Infinite spooky game

What should I do? Julie was also thinking about this question.

Although she has been intentionally training her physical fitness since entering the Bureau of Weird Investigation, her talent is ultimately more focused on solving puzzles. In the past, she relied too much on props to pass levels. Now that weapon props cannot be used, she will have no advantage.

【Name: Blindness】

[Type: props]

[Effect: After covering the head of a human NPC or player, it will make them lose vision for 30 seconds]

[Note: A leaf blocks the view of Mount Tai]

The black gauze flew towards Giles again, but was cut into pieces by spider silk in mid-air. A heavy black snow suddenly fell from the sky. Julie stepped on the tombstone and jumped to the top of the stone wall, pulling out the rusty iron nail nailed to the cross and holding it in her hand.

Since her own props were sealed, she had to use local materials. Her years of experience made her know clearly what materials could be used. She couldn't just sit there and wait for death. It had come to this point and it was a life-and-death situation. If she wanted to survive, she had to kill Giles.

The iron nail was swung towards the man's neck, but he quickly turned his head to avoid it. The spider silk split into countless translucent threads in the wind, hanging and spreading between the sky and the earth, forming a huge spider web.

Players are not allowed to attack each other, so they can only use non-lethal props and skills, but ghosts are obviously not bound by the rules.

Giles calmly knew that the first person he had to deal with was not Julie, but the zombies surrounding him. However, without weapons and props, these ghosts were equally difficult to deal with.

If he really wants to get out, the only way is to control Julie and use her as a barrier to make Fu Jue hiding in the dark afraid to act rashly.

The rotting smell of the zombies was getting closer and closer. Giles saw the woman's cold eyes flashing with murderous intent. Suddenly, a dozen iron nails appeared in her hands and shot towards him. A blood-red ribbon was looming among the dark shadows.

[Name: Ring of Blessing]

[Type: props]

[Effect: Increase the probability of all events affected by luck]

[Note: If you toss a coin a hundred times, will it land heads fifty-one times? ]

"Increase the hit rate." Julie muttered to herself as she dodged and rushed towards the gap in the zombie encirclement, pulling out all the sharp objects along the way and throwing them at the man who was chasing her relentlessly.

Why can she use weapons? Is there some mechanism he doesn't know about, or is she cheating in some way? Or... some ability of Fu Jue or a god-level NPC?
Giles didn't know the answer. The threat of death surged in his heart. Props were scarce due to restrictions. He felt as if he had returned to the days when he was a rookie and had not yet made it onto the overall list.

At that time, he made himself bleed time and time again, betting on TE's clearance, betting on luck, betting on his life. He always cleared the dungeon with his last breath and watched his ranking soar on the rookie list. While he was afraid, he was also obsessed with the madness of singing and dancing after being drunk.

There was a sharp pain in the palm of his hand, and a rusty iron nail pierced through his palm. The skill [Bloody Sacrifice] that had not been used for a long time was activated. The effect was that he could communicate with the gods in a state of continuous blood loss in exchange for random abilities.

Giles recalled the first time he was matched into the same dungeon with Fu Jue many years ago. Young and ignorant, he was full of admiration for the rumored savior. He rushed to the front again and again to show that he was different. He used his skills frequently and his whole body was soaked in blood...

Then what? What happened next? He had a splitting headache and couldn't remember anything. He only knew that he had to control the woman as soon as possible and use it to threaten Fu Jue.

He didn't know the reason for this cognition, but he was convinced that he should do it, just like drinking water when thirsty and eating when hungry. It was the truth and it was an attempt...

Julie smelled a strong smell of blood, and her vision exploded with scarlet blood. She saw the man slam his palm into the wooden tip of the corner of the tombstone, and in an instant all the spider silk between heaven and earth was stained with blood.

The shadow of a spider with eight limbs loomed in the sky, and its black and white shell seemed to be inlaid with countless eyes. The woman with a round belly lowered her silver eyes, her limbs wrapped around the golden fruit that symbolized this world, her face peaceful and gentle.

Is this... the ancestor god? Someone activated the effect of the identity card, attracting the attention of the corresponding god...

The subsequent cognition was scattered and foggy. In just a few seconds, Julie was buried in a sense of sleepiness, as if she had returned to the embryonic stage curled up in the womb, her body immersed in the warm amniotic fluid of her mother. A strand of spider silk wrapped around her wrist, her consciousness quickly dissipated, and colorful patterns spread out before her eyes...

Wake up! Can't fall asleep... She began to think of her daughter and husband at home, forcing herself to wake up a little, and quickly swung her arms violently, hitting her wrists against a half-moon-shaped marble beside her.

The edge of the marble was shaved thinner than a knife blade, and due to the huge force exerted suddenly during the collision, half of the forearm, along with the spider silk attached to it, was separated from the body, and blood gushed out like a waterfall.

Giles saw the zombies forming a wave and rushing towards him. He was so close that he could see the maggots wriggling between the bones. Why didn't he stop? Was Fu Jue so determined to kill him that he didn't even care about his own lives?
There was a hollowed-out part in his memory, and he racked his brains to trace it back. The scene behind the fog was up and down. The woman in front of him suddenly stopped, her twisted face full of pain, her eyebrows and eyes full of hatred: "Giles, you actually colluded with the puppet master..."

Puppet master? Was this the crime that Fu Jue wanted to frame him for? Giles sneered in his heart, but the next second, he saw a group of zombies passing him and rushing towards the woman who was standing still.

A strong sense of uneasiness surged in my heart, as if some huge monster from the bottom of the lake had floated its head above the water. Just a glimpse of it was enough to know how terrifying and subversive the underwater world was.

The world removed its surface filter in the blink of an eye, revealing the whitewashed reality. For the first time, Giles carefully observed the spider silk floating between heaven and earth, and saw the woman's body entangled in the spider web by silver threads, with flesh and blood bitten off piece by piece by zombies, and her body gradually turned into a skeleton that was no different from those bodies.

At that moment, he finally remembered what he had forgotten.

At the end of that copy, he was seriously injured and on the verge of death. He had originally thought that he was fearless, but suddenly he began to fear death. In his hazy consciousness, he begged everyone who passed by: "I don't want to die, save me..."

Fu Jue squatted down beside him and said, "I can reset your chance of survival, but the price is that your free will will be reset to zero. At your current bleeding rate, you still have 30 seconds to make a decision."

The [Fallen Savior] card can revive the dead, but in a very twisted way. His hesitation did not take up 30 seconds. In the third second, he accepted the black ring handed to him by Fu Jue.

……

In the Kita district, Asakura Yuko learned the details of the donation from the believer through some uncivilized and impolite means. The believer stammered, "This morning, the priest told us that the night is getting longer and longer, and the monsters will eventually invade the Holy City... If we want to avoid the end of the world, we must pray for the salvation of the Holy Lord.

"As long as all of us donate enough flesh and blood, the Holy Lord will be able to gather his flesh again and drive out the monsters in the darkness for us..."

Asakura Yuko casually killed the believer who had completed his mission and calmly analyzed: "From the information provided by the players who went out to explore last night, we know that the danger in the Holy City at night is real, but it does not necessarily come from the so-called monsters, but from the god who accepts flesh and blood offerings."

Vader raised his arms, put in double quotation marks manually, and added: "If nothing unexpected happens, the 'evil god' is related to Qis, and the 'evil god' is far more dangerous than the so-called monster."

"Not necessarily." Asakura Yuko glanced at Wade and denied his judgment. "It's only the first day, we can't tell whether the monster really exists. The night in the Holy City may belong half to the evil gods and half to the monsters, and the two cannot appear at the same time. If we want to get a definite conclusion, we need to go out and explore tonight.

"But one thing is certain, the flesh and blood of these believers in the North District have no positive effect on the 'evil god', otherwise it would not have been possible to ask them to donate until today. We need to find out why the priest included the North District in the donation range..."

Asakura Yuko turned her head to look in the direction of the crowd. With the help of the "Forbidden Scholar" identity card, her vision penetrated the crowd and the buildings, and saw two priests holding a glass jar full of blood and flesh and pouring it into the stinky ditch in the corner.

Wade shrugged and said in a speculative tone, "So, is it possible that, as you said yesterday, the so-called 'donation' is just an excuse? In order to maintain the authority of the Holy Lord and the stability of the original power system, the priests deliberately use some violent means as a deterrent, and then let the believers pay the sunk cost through donations and trials to improve cohesion?"

Asakura Yuko's eyes fell on the bloody corpse not far away and she shook her head slightly: "No, their behavior is too much now. I don't think this approach is good for maintaining stability. The believers in the North District have no self-healing ability. Donating means injury and death. Faced with the threat of death, humans will become crazy and uncontrollable, and may even fight to the death to survive."

"That's right." Wade nodded in agreement. "If I donate, I'll die. If I let the monsters occupy the Holy City, I'll die too. Since the outcome is not much different, why should I suffer the pain of donating? If it were me, I would have rebelled against these priests long ago..."

Asakura Yuko frowned slightly when she heard the key words. Yes, humans can be as docile as lambs or as fierce as tigers. When pushed to a certain extent, the last string of patience breaks, and they will inevitably rebel for survival.

The Holy City has been stable for so many years. According to the original class division and oppression of the East District, the ruling method may continue to maintain a stagnant situation. What prompted the priests and clergy to make changes and foolishly challenge the bottom line of these believers? It's like... they want to push the situation to a certain end.

Asakura Yuko looked up at the text corresponding to the first ending on the system interface. With her years of research on history, she could guess what the text behind it would be without spending fire to unlock the ending.

It was nothing more than believers who could no longer bear the oppression of the church and rose up to overthrow the rule of the priests; the emotions of the group gradually developed in an irrational direction in the chaotic actions, and the crowd began to smash all the buildings and creations related to God in the holy city, until the entire city was destroyed...

Is it possible to directly push the ending to a conclusion by means other than unlocking the fire? For example, go deep into the believers and incite them with words...

Two believers who had just completed their donations passed by, leaving tiny traces of blood along the way. They were barely breathing, but they still expressed their hopes for the future one after another:

"Wait a little longer. When the great divine Lord opens his eyes again, he will surely save us and resurrect all the dead."

"Our flesh and blood come from the Lord, and we will ultimately rely on the Lord for salvation. He loves us and will dispel all our pain."

This statement is particularly familiar. In real life, the propaganda in the game forum is similar to this: "As long as people from Jiuzhou clear the final dungeon, they can revive all the dead. Before that, any sacrifice is necessary."

Bai Ya also often told her followers that as long as she could eventually become a god, she would definitely make the world the way she wanted it to be.

But...is it really so?

Wade sneered and said, "Foolish! How can a god who relies on eating flesh and blood to consolidate his position really care about the people? He just treats them as spare nutrients."

Asakura Yuko listened and remained silent.

……

In the western district, Fujiwara Shinno and a Jew named "Sigmund" walked quickly along the edge of the house and stopped at a street corner.

Fujiwara Shinno bent down and picked up a white ring from the ground. He observed the faint light from the ceiling for a while and made a judgment: "It is Giles' ring. Something happened to him."

On the other side, Thomson and Fran also made some gains. Fran held a ring with a slightly smaller radius and said, "We found Julie's ring in the North District. She was in trouble too."

The deputies discovered Giles and Julie missing an hour ago. The reason was that Fran found a broken stone tablet deep in the cemetery, on which were engraved three lines of God's name:

[The Lord of the Gods Exiled from the World's Rules]

[The soul master who controls the power of contract transactions]

[A great existence that is older than history]

He immediately contacted Thompson through the team ring, but received no response; he returned along the same route, but could not see his companions.

He decisively contacted all the representatives and finally confirmed that not only Giles, but Julie had also lost contact with them.

Disappearing in such a place at such a time, it is impossible that the two of them lost their team ring and went on a date in a secluded place.

Fujiwara Shinno took a deep breath. The answer he had been unwilling to believe and deliberately avoided had finally become a definite fact. He spoke word by word with absolute certainty: "Fu Jue is still alive."

He waited for a long time, but no one responded. Silence, only silence...

In the silence, he looked around at the three people in confusion, and saw that except for Sigmund, the other two were in the same posture and with the same expression, looking at him expressionlessly with their heads tilted, their eyes flashing silver-grey light in the half-light... (End of this chapter)