Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 894 Running

Upon seeing this, Yu Shijiu's pupils constricted sharply, and his breath caught in his throat for a moment.

That's not a ceiling at all.

The entire ceiling of the cave was covered by those huge, writhing, dark red chunks of flesh.

It resembled a huge, rotten viscera, its surface covered with bulging, purplish-black blood vessels that pulsated slightly like living things. Between these pulsating "vessels," a viscous, dark red liquid exuding a strong, sweet, and putrid stench was constantly seeping out from the gaps in the flesh, gathering into beads, one drop, two drops, three drops... slowly falling downwards.

The dark red bead slammed into the humanoid skeleton and straw bracelet on the ground with a nauseating "thud".

What is most horrifying is the huge, grotesque horizontal cut right in the center of the chunk of flesh.

The edges of the wound were jagged, as if it had been torn or severed by some extremely brutal force. The broken muscle tissue and blood vessels dangled, and one could vaguely see even more bloody and violent blood vessels and mucous membranes inside.

what is this?

Is this a cross-section of a severed neck wound on a human?

Yu Shijiu was somewhat bewildered.

He had indeed chopped off quite a few monsters' heads—but he definitely didn't have the habit of looking down to check the wounds after chopping them off.

That huge wound in front of me looks like a human being cut off... it must be, right?

Confused guesses kept flashing through Yu Shijiu's mind, but he couldn't stay still and keep guessing.

Because just seconds after he saw the horrific sight, the severed neck in the chunk of flesh seemed to "sense" his gaze.

A terrifying thought flashed through Yu Shijiu's mind.

Could it be that this place... is actually—

"Om-!"

A familiar yet far more violent and chaotic mental shock swept towards Yu Shijiu like a tangible tsunami.

This time it wasn't just a simple scream, but countless twisted, painful fragments of consciousness, filled with extreme resentment and madness, suddenly and forcibly shoved into Yu Shijiu's brain.

"It's so cold... Help me..."

"Why...why did you kill me..."

"Be more sensible...be more obedient...be good and you won't get beaten..."

"Stay...forever...you can only stay here..."

"..."

Countless murmurs accompanied by the woman's shrill screams pierced Yu Shijiu's eardrums, causing him to groan, his head throbbing, and his vision even starting to go black.

The candle in his hand swayed, almost slipping from his grasp, but Yu Shijiu, realizing what was happening, grabbed it tightly.

Once the candlelight stabilized, Yu Shijiu saw that the black and yellow hairs on her wrist seemed to be stimulated as well, and began to spread upwards at a visible speed, bringing an unbearable tingling and slight numbness.

"..." Yu Shijiu bit her tongue hard, using the intense pain to briefly regain her senses.

I can't stay here any longer.

Yu Shijiu gritted his teeth, enduring the immense mental anguish and physical changes, and suddenly leaped backward, simultaneously throwing the candle in his hand fiercely at the broken neck that was spinning above, as if it were about to fall!

The candle traced a faint arc of light in the air before striking the slowly rotating, writhing neck—"Sizzle—"

The burning flames were instantly and slowly submerged and extinguished by the viscous red liquid.

But this brief disruption of the combustion seemed to have some effect.

Yu Shijiu could feel that the familiar, violent mental impact had become extremely slightly stagnant.

It's now.

Without hesitation, Yu Shijiu turned around and sprinted back towards the cave entrance he had come from.

As he ran, he could even feel the cold, malicious gaze that had begun to appear behind him.

Is it that disheveled woman's head in the blood-red swamp...?

"boom!"

Yu Shijiu's shoulder slammed into the sliding wall in front of him, and he rushed back to the corner of the cave filled with all kinds of broken wood chips. Then, without looking back, he ran forward along the passage in his memory.

Yu Shijiu wasn't afraid; in fact, he was so excited that every cell in his body seemed to be trembling. He wanted to go back and fight that woman's head that was turning upside down—if he didn't know that An Jie and the others were still waiting for his news.

The surrounding caves seemed to come alive, and in her extreme regret, Yu Shijiu even heard more intense scratching sounds and some kind of eerie hissing sound coming from the walls and the ground.

It was as if countless animals and monsters hidden underground had been startled by him and were closing in from all directions.

The candlelight on the cave walls flickered wildly in the wind stirred up by Yu Shijiu's running, stretching and distorting his shadow as it was projected onto the earthen walls of the passage.

Yu Shijiu ignored the sounds coming from deep within the soil around him. He forced himself to think about only one thing—to rush back to the main room and tell Anjie and the others everything he had seen.

He ran wildly along the winding path, relying on his memory of where he came from and an almost instinctive sense of direction to run forward.

Finally, a familiar, relatively open space and a steady candlelight appeared ahead—Yu Shijiu's steps slowed down.

We've arrived at the main room.

When Yu Shijiu rushed into the main room, he even staggered a few steps due to the sudden stop, which startled Xu Han, who was guarding the door of the main room, so much that he almost jumped up on the spot.

"Shi Jiu? What the heck? Why are you all sweaty? Why are you running?"

Xu Han quickly helped Yu Shijiu up and asked anxiously.

Anjie, He Lingling, and Chen Yi, who were inside the main room, were startled by his disheveled appearance when they heard the commotion.

Yu Shijiu, who was being supported by Xu Han, was pale, his forehead was covered in cold sweat, and he was breathing rapidly. Most noticeably, his bare wrists and forearms were covered with a thick layer of short, black and yellow hair!

He Lingling's gaze instantly fell on his arm, and she even stopped breathing for a few seconds.

"Shi Jiu! What's wrong with you?!"

Anjie and Chen Yi rushed over and helped Xu Han to support Yu Shijiu, but when they touched him, they felt a strange sensation from the hair on his arm, and their hearts sank at the same time.

"Holy crap! Shi Jiu, what... Shi Jiu, what is this thing?!"

Xu Han held Yu Shijiu's shoulder, his voice trembling.

He Lingling, who had just walked over, looked at him quickly with a serious expression:

"What happened? What happened to you? And what happened to your hand?"

Didn't we agree not to be impulsive, but just to spy on the old field mouse and Thumbelina?

Yu Shijiu breathed heavily, raising her eyes, which shone exceptionally bright with excitement and lingering repression, and spoke rapidly:

“The cave… there’s a cave in the corner of the old field mouse’s room, and it’s full of bones and bracelets, and… on the ceiling… there’s a huge, dripping mass of flesh… in the middle is the woman’s head we saw in the swamp yesterday afternoon… and these bones and bracelets…”