Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 722 Are you conscious?

He Lingling: "?"

What do you mean by "it seems like he can't pay much attention to her"?

"Shi Jiu, ugh! Shi Jiu, are you alright? Ugh! Shi Jiu, are you okay? Ugh! Are you alright?"

Yu Shijiu leaned against "Fatty" and sat down on the ground, ignoring the bloody smell all over him. He smiled broadly and laughed heartily in response to Xu Han's difficult question—"Of course! Very good!"

What a... ghost!

Xu Hanguang felt his shoulder blades start to ache just looking at the large hole in Yu Shijiu's shoulder...

Such a large penetrating wound, so much blood—wait a minute?!

Xu Han immediately stopped gagging. He staggered towards Yu Shijiu, anxiously reaching out to grasp her hand, his voice trembling at the end.

"Damn it, damn it, your injury! If you don't get treatment for this arm, it's all over! You'll become a cripple, Yu Shijiu!!!"

Perhaps because of the shock and worry, Xu Han called Yu Shijiu by his full name for the first time, tears and snot streaming down his face.

Yu Shijiu's smile froze: "?"

No, why is Xu Han crying? And what's with him desperately healing himself when we're about to leave the game instance?

【Time is up.】

Xiao Li's voice sounded in my mind again. The human-like gritted teeth from before had disappeared, and it seemed to have reverted to being a pure system, coldly saying:

I'm logging off now. Take care of yourself.

Yu Shijiu raised an eyebrow: [Weren't you always offline?]

Xiao Li: 【…Get lost.】

【…】

With his mind calmed, Yu Shijiu blinked slowly, feeling the tingling warmth spreading upwards from his palms. The nerve deep in his brain that had been throbbing with excitement gradually calmed down.

"Brother Han—"

The deck, which had been briefly quiet, was suddenly filled with the sound of urgent piano music.

The music played one note after another, as if someone was pressing one twisted key after another in anger, wailing and chanting unknown prayers and sacrificial tunes in agony.

If it weren't for the system notification clearly stating that they had already completed the level, the players still on the deck would definitely be terrified and want to run away.

The torrential rain has completely subsided.

The warm sunlight, like the breaking of dawn, pierced through the dark clouds, completely dyeing the blackened clouds into a pure white, cotton-like color, which slowly descended onto the cold, blood-stained deck of the ship.

Yu Shijiu, interrupted, looked up at the giant sheep frozen in the center of the deck—the sheep’s stiff, twisted body slowly softened in the sunlight.

Even the wool that symbolizes the corruption of reason is illuminated spotlessly, like white fluff drifting slowly as goats run across the grassland.

The countless horizontal pupils on the giant ram's body slowly opened. This time, they no longer revealed resentment, pain, or anger, but rather a complex mix of emotions, such as relief, relaxation, longing, and helplessness.

"What..."

Under the sunlight, the giant ram opened its mouth wide, and through the gaps in its sharp teeth, countless male and female heads opened their mouths wide and let out heart-wrenching cries, as if they were finally freed, or as if they had no choice but to accept their fate.

Including the goat-headed people around them.

Without the giant ram as the leader of the attack, these ram-headed people stared blankly at the sunlight, bloody tears slowly streaming down their faces.

They can't escape, they can't leave, and they can't die.

This is the power of obsession.

This is... every living being's yearning for "life".

The good news is that they cleared the level, and the giant sheep showed no intention of attacking them.

The bad news was that out of the more than thirty players who entered the "Sheep Sacrifice" instance, only six survived.

Of the six people, only two ordinary players survived.

Sun Qin and Zhu Ge looked at the male player whose throat had been bitten off by a dead player at the last moment, and sighed with pity.

No one knew that the resentment of the dead players would run so deep.

Even after being contaminated by goats, he still resolutely chose "revenge".

Although this "revenge" seems absurd to everyone, who would seek revenge against a fellow victim?

Isn't this just a sign of mental instability? — Well, he's dead, so his brain probably isn't even partially gone.

Brother Zhu silently scratched his arm and took a deep breath.

—He was just lucky to survive, and he only survived because he knew Xu Han was soft-hearted and followed him to the death.

Who would have thought that this game instance would actually subject players to prolonged exposure to and corruption by bizarre NPCs?

The most terrifying game instances are those that silently "contaminate" the consciousness of all players—the damage isn't actually that high, but who would expect to fall into the trap unknowingly? In fact, they were all already caught in the trap from the very beginning…

Zhu Ge felt his scalp tingle just recalling the process, so when the game system asked if he wanted to leave immediately, he nodded frantically.

Who wouldn't leave immediately? Anyone who wants to stay in this terrifying instance is out of their mind!

As Zhu Ge was the first to leave, Sun Qin silently said goodbye to He Lingling and Shi Yuan, and then left the instance.

Then, He Lingling, who wanted to leave the instance as soon as possible to restore her eyesight, also chose to leave. Shi Yuan followed suit—Xu Han was half-forced to leave by Yu Shijiu.

"Brother Han, that's enough."

Looking at the other person's pale face, Yu Shijiu felt a strange discomfort in his heart—so he quickly let Xu Han leave.

"..."

The cat fur on Lu Chusheng's body was sticking to him in clumps. He endured the disgusting smell of blood and licked his tangled fur intermittently, glancing sideways at Yu Shijiu, who had sent Xu Han away, as she approached the giant sheep "influenced" by the sunlight.

"You guys are so strange."

Yu Shijiu, who was close to the giant sheep, tilted his head and looked at the wailing male and female heads and the open horizontal pupils, and slowly said:

Are you conscious?

“It’s not the consciousness within the plot,” Yu Shijiu smiled and whispered, “I mean, the consciousness that you know we are outsiders.”

The sunlight became even hotter.

For a moment, those horizontal pupils and the heads in the giant sheep's throat all looked at the short, thin boy in front of them, slowly, slowly uttering countless sounds mixed together.

"……envious……"

"...Meow...I'm so envious...I'm so envious..."

"...To be alive...it's so good to be alive...it's so good to be alive..."

"...Jealous...So jealous...So jealous..."

"..."

Countless male and female voices and the bleating of sheep rang in Yu Shijiu's ears. At the same time, the ship, which had been stubbornly maintaining its original state, finally made a cracking sound.

"Meow!"

Yu Shijiu heard a fat cat meowing behind him. He endured the excruciating pain in his brain from being stared at by the giant sheep and took a step back.

【Ding】