Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 207 Talent Skills, can't they be activated?

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Xu Han's questioning voice interrupted Yu Shijiu's thoughts. He looked up blankly and met Xu Han's gaze. He saw Xu Han reach out and touch his forehead with a worried expression.

"Did the spiciness make you stupid?"

Yu Shijiu: "..."

He subconsciously bit his lip, dodging Xu Han's outstretched hand again.

"nothing."

Yu Shijiu patted his slightly throbbing head as he spoke, and smiled:

"I just thought of something very strange."

Xu Han's eyes lit up. He was about to ask Yu Shijiu what she was thinking when he suddenly pinched his thigh.

This is clearly a case of someone not wanting to talk! What's wrong with me?!

Xu Han, who had silently berated himself several times, carefully considered his words before slowly picking up a bag of potato chips and tearing open the packaging.

"Um." Xu Han glanced at Yu Shijiu, who was already focused on the big screen, and coughed discreetly.

"Ok?"

Yu Shijiu seemed to have completely forgotten the brief memory in her mind just now, and turned her head to look at Xu Han with a puzzled expression.

"That, I mean that big cake," Xu Han said, looking down a little embarrassed, her hand fidgeting with the bag of potato chips.

"It's not that I don't want to buy it for you, it's just that I'm really, really poor right now..."

After saying this, Xu Han's face stiffened, then he retorted in a defiant manner:

"Okay, actually I'm just a newbie player who's been supported by Sister An and Brother Chen. All that I said at the beginning was just bragging!"

Having finished speaking, Xu Han finally breathed a sigh of relief. He raised his eyelids and looked at Yu Shijiu beside him, saying with some worry:

"Won't you be angry?"

...Speaking of which, most people would feel disgusted or even hate "braggarts", right?

Xu Han suddenly felt a little worried that Yu Shijiu would hate him.

"Angry?" Yu Shijiu was genuinely bewildered this time. He blinked and subconsciously said:

"Do I need to be angry?"

"..."

Xu Han was stunned. He exclaimed, "Huh?"

"Do I need to be angry?"

Yu Shijiu repeated what he had just said earnestly, even saying it quite seriously:

"If you think I have a right to be angry, then it's not like I can't be angry for a while?"

“No, no, no, no—”

Xu Han quickly interrupted Yu Shijiu and said urgently:

"I absolutely didn't mean that! I was just thinking it myself! Wouldn't it be better if you weren't angry? Getting angry makes you age faster. Let's just enjoy our snacks happily!"

Yu Shijiu was a little confused by his series of changes. She just lowered her head and took another bite of the spicy strip, and her eyes immediately welled up with tears from the spiciness.

Xu Han: "..."

He looked away from Yu Shijiu's eyes, which were watering from the spiciness, and turned to look at the large screen opposite them.

"what?"

Xu Han, who had been lost in thought about whether or not he should apologize, finally snapped out of it. Looking at the silent live stream on the big screen, he picked up the remote control on the table and pressed it a few times, somewhat puzzled.

"Why isn't the sound on? How can you enjoy watching it like this?"

Yu Shijiu glanced at his hand pressing the remote control, then silently lowered her eyes.

"Oh, forgot."

Yu Shijiu said.

"what?"

Xu Han was amused. He laughed, got up, grabbed a disposable cup, sat down again, and unscrewed the cap of the juice bottle amidst the screams of the players broadcasting live on the big screen.

wow——

The sound of juice being poured into a glass of water filled the air, and the slightly sweet aroma of the orange-yellow juice filled Yu Shijiu's breath, causing him to subconsciously look at the glass in front of him that had just been filled with juice.

"Here."

Xu Han, oblivious to his gaze, handed the juice directly to Yu Shijiu and smiled:

"Drinking some fruit juice to relieve the spiciness is very effective."

Yu Shijiu didn't speak. With tears in his eyes, he took the juice, lowered his head, and took a sip. The sweet and sour orange juice washed away the spiciness, and he blinked quickly.

Mmm, it tastes great.

"Thank you."

Yu Shijiu smiled and licked the juice residue around his lips, tilting his head and thanking her happily.

"What are you thanking me for?" Xu Han coughed a little awkwardly and said:

"You'll be the youngest in our team from now on, so as the older brother, I definitely have to take good care of you!"

"..."

Yu Shijiu paused slightly in the hand holding the cup.

Younger brother? To cherish?

Yu Shijiu's eyes were somewhat hazy.

How long has it been since I last heard those two words? Probably many, many years.

"These people are performing terribly," Xu Han muttered, picking up the remote control again and pressing it several times before suddenly slamming his hand on the table as if he had just remembered something.

Yu Shijiu: "..."

He didn't quite understand why Xu Han was suddenly so agitated, and looked down at the other person's hand that was slapping on the table with a blank expression.

"Yes, yes, He Lingling has entered the game instance too. Let's see how she performs!"

As if he had thought of something funny, Xu Han chuckled several times, quickly changed the channel, and the screen finally froze on the scene where He Lingling's pupils were completely black.

"What the hell?!"

Xu Han was startled. He looked at He Lingling's obviously distorted eyes on the big screen, picked up the cushion next to him and hugged it to his chest.

"What kind of game instance is this? He Lingling has activated her talent skill again?"

Although he had witnessed the eerie scene after He Lingling activated her talent skill, Xu Han still felt a little scared when he saw this scene again.

"?"

Yu Shijiu looked up blankly at He Lingling on the big screen, whose eyes had turned completely black, and said:

"Can't talent skills be activated at any time?"

Xu Han choked for a moment, then turned his head in surprise:

"You do not know?"

Yu Shijiu didn't know?

Yu Shijiu continued, looking bewildered, "What should I know?"

Since activating his talent skill, he knew he could overdraw his remaining stamina to increase his attack power, and he cleared the next two game dungeons with a destructive mindset.

This includes the duel inside the ancestral hall and the one involving the human-headed earthworm.

It's not that there aren't better, gentler ways; it's just that Yu Shijiu himself wanted to activate his talent skill to duel, that's all.

Xu Han paused for a few seconds, then sighed, thinking that Yu Shijiu had not yet agreed to any association's offer of recruitment.

"It's not something that can't be said."

Xu Han said, "Strictly speaking, it's not that you can't keep it on all the time, but this thing is harmful to your health!"

"As things stand, apart from healing-type talent skills, both offensive and support-type talent skills will have some negative effects on the body to some extent."

"Confusion and mental pollution are minor issues. The most serious consequence is that if you are without teammates and become exhausted after activating your talent skill, and the game's dungeon boss still has the strength to fight back... then you are truly doomed."

The thought that he might one day die in some game instance made Xu Han shudder.

Damn, he felt he was still quite young and didn't really want to die.