Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 497 Contact

Yu Shijiu was actually a little unsure whether it was true or not.

Last night, he only thought the machine looked somewhat similar when he saw it, but after all, he didn't have much experience with such things in real life, let alone a machine that was somewhat old-fashioned.

Yu Shijiu is very honest.

He wouldn't use this thing, and similarly... he wasn't entirely sure.

After all, he had never seen such a machine before.

The three people who were called Chen Yi: "..."

In reality, Xu Han is a patient who has been bedridden for many years, and He Lingling is a blind person who cannot see anything... It turns out that only Chen Yi can barely recognize them.

Chen Yi did indeed know him.

He looked at the long, black, slightly worn machine with surprise and said:

"This is it, the video recorder."

After saying that, Chen Yi started operating the system. Once he confirmed that the screen could play the video, he took out the videotape and inserted it into the VCR. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the screen start to show static.

"It can be played."

Yu Shijiu looked at it curiously, "They're all snowflakes."

Chen Yi explained, "It's probably because it hasn't been shown for a long time, or it could be due to the game's background—"

Before he could finish speaking, the static on the screen suddenly froze, densely packed together, before slowly disappearing.

The four people and one cat surrounding the video camera instantly stopped breathing.

Magnet—

As the videotape began to play, a figure started to appear in the center of the static on the screen.

What appeared before them was a very simple operating room, with a woman lying on the operating table whose hands and feet had been cut off.

The woman stared desperately at the person recording the video, her eyes filled with tears of despair and gushing blood.

The woman in this picture, Yu Shijiu saw her last night.

It's the woman in the photo.

The screen flashed repeatedly showing many people with severed limbs—men, women, old, young… even some very young children and infants. They were all placed on the operating table like animals unable to control themselves, their limbs or heads severed and placed aside.

The picture was so clear that it made viewers feel nauseous.

Xu Han's reaction was the strongest.

He had the strongest imagination, and almost immediately associated the "meat dishes" in the restaurant with the "animals" who had been tied to the grill after losing the previous night.

vomit……

Xu Han covered her mouth to suppress gagging and stared wide-eyed at the screen.

He Lingling also thought of the "race game" from last night.

For some reason... a strange guess suddenly came to her mind.

The forced "race game," the animals that make it impossible for players to lose, and the "artworks" on the screen with their limbs cut off.

Men and women... could there be some kind of specific relationship between them?

Just then, He Lingling suddenly widened her eyes and exclaimed:

"Pause!"

Chen Yi immediately pressed the pause button. "What did you see?"

Yu Shijiu also turned her head and asked, "Is something wrong?"

He Lingling licked her lips, her only visible black eyes darting up and down uneasily.

“Xu Han,” He Lingling said, “look at the girl in the corner who has been dismembered. Doesn’t her face look a lot like that Aries girl?”

Xu Han was stunned for a moment when he was called out, "Aries girl?"

He Lingling nodded, "Yes."

Xu Han leaned closer to examine the pale-faced girl in the corner of the screen, and nodded after a few seconds.

“Yes,” Xu Han’s eyelids twitched rapidly, “it’s her.”

That face was the same Aries girl who was waiting for the player at the beginning.

"It really was her..."

He Lingling murmured something under her breath, then said to Chen Yi:

"Brother Chen, keep playing it."

The video recorder started playing again.

After playing for about thirty seconds, He Lingling suddenly called for a stop.

This time, it was that scalper man.

……

They stopped five times in a row, and each time He Lingling and Xu Han could see those "humanoid animals" that had raced with the players last night, their hearts pounding faster and faster.

"They're all human, they really are all human..."

Yu Shijiu sat in his office chair, staring at the screen. When his gaze fell on the headless corpse on the screen, he lowered his eyelids thoughtfully.

...Those people's heads...it seemed like they were all empty...

Did he see it wrong?

After He Lingling finished speaking, her face turned pale, and she pursed her lips:

"Brother Chen, keep playing."

Chen Yi nodded and pressed play again.

This time, however, it wasn't the dismembered NPCs that appeared, but a group of staff members wearing Fuling Hotel uniforms.

One by one, the staff members entered a room. The one in the lead, Xiao Li, still sporting impeccable makeup, was sternly warning a female staff member:

"Be smart once you're inside. Don't scream or panic when you see the 'goods.' Listen carefully: if you don't make a sound and your hands and feet don't go trembling, you'll pass."

“Otherwise,” Xiao Li frowned, seemingly both impatient and reluctant, “you too will become the new ‘goods’.”

"understand?"

Xiao Li was met with a cacophony of disjointed responses.

There are both men and women.

Clearly, this is a scene of "internship" for new hotel employees.

If we ignore the undisguised fear in the eyes of those hotel staff.

Yu Shijiu thought.

Even as an observer, he could see it clearly; of course, Xiao Li, as their "master," could see it even more clearly.

But for some reason, she didn't say much, only reminding them not to slip and fall or drop the "goods," before watching the new employees enter the room one by one.

"...Something's not right."

He Lingling and Chen Yi felt a chill run down their spines as they watched. "I don't think this scene was filmed with a camera..."

Xu Han didn't quite understand what they meant by that, and asked blankly:

"If it wasn't filmed by a machine, why is it stored on a videotape—"

I don't think so either.

Yu Shijiu lazily leaned back in his office chair and yawned.

"The angle, and the height range of the line of sight... all seem more like a person recording what is happening in front of them with their own eyes..."

Yu Shijiu chuckled with a sigh, "These do look a bit strange..."

"..."

He Lingling's mind was in complete chaos, and she didn't say anything.

The video on the recorder screen continued to play.

After the last "intern" entered the room, Xiao Li rubbed his temples with a headache and walked towards the camera.

Why do you look like you're about to die?

As he spoke, Xiao Li took a few more steps closer.

She got very close to the camera these last few steps, and her eyes, heavily made up of eyeshadow, could almost see through the screen to the four people and the cat outside.

Chen Yi and the other two instinctively took a step back because of that look.