Infinite: Dawn Game

At the same time, as Uncle Gong muttered to himself, the previously calm river surface suddenly began to boil.

Even the usually quiet Fatty started to bristle again. It arched its back towards the river, its dark green pupils turning into vertical slits, and began to breathe on the water.

The small bundle tied behind its neck seemed to start shaking.

Yu Shijiu didn't listen to Uncle Gong's nonsense anymore. He glanced at the small bundle behind Fatty's neck and thoughtfully turned his head to look at the river.

In a corner unseen by Uncle Gong, a huge fire axe appeared in Yu Shijiu's hand.

The river's current began to accelerate, and whirlpools began to form, causing Yu Shijiu to grip the fire axe in his hand even tighter.

Is that earthworm about to emerge?

Yu Shijiu's eyes sparkled in the sunlight.

The wary chubby guy next to him glanced at him: "..."

It then let out an angry meow.

And you even said it wasn't your choice, meow! That's so unfair, meow!!!

Although she was anxious and angry, Feifei didn't back down from Yu Shijiu this time.

After all, it's already the second day of the game. If you miss any clues that the game specifically provides today, it could affect your chances of clearing the game tomorrow.

But as the river grew more swift, Yu Shijiu's gaze became increasingly calm, yet tinged with a sense of unbearable grievance.

Because, instead of the giant earthworm, a rather thin female body appeared. She seemed to have been swept out of the river from the bottom, floating on the surface of the water with her face up, carried to the riverbank by the wriggling water.

As the woman was brought to the shore, Uncle Gong, who had been constantly muttering to himself with self-reproach, suddenly fell silent. He stared at the woman's pale body, which was soaked in the river water, and his lips began to move.

"Recite, recite..."

Uncle Gong stood up shakily and frantically jumped into the water to catch the woman's body. The water flowed down his body and quickly caught "Nian Nian".

Yu Shijiu didn't stop him. He carefully examined the river surface, and after confirming that there were no traces of giant earthworms in the river, he sighed.

That's true, there's no such thing as a free lunch; you can't expect to encounter all sorts of strange and wonderful things all the time...

If others knew that Yu Shijiu was standing there, they would probably all be furious and scold him for being ungrateful.

Which player wants to encounter monsters every day? They'd much rather complete a game instance without seeing any monsters at all!

"Is she dead?"

Yu Shijiu blinked as he looked at Uncle Gong, who was holding "Niannian" and crying incessantly in the river, and pointed with his finger at the small bundle that Feifei was carrying on his back.

Feifei looked closely at the woman being held by Uncle Gong, nodded, and then shook his head.

"..." Yu Shijiu tilted her head to look at it, "What does this mean?"

Fatty rolled its eyes, lowered its head to lick its fur which it hadn't had time to smooth, and acted as if it hadn't heard anything.

Yu Shijiu didn't care. He looked at Uncle Gong, who was struggling to drag the woman into the river, and shouted:

"Uncle Gong! Do you need any help?"

Uncle Gong in the river turned around and glanced at him, his red eyes seemingly dripping with blood and tears.

He nodded briefly, his arms around the woman's body very tightly.

Seeing Uncle Gong nod, Yu Shijiu didn't hesitate and jumped into the river, splashing Fatty, who was licking his fur, all over his face.

Fatty skillfully closed its eyes, then quickly shook its head to shake off the water, licking its fur while watching Yu Shijiu wade through the water to "help" Uncle Gong.

Yu Shijiu, who was now about seven or eight meters from the shore, had walked up to Uncle Gong. He first glanced at the woman in Uncle Gong's arms, who was clearly white from being soaked in water, and almost blurted out, "Is she dead with such a white face?"

Yu Shijiu held back.

Uncle Gong looked very sad. For the sake of the bag of pork jerky and green tangerines, Yu Shijiu felt that she shouldn't have asked that question.

"Shall I help you, Sister Gong, take her up?"

Yu Shijiu said.

"Thank you, thank you, Nineteen."

Uncle Gong looked up, two lines of bloody tears hanging on his cheeks, which looked somewhat eerie even in broad daylight.

Yu Shijiu, however, seemed completely oblivious to the fear. He smiled and shook his head, then dragged Gong Nian, who looked somewhat like a corpse, from Uncle Gong's arms.

“No need,” Yu Shijiu whispered, “Uncle Gong, you’ve given me oranges and pork jerky before.”

After saying that, Yu Shijiu turned around while Uncle Gong was still stunned. Just as he was about to leave with Gong Nian in his arms, Yu Shijiu suddenly realized that her calf seemed to be entangled by something.

He paused slightly, and just as Uncle Gong sensed something and was about to speak, Yu Shijiu suddenly bent down, the fruit knife in his hand gleaming faintly beneath the river's surface.

The fruit knife pierced the flesh, accompanied by the hissing sound of an earthworm. The strip-like object wrapped around Yu Shijiu's feet loosened in pain, and the faint bloodstains and slime began to slowly float to the surface of the river.

"Oh dear, there are also water plants."

Yu Shijiu smiled and pulled Gong Nian, who was about to slip, up with one hand, glancing at Gong Nian's lower body, which was half submerged in the water.

Is it an illusion?

Why did he just feel that Gong Nian's lower body looked a bit like an earthworm?

Yu Shijiu blinked and waded through the water to bring Gong Nian ashore step by step, placing her on the grass by the river.

Exhausted, Uncle Gong followed behind. With Yu Shijiu's help, he was pulled ashore and immediately rushed to Gong Nian's side, carefully patting her face in an attempt to wake her up.

"Niannian, Niannian, wake up... We were chatting here just last night, what happened? How did you fall into the water?"

Yu Shijiu, sitting on the shore, wrung out his soaking wet trousers and raised an eyebrow upon hearing this.

What a strange and eerie conversation. Could it be that Uncle Gong can no longer distinguish between reality and illusion?

Is it possible for a person to survive in water indefinitely?

And where is this? Isn't this the water? What do you mean, "How did you fall into the water?"

Yu Shijiu looked at Uncle Gong, who was pressing on Gong Nian's chest in an attempt to save him, and concluded that Uncle Gong's mind was probably already insane.

So crazy that he can't even understand what he's saying.

Just as Uncle Gong was frantically trying to save her, Fatty, who had finally finished licking her fur, gracefully walked over with cat-like steps.

It first lowered its head and rubbed its nose against Gong Nian's wet, pale head, then raised its front paws to pull Uncle Gong's hand away.

Uncle Gong: "..."

Uncle Gong didn't have much strength to begin with, and when he was pulled like that, he fell to the ground and looked up at it blankly.

Feifei glanced at Yu Shijiu beside her, who blinked and immediately leaned over.

"Wow, Fatty, what did you find?"

Feifei patted Gong Nian's belly with its paw in a haughty manner, then meowed.

Her belly is so big, did you guys really not see it?

Yu Shijiu and Uncle Gong looked down at the same time and saw that Gong Nian, who was lying on the ground, had an unusually large belly. Her protruding abdomen looked like it had been filled with a lot of water, but instead of being round and bulging, it was uneven and rough.