Infinite spooky game

[The remains of the ancestral gods are stranded in the abyss of extreme darkness, and the remaining curses pollute the human race. Evil spirits and demons crawl out of hell, and disasters and sufferings are rampant in the world.

The foolish believers thought that this was a rebellion caused by a witch, so a stake was set up in the square in front of the temple, and a steady stream of pagans were tied to it.

In the dark age, unfair judgment prevailed, disasters never ended, and evil spirits still wreaked havoc. Amid the cries of the masses, a hero with courage and wisdom stood up.

He discovered that the source of the curse was the pollution of the ancestral gods, and in order to gain the trust of others, he broke into the temple and mutated himself. When humans only dared to judge their own kind, he tried to judge the high and mighty old gods.

Believers and pagans cursed his madness, and fled away in fear, leaving only his remains, alone with a torch raised, to burn the temple to the ground.

The fire lasted for three days and three nights, burning everything. No living creature escaped from the sea of ​​fire, whether human or god.

[ID Card: Dark Judge]

……

Ruins of Sunset, the base of the Jiuzhou Guild.

Ning Xu was sitting in the office with two display screens on his desk. One was playing a live broadcast of the "Colosseum" copy from Lin Ye's perspective, while the other was organizing the live broadcast comments and related discussions in the game forum into documents in real time.

The verbal battle was raging, Ning Xu watched from a detached perspective, calmly sorting out what had happened.

Chang Xu disobeyed the order of the Investigation Bureau, turned off the live broadcast and entered the "Colosseum" copy, activated the effect of the [Dark Judge] card to start the trial of Qis, and was determined to kill Qis at all costs.

An unknown force intervened from behind, leading the players to view this as Kyushu's persecution of the new guild. This, together with previously suppressed conflicts, caused the situation to be out of the control of either party.

The Investigation Bureau probably had a vague idea of ​​what Qis had done, so although they were shocked, they could understand Chang Xu's behavior.

If Fu Jue had not withstood the pressure on his own and stopped the actions of other investigators on the grounds of "not alerting the enemy and affecting the plan", Qis's residence would have been surrounded and even he would have been invited to the Investigation Bureau for tea.

No one knows what Fu Jue’s plan is. Even the headquarters is confused about the so-called overall situation, let alone the Jiangcheng branch.

The only thing that is certain is that the battlefield between weirdness and reality will begin in Jiangcheng, because... Fu Jue himself moved his office to Jiangcheng, and except for returning to the Beidu headquarters once a week, he stays in the Jiangcheng branch most of the time.

The storm is brewing. Ning Xu thought he was very close to Fu Jue and was his capable subordinate, but in the end he found out that he actually knew nothing.

And there was nothing she could do about it.

In the live broadcast room, the shadow of the [Dark Judge] covered the entire world. The judge in black clothes and golden eyes threw the cross into the field and hung it above Qis's head.

The scarlet king chess piece condensed above Chang Xu's head as a backlash of the activation effect, embedded in the dim scene like a bleeding wound, as if foreshadowing the fate invisibly.

Chang Xu was not the first owner of [Dark Judge]. The first holder of this identity card was Lin Jue, the president of the Ark Guild, who was at the top of the comprehensive strength list of the weird game at that time, and the young man who died in Ragnarok twenty-two years ago.

Ning Xu entered the strange game when she was twelve years old, and was matched into the same copy as Lin Jue.

It was a large-scale dungeon with a harsh environment. Players not only had to deal with endless emergencies and mysterious monsters, but also had to find ways to fight the extreme cold weather in the ice and snow.

There are too few clues, the main quest is unclear, players who go out to explore die one after another, and players who stay in the base are also harvested by the invisible god of death.

When everyone was at a loss, Lin Jue activated the effect of [Dark Judge] and the object of judgment was himself.

An alternative option for the main quest [Kill Lin Jue] appeared on the players' system interfaces, which was undoubtedly much clearer than the original main quest.

The young man with a black cross hanging above his head smiled and said to everyone, "If you can't find a way to clear the main quest by tomorrow, I will commit suicide, and then everyone will be able to clear it."

Lin Jue did not die that time, perhaps because hope was rekindled. The players actively dispersed to explore new areas and collect clues, and successfully completed the dungeon known for its hellish difficulty after six hours.

The effect of [Dark Judge] was still lasting, and in every subsequent copy, Lin Jue would consider killing himself as the last option, until he died in Ragnarok twenty-two years ago.

Ning Xu has been floating in the strange game for twenty-six years and is no longer young; all the people she knows are no longer young either. Some have already perished in the long river of time, while others are just residual souls lingering in the world.

She once thought that after all these years, she knew Fu Jue well enough to understand his thoughts and emotions hidden beneath his icy appearance. However, when she came to her senses, she found that the man at the top of the strange game was already far from the image in her memory.

He changed step by step from an idealistic boy into a calm and resolute young man, and died at the most blazing and brilliant moment like the sun. He crawled back to the world from hell with another body and face, discarded his original name, and became the so-called "Fu Shen".

Those who once resisted being overly deified have now begun to compete for the illusory throne under the rules...

"People change, Fu Jue. It's been thirty-six years. Have you changed too?"

Through Lin Ye's live broadcast perspective, Ning Xu could see Chang Xu using the black life-breaking sword to split open Qi Si's chest, and sticky blood spurted out like a ribbon. In the background, the audience seats filled with animals were moving excitedly like worms.

She began to wonder how the Bureau would handle this emergency.

Chang Xu escaped from the control of the Investigation Bureau, killed Qi Si, a member of the Unnamed Guild, in public, and triggered public opinion, dealing a blow to Jiuzhou's prestige and the credibility of the game forum.

Although there was someone else who really controlled all this, it was indeed him who provided those people with the knife to stab the Bureau. More importantly... he learned to disobey orders.

This kind of monster that is out of control and closely related to weird games should be kept in the fifth underground floor of the Investigation Bureau where it will never see the light of day.

Ning Xu is of a higher rank and often goes in and out of the fifth underground floor. He has also seen some creatures imprisoned there, such as Zhang Yiyu.

She knew that such an environment was enough to drive people crazy. Even a normal person would become a dangerous lunatic if he lived there for a month, and then someone would say in hindsight: "See, it's a good thing we locked him up earlier."

What if the person imprisoned was Chang Xu?

Ning Xu recalled the first time she met Chang Xu, when he was still a young boy as ignorant and cruel as a wild beast. She brought him back just to follow Fu Jue's order, but she still couldn't help but say a few more words to him.

Caring was just a casual act. Any kind-hearted person would behave in that way in such a situation, just like a cat lover would casually feed a stray cat a cat sliver. But no matter what, Chang Xu was not a stranger to her. She thought, maybe she could ask the Investigation Bureau for mercy. After all, although Chang Xu killed Qi Si impulsively, it was understandable, wasn't it?

Ning Xu left the guild base, logged out of the weird game from the game space, and returned to reality.

The moment she opened her eyes, she saw countless strange and magnificent scenes. Golden leaves appeared without roots or source in mid-air, and were blown to the ground by the strong wind from above; the golden river of blood twisted wildly like a diseased vein, and the young man in black stepped onto the shore step by step from the bottom of the river.

The river bit its own tail like a long snake, forming a flowing Möbius loop; fragments of clocks and hourglasses were flying around the river, as well as parchment scrolls, record players, oracle bones, metal slates, and old-fashioned telephones from various regions and times...

All realities turned into fragments and became servants of the river, flying and flowing in disorder and chaos, with no way to tell the beginning and the end, or the beginning and the end.

Ning Xu felt countless emotions that did not belong to her. The pasts of those strangers kept washing over her, painful, joyful, bewildered, angry, and regretful...

Before she knew it, her face was covered in tears. She wanted to close her eyes but was unable to do so. The pain was so severe that her eyes began to bleed, covering her vision with a layer of red blood film.

The world became blurry, and she couldn't see many details, which helped her wake up. She heard the piercing sound of alarms.

[Warning! A surge in strangeness has been detected in the nearby space and time, and a suspected A-level or above strangeness has escaped.]

Ning Xu knew clearly that the weirdness that was befalling at this moment could not be only A-level, and all these abnormalities could only occur when looking directly at a god.

A god from a weird game has come to reality. Who could it be? How did he get out? And why did he come here?
On the coffee table in Fu Jue's office, a statue of a strange-looking goddess was oozing tears of blood. Within seconds, her entire body was soaked in blood, and not an inch of her original whiteness could be seen.

Ning Xu pushed the door open with difficulty and staggered towards the elevator.

She knew that she had no chance of winning against the gods with her strength, but she had to grit her teeth and hold on. Even if it meant death, she had to control the gods in the Weird Investigation Bureau to avoid causing a larger-scale disaster.

The elevator went up from the fifth underground floor, and the numbers on the floor display changed rapidly. There was only one elevator at the exit of the fifth underground floor, and small nuclear bombs were buried in the walls of other places. If they were attacked by a strange attack above level A, they would explode immediately.

What the investigators need to do is to guard this only elevator and activate the self-destruct program if they see something else coming up from below.

Ning Xu and several investigators who had hurried over stood at the elevator door. All of them had tears and blood in their eyes and looked extremely embarrassed.

None of them knew what would come up from the fifth underground level; none of them knew whether human weapons could kill a god.

The elevator stopped at the basement level, where the investigators were. The elevator door slowly opened, and standing behind it was a tall young man in black, with a pale face and a gloomy expression.

"Chang Xu?" Ning Xu called out the man's name. Her heart relaxed for a moment, but was immediately aroused by the wildly beating danger warning.

She had never seen Chang Xu like this before. He was extremely rational, sober, and indifferent. His eyes did not reflect anyone. He was so dangerous that he did not look like a human being or a monster, but like a god.

An investigator who had learned the ending of "The Colosseum" in Sunset Ruins gasped: "Chang... Chang Xu, aren't you dead?"

Yes, Chang Xu was dead. Under the evil god’s bright golden eyes, he was killed by Qi Si who stabbed him in the chest with a white scepter.

So what is standing here now?
All investigators saw that on the familiar face of Chang Xu in front of them, there was a pair of empty golden eyes, deep inside which were an infinite world, endless time and space, and the desires of countless people...

Like a god, exactly a god.

"Let Him go." The investigators heard the order from Fu Jue in their earphones.

In fact, even without Fu Jue's order, they could do nothing.

Under the gaze of God, they were like ants pressed down by a fingernail, unable to move, unable even to tremble their lips. For the first time, they realized how stupid their previous plan of detonating a nuclear bomb and perishing together was.

They were unable to press the button of the detonator and could only watch as the god occupying Chang Xu's body walked straight to the stairs and disappeared at the end of their sight without even glancing at them from beginning to end.

Suddenly, everyone fell to the ground with blood gushing out of their seven orifices, twisting like centipedes and becoming stiff little by little...

……

In the single apartment in the southern city of Ning Province, Liu Yuhan's body lay quietly on the bed, gradually becoming cold.

In her hand she tightly grasped a crumpled page that looked like it had just been torn from a notebook, on which were written the terms of the contract, such as mortgaging one's soul.

That was the soul contract she and Qi Si signed in the "Hopeless Sea" copy, which could travel between the game and reality and could not be destroyed. After she left the copy, she knew that she was going to die, and she just wanted to leave as many clues as possible for the Weird Investigation Bureau.

——Unfortunately, she didn’t know that the Weird Investigation Bureau was in chaos under the dual pressure of public opinion and the God’s Descent incident, and had no time to deal with these details.

Liu Yuhan's body was found five days later.

The weather in late spring was already very hot, and the body began to rot and stink after being left there for a short time. The neighbor next door was annoyed by the stench and knocked on her door angrily. When she found that she couldn't open the door, she made a bad guess and called the police station with a strange look on her face.

The door was pried open with force, and everyone saw the corpse covered in pus and maggots, with purple skin and flesh, swollen limbs, and it was about to turn into a giant.

The police officers who were called in all felt that it was bad luck. Some of the inexperienced ones didn't even dare to look at the body and started vomiting while holding the door.

The forensic doctor performed a hasty autopsy in a pretentious manner and came to the conclusion that "it was not homicide". The piece of paper soaked in corpse oil in the corpse's hand was naturally regarded as an absurd fantasy.

Out of humanitarian reasons, the Public Security Bureau investigated the background of the deceased. After learning that both her parents had passed away and she only had a few relatives living in the countryside in another province, they called her.

After learning that the deceased had no inheritance for them, the relatives all said that they were too busy to handle the funeral arrangements.

It only took two days to complete the entire process. Liu Yuhan's body was sent to the crematorium for incineration, and her ashes were scattered in an environmentally friendly manner into a mountain specially used for the burial of unclaimed ashes.

She was like a drop of water merging into the ocean, disappearing from this vast world without causing a ripple. (End of this chapter)