Infinite: Dawn Game

really.

Lin Feng stood by the membrane wall that had separated them, her eyes lowered thoughtfully.

When those old men came out and started pulling people around, she felt something was off. Now it seems that those old men grabbed the players she had "chosen" one after another before starting to walk towards the village.

Upon closer reflection, the elderly people who selected people stood in almost the exact same spot each time they pulled someone up.

And the location of this membrane wall...

Lin Feng turned her head to look at the location of the stone tablet.

From the angle seen with the naked eye, the edge of the stone tablet is exactly where this membrane wall is flush.

Without hesitation, Lin Feng quickly walked to the stone tablet and stopped. Her gaze lingered on the three characters "Chang Sheng Village" for a few seconds before being drawn to the area of ​​ground below the stone tablet that had clearly been turned over.

The elderly people in Changsheng Village certainly wouldn't till the land, so this loose and scattered ground must have been dug by the player.

Lin Feng frowned slightly.

Whoever it is, even if they did discover something, digging directly into the soil like this is too reckless.

Putting everything else aside, if the elders of Changsheng Village come out, how will they explain it?

Thinking of this, Lin Feng closed her eyes slightly.

Now we can only hope that these players who dug in the soil weren't seen by the elders in Changsheng Village.

Players watching this scene from off-screen clicked their tongues in amazement.

"Lin Feng's sensitivity to her surroundings is as strong as ever. I'm willing to bet that she's probably the only one in the instance who has discovered the clue that Changsheng Village has been separated."

"...No way, I felt it was pretty obvious, I even noticed it a little bit just now..."

"Please stop showing off, okay? Of course we can see clearly from outside, but how could they, being inside the game with so many people around them, possibly see so clearly?"

Some players who couldn't stand it sneered: "The real isolation of Changsheng Village happened after the elders had all chosen their people. Don't tell me you were a prophet."

The player who was trying to gain attention by making boastful remarks was now too afraid to speak.

He genuinely hadn't realized it; he had only spoken up to gain attention. Who would have thought there were actually people in the square watching the live stream so closely... He had assumed everyone there was just there to gamble.

"Lin Feng's talent skills will probably be quite useful in this game instance; it just depends on whether she can make the most of them."

An experienced veteran player spoke up:

"She was right to form an alliance with Yu Shijiu. Although Yu Shijiu seems a bit unreliable, he has a great advantage as an offensive player."

"What a pity, Yu Shijiu didn't agree."

The veteran player chuckled: "But they didn't completely reject it, did they?"

That proves there is still hope.

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At the village entrance, after confirming that Changsheng Village had been isolated by some unseen force, Lin Feng did not hesitate any longer and turned to walk into Changsheng Village.

After she left, the soil beneath the stone tablet, which had been dug up, began to churn. Fine, reddish-black soil surged about, and a moist, red liquid seemed to gush from the ground, soaking the relatively dry and distinct surface layer of soil.

Sand-Sand-Sand-

Something was churning under the soil, and the strange sound gradually dissipated as sunlight shone on the ground.

At the same time, as Lin Feng was pondering where to go next, a clear female voice suddenly appeared deep in his mind.

"Hello?! Sister Feng, Sister Feng, can you hear me?"

Lin Feng's head was starting to ache from the noise, and she grunted in response.

"Keep your voice down, I have a headache."

The woman's voice stopped abruptly, and when she spoke again, the volume had dropped several decibels.

"Ah, it's like this. Brother Lu said that Sister Feng, you should get to know Yu Shijiu better. If Yu Shijiu needs any help, you can lend a hand. Cough cough, you know what I mean. Basically, it's about getting Yu Shijiu to owe us a favor so we can get him into the inspection team, haha..."

The woman's voice was somewhat rambling, and she spoke for quite a while.

Lin Feng wasn't in a hurry. After listening patiently, she said, "I just asked him to team up with me, but he refused."

The female voice in my head said nonchalantly, "I saw it, but Yu Shijiu didn't refuse, did she? We still have a great chance!"

Lin Feng: "..."

She pinched the bridge of her nose, feeling a slight headache, and then hummed in agreement.

"I understand. Tell Lu, if Yu Shijiu gives me a chance to help, I will."

I'm afraid Yu Shijiu won't give me that chance at all.

The woman hummed in agreement and said cheerfully:

"Alright, my mission is complete. Damn! Contacting them is so expensive! 1800 points for just two minutes! And we can't even reveal the plot we saw outside, it's such a rip-off! Luckily, Brother Lu paid for it himself, he's really rich, pshaw! With points, he can do whatever he wants—"

Two minutes later, the female voice in Lin Feng's mind disappeared instantly.

She patted her head, which was starting to throb from the noise, expressionless, and continued to look around.

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Inside Changsheng Village.

Yu Shijiu had already arrived in front of the house that resembled an ancestral hall. Fatty was licking its fur next to him, slowly looking up at the dilapidated house in front of it and tilting its head.

Above this dilapidated ancestral hall hangs a plaque that looks quite old. It is made of dark red mahogany, and due to its age, the paint has peeled off and turned gray. The characters are exactly the same as those on the stone tablet at the entrance of Changsheng Village, both in red and relatively square regular script.

"It really is an ancestral hall."

Yu Shijiu looked up at the rather simple ancestral hall, glanced around to make sure there were no players or NPCs nearby, and then pushed open the door and walked into the ancestral hall.

The ancestral hall's main gate had been in disrepair for years, and when it was pushed open, it creaked and groaned, making one's teeth ache. This was accompanied by dust falling from the roof, which made Yu Shijiu, who was caught off guard, cough.

"Cough cough cough-"

Yu Shijiu coughed and waved his hand to brush away the dust around him, his eyes red and watering from the choking.

"Why is it so dirty..."

The chubby one next to him sneezed several times, rubbed its nose with its furry paws, and meowed in response to Yu Shijiu.

Yu Shijiu sniffed, and once her vision cleared, she turned to look around.

The ancestral hall was not in a mess. The tiered area facing the main gate was filled with densely packed wooden memorial tablets, similar in color to yellow paulownia wood. Each person's name was written in red ink, which looked somewhat eerie.

Yu Shijiu didn't understand any of this. He just glanced at the memorial tablets, made sure the characters on them were missing or illegible, and then stopped looking at them.

Even a close look is useless; you can't make out what the characters are at all.

We can't rely entirely on guesswork.

More than the names on the memorial tablets, Yu Shijiu was curious about the things hanging around him that looked like hearts.

Around the four corners of the ancestral hall, there were four fleshy red objects that looked like hearts. They didn't smell, but they gave off a creepy feeling.

Yu Shijiu looked at them, walked to one of the corners, and reached out.