Infinite: Dawn Game

"..."

"How to do?"

Xu Han squeezed next to He Lingling and lowered his head, "Should we hide here?"

"Need not."

He Lingling's expression remained calm. "They are players."

"NPCs can't pry open doors—"

He Lingling's voice stopped when the person sneakily moved toward the towel cabinet.

"?"

Xu Han looked at He Lingling, "Why can't he see us?"

He Lingling: "..."

"I can't see thank you."

Xu Han: Sorry, I forgot.

The visitor didn't turn on the light, so he groped around in front of the towel cabinet. After groping for a while and finding nothing, he was so surprised that he started breathing rapidly.

"How could this be... how could it not be here... I clearly, I clearly put the things here..."

He Lingling's mind raced for a moment before she reached out and tugged at Xu Han's sleeve.

"?"

Xu Han hesitated for a moment, "What are you looking for?"

The newcomer was clearly startled and quickly asked, "Who is it?"

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."

Xu Han quickly spoke up, "We're hiding here too."

The moment Xu Han finished speaking, He Lingling keenly noticed that the man's stiff body had relaxed considerably.

"Are you here to investigate as well?"

The person approached Xu Han and said, "I'm a reporter from Xinyue Daily. Which newspaper are you from?"

Xu Han: "..."

He glanced at He Lingling instinctively, then, remembering she couldn't see, he could only cough and say:

“We are, we are from Dawn, Dawn Newspaper, not reporters.”

He Lingling, standing next to him: "..."

"Dawn Newspaper?"

The visitor responded blankly, "Dawn Newspaper? Which city are you from?"

Xu Han hesitated for a few seconds, unsure how to respond.

He Lingling, who was standing next to her, chimed in softly:

"...He's a reporter from that newly opened newspaper in Z province..."

The newcomer was clearly startled. "There's someone else with you?"

Xu Han muttered to himself, "She's that one, the one I just... just got rid of..."

"He rescued me."

He Lingling coughed a few times. Thinking of some scenes she had seen in "Ghost Eyes," she tentatively said:

"Are you also here at the Fuling Hotel to rescue someone?"

"..." The person hesitated for a moment, then seemed to shake his head in the darkness. "I want to save him, but I can't."

"..."

He Lingling subconsciously pursed her lips, but still had to maintain her persona and speak weakly:

"why?"

Xu Han, who was standing next to him, swallowed and echoed:

"That's right, isn't that why we came here—to save people?"

"...It's beyond saving."

The newcomer's voice was somewhat hoarse, "You're all too naive."

"How could someone be rescued so easily from the Fuling Hotel?"

"..." He Lingling tugged at Xu Han's arm.

Xu Han: "...Um, no, why do you say that? Isn't it possible to rescue her? She, wasn't she the one I rescued?"

“…One is easy to save,” the person said, his entire body shrouded in darkness, so Xu Han couldn’t see his expression, “but it’s impossible to save everyone.”

Xu Han dared not speak.

To be honest, Xu Han still doesn't understand what they're talking about.

He Lingling was actually a little confused. At first, she thought the other party was investigating the reason for the adventurer's suicide by jumping off the Fuling Hotel, which naturally included the possibility that the reporter saved the adventurer (the adventurer was played by He Lingling)... But judging from what the other party said, there was someone else besides the adventurer who committed suicide by jumping off the building?

"..."

What should I say now?

Xu Han was extremely anxious; his back was soaked with sweat, but he dared not utter a word.

If the other party discovers that what he said is completely different from what he said, then it's all over—

What were you looking for just now?

He Lingling suddenly spoke up.

The visitor was speechless.

He hesitated for several seconds before saying, "I once filmed some things about the Fuling Hotel. A few days ago, I hid the videotape in the storage room..."

Xu Han and He Lingling's hearts skipped a beat at the same time.

video tape?

Xu Han gripped the videotape in his pocket tightly.

"...But I can't find it now..."

The man who came in clearly had a headache. He bent down and slapped his face hard, the sound echoing in the storage room, making Xu Han and the other man's eyelids twitch.

"I really don't know what to do. What if the hotel staff get their hands on the videotape?"

The voice of the person who bent over and slapped their own face was filled with fear and dread.

"If they find out, I'm finished, I'm really finished. You don't know, you're new here and don't know what the people in the hotel are doing. You, you, you—"

The newcomer's voice suddenly turned shrill. He raised his head in the darkness, and countless writhing eyeballs suddenly appeared on his face, which was otherwise indistinct. These eyeballs moved incessantly, spreading towards Xu Han and the other person, with blood-red nerve veins extending continuously—

"Why aren't you saying anything?! Why aren't you saying anything? Why? Why aren't you saying anything???"

Xu Han quickly pulled He Lingling back, stammering incoherently:

"We weren't silent, were we? We've been talking the whole time, haven't we? Have you forgotten? We were having a great chat just now, weren't we? How about we chat a little longer?"

The reporter opposite them, whose appearance had become distorted, wouldn't listen to any explanations; the eyeballs on his face continued to wriggle towards them.

He Lingling: "..."

She couldn't see what was happening in front of her, so she could only follow Xu Han's force and retreat until she had nowhere left to go and was pressed against the door.

"No, no, no... You're lying to me. You don't know anything at all, right? You don't know anything at all, do you? You're liars, no, you're from the hotel, you're from the hotel..."

The wriggling eyeballs sped up, startling Xu Han into quickly activating his protective gear.

The eyeballs slammed against the barrier with a thud. Whether it was his imagination or not, Xu Han felt as if he could hear the eyeballs gnawing at the barrier.

Xu Han: "..."

Can eyeballs bite? No, I mean, can eyeballs actually bite things?!

"...Good heavens, these eyeballs even have mouths?"

He Lingling pretended not to hear Xu Han's mutterings and silently tightened the doorknob behind her back. "I'm opening the door. Just leave."

Click.

The sound of the lock being turned rang out, and He Lingling staggered out of the storage room. Xu Han, who was in front of her, cursed and quickly followed her out of the storage room, locking the door behind him.

Bang bang bang!

It was the sound of countless eyeballs hitting the door.

He Lingling, who was leaning against the wall, looked in the direction of the voice and said, her face pale, "Xu Han."

She asked softly, "Where are we going now?"