Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 860 Escape Cave

But even more intense than the fear rising in her heart was the extreme hunger that was now raging within Ange, a hunger that was almost burning away her human reason.

Her stomach was convulsing, and saliva was being secreted more and more uncontrollably... A faint, yearning whimper began to escape her throat. Her eyes were fixed on the darkness at the entrance to the cave, and in the afterglow of the flashlight, her pupils seemed to be tinged with an abnormal glimmer.

I want to eat...eat everything there...

This thought violently assaulted her consciousness.

at this time--

Click.

A very faint sound, like bones being dislocated, came from behind.

Anjie froze, and almost instinctively, her body reacted before her brain—she suddenly fell to the side, and at the same time, she swung the flashlight in her right hand backward without hesitation!

"boom!"

The flashlight's hard metal casing struck something, making a dull thud.

Amidst the flashing white light, An Jie caught a glimpse out of the corner of her eye—Liu Zhong's head, which should have been on the cabinet shelf, had somehow rolled down to the spot where she had just been standing.

Its face was turned upwards, its murky, empty, pitch-black eyes staring directly at her, the twisted, eerie smile on its face seeming even more pronounced. And from its slightly open mouth, its deep purple tongue, covered in a strange liquid, seemed... to be sticking out a tiny bit?

Was that "click" sound it made just now from its jawbone moving? Or... was it trying to bite her?

But there was simply no time for Anjie to think it over.

Almost at the same instant she dodged Liu Zhong's head, the rustling sound that had been hovering not far from the entrance of the cave suddenly became rapid, as if some limbs were crawling frantically on the muddy ground at an astonishing speed.

Before Anjie could even stand up completely, while still lying on her side, a small knife held in her left hand shot out with a swift whoosh, accurately disappearing into the darkness in the direction of the cave entrance!

"Woo-!"

A sharp, inhuman cry pierced the deathly silence of the main room!

The knife seemed to have hit something, but the "rustling" sound only paused for a moment before surging forward with even more frenzied momentum! In the darkness, two pale, swollen limbs, as if they had been soaked in water for too long, could be vaguely seen emerging. They twisted and clung to the edge of the hole, and a head of jet-black hair emerged, carrying a thick, nauseatingly pungent, damp stench.

"Woooooooooooo..."

The girl's sharp cries continued to emanate from beneath her black hair. At the same time, Ange finally understood how those rustling sounds were being made.

It was the broom that the girl was dragging in her hand.

A worn-out broom, as if it had been used for a very long time, covered with cobwebs and dust.

For a moment, Anjie's heart almost jumped out of her chest, but the extreme horror was like a bucket of ice water, temporarily suppressing the nagging hunger in her stomach and making her mind unusually calm.

We can't fight her head-on for now... This disheveled girl dragging a broom doesn't look easy to deal with, and Liu Zhong's head...

Anjie glanced again at the head that was less than a meter away from her.

The tip of Liu Zhong's purplish-red tongue, which had protruded a small section from his mouth, seemed to have split open with a thin slit. From it emerged nearly transparent, hair-thin, viscous-like pinkish-purple tentacles, making a soft, sticky sound.

Is it a parasite? It doesn't look like one... or is it something else? Or... or is this what killed Liu Zhong and made him so bizarre?

At that moment, Anjie felt a strange sense of familiarity about Liu Zhong's tongue.

Especially when those strange, slimy tentacles sprouted from that purplish-red tongue—

"Shhhh—!"

The long-haired girl in the hole had completely crawled out. Her body was twisted and contorted, but she still maintained the outline of a human figure. She was crawling forward on all fours, dragging a tattered broom.

"Waaaaaah...you...I don't want to...I don't want to,I don't want to,I don't want to..."

The long-haired girl made indistinct sobbing sounds from her throat, as if she were refuting something or crying out for help.

Anjie, however, didn't care what it was saying at the moment. She used the remaining light from the flashlight that had rolled to the ground to look at another hole.

Another drag mark disappeared into the hole in the pool of blood.

Ange found it hard not to wonder what might be inside that hole.

Is it another "Eye of All Things" player in the same state as Liu Zhong at this moment, or a strange creature like the long-haired girl who is constantly crawling towards him?

With her mind racing, Anjie rolled on the spot, simultaneously grabbing another small knife in her right hand.

Instead of attacking the long-haired girl, she flicked her wrist, and the knife turned into a cold light, shooting straight at Liu Zhong's head, which was still in place and wriggling deep inside his tongue!

"Pfft!"

The knife was precisely driven into the open mouth of the skull, all the way down to the hilt!

"Chirp—!!!"

A sharper, more piercing scream, seemingly directly affecting the human spirit, erupted from Liu Zhong's head!

Anjie felt a sharp pain deep in her brain, and she immediately covered her ears, trying to avoid the shriek.

Just as she covered her ears, the purplish-red tongue that had been sticking out of Liu Zhong's wide-open mouth began to twitch and swell violently...

The wriggling, transparent liquid on the surface of the tongue swelled and burst like boiling bubbles, finally making a soft "pop" sound—the entire tongue, along with parts of the oral cavity and the small knife embedded deep in the tongue, exploded into a pool of dark red, viscous liquid.

efficient!

Anjie's heart skipped a beat, and that inexplicable sense of familiarity began to resurface.

But there was no time for Ange to reminisce. She quickly got up, enduring the piercing sound that felt like her eardrums were being pierced, and ran towards another cave entrance while the long-haired girl who had crawled over was staring blankly at the pool of viscous liquid.

Tonight she wanted to see what was in the cupboard—unfortunately, she didn't find the original friction sound that was supposed to be in the cupboard, but she did have some unexpected finds.

For example, Liu Zhong is dead... For example, the drag marks in the pool of blood... For example, the long-haired girl dragging a broom in front of me...

While she was thinking, Anjie had already retreated to the entrance of the cave. She quickly took out a new flashlight from her system backpack and turned around and crawled inside without hesitation.

At the last moment before entering the dark cave, Ange glanced back.

Inside the main room, a flashlight lay on the floor, its white light shining upwards and casting distorted, swaying shadows on the low, earthen ceiling.

The girl with long, tangled black hair slowly moved her twisted body, crawling little by little to the spot where Liu Zhong's head had exploded, and lowered her head to examine it carefully.