Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 446 Countdown to Death

Yu Shijiu and Chen Yi quickly exchanged a glance.

With less than twenty seconds left until the final chase, there shouldn't be anything like this still inside the elevator—

boom!

Suddenly, the sound of someone being thrown against the wall came from inside the half-open elevator door. This time, not only Chen Yi's expression changed, but also Yu Shijiu's.

Is the issue of pet monsters still unresolved?

Chen Yi rushed forward and quickly pressed the down button on the elevator, his face looking rather grim.

Although I don't want to deal with those ungrateful wretches, if everyone dies on the first day... to put it bluntly, they won't have any stepping stones to share the burden of death.

The elevator doors in front of him creaked and groaned, sounding like they were old and rusty. As they opened and closed, Yu Shijiu saw the scene inside the elevator.

The female player, who had been assimilated by the Labrador Retriever, was facing away from them, gripping a male player by the neck and emitting sharp barks.

On the surrounding elevator floor, many players were huddled in corners coughing, blood constantly oozing from their mouths and noses.

"..."

Ten seconds left.

The male player, whose neck was being choked by the female player, had started rolling his eyes and his tongue was sticking out.

Five seconds.

Yu Shijiu silently counted down. The male player inside the elevator had already started to bulge his eyes, and spiderweb-like red blood vessels covered the entire white of his eyes. The male player, who had started to roll his eyes, could vaguely see the person standing outside the elevator.

It's... that madman with the axe...

Yu Shijiu also noticed the male player's gaze as he was dying, and gave him an encouraging smile.

Keep going, just two seconds left.

Seeing the male player outside with a mocking, amusement-see smile on his face: "..."

He forced his mouth open wide, and hissed sounds came from his throat.

madman!

Why didn't you save him when you saw him?! All you had to do was grab that axe and rush in to chop down the monster—

Congratulations to all players for successfully surviving day one!

A cold, mechanical voice rang in everyone's ears. At the same time, the male player, whose face had turned blue, eyes had bulged, and who had even started to lose control of his bladder, collapsed to the ground, curled up in a ball, and coughed incessantly.

At that moment, Chen Yi, who was still pressing the elevator button, suddenly pulled Yu Shijiu back a step.

Fatty next to him was eager to go forward, but Yu Shijiu held his head down.

"Don't move."

Yu Shijiu obediently followed Chen Yi's force and retreated backward, smiling as she watched the elevator suddenly close and begin to descend, and slowly sighed.

"Pity."

The surrounding environment began to change rapidly: a blood-stained elevator, a ceiling with hanging intestines, floor tiles covered with thick blood glue... even the grotesque human-pig creatures began to disappear one by one.

After the last human-pig monster disappeared, the murky darkness at the end of the corridor slowly faded away, and the window at the end, which had been blocked, opened slightly, letting in the first rays of dawn.

Yu Shijiu turned around, squinting slightly in the dim light, "The first night went by successfully..."

Chen Yi, who was standing next to him, also breathed a sigh of relief.

If it weren't for the lingering, foul smell of blood and rotting flesh, the completely transformed corridor before them, spotless as it had been when they first came upstairs yesterday, would have made them think it was an illusion.

"...Let's go downstairs first."

The barrier surrounding the two people and the cat slowly dissipated. Chen Yi glanced at the prop in his hand, which had become trash, and threw the discarded prop into the trash can next to the elevator.

"Let's see if Xiaohan and Lingling found anything useful last night."

Since nothing related to the plot was found during the chase, the only thing that could trigger a plot point is probably on the "safe" first floor.

"Ah."

Yu Shijiu stretched, glanced at the faint yellow light outside the window at the end of the corridor, and nodded with a smile.

"Then go ahead."

drop--

The elevator, which had reached the first floor, slowly ascended.

This time, the elevator doors opened in just about half a minute.

Chen Yi entered the elevator first, followed by Fei Fei and Yu Shijiu.

The elevator and the corridor were spotless, with only a faint smell of disinfectant, as if the hotel cleaners had just cleaned it that morning.

Yu Shijiu looked up at the area above the elevator.

The elevator, which had originally been ripped open, was now perfectly restored—clean, smooth, and shiny, without a single scratch or bloodstain visible to the naked eye.

...Just last night, a "Fang Xiaoxiao" peeked out from here and chased into the elevator.

Thinking of the "Fang Xiaoxiao" whose body was contorted in a grotesque way, Yu Shijiu raised her hand to rub her sore eyes, somewhat puzzled as to how the other person had even entered the elevator—

Yu Shijiu thought of the animal limb that had been caught in the elevator door and then cut off.

...It couldn't be because of that, could it?

Otherwise, things will be much more difficult.

At that moment, Chen Yi also wanted to talk about the two cats that were "sleeping" in his coat. He hurriedly opened his coat and took out the two cats that were curled up in his coat pocket.

Whether it's his white cat or his black cat, it's perfectly normal.

Their fur was smooth, their pink noses trembled slightly, and the little hearts below their chests rose and fell slowly and evenly with the two cats' breathing.

It's just an ordinary kitten.

Chen Yi looked at the two cats and gently stroked their heads.

—If you don't think about the possibility that there might be two skinned children under the skin of these two cats, the scene can indeed be described as cute to the point of being heartwarming.

drop!

The elevator quickly arrived at the first floor.

Yu Shijiu was feeling irritable and restless at the moment, but she was also curious whether Xu Han and He Lingling had found anything useful.

He yawned through his teary eyes and looked at Chen Yi, who was still standing beside him, with a puzzled expression.

"Brother Chen?"

Chen Yi was pulled back to reality by his voice, "Have we arrived? Then hurry up, let's finish the handover and go back to our rooms to rest."

Yu Shijiu and Zhang Dazui followed the yawning Fatty out of the elevator, turning their heads to ask:

"The hotel should provide breakfast, right, Brother Chen?"

Fatty also meowed.

"..." Chen Yi choked up, "There should be, right?"

The Fuling Hotel is a hotel after all, and it advertises itself as having "superior service"... It's only the second day, there should at least be something to eat—

"vomit--"

Not far from the corner on the first floor, players who had narrowly escaped death lay scattered on the ground, many of them leaning against the wall and gagging, only able to vomit a few mouthfuls of bitter yellow liquid.

After a night of frantic escape, the little food they ate for dinner had long since been digested.

Several people saw two people and a cat (or rather, three cats) walk out of the elevator. One of the male players, with bloodshot eyes and covered in dirt, stared intently in the direction where Yu Shijiu was.