Infinite Weird Game

Through the narration, Qis almost understood the setting of this copy.

Reiko is destined to die within seven days. In order to save her, a man keeps restarting the timeline, but fails every time. Reiko's body that died in these reincarnations remains.

Combined with the notes on the Rabbit God statue, Lingzi’s death was probably due to being sacrificed to the Rabbit God; as for the person who tried to save her, it was most likely her original self, Lu Ming.

He created the game "Escape from Rabbit God Town". Although it is not known what the game has to do with the world of Hope Middle School, it is very likely that it was to open up another way to save Reiko outside the doomed world line.

Unfortunately, the one controlling Lu Ming's body now is Qi Si, who has no interest in the rescue mission, and the main task is to watch Lingzi die, and it is enough to find all seven bodies...

In Qis's opinion, if the game allowed, he could even kill Lingzi four times himself and collect four corpses.

What concerned Qi Si more was that the two tasks, "Participate in the fireworks festival seven days later" and "Find Qi Lingzi's body", were actually interchangeable.

Except for the "Colosseum" copy, where the two main quests have different difficulties due to the intervention of the "Dark Judge" card, the replaceable quests in other copies are generally of the same difficulty.

Even if a task seems relatively simple, you will encounter various troublesome problems in the actual completion process.

"Participating in the fireworks festival seven days later" will obviously lead to death threats, while "finding Qi Lingzi's body" is nothing special except being a little disgusting. I don't know where the trouble lies.

"Is the location particularly tricky to find, or will something happen once everyone finds it?" Qi Si pondered, no longer paying attention to Lingzi's body, and walked towards the dormitory building.

There were white street lights here and there on the road, but the darkness remained.

The dormitory building is a four-story building where men and women live together. The third and fourth floors are for boys, and the first and second floors are for girls. Because the stairs are located on both sides of the corridor, boys are required to walk on the left and girls on the right, so generally speaking, they do not interfere with each other.

The iron gate of the dormitory building was wide open at this moment, but it was pitch black inside, and it was obvious that it was not ready to welcome students.

There was a row of projection screens on the flat ground outside the door, which were lit dimly and playing the promotional video of the Eternal Life Technology Company.

In the laboratory, an experimenter in a white coat is dissecting a snow-white rabbit.

The rabbit lay quietly on the experimental table, motionless and silent, as its chest was slowly cut open by the scalpel. The blood soaked the white rabbit fur, revealing the still beating heart behind it.

The next second, the picture flashed, and the rabbit in the image turned into a patient in a hospital gown, surrounded by a circle of doctors wearing masks.

This transition was too gloomy, conveying a suspicious synaesthesia that the doctor was dissecting the patient like a rabbit. For no reason, Qis associated it with a darker side.

"Which class are you from?" A shout came from the dormitory building, and a skinny and slender woman as thin as a bamboo pole walked out of the darkness.

She was wearing a gray coat that was as fluttering as sparrow feathers, her gray hair was tied up behind her head, and her wrinkled face was embedded with a pair of hawk-like eyes. She looked at Qi Si sternly: "Why are you running here at this time instead of in the classroom for evening self-study?"

Qi Si glanced at the work badge hanging on the woman's chest.

【Name: Qian Dali】

【Position: Dormitory Administrator of Hope Middle School】

In a second, he changed into a timid expression and called out weakly, "Hello, Qian... Teacher Qian!"

Qi Si's voice was as light as a mosquito, and his skin was as pale as a ghost, which made him look weak and unable to be replenished.

The female dormitory manager stared blankly at the young man in front of her, whose face became increasingly uglier, and whose body became crooked and unable to stand straight.

She didn't dare to say anything more. Whose fault was it if he died in front of the dormitory building?
"I feel a little dizzy and short of breath. The teacher told me to go back to the dormitory and lie down for a while." Qi Si gasped, took small steps sideways, and leaned himself against the wall.

Seeing that he was breathing out more than breathing in, the female dormitory manager quickly stepped forward to support him and said, "Classmate, you are in this state. Go home quickly and ask your parents to take you to the hospital!"

Qi Si lowered his eyes and sighed faintly: "I don't have parents."

Female dormitory manager: “?”

"I grew up in an orphanage and was sponsored by the Eternal Life Technology Company to study." Qi Si stopped there and made up a lie, "Teacher Qian, don't worry about me. I just have arrhythmia, an old problem. It's not too serious. I'm in the third grade of junior high school now, and I can't afford to waste time..."

He paused for a moment, raised his eyes and smiled gratefully at the female dormitory manager: "Thank you for your concern anyway!"

The female dormitory manager was obviously very pleased with this and her attitude became gentler: "Go back to the dormitory and have a rest. If there is any problem, be sure to tell the teacher in time."

Qi Si hummed softly, pretended to be struggling, and dragged his legs into the dormitory building.

His footsteps were light, but they still triggered the sensor light.

With a "click", a pale light came on without warning, illuminating the floor with gray and black stains and the walls with peeling paint.

The lobby on the first floor was cluttered with sanitary utensils, various cartons, and garbage bags. The staircase on the left was crooked and sunk into the dark, and the glass of the duty room on the right was covered with dirty papers, some of which were wrinkled by sewage, and some had been torn off in half, leaving only a white mark.

Qi Si took a few steps towards the stairs, as if he had thought of something, and returned to the duty room. He smiled at the female dormitory manager who was walking towards him, "Teacher Qian, do I need to register if I return to the dormitory early? Thank you for helping me get the roster. I'll also take a look at the points deducted from our dormitory."

The female dormitory manager had no suspicion. She just thought that the student in front of her was well-behaved and self-conscious. Only an orphan who had not been spoiled by his parents would be so obedient.

She walked into the duty room, took out a thick list from the drawer, and handed it to Qis along with the ballpoint pen clipped on it.

Qi Si took it with both hands and turned to the page for Grade 9 ().

Unlike most students in other classes who live on campus, the Grade 9 () class only has one dormitory, and the four boarding students are packed together, which is reasonable.

Qi Si silently wrote down the original body's dormitory number, and also wrote down the names and beds of his three roommates.

He picked up the pen and circled the name "Lu Ming", then put down the roster and politely said goodbye to the female dormitory manager.

He turned around "weakly" and went up the stairs "with difficulty" holding the handrail.

As I walked, I heard the sound of footsteps. The sensor lights above my head lit up in response, and the lights a few steps ahead above my head led the way, casting a pale light.

When he reached the second floor, the friendly smile on Qis's face disappeared and turned into indifference.

He suddenly remembered that when the female dormitory manager walked out of the dormitory building just now, she did not trigger a sensor light.

But it doesn’t matter anymore. Whether the NPC is a human or a ghost doesn’t mean much to this copy.

Qi Si gathered his thoughts, quickened his pace, and quickly went up to the fourth floor.

Perhaps because it is not ventilated often, the air is mixed with the stench of fermented disinfectant. The whole person is immersed in the moldy smell, as if he is going to rot along with the building.

A long and narrow corridor like a monster's intestine stretched out before my eyes, and the doors of the rooms looked like iron cabinets in a crematorium.

Qi Si raised his eyes and counted the dormitory numbers, stopped at the door of dormitory 0415, and pushed the door open and walked in.

In the long and narrow dormitory, which was as narrow as a coffin, there was only an iron door with a small glass window and a window of the bathroom covered with wire mesh. Four narrow beds were squeezed into the space of less than 20 square meters. In the dim light, they were just four dark shadows.

Qi Si pressed the light switch, and the strip light flickered twice and lit up. Suspicious yellow spots and the dead bodies of mosquitoes could be seen on the edge of the lamp tube.

Under the pale light, the gray scratches and yellowish stains on the wall were clearly visible, and the iron bed frame and wardrobe were rusty. All the ornaments were visibly old, and the damp smell of decay came to the face.

Qi Si walked straight to bed number three, which was the bed of his original self Lu Ming, near the toilet, and briefly checked it. To his relief, Lu Ming took good care of his personal hygiene. At least there was no dust, hair, or human skin on the bed.

The blue and white striped bedding was folded in a square shape, with a gray pillow placed on top, neatly in the middle.

There is a suitcase under the bed, which contains some spare clothes, soap, shower gel and other miscellaneous items. It seems to serve as a storage cabinet.

There was a document in the compartment of the suitcase - "Eternal Life Technology Company's Funding Agreement for Lu Ming".

Qi Si glanced over the document.

It said that if Lu Ming could get into the best high school in the city, he could continue his studies and eventually become an employee of Yongsheng Technology Company.

If not, he will have to stay at Hope Middle School and work as a volunteer until he pays off the money the company has spent on him.

As for what a student with only a junior high school education can do, the terms of the document do not specify.

"His" bed could be searched at any time, and Qi Si didn't intend to waste too much time on it.

He began searching his roommates' beds one by one.

Under the pillow of the head of dormitory No. 1 was a copy of the school rules, which were full of clichés, such as being on time for classes, studying hard, respecting teachers, and being friendly to classmates.

Placed together with it was a timetable with class times, the kind that was also posted in the classroom, but it wasn't very useful.

Under the mattress of bed number 2 was a crumpled novel, an antique called "The Dragon Tribe".

Qi Si flipped through it roughly and found that his roommate had carefully written comments on it, which was like manually turning on the function of commenting on this chapter.

Roommate No. 4 was probably interested in campus ghost stories. He hid a notebook in his pillowcase, in which he called himself an "investigator" and recorded various "weird things" in a meticulous manner.

[“Cursed Land”: Hope Middle School is built on a cursed land. Legend has it that a god once brought down divine punishment at a fireworks festival, killing all those who worshipped him and cursing their descendants who lived on this land.

[In order to save money when investing in the school, the chairman of Yongsheng Technology Company bought this piece of land at a low price as the school site. The investigators spent a month investigating the surrounding area and found that crying sounds could be heard from the lakeside of the school in the middle of the night. When approaching, ghosts could be vaguely seen at the bottom of the lake.]

It sounds far-fetched, but there are only a few old clichés in the campus ghost stories circulating among students: the school is either built on a cemetery or on the foundation of a hospital; several people must have drowned in the lake.

But in this copy, these records are likely to be true.

The system prompts will not lie. In the game of "Escape from Rabbit God Town", something really happened at the fireworks festival in Rabbit God Town seven days later. Only an event like divine punishment from the gods could kill everyone.

What Qi Si didn't expect was that Rabbit God Town actually existed and was once located on the land of Hope Middle School.

He continued to look down.

[“A boy haunted by something strange”: Investigators found that roommate Lu Ming had been behaving strangely recently, often sneaking out in the middle of the night. Investigators followed him and found that he had climbed onto the rooftop many times, standing in the corner at nine o’clock and looking down. He is suspected to be haunted by something strange, and further observation is needed.]

Qiss: "..."

He was basically certain that the person who wrote these notes had a bit of a chuunibyou.

However, the information provided in the notebook is worth noting. What is Lu Ming looking at when he goes up to the rooftop every night?
Qi Si's attention was attracted by the third strange story.

[“Curse of the Rabbit God”: Before Lu Ming disappeared, he found an investigator and claimed that he had made a wish to a being called the “Rabbit God” and was about to encounter misfortune. Judging from the result, the Rabbit God is extremely dangerous, so it is recommended to be cautious when approaching.]

"Lu Ming" was mentioned in the notes.

Originally, Qi Si guessed through the behavior of Li Fang and Lingzi that Lu Ming did not really exist, but was just a personality of "Lu Ming", the boy who made the game "Escape from Rabbit Town" for him to play.

But now it seems that Lu Ming and Lu Ming are not the same person.

He made a wish to the Rabbit God and sacrificed himself, so did he disappear from other people's memories?
What kind of person is he, and what is the wish he made to the Rabbit God?
There are too few clues and not much information can be inferred.

Qi Si suppressed his chaotic thoughts and patiently restored the furnishings in the dormitory one by one.

According to the estimated time, the evening self-study course has ended, but it will take some time for the students to collect their homework and return.

He walked up to the rooftop and stood at the nine o'clock position, which was the west side of the rooftop, as described in the notes, and leaned over to look down.

From this angle, you can see the natural lake that was preserved during the construction of the school. The amber-shaped lake surface is reflecting the sparkling light under the illumination of the street lamps.

The outer side of the natural lake was shaded by dense forests, which were lush and verdant. Qis suddenly thought of the scene at the beginning of the copy, which was also a dense forest with layers of branches and leaves, making it difficult to find the path.

"It's a good place to kill someone and bury the body."

Qi Si chuckled, climbed down the rusty escalator and returned to the dormitory.

He spread out the bed number 3 that belonged to Lu Ming, and a lined notebook fell out at the right time.

There were some crookedly written numbers on the first few pages, probably recording daily expenses.

Later, I started to use a red pen to record some of the things that happened every day, most of which were unpleasant encounters.

【Name: Lu Ming's Notebook】

[Type: props (copies cannot be taken out)]

【Remarks: ##Error##】

The prompt text was refreshed on it, accompanied by scenes and mixed with hallucinatory human voices.

"Lu Ming is a monster that harms people! He should get out!"

"Lu Ming is really evil. Anyone who gets close to him will have a bad ending..."

"I see him holding those rabbit bones all day long. Could he be trying to curse someone?"

All kinds of remarks filled with hatred, incitement, and hearsay were mixed together to inflict the greatest malice on "Lu Ming".

The face of the boy named "Lu Ming" wearing a white school uniform was blurred. He sat quietly in his seat with three rabbit skeletons placed on the desk in front of him.

He held a handkerchief and wiped the white bones with an almost elegant touch, his movements were gentle and compassionate...

Qi Si blinked, and the image disappeared like smoke, like an illusion.

He quickly flipped back a few pages in his diary.

The corner of one page was folded up, and on it was written a strange nursery rhyme.

[The head sank to the bottom of the pond, and the limbs were hidden in the east, west and south]

[The girl died on August 6th, her body buried deep in the woods] (End of this chapter)