Clown Game
Chapter 229 - 216: Fairy Tale Nineteen

Chapter 229: Chapter 216: Fairy Tale Nineteen

The thing was entirely made of some metal-like material, you could barely consider it to be a piece of clothing, but its "front" was all hollowed out, there was a shoulder strap on each side, and at the waist, there was a wide, thick iron hoop, connected to both by a metal mesh, with a Metal Spine embedded in the middle... This design made the gadget look something like a "hunchback corrector."

The fat man lifted this strange gadget and looked eagerly at the other four people in his team.

"Is there no other way?" he murmured, and of course, from his almost resigned tone, you could tell that he already knew the answer.

As expected, the rest of them looked back at him with a "you know what I mean" look.

"Alright, alright~" the fat man mumbled to himself, with the look of a child going to the dentist’s office. Then, he began to strip off his armored clothing.

The instant he took off his clothes, the fat man’s flesh "plopped" out, making him appear even bigger than before...

Er, but that’s not the point.

Next, the fat man stuffed his chubby arms into the shoulder straps, then fastened the belt around his waist. In this way, the Metal Spine stuck snugly against the fat man’s back, and since the special metallic material had good elasticity, the fat man managed to squeeze himself into it.

...

Suddenly... The engineer-boy apparently saw something through his goggles. He pressed something quickly and then called out a bit nervously, "She’s coming!"

With no special goggles of his own, the decadent brother relied on his own capabilities in hearing, vision, and perception, which even allowed him to sense the presence even before the engineer-boy did.

"Move, to the Corrosion Pool! Fatso, get ready!" he shouted.

No sooner had his words fallen than they all felt an intense heat envelop them, and right in the middle of the closed iron door of the factory, the metal started to redden and even seemed to melt. Seconds later, an arm as if covered in lava burst straight through the solid steel door with the ease of a knife through butter.

"Fuck, isn’t this setting a bit too much?" the redhead cursed loudly.

In the brief moment of those words, the factory door had melted enough to form a large hole, and a scorched body began to crawl through, flailing wildly.

In such a situation, there was no need for words anymore, everyone turned and ran towards the interior of the factory.

Although Chen Xiao had just recovered, the repair capsules had already replenished all his strength, so he wasn’t far behind the others, he even managed to yell at the decadent brother.

"Hey, hey, mysterious much~ what’s your plan anyway?!"

The decadent brother replied briefly, "We of the Chatty Sparrow Squad can handle this one, just watch!"

Without further ado, they quickly reached the factory’s central area, presumably the main workshop, surrounded by unnamed machines and lathes.

Before they could even catch their breath, the scorching hot temperature from behind, almost enough to ignite them, caught up again.

But this time, the people from the Chatty Sparrow Squad stopped running.

The decadent brother pulled out his modified handgun, pointed it at the flame-covered woman chasing them, and in Chen Xiao’s tone yelled,

"Take her down!!!"

In an instant, the bullets rained down on the flame-engulfed woman like they were free.

However, just as Song Xuan had said earlier, the creature wasn’t bothered by bullets at all. The scorched skin appeared exceptionally tough, and all bullets that hit her only sparked without causing any actual damage.

Of course, the Chatty Sparrow Squad wasn’t just wasting firepower for no reason. The volley of bullets had the impact force to stop the flame woman from advancing any further.

"Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh—————" A terrible roar.

Uh...

The sound did not come from the monster.

It was the fat guy.

The three members of the Laughing Bird looked over in confusion.

Dozens of iron wires sprang out from that uniquely shaped Metal Spine, "whizzing" around as if alive, and then... they viciously stabbed into the fat guy’s body, burrowing inside.

Now, Chen Xiao and the others finally understood why the fat guy always looked so miserable. Nobody would want to use a weapon that obviously had a self-harm feature. As the iron wires drilled into the fat guy’s layers of fat, they quickly turned red, looking as if they were drawing blood from him.

"Ahhhh!!" The fat guy continued to howl, sticking out his belly full of fat. A beam thick as a bowl shot out from his waistband, charging directly at the woman in flames.

...

Next, something amazing happened.

The opponent seemed to be bound by some force, motionless. Upon seeing this, the members of the Tea Beak Sparrow team stopped firing and quickly stepped back, clearing a large space for the flame woman.

Seeing that his target was locked by the beam, the fat guy swung his belly and the white beam, carrying the flame woman, was flung into the Corrosion Pool in the middle of the factory.

After that, every iron object around seemed to be attracted by a huge magnetic force, flying toward the Corrosion Pool.

At first, it was just some nails, then iron pipes and sheets of iron, until the lathes bolted to the ground began to loosen. "Clang clang bang bang," one after another, quickly filling up the pool to the brim. The area around the woman undoubtedly had an extremely high temperature; the moment those metal parts touched her skin, they immediately turned red hot and started melting. But even so, the endless supply of iron kept piling on top of her, melting a layer only for another to cover it again, the molten iron pooling at her feet, turning into flowing flames, even burning through the surface of the Corrosion Pool and sinking into the ground beneath.

During this time, Chen Xiao also noticed that the fat guy’s complexion grew paler and paler, his layers of fat seeming like they had been drained, losing their elasticity.

Finally, after nearly a minute under the steel burial, the tech guy finally spoke...

"The temperature fluctuation has disappeared..."

...

...

Hearing this, the fat guy finally stopped his screaming. After all, regardless of his lung capacity, he had been howling continuously for nearly a minute.

"Huff—huff—" Panting heavily, he sat down on the ground, his skin having lost its greasy sheen.

Chen Xiao looked at the iron-filled ruins in front of him, finally coming back to his senses.

"What is this, what is this?" he asked with a bit of excitement.

"Magnetic Binding Cannon— a B-grade weapon!" the dispirited guy spoke as if boasting, "You’ve seen its function; it can bind targets not too large in volume and generate extremely strong magnetic forces within a certain range. The downside is... it requires biological energy to operate." Saying this, the dispirited guy nodded toward the fat guy beside him, looking like he had been drained dry.

Chen Xiao looked at the fat guy again and nodded in agreement. Indeed, the power of this weapon was formidable, but its drawback was equally obvious. He estimated that across the whole of Asia, the only C-grade person who could operate it was probably the fat guy.

Just then, the tech guy seemed to have finally confirmed something through his goggles, he sighed with relief and turned to tell the others, "She... she’s gone."

"Oh? Like the previous two?" the redhead interjected and asked.

The tech guy nodded... "I suppose so; there’s now a human-shaped void in the pool. This fiery individual has probably... turned to ash."

He pondered for a bit before he spoke.

Indeed... the phrase "turned to ash" did indeed sound awkward.

But Egg Brother didn’t care what the opponent turned into. He swaggered over with his modified prosthetic, seemingly eager to try...

"Alright... if that’s the case, then it’s time to smash open this heap of scrap metal and see what story this guy has left us."