Infinite: Dawn Game

The double happiness character on the stone tablet was scarlet, and the rice paste stuck to the back dripped down the surface of the tablet. It was white, sticky, and seemed to have a strange fishy smell.

After the busy villagers had dispersed, Yu Shijiu looked at the double happiness character on the stone tablet with curiosity.

"So," the boy's voice was clear and gentle, "what kind of wedding was it?"

Seemingly genuinely unaware, Yu Shijiu tilted her head slightly as she spoke, glancing at Lin Feng beside her.

Compared to Yu Shijiu, whose life situation was clearly out of touch with reality, Lin Feng's expression was rather unpleasant.

As she watched the villagers running around in Changsheng Village, pasting up double happiness characters and red silk cloths, the words spoken by the man named Liu Laosan just now kept replaying in her mind.

"How about we talk about this after my daughter and son's wedding is over?"

Daughter, son...

Even though she knew that there was a possibility of consanguineous marriage in Changsheng Village, Lin Feng still found it hard to accept the facts.

"Liu Laosan's son and daughter are getting married tonight."

The villagers of Changsheng Village were happy to see this happen, and even envious.

They envied Liu Laosan's children for being obedient, and resented their own children for not listening to them and getting married and having children, thus continuing the tradition of inbreeding in their Changsheng Village.

"Yeah."

Yu Shijiu gave a light reply and then walked forward, following the scenery that was constantly receding in front of him.

"Then it should be soon."

Having experienced the illusions within the Aider Sanatorium in the previous round, Yu Shijiu now has a certain understanding of these illusions.

For example now——

As the two entered Changsheng Village, the bright daylight began to dim at a visible speed.

As the sun sets, the entire Changsheng Village is brightly decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations. Countless red lanterns are hung in front of houses, and every household is bathed in a vibrant red glow. The older villagers in front of their doors are all dressed in new clothes, with smiles on their faces.

"The children of Liu Laosan's family are so obedient. The second daughter got married last month, and this month the youngest daughter also obediently got married."

"Yes, I'm so envious. I wish my daughter was as obedient as her."

"Take it slow, young girls are bound to be shy, they'll get used to it when they're older."

Two elderly women squatted at the doorway, washing pork and vegetables while chatting.

Yu Shijiu and the other person stopped in front of them because of these words.

Two women were washing vegetables and were about to get up to carry the things into the house when they suddenly heard the sound of a door being pushed open behind them.

Immediately, an angry middle-aged man's voice roared from inside the house:

"You're fucking asking for trouble! You think you're so great just because you've read a few books? Let me tell you! The Earth Dragon is the deity that our Changsheng Village has worshipped for generations! He's our god! The deity tells us how to get married, so we'll get married! Who do you think you are?!"

After he finished speaking, a soft female voice rang out, but it was quickly interrupted by the man's angry voice.

The two women exchanged a glance and rushed into the house at the same time.

Seeing this, Yu Shijiu followed.

The clue is right in front of us; we definitely have to take a look.

It's still the familiar muddy ground and mud houses.

The cracks in the dry wall seemed even deeper under the candlelight, and tiny insects could be faintly seen crawling within them.

Before the two women could run into the main house, a loud slap broke the noise.

The door slammed again, and a girl who looked young ran out, covering her face. Her fair face was swollen on the side, and her eyes were filled with tears.

She paused when she saw the two women running towards her, and her gaze immediately fell on the vegetable basins they were carrying at their waists. Her sorrowful and painful eyes suddenly turned into despair.

"This is wrong...this is wrong...this is wrong..."

The two women exchanged a glance. One of them, a shorter woman, sighed and advised:

“Little worm, can’t you just listen to your father? This is how our Changsheng Village has been doing things for generations. Look at us, we’re not doing anything wrong, are we?”

The girl in front of her seemed not to hear her words, and continued to mutter to herself, covering her face and stumbling forward. When the short woman grabbed her arm, she screamed and shook off her hand.

"The teacher already said! This is wrong! Don't you understand? Do you really not understand, or are you just unwilling to understand?!"

The girl screamed, tears that she had been holding back welled up in her eyes and dripped down, soaking her face and clothes.

"Little earthworm, you—"

The middle-aged woman, whose face was covered in large flakes of white skin, was clearly shocked. She began to vehemently criticize the girl named Little Earthworm, spitting as she spoke:

"How can you talk to your mother like that? Look at yourself, is there anything wrong with you? You're perfectly healthy and lively! How could you possibly be underdeveloped or disabled like those teachers say?"

"I think you're just ungrateful! You've been studying so much your brain has become waterlogged!"

The middle-aged woman with the skin disease got more and more excited as she talked, and the short middle-aged woman next to her also wiped away tears, her face showing the pain of her disobedient little worm.

Lin Feng gazed at the illusory scene of the argument before her, her gaze shifting from the middle-aged woman's noticeably hunched and somewhat strange body to the little girl, Xiao Yin.

"She looks very healthy."

Lin Feng felt a little sad and pursed her lips: "This is a stroke of luck amidst misfortune."

The drawbacks of consanguineous marriage/reproduction far exceed everyone's imagination. Putting aside the disfigurement and beauty of the face, physical defects and various fatal genetic diseases and incurable congenital diseases are inevitable.

Some of them may have healthy children, but in the subsequent process of inbreeding, the next generation will only have more serious genetic defects.

Putting everything else aside, this kind of despicable and backward behavior, which is even advocated for in order to follow "tradition," can be described as a collapse of ethics and morality.

"healthy?"

Yu Shijiu seemed to click his tongue. He looked at the girl Xiaoyin's face, which was noticeably red, and said with a smile:

"Sister, wouldn't you like to take a closer look at her face?"

The boy's words stunned Lin Feng for a second.

Face? What happened to your face?

Lin Feng looked at the girl Xiao Yin again, and this time, she sensed something was wrong.

The girl, Xiaoyin, had very fair skin. Apart from the red and swollen bruises on one side where her "father" had hit her, the other side of her face was an indescribable "whiteness."

Unlike normal fair skin, hers was a somewhat eerie pale white, devoid of any of the color of a healthy person's blood... Lin Feng's gaze shifted to the girl Xiao Yin's lips.

His lips were deathly pale, with a dark bluish bruise showing, giving the impression that he might collapse at any moment.

Lin Feng's heart pounded violently.