Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 416 The Elevator Mystery

Chen Yi roughly estimated the time and nodded: "Okay, tell me if you can't hold on."

The time allotted for using items can be calculated, which is quite economical.

"OK."

Yu Shijiu nodded happily and turned to walk towards the group of strange creatures not far away.

"We won't be unable to hold on for the time being."

Yu Shijiu said.

Chen Yi sighed, reached out and patted the chubby head beside him, and said in a low voice:

"Feifei, go keep an eye on things and make sure Shi Jiu doesn't get hurt."

Even though Yu Shijiu herself wasn't worried about this... Chen Yi looked at the scattered bloodstains on the surrounding walls and felt a vague unease.

Fatty meowed, yawned with its mouth wide open, and then tiptoed towards Yu Shijiu.

Just as Fatty reached Yu Shijiu's side, it suddenly sprang up and viciously bit a strange staff member who was trying to ambush Yu Shijiu.

The eerie staff member was bitten by the neck and thrown out, crashing against the wall with a "thud".

This was a female staff member who was also missing her hands and feet, leaving only her body. She let out a resentful roar and stared intently at Yu Shijiu's back.

Fatty disgustedly licked its blood-stained paw pads, using them to cover Yu Shijiu's bare back.

Yu Shijiu turned around and glanced at Feifei, then laughed and said:

"Fatty, thank you."

"Meow!"

Fatty proudly raised his head, blood splattered on his beard dripping down little by little.

Thick, viscous intestines still hung from the corridor ceiling, and yellowish-red liquid from the human belly fat layer dripped onto the blood glue, solidifying another layer on top of it.

Chen Yi glanced at Yu Shijiu, who was fighting the monsters with a red-eyed expression and an axe in hand, then bent down and scratched at the blood-glue layer.

Several players who had been kicked off the elevator stood behind him, exchanged glances, and took a step back at the same time.

If something unexpected happens... let Chen Yi face it himself; after all, he's the one who chose to step forward...

The blood-stained ground was thick, and when I squatted down, a nauseating stench of decay filled my nostrils, like the stench of a corpse that had been left out for a long time...

Chen Yi narrowed his eyes slightly.

He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt like there was something that looked like paper underneath the blood glue—

Drop drop!

Suddenly, the elevator in front of Chen Yi started beeping rapidly. As the beeping grew louder, the monsters that were fighting against Yu Shijiu suddenly became agitated.

Yu Shijiu leaned back to dodge a monster that leaped up and attacked, then clicked his tongue and raised his axe to chop it in half.

Amidst flying blood and gore, Yu Shijiu and Feifei leaped and fought among countless frenzied monsters, gradually becoming engrossed in the thrill of slaughter, when Chen Yi's shout came from behind:

"Shi Jiu! Fei Fei! Come back quickly! The elevator is here!"

Feifei suddenly turned around, and after seeing Chen Yi waving at them, quickly bit Yu Shijiu's clothes.

"Meow meow meow meow!"

Yu Shijiu snorted unhappily, then chopped off another wriggling, pig-like monster that was trying to bite his calf, and quickly fled towards the elevator entrance using the fat body's momentum.

At the elevator door, the other players quickly entered the elevator and complained to Chen Yi, who was still standing at the door blocking the elevator from going up:

"Hurry up, the monsters will catch up soon—"

"You'd better not speak."

Chen Yi didn't even glance at them. "If I hear another word of nonsense, I'll throw you all into the monster horde."

Chen Yi was still smiling, his expression gentle, but his words immediately silenced the players in the elevator.

One player was about to say something when a player he knew grabbed him.

"Don't talk nonsense," the player who was pulling the other player gestured with his eyes to Chen Yi's hand blocking the elevator door, and whispered:

“Look at his hands.”

"..."

The man who wanted to speak subconsciously looked over—and saw that Chen Yi's hand, which was blocking the elevator door, was almost digging into the door. Several finger marks appeared next to the aluminum alloy elevator door, slowly emerging as Chen Yi's hand moved.

This only happens to players with special talents.

The seemingly unremarkable, chubby, and cheerful man in front of me is actually a highly skilled and talented player.

Player: "..."

He swallowed hard, took a step back, and dared not say another word.

When Yu Shijiu and Feifei ran into the elevator, they found it was eerily quiet.

"Brother Chen, where are we going?"

Yu Shijiu's gaze shifted to Chen Yi, the last person to get on the elevator, and she raised an eyebrow.

There were five clearly visible finger marks on the elevator surface where Chen Yi released his hand.

Chen Yi chuckled and pressed the button to close the elevator. "Let's go to the third floor first."

The instant he finished speaking, another player next to him cautiously said:

"Hey fat guy, we want to go to the first floor..."

“You all go on your way,” Chen Yi turned to look at him. “I meant we’re downstairs on the third floor.”

The elevator doors began to close slowly, and through the gaps, countless grotesque creatures swarmed in, crashing into the elevator doors and making sounds of flesh colliding and decaying.

The other players dared not speak anymore.

Just as the elevator began to descend, Yu Shijiu keenly sensed that something was amiss.

The temperature inside the elevator seemed to be gradually getting colder, and a nauseating smell of rotting entrails filled everyone's breath.

Feifei almost immediately twitched its nose, rubbed its head against Yu Shijiu's back, and stared at Chen Yi's back with its pair of eerie green eyes.

Chen Yi turned around and saw that the keyboard he had just pressed had begun to distort.

The keyboard numbers transformed into bloody human eyeballs, and writhing shapes resembling brains began to appear inside the elevator...

Chen Yi immediately realized that He Lingling and Xu Han might have encountered the same situation when they went downstairs.

Based on his experience, the elevator on the first day was likely just a strange shape, but the second day might be different.

But at least for now, they are safe.

Unfortunately, not everyone has Chen Yi's brain. The other players almost immediately wanted to run out of the elevator—if they hadn't considered the dangers outside the elevator as well.

"What do we do? What do we do, Fatty? I... I'm... no, what should we do? Will we be unable to get out..."

"Could you give me a ride? I can offer you items, points, or even just a little bit of points..."

"..."

Chen Yi didn't respond to such remarks at all. He frowned as he looked at the bloody, writhing, and twisted brain-like objects inside the elevator, feeling that something was amiss...

If the Fuling Hotel is just a haunted hotel... then why are so many of the staff members all strange and unsettling? Logically, NPCs shouldn't all be strange and unsettling—especially since the game instance has been upgraded, and the instance's boss is aware of the Dawn Game's existence...