Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 720 It's not too late! It's not too late!

Upon seeing the human heads inside the giant sheep's mouth, Yu Shijiu tilted his head at the opportune moment.

“Goats are such adorable animals,” Yu Shijiu exclaimed, raising his axe. “Even now, you don’t want to be separated from everyone, do you? Why is that?”

"Can you tell me?"

Yu Shijiu pointed with his axe at the faint morning light peeking through the clouds and smiled:

"For the sake of us soon becoming comrades?"

"..."

The male player in the corner was terrified. He knelt down with a thud, staring incredulously at Yu Shijiu talking to the giant sheep, muttering:

"No, impossible, impossible, impossible, how could we stay... impossible, impossible, we can leave when it's light, we can leave this godforsaken place..."

Sun Qin also heard his mutterings and felt a chill run down her spine: "What did Yu Shijiu say—"

"Three minutes left."

Shi Yuan's voice broke through Sun Qin's fear. She looked intently at the time on her wristwatch and said meaningfully:

"Xu Han needs to speed up."

"I can make it."

He Lingling closed her eyes and said, "If I can make it in the last minute, I can pass the level."

Sun Qin opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but she was still confused about what Xu Han was doing in the lower deck... It seemed she really had no right to question him.

Oh right... it's not that I seem to be, it's that I'm definitely not qualified.

Sun Qin felt it was better to remain silent—after all, there were less than three minutes left, so it didn't matter whether she lived or died.

“I’m very curious,” Shi Yuan said, his face pale, “what use would we have for bringing up the goat’s bones?”

“It’s very useful.”

He Lingling slowly opened her eyes, her large, almost full-bodied black pupils looking frighteningly gloomy in the dim light.

Sun Qin felt as if her soul was being sucked in after just one glance, so she quickly lowered her head and stopped looking at He Lingling.

He Lingling seemed unaware that someone was watching her. She simply stayed quietly in the darkness that belonged to her alone, licking her dry and sore lips.

"Goats, and more than just goats."

"Humans and goats on the boat are actually in a symbiotic relationship."

"...Don't forget, Dawn Game treats all creatures equally."

He Lingling's last words sent a chill down Sun Qin's spine.

Symbiosis... treating everyone equally... Yes, humans are only "kings" in their own world, the ones who dominate the highest food chain of life—but in Dawn Game, all creatures are the same.

Humans and dogs, humans and pigs, sheep, cows, cats... are all the same.

Sun Qin suddenly felt that she had touched something. She looked up at Shi Yuan beside her in a panic, only to see that he had closed his eyes wearily, as if he was tired of waiting for the last two minutes.

Seeing this, Sun Qin didn't dare to ask. She could only look up at Yu Shijiu, who was fighting the giant sheep again and again, chopping down the axe again and again, her heart pounding.

Is that so? If that's really the case, if it could really be like that... then they could all live!

Yu Shijiu's strength was waning, and he could feel his muscles starting to relax. This time, he was violently flung away by the giant sheep. If he hadn't rolled away quickly, he would have been trampled into a pile of minced meat by now.

"hiss……"

Yu Shijiu quickly wiped the blood from his mouth, clapped his hands and stood up—then looked unsteadily at himself as he almost fell over.

From the giant sheep's gaping mouth, the heads of men and women all smiled at him, saying, "Your strength has diminished."

Androgynous voices emanated from the heads, and thick wool fell from the giant sheep, dancing eerily in the rain.

"How much strength do you have left?"

The giant ram's head made a clicking and twisting sound, and large amounts of wool began to spread across the deck, inch by inch, towards Yu Shijiu, who was barely standing.

Yu Shijiu staggered, supporting himself with the axe, and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Behind him, Lu Chusheng roared and bit off the throats of countless goat-headed men, rushing toward his location. But soon, even more goat-headed men surrounded him—including those players who had been completely corrupted and were already dead.

"Meow meow meow!!!"

The meows of Laibao/Feifei in his mind grew increasingly shrill. Feifei, unwilling to see Yu Shijiu die, struggled to squeeze Lu Chusheng's soul out of his body.

"Shut up."

Lu Chusheng spoke up for the first time to stop it: "I'll figure something out. Now be quiet!"

The scolded Fatty curled up into a ball, burying its head in its paw pads, but still worried, it kept peeking out from between its fur to see what was happening outside.

It's okay... there are still props, there are still props that haven't been used.

Lu Chusheng's mind went blank. He hated that he couldn't use the props at all and could only hope that Yu Shijiu would think of using them.

Yu Shijiu relies too much on his physical strength, and the chances of him using props are ridiculously low.

Lu Chusheng even suspected that Yu Shijiu might have forgotten that she could still use props.

It was just a little bit more, just a tiny bit more, before dawn.

Lu Chusheng now wished it would be dawn soon—even being assimilated into a bizarre NPC in the game's dungeon would be better than being trampled into mincemeat by a giant sheep.

If he assimilates Yu Shijiu into an NPC, he can still find a way to salvage Yu Shijiu's consciousness, but if she really dies... then it will be difficult.

Compared to the worries and fears of others, Yu Shijiu seemed completely unaware that he might die, and recklessly took another step forward while leaning on his axe.

In the corner, He Lingling clenched her fists tightly as she listened to Yu Shijiu's staggering footsteps.

There's still... a little over a minute left.

Xu Han... Xu Han, please don't, please don't let me down! I trust you so much... I really, really trust you... It's definitely not too late!

The giant ram laughed even harder.

The sounds of men and women mingling with the bleating of goats, along with excited, absurd, and terrifying laughter, shattered the eardrums of all the surviving players.

The male player even knelt down on the ground, the fear of death causing him to convulse and lie on the deck, tears streaming down his face and babbling incoherently.

Yu Shijiu took another step forward, raising his giant sheep hoof-shaped hand high, and Wu Huimin's gentle voice came from the human head in its throat:

"Come here...come here..."

Lu Chusheng and the other players suddenly realized something.

He Lingling's eyes widened in shock.

"Wait! Lamb soup! Lamb soup will corrupt one's mind! Did he drink goat milk?! I can't see it, I couldn't see it at all... Has Shi Jiu drunk goat milk since the fight with the giant goat started?!"

Sun Qin and Shi Yuan exchanged a glance, and the latter, unusually flustered, looked away.

"..."