Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 346 Time Point

"...Have you considered the timing?"

Lu Chusheng ultimately suppressed the urge to explain last night to the other party and said softly.

The wedding will begin at 11:30.

Lu Chusheng: "The wedding ceremony took very little time, only about half an hour including the countdown given by the butler."

"know."

Yu Shijiu tore open the cookie bag, popped a cookie into his mouth, and smacked his lips:

"Noon is the time we go into the villa to look for people."

"……Correct."

Lu Chusheng looked at his cheeks, which were puffed up from chewing food, and his throat moved slightly.

"Do you remember when 'Madam' usually enters the villa?"

"..." This really stumped Yu Shijiu. He hesitated for several seconds before finally asking tentatively:

"It should be around one to two o'clock, that should be the time."

Now that they know that the shadowy figures following the butler are actually the deceased "Madams," they can completely ignore their initial guess about who let the "Madams" in.

It's certain that the strange bosses are all the butlers, and the "madam" who was let in is one of those shadowy figures... This almost confirms that they will have to confront the old butler woman in the end.

There shouldn't be any need to pinpoint the exact time of "Madam's" appearance. What's the point of Lu Chusheng asking that question?

Yu Shijiu, who was lazily thinking about how to play around with the butler later, clenched her hands.

The cookie he had just picked up was suddenly smashed in two with a sharp crack, the top half falling back into the bag.

"Have you thought of it?"

Lu Chusheng felt a chill down his spine, and a faint trickle of cold sweat slid down his forehead.

"Since the housekeeper can let us go find Mr. Xiao, Young Master, and Miss... then she can also let the 'Madam,' who died of resentment, come in to find us."

"So, we only have less than two hours, or even less, left?"

Yu Shijiu suddenly realized, and continued to lower his head to stuff the remaining half of the cookie into his mouth, mumbling indistinctly:

"So we need to hurry up and find Mr. Xiao and the others, otherwise 'Madam' will come looking for us soon?"

"This should be."

Lu Chusheng nodded and said, "In my experience, the probability of this happening is as high as 99.9%."

That little bit left is almost impossible.

“…Wow.” Yu Shijiu blinked, her thick, dark eyelashes drooping down. “If that’s the case, it’s too exciting.”

Yu Shijiu wasn't unaware of this, he was just too lazy to think about it or care. For him, if Xu Han and He Lingling weren't also in this game instance, he might have deliberately delayed the time to "play" with the "ladies".

As for the other players... they can't even figure out what this has to do with him?

He didn't harm anyone, did he?

“…Shi Jiu.” Lu Chusheng opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end he just sighed.

"what happened?"

As Yu Shijiu looked up at him, Lu Chusheng reached out and touched the top of his head.

"fine."

All the words I wanted to say finally boiled down to one sentence: "It's okay."

It's really nothing.

Lu Chusheng is not a preacher.

In his memory, Yu Shijiu was imprisoned in that kind of cage. He knew nothing about what had happened to the other person, so naturally he had no right or status to tell him that such thoughts were wrong.

But in reality, what's wrong with it?

He was simply too lazy to tell others that danger was approaching, and even Yu Shijiu himself remained motionless while in danger. Morally speaking, there was nothing wrong with that.

Lu Chusheng, having successfully regulated all of Yu Shijiu's behavior, coughed and continued:

Can we come together?

Yes, it's possible, but not together.

Yu Shijiu thought for a few seconds. Although he still felt that something was not quite right, he did not feel agitated and nodded.

"can."

Yu Shijiu added, "It can't be like yesterday again."

"...No more."

Thinking of the cold conversation between the two of them last night, Lu Chusheng felt a dryness in his throat, a faint bitterness spreading from the tip of his tongue, and finally he said one more sentence.

"Never again."

Yu Shijiu was satisfied.

Although he didn't know exactly what he was satisfied with.

Overall, I'm in a good mood now, so there's no need to keep arguing with Lu Chusheng. After all, he gave me potato chips... and the cakes and snacks from before.

Thinking about all the things she had eaten before, Yu Shijiu felt a rare sense of guilt.

It seems that so far, Lu Chusheng has really been giving him a lot of things... It's so strange, why would Lu Chusheng give him so many things? Could it be that he's thinking of having him join the inspection team, but he doesn't like the atmosphere there...?

Completely oblivious to the fact that she should actually be thinking about why she could accept Lu Chusheng's ideas so naturally, Yu Shijiu was somewhat bewildered at this moment.

He glanced furtively at Lu Chusheng beside him while munching on a potato chip, and after swallowing the chip crumbs in his throat, he choked and coughed without realizing it.

"Cough cough cough-"

"Why did you choke?"

Lu Chusheng frowned, quickly took out a bottle of water, unscrewed it, and handed it to Yu Shijiu, saying worriedly:

"Drink some water quickly."

"Hmm—" Yu Shijiu took the water and drank several mouthfuls, squinting at the bright white ceiling in the room, and burped.

"Eat slowly."

Lu Chusheng looked at Yu Shijiu and gently patted his back, "No one's going to take it from you."

"There will be."

Yu Shijiu suddenly said.

"……?What?"

Lu Chusheng was stunned by his sudden words and instinctively asked:

What do you mean by "it will happen"?

“In the past.” Yu Shijiu lowered his head, tightened the cap on the water bottle, and casually wiped his mouth.

"In the sanatorium, all the patients only had one meal a day, and they ate together with many other people, but the portions were very small, and some patients would fight over the food."

As if recalling a scene, Yu Shijiu's expression turned somewhat sarcastic, and his gaze became cold.

"When I was little, I was too weak to get any whole meals, so I could only eat what other people left over... What's with that expression?"

Yu Shijiu looked at Lu Chusheng's increasingly angry expression with surprise, and asked in confusion:

“I stopped doing that when I grew up,” Yu Shijiu said, putting his hands on his hips and snorting. “After that, I was the one who stole their food.”

Of course, those whose food was taken could only scavenge leftovers, just like he had done before.

"……nothing."

Lu Chusheng couldn't quite explain how he felt right now.

He just felt a tightness in his chest, a sore throat, and an urge to go back to the past.

If he could, he would definitely pull up the little boy who was bullied to the point of having to scavenge for food and give him a whole bunch of delicious treats.