Infinite: Dawn Game

The doctor fell silent after hearing that.

A minute later, the doctor cursed and said speechlessly:

No wonder they say old men "blooming like an iron tree" is cringe-worthy and makes your teeth ache—

Lu Chusheng looked at him coldly.

The doctor immediately shut up, touched his nose, and was about to explain when he heard Lu Chusheng's words.

"I am very young."

Lu Chusheng: "Not an old man."

doctor:"……"

To be fair, is there something wrong with what the older man, no, Lu Chusheng, is focusing on?

Is the most important part of this sentence the phrase "old man"?

The doctor didn't understand and said he was quite shocked and speechless.

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Using his powerful physique, Chen Yi led Yu Shijiu through the crowd, then used his agile feet to be the first to reach the elevator and press the button.

"and many more."

Yu Shijiu, who had been silently running alongside without saying a word, reached out and stopped Chen Yi.

"what happened?"

Chen Yi withdrew his hand, assuming that Yu Shijiu had seen something.

"nothing."

Yu Shijiu glanced at the dark stairwell at the end of the corridor and said with a smile:

"Brother Chen, let's take the stairs."

Yu Shijiu honestly replied, "I'm a little curious."

On the first night, he struggled for ages to squeeze onto the stairs... and afterwards, for some reason, he kept forgetting about the stairs.

Chen Yi: "..."

He was pleased with Yu Shijiu's honesty, but also very frustrated by Yu Shijiu's personality of always wanting to rush into danger.

"……never mind."

Chen Yi succumbed to Yu Shijiu's bright gaze and said helplessly:

"Let's go check out the stairwell before it's time."

Yu Shijiu: "Wow! Brother Chen is awesome!"

To be fair, Yu Shijiu has a really sweet tongue, which is why Chen Yi can't be ruthless most of the time.

About thirty seconds after Chen Yi and Yu Shijiu left the elevator, the elevator suddenly made a "beep beep beep" sound.

Soon, the elevator doors slowly opened, and a woman with messy, uneven hair stepped out.

The woman's face was pale and gloomy; her once beautiful eyebrows and eyes were now drooping with a thick layer of darkness, making it difficult for anyone to look at her.

The woman took a deep breath, glanced back at the grandmother and granddaughter, Mutangtang, who were still inside the elevator, and pursed her lips.

"Thank you."

The woman coughed and thanked her in a hoarse voice.

"No need."

Mutangtang smiled and shook her head, then reached out and pressed the button for the fourth floor, making a "goodbye" gesture to the woman outside the elevator.

Goodbye, Sister Shi Yuan.

As soon as the elevator doors closed, the forced smile on Shi Yuan's face vanished instantly.

She looked down at the blood-stained necklace in her hand, and slowly, slowly clenched her fist.

The sharp, angular part of the necklace pierced her palm, and blood slowly seeped out, soaking the dried blood on the necklace again.

"..."

Shi Yuan's eyes hurt a lot.

She couldn't cry anymore.

She rubbed her eyes, carefully put the necklace into her system inventory, and was about to leave when she suddenly heard familiar shouts coming from not far behind her.

"Shi Yuan... Shi Yuan... Shi Yuan..."

Shi Yuan's body stiffened.

She turned around in disbelief, the sound of her neck bones twisting inch by inch.

At the end of the corridor not far away, a somewhat familiar figure was waving his arm at her.

The light above the figure was dim, making it impossible to see her face clearly.

“Shi Yuan…”

A familiar sound emanated from the figure's throat, gentle and peaceful...

"...Shi Yuan..."

Shi Yuan's pupils suddenly contracted, and she subconsciously walked towards the figure, her hands trembling slightly at her sides.

"……you……"

Shi Yuan stared blankly at the figure at the end of the corridor, stammering as he approached step by step.

“…Wang Xiaoling…” Shi Yuan’s lips moved, “…Is that you?”

"...Shi Yuan."

The figure kept calling out, repeatedly calling Shi Yuan's name.

Shi Yuan's heart pounded wildly as he drew closer and closer to the figure.

At the end of the corridor, a figure resembling Wang Xiaoling was hidden in the darkness. Her lips, partially exposed by the light, unconsciously twitched and tore upwards, and crimson blood dripped slowly down her chin.

pat!

The sound of blood dripping echoed in the silent corridor, but Shi Yuan continued walking as if he couldn't hear it. When he was only about twenty centimeters away from the figure, Shi Yuan reached out and slowly grasped the figure's outstretched hand.

"...Shi Yuan..."

The figure's smile grew wider and wider, his blood-stained hand gripping Shi Yuan's hand tightly, his bones making strange cracking sounds.

"It's really you..."

Shi Yuan stared at that familiar face in the dim light. His eyes, which had long since stopped crying, grew increasingly red, covered with spiderwebs, and the twisted blood vessels gradually broke open, with fine beads of blood spurting out from his eyelids.

"Yes...it's me...I'm back...I'm back..."

"Wang Xiaoling" pulled Shi Yuan's hand backward, and Shi Yuan followed the other's force and walked forward, where he was tightly embraced by a mass of rotten flesh and blood.

"Shi Yuan..."

Wang Xiaoling rested her head on Shi Yuan's shoulder contentedly, her head, covered in congealed blood, gently rubbing against him, her smile growing wider and wider.

"...I miss you so much..."

"Hmm..." Shi Yuan took a deep breath, his sore and swollen eyes red to the point of almost dripping blood.

"...I miss you too..."

Wang Xiaoling.

The smile on Wang Xiaoling's face began to twist, and the only part of its neck that still looked normal began to twist and stretch, slowly opening its mouth to bite Shi Yuan's neck.

Off-screen, some players who were watching Shi Yuan gasped for breath, then sighed.

"Shi Yuantai acted on emotion."

"Yes, Wang Xiaoling is definitely dead... and she saw it with her own eyes, how could she make such a basic mistake?"

"...Feelings are something that can't be explained..."

A female player looked at Shi Yuan on the screen with complicated emotions and pinched the bridge of her nose.

“Wang Xiaoling and Shi Yuan used to have a very good relationship, so it’s normal for her to act on her emotions.”

“But Wang Xiaoling endured so much for her before she died,” another player said with some pity, “yet Shi Yuan so easily mistook that ghost for the real Wang Xiaoling…”

"I just feel it's such a waste..."

"There's nothing we can do," the female player sighed, "Human emotions are inherently—"

Her regretful voice abruptly stopped.

On the screen in front of them, the action of "Wang Xiaoling," who was hugging Shi Yuan and trying to bite off his neck, came to an abrupt halt.

what happened?

In the corridor.

Wang Xiaoling's body suddenly trembled violently. Her rotten tongue twisted and wriggled wildly inside her wide-open mouth, as if choking on a liquid with a strong bloody smell, and she was so choked that she could not make a sound.

Holding it, Shi Yuan closed her eyes. Gently and with a smile, she pulled out the dagger that had just been inserted into "Wang Xiaoling's" heart.

"I will Survive."

Shi Yuan said softly, "I will definitely live on."