Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 703 Escaping is never a good thing.

It's just... a different perspective.

Yes, who says the BOSS has to be the NPC monster with the most screen time and the highest repetition rate?

Is nobody talking?

Xu Han's heart was pounding. He watched as Yu Shijiu reluctantly put the fried fish aside, and his lips twitched involuntarily.

"Ugh."

Yu Shijiu continued to lean against the wall and sigh, "I didn't expect... another candidate for BOSS has been added."

Xu Han and Brother Zhu: "..."

Lu Chusheng's gaze was calm—he had already accepted that the ingredients of the soup he had just licked into his mouth were not very "clean and hygienic".

Actually, it's nothing serious—Laibao isn't a cat in the traditional sense, so eating these things won't cause any gastrointestinal or poisoning problems.

As long as you can accept it psychologically, that's fine.

"Now, now what?"

Brother Zhu was somewhat worried: "We're likely to be 'sacrifices' tonight, we definitely need to find a way to escape—"

"Escape?"

Yu Shijiu suddenly laughed. He laughed heartily, and his eyes seemed even brighter in the occasional light.

What are you laughing at?

Zhu Ge felt a chill run down his spine from Yu Shijiu's laughter, not quite understanding what Yu Shijiu was laughing at.

Was he wrong? Shouldn't he have said something? The notification tone clearly informed them what would happen tonight—those words were like a public warning.

The fear and exhaustion of the past few days enveloped Zhu Ge at this moment. He curled up against the wall and murmured:

"Am I wrong? If we don't run, what can we do? Are we just waiting to die?"

"That's not true."

Yu Shijiu's low laughter stopped. He looked at the despair and pain on Zhu Ge's face with a bored expression and shook his head as if he didn't quite understand.

Brother Zhu: "?"

Xu Han licked his lips and sighed, "Shi Jiu, Brother Zhu is a coward, so don't tease him."

Is he teasing me?

Zhu Ge's throat tightened, and he tried to excuse himself—

"What do you mean, 'teasing him'? Who are you teasing?"

Yu Shijiu said unhappily, "I only know how to tease Feifei."

Only Fatty can be teased and played with by me.

Brother Zhu: "?"

"Okay, okay?" Xu Han nodded quite habitually: "You just wanted to laugh, that's why you laughed. I understand, I understand. Don't worry, I absolutely understand you."

"..." Yu Shijiu felt that something was wrong with that sentence, but he didn't care at all at the moment. He turned his head to look at Zhu Ge, who looked bewildered (panicked).

"Brother Zhu."

Yu Shijiu considers himself a very polite person.

"Of course everyone can run away."

Yu Shijiu: "But the number of monsters on this ship is far greater than the number of players who are still alive."

Brother Zhu trembled all over.

"With such an imbalance in numbers, and we're on the sea," Yu Shijiu tilted his head, "even if we run, where can we run to?"

boom!

Thunderclaps, like bolts from a clear sky, struck Zhu Ge's ears one after another, leaving him stiff and cold, his lips trembling.

"Running away won't help."

The boy's pale and thin face seemed to be shrouded in gloom at this moment, and Zhu Ge could only see his eyes, which seemed to be faintly red, through the dim light.

"No matter where you hide, the goat-headed monsters will eventually find you, capture you... and then..."

The boy raised his hand to neck level and smiled as he made a slicing motion from left to right.

"The players who are captured will become the 'sacrifices' for those who are slit in the throat and bled dry."

After he finished speaking, the orange cat next to Yu Shijiu, which was licking its fur with its head down, suddenly looked up, tilted its head, and rubbed against his knee.

Zhu Ge heard Xu Han making a jumbled, incoherent sound: "...Fatty...ah...ah ah...why aren't you rubbing...rubbing me...I want to...rub against you too..."

"..."

Zhu Ge's eyelids twitched shut, and he clutched his chest, unable to bear the shock any longer, and fainted.

"..."

After arguing for a few minutes, Xu Han and Yu Shijiu turned around and saw Zhu Ge leaning against the wall with his eyes closed and his face pale. They were startled.

"I go!"

Xu Han: "What's wrong with Brother Zhu? Did he fall asleep because he was too tired?"

They really haven't slept much these past few days, and they still have to work at a high intensity... falling asleep from exhaustion seems like a valid excuse.

"more or less."

Yu Shijiu didn't care whether Zhu Ge lived or died, and yawned, saying:

"Just go to sleep. When you wake up, you can face your fears directly."

It saves me from being awake and starving.

Thinking of this, Yu Shijiu silently touched her sunken belly and finally sighed sincerely.

I'm so hungry, can I get something to eat?

"Eat this."

Suddenly, someone handed me a breadstick that had been broken into half.

This half-breadstick looks a bit "miserable." The fluffy, creamy yellow bread core looks a bit limp. What's even stranger is that the breadstick, which should be oval-shaped, seems to have been flattened.

Yu Shijiu tilted her head in surprise and met Xu Han's gaze, who was cautiously and furtively doing something like a thief.

Why are you looking at me?

Xu Han was puzzled by the stares and urged, "This is what I saw on the ground when I sneaked out of the cafeteria—cough, it's a bit dirty, but don't mind it. I peeled off the layer of skin that was wet and dusty..."

It was quite a coincidence. Xu Han and Brother Zhu were sneaking away, with Brother Zhu in front and him behind. Unexpectedly, they had only taken two steps when they slipped on something.

Brother Zhu in front was startled and turned around, winking and asking him what was wrong.

Xu Han noticed the breadstick on the floor that he had stepped on, and with his heart pounding, he shook his head.

Seeing that he was alright, Brother Zhu didn't ask any more questions and turned to continue walking.

Xu Han watched his back, then quietly bent down to pick up the breadstick from the ground, quickly cleaned it up, broke off the part of the breadstick that she had stepped on, and stuffed it into her mouth.

Xu Han put the rest away.

For some reason, Xu Han didn't mention that the breadsticks had been stepped on.

"...Aren't you going to eat?"

Yu Shijiu glanced at the breadstick in his hand several times, then suddenly said, "Brother Han, you probably haven't eaten either, have you?"

"hey-hey."

Xu Han scratched his head. "I ate it. I ate half of it as soon as I found it."

He patted his stomach as he spoke—but it was still flat, so it wasn't very convincing.

Xu Han was incredibly embarrassed and made an excuse, saying, "What kind of stomach fullness can half a breadstick make? I'm just not hungry—"

"eat."

Yu Shijiu broke the remaining half of the breadstick in half and handed him one half, saying simply, "Let's eat together."

"..."

Xu Han swallowed back the rambling words that were about to spill out.

He said "Hey" a little embarrassedly, took the half breadstick, and started eating it.