Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 177 The Ritual Begins

No one could hear the players' cries for fairness, but Yu Shijiu, lying on top of them, was quite satisfied with it.

There was no other meaning behind it; it was simply that he was very satisfied with Yang Wan's "pragmatism."

To be honest, if the smell in this ancestral hall hadn't been so unpleasant, Yu Shijiu felt she could have slept a little longer.

Meanwhile, Yang Wan and the other elderly people were getting impatient.

Someone kept pacing back and forth, completely ignoring the earthworm corpses he had trampled underfoot, and kept looking up at the direction of the ancestral hall gate, muttering to himself.

"Why hasn't the village chief arrived yet? What's he doing? Why is he so late this year..."

With him taking the lead, the other anxious elderly people began to talk in hushed tones. Many of them looked down at the twenty "stand-ins" on the ground with hesitant eyes.

"Could there be something wrong with the substitute...? That can't be, I did everything exactly as the village chief taught us, how could there be a problem..."

"..."

There were many such exchanges, and as time went on, the elderly people's initially excited expressions began to harden. They tried to calm each other, constantly repeating to themselves their hope of being released once they regained their freedom.

"I kept you waiting."

Liu Laosan's cheerful voice could be heard from outside the ancestral hall.

As the footsteps drew closer, Liu Laosan appeared at the doorway.

He still had that same smiling face, with a gentle and kind gaze, only holding a bowl and chopsticks in his hand, as if he was planning to eat something later.

Are you all getting impatient?

As soon as he entered the ancestral hall, Liu Laosan asked gently, "I had some urgent business at home just now, so I thought I'd take care of it first before coming here."

"it's okay no problem!"

"Yes, village chief, let's talk about it after you're done with your work..."

"..."

Upon seeing Liu Laosan, all the old men immediately abandoned their previous anxiety and quickly nodded in agreement with Liu Laosan's words.

“We’re not in a hurry. It’s just a little while. We’re just waiting. We’ve been waiting for years. What’s a little longer?”

This is the truth.

The elderly people weren't lying.

They were just worried that Liu Laosan might stand them up.

After all, as the sovereigns of Changsheng Village, even if Liu Laosan really wanted to stand them up, they couldn't stop him.

Liu Laosan was very satisfied with this. He waved his hand with a smile and said:

"That won't do either. You're all thinking about getting out of here as soon as possible. It's my fault. I should have come earlier."

Although he said that, the other old men did not dare to agree with him at all, and could only subtly remind Liu Laosan to "get down to business".

Yang Wan was the first to break down. She pursed her lips and said:

"Village chief, you should hurry up and get started."

"..."

The old man next to him gasped. He glanced at Yang Wan beside him and quietly moved to the side.

Liu Laosan's smile remained unchanged. He looked at Yang Wan's anxious face, his gaze sweeping over her face, which was half youthful and half old, before nodding.

"Yang Wan is right."

As he spoke, Liu Laosan took the bowl and chopsticks in his hand and stopped at the incense table in front of the densely packed memorial tablets.

He bowed and placed the bowl and chopsticks on the incense table, bowed three times to the memorial tablet above the table, and finally took down the upright, burning earthworm from the incense burner.

Yes, incense tables, memorial tablets, incense burners... even the burning incense, are essentially all earthworms.

Liu Laosan broke the burning incense stick in half, and as the thick, scarlet ash poured into the bowl, his smile grew wider and wider, finally revealing his scarlet gums and sharp teeth.

"Donate blood!"

With a loud shout, Liu Laosan bit his finger and dripped the blood into the bowl in front of him.

The other elderly people stepped forward one by one, bit their fingers, and dripped their blood into the bowl.

After all the old people's blood mixed with the scarlet ash in the bowl, Liu Laosan's eyes lit up, and he shouted.

"enough."

The next second, Liu Laosan knelt down on the ground. He didn't turn around, but shouted loudly:

"The divine will soon appear! Quickly kneel down and beg the divine will to bless us so that our wishes may be fulfilled and we may gain supreme freedom!"

The old people's pupils flashed with countless wriggling earthworms in an instant. They froze on the spot, and as Liu Laosan spoke, they knelt down with a thud and kowtowed repeatedly to the memorial tablet behind the incense table.

thump -- thump -- thump --

As the sound of the elderly kowtowing grew louder, the players on the "carpet" were astonished to find that they were gradually gaining control of their own bodies.

what happened?

Doubts instantly filled their minds, but the players didn't dare to think too much about it. They seized the opportunity to frantically try to escape this hellish place!

Unfortunately, they still can't fully control their bodies!

Apart from Yu Shijiu, who was not subject to any constraints to begin with.

Yu Shijiu opened his eyes when he realized that the players were recovering their strength. He sat up with great interest and looked at the old people who were kneeling on the ground and kowtowing desperately. His gaze gradually fell down.

The "carpet" made of earthworms was smashed beyond recognition by the old people's forceful kowtows, and thick pus and blood splattered all over their faces.

Even Liu Laosan, the leader, could not escape it.

All their actions now felt to Yu Shijiu like they were summoning something.

what?

A large earthworm?

"...Excuse me, excuse me..."

A faint sound came from beneath Yu Shijiu.

It was the players who had been lying on the ground as cover that woke up.

"Oh, sorry," Yu Shijiu stood up insincerely, dusted off non-existent dust, and slowly walked to the side, stepping on a pile of earthworms.

Intermittently, more players began to regain their senses. Some sat on the "carpet" in a daze, looking down blankly when they realized the texture on the ground was wrong.

Then the scream almost deafened Yu Shijiu.

Yu Shijiu: "..."

He blinked, somewhat annoyed by the sudden noise from the players.

"What, what's going on?! What the hell is this place?!"

As the players fully regained consciousness, they staggered to their feet, bracing themselves against the "carpet" in the center of the ancestral hall, staring in horror at the old men who were kowtowing to Liu Laosan.

"An ancestral hall."

"Here——"

Yu Shijiu rarely showed any interest in explaining. He pointed to the memorial tablet and incense burner not far away and said lazily:

"That thing will probably summon that so-called god, which is actually a giant earthworm, in a little while."

The players fell silent.

The next second, a player looked at Yu Shijiu with disbelief and shouted:

"Do you know why you didn't stop it just now?!"