The rabbit statue sat in the dilapidated shrine, its black robes as neat as sculptures, never fluttering with the water.
The erosion of time and the erosion of water have carved out wave marks on the surface. It has long lost its original splendor, but it is still sacred and solemn.
Strips of red silk were scattered around the statue, and they sank quietly and obediently to the bottom of the pool. The edges were white and rotten, and the writing was not clear.
Qisi walked closer step by step, not feeling any discomfort of facing the gods directly. Even if he was close at hand, he could not touch the aftermath of the divine power.
It seems to be just an ordinary statue, a dead thing without life.
Qisi caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye. He bent down and picked up the thing.
That is the only well-preserved prayer tape, with three words written on it:
[Weird games, rules, transactions]
It is clearly Zisi’s own handwriting , but Qiss had no impression of this.
The handwriting contained the remnants of contract authority, and the [Soul Contract] skill was affected by a weak resonance, so he was able to confirm that the three words were written by him himself.
Combined with the current powerless state of the Rabbit God, he seemed to vaguely deduce the logical line behind the copy.
He entered the copy of "Beware the Rabbit" just to gain divine power. There is a world line where he succeeded in the past time and space where Usagi God Town is located. From then on, the Usagi God in Nozomi Middle School no longer has divine power.
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 Rabbit God has not yet been captured.
The outcome has been decided, not only for Lu Ming, but also for him.
Lingzi will die, and the Rabbit God's divine 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 to form a closed loop and push the ending to be achieved as it is destined to be, because he will keep winning, so Reiko is destined to die.
He is an unscrupulous selfish person, and he will not hesitate to sacrifice the whole world for the slightest benefit, let alone exchange Reiko's death for divine power...
The water flowing with golden vines surges in front of his eyes. In the shape of a Möbius strip, Ziss immediately knew the solution to this copy.
This is a simple copy. Li Yuan is more practical than Qi. He said that he would give him divine power, so he would not add obstacles. He came to this dungeon just to go through the motions, without too many complicated puzzles and twists and turns...
Lu Ming's hope was destined to fail. No one would care about an NPC's thoughts. He just It is a trivial sacrifice in a transaction at the level of gods, just like a human waving his sleeves casually, inadvertently causing the ants above to fall to the ground...
But is it really that simple? If the Rabbit God of Hope Middle School really has no supernatural powers, why was Reiko sacrificed by the students? What happens to "Lu Ming" who has been forgotten by everyone?
There are still many things that Qisi has not figured out, and there is no logical explanation for those doubts, just like the sudden appearance of stains on the white wall, setting off a bad warning in the subconscious.
He returned to the water, and his vision suddenly changed. When he came back to his senses, he was already standing on the lake shore, next to the warning sign.
Although the clothes were wet, they were only dampened by water vapor and not soaked by the bone-deep lake water.
The experience of sinking to the bottom of the lake just now seems to be just an illusion, and there is no evidence to prove that the event happened.
Qisi walked back to the teaching building, went up to the third floor, and returned to the classroom of Class 9, Junior Three.
At half past seven, everyone should have arrived. The front and back doors of the classroom were closed by the monitor on duty who was in charge of morning reading.
Chisi noticed that there were nearly half fewer students in the classroom than yesterday. The girls had basically disappeared, and there were two fewer boys. They were the two who were arrested by the dean last night.
After class, the students laughed, chased and fought as usual, just like a normal middle school recess. No one seemed to notice that half of the students were missing.
Chis turned his head, 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 have gone?"
Although the boy was impatient, when he saw the blade between Qisi's fingers, he still answered patiently: "Either they couldn't bear the pressure and transferred to another school, or they committed something and were persuaded to leave, and some of them had to rely on the support of their family members. Let’s find a way out for them.
“Oh, they are so happy, they probably haven’t gotten up yet. It means that we unlucky ones have to stay in this shabby school and work hard to pass the high school entrance examination. "
Qisi raised his eyebrows and asked: "Did they make an appointment and they all left overnight? "
The boy looked at Qisi in confusion: "Lu Ming, are you awake? They have been leaving intermittently for a while, and the first one left was just after the school rules were changed half a year ago. "
"Change the school rules? ”
"Yeah, I don't know what's wrong with the principal's mind. When we entered the school, he promised us to spend three years happily, but suddenly he started to focus on our grades..."
The boys were aroused. He expressed his true feelings and complained endlessly about how miserable he had been in the past six months, which was consistent with the information Ziss learned from the report.
He roughly understood that in this copy, students who violated school rules and disciplines would disappear, but they would be given a reasonable reason that would not arouse suspicion.
The memory of the NPC is obviously disordered. It will automatically modify its cognition under the interference of the copy. The statement of time and events is inaccurate. Even disappearing overnight can be recorded as half a year inland. Continue to leave...
So, are their memories of "Lu Ming" also inaccurate?
They said that "Lu Ming" was Lu Ming's brother, who jumped to his death not long ago.
The fact is that it was Lu Ming who jumped to his death.
The cognitive modification is to make the copy logic smoother and avoid NPCs from discovering obvious violations.
Imagine that Lu Ming died on July 31st and was reported by newspapers with great fanfare, but appeared in the classroom intact on August 1st. Such a big bug will inevitably arouse the suspicion of the NPC. .
So, Lu Ming can only die.
Lu Ming looks exactly like Lu Ming, how to explain it? It's very simple, just think of him as Lu Ming's twin brother.
From this point of view, [Lu Ming's Diary] is actually [Lu Ming's Diary]. The young man in the picture who is wiping the rabbit bones and who is suspected to be closely connected with the Rabbit God is Lu Ming himself.
And because Lu Ming has no brother, when Qisi asked the NPC alone about his brother, he got confused and negative responses.
Only one time, he mentioned "Lu Ming" in Li Fang's office and mentioned Lu Ming's death in passing. Li Fang seemed to have remembered something and showed fear and impatience.
At noon, Reiko was waiting for Qisi, the "Lu Ming" in her eyes, at the door of the class as usual.
Although Ziss had long known that she would die and had no mercy to change her fate, he still showed a friendly smile and chatted with her.
"Lu Ming, the dean of students talked to Teacher Li this morning. They argued for a long time." Lingzi said worriedly.
As the culprit, Qisi raised his eyebrows slightly: "Oh? Did something happen?" "I don't know. I'll ask Teacher Li after dinner." Reiko sighed. The tone was, "Oh, Teacher Li often quarreled with the school's senior management because of us. She is a good teacher who really does good for us.
"In the beginning, the school never cared about discipline or Studying, I hope that the middle school is a mess from top to bottom. It is Teacher Li who takes the risk of being disliked by the students to teach us knowledge seriously and control our behavior.
"In the past six months, the school has begun to rush for quick success again, pushing us to death. It was Teacher Li who withstood the pressure from the school to select valuable exercises for us and improve our learning efficiency..."
"Well, then She is indeed quite responsible," Chiss agreed sincerely.
Li Fang and Lingzi both belong to a special type of NPC, and text prompts can pop up on their bodies, indicating that their bodies exist in the school.
Chis guessed that they would all die before the seven-day cycle began.
Li Fang can see her body because there is no suspense about her death; Lingzi cannot see her body because Lu Ming is still trying his best to save her. Her life or death depends on Lu Ming. A game between Ming and a certain high-ranking being.
After Lu Ming died, he did not enter the reincarnation, and the entire Hope Middle School was included in the ghost realm, repeating the cycle again and again, just to let Reiko survive... This kind of self-sacrifice complex is something Qisi cannot understand.
He followed Reiko, walked around the canteen, and left the canteen with an empty plate.
Although he used Lu Ming's body, which was theoretically a dead person, he had no intention of letting hair or maggots enter his stomach.
Fortunately, the dead do not need to eat, and even if he did not eat for two meals, he did not feel hungry at all.
The afternoon class went on as usual. Li Fang was as stern as ever and did not show any other emotions such as anger.
If he hadn't heard Reiko talk about it, Qisi would never have known that she had just had a heated argument with the dean. But it seems that the dean is a very kind ghost and did not betray the snitching Zis.
When Qisi sneaked into the office in the morning, he put the self-review into his homework book. Li Fang probably received it when he was correcting homework. After class, he did not ask for a review, nor did he invite him into the office again. .
The day ended peacefully. Qisi no longer had 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 boring classmates, or he was thinking about how to take revenge with bloody methods, and then made plans to destroy the body after killing someone. The plan to eliminate traces...
At five o'clock in the evening, time came to a standstill again, and the space was filled with gray silence.
[Second episode of "Escape from Usagi-gami Town"]
[The boy and girl who reached the ending ② Kamigakure]
[There are still 00:00 until the next opening of the game "Escape from Usagi-gami Town": 00】
With the swaying prayer belt coming down, Lu Ming sat quietly on the chair and looked at Qisi.
“It’s time,” he said.
Qisi knew that in this dungeon, the only way he could establish contact with Rabbit God Town, which belonged to the past time and space, was through the game "Escape from Rabbit God Town" produced by Lu Ming.
Lu Ming doesn't know what price he paid to open up the time and space between the present and the past, sending players to Usagiami Town over and over again.
Maybe in his opinion, Reiko died as a result of being sacrificed to the Rabbit God. As long as he can return to Rabbit God Town and change the past, the problem can be solved from the source.
But things are obviously not that simple.
The Rabbit God was probably no longer in the realm of Hope Middle School half a year ago, or lost the power to fulfill wishes. Otherwise, the senior management of Hope Middle School could continue to deal with him without suddenly starting to tighten the grip on students. study.
So, who will accept Reiko's sacrifice?
Chis suddenly thought of a very interesting possibility, which is a tragedy caused by a time paradox.
He grinned a weird smile like a hyena: "Okay, let's start as soon as possible."
Lu Ming snapped his fingers.
The prayer belt between heaven and earth is circling and dancing like an elf, and among the floating light and shadow, lines of text are refreshed.
[Game name: "Escape from Rabbit God Town"]
[Mission goal:? ? ? ]
[Warm reminder: Be careful of rabbits]
[Archive points: ①"Suspicious Question"; ②Reiko's Rabbit God Mask]
[Whether to read the archive, Start the game? 】
"Yes, load archive two."
[The third episode of "Escape from Rabbit God Town" begins]
"Look, Xiaoqi! They are selling rabbit masks over there!" A condescending perspective In the middle, Reiko ran to the stall selling masks with her skirt in hand, picked up the Rabbit God mask and put it on her face.
The perspective fell back, Qisi clung to Xiao Qi's body, and Reiko in front of her said with a smile: "Everyone has been so polite to me recently, even though they said before that you are the child who is most like the Rabbit God! ”
Chisi can’t fuck Controlling his body, he walked towards the stall owner as shown in the second episode, took the Rabbit God mask from the stall owner, and lowered his eyes: "The Fireworks Festival is coming soon. I want to ask what I can do to become more like the Rabbit God. I What else is not good enough? ”
The stall owner smiled apologetically: "Qilang has done a very good job. We are a small business, and we always say a few words to please people, and we treat it as a good relationship..."
The plot continues to fast forward, Qi Si heard himself say: "My father always said that he was sick because he was not religious enough. Even I am no longer the child who most resembles the Rabbit God... I think the opinions of outsiders may be more disturbing. People believe it."
Reiko said: "How could 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 my mother seems to I don't like him very much...
"Mom also asked me not to play with you, but I just don't let her know. I like to play with Xiao Qi the most! "
"I think your mother misunderstood me because of some people's unfair evaluation. Maybe you can take me to see her, and maybe the misunderstanding can be resolved. ”
"After my father passed away, my mother stopped allowing me to take other people home. Should I go back and persuade her?"
"No, please don't tell Reiko that I told you these things." , so as not to embarrass her." The plot before the save point ended, and Qiss resumed control of his body.
He turned to Reiko and said the words he said during the second round: "Reiko, let's walk along this street and take a look outside Usagiami Town."
But this This time, he pointed to the southeast, which was the opposite direction from the second time. (End of this chapter)