Infinite: Dawn Game

On the screen, countless players watched the giant earthworm, and as it opened its mouth wide and swallowed the corpse of the new player, their mouths twitched simultaneously.

A little disgusting.

Earthworms are disgusting in themselves, whether it's their soft, sticky texture or their constantly shrinking and contracting length... they can even survive being cut in half... just thinking about having one in a game is terrifying.

And now this terrifying thing has actually appeared.

The players stared at the boy on the screen, whose eyes were clearly red and whose face showed surprise, and remained silent for a long time.

Finally, someone couldn't help but speak up:

"Can anyone tell me what he's thinking right now?"

"..."

No one answered.

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In-game.

Yu Shijiu blinked knowingly as he watched the shredder's mouthparts, which were constantly devouring the corpses.

"Even earthworms have mutated. Changsheng Village looks interesting..."

It seems that it might be more interesting than the Aide Sanatorium.

"Meow!"

Fatty's low growl instantly stopped Yu Shijiu's restless forward movement.

He turned his head helplessly and sighed:

"Okay, okay, don't provoke the mutated earthworm for now, I know, I know."

The series of words clearly relaxed Feifei. It instantly changed its attitude, loosened its grip on Yu Shijiu's clothes, and meowed softly a few times before preparing to continue tugging at Yu Shijiu's clothes as it walked into the village.

Yu Shijiu didn't resist. He just looked back at the giant earthworm on the riverbank that had swallowed the corpse up to its calf, and lowered his eyelashes in disappointment.

What to do? He still doesn't really want to leave.

"oops!?"

A familiar elderly woman's voice rang out, and Yu Shijiu and Feifei turned their heads at the same time.

Under a tree not far away, an elderly woman, covered in sweat, leaned against the trunk and waved to him, panting heavily.

"What are you doing there? Come here quickly!"

As she spoke, the old woman trembled as she looked at the giant earthworm that was still devouring its "prey," her voice becoming much softer:

"Hurry up! Come over while it's still eating! Otherwise, once it finishes eating, it'll be your turn, and your cat's turn too!"

The old lady looked very anxious, without the slightest hint of pretense.

Yu Shijiu squinted at the old lady not far away who even seemed to want to jump up. She had no doubt that if it weren't for the giant earthworm behind her, she would have run over and dragged him away herself.

A seemingly strange NPC actually cares about me?

Yu Shijiu's wrist was bitten again by Feifei, who made gurgling noises in her throat and pulled Yu Shijiu forward with great force.

This time, Yu Shijiu was truly obedient and followed it forward, not forgetting to look back at the giant earthworm with lingering reluctance.

At this moment, the giant earthworm had swallowed the corpse up to its ankles. It seemed to sense the sound of someone walking not far away, so it paused its swallowing action slightly, only raising its mouthparts high and looking towards Yu Shijiu.

Even though he knew the giant earthworm couldn't see him, Yu Shijiu still flashed a big smile.

He whistled softly, and the sharp, clear sound made the giant earthworm speed up its swallowing.

The sticky, slurping sounds of food being swallowed, the crunching of bones being chewed by sharp teeth, and a gaze fixed on something that didn't seem to be human—

Feifei was furious. He bit Yu Shijiu's wrist threateningly and dragged the latter forward.

The old lady wasn't far from them. After Yu Shijiu and Feifei reached the tree, the giant earthworm finally finished devouring the corpse.

It slowly crawled along the riverbank toward where Yu Shijiu and Feifei had just stood, its sharp, purplish-red mouthparts constantly contracting, and sticky, reddish-white mucus dripping onto the ground, only to be rolled clean inch by inch by its body.

To be honest, it does feel a bit absurd and disgusting.

Some players who are afraid of this kind of soft-bodied worm would probably have nightmares if they saw it.

Not to mention that this worm just ate a living person.

Hmm, is this what they call a SAN crash?

How did you end up here?

The old lady finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Yu Shijiu was out of danger. Then she looked at the giant earthworm that was still wriggling with a complicated expression.

"How could that be?" Yu Shijiu looked at the old lady and said quite naturally:

"We were just taking a walk, and I didn't see any water or anything in the room, so I brought Feifei to the river for a bath. Is there a problem with that?"

old lady:"……"

The old woman didn't speak. She stared intently at the giant earthworm that was hissing furiously because it couldn't find its prey, until the earthworm crawled towards the sun and quickly retreated, at which point she realized what was happening.

“There’s a well behind the house,” the old woman said, wiping the sweat from her brow. Her hunched back seemed to have bent even more, and she could only slowly straighten up by holding onto the tree trunk.

"You could have asked me why I went to the river alone!" Suddenly, as if remembering something, the old woman became angry, her tone sharp and furious.

"Do you know what would have happened to you if I hadn't called you just now?!"

The old woman's expression was ferocious. Her face, marked by the ravages of time, was deeply wrinkled and twisted. Her shrunken lips opened and closed, and her tongue seemed to wriggle.

Feifei also raised her head and looked warily at the old lady, or more accurately, at her mouth.

It's normal for the tongue to move, and it's also normal for it to be reddish-purple. But what's abnormal is why the tongue is so flexible that it keeps popping out of the lips.

Yu Shijiu, however, seemed not to have seen anything. He exclaimed in surprise, "Ah!"

"I'm not alone,"

As he spoke, he bent down and stroked the fat man's bristling fur, saying earnestly:

"And there's Fatty too."

The old woman, in a fit of rage: "..."

Her old face, wrinkled like tree bark, stiffened briefly for a few seconds before she finally found her footing and continued:

“That’s not what I meant… I meant it was too dangerous just now, you know what would happen if…”

The old woman paused briefly for a few seconds, then said, "You'll be eaten too."

Faced with this statement that was practically a death sentence, Yu Shijiu merely glanced at the giant earthworm that had already begun digging in the soil with its mouthparts not far away.

"No way," Yu Shijiu said with a smile.

"Grandma, are you sure you're not saying something wrong? I'm a guest! If something really happens to me, wouldn't it be because your village isn't safe? For example, that strange-looking earthworm, what's going on with it—"

"It's an earth dragon!"

The old woman suddenly cried out, her voice hoarse like a withered branch, her expression extremely agitated:

"It is the deity worshipped by our Changsheng Village for generations. How could you use such an obscene word as 'earthworm' to refer to it?!"

Yu Shijiu: "..."

Fatty: "..."