Infinite: Dawn Game

Lu Chusheng stood motionless.

It wasn't until Anjie took a juice out of the refrigerator and handed it to him that Lu Chusheng snapped out of the despairing game scenario from a few years ago.

"Thanks, but no need."

Lu Chusheng refused the juice An Jie offered him. He closed his eyes and slowly forced himself to calm down through his trembling breaths.

"I'm leaving first."

"Thank you so much for telling me all this today."

Lu Chusheng maintained his politeness by nodding slightly and turning to go downstairs.

Just as I reached the door and grasped the doorknob after going downstairs, I heard Anjie's voice coming from the top of the stairs behind me.

"Lu Chusheng".

Lu Chusheng gripped the doorknob without turning around.

"I don't know why you came here."

“I won’t press you if you don’t want to say, but,” Anjie paused slightly, her voice a little hoarse:

"If you encounter the same problem I did four years ago, I hope you won't gamble on that extremely small probability."

Lu Chusheng finally turned around.

He opened the door, and the afterglow of the setting sun cast a hazy golden glow on his figure, but it couldn't penetrate his deep, dark eyes.

I will listen carefully to your opinion.

Lu Chusheng bowed slightly, showing his respect to An Jie as she stared in astonishment.

"……you--"

"Anjie".

Lu Chusheng interrupted An Jie, straightened up, raised his hand, and untied the red cinnabar bracelet wrapped around his wrist.

The sound of the cinnabar prayer beads striking each other subtly overlapped with his breathing just moments before:

"Please give this to Shi Jiu for me."

After saying that, Lu Chusheng threw the bracelet toward Anjie at the top of the stairs.

Anjie instinctively took it, and as her skin touched the cinnabar bracelet, the exclusive system's notification sound for an extremely high-quality item rang in her ears.

"..." Anjie's breath hitched slightly. "Why didn't you give it to him yourself?"

Lu Chusheng's cold and stern face suddenly revealed a hint of guilt.

Anjie: "?"

No, what are you feeling guilty about? And you're so obviously guilty—

He's probably still angry with me.

Lu Chusheng thought carefully about the last time he saw Yu Shijiu and came to this conclusion.

"?"

Anjie was puzzled and extremely confused.

"angry?"

"How come I remember that you helped Shi Jiu make that new axe?"

"To be precise, I helped deliver it to other players, and they paid me points and items as payment after I finished it. I didn't do it myself."

Ange: "...What's the difference?"

"Have."

Lu Chusheng nodded, "The concepts of 'doing it personally' and 'paying a fee' are not the same."

Anjie had actually noticed some subtle signs that something was amiss, but her sixth sense made her wisely choose not to pursue the matter further.

"Think what you want." Anjie picked up the cinnabar bracelet with her index finger and asked:

"Then I'll say I'll give him a prop?"

"……Can."

Lu Chusheng nodded: "That's settled then."

Ange scoffed, not taking any opinion on the "fool's" behavior of secretly giving away high-end props while hiding his name.

"Okay, then I'll say it that way."

Since this was Lu Chusheng's own request, Anjie naturally wouldn't say anything else.

"Thank you."

Captain Lu, who said "thank you" several times throughout the day, left the small villa.

On the second floor, by the stairs, Anjie played with the cinnabar bracelet in her hand, looking down at the cinnabar prayer beads strung on the bracelet.

The surface of the cinnabar already has many obvious scratches and traces of erosion over the years.

Layer upon layer, the fine grooves and marks clearly show how many years Lu Chusheng has worn this cinnabar bracelet.

This is an artificially created item that was forcibly implanted with "innate skill power" later on.

It goes without saying who the owner of the innate skill power is.

"...That's quite a generous gesture."

No one knows what Lu Chusheng is thinking.

If it were her, having gone to such great lengths to make such a bracelet, she would definitely keep making subtle hints and suggestions to the other person.

Anjie carefully put away the cinnabar bracelet, stretched, and sat back down in front of the screen to watch the live stream.

In just a short while, the timeline within "Fuling Hotel" has reached the point where dawn is approaching.

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"...It's almost dawn."

Chen Yi was covered in sweat. He raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat dripping from his face and said to Yu Shijiu beside him:

"We only have one minute left, we can't get through."

Yes, for the entire night.

They hadn't even gotten close to the end of the corridor yet.

This means that the game's mastermind is openly preventing them from getting close to the stairs.

Yu Shijiu was somewhat irritated.

"Then I won't go."

He rubbed the chubby guy who was yawning beside him. "Let's go to the elevator."

That night, nearly twenty players died. Apart from the four who were still alive, Yu Shijiu and Chen Yi, as well as the nun, Mu Gui, and Mu Tangtang and her grandson, these veteran players... there were less than ten ordinary players left.

This was the time Yu Shijiu had experienced the most player deaths in a game instance.

And this was only one night later.

They were constantly being hunted down, and they also gained a general understanding of the two types of hunting processes and reasons.

These are players being chased by monsters that are either human-pigs or whose minds have been taken over and assimilated into monsters by their pets.

"……call."

Hearing Yu Shijiu's words, Chen Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He secretly pinched the fat around his waist, having the illusion that he had lost several pounds overnight from exhaustion—

"Brother Chen?"

Yu Shijiu turned her head to look at him, staring strangely at Chen Yi's hands clasped at his waist, and asked curiously:

"what are you doing?"

"nothing."

Chen Yi coughed awkwardly several times, hurriedly withdrew his hand and stiffly stood at his side, "Let's go, let's go, the prop still has more than fifty seconds before it expires, enough time for us to get to the elevator."

After saying that, he quickly walked in front of Yu Shijiu and headed towards the elevator.

Yu Shijiu walked behind, hesitated for a long time, but in the end she didn't remind Chen Yi.

Actually, Brother Chen, you're walking with your hand and foot moving in unison now...

The chubby guy next to him grinned and yawned again. He took two running starts and rushed to Chen Yi's side, stopping and starting to walk with his hands and feet moving in unison under Chen Yi's questioning gaze.

Yu Shijiu behind him instantly forgot his earlier displeasure and burst out laughing: "Hahaha."

Chen Yi realized the awkward situation he had inadvertently revealed and gave a helpless laugh.

Just then, Fatty, who was walking at the front, suddenly let out a sharp meow.

Yu Shijiu and Chen Yi paused their smiles and quickened their pace, passing through the countless human-pig-like monsters still chasing the direction of the elevator.

The elevator doors were still half-open, and the gray doors were splattered with layers of thick blood and rotting flesh after a night of escape.

The screams of despair from the players could be heard coming from inside.

And, mixed with the sounds of dogs barking and cats meowing, along with the maniacal laughter of humans.