Infinite: Dawn Game

At this moment, outside the ancestral hall gate.

Yu Shijiu and Lin Feng stood at the gate. The former was still biting into a green orange, while the latter leaned against the wall and finally couldn't hold back her vomiting, tears welling up in her eyes.

It's so uncomfortable.

Lin Feng pulled out a tissue to wipe the inevitable dirt from the corners of her mouth, trying to clear her mind.

"Wow."

Suddenly, Yu Shijiu's slightly surprised voice came from the side. He was clearly interested in something and ran towards the woods not far away at a speed that Lin Feng could see in afterimages.

Lin Feng: "...What's wrong?"

Her throat was a little dry and hoarse because of vomiting.

“Someone’s made a move,” Yu Shijiu replied without turning his head, and moved even closer to the tree with the corpse hanging on it.

On the tree, the corpse, its flesh and blood devoured by earthworms, hung precariously from the trunk. The severed neck was devoid of flesh and blood, only filled with countless earthworm larvae that were reproducing.

Seemingly sensing the approaching heat, they stopped their wriggling and intertwining movements, and their mouthparts, with their fine teeth, turned towards Yu Shijiu's direction.

To be honest, the scene was really disgusting. Lin Feng, who had just recovered and walked over, felt her stomach acid churning again, and she couldn't help but look away.

Yu Shijiu, who was closer to her, showed no such signs. He even took a few steps closer and reached out to touch the headless corpse the instant Lin Feng held her breath.

Lin Feng: "!!!"

She instinctively stopped her: "Don't touch it—"

Yu Shijiu had already turned the headless corpse around along the clean parts of its body.

As the earthworm larvae scurried down, Yu Shijiu took a few steps back to avoid being covered in earthworm bites.

"It really is Zhao Xuan."

Yu Shijiu stared at the familiar swirling blade trail on the headless corpse, her clear eyes gradually turning crimson in a corner unnoticed by Lin Feng.

There was no other reason, because the flesh, mucous membranes, and veins on the other side of the headless corpse still contained human blood... oh no, it was now the blood of monsters.

Yu Shijiu's eyes curved slightly with a hint of pleasure, and the fruit knife that had appeared in his hand at some unknown time shimmered with a dazzling silver light under the moonlight.

Lin Feng didn't notice this. She suppressed her nausea and forced herself to examine the headless corpse, which had been used as a breeding ground by earthworms, several times. She said:

"It's Qi Tie."

Lin Feng had seen the male player from the Black Robe Church, who seemed emotionally unstable, following behind Zhao Xuan several times when they entered Changsheng Village.

“Mmm,” Yu Shijiu nodded in agreement, looking at the dense swarms of earthworm larvae bustling in and out of the corpses, and couldn’t help but think of the giant earthworm by the river.

Earthworms are also creatures that need to reproduce, and they are even hermaphroditic, able to survive being cut in half...

Yu Shijiu blinked, a clue flashing through her mind.

Where did his head go?

Lin Feng's expression turned grim after learning that Qi Tie's head had been cut off by Zhao Xuan, who was also a player.

"Is Zhao Xuan insane? This behavior is clearly helping the monsters in the dungeon."

Yu Shijiu snapped out of her daze, looked up at Qi Tie's headless corpse's neck, and grunted.

"It should be here..."

As the boy's voice rang out, Lin Feng saw him casually kick the ground several times.

As the dust settled, the earthworm larvae that had been parasitizing Qi Tie's corpse suddenly extended their mouthparts, dripping wet mucus from the edges and slowly seeping into the soil.

The next second, a round object emerged from the ground. Yu Shijiu looked down at the unidentified object, slightly hooked his toe, and kicked the round object out of the ground.

Lin Feng watched helplessly as the object, which was clearly Qi Tie's head, was kicked to her feet by Yu Shijiu.

"Look, is this him?"

Yu Shijiu said.

Lin Feng: "..."

She looked down at the grotesquely disfigured head, its eyes reduced to slits, and could still discern a trace of the fear it had retained in life. Finally, she nodded with difficulty.

"It's him."

Alright, it's confirmed. Yu Shijiu absolutely, positively, cannot join the monitoring team.

First of all, kicking someone's head is considered an insult to the player's corpse within the monitoring team (even if the player is already dead)...

After receiving a definite answer, Yu Shijiu didn't pay much attention. He just glanced at the earthworm larvae that were trying to get close to him but stopped just before they touched him, and blinked thoughtfully.

"Quite interesting."

So the Black Robe Church even kills its own people?

That's incredibly immoral!

Yu Shijiu thought about what he had done in the dungeon game and maintained a very "disgusting" attitude towards it.

He wouldn't kill his own people.

Zhao Xuan is extremely immoral.

However, these earthworm larvae really don't seem to harm themselves—

When Yu Shijiu suddenly reached out towards the dense swarm of earthworm larvae, Lin Feng was so startled that she immediately stopped him, crying out in alarm:

"What are you doing?! Are you out of your mind?!"

Lin Feng quickly approached Yu Shijiu and grabbed his arm. Her heart was pounding so hard she felt a little breathless. Finally, she understood what Lai Bao's look had meant when he told her those words.

With a companion who doesn't value his own life like this, it's no wonder that even a cat like Laibao is starting to require a lot of effort to take care of!

Yu Shijiu's hand froze in place. He turned his head to look at Lin Feng, who was awkwardly preventing him from touching the earthworms, and looked somewhat confused.

"No, I'm just trying it out."

"Try what?" Lin Feng admitted that she was only now starting to catch her breath. She blinked the cold sweat clinging to her eyelashes and took a deep breath:

"They are monsters that eat human flesh and blood! Do you also want to age faster like me?"

Faced with Lin Feng's rapid-fire words, Yu Shijiu looked down at the earthworm larvae that were retreating as he approached, and said seriously:

"But they don't eat me!"

"How could I not eat you—" Lin Feng's subconscious rebuttal disappeared into her throat as she turned her head.

The earthworm larvae that had almost come into contact with Yu Shijiu actually took several steps back, as if they were afraid that they would really touch Yu Shijiu. A group of earthworms even twisted their heads with mouthparts and wriggled backward desperately.

Lin Feng was also taken aback by this scene, and the hand gripping Yu Shijiu's arm loosened immediately:

"what happened?"

"I'm not quite sure yet." Yu Shijiu pulled his arm away and, under Lin Feng's gaze, reached out to touch the earthworm larvae again.

The earthworm larvae hissed and pushed their way back frantically, even biting many of their own brothers and sisters.

Yu Shijiu's expression grew increasingly excited. He opened his large, round almond-shaped eyes and looked at Lin Feng, eager to try:

"Why don't you give it a try, sister?"