Infinite: Dawn Game

As midnight approached, all the surviving players, despite their headaches, got out of bed and stared blankly at the pitch-black room.

Yu Shijiu is the same.

He was dreaming again.

In his dream, an overwhelming red enveloped his entire body. More blood rushed into his limbs and bones, filling his pupils, his nostrils, and even with every time he opened his mouth, making him feel so cold that he almost suffocated.

This is really not a pleasant dream.

Yu Shijiu rubbed his sore temples and slowly got out of bed to wash up.

Yes, even after arriving here, he would make sure he was clean before going back and coming back covered in dirt.

On the other side of the bed, Lu Chusheng, whose consciousness was still under the fat body, slowly raised his head. His dark green eyes gleamed with an eerie green light in the darkness, which was somewhat frightening at first glance.

Lu Chusheng quietly watched Yu Shijiu's back, while in his mind he was "fighting" with the awakened Feifei.

Feifei was clearly unwilling to continue "sleeping" and kept meowing, trying to wake Lu Chusheng up.

Lu Chusheng: "...Wait a little longer."

He endured the increasingly angry meows in his ears, feeling a bit of a headache, and added:

"I'll give you a bag of dried fish after you clear the customs."

Fatty: "..."

It thought about it carefully for a while and then called out five times.

Lu Chusheng: "..."

“No,” Lu Chusheng refused, “I can only add three more packs at most.”

Fatty: "..."

It whimpered a few times unhappily, then fell silent.

After the disruptive noises stopped, Lu Chusheng was finally able to quietly look towards the bathroom where Yu Shijiu was.

The bathroom light was turned on.

The sound of rushing water was very clear in the room. Lu Chusheng could even hear the boy's faint cough when he accidentally choked on water, just a little bit, one or two coughs.

Lu Chusheng suppressed his urge to chase after him, lowered his head to lick his paw pads, and quickly looked at the vase on the edge of the bedside table.

"..."

He hesitated for a few seconds, glanced at Yu Shijiu's figure that was faintly visible in the bathroom, and silently jumped onto the bedside table.

The bedside table made a slight swaying sound.

Lu Chusheng stopped abruptly, his ears perking up instantly.

"..."

Inside the bathroom, Yu Shijiu was busy squeezing toothpaste, her forehead and face covered in water that had been splashed on her earlier to help her wake up.

Water droplets slid down her cheeks and dripped onto her arms. Yu Shijiu casually shook her hands and began brushing her teeth in front of the mirror.

The suites at the Fuling Hotel were indeed excellent, very clean and spacious, and even the bathrooms showed attention to detail, being bright yet understated.

If Yu Shijiu hadn't experienced the illusion last night, he would have quite liked this instance.

The food was good (although he couldn't eat the delicious dishes), the accommodation was good, and they even brought him small cakes at night... although Yu Shijiu actually suspected that something might have been added to the small cakes.

Five minutes after eating that cake last night, he noticed that he was starting to feel weak in his hands and feet.

At first, I just couldn't exert any strength, but later I had the illusion that my hands and feet had been chopped off.

At the time, Yu Shijiu appeared perfectly normal, but the pain from his severed limbs was real.

It's fair to say that if he hadn't been so used to pain, most players would likely have collapsed to their knees and been unable to move in that situation.

Yu Shijiu suspected that the other players probably didn't eat the cake last night.

Thinking of this, Yu Shijiu sighed with toothpaste in her mouth, only to choke on the cool foam.

"Cough, cough..."

The sound of a cabinet being pushed could be heard from outside the bathroom.

Yu Shijiu's ears twitched, but he didn't pay much attention.

I guess it's Fatty waking up.

Yu Shijiu continued brushing her teeth carefully in front of the mirror, lost in thought.

Outside the bathroom.

Lu Chusheng cautiously turned around, raised the cat's head closer to the vase, and peered into the vase.

The vase was still empty, or rather, completely dark, with almost nothing visible inside.

Feifei and Yu Shijiu had actually seen it half a day ago, and Lu Chusheng even saw it in the live stream.

The vase now looks no different from the one he saw before.

But Lu Chusheng felt that something was not right.

He squinted and brought the cat's head close to the vase again, completely unaware that his head was almost completely stuffed into the mouth of the vase.

The vase has a fairly large opening, about 15 to 18 centimeters in diameter, enough to hold quite a few flowers.

Lu Chusheng, who was peeking inside, suddenly felt something was wrong.

It's too quiet around here.

He couldn't even hear Yu Shijiu brushing her teeth and washing up in the bathroom anymore—

"Hee hee hee……"

As the little girl's giggling voice rang in his ears, Lu Chusheng quickly stepped back—and then his head got stuck in the mouth of the vase.

Lu Chusheng: "..."

He took a deep breath and decided that once he got out, he would find Feifei and have her lose some weight.

Fatty, currently curled up asleep in a corner of his consciousness: "???"

It had no idea that it had been labeled as "fat," and was still smacking its lips in its dream, eating the grilled fish that Chen Yi had specially made for it.

Lu Chusheng strained to stick his head out, feeling a tight, slightly painful sensation on half of the cat's head, but he only managed to pull a tiny bit out.

It was at this moment that some flesh-colored and black things began to wriggle out of the vase, as if something strange was gradually growing.

Lu Chusheng's heart was pounding, and he pulled back with tremendous force—

boom!

Lu Chusheng stumbled against the wall, feeling dizzy and disoriented. When he finally managed to regain his footing and looked up, he saw a pale-faced, disheveled little girl's head slowly appearing at the mouth of the vase.

"Hee hee hee……"

The little girl inside the vase tilted her head, her pale and distorted features glowing with a bizarre red light in the dim light, as if she were howling or laughing.

"Kitty...kitty...kitty hug me..."

The little girl inside the vase continued to giggle, but the unspoken meaning behind her words gradually calmed Lu Chusheng's rapidly beating heart.

It's probably because entering the fat man's body caused his brain to malfunction.

Lu Chusheng quickly tried to explain his behavior, and when he looked up at the little girl in the vase, his gaze became calm.

"……Meow."

Lu Chusheng let out a meow, then successfully froze in place for a long time without moving.

"What's wrong, Fatty?"

From inside the bathroom came Yu Shijiu's muffled question, "Are you hungry? Or do you want to wash your face too?"

Lu Chusheng, who now occupies a chubby body: "..."

No, he didn't.

After not hearing a response from Fei Fei for a while, Yu Shijiu poked his head out of the bathroom while biting his toothbrush.

"What's wrong? Why aren't you saying anything? Is it—"

Yu Shijiu's voice abruptly stopped.

He stared wide-eyed at the girl in the vase on the bedside table not far away, who had turned her head when she heard the sound, and gulped down the foam in her mouth.