Infinite: Dawn Game

"Fang Xiaoxiao!!"

Players who knew the female player recognized the upside-down face and retreated in horror.

"Wasn't she already locked out of the elevator? How did she get in from up here..."

"..."

Words like that are simply too much to bother with.

Chen Yi glanced quickly at the top of the elevator and was so startled by the densely packed, writhing brains above that his heart pounded.

So much...so much brain matter...what is it?

"he he he he he……"

“…Run…you…why are you running…” The female player’s voice was mixed with a strange, childish cat-like meow.

"We can...we can be together...forever together, never to be apart..."

Fatty, its fur standing on end, ran to Yu Shijiu's side and looked up, making gurgling sounds from its throat.

Its dark green pupils were slits, ready to attack the suddenly appearing "female player" at any moment.

"She's dead."

Yu Shijiu looked up and met the female player's gaze, the skin around his eyes gradually turning red.

The blood-stained axe reappeared in his hand.

"Brother Chen," Yu Shijiu turned his head to look at Chen Yi, whose face was pale, and asked politely:

"Should we cut her head off?"

"..." Chen Yi was silent for a moment, and just as he was about to speak, a player's scream suddenly rang out in the elevator.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

"Help me! Help me! Help me! Help me!!!"

It was a male gamer who accidentally bumped into the sticky elevator wall.

Suddenly, the twisted, brain-like tissues on the elevator mirrors began to wriggle, firmly attaching her neck to the wall. The wriggling, twisted strips even pierced the male player's right brain.

puff!

Thick blood mixed with brain matter splattered from the male player's right brain wound, dripping onto the face of the pet he was still holding in his arms.

All the players around him screamed and ran away from him.

The male player's pet was a very cute little blue cat, not very big, only about half the length of a human's arm. It was perched on the male player's chest, blinked its golden-black eyes, and licked the blood and brain matter from the corner of its mouth.

Chen Yi's mind went completely blank for a moment.

"do not want!"

By the time Chen Yi realized what was happening, it was too late.

Even though Yu Shijiu reacted quickly, even though the axe she had just gripped was already aimed at the brain-flower tendril stuck in the male player's right brain... it was still useless.

The male player whose brain was inserted into his right brain suddenly stopped his terrified cries for help—his eyes suddenly went dark.

The pet in the male player's arms emitted a familiar chuckle... exactly like the female player hanging upside down in the elevator at that moment.

The blue cat's skin began to peel away, revealing blood-red skin and dense stitches that stung everyone's eyes.

After the human-like colors disappeared from the male player's eyes, Yu Shijiu quickly withdrew her hand and retreated rapidly with the chubby person next to her.

"Hopeless."

Yu Shijiu licked his palate, unusually irritated:

"If only it could be faster—"

"careful!"

Chen Yi suddenly pulled Yu Shijiu away.

A tongue covered in tiny barbs brushed past the boy's ear!

Yu Shijiu stared wide-eyed as the tongue plowed deep furrows into the metal wall in front of him.

Where the foul-smelling, sticky fluid dripped from the tongue, dense brain tissue proliferated wildly, quickly covering the entire elevator ceiling.

This includes the female player named Fang Xiaoxiao who was hanging upside down—and the male player who had just lost consciousness after having his right brain implanted.

Honestly, anyone who saw the state of things inside the elevator at that moment would feel a chill run down their spine.

The female player, nicknamed "Fang Xiaoxiao," continued to tilt her head downwards, her cervical vertebrae making a sickening cracking sound, as if checking if anyone was in front of her.

"Her eyes..."

Chen Yi felt a chill run down his spine. "Is it because you can't see us very clearly?"

"uh-huh."

Yu Shijiu nodded unhappily and wiped the blood from the axe blade onto the player who was standing nearby.

"With her eyes like that, I don't believe she can find someone so easily."

If you could just find anyone, you wouldn't be laughing and joking all the time.

Under the players' angry but unspeakable gazes, Yu Shijiu squeezed his cheek with his tongue.

"Brother Chen, she's looking for the next lucky one."

Chen Yi watched intently as "Fang Xiaoxiao" twisted her neck repeatedly, her gaze lingering on "Fang Xiaoxiao's" eyes.

The elevator lights were illuminating in a way that was far from realistic, which allowed Chen Yi to clearly see that "Fang Xiaoxiao's" eye sockets actually had many pinkish-white fleshy buds, which upon closer inspection turned out to be countless tiny cat claws scratching at her eyeballs.

—With your eyeballs all torn to shreds, how can you still see people?

Chen Yi nodded thoughtfully:

"you're right."

"..."

The conversation between the two made the players nearby break out in a cold sweat, and someone mustered up the courage to interject:

"...Then, what do we do? The elevator doors aren't opening. How can we get out of here..."

"I don't think so."

Yu Shijiu shrugged, his hand gripping the axe moved closer to his forehead, and scratched his hair, stating bluntly:

"Unless you want to go out and have a face-to-face conversation with those densely packed human pig monsters on the fourth floor."

The player who interrupted: "..."

"...There...there can't be any other way—"

"Have you no shame, brother?"

Yu Shijiu interrupted the player, looking at him with an expression of utter disbelief, "Do you really think I'm stupid? You want me to pave the way for you and be your stepping stone?"

"What are you thinking about?"

Yu Shijiu scoffed, "I do enjoy killing these bastards, but that doesn't mean I'm willing to work myself to death like an ox to support you bunch of ungrateful wretches, okay?"

Did he really think he was so engrossed in eating lollipops that he didn't hear what Chen Yi and the others were saying?

The fact that even someone as good-tempered as Chen Yi could get angry shows just how outrageous these people's thoughts and actions were.

Yu Shijiu isn't a fool or someone who doesn't know his own brain.

The other players: "..."

They both felt guilty and avoided Yu Shijiu's gaze, keeping their heads down and remaining silent.

The player, exposed to his own accord, turned ashen-faced. He tried to argue back, but the afterimage in front of him froze, and the still-dripping axe was less than a centimeter away from his nose.

The player's breathing stopped abruptly, and his legs went weak.

"Stop nagging and bothering me."

Before him stood Yu Shijiu's smiling face. "Although I'm a good person, even good people can kill."

Player: "..."

A drop of cold sweat dripped down his chin and into his collar, making him shiver all over.

The stench of decay from the axe filled his nostrils... It was at this moment that he suddenly realized something.

The reason they are still alive is simply because the boy in front of them doesn't care about them at all... They are just insignificant things who were "saved" incidentally.