Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 222 Are you a spirit?

"Cough-cough-"

A short, painful cough broke the deathly silence in the area.

It's a male player who's about to die in the arms of a female player.

The female player quickly lowered her head, wiped away her tears, and looked at the male player in her arms who was gazing intently at her. Her voice was hoarse as she asked:

"Are you feeling better? Is it still very painful, is it?"

The male player silently shook his head. He watched as the female player slowly smiled, his immobile arm trembling, unable to lift it to wipe away his girlfriend's tears.

"It doesn't hurt."

The male player laughed and said, "Why are you crying? You won't look pretty with swollen eyes."

The female player pursed her lips and shook her head repeatedly.

“I think this younger brother is right,” the male player coughed, blood and fragments of internal organs gushing from the corner of his mouth, which the female player wiped away with trembling hands.

"We've all died once, so to meet each other, get to know each other, have teammates and loved ones—it's a hard-won, fantastical journey in itself..."

The male player's face gradually flushed, and he looked at his teammates around him, who had cleared countless dungeons with him, with bright, bloodshot eyes, and smiled happily.

The teammates next to him couldn't bear to close their eyes, but they didn't want to miss seeing their teammate one last time, so they stubbornly held back until their eyes were sore.

“I’m not afraid of death, really, it’s just…” The male player coughed up another mouthful of blood, and the female player’s tears dripped from her chin onto his head.

"It just seems like I've only wronged you, Xiaoxuan..."

"..."

"No...that's not it, that's not it..."

The female player cried and shook her head repeatedly. She indifferently lowered her head, bringing her face close to the male player's, her lips trembling as she pressed them against the top of his head, mumbling indistinctly:

"I just want you to live, I just want you to live..."

"..."

Yu Shijiu knew nothing about what happened after that.

He was still somewhat bewildered when Lu Chusheng pulled him away from the crowd by the wrist, but he still quietly turned his head to look at the female player behind him who was hugging the male player and looking down several times, until he could no longer see the group of players before turning back.

The chubby baby in their arms had already struggled to get down and was following the two of them, licking its fur from time to time, looking up and down to lick its fur.

Why did you pull me away?

It took Yu Shijiu a long time before she belatedly asked the question.

"Did I say something wrong?"

Standing next to him, Lu Chusheng's fingers trembled silently for a second before he quickly shook his head.

“No,” Lu Chusheng said calmly, looking at the boy beside him who was a head shorter than him.

"You're right."

Dawn Games truly gave those who had already died once a second chance to be "reborn".

However, the future after death is still a death that can be seen at a glance, which seems too pessimistic and hopeless.

"Then why do they see me that way?"

Yu Shijiu lowered his eyes in confusion. He looked at his pale and thin fingers, the joints showing through the thin skin, like larvae about to break through the skin.

"Perhaps it's because they're afraid."

Lu Chusheng explained patiently, looking at the top of the boy's head and resisting the urge to touch it.

"Afraid?" Yu Shijiu continued to ask.

"What are they afraid of? Why should they be afraid? Am I right? Can the right thing be afraid?"

Lu Chusheng: "..."

For the first time, Captain Lu, who was usually stern and unsmiling, felt speechless. He paused for a few seconds, then reached out and ruffled the boy's soft hair.

It was as soft as the last time he touched it.

"Why are there so many questions?" Lu Chusheng said calmly.

"Are you a walking encyclopedia of 'Whys'?"

Lu Chusheng was stunned for a few seconds after saying those words.

It seems that deep in his memory, he once said the same thing to someone who always asked "why".

Yu Shijiu, who has a hundred thousand whys to ask: "..."

He belatedly realized that Lu Chusheng was "making fun of" him, and instantly became somewhat unhappy.

"No more questions."

Yu Shijiu suddenly turned his head and shouted at the chubby guy who was still licking his fur:

"Fatty, it's time for us to go home!"

Fatty on the side: "..."

It lazily licked the last tuft of fur on its body, glanced at Lu Chusheng beside it, and walked gracefully toward Yu Shijiu.

Meow meow meow! Just like I expected, it happened again!!

Lu Chusheng: "..."

He squinted at Fatty, who had passed by him and smacked his calf with its tail, and keenly sensed that Fatty seemed to be mocking him.

……laugh at?

Why is Fatty laughing at himself?

Captain Lu himself didn't realize that he had already accepted the name "Fatty".

He watched the boy's retreating figure, who had been angered by his words, and a silent smile crept onto his lips.

"Yu Shijiu".

Lu Chusheng's voice wasn't loud, but it easily reached Yu Shijiu's ears through the wind.

Yu Shijiu paused almost imperceptibly for a second, and then a slightly rapid gust of wind came from behind him.

"?"

Yu Shijiu slightly turned to the side to dodge, and a thin card appeared in front of him. He quickly took it and turned it over.

"Team Card".

"I'd like to invite you to join the next game, is that alright?"

Lu Chusheng said.

The last rays of the setting sun shone through the gaps in the glass of the town's buildings, illuminating the figures of Yu Shijiu and Lu Chusheng.

Lu Chusheng's heart started racing for no apparent reason.

Although he himself did not know why.

As the sun sets, the afterglow casts a long, slanted shadow of the boy not far away.

In the sunset glow, Yu Shijiu waved the "team card" in his hand, a slightly childish smile gradually appearing on his face.

"of course can."

"Captain Lu, please give me your guidance in the next game."

After saying this, Yu Shijiu didn't linger. She put away the "team card" and waved as she walked towards her "home," followed by a huge orange cat.

...It looks more like a living person now.

Lu Chusheng thought for a moment.

Compared to the crazy boy I first saw on the screen, Yu Shijiu now seems like a very normal boy with an extremely cheerful personality.

Lu Chusheng subconsciously ignored the fact that Yu Shijiu's words had just stunned a group of people.

After all, strictly speaking, Yu Shijiu was right.

As he said, it was a "rebirth" in the first place, so if one cannot withstand the test of "rebirth" and dies again, one should be grateful... no, I mean lucky.

Not everyone gets a second chance to live.

Jingle Bell--

When the system's incoming call rang, Lu Chusheng pressed the answer button.

"what happened?"

The voice of the player on the other end of the surveillance team was somewhat distorted, but it couldn't hide the fear and urgency in it.

"Brother Lu! I just got word that the rules for this guild competition are different from the previous ones!"

"The game has issued a statement to all guilds that in the final guild competition, the top guild from each town will simultaneously enter the same game instance for the so-called final showdown!"