Clown Game
Chapter 368 - 355: The Gate and the Truth...?

Chapter 368: Chapter 355: The Gate and the Truth...?

The battle outside was still raging, it seemed that the grown C-255 could still hold off those people for a while, of course, this was also because the people from the Foundation dared not use weapons that were too powerful, lest they blow up the corridor outside and let the seawater rush in, dooming everyone.

Inside the door? Chen Xiao was still hunching his back, standing upright. Opposite him, was a group of guys, each one fearsome enough to send shivers down someone’s spine, yet no one would have thought that such a group could be threatened by an ordinary person like Chen Xiao. It sounded absurd, but it was indeed the case, for a simple reason, he was a madman, and you were not. The asymmetry in thinking allowed him to act without hesitation, unlike you.

After listening to A-Ming’s words, Chen Xiao hesitated for a moment and then pulled two cards out of his pocket. Both were adorned with a crow, one silently standing, the other with its mouth wide as if cawing. The former was given to Chen Xiao by the glasses man during the D-level Elite Race, the latter was transferred to Chen Xiao by Boss Xiao Yu a little over a month ago.

"These are the cards used by the Raven people to exchange information, since we usually work independently and seldom interact, so, most of our communication is done this way," A-Ming said.

"Then how should I open it?" Chen Xiao asked.

"Each encryption method is different, the card you kept for yourself is the second one, and the decryption method is to use your own blood."

"Oh? Hehe, interesting," Chen Xiao replied, easing the atmosphere somewhat, but still, no one dared to rashly charge and take down this bastard, knowing full well that this guy wouldn’t make a ’distracted’ rookie mistake.

Without a word, Chen Xiao stuffed his finger into his mouth, bit down with a crack, and then smeared his blood on the card.

The moment the blood touched the card, the stain swiftly seeped into it, spreading along the white lines that formed the crow, and then... a holographic image appeared above the card.

In that image was a person with narrow eyes and thin cheeks... he looked very much like Chen Xiao, but the hair and complexion were different, and the corners of his mouth were intact, without any scars. At that moment, he was fiddling with the camera to center his face in the recording.

"Ah, what a hassle, this will do," he said, his voice still sharp, grating to the ears.

"Cough cough, hello... Future me, I don’t know what you’ve turned into now, I hope the infection isn’t too severe. Hmm... but whatever, anyway, if you’re seeing this video, then you must still be on the path to finding memories, huh, poor thing," he said, leaning back slightly and settling into a sofa.

"The old man’s memory consumption experiment has reached its end, it turns out that the memories he consumes are stored in some parts of the body in a way that’s still unexplored. Although he can’t access these memories himself, they definitely exist, I guess it’s like the body’s immune system— the death of those cells doesn’t stop the new cells from functioning... I seem to have gone off track, anyway, we’ve found a way to extract memories and store them elsewhere. The old man is completely unaware, he undergoes complete hypnosis and controls his actions to do this."

At this point, he shifted to a more comfortable position in his manner of ADHD.

"Let’s talk about that cursed ’Dimensional Materialization Proposal’... it’s all gone awry, nobody can get close to that guy, or should I say those guys, he’s just laughing, wreaking havoc, appearing randomly within anyone’s body until he shreds them apart, then moves to another, utterly helpless... We shouldn’t have killed him because that body was still a constraint! No, we should never have allowed him to appear, we should have backed off when that winged woman showed up... We were too arrogant. But there is good news... we’ve thought of a containment plan, using a person, letting that guy first invade his thoughts, then seal him... trapping that guy in a bottle, capping it! But there’s also bad news... because this ’bottle,’ it’s me—you," Chen Xiao pointed at the screen and said.

"Ah, I know, according to your... um, our personality, we would never involve ourselves in this mess, but unfortunately, there’s no other way, if we don’t find a suitable ’containment room,’ this thing will eventually drive the whole world mad, no one can escape. And if we were to give his body back to him, he would be completely unapproachable, unable to complete the seal... Hehe... quite funny, isn’t it? Anyway, after trials, I’m the only one capable of containing him. Sometimes being too smart is not a good thing.

Alright, having said so much, the future me should be able to piece things together now, well, let’s say this: how could I possibly just quietly be a ’bottle,’ so I plan to first contain that guy, then join the Foundation, and retrieve my memories, everything has been arranged; in about a year or two, I’ll be recruited as a volunteer, Andrea will pull me into the field team! But, I haven’t told her that I’ve already colluded with A-Ming... Haha, what can I do, Andrea and Mujin have never gotten along well, ah, there are always a few in each generation of Ravens who dislike each other, remember the guy from Germany in previous sessions who even started a world war, ah, I’m digressing again, anyway, I won’t say more, after getting the memories you will naturally know everything, so good luck, future me... depending on you, what this world will turn into. Goodbye."