Infinite Weird Game

“I don’t know what my desires are.”

In the room where the black wolf mask was hung, Chang Xu looked at the wolf head with the texture of a sculpture and said calmly.

“I wanted a lot. When I was little, I wanted to have enough food to eat every day without having to wait for the next meal.

"Later, I wanted to live, I wanted no more innocent people to die within my sight, and everyone to live in peace, as if the weird game had never happened.

"I want to become stronger, strong enough to eliminate all the existence that can kill me. But I don't want others to be afraid of me, and I don't want them to treat me as a monster.

"I seem to be a greedy person. As soon as one wish is fulfilled a little, I will have the next wish. But I don't know if those are my desires."

Chang Xu lowered his eyes and said with a hint of confusion: "I heard that desire is instinctive, focused, and strong, and will not stop until it is achieved. I don't seem to have this feeling."

The Sphinx looked indifferent, and the half-moon-shaped eyes on its wolf head stared at Chang Xu: "I can see that your heart is filled with chaotic clouds, with chaotic and changing shapes overlapping in it. You are bound by an invisible force, and you are always stopped at the distance of exploring your desires.

"But I penetrated those complicated barriers and saw your desire at this moment. That is a person like you, and you want to kill him."

It was like putting a stone to absorb impurities into muddy water, and the vague thoughts suddenly became substantial.

Chang Xu realized that his various wishes seemed unrelated, but they seemed to intersect at a certain point.

Kill the existence that threatens his life and the lives of innocent people, so that he does not have to worry about death; kill another monster, thereby proving that he belongs to the category of human beings...

"Yes." Chang Xu nodded, "My desire in this copy is to kill Qi Si."

Just kill Qisi and everything will be over.

The Sphinx closed his eyes and said, "It will take three thousand points to fulfill this wish. Wake me up when you have enough points."

……

"It only takes 3,000 points? This seems much cheaper than the wish-granting mechanism in the weird game. You're doing this with a strong flavor of fraud and pyramid scheme!"

On the other side, Dong Xiwen poked the leopard mask on the wall with his finger and couldn't help but complain.

When the Sphinx asked him what his desire was, he said without hesitation that he wanted to resurrect his brother. He thought that was the end of it, but the Sphinx solemnly told him that he only needed 3,000 points to realize this wish.

He clearly remembered that in the wish-fulfilling mechanism of the strange game, this wish required one million points...

What does three thousand points mean?
His initial points in this copy were 2,100. If he didn't lend it to Nian Fu, he could just borrow some from others now and realize his bizarre desire of resurrecting the dead.

Once he leaves the dungeon, he can change his original wish to leaving the weird game...

"You speak so confidently, can it really come true?" Dong Xiwen stared at the Sphinx suspiciously, "Hurry up and say 'People from Long County don't lie to people from Long County'... No, you are not from Long County, nor are you a human..."

Sphinx: "..."

The leopard head turned his eyes to Lenaan who was timidly looking around from behind Dong Xiwen: "What is your desire?"

Ryan was suddenly called upon, took a small step forward, and shyly touched the freckles on his cheek: "Anything is fine? Then my desire is to turn off the weird game."

The Sphinx seemed not to have heard that and asked again: "What is your desire?"

"Then... can we leave the dungeon immediately?"

Sphinx: "What is your desire?"

Well, the NPCs in the dungeon will not hear the proper terms like "weird game" or "dungeon".

Lenaran smiled awkwardly: "Then I guess immortality is fine, right?"

The Sphinx closed his eyes and said, "It will take three thousand points to fulfill this wish. Wake me up when you have enough points."

It's also 3,000 points...

Dong Xiwen took the leopard mask off the wall and vaguely realized that things were getting a little bad.

Lennart thought of the same thing as him and whispered, "Dong, your boss might be in trouble! I know Chang Xu, he's a very stubborn guy. Your boss has a grudge against him, and he must be thinking about killing our boss right now...

"It only takes 3,000 points to fulfill his wish, and he can get that by just going around and collecting them. Our boss is in trouble!"

Yes, Chang Xu would most likely make a wish to "kill Qis" to the Sphinx.

If Sphinx really has the ability to fulfill players' wishes, and all wishes are priced at 3,000 points, then Chang Xu can completely crowdfund from other players.

After all, letting Qi Si die would allow everyone to pass the level, which would be a great thing that would benefit the country and the people...

Under such a mechanism, Qis is doomed to die!

"Dong, there's something I should say. I always feel like you and your boss don't have a very close relationship. When your boss was on the stage, you didn't bid first. It was Nian Fu who made the bid later."

Reinan murmured in a voice as light as a mosquito: "If your boss hadn't agreed with you in advance, based on this matter, he would probably suspect that you had ulterior motives... Why don't we go to Chang Xu and lend him some points to make up for our mistakes..."

"No!" After hearing the words "lend him some points", Dong Xiwen felt a flash of lightning in his mind.

He shook his head. "In any case, Qis can't die too early. I finally came across a copy that only requires 3,000 points to fulfill my wish. I feel unwilling to leave without giving it a try..."

……

Qi Si had a dream.

In the dream, he stood on a high platform, but could not move. He could only lower his head slightly and look down at the crowds of people below.

The crowds of heads were as dense as ants on a rotting insect, and the sea of ​​people was surging. Occasionally, someone would look up and look around blankly, but their eyes would pass through Qis, as if they were completely unaware of his existence.

"They can't see you." A voice said to Qisi, using Qisi's own voice, "You have no desires. People without desires cannot stay in the world for long."

The person who spoke appeared before Qisi.

He was wearing a red robe embroidered with gold and had a face exactly like Qis's. Without saying a word, he stretched out his index finger and smeared colorful mud on Qis's body.

The mud quickly solidified, losing its bright color and becoming as cold, hard and white as marble.

"What is this?" asked Zis.

The man said, "It is desire."

"Whose desire?"

"Theirs." The man suddenly turned around, lowered his finger, and pointed at the crowd surging below the stage.

Old people, children, men, women... some were well-dressed, some were ragged, but they all walked in a hurry and looked hideous.

"So what did you smear them on me for? It looks pretty dirty," asked Zis.

The monster with Qisi’s face turned back, its scarlet eyes not reflecting Qisi’s reflection: “When you are covered with desire, the world can see you.

"You will be food in the eyes of the hungry, medicine in the eyes of the chronically ill, a barrier in the eyes of the fearful, and salvation in the eyes of the dying. "You will now have a form, no longer an intangible nothingness."

The monster's face was expressionless, like an angel spreading the gospel in medieval religious paintings, indifferent and indifferent.

"Why should I be seen and touched? Why should I have a body?" asked Chis.

The monster said: "Because people without desires should not exist."

The glittering mud flowed out from his wide robe sleeves, and he meticulously picked it up with his fingers and smeared it on Qi Si's face.

Qis saw the outline of the part of his body covered in mud in his eyes, as if it was really because of being covered by desire that he established a connection with the world and had something real that could be seen and touched.

"Maybe I'm not human," said Keith.

The monster did not respond, and continued to carefully smear the mud on every corner of his body, saying in a declarative tone: "You are a failed attempt. After discovering that you have no desire to grow, I once thought of killing you."

"Then why didn't you do it?" Qi Si raised his lips, "Because of sunk costs?"

"You are just an insignificant one among countless attempts. I want to see the true outcome of this attempt."

"Collecting failed data, right?" Qi Si sighed and said, "Can I ask what is the method to determine whether a person has desire? I want to see if I can try hard to develop a desire as soon as possible."

"It's pain." The monster raised his eyes, a scarlet light flashed in his eyes, "Do you feel pain?"

The mud had covered most of Qisi's body, including his hair, neck and cheeks.

The cold and suffocating feeling surged up in waves, and Qis felt vaguely uncomfortable, but his emotions seemed to be locked by a valve, unable to rise any further and transform into a stronger feeling.

The monster scooped up the last handful of mud and covered Qis' eyes with it. The world fell into darkness in an instant, but was illuminated by a dim light in the next second.

Qis floated above the stone statue made of his own body, and saw that the crowd below suddenly had a direction and gathered under the platform from all directions.

They crawled on the ground in a twisted manner, reaching out their hands to the stone statue as if they wanted to grab something, but they did not dare to actually touch it.

They said, "God, satisfy our desires."

……

“God, please satisfy our desires…”

Qis woke up from his dream and gradually regained consciousness. He heard a buzzing voice talking nearby.

The pronunciation was very strange, like some race with poor language talent struggling to learn an extremely difficult language.

As his sense of touch returned, Qisi felt something grabbing his ankle.

The sticky and slippery touch reminded him of the leeches in the paddy fields in the countryside, which in turn aroused physiological nausea and disgust.

He lay on the wet straw bed, his eyes closed, his breathing steady, and he did not move, as if he was still asleep.

The cursed pendulum wrapped around the wrist flew up silently, flew quickly and quietly towards the heel, and stabbed down heavily.

"squeak!"

A piercing scream exploded in my ears, and the slippery substance wrapped around my ankles slipped away, leaving behind cold mucus.

Qi Si opened his eyes and saw a pair of green eyes shining in the darkness.

Two seconds later, the silver-white prompt text was refreshed.

【Name: Underground Dwellers】

[Type: NPC]

[Description: A monster that lives underground and only appears in the dark. It is said to carry contagious germs and curses. It is discriminated against by animals and feared by humans.]

[Note: Although most animals were promoted to gods, there were still some unlucky animals left behind. After all, a group cannot be without a tail wolf. All they can do is to continue to pray for the mercy of the gods in an attempt to escape from the sea of ​​suffering.]

This was the first time Qis had seen a description of an NPC.

Realizing that uninvited guests usually act in the dark, he immediately stood up, took out a flashlight from his backpack and flipped the switch.

He held the flashlight high and shone the light from overhead, illuminating the entire room.

Under the cold white light, red poisonous snakes were wriggling densely on the ground. They all came out from the ground, and at first glance they looked like they were growing on the ground.

The hard and seamless marble floor was like mud in front of them, which was squeezed out of the hole loosely and softly, allowing them to break out of the ground.

They opened their bloody mouths and danced like mad, but that was not all the monsters were.

Human bodies sprouted out abruptly at the end of their tails, with a rat head with a pointed snout and red cheeks on top of its neck. The whiskers around its nose were tiny white snakes, and the hair behind its round ears was grey snakes.

The monster made of rats and snakes surrounded Qisi and Nianfu in the middle. The tentacles made of red snakes probed the front, as if trying to touch the humans in the encirclement.

The one that was stabbed by the cursed pendulum just now was a red snake. It was now lying dying at Qis's feet. It twitched for a while and then became motionless.

Nian Fu had woken up a long time ago. She stood back to back with Qi Si, looking at the strange snake-rat combinations in the room, muttering to herself, "What on earth are these?"

"I guess it's the 'rat' in the beast chess game." Qi Si controlled the cursed spirits to surround him and made an inappropriate joke, "Well, maybe it can be called 'a nest of rats and snakes'?"

"No matter what they are called, our top priority is to drive them away." A pitch-black iron whip appeared in Nian Fu's left hand.

She held a bottle of alcohol in her right hand and put it to her mouth.

She bit open the lid and poured the alcohol inside onto the whip.

The colorless liquid seeped into the tiny cracks in the whip, without a drop leaking out, as if the whip had drunk up all of it.

Nian Fu raised his left hand high and swung a whip in the air that made a deafening sound.

In an instant, sparks crawled along the tip of the whip and covered the entire whip, drawing a string of flickering flames in front of him.

The nearest snakes were scorched and scattered on the ground. The rat-headed man howled in pain, and his snake-like hair began to dance wildly.

Qi Si held down the fate pocket watch, ready to activate its effect at any time.

The imagined stress counterattack did not come. The snakes seemed to be aware of the players' disgust and retreated like a tide.

All the rat-headed people prostrated themselves towards the two people in the encirclement and kowtowed heavily.

"God, please satisfy our desires..."

(End of this chapter)