Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 640 The Corpse's Questioning

Undeterred by the barrage of criticism, Xiao Li continued, harboring malicious intent to disgust Yu Shijiu:

"Who knows if these knives have killed anyone before? This wrecked ship is full of dead people."

"What does this have to do with me?"

Yu Shijiu scoffed dismissively, "If I didn't see it, it means it doesn't exist."

Xiao Li: "..."

That statement...it's so perfectly plausible, you can't find a single fault with it—wait! Does not seeing something mean it doesn't exist?! Is this Schrödinger's knife?!

While Yu Shijiu was groping around and stealing things, Lu Chusheng had already followed the strong smell of blood to the freezer.

"..."

Lu Chusheng's deep pupils hardened with alertness in a brief moment as he stared at the enormous freezer in front of him, the hair on the back of his head standing on end.

The stench of blood emanating from the freezer was far stronger than any other part of the kitchen.

Realizing this, Lu Chusheng subconsciously looked at Yu Shijiu, who was searching for clues with his back to him—and saw the other party happily pick up a delicate and beautiful fruit knife.

Lu Chusheng's pupils widened slightly as he watched the fruit knife disappear from Yu Shijiu's hand.

Lu Chusheng: "..."

Realizing what Yu Shijiu was doing, he blinked helplessly, walked to Yu Shijiu's leg, and tugged at the other's clothes with his paw.

"……Meow."

Lu Chusheng gave a reminder.

Yu Shijiu, engrossed in collecting, lowered her head and exclaimed, "Feifei, you found it?"

Lu Chusheng nodded, then turned and ran towards the freezer.

"...This is it."

Yu Shijiu blinked slowly and smiled, saying, "This is all kinds of meat, Fatty, you can't be mistaken, right?"

Lu Chusheng frowned, and when he tried to speak, a series of rapid meows came out of his mouth.

"..." Lu Chusheng decided that he must use his own body next time. He meowed again and nodded.

"Ok."

Yu Shijiu glanced longingly at the knives and other items he had rummaged through the drawers and cabinets, then turned and walked toward the freezer.

Xu Han, who was standing by the kitchen door, watched them open the freezer door. He took a deep breath, intending to ask something, when he felt something suddenly grab the door panel behind him.

Xu Han: "!"

What is that?! *sizzle*

呲——呲——

More scratching sounds came through the door behind me, growing louder and louder, a sound that made my teeth ache.

Xu Han instantly forgot his earlier curiosity, his face pale as he pressed the knife against the door, even looking down to see if he had locked it—thankfully, he had.

Before Xu Han could even breathe a sigh of relief, the scratching at the door behind him intensified, and the scratching continued. Xu Han even heard the bleating of sheep.

The sound of sheep bleating?!

Xu Han's eyes widened immediately. I exclaimed and quickly looked up at Yu Shijiu and "Feifei" who had just opened the freezer door.

"Hurry up! Shi Jiu, you guys need to move faster!"

Xu Han shouted, "There's something scratching at the door, and I can even hear sheep bleating!"

"..."

Beside the freezer, Yu Shijiu looked up at Xu Han and glanced through the slightly thick, frosted-textured door behind him.

A black shadow, about half the height of the door, kept scratching at the kitchen door. It was hard to tell what it was—not entirely, though, because it had hands, and they looked quite like human hands.

It should be the transformed Mr. Yao?

As this guess surfaced in Yu Shijiu's mind, he had already squatted down and started quickly rummaging through the various meats in the freezer.

The cold air that rushed out of the freezer quickly frosted over Yu Shijiu's eyelashes, but he seemed completely oblivious, rummaging through the various meats with his bare hands.

Lu Chusheng squatted down beside him, wanting to reach out to help several times, but then silently withdrew his hand when he saw the furry claws deep inside his own body.

It's so inconvenient.

Lu Chusheng thought—he would still have to use his original body in the future.

"what."

Yu Shijiu, who had rummaged through half of the meat in the freezer, suddenly remembered something. He reached out and picked up a piece of frozen, rock-hard meat, frowning as he said:

"There's much less meat in the freezer."

“…I know that.”

Startled by the scratching sound behind him, Xu Han, whose face turned pale, opened his mouth and said, "I saw a lot of meat on the dining table over at the dance floor."

The implication is that the meat in the freezer must have been prepared by the chef and sent to the dance floor.

"……Pity."

Yu Shijiu smacked his lips and casually put the meat in his hand aside.

So what exactly is it that's a pity...?

Xu Han, who was standing by the door, wanted to ask, but was afraid that he would disturb Yu Shijiu's train of thought, so he could only keep quiet.

Lu Chusheng glanced silently at Yu Shijiu, who was sighing as she picked up some meat, and inexplicably guessed what the other was thinking at that moment.

...I guess if I had known that the meat on the other side of the table was edible, I would have gone over and taken a few bites.

Lu Chusheng fell silent because of his own guess.

Why would he think that way...? And just how much does Yu Shijiu like to eat?

Lu Chusheng hasn't yet discovered anything that Yu Shijiu doesn't eat—Yu Shijiu is the kind of person who can enjoy even the original wood shavings bread produced by the "Pupal Shop".

Not a picky eater, loves to eat, wants to eat everything.

Lu Chusheng silently recalled his memories and realized that he seemed to have rarely cooked since he entered the Dawn Game.

Looks like I need to find some time to remember my cooking skills.

"found it."

As Lu Chusheng's thoughts were racing, Yu Shijiu, who had been rummaging through the freezer, suddenly looked up and excitedly held up the "piece of meat" in her hand.

"This is it."

Yu Shijiu said, "They're very fresh; they must have been slaughtered just today."

As he spoke, he began to dismantle the piece of meat that was wrapped in layers and had frozen blood around its edges.

Lu Chusheng and Xu Han, realizing what the meat originally was: "..."

Lu Chusheng was helpless, but Xu Han, who was unusually clever, was terrified and kept muttering incoherent phrases like "Don't look at what is improper, don't look at what is improper."

Lu Chusheng glanced at him, and learned a lot more about Xu Han's ability to ramble on.

When he was watching the live stream in town, he thought Xu Han and his friends were quite interesting. They were indeed timid, but apart from muttering a few words, when they really ran, their legs were faster than a rabbit's... This should be Xu Han's most prominent characteristic.

However, innate skills are really useful.

Thinking of how the other party had healed Yu Shijiu's shoulder, Lu Chusheng lowered his eyes and silently watched Yu Shijiu unpack the package.

Yu Shijiu squatted on the ground and tore the packaging covering the "meat chunks" apart with a series of quick tears and rips. His shoulders and arms showed no discomfort whatsoever, and his movements were very natural and powerful.

A treatment with no side effects... that's really quite effective.

As more and more broken packaging bags piled up at Yu Shijiu's feet, the already bloody kitchen was instantly filled with an even stronger stench, as if it were the smell of meat that hadn't been properly cleaned.

And indeed, when Yu Shijiu casually held the completely dissected "flesh" in his palm, a brown nipple was visible on the pale, stiff skin—anyone with eyes could tell which part of the "flesh" it was.

Gudong.

Xu Han, standing by the door, began to resent his own excellent eyesight and said in a strained voice:

"This thing, this thing grows on people, right?"

"Yes."

Yu Shijiu stared at the piece of "meat" for several moments, and just as he was about to continue speaking, his gaze was drawn to several more pieces of "meat" deep inside the freezer.

"...There are still quite a few."

Yu Shijiu silently thought about the flesh and bones on a grown man's body, licked his lips, and then turned around to take out those "pieces of flesh" and began to violently tear off the packaging.

As human thighs, calves, abdomens, and other things that looked like human internal organs were placed on the ground, Xu Han felt that he would faint if he looked at them any longer.

"Even if you're missing arms and hands, you still have feet and a head."

Yu Shijiu excitedly arranged the fragments of the body together, piecing them into a human shape before blinking.

He remembered the trash bag that Ah Jin had left by the door and sighed:

"So the bodies really were separated."

"..." Xu Han opened his mouth, then silently raised his hand: "Hey Shi Jiu, do you think we can go a little faster?"

Xu Han's face was covered in cold sweat. "I don't know if it's just my imagination, but I have a feeling that the door behind me is about to collapse..."

So far, the only annoying thing about the "thing" outside is its constant scratching at the door with its nails—but who knows if it might suddenly mutate and break in?!

"It's ready."

After piecing together the body parts, Yu Shijiu stood up, patted the ice crystals off her hands, and gestured for Xu Han to come over.

"?"

Xu Han, worried that he had misunderstood, pointed to himself and asked, "Let me pass?"

"Correct."

Yu Shijiu: "Hurry up and run over here. Um, just run to a safe place and you can squat, stand, or lie down."

"Haha," Xu Han chuckled dryly, "Shi Jiu, you're really funny, you can even joke now."

While talking, Xu Han quickly looked around, and finally his gaze settled on "Fatty" squatting by the freezer licking its paws.

Lu Chusheng, who was suddenly stared at: "..."

Before he could even lift the cat's head, Xu Han's meow rang out from the kitchen door not far away.

"Fatty, you have to protect me!"

Immediately following was a burst of running sounds, accompanied by the sound of wind, banging on doors, and other noises that filled the air.

Lu Chusheng: "..."

Its ears tilted slightly downwards, forming a noise-blocking posture (similar to airplane ears, but not due to stress), thus blocking out the loud noise around it.

He was absolutely right; Xu Han's speed when he ran was comparable to that of a rabbit under stress.

boom! boom! boom! ! !

The scratching at the kitchen door had turned into a banging sound when Xu Han fled. With a loud crash as the lock was forcibly broken, the kitchen door could no longer withstand the pressure and was kicked open with a bang.

The moment the kitchen door was flung open, Yu Shijiu, who had been standing quietly and obediently in place, grabbed an axe and headed towards the kitchen door.

"I rely on!"

Xu Han was so frightened that she tried to pull Yu Shijiu back as she walked forward, but Lu Chusheng pressed her foot down with his claws and forcibly kept her rooted to the spot.

"Meow, meow meow meow."

—Don't move, stay where you are.

Xu Han's instep ached from being pressed, and the loud meowing of cats in his ears made him both laugh and cry.

"Sorry, Fatty," Xu Han wiped his face, "I don't understand cat language."

Lu Chusheng: "..."

He looked up at Xu Han, whose face was pale and who was sweating profusely, then coldly looked away and chased after Yu Shijiu.

Xu Han, who felt he had just been looked down upon by "Fatty," was speechless.

He wiped his face with his sweaty hands again, and tried to catch his breath quietly, as if he were about to cry.

"It's nothing, it's nothing... It's just a small matter, nothing at all... It's very, very common for doors to be damaged by monsters..."

Kitchen door.

With the kitchen door completely smashed, Yu Shijiu finally saw what the "thing" that had smashed the door was.

It is indeed Mr. Yao.

This grotesque body, missing almost its entire body, had Mr. Yao's face, with only a thin strip of skin connecting its neck and head. Below were slightly thin shoulders and long hands—the fingernails on which were almost entirely split open, oozing scarlet blood.

Upon seeing the other party's full appearance, Yu Shijiu was stunned for a second, then glanced at the messy bloodstains and scratch marks on the kitchen door next to him, and finally raised the axe and pointed it at the bizarre, mangled corpse.

You look like you need some help.

Yu Shijiu asked earnestly, "Do you need help?"

Mr. Yao: "..."

The next second he opened his mouth wide, his sharp teeth dripping blood under the bright kitchen light, like a hungry wolf ready to pounce on its prey.

“…Meow.”

Behind Mr. Yao's sharp fangs, from the depths of his indistinct mouth, came the distinctive "bleating" sound of a goat, which pierced Yu Shijiu's eardrums and seemed to cause a slight dry pain.

Seeing that Mr. Yao didn't seem to intend to attack him, Yu Shijiu picked at his slightly stinging ear with one hand and asked again:

"need any help?"

Mr. Yao's bloodshot eyes suddenly dripped blood, his torn pupils staring intently at Yu Shijiu, his mouth agape revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth—

"hypocritical!"

"Hypocritical hypocritical hypocritical hypocritical hypocritical hypocritical meme meme meme meme meme meme meme!!!!"

A series of sharp, accusatory screams erupted from Mr. Yao's throat, making the eardrums of everyone present even more painful.

Xu Han couldn't take it anymore and pulled out cotton balls to stuff into his ears again.

Yu Shijiu couldn't see any change. He stared at Mr. Yao, who had suddenly collapsed, and couldn't understand why the other party had suddenly started "scolding" people.

"You have the nerve to wonder why others are swearing at people."

Yu Shijiu heard Xiao Li's sneer in his mind: "My God, wasn't that you standing at the door not long ago, watching someone die without helping?"

"I don't."

Yu Shijiu denied the fabricated charges, believing he had done nothing wrong, and therefore Mr. Yao was simply insane.

“You clearly saw it…you clearly saw it…you were clearly right outside the door, you were clearly right outside the door watching and listening…”

Mr. Yao's subsequent outburst only embarrassed Yu Shijiu for less than 0.1 seconds, prompting her to shake her head in denial:

"What are you talking about? No, I don't know anything."

Mr. Yao ignored what he said, his sinister eyes falling on Yu Shijiu and then slowly moving away... finally landing on Xu Han, who was squatting by the freezer and wished he could crawl into the floor.

"...And you."

Xu Han: "???"