Infinite: Dawn Game

"Ahhhh-"

When the sharp, piercing scream came from the long-haired female player's throat, it almost startled her so much that she took several steps back... and finally fell to the ground.

Before him stood a short-haired female player named Wang Xiaoling, looking down at him with a hand piercing his chest.

The calico cat, curled up against Wang Xiaoling's chest, meowed and jumped onto Wang Xiaoling's shoulder.

The scream from the long-haired female player abruptly stopped.

In addition to the hand that suddenly pierced through his entire body, Wang Xiaoling had an even larger, more festering and bloody wound on his chest.

The long-haired female player stopped breathing.

Her gaze fell on the calico cat perched on Wang Xiaoling's shoulder, watching the cat greedily lick the blood and bits of flesh from its paws, even seeming eager to reach for more flesh on Wang Xiaoling's chest.

"Hee hee hee--"

The calico cat's mouth opened wider and wider, its numerous sharp teeth gleaming eerily under the light.

Then Wang Xiaoling grabbed it by the neck with her bare hands and threw it against the wall next to her.

Snapped!

The calico cat's limp body slowly slid down the wall, its malicious pupils fixed on Wang Xiaoling, and it let out a strange cry from its throat.

"laugh--"

"……Walk."

Wang Xiaoling's voice was hoarse. She looked down at the long-haired female player who was slumped on the ground and said again, "Go... ah."

The long-haired female player stared at her in terror, her lips trembling, her hands trembling, and her body trembling. In extreme fear, she actually yelled at Wang Xiaoling.

"I do not go!"

"I'm not leaving! What about you?! What about you?! If I leave, what will you do? What will you do?!"

The long-haired female player's screams echoed through the surrounding corridors. The hand that had just pierced through Wang Xiaoling's body suddenly moved, pulled back a little, and was quickly pulled back by Wang Xiaoling.

puff!

It was the sound of flesh being pierced once again.

The long-haired female player's pupils trembled, and she crawled forward a few steps, reaching out her hand.

"Xiaoling—"

I said... let's go.

Wang Xiaoling's grayish-white pupils grew darker and darker under the dim light, as the ubiquitous brain matter moved through her head, gradually devouring her remaining sanity.

But she is still enduring it.

She can still tolerate it.

As tears streamed down Wang Xiaoling's face, she managed to speak again with difficulty.

“Shi Yuan…”

"Go... I'm not going to live... You can still live... Please..."

As Wang Xiaoling spoke, the grotesque, human-pig-like waitresses hiding in various corners of the first floor slowly emerged from behind her, one after another. Although their numbers were not as large as those on the upper floors, they were still more than the two of them could handle.

The long-haired female player named Shi Yuan opened her mouth, but couldn't say a word.

"...Stand up."

Wang Xiaoling stared at her, her greyish-white eyes cold and eerie. "Leave this place... I'm begging you..."

"Promise me," Wang Xiaoling said with difficulty, spitting out dark red blood. She forced back the blood gushing from her throat.

"Don't look back...please don't look back..."

Shi Yuan nodded with trembling lips. She stood up and ran frantically toward the elevator, tears streaming down her cheeks as she let out a long-suppressed sob.

"..."

But as the elevator doors slowly opened, Shi Yuan couldn't help but turn around.

In the corridor not far away, a dense swarm of grotesque, human-pig-like creatures rushed toward Wang Xiaoling, who still retained some of her sanity. Their scattered limbs gripped her body tightly, while their limbless bodies opened their mouths and bit down hard on her...

The scene was terrifying and bloody.

Shi Yuan's hands were shaking as he pressed the elevator button.

She wants to go back.

But Wang Xiaoling, who had been captured, seemed to know her thoughts and slowly raised her head, giving her a final smile.

"...Let's go..."

Wang Xiaoling moved her lips silently, and her blood-covered face broke into the same hearty laugh as before, just like every time they came out of a game instance alive and lay on the ground celebrating.

"We will definitely leave alive."

The woman had a beautiful smile. She had a pretty but ordinary appearance, except for a small mole in the center below her lip. This mole added a subtle touch of charm to her otherwise plain face.

"Shi Yuan".

The woman smiled and said, "After we get out of here, how about we open a barbecue restaurant together?"

Shi Yuan was somewhat surprised: "Why open a barbecue restaurant? Running a barbecue restaurant is very tiring."

"Don't you like to eat it?"

The woman said, "If we become the boss, you can eat as much as you want, how about that?"

"Haha, I'm dying of laughter..." Shi Yuan laughed and leaned on her shoulder, deliberately saying:

"Wouldn't we go bankrupt? We'd have to close down after a month at most."

"...Then let's open a barbecue stand."

The woman thought about it seriously, "The rent for a barbecue stall is cheap, we can afford it."

"Wang Xiaoling!"

Shi Yuan chuckled and tickled the other person's ticklish spot, laughing out loud like a goose as the latter shrank back.

"But we need to get out of here alive to open a barbecue stand."

"OK."

Wang Xiaoling stopped what she was doing and looked at her. "We can get out of here alive together."

-

"fraud."

"fraud."

"fraud……"

Shi Yuan entered the elevator alone. Her hands trembled as she pressed the button for the fourth floor. She was shaking all over and covered in cold sweat.

"Wang Xiaoling...you're a liar..."

She curled up on the elevator floor, which was covered in blood and rotting flesh, and viciously swallowed each word into her mind.

Wang Xiaoling, you're a liar.

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The elevator door is closed.

Shi Yuan's figure disappeared inside the elevator.

Wang Xiaoling's fragile composure began to crumble in that instant; she could still feel the pain.

As the flesh was being devoured, it seemed that the soul was also being slowly consumed by something unseen...

Life is better than death.

As her consciousness faded into complete darkness, Wang Xiaoling saw the calico cat she had slammed against the wall slowly stand up.

The calico cat was covered in blood, and when it looked up, it revealed a chilling gaze that was completely contrary to its cute appearance.

"Hee hee hee……"

The calico cat, which was also her "pet," let out another series of sharp laughs.

The monstrous creatures that had bitten her retreated frantically as if facing a formidable enemy, one after another sticking to the blood-stained floor, too terrified to even look up.

Wang Xiaoling felt her body fall to the ground with a "thud".

Before she died, she saw the calico cat slowly walk up to her, look down at her, and then crawl into her chest, which had a large hole in it, and begin to eat.

"..."

The sound of chewing food then echoed in the corridor.