Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 947 Seating

Xiao Juan's words drew the attention of Yu Shijiu and the others to her.

Anjie frowned, her gaze towards Xiaojuan and Ahao showing a hint of hesitation.

Judging from the couple's reaction just now, they probably wouldn't dare to speak up.

"If there's no room, figure out a solution yourself. You've already bought your tickets and can't get a refund. Passengers who have bought tickets are entitled to sit. Can't we just squeeze in or... give way to each other?"

The driver's voice came from the driver's seat. He didn't turn around; his hoarse, rough voice carried an unquestionable indifference.

He spoke the words "Make way" very softly, yet they were crystal clear in the silent carriage, carrying a cruel implication.

Yu Shijiu understood almost immediately and looked up at the five skeletons that were standing in the corridor.

Sure enough—the five skeletons understood the driver's implication.

The one-legged skeleton at the very front moved first.

Its empty eye sockets slowly turned, shifting away from the direction of the forest, and began to scan the other "passengers" in the carriage—those with their heads down, and... none of the living escaped its gaze.

When the one-legged skeleton's gaze swept over, Ahao quickly pulled his girlfriend down to look away, afraid that the two of them would make eye contact with it.

The one-legged skeleton's gaze swept over the two people's heads and slowly landed on the seat closest to the car door.

There sat a middle-aged man in a gray jacket, who kept his head down and pretended to be dozing off.

Why do we say he was pretending to doze off?

Yu Shijiu's gaze fell on the trembling calves under the middle-aged man's seat, and she narrowed her eyes.

It seems that even if he pretends to be asleep, his luck is still not very good...

After finding its seat, the one-legged skeleton, dragging its mutilated body, used its single leg and arm bone for support, and slowly "jumped" towards the seat in a bizarre manner.

Boom!

Thump-thump—thump-thump!

The bone slammed onto the floor with a dull thud, and as the one-legged skeleton approached, the gray-jacketed man, who had been looking down, was startled by the approaching sound behind him. His body trembled violently, and he slowly raised his head.

It was an ordinary, tired face, bearing the marks of long hours of staying up late, but now that already exhausted face was filled with an undisguised fear.

He tried to shrink back and pretend he hadn't seen anything, but the one-legged skeleton was already standing beside his seat, its empty eye sockets staring silently at him.

There was no language, no movement.

An invisible, chilling fear spread through the middle-aged man's heart.

The middle-aged man's face quickly turned from pale to ashen, and a gurgling sound came from his throat. He wanted to say something, but he couldn't utter a single word.

A few seconds later, under the watchful eyes of Yu Shijiu and the other five (Lin Hai and the other five), his body suddenly went limp, and he actually slid off his seat on his own initiative, curling up and squatting in the gap in front of the seat, burying his head deep in his knees, trembling.

The one-legged skeleton paused in its bent-over motion, seemingly pleased with the man's tact.

Then, it awkwardly and laboriously used its single leg and arm bone to "squeeze" itself into the seat that still retained the warmth of its human body.

As I sat down, the mud dripping from its body soaked the seat cover, and the dark red color quickly seeped out.

With the first "person" choosing a seat, the remaining four skeletons also began to choose.

The skeleton, its skull riddled with cracks and its eye sockets pulsating with dark red sparks, walked toward the passenger next to an empty seat on its left—an elderly woman with gray hair and a canvas bag.

The old woman had her head down, seemingly fast asleep, completely unaware of the approaching danger.

The skeleton stopped beside the old woman, raised a hand with distinct fingers, and gently placed it on the back of the old woman's hand, which was covered with age spots.

laugh--

A faint, almost inaudible burning sound rang out.

The old woman, whose eyelids were twitching wildly, suddenly opened her eyes. Her cloudy eyes were instantly filled with pain and horror. She tried to pull her hand back, but it was as if it was stuck to her.

On the back of her hand, where the skeletal finger bones had touched, the already aged and wrinkled skin quickly turned charred and withered, as if licked by invisible flames. In just two or three seconds, the charred color spread upwards along her arm.

The old woman let out a short, hoarse sound, her body convulsed violently a few times, then went limp, her head lolled to the side, and she fell silent by the window.

The seat she was originally sitting in was now empty.

Behind her, Xu Han felt terrible, his teeth chattering as he huddled next to He Lingling, motionless.

This... this is just choosing a seat, why do you have to kill someone?

The skeleton with its throbbing eyes withdrew its hand as if it had done something insignificant. It slowly sat down, lowered its head, raised its creaking leg bone, and leaned against the lifeless old woman without a care, remaining motionless.

It, along with He Lingling and Xu Han in the seats behind the old lady: "..."

He Lingling, whose face was covered by a coat with only her eyes showing, was speechless.

Why do I feel like being chosen by these skeletons means certain death?

The child's skeleton, clutching a dirty, sticky cloth bag, headed purposefully towards the rear of the carriage.

Without looking at anyone, it went straight to a couple of passengers who were huddled together, dressed simply, and looked like a married couple, and stopped in front of them.

The couple, who had been keeping their heads down and holding hands, suddenly felt the approaching chill and looked up at the same time, their faces showing a mixture of fear and apprehension.

The child's skeleton stood quietly beside the seats, its small skull tilted back, its empty pupils "gazing" at them. For a moment, the cloth bag it was tightly clutching seemed to twitch slightly.

The couple exchanged a glance; a struggle flashed across the husband's face, which ultimately turned into despair.

His lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he just pulled his wife up silently from their seats, and together they retreated to the edge of the aisle, squatting down and burying their heads, just like the man in the gray jacket before.

The child's skeleton, clutching a cloth bag, climbed onto the seat, which was rather tall for it, and sat down quietly.

Compared to the two somewhat violent skeletons, the child skeleton looked strangely docile. After sitting down, it lowered its head and carefully wiped the cloth bag it was holding before placing it on its folded leg bones.

This "humane" gesture touched the hearts of Yu Shijiu, An Jie, and Chen Yi.

Could it be that the skeletons can actually communicate?

But they don't look like they have mouths—

The tall, twisted skeleton strode with heavy steps, each step causing the carriage floor to tremble slightly.

It looked around for a while before finally walking to a seating area slightly behind the middle of the "Living" and "Echo" groups.

There were two empty seats over there, but there were also a few passengers sitting nearby with their heads down, some alive and some dead.