the prerequisite for "resurrection".

In other words, if Chang Xu did nothing and let him lie half-dead in the dungeon, then no matter how many times Lin Chen activated the effect of [Bird-beak Doctor], he would not be able to be resurrected.

The effects and mechanisms of various props in the weird game are closely linked, just like the stupid robots of the last century. Even if the instructions differ by only one word, they cannot be successfully driven.

Therefore, Qis must die once in the true sense and let his soul fall into hell before he can return to the human world through the mechanism of the identity card.

In this copy, the only way to kill him is to make a wish to the Sphinx.

Qis was betting that Chang Xu would find the Sphinx to fulfill his wish to kill him in order to save others.

He won the bet.

……

Lin Chen was in the "Colosseum" of another time and space, trapped in a prison cage woven from golden vines, and his teammates were also caged beside him.

"Kill him, and then become a god." The god with black hair and golden eyes announced indifferently, with no mercy or kindness in his eyes.

The teammates retreated to the side of the cage, looked at Lin Chen vigilantly, and whispered: "Lin... President Lin, we should be able to leave the dungeon in three minutes, right? As long as we wait another three minutes, we can all survive..."

Lin Chen ignored this teammate who was already confused and at a loss.

He raised his eyes, looked the god straight in the eye, and asked, "You need to birth a god from the Colosseum, right?"

"Yes." The god was surprisingly patient. "You have witnessed the demise of the Lord of Life, so you naturally know that many god positions are now vacant. I hope to fill these vacancies before the rules awaken next time."

Rules? Lin Chen heard Qi Si talk about the relevant secrets. Obviously, this god also knew that Qi Si had told him these things, so he spoke them out as common sense without explanation.

He recalled the end of the recent copy of "Frog Hospital". The earth was shaking violently like a drum being struck by a drumstick. Splashing pool water, black smoke-like ghosts and fragments of frog corpses were dancing wildly in the air. A vast and surging sorrow enveloped him, as if he was attending a world funeral.

It was the death of a god, and all the player did was just pull out a screw of a huge machine. After hurriedly passing by, he was forced to stop and watch.

At that time, Lin Chen was still a newcomer who had just become an official player not long ago. He followed Qis and acted according to Qis' plan.

He would never forget that scene: under the fluttering golden vines and leaves, Qi Si, dressed in a white coat, fell in a pool of blood, his heart was deadly cold...

The scenes of the past emerged clearly before my eyes, as if everything happening at this moment was a continuation of events that had not been concluded in the past and was about to come to an end here.

If you think about it carefully, it’s not an exaggeration to say that it seems like just yesterday. It was clearly just a copy of "Ghost", less than two weeks, but why did it feel like a lifetime?

God asked, "You will save him, won't you?"

Lin Chen said: "Yes."

A scarlet leaf was suspended at the bottom of the dark consciousness, deeply embedded like a bloody scar and swaying like a warm and bright flame.

At a certain moment, it fluttered twice and went out, like a frozen butterfly in late autumn, fluttering down and falling into the vast darkness.

Lin Chen suddenly understood what Li meant by "time is running out".

Qis couldn't wait too long, he had to make a choice as soon as possible before the copy of "Colosseum" where Qis was was closed.

The teammates listened to the almost incomprehensible conversation between Lin Chen and the god, confused and felt that the president of the unnamed guild, "Lin Crow", was becoming more and more unfathomable. He could actually communicate with god-level beings on an equal footing and even witnessed the death of a god.

He was thinking that after he finished the dungeon, he would go to the game forum to post some gossip, but he saw Lin Chen walking towards him step by step, with complex emotions in his dark eyes.

"I'm sorry, I will revive you later." The soft voice spread in his ears, and the next second he felt a chill on his neck, and pain exploded.

Lin Chen put the bloody blade back into the props tray, no longer looking at his teammate's limp body, and returned his gaze to the god's golden eyes: "As you requested, I killed him."

This was the first time he killed an innocent person with his own hands.

In the "Ghost" copy, he could still stand on the high ground and feel indignant about Tang Yu's death; but now, after being truly trapped in a dilemma, he finally recognized himself.

He is no different from Qi Si, and is not as good as he imagines. He is just an ordinary person with selfish motives.

There are differences in closeness and distance. If he really has to make a choice, he is willing to sacrifice other people's lives in exchange for Qis's survival.

“Good,” God said, whether to express approval or simply to indicate that He knew this was happening.

The vines that formed the cage suddenly broke, and scattered spots of light floated faintly, clinging to Lin Chen's body surface.

The system interface disappeared, and props, identity cards and skills existed in a state between entity and consciousness, which could be perceived and called by him at any time.

A large amount of information poured into Lin Chen's mind, and the history of the "Colosseum" copy appeared before his eyes.

The king of mankind in the Golden Age sat on the throne, with strange black smoke surging from the altar in front of him. The old god in white robes was pierced through the chest by a black sickle, and the new god descended from the sky and issued a decree to create sin.

The marble Colosseum was built, and humans used oracles as an excuse to satisfy their desires and indulge in entertainment. The newly descended gods decisively abandoned unruly humans and gave animals wisdom that was originally unique to humans.

A huge war broke out between animals and humans. Billowing black smoke almost filled the entire world. A large amount of sin was caused by bloody deaths and was collected in the ruined temples of the old gods.

Unfortunately, the war ended soon, and the animals began to indulge in pleasure like humans. God then divided them into classes, using pain to create new conflicts, but ultimately could not squeeze out more sin.

They were no longer willing to take risks, and became hypocritical, greedy, and vicious. They staged animal fighting games to avenge the abuse they had received from humans, and gradually embarked on the old path of entertainment to death.

So, God once again turned his attention to mankind...

The world view background is somewhat different from that presented in the epic, but there is not much difference in the general direction.

Lin Chen's consciousness was clearer than ever before, as if he was no longer subject to physiological limitations and physical constraints. His soul and mind were integrated into the ocean of information, and he could draw more from it at any time.

Floating in the ocean along with knowledge were a large number of bloody images: the wild beasts that devoured human bodies raised their heads, their teeth dangling with flesh and dripping with blood; the well-dressed nobles took whips and wantonly whipped the huddled slaves; the hunched rats were driven into the dark underground, their bodies covered with scars... The uncomfortable images were wrapped in black smoke, like sacrificial offerings in an ancient sacrificial field, being presented to him, as if they would be integrated into his bones, blood, and soul and become a part of his body.

He asked God, "What are these?"

"Sin," God replied. "Rules feed on God, and what they feed on is the most concentrated sin that is concentrated in God."

The description of the words is very simple, but it is like turning on a switch, lighting up a string of knowledge in the ocean of information.

Lin Chen saw the golden light particles rising and falling like the tide, saw countless spots symbolizing living things crawling densely in every corner of the world, saw the faintly visible silk threads connecting the spots and light particles, and the lingering black smoke entangled on them...

He suddenly realized that the gods had made many attempts to create and collect evil, trying to find or create new sources of evil. The strange game was one of them, and the Colosseum was another...

For a few moments, he even saw a long bronze table, with gods of various appearances sitting on both sides of the table, including the sea god with tentacles and a fish head, the Lord of Life holding a baby, and the black-clothed and golden-eyed Li...

This was a banquet of the gods. They seemed to be discussing something intensely. The being in red on the main seat made a downward gesture, raised his head, and revealed a familiar face...

"I understand." Lin Chen closed his eyes and said in a hoarse voice, "The source of evil is killing, harm and pain. You hope to collect a large amount of evil through war, so you create opposition between animals and humans.

"After one side indulges in peace and enjoyment, the other side will rise up in rebellion, and the cycle will repeat. In this way, you can continuously provide evil to the rules and avoid the fate of being eaten..."

God said, "Your understanding is not wrong."

Lin Chen saw himself at the banquet of the gods. He was dressed in a black robe, hung high by chains and vines. A large amount of black smoke gathered through him and was transported along the silk threads to the sky. At a certain moment, he shattered and scattered like pieces of glass.

He asked: "Why must the players become gods? Those animals have been in this world for a longer time, can't they become gods?"

"I tried, but failed." God said, "They naturally despise wisdom and worship instinct. They don't know how to curb their desires, so they can't become the carrier of other people's desires."

Lin Chen's eyes flashed with images of stone statues of rat-men and various animals bathing in the blood pool. A huge stone statue in the shape of an elephant was carried by lions and leopards and placed in the pool. It came back to life in just a few seconds.

All animals are cursed. When their desires grow to a certain extent, they will turn into stone statues as a form of control and screening.

But the difference is that other animals can safely enjoy the blood accumulated after killing humans, but rat people have to fight personally to get a few drops of blood.

The mechanism of using blood to lift the curse is not out of God's mercy. God is just using it to push animals and humans into a life-and-death situation, forcing the two major groups to develop as He expects.

It is precisely because they may be slaughtered by animals for blood at any time that heroes among humans actively participate in animal fighting games. After all, things can't get worse anyway...

God does not love the world, nor does he love any existence. God is God, and although he has a higher status and great power, he also struggles to survive like wild animals.

Lin Chen was silent for a long time, looking at the god named "Li" and said: "You are eager to promote a new god, it should not be just to fill the vacancy. You said, 'Rules feed on gods', when the rules wake up again, I will be His food, right?"

Li said, "Yes. You have no choice."

"I understand." Lin Chen uttered these four words again.

He turned around and squatted in front of his teammate's body, with the shadow of the "Bird-beak Doctor" card in his hand. Two black cards were turned upside down in front of him, and he casually pulled out one of them -

[Upright position].

When in the correct position, it can revive a dead person in the copy.

Black feathers covered the wound on the corpse's neck. The teammate's pale face turned rosy again, and his eyes slowly opened. After seeing Lin Chen, he showed fear: "Lin... President Lin, don't... don't kill me!"

Lin Chen said calmly: "It's okay, you're alive."

He stood up again and looked at Li: "Let everyone leave, and then take me to see Qisi - as you promised."

……

The time and space fragments of all the "Colosseum" copies gathered together at once. In the space where Lin Chen was, the surviving players turned into white light and disappeared one after another, and at the last moment they heard the prompt that NE had passed the level.

Lin Chen knew that he was destined to be a sacrifice according to the rules, and death was not allowed before that. He looked indifferent, and the moment he entered the Colosseum where Qis was, he activated the effect of [Doctor Bird's Beak] again.

——Resurrect Qis.

He returned one life to Qi Si, and he still had two left, but he would never have the chance to return it. He would stay here forever, just like Tang Yu would stay in the "Ghost" copy forever.

He broke his promise and failed to survive to the end and clear the final instance as Tang Yu expected. But he couldn't think of a better solution...

In the vast and lofty universe, Chang Xu's figure floated in front of the god's golden eyes. Qis' figure in red flashed like a ghost and stabbed the Poseidon's scepter into the former's chest.

The rats followed their gods to the ground, tearing everything apart with long-accumulated anger. They lifted the tiles of the Colosseum, exposing the pool of blood flowing underneath. They were even more furious when the resources that they usually sought after were luxuriously occupied by those in high positions.

Because of its large size, the elephant was not blown away by the strong wind and immediately became their target. They swarmed over it and angrily bit off its rough flesh.

The elephants screamed in pain and swung their trunks in fear, but because their bodies were too heavy, they could not hurt the swift-moving rat-men at all. Their voices gradually faded away, and soon they turned into bloody skeletons.

Qis stood before the eyes of the god and heard the clearance prompt [The main quest "Meeting the Evil God" has been completed].

He quietly looked at the mess on the field, slowly placed his hand over his heart, and felt his pounding heartbeat.

The scarlet leaves deep in the mind's palace flourished, resonating with the Scarlet Priest card and the Poseidon's Scepter, elevating his soul and vision to an unprecedented level.

He was resurrected, not as a ghost, but as a being between man and god.

Bright and gorgeous colors flow in the field of vision like a painting. The originally faded world is painted with bright colors again. The soul and the flesh are salvaged from the dead, and the five senses are gradually restored, making people feel joy from the bottom of their hearts.

Qi Si slightly side-glanced at Lin Chen who was standing in the distance and looking at him.

The connection between contract and faith was rebuilt, and the bloody thread was connected between the two again. The moment he paid attention, he learned about Lin Chen's experience and knew that the latter had made the decision to sacrifice himself.

He retracted his gaze, stared into Li's golden eyes, and smiled sincerely: "Look, I won the bet and survived to the end. I think we should be able to talk calmly now."

He raised his hand and pointed at Lin Chen: "Then first of all - I want to take him away as your bet." (End of this chapter)