Infinite: Dawn Game

Wang Xiaoling's eyes widened, her bloodshot gray-white pupils reflecting the writhing brains and intestines on the ceiling.

Wang Xiaoling is dead.

wow——

In a corner of the ceiling, countless pink and white brains, streaked with blood, wriggled together, as if gathered together looking down at the woman who had died on the floor.

The woman's body looked horribly mutilated.

Her tattered clothes and her body, decayed to the point of exposing her bones and internal organs, clearly indicated that she must have endured unimaginable suffering at the time of her death.

"Meow!"

The calico cat's satisfied meows rang out, accompanied by a somewhat hoarse yet familiar female voice.

Hehehehehe—

Wang Xiaoling's broken and decaying body made a creaking sound as her bones broke. Then her knees suddenly bent, causing her twisted leg bones to slowly begin to move around on the ground.

Without any pattern or order, it was like a lump of rotten flesh being controlled by something, twisting and running around wildly in the corridor.

As Wang Xiaoling's corpse ran away, the quiet, monstrous creatures around her slowly returned to normal.

They paced around restlessly for a while before finally "running" in unison towards the darkness at the far end of the corridor.

After all the creatures had left, the first-floor corridor fell silent once again.

Da-da-da-da

The sound of heeled leather shoes broke the eerie silence as they approached from afar.

"Grandma~"

Mutangtang stopped at the spot where the "game" had just ended, and coughed after unexpectedly inhaling the strong smell of blood in the air.

"It smells awful here."

Xylitol waved her hand somewhat unhappily.

"...Good girl, Tangtang."

Grandma Mu took a mask out of her pocket, bent down and carefully put it on her granddaughter before smiling.

"If the air smells bad, just wear a mask."

"..."

Mutangtang reached out and pulled down her mask, then hummed in agreement before squatting down.

The little girl's lace-trimmed princess dress fell to the ground and was quickly stained with blood.

Mu Tangtang didn't pay attention. She quietly looked at the blood-stained silver necklace on the ground, her eyelashes trembling slightly for a moment.

“…cheap things.”

Xylitol whispered.

Players watching from outside the screen were dumbfounded.

"I've wanted to ask this for a long time: why doesn't Xylitol ever run into those staff members?"

"I don't know... Does anyone watch Mutangtang's live stream the whole time? I switch between several live streams, so I must have missed a lot of details."

"..."

"I haven't switched to the live stream, but I don't know why Mutangtang hasn't encountered any monsters..."

"..."

Some of the bolder players seemed to realize something, and their faces turned deathly pale.

"...I have a guess, but a guess may not be accurate."

"what?"

The person quickly pressed further, "What guess? Do you know why Mu Tangtang and the others haven't encountered any monsters?"

"It's just a guess," the bolder player swallowed hard and whispered.

"Do you guys remember who ate those meat dishes in the game 'Fuling Hotel'?"

"..."

The area instantly fell into dead silence.

After a long pause, a player finally said with difficulty, "It seems... there isn't one."

Apart from Grandma Mu... no one else had ever eaten those "meat dishes"...

Most people wouldn't dare to eat it.

Even if there were no more vegetables the next day, they only dared to eat white rice and steamed buns, and dared not eat a single bite of any dish that had anything to do with "meat".

"...So, it's because Grandma Mu ate meat and vegetables?"

Someone stared wide-eyed and muttered, "Eating meat and vegetables will prevent you from being chased by those monsters? There's actually such a way to escape..."

"That's not it!"

The player next to him slapped him and spat at him with a look of disappointment.

"He means, does that mean players who eat the 'meat dishes' will be mistaken for hotel staff by the boss behind the Fuling Hotel?"

"..."

The moment those words were spoken, the surroundings fell silent.

A few seconds later, someone muttered something to themselves.

"If that's the case, Mutangtang and the others are way too daring..."

Eating human flesh would make the hotel's behind-the-scenes boss think they were hotel staff. Could they then more boldly speculate that these monstrous creatures, their limbs severed and turned into human pigs... had all eaten human flesh in their previous lives?

Currently, the probability is as high as 90%.

But under what circumstances would these workers choose to eat human flesh?

Does simply engaging in human trafficking and creating grotesque objects warrant the act of cannibalism?

While it's possible to force a conclusion like that, they still felt something was off...

Inside the game instance, Mutangtang had no idea what the players watching the live stream outside were discussing.

She squatted on the ground and looked at the blood-stained necklace for a long time before reaching out and picking it up from the pool of blood.

The necklace's color has oxidized somewhat, and the areas not stained by blood have turned black.

Mutangtang looked at it and stuffed the necklace into her worn-out bag.

Grandma Mu, who was standing next to her, took a tissue out of her pocket and handed it to her, saying gently:

"Come on, Tangtang, wipe your hands."

"Thank you grandma~"

Mutangtang thanked her sweetly, wiped her hands clean, reached out and took Grandma Mu's hand, and left the place filled with the strong smell of blood step by step.

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The second floor.

Yu Shijiu and Chen Yi searched the entire second floor, cutting down many of the frantically attacking human-pig monsters, but they couldn't find anything in the sticky layer of blood glue under their feet.

"Brother Chen."

Yu Shijiu shook his hand and took a few breaths while supporting himself with his axe when the game system announced a break.

"Are you sure you're not mistaken? There doesn't look like anything on the second floor."

"..."

Chen Yi wiped the sweat from his forehead and coughed. "The location might change randomly. I think I saw it from the second floor last night."

"...It's okay, we'll take our time looking, no rush."

Yu Shijiu didn't really care. He leaned against the wall, gently massaging his arms and wrists, quietly watching the human pig-like monsters that seemed to be frozen in place.

These monstrous creatures look perfectly normal during the day, but turn into this at night. They really seem quite unlucky.

Looking at it this way, everyone seems to be quite unlucky?

As Yu Shijiu's thoughts wandered, his grip on the axe loosened, giving the impression that it was about to fall.

Lu Chusheng, who was standing nearby, immediately became alert and moved closer to prevent the axe from falling and hitting Yu Shijiu's foot.

"?"

Yu Shijiu noticed "Feifei" approaching and thought the other wanted to be petted on the head, so he quickly put down his axe and rubbed it several times, each time harder than the last, until he had rubbed the fur on "Feifei's" head into a mess before he stopped.

Lu Chusheng: "..."