Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 819 Collapse

As it turns out, He Lingling's suspicions were quite well-founded.

As noon approached, the toads, who had disappeared for a day and a night, returned one by one under the blazing sun.

He Lingling's gaze fell on the toads, which differed slightly in height and weight, and she fell silent.

The game's character designs are quite realistic; the toads do indeed look almost identical.

So… He Lingling looked at those toads with mixed feelings. It was understandable that she had difficulty picking out her own toad from among them, wasn’t it?

"Are you looking for me?"

One of the plump toads suddenly jumped forward, and carrying a cloth bag woven from grass leaves on its back, it leaped onto the lotus flower where He Lingling was.

He Lingling almost lost her footing and had to take a step back to regain her balance.

"I didn't expect you to care about me so much."

The fat toad was so excited that it suddenly grinned and, under He Lingling's hesitant gaze, quickly tossed the grass bag on its back onto the flower stamen.

"Look! These are all the delicious things I found for you!"

After saying that, the toad quickly tore open the grass leaf bag, revealing writhing worms inside, as well as some wild fruits that smelled strange... and some soft, black things piled together.

"Humans seem to really enjoy eating all sorts of noodle products," the toad chuckled as it picked up the slimy, black stuff. "You must really love this stuff, right?"

He Lingling: "..."

She took another step back, warily eyeing the strange black goo in the toad's hand, and said with difficulty:

"This, what is this?"

"Bread."

The toad answered quickly, laughing as it grabbed the "bread" in its hand and excitedly said:

"You have no idea how hard it is to find these loaves of bread. My God, those humans always keep them in very, very tall cupboards. I spent so long trying to get them, and finally I managed to find them in the trash can."

"..."

He Lingling: "..."

Xu Han, Yu Shijiu, An Jie, and Chen Yi, who were eavesdropping nearby: "..."

Even Fang Youhua and others not far away twitched at the corners of their mouths.

Xu Han looked at He Lingling's increasingly distorted face with sympathy, and the fear and worry in his heart instantly vanished.

The number of toads is still too high.

It even had to rummage through the trash for ages to find this scrap of bread, and it carefully placed it with a bunch of insects and some wild fruits that it wasn't sure if they were edible... The toad did quite a few things that were "touching".

It's just a matter of whether He Lingling can handle such a "touching" situation.

Thinking of this, Xu Han's face showed even more pity... He Lingling's luck was just too bad this time—

"Do you want to eat too?"

There was a snap.

A toad that looked almost identical (except for being equally ugly) hopped onto Xu Han's lotus flower. Its eyes gleamed green as it stared at Xu Han, and it opened its mouth to say:

“I have bread here too, you don’t need to envy others, wife, come here, I’ll get you something good to eat.”

Xu Han: "..."

Xu Han's expression froze instantly, and he said, his face contorted, "No, no need—"

"Don't envy others," the toad enthusiastically tossed the cloth bag on its back onto the flower's stamen and excitedly began rummaging through it. "Look, fruit, worms, bread... hey, and even a comb! I specially licked it out of a human's room. Wife, do you like it?"

Xu Han stared at the comb that the toad had rolled up with its tongue, his face contorted in pain. His legs went weak, and he collapsed to his knees.

"No, no... I still won't..."

And... what wife?! What wife?! Why does Xu Han want to be the wife of a toad?!

"Don't be shy, wife. After we get married tonight, we'll be family. There's really no need to be embarrassed..."

"...I really don't want to! I've already eaten, I've already eaten..."

As Xu Han refused, the toads that had gathered together began to hop towards the lotus flower that belonged to their "wives," enthusiastically displaying the "food" they had brought and some other inexplicable things...

Yu Shijiu glanced at the toad jumping towards him, then quickly turned back to look at the lotus flowers of the two male players.

—On the lotus flower that the two male players in his memory had become bizarre, two toads had jumped on.

Could it be that I misread it last night? Or... did I dream about it?

Countless images flashed through Yu Shijiu's mind: the bumps on Liu Zhong's arm, Hao Ge's blood-red tongue being forcibly stretched out, the bloody smell that had surrounded him for nearly an hour... Were these really all his dreams?

Yu Shijiu's heart was pounding. He pursed his lips, and the moment he saw the toad jump onto the lotus flower, a sweet smile returned to his face.

"You must be very tired."

Yu Shijiu spoke before the toad could open its mouth, even running forward to take the grass leaf bag from the toad's back, her voice gentle.

"Here, let me take it down for you. Huh? This is so heavy! My goodness, you've been so busy all day and night. Don't you feel any pain anywhere? I feel so bad... Have you not eaten anything for a day and a night?"

The toad, whose words had been interrupted, was stunned. It opened its mouth, then closed it again, its bulging eyes darting around several times before finally settling in their sockets.

"...You," the toad finally found a chance to speak, sounding both puzzled and hesitant, "why are you suddenly so concerned about me?"

"what?"

Yu Shijiu looked heartbroken, bit her lower lip, and said pitifully, "We're about to get married, what do you mean by suddenly being so concerned about you?"

"You've hurt me so much. We're engaged, how could you say something that hurts me so much?"

After saying that, Yu Shijiu, as if in extreme sorrow, forcefully threw the grass bag he had just received into the pond—with a splash!

The sound of the grass leaf and cloth bag falling into the water instantly attracted the attention of all the players.

Looking at the pitiful expression on Yu Shijiu's face, An Jie slowly took a deep breath, raised a strange (what she thought was a gentle) smile, and walked towards the toad.

"Look at you, carrying so much stuff must be so tiring..."

The toad hadn't even reacted yet: "What?"

“I told you that carrying all this stuff must be exhausting. Here, let me carry it for you…”

Within the lotus flower, the toad's frozen eyeballs in front of Yu Shijiu suddenly burst open, and viscous liquid behind the eyeballs began to writhe as if alive—

"I don't want to accept anything you brought!"

Yu Shijiu stared at the toad's face, seemingly unable to see its wildly raging eyes, and sadly clutched his chest, bursting into tears in a state of utter despair.