Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 803 Doubt

"Shi Jiu, how are you feeling right now?"

He Lingling quickly interrupted Yu Shijiu's question, saying worriedly:

"Does your head hurt? Does your body hurt? Did any strange things appear in your dreams? Like a monster that transformed into a cannibalistic foster mother?"

Yu Shijiu was interrupted. He grunted and was about to speak when He Lingling, who looked worried, interrupted him again.

"I know! It must be my dream last night that affected you, right? Ugh! I'm so bad, 'Ghost Eye' is just so disobedient! It keeps turning on by itself, and sometimes I can't even control it..."

He Lingling chattered on and on, successfully diverting Yu Shijiu's thoughts. Yu Shijiu actually thought about it seriously for a while, and then shook his head.

"No."

Yu Shijiu honestly replied, "I didn't dream about any of the events in the dungeon."

He Lingling: "..."

He Lingling stopped speaking somewhat awkwardly, secretly glancing at Xu Han, who was rubbing his backside and glaring angrily at her, before coughing and saying:

"That's good. It means it wasn't me who influenced you. If it really was me, I would feel so guilty."

"???"

Yu Shijiu felt that He Lingling's words were a bit exaggerated. He frowned, his doubts deepening: "What's there to feel guilty about? Isn't it a good thing to dream about game plots?"

This means the clues came to us on their own, right?

He Lingling: "..."

He Lingling fell silent, unsure of what to say to make amends.

In the end, it was Chen Yi and An Jie who saved the day. Chen Yi suppressed a laugh and said:

"It's good that you're alright. Let yourself sober up and eat something. Your foster mother will be here soon."

Tonight, their adoptive mother will test their obedience again. If they're lucky, they can move on to the next plot point tomorrow night.

"Oh."

Yu Shijiu nodded obediently, took the bread crumbs Chen Yi handed her, took a bite, and looked at the cup An Jie handed her with a puzzled expression.

"There's milk too?"

He remembered that there wasn't much milk in the basin that morning; it was almost empty, just enough for one person to finish a cup.

"It's water."

Anjie: "I secretly packed quite a lot yesterday."

"..."

Yu Shijiu instantly recalled the time she and Xu Han had made a mess of things, pretending to make goat milk in the previous game instance, and her eyes widened.

"Sister An, did you bring a lot of plastic bottles too?"

“…” Anjie glanced at Xu Han, who was rubbing his butt and looked guilty, and nodded: “I brought it, don’t worry, I washed it very clean.”

Chen Yi smiled and nodded, "I disinfected it very thoroughly."

Yu Shijiu blinked, took the cup, took a sip, and quickly finished her dinner under the watchful eyes of the others.

Anjie glanced at her watch—it was about five minutes before her adoptive mother arrived.

“We need to go back to our own beds,” Anjie said, then paused abruptly. She quickly glanced at Fang Youhua, who had been quiet since the afternoon, in a corner not far away, and whispered, “Fang Youhua seems a bit off. Shi Jiu, you just woke up and don’t know, so remember to be careful.”

Before Yu Shijiu could react, An Jie turned around and quickly returned to the match bed.

Xu Han slowed down, and before turning around, hurriedly said:

"Shi Jiu, be careful of those people that Fang Youhua is watching."

After saying that, Xu Han left, clutching his buttocks—that woman He Lingling, she hit him so hard! His buttocks were practically flattened!

Thinking about it, Xu Han angrily looked at He Lingling again.

He Lingling completely refused to make eye contact with him, turning her head away with an indifferent look as if it were none of her business, and staring in the direction of the door.

Xu Han: "..."

He spat out a curse through gritted teeth.

Hearing Xu Han's "Pah!" made He Lingling feel a little uneasy, and her fingers unconsciously wrapped around the braid in front of her chest several times.

She should be alright, right? She was holding back, right? At most, her butt would hurt a couple of times; she definitely wouldn't have injured Xu Han... Did it really hurt that much?

Yu Shijiu, who had just woken up and was bombarded with information, finally realized what was happening.

He instinctively wanted to turn his head away, but forcibly held back.

Who is Fang Youhua watching?

Who can Fang Youhua be targeting now? Isn't she targeting these five? After all, they are the opponents of the Eye of All Things.

Yu Shijiu was extremely anxious, feeling as if her heart was being scratched by a brush. Even the sadness and anger she had felt in her dream had dissipated considerably.

Yu Shijiu held back for a moment, and as footsteps came from outside the door, he finally glanced quickly at Fang Youhua, who was hugging her knees on a matchstick bed in the corner not far away.

Fang Youhua looked somewhat listless, her sallow complexion and silent eyes staring quietly at Thumbelina, who was sitting alone by the match bed.

Hmm, Thumbelina?

Yu Shijiu blinked.

Fang Youhua was staring at Thumbelina... Isn't that normal? He likes to stare at Thumbelina whenever he has nothing to do.

After all, Thumbelina is the main character of this game instance, isn't she?

Yu Shijiu was puzzled. Just as he was about to look away, he saw Fang Youhua's gaze suddenly shift, quickly glancing in another direction.

"..."

Yu Shijiu's heart skipped a beat.

Fang Youhua was looking in the direction of only one person.

It was that male player who once climbed onto the flowerpot to bury "Xiao Nan," I think his name was something like... Gao something, yes, Gao Zhen.

That man's name is Gao Zhen.

Why did Fang Youhua look at Gao Zhen with that kind of gaze?

Yu Shijiu's heart was pounding. He licked his lips, and a strange and peculiar emotion gathered in his mind. He was so excited that the corners of his mouth involuntarily turned up.

Could it be... that Gao Zhen is being targeted by something?

Or perhaps, among these participating players, some have already been assimilated by the strange NPCs?

Yu Shijiu, whose mind was filled with various guesses and clues, looked away before Fang Youhua and Gao Zhen noticed.

He never expected that his casual guess would actually be true.

As the doorknob was turned, Fang Youhua couldn't help but glance at Gao Zhen and Thumbelina again.

First, look at Gao Zhen—when Gao Zhen heard the doorknob being turned, he quickly raised his head, and then carefully straightened his back, assuming an elegant and quiet posture as if kneeling on a match bed.

Fang Youhua: "..."

She glanced at it briefly before looking away at Thumbelina.

When the exact same shape as Thumbelina appeared in her eyes, Fang Youhua's suspicions, which had been fretting for an entire afternoon, were finally confirmed.

Gao Zhen... he really was "contaminated".

What contaminated him?

Is it Thumbelina? But Gao Zhen hasn't had any contact with Thumbelina since yesterday, while Yu Shijiu, who is "alive," has been frequently in contact with Thumbelina... Yu Shijiu doesn't show any signs of being corrupted either.

Fang Youhua's mind was in a bit of a mess.

She didn't quite understand why Gao Town was polluted, and now it even seemed that the pollution was... quite serious.

Click.

The door was turned open.

The foster mother walked in from outside, her clothes damp with sweat, her irritation evident on her face.

"What an unlucky day!"

The foster mother started complaining as soon as she came in.