Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 168 is a dead end for some players.

Putting everything else aside, Lin Feng's biggest concern was whether rebuilding the ancestral hall would make the players' situation even more dangerous.

Yu Shijiu seriously considered Lin Feng's concerns for quite a while.

"Probably, maybe."

Yu Shijiu said.

Lin Feng: "..."

That's why she was thinking, what if the game's difficulty suddenly increases...?

Yu Shijiu was still swinging the wooden board in his hand. On the sharp surface of the board was a—no, half an earthworm’s body, which was struggling desperately to break free.

“But not necessarily,” Yu Shijiu said with a smile, “What if it becomes simpler?”

Lin Feng's gaze was involuntarily drawn to the earthworms on the wooden board in his hand, and her lips twitched upon hearing this.

"will not."

Game dungeons may become more difficult, but they will never become easier.

This is the experience Lin Feng gained from clearing countless dungeons.

Although experience might not be a significant advantage for a player with exceptional talent, Lin Feng still earnestly explained the characteristics of the Dawn game to Yu Shijiu.

"The purpose of Dawn Games is to help us survive under harsh conditions. If the game's dungeons are severely unbalanced, it will likely increase the difficulty of clearing them."

The core conditions for passing the game will remain the same, but the things you encounter along the way may change.

For example... a player whose aggressiveness is so extreme that even monsters can't help but feel fear.

At this point, Lin Feng fell silent.

She probably, maybe, perhaps understood why the game made the old man rebuild the ancestral hall...

Otherwise, how could an ancestral hall be rebuilt overnight?

Even if the souls of those elderly people are those of young people, it won't work.

...Young people are even worse; they have absolutely no experience in building houses, even though game scenarios can't be viewed through the lens of real-world thinking.

Yu Shijiu, the "culprit," blinked blankly and asked:

"anything else?"

"...What else do you want?" Lin Feng, having figured out the reason, felt somewhat helpless. She wiped the water from her face again and said in a hoarse voice:

"The question now is whether we should stop the elderly from rebuilding the ancestral hall."

"it's useless."

Yu Shijiu shook his head decisively: "If it's really as you say, and Dawn Games will forcibly make the game dungeons more difficult, then our actions to stop the reconstruction of the ancestral hall will seem ridiculous."

"But not necessarily. We still have many players on our side. Maybe if we can stop them, we can even clear the game without going through the sacrifice process..."

"As long as the time comes, that's fine, isn't it?"

Perhaps because she overused her innate skills, this was the first time Lin Feng had such a simple, even foolish, idea.

Even Lin Feng himself couldn't believe that he could utter such a sentence, which was almost like a "prayer".

“Sister,” Yu Shijiu appeared calm, a slightly sweet smile still on his face, his lips slightly parted:

"Do you believe it yourself?"

"..." Lin Feng lowered her head dejectedly, raindrops dripping onto the umbrella as if they would never stop.

She turned her head to avoid Yu Shijiu's gaze, looked at the increasingly heavy rain around her, and took a deep breath:

"Sorry," Lin Feng said, pressing her aching temples, her voice hoarse, "Just pretend I was crazy just now."

Yu Shijiu glanced at her, remaining skeptical.

If he says he's crazy just for saying one sentence, then what would he be like if he were like that?

"It's fine."

Yu Shijiu stood up and handed the wooden board in his hand to Lin Feng. The half-earthworm that was still wriggling almost managed to struggle for a moment, but Yu Shijiu slapped it against the wall.

puff-

A faint sound came from nearby, and Lin Feng's eyelids twitched.

"Sister, you might not believe it, but this earthworm..."

Yu Shijiu slowly retracted the wooden board. He looked down at the mangled, scarlet earthworm corpses on the board and said with a smile:

"It has a human face on its other head."

Lin Feng's pupils contracted sharply. She instinctively reached for the wooden board in Yu Shijiu's hand, but then heard Yu Shijiu continue speaking:

"By the way, I suggest you go back and dig around the dirt by the door too, you might see something there—"

boom!

Suddenly, the sound of something falling to the ground came from inside the room. Yu Shijiu subconsciously turned around and met the eyes of Feifei, who looked guilty.

Feifei jumped to the ground somewhat guiltily, picked up the fallen photo frame and was about to put it on the table (its tail had accidentally brushed against the frame when it rolled over), when Yu Shijiu suddenly stopped it.

"and many more--"

Yu Shijiu called out, "Feifei, bring the photo frame over here so I can take a look."

"Meow?"

Fatty looked up at him, somewhat bewildered, then hesitated before picking up the photo frame and heading toward Yu Shijiu.

Yu Shijiu held the photo frame in his hand. The beautiful girl in the photo smiled shyly at the camera, her eyes full of clarity.

"This is?"

Lin Feng asked in confusion, then suddenly looked up as if she had just remembered something:

"Could it be that the human face you saw on the earthworm's head just now was her?"

Yu Shijiu nodded silently, "It's her."

Is it really Yang Wan?!

Lin Feng's already throbbing head suddenly became muddled. Looking at the photo frame in Yu Shijiu's hand, she murmured:

"What's going on... Could it be that those earthworms we're about to eat are actually...?"

Overwhelmed by the horrifying speculation, Lin Feng was momentarily at a loss for words.

"It is a connection that allows us to perfectly replace the elderly."

Yu Shijiu picked up the conversation, lowering his eyes to conceal the excitement within, and smiled:

"So that's how it is. We started by investigating everything from where we slept to where we ate, and all sorts of things that might confuse us with earthworms..."

Yu Shijiu: "In just three days, as long as we can successfully make the earthworms mistake us for someone else, Yang Wan and the others can escape Changsheng Village perfectly."

In the end, Yu Shijiu couldn't help but sigh, "It's really quite interesting."

Lin Feng's face was as white as a sheet of paper, and raindrops were still dripping down her face, chilling her to the bone.

"That's why Anli's skin was transformed so quickly because she felt pity for the strange old man..."

She closed her eyes as she thought of Anli's old skin, which almost extended to the upper part of her chest.

It shouldn't be just Amway.

Most players will choose to temporarily obey the monster's orders.

On the first day, they might be wary and refuse to eat or drink, but they will be put to sleep in the room where the eerie old man used to live. At night, after the players fall into a deep sleep, earthworms that crawl out from the cracks in the ground will wriggle onto the bed and suck their blood, achieving the same effect of body transformation...

On the second day, most players, finding themselves unable to eat the food they had prepared, opted to eat the food brought by the eerie old man.

The food on the first day was normal, but the food on the second day... was not normal.

This is an inevitable dead end.