Clown Game
Chapter 297 - 284: Meeting (Part 2)

Chapter 297: Chapter 284: Meeting (Part 2)

A moderately sized meeting room

A round wooden table, five chairs, and a fairly bright light overhead.

In this space, everything was subject to change; it could be a train car, a castle perched on the edge of a cliff, a cozy cabin, or like now, furnished only with a set of table and chairs, completely devoid of any other items.

Of course, the members of the Supreme Council didn’t mind, as long as its rules were still effective.

Vote—passed—irrevocable.

Indeed, because of this space’s existence, the Foundation’s senior decisions were not endlessly debated and constantly emerging.

At the moment, a man of average build with slightly long black hair was sitting in front of the round table, incessantly tapping on the surface, appearing extremely agitated.

Just like last time, the room trembled again.

A two-meter tall, incredibly robust man then appeared in the chair.

"Dos... disappeared?" he asked without any preamble, having seen the black-haired man was already there.

The fact that this usually silent man like a stone had spoken first also reflected how important the matter was.

The black-haired man nodded slightly.

Then, an old man and a chubby child also appeared in the chairs.

"Dos... disappeared?"

The two asked in unison, just like the robust man.

"Yes, yes! Don’t you all know already? Why do you still ask me!!" the black-haired man yelled impatiently, pounding on the table with great force.

If it weren’t for the fact that everything in this space was indestructible, that punch might have smashed the table into pieces.

...

The atmosphere fell into silence, everyone reflecting in quiet.

Just then, a woman appeared as well, placing the book in her hands on the table while she was just about to ask something.

"Dos... disappeared!!!" the man shouted out first.

The woman also fell silent.

...

"Look, look! What had to come has come!!! He’s disappeared! Disappeared!!! Not injured, not dead, his body wasn’t even found! Brani... Dos... Damn it, after so many years I still haven’t remembered his name, but anyway, he disappeared!! One of my team members!!!"

The man roared angrily, hysterically shaking his head like some ancient empire’s tyrant.

No one at the table responded.

Just silence.

After a long time... the man seemed to finally calm down.

"Anger is useless," the woman said indifferently, seeing his state.

The man smoothed his breath, frustratedly running his hands through his hair, "What are the chances he’s infected?"

"It isn’t written in the book!" the woman answered.

"You know what I want to know. Be direct!"

After hearing this, the woman took a deep breath, "Branislav Dosnovich, there’s a 99% chance or more that he has already become a carrier!"

With a "thump!!!" the table jolted off the ground from the immense force.

The man stood up abruptly, pacing up and down the room while sighing annoyedly with his head tilted back.

"It finally came to our world, didn’t it!"

...

"Alright, you were already prepared, right? It was always going to come. The ’Dimensional Materialization’ initiative had already caught a glimpse of our world before it was terminated, so it was bound to happen. Try to think positively, maybe this way, the Dark Realm will no longer appear."

"But its carrier is my team member!!"

"We understand your feelings, but it’s unavoidable. This Dark Realm is very unusual, besides your people, no one else could handle it," the old man added to the reassurances, "If the Dark Realm spreads further, the consequences will be even more severe!!"

"Huff!" The man breathed heavily, trying to calm himself down, "What is on the other side of the Dark Realm?"

"I don’t know, it didn’t appear when the proposal was being discussed, but based on the previous task reports, it should be a type of negative manifestation like ’fear.’ In any case, it’s definitely not benign. It won’t stay quiet, and as soon as it makes a move, we’ll be able to find it. There’s always a way!" the little boy muttered.

"Damn it..." the man cursed, feeling extremely reluctant yet helpless, then looked at the boy again, "What did you get from that big eyeball?"

The boy, out of habit, took a candy from his pocket, "By reverse tracking, I’ve located her hideout, but there’s nothing there. It seems she had left ahead of time!"

"She would definitely leave. We were too impulsive pulling her pet out; we should have waited."

"It doesn’t matter. She’s trapped in that body now, unless she wants to rot away, and no matter what, she will eventually come back because we have her real body in our possession!"

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Yes, a body materialized in this world is the only dependency,

so, no matter what, they always come back.

Everything is still under control.

This world has already experienced many crises, but it has always survived.

This time... will be no different...

...

...

This is an unfinished building on the edge of the city.

The outline of the buildings’ partitions still faintly portray the grandeur it was intended to represent.

But in reality, it’s just a large expanse of ruins. The framework of the building was just completed, everything is hollowed out, there are no walls, only roughly made load-bearing floors between each level, and the incomplete foundation pits scattered around accumulate rainwater after the rain, turning it into a swamp in the middle of the city.

Due to incomplete paperwork, the developer absconded, and the workers’ salaries were unmatched; the building remained abandoned.

Thus, this place had become a common gathering spot for the homeless.

Recently, a new face appeared here.

In fact, most of the faces here are unfamiliar; they just come to this place on different nights, listening to each other’s snores in the darkness, and the next day they go on to sustain their livelihoods...

Indifferent, desolate, no one notices anyone else.

That’s why she came here.

...

This person was very thin, always wearing a hood, carrying a huge travel bag picked up from somewhere never leaving her side; she constantly hid in a barely noticeable corner, not interacting with people, hardly moving, and these past days, she was seldom seen begging.

Of course, no one cared about her.

Unless she died here and began to emit a foul smell. Only then would the first person who couldn’t stand it carry her out and throw her into the deepest foundation pit nearby.

However, everyone thought that day was coming soon, not just because she hadn’t eaten for many days, but more so because a stench of decay could already be smelled when passing by her.

A person about to die.

...

It was another rainy day, not heavily raining, but enough to keep people stuck indoors, unable to go out.

The homeless were the same, going out in this weather would bring nothing but catching a cold.

So, many of them lazily lay down, sleeping or rummaging through the memories that could satisfy them.

Nobody noticed that to some unknown corner, a crisp sound echoed.

...

A man wearing a baseball cap and a boy looking like a middle school student suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

The boy seemed to know what he was looking for, he walked straight toward the person crouching in the corner...

"Hello, my name is Lin Fan..."

He said quietly, attracting no one’s attention.

The corner’s hood slowly lifted, revealing a girl’s face tinged with a bluish hue.

"You’ve finally come..."

She said with a smile, her eyes squinting and looking cute...