Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 954 Devouring?

In the seats next to them, He Lingling managed to calm her rapid breathing under Xu Han's supervision.

With her eyes closed, she listened to the hushed conversation of the four people around her, and with the keen sense of the residual feeling of her "Ghost Eyes," she gleaned some strange information.

She sensed that the black mist inside the carriage... seemed to be being redistributed by something... twisting and turning chaotically into clumps...

He Lingling frowned, then suddenly interjected:

“Sister An, Brother Chen, I noticed that the rate at which the forest is absorbing pollution has slowed down, and the couple who just got on the bus... they seem to be ‘absorbing’ the death energy from those skeletons... although it’s very slow... but they are definitely absorbing it…”

Xu Han felt a chill run down his spine and tugged at He Lingling's sleeve:

"You mean they...they're devouring each other?"

"It doesn't really look like devouring..."

He Lingling shook her head, "It's more like... a kind of transformation."

The newly boarded couple became adept at absorbing the death energy from the skeletons and using it for their own purposes.

He Lingling couldn't quite understand the relationship between the two.

According to her guess, the skeleton and the ghost couple should be of the same kind, but if they are of the same kind, why would the ghost couple absorb the death energy and pollution from the skeleton?

Surely it can't be to restore them to "normal"?

No one can give a correct answer.

After hearing what He Lingling said, Anjie and the other two fell even more silent.

Could they be mistaken? The ghost couple, the skeletons, and the dead passengers are not all together?

There is actually vicious competition among them, isn't there?

The more Chen Yi thought about it, the more likely it seemed, and he subconsciously reached out and grabbed Yu Shijiu beside him.

Yu Shijiu was wondering whether to turn around and look at Lin Hai and the others when he was suddenly grabbed and startled, asking in confusion:

"Brother Chen?"

A smile spread across Chen Yi's chubby face as he lowered his voice and said:

"Shi Jiu, do you think the ghost couple, the five skeletons, and those dead passengers could be together?"

"..." Yu Shijiu was a little puzzled. "It can't be."

Chen Yi's eyes lit up even more. "You think so too? That's great, I think so too—"

“They weren’t passengers from the same platform,” Yu Shijiu thought for a moment and said, “They must have different ideas and destinations.”

Yu Shijiu's idea was very simple.

If the trains don't come from the same platform, and the passengers don't get off at the same platform either, how could they possibly be together?

It's good enough that we don't suspect they're acting independently and that we don't arrest these few living people.

As she spoke, Yu Shijiu turned back to look at the back seat of the carriage.

In the back seat, Lin Hai had already sat down again, and the passenger in the hoodie next to him also lowered his head again, but the two faint specks of light under the brim of the hood had not been completely extinguished.

The four members of Mulanzhi remained on edge, vigilantly watching the movements of the ghost couple and the skeletons, their hands never leaving their weapons, wary of the ghost couple.

The bus continued its journey in the suffocating silence.

The darkness outside the window seemed to grow even thicker, and the sound of rain, which had suddenly intensified, seemed to be isolated in another world.

Time passed in a blur, with only the driver's occasional cough and the roar of the engine reminding the players that the game was still moving forward.

I don't know how much time passed.

Maybe ten minutes, maybe twenty minutes or longer.

The driver's hoarse voice rang out once again, like a cold declaration.

"Next stop... an unmarked cemetery."

"Passengers who are getting off at this stop, please prepare in advance."

After the words "Unnamed Cemetery" were uttered, the temperature inside the carriage suddenly dropped several degrees.

The name of this website... just hearing it sends chills down your spine.

Xiao Juan shivered violently from the cold and instinctively grabbed A Hao's arm, her nails almost digging into his flesh.

"Ah, Ah Hao..."

Xiao Juan asked in a trembling voice, "When...when do we get off the bus?"

Ah Hao's face was also pale, and his lips were trembling, but he still managed to pat his girlfriend's back.

"It's okay, let's go to the final stop. After all, wasn't the plan to get off at the final stop anyway?"

"..." Xiao Juan gripped his hand tightly and nodded vigorously, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

"..."

Yu Shijiu listened to Xiao Juan and A Hao's hushed conversation, then slowly raised his head and looked out the car window.

The bus is driving into an even more desolate area.

Along the roadside, the dense, withered trees that had once appeared slowly disappeared as the bus moved on, replaced by low, undulating dark mounds that appeared and disappeared in the thick darkness of the night and the increasingly dense rain.

There were no lights, no bus stop signs, only endless darkness and the incessant dripping of rain on the roof of the bus.

But Yu Shijiu keenly noticed that the strong, earthy smell of mud brought up by the skeletal passengers was rapidly intensifying in the air of the carriage, mixed with some kind of... stench of rotting corpses.

As if to accommodate the increasingly strong stench of decay and pollution in the air, Yu Shijiu's left arm began to stir restlessly again.

This time, it wasn't the stinging or tingling sensation of before, but a strange, pulling feeling, as if being "called" by something—

The source of this call seemed to be the rolling, densely packed hills in the darkness outside the car window.

"..."

Yu Shijiu thought about the stop name the driver had mentioned earlier and scratched his itchy left arm.

...An unnamed cemetery, that sounds rather intriguing.

Will a few more corpses come up later?

"There is a lot of resentment in this area."

He Lingling closed her eyes, her voice hoarse.

"Heavier than the previous stops...and much more 'scattered'."

He Lingling said, "I can feel that there are many... many 'things' buried there, but they are not buried very securely."

Anjie gripped the short blade tightly in an instant, and Chen Yi also immediately adjusted his sitting posture, ready to deal with any unexpected situation that might arise.

Xu Han shrank back, moved closer to He Lingling, and muttered to himself:

"The cemetery... just hearing the name sends chills down my spine..."

He didn't finish his sentence, but everyone understood what he meant.

Yu Shijiu suddenly interjected, "Then will the passengers coming up later be people or corpses?"

The other four: "..."

Chen Yi patted his arm, both amused and exasperated, and whispered:

"Shi Jiu, although it's unlikely, let's try to think of something in a better direction, shall we?"

Yu Shijiu was very perceptive; he raised his hand and made a zipping motion near his mouth, appearing very obedient.

"Brother Chen, you're right."

The four then continued to whisper among themselves, discussing what they might encounter at their next stop.

Amidst the background sounds of rain and engine noise, Lin Hai, sitting in the back seat, suddenly let out an extremely soft, almost pleasurable sigh.