Clown Game
Chapter 411 - 389 Sacrifice

Chapter 411: Chapter 389 Sacrifice

Within the research district of City K.

Four people, a massive cage, no way out.

"But how do you plan to get out?" Bai Xiong asked indifferently.

"Well, it’s a bit hard to understand," Chen Xiao mused, "but I feel like that squinty-eyed woman had been deceiving me from the start. She didn’t really want to give me an unbreakable body or any other special abilities. She must have foreseen this day coming and provided me with a way to escape in advance." Chen Xiao’s words were indeed hard to grasp, and immediately after, he made an even more baffling request to Angel, "Can you draw blood from a person’s body without absorbing it yourself?" he asked.

Angel was taken aback, "Uh, I can, but the light here is very bright, and my powers..."

"Ah, I know, just turn the lights off, that’s all," Chen Xiao said nonchalantly, then he walked to the wall and switched off the light. Suddenly, the entire room plunged into a world of dim, scarlet light. This red lighting was automatically provided by the system once the entire base was sealed off, just to maintain a minimal level of visibility with the least amount of electricity.

"How’s that, the brightness shouldn’t affect you now, right?" Chen Xiao asked.

Angel nodded, "It should be fine now, but I no longer wish to kill people, even those who have locked me up," she said. At the same time, Bai Xiong also frowned slightly. Clearly, both of them thought that Chen Xiao intended to do something to Mrs. Liu.

Unexpectedly, Chen Xiao waved his hand, "Hey, what are you all thinking? I already said, we’re in the same boat!"

With that, he took out two A-grade medicinal capsules and gave one to Bai Xiong and one to Mrs. Liu.

"What’s this?" Mrs. Liu asked suspiciously.

"A type of healing capsule," Chen Xiao replied. "It can quickly replenish the user’s energy and repair damage. Think of it as a portable healing pod."

"So... what are you going to do?" Bai Xiong immediately asked.

"Isn’t it obvious? I need blood... a lot of blood. So much that I alone wouldn’t be enough, so I need your help!"

"What do you need the blood for?" Mrs. Liu asked again, her and Bai Xiong had almost asked all the questions in tandem.

Chen Xiao smirked, "Of course, it’s to escape... well, more accurately, I need to draw a talisman. While the dye doesn’t have to be blood, I don’t want to waste time just in case. So hurry up. If Omega Squad arrives soon, we really won’t have any chance."

Mrs. Liu was still strongly opposed to the idea of colluding with someone who betrayed the Foundation, so she shouted, "Forget it, I won’t commit treason..."

"Oh, cut out that ’rather die than dishonor’ attitude. I’m not forcing you to eat anything. If you want to be the Foundation’s perfect employee, just sit there and wait to be drained dry," Chen Xiao interrupted her indignantly, as if it were nothing.

At that moment, Angel finally realized what she should do, "You... you want me to draw blood from you all?"

"Yep, our blood. Better if it’s all pooled together so it doesn’t dry out. That shouldn’t be too hard for you, should it?" Chen Xiao said.

"But..."

"There’s nothing to it, you’ve already decided you don’t want to kill anymore, right? So, do it quickly while the drug in my body hasn’t worn off. The thing I have to draw is very complicated, and if it’s not finished in time, then there’s no difference between you and someone who’s killed us with their own hands."

As he spoke, Chen Xiao was already kneeling on the ground, eagerly biting into his own wrist. With a jerk of his head, he tore away a large chunk of flesh, and suddenly... blood gushed from the wound. He began to draw on the ground with his own blood.

However, because of the drug, the blood on his body quickly coagulated and formed scabs.

"Hurry!" shouted Chen Xiao and immediately bit into his wrist again.

Meizi, having watched Chen Xiao’s actions, seemed to have a revelation and let out a soft shout. Following that, Bai Xiong and Mrs. Liu were levitated and drops of blood squeezed out from their pores, and of course, this included Chen Xiao himself. The blood from the three of them was drawn out into hundreds of threads and finally converged at Chen Xiao’s fingertips. During this time, everyone was bathed in bright red, turning the containment room into a scene of horror. In such a spectacle, only Mrs. Liu understood the struggle in her heart, and after enduring several minutes of painful blood extraction, she also finally stuffed the capsule into her mouth.

And Chen Xiao, kneeling on the ground, used the blood to draw an enormous and incredibly complex talisman!

It was the earliest symbol that the Angel had made him remember, a talisman for sacrificing anomalous items... and this time, what he was sacrificing was himself!

minutes later, a formation that nearly covered the entire floor was finally completed. Because the lines were so densely packed, it was as if the entire floor of the containment room was filled with blood.

"Done!" Chen Xiao exclaimed. As soon as he spoke, with three dull thuds, Bai Xiong and Mrs. Liu fell to the ground, and Meizi also collapsed, almost fainting from exhaustion.

But at that moment, the enormous talisman on the ground instantly dried up. The symbols seemed to come alive, turning into a muddy mess.

It felt like sinking into a swamp made of minced flesh and blood. Chen Xiao felt himself sinking, falling, as the smell of blood and pitch darkness enveloped him, rendering him unable to hear or see anything.

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At the base of The Splitters, the postman ferociously flung open the door in front of him, revealing a corridor void of light. Every key made by the Locksmith could open such a door; there was nothing to be curious about, but now, no one knew where the door led.

Without much thought, the postman threw the two people he was carrying into it.

Footsteps echoed from behind, not very fast, but growing more distant – it was Qiu Mujin running towards the giant.

The postman didn’t turn back to look but resolutely stepped through the door and closed it behind him with the back of his hand.

The fractured patterns spreading over Qiu Mujin’s body kept appearing before his eyes like a hysterical disorder. The postman slapped himself hard and picked up the nurse and A’Ming, heading towards the outline of a door that glowed with light. Pushing it open, a beam of sunlight hit his face, and he squinted involuntarily.

...

Chen Xiao didn’t know where the talisman would take him. He could only let himself fall through the darkness, and after some time, as if emerging from a dream, he suddenly jolted awake. The sunlight and the sound of a door opening followed one after the other.

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