Infinite: Dawn Game

Due to the physiological alertness of felines, Feifei is clearly able to perceive more things than Yu Shijiu, who is human.

For example... the moment it entered the room, it noticed that the fishy smell was actually a little stronger.

It wasn't very heavy, only slightly heavier than before they left.

If Fatty weren't a cat, it probably wouldn't have been able to smell it.

Actually, it might not be heavy at all... After all, they ran out as soon as Chen Yi shouted, and didn't notice anything unusual in the room.

"fine."

Yu Shijiu withdrew his hand and gently rubbed the chubby head in a comforting tone, whispering:

"It's daytime now."

After a moment of silence, Feifei let go of Yu Shijiu's arm and ran towards the window.

Yu Shijiu became curious about its series of actions and turned around to look.

Then I saw Fatty raise his head and use his mouth to pull the curtains to the side.

wow-

The heavy, dark gray curtains were drawn back, and the blinding sunlight streamed into the room, so intense that Yu Shijiu, who turned to look at them, could barely open her eyes.

He hissed softly, covered his eyes, and rested for a while before opening them again.

Fatty, who had pulled back the curtains, bounced back and leaned against Yu Shijiu's knees, staring at the vase with a look of dread.

This was the scene that Yu Shijiu saw when she opened her eyes and looked down. She couldn't help but smile.

Fatty, being a cat, is surprisingly superstitious, believing that sunlight can ward off bad luck. Looking at it this way, Fatty sometimes really does resemble Lu Chusheng...

The smile in Yu Shijiu's eyes suddenly froze on the spot. He lowered his eyelids and touched the chubby head again before reaching for the vase.

Fatty's breathing slowed, and his bright green eyes turned into vertical pupils as he stared intently at the vase that was about to be picked up.

Upon receiving the vase, Yu Shijiu's first reaction was that it was heavy.

This vase is too heavy.

Although it looks about half the length of a human arm and as wide as a thigh, its weight is obviously ridiculously heavy.

Yu Shijiu frowned. The veins on the back of his hand bulged out from picking up the vase. The bluish-purple veins stood out against the thin layer of white skin, creating a striking and unsettling beauty.

"...So heavy?"

Yu Shijiu stood up in surprise, turned the obviously misweight vase upside down, and looked inside through the opening.

is empty.

After confirming that it was empty, Yu Shijiu squeezed the soft flesh inside her cheek with her tongue and hissed.

For some reason, after touching the weight of the vase, Yu Shijiu always felt that there should be something inside.

But if you ask him to say what should be inside, he can't.

"……never mind."

Unable to figure out what was going on, Yu Shijiu placed the vase on the bedside table and lazily stretched.

"Let's go to sleep now, otherwise we'll be running around all night without getting any rest."

The thought of having to run back and forth between different floors again that night made Yu Shijiu's already sore and aching arms and legs feel weak.

It wasn't that he felt he couldn't do it anymore; it was purely his muscles screaming in pain.

"Meow!"

Upon hearing that Yu Shijiu wanted to sleep, Feifei immediately straightened its head, thought seriously for a while, and then used its paw to push the vase on the bedside table against the wall.

Only after the vase was furthest from the bed did Fatty twitch its nose in a surprisingly human way, as if it had breathed a sigh of relief.

Yu Shijiu wanted to laugh.

Then, the industrious Fatty jumped off the bed to bite and pull the curtains.

After Feifei finished her tiring work, she turned around and saw Yu Shijiu's back as he took off his shoes and went into the bathroom to wash up.

Fatty hesitated for a moment.

A few seconds later, he realized something, glanced at the vase that it had pushed to the corner of the bedside table, and slowly followed it into the bathroom.

"what?"

Yu Shijiu's laughter came from the bathroom: "Fatty, do you want to wash your paws too?"

"Meow!"

"Hahaha, okay, okay, come here," Yu Shijiu laughed so hard she almost fell over, "I'll wash your paws after I wash my face... Huh? Why are your paws so dirty?"

Fatty meowed angrily.

In the empty bedroom, a barely noticeable drop of blue-black liquid slowly dripped from the edge of the wooden frame of the starry sky oil painting, landing on the floor with a very slight "plop".

At the same time, the chubby cat's head suddenly peeked out from the bathroom door, its pair of eerie green eyes fixed on the picture frame for a full minute.

"Fatty?"

While wiping her face, Yu Shijiu also peeked out, "What are you looking at? What kind of thing bumped into the vase again?"

“…Meow,” Fatty shook its head, and after confirming that there was nothing else in the room, it hesitated and withdrew its head.

"I've washed my face."

After washing his face, Yu Shijiu soaked a towel in water, squatted down, and gestured for Feifei to raise its paw.

"Here, let me wipe your paws."

"Meow."

Feifei demurely raised its paw and placed it on Yu Shijiu's knee.

The warm, damp towel slowly wiped the pink and tender paw pads of the cat, which felt very soft to the touch.

As Yu Shijiu was wiping, he couldn't help but pinch the chubby little fleshy pads.

Just as he imagined, it was bouncy and chewy.

Yu Shijiu pinched it several more times, completely absorbed in the moment.

The chubby guy who got taken advantage of: "..."

It let out several soft cries, but didn't retract its claws.

Inside the room outside, the same slow, silent wriggling brains that had appeared in the corridor before reappeared in the cracks in the ceiling and floor.

The brains, layer upon layer, strung together, quickly enveloping the drop of blue-black liquid on the floor. After wiping it clean bit by bit, they retreated back into the gap.

Everything proceeded very quietly, without any sound.

This sent chills down the spines of players watching from outside the screen.

The players in the square felt a chill run down their spines as they looked at the wriggling brains.

"In the past," someone couldn't help but whisper, "did we ever see these creepy-looking things when chasing game dungeons before?"

Actually, there's not much difference between chase and hide game instances; it's all about running and hiding. As long as you survive the game time, you can clear the level. There will likely be some minor troubles along the way (though they can be fatal), but players hardly need to use their brains at all... which is indeed a good option for some players who don't like to use their brains.

When some players learned that Yu Shijiu and the others' game instance was initially a chase-type game instance, they didn't think it would be very interesting.

After all, Yu Shijiu is currently very popular, and almost every player has seen his axe that cuts down monsters as easily as cutting down cabbages.

With the addition of experienced players like Mutangtang, Nun, and He Lingling, almost everyone believed that this would be a very easy game dungeon to clear.

But now?

As the players watched the live streams of other players, they felt a chill run down their spines as they saw those wriggling brains moving around in various places through the screen.