Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 304 Crushing the Monster

"嘤——"

The baby's eerie cries in the bedroom were extremely pitiful, as if the child had suffered countless forms of abuse.

Yu Shijiu squatted down in front of it with a headache, poking its strangely large, bluish-purple head with his index finger.

The baby monster was poked and fell backward.

Bang.

Its head made "friendly" contact with the wall behind it.

The baby's eerie cries paused: "..."

Yu Shijiu: "..."

Yu Shijiu subconsciously withdrew his index finger, pretending nothing had happened:

"What was the sound just now?"

The boy cleared his throat softly, glanced back at the tightly closed window, and said with an air of seriousness:

"I feel like that head just hit the glass again, don't you think, darling?"

The infant's eerie gaze was fixed on him, its large, bluish-purple head revealing a fleshy umbilical cord that seemed ready to spring forth—

Click.

Yu Shijiu casually moved the large scissors in his hand, watching them with a smile.

The baby monster: "..."

It was silent for a few seconds, then raised its underdeveloped hand to hold the back of its large head, and cried out sharply again.

"Eek—!!!"

Yu Shijiu hissed in pain again, and before he could stop, he pressed down hard on the umbilical cord that was growing from the other person's belly button, and then pinched his own throbbing brow.

"Why are you crying? I didn't really hit you."

As Yu Shijiu spoke, he stood up, stomped his slightly numb feet, and reached out to touch the baby's strange, smooth, bluish-purple head.

"Didn't I say I'd take you to find your mother? But you refused, and insisted on crying and making me cut your umbilical cord. Is it my fault? No, it's not."

As Yu Shijiu spoke, he reached out to pull the baby's arm. The baby whimpered and shrank back, its body almost pressed against the wall, becoming as small as a pancake.

"..."

This situation is not quite right.

Yu Shijiu thought about it carefully and suspected that his "kind" action of cutting the umbilical cord had hurt its fragile and tender heart, which was why it didn't want him to touch it.

this is not good.

Yu Shijiu made his conclusion.

Just as he was about to forcibly pry open the baby monster, there was a knock on the door.

Boom boom boom!

The knocking broke the eerie cries of the infant inside the room and Yu Shijiu's outstretched hand, which seemed ready to pounce.

The baby monster leaned against the wall, its soft, bluish-purple head limp and flat against the wall, forming an eerie shape that looked strange and creepy.

—If you ignore the fear revealed in its dark eyes.

The players watching from outside the screen were almost numb with boredom.

They fell silent when they saw Yu Shijiu recklessly trying to capture the infant monster.

Most players, when surrounded by monsters, would either fight back and kill them, or at the very least, run away if they were unable to do so... But Yu Shijiu insisted on teasing the monsters, even saying he would take them to find their mothers?

Dude, this is some kind of monster that could kill you at any moment! It's not like the tadpoles in the textbook are looking for their mother! How can you give it a chance to breathe (not entirely accurate; some monsters don't actually have a respiratory tract)?!

They wished they could directly possess Yu Shijiu and cut the infant monster in half with a pair of scissors!

But the truth is, they can only rage helplessly from behind their screens—no, they can only whine helplessly.

Yu Shijiu had no idea what the players outside the screen were thinking. He stood there for a moment, thought about it, and then turned and walked towards the door.

Behind him, the eerie baby-shaped figure, resembling a small pancake, pressed against the wall, flashed its eyes, and a sinister resentment seeped out with each movement of its eyeballs.

The player who witnessed this scene suddenly stood up and roared:

"See! I told you this thing would definitely kill someone if it got the chance! Look at this—"

His voice disappeared.

On the huge, cold-toned screen in the town square, a grotesque infant spirit, its umbilical cord cut to about a meter long and now only a few inches long, jutted out in the darkness, seemingly about to stab Yu Shijiu in the back—

Click.

The large scissors gleamed with a sharp, cold light under the moonlight, their edges still smeared with yellowish-green mucus and bits of umbilical cord.

Yu Shijiu turned around, her still somewhat childish face smiling slightly, a small gray dimple appearing on the side of her cheek.

"Be good, okay?"

Yu Shijiu said, "You don't want to see how sharp my big scissors are again, do you?"

The baby monster: "..."

The fleshy umbilical cord behind it, poised to strike, fell weakly to the ground with a thud, like a dying fleshy snake slowly wriggling beside it.

"..."

The excited player who stood up was tugged at the arm by the person next to him.

"Alright," the person next to him sighed, shaking his head, "See?"

"Even if the ghosts and monsters wanted to resist," the person next to him stammered for a second, then quickly corrected himself:

"Cough, it's the thought of actually killing someone, but the absolute courage to do so."

The excited player who stood up: "..."

He stared dumbfounded at the bizarre infant on the screen, who was "miserably" retracting his umbilical cord and hands, and slowly, very slowly, he plopped back down in his seat.

"...That's outrageous."

The player forcefully wiped away imaginary cold sweat from his face, his lips twitching:

"In all these years, I've never seen a player push a monster to this extent..."

Dawn of the Games isn't exactly a pure horror game; it seems to pay a lot of attention to the tragic backstories of every NPC and the strange creatures within its dungeons. The core principles for completing the game largely lean towards "positive energy"... of course, this "positive energy" can't be judged by real-world standards.

In some cases, those bizarre NPCs with tragic backstories will not actively harm people in the early stages—this is what Dawn Games believes.

In fact, regardless of whether the monsters in the game instance were good or bad in life, once they are completely transformed into monsters and the player crosses the boundaries they have set, the player will be marked by the monsters—until the target dies.

Of course, there are exceptions. For example, it's not uncommon for monsters like Yu Shijiu to directly crush their targets. At least in their town, some players on the leaderboard can do the same.

But the premise is that those players are already well-known, or even veteran players who have been playing dungeons for many years.

In terms of experience, Yu Shijiu is just a "newcomer" who has barely stepped into the ranks of veteran players.

"..."

Countless small screens in the square emitted countless black and white images of players being captured by monsters and screaming in agony. As usual, the owners of those screaming images made the players watching in front of the screens lose interest and look away.

"...It seems he will definitely participate in the points-based competition."

One player took out a cheap cigarette, lit it, and coughed as he exhaled murky smoke rings.

Even knowing that many people will die, I still feel a little excited...