Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 776 Breaking Ground

"Miss him?"

Lu Chusheng stared at the boy lying on the small screen, unwilling to face reality, and said calmly:

"But you can't get in, Laibao."

As a product of its own innate skill, "Laibao/Feifei" certainly cannot enter the game instance with Yu Shijiu as usual in this competition where two opposing factions are fighting.

Otherwise, it would be against the rules.

The two guilds secretly traded away a powerful "talent skill".

Dawn Games certainly couldn't ignore something like this.

The big orange cat was furious. It opened its mouth and bit Lu Chusheng's wrist, angrily grinding its teeth against his flesh.

Well, after grinding for so long, only a shallow little pit was left.

The skin is not broken.

Lu Chusheng calmly reached out and rubbed the base of the orange cat's ears, and the cat's angry biting motion stopped instantly when its ears were touched.

"Meow!"

The big orange cat lazily lay on his lap, licked its paw pads, and meowed comfortably several times.

So comfortable, meow! I love it, meow!

The physiological pleasure of having its ears rubbed made the orange cat briefly forget its other owner, purring and enjoying the pleasure of being served.

"Brother Lu."

Lin Feng, who was standing next to him, finally found an opportunity to get closer and whispered to him:

"The instance that Anjie and her team entered was the fairy tale 'Thumbelina,' which is a rare type of game instance."

"……Um."

Lu Chusheng's stroking became lighter and lighter, and he said calmly:

"Can you tell whose memories they are?"

"...I can't tell."

Lin Feng's expression turned somewhat awkward: "The story has only just begun, I—"

"Then take a look more."

Lu Chusheng interrupted her and said softly, "Tell Wang Rui to be quiet. If she doesn't quiet down, she can go back to the guild alone to watch the live stream."

Lin Feng: "..."

Lin Feng slowly turned around and looked at Wang Rui, who was joking and laughing with Kang Shaojie, and said indifferently:

"Wang Rui, Kang Shaojie."

"To!"

This is Kang Shaojie.

"Why!?"

This is Wang Rui.

"Quiet down," Lin Feng said sternly. "Mind your personal image."

Kang Shaojie blushed visibly at what was said and immediately lowered his head in agreement.

Wang Rui, however, could not believe it, and then rambled on:

"What's wrong, Sister Feng? I finally got to get out of the house for a bit, and I finally got to watch the guild tournament with so many people. I finally got out of that dark little room and saw the sun—"

"If you keep nagging, you can go back to your little room and watch the live stream by yourself."

Lin Feng suppressed a laugh and said seriously, "Brother Lu said it."

"..."

Wang Rui: "..."

Wang Rui fell silent instantly.

After Lin Feng turned around, she secretly punched Lu Chusheng's back as he petted the cat from all sides, her face turning red.

Kang Shaojie, standing nearby: "..."

He approached Wang Rui with a complicated expression and whispered in her ear:

"You're all talk and no action. If you're so capable, then really fight me—I... damn it!"

Kang Shaojie, who was hit in the chest by an angry left hook, suppressed the scream that came out and glared at Wang Rui next to him.

Wang Rui stared at him with a tense, red face, then revealed a sinister smile: "...Get lost!"

Kang Shaojie: "..."

Damn it! I got punched for nothing!

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After confirming several times that there was indeed no Thumbelina inside the match bed at the edge, He Lingling and Xu Han returned to An Jie and Chen Yi's location with doubt.

"Huh?" Xu Han turned his head to look at Yu Shijiu's legs dangling over the edge of the matchbox bed. "Is Shijiu sleepy?"

“…” Anjie glanced at him: “Siu is a little sad that Feifei can’t come in.”

Chen Yi nodded and said gently, "It's alright, let Shi Jiu rest a little longer. Is Thumbelina on that bed?"

"No."

He Lingling frowned and said, "Something's not right. From a fairy tale perspective, Thumbelina should appear in the very first act—"

"no."

Xu Han interrupted her, bewildered, "Wasn't the first scene about that kind woman who wanted a child and finally managed to get a seed from the witch?"

"..."

The three of them were stunned.

Yes... the first scene should be Thumbelina's foster mother, that kind woman who wanted a child—but that makes things even more wrong.

With so many match beds and flower petal blankets on the table, it's hard not to wonder how many seeds that kind foster mother had planted.

"...No, something's not right," Chen Yi suddenly realized something and exclaimed, "Go back and lie down!"

As soon as they finished speaking, they heard footsteps coming from outside the gate not far away.

Bang—da—bang—da—

It was the sound of slippers stepping on the floor.

There is only one person who would be here at this time—the kind woman who wants to raise a child.

Because of their shrunken size, the group even felt that the table they were on was shaking as the woman approached.

Realizing this, Anjie and the other two's expressions changed drastically, and they hurriedly ran to their respective match beds—Anjie's flower petal quilt on her match bed had been eaten by her, so she could only helplessly curl up on the empty bed and pretend to be asleep.

Fang Youhua and the others who were gathered together exchanging ideas were also taken aback, and then Fang Youhua's face became serious.

"Quick! Get back to bed!"

After Fang Youhua finished speaking urgently, she ran desperately towards her match bed.

Just as everyone hurriedly lay down and pretended to be asleep—click.

The door was opened by the person who came in.

"La la la la la~"

A kind woman carried a flowerpot into the room, her throat emitting a beautiful and pleasant song.

"my daughter……"

The kind woman hummed softly as she drank, placing the empty flowerpot filled with grayish-brown soil on the edge of the table.

On the match bed next to the flowerpot, Yu Shijiu lay motionless, heartbroken, until he heard the woman's voice and slowly moved his eyes.

"Oh my god! I hope the witch's spell works this time! I really want a kind, gentle, and obedient little daughter!"

The kind woman standing by the table spoke as she reached out and picked up a bottle of water next to her, then poured it onto the soil.

A few drops of water splashed onto the face of the boy who was closest to the splash.

Yu Shijiu wrinkled her nose, looking somewhat uncomfortable.

He wiped the water droplets from his face, turned over and sat up in bed, staring intently as the woman watered the flowerpot.

Xu Han, who was secretly peeking from the match bed next to him, gasped for breath.

Good heavens... Shi Jiu's courage... is as bold as ever...

"...my youngest daughter."

The woman seemed not to see Yu Shijiu sitting up on the match bed next to her.

She hummed a song while intently watering the seeds buried deep in the soil of the flowerpot, her eyes fixed straight ahead—although Yu Shijiu felt that the amount of water she was using would easily drown the seeds.

But this is a fairy tale.

How could a seed in a fairy tale possibly drown?

As if in response to Yu Shijiu's guess, he heard some very faint sounds.

It sounded like something was breaking free from its restraints, bursting forth from the earth—

laugh.

The green shoots breaking through the soil brought a strange fragrance, and Yu Shijiu, who was closest to them, was slightly stunned before inhaling several breaths of the aroma.

"……cough."

Yu Shijiu felt refreshed from the fragrance, but the even stronger scent made her cough.

Now it wasn't just him who smelled it; everyone lying on the matchbox bed could smell it.

If they were really asleep, they probably wouldn't be a problem, but since everyone was pretending to be asleep, quite a few people soon started coughing from the fumes.

Yu Shijiu could even faintly hear players from the Eye of All Things muttering in the distance—"I'm allergic to pollen..."

That's really pitiful.

Yu Shijiu's thoughts were not entirely sincere.

Just then, Yu Shijiu heard the woman watering the plants suddenly scream.

Immediately following was the sound of the water bottle slipping and falling to the ground.

"..."

Yu Shijiu's eardrums throbbed with pain from the woman's screams and the noise of the water bottle falling. He frowned, covered his ears, and looked up—just in time to see a colorful flower bud growing in the flowerpot.

Yu Shijiu, who had never seen this kind of flower before, was stunned on the spot.

Is this what a fairy tale world is like?

Are all flowers colorful?

The woman reached out with delight to hold the colorful flower buds in the flowerpot, and bent down with a look of joy that Yu Shijiu could not understand at all—then, the woman kissed the colorful flower buds that were about to bloom.

Yu Shijiu: "..."

A stunned and bewildered image.

Yu Shijiu could even see the marks left on the petals by the lipstick the woman had applied to her lips.

Suddenly kissing a flower bud, isn't that a little...strange?

Before Yu Shijiu could sort out his chaotic thoughts, the petals that the woman had kissed began to tremble rapidly, as if they had Parkinson's disease.

—This is the name of a disease that Yu Shijiu heard at the sanatorium.

Just then, the flower bud that had been afflicted with Parkinson's disease suddenly began to bloom, its colorful petals stretching out in all directions, and its pale pink stamens rising up.

Yu Shijiu spotted a little girl lying on the flower stamen, hugging her knees.

The little girl had long, black hair and snow-white skin. Her eyelashes were long and curled under her tightly closed eyelids, and you could tell at a glance how beautiful her eyes would be when she opened them.

The woman couldn't help but scream again.

Her screams were still piercing, but they didn't make Yu Shijiu's eyes leave the little girl even for a second.

This is Thumbelina.

Yu Shijiu gazed at the beautiful little girl in the center of the flower stamen, her eyes trembling as she was about to wake up, and pondered quietly for a moment.

Thumbelina.

Thumbelina woke up as the woman excitedly reached out to touch her face.

She opened her beautiful amber eyes and looked blankly and dependently at the woman in front of her who was trying to touch her.

"Mother."

When Thumbelina woke up, she looked at the woman's surprised and tearful face and called out sweetly again.

"Mother."

The woman looked at her newly unearthed baby girl with surprise and delight, and began to hum a song again. With each cheerful song, the woman took the match bed she had prepared to the flowerpot and gently placed Thumbelina, who had crawled into her palm, into the match bed.

"good."

The woman gently tapped Thumbelina's forehead with her fingertip and whispered:

"Mommy's sweet daughter, go to sleep now. When you wake up, you'll dance and sing for Mommy, okay?"