Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 496 Video Recorder

Outside the fourth-floor corridor, the nun and the shepherd simultaneously turned to look in the direction from which the loud door slammed shut. The former smiled slightly, while the latter lowered his head, not daring to speak.

"Let's go."

The nun adjusted the white blindfold covering her eyes and stepped into the elevator.

"Since a certain child is unwilling to join us."

The nun sighed, watching the red text on the elevator screen steadily descend through the white sheet.

"Then we have no choice but to take action."

Mu Gui stood behind her with his head down, his lips moving slightly.

"what you want to say?"

The nun seemed to have eyes in the back of her head. "Why are you hiding anything? Just say it."

Mu Gui was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat and quickly shook his head, "No, no, I wasn't thinking anything."

The nun did not turn around.

She looked at Mu Gui, who was hanging his head behind her, through the gleaming gray walls of the elevator, and didn't ask any further questions.

Zhou Yuanyang once asked her why she always carried the pastoral rules with her. How did the nun respond at the time?

The nun merely chuckled softly, casually touching her freshly painted red nails, and said with a smile:

"It's nothing, it's just that the way he is is quite amusing."

Zhou Yuanyang stopped asking.

The nun lowered her eyes to conceal the deep meaning in them, and the thin white cloth covering her eyelids was almost translucent under the elevator lights.

...Indeed, it's just quite interesting.

A person who tries to survive but abandons his companions... at times, it really reminds me of the inherent flaws of humanity.

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After Yu Shijiu finished washing up, Chen Yi and the other two briefly recounted what had happened the night before.

Yu Shijiu wiped the water off her face and walked over just in time to hear Chen Yi's voice:

"So no one died in the restaurant last night."

He Lingling nodded. "Yes, it's strange, but thinking about it carefully, last night's race game really didn't seem to be designed to kill us 'guests'."

Whether it was the words spoken by the waitresses or the Aries girl who appeared at the beginning... He Lingling noticed at the time that the "animals" that appeared later would always fall behind the players at the last moment for various reasons, no matter how they ran. Thinking about it now, it's very strange.

It's as if those decorative waiters were just creating a terrifying atmosphere, and the "race game" they led was really just an ordinary game.

"...It's really strange."

Xu Han added, "At first, I really thought it was a race to win, but after He Lingling pointed it out, I realized something was wrong. There's no way an 'animal' couldn't outrun a player, right?"

Putting everything else aside, the female player was clearly exhausted by the end, and the "animal" who was far ahead of her suddenly slipped and fell, and couldn't get up for a long time... Who would believe this if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes?

"Oh," Yu Shijiu, who had been listening quietly for a while, interjected, "It's probably because the plot can't be changed, or maybe the manager just wanted it designed this way?"

"..."

Yu Shijiu's sudden voice startled the three of them. Xu Han exclaimed "Holy crap!" and jumped back, while Chen Yi and He Lingling were alright, just patting their chests.

As the most enthusiastic among them, Feifei immediately snuggled up to Yu Shijiu and rubbed against his calves, meowing softly.

"what happened?"

Yu Shijiu petted the cat while asking in confusion, "Why are you all staring at me?"

"It's nothing," Chen Yi shook his head, both amused and exasperated. "Alright, let's hurry up and go. People will probably be coming up after they've finished eating soon."

“Yes, yes, yes,” Xu Han nodded in agreement. “We need to hurry. Hey Shi Jiu, Brother Chen said you saw that machine that can play videotapes. Where is it?”

"..." He Lingling nudged Xu Han, "Your fish memory? Didn't Brother Chen just say it was in the manager's office?"

Xu Han felt a sharp pain in his arm from being poked. "Oh right, I forgot, I forgot."

"correct."

Yu Shijiu didn't mind and said with a smile, "It's in the manager's office. Let's go and take a look together."

Although it seems a bit strange that the manager's office is on the fourth floor... well, in a game that can't be explained by science, it doesn't seem so odd that the office is on the fourth floor.

When the four people and the cat arrived at the office door from the previous night, Chen Yi was still a little worried.

"Can we go in?"

"It's okay," Yu Shijiu said nonchalantly. "If I can't get in, I can go in alone. I'll tell you what I saw when I come out."

Chen Yi: "...Well, that's fine too."

After saying that, Chen Yi saw Yu Shijiu reach out and twist the doorknob in front of him.

The three men, led by Chen Yi, simultaneously gasped for breath, their eyes fixed on the door lock that was slowly being turned open by Yu Shijiu.

Click.

The door opened.

Yu Shijiu pushed the door open, glanced inside, and waved:

"It's the same place I saw last night."

The three of them finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Xu Han wiped his face. "I knew it. Shi Jiu could definitely take us in if she opened the door."

Chen Yi didn't say anything and followed Yu Shijiu inside.

He Lingling glanced at Xu Han and disrupted the proceedings, saying, "I don't remember you saying that."

After saying that, he followed Chen Yi inside.

"...Can't I even say something nice...?"

Xu Han muttered something and followed him into the office.

Fatty walked at the very back. It looked back at the empty corridor around it, its eerie green eyes almost vertically forming some kind of strange, bestial pupils.

After glancing at the corridor several times, Fatty finally entered the office, closing the door behind him with his tail.

The door closed very softly, just a faint sound of it shutting.

It is close to nothing.

The corridor was quiet.

Until... the elevator suddenly started beeping urgently.

As the elevator doors slowly opened, the sound of wheels rolling filled the air.

Rolling—rolling—

The old woman pushing the cleaning cart coughed, bent down, pulled out a tissue to wipe her mouth, looked around the room with her cloudy, yellowish eyes, and sighed deeply.

"Today's cleaning... needs to be done thoroughly..."

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Inside the manager's office.

Yu Shijiu casually turned on the office light, and the originally dim room instantly became much brighter, with everything around him clearly visible in the light.

The light was so bright that Chen Yi and the other two had to close their eyes for several seconds before opening them again, enduring the eye strain, and instinctively began searching for a machine that could play the videotapes.

Under the watchful eyes of the three, Yu Shijiu walked to the desk with practiced ease, sat down, and reached out to touch the black machine hidden behind the books on the desk.

"The machine is here."

"Brother Chen, everyone come and take a look, is this the machine?"