Clown Game
Chapter 114 - 114 100 Hospital Suspicions VI_2

Chapter 114: Chapter 100 Hospital Suspicions VI_2 Chapter 114: Chapter 100 Hospital Suspicions VI_2 Of course not, otherwise Chen Xiao would definitely have joyfully taken out his phone and reported the mission status upon hearing the little girl’s voice coming from the pool of blood.

As mentioned before, Chen Xiao had thought of someone.

Someone who might have long been forgotten.

It was also a little girl, very similar to the “girl in the mirror.”

Both of them had endured tragic experiences.

One suffered from abuse, while the other bore the pain of losing her relatives.

Both suddenly came to possess extraordinary abilities.

One could travel through mirrored worlds with infinite strength, while the other could move objects through the air and drain all the water from a person’s body.

Similarly, they both had a taboo.

Just like the “girl in the mirror” could only stay in the mirrored world, that girl could only stay in places devoid of light.

Both girls seemed to have been cut from the same mold, only different colors were added.

…

Yes, that girl was the one Chen Xiao had encountered at the very beginning of the story when he was still a so-called “volunteer.”

Meizi!

She was really too similar to the “girl in the mirror”!

If you had to point out a difference, it was that at the time, Meizi still had the capability to discern right from wrong, while the girl in front of him had turned into a “murderous monster.”

In fact, Meizi was also gradually losing her humanity. Perhaps it was because she was naturally kind, or maybe it was the child named “Xiaoming” who had taken on some of the erosion of her humanity for her, or possibly the “Fantasy Classroom” she constructed through self-deception provided a small comfort to her fledgling spirit.

But most importantly, just as she was about to fall, she timely met Chen Xiao.

…

What? Chen Xiao stopped a little girl’s downfall? Are you joking? Shouldn’t he be the one forcibly dragging others down?

Uh… although that sounds ridiculous, the reality seemed to really be so. If Chen Xiao had not been on this mission that day, perhaps Meizi would have become like the “girl in the mirror” now, starting to kill indiscriminately.

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Enough idle talk, actually, right at this moment, all Chen Xiao had to do was make a call, have the Foundation’s people come and permanently seal off this floor, or simply smash all the mirrors, cut off water and electricity, then plaster this floor with cement, and this mission would end. Because he had cracked the operational pattern of the “Anomalous Phenomenon,” maybe the containment bonus might even be credited to himself.

So why didn’t Chen Xiao directly end this mission?

Of course, it was because he discovered a very interesting matter.

Two girls with similar mental states, at similar ages, awakened the same taboo-bearing supernatural abilities.

Could there really be such coincidences in the world?

So… Chen Xiao was almost certain; these children were not born with “supernatural abilities.”

If everyone thinks carefully, when initially encountering Meizi, the whole orphanage was surrounded by detection equipment, with so many guards and staff members, even someone of “Mr. Zou’s” executive status was involved, and due to the urgent need for “lab rats”, Mrs. Liu personally went around recruiting volunteers.

It only seems like a “Dark Realm” level task would involve such a large scale.

After Meizi appeared, the anomaly detectors only signaled a “D-level Anomaly”!

How could the Foundation go to such great lengths for a D-level anomaly? The normal procedure would be to have a few field team members resolve it and call it a day. If it turned into a major mess, like blowing up half the street, they’d even deduct from the bonus.

Moreover, at the end of the “orphanage mission,” Chen Xiao even used Meizi’s life to threaten Mr. Zou.

Come on, could a character like Mr. Zou be threatened by a D-level anomaly?

So, these little girls with special abilities are definitely not ordinary containment items.

Then, could their supernatural abilities be something given to them by someone else?

…

If you think about it that way, everything seems to make sense.

The Foundation isn’t concerned about the supernatural girls, but about something that grants these girls their supernatural abilities.

At this moment, Chen Xiao was certain that if he reported the situation with the “Mirror Girl” now, the Foundation would definitely send more people to handle this task immediately, even going so far as to lock down all the intelligence.

By then, Chen Xiao might truly never find out what was hidden behind these girls.

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Searching for interesting things…this was almost his biggest goal aside from “finding his own past memories,” it could even be said to be the most important factor for him to maintain his “current state.” If one day, Chen Xiao suddenly found the world completely devoid of interest, he might just…

Well… got sidetracked.

Anyway, now that such a tempting cake was placed in front of him, he would definitely take a bite.

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“Who… gave you the power?” Chen Xiao asked directly. He didn’t use any special conversational techniques; he just asked outright. For a child already corroded by negative emotions, no amount of fancy words would help.

As expected, the other party didn’t answer Chen Xiao’s question but continued glaring angrily.

“You all… deserve to die!!” she said fiercely, not bothering to hide the disgust in her voice. Hearing such a tone from an adult would instill fear in anyone, let alone from a child in her teens, as if there was no longer a single positive thought in her heart.

Chen Xiao was silent for a while.

“You must feel very lonely, that feeling of being ignored by everyone,” he said lightly.

Perhaps touched by these words, the little girl didn’t continue to rage but her eyes were still angry.

“Do you know about snowball fights? Throwing snowballs at each other… or playing hide and seek, many people hiding, one person seeking, finding someone and then laughing for several minutes… You must have played it, the kind you could play all afternoon without getting tired… But you can’t play anymore because you can’t play hide and seek alone.”

Chen Xiao continued lightly.

“Doing everything alone, having no friends, no one to talk to, you can do so many things we can’t, but in the end, it’s just you alone, eating alone, sleeping alone, oh… maybe you don’t even need to eat or sleep, you can only… just sit…” Chen Xiao leant against the wall, his tone casual.

“Shut up!” Suddenly, “Mirror Girl” interrupted Chen Xiao’s words, screaming as she began to flail her fists in a pool of blood, of course, hitting nothing.

Chen Xiao didn’t mind her, and placed his hands behind his head, staring at the ceiling, and continued as if talking to himself.

“You can see those patients, even though they are sick, they’re quite happy… because they know they have someone to take care of them… and those policemen you killed, they often cursed each other, but at the same time, they were also smiling… People are always like this, with kinship or friendship and such, also love, which you probably don’t understand because you’re still young, but later you won’t understand either, because no one can love you! Even no one talks to you, no one has conversations, no one looks at you! What we do here has nothing to do with you, because over there… it’s just you alone.”

“Shut up! I’ll kill you!!” The girl grew even angrier, more frantic, baring her teeth, like an enraged young beast, desperately swinging her arms, attempting to hit something… but in her roar, there was a hint of sobbing.

“What’s the use of anger, what’s the use of killing more people, it won’t make anyone pay attention to you, maybe soon this place will be sealed off, and no one will come anymore… If so, I might be the last person to talk to you, you’ll just be alone forever, until you die… if you can die.”

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“Mirror Girl” was no longer roaring… was no longer angry… just quietly hanging her eyes.

Indeed… she was very lonely.

Chen Xiao was still staring at the ceiling,

After a long time,

“So… talk to me…”

(They say I excerpt too much… this time I’ve merged two chapters into one, is that okay? That’s the update for today.)