Clown Game-Chapter 62 - 53 Then Just Get a Little Bit Stronger

Chapter 62: Chapter 53: Then Just Get a Little Bit Stronger

Chapter 62 -53: Then Just Get a Little Bit Stronger

In this period, Chen Xiao boldly stormed the orphanage, battled against a sea of insects, single-handedly threw the Foundation into disarray, breezily picked the last winner of the “Elite Game”, and faced the mysterious “Angel” with a straight face while packing a badass gun in his pants. A guy like that thrown onto the streets would definitely be considered quite the character.

But even so, he was completely suppressed by the plump shop owner Little Yu, unable to step out of the store for a whole hour.

Because this guy just planted himself at the door and wouldn’t budge, insisting that Chen Xiao clarify his relationship with Qiu Mujin, no matter what was said.

The power of a homebody is truly terrifying, especially for one over 25, soft and plump with fat, who has never dated, and just happened to have a woman burst into his heart filled with fantastic dreams of the anime world.

By the third time Chen Xiao urged himself just to send a bullet spinning his way, splattering his brains and then casually tossing him into the back kitchen to fiddle with, making it look like an accidental fall—after all, no one would investigate the death of such a homebody very closely.

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But in the end, Chen Xiao didn’t do it.

When he returned to his apartment number 603, it was already deep into the night.

He pushed open the door of his home and found that the things inside had been moved around, somewhat—probably “Eyeball-kun” bumping into stuff while wandering aimlessly in another space.

Thinking back on the two encounters with Qiu Mujin, one time being tricked into a battle of wits with the “Angel” sister, and the other nearly getting stuck with a homebody and almost not making it back home—first getting fooled out of several months’ rent, not to mention even paying for this coffee himself.

The Foundation, anomalies, Angel sister, spectacled man, Qiu Mujin, and so on and so forth.

Chen Xiao suddenly realized that his surroundings were filled with terrifying yet interesting figures, as if some force was nudging these people and events into his life.

This couldn’t be a coincidence…

But Chen Xiao couldn’t figure out the reason.

“Who am I?” he pondered on his own in the quiet room, reconsidering this question that had remained unanswered since the moment he opened his eyes until now.

Of course, he couldn’t come up with an answer now either.

Just like “Glasses Man” said, wisdom isn’t just about having a sharp mind; it requires the support of tremendous external forces.

The way one thinks differs depending on their situation. The gap between a fool with a fistful of cash and a genius in rags isn’t simply bridged by intelligence alone.

So, Chen Xiao needed to become stronger.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t even have the right to know what that tattered black card with the crow painted on it was.

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“Clang”

The cup on the table shifted, making a slight noise that pulled Chen Xiao’s thoughts back to the present.

He smiled.

It seemed like he now had a clearer goal in his heart.

He looked out the window; the night shrouded in darkness with dots of light scattered across the glass, dimming the stars trying to pierce through the night sky. Moisture spread across the mirror, creating an unreal ambiance. The reflection showed Chen Xiao’s unattractive face, somewhat eerie.

A red dot in the sky, a plane crossing oceans flew by, distant traffic lights blinked as drivers cursed at each other. The neighbor across had been working overtime for three days straight, now embracing his wife with exhausted limbs. The reaction light in the hallway would break down tomorrow, a pet hamster had died, its body buried under the third tree at the entrance of the building complex. The old man lost his wallet, but soon someone would return it to him.

These were the things Chen Xiao knew just by glancing out the window, ordinary matters that popped into his mind without any active thought.

But these things were meaningless.

Chen Xiao knew he needed to become just a little stronger.

Not for any other reason, but because that way more questions would be answered, and he would encounter even more interesting things.

“Heh heh heh heh heh…”

He looked at his reflection in the glass and burst into inexplicable laughter.

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A night without words.

The early morning sky was vast and the clouds sparse; the rising sun was accompanied by a gentle breeze.

Chen Xiao stood in the middle of the living room of Apartment 603, frowning at the lopsided thing in front of him, feeling inexplicably queasy.

He took a couple of deep breaths, then turned and walked to the door, paused, and realizing he didn’t know what he wanted to do, he scratched his neck and went back to the window to bask in the sunlight, which felt warm.

But that warmth was just warmth.

It meant nothing.

Only then did he exhale the breath he had taken deeply, not sure why he had been holding it, but it felt incredibly helpless when released, accompanied by a sensation of self-loathing.

Finally, he couldn’t take it anymore. In a huff, he marched over to the table, straightened it, checking under it to ensure the edges aligned perfectly with the floor. Only then did he nod in satisfaction.

He knew it was meaningless, but he had nothing else to do at the moment.

And when he had nothing to do, he would get so bored it hurt, feeling irritable and displeased with everything.

So, after straightening the table, he gave in to his despair and organized all the cups, tableware, and chairs in an eerily precise and compulsive manner.

But even that only took half an hour.

Chen Xiao sat on the couch in dismay, rubbing his hair with both hands, looking both helpless and frustrated.

“No, no, it can’t go on like this. I’ve got to find something to do, or I might become the ‘creepy uncle’ the kids talk about.”

He muttered to himself, while his mind aimlessly perused the items in the “D-level Exchange Area”. He recalled the incredibly complex Array pattern given to him by that “Angel” sister and even meticulously schemed “how to make the landlady disappear without a trace” just in case it might come in handy later.

“Ding”

The sound of the phone system went off.

Chen Xiao took out his phone with an excitement that resembled a prisoner who had finally reached the end of his term.

A new task had appeared in the mission area.

Without even looking at it, he immediately clicked accept as if terrified someone else would snatch it away.

In fact, these unassigned missions would hang in the mission area for a few days before being assigned to someone if not accepted. Among all the operational staff in the “D-level Mission Area”, Chen Xiao was the only one who would actively take on missions without anything else to do.

When you take on a mission, you should at least check the mission brief; if it’s too difficult, not completing it is a minor issue, but what if you end up dying because of it?

But Chen Xiao didn’t care about that, acting like an old lady scrambling for discounted thermal underwear in a supermarket—grab it first no matter what, with the thuggish resolve of not letting anyone else have it, even if he couldn’t.

“Heh heh heh…”

At this moment,

Chen Xiao finally opened the mission brief.