Infinite: Dawn Game

"Let's go to the third floor and take another look."

Chen Yi was also a bit troubled, "Those newspapers might be on the third floor."

If it's not on the first or second floor, then we'll have to keep looking upwards.

Since this newspaper or similar item appeared last night, it will definitely appear tonight as well.

Chen Yi didn't believe those things just appeared out of nowhere.

It must be a clue.

...It's not necessarily possible to know all the stories behind the Fuling Hotel at once.

"oh oh."

Yu Shijiu reluctantly withdrew his hand and dragged the axe toward Chen Yi.

"Let's go then, Brother Chen, let's rest in the elevator."

"it is good."

Chen Yi nodded.

Lu Chusheng, who had been touched and then abandoned on the spot: "..."

He gritted his teeth and followed.

The two people and the cat pressed the up button in the elevator (ignore the eyeballs), and Yu Shijiu suddenly asked a question out of curiosity.

"Brother Chen, why are the newspapers under that bloody glue?"

"...I'm not quite sure."

Chen Yi also had some doubts, "Logically speaking, newspapers are also clues, so they should have been hidden even deeper..."

Just like the videotape that He Lingling and Xu Han found, it was only by chance that they stumbled upon it. Otherwise, if it had been placed in the storage room, they probably would have had to search for a long time to find it.

"newspaper……"

Yu Shijiu lowered her eyes thoughtfully, "Was that newspaper we were reading on the bus?"

"..."

Chen Yi was startled. He immediately stood up straight and looked at Yu Shijiu, exclaiming in surprise:

"Yes, yes, yes, that booklet we were looking at can actually be considered one of the 'clues'!"

“But there’s not much concrete information on it,” Yu Shijiu raised an eyebrow. “The only thing that could be considered a clue is that photograph—”

Yu Shijiu's voice abruptly stopped.

He suddenly thought of the photos in that booklet, and his heart skipped a beat.

Strangely enough, the man in the photo whose body was almost smashed into a pulp... still had some facial features that could be discerned.

Aside from the other person's distorted and terrified expression, Yu Shijiu's memories quickly scurried through her mind, finally settling on a man curled up inside an iron cage.

"Brother Chen."

Yu Shijiu licked her lips excitedly and tugged at Chen Yi's arm.

"I think I know who the man who jumped to his death in the booklet is."

"?"

Chen Yi looked at him in surprise, "What?"

"It's that cowardly man in the illusion who always kept his head down."

Yu Shijiu blinked and smiled, "He's also that 'younger brother' of the female staff member called Xiao Li."

Chen Yi was stunned for a few seconds, and hadn't reacted when he heard the elevator doors "beep beep beep" closing.

"What, Little Li's younger brother—"

The elevator doors slowly closed, and at the same time, the brief rest period ended once again.

"That's Xiao Li's younger brother..."

Yu Shijiu briefly recounted what happened in the illusion, and added at the end:

"Although there's no evidence yet, I suspect the boss of this game instance will likely be that 'younger brother.'"

"..."

Chen Yi was shocked.

In last night's illusion, as an ordinary-looking being who had his limbs cut off and was kept as a "pet," he genuinely didn't notice the many plot developments unfolding around him...

Perhaps because he was in too much pain at the time, and there were too many players around him breathing heavily and screaming in fear... he didn't hear any of it at all.

Chen Yi felt ashamed of his own perception.

"...So you mean the mastermind behind all this, the one who's been playing us for a fool, is that man who only appeared in the illusion?"

"Very likely."

Yu Shijiu shrugged, saying indifferently:

"Brother Chen, don't you find it strange? So far, we've hardly seen any NPCs with much background information. They seem to exist only as background figures for the Fuling Hotel, and even their attitude towards us is similar."

"A little."

Chen Yi had already figured this out, so from the beginning, he didn't take these stereotypical NPCs who frequently appeared around him to heart.

The only person I remembered was that female staff member named "Xiao Li".

The staff member who had traveled with the players on the bus all the way to the Fuling Hotel.

"This is getting interesting."

Yu Shijiu stretched and yawned, then turned to Chen Yi, who was still deep in thought, and smiled.

"We'll find out when we go out and take a look."

"..."

Chen Yi subconsciously looked up and saw that the red number flashing on the elevator screen had stopped at "3".

The next second, the familiar "beep beep beep" sound rang out.

Chen Yi interrupted the chaotic plot and clues in his mind, "Let's go. Remember, take care of yourselves."

"Mmm-hmm," Yu Shijiu nodded and muttered, "Brother Chen, really, you've said that so many times..."

"..."

As the elevator doors opened, two figures, one fat and one thin, rushed into the dense horde of bizarre, human-pig-like creatures.

"..."

Left in the elevator, Lu Chusheng suppressed his temper and sighed deeply. Before leaving the elevator, he looked up at the densely packed, wriggling brains on the ceiling.

...He had wanted to say it for a long time.

Are these "brain flowers" appearing too frequently?

Even with the background of the illusion, Lu Chusheng still felt a bit of a chill run down his spine when he saw these wriggling brains.

Is there really any place in this hotel that doesn't have these "brain flowers"?

As the orange cat left the elevator, the elevator doors began to close slowly. During the closing process, the wriggling brain-like creatures above the elevator slowly retreated, eventually disappearing behind the iron-gray elevator walls.

Not a single trace was left.

This scene was not witnessed by anyone.

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The male player lost.

This is what everyone present was thinking when they saw half of the "race".

Because the male player was afraid of being delayed for too long, the Aries girl was now almost at the finish line.

Even though its pure white wool was charred, even though beneath the charred wool was charred black flesh... even though yellowish oil was dripping from its body.

It kept screaming and running forward, not daring to stop for a moment.

The male player was in a similar state to the Aries girl. His skin was scorched red and black by the surrounding heat, and the hot coals under his feet made it difficult for him to move, but he still had to keep running forward.

As the Aries girl was about to reach the finish line first, the male player cried out with his last ounce of strength:

"Please, please wait for me, please wait for me, please... Waaaaaah..."