Infinite: Dawn Game

A possibility involuntarily surfaced in the minds of all the players: could their "pets" possibly mutate?

They lowered their heads as they thought about it.

The "pets" they were holding in their arms and the "pets" squatting at their feet looked up at the same time, their fluffy, round eyes staring straight at them, giving them ingratiating "smiles".

They look very friendly.

But all the players were still replaying the terrifying scenes from last night in their minds.

Over-reliance on "pets" to save themselves... they will only become part of the "pet" itself.

Even in death, they are merely containers in which "pets" parasitize.

That outcome was worse than death.

"No...I don't want to die..."

A player angrily gripped his "pet," but suddenly snapped out of it and began to frantically repent as the "pet" let out a painful howl.

"No, no, I didn't mean to hurt you. I was just thinking, I was just thinking, I can't, I can't let you get hurt, I can't let you get hurt..."

The player was clearly on the verge of a mental breakdown, constantly stroking the body of the "pet" in his arms, and naturally missed the glimpse of something flashing through the gap in the "pet's" eyes.

If Chen Yi and the others were here, they would definitely be able to tell what it was.

It was a tiny, white-pink clump of brain tissue.

It seems to be everywhere, encircling the entire Fuling Hotel bit by bit, leaving no stone unturned.

The cold, mechanical sound of the system continued.

[The friendly reminder has ended. Please take note.]

The second chase will begin in thirty seconds. Try your best to survive until the morning of the third day... Countdown begins now: 30 - 29 - 28

"We should go!"

The moment the countdown began, the players inside the elevator panicked and rushed toward the opening elevator door one after another.

"The first floor, the first floor should be safe."

The first player to successfully escape the elevator ran out of the corridor carrying his "pet," looking around frantically.

Since I couldn't get down to the first floor yesterday, it means the first floor must be safe...it must be—

"gentlemen?"

A cough suddenly sounded behind the player, and he froze on the spot, mechanically turning his head.

The elderly cleaning lady stood behind him, wiping her hands, which were pushing the cleaning cart, on her apron in front of her, revealing a "kind and gentle" smile.

Where are you going?

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"This should be it."

Chen Yi stopped at the door of a room that looked very ordinary.

“…” Yu Shijiu looked the door, which had many holes the size of eyeballs, up and down several times, and nodded.

"definitely is."

He pointed to the holes in the door and said, "These are obviously holes made by someone's eyeballs."

It seems that Xu Han and his group left quickly last night, and the male reporter didn't really intend to kill them, otherwise, with that kind of force...

Yu Shijiu concluded: "It can knock a person's intestines out."

Chen Yi: "..."

Chen Yi reached for the doorknob with a headache, "Maybe it's because yesterday was the first day, so they didn't hit it hard enough."

That's also possible.

Yu Shijiu nodded in agreement and followed Chen Yi into the newly opened storage room.

Just as the two were about to enter the storage room, the game system's notification sounded in their ears at the same time.

As the countdown began, Chen Yi quickened his pace.

He quickly fumbled for the switch by the door and soon found it and pressed it.

Click.

The light in the storage room flickered several times before finally coming on completely.

Yu Shijiu narrowed his eyes and carefully observed his surroundings.

Lu Chusheng squatted at the entrance of the storage room.

His gaze swept over the door, which had been smashed through several times, and finally slowly drifted toward the end of the corridor not far away.

I don't know if he misheard.

Lu Chusheng's two cat ears twitched.

He seemed to suddenly hear someone scream...

The storage room was very clean, with white towel racks and cleaning agents everywhere. If you smelled it closely, you could also smell a very faint disinfectant scent.

It was probably sprayed by the cleaners for disinfection.

Yu Shijiu didn't really like this taste.

He wrinkled his nose and discreetly moved behind Chen Yi to hide.

Chen Yi didn't notice Yu Shijiu's little actions. He was busy quickly "browsing" the small storage room, with beads of cold sweat on his forehead, dripping down his chubby cheeks.

Chen Yi relaxed slightly after confirming that there was nothing strange about the situation.

If the storage room is the place where the "clues" first appeared, and they don't trigger any "clues" or "plot" when they come back a second time, then it proves that there is almost nothing going to happen in this place.

In short, this place is "safe" for the time being.

It's not the kind of "safety" based on self-preservation, but rather the kind of safety where players don't need to constantly search for "clues" in this small room.

"Walk."

Chen Yi wiped the sweat from his face and said in a low voice, "Let's go find Xiaohan and Lingling—"

Yu Shijiu quickly closed the door behind her, and Lu Chusheng, who was wearing a "fat skin", almost immediately crawled into the storage room, stood close to Yu Shijiu's calves, and looked out through the small holes in the door.

"...Turn off the lights."

Squeezed at the back, Chen Yi looked at the light switch next to Yu Shijiu and squeezed out a sound.

Yu Shijiu was very obedient and quickly turned off the light.

Click.

The storage room was plunged into darkness.

At the same moment, the sound of people running quickly echoed in the corridor—not just one person, but the sound of several people running at the same time.

Separated by a door, Chen Yi and Yu Shijiu simultaneously softened their breathing.

Lu Chusheng was closest to the door. His human-like cat-like whiskers twitched slightly as he silently approached the holes in the door.

Yu Shijiu keenly noticed his movement, but only lightly touched his buttocks with her leg.

Lu Chusheng: "..."

He was startled and his tail stood up high in a flash.

Just as Lu Chusheng was about to turn around, the sound of running grew closer and closer.

But the countdown in their ears clearly still had almost ten seconds left—

"Holy crap! Why does this even exist?!"

A player's frustrated voice came through the screen: "Why is the janitor chasing people too?! How the hell am I supposed to escape? Isn't this ridiculous?"

"The countdown hasn't even started yet!!! This is so unfair!"

"..."

The two people and the cat watched as two or three players scurried past in the corridor outside the door. Soon, they saw the figure of an old man pushing a cleaning cart behind them.

It was that elderly cleaning lady pushing the cleaning cart, her face pale and wrinkled, coughing.

"Cough cough cough..."