Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 785 Reducing Food Intake

Yu Shijiu's expression also changed.

Clearly, Yu Shijiu, like An Jie, had also considered a certain possibility.

"what happened?"

He Lingling and Xu Han were puzzled, "Sister An, why have your and Shi Jiu's faces suddenly become so pale?"

"..."

Yu Shijiu and An Jie remained expressionless. For the first time, the former looked at the closed door in the distance with a dry, pitiful expression, and murmured:

"Should we maintain our figure according to our adoptive mother's aesthetic standards?"

Anjie: "Shi Jiu is right."

Chen Yi, He Lingling, and Xu Han: "..."

The three of them froze, looking at Yu Shijiu and An Jie in disbelief. Xu Han's eyes widened in shock, and he said incredulously:

"Wait, Sister An, you and Shi Jiu don't mean that our foster mother might only give us, only give us a tiny bit of food, right?!"

"...Although I really don't want to nod."

Sister An took a deep breath, smiled, and brushed back the stray blue hair from her forehead with her hand, saying:

"But that's how it is at the moment."

"..."

He Lingling and Chen Yi also fell silent.

Yu Shijiu stared blankly at the locked door with an expression as if the sky had fallen, muttering:

"This won't do... What if we don't have enough to eat... We'll have to fight the toads again..."

The remaining four people didn't know what to say to comfort him, especially Anjie and Chen Yi.

Anjie glanced at the match bed and other objects displayed around her with a headache, worried that she might eat anything if she got too hungry.

Not to mention that one of them, Yu Shijiu, has a real passion for all kinds of food...

Chen Yi was the same.

But his expression remained relatively calm. He merely glanced worriedly at Anjie, who was pinching her brow, and silently walked to her side, whispering:

"It's okay, Sister An. If we really can't find anything to eat later in the story... you can try this—"

"Stop!"

Anjie abruptly interrupted Chen Yi, her expression turning serious. She gave Chen Yi a cold look as he hesitated to speak, and said in a chilling voice:

“I heard my foster mother’s footsteps.”

Chen Yi pursed his lips, lowered his eyes, and remained silent after being glanced at.

Of the remaining three, only He Lingling noticed the eye contact between An Jie and Chen Yi. Her heart sank, and she felt that An Jie and Chen Yi's current emotional state was a bit strange.

There's an eerie atmosphere... like they can't get in at all.

What exactly was it that Chen Yi was interrupted about?

He Lingling took this to heart.

She didn't suspect Anjie and Chen Yi of having ulterior motives; she just had a vague feeling that if Chen Yi had said what he hadn't finished speaking, it would have caused a dramatic emotional upheaval in everyone...

Da da—da—da da da—

The sound of footsteps approaching from afar gradually reached everyone's ears through the tightly closed door.

All players, including the Eye of All Things, instantly stopped talking and quickly ran to their own match beds.

Gada.

The door was turned open.

My foster mother walked in with a smile, carrying a plate of freshly baked bread. She hummed a cheerful, unknown song, and with each step she seemed to be treading on piano keys, her long, gray-brown skirt swayed.

"My children."

The foster mother, carrying a plate, gently placed the bread on the table, calling to them as she began to break it into pieces.

"We're having buttered bread that Mom made this morning."

The foster mother took a deep breath of the sweet, buttery aroma from the bread and smiled gently, saying:

"Everyone gets some, so don't grab it! Children who snatch food are selfish, and selfish children make their mothers very unhappy..."

"……Mother."

The obedient and well-behaved Thumbelina was the first to kneel down beside her foster mother. She first lowered her head and kissed her foster mother's fingers before gently asking:

"Can I have a piece of the buttered bread that Mom made first?"

Oh! My poor, lovely daughter!

The foster mother's smile instantly softened. She placed the freshly broken bread crumbs into the outstretched hands of Thumbelina, and then affectionately tapped her head.

"Of course! Well-behaved and sensible children will always receive their mother's favor, my darling."

"thanks Mom."

Thumbelina's eyes sparkled as she received the food, and she withdrew her hand holding the bread crumbs as she looked at her foster mother's gentle face.

"Mom, would you like to hear me sing or watch me dance again?"

Just as Thumbelina was about to lower her head to eat her bread, she suddenly remembered something and cautiously looked up to ask.

"You don't need to anymore."

The foster mother's gentle smile remained unchanged as she gazed at the tiny Thumbelina and said:

"Mom needs to feed you all quickly, then she has to go to work in the fields."

The foster mother sighed irritably, "Damn it, the weather is so hot, and I still have to work in the fields under the scorching sun..."

The foster mother talked on and on for a long time. During this time, the players lined up and, imitating Thumbelina's movements, received their own bread crumbs one after another.

Although they were called fragments, each person's hands were roughly the size of their face, since their bodies had all shrunk by more than half.

Yu Shijiu looked at the bread crumbs in his hand that smelled sweet and delicious, and took a small bite when his foster mother wasn't paying attention.

"!!!"

Yu Shijiu's eyes lit up.

The buttered bread in this game instance is so delicious!

"Mom is going to work in the fields."

The foster mother, having finished dividing a whole loaf of buttered bread, clapped her hands. She picked up a towel from the table, wiped the crumbs from her hands, and gently addressed the "children" holding bread crumbs on the table:

"After you finish eating, you can get together to sing and dance, since you are all brothers and sisters who grew up together in the same place."

After saying that, the foster mother turned around and took down the ceramic basin from the cabinet next to her.

"This is water you can drink."

The foster mother filled the ceramic basin with water, and then somehow produced some tiny cups, almost half the size of a fingernail, and placed them on the table.

“The cups are here,” the foster mother said. “Choose one yourself, and there’s also—”

The foster mother looked at Anjie, who was also holding bread crumbs in the crowd, and sighed softly.

Anjie felt a chill run down her spine from being stared at. Just as her mind was racing, trying to figure out if she had done something wrong, her adoptive mother's voice rang out again.

"I will bring back the new petal quilt after dark tonight."

Anjie was taken aback.

Her foster mother looked at her gently and said, "I hope your new petal-patterned quilt won't be blown away by the wind tonight."

"..."

After the foster mother uttered these words, which sounded like a warning, the air instantly turned cold and silent. All the players on the table looked at Ange, including Thumbelina, who had been kneeling quietly on the table.