Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 352 Has the time been extended?

When Yu Shijiu returned to the old housekeeper's room, his gaze became somewhat strange.

He looked at the still clean and tidy room and knocked on the wall.

Lu Chusheng looked in the direction of the sound and saw Yu Shijiu kicking the bag behind the door.

“This bag,” Yu Shijiu said, “wasn’t behind the door when I came this afternoon.”

Lu Chusheng frowned upon hearing this: "They've only just appeared now?"

Yu Shijiu nodded: "Mm."

As he spoke, he bent down and opened the bag behind the door, and unsurprisingly found another bag of cash, which made him raise an eyebrow.

"Putting everything else aside, Mr. Xiao is really very generous with the money."

No wonder the butler would do so many things for him, even disregarding the fact that his hands might be stained with blood.

"If you want others to do things for you, you naturally have to give them more of what they want."

Lu Chusheng was not surprised to see the bag of money.

But when he thought about how many corpses were buried beneath the flowerbed... he just felt nauseous.

The housekeeper may have genuinely been looking for her daughter to get more money, but that doesn't excuse her being one of the murderers.

"Looks like no one can hide here anymore."

Yu Shijiu stood up and stretched. "Let's go, let's go take a look at the second floor too."

After the two left, a strange, fishy smell seemed to linger in the empty, quiet room.

At the same time, the bag of banknotes that appeared behind the door and the banknotes under the bed began to make a rustling sound.

It sounded like paper being torn to pieces by something unseen.

Neither Yu Shijiu nor Lu Chusheng saw it—even if they had, it wouldn't have mattered; it was just the pain and helplessness of someone who was so regretful they had become monstrous in the dead of night.

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The two walked out of the room one after the other and went up the stairs. Lu Chusheng spoke again:

"You didn't expect to find them this time, did you?"

"..." He was met with Yu Shijiu's laughter: "What does it have to do with me? I don't care about that bowl of detoxifying soup."

At this point, the boy, who had his back to him, suddenly pulled out a cookie from his pocket and started eating it, crunching away as he said:

"However, it's hard to say if Mr. Xiao and his group come to me on their own initiative."

After all, he quite disliked people like Mr. Xiao.

As for why...

Yu Shijiu lowered his eyelids slightly, his gaze turning somewhat cold.

From the moment he first met Mr. Xiao, he thought of someone.

Liang Guodong.

His biological father also exuded a gentle, polite, and philanthropic air.

Liang Guodong is that kind of person too.

Such a person may seem nice on the surface, but no one can imagine how disgusting and dark his heart is. Like a rat hiding in a ditch, he deceives others in the sunlight while wearing fur that doesn't belong to him, and in the end, he even usurps the nest and becomes the "master".

Just thinking about it makes me feel nauseous and I feel like throwing up.

"..."

Lu Chusheng did not comment on this.

He quickened his pace to walk to Yu Shijiu's side, and as they walked side by side, he said something seemingly casually:

Do you think the game will end tonight?

"?" Yu Shijiu glanced at him. "It should be possible, otherwise how much longer would we have to stay here?"

"...You are very smart."

Lu Chusheng remained silent for a while, then praised, "But I'm still very curious how you knew that."

“It’s very simple,” Yu Shijiu said matter-of-factly, “based on my intuition.”

Although only three days of gaming have passed, the fatigue felt in the body and brain is undeniable.

Other players might make excuses for their fatigue—but Yu Shijiu was different. He never thought that three days would make him so tired and irritable.

However, strictly speaking, when did Yu Shijiu realize it...? Her steps slowed down slightly by two or three seconds.

It was the "argument" with Lu Chusheng last night.

He has always been a very calm (questionable) and mature (in his own opinion) person. How could he possibly argue with someone over a few trivial words?

There must be something wrong with the game's timing this time.

It couldn't possibly be only three days, otherwise he wouldn't have gotten so frustrated that he argued with Lu Chusheng.

After all, the other person was just a bit nosy, a bit preachy, a bit old, and wanted to ask some things he wasn't really willing to talk about...

Silently counting Lu Chusheng's "flaws," Yu Shijiu sighed and then stuffed another cookie into her mouth.

Actually, Lu Chusheng seemed quite nice when he didn't say anything and just gave him snacks.

"..."

Lu Chusheng was silent for a few seconds, his brows slightly relaxed, when he heard this answer.

"Good--"

Before he could finish speaking, Lu Chusheng suddenly felt like sneezing, so he quickly covered his mouth and turned his head away.

"?"

Yu Shijiu paused in her biscuit, then cautiously glanced at Lu Chusheng, who was leaning to the side with his head down, before swallowing the biscuit.

Could it be caused by the few words I just said to myself?

Yu Shijiu's anxiety lasted only about ten seconds before he was interrupted by the crazy players on the second floor.

The first and second floors seem to have good sound insulation.

He had only felt a great deal of quiet on the first floor, but now—the carpet in the entire second-floor corridor was covered with all sorts of things, including broken cups and typhoon debris, torn curtains, and countless corpses such as benches and chairs.

"...?"

Yu Shijiu remained silent for a moment, "Is the soundproofing in the villa really that good?"

They didn't hear a thing downstairs... but actually they did hear a little, like the butler whispering something to A-Yuan in the villa's courtyard...

“That’s normal,” Lu Chusheng said calmly. “It’s probably going to stay like this for now, since the game is almost over.”

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, once we hand over Mr. Xiao's and the others' bodies, give the players the antidote soup, and have the butler have that mental outburst at the end, the game's storyline will be considered complete.

We're finally about to leave.

Lu Chusheng also felt physically tired, not to mention mentally and emotionally.

But so far, he still has a little doubt.

Even though he knew that the timeline of the game instance "Equivalent Invitation" was a bit off... to be honest, he still hadn't found any concrete evidence of the timeline being extended.

Unlike Yu Shijiu, he wasn't convinced that his ideas were correct.

Lu Chusheng always valued evidence, but he didn't really think there was anything wrong with Yu Shijiu's thinking.

People always need to be more confident.

"Give it to me! Give it to me! Give it to me!"

The two went up to the second floor and saw two players wrestling as they fell out of a room.

One of the female players, who was clearly thin, had already been beaten bloody, but she still held tightly to the body parts in her arms and refused to let go.

"You bitch, you bitch, you bitch! Hand over the stuff!!!"

The male player, whose eyes were bloodshot, grabbed a chair from the side and smashed it on the female player's head!