Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 488 Three Days

Upon hearing this, the manager instinctively lowered his head.

"You have a scar on your wrist, it's quite noticeable, but you probably don't pay much attention to it."

Otherwise, it wouldn't be exposed so blatantly.

Yu Shijiu recalled what he saw in the illusion and said:

"It looks like it was burned by something. Could the shape be smoke?"

The same scar, in the same location—Yu Shijiu had seen the exact same one in the illusion.

The timid, fearful man who huddled deep inside the iron cage, reaching out to grab the bars in an effort to survive, saying he wanted to become a hotel employee.

Yu Shijiu didn't believe in such a coincidence.

Not to mention the arm of that buzz-cut male player last night, which had clearly been chopped off... But then again, if the buzz-cut male player's arm hadn't been chopped off, he probably wouldn't have guessed the manager's true identity.

Although this statement doesn't sound pleasant, it is indeed the truth.

The manager fell silent.

He looked down at his wrist and, sure enough, saw a fleshy red, round scar with tiny, swollen granulation tissue at the edges.

Just as Yu Shijiu had guessed, it was indeed a cigarette burn.

A cigarette burn scar that had been on his wrist for a very long time.

"..."

Yu Shijiu stretched lazily, not caring whether the manager would answer his question, and walked straight to the door.

Just as his hand touched the doorknob, he heard the manager's voice behind him.

"Yes."

Yu Shijiu paused, his hand gripping the doorknob.

The manager seemed to chuckle. "This scar has been on me for a very, very long time."

So long ago, he himself could hardly remember the pain he felt when he was burned.

"It looks like it."

Yu Shijiu glanced back at him and said, "Take good care of it. Scars can heal if you spend more money."

Especially since it's such a small scar.

After saying that, Yu Shijiu opened the door and prepared to leave.

Lu Chusheng also turned around and glanced at the manager who was standing still. In that one glance, his pupils suddenly dilated a lot.

"..."

Not far away, the manager, whose eyes were still half-closed beside his cheeks, let go of his hand, and the skin all over his body seemed to begin to sag, just like the skin around his eyes.

The image of a human body with contorted, wrinkled, fleshy skin gradually loosening is disgusting, like a pile of what should have been healthy flesh slowly turning into a rotten, maggot-infested lump of flesh.

"Fatty?"

Yu Shijiu, who was walking in front, just glanced back at the manager and waved to Feifei without much concern.

"We should go now—"

Yu Shijiu paused, then hissed, "Oh right, I almost forgot, Manager, are you still hiring? Although the food in your restaurant is really not good at all... I still want to ask if you're hiring, how much is the salary? Does it include three meals a day?"

The manager, who should have been immersed in his past memories, was speechless.

Lu Chusheng keenly noticed that the manager's loose skin stiffened for a moment.

...It seems the manager was so shocked by Yu Shijiu's words that he didn't know what to say...

The manager's reaction was quite normal... after all, no one expected Yu Shijiu to suddenly say something like that.

"manager?"

Yu Shijiu asked again, "Are you still hiring? I'm quite hardworking and clean very well. As long as you provide room and board, oh right, I just need normal human meals plus afternoon tea and late-night snacks. A lower salary is perfectly acceptable."

Lu Chusheng: "..."

manager:"……"

The other players in front of the screen, whose minds were already reeling from Yu Shijiu's words, were speechless.

"...No, what exactly is Yu Shijiu doing? Is he just playing through a game instance?"

"You'd better stop thinking about whether it's serious or not..." one player said, his lips twitching. "Why do I feel like he's actually being quite serious?"

They were so serious, as if Yu Shijiu would actually "work" at the Fuling Hotel if the manager really agreed to these things...

"……How can it be?"

The player next to him scoffed, "Yu Shijiu was just talking nonsense. Even if he's a good fighter, he's still just a kid. He doesn't have much of a brain and just talks off the cuff. Tsk, he'll be in big trouble if he gets targeted because of something he said casually..."

"..."

The other players didn't care about that statement.

Judging from Yu Shijiu's current personality... if something really happens that he's being targeted, it's hard to say who will suffer the most...

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This time, the manager was truly silent.

He stared into Yu Shijiu's eyes, which held "sincere" emotions, and his cheek twitched, swelling up into a strange little bun.

"……don't want."

The manager squeezed out two words through gritted teeth.

He felt he didn't like the guest opposite him who wouldn't listen to his tragic past.

Since they don't like it, it's impossible to make them a new employee of Fuling Hotel.

"...That's it."

Yu Shijiu was somewhat disappointed and sighed, "I really wanted to."

Manager: "...No."

Lu Chusheng, who was standing nearby, had calmed down and silently walked over to Yu Shijiu's legs and squatted down, watching the somewhat strange conversation without saying a word.

Yu Shijiu was still a little unwilling to give up, and asked again, "Really don't want it?"

He continued to volunteer, but his eyes casually drifted through the manager's figure to various corners of the office.

"I'm really hardworking, I can even do the cleaning lady's chores!"

"……No."

The manager's sagging, brittle temples twitched a few times, and he refused again.

"Fuling Hotel does not need any new employees at the moment."

After being rejected three times in a row, Yu Shijiu was utterly disappointed. He sighed and withdrew his wandering gaze.

"It seems I arrived at the wrong time."

Yu Shijiu said, "So, manager, how much longer are we going to stay in your hotel? Running around every day is really boring."

The manager's brow furrowed, and his fleshy skin bulged out in a large clump due to his movements. The grooves on the clump twisted little by little, and from a distance, it looked like a discolored brain.

"Three days."

The manager instinctively replied, "You only need to stay one more day before you can leave—"

The manager's voice abruptly stopped.

He looked up and stared intently at the smiling boy by the door, his skin twitching wildly once again.

It was as if the human skin he was wearing was about to collapse.

"...Three days."

This time, Yu Shijiu genuinely laughed. Looking at the manager with his strange expression, he sincerely thanked him.

"Thank you," Yu Shijiu said. "I really like this answer."

After saying that, Yu Shijiu was really leaving this time.

Lu Chusheng also stood up and followed him into the darkness that surged out again by the door.

As the figures of the man and the cat gradually disappeared, the manager finally couldn't resist rushing into the darkness.