Infinite spooky game

In the Ruins of Sunset, in each game space and the screening rooms of each major guild, system prompts sounded at the same time.

[The player you follow, "Siqi", is currently live streaming the "Be Careful with the Rabbit" dungeon, go check it out~]

The players entered the live broadcast room at the same time, and the barrage of comments started to fill up quickly.

"No, what's going on? Hasn't he always stopped live streaming?"

"The final instance is approaching, and he probably wants to use the live broadcast to clarify some things and build momentum for the Unnamed Guild so as to fool some teammates."

"Last time someone said that if you can catch Siqi's live broadcast, you will eat shit. Is that person still alive? Don't go back on your word~"

After the messy discussion, the players' attention quickly focused on the specific content of the copy.

"This instance is quite interesting. The style is quite rare. It seems to have two parallel lines? It's the first time I've seen two parallel lines for one player."

"As expected of the No. 1 on the newcomer list, how brave is he? He actually offended an NPC and was sent to the office..."

"The previous prompt seemed to say that the props would be sealed. I dare to guarantee that he is not much different from a whiteboard. He dared to enter the office with this. He is really not afraid of death!"

"I can't wait to see him show off his skills. I've never seen him live, so I don't know what cards he has up his sleeve."

……

In the office, Qi Si didn't show it on his face. Seeing that Li Fang was still getting water, he followed the smell of blood to a desk, put his computer and lesson plan on the desk, and crumpled up a list on the corner of the desk and put it in his pocket.

Feeling a little wet on his toes, he lowered his head slightly to look at the ground.

I saw a pool of dark red blood silently seeping out from under the desk, flowing slowly around, and soaking his toes without him knowing.

"Lu Ming, the high school entrance exam is coming up soon, and you are still so idle! You only scored 67 points in math in the last mock exam. I really don't know what you were listening to in class!
"You grew up in an orphanage, unlike other students who have family support. You have no way out, and if you don't work hard, what do you think the teacher can do with you?"

Li Fang's words were particularly earnest, as if she was worried about Lu Ming, but the sound of gurgling water was mixed in between her words, making her sound a little eerie.

Qi Si thus completed some of the information about the original body: his family had a misfortune, his parents died, and he became an orphan. He was able to study in this middle school, most likely with financial support.

He half-closed his eyelids and said politely: "Teacher, I know I was wrong. I will work harder in the future."

Li Fang seemed not to hear and continued chattering: "Lu Ming, you have to have a sense of urgency. If you don't do well in the next mock exam, you will stay here forever."

"Stay here forever"? What does that mean?
Qi Si's mind moved slightly, and he took a few steps back calmly, leaving a water-red bloody footprint on the clean ground.

At this moment, from the angle he was standing, he could just see the scene under the desk clearly.

A twisted corpse poked its head out from the corner of the table, blood gushing out like a waterfall, the fluffy rabbit face looked up at Qi Si, the facial features still recognizable as their appearance before birth.

It was Li Fang. She had died and turned into a rabbit...

What about Li Fang who was in class?

Is it a ghost or some other monster?

"Lu Ming, didn't you always want to leave?" The sound of the water stopped, and a suspicious friction sound came from behind him, "Why do you suddenly want to stay?"

"Because of laziness, you made a hasty decision and ruined your whole life... Teacher doesn't want to see you like this."

Li Fang is turning around and about to come over.

You can't let ghosts see your corpse, otherwise it will become an evil spirit.

After spending so many years with Jin Yusheng, whose main job is a heavenly master, Qi Si still has some basic common sense.

He stepped sideways, stood in front of the desk, raised his foot and kicked the rabbit's face. The corpse rolled back under the table and hit the wooden baffle, but no sound was made.

The bloody smell disappeared, there was no trace of blood or corpse, and under the desk there were only dusty old test papers and exercise books.

Qi Si turned around and looked directly into Li Fang's eyes: "Teacher, you know, my brother Lu Ming is here, and I want to stay with him."

Li Fang's face suddenly turned pale, her eyes full of fear: "What nonsense are you talking about? What brother? You are so young and don't focus on studying. You are thinking about all kinds of things all day long. You are going crazy!"

Her fear was so real, as if Qi Si was the evil ghost lurking here, hissing with malice.

Qi Si touched his face innocently and said softly, "Teacher, I heard from my classmates that a student named Lu Ming had an accident..."

"Why are you doing nothing but studying?" Li Fang interrupted him with a frown, waving her hand impatiently, "Go back to class. Yongsheng Technology Company funded your studies, not for you to mess around. Send your self-review before dinner."

The previous abnormalities disappeared without a trace, and now the conversation between teacher and student is completely normal.

Qi Si silently memorized the term "Eternal Life Technology Company" and left the office obediently.

If it was an ordinary copy, he would not take such radical measures to explore, especially when there were no tools to use.

But this copy contains the opportunity to obtain divine power, and the map is not small. If he wants to gain something, he must seize the opportunity to travel to more places.

The teacher's office is one of them.

As Li Fang is in the neutral camp and is noted as a "good teacher", she must be a relatively safe source of clues and background information in the early stages. It would be a waste not to contact her.

As for whether he would encounter the death point and be killed on the spot... Qis was not very worried.

In the opening CG, three people buried a little girl, and he saw it all, which easily corresponded to the nursery rhyme "Ten Rabbits" at the beginning.

Rabbits Six, Seven, and Eight buried Rabbit Five together. As a witness, Rabbit Nine was also tasked with telling the truth to Rabbit Ten.

Without him, the story would be incomplete.

Therefore, before Rabbit Ten knows the truth, he is most likely safe, otherwise a logical paradox will occur: the truth will be covered up with the death of Rabbit Nine, and the last two paragraphs of the nursery rhyme at the beginning of the copy will disappear.

Even if his reasoning was wrong, it didn't matter. He could just use the [Pocket Watch of Destiny] to go back once.

The evolved pocket watch of destiny allows him to go back directly to the fork in destiny. He holds the souls of tens of thousands of people in his hands and can go back at least ten times. Before the number of times he can go back is used up, his life will not be in danger.

Fortunately, it now seems that his reasoning was basically correct. He saved a thousand lives and can keep them for next use.

Half an hour had passed since the copy began. Qi Si walked back to the classroom of Grade 9 () and sat down in his seat.

During this time, no one spoke to him, which made him sure that Lu Ming's interpersonal relationships were really bad.

Most teenagers of this age are very curious, and if a classmate is called by the teacher, there will always be someone who wants to ask a few questions about their experience in the office.

Unless it is intentional isolation.

Using indifference and neglect to form a web, blocking people layer by layer, isolating them in their own world, under the euphemism of non-interference... Qis is very familiar with this kind of behavior.

Lu Ming’s past experiences and the reasons for his isolation are worth further exploration. His brother named “Lu Ming” may be a breakthrough.

The rabbit is also an important clue, and we need to figure out the symbolic meaning of this image as soon as possible.

The main quest has not been triggered yet, so we can only sort out the known clues and formulate an exploration plan based on vague guesses.

Qi Si took the crumpled list out of his pocket and spread it out on the table.

This was another reason why he was deliberately "invited" into the office.

Basically, as long as it is a formal school, the homeroom teacher will have a list of students on hand to take attendance every morning.

Getting a student list is the most convenient way to find out the distribution and general situation of the class, and you can even judge the teacher's emotional inclination from the ticks.

The title of the list was "Day Students' Arrival at School". Qi Si noticed that there were a total of thirty-six names on it, while there were clearly forty people in the class.

He glanced over and memorized the names one by one with the help of short-term memory, and finally confirmed that Lu Ming's name was not on the list. The four people who did not appear on the list were probably boarding students, and Lu Ming was one of them.

From Li Fang’s words, we can infer that he has most likely been living in school all the time, so he said “I want to leave”.

Even if a normal student has lost both parents and lives on campus, it is impossible for him to stay in school forever. So what is so special about Lu Ming?
Or... does this school have some weird rules?

The top column of the list is time, from [August 8st] to [August 1th], and there are full check marks below, which seems that no one is absent during these seven days.

Qi Si couldn't help but sigh: "Does this count as illegal tutoring when the class is in August?"

He thought of something and looked up suddenly.

Today's date is clearly written on the blackboard at the front of the classroom:
[8 month 1 day]

The sign-in column after August 8 was blank and the record stopped abruptly.

It's impossible that Li Fang was afraid of trouble and checked all the boxes for the whole week, otherwise she would not have left the blanks at the end unfilled.

Having experienced the "Rose Manor" copy, Qis was well-accepted of the time distortion setting, but he never thought he would encounter such an abrupt situation.

He grabbed a boy passing by and pointed at the blackboard and asked, "Did you forget to change the date on it? Do you want to talk to the student on duty?"

The boy glanced at the blackboard, then looked at Qi Si impatiently: "Today is August 1st, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, I remembered it wrong." Qi Si let go of his hand and lowered his head to look at the list in his hand.

Is there really a problem, or is he overthinking it?
Li Fang's math class is the first period in the afternoon, followed by Chinese, English and science classes. Some of the teachers have kind faces, while others look fierce and ferocious, and they all look alive.

Qi Si listened to the class carefully, and suddenly he seemed to be back to the time when he was in junior high school six years ago. At that time, just like now, his mind was not on studying at all.

The difference is that six years ago he was thinking about how to kill his classmates every day, but now he is thinking about how to pass the copy.

During the ten-minute break between three classes, he easily finished writing the self-review that Li Fang had asked him to do, using the same rhetoric that he had often used in middle school. He had an excellent memory for some useless aspects, and he could basically replicate it without thinking.

He folded the review and put it in his pocket, then turned around to look at the classroom which had become empty. He suddenly felt that he would be doing a disservice to the heartfelt review in his hand if he didn't turn the place upside down.

So he reached into his deskmate's drawer and began to search methodically.

There was nothing inside except textbooks and notebooks.

There were no small pieces of paper or toys, it was surprisingly clean, totally unlike that of a student of this age.

Not giving up, Qi Si searched a few more tables, but got the same result.

These students even have the same order in which they arrange their books, as if they were cast in the same mold and were game NPCs sharing the same code.

If this was just a holographic game on the market, Qis would not find it strange, but weird games always pay attention to details, and the environment and NPCs are made to be exactly the same as the campus in the real world. This degree of unity seems suspicious.

"Lu Ming, aren't you going to the cafeteria to eat?" A clear female voice sounded outside the door.

Qi Si turned around and saw a girl in a white school uniform standing outside the window. She was not tall, with short hair that reached her shoulders. Her face was blurred in the light and shadow, and it was almost clear.

"I waited for you in my classroom for a long time but couldn't see you, so I came to find you." The girl's voice was full of reproach, "You are so slow. I always have to come to find you..."

It seems that he is really here to look for his original body. He must be an important NPC.

With a smile on his face, Qi Si walked towards the girl step by step, and quietly pulled out the blade from his right wrist with his left hand and held it between two fingers.

It was clearly evening, but the corridor was filled with a faint yellow light, the breeze blew my hair, and it was peaceful and quiet.

When he was also standing in the light and shadow, Qis finally saw the girl's face clearly. It was the girl who was buried in the pit in the image at the beginning of the copy!

But at this moment, she was not wearing a kimono, nor was she dead, and her smile was bright and lively.

[Name: Reiko (a student in the third grade (10) class of Hope Junior High School, currently in the neutral camp)]

【Note: Only seven days left】

Two lines of prompt text refreshed, and Qis learned the girl's name, Lingzi.

What he cared about more was the notes.

Seven days? What does that mean? Does it mean this instance only lasts seven days?
What does it have to do with the date August 8?
"Lu Ming, what are you thinking about?" Lingzi asked in a low voice.

Qi Si took out the self-review from his pocket and waved it in front of her: "I was thinking about how to make Teacher Li forgive me. I accidentally fell asleep in Teacher Li's class this afternoon, and she asked me to write the self-review for her before dinner.

"I was just writing a self-review and didn't notice the time. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."

"Okay, I will never blame you." Lingzi smiled nonchalantly and said, "Don't always make Teacher Li angry. She looks fierce, but she is actually a very nice person!"

Qi Si narrowed his eyes and asked in a joking tone: "What do you mean? Have you been bribed by her?"

"Anyway, I think she's a very nice person. One time, I was almost hit by a flower pot falling on my head, but she pulled me back. She also asked me if I wanted to stay at her house for a while."

"Oh? Have you ever stayed at her house?"

"How could I cause her trouble? She must have refused."

As they were talking, the two of them had already walked to the door of the office.

The office door was tightly closed, covered in stains and mildew, as if it had been there for many years. Even the light that never dimmed in the corridor could not dispel the eerie feeling seeping from the crack of the door.

Qi Si tentatively turned the doorknob and the door creaked open.

The office was pitch black, and the smell of blood was overwhelming. Blood flowed out from the crack in the door, touching Qis's toes as if it had life.

Qi Si reacted very quickly, closed the door with his backhand, and took a step back away from the blood.

Lingzi seemed to be completely unaware of the abnormality in the office and asked in confusion: "Lu Ming, what's wrong?"

"Teacher Li is not here." Qi Si turned and walked towards the stairs. "It's better to give the self-criticism in person. What do you think?"

Lingzi followed him and nodded in agreement: "You'd better apologize to Teacher Li when the time comes. She is a really nice person. She once gave me a rabbit doll."

Rabbit stuffed animal?

Qi Si's ears moved slightly, and he asked casually, "Do you like rabbits?"

"I can't say I like it, but it's really cute, well-behaved and quiet, and it doesn't hurt other small animals like cats and dogs."

Well-behaved, quiet, harmless, innocent.

These four words can be said to be a good summary of the characteristics of rabbits.

Qi Si's eyes lingered on the copy name column.

【Beware of the Rabbit】

What kind of rabbits should you be careful of? Why should you be careful of rabbits?

What does rabbit mean in this copy?
"And Lu Ming, I really feel that I have a connection with animals like rabbits. This morning, someone put a stone sculpture of a rabbit on my desk and said they wanted to give it to me." Lingzi took out a stone sculpture covered with oil paint from her pocket and motioned for Qi Si to look at it.

It was a rabbit dressed in black, with a rabbit head on top of a human-like body, its eyes were blood red, and its expression was as serious as if it was attending a funeral.

Just the moment it strikes you, it makes you feel extremely uneasy. (End of this chapter)