Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 169 Return

"then what should we do?"

Yu Shijiu, who had also thought of this, smiled and said:

“They’re too stupid, and we can’t have known these clues in advance.”

"Ultimately, it's because those players weren't vigilant enough, nor were they capable enough. What can we do, sister?"

The word "sister" made Lin Feng instinctively take several steps back.

She gazed at Yu Shijiu inside the door through the increasingly heavy rain, her heart turning ice-cold.

But Yu Shijiu is right.

It was at this point that Lin Feng finally understood what some players in the monitoring team who had watched Yu Shijiu's live stream meant.

"That little boy wasn't cruel or vicious; he just didn't care about anyone's life, including...himself."

Using such a statement to describe a teenager who has just come of age is tantamount to saying that this person is an anomaly.

An anomaly, completely unable to adapt to the human world.

Lin Feng closed her eyes slightly, knowing that this was not Yu Shijiu's problem.

As one of the few players in this game instance who could "ally" with Yu Shijiu, she knew that Yu Shijiu still had a tiny bit of "goodwill" towards certain things.

But judging from the current situation, it seems that only Fatty and—

"elder sister."

Yu Shijiu suddenly spoke, whispering as Lin Feng subconsciously looked up at him:

"If you leave now, it might be too late."

Lin Feng was slightly taken aback. She subconsciously turned around and met the eyes of the little girl who was tiptoeing to push open the gate to the courtyard.

It's Yang Wan.

At that moment, Lin Feng's heart sank to the depths.

Since Yang Wan has returned, it also means that... Liu Laosan has most likely returned as well.

The little girl, Yang Wan, seemed surprised to find that there were other people in the house. She paused for a few seconds, then smiled.

"Huh? Did Grandma invite other people over to play again?"

As Yang Wan spoke, she skipped and hopped over to Lin Feng and looked up. She was soaked through by the rain, and her clothes and hair clung to her body. As soon as she got close, a chilling aura wafted over her.

Lin Feng suppressed her fear of retreating and looked down to meet Yang Wan's gaze.

"you--"

"Hasn't Grandma come back yet?"

Yu Shijiu, who had stood up inside the room, interrupted the staring contest between the human and the ghost with a grin, and tapped the door with the photo frame in her hand.

"Dinner hasn't been made yet?"

Yang Wan's attention was instantly drawn to the photo frame in his hand, and her eyes suddenly turned cold for a moment.

At the same time, Lin Feng took the opportunity to run quickly towards the wide-open courtyard gate with her umbrella. After running out of the courtyard, she couldn't help but look back.

The rain is getting heavier.

The larger and finer the raindrops fell, the more they splashed up muddy droplets, covering people's trouser legs and clothes with a thick layer of yellow mud.

Inside the courtyard, Yang Wan, drawn by the picture frame, didn't notice the fleeing "prey" behind her and walked towards Yu Shijiu, soaked to the bone.

Lin Feng exchanged a complicated glance with Yu Shijiu, who was smiling at her from behind the rain, before looking away.

Yu Shijiu will be fine.

At least nothing will happen before the sacrifice.

Yang Wan would not lay a hand on the "stand-in" she had carefully chosen.

Moreover, Yu Shijiu himself is not an easy player to kill.

Countless fragmented and chaotic thoughts flashed through Lin Feng's mind. As her hurried steps in the rain gradually slowed down, she stared at the figure under the tree not far away, her gaze slightly stunned.

Under the big tree, a middle-aged man with gray hair hunched over, looking at her. His pale, weathered face no longer showed pain or love; instead, it bore the expression of someone who had gotten what he wanted.

"My dear girl," Uncle Gong, soaking wet under the big tree, laughed as he walked step by step toward Lin Feng's location.

"Are you cold? Come on over here," he said proudly, puffing out his chest and smiling.

"The trees here are so big and strong, it's a great place to take shelter from the rain."

Lin Feng stared at him intently for several seconds.

The NPC she thought was dead on day one is actually still alive?!

This isn't right.

Lin Feng finally pieced together some missing clues and loopholes.

Most players were "eaten" by the elders and turned into human-headed earthworms, but many others died by the river.

The riverbank and the ancestral hall... are both areas where giant earthworms live.

Based on current observations, the giant earthworm is the "god" that Yang Wan and others refer to.

The deity can only appear in the ancestral hall and by the river... but most players aren't stupid. Apart from the ancestral hall being a must-go place, most people will just quietly pass by the river knowing that there are giant earthworms there.

So why do so many players still die by the river?

There's only one reason: someone is "luring" them to be devoured by giant earthworms.

Now, it's quite obvious who that "person" is.

Lin Feng's gaze lingered behind Uncle Gong, on the shore where the lake's calm had been violently disrupted by the rain. A giant earthworm, almost blending into the surrounding soil, slowly wriggled behind Uncle Gong.

Lin Feng turned and ran.

The smile on Uncle Gong's face behind him also disappeared. He screamed and cried out in agony, disappearing into the rain.

"Don't run! Don't run! My Nian Nian! My Nian Nian is still very hungry, she's so hungry... Don't run away!!!"

"You're not allowed to run away!"

At the same time, the giant earthworm that had been patiently waiting for Uncle Gong to bring back his "food" also began to raise its head. Its mouth, full of sharp, broken teeth, suddenly opened wide, and a hissing sound kept coming from deep in its throat.

To the human ear, it sounds like a hissing sound.

To Uncle Gong's ears, it sounded like a series of cries: "Dad, I'm so hungry... so hungry, so hungry, so hungry... Dad... I'm starving to death..."

Uncle Gong's face grew even more anxious as he desperately chased after Lin Feng, repeatedly saying things like "Don't run away, don't run away."

Lin Feng, who was forbidden to run away: "..."

She ran quickly out of the area where the riverbank was, stumbling along the way. Just as she was about to breathe a sigh of relief, she saw Liu Laosan walking down the path.

Liu Laosan didn't use an umbrella either.

The other elderly people behind him were also without umbrellas. Their hair and clothes were soaked through by the rain, clinging to their bodies and looking quite disheveled.

Upon seeing Liu Laosan, Lin Feng stopped in her tracks. Just as she was wondering whether to throw away her umbrella and run, Liu Laosan, who was not far away, had already spotted her.

Noticing Liu Laosan's gaze, Lin Feng took a deep breath and walked towards him with her umbrella.

"village head."

Lin Feng forced a smile: "You're back."

Liu Laosan looked completely soaked, with raindrops dripping from his wet hair, and his wrinkled face swollen from being soaked in the rain.

As Lin Feng looked at him, she had the illusion that the wrinkles on his face had become much less.

Liu Laosan looked at her and grinned, "Oh my, it's raining so hard, what brings you here, guest?"