Infinite: Dawn Game

"My innate skill is blood regeneration. Although it's not as good as a pure healing skill, it can alleviate dizziness and mobility issues caused by excessive blood loss, which is quite useful in certain situations,"

After briefly explaining her skills, Lin Feng said:

"How about we form a temporary alliance?"

Yu Shijiu stared at the blood pool floating on her fingertip, his round, large eyes narrowing slightly. In the darkness where no one could see, red blood vessels began to slowly emerge from the depths of his eyes, but he simply looked away without refusing.

"Let me think about it."

Yu Shijiu seemed quite satisfied with Lin Feng's skills; he winked with a grin.

"If it really comes to that, we can certainly form a temporary alliance."

Lin Feng did not insist. She withdrew the blood pool floating on her fingertips, and her complexion gradually returned to normal.

"Okay, I hope you'll consider me first in this instance."

“Of course,” Yu Shijiu did not refuse, the disappearance of the blood color gradually calming the restless nerves in his mind.

"But I still don't want things to get worse."

Fatty next to him meowed, as if it had sensed something, and anxiously licked Yu Shijiu's hand hanging by his side, its touch soft and warm.

Yu Shijiu subconsciously rubbed his hands together. He looked down and met a pair of green eyes that seemed to be filled with worry.

Lin Feng's gaze was drawn to Fei Fei.

She already knew that Lu Chusheng had "given" Laibao to Yu Shijiu, so she wasn't too surprised by Feifei's appearance, however—

Lai Bao has never liked to interact with players. Apart from Lu Chusheng, Lin Feng has rarely seen Lai Bao be so affectionate towards others.

“Laibao seems to like you a lot,” Lin Feng said.

"It's rarely this affectionate."

Not to mention it will lick people's fingers on its own initiative.

According to Lin Feng's memory, she rarely saw Lai Bao be so close to Lu Chusheng.

"Noble?"

Yu Shijiu seemed stunned for a few seconds, then shook his head and said:

“It’s not Laibao,” Yu Shijiu retorted seriously, “It’s my cat, its name is Feifei.”

Lin Feng: "...Really?"

She looked at the boy in front of her and didn't continue the topic—

Because the other thatched huts were gradually pushed open by people.

Several players who looked somewhat familiar nodded slightly to Lin Feng, and then went to find players they knew to team up with.

Lin Feng, sensing the situation, decided not to bother Yu Shijiu any further. "Then I'll wander around for a bit. Are you... alone?"

Lin Feng still held onto hope. If Yu Shijiu was willing to explore Changsheng Village together, she felt she could easily increase his favorability towards the surveillance team.

Lu Chusheng really wanted Yu Shijiu to join the surveillance team. Besides Yu Shijiu's talent and skills, Lin Feng could sense that Lu Chusheng's way of treating Yu Shijiu was somewhat special.

It's like taking care of a "familiar stranger" you haven't seen in a long time.

It was a very strange feeling, and Lin Feng thought that she was probably overthinking it.

“Hmm,” Yu Shijiu nodded, wiping his drool on his clothes.

"I want to travel around on my own first."

Lin Feng: "..."

She paused for a few seconds, then said, "Okay, see you tonight."

Changsheng Village isn't very big, but if you want to see every place clearly, a whole day is barely enough.

The two parted ways.

Inside the thatched huts unseen by anyone, each of the elderly people, who were beginning to become strange to varying degrees, walked slowly, slowly stuffing the leftover buns and rice porridge from their bowls into their mouths, chewing mechanically.

They didn't care at all that they were eating other people's leftovers... as if they were eating the most delicious food, and even at the end, they stuck their tongues out and licked the rice grains and meat filling into their mouths.

Continue until the bowl is completely clean.

The elderly people finally began to tidy up seriously. Their backs were hunched and thin, yet they possessed a strange agility.

But Fei Fei saw it.

It licked its fur somewhat irritably, pawing at Yu Shijiu to urge her to turn around.

Yu Shijiu turned around following the force and saw an old man taking the bowl out of his mouth. Apart from the fact that his face was a little too close to the bowl, he seemed to be perfectly normal.

The boy blinked blankly: "What's wrong?"

Seeing this, Feifei became even more agitated.

It stared intently at the elderly people who were carrying bowls to wash, its eerie green eyes widening into vertical pupils.

Yu Shijiu seemed oblivious. He bent down slightly and patted the chubby head, his tone soft and gentle.

"it does not matter,"

The boy had shallow dimples on his cheeks, and he said with a grin:

"It'll all come out eventually anyway, won't it?"

Fatty looked up at his light-colored eyes and suddenly fell silent.

"Hmm, let me see where we should go first?" Yu Shijiu looked around, his gaze not lingering on the elderly people who obviously acted strangely, but instead looking past them at the simple buildings around him.

Deep within the village, beneath some lush trees, there seems to be a house that is completely different from these thatched huts.

The house was quite far away, and Yu Shijiu had to squint slightly to pinpoint its location.

It's very old and dilapidated. From a distance, the white paint on the walls seems to have almost all peeled off, revealing a few seconds of gray-black cement and the edges of some wooden frames used to fix the structure. It looks very shabby, but compared to the thatched huts surrounding it, this little house can be considered a "mansion".

Yu Shijiu squinted at the house with peeling paint, his amber eyes gleaming almost transparently in the direct sunlight.

“Let’s go there,” Yu Shijiu chuckled softly, “That looks like the ancestral hall.”

But why didn't I notice the location of the ancestral hall just now?

Was it because you didn't notice?

Yu Shijiu didn't care much about these details.

All he knew was that with the ancestral hall in existence, the ancient sacrificial ceremony mentioned in the preface would occasionally take place within it.

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Lin Feng chose to go to the village entrance.

There was no other reason; she went to verify her initial suspicions.

For example, when the elderly randomly selected players to shake hands in a warm welcome, they didn't seem to have completely left the territory of Changsheng Village.

Lin Feng stopped at the village entrance, still puzzled.

The black stone tablet bearing the inscription "Chang Sheng Village" still stands quietly in its place. The three blood-red characters on it reflect the sunlight, giving the illusion that the characters are flowing at first glance.

Lin Feng narrowed her eyes slightly. She walked quickly to the village entrance, not heading towards the stone tablet, but towards the open space where they had gotten off the car.

One step, two steps, three steps, four steps, five steps—

Can't walk anymore.

Lin Feng stood still and stretched out her hand. Not far in front of her was still a beautiful landscape of green mountains and clear waters that made her feel relaxed, but she touched a transparent membrane wall as thin as a cicada's wing.