Clown Game
Chapter 111 - 111 98 Hospital Suspicions IV

Chapter 111: Chapter 98: Hospital Suspicions IV Chapter 111: Chapter 98: Hospital Suspicions IV Watching Chen Xiao split open the chest of a corpse as easily as splitting a cracked watermelon, the expression on the team leader’s face stiffened.

He felt as if there was a tense string in his mind that snapped because it couldn’t handle some bizarre thing with a “snap.”

“Heh~~” he laughed for no reason, feeling inexplicably enlightened.

At that moment, Chen Xiao’s voice came through…

“Hey, could you lend a hand here?”

The uncle looked up to see Chen Xiao still struggling with the corpse. Apparently, he wanted to free up a hand to do something, but as soon as he let go, the pried-open ribcage would close, so he was frantically busy and didn’t succeed.

The uncle looked at this fellow, “If let loose in society, who knows what sensational incidents he might cause,” and didn’t scream like before, but seemed resigned instead.

“Oh…” he responded weakly and actually went over to help.

That’s how it is with the world, some things, if struggling is useless, just let them be. Maybe if you abandon some things, like your principles or morals, you might discover a broader horizon. Like now, it’s just a corpse, what else could you do with it?

At that moment, the uncle’s mindset was, “Even if this kid directly stuck his head into the chest of the corpse, then chewed up the organs with his spit and spit it out for a full body spa, I could accept it.”

So naturally, he was fearless.

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Went a bit off track there, Chen Xiao isn’t some corpse desecrator, he wouldn’t do something so meaningless.

Now, let us clear our thoughts.

Firstly, based on the previous assumptions, if there really is such a “child” who uses the methods of “leaning on the head” and “piercing chest with bare hands” to kill two adults, then combining the available information, this child’s “anomalous characteristics” include the following:

1. People can’t see him, or he has some ability to appear instantly in a locked bathroom and disappear, and also stay unseen under surveillance.

2. His strength and speed are extremely powerful, if the second corpse’s penetrating injury is really made with a fist, it’s more terrifying than an artillery shell of the same caliber. That means, if encountered, it’s certain death.

3. He must possess intelligence comparable to a normal person, and his targets are specific, only killing doctors. Of course, it could also be a coincidence, or he might be a kind of monster who “just loves to kill people in white clothes,” but that possibility is too small.

Then comes an unexplainable issue.

That is…

Where is this child?

This is a very important question as it relates to how to find him, catch him, or, how not to be killed by him.

As mentioned before, from the spray pattern of blood, it can be determined that there were no physical entities around when the two died, otherwise there would have been some obstruction, and the surveillance footage clearly recorded the intern’s death.

So, “no physical entity” can almost be confirmed.

Then there arises a contradiction —— this child can touch you, but you can’t touch him…

“Uh… doesn’t make sense…” Chen Xiao muttered while extending his arm deeper into the corpse, his sleeve rolled up, his entire arm nearly submerged in that open chest, brushing against several broken bones.

After a long time, Chen Xiao had really examined the “second body” inside and out, and I won’t go into details here. Throughout this process, the uncle swallowed back the regurgitated food from the previous night three times.

Chen Xiao pulled his hand out, shaking off the flesh and blood on it, and mumbled thoughtfully: “The heart, a section of the intestines, along with the stomach and a lobe of the lung were penetrated and shattered. The point of force can be confirmed to be from the back, and the impact instantly forced open the bones, all other organs also have varying degrees of ‘pulling injuries.’ That is to say, the deceased was definitely penetrated by an ‘object,’ and looking at the condition of the organs, we can also rule out the speculation of ‘parasitism.’ So, what’s left is the location of these penetration wounds…”

Indeed, the position of this big hole was awkward; it was on the lower edge of the left ribs, near the edge of the body. This spot is very difficult to exert force on, and if not for the terrifying force and speed of this strike, it would have definitely “slid” off one side of the body. Also, typically, you’d expect a blow to the center of the body.

“So, could there be some reason why that guy can only hit this spot? I’m completely out of ideas… or should I change my approach to find a breakthrough…” Chen Xiao pondered and partially distracted himself with baseless speculations.

“Could it be that kind of operation where you use a target’s hair to make a voodoo doll, stab a needle in the doll’s chest, and a big hole appears in the owner of the hair’s chest? But such a brutal technique doesn’t seem easily executable, even if it exists, it can’t be Class C, right? Otherwise, a trip to the barbershop could kill a hundred people. Definitely would have been contained already. Or is it killing from another time point? Stop kidding, that operation is even more heinous than voodoo dolls. Maybe someone with the ability to twist reality, or someone who can manipulate objects to enlarge or shrink, then use the instantaneous molecular repulsion during size changes to create an astonishing impact…” Hey hey, what am I doing? It feels more and more implausible.”

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Just like that, Chen Xiao continuously thought along the original line of thought, aimlessly searching for new directions of thought, and occasionally mocking himself.

As for the uncle, he had been sporting a “the whole world has abandoned me” expression from the start, leaning to the side as if to shout, “Let the storm hit harder.”

The most tragic were those two bodies, left naked and ripped open on the autopsy table, honestly, falling into the hands of Chen Xiao seemed even harder to accept than being killed by that unknown “anomaly.”

Time passed by the second.

The morgue was deathly silent.

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Suddenly, a cell phone ringtone shattered the silence.

The ringtone came from the uncle’s phone. It was probably his “police identity” phone.

Because the Foundation’s messages were usually transmitted in a special vibration frequency, nonsense, imagine if during a mission a “ring ring ring” went off and a bunch of monsters discovered them and beat them to death, who would they complain to?

The uncle was still in a state of “baseline refreshed” and was startled by the ringtone.

He glanced at the caller ID, frowned, and then answered the call.

Since the black phone was special, Chen Xiao couldn’t hear the voice inside.

But he saw the uncle put the phone to his ear and then clearly froze for a second before he was startled by something said, instinctively tilting his ear.

Immediately after, he frantically shouted into the phone, “Hello~~ Hello~~ Hello~!!”

He shouted “Hello” three times, then looked up at Chen Xiao with a face mixed with confusion and fear.

During the call, Chen Xiao had already deduced the situation on the other end through his expressions, even picturing countless possibilities unfolding before his eyes.

The most likely was: something urgent or terrible had happened on the 17th floor, one of the uncle’s policemen had frantically made a call, and within less than a second of connection, the other party had said something, probably only two or three words, then the other party’s phone had either fallen to the ground or a scream was heard, and by the time the uncle spoke into the receiver again, the other party couldn’t answer anymore, or to put it bluntly, might have died…

So, before the uncle could even hang up, Chen Xiao, without any hesitation, dashed toward the elevator.

The uncle quickly followed him.

If there really was an incident… it was almost certainly related to this “anomaly”.

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The elevator ascended to the 17th floor.

“He’s at… he’s at…”

Chen Xiao kept muttering.

Because that was the only “two words” the caller had managed to say in that brief moment.

In such an incredibly tense moment, the fact that he could still make a call indicated that this subordinate of the uncle had excellent mental strength, so, the words he said were definitely crucial information.

“He’s at…?”

Was there a location following? Perhaps “He’s behind me!”

Or was it followed by a verb, like “He’s falling?”

Or maybe, what he said wasn’t even “he’s at,” just misarticulated in panic.

Chen Xiao thought, although he couldn’t guess the answer, but soon, he would know.

The numbers beside the elevator door jumped quickly. Since it was already afternoon when Chen Xiao arrived at the hospital and with all the time spent at the scenes and the underground morgue, it was now night. Therefore, there weren’t many people in the hospital, and the elevator carrying Chen Xiao and the uncle, very fortunately, didn’t stop, ascending directly from the basement to the 17th floor.

Beside Chen Xiao, the uncle had already drawn his service revolver, his brows furrowed tight, because in that call, apart from the two words spoken, there were no other sounds, and almost all the security personnel working on the 17th floor were armed.

That meant, at the time of the call, everyone… could no longer fire their guns.

Since they were colleagues who had worked together for a long time, the uncle deceitfully did not let his mind think “all dead.”

At that moment.

A “ding” announced their arrival at the 17th floor.

The elevator doors slowly parted a crack, and a strong smell of blood seeped in

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