Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 600 Corridor - Window

"..."

Xu Han stared in horror: "No, really?"

They've already made their move?

Yu Shijiu, who was occupying the already narrow gap in the door, did not respond.

Through the crack in the door, he saw Ah Jin, consumed by fear and resentment, finally snap and forcefully knock Mr. Yao to the ground. Accompanied by Mr. Yao's screams as he crashed into the cabinets and other objects, Ah Jin abruptly stood up.

"...You, you don't want to let me go...you don't want to let me go..."

Akin's facial muscles twitched strangely, accompanied by spasms of flesh and skin. His face looked as if it had been forcibly torn open by an unseen hand, revealing red and yellow veins of muscle!

"Don't blame me...don't blame me...don't blame me..."

With his face completely twisted and torn, Ah Jin revealed a smile of extreme fear and pain as he grabbed Mr. Yao's leg as he screamed and tried to escape.

...Then, Ah Jin saw a cleaver hanging on the shelf on the kitchen wall.

"..."

Yu Shijiu's pupils contracted slightly, and he subconsciously looked down at "Fatty" at his feet.

He met a pair of silent, deep eyes that even concealed worry.

Yu Shijiu's initial thought of covering "Feifei's" eyes vanished instantly.

He stared at "Fatty," and his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

As perceptive as Yu Shijiu was, at this moment, he felt that "Feifei's" gaze had a strangely human quality.

Although Feifei was quite intelligent and even smarter than the average three or four-year-old child, she almost never showed such an expression in her eyes.

...Fatty only gets angry when he sees himself injured, but now Fatty can so easily understand the infighting among humans?

Yu Shijiu felt that something was not quite right, but when asked to put it into words, he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was.

"..."

The boy's confusion deepened, so much so that Lu Chusheng realized his earlier lapse in composure. His heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly lowered his head to lick his fur.

Seeing the chubby creature in front of him "not caring" (pretending) as it lowered its head to lick its fur, Yu Shijiu frowned, wondering if he had been overthinking things.

Felines can indeed be very perceptive of human emotions sometimes... Maybe Fatty was just suddenly a little more "perceptive" just now?

Yu Shijiu suppressed her doubts and focused her gaze on the brutal scene unfolding in the kitchen.

At this moment, Ah Jin, with his back to him, knelt beside Mr. Yao, his blood-stained cleaver relentlessly hacking at Mr. Yao's body. The sound of the blade striking bone and flesh constantly reached the ears of the two people and the cat outside the door, intensifying their fear.

Yes, only Xu Han was afraid.

Although Xu Han didn't see anything... he could guess what was happening in the kitchen just by listening to the sounds.

Murder and dismemberment, blood splattered everywhere.

Driven mad by fear, Akin finally took action.

Xu Han swallowed hard and moved closer to Yu Shijiu—he didn't dare get too close, afraid that he would block the way when they tried to escape.

"...I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to..."

Kneeling on the ground, his entire body soaked in bright red blood, Ah Jin mechanically repeated the motion of slashing people, muttering to himself incessantly.

"It was you...it was you who forced me to do this, it was you who forced me to do this...it was you who forced me to kill you...it was you...it was you who threatened me...it was you who threatened to hang me on the mast to die in the sun...it was you...it was you, it was you, it was you!!! It's all your fault! It's all your fault!!!"

As Akin grew more determined, the cleaver, with its increasingly wide swings, began to whistle as it chopped at breakneck speed.

Yu Shijiu hissed as he watched, then hesitated, thinking—if A Jin keeps chopping, won't he turn Mr. Yao into mincemeat?

Can minced meat turn into a monster?

I think so.

"I don't want to die... I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die!!"

Ah Jin was still hacking at the unrecognizable corpse in the kitchen when Yu Shijiu turned slightly and gently shook her head at Xu Han, who looked terrified.

“Let’s take a few steps back.”

Yu Shijiu said, "We have to pretend we just arrived."

Otherwise, he could easily be killed by Akin, whose emotions are already extreme.

In the past, Yu Shijiu would have been quite willing to take a gamble, but considering that his mother might also be absorbed into Dawn Games... he felt that perhaps he didn't have to be so extreme.

Sometimes it's good to take a step back.

"Oh oh oh."

Xu Han nodded obediently and backed away with the two buckets of goat milk.

Yu Shijiu glanced at him and reminded him, "Take quiet steps now, and then make our voices louder when we pretend we just arrived."

This was, of course, meant to remind Akin, who was collapsing from chopping up corpses in the kitchen.

Xu Han gave him a knowing look and tiptoed forward for about thirty steps before stopping just before the corner.

"..."

Yu Shijiu glanced at Xu Han, who was waiting for her at the corner, then looked back at A Jin, who was still muttering to himself in the kitchen and acting strangely. She then quietly carried the goat milk forward.

Seeing that Yu Shijiu's attention was not on him, Lu Chusheng also sighed slowly.

He quickly licked the soft hair on his arm, feeling somewhat annoyed and embarrassed, and sighed inwardly.

...Sometimes, Yu Shijiu was so perceptive that he worried whether his disguise was convincing enough.

But Lu Chusheng was not worried at all that Yu Shijiu would use other methods to "expose" him.

There's no other reason; it's simply that he is now genuinely an "orange cat."

He now possesses the living, breathing skin of an orange cat, along with the night vision and agile jumping ability unique to felines... after all, it's just an animal and a human soul swapped.

Even if you peel off his skin, the result will be the same.

Even if Yu Shijiu were to reach the heavens, he would probably only think, "How could 'Feifei' look so much like 'Lu Chusheng'..."

After forcing himself to stop thinking about things that had nothing to do with the storyline, Lu Chusheng lightly stepped onto the ground with his soft paws and quickly caught up with Yu Shijiu.

"...Shall we leave now?"

The two people and the cat stood patiently at the corner for nearly two minutes before Xu Han asked a question.

"Okay."

Yu Shijiu nodded and took the lead.

Behind him, Xu Han mentally encouraged himself, held his head high, and quickened his pace to catch up.

Neither of them made a point of quieting their footsteps; the overlapping footsteps, growing louder as they approached, reached Ah Jin's ears through the crack in the door, where his face was now unrecognizable.

His hand, which had been holding the cleaver high, froze in place.

A few seconds later, Akin slowly threw down the cleaver, quickly crawled to the door, and stared intently into the corridor with his bloodshot eyes.

Two sets of footsteps led the owners, each carrying two buckets of goat milk, slowly making their way to the kitchen, accompanied by occasional sighs and conversations.

"I'm so tired, are we able to find the kitchen?"

A Jin saw Yu Shijiu walking on the right and complained with his head down:

"If only Brother Jin had waited for us, we would have been exhausted from searching for the kitchen for so long."

A Jin's pupils dilated briefly, and his gaze toward Yu Shijiu turned somewhat cold.

“That nineteenth one,” Xu Han coughed dramatically, then whispered, “Brother Jin was just trying to help us, that’s why he thought of bringing the goat milk up ahead of time…”

Ajin's gaze shifted, and his bloodshot eyelids twitched slightly.

Yes… he clearly brought the goat milk up early to prevent the two newcomers from being punished… Yes, yes, yes, if he hadn’t been so kind, he wouldn’t have been insulted and threatened by Mr. Yao… and he wouldn’t have killed him…

Akin's already distorted and torn face became even more ferocious. Occasionally, some white hairs would grow out from his bloody and mangled cheeks, only to retract back into his flesh as if they had come into contact with an allergen, making him exceptionally terrifying.

It's all because of them... It's all because of them...

Ajin opened his mouth, his densely packed, sharp teeth gnawing inside.

"I know."

Completely unaware that his carefully crafted "lie" had instead made Ah Jin hate him and Xu Han, Yu Shijiu nodded and dutifully sighed:

"I know Brother Jin is a good person, I'm just a little tired from carrying goat milk for so long."

"...Alright, alright."

Xu Han swallowed hard and continued reciting his lines:

"We've arrived, haven't we? That should be the kitchen up ahead, right?"

"probably."

Yu Shijiu whispered, "I wonder if Brother Ajin is waiting for us inside."

"..."

The sounds of conversation in the corridor reached his ears, and Akin's scarlet eyes flickered. The pain deep in his brain instantly brought him to his senses.

...No, no, he had to close the door quickly, close the door, close the door, lock the door...

Finally realizing what he should do, Ah Jin struggled to his feet and quietly, slowly closed the kitchen door, which had been slightly ajar.

"..."

At the same time, Yu Shijiu, who was still pretending to chat, suddenly stopped talking, looked up at the kitchen door that was now completely dark, and raised an eyebrow.

All right.

Yu Shijiu, completely unaware that he was being targeted, was in a fairly good mood, since he could "barely" do the scenes of killing and dismembering people in the game.

Yes, it's about killing the monster and dismembering it.

They're pretty much the same, not much different.

"...Is Akin closed?"

Xu Han's back was covered in a thick layer of cold sweat, and he whispered:

"Shall we go knock on the door now?"

"It's okay to walk slowly."

Yu Shijiu said, "It's normal to walk slowly when we're tired from carrying such big buckets of goat milk."

"……it is good."

Xu Han gave a dry reply, and looking at the door in the distance that looked no different from the other doors, he felt a chill run down his spine.

He didn't actually see any bloody scenes (they were all blocked by Yu Shijiu and Lu Chusheng), but just hearing the sounds of bones being chopped off one after another... and the "splattering" sound of flesh being stabbed into by sharp blades... he could easily imagine an extremely horrifying and bloody scene.

Ah Jin really dismembered Mr. Yao... My goodness... Why does this instance feel so strange? They're killing people in broad daylight?

Weren't the dungeons usually filled with killing people at night?

Thinking of this, Xu Han couldn't help but turn his head to look at the tightly closed window on the side of the corridor.

The window was rather small, with many black railings crisscrossing it, probably there just to make the corridor look a bit more open.

At that moment, the sunlight and the shimmering sea outside the window gently reflected into his eyes, and Xu Han was slightly dazed for a moment.

He didn't know if it was because he was standing by the window, but he felt the view outside was incredibly beautiful, as if... he was just a tourist on the ship, and he wanted to go out, to see the beautiful sea and sunshine—

"what are you doing?"

When Yu Shijiu's voice rang out, Xu Han, who had been suddenly pulled back by the neck, bent over and coughed violently as if waking from a dream.

"...What happened to me?"

Xu Han coughed, realizing it was probably because he had looked out the window. He hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to look at the small window in front of him anymore.

"do not know."

Yu Shijiu frowned as he stared at the small window that had been pushed open at some point in time. His gaze lingered for a moment on the crisscrossing black railings inside the window.

A sea breeze carrying a faint fishy smell blew into the corridor through the gaps in the railings. Yu Shijiu wrinkled her nose and sneezed uncomfortably.

"Haqiu!"

Yu Shijiu's nose twitched, feeling a bit numb, and he said in a muffled voice:

“You were trying to squeeze your head through these bars just now.”

Yu Shijiu described the scene he had witnessed, glancing at Xu Han, who was covered in sweat:

"You still have red marks on your face from being pressed against the railing."

"..." Xu Han opened his mouth, wanting to reach out and touch his face but couldn't—he was still holding the goat milk in his hand.

"I...I was just like I was under a nightmare, I couldn't move at all..."

"fine."

Yu Shijiu leaned closer to the window that had suddenly opened by itself and looked inside several times, but she still couldn't grasp Xu Han's state of mind.

He reached out and closed the window with some disappointment. "If there were any real danger, we would have known by night."

Xu Han: "..."

Lu Chusheng: "..."

Xu Han's lips twitched, and he wanted to speak but choked back his words.

Yu Shijiu is right.

Just listening to it, thinking about it... it just doesn't sound very good.

"Ok."

Xu Han sighed, feeling incredibly unlucky. He almost got his head squeezed and exploded just looking out a window, and his mood plummeted.

"Nineteen, you're being too blunt."

It was a bit overwhelming for him.

"It's alright," Yu Shijiu thought about it seriously and finally said, "I put it quite tactfully."

When he was in the sanatorium, the doctors would always tell him what kind of pain he would experience whenever they were about to perform surgery on him.

At first, little Yu Shijiu was scared, but later he wasn't scared anymore.

Ironically, when he, the "experimental subject," was no longer afraid, the doctors began to be afraid.

Yu Shijiu still laughs when he thinks about the way they looked at him, those terrified and uneasy eyes—as if they were looking at a monster.

Indeed, how could a human laugh when they see someone cutting their own body with a knife?

Perhaps from that moment on, he was no longer human.

It is a "monster".

Yes—"madman".