Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 172 Illusionary Perspective

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The old wooden door made a sharp sound when it was pushed open, and even though Lin Feng tried to be as gentle as possible, it was to no avail.

Fortunately, Liu Laosan showed no signs of being awakened.

—In fact, it is indeed unlikely, after all, earthworms do not seem to have very good eyesight and hearing.

As night approached, the heavy rain in the village had thinned to almost nothing.

It was still dense, a kind of misty rain that was difficult to see with the naked eye.

Lin Feng's lips were pale. She stared at the soft, muddy ground at the doorway, hesitated for a few seconds, and then pulled out a twisted-looking tree branch from behind the door.

Yes, she picked it up on the road when she came back.

The tree branches were quite thick and sturdy, and the soil was soft after the rain. In no time, Lin Feng saw earthworms in the pit he had dug.

Presumably to get some fresh air, the adult earthworms curled up into a ball and rushed upwards, their purplish-red bodies stretching and contracting, occasionally bursting into a transparent pinkish-white expanse.

Without hesitation, Lin Feng quickly grabbed the earthworm and then pinched its head as it opened its mouth wide.

Upon seeing it clearly, Lin Feng's heart skipped a beat.

Just as Yu Shijiu said, it was indeed a human face.

It was a face she had seen just a few hours earlier.

The face of Liu Laosan in his middle age.

Upon realizing this, Lin Feng reacted as if her hand was on fire, quickly throwing the earthworm into the soil, her face as pale as paper.

Once the earthworm is trapped in the soft, muddy soil, it twists and wriggles into the mud, disappearing without a trace in no time.

Lin Feng's mind was in complete chaos at that moment.

She couldn't understand why these earthworms had Liu Laosan's face, just like the earthworms in Yu Shijiu's yard had Yang Wan's face... Could it be because they were in their own yards that they had the same face as the old man?

Lin Feng blinked nervously, then started digging in the pit again.

This time, she dug up as many as seven or eight adult earthworms.

Each one was huge, and all the strip-shaped purplish-red bodies were intertwined together, like a purplish-red knot that could never be untied.

Lin Feng didn't grab them with her hands this time.

She used a twig to pick them up one by one to examine their heads, making sure that each earthworm's "head" had Liu Laosan's face on it before flinging the earthworm that was about to bite her away.

Every single one, every single one of them.

Lin Feng's mind was in turmoil.

She quickly covered the hole in the ground by the door, took the tree branch, went inside, and closed the door tightly.

With the door tightly closed, the oppressive feeling of darkness inside the room became even stronger.

Lin Feng leaned against the wooden door, her gaze involuntarily drifting towards the dead corners of the house.

After seeing that the earthworms all had Liu Laosan's face, she couldn't help but feel terrified of the earthworms that might appear in the corner at any time.

What do these human-faced earthworms really represent?

In a flash, Lin Feng suddenly realized something.

She thought of the illusion she and Yu Shijiu had entered. She hadn't noticed it at the time, but now she realized that most of the viewing angles in those illusions looked a bit strange.

The perspective... seems a bit too low.

Thinking of a certain possibility, Lin Feng heard herself swallow.

So is it possible that the perspective from which you and Yu Shijiu viewed the illusion was actually that of an earthworm...?

It's not just the perspective of one earthworm, but the perspective of tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of earthworms.

The villagers of Changsheng Village believe in the purity of bloodlines, so ignorant that they practice inbreeding and so feudal that they believe earthworms are hermaphroditic and reproduce through self-mating... Therefore, they have worshipped "earth dragons" for generations and revered earthworms as "gods"...

In the bizarre game instance, the "earth dragon" is thus transformed into a monster. Rather than saying that the monsters are the "earthworms," ​​the real monsters should be the ignorant old people in Changsheng Village... The earthworms are just objects that symbolize their disgusting and stupid thoughts.

Lin Feng was so frightened by her own guess that she broke out in a cold sweat. She pursed her lips, forced herself to calm her breathing, and then walked stiffly towards the bed.

Regardless, I need to rest first. At the very least, I need to be alive to witness the "sacrifice ceremony" tomorrow...

As for those earthworms... Lin Feng looked around at the dark corners and silently took a breath.

At least tonight, they (earthworms) shouldn't be showing up.

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It was close to 3 a.m., and the rain and fog were still thick.

All the elderly people in Changsheng Village opened their doors and came out of their homes early in the morning.

They gathered silently, whispering about the sacrificial ceremony.

One of the old men had a twisted joy on his face; he held the hand of the old woman next to him, his hand trembling.

"When we get out of here, when we get out of here we'll get married. I'll tell my parents, I'll tell them how much we love each other, I'll tell them I've finally understood my own heart..."

The old man spoke excitedly, and for a moment his pale, wrinkled face transformed into that of a rather handsome man.

The old woman whose hand he was holding, tears streaming down her face, transformed into a beautiful young woman. She gripped the old man's hand in return and sobbed:

"But will they still recognize us? Our faces have changed..."

The old man's wrinkled face stiffened again, and he mechanically shook his head:

"It's alright, if we don't know each other, we don't know each other... We can live our own lives, as long as, as long as we still know each other... This hellish place, Changsheng Village, we will never come back to this hellish place!"

"..."

There are many, many more such comments.

Yang Wan mingled among a group of elderly people, her face expressionless as she looked at each of them who were beaming with joy, her gaze sweeping over their faces as they occasionally transformed into those of younger people.

They will all gain new bodies and new lives, and then completely break away from this hellish place, Changsheng Village, to live their own lives.

Don't blame us...

Yang Wan lowered her eyelids and looked at her muddy calves and shoes. In her hazy vision, she realized that her legs had turned into a purplish-red segmented body.

"?!"

Yang Wan was startled. She took a step back in a panic and stumbled into the mud pit. As she fell, mud splattered onto many elderly people around her.

The old people looked at Yang Wan, who had fallen into a mud puddle, and laughed at the same time.

I fell down because I was happy.

They fell because they were so excited about leaving Changsheng Village.

Except for Yang Wan.

She sat in the mud pit, looking around blankly at the strange old people who were celebrating their newborns ahead of time. Her gaze involuntarily fell on Liu Laosan, who was arriving late.

Old Liu still had that same smiling face. He raised his hand to the excited old people around him and spoke in a gentle tone:

"Alright, alright, everyone, please be quiet."