Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 664 Feeding Medicine

Zhu Ge was certain that he wasn't the only one who was woken up by the smell, but most of the players remained calm. Apart from one man who screamed in fright at the beginning because he happened to be sleeping by the window and saw the "body parts" being thrown down, most people remembered the rule of not shouting.

Brother Zhu is one of these majority.

"The smell of blood?"

Xu Han was a little confused and asked, "Isn't the smell of blood abnormal? I feel that the smell of blood in the dungeon gets stronger and stronger as we go further..."

He's almost desensitized to it; he never expected that someone as cunning as Brother Zhu would be afraid.

"No, no, no," Brother Zhu shook his head frantically, "I didn't mean the smell of blood, I meant I smelled blood on the NPCs."

"The NPCs smelling of blood is actually quite fitting—"

Xu Han suddenly stopped, glanced cautiously at Ah Jin not far away, and whispered:

"That NPC is... Brother A Jin?"

Why do you keep calling me "NPC Bro"?

Brother Zhu glanced at him with amusement, then nodded without refuting.

"it's him."

Brother Zhu: "I saw it clearly at the time. He walked in with his clothes covered in water and the smell of blood that hadn't been washed off. The smell almost made me throw up."

"Clearly and distinctly?"

Xu Han recalled how dark the dormitory was at night, so dark that you could barely see your hand in front of your face, and found it hard to believe.

"Isn't the lighting in the dormitory a bit too dim...?"

Xu Han left some room for Zhu Ge, chuckling awkwardly and scratching his head: "Maybe my eyesight isn't very good, so I can't see very clearly."

"Don't disbelieve me!"

Zhu Ge panicked, grabbed Xu Han's arm, and spoke urgently and fearfully:

"My eyesight is fine, but that has nothing to do with whether I can see clearly or not! The reason I can see and smell clearly is that the NPC named Ah Jin slept in the bed next to mine last night!"

"..." Xu Han was stunned again, then exclaimed "Ah!" a few seconds later—"Holy crap! Brother Zhu, you're really brave!!!"

Xu Han asked with genuine admiration, "Brother Zhu, when did you fall asleep last night?"

"..." Brother Zhu let go of her hand with a hint of helplessness. "I dozed off for a while just before dawn."

Xu Han glanced at him and, sure enough, found that Zhu Ge's eyes were full of bloodshot veins. Besides being soaked by the rain, it was also the fatigue caused by the double blow of staying up all night and fear.

"No wonder Brother Zhu, you know that Shi and I... came back late."

"That's because you came back too late."

Zhu Ge wearily repeated the action of scooping water: "My heart was pounding so hard, I was afraid that the NPC named A Jin would hear me. Just when I was scared, you guys came back."

He gave a wry smile as he said this: "Maybe it was because I knew that other players were also awake that I felt much better... I thought about it all night before deciding to talk to you guys."

"what?"

Xu Han actually felt a deep sense of empathy; he was quite scared himself, and was somewhat surprised to hear the word "chat."

"Brother Zhu, what do you want to talk to us about?"

"Let's talk about what happened to the rest of us on the first floor after you went up to the second floor."

Zhu Ge stared at him, his eyes filled with dense, spiderweb-like red veins, as if they were about to burst and bleed.

Xu Han felt a chill in his heart for no apparent reason.

For some reason, he suddenly felt that what Brother Zhu was about to say might frighten him as well.

Zhu Ge's voice was somewhat muffled by the torrential rain, but it was exceptionally clear when it reached Xu Han's ears through the sound of the rain:

"After you left, we few players with limited abilities considered it carefully and decided to join forces to look for clues near the first-floor cabin..."

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"Angkor."

Wu Ge, who was looking for fever reducers in the cabinet inside the dormitory, was startled by the call and turned to look at the person who came.

Wang Ji walked in from the cabin entrance, dripping wet, and muttered about why the lights weren't on. He then casually turned on the lights nearby.

"waste."

Wu Ge glanced at him and quickened his pace as he rummaged through the cabinet.

"Does the electricity we use all day compare to what those people upstairs use in an hour?"

Wang Ji casually grabbed a towel draped over a rope and dried his hair, then sneered:

"We just came from a poor background, otherwise how could we have—"

"do not talk."

Wu Ge, having found the fever reducer, interrupted him and filled a cup halfway with water:

“We have to support our families, we don’t have money, they do.”

"Does having money make you a big shot?"

Wang Ji retorted unhappily, then sighed:

"It's so annoying, sometimes I feel like being alive is worse than being dead..."

He was genuinely agitated, and the torrential rain outside made his nerves pound wildly every moment—"By the way, Brother Wu, how is Huimin's piano learning going?"

Wang Ji inquired.

"pretty good."

When his sister was mentioned, Wu Ge's furrowed brows relaxed a bit. "She found a part-time job a while ago, playing the piano, and the salary seems to be quite high."

“It really makes a difference after you’ve studied,” Wang Ji smiled and said with some admiration, “Brother Wu, you’re quite generous.”

"I only have one younger sister."

Without turning his head, Angkor took the fever reducer and water and walked into the cabin. Wang Ji followed behind him curiously.

"Isn't this medicine supposed to be used only as a last resort? How could you bear to take it out?"

"..."

Wu Ge had already walked up to Yu Shijiu and half-squatted down. He glanced at the orange cat next to him that was looking up at him and chuckled.

"This is medicine, this is water."

Angkor said, "It's not a bad thing."

The orange cat glanced at him lazily, then lowered its head and licked the unconscious boy's hand several times.

Even though Yu Shijiu was unconscious, Lu Chusheng could only lick his hand as a gesture of respect.

“This cat is really well cared for,” Wang Ji, who followed behind, exclaimed in surprise. “No matter how many times I see it, it always seems too big.”

"This kid is well-raised."

Wu Ge stuffed the fever-reducing medicine into the boy's mouth on the bed, pinched his mouth shut, poured in a mouthful of water, and then pinched it shut again. He lowered his head and said:

"I'm so skinny, I'd probably feed all the money I earn to the cats."

Lu Chusheng: "..."

In some respects... this situation has indeed existed.

Wang Ji laughed: "It seems this kid really likes this cat."

"...You've become a family member now."

After confirming that the fever reducer had been swallowed by the boy, Angkor released his hand and said:

"Alright, what are you doing in here? The water outside has all been scooped out."

"...It can't be that fast."

Wang Ji had a headache when he heard about this. He sighed and said, "It probably won't be working for at least a few hours. I checked, and it seems there's a problem with the drainage system as well."

After a few seconds of silence, Angkor stood up and said, "Don't just stand there, let's go fetch water together."

"Ugh."

Wang Ji shook his head and followed him toward the door:

"This rain can't really keep going, can it?"

"...I hope not."

Angkor said.