Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 179 Earthworm Puppet

Puff——

That's the sound of an earthworm being trampled.

Yu Shijiu crushed countless earthworms along the way, finally stopping in front of Yang Wan.

"it is good."

Yang Wan's smile grew wider and wider. She looked at Yu Shijiu, who was standing quietly in front of her, and with trembling, blood-stained hand, she touched the other's brow.

When Yang Wan pressed the blood droplet, which smelled of blood, onto Yu Shijiu's forehead, his mind went blank for several seconds.

In an instant, countless densely packed earthworm larvae seemed to appear in his mind at the same time, roaring and wriggling, trying to invade his mental realm.

Yu Shijiu, who was somewhat dazed at the moment: "...?"

Is this an illusion?

The next second, in the hallucination, Yu Shijiu, holding a machete, ran wildly towards the earthworm larvae that were swarming towards him.

In reality, Liu Laosan looked at Yu Shijiu, who stood motionless and expressionless, and smiled as he looked at the other elderly people.

"Yang Wan's guests are ready, are you?"

The other elderly people rushed frantically to the bowl in Liu Laosan's hand, each putting a drop in it before heading towards the location where the players were gathered.

The players who were surrounded at this moment: "..."

If yesterday, when they saw all the dead face-shaped earthworms in the guesthouse, they still felt lucky that they had been chosen by the old man and escaped with their lives... then now, they wish they hadn't been chosen by the old man at all.

After Anli explained the "substitute" overnight, most players understood the process of today's sacrifice ceremony.

According to the plot, the next step is for the elderly to leave Changsheng Village, leaving the chosen players behind... and then becoming the next batch of elderly people who desperately want to escape Changsheng Village.

Such a plot is even more terrifying than direct death.

After all, no one knows whether the elderly can escape Changsheng Village.

They are players, so they know even less.

As the elders drew closer, Anli steadied some players who wanted to escape or resist, and said urgently:

"Don't resist, we don't yet know what will happen if we resist—"

Faced with the fear of possible death, some players stopped obeying.

Some players displayed their talents and skills to fight the elderly who had chosen them, while others used their most powerful items to desperately prevent the elderly from getting close.

"Don't do it!"

"They're not human anymore! It's not as simple as just killing them!"

Seeing this, Anli's eyes widened in horror, and she tried to stop them, but she couldn't control the fear in everyone's hearts.

In an instant, the bodies of some of the elderly were shredded into a pulp by countless skills and items. After a brief silence of a few seconds, before the players who had attacked could even catch their breath, they were quickly reborn into bizarre and disgusting forms, drooping their bodies and reaching out to touch their "guests".

"Aaaaaah! Don't come any closer! Don't come any closer!"

"Roll, roll!!! Monster, monster, monster!!!"

"Why can't I kill him?! How can he not be killed?!"

"..."

Several players who were about to attack were grabbed by the old man with a distorted face, and they let out heart-wrenching screams.

Anli and the other players watched, their faces pale, as the old men tore off the arms or legs of the players who had attacked them, and finally forced them to swallow bloodied fingers.

Yes, swallow it.

Instead of being gently touched on the forehead like Yu Shijiu.

Some players who were hesitant and about to make a move were instantly frightened into not daring to move.

They watched as players with broken arms and legs swallowed bloodied fingers and became numb, then new "limbs" sprouted from the broken ends.

These are the "limbs" of an earthworm.

At this moment, no one dared to hide or fight anymore.

Those players who had been quietly waiting for the old man to approach finally understood why the game system had suddenly spoken.

In order to reduce casualties and increase their survival rate.

This is a rare instance of "kindness" from the game system.

"So...we're just going to wait like this?"

Huang Hao was so frightened that he trembled all over. He stood behind An Li, and his outstretched arm was covered with dense wrinkles and age spots.

Unaware of anything amiss, he grabbed Anli and pleaded for help: "Save me, save me, I don't want to, I don't want to die!"

Anli closed her eyes briefly; her face still bore the blood splattered from when the old man had broken the arm of the player next to her.

"...I can't even save myself."

As an ordinary player who hasn't even activated any talent skills, Anli's ability to offer a verbal reminder was already the limit of what she could do.

"If you listen to me, you won't suffer."

The approaching old lady smiled, her face etched with deep wrinkles yet occasionally revealing glimpses of youthful vibrancy. She drew near to Anli and spoke gently:

"Lili, listen to me, be a good girl and don't move, okay..."

As the cold blood dripped from the old woman's fingertips onto her brow, An Li's anxious and sorrowful expression suddenly froze, gradually transforming into the same expressionless, numb, and empty look as Yu Shijiu.

Huang Hao, who was standing nearby, also saw the old man getting closer and closer. He wanted to dodge, but he was afraid of suffering an even stronger backlash, so he could only tremble as he accepted the drops of blood that the old man pressed against him.

Having witnessed the horrific aftermath of the attack, none of the remaining players dared to utter a sound. They quietly and obediently bowed their heads, allowing the elder who had chosen them to apply the "blood mark" to their bodies.

After all the elderly people had left their marks, Liu Laosan, who was watching from the sidelines, chuckled again.

"Now, let us welcome our God with the utmost devotion!"

As Liu Laosan shouted wildly, the entire ancestral hall, made up of earthworms, suddenly shook. Countless earthworms opened their mouthparts and hissed, creating a deafening sound.

At the same time, the memorial tablets made of earthworms began to tremble, as if something was slowly awakening from underground.

"Hiss hiss hiss hiss—"

When the giant earthworm with a woman's head slowly emerged from the empty soil behind the memorial tablet, Liu Laosan's cloudy pupils widened with joy.

"Gods! Please bless me! May I live forever!"

The other elderly people also turned their heads to look at the earthworm-headed human head that was slowly opening its eyes, their gazes empty and trembling.

The earthworms in their eyes were trembling.

No one (the eerie creature) noticed that Yu Shijiu, who was the first to have blood dripped onto his face in the corner, was having his pupils swirling violently.

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"vomit--"

Lin Feng was hit on the head when she was thrown into the cellar, and she was in a daze for a while before she finally came to her senses.

She groped her way to her seat in the darkness, looking around warily.

The cellar smelled terrible.

She could even smell the stench of human excrement, and even more so, the earthy smell of the sticky liquid from earthworms.

Lin Feng coughed, took out a light source from his backpack, and fumbled to press the switch.