Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 680 Swallowing

“If even I don’t know where she was taken, then no one else will.”

Wu Huimin's malicious voice rang in their ears, and Sun Qin shivered for no reason.

...Wu Huimin probably doesn't know that she and Shi Yuan have switched "identities".

Just as He Lingling was about to hint to Wu Huimin to take her and Sun Qin to find Shi Yuan, what Wu Huimin said the next second made the two of them shudder instantly.

With a smile, Wu Huimin stuck out her tongue and licked the area around her lips, glancing at Sun Qin to the side.

"Oh dear." Wu Huimin tilted her head, looking at Sun Qin who was avoiding her gaze, and said in confusion:

"Didn't we say we were going to take the best pianist to the third floor? Qinqin, why are you still here?"

He Lingling and Sun Qin were greatly shocked.

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It was midnight on the seventh day, in a cabin on the first floor.

Large communal sleeping area.

"Shi Jiu!"

Lu Chusheng looked at the boy whose eyelids were trembling violently and was surprised to lift his head directly off the bed.

Of course, his surprised voice still sounded like an ordinary cat meow to anyone else.

...At most, it was just a slightly excited meow.

On the bed, Yu Shijiu was currently surrounded in a "dream" by a group of goat-headed, human-bodied monsters with goat hooves on their hands. He couldn't lift the axe or touch it, and for a moment he could only let those goat-headed, human-bodied monsters keep approaching him and touching his body.

"……hiss."

Yu Shijiu spat out the wool that had stuck in his mouth, and impatiently pushed it towards the densely packed sheep-headed, human-bodied monsters in front of him, so annoyed that he almost wanted to bite them all up.

But when it came to actually taking a bite—he knew he couldn't bring himself to do it.

After all, some of the strange shapes in front of her were humanoid... Although she was very hungry, Yu Shijiu felt that she might not be crazy enough to eat people.

I'm so annoying.

Yu Shijiu was extremely annoyed by the ram-headed men, whom he couldn't touch or push away. After several failed attempts to escape, he finally gave up.

The consequence of giving up is that we are now completely surrounded.

As more and more sheep-headed people drew closer to him, and even more wool floated in the air, and the eyes of those sheep-headed people began to dart and grow wildly... Yu Shijiu remained motionless.

Since running away is useless... let them "eat" us.

You can't be unable to move after you've "eaten", can you?

When the players watching on the screen saw the goat-headed people swarm forward and completely cover the boy's thin body, many of them were so shocked that they stood up.

"Is he crazy?! Why isn't he moving or dodging?!"

"Those goat-headed people really do eat people! In this kind of dungeon setting, they'll definitely resort to cannibalism when food runs out! Has Yu Shijiu really gone mad?!"

"Wait, didn't you all already know whether Yu Shijiu was crazy or not? Why are you so shocked now?"

"...Crazy as he may be, Yu Shijiu was never so crazy as to stand still and wait to die!"

"Who cares? If he dies, he dies. What does it have to do with us?"

"Aren't you guys getting a little too excited? If you ask me, it's a good thing that an unstable element like Yu Shijiu is dead. Maybe the guild competition will be better without him causing trouble?"

"Screw you! Yu Shijiu's skills are so useful! I was waiting for him to play in the guild tournament and bet recklessly! How am I supposed to play now that he's dead! I have to pick someone else again!"

"Tsk tsk tsk, gambler, gambler, gambling is not a good thing!"

"..."

Amidst the clamor of discussion, the sheep-headed figures swarming onto the big screen emitted strange and pleasurable gurgling sounds from their throats, accompanied by chewing sounds that most people found grating.

All the players' voices went silent for a moment, and after a long while, amidst the audible sounds of the screen being chewed, someone whispered with a complicated expression:

"Oh my god, Yu Shijiu, could she really be dead?"

No one responded to him.

Most players watched as Yu Shijiu disappeared from the big screen, while a very few sighed softly, shook their heads, and prepared to leave.

Just then, a little girl's giggles rang out from the crowd.

Players who recognized the voice paused in their tracks.

In the far corner of the square, Mutangtang ate a packaged candy that Grandma Mu had unwrapped, smiling as she watched the densely packed sheep-headed figures on the big screen.

"grandmother."

Mutang snuggled against Grandma Mu's shoulder affectionately and whispered:

"What's that saying again? Is it 'Put yourself in a desperate situation, and you will survive'?"

Grandma Mu was as kind as ever; she nodded and sighed.

"Yes," Grandma Mu gently patted her granddaughter's head and whispered, "Our Tangtang is so smart, how could she remember that sentence so clearly?"

"Grandma taught me well."

Mutangtang giggled, licked her lips, then lazily yawned and pounced on Grandma Mu.

"So sleepy, so sleepy..."

"Grandma, can you carry me back to bed?" said Mu Tangtang.

"Of course."

Grandma Mu, with her gray hair, smiled and squatted down, trembling as she gestured for Mu Tangtang to come up: "Come on, Grandma will carry you."

"..."

The onlookers exchanged bewildered glances.

Grandma Mu looked quite old, but she was surprised that her granddaughter was not a well-behaved child—although they had known this for a long time.

"...Never mind."

Mutangtang looked at her grandmother's back but didn't jump up. Instead, she jumped off the stool, walked to her grandmother's side, squatted down, and reached out her hand.

"Grandma, just hold my hand. I was just joking."

"Oh dear," Grandma Mu said, pulling her granddaughter's hand to stand up and shaking her head with a smile, "You child, you just love teasing your grandma."

"Hehe, is that not allowed? Tangtang just wanted to play a joke on Grandma."

"Of course."

"..."

The figures of the grandfather and grandson walked further and further away, and the other players in the square found a place to sit down again and looked up at the big screen.

Some people were even joking, "What do you mean by 'put yourself in a do-or-die situation and then survive'? I think that's just childish talk—what is this?!"

On the screen, Yu Shijiu's head peeked out from among the dense flock of goat-headed people, his expression a mix of strangeness and bewilderment.

“So that’s how it is…”

The players heard the boy murmur softly, "So, as long as you don't hide, you can wake up..."

"!!!"

The watching players were horrified. Some murmured in disbelief, "After all this time, he still knows... he still knows he's dreaming..."

The illusion is called an illusion not because it allows players to see past storylines, but because if players stay in the illusion for too long, there is a high probability that they will lose their sense of self.

And now, Yu Shijiu has been in the illusion for so long and still has self-awareness... Such inhuman willpower... It's terrifying.