Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 831 Will not give up

Just as He Lingling was about to turn around and check the situation while Thumbelina was entertaining herself, Thumbelina suddenly stopped spinning.

He Lingling froze as she turned her head, then awkwardly turned it back.

"correct."

As if oblivious to her guilty actions, Thumbelina stood still, patted her face, and then nervously glanced at the setting sun, muttering to herself:

"I'm going to sing! I'm going to make friends with all those cute and kind animals..."

He Lingling was secretly delighted. "Yes, it would be best to sing while crying—"

"Lovely fish... kind birds... where are you? Have you heard my song? I hope, I hope someone will come to my rescue in my dreams..."

Thumbelina's mournful song drifted out from the lotus flower, and in that instant, the countless monsters that had appeared froze in place—

Thump thump thump thump!

A series of heavy objects falling into the water rang in everyone's ears.

Yu Shijiu watched as the densely packed strange fish vanished into the pond in an instant, and the arm holding the axe trembled slightly.

Yes, because of the continuous and forceful swinging of the axe for a long time, his arm seemed to be starting to feel numb and painful.

The axe dripping with strange fish blood disappeared from Yu Shijiu's hand. He lowered his head and hissed. He didn't bother to wipe the blood off his hands. He gently pinched his numb and painful right arm and began to knead it quickly.

Unseen by anyone, the redness in Yu Shijiu's eyes slowly faded and soon disappeared.

Xiao Li, who hadn't appeared for a long time, watched Yu Shijiu rubbing his arm and scoffed:

Why not just activate your talent skill directly? Are you afraid that no one will help you after you activate it?

Yu Shijiu pretended not to hear its voice and slowly massaged his arm until it gradually regained sensation.

【Yu Shijiu!】

Xiao Li, feeling ignored, was furious, her voice becoming shrill: "You've gone too far! You keep pretending not to hear me! Do you know how precious I am? There are so few systems like me with self-awareness in the entire Dawn game!"

Yu Shijiu ignored him and continued kneading, only after a long while did she mentally reply to Xiao Li:

[Really? Such a precious Little Li System... There's something I really, really want to know. Can you tell me?]

Xiao Li immediately became alert: [Let's make this clear first, I can't give away any spoilers, nor can I interfere too much with the dungeon's plot. More importantly, I absolutely, positively will never gamble with you again!]

Xiao Li, who was scammed out of a huge amount of points last time, was kicking herself. She was an intelligent system with self-awareness! How could she be fooled by a player like Yu Shijiu?!

Every time Xiao Li thinks about this, she feels like she's about to have a stroke—if it really has a brain.

Yu Shijiu shook her head with a smile: "How could that be? Gambling isn't a good thing, you know. I don't gamble."

Xiao Li: [...So what do you want to ask?]

【Oh, it's very simple.】 Yu Shijiu patted his right arm, which was beginning to regain feeling, and looked up at Thumbelina, who was standing up in the center of the lotus flower, crying and singing with her face covered.

[I want to ask you, can the players watching the live stream hear our conversation?]

This was something Yu Shijiu had wanted to ask for a long time, but for various reasons, he had never asked.

Why are you asking this?

After a few seconds of silence, Xiao Li said, "Whether you can hear me or not, it poses no threat to you."

"How could that be?" Yu Shijiu licked her lips, her expression unchanged as she maintained her smile: "I don't like others seeing what I'm thinking. Of course, since you're in my mind, you're also a part of my body."

"...Then you're being far too greedy."

Xiao Li said speechlessly, "Don't worry, apart from the players outside the live stream who could occasionally hear this conversation at the beginning, they almost couldn't hear it anymore afterward."

"..."

Yu Shijiu's heart sank slightly. [So you could hear it before?]

Wouldn't that mean that outside players would know everything I'm thinking?

"It's just a little bit," Xiao Li responded quickly. "It doesn't involve your privacy, it's just that they could hear our conversations in the game instance and the conversation where you tricked me..."

Xiao Li was still a little indignant as she spoke: "After the Dawn game was upgraded, they couldn't hear anything anymore... Damn it, they should all hear what kind of despicable, shameless, and utterly deceitful person you are..."

Yu Shijiu selectively ignored Xiao Li's complaints, and the displeasure in his eyes slowly dissipated.

【That's great. 】

Yu Shijiu chuckled inwardly: [The upgraded game is so protective of player privacy? I love it!]

The incessantly chattering Xiao Li: [...]

Wait, weren't we talking about how you were afraid of being abandoned by your teammates and therefore didn't activate your talent skills?

Yu Shijiu: "That's not important."

Xiao Li: [Don't force yourself—]

I won't be abandoned.

Yu Shijiu smiled and replied, "Whether it's Sister An, Brother Chen, Brother Han, or Sister Lingling, they will never give up on me."