Clown Game
Chapter 216 - 204: Fairy Tale Nine

Chapter 216: Chapter 204: Fairy Tale Nine

Everyone was temporarily deprived of the ability to think due to the explosion. Once the dust had settled, they struggled to rise from beneath the debris that covered them.

"Ah, what happened to the Egg Brother..." Because of his "Act first, talk later" attitude, and his disregard for his own life after doing so, that explosion must have pushed the armor and prosthetics to their limit. That’s why he did nothing for such a long time, just running east and west with the team... basically, he was just cooling down.

Enough said, as people turned to look behind them... the entire street was unrecognizable. The houses and roadside facilities were all destroyed, and at the spot where the explosives had been dropped, there was now a crater about 10 meters in diameter. Inside the crater, the sewer pipes were severely damaged, sticking out brokenly. At the bottom, only two almost completely burnt skulls of the monster remained, and the insects had long since vanished without a trace.

"This is... so cool..." Chen Xiao, looking at the scene before him, said excitedly.

"Hey, what weird thing are you thinking about again!" Although Chen Xiao probably had more to say, the listless guy clearly didn’t want to let him finish, and hurriedly interrupted him.

See? I told you Xiaoxiao has a strong ability to make friends. In such a short time, he had already given these people a preliminary understanding of himself.

Just then...

In the gaping hole created by the explosion, that charred corpse seemed to begin changing... It started to turn red overall, and then, like paper that meets fire, began to develop burnt holes with embers, growing bigger and bigger until they completely consumed it, leaving nothing behind...

"Is it... gone???" The fat man exclaimed as he watched the disappearing corpse, dumbfounded. Such a huge creature that had chased them for several blocks just vanished as if it were made of paper, burning up in a few seconds, and that too without any visible flames... It didn’t seem to make any sense at all.

But then again, the very existence of this creature didn’t make sense to begin with.

Following that—

"There... there seems to be something..." the listless guy appeared to see something, pointing to the spot where the creature had just vanished, with an expression as if he couldn’t believe his eyes...

The engineer adjusted his goggles, looked in the direction he was pointing, and also seemed puzzled. After hesitating, he said, "Um... it looks like a piece of paper..."

—Paper???

How could there be a piece of paper in such a place?

Well... although it was confusing, no matter what, if it was a piece of paper, it definitely indicated something... so, everyone, looking perplexed, climbed down into the large crater.

A minute later, both groups of people had finally reached the bottom of the pit.

There was really a piece of paper here.

Everyone was baffled, staring dumbly at the piece of paper before them, forgetting to pick it up... Uh... this feeling was really surreal, somewhat ridiculous, an utterly improbable item in a place like this, like a mountain climbing team, after arduous peril, having finally reached the summit only to find a flush toilet there with a piece of used toilet paper floating in it.

...anyone would be stunned by that.

Chen Xiao blinked his eyes, looking completely baffled, but still stooped down and picked up the paper...

The paper itself was nothing special, only half the size of an A4, and felt rougher than regular paper, even a bit shoddily made. There were words on both front and back, and on one edge of the paper, there were signs of it having been torn, as if it had been ripped from a crudely made book.

And Chen Xiao naturally began to read.

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"The Candy House"

Long ago, there was a severe famine in the village.

A swarm of terrifying insects appeared from nowhere, thousands upon thousands, endless, knowing only to eat! Eat! Eat!

Soon, they had devoured all the crops, leaving the village’s food supply almost depleted.

"Let’s abandon the children in the forest! Otherwise, we’re all going to starve!" the stepmother said.

"No, that’s too cruel," the father said sternly.

"Well, then go find some food."

This left the father speechless... indeed, with no food left, keeping the children at home would only lead the family to starve to death quicker!

But if thrown into the forest, there might be a chance of finding food to survive.

Yes, this isn’t abandoning the children... but giving them hope to live.

The father covered his face and spoke in a hysterical tone that was neither crying nor laughing.

And the children he was referring to were the siblings Kelandi and Banjieer.

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The next day, the father indeed took the siblings to the forest.

"You two wait here and don’t wander off; I’m going to chop some wood," the father said and then turned around and left.

The siblings were obedient; they were afraid that their father would not find them if they moved, so they really stayed put and dared not run around.

Gradually, it began to get dark.

Kelandi, scared, began to cry. Banjieer, holding his crying sister, comforted her, "Don’t be afraid, Father will come to find us."

Time passed slowly... and still, the father did not return.

"I’m so hungry!" Kelandi cried out.

Actually, Banjieer was also so hungry he could hardly bear it, and as he looked at the dark, terrifying forest with no sense of direction, a voice told him

Father, won’t come back.

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The revelation that they had been abandoned left the siblings wandering the forest, stomachs growling,

Hunger, cold, and despair continually eroded at the siblings as the voice of the goddess of death incessantly urged in their ears,

Die! Die! Just die already!!!!

Just when they were about to exhaust their last bit of energy.

Suddenly, Banjieer seemed to smell something and exclaimed, "There’s a sweet smell!!"

This scent once again evoked their desire to survive, and the siblings followed the scent.

At last, they saw a house... a house made of candy, chocolate, and cookies!!

"Wow! Amazing!"

The siblings shouted joyfully, they were so hungry that they couldn’t help but dash over and started to frenziedly eat from the house.

A fence made of chocolate, a door made of cookies, walls plastered with syrup. They crazily stuffed everything they could touch into their mouths.

"So delicious!"

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That’s where the story ends on the first page of paper, Chen Xiao hurriedly turned it over to continue reading.