Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 317 Quarrel

"..."

This is what Lu Chusheng saw when he caught up.

Yu Shijiu held a small, grotesque creature with a big head and a small body, covered in bruises, with its back to him, alone with a group of twisted rose branches that were wildly dancing and attacking people.

"..."

Lu Chusheng almost couldn't catch his breath.

He had considered that the scene might not be good when he arrived, but he never expected it to be this bad.

Lu Chu stared intently at the wounds on Yu Shijiu's body caused by the numerous rose branches, his expression dark and gloomy.

The next second, red flames, seemingly appearing out of nowhere, spread from the depths of the flowerbed. Accompanied by the screams of stems and leaves being burned, the roses, having lost their roots, seemed to have lost all strength, falling limply from mid-air and quickly becoming still.

"?"

Yu Shijiu, whose body was burning from the pain, was momentarily stunned. "Where did this heat come from—"

[Item: Scorching Heat]

[Item Description: A flame capable of burning everything, including monsters and humans. It might spare the former's life, but the latter are left to their own devices. Note: Can be used twice; 1/2 has been used.]

Did you have fun?

When Lu Chusheng's voice came from behind, Yu Shijiu was muttering to herself as she prepared to walk forward and take a look at the flame that was gradually disappearing not far away.

"?"

Yu Shijiu turned around blankly and met Lu Chusheng's even colder, more expressionless face than before.

"playing what?"

Yu Shijiu subconsciously retorted, "I'm looking for clues."

"Looking for clues? You—"

Lu Chusheng almost laughed out of anger. He quickly walked up to Yu Shijiu and tried to grab her, but he heard a "whoosh" and felt a sharp pain in his finger.

"..."

Lu Chusheng looked down and saw the little monster that Yu Shijiu was holding in her arms had its mouth open and was biting her hand, looking quite eerie with its teeth bared.

Luckily, I don't have any teeth.

Otherwise, there will be bleeding.

Lu Chusheng, expressionless, tore open the strange infant's mouth, suddenly approached Yu Shijiu, and grabbed the hand holding the large scissors as the latter frowned and stepped back.

very tight.

Yu Shijiu felt a slight pain in her hand from the tightness.

—It didn’t actually hurt, it was just that Yu Shijiu felt that way, and he didn’t know why.

"You want to die, don't you?"

Lu Chusheng suddenly said.

"..." Yu Shijiu's attention quickly shifted. He looked up and met Lu Chusheng's gaze. The words he wanted to say in rebuttal suddenly got stuck in his throat and he couldn't get them out.

"……No."

After a few seconds of silence, Yu Shijiu looked away.

He tried to pull away from Lu Chusheng's hand, feeling a sudden, inexplicable unease in his heart.

"lie."

Lu Chusheng kept staring intently at him, his gaze never wavering, his teeth clenched.

"Isn't it good to be alive?"

"..."

"What does it have to do with you?"

What should have been a perfectly normal question turned into a frantic struggle by Yu Shijiu, who began to break free from Lu Chusheng's grasp like an enraged little beast.

Lu Chusheng felt a sharp pain in his right hand, and the newly bandaged gauze on his hand was faintly stained with crimson, with light spots of blood spreading around.

"Captain Lu."

Yu Shijiu didn't notice that his hand was injured. After breaking free, he took several steps back while holding the snarling infant monster. For the first time, a sarcastic expression appeared on his well-behaved and thin face.

"What do you have to do with me? What business is it of yours whether I want to live or die? Even if I want to die, so what? It's none of your business."

"who are you?"

"We've only met a few times at most, what right do you have to tell me whether I want to die or not?"

The boy's voice wasn't loud; it even carried a subtle hint of laughter, and under the interplay of moonlight and streetlights, it also revealed an indescribable gentleness.

Lu Chusheng remained silent, his chest heaving as he watched Yu Shijiu.

The words in his ear made him feel breathless, and the thin figure being pulled away by medical staff on the second floor kept flashing before his eyes... The other person had gone crazy and tried to jump off the second floor when he saw him being hit by a car.

What exactly went wrong with their memories?

"Don't look at me like that."

Yu Shijiu turned his head to the side, then lowered his head and hugged the strange infant in his arms tighter, the sarcasm on his face slowly fading away.

"I don't like people looking at me like that."

Just like I am a pathetic worm, a very, very, very pathetic worm.

Insects will be crushed to death by humans.

Anyone could easily trample it underfoot, leaving no trace of its remains as it is crushed to death.

Neither of them spoke again.

A cold wind blew through their disheveled hair, slowly inhaling the scent of roses and blood.

Just as Yu Shijiu passed by Lu Chusheng, something was suddenly stuffed into his hand.

"Feel sorry."

Lu Chusheng's hoarse voice came from beside me, "I'm not feeling well tonight, don't be angry."

"...This is medicine."

"Eating it before bed will help your wounds heal faster."

"..."

The strange-looking baby in Yu Shijiu's arms curiously poked its big head out, its dark eyes peering at what Yu Shijiu had stuffed into its hand.

Yu Shijiu wanted to throw the thing back, but he just loosened and tightened his grip, and for some reason he still couldn't throw it back.

"……Thanks."

Yu Shijiu left.

A cold wind swept back in the direction the other person had left, and Lu Chusheng felt a dull ache in his heart for no reason.

He never doubted that there might be something wrong with his memory.

If it weren't for the dreams he had during this period... he wouldn't have lost control of himself when he witnessed Yu Shijiu fighting monsters without any regard for death.

Yu Shijiu is right.

He wasn't qualified, and he wasn't even close to Yu Shijiu... He didn't even spend as much time with Yu Shijiu as Xu Han and He Lingling.

The pale moonlight was slowly obscured by dark clouds. Lu Chusheng covered his mouth and coughed. The wound under the gauze had reopened, and bright red blood dripped down the edge of the gauze.

Lu Chusheng stood there watching the roses in the flowerbed slowly "reborn" before leaving.

The conversation between the two sparked heated discussions among many players in the town.

Some people say that Lu Chusheng is indeed meddling too much. What does it have to do with him if Yu Shijiu wants to die? Others say that Lu Chusheng truly deserves to be called the number one person with upright values. He even tries to persuade new players who are reckless.

—Some people sat in their dimly lit bedrooms, staring thoughtfully at Lu Chusheng's departing figure with one eye open.

"..."

Zhou Yuanyang suddenly burst into laughter. His whole body trembled with laughter, and his face turned red and contorted.

"Lu Chusheng, Lu Chusheng... Do you have even the slightest bit of regret now...?"

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Inside a room in the inspection team's office filled with experimental machinery.

The doctor slowly took off his glasses, wiped away the fog that had just formed on them, and sighed softly.

"...Hypnosis, has it failed again...?"