Clown Game
Chapter 113 - 113 100 Hospital Suspicions VI

Chapter 113: Chapter 100 Hospital Suspicions VI Chapter 113: Chapter 100 Hospital Suspicions VI “He is…”

These were the only two words from that phone call. They were also the most important clue so far.

The caller must have seen “him,” so they wanted to convey an incredibly crucial message, but usually, after seeing the murderer, the first thing one would say should be, “He is…” right.

Why say “He is…” then?

Is “location” more important than “identity”?

So, this kid must have appeared in a place people cannot fathom.

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“He is…”

It was these two words that gave Chen Xiao a bold idea, leading him to abandon his previous line of thought and go in the opposite direction.

He was no longer fixated on “how the child appeared beside those victims…”

Instead, he reversed his thinking to “how the victims ended up beside this child…”

These two sentences sound similar, their meanings closely aligned, and even the words are exactly the same, just switched around, but they are truly two completely different concepts.

It’s like “I love you” versus “you love me,” worlds apart. Countless otaku’s millions of “I love you’s” can’t wait for a single “you love me,” only to let their love become cheaper and cheaper, sinking into a fantasy of the two-dimensional world and living out their lives in solitude.

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Sorry, let’s put down this sad story and take a look at Chen Xiao.

After switching his thinking, he found the question to be incredibly simple.

If the child’s “effective range” is fixed, then, it’s easy to deduce where he is since we know where all the victims died.

The first person died in the restroom.

The second intern and the remaining police officers all died at the end of the hallway or a little farther away, and all of them died at night.

Since both Chen Xiao and the team leader uncle are fine, it means this kid isn’t in the walls, not in the lights, not in the floor—in short, not around Chen Xiao.

Why was the intern’s penetration wound at the edge of the body?… Because… the rest of the body was blocked.

Why was one police officer not punched through but ripped apart?… Because… the other half wasn’t within “his” attack range.

So where was the caller when they saw this child…

Everyone should have guessed by now, right?

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Chen Xiao slipped the gun back into his waistband.

Because he knew, it was useless.

“Humph humph humph…humph humph humph…”

He began to hum that unpleasant melody again. Every time he was in a good mood, he always hummed something.

Chen Xiao edged along the wall toward those corpses at the end of the hallway, then found a corner a few steps away from the blood on the ground and sat down with his legs crossed.

“Why murder…”

He asked nonsensically, but there was no one in front of him.

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No sooner had his words faded than a girl’s face appeared in the pool of blood on the floor.

About 15 years old, she looked quite cute,

But there was uncontainable rage and murderous intent in her eyes.

“Doctors… all bad people…”

She clenched her jaws, forcing the words out, the veins on her neck bulging, her canine teeth seemingly ready to bite.

Chen Xiao didn’t look at her because he knew that the moment his reflection was vertically exposed on any reflective surface, he would be instantly killed by the child.

“A child who lost a relative in the hospital? Or the tragic story of parents dying due to doctors’ inaction?” He pondered casually.

It didn’t matter. Chen Xiao wouldn’t care about that.

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“Then why kill the cops…?” he asked again.

“Those trying to stop me… all bad people…” The girl said, her tone angrier than before.

It was hard to imagine such words coming from a girl’s mouth. One could feel her thoughts were enveloped by intense negative emotions.

“Eh… such a promising little loli, why did she have to follow the dark path?” Chen Xiao muttered under his breath.

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Now then, you all see…

“She’s in the mirror…” That’s what the guard wanted to say.

This little girl was always in the mirror, in the reflections in windows after dark, in the bloodstains that hadn’t yet settled, or rather, she was never in our world—she only existed in a world of reflections.

When people are reflected in something akin to a mirror, she can affect them.

The doctor in the restroom, since only his upper body was exposed in the mirror while washing his hands, died horribly.

The second intern, because the office door just blocked half of his body, she could only reach the edge of his body.

The rest of the guards were all killed by the girl due to the windows, or flowing blood.

So, the “anomaly” in this mission was this little girl in the mirror.

She was incredibly powerful in her own world, but she also had a fatal weakness.

Chen Xiao guessed that for some reason, she could only move within the mirrors on the 17th floor of this hospital and couldn’t come out or appear in reflections anywhere else, not even on other floors of the hospital.

So as long as Chen Xiao wasn’t foolish enough to move toward her, this little girl couldn’t do anything to him.

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So what now?

Is the mission ending just like that, so abruptly?