The rabbit idol sat upright within the dilapidated shrine, its black robes as neat as if carved from stone, unmoved by the current.
Weathered by time and eroded by water, its surface had been chiseled into rippling marks. It had long lost its original splendor, yet it remained sacred and solemn.
Strips of red silk lay scattered around the idol, equally quiet and obediently settled on the bottom of the pool. Their edges had whitened and rotted away, and the writing on them was no longer legible.
Qi Si walked closer step by step. He felt none of the discomfort of facing a god; even at such close range, he could not sense the slightest lingering ripple of divine power.
It seemed to be nothing more than an ordinary idol, a lifeless object.
Something caught Qi Si's eye, glaringly conspicuous and unsettling. He bent down and picked it up.
It was the only prayer ribbon that had remained intact. Written on it were three words that the game NPCs could never possibly know:
[Eerie Game, The Rules, Transaction]
The handwriting was careless and unrestrained, yet every stroke was distinct. It was clearly Qi Si's own handwriting, but he had no memory of writing it.
Residual traces of contractual authority lingered within the writing. The [Soul Contract] skill resonated faintly, allowing him to confirm that he had personally written those three words.
Combined with the Rabbit God's current lack of divine power, he vaguely seemed to have deduced the chain of logic behind this Instance.
He had entered the Caution Rabbits Instance to seize divine power. In one timeline, he had succeeded in the past era where Rabbit God Town stood, and from then on, the Rabbit God at Hope Middle School had possessed no divine power.
And precisely because the