Infinite spooky game

"My original wish was to go out of Rabbit Town to take a look, but I didn't expect my father to be sick at this critical moment..." Qi Si's expression was sincere and his tone was sincere, "I really want to go out and take a look, Lingzi, are you willing to accompany me?"

"Okay." Lingzi blinked and agreed readily, "If we go in this direction, we will pass by the blessing tree and we can also write a blessing belt by the way."

"Thank you so much, Reiko."

Qi Si smiled and walked side by side with Lingzi along the street towards the southeast.

There are stalls lined up on both sides of the street and there are many pedestrians. It is not as quiet and lonely as when I went northwest first, but instead it is full of the atmosphere of life.

When the adults saw the two of them, they greeted them one after another. Their expressions were no different from those of living people, and they did not show any displeasure.

If we continue walking down this road, it seems that we can really leave Rabbit Town along this road.

"Shichiro, Shichiro!"

After walking for a while, a young man in a black long-sleeved kimono trotted towards Qi Si and said in a reproachful tone: "I have been looking for you for a long time. Why are you wandering around here? Father asked you to come over and talk to you."

Qi Si stopped and stared at the person quietly. Through the system prompt, he knew the boy's name - [Kanna Rokuro].

Based on the boy's words, he guessed that the full name of the "Xiao Qi" he played should be [Kannashichiro]. I don't know if there is a "Da Lang" in this family, the kind who lies in bed waiting to take medicine.

"You are always like this, absent-minded. I don't know what you are thinking about all day long." Kanwu Rokuro scolded Qi Si with a sullen face, acting like a little adult. "Father wanted to find you, but couldn't find you for a long time."

Qi Si lowered his head and said nothing. Lingzi quickly smiled and tried to smooth things over: "Since Xiao Qi has something to do, let's say goodbye here first. It's a pity that I can only go to hang the blessing belt by myself later."

"Yeah, what a pity." Qi Si readily put on a look of regret, but the next second he was pulled away by Kanmu Rokuro as if he were facing a great enemy and dragged into a narrow alley beside the street.

"The Rabbit God Festival is coming soon. Why are you still acting like a child? You are so ignorant."

Kanmu Rokuro looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to this side, then he turned to look at Qi Si and said solemnly: "Father told you not to get too close to Lingzi, but you always hang out with her."

"But my father never told me why." Qi Si frowned slightly, as if he was really confused about this. "Brother, do you know why my father didn't let me play with Lingzi?"

"Her mother is a crazy woman. She's always afraid that we'll do something to her and will beat us if she sees us." Kanna Rokuro said angrily, "Besides, after the Rabbit God Festival, you'll probably be separated forever. Getting too close will only make people sad."

"Separate? What do you mean?"

The two had walked to a wooden house. There was no one in the deep alley. The house stood lonely and solemnly, like a tomb with strict rules.

Kanna Rokuro led Qisi inside, passed through the courtyard covered with cherry blossoms, and stopped in front of an inner room with a closed door.

He turned his head to look at Qi Si and sighed: "Father will tell you everything you should know."

After Kanna Rokuro finished speaking, he took small steps back and left, leaving Qis alone standing in front of the door.

The aroma of incense from the temple and the fragrance of cooking medicine wafted out of the house, mixing into a dense mist that enveloped Qisi, making it quiet, solemn and pious.

The owner living there is most likely seriously ill, relying on medicine to stay alive and praying for God's protection.

Qi Si could almost guess that this was the stage of supplementing background information, which was common in text games, and the owner was going to tell him some secrets.

He quietly stepped into the house, and blue-black gauze curtains covered his eyes layer by layer. The flickering candlelight was lit on both sides of the road and disappeared behind the curtains, which made people think that ghosts were lurking.

The carved wooden bed covered with black curtains was hidden in the shadows like a monster. Under the aroma of medicine, there was a smell of corruption that lingered for a long time.

Qis lifted the curtain and walked towards the wooden bed step by step. For a moment, he felt countless gazes cast at him from all directions, as if the gods and Buddhas in the sky were looking down indifferently.

Deep in the dark corner, there seemed to be something piled up in a mess, like the bones of some small animal.

Qi Si slowed down his pace and walked silently to the base of the wall. He finally saw clearly that there was a row of dead rabbits neatly placed against the wall. Some of them had just begun to rot, and some were already bones.

The dead rabbits were piled up in the corner, looking like they were just wall decorations or a weird ritual, full of gloom and horror.

"Qi Lang, have you arrived?" An old voice came from behind the curtain, hoarse and weak, giving people the feeling that he would die at any time, "You are the smartest child in our family. You like to get to the bottom of everything you encounter, and you don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse.

"Son, come sit here with your father. There are some things you should know."

Qi Si obediently walked to the bedside and sat down. He said "Father" through the curtains and pretended to be worried and said, "How is your illness? We are all worried about you."

The one lying on the sickbed was undoubtedly the head of the Kanna family, who was seriously ill and wanted to pray to the Rabbit God for blessings at the fireworks festival. There was nothing wrong with what he said just now.

Unexpectedly, the person behind the curtain laughed miserably: "Oh, this is not a disease. This is the price that the descendants of Rabbit God Town should pay. It is also the fate that all the chosen people cannot escape."

Qi Si raised his eyebrows slightly and waited quietly for the head of the Shenwu family to continue.

The head of the Kanna family changed the subject, and in a very sad and worried tone, he sighed slowly: "Qi Lang, they say that you are the child who looks most like the Rabbit God... Don't tell people the legend of the Rabbit God anymore, don't let Him look at you, don't be so like Him...

"I should have died fifty-four years ago. Now that I've lived so many more years, I no longer need medical treatment... I just hope you can live well and not repeat my fate..."

"Like a rabbit god" is a blessing in the eyes of children who know nothing, but obviously, it is not the case in the eyes of adults who know certain secrets.

The child who most resembles the Rabbit God will be chosen in the ceremony, and will probably die miserably as the body of the Rabbit God's descent.

Qi Si participated in a small Rabbit God Festival held by the girls at Hope Middle School at night, and had many speculations about the conspiracy behind it.

But in front of the head of the Kanna family, he tried his best to act like an ignorant child and asked in confusion: "Father, why?"

The head of the Shenwu family coughed for a while, and slowly spoke in a hoarse voice: "Two hundred years ago, our three families worked together to imprison the Rabbit God and forced Him to make a deal..."

A secret was told by the old patriarch, which was completely different from the story of the Rabbit God told by Reiko.

Two hundred years ago, three small families, Kanna, Edo and Kurokawa, lived in the desolate Rabbit God Town, avoiding the wars in the outside world and often cooperating to do things.

During an autumn hunt, three children from different families mistakenly entered a cave and saw the skeleton of a rabbit half a person's height lying at the bottom of the cave, with the phantom of golden vines stretching around it, which was a strange and bizarre sight.

It was clearly a huge, terrifying creature, but it conveyed a sense of vast sadness, which made the children feel sympathy and pity, and they wanted to take the rabbit's bones away and bury them properly.

The head of the Kami no family sighed and said, "Our ancestors had never encountered such a miracle before. They tried to take away the rabbit's bones, but no one could move them. In desperation, they agreed to keep this secret and sealed the cave together.

"They gradually grew up and inherited their respective families. Their childhood experiences seemed like a dream, buried deep in their memories. But one night, a world-famous witch found them..."

The witch said: "You have witnessed a dying god. This is a destined opportunity. Although He is dying and His power is weakened, for weak humans, He can help you get everything you want."

The three children who were once children and are now the heads of the family only then realized that the rabbit corpse that no one could move was actually a god, the rabbit god who could fulfill their wishes.

As children grow up, they lose all their innocence and kindness and become slaves to greed and desire. They all ask witches how they can please the gods.

The witch laughed jokingly: "If you pray to Him, He will not respond. You should imprison Him so that He cannot leave; worship Him so that He cannot perish; trade with Him so that He cannot be used by you under the constraints of the rules." The witch's words were light and there was no reverence for the gods at all, as if gods were the same as all living beings, just weights on the scale, playthings in the hands of higher beings.

This attitude frightened the family heads, but it turned into motivation, planting a seed that secretly grew in their hearts, called ambition.

After the witch left, the heads of the three families discussed the matter at night again and again, including the plan to imprison the gods and the distribution of profits after success.

The terms of the contract were very fussy, but they still couldn't make up their minds.

After all, gods are untouchable and unprofane in the eyes of mortals. The idea of ​​imprisoning gods is simply too crazy.

But in the face of huge interests, determination and courage can be ignited with just a spark.

The years were unknown in the mountains, and the chaos in the outside world soon came to an end. The large Fujiwara family came to Rabbit God Town and demanded that the three families submit to them and become dependent on them.

The other party was aggressive and aggressive, and the heads of the three families finally gathered in the secret room again on a moonless night to plot.

Before the fireworks display that month, they asked their tribesmen to hunt and kill rabbits in the name of offering sacrifice to the gods, following the method left by the shamans.

They used the rabbit corpses to form a formation to suppress the power of the Rabbit God in the cave, and moved the Rabbit God's bones to the temple that had already been built.

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The Rabbit God did not wait for rescue, but lost his freedom. He opened his red eyes and asked coldly: "Human, what do you want?"

The householders remembered the witch's teachings and said, "We want to worship you and do business with you."

When the word "deal" was uttered, the contract rules between heaven and earth were triggered, and countless golden vines surrounded the three people and one god, and the Rabbit God had to agree to the people's request.

"After that, we worshipped the Rabbit God every year, and he protected us with good weather and no war. And every eighteen years, he would choose a child who looked most like him from the descendants of the three families, possess him, come to the world, and fulfill several wishes.

"The possessed person will turn into a monster and must be buried after the fireworks festival in the cave where the ancestors discovered the Rabbit God. For the next 18 years, it will appear in the dreams of blood relatives and bring terror, often causing people to die of fright.

"And this year, the Rabbit God is coming again..."

The head of the Kamiya family stopped talking here and breathed heavily.

Qi Si asked: "Father, you said that you were supposed to die fifty-four years ago. What happened then?"

"I was supposed to be chosen by the Rabbit God... but my father, your grandfather, asked the witch for a way to save me. He smeared my whole body with rabbit blood, so that I would never be seen by gods and ghosts again.

"All of us in the Kurokawa family were given an ornament soaked in rabbit blood and carried it close to our bodies so that none of us would be seen...

"But starting this year, all dead rabbits will stop bleeding. This is because the Rabbit God discovered our plan and is punishing and avenging us..."

It was obvious that the head of the Shenwu family had intended to do the same thing and use rabbit blood to make a hidden magic weapon to help all the tribesmen escape the eyes of the Rabbit God.

But now that the rabbit is no longer bleeding, he can only hope that Kanna Shichiro will no longer resemble the Rabbit God and will not be chosen.

The recorder left by Lu Ming flashed through Qi Si's mind. When he held the recorder, the female dormitory manager and the girls could not detect his movements. It sounded like the same principle was used.

[Lu Ming's Diary] conveys a picture of Lu Ming wiping a rabbit's skeleton. The recorder must have been treated with rabbit blood.

But how did he know this?
In the dense medicinal fragrance, the head of the Shenwu family laughed miserably, and his words were like the broken wings of a cicada: "Qilang, our Shenwu family no longer needs the power of the Rabbit God... You must be careful and don't be harmed by the other two families...

"I heard that the Rabbit God will definitely fulfill the wish of the child He chooses. You must not let the children of your age notice you these days..."

Times change. Over the past two hundred years, some families have risen in power while others have declined. A transaction that was beneficial to everyone for a period of time may become a curse as time goes by.

When people are scarce on food and clothing and struggling to survive, being haunted by ghosts and cursed by the gods is a small price to pay; but what wealthy family is willing to sit under the sword of Damocles, subject to constant harassment from ghosts and gods?
The original agreement is in jeopardy, and twists and turns arise.

Qi Si walked out of the inner room and unknowingly arrived at the bustling downtown.

The sky is filled with red silk fluttering in the wind, with words outlined on it in brilliant golden lines, which are exactly what people want to realize most.

The ignorant people were kept in the dark, thinking that the blessing of the Rabbit God came from their moving piety. They indulged in beautiful legends, unaware that behind all this were cold deals and dark calculations.

There are fireworks everywhere and under the ten-mile lanterns are abscesses and blood clots. I don’t know when the lie that has lasted for two hundred years will be exposed.

Combining the usual routine of word games, the fireworks festival on August 7 should be the outbreak point of everything.

Behind a stall filled with red silk for making wishes, a gray-haired woman smiled and waved to Qi Si: "It's Shichiro from Kanna-sama's family. He is indeed a cute child!"

"Really? Thank you." Qi Si put on a purely harmless smile on his face and walked over slowly.

The old woman smiled and said, "You haven't made a wish this year, so I've kept the longest blessing belt for you."

"Thank you, mother-in-law." Qi Si's eyes curved as he took the red silk handed over by the old woman. "Actually, I haven't decided what wish I want to make yet. I'm afraid that Lord Rabbit God won't be able to fulfill my wish if it's too extreme."

"Oh, the Rabbit God will come this year, and the wishes you make will be more effective than in previous years." The old woman urged.

Qi Si sneered indifferently, and the faded prayer belt he saw at the bottom of the lake at Hope Middle School flashed before his eyes.

That clearly belonged to the past that had long been buried in the dust of history, but it allowed him to glimpse a corner of the future, just like an invitation for him to join.

He already knew what to write.

[Weird games, rules, and transactions]

Qi Si picked up the golden pen and wrote the three words he saw at the bottom of the lake on the red silk.

The destiny in the dark is back on track, the golden thread connects front and back, forming a closure like a Möbius strip.

He already knew that in a world line, there was an ending where he successfully seized the power of the Rabbit God.

The script has been written and the questions have been answered, so he will accept them calmly and face the destined fate.

Qis moved among the fine silk ribbons, looking for a place to hang the red silk. At the same time, he scanned the red silk strips and read the words on them one by one.

On a foot-long red silk was written the following words in elegant handwriting: [I want to be with Xiao Qi. Lingzi]

It is known that the wishes of children chosen by the Rabbit God will surely come true, and with the secret collusion of the adults, Reiko will undoubtedly be chosen by the Rabbit God.

She will die, but she wants to be with Kanna Shichiro, so she has no choice but to let Kanna Shichiro die with her.

Unless——Escape from Rabbit God Town. (End of this chapter)