1TWITF[C Chapter 44

Chapter 44

“What are you planning to wish for?” Lu Yanli asked.

The Chinese “it” (it) and “He” (He, referring to a deity) are homophones, so Chu Xiu didn’t notice anything wrong with Lu Yanli’s description. On the contrary, his tone sounded quite pious.

Chu Xiu looked out the window. The scene outside was no different from usual. In the sunlight, the streets were clean and tidy, with vehicles going back and forth, a picture of prosperity.

He changed the subject: “What about you? If it were you, would you make a wish?”

Lu Yanli smiled wryly: “Do I have any other choice now?”

Indeed, whether it was ghosts or gods, it was all the same to them. Whatever they wanted to do, as ordinary people, they had no way to resist.

“But I always feel…” Chu Xiu hesitated.

He always felt that things weren’t that simple. Compared to the bloody and brutal nature of ghosts killing people, the so-called “wish” of the god gave him a more chilling sense of danger.

From Wen Qing to them, everything seemed to be… under the control of that “god.”

Who else had made a wish to the god? What price did they pay? Chu Xiu had no idea.

Lu Yanli stared at him and suddenly said, “You made a wish to it?”

Lu Yanli: “I just asked casually, but you admitted it.” In fact, Chu Xiu’s failure to directly deny it was suspicious enough, because he couldn’t directly deny it due to the constraints of that “god.”

Chu Xiu was silent for a while and said, “What else do you know?”

“That depends on what you want to know. One piece of information for another.”

Chu Xiu: “Why did you know I made a wish?”

Lu Yanli: “Because I also made a wish. What was your wish?”

After confirming that the other party was not deliberately playing tricks, Chu Xiu agreed to the deal: “One for three.”

Lu Yanli: “Okay.” He thought for a while, “First, Ye Shengke has been haunted by a female ghost and can be discovered through cameras and other equipment; Second, Wen Qing and Wen Zhengxin both possess a statue of a god. It’s uncertain whether it’s the same one. Given that they have died but produced new rounds of reincarnation, it’s reasonable to suspect that they were resurrected by making wishes to an evil god, but the current cost is unknown. Third, Wen Zhengxin killed Yun Qian, his daughter’s best friend, for unknown reasons. It is speculated that it may be related to Wen Qing.”

“Yes, he kept Yun Qian’s body in the closet in his room.”

“How do you know?”

“I saw it.” After he recognized Wen Zhengxin, he sneaked into the room and found Yun Qian’s body in the closet. He managed to take the god statue.

The video Nie Yunzhen saw later was him deliberately putting the statue back on Wen Zhengxin’s bedside table. He edited it for her to see, wanting to test what would happen if these people carried the god statue while doing tasks.

But there was no need to let Chu Xiu know about this.

“But in that case…” Chu Xiu noticed something was wrong, “The cause-and-effect relationship doesn’t correspond at all, isn’t it a dead loop?”

“Otherwise? Do you think it’s really that kind?”

The person in front of him was trustworthy, and it was okay to tell him, right? If he kept hiding it, he didn’t know how many rounds he would have to die and be resurrected.

“Fifth time,” Chu Xiu said.

“The first round… was when we were playing the Four Corners Game. We were in the factory at the crossroads at the end of Yinming Road. I inexplicably died inside. So, I prayed to be resurrected to the day before.”

“The second round, this time the game went smoothly, and the apple peeling game was not lost. Then we went back to the hotel to play the elevator game… In the first elevator game, I chose to be with three friends and didn’t leave the elevator, resulting in death.”

“The fifth round, I continued to follow all the correct answers I had chosen before and came here.” Chu Xiu was being watched and unknowingly said what had happened.

This was also the reason why he didn’t feel strange when he saw Lu Yanli. He thought he had met Lu Yanli from the previous round, who had come to “another world” with him when they played the elevator game.

It was unknown what he had understood.

Not many people would be willing to have their minds forcibly interfered with by others. Lu Yanli didn’t care about the other party’s negative emotions at all, and said calmly with a bit of sarcasm: “Didn’t you guys not ask for my consent in the beginning? Now that it’s happening to you, you’re getting angry?”

Lu Yanli pondered for a while and still shook his head: “I can’t tell you.”

He didn’t know what he had done in Chu Xiu’s experiences of death and resurrection, but the result was probably not good.

“You…”

“Are you sure we will die here?”

Chu Xiu was stunned: “Do you have any solutions?”

Lu Yanli only tried once, but he could clearly analyze everything he saw and heard.

Like a thunderbolt from the blue, Chu Xiu had completely understood. He murmured to himself: “So that’s how it is…”

The mission required them to bring in two strangers to play together on the first day. They met Wen Qing and Yun Qian on Yinming Road and naturally thought they were the path to survival arranged by the mission.

However, choosing them meant choosing a dead end. Wen Qing and Yun Qian were stuck in a cycle of wishing to the god for resurrection and death, and they forcibly participated in it.

This was the trap of the mission… They fell into it from the beginning, and because they misunderstood that the game on the first day was dangerous, but the ghost was attracted to Yun Qian. In the situation of passing the first day safely, they did not return to the idea of the first day.

The only way to break the game was: don’t make a wish from the beginning! Don’t start over!

Lu Yanli looked out the window: “I said, you don’t have to worry about it.”

“Since it’s been decided, we’ll act separately,” Chu Xiu wasn’t someone who talked nonsense and made a decision immediately.

*

When he opened his eyes again, Chu Xiu found himself sitting in a car. Outside the car window were rapidly receding highways and increasingly desolate scenery.

Fortunately, he had obtained an important clue. If they hadn’t thought about things in terms of Wen Qing, they might never have gotten out of that cycle.

“Wait, let’s find two people here,” he suddenly said, startling the other three people in the car.

“Brother Chu, are you sure you want to do it here?”

“Look,” he didn’t explain. The other three had no choice but to keep their eyes peeled, trying to find a few reliable candidates.

After a while, the vehicle continued to start, and two comatose people were already lying on the back seat. When the vehicle drove into Yinming Road, two familiar young girls appeared in front.

This time, they brushed past Wen Qing and Yun Qian. The ghost summoning game that night affected Ye Shengke.

Afterwards, at Chu Xiu’s insistence, they changed to another hotel. Away from the “god” factor, the next few games were not so difficult.

It was because Wen Qing thought they had killed Yun Qian that Wen Qing kept following them, including in the elevator. Without the interference of Yun Qian and Wen Qing, they could wait in the elevator all the time and safely pass the elevator game.

After Chu Xiu left, Lu Yanli heard his wish sound.

“Omniscient and omnipotent God, please let me… let me live.”

He only made such a wish.

*

Downtown, a hotel.

Chu Xiu was waiting outside the door.

Lu Yanli’s body stiffened.

“Don’t worry, no one will die. As long as you cooperate obediently, there will be no danger to your life.”

“Is that… so?”

As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Xiu suddenly realized that something was wrong. Before he could react, the gun against the other person’s waist had been grabbed and thrown away. Then, he was hit hard on the head and thrown to the ground.

Because he made a wish to that so-called omniscient god, he paid a considerable price.

Lu Yanli didn’t answer, but defaulted.

“I know a lot about this religion. As long as you participate, I’ll provide you with information, how about it?” He didn’t believe that this man joined the Omniscient God Cult because of faith. There must be other purposes.

Lu Yanli chuckled: “Are you trying to fool people as fools? At first, you didn’t even know what the Omniscient God was, but today you say you know a lot about it?”

“I have channels to learn about it. In about… two, two months or three months, I’ll give you the information.”

Lu Yanli knew that the two to three months he was talking about was probably the frequency of his own tasks.

A look of thought appeared on his face. He pondered for a long time before nodding in agreement.

Along the way, Chu Xiu explained the situation to him these days.

“So now there are only three people left. I have to find another one,” Chu Xiu explained.

“Yeah, what are you planning to play?” Lu Yanli asked.

Hearing this question, Chu Xiu found it a bit difficult to open his mouth.

“At midnight, at the crossroads of Yinming Road, place a bowl of rice, light three incense sticks and insert them into the rice. After they burn out, mix the ash with the rice and eat it.”

Lu Yanli: “…”

Lu Yanli: “It’s okay.” He turned his head to look out the glass window and suddenly showed a gloomy smile. “Incense ash is nothing… I’ve tasted bone ash.”