Infinite: Dawn Game

"What a coincidence."

The nun stopped, bent down slightly, reached out and pinched Mutangtang's sweaty little face, saying affectionately:

"Tangtang seems to have gained a little weight recently."

Mutangtang stood still, slightly turning her head to avoid the nun's hand, her eyelids drooping.

"I've gained two pounds."

Xylitol said.

The nun paused for a moment, then withdrew her hand, stood up straight, and smiled with immense joy:

"That's good. You're still growing, so you should definitely be a little heavier to look better."

"..."

This time, Xylitol did not respond.

Mu Tangtang pulled Grandma Mu's hand and walked into the supermarket, looking up and smiling as she met the nun's eyes behind her white sheet:

"Sorry, sister, my grandma and I still need to buy groceries and cook, so we have to go now."

"No hurries?"

The nun slowly turned around and took a bag of colorful candies from the bag that the pastor was carrying.

She bent down and handed the candy to Xylitol, saying, "Take it, eat some more and get a little fatter."

"Little girls look better when they eat a lot and are strong."

Xylitol: "..."

Grandma Mu, who was standing next to her, smiled and accepted the candy. "Thank you for your kindness. I'll accept it on behalf of Tangtang."

Grandma Mu spoke politely and distantly, but she gripped the bag of candy tightly in her hand.

The nun didn't care about the attitude of Mutangtang and her granddaughter. She straightened up, yawned, and said with teary eyes:

"Then I'll be going now. You guys take your time browsing."

Following behind her, Mu Gui nodded to Mu Tangtang and her granddaughter, then carried two large bags of things and walked forward.

"Tangtang, do you want some?"

Grandma Mu's question interrupted Mu Tangtang's gaze as she watched the nun's departing figure.

She looked away and gave a soft "hmm".

Grandma Mu received a response, bent down and peeled off the outer skin of the candy, revealing the round, red candy body.

Xylitol took the candy and put it in her mouth. The sweetness of industrial saccharin filled her mouth. She licked her lips and turned to hold Grandma Mu's hand.

"Grandma," said Mutangtang sweetly, "let's go buy some candy too."

"it is good."

Grandma Mu lowered her head, patted her head, and said with a smile:

"We'll buy whatever Tangtang wants."

"..."

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On the other side, long after the nun and pastor entered the area where the Black Robe Church was located, players came looking for the nun.

The person who came in stopped the nun at the door with his head down and said in a low voice:

"The chairman said you should go see him as soon as you get back."

"..."

Shepherd swallowed hard and glanced cautiously at the nun who was clearly unhappy.

"is it?"

The nun slowly unwrapped a piece of candy and put it in her mouth, then smiled and nodded upon hearing this.

"Okay, I'll go in a bit."

The player who stopped her broke out in a cold sweat, and he hesitated before saying:

"...President, the president means that you should go see him as soon as you get back."

After saying this, the player immediately knelt down, head bowed, and dared not say another word.

The nun's smile vanished for a moment because of those words, but she quickly smiled again.

"That's it."

Nun: "Aren't you even given time to change your clothes and wash your hands?"

She didn't mean to make things difficult for the player kneeling on the ground. "Get up. Girls shouldn't kneel all the time, it hurts."

As she spoke, the nun helped the female player who was kneeling in front of her up and gently smoothed out the wrinkles in the hood that had appeared when she knelt.

Are you new here?

The nun asked.

The female player nodded hesitantly, "Yes, I just joined a few days ago."

The nun tucked a stray strand of her sweat-dampened hair behind her ear and continued to smile gently:

"No wonder."

"They really know how to make newcomers bring bad luck."

Upon hearing this, the female player's face changed drastically, and she trembled as she tried to kneel down again—but was stopped by the nun.

"I don't like girls kneeling on the ground all the time." The nun's smile vanished as the female player made her move, and she frowned.

Don't you know my rules?

The female player stood frozen in place, bewildered. "I... I just joined, not long ago."

She genuinely didn't know the rules for nuns.

To be precise, those who don't know about nuns are unaware of her rules.

"How old are you?"

The nun asked her.

The female player instinctively replied, "Twenty-one."

"Twenty-one? He's still a child."

The nun sighed, withdrew her hand, placed the remaining candy into the female player's hand, and said softly:

"You'll find out later. Okay, I'm going to find the president now."

She smiled and said, "I don't want to put you in a difficult position."

The female player stared blankly at the candy in her hand, watching the nun walk past her and walk forward. She subconsciously took two steps forward, then stopped.

Only after the nun's figure had disappeared without a trace did she pick up the candy in her hand, her fingers trembling slightly.

Cheap, colorful candies—these brightly colored candies are very inexpensive in real life, and female gamers wouldn't have paid any attention to them in the past.

But in a town where everything requires points... this is practically a "luxury".

The female player bit her lower lip, her heart pounding—especially when someone came up to her and started talking to her.

"The nun is very gentle, isn't she?"

The person who struck up a conversation was also a female player, who looked to be in her thirties. Her eyes were bloodshot, but her pupils were very bright.

The female player didn't quite understand. "What?"

"It's just that the nun is very kind to girls."

The female player, in her thirties, pulled back her hood, revealing dry hair that looked like straw in the sunlight.

“She was so kind to all of us,” said the female gamer in her thirties, grasping her hand with a look of reverence.

"She is the person I will always want to follow."

"..."

The female player was a little confused by what he said, but when she saw the candy in her hand, she felt a sense of agreement.

The Black Robe Church was not a particularly good place; it was full of people who were just trying to survive and had no other choice but to live. It was quite gloomy, and she herself was one of them.

Since she entered the Dawn game, no one has ever given her anything, let alone candy that needs to be redeemed with points.

The female player nodded: "Yes, Sister is very kind."

The female player in her thirties' eyes lit up even more. "Could you share a piece of the candy that the nun gave you?"

Female player: "..."

She felt reluctant to give it, but also felt embarrassed. Just as she was about to say yes, she saw several more female players with gleaming pupils run out from the corner.

The female player immediately became alert and took back what she almost said.

"……no."

At that moment, the female player was certain that the light in the eyes of the female player in her thirties, as well as those female players who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, vanished instantly.

Just because of the candy in her hand?

The female player quickly put the candy into her pocket and whispered, "I don't even have enough for myself..."

She only has a few...