Infinite: Dawn Game

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The gate to Liu Laosan's yard wasn't closed tightly. The closest fat cat just lightly touched it with its paw, and the gate creaked and backed away.

"……Meow?"

Fatty jumped backward, and its nimble and large body instantly leaped a long distance in front of Yu Shijiu.

Yu Shijiu's eyes widened in surprise as she clapped her hands and exclaimed, "Wow, Fatty! The way you jump up looks like a tiger!"

"..." Fatty immediately raised its head high, its body arched in an extremely proud state, and it stood on tiptoe, glancing sideways at Yu Shijiu.

Yu Shijiu very politely stepped forward and stroked the fat man's chin with his hand, until the man made gurgling sounds in his throat.

Then, just as Feifei was feeling comfortable, Yu Shijiu let go and said with a grin:

"Alright, alright, we should go now."

As he spoke, he looked up at the sun in the sky, which seemed to be gradually dimming, and then looked away thoughtfully.

Is it an illusion?

He felt that time was starting to fly by... It was still quite hot under the sun when he came out of Yang Wan's house.

Feifei meowed a few times in dissatisfaction, but didn't throw a tantrum. Instead, it licked its paw pads in annoyance and followed Yu Shijiu into the open courtyard gate.

As soon as Yu Shijiu entered the courtyard, he smelled a strong, pungent smell of alcohol.

He sniffed uncomfortably and looked toward the spot where the smell of alcohol was strongest.

Under a large tree in front of a house not far away, Lin Feng and Liu Laosan sat facing each other. The former was still pouring wine while resting her chin on her hand, while the latter had already slumped on the table unconscious.

Hearing someone enter, Lin Feng turned her head to look at the courtyard gate and raised an eyebrow at Yu Shijiu.

"Hey? Are you here?"

Yu Shijiu didn't like the taste of alcohol. He wrinkled his nose and chose a distance that wasn't too close but still close enough to hear Lin Feng speaking.

"Does your sister like to drink?"

Lin Feng propped her head up and shook her head: "It's alright, I wouldn't say I like it."

As she spoke, she shook the half-empty bottle of liquor in her hand and glanced at Liu Laosan, who was already drunk and talking nonsense across from her.

"I wouldn't touch alcohol if it weren't to stop him from forcing me to eat these things."

Drinking too much alcohol is not a good thing.

If Lin Feng hadn't known she had a high alcohol tolerance, she wouldn't have dared to drink so much.

Fortunately, Liu Laosan's alcohol tolerance wasn't particularly high, and fortunately, the monsters in this game instance were set up as normal people during the day, otherwise... he might not have been able to escape this "meal".

On the dining table, countless dishes made up of earthworms began to disintegrate. Lin Feng had intentionally or unintentionally poured white wine into many of the plates. At this moment, in the spicy wine, the earthworm larvae huddled together and twisted like mosquito coils.

"Oh, I see..." Yu Shijiu sniffed uncomfortably and looked at the clumps of earthworms in the plate.

It was similar to the meal Yang Wan made.

Yu Shijiu estimated that every elderly person in Changsheng Village who had chosen a "stand-in" should have prepared such a sumptuous meal.

Although they don't know the exact meaning yet, the two of them can probably guess some of it.

It's nothing more than the idea that eating these things might prevent you from leaving the Village of Immortality.

After all, Yang Wan seems to have never left Changsheng Village.

"Shall we go and look around elsewhere?"

Yu Shijiu couldn't stand the smell of alcohol in the courtyard, so he waved his hand at the air in front of him and asked Lin Feng.

Lin Feng nodded and was about to stand up when she suddenly stopped in place as if she had remembered something.

Yu Shijiu looked at her blankly, and before he could say "What's wrong?", he saw Lin Feng clench her fists and mutter to herself.

"Yes, people don't know what they're saying when they're drunk... so now, can we exploit a loophole?"

Lin Feng's eyes lit up instantly. She quickly gestured for Yu Shijiu to wait and strode towards Liu Laosan.

Liu Laosan rolled his eyes and started talking nonsense.

One moment she's smugly saying, "Liu Yanjun, do you admit your mistake?" and the next she's angrily slamming her hand on the table, yelling, "Why don't you listen to me? Why don't you listen to me! I'm the village chief, everyone should listen to me..."

Lin Feng wasn't interested in these words. She stared at Liu Laosan's aged face, her gaze lingering on his neck, which was noticeably different from his face.

The skin on her neck was noticeably smoother and firmer than Liu Laosan's wrinkled face.

Yu Shijiu, suppressing the smell of alcohol, leaned in and exclaimed:

"He looks younger!"

Just like Yang Wan.

Lin Feng's heart skipped a beat; her nerves, already heightened by alcohol, throbbed, causing her to reach out and grab Liu Laosan's collar—

The next second, Liu Laosan suddenly grabbed Lin Feng's hand as she approached.

At the same time, Liu Laosan's half-open eyes suddenly widened, and for a moment countless tiny purplish-red earthworm lines wriggled in his cloudy, yellowish eyes. Then, a roar came out of Liu Laosan's mouth.

"I am right! The God is right! Everything we did to ensure the purity of our bloodline was right!"

Lin Feng, who was half-sobered up from being startled when he suddenly grabbed her hand: "..."

Lin Feng watched as Liu Laosan's spirits shrunk again after he finished shouting. After hesitating for a while, she finally pulled Liu Laosan's hand away and looked at his neck.

Similar to what they casually glanced at, Liu Laosan's skin under his neck did look much younger, but not drastically so; it was just the skin of a normal middle-aged man...

Lin Feng believed that Liu Laosan was already quite old when the village of Changsheng was bewitched because of its belief in the "earth dragon".

In the illusion, Liu Laosan looked to be around forty years old, and it is estimated that he was at most fifty years old when Changsheng Village was transformed into a monster.

Lin Feng withdrew her hand, looked at Liu Laosan's half-open, hazy eyes, and suddenly said:

How do I leave Changsheng Village?

Yu Shijiu also subconsciously looked over.

Liu Laosan's incoherent ramblings suddenly stopped. He opened his mouth, revealing old, yellowed, and broken teeth, which looked quite eerie.

"leave?"

Liu Laosan burst into laughter, his laughter both eerie and excited:

"How do you leave? You leave the same way you came in, of course! How else would you leave? Crawl out, hahaha—"

Fatty, standing nearby, glared at Liu Laosan with some annoyance, then walked over to Yu Shijiu and began licking the corner of his clothes with his tongue.

Hmm, it's a little uneven, meow—

Lin Feng stood up calmly, rubbed her slightly flushed cheeks, and shook her head as Yu Shijiu looked at her curiously.

"he does not know."

Liu Laosan didn't know how to leave Changsheng Village.

Yu Shijiu blinked: "He doesn't know?"

"Isn't Liu Laosan the village chief?"

Lin Feng hummed in agreement. She took out a handkerchief from her pocket and carefully wiped her fingers, gently cleaning the sticky residue between her fingertips.

—This is the slime from Liu Laosan's body.