"The adults of Usagiami Town are greedy and arrogant, and want to create a god under their control. No matter who that god is, they will be trapped here and fulfill their wishes.
"Your Excellency Rabbit God, or Kanna Shichiro, you should know that I am just a player passing through this world, and I have no intention of getting involved in this endless cycle of sin. It is not my intention to be used by them to deal with you."
Qisi lowered his eyes and sighed softly: "I already have the authority to contract, and it is obviously not worth it to trap myself in Rabbit God Town for the insignificant divine power; unfortunately, it has come to this, and I can't leave here...
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"So I'm thinking, can we cooperate? I won't cooperate with the Rabbit God Festival they hold, so that you have a chance to escape from the shackles; you will save my life, so that I can escape from Rabbit God Town alive?"
A bright red contract scroll appeared in front of him, with lines of terms written on it in hot gold text.
The three incense sticks in the incense burner burned quietly, and the green smoke steamed upward, blurring the face of the statue in the shrine.
Qisi knelt down for a while, and didn't wait for a response, so he said no more.
The Rabbit God is no longer familiar with the world, and has experienced hundreds of years of experience; it is impossible for him to believe the promise of a strange player for the first time, not to mention that the player has many connections with the contract authority.
However, it still takes a long time. In five days, Qisi believes that there will be many opportunities to convince the Rabbit God and successfully sign a contract with him.
The black-haired young man lowered his eyes, took small steps back to the wooden couch, slowly lay down, and closed his eyes as innocent and harmless as a real child.
In the darkness, the words [can be paused, fast forwarded, and exited] appeared on the game panel.
Qisi silently recited the word "fast forward" in his heart, and the wind chimes in his ears rang rapidly and noisily. The sound of wind and the collision of wooden signs were noisy and chaotic. After a certain moment of roaring, they gradually died down, and the chirping of birds was gentle.
He opened his eyes, and a ray of morning light filtered in through the crack in the nailed window, casting a long and slanted light on his face. The oil lamps on the table have been extinguished, and the incense on the incense table has burned down to only three stubbles.
It's dawn.
"Lord God, today is August 2nd, it's time for you to cast lots."
The old voice of the waiter came from outside the door, with a gentle and patient tone: "Throw the lot three times, and you only need to hit one, which means you are similar to the Rabbit God and can accommodate his child."
The so-called throwing of lots is not like common sense. God makes the choice and decision, and then the wooden lot conveys His will to the people who believe in Him.
Judging from the waiter's words, it seems that the people of Rabbit God Town learned a ritual from somewhere, and they can judge whether a child's body can accommodate the power of Rabbit God by throwing wooden sticks.
Only by being stained with rabbit blood and blinding the sight of gods and ghosts can the ritual be invalidated, or the child no longer be in harmony with the rabbit god.
"Please wait a moment, I'll sort it out." Qisi turned off the recorder and politely responded to the waiter outside the door.
He took out the voice recorder that had run out of battery from the prop slot and put it under his pillow. Although the prop was no longer effective, he still planned to handle it carefully to avoid affecting the lot-throwing session.
At this point, he also wanted to understand something. The head of the Kanna family believed that "the dead rabbit no longer bleeds" because it was the revenge of the Rabbit God. In fact, it was just a misjudgment based on unilateral limited information.
The Rabbit God wished that Kanna Shichiro would not be selected, so he naturally had no position to stop the Kanna family master's small actions. It is estimated that the plan to use rabbit blood to destroy the ceremony was spread out on his own initiative.
Unfortunately, Lu Ming hoped that Kanna Shichiro would replace Reiko as the God Master. Reiko was chosen again and again, so he restarted the world line again and again until the results satisfied him.
One person and one god sent away generations of players, but the dungeon time always cycled between August 1st and August 7th.
Lu Ming and Rabbit God use Rabbit God Town and Hope Middle School as a chessboard to start a game. Rabbit God can use strange rumors to eat away at the NPC's thoughts, while Lu Ming can modify the underlying logic, such as making rabbits stop bleeding.
And now, players are involved in this game...
Qisi didn't take off his kimono before going to bed, but he casually shook out the wrinkled fabric and smoothed the wrinkles, thus finishing his outfit.
He picked up a few wooden boards with five precautions written on them and pushed the door open.
The wooden door couldn't be pushed open last night. When I pushed it again this morning, I found that it was unlocked and only slightly ajar.
The white-haired waiter was waiting outside the door with his eyes lowered. When he saw Qisi coming out, he said in a gentle voice: "Master God, after throwing the wooden sticks, burning incense, washing yourself, and changing into sacrificial clothes, you will be the real Master God." .
"I have informed several family heads of your request. Your friends can accompany you outside the Divine Residence, but they must leave after the sun sets."
"Thank you." Qisi handed the board to him and smiled politely, "Last night I saw this board on the desk, with several matters written on it, and I was confused.
"Why no more food will be provided after August 3rd? What will be the use of those rabbit statues and blessing plaques I carved?"
[3. The Lord of God should keep his physical body clean and no longer provide food after August 3, but he can drink water;
[5. There are carving knives and wooden blocks under the couch. The god should carve as many rabbit statues and prayer cards as possible. 】
The two rules written on the wooden board were vaguely written. Qisi pointed it out to the waiter as if he didn't understand, and asked humbly.
The waiter stared at the wooden board for a long time and sighed quietly: "This is a rule made many years ago. Maybe only the heads of the family know the reason.
"After the blessing plaques are carved, according to the rules, they should be distributed to the Lord God and your family to pray for blessings and avoid disasters.
"As for the rabbit statue, it is just to help the god master know what the god in his heart looks like."
The selected children may not necessarily be able to seize the power of the Rabbit God and become new gods; there is a high probability that they will fail, be corroded by the Rabbit God's will, and turn into evil spirits who only want revenge.
The blood relatives who share the same blood are afraid of being disturbed, so they ask the children to carve blessing plaques in front of the Rabbit God in order to avoid the revenge of his ghost.
The head of the Kanna family didn't want his child to be chosen. He didn't necessarily feel sorry for his young son, but he just didn't want to take the risk of being haunted by evil spirits.
Qisi asked: "Why do you need to know what the God in your heart looks like? Aren't the Gods in our hearts all rabbit gods?"
The waiter sighed again: "If we can only carve out the Rabbit God, the Lord God can only become the Rabbit God completely."
While talking, the two of them walked through the winding corridor one after another, walked past the worship hall where futons were neatly placed, and entered the main hall where the shrine is placed.
All the irrelevant people were cleared away, and there were only a few people in the unattended temple. The head of the Kanna family, the head of the Kurokawa family, and an old priest stood in the center of the hall. It seemed that they had been waiting for a long time.
Under the vermilion roof, a bright red silk ribbon with copper coins strung on it hangs from a high place. The aroma of rosewood and cherry blossoms permeate the red silk, touching the soft coolness on the cheeks and soaking into the skin together.
There was no Rabbit God in the hall where the statue was supposed to be enshrined. There was only a wooden skewer tube. The old priest walked to Qisi holding three wooden skewers and said in a hoarse and long tone: "Be still, get rid of distracting thoughts, and forget all desires."
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The two heads of the family stared at Qisi intently, with a look of inquiry and nervousness on their faces. The head of the Kanna family was wrapped in thick robes, leaning on a cane, and coughing breathlessly.
Qisi lowered his eyes in agreement, took the wooden sign, and walked towards the sign tube step by step.
The sound of wind chimes seemed to be ringing in his ears again, and a gentle female voice and a serious male voice were whispering something. He couldn't hear a word clearly, and he didn't know who it was, but he became inexplicably irritable.
"Throw the lot -" the priest shouted at the top of his lungs.
The lottery tube was just three steps away. Ziss couldn't figure out why someone would miss the throw at this distance. Was it intentional, or was there some variable encountered during the throwing process?
He tentatively threw a wooden skewer in his hand towards the skewer. With a "pop" sound, the wooden skewer fell into the tube.
"I won." There was a smile on the lips of the Kurokawa family leader, "It went really well. Shichiro is the god master of this generation." The Kanna family master said nothing with a sullen face, and his haggard and sick face became even more haggard, as if he was next to him. About to die.
The priest shouted again: "Throw the lot——"
The female and male voices in his ears were louder, and their tone was urgent, as if they wanted to say something important, but Qiss still couldn't hear clearly, and he didn't understand what the two people were anxious about.
He made another throwing motion, and the second wooden pick fell into the barrel.
"Throwing lots——"
Qisi seemed to hear someone crying, but the sound dissipated in just a few seconds, as if coming from far away under the water, separated by water vapor and fog.
He threw the last wooden stick into the tube, and all the sounds disappeared in an instant. What he heard before was hard to find anymore, like a confused dream.
The head of the Kanna family finally had a smile on his face, and his beard trembled with excitement: "Shichiro, you are indeed the child who is most like the Rabbit God. No one has ever been able to hit three wooden sticks at once! You will become our new god. …”
Realizing that he had made a mistake, he covered his mouth and coughed, but his eyes were filled with joy.
If he only wins one or two lottery tickets, Kannashi Shichiro will be the same victim as the previous god masters. He will become a ghost after death and trouble Kanna's family day and night.
But things are different after winning three lots. Kannashi Shichiro may truly become a god and bring shelter and blessings to Kannaji.
The head of the Kurokawa family said to the waiter: "Please take the Lord God to rest first. Later, I will send you the sacrificial robes and wait for him to put them on."
The waiter responded, lowering his head and leading the way.
Qisi followed him calmly and walked out of the hall.
Behind him, the old priest said in a deliberately low voice: "Shichiro has no desires and is the most suitable material to become a god, but there is still one hurdle to pass.
"Let him have desires, have what he wants in his heart, and know what he really wants to be.
"Only in this way can we not be deceived by the Rabbit God and become a puppet controlled by the Rabbit God."
Adults need children to be like the Rabbit God, that is, to have no desires like the gods. Only in this way can the power of the Rabbit God be accommodated.
But adults also need children to be less like Rabbit God, not to become a replica or puppet of Rabbit God, but to become a new god who truly belongs to Rabbit God Town.
It makes those who have unfulfilled desires indifferent, and makes those who have no desires and needs greedy. Human beings have always been such a contradictory species, obsessed with flattening and rounding the weak into what they want.
Qiss pretended to be ignorant and said softly: "I don't think it is that difficult to throw lots. Why did the previous gods never hit three?"
The waiter looked sideways at him and asked: "Master God, did you see or hear anything when the lot was thrown?"
Zeiss did not intend to tell the NPC about the existence of male and female voices. He shook his head and said: "No."
"That's because you have no desire."
The waiter smiled bitterly: "It is said that when you cast the first lot, you will see the most important thing you have lost; when you cast the second lot, you will see the most important thing you want to have; when you cast the third lot, you will see the most important thing you have lost. See your worst fears
"If you have desires, your vision will be obscured by desires, desires, and fears, and you will not be able to see the skewer clearly, nor can you see yourself clearly. If you have no desire, you will have no fear, and your eyes will be clear, and you will naturally be able to easily put the wooden skewer into the skewer."
Qisi said "Oh" and stopped answering.
He was led back to the divine residence by the waiter, sat down in front of the desk, took out the wooden block from the wooden box and put it on the table, held the divine chisel in his right hand, and quietly began to carve the statue of the god.
The waiter excused himself, and he said "hmm" in a low voice, never raising his eyelids to look at anyone else, looking as indifferent as a god.
You cut with one cut and I cut with one, carving out a god that belongs only to us;
With your words and my words, we entrust our desires to the new-born God...
People without desires cannot carve new statues of gods. They can only imitate the rabbit statues in the shrines where gods live, repeat the old routine, and carve out soulless replicas.
But an "evil ghost" came unexpectedly last night and told Qiss the solution to this dead end——
Just carve it according to the wooden sculpture of the Rabbit God that Lu Ming serves as the entrance to the game "Escape from Rabbit God Town". It will definitely not be the same as the Rabbit God statue in Rabbit God Town.
Everything is unable to contain its complete self, just like a glass jar that can contain a world, it will never be able to contain exactly the same creation in the world it contains.
This is a cheating method, taking advantage of a bug in the game, and it seems to be the only solution.
The carving knife fell on the block of wood, cutting off pieces of large or small wood chips, which fell like snowflakes and stuck to the back of Qisi's hand, stimulating a slight itch.
Under the cherry blossom tree not far from the window, the waiter sighed and said to himself:
"Poor child, if he has no desire, he will never suffer. Why do those adults let him suffer from desire?"
"To make a child who has no desires have desires but not satisfy him, is it just to make him fear, make him suffer, and make him sad?"
The sound was drowned in the cheerful wind chimes and crackling wooden signs, broken and swaying like a dream.
Qisi's hand paused slightly, leaving a shallow mark on the statue's face.
The wooden block has a complete outline in his hand, and it looks like a human figure, but he has no idea what the final product will be.
Qisi let his heart carve it, and suddenly felt that he actually had desires, because people without desires cannot stay in the world for a long time.
It's just that his desire is too far away, too shallow, and has been lost for too long. It has faded to almost transparent white under the erosion of time. He can't see or hear clearly, so he mistakenly thinks that it doesn't exist.
His desire should be related to the two voices he heard. Unfortunately, no matter how much he thought about it, he could not figure out what the voices were saying, nor could he remember where he had heard it before.
The divine chisel was picked up again, and Qiss continued to carve the wooden block in his hand.
He followed his inertia and instinct with the knife, calmly carving the face and body of the statue one by one.
The wooden block was chipped smaller and smaller, until finally only a thin slice remained. The original human shape was gone, and there were no formed objects.
Qisi began to carve the prayer plaque with malice, and engraved the strange song "Bamboo Cage Eye" on it, and slowly raised the corner of his lips into a bright smile.
He is not good at saving himself, nor is he good at exploring what he wants, but he has always had great enthusiasm and is quite good at making people unlucky.
Maybe his desire is to make people all over the world feel uncomfortable, who knows? (End of chapter)