Not long after, the waiter brought the sacrificial robes over.
It was a hunting suit as red as blood, with golden tassels sewn on the edges, and gilded cloud patterns embroidered on the front. It reflected the golden light under the sun, making it grand, prosperous and magnificent.
With the help of the waiter, Qisi put on the gorgeous clothes. It was like a withered corpse sealed in clothes, and even his soul could feel the weight on his body.
"You look like a real god in this sacrificial robe." The waiter admired sincerely and tied a red ribbon on Qisi's half-length hair.
There is no mirror here. Qisi can't see his own image, and he doesn't care much. He just quietly lets the waiter play with it.
After the waiter left, he dragged on his complicated clothes, knelt down on the futon, and softly recited the Rabbit God's blessing.
This time he did not play Reiko's recording, but said with a smile in a narrative tone: "Kanna Shichiro, I think you must hate that nosy witch, right?
"It was He who aroused the desires of the first three family heads, allowing them to imprison the Rabbit God at that time, dragging the entire Rabbit God Town into the quagmire of fate, and causing generations of people to suffer the shadow of the curse.
“Without Him, the children of Usagiami Town are just the children of their parents. You can have desires and freely decide your own life, without having to be imprisoned here and dealing with the seven-day cycle.< br>
“Coincidentally, I am also hostile to that sorcerer and need to kill him to seize the complete rights of the contract. As the saying goes - 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend', you will help me, right? ”
The rabbit statue in the shrine opened its blood-red eyes, stared at Qisi for a moment, and then slowly closed its eyelids.
He was shaken and was thinking about the feasibility of cooperating with Qiss, but he had not yet made a final decision.
Qisi said no more and sat back at the table. He put aside the prayer card with the bamboo cage eye song engraved on it, then picked up a piece of wood and started carving it with the sacred chisel in his hand.
In fact, with the current situation, he doesn't need to take care of the Rabbit God's mood.
He has no desire, and he can carve a new statue that is different from the Rabbit God statue, and it is also possessed by Kanna Shichiro, who has succeeded once before. At first glance, it seems that grabbing the Rabbit God's power is almost a certainty.
But the "Evil Ghost" left a message asking him to make a deal with the Rabbit God. It couldn't be completely without purpose. Although he didn't intend to completely believe in the kindness of the unknown being, it didn't stop him from trying to follow the advice.
What's more, the Rabbit God at this time is Kanna Shichiro, who has successfully captured the Rabbit God's power. He has had experiences that Qisi has never had, which means he has more information.
It is impossible for him to have no trump cards. He may not be able to think of a way to counterattack the Rabbit God Sacrifice that has been reincarnated over and over again after so many years.
This has no choice but to be cautious.
He is more willing to believe in the restrictions of the contract than the rituals held by the priests for unknown reasons.
The residence of the gods is silent, and everyone is silent. There is only the continuous "rustling" sound of the carving knife filing the wood, mixed with the sound of the wind, wind chimes, and wooden signs, forming a harmonious melody.
Later, Kanna Rokuro came over.
The door was not locked at this time. He opened the wooden door and stood outside the door, looking at Qisi at the table.
"Shichiro, the head of the Kurokawa family is really deceiving people. I didn't know that I, Kami Wujia, would lead you into the master's residence." The young man in black kimono was indignant. "My father was very angry when he heard the news last night. I have to vomit blood!”
< br>Qisi stood up and walked to the door, looked at each other across the threshold with Kanna Rokuro, and said calmly: "I took the initiative to become the Lord of God. Reiko has died, and someone must bear all this. This is what I was born in Responsibility of Usagiami Town”
"Then you can't...can't..." Kanna Rokuro was furious and couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time. After all, Qisi stood on the moral high ground, and no matter what he said, it was wrong.
He could only keep a straight face, show off his elder brother's airs and admonish: "Qilang, fortunately you hit all three wooden picks. As long as nothing happens, you can become a new god. Otherwise, you still don't know how to do it." What kind of disaster will it bring to my Shenwujia..."
"What a disaster..." Qisi seemed to have remembered something. , turned around and took out the prayer card with the bamboo cage eye song engraved on it from the table, and handed it to Kanna Rokuro, "I heard that the prayer card I carved by myself can pray for blessings and avoid misfortunes, but I don't know if it's true."
< br>"Why are you still carving these?" Kanna Rokuro threw away the blessing sign impatiently, and the wooden sign fell to the ground with a "pop" sound.
As if he realized his unkind attitude belatedly, he calmed down the irritability in his brows and sighed: "Shichiro, what you have to do next is to try your best to carve the rabbit statue. , find out what God looks like in your heart.
"As long as you can become the new god, our family will be fine."
"Is that so?" Qisi smiled lowly, "Brother, Shichiro will do his best."
Rokuro Kanna said a few more words of relief, but he was nervous both inside and outside of his words, fearing that Qisi would make a mistake, causing the opportunity to become a god to slip away from his fingers, and the fate of the family to take a turn for the worse.
Qisi had just carved a lot of malicious "prayer cards" and was in a good mood, so he dealt with this worried brother with extra patience.
The waiter who was standing not far away could not stand it any longer and came over to persuade him: "Kanna-kun, time is running out. The Lord of God needs to meditate before he can carve a new statue of the god."
Kanna Rokuro turned around three times and left worriedly.
Qisi returned to the table and continued carving the statues.
The taxidermist's hands are flexible and light, and can handle more varied human body materials that are difficult to use with a knife. Carving wooden blocks is no problem.
He can often quickly carve out a similar outline of a humanoid, and then slowly carve out the head, face and clothing, making the wooden block in his hand look like a humanoid rather than some other species.
But when detailing the facial features and expressions, the chisel carving knife seemed to have lost control and began to carve randomly, either scratching the statue's face or carving out a bunch of incomprehensible marks. symbol.
Whenever this happened, Zis would happily flatten the damaged statue, make it into the shape of a blessing card, and carve words on it, the contents of which were various scary nursery rhymes.
The people outside were anxious, but he was calm and calm under the gaze of thousands of people. Everyone who looked at him was extremely convinced that he really had no desire, and he didn't even have a heart.
The afternoon sun fell on the back of the divine residence, and the room became dark, as if sneaking from the human world into the realm of gods and ghosts.
The waiter entered the room and added incense to the incense burner. Three newly lit incense sticks stood tall and long, and green smoke flew into the shrine, blurring the face of the statue.
Qisi just flattened the newly carved wooden block and carved three lines of his god's name on it.
The waiter saw this and said helplessly: "Master God, wait until tomorrow, they will keep letting you get it, and then keep letting you lose it, until you know what you really want.
"And in When desire arises in your heart and your body has not yet been saturated with desire, they will carve you into a god who is frozen between life and death. "
Qisi raised his eyelids and chuckled at him: "Thank you for letting me know, I understand. "
The waiter resigned and stood under the cherry blossom tree twenty meters away.
Qisi sat on the futon again and asked the Rabbit God: "Hundreds of years ago, after you became the Lord of God, Are you still carving like I am now? What is your desire, and what is it carving out? ”
The Rabbit God didn't answer. Qisi stopped clicking, lay down on the couch, closed his eyes and fell asleep amidst the chirping of birds.
I don’t know how much time passed, but Akira Kurokawa’s voice sounded outside the window: “Xiao Qi, Xiao Qi...are you okay?”
Qisi sat up from the couch and pushed away the veil. He opened the door and motioned for him to stand outside the threshold and talk. The waiter disappeared from sight at some point. He must have watched Chisi go to sleep, and then briefly allowed himself to leave to clean the shrine or do other things.
Kurokawa Akira trotted up to Qisi, his face full of worry, looking like he would cry at any time: "Xiao Qi, you have been chosen and become the Lord of God, are you going to die? I went to ask them, and they all said you would be fine, but I didn’t believe it..."
"I will definitely be fine."
Qisi simply repeated the information about carving gods and grabbing divine power, and said: "If nothing else happens, I will replace the original Rabbit God and become the Rabbit God Town A new god. There will be no more Rabbit God Festivals and no more deaths."
"Really?" Kurokawa opened his mouth and opened his eyes. It was astonishingly bright, "Xiao Qi, can I make a wish to you in the future?"
Qisi nodded with a smile, took the blessing card engraved with the name of the god from the table, and handed it over: " Before that, I may need you to do me a favor
"Pass out what is engraved on it and let the residents of Usagi-gami tell it like the legend of Usagi-gami. ”
Before Kurokawa opened his mouth, he added seriously: "Don't ask why, and don't tell the adults that I asked you to do it. These two points are very important and are related to whether I can survive."
Kurokawa Akira took the prayer card and swallowed: "Is this... so important? But if I don't tell the adults, how can I get others to preach the words above?"
"Compiled Children's songs, made into games, or spreading various specious rumors... There are many ways."
Chis lowered his eyes and sighed softly: "Kurokawa Akira, I only told you the above, and I can finally do it. If you can't succeed, it depends on what you do."
"Ah? OK, I...I'll try my best!" Kurokawa nodded nervously and left with the blessing card.
Qisi raised his eyes to look at the rabbit statue behind the shrine and smiled kindly: "You are not free because you are bound by your beliefs, so I will dispel part of your beliefs for you. Is this sincerity enough?"
Rabbit God opened his eyes and stared at him with blood-red eyes, still speechless.
In the evening, the waiter brought a bowl of white rice and several plates of food cooked with vegetables, fish and chicken on a tray.
In this era of game background, these are all precious ingredients. Qisi thought of the word "decapitation meal" for no reason.
He took the wooden tray and put it on the counter. He picked up the ingredients with chopsticks and focused on them. According to the rule of one chopstick for rice and one chopstick for vegetables, he put the food into his mouth.
Except for the three times in "Rose Manor", "Carnivorous" and "Double Happiness Town", the other dungeons either didn't require eating, or the food they ate was too abstract.
In reality, except when Zis overcomes laziness and has some leisure time, he will go downstairs to eat a few normal meals. At other times, he will eat instant noodles of various flavors to satisfy his hunger.
The meal in front of me can be described as informal. The white rice is fragrant, the vegetables are juicy and sweet, and the fish and chicken are fresh and plump. Qisi is quite satisfied with the meal.
He swallowed all the ingredients slowly, put down the clean dishes and chopsticks, and looked at the waiter.
The waiter said: "Tomorrow is August 3rd. According to the rules, you have to fast."
Chiss smiled nonchalantly, stood up with his arms folded, and gave up his position to clear the plates.
The waiter gathered the dishes and chopsticks on the tray, turned around and left with the wooden tray, crossed the threshold and turned around to close the door.
With a "click", the wooden door was locked.
For the next four days, Zeiss will be locked in the god's residence with the Rabbit God, until Zeiss carves a new statue of the god, or the Rabbit God crosses the restriction and kills him.
There was only a shallow layer of wood left in the wooden box, and Qisi stopped carving.
He sat on the couch, closed his eyes, and silently said "Quickly forward" in his heart.
The sound of the wind gradually became louder, the sound of wind chimes and wooden signs were completely out of tune, and there was a noisy and rapid vibration in my ears.
At a certain moment, the sound calmed down, and Qiss saw the Rabbit God walking down from the shrine.
“Eye of the bamboo cage, eye of the bamboo cage, when will the bird in the cage be released to fly?”
“In the early morning at night, the crane and the turtle fell, and the bird behind them fell. The child asked who it was? ”
The children's singing began, but this time it was not filled with laughter, but with cries of fear.
In front of Qisi's eyes, there were figures of young men wearing various colors of kimonos. One of them was wearing a heavy blood-colored hunting coat, and the gilt embroidery on it was in the style of sacrificial clothing.
It’s Kanna Shichiro.
Qisi saw Kanna Shichiro standing in a circle, holding hands with the teenagers, spinning around the teenager sitting in the center.
While the song was singing, he smiled maliciously and cheerfully. Every time he walked past, he would raise his foot and kick the boy until the boy's back was covered with shoe marks.
But the young man just curled up silently, sobbing softly, and never escaped.
The round of the bamboo cage game is over, and the next person is seated in the center. Kanna Shichiro is still standing in the circle, repeating the process of wantonly torturing the young man sitting in the middle.
Everyone was crying, and the faces of the teenagers were wrinkled and ugly. They begged in all directions.
"Qilang, we are sorry for you, we should not have bullied you before..."
"Qilang, forgive us, we already know that we were wrong, please let us go back... ”
"Shichiro, the adults said that as long as you think it's enough, we can leave...have you had enough?"
Kannashi Shichiro laughed out loud, the kind of exaggerated wealth in stage plays The performative smile is like a madman mocking his fate at the end of his life, or like a prodigal who has been drifting for half his life and feels pity for himself.
"I haven't played enough, how can I play enough? Don't you like to play the bamboo cage game the most? I like it too..."
He smiled with tears in the corners of his eyes, Her long black hair spread down, covering her pale face like an evil ghost, which was horrifying.
The movements and expressions of all the young men were frozen, their skin and flesh melting like heated wax statues, and their pale skeletons reflected the candlelight, giving them a dark, cold white.
Kanna Shichiro suddenly turned his head and faced Qisi, his voice was calm and cold: "They said that I was the seed of evil ghosts. I should have become a ghost and god, so I answered their prophecies.
"My desire I never have to be a ghost when playing the game of Bamboo Cage Eyes, so I carved the song of Bamboo Cage Eyes under the base of the statue.
"And they will play bamboo cage games with me until August 6th." (End of Chapter)