Infinite spooky game

Chapter 331 Beware the Rabbit (Thirteen) Destined Fate

The rabbit statue sat upright in the dilapidated shrine, its black robe neatly carved and not fluttering in the water.

The grinding of time and the erosion of water have carved wave marks on the surface. It has long lost its original glory, but it is still sacred and solemn.

Strips of red silk were scattered around the statue, also quietly and obediently sinking to the bottom of the pool, the edges were white and rotten, and the words were not clear.

Qis walked closer step by step, without feeling any discomfort of facing the god directly. Even though he was very close, he could not feel any aftereffects of the divine power.

It seemed to be just an ordinary statue, a lifeless dead object.

Qi Si caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye, dazzling and frightening. He bent down and picked it up.

It was the only well-preserved blessing belt, and on it were written three words that the game NPCs would never know:
[Weird games, rules, and transactions]

The handwriting was sloppy and free-hand, and every stroke was clearly Qis's own, but Qis had no impression of it.

The handwriting contained remnants of the authority of the contract, and the skill of [Soul Contract] was triggered to resonate faintly, so he was able to confirm that the three words were written by him personally.

Considering the Rabbit God's current powerless state, he seemed to have vaguely deduced the logic behind the copy.

He entered the "Beware the Rabbit" copy in order to seize the divine power. In one world line, he succeeded in the past time and space where Rabbit God Town was located. From then on, the Rabbit God of Hope Middle School no longer had any divine power.

It was precisely because the Rabbit God had lost his power that the middle school's plan to sacrifice orphans in exchange for students getting good grades fell through, so they had to urgently adjust their teaching policy and strictly require students...

The cause and effect seem very reasonable at first glance. The only troublesome thing is that the Rabbit God's divine power is indeed missing. Whether he in the other world line has obtained divine power or not, it has nothing to do with him here.

If he wants to get what he wants in this world line, he must go to the past of Rabbit God Town, that is, when the power of the Rabbit God has not yet been seized, and succeed at an earlier time.

The ending was already decided, not only for Lu Ming, but also for him.

Lingzi will die, and the Rabbit God's power will be seized by him through the power of the contract. The former is an outcome that Lu Ming cannot accept, and the latter is the purpose of his trip.

All he needs to do is form a closed loop and push the ending that he has already glimpsed to be achieved as written.

Because he wants to keep winning, every step must be on the established route, without any changes allowed.

So in order to avoid deviations in details, Reiko is destined to die, just like countless past reincarnations.

He is a selfish person who will do anything to achieve his goal. He is willing to sacrifice the whole world for the slightest benefit, not to mention using Reiko's death to gain divine power...

The water with golden vines fluttering in the air surged into the shape of a Möbius strip before his eyes, and Qis knew the solution to this copy at a glance.

This was a very simple dungeon. Li Yuan was more realistic than Qi. He said he would give him divine power, so he would not add any obstacles. He came to this dungeon just to go through the motions, without too many complicated puzzles and twists and turns...

Lu Ming's hopes were doomed to fail. No one would care about the thoughts of an NPC. He was just an insignificant sacrifice in a god-level transaction, just like a human casually waving his sleeves, accidentally causing an ant on it to fall to the ground...

When Qis returned to the surface of the water, his vision suddenly turned, and when he came to his senses, he was actually standing on the lakeshore, next to the warning sign.

Although the clothes were wet, they were only wet by the water vapor and not soaked by the bone-chilling lake water.

The experience of sinking to the bottom of the lake just now seemed to be just an illusion deep in a nightmare, and there was no real evidence to prove that the incident occurred.

Qi Si walked back to the teaching building, went up to the third floor, and returned to the classroom of Grade 9 ().

At half past seven, everyone should have arrived, and the front and back doors of the classroom were closed by the duty monitor in charge of morning reading.

Qi Si noticed that there were nearly half fewer students in the classroom than yesterday. Basically all the girls had disappeared, and there were also two fewer boys. They were the two who were caught by the dean last night.

After class, the students were laughing, chasing and playing as usual, just like a normal middle school break. It seemed that no one noticed that half of them were missing for no reason.

Qi Si turned around, grabbed the wrist of the boy in the back row, and asked, "Why are there so few people in the class? Do you know where they went?"

Although the boy was impatient, he still answered patiently when he saw the blade between Qi Si's fingers: "They either couldn't stand the pressure and transferred to another school, or they committed a crime and were persuaded to drop out, or their families were supportive and found a way out for them.

"Oh, they are so happy. They probably haven't woken up yet. Only the unlucky ones like us have to stay in this crappy school and struggle to pass the high school entrance exam."

Qi Si raised an eyebrow and asked, "Did they make an appointment to leave overnight?"

The boy looked at Qi Si in confusion: "Lu Ming, are you still asleep? They have been leaving for a while now. The earliest one left half a year ago when the school rules were changed."

"Change the school rules?"

"Yeah, I don't know what's wrong with the principal's brain. When we enrolled, he promised us that we would have a happy three years, but now he suddenly starts to focus on our grades..."

The boy's true emotions were aroused, and he kept complaining about how hard his life had been in the past six months, which was consistent with the information Qi Si learned from the report.

He roughly understood that in this copy, students who violated school rules and regulations would disappear, but they would be given a reasonable reason that would not arouse suspicion.

The NPC's memory is obviously disordered, and it will automatically modify its cognition under the interference of the dungeon; the description of time and events is also inaccurate, and even disappearance overnight can be recorded as leaving one after another within half a year...

So, is their memory of "Lu Ming" also inaccurate?

They said that "Lu Ming" was Lu Ming's brother, who jumped to his death not long ago.

But the fact is, it was Lu Ming who jumped to his death.

The cognitive modification is to make the copy logic smoother and avoid NPCs from noticing obvious discrepancies.

Just imagine, Lu Ming died on July 31st and was reported in the newspapers with great fanfare, but he appeared in the classroom intact on August 1st. Such a big bug would inevitably arouse the suspicion of the NPC.

Therefore, the only one who died was Lu Ming.

How to explain that Lu Ming looks exactly like Lu Ming? It's simple, just treat him as Lu Ming's twin brother.

From this, it can be seen that [Lu Ming's Diary] is actually [Lu Ming's Diary], and the young man in the picture who is wiping the rabbit bones and is suspected to have a close connection with the Rabbit God is Lu Ming himself.

And because Lu Ming didn't have a brother, when Qi Si asked the NPC about his brother alone, he got confused and negative responses.

Only once, when he mentioned "Lu Ming" in Li Fang's office and mentioned Lu Ming's death in passing, Li Fang seemed to remember something and showed fear and impatience.

At noon, Lingzi was waiting for Qi Si, or "Lu Ming" in her eyes, at the classroom door as usual.

Although Qi Si knew that she would die and had no mercy on her to change her fate, he still smiled friendly and chatted with her casually.

"Lu Ming, the dean had a talk with Teacher Li this morning. They argued for a long time." Lingzi said worriedly. Qi Si, the culprit, raised his eyebrows slightly: "Oh? Did something happen?"

"I don't know either. I'll ask Teacher Li after dinner." Lingzi sighed, "Alas, Teacher Li often quarrels with the school's top management because of us. She is a good teacher who truly cares about us.

"At the beginning, the school never paid attention to discipline or study. The middle school was in chaos from top to bottom. It was Teacher Li who took the risk of being hated by the students and taught us knowledge seriously and disciplined our behavior.

"In the past six months, the school has started to pursue quick success and instant benefits again, pushing us to death. It was also Teacher Li who withstood the pressure from the school and selected valuable exercises for us to improve our learning efficiency..."

"Well, then she is indeed very responsible." Qi Si responded sincerely.

Li Fang and Lingzi are both a special type of NPC. Prompt text will pop up on their bodies, and their bodies are found in the school.

Qis guessed that they probably all died before the seven-day cycle began.

Li Fang could see her own body because her death was a foregone conclusion; Lingzi could not see her own body because Lu Ming was still trying his best to save her, and her life and death depended on the game between Lu Ming and a higher being.

After Lu Ming's death, he did not enter the cycle of reincarnation, but instead put the entire Hope Middle School into the ghost realm, repeating the cycle over and over again, just to allow Lingzi to survive... This self-sacrificing sentiment is something Qi Si cannot understand.

He followed Lingzi without comment, walked into the cafeteria, and left the cafeteria with an empty plate without arousing the suspicion of the monitor.

Although he was using Lu Ming's body, which was theoretically a dead person, he had no intention of letting hair and maggots enter his stomach.

The afternoon class went on as usual. Li Fang was as strict as ever, but she didn't show any other emotions such as anger.

If Lingzi hadn't told him about it, Qi Si would never have known that she had just had a heated argument with the dean. But it seemed that the dean was a very kind person and didn't betray Qi Si, who was a snitch.

When Qi Si sneaked into the office in the morning, he slipped the review into the homework book. Li Fang probably received it when she was grading the homework. After class, she didn't ask him for the review, nor did she invite him into the office again.

The day ended uneventfully. Qi Si no longer felt the novelty of the first day, but he also felt nostalgic.

When he was in junior high school, he had never studied so peacefully. He was either disturbed by a group of bored classmates or thinking about how to retaliate with bloody means, and then after killing someone, he would make a plan to escape the crime and destroy the body...

At five o'clock in the evening, time once again came to a standstill, the space was filled with gray silence, and handwritten words appeared before my eyes.

["Escape from Rabbit God Town" Second Week]

【Achieve Ending ② The Hidden Boy and Girl】

[The next game of "Escape from Rabbit Town" will be available at 00:00:00]

With the blessing belt fluttering down, Lu Ming sat quietly in the chair, looking at Qi Si.

"It's time," he said.

Qi Si knew that in this copy, the only way for him to establish a connection with the Rabbit God Town of the past time and space was through the game "Escape from Rabbit God Town" created by Lu Ming.

Lu Ming didn't know what price he paid to break through the barrier between the present and the past, sending players to Rabbit God Town two hundred years ago over and over again.

Perhaps in his opinion, Reiko died because she was sacrificed to the Rabbit God, and as long as he could go back to Rabbit God Town and change the past, he could solve the problem from the source.

But things are obviously not that simple.

The Rabbit God was no longer in the territory of Hope Middle School half a year ago, or in other words, he lost the power to fulfill wishes.

Otherwise, I hope that the senior management of the middle school can continue to deal with Him without suddenly starting to strictly enforce students' learning.

So, who was it that accepted Reiko's sacrifice?
Qi Si suddenly thought of an interesting possibility, which was the tragedy caused by the time paradox.

He half-lowered his eyes and grinned like a hyena: "Okay, let's get started as soon as possible."

Lu Ming snapped his fingers.

The prayer belt between heaven and earth hovers and dances like an elf, and lines of text are refreshed between the floating light and shadow.

[Game name: "Escape from Rabbit God Town"]

【mission target:? ? ? 】

[Warm Tips: Be careful of rabbits]

[Save Points: ① "Suspicious Questions"; ② Reiko's Rabbit God Mask]

[Do you want to read the saved file and start the game? ]

"Yes, read archive 2."

[The third week of "Escape from Rabbit God Town" begins]

"Xiao Qi, look! They're selling rabbit masks over there!" From a high vantage point, Lingzi ran to the mask stall with her skirt lifted, picked up the rabbit god mask and put it on her face.

The perspective falls back, Qi Si is attached to Xiao Qi, and Ling Zi in front of him says with a smile: "Everyone has been so polite to me recently, even though they said before that you are the child who looks most like Rabbit God!"

Qi Si was unable to control his body. He walked towards the stall owner as he did in the second round and took the Rabbit God mask from him. "The Fireworks Festival is coming soon. I want to ask what I can do to become more like the Rabbit God. Is there anything I am not doing well enough?"

The stall owner smiled apologetically: "Qi Lang has done a very good job. We are a small business, so we have to say a few words to please people, just consider it as a good relationship..."

The plot continued to fast forward, and Qisi heard himself say: "Father always said that he was sick because he was not pious enough. Even I am no longer the child who is most like the Rabbit God..."

Reiko said, "How can you not be pious enough? There must be something wrong... I think Uncle Kanna is a very good person and always smiles at me, but Mom seems to dislike him very much...

"Mom also told me not to play with you, but I just don't let her know. I like playing with Xiao Qi the most!"

"I think your mother misunderstood me because of some people's unfair comments. Maybe you can take me to see her, and maybe the misunderstanding can be resolved."

"After my father passed away, my mother didn't allow me to bring anyone else home. Should I go back and persuade her?"

"Then there's no need to bother. Please don't tell Lingzi that I said these things to you, so as not to embarrass her." The plot before the save point ended here, and Qis regained control of his body.

He turned his head and said to Reiko what he had said in Act 2: "Reiko, let's walk along this street and take a look outside of Rabbit God Town."

But this time, he pointed to the southeast, which was the opposite direction from the second round.

(End of this chapter)