Infinite: Dawn Game

Inside the main house, Yu Shijiu stroked the chubby cat's head, gazing thoughtfully out the small window.

Why doesn't she come looking for me?

"I burned down their ancestral hall—no, I didn't burn it down, that big earthworm did... but shouldn't they be questioning me?"

Unless it was Yang Wan, she didn't want the ancestral hall to continue existing.

However, Yang Wan, in her daytime old lady form, was very respectful of her faith in the ancestral hall...

"But we can't rule out the possibility that she's faking it."

As Yu Shijiu was petting the cat, he suddenly lowered his head and buried his face in the chubby cat's head, rubbing it against it. When he looked up again, a few cat hairs inevitably got stuck in his hair.

He blew on the chubby cat fur hanging in front of his eyes, and said with a smile as the fur fluttered in the wind:

"Let's not think about it anymore, let's go to sleep."

Thinking too much can really give you a headache.

This time, Feifei didn't refuse to sleep in the same bed with him. She just glanced at him softly and then climbed onto the bed and lay down.

Goodnight, Fatty.

Yu Shijiu winked at the chubby creature curled up beside her, said goodnight, and closed her eyes.

His sleep quality has improved significantly since entering the Dawn game. Compared to the likely forced "disturbances" from doctors and nurses in reality, the monsters in the Dawn game are actually quite "kind."

In the dark bedroom, after Yu Shijiu began to breathe peacefully in his sleep, Fatty, who had been keeping his eyes open, tilted his head back and yawned. Then he lowered his head and licked all the fur and paw pads on his body before slowly falling asleep.

Off-screen, many players were in a state of mental turmoil upon hearing that the little girl's name was Yang Wan.

It is currently known that the old woman is an "outsider" who was forcibly brought into Changsheng Village, and the girl named Yang Wan who appeared in the illusion was forcibly kept by the village chief Liu Laosan... So the old woman is Yang Wan, and Yang Wan is this little girl who looks only a few years old...

"Damn, what the hell? My head is spinning!"

"...This game instance is indeed a bit strange. It's occasionally a little gory, but it's not really that scary..."

Compared to other game dungeons where players die and are swallowed up all the time... so far, it seems that only about seven or eight players have died in the Changsheng Village dungeon.

—Looking at it this way, seven or eight people died on just the first day. That seems like quite a lot…

No one spoke.

Only a few veteran players had complicated expressions. They stared at Yu Shijiu sleeping soundly on the screen, their nerves pounding more nervously than those of the new players.

For veteran players, game dungeons that don't have many gory scenes are even more terrifying.

After all, the former can be completed by simply killing indiscriminately, while the latter requires both brains and the ability to kill indiscriminately.

As things stand, Yu Shijiu doesn't seem to have much of a brain, but that's not necessarily true...

Regardless, the Changsheng Village instance is indeed a bit strange.

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Yu Shijiu was awakened by the noisy commotion outside. He lay on the bed tossing and turning for a while before opening his eyes to the increasingly loud noise outside the door.

When I opened my eyes, I saw that the ceiling was still somewhat dim.

Yu Shijiu stared blankly at the seemingly moldy roof for a while, only snapping out of his daze when a large, warm, plush ball of fur covered him from the side.

"Meow meow!"

Feifei had been awake for a while, but seeing that Yu Shijiu was still asleep, it didn't make a fuss and quietly lay on the bed licking all the fur on its body.

"Fatty!"

Yu Shijiu suddenly revived, hugged the chubby one, rubbed his face against it, and closed his eyes contentedly, nestled in a blanket of fluff.

"It's so noisy outside."

Yu Shijiu said in a sticky, gooey way.

The chubby creature, its head constricted, struggled to open its mouth: "...Meow..."

You know it's noisy outside, meow... why don't you get up already... the other players have been up and looking for clues for ages, meow...

Yu Shijiu, engrossed in petting the cat, pretended not to hear the loud meows of the chubby cat in front of him and hugged it for about five or six minutes before finally lifting his head as if he had gained energy.

"Oh right, what time is it now? Is there no breakfast left? What am I going to eat...?"

Accompanied by a series of uninterrupted words, Yu Shijiu jumped out of bed and quickly put on his shoes.

Fatty, with messy fur, on the bed: "..."

It shook its head, and while Yu Shijiu opened the wardrobe door to look for clothes, it lowered its head and began to quickly groom itself.

I forgot my comb, meow... I'll have to bring one next time, meow...

After searching through the items, Yu Shijiu finally selected a short-sleeved shirt with blue and white striped floral patterns and closed the closet door with satisfaction.

This is quite nice.

Yu Shijiu quickly took off his dirty clothes, revealing his upper body covered with white scars. Before ten seconds had passed, he quickly put on the clothes that belonged to the old lady Yang Wan.

To be honest, the old man's clothes were soft and cool, and definitely more comfortable to wear than Yu Shijiu's own clothes.

He stretched his shoulders and neck, tilted his head to look at the tiny window amidst a tooth-grinding creaking sound.

"Fatty".

Yu Shijiu walked to the window and suddenly called out "Feifei".

The chubby guy on the bed, who had already raised his hand to lick his paw pads, gave a perfunctory response:

"Meow!"

Yu Shijiu looked out the window at the courtyard where many elderly people had already gathered, and spoke softly:

"Don't you think this window looks a lot like the little hole that earthworms leave after they crawl out of the soil after the rain?"

The fat guy licking the pad on the bed paused for a moment: "..."

It thought of the little burrows it had seen when it was a stray and would occasionally catch earthworms to eat when it was hungry, and for a moment its green pupils turned into vertical pupils.

What does that mean, meow?

Yu Shijiu: "It seems that grandpas and grandmas really admire earthworms, to the point that they even want their living environment to be exactly like earthworms..."

To be honest, it was a huge sacrifice.

Is it really possible for a human being to go to such lengths because of their belief in something?

Yu Shijiu, anyway, didn't quite understand.

But why are so many people suddenly gathered in the courtyard outside? There are also quite a few players gathered at the entrance, glancing at the old people arguing from time to time and talking in hushed tones.

"Let's go," Yu Shijiu said, not caring whether Feifei responded or not. She took out her toothbrush and cup from her system inventory and happily opened the door.

"We're going to eat now."

Behind me, on the bed, a chubby creature was frantically licking its paw pads: "Meow meow meow meow—"

Wait for me a little while, meow—

In the end, Fatty reluctantly gave up on cleaning the paw pads she was halfway through, jumped off the bed, and followed.

It seemed that no one noticed that something was wriggling inside the blood-stained, slimy clothes that Yu Shijiu had thrown to the ground.

Just as the tip of a purplish-red earthworm's tail trembled and peeked out from the corner of the clothes, the door that had just been closed was pushed open again—