Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 562 Wool

She paused slightly and slowly raised her hand.

Under the lamplight, some scattered, curly, soft white hairs between Shi Yuan's fingers were gently swaying in the sea breeze outside the window.

Is this... the fur of some animal?

Shi Yuan quickly came up with a name for this game instance.

—A sheep sacrifice.

Sheep sacrifice...sheep...so is this wool wool?

Shi Yuan's hand trembled slightly. She quickly turned around to look at He Lingling and Sun Qin, who were resting on the edge of the bed, and glanced at the bathroom, which was still tightly closed.

"wool."

Shi Yuan spoke in a very low voice, handing the white hairs stuck between her fingers to He Lingling and Sun Qin, saying:

Do you remember the name of this instance?

He Lingling frowned as she stared at the white hairs between her fingers.

“…I remember.” Sun Qin pursed her lips, swallowed nervously, and whispered:

"Sheep Sacrifice... The name of this game instance is Sheep Sacrifice."

"...It should be wool."

He Lingling reached out and pulled out a white hair from between Shi Yuan's fingers, gently twisted it, and then drew a conclusion.

“I’ve touched sheep before, and the texture is similar to this white wool.”

As someone who was once completely blind, He Lingling's sense of smell and touch are more acute than that of a normal person... Simply put, she can remember the smell and feel of anything she has touched.

This is nothing special for blind people, but it is considered a rather impressive ability to distinguish things among ordinary people.

"I forgot to tell you."

He Lingling listened to Wu Huimin humming in the washroom, "The living conditions for male players on the first floor are very poor, almost worlds apart from ours."

"...and, there are many goats kept in the hold of this ship."

He Lingling looked up at Shi Yuan and said softly:

"Based on what we have heard and learned in reality, it is very normal to keep sheep on ships. After all, sheep can be eaten and milked... A long time ago, most sailors liked to keep sheep on their ships."

"I know this."

Sun Qin, who was barely noticeable beside her, said in a low voice, "I've read books about this before."

Although most of them are Western in nature... this is really the first time I've encountered a maritime era background with Chinese-looking faces.

"Most game instances will be changed to some extent, but you don't need to worry too much about the background."

Shi Yuan pursed his lips and said, "The problem now is, if what you said is true, then there shouldn't be wool on the bed in the second-floor cabin."

Even if it's just a few rooms with waiters whose job nature is unclear.

"Is it possible..." Sun Qin licked her lips, "that the wool was brought in by Wu Huimin—"

Click.

The bathroom door was suddenly pushed open.

Sun Qin was so frightened that she stopped making a sound and froze, hiding behind He Lingling.

With her hair still wet, Wu Huimin walked towards them with a smile, drying it with a towel as she spoke:

"Aren't you going to take a shower? You'd better hurry up, or the water in our rooms might be turned off by midnight."

"Water outage?"

He Lingling maintained her composure and asked, feigning confusion, "Why is the water out?"

"?"

Wu Huimin paused in drying her hair, and looked at He Lingling with a strange expression. "Lingling."

Wu Huimin tilted her head, and a wet droplet dripped from the tip of her hair, soaking through the thin fabric on her shoulder.

He Lingling felt a chill run down her spine under her gaze, and quickly racked her brain trying to figure out what was wrong with the question she had asked—

Water? Or is the water outage?

He Lingling felt a chill run down her spine, but then she heard Wu Huimin in front of her suddenly giggle.

Wu Huimin's laughter was exaggerated; her pretty face appeared slightly bluish under the light, and water droplets dripped down her cheeks as she wiped her hair.

"What else could it be? Of course, it's because the guests want it."

"?"

These words made Shi Yuan and Sun Qin look up at the same time, staring blankly at Wu Huimin who had spoken.

"You've only just come up to the second floor, so you don't quite understand."

Wu Huimin lowered her head and continued drying her wet hair, her expression unreadable as she sighed.

"We're just a few lucky waiters who got hired. Our job of taking a shower and eating depends entirely on the customers' mood."

He Lingling's breathing eased slightly, and she feigned ignorance, saying:

"Have to consider the guests' moods when it comes to eating and bathing? Isn't that a bit... a bit too much..."

"Excessive?"

Wu Huimin chuckled, then slowly looked up at He Lingling, her eyes, hidden beneath her hair, filled with a dark gloom.

"Who are the guests? And who are we? Such things as going too far... seem to be foreign to us, don't they?"

"Lingling, you're so naive."

Wu Huimin stared at her, her lips slowly tearing upwards to reveal bloody, raw gums:

"That's strange. How could you not even know this?"

He Lingling: "..."

No, did she say something wrong this time? This time, Wu Huimin's act was completely unbelievable—

"oops."

Wu Huimin, who was halfway through her transformation, suddenly covered her mouth and laughed. Her giggles sent chills down the spines of the three living people in the room, leaving them speechless.

He Lingling, who tried to extract information from her through conversation, was the first to be targeted.

Seeing that Wu Huimin had returned to normal, He Lingling took a deep breath, suppressing the thought that the other party might be deliberately playing a trick on her, and patiently said:

"Then I'm going to take a shower."

"..."

Sun Qin and Shi Yuan both turned to look at her.

Despite being stared at with disbelief by the two men, He Lingling remained expressionless. She walked to the wardrobe, looked around, and finally grabbed a white dress and headed to the bathroom.

Click.

The bathroom was steamy, and He Lingling started sweating as soon as she entered.

She frowned, wiped her sweat, and looked around.

The washroom was small, containing only a simple shower, a small half-length mirror, and a washbasin.

It is indeed quite clean.

The temperature is a bit strangely high.

Apart from the temperature, He Lingling noticed nothing else was wrong and went to the shower to prepare for a bath.

As soon as she turned on the switch to test the water temperature, her expression suddenly changed.

He Lingling, her face flushed, was terrified as she quickly turned the showerhead to spray water to the other side.

A few drops of water splashed onto her arm, the scalding water making the skin on her arm ache slightly.

He Lingling was so shocked that her hands were trembling.

The water spraying from this showerhead is actually boiling hot water?!

inside the room.

Sun Qin glanced at Wu Huimin, who was slowly drying her hair, then cautiously approached Shi Yuan and whispered:

"Um, tonight—"

"Oh, that's right."

Sun Qin's voice was suddenly interrupted by Wu Huimin.

Wu Huimin tossed her hair back and looked at them with a smile.

Who's sleeping with me tonight?