Clown Game
Chapter 344 - 331 Bai Xiong (2)

Chapter 344: Chapter 331 Bai Xiong (2)

Bai Xiong....

Laconic, taciturn, steady, down to earth, accustomed to considering as much as possible before taking action to avoid letting things get out of hand.

Many believed he was just that cold, resilient person, like a boulder, displaying his calm and substantial side, even seeming a bit dull.

But in fact, that was not his character, nor the quality he wanted to show... It was that he couldn’t present another side.

His emotions, like a stagnant pool, shielded from all external stimuli, pain could not provoke anger, memories did not bring sadness, taste did not bring him any joy, nor did it bring disgust. Thus, it might be said to be even more still than a stagnant pool, without ripples, essentially a puddle of cement.

This naturally immersed him in the things he was contemplating, his mind free of distractions.

So what did he want to do?

As mentioned before, it was just to kill that person, or be killed by that person. This was his entire value for living.

It was ridiculous that he didn’t even know who he was supposed to kill, but if one day that person stood before him, he would recognize them immediately, not just because they would certainly look a lot like him, but because of a mental connection, it could even be said that person was him.

Perhaps taller, stronger, but he and himself were the same person.

The only difference being that the other person was the primary, while he was an adjunct...

Oh, right, there are nearly a thousand adjuncts just like himself.

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"Prince Niniethiel’s Proposal"

This proposal was first made in the year ████, after the corpse of Prince Niniethiel was discovered behind the ruins of the Memphis Empire.

Due to the particularity of Prince Niniethiel’s corpse, the proposal could only target a single individual, regardless of the subject’s endurance, and would be permanently prohibited after the inheritance.

The inheritor must undergo the highest level of psychic evaluation to ensure absolute loyalty to the Order Foundation. Under this premise, the inheritor must go through the "█████" experiment to eliminate all desire-related emotions. Furthermore, it is essential to ensure that no living being on earth shares a blood relation with them.

This proposal must be approved unanimously by all members of the supreme council before it can be implemented, and the highest dose of Gene Toxin must be injected before inheritance.

Description: "Prince Niniethiel’s Proposal" refers to a one-time, unidirectional anomalous trait transfer process, hereinafter referred to as "inheritance."

The method of inheritance is documented in ancient literature excavated from the same period, which indicates:

1. The previous inheritor and the new inheritor must be placed together in a sealed sarcophagus, on which and on the body of the inheritors a large amount of ancient Egyptian text must be written in the fresh blood of various animals.

2. The sarcophagus must be placed outdoors, and around it, 13 "living human sacrifices" must be arranged to ceaselessly chant a bizarre scripture known as "████" over the subsequent days.

3. During the sacrifice, eating, sleeping or any behavior that could interrupt the scripture is strictly forbidden until all 13 sacrifices die from starvation or exhaustion. Due to the horrendous screams and scratching of the sarcophagus that will occur during the inheritance, it is necessary to forcibly remove the senses of hearing and sight from the sacrifices to prevent their chanting from being interrupted.

4. Once all sacrifices are confirmed dead, their bodies are to be cremated, and the sarcophagus is to be opened. At this point, the inheritance ceremony is completed.

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The special nature of the "inheritor’s" abilities is that, in an environment with sufficient nutrients, their blood can mutate on its own to produce new human individuals. This process remains scientifically inexplicable to date, and its visual appearance is as follows: The blood rapidly proliferates and solidifies, subsequently adopting a human form and swiftly developing skin, hair, etc., until it becomes a complete "human" (this process will be referred to as "proliferation"). The proliferation process is exceedingly swift, taking only 40 hours from the fresh blood leaving the body to the individual fully maturing, at which time the new individual will display a normal human appearance and intellect (the strength of which is determined by the inheritor).

After the individual matures, most will possess autonomous consciousness. These individuals are forced to learn, exercise, work, etc. In the end, they will conform to the consciousness of the primary and be decomposed and absorbed. This process is absolute and cannot be resisted or evaded. At that time, all abilities of the individual, whether innate or acquired through training, will be reflected onto the primary, including muscle strength, reaction speed, ingested knowledge, polished techniques, etc., but there will be no cases of the individual influencing the primary’s thoughts.

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This "Prince Niniethiel’s Proposal" is quite complicated, but in simple terms, it means the person with this ability can use their blood to create countless versions of themselves. Plainly speaking, it’s like cloning oneself, and the primary can anytime and anywhere absorb the achievements of these clones. For instance, if a clone trained relentlessly to develop a muscular body, then with a mere thought by the primary, the clone would vanish, and those muscles would transfer to the primary. And this process cannot be resisted.

...Yeah, that’s about the gist of it.

This ability indeed is very powerful and convenient because there’s no limit to the number of clones, given enough time, the primary could absorb almost boundless strength and knowledge.

But for the "clones," it’s a cruel affair, for no matter how hard they work or how much they strive, ultimately the results are not their own... They come into this world with no value of their own, like a herd of pigs raised only to eat non-stop until they’re fat enough to be slaughtered.

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So by now, you all would have guessed.

Bai Xiong... is one of these "proliferated beings."

Only, he is one of the luckier ones among those nearly thousand selves.

He received a necklace.

How the necklace came into his possession will be explained later; first, let’s talk about its function. It’s simple, really, it’s for shielding. It can block most psychic powers. Although you can see him and talk to him without feeling anything out of the ordinary, if you tried to have Angel read his thoughts, it would be impossible. That’s why during Boss Zhou’s time at the top of the Golden Cauldron Building, even though he could implant ideas in Chen Xiao’s head, he couldn’t affect Bai Xiong. And as for the "Ant Colony Consciousness" invasion this time, it was only because those bugs directly inserted their antennae into the area shielded from Bai Xiong’s body, which was why it couldn’t be avoided.

And when Chen Xiao brought the necklace into contact with the Mother Bug, naturally, it shielded off all the Mother Bug’s psychic influence over the entire colony, thus securing a slender chance of survival.