Infinite: Dawn Game

Yu Shijiu, who already had a lollipop in his mouth, exclaimed: "?!"

—This lollipop is quite sweet, and the taste is familiar; I feel like I've had it somewhere before?

Fatty: "...Meow."

Realizing that Chen Yi was warning those ungrateful wretches who would push people off an elevator at the first sign of danger, it continued to calmly lower its head and stroke its fur.

The players dared not speak again.

Even if some players were still unwilling to give up and wanted to speak up, they stopped themselves when they caught a glimpse of the buzz-cut male player who was clutching his severed arm and howling.

Yu Shijiu's personality... coupled with Chen Yi, who seems like a nice guy but is actually not a kind soul...

If they want to continue living, they have no choice but to pretend to be deaf and dumb and remain silent.

The elevator fell into a deathly silence.

The short-haired male player, clutching his severed arm, sat up despite the pain and leaned against the sticky, soft elevator wall behind him, which resembled brain matter, as he began to wrap his wound around his arm.

He was a seasoned player with considerable experience, but he had never been able to activate his innate skills, so he had always lived in constant fear.

He is still alive, but he is missing a hand.

Even if it wasn't his right hand, it would have been enough to fill him with despair.

The short-haired male player gritted his teeth, his eyes red, and tightly wrapped the wound on his bleeding arm. His gaze involuntarily fell on Yu Shijiu, who was standing by the elevator.

If, if he also possessed such power... wouldn't he be able to... be able to continue living...?

In a corner unnoticed by anyone, the short-haired male player slowly lowered his head, his bloodshot eyes gradually collapsing into an abyss of mad despair.

A man's voice suddenly appeared in the ears of the short-haired male player.

"...Do you want to live?"

The buzz-cut male player opened his mouth.

"……think."

"...Then listen to me..." The man's voice held a sigh and a seductive undertone: "...As long as you obey...as long as you become one of us...we can...live together forever and ever..."

The buzz-cut male gamer: "..."

The fat man licking his fur not far away stood on end, his deep green eyes slowly landing on the buzz-cut male player.

—Why did the human aura on that player suddenly fade so much, meow?

Feifei was a little confused, so she could only walk up and nibble on Yu Shijiu's clothes, meowing to indicate that Yu Shijiu should go look at the short-haired male player.

Yu Shijiu glanced at the male player with a lollipop in her mouth, yawned indifferently, and smiled as her gaze fell on the writhing, seemingly thinking brain-shaped walls around the elevator.

"...That's normal."

Yu Shijiu bent down and patted the chubby head, grinning as he said:

"Guess why the only escape route, the elevator, is filled with these things that look like human brains and eyeballs?"

Fatty: "..."

It's just an ordinary orange cat that meows and bites randomly; it's not a very intelligent cat.

Chen Yi frowned slightly at Yu Shijiu's words. He turned his head to look at the short-haired male player who was leaning against the corner, continuing to bandage his wounds, and lowered his eyelids thoughtfully.

Consciousness invasion... consciousness interference... consciousness blurring... these things mixed together are enough to cause some less determined players' consciousness to become chaotic and collapse, or even... death.

Death is a supreme, illusory pain that is entirely not one's own—

"Ding!"

The elevator door rang out suddenly, and everyone looked up at the door at the same time.

The elevator doors showed no sign of opening and remained firmly stationary.

Just then, a blood-red "4" suddenly lit up on the screens surrounding the area, which were studded with countless eyeballs.

The other players: "?"

"Wait, wait, we're not... we shouldn't be on the first floor, right?!"

Some players stared in horror at the numbers displayed on the screen and shouted out in disbelief.

"...Me too, I remember too, we should have been, we should have been on the first floor, right, didn't we just come down from the second floor?"

"No, this isn't right, this isn't right... How could we suddenly be going up? Shouldn't we be going down?"

Thinking of the densely packed, grotesque creatures on the third and fourth floors... and the subsequent behavior of those "pets" that could even confuse their owners, some players with weak minds almost broke down and cried on the spot.

"..."

But the players' conversations didn't change anything.

Yu Shijiu paused in his lollipop-biting motion, staring at the blood-red number "4" on the screen. The smile on the face of the little monster with a human face and a cat body on the second floor slowly appeared in his mind.

What exactly does that eerie smile represent?

Amidst the players' horrified chatter, the elevator began to rise eerily.

Chen Yi stared at the floor buttons, cold sweat dripping down his chin.

If players are constantly moving back and forth between the fourth, third, and second floors, then the mere two minutes of rest time per hour is simply not enough.

After today's chase, do most players really have the energy and stamina to continue the chase the next day?

"Brother Chen..."

Yu Shijiu's voice rang in his ears.

Do you think the female player who was left on the second floor with her "pet" is still alive?

Yu Shijiu didn't lower his voice; he said it in his normal tone and then asked another question with a grin.

"She should still be alive, right?"

The other players: "..."

They dared not respond, and could only exchange glances, trying to make themselves as inconspicuous as possible.

"How could he still be alive..."

The short-haired male player slumped in the corner, his shirt, wrapped around his wound, soaked with blood.

Yu Shijiu looked down at him.

"He can't possibly still be alive..."

The short-haired male gamer smiled wryly, "How could she still be alive?"

Surrounded by so many human-pig monsters, and deceived by that obviously no-good "pet"... how could that female player still be alive?!

There's absolutely no way he could survive...

"is it?"

Yu Shijiu seemed to agree with him, nodding slightly, "Then tell me, what has she become now?"

Male player: "...She—"

Before the words were even finished, a terrifying scratching sound suddenly came from the ventilation opening at the top of the elevator.

Snapped!

An upside-down human face suddenly squeezed in through the gap in the elevator railing. Long, black hair hung down, and the features were pale and familiar. It was the female player who had just been possessed!

The players all gasped for breath.

The female player, hanging upside down, had her cervical spine elongated like Play-Doh, her head rotated 180 degrees, and she smiled at the players in the elevator, her mouth stretching all the way to her ears, revealing her scarlet gums.

"he he he he he……"

A familiar laugh came from the female player's throat.

It's that little monster with a human face and a cat's body.