Infinite: Dawn Game

She had "promised" long ago that she would let Mu Gui live by her side.

As long as Mu Gui is obedient and always listens to her, that's fine.

Mu Gui blinked slowly, bent down and patted the dust off his knees, looking silently in the direction where the nun had disappeared.

...As long as he remains quiet and obedient forever, he can live forever.

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The president's office is located on the top floor of the entire Black Robe Church building, and is also the most hidden room.

The nun raised her hand and knocked on the door of the room.

After a brief knock, the president's hoarse cough came from behind the door.

"Come in."

The nun responded and pushed open the door to enter.

The room was pitch black. In the deep darkness, a slightly hunched figure looked up from behind the desk, which was barely visible.

"President."

The nun walked to the sofa next to the desk and sat down. She looked down and patted off imaginary dust from her body, seemingly in a good mood.

"Why did you call me here in such a hurry? Is there something urgent?"

“…Ahem, Xiao Lei.”

The president coughed, then looked at the nun sitting on the sofa and said softly.

"You did not carry out my instructions properly."

"...Please don't call me by that name."

The nun's smile vanished instantly upon hearing the head nun call her "Xiao Lei," and she stared at him expressionlessly through the darkness.

"And I believe I have tried my best to fulfill your instructions."

"Ahem, is that so?"

The chairman coughed, his tone ambiguous, "If you really wanted to kill someone, how could anyone possibly escape?"

"Yu Shijiu is no ordinary player."

The nun said, "You should know his strength very well. If it weren't for the fact that his strength threatened you, you wouldn't have asked me to kill him, would you?"

"..."

The president remained silent.

“So,” the nun said, lowering her eyes, “Don’t make things sound so easy, Master. You should know that killing Yu Shijiu is very difficult, especially with An Jie and the others involved… but you still did it anyway.”

The nun felt she was stating the facts. "You are really contradictory. I don't think you don't know that Yu Shijiu is a very difficult person to kill."

"Yu Shijiu is indeed very hard to kill."

The chairman spoke up, "But you really didn't intend to kill him."

"..."

This time, the nun remained silent.

The president, who was behind his desk, coughed and turned on the desk lamp. The dim light instantly illuminated the small space behind the desk.

The president wore a heavy black hooded cloak, and the skin exposed below the hood was as old as tree bark, with layer upon layer of wrinkles on his weathered and dry skin, which looked somewhat eerie under the light.

"Are you soft-hearted?"

The president lightly tapped the table with his fingertips. "Don't rush to refute me. You have indeed softened your heart, there's no doubt about that."

But why?

The president asked, "Didn't you hate men the most?"

The nun's eyelashes fluttered slowly, and an eerie silence fell over the room.

Only the president's occasional cough broke the eerie silence in the room.

"Perhaps I'm a little soft-hearted."

The nun didn't try to hide anything; she said directly, "He's a very obedient child."

"look like."

The nun added, "I like obedient children...regardless of gender."

"If you hadn't added that last sentence, I would have believed it."

The president didn't hesitate to expose the nun's lie, "It's not because he's obedient, you just... see the shadow of another person in him."

The president's aged and eerie face, illuminated by the lights, slowly broke into a smile.

"Who is it?"

"Xiao Lei," the president said, "can you tell me, whose shadow do you see in Yu Shijiu?"

The nun's chest heaved violently. She suddenly stood up straight, turned her head to look at the president behind the desk, and spoke in a quick tone.

Are you trying to trick me into revealing information?

The nun chuckled, but the smile didn't reach her eyes: "Whether I see someone's shadow in Yu Shijiu or not, that's my personal matter and has nothing to do with you."

"You can't say that."

Seeing that the nun was clearly angry, the president's smile deepened, and he sighed:

"Don't forget, who helped you achieve such a high position within the Black Robe Church—"

"Who?"

The nun sneered, "You're not trying to say that you helped me, are you?"

The president stared at her silently and said, "Isn't that right?"

"You are wrong."

The nun retorted without hesitation, "I am grateful to you for taking me into the Black Robe Church back then... but equally, my status, my rights, including the power I now have to control the lives of most players... I achieved all of this myself."

She pointed out incisively, "But similarly, if I didn't have the ability to make medicine, you wouldn't have accepted me into the Black Robe Church, would you?"

"...Xiao Lei".

After a moment of silence, the president sighed, "I've said it before, women don't actually need to be that smart."

"Women who aren't smart die early in the game of Dawn."

The nun regained her composure and looked at the president behind the desk. "If you called me here just to say these few meaningless words, then I am very disappointed."

"If there's nothing else, I'll be going now."

After saying that, the nun got up and left.

Just as she reached the door and was about to open it, she heard the president cough behind her.

"You know that your talent skills aren't actually that great, right?"

“Xiao Lei,” the president said again, using that name that made her very unhappy, “I hope you will think more about your future before deciding whether to talk to me in this manner.”

The nun's hand, which was gripping the doorknob, froze.

The guild leader's voice softened, "Alright, you must be tired after just coming out of the game instance, so let's stop here for now and you can go."

"Remember to rest more, your body..." The president's voice stopped abruptly, and a few seconds later he coughed and chuckled.

"Take care and get some rest, Xiao Lei."

The nun's face turned deathly pale.

She forced herself to make her voice as soft as possible, "Thank you for your concern, I'll be going now."

After saying that, the nun opened the door and strode out.

boom!

It was the sound of the office door being slammed shut.

The president remained seated behind his desk, motionless. He lowered his head, slowly turned a page of the book in front of him, and coughed softly, covering his mouth.

"Cough, cough, cough—"

A man's voice rang out from the darkness.

What did you mean by what you just said?

The president's gaze remained fixed on the pages of the book in front of him. He coughed and said:

"Xiao Lei's health isn't very good."

"Yuan Yang."

The president slowly looked up at the silent man in the corner and smiled:

What are your thoughts on the player Yu Shijiu?