Clown Game
Chapter 336 - 323: First Contact

Chapter 336: Chapter 323: First Contact

Chen Xiao naturally could not know what the "nurse" had experienced before. In front of him was a woman who looked decent enough, but was utterly unkempt. Oh, and upon seeing the wound heal at an astonishing rate, Chen Xiao had naturally realized...

"Are you... an anomaly?"

The nurse’s body visibly stiffened, as if she harbored an inherent fear of the term. However, she quickly reverted to her carefree demeanor.

"Ah... although I really dislike that term, well, according to what you people say, I am indeed such a thing... But you can just call me ’nurse,’" she said lightly.

Chen Xiao saw her odd reaction and immediately thought of something, but he apparently didn’t care much, as it had nothing to do with him. What he cared about was something else.

"So... is this... the Foundation?" he asked, emphasizing his question with another glance out the window.

"Of course not, this is downtown Seattle, and everything you see outside the window is real."

"Hmm... you know what I mean!" Chen Xiao, with his hands in his pockets, interrupted her.

The nurse hesitated for a moment.

"Okay, this... is the Splitters."

...

Silence

...

In that instant, Chen Xiao’s mind spun rapidly. Then, quite ungracefully, he laughed aloud.

"Hehehe—" he bent over, laughing: "Hahaha—indeed, you people, haha, are really amazing!"

He appeared incredibly happy, excited, and somewhat bewildering.

"So, you are already prepared to start catering to me, right."

——————

minutes later.

A sudden sound

The air dispersed abruptly, and without warning, three people appeared.

That was how others saw it, but from Chen Xiao’s perspective, the nurse had made a call, and then a man wearing a baseball cap with a grim look suddenly appeared at the door. He said nothing, just came over, grabbed Chen Xiao’s hand... and then the entire scene switched like a slideshow, disappearing from his view, with a completely different setting unfolding before him.

A vast space surrounded him, where the walls were not of stone or metal but something in between. In those cracks flowed a faint blue light, like electricity. Nestled in the corners where the walls met the ground were doors, each with different numbers written on them, all spreading along the walls until obscured by a giant tower in the center, constructed from countless electrical devices. It pierced into the several-dozen-meter-high ceiling, vanishing into it. Above it, countless cables frightfully stretched out, converging into a single thin wire connected to the smooth back of a young teen’s head.

Chen Xiao was shocked.

And it was a series of shocks.

Since waking up, he had never been so startled since learning of the Foundation’s existence.

The Splitters... He, of course, knew there would eventually be such an organization. Just as mice attract cats, day follows night, and madness brings order, it is impossible for something not to have an opposing force in this world. How could items forcibly contained and controlled serenely endure a fate not meant for them?

Hmm... it seems that humans do not follow this rule... Humanity appears as an anomaly thrust into this world, standing at the pinnacle of everything without any natural predators, becoming the natural enemy of all else, yet having none itself.

Strange, isn’t it?

But now was clearly not the time to think about these matters.

Chen Xiao had known for a long time that a day like this would come; that woman who claimed to be a writer had already pointed out the path and lured him here. Even though he had mentally prepared himself, he was still incredibly excited and did not even know what he should focus on first.

"Uh, you can... um... how should I put it? Teleport?" Chen Xiao turned his head, curiously eyeing the "postman" beside him.

"Yes!" The other party responded succinctly, seemingly not too keen on engaging further. In fact, almost no one wanted to deal with Chen Xiao, which was quite pitiful.

"Oh wow, what a convenient ability," he remarked nonchalantly, scrutinizing the postman even more unabashedly: "By the way, I’ve always wanted to ask... why do your clothes and pants come along with you each time you teleport? After all, they are just ordinary fabric, logically speaking, shouldn’t there appear a nude guy suddenly? Oh, and, have you ever accidentally ended up inside a wall or something? When that happens, would you get crushed, or would the wall suddenly bulge out in the shape of a person... Oh, and..."

At this moment, Chen Xiao perfectly showcased his completely lacking emotional intelligence, babbling incessantly, with the postman’s eye twitching initially and now his veins bulging... It looked like he was on the verge of losing patience and beating him up.

Fortunately, at that moment, the bald young boy came over, avoiding what would have been an awkward situation.

"Hello... I’m A-Ming!" he said calmly, extending a hand politely. If not for the dense tangle of cables connected to the back of his head, he would resemble a well-mannered little monk.

Chen Xiao finally shifted his attention from the postman to the young boy: "Hello! I’m Chen Xiao, you obviously knew that already, but... um..." he hesitated, trying not to be too abrupt: "are you a robot?" he pointed to the cable at the back of the boy’s head.

"No, I’m human!" A-Ming quickly answered: "It’s just that my nerves can conduct electrical signals and data information, that’s my anomaly!" he said, reaching towards the back of his head, pulling out the cable with a "pop," then turned around to show the back of his head to Chen Xiao.

In the center of his smoothly bare head... was a USB port.

"Um..." Chen Xiao didn’t quite know what to say and elongated his words... after a while: "You know, I know a guy, not a human, but also much like one, I think you’d really get along... if you could tolerate its constant emoticon expressions."

A-Ming smiled: "I hope so, but right now, there are more important things to discuss... please, come with me," he said, reattaching the cable into his head and motioned for Chen Xiao to follow.

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