Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 783 Actually, it doesn't have to be so realistic.

Anjie: "..."

Anjie hesitated, as if she wanted to say something but then stopped.

It's still possible for her to want to speak.

After all, the adoptive mother looked like she wanted to grab a "disobedient child" and crush, beat, or throw him to death... It wasn't impossible that she would eat him.

But for some reason, Anjie didn't voice her thoughts, perhaps because there were several other players in the game "Eye of All Things" watching her closely.

Thinking of the Eye of All Things...

Anjie glanced discreetly at Fang Youhua, who hadn't said a word since her adoptive mother appeared.

Like her, Yu Shijiu was also looking at Fang Youhua.

For no other reason than Yu Shijiu felt that Fang Youhua had become a little strange after her adoptive mother appeared.

Similar to a state of... confusion, helplessness, or even fear?

He could understand the fear, but what about the confusion and helplessness?

Feeling a little strange, Yu Shijiu glanced at Fang Youhua a few more times.

Fang Youhua seemed to have just come back to her senses from the sight of her adoptive mother leaving. She didn't notice An Jie and Yu Shijiu's gazes and waved to the few fellow players around her who looked embarrassed.

—This looks like they're about to whisper something to each other.

Yu Shijiu looked away—and met An Jie's gaze, who had also looked away.

Anjie was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and waved to Yu Shijiu and the other three.

"Come."

Anjie smiled and said, "Let's discuss what we should do next."

Upon hearing this, Yu Shijiu knew that An Jie was gathering her friends to whisper among themselves, so he immediately jumped off the match bed and approached her.

After the five of them gathered, An Jie glanced at Fang Youhua and the others not far away, and lowered her voice to say:

Were you woken up last night?

Yes, Anjie was also woken up by Thumbelina's crying last night.

Unlike Yu Shijiu, even though the crying was almost right next to her ear, An Jie didn't say a word and didn't even twitch her eyelids.

As time went on, Anjie grew increasingly agitated by the growing number of cries, and she realized that she couldn't do anything to these cries if she didn't open her eyes or speak.

"...That's roughly it. Because I didn't open my eyes, I'm not sure what the crying monster was, but the crying was a woman's voice, so it's probably a female NPC from the dungeon's storyline..."

After quickly recounting her experience from the previous night, Anjie looked at the four people and asked, "What about you?"

"I do not have."

Chen Yi was the first to shake his head, "I've been sleeping soundly the whole time."

"Me too."

Xu Han raised his hand and honestly said, "I even dreamt last night that we won first place in the guild competition, hehe."

His two chuckles successfully broke the serious atmosphere among the five people. He Lingling, whose expression had been solemn, rolled her eyes before saying:

"Me neither, I slept through the night just like Brother Chen."

This means that none of the three of them were chosen by the "crying" last night.

Yu Shijiu listened to their words and hesitated whether or not to speak.

But he opened his eyes last night and even had a conversation...

Seeing that Yu Shijiu had his head down and didn't speak, An Jie assumed he hadn't heard any crying either, and breathed a sigh of relief, saying:

"Well, we're lucky, I'm the only one—"

"I encountered that too."

Yu Shijiu obediently raised her hand (imitating Xu Han), "I also saw their faces."

"..."

The four of them fell silent for a moment.

"You saw their faces?"

Xu Han stammered as he repeated the sentence, incredulous:

"Shi Jiu! You opened your eyes?!?"

An Jie, Chen Yi, and He Lingling stared blankly at Yu Shijiu, who was sitting on the ground opposite them, nodding obediently.

Yu Shijiu felt a little embarrassed by the stares: "Yes, I also talked to them."

"..."

"He...he actually spoke?"

Xu Han repeated, somewhat dumbfounded.

"Ah."

Yu Shijiu nodded.

Anjie took a deep breath and asked softly, "Shi Jiu, who are they?"

Instead of lecturing Yu Shijiu with useless words that he wouldn't listen to anyway, Anjie has begun to ignore some of his overly risky behaviors.

Who on earth would dare to single-handedly charge into a group of bizarre NPCs on their very first night?!

Thumbelina.

Yu Shijiu honestly replied, "Their faces all look exactly like Thumbelina's."

“From here,” Yu Shijiu turned to the flowerpot and raised his chin, “they are all Thumbelinas that grew out of the greenhouse, oh right.”

Yu Shijiu carefully considered his words and said, "They should all be dead. Their deaths were similar to those of the female player in the Eye of All Things, with severed arms, legs, and heads. They were left with only a layer of skin connecting their limbs so they could move around."

"..."

Anjie, Chen Yi, and He Lingling exchanged a glance, their expressions serious.

A bunch of corpses that look exactly like Thumbelina have grown in a flowerpot?

This is a chilling story no matter how you look at it... With so many Thumbelina corpses in flowerpots, is the current Thumbelina still... alive?

The same thought popped into the minds of all three of them at the same time.

The next second, all three of them looked at the match bed where Thumbelina was.

Thumbelina, who had been singing and dancing all morning, still seemed a little out of sorts. She lay weakly on the match bed, her brow furrowed with exhaustion, giving her the appearance of a sickly beauty.

When Thumbelina realized someone was watching her and turned her head, the three of them tacitly looked away.

Xu Han, who was leaning against Yu Shijiu, felt his hair stand on end and stammered:

"Actually, it's okay, it doesn't have to be so, so realistic..."

What does "realism" mean?

Yu Shijiu asked in surprise, "It's not about whether it's realistic or not; that female player named 'Xiao Nan' also appeared last night."

"?"

This time, He Lingling frowned: "Isn't she dead?"

“She’s dead,” Yu Shijiu nodded. “Her body is mixed in with those Thumbelina heads, and she was trying to kill me on purpose.”

He pronounced the last word "咧" with remarkable spirit.

At least four people, including Xu Han, were speechless for a moment.

Finally, Chen Yi suppressed his shock and maintained a cheerful expression as he asked:

"Where's the back?"

"Behind? Behind us are those Thumbelina heads that, after she said that, gathered together and wanted to kill me—no, they probably wanted to bite me, right?"

Hearing this made all four of them's blood pressure rise.

Anjie pursed her lips, guessing that Yu Shijiu must have gone through a bloody battle last night, and regretted not opening her eyes—opening her eyes might have been able to help Yu Shijiu who was fighting alone.

“Then,” Yu Shijiu touched her cool, soft earlobe and hesitated, “I touched my earlobe and hesitated, then…”

"Then I said that Xiao Nan's face looked different from theirs, and those identical heads turned back to gnaw on Xiao Nan's corpse."

"..."

The four of them fell into an eerie silence.

His eyes were fixed on Yu Shijiu, whose mouth kept opening and closing.