Infinite: Dawn Game

The corridor was silent.

The leading player hesitated, "This...this isn't quite right, isn't it a bit like ganging up on someone outnumbered..."

One player, realizing what was happening, said with exasperation, "What morality is there to speak of in this godforsaken place? The monsters we were chasing didn't seem to care about one-on-one morality either!"

"..."

Yu Shijiu: "..."

He glanced at the players opposite him, who were cowering and pushing each other to make the first move. He thought that it was one thing for these people to be noisy, but for them to actually say they wanted to kill him right in front of him.

"If you don't need your eyes, just gouge them out," Yu Shijiu said impatiently, lifting her eyelids.

"Do you need my help? I'd be happy to!"

Several players interrupted Yu Shijiu with a shout of "Wow!" and huddled together, running forward quickly, brushing against the wall.

"I don't dare, I don't dare, I don't dare! You can do whatever you want, I'll let it go, I'm leaving now!!"

Some players were so scared that tears almost came out, and they ran as fast as they could, even stirring up a cold wind as they passed by Yu Shijiu.

The players in front of the screen were also speechless.

"Are these all newcomers?"

The veteran player looked at the few players on the screen who were running forward like geckos, clinging to the wall, with a twitching mouth.

"It seems so. Like Yu Shijiu, he only went through one trial game. I guess he hasn't developed his courage yet."

Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to mistake a living person for a monster; these players must have been terrified.

Although the lighting in the corridor was indeed poor and somewhat eerie, it didn't mean people should be seen as ghosts.

One player suddenly spoke up: "But I think their reaction is quite normal, after all, Yu Shijiu looks..."

The player swallowed hard and muttered, "It really doesn't look like a living person..."

The players fell silent.

On the screen, under the flickering lights, the person in front, whose clothes were inexplicably soaked in blood, stood in the middle of the corridor. His face was dotted with blood, and his fingers were stained crimson from stabbing the dean. He was also dragging a huge fire axe in his hand...

Looking at it this way, it seems... it really does seem even more like a monster than a monster itself...

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Yu Shijiu looked at the players next to him who were crawling forward like geckos, and for the first time wondered about their intelligence.

Are there really people who are that blind?

Seeing that Yu Shijiu didn't attack them, the players who were fleeing breathed a sigh of relief, waved to the players who hadn't yet run away, and hurriedly said:

"Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up! What are you all standing there for?!"

Soon, all that remained in front of Yu Shijiu was the male player who had just advocated killing him and then escaping.

The male player's legs were shaking, his facial muscles were twitching, and he even felt a pain in his stomach from Yu Shijiu's stare.

"Um," the male player swallowed hard, moving forward while apologizing softly:

"I was just saying that casually, please don't take it personally..."

As she spoke, she was about to run past Yu Shijiu.

But the next second, the quiet boy in front of him suddenly raised the huge fire axe in his hand, and in the male player's horrified and speechless gaze, the fire axe, which seemed to be stained with a lot of blood (but actually wasn't), chopped down towards his head.

The male player closed his eyes in terror and screamed, but just before his head was about to explode, he heard a scream even louder than his own.

And, the blood splattered all over the male players.

The male player, who closed his eyes and waited to die, was speechless.

When he shakily opened his eyes, he saw a huge, long tongue fall from in front of him, writhing and screaming on the floor like a slippery red snake. Then, the blade of the fire axe swept past the male player and cleanly chopped down the still writhing tongue on the ground.

"Pfft——

Bright red blood spurted out, staining the white floor tiles with large red marks.

Male player: "...I, I, pshaw!"

He was disgusted by the blood that slid into his mouth. Even the dumbest person would know that the boy in front of him wasn't a monster.

He's a big shot!

The male player's expression instantly changed. Just as he was about to slide to his knees to express his gratitude and repentance, Yu Shijiu, who had just severed his tongue, glanced at him and lazily said:

"Aren't you going to get lost? Or do you want to experience being split in two?"

Male player: "...No, I think I'll pass."

He still quite liked being whole and intact…! Whether dead or alive, a complete corpse seems to look much better…

The male player, realizing what was happening, immediately ran away. Just as he reached the group of players, he couldn't help but look back.

Behind them, the boy who had just cut off his tongue squatted down with his back to them, seemingly touching the severed tongue with his hand, his movements relaxed and calm.

As the boy moved his tongue, the walls, ceiling, and floor of the corridor began to change slowly at a visible pace: the dilapidated, blood-stained gray walls, the broken white bricks with blood flowing from the cracks, and the ceiling that began to grow a blood-red tongue.

At the same time, the monsters chasing the player finally appeared around the corner. Without exception, they all had strangely shaped tongues growing from various parts of their bodies, and with twisted faces, they rushed towards the boy who was squatting on the ground.

Yu Shijiu slowly raised his head. He looked at the completely changed corridor around him, and his heart began to pound violently.

"Now that's starting to get interesting..."

Yu Shijiu stood up, smiling broadly as he raised the fire axe in his hand and swung it high at the onrushing monsters.

"So, are you ready to watch the show?"

The players in front of the screen were all stunned. They looked at Yu Shijiu, who was charging into the group of monsters instead of retreating, with astonishment on their faces.

"Is he looking for death?"

"No, is he really sure he can kill those monsters?!"

"He's overestimating himself! Killing one or two is fine, but this is dozens!! He's a complete madman!"

"..."

As if in response to the discussion among the players in front of the screen, the previously tightly closed ward doors along the corridor began to be pushed open. With creaking sounds, ward doors were gradually opened, revealing darkness inside the half-open doors, with faint rustling noises coming from within.

"Fuck!"

This time, even some players who rarely spoke couldn't help but whisper:

"There are still more?"

Surrounded by so many strange monsters, can a novice who has only completed the trial game really survive?

Amidst countless unseen gazes, Yu Shijiu grinned as he slashed at the first strange nurse who rushed forward.

The eerie nurse's tongue was now positioned between her eyebrows, its greedy, scarlet tongue writhing. Countless serrations seemed to emanate from its forked red opening, like sharp, living teeth, emitting a sticky, crunching sound.

Before it could even exert its power, the huge fire axe slashed down, severing the tongue and striking the monster in front of it heavily between the eyebrows.