Infinite: Dawn Game

Inside the dark house, Lin Feng remained half-asleep, silently watching Liu Laosan's eyes as he peered into the room.

Only when she got closer did she realize that the red nerve extending from behind the eye's mucous membrane was actually a red earthworm with ring-shaped patterns.

As the eyeball drew near and the mucus dripped onto her face, Lin Feng's heart pounded even faster.

Don't move, or this eye will spot you...

Lin Feng kept repeating this sentence to herself, her slightly narrowed eyes remaining fixed and unblinking.

After about ten seconds or maybe ten minutes, the eyeball, which had been watching Lin Feng in a "sleeping posture" without any apparent abnormality, slowly withdrew.

Lin Feng's heartbeat was slow and calm. When she caught a glimpse of Liu Laosan's eyeballs disappearing completely out of the corner of her eye, she exhaled a breath of stale air, closed her eyes, and began to sleep.

Tomorrow is the most important day; it will determine whether I can survive and clear the game the day after tomorrow... I have to be on my toes.

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Back in front of the old lady's mud house, which was also Yang Wan's, Yu Shijiu was about to push open the door under Feifei's cold gaze when the latter suddenly looked up and bit his arm.

"Meow meow--"

"what happened?"

Yu Shijiu followed the fat man's lead to the side with some confusion.

Feifei barked softly, biting Yu Shijiu's arm and pulling her toward the door of the room where the old lady slept, trying to remind Yang Wan that there was a little girl in the room.

But the little girl's smell... is a bit strange.

Feifei always felt that her smell was very similar to Yang Wan's, both having a sticky, earthy smell, but most of the elderly people in Changsheng Village had this smell...

Since it couldn't figure it out or explain it, it became even more anxious.

"hiss--"

Yu Shijiu, who had been following Feifei in that direction, let out a soft cry of pain.

Fatty was so frightened that he opened his mouth wide and looked at Yu Shijiu, who was clutching his arm and looking pained. He was so scared that he was trembling all over.

"Meow meow meow meow—"

What's wrong? Did I bite you too hard?!

Feifei was terrified and dared not move forward easily, fearing that Yu Shijiu would dislike her because she had bitten him.

“We’re even,” Yu Shijiu said softly, her head lowered, her tone full of grievance.

"I used excessive force in self-defense, and you got angry and bit me. Are we even now?"

Fatty: "..."

It paused for a few seconds, then quickly nodded its head, wanting to reach out and hook Yu Shijiu's hand that was covered, but was afraid that it might accidentally scratch Yu Shijiu with its claws.

"Meow meow meow……"

Fatty's meowing voice has changed. Its once indifferent green eyes are now staring expectantly at Yu Shijiu, occasionally letting out soft meows.

This scene shocked the players watching from outside the screen.

Did he get bitten?

One player questioned their own eyes, "Why do I feel like I didn't see Yu Shijiu being bitten?"

"Did it bite? Just now, Lu Chusheng's cat was in such a hurry to pull Yu Shijiu to see the old lady that it probably accidentally used too much force?"

"...No way, this cat seems pretty well-behaved. It never seems to bite anyone?"

"..."

The room fell silent upon hearing this.

Some players who had been bitten quietly looked away and did not participate in the discussion.

Until a new player couldn't help but speak up: "Wait a minute!"

He voiced his question from the bottom of his heart:

"Why are we discussing whether cats bite or not? Shouldn't we be discussing why Yu Shijiu was arguing with Feifei about whether they were even in front of the NPC's room?!"

"..."

He was met with complex expressions from many other players who were also gathered in Yu Shijiu's live stream.

One of the veteran players reached out to adjust his glasses and coughed, saying:

"You just watched Yu Shijiu's live stream?"

The new player was confused: "Yeah, he looks really cute. I stopped to take a look after I bought my food."

“…No wonder,” the bespectacled veteran player exhaled a breath of stale air.

"I knew it! How could a player who's watched for so long possibly ask that question..."

"So what's wrong with that sentence?"

"It's nothing, just keep watching."

The new player, who had just been recruited into the town by a guild, was completely bewildered: "..."

What are you looking at? Are you watching this cute-looking male gamer continue to joke around and act cute?

He was completely oblivious to the fact that the other players were looking at him like he was an idiot.

Silly child, that situation only applies to them, but for a monster like Yu Shijiu, even if he runs up to a monster and pulls—cough cough, that's a bit too crude, I can't say it, I can't say it.

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In-game.

When Fei Fei was so anxious she could barely keep her voice down—

"Hehe, scared you, huh?" Yu Shijiu suddenly let go of her hand that she had just covered, revealing her arm with only two faint marks.

"Actually, it wasn't bitten through."

Fatty, scratching his head in frustration: "..."

Realizing it had been tricked, it meowed angrily, completely forgetting to lower its voice this time. For a moment, the entire yard was filled with Fatty's uncontrollable meows.

"..."

"Wow," Yu Shi exclaimed, looking down, "Feifei, your voice cracked!"

"..."

Once Fatty regained consciousness, he looked at Yu Shijiu across from him, who was covering his ears, and his whole body bristled even more.

Oh no, meow, that monster is about to come out, meow—

As if echoing Feifei's worries, the door behind Yu Shijiu was suddenly pulled open, the creaking sound breaking the tranquility of the courtyard.

Completely unconcerned, Yu Shijiu turned around with a smile when he heard the door open:

Grandma, can we have a midnight snack? —Huh?

Yu Shijiu looked down at the little girl inside the door, who was barely taller than her thigh, and raised an eyebrow in surprise:

"who are you?"

little girl:"……"

She rolled her eyes and retorted, "Shouldn't I be asking you who you are?"

Yu Shijiu: "Me? I'm a guest invited back by Grandma."

The little girl looked him up and down several times, then turned her head away and muttered:

"Grandma, Grandma has terrible taste."

She spoke very softly, thinking that Yu Shijiu in front of her wouldn't be able to hear her, but to her surprise, Yu Shijiu had excellent hearing and not only heard her, but heard her very clearly.

"How could this be?" Yu Shijiu squatted down, staring intently into the little girl's grayish eyes, and said seriously:

"Grandma's eyesight is perfectly good."

little girl:"……"

She turned her head and looked at the large orange cat following behind Yu Shijiu, its eyes wary and ready to pounce at any moment. A purplish-red stripe seemed to flash deep in its eyes.

Upon seeing what appeared to be an earthworm-like object under the other's eye, Fatty instinctively meowed.

What is that, meow!

"Alright then," the little girl said, her eyes crinkling as she looked at the boy who had squatted down in front of her. Her tone was innocent and lively, typical of a child, and something seemed to be wriggling beneath her skin.

"But brother, why are you still awake so late?"