Infinite: Dawn Game

After watching the show for a while, Uncle Gong finally burst into laughter after Yu Shijiu finished speaking.

"Yes, ma'am, although this young man is a bit short and thin, he's definitely a genuine young man, haha! Oh, by the way, young man, what's your name?"

Yu Shijiu bent down and rubbed the chubby head, responding politely:

"Uncle Gong, you can just call me Shi Jiu."

Uncle Gong stared in surprise: "Nineteen?"

Yu Shijiu realized that Uncle Gong might have misread the word, but he didn't explain and just nodded with a smile.

The old lady across from me remained frozen in place.

She stared at the chubby creature that had pounced on her and was hooking its claws around Yu Shijiu's legs, and for a moment she didn't know what to say.

It took the old lady quite a while to react, urged on by the elderly people next to her.

She stared intently at the slender Yu Shijiu in front of her, and as if she had thought of something, her previously unpleasant expression softened considerably.

"Oh dear," the old woman said angrily, patting her mouth as she hunched over.

"This old woman's eyesight is failing; I can't even see people clearly and I even mistook their genders. I'm so useless..."

Even so, she reached out and took Yu Shijiu's hand again, gently patting the back of his hand.

"Young man, your name is Nineteen, right? That's a lovely name. Are you the nineteenth child in your family?"

Yu Shijiu was still too lazy to explain: "No, it's just a name."

The old lady wasn't annoyed. She smiled and her eyes crinkled, revealing layers of fine wrinkles around her eyes, like dark crevices that had sunk deep into ravines.

"That sounds even better, it shows that your parents put a lot of thought into choosing the name."

"is it?"

Yu Shijiu chuckled and said lazily, "You're joking. My mother may have put in a lot of effort, but the other one... well, that's another story."

Another species by blood, who can send themselves to a mental hospital without batting an eye, would such a person bother to name themselves?

The old lady nodded happily: "It seems that Nineteen has a better relationship with her mother than with her father. That's good. After all, her mother gave birth to you, so she must love you more."

Yu Shijiu did not respond this time. He looked at the old lady's face, the smile in his eyes gradually fading and then returning, revealing a strange coldness.

The old lady's expression froze, subconsciously thinking she had said something wrong, but then she saw the young man opposite her turn his head to say goodbye to Uncle Gong.

"Then Uncle Gong, I'm leaving with Grandma. Come visit me again when you find your daughter, okay?"

As he spoke, Yu Shijiu took a green tangerine out of his pocket, tossed it into the air, and caught it again, as if he were hinting at something.

Uncle Gong didn't catch his hint and nodded with a smile:

"Okay, I'll introduce you two when the time comes. You're both the same age, you'll definitely have things to talk about!"

Yu Shijiu: "...Yes, there definitely will be."

If Uncle Gong is so generous, his daughter certainly won't be stingy either.

Yu Shijiu thought.

After Uncle Gong left, Yu Shijiu glanced casually to the side and saw many players, just like herself, having their wrists held by the old man, being pulled into the Longevity Village like chosen sacrifices.

Before long, the open space in front of the village was much less crowded, with only a few people who looked like NPCs or players who hadn't been "chosen" wandering around, seemingly curious about this secluded village inhabited only by the elderly.

"Nineteen?" the old lady urged again.

"Are we going to Grandma's for dinner? The sun is almost up. The buns and porridge Grandma made will get cold soon, and they won't taste good when they're cold."

Yu Shijiu snapped out of his daze, glanced at his and the other players' positions, and returned a sweet smile:

"Oh dear, that's not good,"

The boy had a bright smile; though thin, his features were delicate, radiating a rare charm.

"Grandma, let's go back quickly, I want to eat steamed buns."

The old lady was delighted. She nodded repeatedly, took Yu Shijiu's wrist, turned around, and walked into the village. Her steps were hurried, without any of the unsteadiness or slowness that one would expect from an elderly person.

Feifei followed behind Yu Shijiu, its dark green eyes cold and intimidating in the morning light. It turned its head to look at the stone tablet next to it with the three words "Chang Sheng Village" written in red paint, tilted its head as if it saw something, and then meowed.

Yu Shijiu turned around and saw Feifei running to the stone tablet, digging at something with its claws. The black soil was pushed aside by its claws, and dust flew up.

The old lady was startled and forgot about pulling Yu Shijiu. She rushed over to grab Feifei's tail, her eyes, which were covered with white film, widening in her anxiety.

"No! Oh dear, you disobedient cat! This is our village's stone tablet! You can't dig it up!"

Even so, the old lady only dared to grab Fatty's tail and didn't dare to get close to Fatty's upper body.

Afraid of being bitten, and also afraid of being pounced on.

After all, Fatty looks more like a "tiger".

The chubby dog ​​was very unhappy that its tail had been pulled. It gave the old lady who grabbed its tail a cold look and meowed several times.

In the end, it was Yu Shijiu who spoke up to stop it.

"Feifei," Yu Shijiu called out, "Let's go eat first, I'm a little hungry."

Feifei stopped digging, hesitated for a moment, glanced at the small hole it had dug, and finally turned and ran toward where Yu Shijiu was.

The old lady finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand and walked in the direction of Fatty.

"I'm sorry, Grandma," Yu Shijiu said, seemingly without much remorse.

"Sometimes Fatty just loves to play, and I can't stop him."

He sighed and wearily rubbed his thin arm.

old lady:"……"

She stared at Yu Shijiu's thin, bony body with her grayish-white eyes, but said nothing else.

"If you ask me, Grandma, you can't give all the food to the cat. Look at you, you're so skinny you can't even beat a cat. How can you act like a proper owner?"

Yu Shijiu didn't refute, but instead nodded in agreement:

"That's right, if we really start fighting over food, I can't beat Fatty, so I'll just have to starve and get thin..."

"So, you still have to pamper yourself while raising your cat frugally, that's the only way to keep your pet in check... But how did you manage to raise your cat to be so big?"

The old lady was genuinely curious.

Yu Shijiu grunted and hesitated before saying:

"A variety, perhaps? Is it a mutant?"

The old lady paused for a few seconds, looked at the chubby girl next to Yu Shijiu, and hesitated before saying:

"But no matter how you look at it, it's an orange cat, isn't it?"

"Hey, isn't that what everyone says?"

Fatty: "..."

It licked its sharp teeth and suppressed its anger, letting out a "gurgling" sound from its throat.

Off-screen, Lu Chusheng, witnessing this scene, smiled almost imperceptibly, then turned to look at the person beside him:

"Have any members of the surveillance team entered this instance?"

P.S.: I checked the whole text last night and found that if there were ten dungeons, many readers wouldn't understand the level of risk. After thinking about it, I changed it to a setting where you can leave the Dawn Game after obtaining 100 million points, which will be easier to understand and won't affect the reading experience.