Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 835 Promote

The same thing happened to all the surviving players.

The "nine people" were pushed along the water's surface by the grass carp as they swam towards the shore. Yu Shijiu's gaze involuntarily fell on Fang Youhua behind him—on the two male players behind Fang Youhua, known as Brother Hao and Liu Zhong.

Liu Zhong and Hao Ge knelt quietly on the lotus leaves, their heads bowed. Their exposed wrists and faces looked perfectly normal—human skin, human hands, human faces…

Yu Shijiu blinked in disbelief—this time, he couldn't even see the dense red bumps on Liu Zhong and Hao Ge's bodies.

How can it be?

I clearly saw those bumps when the sun came out—

Yu Shijiu's thoughts suddenly paused.

sun?

He hesitated as he looked around at the pond, which had somehow become completely dark. From a human perspective, all he could see were the dense, tall grass blades and the fleeting shadows of a few mosquitoes flying by.

A chill ran through Yu Shijiu's heart for no apparent reason.

His gaze slowly fell on the grass carp swimming forward, pushing the lotus leaves behind him.

The grass carp pushing the lotus leaves appeared very silent, with only the rustling sound of the fish constantly pushing the leaves in their ears.

Quiet, silent... eerie.

No one spoke up in this situation, including Xu Han, who had always been very active and enthusiastic.

All the players seemed to be assimilated by the tranquility of the pond; no one spoke or made the slightest noise that would attract attention.

Yu Shijiu's sense of dread grew stronger for some reason. When the nine of them had swum halfway, propelled by the grass carp, the sound of animals leaping suddenly came from the dense grass behind them.

The grass carp pushing the lotus leaves suddenly stopped, and then the splashing sound of the water increased significantly.

Yu Shijiu's heart skipped a beat. He turned his head to look behind him, his gaze falling on the blades of grass that were constantly swaying and dancing in the wind. The dread in his heart finally became a tangible manifestation.

Those toads... they're back.

"Quack!"

"Mother!!"

"Damn it!!! Someone stole the bride while we were out!!!"

"It's those damn fish! It's those damn dried fish!!!"

"Mom! Mom, where are you! Come quick! My wife has been stolen! My wife has been 'stolen' by those awful fish!!!"

"..."

The croaking of countless toads and the sounds of voices mingled together, and the heavy, dense, eerie voices kept reaching the ears of all the players, making them dizzy and even causing them to feel nauseous.

Yu Shijiu and the others were no exception.

Yu Shijiu held the lotus leaf to his chest, somewhat bewildered, suppressing the urge to gag again and again from deep in his throat. He was completely dazed.

What's wrong with me?

How could he have gotten infected? He didn't marry a toad—no, neither did Liu Zhong and Hao Ge, so what's causing this urge to vomit?

Yu Shijiu subconsciously looked at the Thumbelina figure beside him, which was only human-shaped.

The dark, gooey humanoid figure belonging to Thumbelina was clutching its throat and gagging repeatedly, curled up in a ball on the lotus leaf, looking extremely uncomfortable.

Yu Shijiu's gaze shifted. He suppressed his nausea again and looked at He Lingling and Xu Han on the other side.

Xu Han also covered his throat and made muffled retching sounds. He Lingling was in a better state, but she covered her mouth and kept trembling her shoulders and head, and it seemed that she was enduring it.

All the players were trying hard to suppress their nausea and dared not make a sound—except for Thumbelina.

Thumbelina's condition seemed the most serious. In the short time that Yu Shijiu turned to observe her, she went from dry heaving to vomiting into the pond while holding onto the edge of a lotus leaf.

"vomit……"

Thumbelina's constant retching sounds were clearly heard by the toads behind her who were busy looking for "wives".

Yu Shijiu heard a toad screech loudly, shouting, "There! There! Hurry, hurry!!!"

"There they are! They haven't been stolen yet!"

"Hurry up! Quack!!!"

"Grab them! Grab them! Grab them!!"

The croaking of a female toad rang out urgently in everyone's ears. It sounded as if its deepest concerns had been touched, and it roared out a series of toad croaks.

"No! You can't run away!! Nobody! Nobody can run away! Stay! Stay! Stay!!!"

The croaking of toads formed an eerie duet in the silent night, with hoarse, shrill, incredulous, jealous, and twisted croaks representing all sorts of emotions, growing louder and louder.

Yu Shijiu even saw the toad figures that were originally far away becoming clearer and clearer.

Xu Han was so frightened that he stopped vomiting altogether and urgently urged the fish pushing the lotus leaves to speed up.

"Hurry! Hurry! They're catching up! Hurry, hurry! They're catching up!!"

He Lingling suppressed the churning in her stomach and calmly looked at the grass carp that belonged to her on the lotus leaf.

The grass carp only increased its speed slightly; it didn't seem to care whether the toad would catch up with it.

He Lingling was filled with horror.

A terrible thought crossed her mind—these fish didn't seem to care whether they, the players, would be caught by the toads.

They were simply carrying out the "rescue" according to the script, but whether they could actually "safely rescue" them was not within their consideration.

The fish don't necessarily need to be rescued.

This thought made He Lingling tremble all over. She bit her tongue hard, and the taste of blood mixed with sharp pain rose from the tip of her tongue, bringing her a little clarity in her chaotic and distorted emotions.

There must be something they overlooked... Dawn Games wouldn't leave them no way out...

He Lingling's mind raced, the ferocious roar of the toad and the suppressed retching of the players echoing in her ears.

Heaving... heaving... heaving... roaring... chasing... a school of fish...

He Lingling felt like her brain was about to explode from all the noise. Her face began to distort without her being able to see it, her pupils started to dilate, and the whites of her eyes were almost completely obscured by the pressure of her pupils.

"Fish...fish...save me..."

A muffled sound reached He Lingling's ears, and she suddenly looked up at Thumbelina vomiting on the lotus leaf next to her.

"It's a fish...it's a fish..."

Only fish can save them!

"fish?"

Yu Shijiu subconsciously turned around to look at He Lingling, "Sister Lingling?"

He Lingling tried hard to suppress the intermittent opening and closing of her "ghost eyes," and whispered:

How can I summon the strange fish?