Qisi spread his hands slightly, a relaxed and unsuspecting movement, like a true god who accepts the desires of his believers as kindly as he does. The rabbit statue in black in his arms reflects the moist halo.
The head of the Kurokawa family was stunned for a moment, and then frowned: "Why did you, Akira Kurokawa, and Reiko leave Usagiami Town without saying a word and appear in the forest late at night?"
Qisi lowered his eyes and said in a descriptive tone: "Kurokawa Akira told me and Reiko the secret of the Rabbit God. Not everyone is willing to compromise their own interests for the desires of others.
"Even gods are reluctant to damage their own souls in order to satisfy the wishes of believers."
The head of the Kurokawa family pondered for a moment and then asked: "Then why are you willing to sacrifice your life for the Rabbit God Festival now?"
"Because I know the consequences." Qisi raised the corners of his lips and smiled kindly and selflessly, "The Rabbit God is about to break through the shackles, and then the entire Rabbit God Town will bear his wrath. I was born in the Rabbit God Town and am loved by the adults. , naturally have to bear part of the responsibility
"Sacrificing one person to save the majority has been a rule that Usagiami Town has adhered to for two hundred years. It's better for one Kanna Shichiro to die than for everyone to die together, isn't it?"
These words were spoken with great justice and were not mature enough for a child of this age, but they undoubtedly solved the biggest crisis facing Usagiami Town and were in the interests of most people.
"Shichiro is such a good boy. He is so responsible at such a young age."
"We have to discuss this matter with the Kanna family in a long term, but since Shichiro has this intention, there will definitely be no problem."
"Shichiro himself is the child who is most like the Rabbit God. The head of the Kanna family will definitely put the overall situation first."
The voices of the retainers became joyful and relaxed, and they praised Chiss without hesitation. They completely forgot that the cause of Reiko's death was still doubtful, and that it was closely related to the two children who had fled Usagiami Town with her.
The little fat man was squatting next to him, at a loss for what to do about Lingzi's death. Suddenly, he heard Qisi reveal everything and inexplicably made the decision to sacrifice himself. He couldn't help but widen his eyes: "Xiaoqi, are you going to …”
"Kurokawa Akira, don't you think you've caused enough trouble?" The head of the Kurokawa family gave him a cold look.
He immediately shivered and fell silent, biting his lip and not daring to say another word, and just looked at Qiss with puzzled eyes.
The head of the Kurokawa family also looked at Qisi again, and his voice was different from the previous gentleness: "Shichiro, please come back to Usagi Kamachi with us first, so that you can explain the situation tonight to your father.
"After tomorrow, if nothing goes wrong, you will be the shrine lord of Rabbit Shrine."
This is obviously a conciliatory attitude, just like an ordinary adult promising a birthday party or a delicate gift to a crying child.
Qisi knew that the head of the Kurokawa family did not believe his words. His attitude changed too quickly and he was too indifferent to the death of his companions. Anyone with normal thinking could detect the weirdness in it.
But they have no choice. From the beginning, the choice of sacrifice must be made between Kanna Shichiro and Reiko; after eliminating one of the options, there is no suspense about the decision they will make.
The world line is determined at this moment, leading to the only ending. This is one of the reasons why Qisi killed Reiko - he needs to clear away all interference and become the only choice for the Rabbit God.
The head of the Kurokawa family made a gesture, and two retainers lifted Reiko's body and stood at the end of the line. Other retainers surrounded Qisi and the little fat man, acting as both a protector and a shackle.
The firelight flickered, dispersing the ghosts and fog, and the crowd descended the mountain in a mighty manner, walked through the path they came from, and returned to Usagiami Town.
It was clearly dark night, but the entire Usagiami Town was brighter than daytime. Every household lit up lights in front of their doors. Residents of all ages, men, women, and children gathered at the intersection, waiting worriedly and anxiously for the returning guests who were brought back late at night.
The team passed by slowly, and after seeing Qisi and Akira Kurokawa, people's faces showed anger and confusion.
"You are so ignorant. The firework festival is about to come, but you run into the mountains and forests. It makes people worry for nothing."
"I hope it won't affect the Rabbit God Festival, and I hope Lord Rabbit God won't blame..."
When the team reached the end and saw Reiko's body, everyone turned pale.
"It's Reiko from the Edo family! She died, why did she die before the Rabbit God Festival?"
"The child who looks most like the Rabbit God is dead. What will happen to the Rabbit God Festival?"
Everyone was truly and deeply worried, not out of sympathy and condolences for the deceased, but out of fear that the next sacrifice of the Rabbit God would go wrong. The life of a child is insignificant. Praying to the Rabbit God and realizing your wishes are the most important things.
The news that "Lingzi is dead" was passed on to the crowd, and voices of fear or disbelief sounded one after another. Suddenly, a sharp cry came through the night.
A woman in white with disheveled hair rushed out of the crowd and threw herself on Reiko's body: "Reiko, my daughter... they have caused you so much pain..."
The woman looked crazy, her face was as hideous as a ghost, and large tears fell on Reiko's body. People reacted very quickly to pull her and drag her back, muttering dissatisfiedly: "It's Reiko's mother, a crazy woman..."
"She's sick again. Why did the Edo family let this crazy woman escape?"
Some people sighed pitifully: "You are also a poor person. The head of the Edo family left Usagi Town from the northwest with a few retainers on the eve of the Usagi Festival, and never came back. She also went to the northwest, People went crazy when they came back.”
"I'm not crazy! I'm not sick!" The woman didn't know where she got the strength to break away from them, and turned towards the head of the Kurokawa family, "You killed her! You killed my husband, and you also wanted to kill my daughter!"< br>
Unable to dodge, the head of the Kurokawa family quickly drew out the katana from his waist and held it in front of him. His original intention was to scare the woman away, but the woman did not dodge and ran straight into the knife edge. Her skin and flesh were cut open, and blood spattered like a waterfall.
Screams erupted in the crowd, and the head of the Kurokawa family had a look of horror on his face. He hurriedly put away his knife and stepped back.
"Stop her! Find someone from the Edo family..."
The retainers came to protect the head of the Kurokawa family and stood between him and the woman. Several others left the queue and trotted southeast, probably to find the servants of the Edo family.
The woman didn't notice their movements and kept rushing forward. The blood on her chest gurgled down, blooming bloody flowers on her white clothes, and a few strands slipped from the knife edge on her arm, wrapping around her wrist like a ribbon.
She looked like a fierce ghost, stretching out her bloody hands to grab the people in front of her: "You evil ghosts... I will kill you to avenge my daughter!"
The little fat boy Akira Kurokawa's retreat was half a beat too slow. The woman grabbed him by the collar and waved his limbs wildly, unable to get away.
His face was pale and wrinkled, and he was about to cry: "It's really none of my business. I didn't want to kill her, I wanted to save her...
"It was the Rabbit God who wanted to kill her. I heard that she would die after the Rabbit God Festival, so I took her away with Shichiro..."
He spoke incoherently, speaking out all the certain and uncertain information in his subconscious.
In his opinion, Reiko encountered ghosts as soon as she entered the forest. It was obviously the work of the Rabbit God in order to prevent the final Rabbit God Festival. Later, there were no scars or omens, and she died silently as if she was sleeping. It was most likely that she was killed by a god or something. His existence took his life.
After all, Kanna Shichiro has such a good relationship with Reiko, how could he possibly hurt her?
From the moment he entered Rabbit God Town, Zeiss deliberately concealed himself in the center of the group, with people on both sides blocking him so as not to attract too much attention.
He lowered his eyes and listened to the little fat man's indiscriminate rebuttal. He retreated into the depths of the crowd without leaving a trace, hiding himself in the shadows of the dimly lit place.
The woman tightly held the little fat man's neck and lifted him up from the ground. The dripping blood dripped on the hostage's face, causing waves of fearful trembling. Pedestrians on both sides heard the words of the little fat man clearly, and the emotions revealed in them did not seem to be hypocritical, not to mention that children of this age simply did not have the courage to lie to the murderer when they were kidnapped.
They opened their eyes wide in astonishment, and ignored the woman who was committing the murder. They all turned their attention to the head of the Kurokawa family: "Master Kurokawa, is what your parent and son said true?"
"Why would Lord Rabbit God want to kill Reiko? What does the Rabbit God Festival mean?"
There were also older people who remembered something and murmured: "The Rabbit God Festival eighteen years ago, the Rabbit God Festival thirty-six years ago, the chosen God Lord seems to have never appeared again..."
"Yes, they all say that the Lord God stays in the shrine to worship the Rabbit God, but even if he is a pure monk, how come he never shows up?"
Human beings are all suspicious. The doubts hidden under the water only require a few splashes of water to attract people on the shore to look up like gulls.
A lot of information that had not been noticed or subconsciously ignored in the past was mentioned again now, unintentionally supporting Akira Kurokawa's remarks.
The servants of the Edo family finally arrived, hurriedly surrounding the unconscious mistress, and rescued the pale fat man.
Without exception, they wore black clothes like mourning clothes, dragged the struggling woman, carried Reiko's body on their backs, and left as silently as stones, leaving behind a group of whispering residents.
Everyone was waiting for a response to the Rabbit God. The Kurokawa family leader said in a deep voice: "I will give you an explanation together with the Kanna family leader tomorrow."
The retainers began to drive people away with persuasive words, and the residents who gathered at the intersection finally dispersed in disbelief.
The little fat man's body was still stained with the woman's blood, his clothes were wrinkled, and he looked extremely embarrassed. He also knew that he had caused a big disaster, so he followed the Kurokawa family head tremblingly, lowering his head in silence.
The head of the Kurokawa family ordered his retainers to send the little fat man home. He took only a few followers with him and walked side by side with Qisi in the direction of Kannaji's family.
The lights on both sides of the street were gradually extinguished, and only the torches in the hands of the retainers were dimly lit. They were shortened by half and were still burning downwards.
In silence, the head of the Kurokawa family slowly spoke: "We have thought more than once about ending the Rabbit God Festival and ending this two-hundred-year cycle of fate.
"This is not to say that we are so desireless that we can resist the temptation to sacrifice one person and realize the wishes of the majority, but... we are afraid.
"The power of the Rabbit God is getting stronger and stronger, and the gods who used to imprison him in the past have been transformed into evil spirits, constantly harassing our three families. If things go on like this, he is destined to break free, and it will be our death.< br>
"We have been trying to escape from Rabbit God Town. After the head of the Edo family sent several retainers to leave and come back, he thought he could succeed, but he didn't know that it was Rabbit God's trap.
"Back then, our ancestors set traps to trap Him, and He gradually learned the tricks to use traps to deal with us descendants..."
Another unknown side of the events two hundred years ago was revealed, and the complete iceberg emerged before the eyes as the head of the Kurokawa family told it.
Once a transaction under the rule is started, neither party can terminate it.
The people of Rabbit God Town imprisoned Rabbit God, so why didn’t Rabbit God imprison Rabbit God Town?
Bounded by the cave where the bones of the Rabbit God were found, the entire Rabbit God Town is isolated from the world. The so-called calmness is just because it is independent from the world.
Two hundred years of offerings and sacrifices, threats and collusion have exhausted both humans and gods.
But no one dares to stop first. Under the Prisoner's Dilemma, both parties do not trust each other and are unwilling to make concessions. The Rabbit God does not know whether he will let go of the past imprisonment, and the three family heads do not dare to take the risk of being retaliated by the gods.
When the Rabbit God was about to break free, the people of Rabbit God Town, under the guidance of the wizard, used their children's lives to fight back and maintain the precarious seal.
Rigid and unflexible rules form a cycle for generations, seemingly unsolvable; just waiting for the balance to be broken one day, with blood as the end of everything.
"Human beings do not trust the kindness of gods, but gods do not care about human happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy. They observe each other based on their own thoughts and thoughts, and misunderstandings arise from this."
Qiss sighed softly, with a melodious tone as if declaring: "As everyone knows, gods themselves have no desires, and what humans see is just the projection of their own desires on the gods."
The head of the Kurokawa family suddenly turned around, with a horrifying look in his eyes, as if he suddenly caught a glimpse of the face of the deceased in the reflection of the glass, but he was not sure of the suspicions and assumptions in his heart.
"You are not Shichiro Kanna, who are you?" he asked.
The firelight in the night trembled violently, and the shadows projected on the ground were elongated and distorted. The game panel of "Escape from Usagi Kamachi" shook left and right, which was a sign that the NPC noticed an abnormality and was about to fail to clear the level.
Qisi looked at the Kurokawa family leader calmly, with a smile on his lips like an evil god bewitching his followers: "I once told you - 'make a deal with him, and let him be used by you under the constraints of the rules.'< br>
"I never thought that just two hundred years later, you would handle the situation I set up so badly. But fortunately it's too early, the Rabbit God has not yet broken free, and there is still room for change. We might as well negotiate another deal."
Fine drops of blood seeped out of thin air, steaming and condensing into a long bright red scroll in front of the young man, with golden vine patterns rolling on it, and lines of gilded words written with claws and teeth.
At that moment, the figure of the young man in red seemed to coincide with the legendary wizard who changed the fate of everyone in Usagi Town. He was also so persuasive and offered a seemingly harmless deal with an attitude that could not be refused.
The trembling scenery slowly settled, as if he recognized the new identity Qis had fabricated for himself.
He has soul contract skills, is the past of the evil god contract, and has the [Scarlet Priest] identity card, so it is perfect for him to play the role of a shaman who conspires to imprison the Rabbit God.
"As expected, you are back again..." The head of the Kurokawa family looked sad and whispered to himself, "Two hundred years ago, our ancestors were bewitched by you and made a deal with the Rabbit God, which caused the descendants to be imprisoned here, shrouded in the fear of precariousness. Don't leave next time.
"Fifty-four years ago, the then head of the Kanna family was bewitched by you and hunted the rabbits near Usagi-gami Town, which further loosened the seal. Maybe in the next generation, Usagi-god will escape from the trap and destroy all the descendants of Usagi-gami Town...< br>
"How can I trust you again?"
Qisi tilted his head to listen to his words, but laughed out loud: "Since it is a transaction, how can there be no price? Just bearing the fear of death and suffering the shadow of precarious life is better than hunger, plague and war. There are too many, so why are you dissatisfied?”
The Kurokawa family advocated opening his mouth to say something, but he couldn't find the words to refute.
Qisi's smile became even wider and he put his index finger between his lips: "I know that human beings are all greedy. No matter how deep the pain of others is, it is not as shocking as the loss of oneself. Even if it is something that does not belong to oneself, once it is obtained, , I don’t want to throw it away.
"There is nothing wrong with this. Selfishness is an instinct engraved in the bones and blood of human beings, and it is passed down from generation to generation. Only in this way can the contract of every dollar be used."
He paused for a moment, waved his hand gently, and the long bloody contract spread out in front of the Kurokawa family master, flowing like a river of blood.
"To coerce gods with a mortal body is nothing more than relying on the protection of rules.
"When you use tiny chips to bet on huge benefits, you should have the awareness that you will lose everything; since you are walking to the edge of the cliff, why should you be afraid of the illusory consequences?
"You have no other choice but to make a contract with me." (End of Chapter)