Clown Game-Chapter 77 - 65 Broke

Chapter 77: Chapter 65: Broke

Chapter 77 -65: Broke

Chen Xiao’s consciousness gradually returned; he found himself in a weightless environment, with a strange sense of fullness in his lungs—he knew that this was the sensation of that peculiar liquid pouring into his lungs at the time of data registration.

Immediately afterward, his memories came flooding back: he remembered firing a shot, his arm a bloody blur, an old man, and then the smell of blood and fleeting shadows running wild in the darkness of the night.

He struggled to open his eyes. His body was enveloped in a pale green liquid, which moistened his eyes yet caused no discomfort. He tilted his head to inspect his arm, which was now as good as new, without even a scar. In front of him was a glass cover, through which he could see white walls and some instruments, whose purposes he couldn’t decipher.

Suddenly… Chen Xiao seemed to remember something, and he began to twist wildly. Alarms blared all around. A person in a white lab coat hurried over, glanced at Chen Xiao, and then pressed a series of something on a console nearby.

Maybe they were adjusting the dosage or checking the body function data—who cares, Chen Xiao wasn’t concerned with that at all.

Because he knew exactly which device he was in.

This device was called the “Life-like Entity Repair Chamber”. Its introduction was lengthy, but to put it succinctly: as long as a person was still breathing, toss them in for a few days, and virtually any injury could be healed (uh… except for his broken mouth, don’t ask why, don’t be mischievous!); there was no user-level restriction, it could be used by anyone from D-level to S-level.

And the cost of using it was… 200 per use.

“200!!!”

A wail rose in Chen Xiao’s heart.

…

…

A few days passed with a blur.

In the “K City Abnormal Biological Research Zone,” within Mrs. Liu’s office, Chen Xiao’s expression was exceedingly serious. In the recent period, he had resorted to deception, taunts, inducement, stubbornness, pleading, crying, acting cute, and so forth. Afterwards, considering his own attractiveness and the indifferent way the other person handled matters, he refrained from using seduction or suggestive body-selling methods, and violent means like threats were even less possible; a single unhappy gesture from the other party, and he’d be done for.

He was discussing his remaining funds problem with Mrs. Liu.

He soon realized he was completely at a loss with the woman sitting across from him.

Impervious to reason, immune to soft or hard tactics.

In the end, Mrs. Liu, probably tired of Chen Xiao’s annoyance, gave an expressionless shake of her smartphone, and Chen Xiao immediately took the hint, rolling out of her office—of course, not forgetting the customary “wish you find someone soon” on his way out.

So now, Chen Xiao’s credit situation was as follows.

He had an original 30, completed a task for 60, successful containment added another 30, all summing up to 120.

One use of the repair chamber… deducted 200.

Since Chen Xiao didn’t have enough funds and couldn’t leave his crew lying in the hallway gasping for breath, the Foundation under such circumstances demonstrated its exceedingly caring and humanized side toward its employees. Their method of dealing with the situation was… to let him owe the amount.

Thus, Chen Xiao’s current balance is… uh… -80.

Great! He had once again desperately completed the mission, only to end up with his funds deep in the negative.

(As for why Bai Xiong and Ding Manshan didn’t cover his funds… Brother, wake up.)

At this moment, Chen Xiao’s face was etched with the character for “misfortune”. Reflecting on his recent mission experiences, the outcomes were all extremely positive, but the rewards were pitiful. Chen Xiao even wondered if he should find some kind of abnormality detection device to scan himself, suspecting it would reveal an anomalous property like “negating all good luck entirely”!

According to Chen Xiao’s current financial state, he couldn’t even afford a hemostatic spray. Was he supposed to go to the clinic in the neighborhood before his next mission and buy a few rolls of bandages, adhesive tape, and Yunnan Baiyao to carry around? Moreover, if he didn’t wish to off himself, his only weapon packed just slightly more punch than a brick. Coupled with the thought that the next mission might not even fill the financial hole he was in, he figured he would likely still be broke for the subsequent mission.

So…

“No, no… I’ve got to do something! Otherwise, it’s no different from waiting for death!” he muttered to himself, then slipped his hands into his pockets.

There was a diamond there.

It was one of the diamonds in the box that the old man had handed him. Chen Xiao had sneakily kept it when he was supposed to turn in the abnormal items.

“Maybe… just give it a try!”

He thought.

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Apartment 221 on Shell Street, floor six. Chen Xiao sat in a corner of the living room. He was staring intently at the room in front of him, taking in every detail. Meanwhile, there were four items laid out before him,

a pen, a piece of paper, a diamond, and a scroll made of unknown material, covered in strange patterns.

He was waiting…

Suddenly, the teacup on the table moved, the corner of the table tilted to one side as if something had bumped into it.

Chen Xiao immediately grabbed the paper and pen and wrote two words.

“Diamond”

…

About a minute later, strange, crooked letters appeared beneath the word “diamond”.

“Place on top”

Chen Xiao frowned.

He was hesitant because he knew he was doing something with unpredictable consequences.

Whether it was the guy who called himself “Angel” or the woman named Qiu Mujin, they had been constantly inciting him to place the anomalous items into the strange pattern. And it seemed they had paid a huge price to get him to do so.

Chen Xiao looked at the diamond. When he had handed the rest over to the Foundation, the lab-coated staff had conducted some experiments and were almost certain these objects had a toughness far beyond what was normally possible.

It, was one of those things that did not belong to the laws of this world.

“So… should I really place it there?” Chen Xiao wondered.

But he couldn’t come up with anything, not even a starting point.

In this situation with unpredictable outcomes, the “decision wheel” in Chen Xiao’s mind started spinning again.

Inside that cabin, the “Angel” sister had once told him about a principle called “equivalent exchange,” meaning that if he handed over the anomalous items to her, he would receive a reward of equal value.

This statement was ambiguous—what the reward was, how value was measured, and even whether the statement was true or a trap set by the other party.

Chen Xiao didn’t know, but it didn’t matter anymore.

Because the pointer had stopped on the option “Place on top!”

Chen Xiao chuckled. No longer hesitating, he directly picked up the diamond.

What would happen?

Probably something he couldn’t understand. But what of it? There had been plenty of things he hadn’t understood recently.

“Hehehe… it might be very interesting…”

With a wide grin, emitting a sinister laugh,

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he placed the stone into the pattern

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