Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 384 Force

The atmosphere at the dinner table instantly froze.

Chen Yi's hand, which was pulling out a tissue, froze in place. He Lingling, who was pouring juice into a cup, also froze, as did An Jie, who was still wondering why Mu Gui had come again. They all looked up at Yu Shijiu.

Yu Shijiu blinked in confusion.

"Why is everyone staring at me? Is there something on my face?"

For the first time, the smile on Chen Yi's face disappeared; the chubby Maitreya Buddha smile vanished inch by inch, turning into a blank expression.

"Who told you that?" Chen Yi asked, his tone exactly the same as before.

"A female player from the 'Chrysalis Shop'."

Yu Shijiu seemed oblivious to the change in atmosphere at the dining table. He lowered his head, took a sip of fish soup, and squinted his eyes contentedly.

“I asked her who the male players following behind her were, and she said they were guests.”

Based on some inherent human intuition, Yu Shijiu felt that he shouldn't continue asking questions, but that didn't mean he really didn't know something was wrong.

The female player with the child... her facial expressions and body language revealed her fear, pain, shame, and other emotions almost without any attempt to conceal them.

No, you could say that she thought she had covered it up very well.

He Lingling's casual gaze turned complicated. She looked at Yu Shijiu, who was drinking soup with his head down, and unconsciously tightened her grip on the cup.

How could such a thing happen?

"……who is it?"

Anjie suddenly spoke, breaking the deathly silence at the dining table.

Stunned by Yu Shijiu's words, Chen Yi almost immediately turned to look at her, the fear deep in his eyes spreading out for the first time without any attempt to conceal it.

"Sister An—"

Chen Yi tried to stop something, but An Jie raised her hand to stop him.

“Shi Jiu,” An Jie’s voice softened, and she asked again, “who is that female player?”

"..."

Yu Shijiu looked up, glanced at Chen Yi who was pale, and then met He Lingling's blank gaze as she held a cup. He shook his head under An Jie's gaze.

"I don't know her name."

Yu Shijiu was a little embarrassed, "I forgot to ask her."

"But I promised her I would bring her some baby formula this afternoon—"

Before Yu Shijiu could finish speaking, Xiao Li's gloating voice rang in his ears.

Excuse me for interrupting, but you need to enter a game instance this afternoon.

Yu Shijiu: "..."

He paused for a second, then responded in his mind to Xiao Li, who had suddenly come back to life.

I don't think I said I was going to log into the game today.

According to his discussion with He Lingling and others, the next time they would enter the game instance should be tomorrow or the day after.

Oh dear, it's mandatory now.

Xiao Li giggled, her shrill voice sounding somewhat jarring in Yu Shijiu's mind.

I checked, and it seems there's still about two hours left?

Yu Shijiu: [...]

The three people at the table saw Yu Shijiu freeze in place after saying those words and assumed that Yu Shijiu felt a little guilty.

"..."

"fine."

Anjie smiled, her dry blue hair falling to her ears as she leaned back, gleaming with an eerie blue light under the lamp.

"Are you busy this afternoon?"

Yu Shijiu realized what was happening and shook his head and then nodded, "...Something's up."

He lowered his head and took another sip of fish soup, smacked his lips, and said, "I'm going to log into the game this afternoon."

Upon hearing this, He Lingling, who had just recovered, immediately looked up. "A game?"

"Wasn't it supposed to be delivered tomorrow or the day after?"

"It was forced upon me."

Yu Shijiu shrugged. "They say it's about an hour from now."

"Looks like we can't deliver the baby formula today."

Yu Shijiu sighed, "I hope that older sister doesn't keep waiting for me outside the 'Chrysanthemum Shop'."

Although the weather at the "cocoon shop" isn't cold, if adults are constantly exposed to the wind at the door, they might be fine, but children might not be.

Not to mention such a small baby.

"I'll deliver it."

Anjie said, "Don't worry about that. If we're going into the game instance this afternoon, it's best to get Xu Han to join us and form a team quickly."

With the start of the guild points competition drawing ever closer, even Ange couldn't help but feel a little irritable.

"This is a good opportunity to test the results of Xu Han's recent ghost desensitization experiment."

After saying all that, Anjie stood up abruptly, the chair leg behind her scraping against the floor with a "hiss".

Chen Yi's gaze never left his face, and his chubby face was covered in cold sweat.

He took a step forward, grabbed Anjie's arm, and whispered, "Sister An?"

Anjie didn't look at him, but instead smiled at Yu Shijiu, who was looking up at her curiously, and repeated.

"I'll send baby formula to that female player with the child."

"Shi Jiu, just focus on the game, don't worry about that."

"..." Yu Shijiu seemed not to have thought much about it and nodded with a smile.

"Then I'll thank Sister An on behalf of the little baby."

After saying that, Yu Shijiu stopped paying attention to other things and focused on drinking the fish soup.

At the dining table, only He Lingling secretly glanced at An Jie and Chen Yi, who were frozen in place—

Anjie glanced at Chen Yi and slowly pulled her arm out of his grasp.

I want to eat noodles tonight.

Anjie said, "You can make it however you like, as long as it's noodles."

"..."

Chen Yi stared at her intently, then slowly released his grip.

"it is good."

Chen Yi's familiar smile reappeared on his face. "We still have dinner around six o'clock."

Anjie nodded slightly and walked towards the stairs.

Just as the sound of people coming downstairs reached his ears, Yu Shijiu put down his soup bowl. He patted his bulging belly contentedly and looked at the chubby baby spitting out thorns.

"Meow!"

Fatty spat the whole fish bone into the dish, and then contentedly licked the soup from the gaps in its paw pads, looking incredibly lazy.

"Have Shi Jiu and Fei Fei finished eating? I'll wash the dishes first."

Chen Yi smiled and began clearing the dishes from the table. Yu Shijiu wanted to help, but He Lingling pulled her arm back.

"We need to go find Xu Han and ask him if he wants to come along."

Unlike An Jie's insistence that Xu Han team up with them, He Lingling felt that she should at least ask Xu Han's opinion (to get a feel for the hypocrisy).

"Oh yes."

Yu Shijiu had also thought of this, and said to Chen Yi apologetically:

"Then Brother Chen, you can take care of things on your own for now."

"It's nothing," Chen Yi said, his head down, but his voice carried a cheerful laugh. "You still need to log into the game later—"

Chen Yi's voice abruptly stopped.

Similarly, the expressions on Yu Shijiu and He Lingling's faces froze instantly.

The only one at the table who didn't understand what was going on was Fatty: "? Meow???"

Why did everyone suddenly freeze in place?

“Um, Brother Chen,” He Lingling was the first to speak. She swallowed and whispered:

"I seem to remember that you were supposed to come with us into this game instance..."

Chen Yi: "..."