Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 991 Bloodline

The little girl's body was completely twisted.

Large patches of murky blood seeped from the once pristine white dress, and crisscrossing knife wounds on her skin writhed like centipedes, blurring the features of her pale face.

But her dark eyes remained fixed on Yu Shijiu.

"It hurts...it hurts so much, brother...it hurts so much..."

The little girl's cries had turned into a broken wail.

"Why...why didn't anyone save me..."

"Why...why do you have to watch me die..."

"You...you are all bad people...you are all bad people...you are all...you are all bad people who would stand by and watch someone die!!!"

The moment the last scream escaped her lips, the little girl's body suddenly swelled up.

The blood seeping from her lacerated body transformed into countless crimson threads, spreading outwards like living things.

Wherever the bloodline reached, the surging, twisting figures of the tourists froze, then collapsed to the ground as if all their skeletal support had been removed.

Some tourists who were halfway up the cliff even fell straight down from mid-air with a "bang".

A series of terrified screams erupted from below, but the screams quickly subsided, replaced by joyful laughter.

And the tourists on the Ferris wheel... even now, their faces still bear that twisted, stiff smile.

"She's out of control..."

Cold sweat beaded on Chen Yi's forehead. "We have to find a way to get down there."

Yu Shijiu behind him suddenly took a step forward.

"Shi Jiu!"

Chen Yi's pupils contracted slightly, and he instinctively tried to grab him, but it was too late.

Yu Shijiu had already stepped into the constantly shaking cockpit, squatted down, and stared into the eyes of the completely deformed, twisted "little girl" inside.

Only he knew that the faint red marks on the inside of his left arm were now flashing intensely red, their frequency almost perfectly synchronized with the fluctuations of the blood lines on the little girl's body.

"What are you thinking?"

Yu Shijiu's voice was very soft, so soft that it was almost drowned out by the surrounding noise and commotion.

"You're just... in pain, right?"

The little girl's contorted body shuddered violently.

The rampant spread of blood around them stopped almost the instant Yu Shijiu uttered those words.

"You waited for a very, very long time for your mother to come back and pick you up."

Yu Shijiu continued, his voice still very soft, as if he were chatting with a little girl, with even a hint of sadness on his face.

"But she didn't come back."

"You're all here alone, your body aches, you're scared... and you're so lonely."

The little girl's body trembled, and the red glow emanating from her body began to flicker.

"elder brother……"

The little girl's voice returned to its childish, aggrieved hoarseness.

"Brother...how did you know...could it be...could it be that you...you've also experienced pain?"

Yu Shijiu remained silent for a few seconds.

He raised his left hand and looked at the faint red marks on the inside of his arm.

"Ah."

He pursed his lips slightly and responded softly.

"I've been through the pain."

"It hurts so much."

The endless darkness in the little girl's eyes seemed to flicker.

"Then...how did you...how did you stop feeling pain?"

She asked.

Yu Shijiu thought for a moment.

"I remember someone was always with me."

He said it somewhat uncertainly.

"Someone keeps me company, eats with me, and... keeps me company in life."

“Although my heart still aches sometimes,” Yu Shijiu touched his chest, “but having someone with me… makes it seem less painful.”

The little girl's tears started flowing again.

But this time, the tears weren't blood-red; they were transparent and glistening.

They are ordinary, transparent teardrops.

"Will the pain be relieved if someone is with me?"

She asked in a murmur.

"Ah."

Yu Shijiu nodded.

"It won't hurt so much if someone is with me."

The little girl stared at him for several seconds, and the spreading lines of blood began to slowly shrink back into her twisted and deformed body.

The tourists who kept coming in also stopped moving forward as the bloodline contracted, as if a pause button had been pressed.

"But……"

The little girl looked down at her hands and body, which were covered in scars.

"But no one is with me."

"My mom doesn't want me anymore."

"My only mother... my only mother doesn't want me anymore..."

"Nobody... nobody wants me..."

"..."

Her voice grew softer and softer until it was almost inaudible.

Yu Shijiu extended his hand.

It's not the left hand, it's the right hand.

It was that right hand, without any red marks, that belonged entirely to a human.

Yu Shijiu raised his hand and gently touched the little girl's tear-streaked face.

Cold.

But it does feel like real skin.

I see you.

Yu Shijiu said.

"I am here."

The little girl, who had been talking to herself, suddenly looked up.

At this moment, Yu Shijiu's image was completely reflected in those large, dark eyes.

and also……

Chen Yi was standing behind him.

Not far away at the end of the passage, An Jie, He Lingling, and Xu Han were rushing towards this side.

"you……"

The little girl murmured.

"You all...can you see me?"

"I saw it."

Ange had already rushed over, her hand gripping the short blade tightly, but when her gaze fell on the little girl, her tone softened.

"We can all see you."

He Lingling also arrived, her huge black eyes fixed on the little girl.

But this time, the activated "Ghost Eyes" sensed no hostility, only an overwhelming, heartbreaking sadness.

Xu Han followed at the back, his face pale and his legs weak, but he still forced himself to squeeze to the front.

"I...I saw you too!"

He said, trembling.

"Please, please stop crying. If you keep crying, I'll start crying too..."

Xu Han really wanted to cry. Heaven knows that his hands and feet were weak when he climbed up this narrow passage, and he couldn't muster any strength at all.

Good heavens! He's afraid of heights?!