Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 949 Similarity

Anjie first handed Yu Shijiu a chocolate out of habit, and then popped one into her own mouth.

"The hooded passenger next to Lin Hai is of unknown identity, Mu Lanzhi and her three companions are not just for show, and more importantly, the time until their next stop is not long..."

Anjie was somewhat irritated: "If we act now, we may not be able to kill Lin Hai. Instead, it might cause even greater chaos and give those things an opening."

She gestured for the group to look at the passengers with their heads down and the five skeletons inside the carriage.

"Sister An is right."

Chen Yi agreed, "We've finally managed to rest a bit in the car, and Lin Hai... I think Mu Lanzhi and the others seem to be a little..."

He paused, carefully choosing his words, "Uneasy?"

Indeed, judging from the tense bodies and eyes of Mulanzhi and the others when the last skeleton forced Ma Ming to change seats... they were not without doubts about Lin Hai's attitude of letting and even "welcoming" these dangerous things onto the bus.

Yu Shijiu looked at the chocolate in her hand and suddenly said, "Don't you guys think that passenger in the hoodie... is starting to look more and more like Lin Hai in build?"

"..."

The group paused for a moment, then looked carefully at the back row.

Under the dim overhead light, Lin Hai sat quietly, his small pupils shimmering with light.

The hooded passenger next to him kept his head down, his face hidden by the brim of his hood.

But whether it was Yu Shijiu's words that had a psychological effect on them, the way they sat side by side with each other, the feeling of their shoulders rubbing against each other, and even the silent, chilling aura emanating from them... there was indeed a strange sense of synchronization.

It was as if... Lin Hai was "injecting" or "synchronizing" a part of himself, or rather, the negatively charged black mist power he had absorbed, into the hoodie passenger next to him.

"What exactly is he making..."

He Lingling's voice was hoarse, her eyeballs trembling violently beneath her closed eyelids, "Lin Hai... what exactly does he want to do..."

No one could answer He Lingling's questions, just as she herself couldn't understand Lin Hai's actions.

"...Ten minutes left," Yu Shijiu unwrapped the chocolate in her hand, took a bite, "What do we do now that we've reached No Return Station?"

"..." Chen Yi glanced at An Jie, and seeing that she had stopped clutching her stomach, he said, "Let's play it by ear."

Yu Shijiu didn't like the answer, but he also knew that Chen Yi's answer was the most appropriate for the current situation.

—Who knows if a no-return station will happen again?

Time passed slowly amidst the oppression and cold.

The rain outside the bus seemed to have lessened a bit, but the sky, which should have revealed the dim light of dawn, darkened again, and the night deepened once more. The scenery outside the bus window, which had been faintly visible, slowly disappeared, leaving only the all-consuming shadows of darkness.

Only the two beams of light cut by the car headlights illuminated the rain that kept rushing in front and the occasional fleeting, twisted, claw-like shadows of withered tree branches.

Inside the carriage, no one spoke.

Even Yu Shijiu leaned back in his chair, pretending to doze off—the series of fights just now had really exhausted him, and he was too tired to move.

but……

Yu Shijiu's gaze fell on the skeletons sitting quietly in the chairs.

The five skeletons that boarded the vehicle sat motionless, like real dead objects.

Only the skeleton with its red glow flickering deep in its eye sockets, and the dark red sparks that flashed intermittently between the cracks in its skull, left eerie shadows in the dimly lit carriage.

Xiao Juan and A Hao hugged each other tightly, seemingly too exhausted to even cry, their minds filled only with a numb fear.

They are just ordinary people, without power or ability, at most just a little bit brave, which is why they haven't gone crazy after being scared for so long.

Yu Shijiu was somewhat interested in the two of them.

—Two ordinary NPCs with quite a lot of screen time, which suggests they probably have some deeper connection to this bus, right?

As for the other living passengers who were forced to squat on the edge of the aisle or in a corner...

Yu Shijiu's gaze swept over them one by one, and he narrowed his eyes with a hint of sympathy.

Those living passengers all looked like soulless shells...it was quite pitiful.

The passengers, heads bowed and their fates unknown, remained silent, seemingly indifferent to everything happening around them.

While Yu Shijiu was half-resting and half-curious, looking around the entire carriage, An Jie and the other three seized every minute to rest and adjust.

After recovering, Xu Han secretly channeled some healing energy into He Lingling, who had her eyes closed, to relieve the intense pain in her eyes.

He Lingling, who closed her eyes in pain, was speechless.

Her lips moved, but the words she wanted to say to Xu Han were too much trouble stuck in her throat.

……never mind.

He Lingling was actually in a very bad state at the moment, which may be related to her attempt to forcibly access Lin Hai's memories. As a result, she didn't see anything in the memories, but she suffered a significant backlash.

The thought of this made He Lingling feel like vomiting blood—it would be one thing if she had actually seen something, but she didn't see anything at all!

When did Lin Hai become so strong?

That's impossible.

He Lingling forced herself to suppress her anger, closed her eyes, and patiently sorted out everything that had happened since she entered the instance.

The storyline of the "Homecoming" instance can be roughly guessed from its name. It's similar to a story where all the passengers on a train have to go home or reach their desired destination...

Based on the initial prompts when they entered the instance, they might only need to survive to the final destination to win—but what exactly does the prompt "find something that shouldn't exist" mean?

He Lingling didn't think her guesses and reasoning were wrong. This instance was definitely adapted from Lin Hai's memories—a fact that Meng Lang and the other two on the "Echo" side probably didn't know at all, except for Mulanzhi and Lin Hai himself.

Not only has Lin Hai's behavior been somewhat radical so far... but, as Shi Jiu said, Lin Hai is also too "concerned" about the hoodie-clad passengers around him.

No, it's more than just concern.

He Lingling frowned deeply and slowly exhaled a breath of stale air.

Lin Hai's attitude towards the hoodie-wearing passenger was more like... disgust and anger?

This is the reason why He Lingling wanted to find Lin Hai's memories.

Lin Hai's attitude was very strange.

It's so strange that the entire storyline of the instance seems a bit crazy.

While He Lingling kept recalling with her eyes closed, Chen Yi had already begun checking the remaining items in his system inventory.

Only after confirming that there were definitely enough props for three stations did Chen Yi finally feel relieved.

It's alright, they have plenty of props. Even if the next three battles are still pure horror combat without any plot, it doesn't matter. The five of them can definitely win by sheer force of props.

Chen Yi was quite confident about this.

—After all, Lin Hai and the other five definitely didn't have as many props as he and An Jie.