Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 696 Unconscious Pollution

It was really tiring, especially since Sister Sun was busy doing other chores during the day.

The short Sun Qin felt sorry for her older sister Sun and volunteered to boil water, but her older sister Sun laughed and threw a "dragon nightshade" into her mouth.

Black nightshade is a wild fruit that grows on the nearby mountains. It looks purplish-red, and when it's ripe, you can just pop it in your mouth and bite into it. It's sweet and sour and very delicious.

“You’re still young,” Sister Sun bent down and patted her head, “For now, just focus on helping me burn firewood.”

"..."

Sun Qin was a little unhappy and said with a pout, "Why can my second brother sleep in bed without moving? My parents still have to bring him food all day long?"

"Shhh."

Sister Sun was startled and quickly covered her younger sister's mouth. She looked up at the kitchen door several times in a panic before letting out a sigh of relief.

“You can’t say that,” Sister Sun pinched Sun Qin’s ear slightly and whispered, “If Dad hears this, you’re in for a beating tonight.”

Sun Qin's ears hurt from being twisted, but she didn't dare to talk back. She muttered some complaints that only she could hear and squatted back down in front of the stove to continue burning firewood.

Oh, she was still a little unhappy, so she kept stuffing firewood into the hole—that night the kitchen smoke was so thick that other villagers almost thought there was a fire, and one after another they carried water to her house.

That night, Sun Qin and her sister were both beaten by their father, their backs were swollen from the beatings, and Sun Qin was in so much pain that she couldn't sleep well for several nights.

"...My family is not doing well."

Sun Qin vaguely recalled her past and couldn't help but chuckle softly: "Sigh, I thought I had forgotten everything."

I never expected that these things, which I just mentioned casually, would be remembered so clearly.

"It's in the past."

He Lingling was speechless, not expecting that Sun Qin had lived that kind of life before.

"Although we live with our heads hanging on our backs, we should still be living a relatively comfortable life?"

He Lingling isn't really good at comforting people. For the past ten years or so, she's been blind and can't see other people's expressions, so naturally she can't tell what kind of expression the person opposite her is making when they're talking to her.

Mockery? Disdain? Or disgust, pity, and sympathy?

In the past, He Lingling would have thought about it, but now... she's lucky if she doesn't go around putting others down.

“That’s a good point,” He Lingling said. “I don’t care what you want to do, I’ll just do what I want to do.”

Sun Qin couldn't help but laugh, saying, "That's right, hahaha, I haven't been back in so long."

Her parents and brother have long since lost control of her.

Seeing Sun Qin smile, He Lingling's wildly beating heart slowly calmed down.

Good heavens, she was just making up an excuse to chat and kill time, who knew Sun Qin had such a hard life before...

Despite feeling guilty, He Lingling couldn't help but take a few serious looks at Sun Qin.

It must have been incredibly difficult for Sun Qin to "escape" from such an ignorant and foolish place... and what about her kind older sister?

Did her sister run away too?

Sun Qin didn't say anything, and He Lingling wouldn't want to embarrass herself by revealing someone else's secret, so she slowly got up to wash up.

She decided to take a safe nap during the day.

There's still a tough battle to fight tonight.

Thinking that tonight all players would most likely have to fight a chaotic battle with the BOSS... He Lingling felt inexplicably irritable.

She couldn't explain why she was so irritable.

It was as if something unseen was pressing down on her, making her feel like she couldn't breathe.

why?

As He Lingling stepped into the bathroom, her heart pounded rapidly; she could almost hear the frantic, rapid beat echoing in her ears.

He Lingling suddenly looked up.

Because of several days of rain, the bathroom, which used to have hot water, now has cold water.

Cool water flowed down the tap, and a faint smell of the sea filled the bathroom.

In the mirror above the faucet, two dark brown bumps appeared on either side of He Lingling's head, with pointed tips, as if something was about to burst out of the ground.

He Lingling's pupils shrank instantly—she knew what this meant; it was a sign that the player had been corrupted by the "goat"!

Almost the instant He Lingling realized she had been contaminated, the "goat horns" on both sides of her head began to grow at a visible speed.

The skin bulged and tore open—He Lingling even heard the sound of something drilling into her head.

She was horrified, her gaze falling on her own neck in the mirror—the dark purple bruises there were splitting open at an eerie and terrifying speed, with thicker, wool-like hair growing between the scarlet flesh!

He Lingling was quick enough that after realizing she had been contaminated without her knowledge, she immediately took out the goat milk that Yu Shijiu and Xu Han had given her, but—her hands were also turned into hooves!

Unable to unscrew the plastic bottle cap with her limbs distorted, He Lingling looked desperately at the bathroom door and tried to call out to Sun Qin—

"Bah!"

Her desperate cries for help were met with a bleating sound exactly like the sheep-headed people's.

He Lingling: "..."

She felt that the game instance "Sheep Sacrifice" was probably not compatible with her, or perhaps they were incompatible.

Otherwise, why do these bad things always happen to me?! Good heavens! I haven't done anything that would definitely attract ghosts, have I? Why does she always seem to be the one getting blamed?!

Squeak.

The tightly closed bathroom door was pushed open, and Sun Qin peeked out from behind it with somewhat embarrassed lowered eyelids.

"Um, I heard a strange noise... Did you hear that—me!!!"

Sun Qin's voice stopped abruptly. She stared intently at He Lingling's version of the sheep-headed man, who seemed frozen in front of the mirror, and was speechless for a moment.

What the hell is going on?! Where is He Lingling—wait, why has He Lingling suddenly changed like this?!

He Lingling's mind was already somewhat muddled. She tried to open her mouth—but still couldn't make a sound.

"..."

He Lingling felt like she was going crazy. She could only try to suppress the urge to bleat and reached out her hand—no, her hoof—towards the plastic bottle she had just taken out and dropped into the sink.

Sun Qin was a little scared, but she swallowed hard and tiptoed into the bathroom to get closer to He Lingling—she saw the goat milk in the sink.

"...Shall I feed you this?"

Sun Qin hesitated for a moment, but then quickly picked up the plastic bottle and twisted it open with a movement completely inconsistent with her expression.

He Lingling blinked slowly.

Sun Qin: "..."

She gritted her teeth and poured the plastic bottle of goat milk into He Lingling's mouth.

He Lingling, who had just been forced to drink a large mouthful of goat milk, uttered: "...glug—glug—cough—glug—"

Before the turbidity in her brain completely dissipated, He Lingling had already started rolling her eyes from being drunk.