Infinite: Dawn Game

"...Oh right..."

Sun Qin leaned closer to He Lingling in a daze, her voice so soft it was almost inaudible.

Why was Wu Huimin waiting for Shi Yuan at the bathroom door just now?

Is the relationship between the player and the monster really that good?

"..."

Unable to fall asleep, He Lingling stared silently at the ceiling, slowly and helplessly exhaling a breath of stale air.

Sometimes... she was also curious about these little details... For example, why did Shi Yuan suddenly steal the spot she had deliberately taken to get closer to Wu Huimin? And how did Shi Yuan and Wu Huimin become "friends" in just half an hour?

Sometimes I really feel like I'm having a tough time.

"Aren't you asleep yet?"

From the bed next to her came Wu Huimin's voice: "Lingling, can't you sleep?"

He Lingling: "...It's alright, the lights were too bright."

"It seems so," Wu Huimin, who had just gotten into bed, blinked and smiled sweetly at Shi Yuan, who was sleeping on the outside.

"Yuanyuan, turn off the light. The switch is with you."

"Ah."

Shi Yuan responded and raised his hand to press the switch.

"I turned off the lights."

This was said to He Lingling.

"Turn off the lights," He Lingling said, pressing her temples. "Goodnight."

Click.

The room was plunged into darkness, with only a faint glimmer of moonlight filtering through the window.

"Good night."

Wu Huimin's voice came from the darkness. She sounded very happy, with a hint of inexplicable excitement.

"Good night."

Wu Huimin said another sentence.

He Lingling and Shi Yuan, who were still awake, did not respond to her and closed their eyes to rest.

Wu Huimin waited a long time without anyone replying to her, and scratched her face in annoyance. She turned her back to Shi Yuan and looked at the open window.

Hmm... It's good that someone is chatting with her... She can gradually build a relationship...

A sea breeze blew in through the window, and soon a faint, fishy smell filled the double room.

Wu Huimin slowly closed her eyes amidst the fishy smell of the sea, the upward curve of her lips growing wider and wider.

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The first floor of the ship's cabin.

On the communal bed, Xu Han, who had pulled Yu Shijiu to find a bed near the corner, was now itchy all over.

He scratched his neck, which was so itchy it was almost covered in red rashes, and said irritably:

"Sleeping on a shared dormitory is fine... but why is it so dirty? It would be strange if you didn't feel itchy after sleeping on such a dirty bed..."

Yu Shijiu, who had already lain down, was actually a little itchy, but he could bear it. He stroked his thick fur with one hand and whispered:

"If you really can't sleep, shall we go and ask Angkor Wat if he can find you some clean sheets?"

Xu Han: "..."

Xu Han stopped grumbling. He sighed and resigned himself to his fate: "No, no, everyone sleeps here. If I try to be different, I'll be in big trouble if Brother Wu and the others remember me."

Xu Han didn't want to be remembered by the NPCs. He was joking; being remembered meant more dangerous things would come his way, right?!

He considered himself to be quite afraid of death...

"Let's go to sleep first."

Yu Shijiu was also feeling somewhat uncomfortable.

Not only was the bed beneath them unclean, but it also reeked of a damp, musty smell that hadn't been exposed to the sun in a long time. This, combined with the faint smell of the sea and the sweat of the NPCs, was comparable to a biological weapon.

No wonder most women say that men smell bad.

Yu Shijiu sighed as she recalled the private chatter she overheard among the female nurses at the sanatorium.

He was a little worried that he would start to smell bad in the future...

"..."

Xu Han had already lay down to endure the itch, but the itching all over his body became even more intense. Helpless, he took out a bottle of allergy medicine, stuffed one pill into his mouth, and forced it down.

"Cough cough cough-"

Xu Han choked and coughed. After a long while, his face turned red as he swallowed the allergy medicine. Only then did he collapse onto the dormitory bed with a relieved expression.

"Shi Jiu, do you want it?"

Yu Shijiu was already used to it and it wasn't too itchy, but he still asked for an allergy pill: "Thank you."

"No need to thank me."

Xu Han took out a pill and handed it to him, sighing:

"Sometimes I really want to ask this stupid game, since we're not even really alive anymore, why do we still get allergies, colds, diarrhea and stuff like that..."

It's truly incomprehensible!

Yu Shijiu, who had swallowed the allergy medication, was speechless for a moment. After nearly a minute, she finally spoke softly:

"Perhaps in its eyes, we are living people?"

Xu Han was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

Xiao Li, who had been absent from Yu Shijiu's mind for a long time, has reappeared.

You're really something, it's rare for you to even utter a single human word.

Xiao Li sighed, "If only you could always stay like this, I'd be less angry."

Yu Shijiu: "???"

He squinted slightly, shifted to a more comfortable position, and responded to Xiao Li deep in his mind:

"I've always spoken in a human language."

Xiao Li: [...]

It snorted and sneered: "Forget it, what you're saying isn't human language."

Yu Shijiu: "???"

He sneered in response: "Really? Then you haven't done anything the system is supposed to do either."

Xiao Li: [I did, thank you.]

Yu Shijiu: "Oh, really? Then can you remind me when the plot will start to reach its climax?"

Xiao Li: [...]

It paused for a moment, then said with schadenfreude: "That depends on how the player explores the story. The plot, after all, needs to be triggered by the player themselves—"

"Okay, stop talking, thank you."

Yu Shijiu interrupted Xiao Li's incessant hypnotic chatter, closed his eyes, and began to sleep.

"I need to rest now, please do not disturb me."

Xiao Li: [...]

After angrily rambling a bunch of meaningless words deep in Yu Shijiu's mind, it stormed off the internet.

Well, this time, Xiao Li, as the system, failed again.

In reality, perhaps due to the psychological effect of taking allergy medication, Xu Han felt that the itching on her body was starting to subside.

Xu Han, no longer feeling itchy all over, also felt a little tired. He yawned, glanced at the crew NPCs around him who had fallen asleep, and slowly closed his eyes.

Xu Han slept very well and fell asleep in no time.

At this moment, Yu Shijiu had just finished arguing with Xiao Li. He turned his head to look at Xu Han, who was already asleep, and then bent down to hug Fei Fei, who was also sleeping on the large communal bed.

Half-asleep, Fatty opened one eye and glanced at him, then licked his lips and closed his eyes again to continue sleeping.

"...So cute."

Yu Shijiu opened his mouth silently in the darkness, then stroked his chubby head before finally succumbing to sleepiness and falling into a deep sleep.

Until midnight, a ticking sound suddenly came from a corner of the dormitory, which woke up Yu Shijiu and some other players who were dozing off.