Infinite: Dawn Game

Liu Laosan cooks very quickly.

Lin Feng had only just finished piecing together the clues from the past day and a half when there was a knock on the door.

"..."

Lin Feng glanced at the quiet corner, then got up and opened the door.

"Guests," Liu Laosan greeted them from the doorway, his usual kind and smiling face unchanged.

"It's time to eat."

Lin Feng: "...Okay, let's go."

Liu Laosan turned around happily, but his gaze turned greedy and cold the next moment.

Just a little more... would be perfect...

As the village head of Changsheng Village, Liu Laosan's home, though not luxurious, was still much better than the mud houses where the other twenty elderly people lived.

The only tile-roofed house in the village.

At this moment, in the courtyard in front of the tiled house, Liu Laosan had already set up a table and stools, and even generously placed a bottle of grain-brewed liquor in the middle of the table.

After inviting Lin Feng to sit down, Liu Laosan began pouring wine with great enthusiasm.

"Come on, let's have some wine first. Our wine is homemade, and we haven't added any of those additives..."

As Liu Laosan continued talking, Lin Feng's gaze immediately turned towards the sound of wine being poured into a bowl.

In the white porcelain bowl, a thin layer of transparent foam floated on the surface of the liquor, fine and fragmented, looking as if some kind of invisible fish was struggling at the bottom of the liquor.

Lin Feng: "..."

She snapped back to reality and realized that something was wrong with her current state, her expression instantly turning rather unpleasant.

Illusion—no, it's a hallucination.

It seems the game has started to induce hallucinations in these players.

Across from him, Liu Laosan raised his hand and started drinking. "Drink up? Do you think my wine is too cheap and that's why you don't want to drink it?"

Lin Feng regained his senses, shook his head, and picked up the bowl full of wine in front of him.

"laugh--"

The pungent taste of the liquor made Lin Feng frown involuntarily, and then she coughed violently.

This wine... tastes a bit strange.

Lin Feng looked down, just as she was about to take a closer look at the white wine in the bowl, when she heard Liu Laosan's loud laughter.

"Haha, sir, you don't seem to be able to hold your liquor very well. How about having some more to cool things down?"

Although Liu Laosan was smiling, his cloudy eyes were filled with an inexplicable coldness and menacing aura.

Lin Feng's hand holding the bowl tightened slightly.

Based on her intuition as a seasoned player, she could clearly sense Liu Laosan's malice at this moment... but why?

Just now at the gate of the courtyard, the other party didn't seem to have such obvious hostility towards me...

“Of course,” Lin Feng said, her expression unchanged. She picked up her bowl, looking as if she was about to have a drink with Liu Laosan.

"If the village chief is willing to part with it, I will definitely give him some time to think it over."

Liu Laosan's pupils contracted slightly. He laughed, raised his bowl, and burst into laughter:

"Really? I didn't expect you to be a drinker too. That's rare, women don't usually drink much."

His words reminded Lin Feng of the scene she had witnessed in the illusion. For a few seconds, the corners of her mouth turned down, but she forced them back up.

"is it?"

Lin Feng calmly said, "Then let's give it a try."

*Thud!*

The sound of bowls clashing together broke the silence, as well as Liu Laosan's continuous laughter.

Beyond the screen, a veteran player familiar with Lin Feng slowly frowned and sighed:

"There were clearly other ways to avoid the drinking session, so why would Lin Feng suddenly be so stupid?"

"stupid?"

The female player next to her scoffed, "Lin Feng isn't stupid, she's just too smart."

"Smart?" the previous player sneered. "Maintaining a clear mind is the most basic requirement for a player. Now she actually dares to drink with an NPC who clearly has malicious intentions. Isn't that stupid?"

"Lin Feng has a high alcohol tolerance," the female player glanced at the player next to her and flicked her nails.

"Putting everything else aside, she had no choice but to drink this wine."

"What kind of wine is absolutely necessary to drink—"

The previous player's words came to an abrupt end.

On the screen, the meat dishes that were originally plentiful and looked extremely delicious began to wriggle and squirm.

The male player who had made the sarcastic remark suddenly widened his eyes and exclaimed in horror:

"This vegetable—it's alive?"

"Idiot." The female player licked her lips, which were slightly red from eating, and scoffed.

"Those are earthworms."

The male player felt a chill run down his spine. When the camera followed the view to the bowl on the table, he realized that the wriggling meat was actually a bunch of earthworms of varying thicknesses tangled together.

Some of them were arranged in the shape of braised pork chunks and slowly wriggled, while others were wrapped and twisted under a thin layer of fish skin... They looked extremely terrifying.

The male player swallowed hard, becoming somewhat hesitant to speak.

"The live stream perspective is mostly based on the player's eyes," the female player next to me said softly, and she seemed to chuckle.

"So, do you think Lin Feng discovered this or not?"

Compared to the obviously problematic food, for Lin Feng, this bottle of liquor, which only tasted a little strange, was perhaps the only insignificant loophole the game had given him.

—After all, even if there's something wrong with the liquor, it doesn't seem like a problem compared to the food on the table.

"Now," the female player said softly, looking at Lin Feng on the screen, whose face was growing increasingly red but whose eyes remained clear and unwavering.

"Let's see if Lin Feng can get Liu Laosan drunk."

After all, in the Changsheng Village game instance setting, NPCs are not much different from ordinary people during the day.

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"I am full."

Inside the room, the boy let out a burp, then put the rice cooker, which had been scraped clean of almost no rice grains, aside, stood up, and patted his stomach.

"Ugh! Hiccup! Hiccup?!"

Fatty, who was chewing a big mouthful of rice, also raised his head, swallowed the rice ball in his throat with difficulty, and choked and burped several times.

Fatty: "..."

Yu Shijiu chuckled and looked down with a "Wow!" He casually patted the chubby head to comfort him, then stretched his arms, which had been curled up and felt a little weak.

"Time to get to work."

Fatty blinked, its dark green pupils gleaming with a slightly grayish light in the dim earthen room.

It followed behind Yu Shijiu, hiccuping, watching him dump the meat and vegetables on the table one by one... Hmm, some were so full they were hard to dump...

"Fatty," Yu Shijiu looked at the table piled high with meat dishes with some hesitation, then turned around and directed:

"Go and dig a hole at the door."

The chubby guy who had just rubbed against his leg: "..."

It stared at Yu Shijiu with wide eyes, "Meow?!"

Is it possible that it's actually a cat, not a dog?