Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 500 Not participating

He Lingling was still preoccupied even after leaving the office, and she even almost bumped into the wall.

Xu Han quickly grabbed her arm. "Watch where you're going! What are you thinking about?"

"...I was thinking about the drawer."

He Lingling truthfully asked, "Why exactly did the manager hypnotize himself?"

"I want to forget some things."

Yu Shijiu had already reached his room door. He stopped and turned back with a smile:

"Sister Lingling, some memories that are extremely painful can only be temporarily erased through hypnosis."

After saying that, Yu Shijiu took out the room key, opened the door, and led the yawning Feifei into the room.

Click.

The door is closed.

He Lingling stood there stunned for a few seconds before Xu Han pulled her toward the elevator.

After entering the elevator, He Lingling looked blankly at Chen Yi, who hadn't said a word.

"Brother Chen, is the male reporter trying to forget the memory of Xiao Li being abused?"

"There's a 50% chance that's the case."

Chen Yi said, "But I think it should be more than that."

He Lingling was shocked: "More than that?"

"Ah."

Chen Yi lowered his eyelids. "Don't forget, the male reporter's final fate was clearly to jump to his death from the fourth floor of the hotel. Do you think he became the hotel manager before he was alive, or after he died?"

"..."

"It should be after death, right?"

Xu Han said cautiously, "It couldn't possibly be before he was dead... After all, his sister was tortured and murdered by the people behind this hotel..."

"……Um."

Chen Yi nodded, "So I have reason to suspect that this game instance was also created after the male reporter died."

"Lingling," Chen Yi said, turning his head to look at He Lingling, who was silent to the side, "what do you think?"

"Ok?"

He Lingling raised her head, and something seemed to flicker in her only visible black eye. "Brother Chen, you're right..."

She hesitated, then said, "Actually, I have another guess, but I'm afraid I might be overthinking it."

"What guess?"

Xu Han got excited, "Are there any other cute ones?"

"Have."

He Lingling looked at Chen Yi and said, "I think the Fuling Hotel may not actually exist."

"..."

The elevator fell silent instantly.

A few seconds later, the elevator beeped as it started.

Xu Han swallowed hard, then hesitated and said, "How could that be? Aren't we at the Fuling Hotel right now?"

“That’s not what I meant,” He Lingling shook her head. “What I meant by ‘not existing’ is that this ‘Fuling Hotel’ we’re in right now might not be real.”

"Brother Chen, do you understand what I mean?"

Chen Yi stepped out of the elevator without saying a word.

He Lingling frowned and exchanged a glance with Xu Han, then followed silently behind him.

A minute later, Chen Yi stopped in front of his door and suddenly spoke:

"can."

He Lingling: "..."

Xu Han was stunned for a second, "Brother Chen, you—"

Isn't the reaction a bit too slow?

"I was just thinking about something," Chen Yi turned back to look at them and smiled gently, "I think Lingling's guess is very likely."

At the same time, in a certain room, a little girl in a pink princess dress sat on the sofa and said sweetly to her smiling grandmother sitting next to her:

"Grandma, what if the game suddenly explodes?"

Grandma Mu gently reached out and patted her head. "It's okay, Grandma will definitely protect you."

Mutangtang looked up at her, her large, dark pupils reflecting Grandma Mu's weathered, wrinkled face, her gaze somewhat unfocused.

...In a daze, she seemed to see again the woman who was running desperately forward in the woods with her back to her.

"I have to go."

The woman had her back to her, her clothes torn by the surrounding branches, making her already tattered and dirty clothes look even more tattered under the moonlight.

"...Just pretend...that I don't exist."

"I beg you……"

"...I'm begging you, okay?"

"...Tangtang, please, please... I beg you, please? Tangtang—"

"Tangtang?"

Two female voices calling out her name made Mutangtang's eyelids tremble.

Grandma Mu gently stroked her granddaughter's tender cheek with her rough fingertips, and looked down at her tearful eyes with some concern.

"Tangtang, what's wrong?"

"Is something wrong with your body?"

Mutang slowly blinked, looked at Grandma Mu who had a worried expression and bowed her head, and shook her head with a smile.

"No."

Mutangtang tilted her head and rubbed her face against Grandma Mu's palm. "I was just thinking about how to stay with Grandma forever."

"Sugar candy."

Grandma Mu sighed, gently pinched her granddaughter's cheek, and whispered:

Grandma will never leave you alone.

"Uh-huh."

Mutang smiled, her eyes welling up with tears, "I believe in Grandma."

Hearing her granddaughter's response, Grandma Mu smiled again and began to coax her granddaughter to sleep for a while.

Boom boom boom!

There is a knock on the door.

Grandma Mu's smile froze instantly.

Xylitol's gaze also turned towards the door.

"grandmother."

Mutangtang pulled out a tissue from the table, wiped her eyes, and muttered, "Go open the door."

Grandma Mu nodded, stood up, walked to the door, and opened it.

Standing outside the door were nuns and pastors.

The nun looked at Grandma Mu inside the door, her bright red lips painted under the white cloth curving slightly. "Grandma Mu, good afternoon."

Grandma Mu frowned as she looked at her, then turned back and said, "Tangtang is a nun from the Black Robe Church."

Sitting on the edge of the sofa, Mu Tangtang's hand trembled for a second upon hearing this. "Oh."

Mutangtang looked up and said, "Grandma, please let her in."

Grandma Mu then made way for her, smiling, "Please come in."

After the nun and the shepherd entered the house, Grandma Mu, who was by the door, glanced at the empty corridor, lowered her eyes, and closed the door.

Beside the sofa, Mu Tangtang looked at the approaching nuns and pastors and gestured for them to enter.

"Please feel free to sit anywhere."

Mugwort smiled and looked at the white cloth covering the nun's eyes, then blinked:

"Why is the nun wearing a white sheet again?"

"got used to."

The nun covered her mouth and chuckled, then casually chose a sofa to sit on and smiled at Mu Tangtang, saying:

"Tangtang is so smart, she should know why I've come here, right?"

"Probably know something."

Mu Tangtang nodded, a sweet smile appearing on her delicate and lovely face. "Does Sister Sister want to kill Brother Shi Jiu?"

"how come?"

The nun exclaimed in surprise, "I'm not such a rude and fierce person!"

"Mmm." Mu Tangtang nodded. "So you want to use someone else to do your dirty work, huh?"

"You little rascal," the nun chuckled, "you know it, but you still have to say it out loud to tease me."

"Just saying."

Mugwort wobbled her short legs, picked up the thermos next to her, opened it, took a sip of water, and moistened her throat, saying:

"Neither my grandmother nor I will participate."