The gray scene shattered like glass struck by a heavy object. Ziss found himself still standing in the corridor of the teaching building, and the stagnant scenes and characters around him returned to motion.
The thin glow of the evening glow illuminated the walls yellow, and the noise of students could be heard downstairs. The wind blew the waste paper in the corridor, making a "swish" sound.
Reiko breathed softly, at a different frequency than the sound of the wind, which made the environment even quieter.
Qisi lowered his head and saw the rabbit statue lying quietly on his right hand. After he paid attention for two seconds, a countdown line was refreshed:
[There are still 11:59:59 until the next release of the game "Escape from Usagi Kamachi"]
Although this word game embedded in the dungeon won't let the player actually die, it is not unlimited.
It is only open every twelve hours, and players can only play it a maximum of fourteen times in seven days. It does not seem like a lot, but if it arouses the suspicion of the NPC in the game, it will fail, so the fault tolerance rate is not high.
Although the game ended in failure without saying a few words when he first entered the game, Qiss still gained a lot of information from the text narration and archives at the end.
First, the "Xiao Qi" he plays has a certain connection with a certain existence called an "evil ghost", but I don't know the specific reason;
Secondly, he is related to the head of the Kanna family in Usagiami Town, and it is not too far away. He may be father and son, grandson, or uncle and nephew;
Third, a disaster will occur on the day of the fireworks festival, leaving Usagiami Town without a "after", and "Xiao Qi" will also die in the disaster.
For more information, you need to wait until twelve hours later and enter the game again to verify it.
Twelve hours later, it’s five o’clock in the morning. I hope to find the alarm clock in the school dormitory...
"Lu Ming, what's wrong with you? Your face looks so ugly..." Lingzi's concerned voice sounded.
Qisi raised his hand and touched his face, and felt a piece of coldness. Then he felt cold.
It's really strange. He clearly didn't feel any fear, nor did he feel any discomfort, but his body acted as if he was frightened by the word game, his shoulders trembled and his heartbeat accelerated.
Qisi turned his head slightly and caught a glimpse of his pale face on the iron door of the fire cabinet at the entrance of the stairs. It was much more real than he acted.
He raised the statue in his hand and said with a serious expression: "Lingzi, this is the rabbit statue I told you. I heard them say that it is cursed and will induce the holder to harm others for his own desires. , let’s throw it away quickly..."
Hearing this, Reiko's expression became nervous: "Yeah! Then where is the best place for us to throw it?"
"Just throw it down from the upstairs. The height of the third floor should be enough to break it." Qiss said, grabbed the rabbit statue and threw it out of the window sill, then put it into the toolbar at the last second.
In Reiko's eyes, the rabbit statue disappeared from Qisi's hands. It was probably thrown downstairs and shattered into pieces as he said.
The girl was still a little worried: "Lu Ming, I heard that you may be punished by the gods for desecrating the statue. If you smash it, will something happen?"
"If this so-called Rabbit God really has a way to punish me, he won't let me smash his statue." Qiss gave a comforting smile, "Even if he really comes to find me, I'm not afraid. The weird stories I heard More, never be afraid of these, you will always have a way to deal with it if something goes wrong.”
……
The players squatting in the live broadcast room only saw the young man in the picture smiling selflessly and brightly. Knowing the truth, they all silently put a "6" in the barrage.
Although they would put themselves in Reiko's shoes and find a way to take the rabbit statue away from Reiko, they really couldn't do it while taking advantage of her and sacrificing herself for others.
As the live broadcast time lengthened, more and more players flocked to Qisi's live broadcast room.
After all, the unnamed guild is too mysterious. No one can figure out the behavior pattern of this new force that has just emerged and competed with Kyushu, and how many trump cards it has.
As the vice-president of the unnamed guild, Qisi started the live broadcast at the cusp of the storm, which undoubtedly provided players with a window to understand the unnamed guild. Even free players who are far away from the world can't help but take a curious look.
If nothing else goes wrong, he will soon be regarded as the spokesperson of the unnamed guild, and his every move will represent the style of the unnamed guild, just like Fu Jue to Kyushu.
Bullets are flying around the interface.
"This dungeon is a bit interesting. There is actually a game within the game. The NPC in the dungeon has designed a game for players to play. I didn't expect that there is such a mode of two-line parallelism. It is really novel."
"What's the use of novelty? I just checked and found that there are more than a dozen clearance records for this dungeon. The reason why there is not much noise is because it is so simple. As long as you don't commit suicide, you won't die. It's almost enough to be a newbie pool dungeon."
"It's said to be easy, but has anyone passed it through TE? I think most likely Si Qi entered this dungeon to clear it through TE for the first time. We can also take a look at how good he is at solving puzzles."
……
The episode with the rabbit statue passed quickly. Qisi followed Reiko down the stairs, walked out of the teaching building, and turned into the canteen next to it.
The dark door and cement wall block the light and noise inside. From a distance, the whole building looks lifeless. When you step inside, you can smell the wet disinfectant water. The walls seem to be soaked in the water. There are patches of mildew here and there.
The space inside the cafeteria is quite spacious, but there are too many students. At a glance, almost all seats are filled with people, except for a few empty seats scattered in the corners.
The cooking windows are lined up in a row, and each window has an electronic board with the name of the dish hanging on it. At a glance, most of them are ordinary dishes such as "fried vegetables".
Qisi walked a few steps quickly and queued up at a window. From the corner of his eye, he saw that half of the people in the cafeteria put down their chopsticks when Reiko walked to the middle of the aisle, and turned their heads to look at her.
Those eyes were full of cold malice, like poisonous snakes, hissing and spitting out messages.
"It's Reiko again. I heard that she likes to report to the teacher the most."
"Thankfully she still has the nerve to live in this world. She killed her parents and a boy who was very good to her."
"I dress up so beautifully every day, I don't know who I'm going to harm next..."
This was undoubtedly bullying. All kinds of slander and slander came from all directions. Reiko didn't know whether she didn't care, or she was used to hearing these words. The smile on her face remained, and she took out a palm-sized rabbit doll from her pocket. Squeeze it tightly with your fingers.
She squeezed the doll for a while until it was crumpled into a ball, then walked to the window, picked up a plate of food and put it aside.
For no reason, Zeiss recalled the story of Miffy the rabbit he had heard in his childhood.
It was a scary story about rabbits: a girl gradually became extreme after being bullied by her classmates. After hearing the screams of domestic rabbits, she thought the rabbits were laughing at her, so she stapled the rabbit's head with a stapler. mouth.
She placed the rabbit's body on the table of the classmates who bullied her. The screams of the classmates made her feel the joy of revenge, so she followed the same pattern and killed more rabbits, taking revenge on her classmates one by one.
Finally one night, she saw a rabbit with a bleeding mouth standing in front of her bed, calling her name over and over again, Miffy, Miffy...
She woke up with a start, and suddenly felt her mouth hurt. The ceiling in front of her was no longer the ceiling, but iron railings.
She found herself transformed into a rabbit, locked in a cage with staples in its mouth.
When Ziss heard this story as a child, he didn't have much empathy. In his opinion, after being bullied, killing all the people who bullied him is the most important thing. How can just scaring him be enough?
If he wanted to be more elegant, he would put a half-dead rabbit in the drawer of some unlucky classmate, so that the latter would be startled and accidentally kill the rabbit. Then he would tell his classmates that the unlucky guy was a pervert who could brutally kill small animals, and asked everyone to stay away from and be hostile to that person.
With a common enemy, unity is easy; conflicts can easily be transferred to the outside world, and the real monster hides in the rabble and eats its mouth full of oil.
But at this moment, thinking about this nonsense story again, Qiss had a more concrete feeling about the four words "Beware of the Rabbit" in the pre-prompt.
Rabbits are not as mysterious as cats, nor as hateful as mice. They are always harmless and innocent.
He is weak, can be bullied, and cannot speak. These qualities combined together make him a perfect target for violence.
The strong are angry and draw their swords at the stronger; the weak are angry and draw their swords at the weaker.
Rabbits are undoubtedly the weak, and the horror stories related to rabbits seem to be related to bullying the weak.
Miffy, the five rabbits in "Ten Rabbits", are all victims.
The player is undoubtedly weaker than the ghost-turned-rabbit.
So, watch out for rabbits!
"If the rabbit turns into a ghost, there is a high probability that something will happen to the player. So...who is the 'rabbit' in this dungeon? Reiko?"
While Qisi was thinking, he finally got to the window where food was served.
He casually added some vegetables and rice to the plate, turned around and found a seat in the corner to sit down. He dug into his mouth one chopstick after another to dig out the sticky food and swallowed it.
It has to be said that the food in school cafeterias all over the world is equally unpalatable, and it is not much different from the dark cuisine he cooked in "Red Maple Leaf Boarding School" - he actually tasted plastic from the vegetables.
If he hadn't considered that he would definitely starve to death if he didn't eat in this dungeon for seven days, he wouldn't want to touch these meals at all...
On the other side, Reiko found a deserted corner and sat down, ten meters away from Qisi.
The distance was no longer close, but for some reason, the discussion surrounding her was particularly clear in Qisi’s ears:
"People like Reiko can only sit in a corner alone."
"No one will pay attention to her, why doesn't she die?"
"This kind of person should have died a long time ago, and the Rabbit God should have taken her life."
Reiko kept her head down most of the time and ate quietly. She only raised her eyes slightly when she heard the word "Rabbit God", with a strange look in her eyes.
Qisi had followed her all the way here, and until now, he suddenly felt a strange sense of dissonance.
Hope Middle School also seems to be a huge word game. Reiko is the main character in this game, and all NPCs are performing around her. The player is the audience, or a perspective, guided by the existence behind the scenes to witness everything.
Obviously in the classroom, Lu Ming was unpopular with his classmates; but in the group violence in the cafeteria, Qiss, who played Lu Ming, stayed out of the incident like a transparent person, without being contaminated at all.
It's not because of the kindness of the copy, but because in this scene, "Lu Ming" is not the protagonist, has no role, and should not take the spotlight.
Everything you see and hear is a text puzzle game; the copy seems to be deliberately hoping that players will do something after solving the puzzle...
At this moment, the students started talking to each other about the "Rabbit God".
"I heard that all you need to do is sacrifice one person to the Rabbit God, and any wish can come true. Can we sacrifice Reiko so that all of us can get into a good high school?"
"I have already found someone to give the cursed rabbit statue to Reiko. She will die in seven days and our wish will come true."
"Please keep your voice down. What if Reiko finds out and smashes the rabbit statue or gives it to others?"
"It's okay, she has been cursed and is destined to be sacrificed to the Rabbit God."
Qisi heard it clearly and lowered his eyelids slightly to look at the Rabbit Statue icon in the toolbar. Sure enough, he saw an extra line of words in the [Effect] column.
[Effect ②: After sacrificing Reiko at the right time, any wish can be realized]
Any wishes?
Qisi pulled out the rabbit statue from the item list, quietly stuffed it into his pants pocket, stood up and walked towards Reiko.
New prompts appear from time to time:
[The NPC Reiko in this time and space has been locked by fate as a destined sacrifice and cannot be sacrificed again]
...That's okay.
Ziss is no stranger to the concept of "destined sacrifices."
Activating the effect of [Destiny Pocket Watch] also requires sacrificing life. He once thought about whether he could re-sacrifice the sacrifices after going back, but he was immediately told by a strange game that the fate of those sacrifices had been locked.
Come to think of it, the sacrifice of the [Rabbit God Statue] is also based on this principle, to prevent someone from repeatedly picking up the wool of the Rabbit God due to a bug.
Lingzi noticed Qis approaching and asked with a smile: "Lu Ming, what's wrong?"
Qisi gathered his thoughts and pretended to be sympathetic: "How could they do this to you? You obviously did nothing wrong..."
Reiko tilted her head and looked at him with a bright smile: "Someone has to suffer all this. This is fate. Since I'm used to it, let me continue to bear it."
destiny? Habit? Continue to bear it?
Why does this PUA routine look so familiar?
Qisi narrowed his eyes and asked: "Who said these words to you?"
"Lu Ming told me." Lingzi's eyes were a little blurred, as if she was lost in memories.
"Lu Ming? My brother told you?" Qisi asked.
"Huh?" Reiko's face had a double image for a moment, with a ferocious rabbit face looming, but it returned to calm in an instant.
She blinked: "Lu Ming, what are you talking about? You never told me that you have a brother." (End of Chapter)