Clown Game
Chapter 391 - 369 This World

Chapter 391: Chapter 369 This World

On this day... the entire world was watching the same scene, listening to the same story.

A harrowing, chaotic, unimaginable tale—utterly nonsensical yet vividly unfolding before everyone’s eyes.

This story revealed the true nature of the world.

It spoke of gigantic sleeping creatures thousands of kilometers long in the deep sea, of schools of fish incessantly gnawing at the continental shelves, of man-eating ships, and sentient islands.

In the giant trees lurked colossal pythons; beneath ancient cities, there existed an identical, reverse-temporal world.

Weapons of cause and effect that took hundreds of years to develop, unknown mines deep underground, ancient gods sealed away and barely holding, ant colonies capable of creating a new world.

Where did those missing planes go? They weren’t submerged in the deep sea, but devoured by clouds floating in the sky. The woman in white crawling out of the TV? She might have been the friendliest within their family.

You eat your meal, or perhaps the meal eats you. Look up at the sky, and you might spot the occasional traveler from another world, Martian creatures, space battleships parading around Earth like buses, halting one stop at a time—never stopping—those nanobots, mad scientists, worshipers of dark gods are everywhere, Multiverse Management Bureaus, explorers, parallel worlds—these might be elements of comics or novels, or they might be real.

Nevertheless, she subtly flicked her wings as she sat in the wheelchair, calm, eloquently narrating her story, which spread like a terrifying plague across the world. People finally realized this was no prank, nor a terror attack. In a panic, they tried to turn off their TVs, but to no avail; even when the screens were smashed into pieces, the image still flickered on ever shard. People hid in corners of rooms, ran out into the streets, but they could not escape.

Indeed, where could they hide if this was truly the nature of the world? Even if you could not hear or see it, what could you do?

The video played for a full three hours, with no particular commentary or revelation of purpose from her. At the end, she simply nodded slightly...

The sound then faded into silence...and all the screens returned to normal, the looped commercials reappearing in the shop windows. But...everyone could no longer return to who they were three hours earlier.

What did this mean?

We live in a dangerous world.

We have been deceived.

We are bereft of any safety.

Our world is not as it seems.

All that we see, hear, and learn...is but self-indulgence...

We will die, or experience something even worse than death.

Like right now.

These lengthy three hours revealed a shocking world beyond everyone’s expectations.

Of course, some anticipated it.

Just as, once the video ended, every country in the world finally regained control of the media and immediately began to account for this phenomenon.

But...it was all too feeble.

Whether it was the ill-timed responses, or the televisions that couldn’t be turned off, all were incredibly hard to explain. In fact, most national narratives to their citizens hadn’t been collectively deliberated, which led to various cover-up stories in different nations. This wasn’t an issue of efficiency but about the panic that broke out before anyone could genuinely explain...what had happened. Because not all lies work. The day the sun extinguishes and the bright orbs in the sky open their eyes, staring down at all life on Earth with the same fiery gaze, simple celestial anomalies can no longer bridge the gaps in people’s understanding. Thus, everything would turn into unstoppable chaos in an instant, sweeping across the world, erasing millennia of physical and cultural history in a blink.

Like right now.

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But fortunately, humans are always ignorant. Among all instincts, this was almost the Creator’s proudest design. No matter how questionable the explanation, it eventually gets accepted by people, whether willingly or through self-deception. As long as a few humans congregate, they generate a preposterous yet strong confidence, believing in the safety found collectively, daring to face all dangers.

Ignorance breeds fear, but courage often stems from ignorance. This nearly ironic instinct ultimately quelled the upheaval.

The sea is similar just before the tide comes in.

Yet sadly, not all humans are fools, so the world was still impacted.

Riots, protests, financial collapse, soaring crime rates—previously suppressed chaos finally found its vent. Those brandishing deception and doom began appearing in the streets and alleys, countless theists sang overlooked doctrines by the bridge, thousands started packing up, ignoring others’ advice, desperately seeking any possible safety and redemption.

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The world was ultimately thrown into chaos.

But...those are stories for later.

Going back to the present moment, right after the video played, the Foundation’s anomaly detection instruments immediately sensed the anomaly, and the maps on their screens turned a bright red.

Anomaly location...the entire world!

For some reason, the Foundation’s control panels seemed unaffected, with data still functioning on their screens. Yet such a vast range of anomalous responses was enough to send the entire organization into panic. The strange woman in the video spoke undoubtedly of those anomalies they either heard of or never ceased.

But...what exactly did she want to do?

Nobody knew, because they were merely minor players in the organization, just like they were oblivious to the fact that as early as this morning, just as dawn broke, members of the Supreme Council arrived early at the venue. They sat or stood quietly, reading or chewing on troublesome lumps of sugar.

They had been waiting early for this moment to arrive, waiting for that escaped woman to appear before the public!

"Heh, so she’s finally shown up," said the leader of Team Omega, lounging in his chair as if it were nothing.

The woman closed the notebook in her hands. "Yes, her body is on the verge of decay; she can’t delay any longer..."

She said this with a smile, her tone filled with immense confidence.

Just then, the plump man seemed to receive a report through his headphones.

"Found it," he said, "The source of the anomaly, in K City!"