Clown Game
Chapter 121 - 121 107 Unknown Task 1

Chapter 121: Chapter 107 Unknown Task 1 Chapter 121: Chapter 107 Unknown Task 1 Although Chen Xiao shrugged his shoulders, meaning “Say it or don’t!”,

he still unconsciously analyzed a lot from Bai Xiong’s statement.

First, he heard Bai Xiong say, “I need a stronger team.”

Several conjectures popped up in his mind directly:

1. This guy must have something he must do, which might not be urgent, but definitely wouldn’t be easy, necessitating a very strong team for support. So, rather than saying Bai Xiong wanted to join his squad, it was more appropriate to say he wanted to pull Chen Xiao into some plan of his own.

2. Was Bai Xiong really just a death row inmate? Chen Xiao remembered their first meeting in a prison van, guarded by only one officer with a shotgun. Although Bai Xiong was bound then, could his abilities really be restrained by mere handcuffs and shackles? Shoulder, knee, head, elbow, any of these could be enough to take down the guard opposite him. Later, in the “orphanage”, Bai Xiong had mentioned he knew about a “secret organization”. So, from becoming a death row inmate to being selected as a guinea pig, and ultimately becoming an external field agent, was all this just a coincidence?

3. Combining the above points, could it be conjectured that Bai Xiong had a purpose from the beginning, and that he was determined to infiltrate the Foundation? If so, he had clearly succeeded, not only entering the Foundation but also becoming a C-class external field agent, without attracting too much attention, because he moved in step with the Foundation’s pace, with everything in plain sight, a blatant “scheme.”

Now, was he starting his second step plan? From the sound of it, he wanted to assemble a group of strong teammates. What exactly did he want to do?

A man inspired to become the “king of the field agents”?

Or was he a seed sown within enemy lines?

Chen Xiao didn’t ask,

because he didn’t care, and with the other’s temperament, even if he asked, he wouldn’t get anything out of him. Everyone has secrets, especially someone as overly composed as Bai Xiong, who’d almost engrave his footsteps in concrete and whose every word and action were so firm that they couldn’t be shaken. Perhaps what Chen Xiao was thinking now was exactly what he intended him to think.

So thinking too much was useless.

At that moment, Chen Xiao’s mind was filled with many other thoughts, like the purpose of Bai Xiong joining the Foundation? What was the “mercenary group” he mentioned earlier really about? What did he need a strong team for? But there was no need to list them all. Let’s look at what Bai Xiong said next.

“I know of a team mission…”

This sentence was interesting, indicating that Bai Xiong’s mission was not received through the mission dispatch, but that he found it through some channel of his own.

What kind of channel was that? Was he rummaging through the archive himself, or did the Foundation give him a backdoor to access tasks that others couldn’t?

It didn’t matter. What was there to be surprised about? After all, Bai Xiong had the capabilities and wisdom, was steady and didn’t act recklessly, and would not go crazy without reason. Such a person could be the protagonist in any story, so what about a bit of protagonist’s aura?

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Having finished talking about “Bai Xiong,” let’s talk about the mission, valued at a whopping 700 points, with a recommended team size of 5 people, which meant a base reward of 140 points per person. Add in some potential fluctuation, and it might soar up to 200 points.

The base reward alone showed that this was a difficult mission!

A “mirror girl” worth around 100 points could have the capability to kill Chen Xiao in an instant, what about 200 points? Just a glance could be enough to kill several times over!

No need to panic, Chen Xiao didn’t think Bai Xiong would drag him to their deaths. Because “difficulty” didn’t equate to “danger”. For example, an “anomaly”, whose elimination method required someone to support themselves with their tongue, turn in a circle parallel to the ground; he estimated anyone who could perform this feat would be worth more than 1,000 points.

So, this mission was definitely very difficult, but not dangerous, and it wouldn’t cause any harm, so much so that the Foundation didn’t want to spend time and effort on it. They’d rather leave it for now, and deal with it later when they figured out a containment method.

At that moment, Chen Xiao, after hearing Bai Xiong’s words, nodded happily. He was certainly going to accept such a mission.

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A few minutes later, Bai Xiong sent a document about an abnormal object to Chen Xiao’s phone.

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Serial: C-207

Status (not cleared or contained)

Description: C-207 is a set of “anomaly detection signals” that appear sporadically. To date, its shape, characteristics, and specific anomalous properties are all “unknown”; actually, no external field agent has ever encountered or seen this object.

C-207 first appeared around █-█-████ at █ o’clock, detected by a hidden anomaly detection device in Street ██ of City K.

At that time, an external field agent went to the location to investigate, but as he entered the anomaly’s range on Street ██, the detector suddenly lost the anomaly signal. No suspicious clues were found at the scene, and the operation failed.

Later that year on ██-█-████, near a high school in City K, a suspected C-207 anomaly reaction appeared again; the operation involved 1 C-class and 3 D-class external field agents. After they entered the anomaly’s range, the anomaly reaction disappeared again. After a subsequent search and questioning, nothing suspicious occurred within that range. Investigative leads were cut off, and this operation failed as well.

Five months later, in the commercial center of City K, the C-207 reaction appeared again; the police quickly cordoned off the entire street block, 8 external field agents together with dozens of police officers surrounded the anomalous location, and after a comprehensive search, they finally found a newspaper with writing on it on a street bench (see Appendix), but nothing else of note.

Since then, C-207 anomalies have appeared multiple times, but regardless, there was no progress whatsoever.

Following a proposal from the Asian Branch, since the object had not shown any harmful properties, it was agreed to temporarily cease pursuit of this object.