Clown Game
Chapter 407 - 385 Rescue Efforts

Chapter 407: Chapter 385 Rescue Efforts

"Thud"

"Thud"

"Thud"

The loud sounds followed one after another, and the ceiling was a good twenty meters above the ground. Some chippings that had been shaken loose hit the ground, then bounced onto A-Ming... causing him sharp pain.

Something really was striking the outside of the base. The feeling was akin to astronauts in a space station suddenly hearing something knocking against the aerospace materials above their heads.

And in the next second, with another roar, a massive crack abruptly appeared, rapidly spreading along the existing lines atop the ceiling... A huge boulder, five meters in diameter, fell directly down, aiming straight for A-Ming.

In that instant, a flood of data flashed through A-Ming’s mind, and he knew he couldn’t dodge in time.

Everything happened too fast. A-Ming’s body couldn’t keep up with his brain. In the blink of an eye, the giant rock had covered his entire field of vision, and then it made intimate contact with the ground, sending shards flying.

...

...

After a while, A-Ming opened his eyes. The silhouette of the postman stood before him.

"You see, you get unhappy when people call you a kid, but now do you realize how much you make others worry?" he said, patting the dust off his baseball cap. It sounded casual, but his body was completely tense, intently staring at the hole oozing wisps of hot air above him, a drip of molten light oozing out like scorching glue... "Plop," it fell to the ground.

Immediately afterward, a hand reached out from the hole, clinging to the edge of the large opening. A person, his entire body enveloped in fiery magma, crawled out.

Both the postman and A-Ming inhaled sharply. They thought to themselves, could this guy have actually swum here all the way from a volcanic vent?

Before that thought settled, the figure had descended from above, landing precisely on the large puddle of molten lava that had just dripped down, smashing it to pieces.

In that second, without a second thought, the postman vanished, and in the next moment, he reappeared with a "nurse" at his side, wearing a set of not-so-clean pajamas.

At this moment, she was scratching her head, looking utterly bewildered, clearly just awakened, and it took her a while to realize what had happened.

"Huh?" she turned to the postman, "What’s going on... why is it so hot here..."

The nurse mumbled groggily, and then, seemingly sensing the source of the heat, she blankly looked in that direction.

"Holy shit!" she exclaimed, instantly wide awake.

At this moment, the scorching giant figure had already risen to its feet, with magma clinging to Prince Ninetiel’s surface, making him appear like a giant radiating golden light.

"Protect A-Ming!" the postman yelled, not bothering to check if the nurse had come to her senses, and disappeared again.

At the same time, the prince straightened his body. He carelessly wiped away the golden-red mud in front of his eyes, opened them, and glanced at A-Ming and the nurse, who were still in shock.

Then...

With a "Boom!", he charged towards Eniak.

It’s hard to describe what he looked like when running, in fact, you couldn’t really see him start to run. If Bai Xiong’s or Dos’s explosive-powered sprints were the limit of what humans could imagine, then Ninetiel simply blasted a big hole in the ground, and the destination simultaneously exploded with a bang, and he was already there in the next second. In that one second, the air between seemed to be instantaneously compressed to the extreme and then instantly released, creating an explosive noise...

Before anyone could react, when the heat wave, accompanied by parts flying everywhere, struck near A-Ming and the nurse, they realized...

Eniak... had truly become a pile of scrap metal.

Everything came to a sudden start and a sudden stop, chaotic, swift, and beyond belief. Prince Ninetiel wouldn’t ask any questions or provide explanations; he just did what he needed to do. There was no room for thought, communication, or de-escalation. Coupled with his abilities, he could easily shatter any opponent’s hopes. His very existence was like a nightmare.

And in the battle with the nightmare, it was only natural that scenes from the dream would appear. So under these circumstances, the sudden emergence of an airplane wasn’t that hard to comprehend, right?

Yeah... that’s right, the next moment a gigantic airplane appeared out of thin air. It seemed to still be in a high-speed flight, only the surroundings had instantly changed from tens of thousands of meters in the sky to here.

The postman touched the tip of the airplane and then disappeared again! He desperately controlled the moment he made contact with the airplane. Even though the spatial transition prevented him from being severely impacted, it was still a fighter jet. A slight mishap could reduce him to pieces.

Exceeding the speed of sound, with its immense weight, imagine this— a fighter jet, barreling at full speed, hits a person wrapped in lava. You can picture the scene, right? Then the jet continued to surge forward, flattening everything in its path. In an instant, it crashed into the walls at the edge of the base, and the munitions it carried, along with the jet itself, exploded. The blast upended everything around.

The postman was drenched in sweat, barely able to hold up his own body. This was the most violent strike he could think of, and even teleporting with a fighter jet for just a moment had drained all his strength.

However, an attack like this certainly wasn’t wasteful against someone who could smash open the shell of a base with their bare hands.

I know, surely someone here is wondering why the postman went to such lengths to save Amin. Why didn’t he simply grab Amin and escape? Right?

It seems nobody here knows what kind of treatment Amin receives from the Foundation... Let’s put it this way, as soon as Amin appears on the Foundation’s satellite, the next second a nuclear bomb is already on its way to his path. No need to apply for authorization, regardless of the location, even if it’s a bustling urban area, they’d level it with a single shot. Such drastic measures aren’t just because he has a USB port at the back of his head; the danger Amin brings... stems more from the world he previously inhabited.

But that’s another story.

...

...

Miles away, the K City Anomaly Research Area.

As mentioned before, this place has become a ghost town, with only four people in the entire area.

Chen Xiao, Bai Xiong, Mrs. Liu, and Miko.

There was bait, an intermediary, a sacrificial character, and prey. It’s just that they didn’t know each other’s roles. The hunter had never shown himself; instead, he had set up a trap in advance, waiting for everyone to walk into it. It’s just that this trap was a bit too large...

Of course, it was fitting for the prey.

Although the research area appeared the same as before, its entirety had been replaced with the most impregnable containment materials. Isolating all information, heat, and radiation, it was completely undetectable, and no messages could be transmitted. Its construction could even withstand a nuclear explosion. This was an inescapable prison!

Naturally, everyone knew that, given Chen Xiao’s strength, he couldn’t even get out of the small room where Miko was being held... but that didn’t mean anyone dared to let their guard down around him.

"You... are you also an anomaly?" Miko pressed against the glass, looking at Chen Xiao in surprise.

"Um... to be precise, I am a containment room," he replied.

"What?" Miko and Mrs. Liu exclaimed in unison. Bai Xiong naturally knew various reasons behind this, so he wasn’t as surprised.

Chen Xiao scratched his nose: "It’s a long story, and you might not understand it. So... let’s save the explanations for when there’s a chance."

As he spoke, he took out his gun again.

Don’t be nervous, Chen Xiao wasn’t planning to kill anyone. Moreover, since this place was built to detain him, they had naturally considered the power of his handgun. Hence, there was no point in testing the walls’ hardness— it was absolutely impenetrable. Therefore, Chen Xiao’s target was the bulletproof glass in front of Miko.

With a muffled sound, Chen Xiao was slammed into the wall, and the glass in front of him erupted in a deafening boom and a wave of heat, blowing open a large hole. Chen Xiao slid down the wall, wincing at his shoulder, which, despite the shock-absorbing arm guard, was painfully shaken. He pushed himself off the ground.

"Cough! Cough!" Mrs. Liu waved the dust and smoke from in front of her, only then realizing what Chen Xiao had done... "God, have you lost your mind?" she bellowed. It was unclear whether she was angry at Chen Xiao for his sudden shooting or complaining that he had removed the barrier separating her from a dangerous containment item.

"I’ve lost my mind?" Chen Xiao was startled: "Right now I don’t have time to go insane; I need to hurry to rescue you... Well, alright, you’re just incidental. I am just trying to save myself."