Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 793 Replacement

"..."

The crying grew louder and more frequent, as if countless people were gathered together, emitting cries at the same frequency.

Fang Youhua's heart clenched as she listened.

After a long while, Fang Youhua forced herself to open her eyes a crack in fear—and then she saw countless heads with long, loose hair hanging over the edge of the flowerpot.

Fang Youhua: "..."

Fang Youhua stopped breathing instantly.

It took her a long time to regain her normal breathing.

On the edge of the flowerpot, those heads with long, disheveled hair kept opening their mouths and crying. The identical pale faces were facing the direction of Fang Youhua's face, and Zhang Fa made familiar sobbing sounds.

"woo woo woo woo……"

"Waaaaah..." For a moment, Fang Youhua felt that her gaze was even meeting theirs.

Fang Youhua's heart tightened, and in the instant she closed her eyes as best she could, a cold drop of liquid suddenly dripped down her cheek.

"..."

Fang Youhua tensed up immediately, breathing slowly, trying to smell what the liquid dripping onto her face was—

"Waaah...aren't you...awake?"

A soft female voice suddenly rang in her ear, sending shivers down Fang Youhua's spine.

"...You're pretending...you're pretending to be asleep..."

The woman's cold breath hit Fang Youhua's ear, making her limbs stiffen.

"No... stop pretending... stop pretending to be asleep... I know... I know you're awake..."

As she spoke, something cold and round bounced and hopped closer to Fang Youhua from not far away—with a muffled "bang," the cold and round thing fell from a height onto Fang Youhua's chest, causing her blood to surge and almost making her vomit blood.

"...Hehehe...You're pretending to be asleep...You really were pretending to be asleep..."

A sharp laugh came from the throat of the head pressed against Fang Youhua's, as if it had exposed her feigned sleep, and the cold cheek kept brushing against Fang Youhua's eyelids.

For a moment, Fang Youhua almost jumped up and ran away—but just before she was about to move, a thought suddenly flashed through her mind.

wrong.

If they really realize they're pretending to be asleep, why would they keep making all sorts of strange noises?

Could it be... that these monsters that are attached to me are doing this on purpose?

They were luring her, coaxing her to move on her own, and then... like a foster mother tearing her apart and turning her "pretending to be asleep and disobedient" into fertilizer...

Fang Youhua's mind was in complete chaos. She barely managed to stop her limbs from trembling and forced herself to continue breathing steadily and pretending to be asleep with her eyes closed.

"..."

A few minutes later, a disappointed sigh escaped from Fang Youhua's head.

"She really fell asleep."

Fang Youhua heard her head mumbling, "How come I'm sleeping so soundly... Why aren't there any disobedient younger siblings tonight?"

"..."

Tonight... are there any disobedient "younger brothers and sisters"?

Fang Youhua's mind raced, and when she realized that Anjie and her guild were leading by three percent, she quickly understood.

Last night, the "Living" guild was chosen by these heads with identical faces, and they successfully escaped and survived—as for the disobedient "younger brother and sister" they mentioned, it is probably Xiao Nan who was killed by her foster mother.

Connecting the events of last night and tonight, Fang Youhua's rapidly beating heart slowly calmed down. She silently adjusted her breathing and quietly opened her eyes a crack again.

In her moment of fear, she hadn't quite seen the strange faces clearly, only knowing that they all looked pretty much the same at first glance, as if they all had the same face—Fang Youhua's heart, which had just calmed down, started pounding again.

She finally saw it.

These faces with drooping, tattered hands, feet, and heads... are exactly the same as Thumbelina's face.

It's Thumbelina.

They are those who are disobedient, not well-behaved and sensible... who were rejected and hated by their adoptive mothers and ended up having their arms, legs and necks broken... "Thumbelina".

The "Thumbelina" girls, who had been chattering amongst themselves with their faces turned to the side, suddenly stopped talking.

They seemed to sense something and turned their heads to look in Fang Youhua's direction. One of the "Thumbelinas," whose eyeballs had been popped out, tilted her head and asked in confusion:

"I think I felt someone watching me just now?"

"……Me too."

"Could it be that we're hallucinating because we crave our mother's attention so much?"

"Waaah, please don't bring up such sad things..."

"Yes... Instead of thinking about that, we should think about how we can please Mom instead of our younger siblings..."

"Waaaah... My little brothers and sisters were so well-behaved tonight... We couldn't do anything to them..."

"It's okay...there's still time..."

"..."

The voices of the "Thumbelinas," whether sad, upset, or crying, reached Fang Youhua's ears, her eyes tightly closed, sending chills down her spine.

—Is she overthinking things?

She felt that something was off about the conversation between the "Thumbelinas"... What did they mean by... that they couldn't replace... what did they want to replace?

Fang Youhua had trouble sleeping, but amidst the conversations of the "Thumbelinas," she eventually drifted off to sleep in the chaos.

While Fang Youhua was completely asleep, the "Thumbelinas" finally chose the next player.

It is Gaozhen.

Gao Zhen's sleep was restless; he dreamt again of what happened before his death, and woke up in a cold sweat.

Before Gao Zhen could even open his eyes and catch his breath, he heard a woman sobbing beside him.

who is it?

Gao Zhen shrank back a little and shrank further into the flower petal blanket.

He kept his eyes closed, unaware that his barely perceptible movement was clearly seen by the "Thumbelinas" surrounding the match bed.

"...wuwuwu..."

"whee……"

"You're not asleep."

The "Thumbelina" with her missing nose sang loudly and cheerfully for a few moments, then giggled and said:

“I saw you move.”

Gao Zhen felt a chill run down his spine.

"Your hair is moving too..."

A cold breath was close to Gao Zhen's ear, and his breath caught in his throat for a moment.

"Hehehe... Little brother, you're awake, we all saw it..."

"..."

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Day three.

Yu Shijiu's eyelids turned red from the sunlight streaming through the French windows. He burrowed further into the flower-petal-covered blanket, then peeked out and rubbed his eyes.

"what?"

The dampness that hit her face after the rain made Yu Shijiu sneeze as she took a deep breath.

Did it rain again last night?

Why does it rain every night?

Yu Shijiu stretched while leaning back on the matchbox bed, then slowly got out of bed to find He Lingling and the others.

Anjie and Chen Yi had already woken up. The two were standing under the flowerpot, reaching out to touch the raised and recessed patterns around it.