Infinite: Dawn Game

"no!"

The long-haired female player insisted, "We've never used it."

"The elevator doors are about to close, Brother Chen."

Chen Yi heard Yu Shijiu urging him from behind.

"...Think about it yourself."

Chen Yi sighed, didn't try to persuade the long-haired female player, left a message, and quickly walked into the elevator.

Drop drop!

As the elevator doors slowly closed, they could still see the long-haired female player standing there with a distorted expression, her hand still tightly gripping the short-haired female player's arm, unwilling to let go.

"She probably won't let go."

Yu Shijiu glanced around the elevator at the bloody mess of his own writhing brain tissue, just like last night, and said lazily.

I wonder if there will be even more strange things on the second, third, and fourth floors tonight, especially since the "vase girl" just appeared last night...

"……Um."

Chen Yi suddenly became less talkative. He remained silent for a while before slowly responding.

"Brother Chen?"

Yu Shijiu called out to him.

"What's wrong? Your voice sounded a little off just now?"

"It's nothing," Chen Yi wiped his face and smiled, "I just thought of something not so good when I looked at the two of them."

"..." Yu Shijiu stared at Chen Yi for a long while before slowly shifting her gaze to other places.

"What are we looking for on the second floor? Are we just going to pry open those blood glue pieces on the floor and take a look?"

Yu Shijiu asked.

"Yes, I'll take a closer look at the blood glue to see if there's anything underneath."

Chen Yi was relieved that Yu Shijiu hadn't tried to get to the bottom of things, and quickly said:

"Shi Jiu, just make sure to clear the area around me while I'm digging out the blood glue."

"uh-huh."

Yu Shijiu wiped his axe clean. "Then Brother Chen, be serious. I'm only busy killing monsters."

“Okay,” Chen Yi said, both amused and exasperated, “I will keep a close eye on the ground.”

In other words, there are currently too few items in the Dawn game that can follow the player, and even if there are items that can be exchanged for points, the cost is too high for players to afford. Otherwise, players could simply use items to clear the way.

Boom——

The sudden clap of thunder caused the two people in the elevator to experience a brief ringing in their ears for two seconds, but soon their attention was drawn to a crack in the elevator doors that had suddenly opened.

Outside the elevator, a dense mass of grotesque, human-pig-like creatures stared intently at them, and the familiar, incessant brainwashing sounds once again sent chills down their spines.

We've arrived at the second floor.

"...Shi Jiu".

Chen Yi added, "Be careful to protect yourself and avoid getting hurt."

Yu Shijiu is really not the type to take good care of himself.

Chen Yi felt a headache coming on when he thought about this.

"Uh-huh."

Yu Shijiu gripped the axe in her hand and nodded cheerfully, "I will."

Lu Chusheng, who had been silent beside him, walked forward close to his leg, and then let out a "meow" in response to his desire.

Yu Shijiu lowered her head and said in surprise:

"Wow, Fatty, you suddenly called out again!"

Lu Chusheng: "..."

He suppressed the eerie sense of shame that made his scalp tingle, and stubbornly rubbed his cat head against Yu Shijiu's thigh again, repeating "meow" once more.

His voice was deep and hoarse, not as soft and pleasant as Fatty's usual melodious calls.

Even Chen Yi felt that something was wrong.

The sound that Fatty usually made didn't seem to be like this in my memory...

But Yu Shijiu didn't understand.

He even petted the "fat cat's" head before exiting the elevator, then happily took the axe and stepped out.

Lu Chusheng followed behind him with a "cool" cat face (actually blushing with embarrassment).

Chen Yi silently followed: "..."

Did he misremember, or did he mishear?

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First floor.

The long-haired female player stared at the now completely closed elevator doors, her face contorted with anger gradually disappearing and returning to normal.

She didn't believe what those two people had said.

They stumbled and suffered so much to get from the third floor to the second floor, and they didn't even use their "pets" to avoid any attacks. How could the situation they described have happened?

impossible! Absolutely impossible!

“Xiaoling, look at them. They just lie to us. No wonder you always tell me that you can’t trust what men say. You’re a fool to believe them.”

The long-haired female player casually released her hand from the short-haired female player's arm and reached out to smooth the blood-soaked, matted strands of hair on the other's forehead.

"Look at you, aren't you too tired? Your hair is covering your eyes and you haven't even bothered to fix it..."

Then she saw a pair of grayish-white eyes.

Those greyish-white eyes stared at her unblinkingly, cold and eerie, like some extremely cold animal staring at her as if she were dead.

There were even quite a few drops of blood splattered around his eyes that were sliding down.

"...Xiaoling?"

The long-haired girl's hand froze on Xiaoling's face.

"What's wrong with your eyes?"

Xiaoling's face was very cold.

It wasn't a warm or cool touch, but rather a very icy, soft, and sticky coolness—no, to be precise, it was "icy."

It's the kind of "ice" that's as cold as a dead person.

The long-haired female player's hands started to tremble.

But she still didn't let go, still pressing her hand against Xiaoling's cold cheek, forcefully pulling at the other's skin.

"Wang Xiaoling! You fucking talk now! I told you to talk! Did you understand?!"

The long-haired female player's voice grew louder and louder, so shrill that the intestines and brains hanging from the ceiling began to writhe silently.

"I told you to speak! I told you to speak!"

The long-haired female player began to sob, and she forcefully pulled at Wang Xiaoling's face, the veins on the back of her hand bulging.

She seemed to just want to use the pain to make the other person take her seriously.

In the shadows unnoticed by the long-haired female player, something seemed to be gradually awakening, slowly approaching her.

"Say something, say something... Don't scare me, you were perfectly fine just now... Don't scare me... Please don't scare me, okay?"

Wang Xiaoling stared coldly at her, and in her gray-white pupils, a pinhead-sized black dot seemed to be struggling to break through the rest of the gray-white haze.

"……Walk."

After a while, another hoarse female voice rang out in the corridor.

The long-haired female player suddenly looked up, her face blurred by two streams of tears, making her look rather unsightly.

"Xiaoling! You're awake, aren't you? You're awake, aren't you! It's okay, it's okay, I knew it would be okay."

The long-haired female player burst into laughter through her tears. Just as she was about to hug Wang Xiaoling, the other woman suddenly pulled her forcefully and turned her around.

The long-haired female player, whose direction had been reversed, stared at her blankly:

"how--"

puff.

The sharp sound of flesh being pierced came from right in front of me.

Warm, salty blood splattered all over the long-haired female player's face and choked her.

The long-haired female player was stunned.