Clown Game
Chapter 290 - 277: Its Game and the End of the Dark Realm (Part 1)

Chapter 290: Chapter 277: Its Game and the End of the Dark Realm (Part 1)

"Who... am I?" Chen Xiao rubbed his head and asked.

"I don’t know... but you definitely can’t be ordinary. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be involved in the ’containment proposal’ for me!" the self-proclaimed "Clown" said.

"Containment...?"

"Yes, containment, that is, locking up, using a big cage to lock you down. That’s what you guys call this kind of action, right? And there are many kinds of containment plans; it’s not just a room locked up. Any physical defense is useless against me... because I am just a concept. As long as humans still possess the nature of ’madness,’ I will exist. In fact, I cannot be contained or destroyed. However, the group of guys who brought me out really thought of a way to imprison me... using you!"

Chen Xiao was expressionless and silent. His mind was frantically working, digesting, accepting, and judging the truthfulness of these words. Still, when he heard the last few words from the other party, he could not help but widen his eyes.

"Hehehe, you’d be surprised anyway. It’s not awkward at all. Yes, just as you thought, you are my ’prison,’ a human mind. Those five people separated me from my body and used your consciousness to imprison me. After that, they even found another nasty guy to watch over me, yes, the one you met earlier who called himself ’detective’... hehe, but as long as there’s a thoughtful being, there will always be a breakthrough, and rational ones like that guy also have their weaknesses!"

Chen Xiao nodded slightly, his lips curling slightly upward, "Oh? So, you’ve escaped that smoke fiend’s control now?"

"Uh, sort of, but it’s useless because I can’t escape from your mind."

"I see. But you’re telling me all this so openly, is that really okay? Normally, shouldn’t you make up a lie to deceive me and ultimately achieve your freedom? Or are you actually fabricating a lie now, anticipating my usual way of thinking, trying to set up a double ploy so that... "

"Hey hey!!" The other party immediately interrupted Chen Xiao’s words, "What are you talking about? Deceit? Scheming? Those are simply the most boring things. Victories gained from illusions are utterly unsatisfying. I would never do such things. What I’m telling you, hehehe, is all incredibly true facts!"

He laughed as he spoke, and Chen Xiao also laughed along. The two strangely similar-looking individuals were just facing each other, inexplicably grinning.

"Hehe, very interesting, isn’t it? But if you’re telling me the truth, and you don’t even know who I really am... why should I join your game, just because it’s interesting? That’s not enough to convince me, my life is already interesting! Unless..."

"Unless... I can make your life even more interesting! Right! Hehehe... right!! Of course, right!!! And I told you, you’re just in a cage. Those people casually placed some interesting toys in there to keep you a bit content. But are you really satisfied with that? Beyond the cage, there’s something even more interesting waiting for you, like, don’t you want to play a game with those jerks who erased your past, tied you up, and threw you into the cage?"

He said, suddenly stopping, his face full of excitement as he looked at Chen Xiao, as if waiting for a response that was sure to come.

"... Hahaha, okay, okay, no need to hold it back. You’re about to laugh out loud, aren’t you!"

As soon as the words fell, Chen Xiao could no longer hold it back and burst out laughing.

"Hahaha— is that really true? Haha, really!!!! If that’s really the case, then it’s

...

incredibly interesting!!!!"

...

Chen Xiao woke up from his unconscious state... with a smile still on his face.

He rubbed his somewhat stiff cheeks and immediately realized that he was buried within a pile. The space was small, even smaller than a car garage, surrounded by debris and rocks, with a huge rebar sticking horizontally above his head. One could imagine that if it weren’t for that, Chen Xiao would have been flattened long ago.

This had happened not long before when Dos had collapsed the building to limit the movement of the centipede-shaped Level 15 mutant. At that time, Chen Xiao had just run out of the building. In fact, if he had been slightly closer to the edge, he would have been turned to ash by a compression bomb as well.

Chen Xiao raised an eyebrow... He lifted the small rocks that were pressing down on him... and began to sit quietly.

About 5 minutes later, having confirmed that there was nothing unusual about his body, he dusted himself off and stood up.

"Ah, it looks like the protective suit isn’t torn, I’m still pretty lucky," he said.

After speaking, he pushed on the rebar above his head... as expected, it didn’t budge.

"Hmm, I’m trapped here," he said.

He spoke without much panic and checked his communicator. Fortunately, there was still a signal, which meant he wasn’t buried very deep.

Next, he dug into his pocket and edged along the narrow space, all the while keeping his communicator on, weakly muttering, "Ah, ah, ah—help, I’m so scared—"

Of course, since Dos had just turned the place into something resembling a Meteorite Crater, nobody would be wandering nearby to hear Chen Xiao’s cries for help.

And Chen Xiao wasn’t expecting anyone to hear him.

After a full circle back to a pile of rocks, he sniffed the air,

Hmm... there was a damp, bloody smell.

He then knocked on it and, hearing a hollow sound, casually pulled out the Shocking Dagger and stabbed it into the joint space between the rock pile and the rebar above it.

Of course, it’s generally not recommended to do this in such situations because if you damage the load-bearing point, the consequences of the falling debris could be dire. But if someone insists on risking their lives, I would definitely suggest digging from top to bottom like Xiaoxiao did because if it really messes up, the debris below might still give you some protection, meaning you wouldn’t die as suddenly.

Less idle talk, Chen Xiao dared to do this because he had the confidence... (or perhaps not, who knows), and naturally, this type of stone material couldn’t withstand the cutting of the Shocking Dagger. With barely any noise, the dagger sunk in... Chen Xiao repeated the stabbing and pulling, and coupled with a reckless kick here and there, managed to carve out a hole in the rubble.

A few minutes later, Chen Xiao easily crawled out through the hole he had dug.

The scene before him, as just described, showed a giant Meteorite Crater not far away, the air around imbued with crimson mist, the visibility was very low, permeated with a pungent smell of blood, which even the air purification device of his protective suit couldn’t filter out.

It was hard to imagine that before the explosion of the compression bomb, this blood mist was actually a huge bloody creature that had simply been split into tiny particles and blown into the air by the wind.

Chen Xiao looked at the large crater in front of him, subconsciously ran through various possibilities in his mind, and roughly understood what was going on.

Suddenly, at a distance, obscured by the mist, a thunderous, earth-shattering boom like thunder on the ground...