Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 167 Human-faced Earthworm

"Alright," Zhao Xuan said lazily, putting the boomerang he was playing with back into his system inventory.

"Just like Lin Feng said, it's time for us to find a place to rest properly."

Mu Gui did not refute, he nodded silently, and followed Zhao Xuan forward.

As for where to rest, it depends on where Zhao Xuan wants to go.

I have no place to speak.

Pastoral rules are well aware of this.

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It started raining as dinnertime approached.

Just as Yu Shijiu had guessed, when he returned to Yang Wan's home, Yang Wan, who should have been busy at home, had disappeared.

Strictly speaking, not only Yang Wan, but also Liu Laosan and a group of other elderly people are no longer in the house.

Yu Shijiu took a small stool and wobbled to the door. When he opened the door, a cold, damp blast of air hit him.

Yu Shijiu's eyelashes trembled slightly, and then she bent down and sat down on the small stool that blocked the door.

The night outside was dark and gloomy, with fine, dense raindrops falling, soaking the already uneven, muddy ground until it was soft and wet.

In that damp, murky soil, there seemed to be some earthworms wriggling, trying to break through the mud to breathe.

Oh no, it definitely exists.

"Fatty!"

Yu Shijiu was engrossed in watching when he suddenly turned around and called out to the chubby guy who was lying on the bed with his eyes closed.

Fatty on the bed lazily rolled over, looking rather tired and unwilling to move.

"Meow meow meow meow!!!"

So annoying, so annoying, meow! Why can't you do things yourself and always have to call me, the cat!

Despite her tantrums, Feifei still managed to lift her head off the bed and glare at Yu Shijiu with a death stare.

Yu Shijiu seemed completely oblivious to Feifei's annoyance. He waved to the other person and said with a smile:

"Give me that rotten piece of wood."

"Meow meow meow!"

Fatty kept meowing silently, but still walked towards the wardrobe with cat-like steps.

It's just a plank of wood, meow! Do you really want me to get up and do chores too, meow?!

Humans are so lazy, meow!!!

"You're so chubby, you're the cutest!"

Yu Shijiu continued with his insincere flattery, blinking as he said:

"Wow! Fatty, you're amazing! You actually managed to touch that plank! That's incredible!"

Fatty, who had just bitten off the wooden board, was speechless.

It rolled its eyes, coldly jumped off the bed without any sign of acceptance, and walked all the way to Yu Shijiu while biting the wooden board, bowing its head.

The broken wooden wardrobe door was placed on Yu Shijiu's lap. Before Yu Shijiu could continue praising Feifei and give him a stroke—

The large, fat creature twisted its body quickly, managing to avoid being touched by Yu Shijiu, before turning and jumping onto the bed.

boom!

The next second, the already old bed creaked and fell apart.

Fatty, who had just jumped onto the bed, was startled and instantly curled up into a huge orange cat pancake, warily looking around.

Yu Shijiu: "..."

Yu Shijiu was slightly disappointed that he didn't manage to pet the cat, but not too disappointed, since he would have plenty of time to pet the cat in the future.

Yu Shijiu looked up as he held the wooden board, watching the raindrops falling one by one from the eaves, and slowly blinked.

Rainy days are actually quite comfortable for sleeping.

But walking is just too tiring.

Yu Shijiu was lost in aimless thoughts. When she looked down again, the wooden plank in her hand was already digging around in the wet mud in front of the door.

As he dug deeper and deeper, the first earthworm curled up in the soil appeared.

It is a small earthworm that measures about 10 centimeters in length and is about 1 centimeter in width, which is considered quite plump among ordinary earthworms.

—If we don't compare it to those giant earthworms.

Yu Shijiu looked down at it with great interest. At first, he just casually played with the earthworm and watched it curl up in a ball, but when he touched the other end of the earthworm, which had just been pulled out of the soil, his gaze froze slightly.

The other end of this seemingly ordinary earthworm, when viewed in a hazy way, actually looks like... a human face?

Because the earthworm was so small, even though Yu Shijiu looked at it closely several times and it seemed familiar, he still felt that something was not quite right.

Isn't it only when a player is killed that they turn into a human head worm?

What's going on with this earthworm?

Just as Yu Shijiu was about to pick up the earthworm with the human face, the earthworm seemed to sense that he was watching it, and twisted its slippery, soft body, suddenly burrowing into a nearby mud hole—

puff!

In a flash, the wooden plank in Yu Shijiu's hand slammed into the mud pit. With the sound of raindrops dripping around them, the earthworm that was trying to escape was cut in two by the wooden plank in Yu Shijiu's hand.

Unfortunately, the half that was left behind was the half without a face.

Yu Shijiu was somewhat disappointed.

He hadn't even gotten a good look at the person's face yet.

Just as Yu Shijiu was about to continue digging, the sound of people running quickly came from outside the courtyard gate not far away.

Could it be that Yang Wan has returned at this time?

Yu Shijiu looked up.

Changsheng Village is a place that is so backward that it has absolutely no modern culture. Visitors trudged through the muddy road, their newly changed clothes getting covered in mud again.

laugh--

That's the sound of stepping into an even softer, muddier pit.

Lin Feng's umbrella had a hole in it. It was raining heavily outside, but it was drizzling inside. Even though it blocked most of the rain, her face was still inevitably covered in water.

She wiped the water off her face, quickly pushed open the courtyard gate, and as soon as she entered the courtyard, she met the eyes of Yu Shijiu, who was sitting at the door not far away.

Yu Shijiu seemed somewhat surprised. He looked up at Lin Feng, who had run in unsteadily, and asked in astonishment:

"Why are you here at this hour—"

"They are rebuilding the ancestral hall!"

Lin Feng, panting, interrupted Yu Shijiu and said urgently:

"I just came back from the ancestral hall. They must be rebuilding it in preparation for tomorrow's sacrificial ceremony!"

Yu Shijiu slightly opened his eyes, seemingly lost in thought, and said:

“Building an ancestral hall… Yes, without an ancestral hall, how would they perform sacrificial rites…”

Lin Feng was covered in mud and water. She had only rested for a short while when she saw Liu Laosan rush back in a hurry. His face was flushed from drinking, and he was looking for something in the house. He grabbed an umbrella and rushed towards the direction where the ancestral hall had been.

Lin Feng paid attention and followed along. If no other player had followed, no one would have known that the old people were secretly building an ancestral hall.

Although it seems like there's nothing wrong with it, it's just building an ancestral hall... but who knows?

It's the last day, who knows what will happen?

"Will there be any problems?"

Lin Feng's face remained deathly pale. She looked at Yu Shijiu and voiced her concerns:

"Is it possible that the ceremony requires an ancestral hall to perform the sacrifice, and we accidentally burned it down..."

Therefore, the game forcibly restores the "ancestral hall".