The Game of Reincarnation

Yu Xing's dislocated wrist was resolved while he was in the restroom. He casually pushed it back into place with a crisp cracking sound.

Furthermore, by the light of the toilet, he could see a black ring around his wrist, as if it were covered in coal dust. Underneath the coal dust were bright red marks, which was enough to show how much force the ghostly hand under the black cloth had used. If Yu Xing hadn't decisively broken free with all his might and allowed himself to dislocate, his entire hand might have been crushed.

If his wrist is snapped, he probably won't even have a piece of skin left. He'll be left with only his mangled wrist to face Ye Ting. If he's lucky, Ye Ting won't notice; if he's unlucky, he'll be dead on the spot.

Now that she was in her room, Yu Xing was finally able to properly reflect on everything that had just happened.

The appearance of the black cloth suggests someone has died. This person is not Ye Ting. If it's related to the plot, either Ye Ming, who didn't get the Yugi, "died" in the room, or Yu Wan, who planned to come tomorrow to Yu Wan the ghost, died in her house.

Given the current situation at home, according to his guess, everyone except him is a transformed ghost. If Yu Wan also dies, wouldn't that mean he's all alone? He was also thinking that if Yu Wan exorcise the ghosts tomorrow, it might actually trigger the conditions for the ghosts to appear, allowing them to directly enter the final boss battle stage of the entire deduction. Therefore, it's unlikely that Yu Wan died silently.

Ultimately, Yu Xing guessed that it was Ye Ming.

Of course, Ye Ming and Ye Ting should have died long ago, but in this deduced world created by a certain entity, they are not considered dead yet. At least they can live normally at this point in time. The death that Yu Xing is talking about is the complete disappearance of their normal state, leaving only their ghostly state.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Ye Ming will likely be unable to attend school as usual tomorrow.

His thoughts drifted to the landline phone in the living room on the first floor. He wondered if he should make a call tomorrow to ask for leave from school, since he didn't have Ye Ming's car and going to school would be a bit difficult.

"Knock knock knock."

Suddenly, a knock came from Yu Xing's door.

He was taken aback. Was it not over yet?

"Knock knock knock."

"Second brother... open the door quickly, I have something to tell you."

It was Ye Ting's voice. You could tell she was trying her best to keep it low, and it was trembling a little.

Yu Xing faced a choice between pretending to be asleep or deaf and opening the door; she chose the latter.

He had just watched Ye Ting go to bed, and now, in the time it takes to go to the bathroom, she's up again. Something must be wrong.

Between Ye Ming and Ye Ting, who still retains a normal side and has never exhibited a ghostly state, is undoubtedly safer.

He turned on the bedside lamp first, then walked to the door and opened it a crack. He saw Ye Ting holding Yugi that was off, her face looking strange, paler than usual, her lips trembling as she said, "Second brother, something seems wrong with eldest brother. He seems to be banging his head against the wall..."

"The sound was so loud, thumping, thumping, I'm scared..."

Ye Ting's room is connected to Ye Ming's, separated only by a wall. If Ye Ming makes a loud noise, Ye Ting will definitely hear it.

"I'm too scared to go see him, sob sob sob..." Ye Ting was on the verge of tears, "I'm afraid he's really sick, what if he kills himself! Second brother, can you go check on him! Also... I'm alone in the room, and I'm afraid my eldest brother might suddenly come in and try to steal the Yugi, so I found the Yugi. Can I hide in your room with the Yugi, and then you can go check on him!"

Yu Xing thought for a moment.

This was indeed the safest and most reasonable method for Ye Ting.

But in the few seconds he was thinking, Ye Ming's door opened. Ye Ting trembled instantly and turned around in alarm, only to see Ye Ming's door, which had been tightly closed all night, slowly opening.

Ye Ming's head popped out first. His eyes were bloodshot and red, and it looked as if red liquid was flowing down his hair and neck.

Upon seeing Ye Ting, or rather, upon seeing Ye Ting and Yu Xing together, Ye Ming immediately grabbed the door frame, as if dragging himself out, and stretched out most of his upper body.

"Why aren't you sleeping?" Ye Ming's voice was as calm as ever, but he showed a special patience and warmth towards his younger siblings. However, his appearance and behavior were completely different from his voice. A twisted smile appeared on his ferocious face as he stretched out his hand to grab Ye Ting.

To Yu Xing, the scene felt strangely incongruous, as if a dead person was using the voice of a familiar person to lure the living closer.

"Ah! Second Brother!" Ye Ting hugged Yu Xing tightly, her small body taking the opportunity to rush into Yu Xing's room. Yu Xing also felt that the feeling emanating from Ye Ming was very bad, so he temporarily accepted Ye Ting and immediately closed the door.

After closing the door, she couldn't see what was happening in the hallway. Yu Xing casually pressed the lock button, then bent down, put her index finger to her lips, and said, "Shh..."

Ye Ting nodded obediently, her eyes still filled with fear, clutching the Yugi in her hands without making a sound.

The current situation has suddenly become quite difficult to handle.

Yu Xing glanced at Ye Ting really looked like a little girl who had been frightened in the middle of the night by her brother who might have a mental illness. She hurriedly sought help from her second brother, Ye Qin. As for outside the door, she wondered if Ye Ming had "come out" yet, where he had gone, or if he would block the door.

Ye Ming is a major threat, but is Ye Ting necessarily safe for him?

There's an 80% chance he'll be safe, because he just got through a turning point with Ye Ting, preventing Ye Ting from turning into Ghostification on the spot. So tonight, Ye Ting might temporarily be on his side, facing Ye Ming together.

It's very likely that he postponed the difficult part by a day. If Ye Ting turns into Ghostification, he will have to face two ghosts, Ye Ming and Ye Ting. He either survives and immediately finds a way to pass the level, or he dies.

Now, only Ye Ming is wandering the corridor. He and Ye Ting together might be able to survive tonight until Yu Wan arrives Yu Wan.

"Bang!"

Just then, the door was suddenly slammed shut. Yu Xing immediately braced himself against the door, while Ye Ting huddled in Yu Xing's arms in fear.

"Why aren't you asleep yet! It's time to sleep, it's time to sleep! If you're asleep, you won't think about anything!" Outside the door, Ye Ming repeatedly pounded on Yu Xing's door, his voice gradually changing from calm to gloomy and irritable. Eventually, his voice sounded like it was filled with water, "Go to sleep... go to sleep!"

Yu Xing could already imagine that blood was constantly gushing from Ye Ming's mouth, which was why his voice was muffled and made a gurgling sound.

He wondered, what did "sleep" mean? Was this word important to Ye Ming?

The door shook harder and harder each time, Yu Xing felt his arms go numb from the vibrations. If he hadn't been holding it up, Ye Ming would have broken down the door long ago.

Ye Ting let out an uncontrollable sob, her body trembling.

Listening to Ye Ming's ghostly hypnotic words, Yu Xing suddenly thought of something and quickly said to Ye Ting, "Go turn off the bedside lamp!"

When he got up to open the door, he turned on the light as usual, and that light was now the only source of light in the entire house.

Upon hearing this, Ye Ting was still a little hesitant to leave Yu Xing's embrace, but urged by Yu Xing and with Ye Ming banging on the door in a terrifying manner outside, she still ran to the bedside and turned off the light.

The room was plunged into darkness, but the banging on the door stopped at the same time.

For a moment, only Yu Xing's breathing and Ye Ting's soft sobs could be heard in the room.

Ye Ting groped her way back to Yu Xing's Yu Xing, and together they pressed their ears to the door, trying to hear what was happening outside.

A strange series of footsteps were fading away, Ye Ting visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that after the light in Yu Xing's room went out, Ye Ming assumed that his younger siblings were asleep and left the room.

Yu Xing released his arm from the door and realized that those few seconds had left him drenched in cold sweat, his muscles tense and stiff.

"Big brother... has he left?" Ye Ting finally couldn't hold back and asked in a small voice.

Yu Xing's vision adjusted to the darkness, and she could see Ye Ting's bright eyes.

He said, "My elder brother is dead. That wasn't my elder brother, it was a ghost."

Ye Ting was taken aback by the directness of the words, but she had seen Ye Ming come out of the room, so it wasn't hard for her to accept; what she couldn't understand was. "Why... how could my brother die? How could he become like that..."

"The Yugi." Yu Xing lowered her head and reached out to touch the Yugi that Ye Ting was clutching tightly. "There's something wrong with that horror Yugi you guys were playing."

"..." Ye Ting fell silent.

For a fleeting moment, she seemed to be assessing Yu Xing had realized she was also a ghost, and the air seemed to freeze for a second.

"Thankfully, the ghost only targeted my older brother and didn't do anything to you. Otherwise, I really wouldn't know what to do." Yu Xing didn't give her a chance to retaliate, and without hesitation hugged Ye Ting, as if she were holding onto someone to lean on.

Ye Ting, who had been silent, regained her voice and continued her previous emotional outburst, "Waaah, Second Brother, what do we do now? Waaah... Will Big Brother disappear during the day?"

In the legends of this world, people who become ghosts only appear at night and disappear during the day. Yu Xing also learned this information in the past few days.

"She might disappear. You'll sleep in my room tonight, and I'll keep watch over you. I promise nothing will happen to you." Yu Xing adopted the image of a very good older brother. He carried the very light Ye Ting to his bed, then moved a chair and sat down near the center of the room, as if he were going to stay and watch over her all night. "Don't worry, we'll call the police tomorrow."

"Hmm..." After what she'd just gone through, Ye Ting seemed a little exhausted. The intense tension had given way to a strong feeling of drowsiness. She handed the Yugi to Yu Xing, saying, "The Yugi is a big bad guy! It killed my brother! I don't want to touch it anymore!"

"Perfect timing. I also need to see what's so strange about this Yugi that could cause my brother's death like this." Yu Xing took the Yugi, secretly smiling to himself. He could finally openly take the Yugi and play that horror Yugi.

Perhaps being caught by the Female Ghost in that horror Yugi was the condition for triggering a certain death ending, but clearly, in reality he didn't have much access to clues. For so many days, he hadn't even had a chance to get close to the master bedroom door covered with chains and bells.

To find out what really happened in this family, you really have to rely on this Yugi that supposedly has no plot. Yu Xing believes that even without a plot, he can still dig out the story from it.

If Female Ghost kills someone, wouldn't it be fine as long as he doesn't get caught by Female Ghost?

If you can explore this horror Yugi as much as possible without being caught by the Female Ghost, that might be the key to breaking the current situation and advancing the plot.

If possible, he also wanted to find the Bible in the church and see what kind of harm he could inflict on the Female Ghost after obtaining Bible.

"Second brother, stop playing around! Don't become like eldest brother!" Ye Ting said in a panic, but she didn't dare to speak too loudly, lest she attract Ye Ming's attention outside. She could only plead in a low voice.

"Big brother must be like this because he's been addicted to the Yugi lately and died too many times. I'm just taking a look, just like you, I'll be fine," Yu Xing reassured, pretending that she really knew nothing about the connection between the Yugi and death, and instead tried to persuade Ye Ting, seemingly without any suspicion of Ye Ting.

It seems that Ye Ting is better at disguising herself than Ye Ming. Ye Ming couldn't help but reveal his corpse and ghost forms several times, while Ye Ting has not shown any suspicion from the beginning until now, only revealing her fear of the dark.

This shows that Ye Ting is more intelligent than Ye Ming. It would be easy for Yu Xing to keep Ye Ting calm for the time being. As long as he can make Ye Ting feel that he has not been exposed, he can continue the current situation.

As expected, Ye Ting didn't insist. Perhaps he actually hoped that Yu Xing would play this Yugi and die under the Female Ghost's axe as soon as possible.

She lay down shakily, wrapping herself tightly in the blanket. In the sweltering heat, this gesture clearly showed her panic. "Okay, second brother, be careful."

"Okay, you should go to sleep first." Yu Xing's voice became especially gentle. "A good night's sleep will make you feel better when you wake up; the nightmare will be over."

Ye Ting didn't say anything more, only huddled under the covers and responded with a soft "Mmm" through her nose.

Seeing that Ye Ting had calmed down and was preparing to sleep, Yu Xing sat down in the chair and turned on the Yugi console.

When the Yugi was on the black cloth, its screen remained lit no matter how Yu Xing to turn it off. Now, it's like a normal Yugi, requiring Yu Xing to perform some operations to find the horror Yugi.

Yu Xing found his earphones, put one on, and used the other to listen to his surroundings. He opened the Yugi and found the only horror Yugi on the Yugi, and saw the name of the horror Yugi.

"Reincarnation".

The Yugi is called Reincarnation, which at first glance seems to have no connection to the church, Female Ghost, or Bible that Ye Ting had mentioned to him.

Yu Xing pressed the button to open the Yugi, and the pitch-black screen immediately filled up. A Female Ghost's face was in the center of the screen, and a tiny pixelated figure was hiding behind a cabinet on the left. On the right were four options: [Start New Yugi], [Load File], [Achievement Collection], and [Data Collection].

He thought for a moment, then clicked to read the file, wanting to see how many times the Yugi had been saved, but found the file to be empty, as if no one had ever played the Yugi.

Yu Xing raised an eyebrow, thinking to herself, "Is it because this is my first time opening this Yugi, so there's no save file from my perspective?"

He then clicked on [Achievement Collection]. This time it wasn't blank; it was filled with numerous achievements, such as The Hideout, Killed Ten Times, Killed One Hundred Times, Quiet Church, Carpet Search, Encountering Female Ghost, Stalking the Master...

It seems that these are all kinds of evaluations that can only be obtained after entering the Yugi.

The achievement system seems to be based on the Yugi, not the player; no matter who opens the Yugi, the achievement system won't refresh.

Knowing this, Yu Xing clicked on [Data Collection] with great anticipation. What he lacked most right now was data, and he hoped that he could find useful information here to complete the logic of this deduced world.

You see, he hadn't heard any stories about the father and mother figures here, and he had already guessed that the Female Ghost in the Yugi was a symbol of the mother.

If the entire world evolves from the consciousness of the deducer, then the unique nature of this Yugi might mean that things the deducer's subconscious doesn't want to think about, and many things that are inconvenient to be presented in reality, can be expressed in this condensed little Yugi.

The data archives did not disappoint Yu Xing. On the small screen, five sets of textual information that had been collected were arranged vertically.

Selecting the operation button and clicking on the first line reveals a slightly torn and yellowed piece of paper on the screen. The text on it is slightly difficult to read due to pixelation, but the content can be discerned upon closer inspection.

Today I went to church and stayed there for a long time. I cried and confessed, but it didn't change anything. The tragedy has already happened, and I think all I can do is stop it now and prevent more people from being hurt. I confessed my impending sins to the priest, who promised that nothing in the confessional would be known to a third person. But as I left, he sighed.

Yu Xing's eyes lit up. If she wasn't mistaken, this "I" likely represented the main character in the deduction.

He clicked on the second one.

I feel like I've forgotten something. I don't know why, because my memory should be excellent, but I just feel like I've forgotten something. This feeling is so awful. I try hard to remember, but every time this happens, a strong feeling tells me, "Don't think about it, forget it, forget it."

Then, the third, the fourth, and the fifth.

[How come I didn't know there was a church connected to my attic? Are you kidding me? This doesn't make sense! I just wanted to go up to the attic to pack my things, where did this church come from? Oh God, am I going to encounter something supernatural...? My college entrance exam is coming up soon, please don't let this happen to me. Oh well, it's obvious. How do I get back? I turned around and the door to the attic was gone. I tried walking around to see what other parts of the church were like, but it's so quiet here, I don't see a single person.]

Chapter Four directly points to Ye Ming, but Yu Xing's guesses from the first and second documents are shattered. Leaving aside the first and second documents for now, the tone and narrative atmosphere of the third document are clearly different from the first two, so it should not be the work of one person.

Also, is the attic connected to the church?

Yu Xing stared at the words with a complicated expression: church, attic... Could it be that the church didn't originally exist in the Yugi, but actually existed in this house... in the attic?

Wait, this house has an attic.

Yu Xing's pupils contracted as he suddenly realized something he had forgotten most thoroughly and for the longest time.

He knew perfectly well that the house had two and a half floors, with the upper half being an attic, but over all these days, he had never once had the thought of going to the attic to take a look.

He was actually quite curious about the master bedroom and had been looking for an opportunity to explore it, but he completely overlooked the attic.

It was as if his mind instinctively blocked out everything related to the attic.

Never mind, I'll take another look.

At this moment, Yu Xing had already deeply memorized this feeling. Even if the subsequent deductions had some direct impact on his brain, he would not forget this feeling and would definitely be able to recall the attic.

He decided to keep watching.

[How did I fall asleep? I came to the attic to tidy up... Xiaoting said she had a favorite doll that she accidentally stuffed into a cardboard box and moved up to the attic with other odds and ends. Didn't I come up to help her get her things? Where am I? How did I wake up in a church...? I hear Yu Wan talking about paranormal events Yu Wan day, is this my karma? Wait, what's that woman in front of me? She looks familiar, but I can't remember. Is she the ghost here? Oh no, she seems to have spotted me.]

The fourth document, just as Yu Xing had predicted after the update, belonged to Ye Qin.

This time, the attic and church are mentioned again, and it is also stated that Ye Qin saw the Female Ghost directly. It seems that he was discovered by the Female Ghost at the end, and a chase is inevitable.

So, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the last piece of information should belong to Ye Ting.

[I've come here again. It feels like I've been wandering here for ages. When will this end? I only know I'm looking for something, but I really can't find what I'm looking for. What is it? Is it the Bible? Today I saw that Female Ghost again. She was chasing a boy who looked vaguely familiar with an axe. Luckily, the boy was very agile, unlike the tall, thin older brother from before. He couldn't outrun the Female Ghost. Sigh, someone as weak as me, with short legs, probably wouldn't be able to escape if the Female Ghost spotted me.]

Yu Xing saw it; it was footage from Ye Ting's first-person perspective. He couldn't help but glance to the side. Ye Ting, lying under the covers, was breathing evenly, as if she had already fallen asleep.

This document contains more information than all the previous ones. Although it doesn't mention the attic, it includes the directions of Ye Qin and Ye Ming. The agile boy should refer to Ye Qin, and the tall and thin older brother is Ye Ming.

But in this piece of paper, Ye Ting refers to her eldest and second eldest brothers as "Big Brother" and the somewhat familiar-looking boy?

What does this mean?