Infinite Weird Game

Lu Ming doesn't have a brother? Then... who is Lu Ming?
Qi Si remembered the frightened look in Li Fang's eyes when she heard him mention "Lu Ming", and the man who claimed to have made the game "Escape from Rabbit Town" and had a face exactly like his.

He looked up into Lingzi's eyes and asked word by word, "Did I say those words to you?"

Lingzi's eyes were covered with confusion. She seemed to be in a dream. She murmured in a dreamlike voice: "What are you talking about? Did I say anything? What did you say to me again?"

Her consciousness was obviously not very clear, probably because she was restricted by the underlying mechanism of this copy.

Qi Si decisively gave up asking further questions, picked up the plate with most of the food left on it, walked to the exit of the cafeteria, and was about to pour the leftovers into the slop bucket.

"Students, please finish the food on your plates and practice the "Clean Plate" campaign. Leftovers should not exceed 30 grams." A student on duty wearing a red armband stopped Qi Si and gave a formulaic smile.

Qi Si picked up the chopsticks, picked up a strand of vegetable leaves, and was about to eat it on the spot, but he saw that the long and narrow leaves were mixed with long strands of hair, with some flesh still attached to the end, as if they had been plucked from the scalp.

Not only the vegetables, but also the rice was changing. The grains of rice began to wriggle, emitting a rotten stench, like a pile of minced meat with maggots crawling in it.

When Qi Si thought about the two bites of food he had taken earlier, his face turned strange.

He nodded to the student on duty to show that he understood, took two steps back and returned to the cafeteria. The food in the iron plate gradually returned to its original state. Although it did not look delicious, it was still within the normal range.

There is something wrong with the food. It cannot be seen in the cafeteria. It may be because some force has modified your cognition. In any case, you must not eat it anymore, otherwise you don’t know what consequences will be caused.

Qi Si held the food tray calmly, blended into the huge crowd, and walked towards the food window.

Although he arrived late, he ate quickly and there were still many students around. The crowd just obscured his figure. He walked around the window, looking like he had just finished his meal, and walked around the crowded area.

When passing by a thin boy, he pretended not to see the road, stepped on the boy's instep, staggered forward, and all the food on the plate spilled onto the ground.

"I'm really sorry, I was so engrossed in thinking about a problem just now that I didn't pay attention - are you okay?" Qi Si patted the boy's shoulder with concern and asked sincerely.

The boy seemed to know Lu Ming, and his eyes were filled with worry. "Lu Ming, why are you so careless? I'm fine, but you should clean the floor as soon as possible. If the old witch finds out, she'll blame you."

He turned around and pointed to the small door next to the food window and said, "The mop and broom are over there. Sweep with the broom first, then mop."

"Okay, thank you." Qi Si put down the tray and turned to walk to the place the boy said.

The auntie who distributed the food had already left with the food cart. The small door next to the window was ajar, and there was thick darkness behind it.

A slight smell of blood wafted out from behind the door, lingering faintly at the nose, conveying the breath of death.

Qi Si opened the door and saw a pool of blood in the light from the cafeteria. The source was hidden in the darkness and could not be seen clearly.

He turned around and jogged to catch up with the boy whose foot he had stepped on.

He grabbed the boy's shoulder and pretended to be apologetic, "I suddenly remembered that Teacher Li asked me to go to her office before evening self-study. I'm afraid it will be too late after I finish cleaning the floor. Can you help me clean it?"

The pleading and apology between the young man's brows were extremely genuine. He grabbed the person's clothes with such strength that the person could not break free, making it difficult for the person to refuse.

The boy looked at him sympathetically: "You are so pitiful. You are targeted by the old witch. I hope you can survive tonight."

"Survive the night"? Is it an exaggeration or a realistic statement?
Qi Si suppressed his doubts and said gently, "Help me once, and I'll buy you a drink another day."

"Where did you get the money?" The boy looked at him awkwardly for a while, but finally nodded, "Okay, I'll help you clean."

"Thank you so much!" Qi Si smiled and took a step sideways unnoticeably, letting the boy move in front of him.

The boy did not suspect anything and walked quickly towards the small door, skillfully pressing the light switch on the wall behind the door.

The bright white light shone down, enough to dispel the shadows and allow people to see everything in the room clearly.

Qi Si followed from a distance, but did not hear the scream he imagined.

"Lu Ming, hurry up. Didn't the old witch say she was looking for you? Don't let her wait too long." The boy urged in a natural tone, as if he didn't see anything unusual.

"Yeah, I'm here." Qi Si responded.

He quickened his pace and walked over, lowering his eyes.

The pool of blood on the ground spread a little further outward than before, and a streak of dark red stretched out of the door like a tentacle, crawling wantonly on the ground.

The blood was still fresh, as if it had just flowed out of a living body. Judging from the color and smell, it was most likely human blood.

Qi Si walked around the pool of blood and walked into the door, following the bloodstains to their source.

The girl's head lay flat on the chopping block, her pretty face with eyes wide open staring at the ceiling, her long blood-stained hair hanging down from the edge.

It's Reiko!
Her blood seemed to never stop flowing, and it flowed down from the broken neck like a waterfall. A few strands of her hair were washed by the blood and drifted slowly.

Qi Si walked closer and saw the kitchen knife stuck in the chopping board, the blade stained with blood that had not yet been washed away.

Next to the chopping board was an iron bucket filled with minced meat, with white maggots wriggling inside.

That was probably the meat scraped from Reiko's body. It looked like the meat on the plate given to the students...

Qi Si held the boy who was picking up a mop by the side by the shoulder, pointed at the bucket, and asked, "What do you think that is?"

The boy looked at him like he was a fool. "It's rice. What else could it be? But this school is really something. They put rice here and don't even think it's dirty..."

Qis was almost certain that ordinary NPCs in this copy could not notice anything unusual, and only NPCs like Li Fang could discover some clues. To be more precise... he would become abnormal if he disagreed with something.

The difference between Li Fang and boys is that when players look at her, they will see a prompt text; Lingzi can also see a prompt text pop up...

The boy finally picked out a mop that was still fairly damp, and complained, "It's really weird, don't the aunties mop the floor? Some of these mops are dried out and hard."

Qi Si picked up a broom and noticed that these tools seemed to have not been used for a long time, and there was a thick layer of dust on them.

But the floor of the cafeteria was clean. At least it couldn't have been left uncleaned for a long time...

The boy soaked the mop in water, walked to the spilled food, leaving a trail of water, and started mopping the floor.

Qi Si also walked over and swept the gathered food into the dustpan. From the corner of his eye, he saw Lingzi, who was intact, sitting alone in the corner, eating quietly.

He thought seriously about what would happen if Reiko saw his dead body.

As the main NPC of this instance, he should be different from ordinary ghosts, right? Even the protagonist has become a ghost, so the word game will not work, right?

"Lingzi!" Qi Si pointed at the small door and called out, "Can you help me get a rag?"

The boy looked at him in confusion: "Are you planning to mop the floor again?"

Lingzi didn't say anything. She put down the plate and ran into the room. After a while, she came back with a freshly wet rag.

Nothing happened. "Thank you, Reiko." Qi Si took the rag with a smile, symbolically wiped the floor, walked to the sink and rubbed his hands under the water, almost rubbing off a layer of skin.

Then he realized that there was something wrong with the food in this instance, and it was hard to say what the water flow was...

Well, be sure to wash your hands thoroughly after leaving the copy.

The density of students in the cafeteria has dropped a lot, and they are all rushing to the teaching building one after another.

Qi Si looked at the time and the Destiny pocket watch showed five twenty-five.

He put the broom back in the room, took the empty plate, and walked out of the cafeteria successfully.

It was already half dark, and the sun was not visible in the sky. Only the afterglow brought by refraction painted the edges a leaden gray.

Evening self-study doesn’t start until six o’clock, so the time is actually not as tight as I told the boy before.

Qi Si walked in the opposite direction of the crowd and saw the closed school gate behind the flower bed.

He walked over, and a security guard in a security uniform appeared out of nowhere and stopped him: "Student, you are not allowed to go out during the summer training period. Unless your parents come to pick you up in person, in principle you cannot go out."

Qi Si, who has no parents: "..."

"I'm not going out. I'm just here to take a look." He said goodbye to the guard with a smile, turned around and walked back, and took down the map on the school bulletin board.

The teaching building, canteen and dormitory are in a straight line, with the administrative building and playground next to them. In the corner there is a lake that covers half the size of the playground. I don't know what it is used for.

In addition to the map, the bulletin board also played a PPT introducing the Eternal Life Technology Company, which roughly said that the company funded the construction of a private junior high school called "Hope Middle School", which accepted both excellent students and poor students.

Most students who graduate from Hope Middle School are well-rounded. They are good at both playing and studying. Not only do they have excellent grades, but they also have a strong sense of belonging to the collective and are willing to work at Eternal Life Technology Company.

Some people say that this is because they want good sources of high school students, so they hired a group of good students at high prices. These children are the best wherever they are placed.

The investor of Yongsheng Technology Company said: "We have a set of most advanced training methods and are willing to discover the unique value of each student. The students educated in this way will surely become useful people to society..."

Qis believed that copies generally would not give useless information, let alone this kind of text puzzle copy with a huge amount of information.

I just don't know which clue this information corresponds to...

He walked into the teaching building and went all the way to the third floor. He could see students chasing and playing in the corridors. They did not look like junior high school students who were about to face the high school entrance examination. Instead, they looked like a group of children without any academic pressure.

It seems that the teaching method of Hope Middle School is really unique. At least the students look relaxed and happy.

However, can this really help students get good grades?

A brilliant genius may be able to maintain his excellence easily, but geniuses are a minority in this world, and most people have to take the path of making up for their shortcomings with hard work.

What's more, Qis didn't believe that all the thousands of students in a middle school were geniuses.

As for whether the students made a wish to the Rabbit God, it seems very likely, and all the clues are rushing to lead people to this answer...

Instead, it makes people feel that things are not that simple.

Qi Si was not in a hurry to return to the classroom, but stopped in front of the teacher's office.

At this moment, there was no more blood seeping out of the crack in the door, and bright white light shone through, with a few voices of people laughing and talking floating out from time to time.

Qi Si knocked on the door and said, "Teacher Li, this is Lu Ming. I have finished writing my self-criticism."

"Come in!" Li Fang's voice penetrated the door.

Qi Si pushed open the door and saw that Li Fang was the only one in the office.

The other desks were all empty. There had been laughter just a moment ago, but now it was as silent as a grave.

Li Fang sat behind her desk, marking papers without looking up, and said, "Just put the review on my desk. Go back to study and don't waste time."

Qi Si walked over and smelled a strong smell of blood coming from under Li Fang's desk.

He knew that Li Fang's body was lying there. The body he saw when he was called to the office in the afternoon was obviously not going to disappear for a while.

Lingzi can't see her own corpse, so will Li Fang be unable to see it either?
"You can't let ghosts see your corpse" is a supernatural rule in reality, but who knows if this copy also follows this routine?

Qi Si put the review on the table, pressed the fate pocket watch with his right hand, and asked: "Teacher, what is under your table?"

"It's an old test paper." Li Fang answered subconsciously, her eyes slowly moving under the desk.

Qi Si stepped back step by step, retreated to the door, ready to rush out at any time.

Li Fang stared at the body under the desk, her face turning pale at a speed visible to the naked eye. Then, her neck twisted into something that a normal human could not do, and her eyes glared out with resentment.

The message on her body changed:

[Name: Li Fang (Homeroom Teacher and Mathematics Teacher of Class 9, Grade , Hope Middle School)]

[Type: NPC (currently hostile camp)]

[Note: She is a good teacher and particularly hates bad students]

Qi Si grabbed the door handle, but couldn't turn it. He just felt something sticky on his hand. When he raised his hand, he saw blood on it.

The door is locked...

Li Fang twisted her body, her bones making a creaking sound. She slid off the chair and crawled towards Qi Si like a spider.

Blood gushed out like a fountain, covering the floor, and pounced towards Qi Si with its fangs and claws bared.

At the last second before being touched by the blood, Qis activated the effect of the Destiny Pocket Watch.

The blood flowed back, and Li Fang's body squirmed back to the seat, and the broken bones returned to their original state.

Qis himself also retreated uncontrollably, stumbling back to the door, until he stood still in the corridor. The icon on the fate pocket watch then turned from gray to bright, indicating that the retracing was complete.

Did it actually go back directly to before entering the office?

Qi Si originally thought that the process would only go back to the time before he asked Li Fang what was under her desk, but he didn't expect it to go back so far at once.

Could it be that going into the office to submit a self-review itself means danger? (End of this chapter)