The rabbit idol sat upright within the dilapidated shrine, its black robes as neat as if carved from stone, untouched by the current.
The wear of time and erosion of the water had carved wave-like marks across its surface. It had long since lost its original splendor, yet it remained sacred and solemn.
Strips of red silk lay scattered around the idol, likewise resting quietly and obediently at the bottom of the pool. Their edges had whitened and rotted, and the writing on them could no longer be made out clearly.
Qi Si walked closer step by step. He felt none of the discomfort of facing a god; even standing so close, he could not sense the slightest ripple of divine power.
It seemed to be nothing more than an ordinary idol, a lifeless object.
Something caught Qi Si's peripheral vision, glaring and unsettling. He bent down and picked it up.
It was the only intact prayer ribbon, bearing three words that the game's NPCs could never possibly know:
[Eerie Game, rules, trade]
The handwriting was careless and unrestrained, yet every stroke was distinct. It was unmistakably Qi Si's own handwriting, but he had no memory of it.
The traces of contractual authority embedded in the writing caused the [Soul Contract] skill to resonate faintly. This allowed him to confirm that he had written those three words himself.
Combined with the Rabbit God's current state of having no divine power at all, 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 spacetime where Rabbit God Town existed, and from then on, the Rabbit God of Hope Middle School no longer possessed divine power.
It was precisely