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Chapter 1603 Final Chapter: Crossing the Sea [61] "The Struggle of the Nameless (4)"

"The remaining nine rabbits did not resist, and four of them attracted the capitalist. The capitalist wore a mask and controlled them with a laugh."

"The Mad Hatter becomes a host, wearing a bow tie and a flower in his hair; his creative heart turns into a black heart; dark fairy tales replace true fairy tales."

"What is the live stream fee? What is the betting odds? What are the contestants? What are the gifts? The nine rabbits don't understand, and the beautiful fairy tale has vanished!"

"Fireworks turned into bombs, honey into lava, cats into tigers, and innocent heads fell!"

"The sixth rabbit transforms into a worker, cooperating with the capitalists and laughing all the while. It secretly buries carrots, waiting for the new rabbit to dig them up!"

……

People looked at each other, scratching their heads in bewilderment.

Just as everyone was looking on in confusion, the sound of a wheelchair rang out, and the white-haired girl, Ashley, calmly said:
“I know this part.”

"The 'Mad Hatter' in the ballad refers to Boss Rabbit, a passionate young woman who gathered scripts from Shen Xue, Si Yi, Xia Luoyang, and others, giving them the identity of 'Twelve Disciples of the Apprentice Game' in the hope of creating a perfect Apprentice Game together."

……

The rabbit boss wriggled around, his rabbit ears bobbing: "Girl, I have a brilliant plan. I want to gather all the good stories in the world and recreate them in a game, a game independent of Rovasa, which I'll call 'The Disciple Game.' I think your story, 'Floating City in the Day,' is excellent! I want to incorporate it into my game as a second instance. At the same time, I invite you to join my game development plan and become one of the organizers. How about it?"

Siyi was completely confused: "I don't understand what you're saying."

The rabbit boss smiled adorably: "You can think of it as a game recruiting scripts! And I've taken a liking to your script!"

[Siyi asked, "Besides me, are there any other organizers?"]

[Boss Rabbit nodded: "Of course! There are expected to be twelve organizers, including the ten people who wrote your stories, as well as myself and a close friend of mine."]

……

"As for the significance of their discipleship game, perhaps it's to shield themselves from the prying eyes of others, or perhaps it's similar to the goal of the Magpie, to create an Eden without pain," Ashley said.

Mizushima Kawakami shook his head and said, "No, according to the information I received, Boss Rabbit created the Disciple Game to replace the World Game and cover up the original with a pirated version."

Ashley said calmly, "If you wanted to rebel against the people who are always watching you, would you lay out your real reasons in the open?"

Mizushima Sora paused slightly, then frowned: "You mean... it might be... a lie. We've all been deceived all along? The Disciple Game... is good?"

She was suddenly stunned, feeling as if right and wrong were reversed, and the world was spinning.

Ashley smiled faintly: "What is good and what is bad has no basis, and we may not even guess right." She continued to speculate based on the folk song:

"Later, the rabbits realized that dreams alone cannot fill their stomachs. Only with sufficient investment can their stories be transformed from prototypes into reality; otherwise, these 'individual game studios' would find it difficult to survive. So they brought in investors."

She lowered her eyes, seemingly with regret: "However, the rabbits have let the wolves into the house. The capitalists only care about profits; they are short-sighted and only think that this kind of bloody and exciting game can be used to open gambling and make countless money..."

"The rabbits were controlled by the superior Rovasa race. Investors interfered with and drastically altered their scripts, even turning them into anime and live-action TV series... completely distorting them. As a result, the heartwarming stories written by the rabbits were transformed into cruel and bloody challenges. The bombs that terrified the contestants were originally beautiful fireworks before the capitalists' adaptations..."

"Oh, oh." Zhou Sheng and Lu Xinyi and the others kept nodding, completely dumbfounded.

They couldn't keep up at all, their minds were a complete mess, and all they knew was to listen; the big shots would solve the mystery.

“So in the ballad, the sixth rabbit who became a ‘worker’ is…” Ashley picked up the wooden sign from Lu Shu’s hand and drove toward WARNING-003: “This gentleman who looks a lot like Hui Bi.”

In order to revive Su Liujin, Huibi became a staff member of the Disciple Game and planted the "War God Dragon King Narration Voice", which is the "Radish" in the ballad.

The "new rabbit" was none other than Su Ming'an, who later ventured into the maritime world.

As the song reached this point, it unexpectedly connected with their own lives. However, Ashley only deduced a little bit of it.

At that moment, Zimon rushed out, snatched the wooden sign from Ashley's hand, and hung it around WARNING-003's neck first.

"Hey, what are you doing!" Liu Chongping shouted.

"I just saw she was having trouble walking, so I helped her out," Qi Meng shrugged. But everyone knew he was after the reward.

Ashley pursed his lips, seemingly resigned to his fate, and said nothing.

The blond youth WARNING-003, holding a doll, smiled slightly, placed one hand on his chest, and bowed.

"Looks like it was right..." Anthony breathed a sigh of relief.

Suddenly, the singing in my ears turned ferocious and terrifying. The originally kind-looking ghosts suddenly dripped scarlet blood, and the singing became eerie, as if a female ghost was breathing in my ear.

"Wrong!!!" Geng Lan screamed, crouching down to cover her head in defense: "Damn wheelchair woman, don't talk nonsense if you don't know!"

Qi Meng's face turned pale instantly.

Su Ming'an was also taken aback. Xi Li's line of thinking was the same as his. Could it be that he had misunderstood something?
"Hehehe~ Hehehe~" A silvery laugh rang out, and bloody handprints appeared on the wall. A little girl in a red dress walked out, giggling.

"A little girl picking mushrooms, carrying a basket of bones on her back..."

The song was eerie and familiar, sending chills down one's spine.

"Big brother~" Duoduo looked at Qi Meng, opened her arms, purple blood flowing out, and laughed:

"congratulations!"

"You guessed wrong!"

She pointed to Zimon.

"Snapped!"

Qi Meng felt his head fall off his neck, crash to the ground with a thud, and shatter into pieces.

Blood spurted out, spraying everywhere like water from a sprayer.

"Aaaaaaahh ...

The instant death rule, which doesn't consider combat strength, can't be resisted by brute force.

A bead of sweat trickled down Ward's forehead as he quickly said, "Hurry up! If we keep discussing this for too long, we won't finish singing the song, and we might all freeze to death!"

The Disciple Game adjusted the strength of the powerful, and even Ian could not guarantee that he would be completely immune to the cold.

With a click, the lights shifted again, and a blond history teacher covered in blood stepped out, sticky-looking, raising his hands and singing loudly:
……

"The rabbits smiled on the surface, but secretly they were disobedient. In order to avoid the big eyes, they jumped down the carrot hole one by one."

"Rules, oh rules, they blossom into flowers, clichéd routes are written, enticing eyes to observe."

"The Domineering Shen Xue Falls in Love with Me," "War God Wang Xingkong Dominates Mingxi," "The Academic Genius's Golden Finger System," "I Became the Principal of Baisha Paradise"...

"Seven rabbits walked into the mangrove forest, the years passed by, they fell ill and died under the trees, and butterflies and insects gnawed at them."

……

“WARNING-009·Red Butterfly!” Fu Wenwen shouted.

Everyone looked at her, her face flushed, and she trembled as she said, "I... I saw it when I was burning paper money for my brother. It was a red butterfly, in the woods..."

Su Ming'an remained silent throughout.

As a multiple-playthrough player, he understood this song better than anyone else. This section describes how the rabbits outwardly obeyed the enlightened ones, but in reality, they secretly tested the rules of the world, just as Li Mingyue had done. The rabbits created all sorts of clichéd and melodramatic "what if" scenarios to attract the enlightened ones' attention and gather information about them.

This must have taken a very long time.

The seven rabbits, having reached the end of their lifespan, died of illness in the forest, devoured by insects and ants... This is the same strange tale of the white-haired youth who died of illness, WARNING-009.

Zhou Sheng stepped forward and hung the sign on 009. Red butterflies fluttered around, like stars in the sky.

“I used to think they were terrifying…” Zhou Sheng muttered to himself, “But now, they’re a little better…”

"Regardless of what they were like in life, we'll die if we answer wrong!" Li Xi'er had no sympathy, rubbing her arms as she said, "They're just menaces now!"

"Click," the light shifts.

A little white flower hopped out—WARNING-008. It swayed, emitting a voice that was neither male nor female:

……

"The Eight Rabbits were originally from the graveyard, where they met a Mad Hatter."

"The Mad Hatter gave it a card and asked it why the raven looked like a writing desk?"

"The time of the Eight Rabbits will never pass, forever drinking tea at six o'clock in the afternoon, sleeping on the blood-dripping sink, waiting and waiting."

"Where is Dad? Where is Brother?" It waited and waited, but no one answered it.

"It forgot why it came, and only knew that it was a rabbit, a rabbit, a rabbit, and it became a writing desk."

……

This passage may sound obscure, but one word is quite obvious—washbasin.

Ian didn't understand at all, but he knew that the Eight Rabbits referred to Zhao Mingming by the sink. He hung it up on Zhao Mingming without any fear.

Zhao Mingming revealed a chilling smile while biting her nails.

The answer is correct.

Then, a red butterfly fluttered out—WARNING-009, scattering beautiful fluorescence and gently singing:

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"Nine Rabbits long for their family, so they leap over the fence to go home. The big rabbit quietly tells them, 'A rabbit is just a rabbit, not a person.'"

"So it turns out my family was a lie! In despair, Nine Rabbit knelt down, picked up a knife and cut off her ears, then cut off her tail."

“‘I’ve lost my ears and tail! I’m a human, not a rabbit!’ Nine Rabbit emphasized, while Big Rabbit looked at it with regret.”

"Nine Rabbits were killed, and Big Rabbit secretly buried them. Big Rabbit walked out laughing, announcing that Nine Rabbits had escaped."

……

After this part was sung, the entire audience fell silent.

“Hmm…” Lu Shu pondered seriously.

After a moment, he said, "Which ghost story doesn't have rabbit ears and a rabbit tail?"

...None of the ghost stories mention rabbit ears or a rabbit tail... Su Ming'an rubbed his forehead. He actually already had most of the answers, but he didn't act rashly, intending to listen to the rest before speaking.

The others, however, were scratching their heads and racking their brains.

"That big rabbit is so naughty," Fu Wenwen sighed.

"Why can't a rabbit be a person..." Ward lowered his eyes: "What is this implying...?"

No one gave an answer.

Soon, the third to last, an old man with a cane emerged from the gray fog. He had a kind face and was full of wrinkles. Even Su Ming'an had never seen this strange tale before.

【WARNING-010·Grandpa with a Cane】, harmless. He often rambles on and on about his deceased granddaughter. As long as you don't interrupt him, you're safe.

He sang this nursery rhyme softly in a hoarse, aged voice, which, unlike the relatively youthful voices of others, sounded both sorrowful and profound:
……

"The remaining rabbits sat in a row, each with an apple in its hand."

"Take a bite and the apple, skin and all, bursts forth."

"Ten rabbits enjoy a life of leisure, and one day when they open their eyes, the sky is clear and bright. The world favors the little king, who is none other than you and me in the sea."

"Child, child, where are you? Are you my best work?"

"The white image leaves no trace; it ultimately belongs to Utopia."

……

“The child… should be WARNING-006,” Lu Shu said.

The middle-aged woman, who was engrossed in playing video games, kept saying, "Who saw my child?"

After a moment of hesitation, Liu Chongping stepped forward and hung up the wooden sign with a death-defying air. The middle-aged woman who was playing a game raised her head slightly, looked at him quietly, and her temperature rose slightly.

It seems to be the correct answer.

However, even Su Ming'an didn't quite understand this folk song.

Second to last, a girl covered in whip marks slowly stepped forward. Her voice was clear and melodious as she sang her final song:

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"The rabbits are decreasing one by one. The four rabbits gradually disappeared, the six rabbits quietly vanished, leaving only the eleventh rabbit, the twelfth rabbit, and the big rabbit."

"Big rabbit, big rabbit, raised his knife and killed one after another."

"The twelve rabbits raised their shovels and buried one after another."

"'Finally, only we're left!' Twelve Rabbits smiled faintly."

"The sunshine has disappeared, the dark clouds have disappeared, the eyes have disappeared."

"The rabbit played the piano and gradually disappeared."

"The twelfth rabbit lay in the arms of the big rabbit and was killed."

……

The tone of this passage was incredibly eerie, like fingernails rubbing against a blackboard, sending chills down people's spines.

"Eleven Rabbit is playing the piano... It should be WARNING-012, the sound of a piano in the music room." Wu Yi frowned and said, "The problem is, who is Twelve Rabbit? This song doesn't give any clues."

They've identified the rabbit card as 012, and are now at a loss for what to do next.

Su Ming'an remained calm, but he already knew what was going on.

Finally, a dark figure slowly emerged—the boy from the WARNING-012 music room. His voice was gentle, like a babbling brook, as he sang the final hymn:

……

"Big rabbit, big rabbit, you're the only one left."

"Do you regret it? Liar, traitor, rabbit butcher."

"It turns out that the big rabbit secretly got to know the thirteenth rabbit. The two rabbits laughed and killed one after another until only the big rabbit and the thirteenth rabbit were left."

“‘Grow a pair of wings,’ said the thirteenth rabbit.”

“‘We are building an eternal utopia. This time, let’s dance in a beautiful world that will never end,’ said the Big Rabbit.”

"They have finally grown wings and no longer have to be afraid."

"Ah—the rabbits will never return! The rabbits will never return!"

"But don't be afraid, new rabbits are coming! New rabbits are coming!"

"They're carrying carrots and guns, they have incisors and claws!"

"They looked up at the sky, and their eyes were closed!"

……

After the song ended, the temperature dropped to freezing point.

Several people had already fainted from the cold. Lu Shu was writing and drawing, Mizushima Kawakami was deep in thought, and Anthony was frowning.

The low murmurs in their ears grew deeper and colder, as if icy snakes were gently licking their skin.

Ward murmured, "I didn't quite understand, but Big Rabbit is a traitor. It knew Thirteen Rabbits, so it secretly killed a lot of rabbits... Hiss... Is the World Game starting to come up with these kinds of puzzles?"

Xiao Su was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "...The numbers big rabbit, second rabbit, fourth rabbit, sixth rabbit, ninth rabbit, and twelfth rabbit have not yet been determined."

He held up a sign: "The big rabbit is the murderer who killed many rabbits. The second rabbit is good at poetry and was the first rabbit to discover that the sky has eyes. The fourth rabbit is a traitor. The sixth rabbit is a staff member. The ninth rabbit wanted to be human and cut off its rabbit ears and tail. The twelfth rabbit has no clue."

He looked at the crowd and said, "I'm sorry, I don't have a definite answer in my heart."

People looked panicked; some wanted to try hanging up the signs but were afraid of death. Aside from Lu Shu confirming that the four rabbits were golden-haired skeletons, there were no other answers.

Just as Anthony gritted his teeth and decided to go all out, the young man with cat ears came over, took the rabbit card from Anthony's hand, and then took the rabbit cards from everyone else's hands.

"Boss Cat...! What are you doing?" Mizushima Kawakami shouted. She suspected that Boss Cat wanted to kill them, the contestants.

Su Ming'an remained calm as he hung the rabbit cards around the necks of the corresponding ghost stories one by one.

In that instant, he heard a series of hallucinatory laughs, a mixture of men and women, young and old.

……

"We must come together, pick up our pens, and rewrite this world!"

"What's the point of rewriting? It will only throw the world into chaos!"

"—So, we're going to build a [Nest]! To protect the world! To protect our homeland! Hehe, Chen Qingguang, we all trust you, so you'll lead us!"

"Long time no see, how are you? I hope you are still continuing your creative work. Please forgive me for only being able to send you this letter, my beloved wife."

"Can we create new books?"

"Brother, here's the new doll I made for you... I know it's ugly, please don't laugh at me!"

"Granddaughter, granddaughter..."

"Has any of you seen my child? I wrote something yesterday, and then he disappeared..."

"Lord Li, I will write a story that is compelling enough for you. Please allow us to live on in humility."

"A bunch of insatiable fools! What's wrong with this place? An eternal campus, eternal stories, a utopia without prejudice or discrimination!"

"They need treatment! Otherwise, they will be forever trapped in the pain of the past!"

"Chen Qingguang! Chen Qingguang! You bastard!!!"

"Ha, ha ha ha...! I'm going to grab them and roll down! Roll down! You bastards! Give me back my writings, give me back my history!"

"Turns out, I'm not that special after all..."

"Brother, the rest of my soul... will shine light for you."

"As long as I remember, your story is not over... it is not over..."

"And I, with my pen, have created this dream of ants for them. From this day forward, I am no longer the manager, nor the one who is awake; I am... Chen Qingguang..."

……

The sounds were mixed and confusing.

Wow – Wow –

A gentle breeze blew by, and the wooden sign swayed.

Mizushima Sora's outstretched hand froze in mid-air as she saw all the ghost stories stop their dance and look over.