Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 326 Humming

He Lingling and Xu Han both caught their breath. The latter grabbed He Lingling's arm and swallowed hard to calm himself.

What did we find...?

In the pale, dim light of dawn, the old housekeeper kneeling in the flowerbed suddenly let out a strange, shrill laugh, sharp and piercing, as cold as the wind blowing on the two of them.

Xu Han shivered and silently took another step closer to He Lingling.

He Lingling: "..."

She ignored Xu Han, who was almost leaning against her, frowned, and looked at the old housekeeper who had thrown away her shovel and was picking something up from the soil with her bare hands not far away. She then took another step forward.

Xu Han, who was right behind him, quickly caught up.

As she got closer, He Lingling could see clearly what the old housekeeper was holding.

As her pupils constricted, He Lingling's breathing became rapid.

In the dim light, the old housekeeper slowly pulled a white human skeleton out of the dirty, damp soil.

"Hug" in a physical sense.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

The old housekeeper, with her back turned to He Lingling and the other woman, laughed again. While hugging the skeleton still covered in rotting flesh, she slowly reached for the roses beside her.

As she exerted force with her palm, bright red rose juice flowed from between her fingers, like murky black blood, gradually staining the old housekeeper's hands red.

"...Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."

The old housekeeper murmured to herself, "You're not ugly...you're not ugly..."

"..."

Xu Han was horrified, his heart pounding with fear, but he still stubbornly said:

"No, it's not that scary... but she's really lying through her teeth... that thing must have a lot to do with ugliness..."

Seeing that Xu Han was about to continue expressing his opinions, He Lingling could no longer bear it:

"Shut up."

"……Oh."

Xu Han, who was about to continue speaking, pursed his lips and finally fell silent.

The eerie scene inside the flowerbed continues.

After saying a series of things about how not ugly she was and grabbing several roses, the old housekeeper finally moved on to the next step.

Her aged, wrinkled hand slowly moved upwards, finally supporting the skeletal skeleton by its swaying neck, pulling it against her chest.

The old housekeeper's white apron was stained with rotting flesh and mud, but she didn't seem to care. She calmly smoothed the dry, long hair on the skeletal skull and smiled:

"Your lips are so white."

"Shall I put some lipstick on for you?"

"..."

The skeleton could not respond to her.

The old housekeeper didn't wait any longer; she carefully applied the juice from crushed rose petals to the area on the skull where the mouth should be—

Even though the skull was riddled with holes, with a faint, putrid, liquefied odor hanging from it, and murky black liquid flowing down the skull, mixed with certain proteins unique to corpses...

But the old housekeeper's movements were not affected in the slightest. She gently applied the flower juice from her hands little by little to the other person's lips, which were half-rotten.

The old housekeeper only stopped when the skull's mouth was completely stained red with rose juice.

From a distance, the skull's mouth was stained with an eerie red stain, like the marks left on the lips of a demon that had just crawled out of hell and bitten through human flesh.

"..."

For a moment, He Lingling doubted how her eyesight could be so good.

Sometimes, seeing things too clearly and having too much imagination isn't a good thing.

"……very beautiful."

The old housekeeper suddenly spoke up in praise, then, under the horrified gazes of He Lingling and Xu Han, she slightly lowered her head and approached the skull—

Fortunately, it was just a kiss on the skull's forehead.

Xu Han finally let out a breath and whispered, "My goodness, I thought she was going to kiss me... Thank goodness..."

But I saw it.

There was some kind of highly nutritious "protein" hanging next to the skull's mouth... If the old housekeeper really kissed the skull's mouth, Xu Han felt that he might not be able to look the skull in the eye tomorrow.

He was just an innocent young man who couldn't hide his feelings.

"..."

He Lingling felt she should change her name to He Wuyu (meaning "Silent He").

Listening to Xu Han's self-praise behind her, she twitched her lips for a second before slowly starting to back away.

"Get closer."

He Lingling whispered, "It looks like she's going to bury the skeleton back in."

Although I don't understand why the old housekeeper would neglect her watering duties assigned by Mr. Xiao to kiss the skull so early in the morning... but what if they were discovered—

That's probably not a good idea.

Instant death is the least severe.

Without hesitation, Xu Han immediately began to back up, pressing himself against the wall.

He's always been quite good at running away (obeying orders).

Just as the two began to slowly back away, the old housekeeper's soft humming came from the flowerbed.

"Da da da—da da da da da—da da—"

This series of silent tapping sounds made He Lingling stop in her tracks.

Why did the humming sound so familiar to her...?

Xu Han tiptoed a few steps and, realizing she hadn't followed, turned around immediately, anxiously saying:

"...What are you doing!"

Xu Han waved his hand anxiously: "Hurry up! I feel like the housekeeper will be here soon."

He Lingling hesitated and peeked back again.

Amidst the haphazard flowerbed, the old housekeeper had already stood up, picked up a watering can, and begun watering the plants, humming incessantly in her throat—softly, urgently, gently, distortedly, menacingly…

He Lingling suffered cardiac arrest.

She remembered—

"hurry up!"

Xu Han waited for several seconds, his heart almost bursting with anxiety. He quickly walked over, grabbed He Lingling's arm, and pulled her forward.

"Let's walk," Xu Han muttered, "Let's think about it when we get back to the villa. It's too scary to think about it standing here... What if the butler sees us?"

The melody hummed by the old housekeeper was still echoing in He Lingling's mind. As she pondered, she subconsciously turned around—

The old housekeeper was no longer standing in the flowerbed.

Many dark figures appeared silently around her.

The shadowy figures kept their heads down silently, each seemingly carrying something resembling a watering can.

And at this moment, the place those shadowy faces were looking at seemed to be—

He Lingling's heart skipped a beat.

She instinctively grabbed Xu Han, who was still rushing forward headlong, her voice filled with barely suppressed fear.

"No, don't go."

It seems they were discovered by those shadowy figures—no, by the old housekeeper.

The moment Xu Han turned around in confusion, he saw He Lingling throw a handful of dark powder at him with a contorted expression—

"??????!!!!"

Xu Han's eyes widened, but before he could utter a sound, He Lingling instantly pressed herself against the wall and closed her eyes.

Without almost any hesitation, Xu Han did as instructed.