Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 296 White Figure?

late at night.

As the sound of thunder echoed through the dark gray night, the players in each room huddled together nervously, whispering amongst themselves.

"Why haven't any monsters appeared yet..."

Some players were terrified, but still couldn't help but say something.

"...What kind of talk is that?"

His roommate was so angry he wanted to hit him, but he held back: "Isn't it better that no monsters have come out? It means we're safe!"

“…I know,” the previous player sighed, “I just find this feeling of trepidation more frightening.”

No one knows when the monster will emerge to kill, or if they will be the "lucky ones" who get marked... although, as things stand, it seems all players have been marked...

Damn it, could they really be that unlucky?

The thought that this might be the first room visited by a ghost sent chills down their spines.

"Probably not..."

Another player prayed softly, "I've never done anything wrong in my life, and I haven't done anything bad to my companions since I came to Dawn of the Game. I hope I'm not the first one to encounter this..."

"..."

The other player in the room didn't say anything, but just looked warily at the seemingly normal surroundings, clenching his teeth and remaining motionless.

Now that things have come to this, whether they were the first to be chosen or not, they have no choice but to accept it.

The same situation occurred repeatedly in almost all the rooms.

Whether they are seasoned players or ordinary players who are clearly not very skilled, they all find the "Madam" who is currently invisible and intangible and whose appearance is unknown at any time to be troublesome.

He Lingling remained standing motionless by the window, facing the window that she had tightly closed with the curtains drawn, so there was nothing strange to be seen.

Xu Han felt a chill on the bed behind him, so he huddled up in bed with only his head sticking out, hugging the blanket.

"How's it going? Is that thing still at the villa's entrance?"

Even without going downstairs to see it up close, the two of them still saw and heard quite a lot.

He Lingling paused, her hand still holding the curtains. "Let's go."

The distorted white figure at the villa's entrance quickly left when it couldn't open the gate.

"They're gone? That's good, otherwise it would have been quite frightening," Xu Han breathed a sigh of relief, but then a chill ran down his spine again:

"Wait, what if it suddenly comes back tonight? Oh my god! Having a dead 'lady' is scary enough, but if a white-clad ghost whose face I didn't even see comes along, it'll be even more terrifying..."

Compared to Xu Han's incessant nagging, He Lingling's brows were practically knitted into a tight knot—

"uncertain."

He Lingling suddenly spoke up, interrupting Xu Han's muttering to himself.

"?"

Xu Han was stunned for a moment, "What? Not necessarily?"

"...It's not necessarily two."

He Lingling was considering whether to draw back the curtains and take a peek when she heard this and whispered:

"I suspect the strange creature that was chasing them earlier might be 'Madam'."

"..."

Upon hearing this, Xu Han immediately bristled.

"What? How is that possible?!" Xu Han's eyes widened, not even noticing that the blanket he had been pulling tighter around him had loosened.

"The 'Madam' should be a ghost inside the villa, how could she have entered from outside—"

The sound stopped suddenly.

Xu Han's not-so-bright mind seemed to have thought of something, and the words he hadn't finished were swallowed back down his throat.

"You noticed it too, didn't you?"

He Lingling pursed her lips, the sound of her heart pounding echoing in her ears.

"The white figure by the flowerbed should be wearing a white dress, but I looked very carefully just now. Rather than saying that the figure was wearing a white dress, it's more accurate to say that the tattered dress was a very pale sky blue... just because of the lighting and the dirt."

As He Lingling finished speaking, her voice became a little hoarse, "Its torn dress was very dirty, which is why it looked white."

Based on the current storyline, among the known NPCs, only the "Madam" wore a light blue dress before her death.

There is a 90% chance that the white figure in the flowerbed is "Madam".

Xu Han was stunned.

A few seconds later, he swallowed hard and whispered his question:

"If the lady outside really is dead... then how will she get in?"

He Lingling fell silent.

That's what she was thinking just now.

The villa gate is designed to prevent anything resembling "Madam" from entering... So, will they really encounter the monster formed from the "Madam's" death and transformation tonight?

I feel there's a contradiction somewhere.

He Lingling also had a headache.

At that moment, Xu Han suddenly said, as if he had lost his mind:

"Um, I was thinking..."

He Lingling frowned: "What are you stammering about? Say what you have to say!"

"..." Xu Han silently considered his words and whispered:

"I'm wondering if I should open the curtains again and take another look?"

"..."

An inexplicable sense of danger made He Lingling instinctively want to refuse, and she gripped the curtains tightly.

"No."

He Lingling resolutely refused: "If you drag us along, we might not be able to stay peacefully until dawn tonight."

Xu Han: "..."

He didn't insist, but just sighed and silently wrapped the blanket tighter around himself.

He Lingling must be saying this because of her innate skill. Xu Han isn't stupid enough to insist on drawing the curtains... He still doesn't want to die so quickly.

Better to die than live.

"never mind."

He Lingling realized that opening the curtains might yield some clues, but she still didn't have the courage to continue courting death despite the warning from "Ghost Eye".

"Close your eyes and rest first," He Lingling whispered quickly.

"But be careful not to actually fall asleep."

Before Xu Han could reply, He Lingling added another sentence.

"Put your shoes on before you sleep. Don't worry about hygiene at a time like this. You might as well not even survive."

Xu Han: "..."

Without the slightest hesitation, Xu Han threw off the blanket, jumped out of bed, and started putting on her shoes.

He felt that He Lingling's words made a lot of sense!

I'm sorry, Mom, I've let you down since I was little!

After putting on his shoes and lying down, Xu Han silently admitted his mistake in his heart for a minute before closing his eyes.

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Yu Shijiu naturally heard the commotion that Liu Yao and Wang Han made downstairs.

Compared to other people in the room who at most dared to peek through a corner of the curtains, Yu Shijiu was simply "outrageously bold".

He pulled back the curtains and opened the window, sticking his head out to watch the thrilling chase unfolding downstairs.

Of course, opening the window inevitably meant catching the thick stem and leaves whose rosebuds had been crushed.

The thorns on the stems and leaves gleamed sharply in the dim light, and the bare tips, devoid of petals, looked like headless necks... It was somewhat horrifying.

Unfortunately, it grew in the wrong place.

Yu Shijiu dismissed him, thinking he was interrupting his show.