Clown Game-Chapter 40 - 31 Sticky Task One

Chapter 40: Chapter 31 Sticky Task One

Chapter 40 -31 Sticky Task One

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Mission Brief:

Classification: D

Location: (See map for details)

Description: Following a report by residents of the area, a suspected murder case in the villa district on the eastern outskirts of K City caught the attention of an agent from the Order Foundation stationed at the K City East District Police Station. While en route to the crime scene, a “D-Class Anomalous Reaction Signal” was detected in the area.

This is a newly reported anomaly. Field agents are to immediately proceed to the designated mission location for surveillance and containment of the anomaly (direct elimination is authorized if necessary) and to complete the documentation.

Mission Fund: 80

Containment Reward: +60

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“Hmm… This looks like a proper mission brief. The day before yesterday, the task introduction about this house had nothing, just marked ‘No Description,’ clearly a shoddy work to trick a newbie like me,” Chen Xiao muttered to himself.

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So, the mission only offers 80, but there is an additional 60 upon containment; it seems the Foundation highly encourages containment. Understandably, capturing it alive at least allows the organization’s white-coated group to study it.

After reading the mission brief, Chen Xiao exited the page.

At that moment, he noticed the “Team Info” option flashing on his phone.

He clicked it, curious.

Inside, there were already four black silhouettes for which faces couldn’t be seen, and at the end, a large plus sign was illuminated.

Chen Xiao clicked on these icons one by one, each marked with: “No authority to view this personnel’s information.”

“So that’s how it is,” he said, knowing look on his face, and pressed the illuminated plus sign at the end.

A prompt appeared.

“Allow others to view your information?”

“Yes ———————— No”

Chen Xiao thought about his highly conspicuous trait, “Mind: 2,” and resolutely clicked “No.”

As expected, a fifth black icon was added.

“Looks like this is a team mission,” Chen Xiao thought.

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An hour later, a taxi stopped in the villa district in the east of K City, and Chen Xiao got out of the car.

In fact, it didn’t need to take that long from Shell Street, but Chen Xiao’s appearance truly made the taxi drivers reluctant to stop. Consequently, he had stood by the roadside for a whole half-hour. During that time, he even considered wearing a mask to avoid such inconvenience.

But enough of that.

The environment in the villa district was certainly pleasant, indicating clearly that those who lived there were either rich or noble.

At that moment, not far in front of Chen Xiao, he could see a crowd gathered in front of a two-storey villa, with several police cars parked nearby and red and black police tape stretched out.

Look how easy the mission site is to find, I don’t even need a phone to locate it! Chen Xiao ran and bounced over, his face excited as if he were going to watch a spectacle.

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Chen Xiao squeezed through the crowd, arriving near the police line.

“Hey, hey, stand there! Can’t you see there’s been an incident here? And you still want to get closer?” a police officer pointed at Chen Xiao and shouted.

Chen Xiao was stunned: “What the hell, do they think I’m just some ordinary civilian?”

At that moment, a man in his 40s came over. Chen Xiao sized him up, guessing by his appearance that he was a police squad leader!

The man gestured for the police officer to stand aside, and looked at Chen Xiao as if expecting him to do something.

Chen Xiao was baffled.

The older man was also stunned for a moment, then took another careful look at him, blinking his eyes, and said, “Let me see your phone!”

This time, Chen Xiao understood, nodded knowingly, and pulled out the special black phone of the Foundation.

The man glanced at it briefly, gave a gesture that meant, “Follow me.”

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Chen Xiao followed the older man through the crowd to a police car, where four men were already standing. Three were dressed in black suits that shimmered with a metallic sheen at the creases, and the remaining man wore lightweight riot gear and was holding a shotgun that was obviously no ordinary weapon. However, he wore no helmet!

Upon seeing Chen Xiao approach, all four casually thumped their right hands against their left chests, a distinctive gesture of the Foundation. Chen Xiao suddenly realized what the older man had been waiting for him to do.

He quickly mimicked the gesture and, out of habit, scanned the four men swiftly.

“Everyone’s here now!” said the older man, pulling out a police badge from his pocket and handing it to the man in riot gear. “Please try not to make a big scene; we can’t always use the ‘shooting a movie’ excuse, right?”

At that moment, he looked utterly exasperated, clasping his hands together as if to say, “I’m begging you, you damn lords!”

“We’ll try…” the man in riot gear took the badge and said nonchalantly, hardly paying attention to the squad leader because his gaze remained fixed on Chen Xiao.

In fact, it wasn’t just him, including the other three people also ignored the uncle, they were all frowning at Chen Xiao.

The team leader uncle shrugged helplessly, his subtext was, “Fine, have it your way.”

Then he turned around and walked back into the crowd.

At that moment, a man in a suit with very short hair came over and rather rudely pinched Chen Xiao’s suit.

“Newbie?” he raised his eyebrows and asked.

Chen Xiao knew that from his attire, these people could definitely tell he didn’t have much experience with missions. After all, Level D field agents didn’t have much support from powerful serums, and he was out on a mission in plain clothes, which did hint a bit at “sabotaging the team.”

“I need to see your information!” said a person in a bomb-disposal suit, frowning as if commanding, his tone brooking no refusal.

Such a demand was quite excessive, but Chen Xiao could understand, given that a “drag” could completely complicate a simple mission.

And in fact, even if the demands were more unreasonable, Chen Xiao wouldn’t mind, because all he wanted to do was to start the mission quickly. He didn’t care what these people thought of him, so he just used his fingerprint to open the “personal information” on his phone.

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“Chen Xiao… no serum, never exchanged weapons, completed a 25-point Level D mission…” he read with a grave expression, then suddenly paused: “…cognitive evaluation: 2?”

The other three people also paused momentarily when they heard this, “2?”

Clearly, they couldn’t quite believe the number. They joked, could such a person even be recruited into the field team?

Chen Xiao didn’t mind their words at all; he just grinned and chuckled a few times.

Seeing his grin, the man in the bomb-disposal suit had a somewhat disgusted expression.

“Okay, what’s your weapon? A regular pistol, uh… homemade stun sticks are also okay,” he asked, his expression somewhat friendly at this moment.

But then, Chen Xiao’s next move killed off that last bit of friendliness.

Chen Xiao slowly took out a folding fruit knife from his pocket, the same one he had thought about using on his landlord’s mother.

This was after he had hesitated before leaving the house, feeling it was a bit impolite to go on a mission without bringing anything, so he had put it in his pocket.

He pressed a button on the handle, and with a “whoosh,” the blade popped out. Chen Xiao flicked the knife and grinned, as if to say, “This isn’t a toy, see, it can pop out!”

The short-haired man nearby couldn’t hold back and burst out laughing.

“Hahaha, I said the four of us were enough, look what we got, a fool who doesn’t work but only splits the money.”

The man in the bomb-disposal suit felt a surge of anger rush up, he had originally thought one more person would mean more security, as people without the confidence usually wouldn’t take the initiative to accept missions, but who knew there would be someone like Chen Xiao, a freak who lay in bed and refreshed the missions every minute.

And this freak hardly had any weapons or equipment other than a small knife, which looked like it would struggle even to cut an orange.

“Are you here for sightseeing?” the man in the bomb-disposal suit angrily muttered under his breath, reaching to grab Chen Xiao’s collar, but ultimately restrained himself.

“Just stay here, do you understand, you fool?”

He said, gritting his teeth.

“Team Leader Li!” At that moment, another man in a suit behind him interrupted him and gave him a look.

This man was very short, bald, and his skin had an abnormal bluish-gray tint.

Chen Xiao clearly saw that look and instantly understood what it meant.

He was suggesting, “Let this kid be the cannon fodder.”

The man known as “Team Leader Li” in the bomb-disposal suit stared at Chen Xiao for a while… and said, “Mouse! Give him the gun!”

After he finished speaking, he stormed off towards the crowd.

The man codenamed “Mouse” deftly pulled out a gun from behind and twirled it on his finger before sarcastically handing it to Chen Xiao.

“Don’t cry when you see something scary!” he whispered with a sly look, truly resembling a mouse.

Chen Xiao still didn’t mind his mockery, took the handgun, weighed it, and found it was a bit heavier than a regular handgun.

“Hehehe” he stared at the handgun and chuckled oddly twice, making Mouse frown.

“Definitely sick!” he muttered, turning to follow the others.

The last man, who had been silent from the start, glanced at Chen Xiao without any expression. He was very ordinary looking, the kind who would disappear in a crowd, but Chen Xiao noticed that he wore a black glove on his left hand.

“Hey, let’s go!” Mouse shouted from ahead.

The man in the gloves glanced at Chen Xiao one last time silently and followed.

Chen Xiao stood there, looking at the gun in his hand, obviously very happy. He started fiddling with it without much thought—loading, cocking, ejecting. His movements were as smooth as if he had been handling it every day.

If Mouse had seen this, he would have been amazed because the proficiency of these movements could almost rival the effects he achieved after undergoing serum strengthening twice.

“Ah, well~ no matter what I used to do… but this feeling is really familiar,” Chen Xiao muttered quietly, pushing the magazine gently back in place as if he had found a long-lost toy.

He looked up and saw that the four men had already reached the front of the crowd. Team Leader Li took out the badge the uncle had given him and showed it to a policeman, who immediately stepped aside respectfully.

Chen Xiao quickly tucked the gun into his back waistband and “trotted” over.

His expression was like that of a child afraid of missing the bus to the amusement park.

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