Infinite: Dawn Game

The village chief seemed very busy, which meant he didn't have time to deal with these tourists who were "causing trouble" in the village under the cover of darkness. There was a slight advantage to that, though.

Yu Shijiu absolutely refused to admit that he was disgusted by the sight of those players eating earthworms raw in the guesthouse.

He wasn't going to cause trouble, no, he was going to find clues, he definitely wasn't going to invite trouble.

Lin Feng seemed to understand his words, or perhaps she was disgusted enough, and in the end she just glanced at the players in the room with some annoyance and nodded.

She couldn't save them.

Lin Feng understood this principle very well.

In accordance with the usual practice of game instances, the only time an NPC would actually take action is when a player does something, so these players who are now eating earthworms alive... can only be described as karma.

They must have done something to make the village chief remember them.

But his life can still be saved for now.

Lin Feng didn't think much of it. She watched Yu Shijiu walk several steps ahead and silently followed him.

In terms of psychological resilience, she felt inferior.

She's still human; she hasn't farmed enough dungeons.

I still have to keep refreshing.

Only after the two of them had moved away from the mud house where the "eating earthworms alive" scene was taking place did Yu Shijiu finally exhale a breath of stale air.

He gazed at the moon hanging in the sky, his amber eyes gleaming in the moonlight:

"They were all people who weren't chosen."

The boy's tone was clear and bright, as if he were just having a normal chat.

"Sister, what did they do to attract the village chief's attention?"

As Yu Shijiu spoke, he walked forward. In his line of sight, the ancestral hall he had visited during the day was at the end of the path not far away. From a distance, it seemed that there were still lanterns with a slightly reddish hue hanging on the ancestral hall.

"..." Lin Feng thought of the loose soil she had seen behind the stone tablet inscribed with "Longevity Village" when she was examining it, and she had her answer.

"They dug up the soil under the stone tablet, and the village chief saw them."

It seems normal, yet it also seems abnormal.

For a player, it might just be digging in the dirt, so why would they be targeted? No, in the game, any action can easily attract the attention of NPCs...

Lin Feng patted her confused head, feeling as if she was still too disgusted by what she had just seen to process it.

In the past, she would never have thought of something so simple.

"I see," Yu Shijiu said, looking at the pebbles at his feet. He slowly ground the stones into powder with a force that Lin Feng couldn't comprehend at all, and chuckled.

"That seems like they deserved it."

Lin Feng: "...Has anyone ever said..." She paused halfway through her sentence, then sighed:

"never mind."

We're already in this godforsaken place, so let them scold us a couple of times, it's not like we'll lose anything.

But this was also the first time that Lin Feng finally realized that Yu Shijiu was completely unsuitable for the surveillance team.

Players who lack the "empathy" of most humans are unlikely to survive in the monitoring team. Yu Shijiu will most likely not be able to find any friends or companions, and may even be isolated... although Lin Feng felt that the other party didn't care about being isolated at all.

However, most members of the monitoring team would not agree to keep Yu Shijiu, even though he is a powerful offensive player.

As their thoughts raced, the two were almost at the ancestral hall. Yu Shijiu even had a moment to glance at the river not far away, though she couldn't see it clearly.

"Chang Sheng Village is great in every way, except it's too corrupt."

It's impossible to see where he's going for his next match.

Yu Shijiu's sudden voice startled Lin Feng.

"what?"

Lin Feng could hardly believe her ears, but Yu Shijiu said nothing, only raising her foot towards the ancestral hall with red lanterns hanging under the eaves on both sides of the gate not far away.

When Yu Shijiu reached the tightly closed gate, she stopped and looked at the red lanterns under the eaves with great interest.

It seemed to be there during the day, but because it was dilapidated and didn't emit any light, the players didn't notice it. Unexpectedly, it became the most eye-catching feature of the ancestral hall at night.

The red lantern was entirely red, and on its slightly worn cloth surface were faintly outlined long, dragon-like stripes, with many other coiled, mosquito-coil-like strips nearby... But in Yu Shijiu's opinion, these long things were more likely earthworms.

Yes, earthworms are also long and thin.

Yu Shijiu tiptoed slightly, trying to touch the red lantern, but couldn't reach it.

On the screen, the slender boy's toes were almost forming straight lines, but his fingers were still about three or four centimeters away from the red lantern.

"puff--"

Many players found the scene somewhat comical and inexplicably laughed.

The player next to him, who didn't find it particularly funny, turned his head with a puzzled look, only to see Yu Shijiu trying to jump and touch the lantern on the screen.

"Pfft—cough cough cough—"

The laughter was so infectious that it spread to many of the other players watching Yu Shijiu's live stream.

The other players who weren't paying attention to Yu Shijiu just thought the players around them who were laughing were crazy, so they silently looked away and continued watching the live stream.

What are you laughing at? Are you crazy?

The other laughing streamers were completely oblivious to the fact that someone was cursing them; they were just enjoying seeing Yu Shijiu, the God of Slaughter, make a fool of himself.

Only at this moment does Yu Shijiu look like a young adult who has just come of age.

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Yu Shijiu, who hadn't touched a lantern at all at the entrance of the ancestral hall: "..."

He pressed his tongue against the soft flesh inside his cheek, then casually reached out and pushed towards the door.

Hmm, I didn't push it away.

Yu Shijiu admitted that he was embarrassed and angry.

Just as he was laughing in anger and about to kick the door, Lin Feng stood on tiptoe and took down the lantern from behind him.

"and many more."

Lin Feng suppressed a laugh and, feigning seriousness, called out to the enraged Yu Shijiu:

"This lantern suddenly fell down; you probably pulled it just now."

Yu Shijiu turned around instantly, staring at the red lantern in Lin Feng's hand, and carefully considered whether he had touched the lantern just now—

It seems so, did we run into each other?

That's right. I'm 170cm tall, so how could I possibly miss a mere lantern hanging under the eaves?

Yu Shijiu's eyes curved slightly, and he nodded with a sense of smug satisfaction, extending his hand to Lin Feng:

"Then I'll take it and have a look."

He couldn't see that Lin Feng was more than half a head taller than him.

Seeing him like this, Lin Feng felt her nausea, which had been churning in her stomach, dissipate, and she nodded, suppressing a laugh.

"Hmm, take a closer look."

After saying that, he handed over the red lantern he was holding.

Yu Shijiu took the lantern. It felt like soft paper. Upon closer inspection, the stripes drawn on the lantern were indeed earthworms, the kind that were already very mature and purplish-red. It was just that the marks had faded a bit due to the wind and rain over time.

After Yu Shijiu finished reading, he lost interest. Just as he was about to confidently tiptoe and continue hanging the lantern, a woman's scream suddenly came from inside the gate behind him.

The sound was coming from inside the ancestral hall.