Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 305 Delivering Desserts

Squeak.

When the door was opened, the old housekeeper standing outside had not yet lowered her hand.

A young, bewildered face peeked out from behind the door. "Grandma?"

The old housekeeper lowered her eyes, and in the dim light of the corridor, the dry wrinkles and creases on her face were even more pronounced.

"This is the dessert you ordered for dinner."

The old housekeeper bowed respectfully, slowly slipping a black tray through the crack in the door.

"We have all the flavors. Would you like me to go in and open them for you?"

This statement naturally won't get a response.

But the boy in front of him, who had one hand behind his back, seemed to seriously think about it for a few seconds before finally shaking his head.

"I think I'll pass." Yu Shijiu lowered her raven-wing-like eyelashes, a hint of regret in her eyes.

"It's too late, Grandma needs to go to sleep too."

As she spoke, Yu Shijiu opened the door, casually taking the dessert from the old housekeeper's hands with her left hand, and said naturally:

"I'll take it down myself after I finish eating. Mother-in-law, you should go back to sleep first."

The old housekeeper: "..."

She watched as the other person took the tray from her hands, stood by the door, and gave her a farewell smile.

The old housekeeper felt that something was not quite right.

With such a significant change in the corridor, couldn't the other party have noticed it?

"Ah, right."

Yu Shijiu hissed.

The old housekeeper's lips curved slightly—

"Mother-in-law, you didn't even bring me a glass of juice."

"..."

The old housekeeper's smile froze.

Yu Shijiu seemed completely unaware of the change in her expression and continued:

"These desserts look delicious, but they'd taste even better with a drink..."

"..."

Just as the old housekeeper's smile was about to crumble, Yu Shijiu finally stopped nagging.

He seemed embarrassed by his own "profiting while acting innocent" behavior, cleared his throat, and said with a red face:

"Well, I've been thinking, I feel really bad that you came upstairs to bring me dessert so late at night. How about you take a piece of dessert with you?"

Even so, Yu Shijiu's hand holding the tray remained still, showing no sign of reaching forward.

The old housekeeper: "..."

She slowly closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she had the same stern smile as a typical butler.

"No need, guest."

The old housekeeper squeezed out a sentence through gritted teeth: "Your eating is the greatest comfort to me for staying up all night."

She seemed afraid that Yu Shijiu would say something else, so she continued the next sentence:

"It's too late, please enjoy your meal. I'll head back now."

After the old housekeeper finished speaking, she hurriedly turned and left, her footsteps making a splashing sound in the amniotic fluid pool outside the corridor.

Yu Shijiu peeked out and watched her departing figure, then called out happily.

"Thank you, mother-in-law!"

The old housekeeper quickened her pace.

Click.

Holding a tray in one hand, Yu Shijiu tilted his shoulder and closed the door tightly. Then, with cheerful steps, he dragged the large scissors to the table in the bedroom and bent down.

clatter--

The tray makes a crisp sound when it touches the elegantly designed tabletop.

"..."

Yu Shijiu hesitated for a rare moment as he looked at the desserts on the table. Finally, he turned his head and fell silent as he looked at the umbilical cord corpses on the ground, which were faintly visible in the moonlight.

“Or,” Yu Shijiu pointed to the umbilical cord flesh on the ground with one finger and beckoned to the infant monster huddled in the corner:

"Why don't you clean these things up first?"

The baby monster: "..."

Faced with the infant's grotesque expression of shock, Yu Shijiu showed no remorse for exploiting child labor and spoke righteously:

"Look at this mess! Did you make this room? You did, didn't you? If you did, then clean it up right now!" Yu Shijiu's voice became somewhat reluctant at the end.

"If you clean up a bit more, I might even share some dessert with you, like this strawberry mousse..."

The baby monster: "..."

It turned its enormous head and rolled its eyes, revealing the dark purple veins behind its eyeballs, which looked somewhat terrifying in the dim light.

But the half-dead, flesh-colored umbilical cords around it began to move.

As the flesh-colored umbilical cord slowly dragged its own corpse from the ground toward the infant monster, Yu Shijiu had already run to the side, moved a chair, and pressed a switch.

Click.

When the bedroom light came on, the baby monster, who had been huddled in the corner busy moving scraps, shrank even further into the crack in the wall. Its small, bluish-purple, smooth body and hair made it look rather eerie and pitiful.

Players in front of the screen who had this idea: "..."

It turns out that getting used to it is a bad thing; they even dared to think that the monsters looked pitiful.

Yu Shijiu, who exploits child laborers, has already sat down in a chair and started burying himself in making desserts, occasionally exclaiming "Wow!" and nodding in satisfaction.

Anyone who didn't know better would think he was eating some kind of delicacy, but it was actually just a few delicately shaped desserts.

After the infant monster adjusted to the light, it slowly raised its head from its knees, its huge eyes, almost devoid of white, staring coldly at the large scissors that Yu Shijiu had placed beside it, a conflict flashing in its eyes.

Its brain wasn't fully developed, so it couldn't accurately pinpoint the best time to attack the player; it could only tentatively extend its umbilical cord towards Yu Shijiu.

Then Yu Shijiu, who had just taken a bite of the strawberry tip, stepped on it.

"what happened?"

Yu Shijiu, with a strawberry in her mouth, turned around and mumbled, "Are you hungry too?"

The infant monster whose umbilical cord was stepped on: "...Eek!!!"

"Okay, okay," Yu Shijiu waved impatiently, then hesitated and looked down at the desserts on the tray in front of her several times.

A few seconds later, with a pained expression, he took out a dessert decorated with lots of grapes and placed it on the flesh-colored umbilical cord at his feet.

"Here, have this. Don't waste it. Food is very important, especially since this is delicious."

"..."

The baby lying in the corner stared wide-eyed at the dessert placed on the umbilical cord.

The next second, its eye sockets couldn't withstand the prolonged staring and drooped downwards, its eyeballs rolling out.

The infant monster was so frightened that it quickly reached out and grabbed the eyeball that had rolled onto the floor, then stuffed it back into its eye socket.

Yu Shijiu glanced at it and urged, "Eat quickly, we need to take you to find your mother later."

After saying that, he ignored the baby's strange response and turned back to continue eating his dessert.

It's a bit dry because there's no water.

"..."

The speechless infant monster stared at his retreating figure. After hesitating for a few seconds, it finally retrieved the grape-flavored dessert using its umbilical cord.

The baby monster lay on the ground, glancing at the dessert in front of it several times. Then it slowly crawled around on the floor to see how Yu Shijiu was eating it—finally, it opened its seemingly toothless mouth wide and swallowed the dessert.