Infinite: Dawn Game

"..." Mu Gui, whose breathing was rapid from such blatant humiliation, suppressed his trembling hands and lowered his head to give a hoarse response from his throat.

"Yes, you are right."

"That's right."

The nun withdrew her hand with satisfaction. "Open the door. I still want to see with my own eyes how those players attacked Yu Shijiu."

That should be very interesting.

The nun enjoyed watching this kind of infighting.

That would give her a brief respite from the restless turmoil that had been surging within her.

Only then would she feel that her life was the right one.

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elevator.

Seven or eight players, covered in blood and grime, huddled together, their eyes filled with a mixture of relief and fear at having just escaped.

The first floor is not safe.

The same applies to the second and third floors.

And now they're going to the fourth floor...

Are you all going to make a move?

A player huddled in a corner whispered, "Should we team up and pour the potion on him—"

"What nonsense?"

Someone scoffed, "What are you doing teaming up? Trying to hide behind us and throw potions so Yu Shijiu can't see you?"

The player who spoke first changed his expression, "What did you say—"

"Stop making excuses," the male player snorted and roared rudely, "Everyone has their own worries. Do you really think we can't see through your cowardly act?"

"If we're going to throw it away, let's all throw it away separately."

The male player's cold gaze fell upon everyone else:

"Don't try to hide in a corner and conceal yourself. If you really want to offend Yu Shijiu and the others, be open and aboveboard. Don't be a rat in the gutter!"

"you!"

Why are you talking so rudely?

"If you don't want to be together, then you don't have to be together. Can't you talk more calmly?"

"Yeah, they didn't say I was going to throw it away with you."

"..."

Some of the surrounding players, their intentions exposed, became angry and embarrassed, and kept loudly echoing the male player who had asked the question at the beginning.

The male player being targeted simply snorted coldly, gave a sneer, and then turned his head to look at the silent woman in the corner.

"Shi Yuan, what do you think? Are you going to take action too?"

"It is none of my business."

Shi Yuan, who was in the corner, raised his head. His pale face was expressionless, and he looked like a demon in the darkness.

Since Wang Xiaoling's death, she seems to have truly lost the desire to talk to other people.

"Don't call me."

Shi Yuan spoke up to stop the others from talking, walked to the elevator, and pressed the button for the fourth floor.

"I did not accept the medicine the nun brought me. This has nothing to do with me. Don't talk to me, don't bother me."

"..."

The male player who called her chuckled, "See? This is what it truly means to have no interest in those points and potions. You people, to put it bluntly, aren't you just hypocrites pretending to be virtuous?"

"Wu Jie!"

Someone in the crowd roared, "You son of a bitch, don't go too far!"

"What's wrong?" Wu Jie sneered. "You want to kill me?"

"you--"

The person who was shouting wanted to speak, but was stopped by his companion, who said, "Never mind, it's the last day."

His companion comforted him, saying, "It's not good to ruin things on the last day. We'll be leaving soon, so why bother arguing with him?"

"If Wu Jie has a problem with his brain, do you think you have a problem with your brain too? Ignore him, he's just mentally ill, probably scared out of his wits by what happened these past two days..."

"..."

There are many, many more such comments.

Wu Jiequan pretended not to hear anything, walked to Shi Yuan's side, lowered his head, and frowned as he asked:

"Where's Wang Xiaoling? Aren't you two always together?"

"She's dead."

Shi Yuan didn't even look up, replying coldly.

"died?"

Wu Jie was shocked for a few seconds, then his tone softened considerably, "Please accept my condolences."

"What condolences?"

Shi Yuan looked up at her, his eyes filled with dense red blood vessels that looked almost bursting under the dim light.

“I will take her place, no,” Shi Yuan’s lips curled up slightly, “I will live on with her life, forever and ever.”

Wu Jie stared at her in a daze.

Shi Yuan had already lowered his head, his hands hanging at his sides unconsciously clenching and unclenching.

Anyone with eyes can see that Shi Yuan's current state is very strange.

Wu Jie had no right to say anything. He gave Shi Yuan a deep look and silently stepped back.

As for the players behind them who were still discussing whether or not to throw potions together—Wu Jie didn't even bother to look back at them.

A bunch of idiots.

Wu Jie thought.

We arrived at the fourth floor quickly.

As the elevator doors opened with a "beep beep beep" sound, the same eerie tearing and biting sounds echoed through the corridor and reached everyone's ears.

The players who had just escaped death from the third floor were pale-faced, but they still hugged their "pets" tightly and walked out of the elevator one by one, suppressing their fear.

This time, they finally saw the figure they had been searching for.

At the end of the corridor, a thin boy held an axe, a smile on his face, his body splattered with blood. With each swing of the axe, the monster split apart, head and body, like a watermelon being chopped up, red liquid flowing all over the ground.

The smell of blood on the fourth floor was significantly stronger than on the other floors.

Many players, their faces pale, looked at Yu Shijiu, who was engrossed in slaying monsters not far away, and some even had second thoughts.

Can they really hurt someone like that?

Can they really?

The potion the nuns gave them... could it really harm a monster that cuts down monsters as easily as cutting down cabbages?

Most of the players still alive are those who were not in the same time slot as Yu Shijiu the night before last. Without exception, those players refused the potions offered by Mu Gui the night before last.

Compared to the temptation of 5,000 points and three bottles of potion, having witnessed Yu Shijiu's actions firsthand, they still valued their own lives more.

A monster like Yu Shijiu... they can't afford to mess with him.

So when Wu Jie and the other players were arguing in the elevator, they didn't dare to utter a sound.

"...No, it's okay, right?"

With such a generous reward, there are bound to be brave men; those players who took the potions had no way back.

One step forward is Yu Shijiu, one step back is the nun... Compared to Yu Shijiu, who has only recently gained some fame in the town, they are more afraid of offending the nun.

The nun didn't care whether they could actually harm Yu Shijiu, but having taken the potion meant they had to do something, otherwise...

The nun's methods were so cruel that even ordinary players like them had heard about them before.

I've heard that people who offend her rarely even get a proper burial...

Thinking of this, the players who had taken the potion shuddered at the same time. They carefully avoided the human pig monsters and vase waiters around the corridor and gritted their teeth as they moved toward Yu Shijiu at the end of the corridor.

It's okay... it's okay... they might not actually be able to hurt Yu Shijiu...

It was just a random bottle of potion; with so many strange things in the corridor and Yu Shijiu so engrossed in her game, she probably wouldn't see them...

The players tried to reassure themselves, gripping the potion bottles tightly, their foreheads and backs covered in cold sweat that clung to their clothes.

As soon as the elevator doors opened, Chen Yi, who had been leaning against the wall observing, spotted the group of players walking out of the elevator.

They also noticed that about seven or eight players were walking in the direction of Yu Shijiu and themselves.

Although their steps were small and their arcs subtle, the medicine bottles they held in their hands...

Chen Yi warily watched the seven or eight approaching players, silently exhaling a breath of stale air.

The area where he was located was filled with strange creatures, whose dense bodies almost completely obscured his figure, which is why the other seven or eight players didn't see Chen Yi.

Chen Yi silently stood up, and when he saw the first player cautiously approach and throw a potion bottle at Yu Shijiu, his chubby and gentle expression suddenly turned cold.

At the same time, Yu Shijiu, who was engrossed in the thrill of killing and whose eyes were bloodshot, also noticed something. He looked up with a smile and saw a scene that left him speechless.

Chen Yi, who was originally about two or three steps away from him, suddenly appeared behind him. His body of fat rapidly expanded and lengthened in an extremely terrifying manner, his thick, greasy flesh completely blocking the potions thrown out by the monsters.

The medicine bottle shattered on Chen Yi's swollen flesh, breaking into pieces on the ground, but not a single drop of the medicine touched Yu Shijiu.

[Player Chen Yi's talent skill has been used: Meat Wall]

[A wall called protection, composed of frail humans who, despite their limited capacity to protect others, fail to do so; its foundation is blood, its framework sinews, its walls flesh… Humans who yearn to become this protective wall, please relinquish your physical forms and forge yourselves into a wall.]

Yu Shijiu's eyes widened, and he subconsciously chopped down a group of human-pig monsters and a vase-shaped waiter who were attacking him. After letting out a "Wow!", he quickly approached Chen Yi.

At this moment, Chen Yi's head was almost touching the ceiling of the corridor. He had crushed the sticky, bloody intestines hanging from the ceiling, and the stench of blood made Chen Yi hold his breath.

"Brother Chen!"

As Yu Shijiu rapidly approached, she looked up at Chen Yi, who had swelled several times larger than before, and exclaimed in shock:

"Is this your innate skill?"

Chen Yi, whose head seemed to have swelled several times its normal size, smiled gently (and he really was gentle!), "Yes, doesn't it look a little ugly?"

"!"

Yu Shijiu shook his head, "What's ugly about it! It's obviously too cool!"

As she spoke, Yu Shijiu looked down at her own slender body, feeling somewhat envious.

"I wish I were as strong as you, Brother Chen."

Chen Yi: "..."

He looked down at Yu Shijiu, who turned around and continued to slay the constantly regenerating and resurrecting human-pig monsters, with a wry smile. "Shijiu, you're already very strong."

Chen Yi's talent skill might not look very appealing, but that's an understatement. In reality, every time Chen Yi activates his talent skill, he feels like a "monster".

A "monster" made up of constantly swelling and edematous fat.

Fatty was stunned.

It looked up at the huge wall of human flesh in front of it, scratched the blood-glue ground several times with its claws, and continued to hunt down the monsters after Yu Shijiu.

Although Chen Yi looks very strong... he is actually a little scary, meow.

Chen Yi gazed tenderly at the backs of Fei Fei and Yu Shijiu as they fought fiercely, then turned his head with slight difficulty.

Behind him, the players who had just thrown their potion bottles were almost paralyzed with fear.

They stared in astonishment at the giant wall of flesh that suddenly rose before them, retreating in disbelief, thinking it was some new kind of monster appearing in the Fuling Hotel.

"Weird, monster!"

Players who had just thrown the potion bottles were so frightened that they ran back immediately. Some even screamed and tumbled to the ground after exchanging a glance with Chen Yi, who had turned around.

Of course, those who were so frightened that they fell down were naturally surrounded and bitten by the human-pig monsters around them.

In the end, it was the "pet" who stepped in to "help" them once again.

When they saw the "pets" reach out and bite the human-pig monster, their faces turned even paler, and they quickly reached out to stop the "pets" from doing so—but it was too late.

The "pets" that had been bitten too many times by the human-pig monsters began to transform, with human-like arms and legs, as well as their own eyes and mouths, appearing on their previously furry bodies.

The "pets" spoke in human language, laughing and turning to bite the "owners" they had just been so hard to protect.

For a time, wails echoed throughout the entire fourth-floor corridor.

Within minutes, three more players who didn't have time to escape died.

The remaining players, clutching their potion bottles and too afraid to move forward, retreated frantically, their hands trembling as if about to fall.

They were further away, so they could see more clearly.

For example, the "monster" that suddenly appeared in front of you actually has a human face that is several times larger.

They had even seen this face not long ago.

Yes, it's someone close to that player named Yu Shijiu!

Yu Shijiu and the "monster" in front of him are in cahoots!

“It’s true…it’s true…”

Someone murmured, "The nun is telling the truth, the nun is telling the truth... Yu Shijiu, Yu Shijiu is really possessed by the manager, Yu Shijiu is really possessed by the manager!"

Otherwise, why would this "monster" protect Yu Shijiu?!

Yu Shijiu must be possessed by the manager! He's already dead! He's not himself anymore!!!

"Do it!"

The players stared in terror at Yu Shijiu, who was firmly protected behind the "meat wall monster," their eyes bloodshot with rage.

"As long as we kill Yu Shijiu, who is possessed by the manager, we can clear the level!"

A roar that seemed to come from nowhere stopped the players who were scattering and fleeing. They looked at each other, their eyes filled with each other's pale faces and their rapid breathing.

"Yes, yes, yes... just kill Yu Shijiu!"

"We'll be safe once we kill him."

"Kill him and we can clear the game!"

"..."

More and more players were incited. Although only seven or eight people actually believed it, they were so excited that they didn't care about anything else. Those who had items used them, and those who didn't frantically used their weapons to hack at the "meat wall monster" in front of them, trying to break through the monster's flesh wall and then rush up to kill Yu Shijiu.

Chen Yi, who was attacked by many players: "..."

Honestly, it hurts quite a bit.

The downside of his talent is that it's too heavy.

Because his muscles and bones have grown larger, his movements become very slow and clumsy, making it impossible for him to stop the players from attacking him.

This is a weakness of defensive players.