Clown Game
Chapter 231 - 218: Fairy Tale Twenty-One

Chapter 231: Chapter 218: Fairy Tale Twenty-One

Everyone gathered together and finished the story about the flame woman.

...

"Just as I thought~ it’s another third-rate, haphazard adaptation, huh? Matches turned into candles, and they became both thick and long," mumbled Chen Xiao with glassy eyes.

"Hey, hey, ’thick’ and ’long’ aren’t even the main issue here!!!" The redhead couldn’t help but interject. The young man’s hair was now a complete mess, and his suit was stained black and white, making him look dirtier than anyone else. The worst part was, every time he was around Chen Xiao, there seemed to be a strange force tempting him to blurt out some snarky comment~

Well... okay, that’s not the point either.

The recent battle actually hadn’t drained much of anyone’s physical strength, with the exception of the fat guy—the monsters were almost entirely taken down by him. At this moment, he was gradually recovering from his weakened state. His pale complexion was starting to regain a hint of rosiness, and his wrinkled skin was becoming more elastic again.

One couldn’t help admiring his amazing recovery ability. He was already trying to stand up from the ground, wincing as he pulled the iron wires embedded in his flesh out... It looked painful, but these minor wounds could heal within seconds on the fat guy’s body.

So it turns out the fat guy does have his advantages, aaaahhh!!!!

Right! That’s the main point!!!!

So~~ let’s get back to the main topic, shall we?

Now, everyone had collected four pages, and at the same time, their ammunition was almost depleted.

As mentioned before, it seemed like time in the town was frozen, so it was impossible to determine how much longer they would have to stay in this world. In this near state of exhaustion of both bullets and provisions, the slump guy made the most sensible decision. That was to stop moving... and just hide.

After all, times had changed, and the factory was fairly secluded, plus their weapons were seriously running low.

It was better to play defensively, but getting killed due to a lack of strength and knowingly going to one’s doom were both paths leading to death; however, the latter clearly reeked of idiocy.

"Set up the remaining proximity mines well, watch the entrances, try not to spread out too much, turn off the radar’s non-motion imaging modules, save energy wherever we can, save explosive weapons for the last—the duration we need to hold out is unknown, but since other teams have made it out, we should be able to as well..." slump guy said methodically, showing the qualities expected of a squad leader.

Compared to the three lords of laughter and jest on this side... sigh, better left unsaid.

Just as everyone had decided to use the factory as a base and start defending, a mysterious disturbance seemed to emerge from afar—the ground began to rumble ominously!

"Fuck~ what the hell is this now?" hollered the redhead, almost crying.

It was then that Chen Xiao spoke in a low voice, "Err... I have an immature speculation~"

"We don’t have time for this, just fart it out already!"

"Err~ I was thinking~ could there be an author behind these stories?"

"An author...?" slump guy immediately grasped the meaning behind Chen Xiao’s words.

"Yeah, the author, or maybe a reader. We’ve already offed 4 stories, right... If you’re the person who writes stories, and your hard work gets axed by an editor, would you be happy?? Or let’s say you’re a reader, and the book you’re following gets several pages ripped out, how would you feel?"

"So..."

"So they got pissed off, of course!!!"

The redhead kid couldn’t stand listening anymore, and running his hands through his hair, he complained, "Hey, hey, you two with your back-and-forth, there’s not a shred of evidence to any of this!! But why do I feel more and more uncomfortable the more I listen!!

And if there really is such a person, what would happen?"

Chen Xiao shrugged his shoulders, "If someone treated the characters from my stories like that... I’d definitely do unto them as they did unto mine. You know, I’d send all the characters from my stories to confront those annoying people, pin them to the ground, and rub them against it over and over... rub..."

After listening to this, the redhead burst out laughing, "Hahaha————we’re done for, it’s really over now!!"

It seemed some higher power heard his shouting, because as soon as he finished speaking, a figure in a blood-red cloak holding a huge scythe appeared before them out of nowhere.

"Fuck, this damn jinx comes too quick."

In certain respects, the redhead really was a jinx... because even the word "quick" he got right.

The person draped in the red cloak was indeed fast. Before anyone could recover from the shock of his sudden appearance, he transformed into a crimson blur, rushing toward the closest to him, the engineer guy.

As the engineer’s enhancements were all tech-based, his physical abilities were weaker. At that moment, he just stood frozen, as if resigned to his fate and seeing his life flash before his eyes.

But speaking of quick, it wasn’t just the red cloak who burst onto the scene so suddenly.

The next second, with a "clang—" the ear-piercing sound of metal scraping metal exploded in front of the engineer as sparks flew in the half-lit air from clashing blades. The crimson afterimage seemed to be abruptly sliced through, and then in the next moment appeared in a corner in a different direction. And looking back from afar was a gaunt figure standing in front of the engineer before anyone knew it.

Song Xuan slowly pulled another dagger from the sheath on her calf, her body slightly hunched over, giving off a sickly thin impression, as if she would collapse any second.

"This guy... we won’t get away without dealing with it, so... leave it to me for now~" she said indifferently. Compared to Bai Xiong’s emotionless poker face, Song Xuan’s words felt as sharp as a knife’s edge, cold enough to keep people at bay.

Naturally, no one wanted to argue.

Everyone had seen how that person moved, leaving only time for an eye’s blink of a reaction. Invisible to the eye, let alone there to attack. So, without further thought or a word, everyone understood.

At that moment, every extra word was a waste of time. If another monster popped out from somewhere, they could declare everyone’s death sentence! So the others just glanced at Song Xuan’s retreating figure and turned to run out of the factory.

"Let’s see where that tremor just came from!!!" the dispirited guy shouted while running.

The engineer guy was adjusting the buttons on his goggles...

"At the town center, the library!!" he yelled.