Infinite spooky game

In Xiangcheng, the headquarters of the Libra Church, Bai Ya sat in his office, holding a finger-thick document in his hand, which recorded the progress of the purge within the Libra Church.

In the past few days, the game between the Libra Church and the Federation has been exposed. The local security bureau and nearby city armed forces have frequently organized joint operations, and news of the destruction of the Libra Church's strongholds has emerged almost every day.

The enthusiastic students and all kinds of people instigated by the Libra launched protest marches again and again, claiming that the federal government's actions were a blow to free will and a serious disregard for the true wishes of the citizens.

This kind of slogan-shouting parade had little effect. Even if it was mixed with negative rumors about the army shooting at the crowd, it could not spread outside the city due to the strict information blockade, and naturally could not stir up any waves of public opinion.

In the 21st century, the disparity between official and civilian technology and armed forces has become insurmountable. Bottom-up riots and rebellions always end up being violently suppressed, and the hope of success is slim.

White Crow never expected to force the Federation to make concessions through the people. It was enough to create a certain amount of chaos and lay down a maze to delay time.

Over the years, the believers gathered by the Libra Church were both bargaining chips and sacrifices.

In a world where gods and weird games exist, there are actually many paths to choose.

After the first stronghold was breached by the Federation, White Crow conducted an internal investigation of the Libra Church on the grounds of "important intelligence leaks and suspected internal traitors", thereby opening the curtain of the Great Purge.

On the list of names densely written, countless names were crossed out in red, indicating that the owners of the names were dead. Among them were some people that Bai Ya was familiar with, with whom she had chatted for a few minutes and had a good chat, and there were even some people she had saved personally.

When they are together to cause chaos, these people may be the best comrades-in-arms, but once they try to become a regular, solid force, their fanaticism, extremism, and self-righteousness will definitely become a discordant factor that endangers stability.

What's more, many of them had secretly contacted "Yuan", another high-ranking member of the Libra Church, so they would rather kill the wrong person than let him go.

Bai Ya felt neither regret nor pity. Ever since she became the religious leader of the Libra Church and played the role of "saint" through deliberate propaganda and word of mouth among believers, she looked at the world from a god's perspective. Beneath the mask of gentleness and kindness was alienation and indifference.

Twenty-two years have passed, and she is no longer the ignorant little girl who listened to her parents and gave food to strangers at the age of eight.

After the specific goodwill disappeared, empathy became difficult, and human life and suffering were nothing more than simple numbers and trade-offs of interests in her eyes.

Gods and strange games made her see another possibility for the world. All the solidified classes were broken, the old forces were disrupted, all beings were equal under the rules, and life and death, fate and ending were determined by randomness - how fair!
She believes that she loves this world. Although she no longer loves specific people, she still hopes that the world can become a better place in her heart, and sacrifice is necessary on the road to realizing her ideals.

Such an idea is undoubtedly unacceptable to most people, but Bai Ya has never considered himself a good person.

After being sold to the Libra Church by her parents, in order to gain the trust of the top leaders and stand out from that group of children, she participated in a bombing case that killed and injured more than a hundred people as a token of her allegiance. Among the dead were many innocent people who happened to pass by.

Later, she joined forces with "Yuan" to stir up a rift within the Libra Church, beheaded the old group of good-for-nothings in power, re-formulated doctrine, defined orthodoxy, and killed all "pagans" who opposed her.

Not long ago, in order to block the news that "Qisi" was the incarnation of "Qi", she killed Nian Fu, who had experienced the "Colosseum" copy with her and had always been loyal to her, even though she was not sure how much she knew, even though she believed that she would obey her orders...

She has walked a path that is full of blood debts and has killed countless innocent souls. Through the gaps between her clean white fingers, she can see thick black blood stains and hear shrill wails.

There is always blood under the turbulent ground of Xiangcheng. Some of the bodies were cleared by her, some were cleared out by joint operations, and some were shot by the army... countless bodies are piled up in the narrow alleys, with no one to collect them.

As many people died, believers sometimes became panic-stricken.

Fortunately, Bai Ya has been building up his reputation for many years and possesses extremely high prestige. He is also worshipped as a god descended from the earth by some fanatical believers, so the backlash and impact he has suffered is not very great.

When a person makes countless decisions that all lead to correct results, blind obedience will become the follower's habit, and even the most absurd orders will be regarded as oracles and strictly executed out of inertia of thinking.

"Death is not a waste of life, but a sacrifice to welcome a new world. It is the most meaningful thing that most people can do now." These are the words that Bai Ya once said to comfort his believers, and they were not completely empty words.

She raised her right hand slightly, and the identity card with black background and white patterns solidified between her fingers. The saint in white robe on the card had half-opened dark eyes, peaceful yet evil.

[Dreamy Orator], after offering enough sacrifices, you can draw a card. When in the upright position, your ideal will become a reality.

All the dead within Xiangcheng are sacrifices offered by Bai Ya to this identity card. Now the progress of the sacrifice has accumulated to one third. I believe that a card draw will be carried out soon to reverse the situation.

"Dong dong dong."

There was an abrupt knock on the door, accompanied by a muffled female voice: "Leader, it's me, Asakura Yuko. There's a piece of news I think you need to know as soon as possible."

"Please come in. Thank you for your hard work." Bai Ya stood up, opened the door, and greeted the woman outside.

As she spoke, there was a faint smile on the corners of her lips. It was unclear whether she was being approachable to everyone or was being particularly indulgent to her own confidants.

Asakura Yuko bowed slightly as a greeting, her eyes dull under the glasses thick with beer caps, as if she was still asleep.

She handed the tablet in her hand to Bai Ya, which showed an appointment document with the official seal of the federal government.

[Notice from the Future Federation of Earth on the appointment of Alexi Olegevich as the acting governor of Xiangcheng]

Bai Ya quickly read the document and said softly, "The Federation violated the customary principle of county autonomy and appointed him, a person from another county, to manage Xiangcheng. He must be behind it."

Asakura Yuko adjusted her glasses and asked, "So, leader, are you going to continue the purge? Recently, some people in the church have great dissatisfaction with you. When he comes, these people will only have more dissatisfaction with you."

"The cleansing must continue. Libra has too many chronic diseases and needs a blood transfusion." Bai Ya paused and said in a joking tone, "Let those guys who have complaints turn left and turn themselves in to the city government. Let's see whether they will give them a little red flower or a volley of bullets."

The vice president rarely showed his frivolous sense of humor in front of outsiders, but Asakura Yuko did not respond. Instead, she said seriously, "What I mean is that the resistance is getting bigger and bigger, and the contradictions within the church have reached the critical point of breaking out. I don't want you to fail and I will be held accountable with you."

Bai Ya smiled and said, "Don't worry about that. After the twenty-two identity cards are made public, I will never die at the hands of my own people."

She snapped her fingers, and the ID card dissipated into a huge shadow in the space. The man in white robe opened his arms as if foreshadowing a speech, and white doves and crows circled and scattered white and black feathers.

"You could perhaps tell some people about the effects of [The Visionary Orator] and ask them if they are willing to sacrifice for the sake of the scales."

……

Qis sat on the bronze throne of the temple, with scarlet vines growing wildly on the wall behind him, outlining the shape of the World Tree.

He sank into the shade of the drooping vines, leaves and fruits, and casually lifted the prayers and calls that he had blocked before, and re-arranged the movements of the soul leaves in his hand. After he left, Lin Chen completed the meeting with Fu Jue on his own, and seemed to perform well, at least he did not show any timidity. At the end, he even asked him "Is there something wrong with Fu Jue?" His perception was much sharper, which was worthy of encouragement.

After being hunted down by the Libra Church, Dong Xiwen was accidentally detained by the Redan Casino while smuggling and escorted to the Eagle County headquarters in Nevada. At this moment, he was asking him for help.

Zhang Yiyu sat in the dark confinement room, wiping her tears and praying to be freed and to see her mother again. Since she did not specify who to pray for, her wish was naturally recorded in Qi Si's account.

Qis always felt that something was wrong. He was never a good god who was happy to satisfy people's wishes and create family-friendly comedy. On the contrary, he was an evil god full of malice who liked tragedy and pain.

These people treat him as a wishing machine, hoping that he can save them. Aren’t they afraid that he will do whatever he wants and make their fate even worse?
Why do people think that God will definitely help them?

Qi Si couldn't understand.

After devouring Qi, his last bit of familiarity with the human group disappeared, as if he were another independent species, neither human, god, ghost, nor demon.

Memories of the past are fading, and he is increasingly unable to understand certain human thoughts and behaviors. He can only observe and speculate as a bystander rather than an eyewitness.

He couldn't even understand himself why he didn't kill everyone just now and seek some peace and freedom in the afternoon.

Qisi's eyes fell on the soul leaf representing the white crow.

After accumulating complete contractual authority, even if White Crow had never prayed to him, he could still know the movements of the Libra Church through the leaves.

——In the past, Bai Ya believed in Qi, not him; but now, he is Qi.

He could see that Bai Ya was performing a grand sacrifice with Xiangcheng as the altar, but the object of the sacrifice was not him, and he did not receive any offerings.

The best way to deal with dishonest people with ulterior motives might be to bring down divine punishment to kill the chicken and scare the monkey, but Qis found that he did not feel angry and was too lazy to react.

Just like in the "Shuangxi Town" copy, Li Yao was not killed.

People may accidentally step on an ant to death while looking up at the stars, but they will never chase after an ant across thousands of miles just because it bit them.

The amount of information received in a short period of time is too vast, and even the malice is divided into thousands of parts, each of which is diluted.

Qi Si feels that his current self is neither like the "Qisi" of the past, nor like the "Siqi" of the future, and is also quite different from the "Qi" of the past.

He seemed to have been reborn, and all his past memories flowed before his eyes as if separated by a layer of translucent film.

Qi Si quit the weird game, came to reality, and opened his eyes in his bedroom.

The power, persona, and perspective of God that he could feel just now disappeared in an instant. After possessing a physical body, he seemed to have returned to the realm of humanity.

After trying to grab a book remotely without success, he sighed and said, "Is there a regional restriction on this divine power? A weird in-game trial version?"

Another voice belonging to him in his mind replied with a smile: "I remember I once told you that a god lives in the human body. The heavy flesh cannot bear the soul of God. You may try to give up your flesh and throw away this useless body."

These words were spoken in Qi's tone, gentle, patient and persuasive.

Qi Si narrowed his eyes and asked with a half-smile: "Are you planning to trick me into committing suicide?"

Qi sighed: "You already know the origin between you and me, why are you still so wary of me? You should know that your position is always the same as mine..."

Qi Si interrupted, "On the contrary, I have always held the greatest malice towards the existence of 'myself'."

He grabbed the phone beside the pillow and unlocked the screen with a little awkwardness.

Lin Chen's text message popped up, asking endless questions, and his concern for him was evident between the lines.

He replied "I'm fine", sent it, and then cleared the receiving and sending columns with one click.

He entered the game forum and roughly browsed through the hot posts. Most people were discussing the twenty-two identity cards. There were also people with a keen sense of smell who posted a post titled "Fu Jue represents Jiuzhou and reconciles with the Unnamed Guild."

He watched as the post, which was originally in a remote corner, was pushed to the top of the hot list by a large number of accounts, and then many accounts posted water posts with content almost the same as Fengfa. The discussion direction of the forum quickly focused on the Unnamed Guild.

He looked at it for a while, felt bored, and found a flowerpot and started planting roses.

At the last moment, Qi made a wish to him, hoping that he would plant roses all over the world. At that moment, a handful of golden rose seeds appeared out of thin air in his arms, as light as light.

He is still interested in trying to fulfill his own wishes.

He casually sprinkled the light spots into the flowerpot and waited leisurely, watching the golden light gradually dim like death, and none of the expected changes happened.

Qi's voice chuckled: "Although God can create roses, he can never touch the soil where they take root - human desires are the bloody humus that is most suitable for roses to grow.

"Perhaps you can ask people to pray to you, grant their wishes, and then give them rose seeds so that they can plant them for you."

Qi Si also smiled, and the phantom of the castle appeared in his pupils: "Just like what you did to Anna and Annie?"

Qi's voice was very pleasant: "Praying to the evil god because of desire, drinking poison to quench thirst and putting your fate on the gambling table, the world is nothing more than a huge rose manor, what do you think?"

Qi Si asked: "So, why should I answer prayers? Don't tell me that gods have KPI requirements for fulfilling wishes."

"Because it's fun." Qi said with a smile, "For you and me, fun is everything.

"Guess - when the god hands over the knife handle, will the mortal stab the knife tip into his own heart?" (End of this chapter)