Clown Game-Chapter 97 - 85 The Laughing Bird

Chapter 97: Chapter 85: The Laughing Bird

Chapter 97 -85: The Laughing Bird

Mrs. Liu’s office.

“Registering a team?” She tapped on the keyboard with one hand while writing something on paper with the other, apparently editing an “anomalous item” file, and asked without looking up.

“Yes,” Chen Xiao replied very briefly, with a clear and forceful response.

Mrs. Liu sighed, seemingly reluctant to put down her work.

“Team leader…?” she asked with great impatience, actually not wanting to bother with Chen Xiao, but “registering a team” was indeed part of her job…

“Chen Xiao!” Chen Xiao announced his own name, even slightly lifting his head as if he’d received a little red flower.

“Members…” Mrs. Liu didn’t even glance at him, continuing to type something into the computer and asked.

“Chen Xiao!” He said his name again.

“Nonsense… What else?” Mrs. Liu said with disdain, too lazy to lecture this guy.

“…”

A moment of silence.

Mrs. Liu stared at Chen Xiao in astonishment…

“Don’t tell me it’s just you!”

Chen Xiao immediately straightened his back.

“What’s wrong, can’t I register alone? I’m just registering first before finding teammates, is that not allowed!”

Mrs. Liu sighed. She knew that talking to Chen Xiao could easily drive her mad.

“Alright, alright, do what you want,” she said helplessly, just wanting to get rid of him as quickly as possible.

“Team name!” she asked.

Then,

“Hmm————”

Chen Xiao drew out the sound, as if pondering.

Mrs. Liu looked at him with a dark expression.

“You’re not just now starting to think of a name, are you?”

Chen Xiao immediately dropped his hand from his chin and lifted his head to reply with conviction, “How could that be… The name is… Hmm————”

Mrs. Liu rubbed her forehead helplessly. She once again profoundly regretted taking over “handling Chen Xiao’s affairs.”

Suddenly, Chen Xiao finished pondering, a glint of inspiration in his eyes, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned. His expression was very serious and smug.

“Ha Ha Smile Squad!”

…

It seemed as if the air froze for half a second.

Mrs. Liu looked at Chen Xiao.

“No!”

She said expressionlessly.

“Why not?” Chen Xiao looked unconvinced.

“If I agree to such a team name, then every time I say it, it would amount to an insult to my intelligence and dignity.”

“Then call it Hee Hee Smile Squad,” Chen Xiao made a face as if to say, “I’m giving in to you a little.”

…

…

Mrs. Liu took a deep breath to calm herself, and then reluctantly educated Chen Xiao.

“According to the norms of the Order Foundation, team names in the Asian region generally tend toward the sky, those in the Pacific Division like to include words related to water or fish, and the field agents from the African and North and South American divisions prefer land plants or wild beasts.”

Chen Xiao frowned, “But I think Hee Hee Smile is pretty good. Otherwise, what do you think about ‘Single No More Squad’?”

With a snap, Mrs. Liu broke the pen in her hand. Although she kept her expression blank, Chen Xiao clearly felt an aura of pressure in the air around them.

“Hee Hee Smile… Bird… Um… Laughing Thrush!” Mrs. Liu muttered to herself in a still calm voice, then immediately entered the name into the computer.

“Hey, you just made that decision so hastily. I haven’t even decided yet!” Chen Xiao wanted to shout, but feeling the somber atmosphere around him, his voice unconsciously quieted down a lot.

At that moment, Chen Xiao’s phone vibrated. He took it out and glanced at it. It was a message, and after he opened it,

System prompt: “Your team emblem”

The space below was blank, evidently waiting for someone to draw something on it.

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“Hmm…”

Seeing that the die was cast and there was no way to make any changes to the team name, Chen Xiao realized he could still design their emblem, and he had to admit, the Foundation was quite considerate in this regard.

So without overthinking,

First!

He drew the shape of a crescent, like a smiling mouth.

“Hmm… life should always be fun,” he murmured softly.

…

Then he directly clicked confirm.

…

Yes, apart from that smiley face, he didn’t draw anything else.

Soon, Mrs. Liu’s screen displayed Chen Xiao’s team emblem.

Mrs. Liu looked at the two curve lines that could not even pass for a stick figure drawing, and the corner of her eye twitched imperceptibly.

“Is that it?” she said.

Chen Xiao immediately straightened his back and spoke as if he was stating some life philosophy, “Yeah, life should be fun, smiles should be pure, without mixing in anything else…”

“Oh, these are open wings, birds surely should have wings,” Mrs. Liu said to herself, as if she hadn’t heard Chen Xiao speaking at all.

Chen Xiao was stunned for a moment, “Eh? No, no, that’s not wings, that’s a smiley face.”

He explained.

“But a bird shouldn’t just have wings, it needs a body,” Mrs. Liu said and drew a vertical line in the middle of the crescent.

“Hey, hey, I said those aren’t wings. Are you even listening? And could you not doodle on someone else’s emblem?!” Chen Xiao shouted at Mrs. Liu.

With a “snap!” Mrs. Liu slammed her special black phone down on the table.

“Alright, you win, smarty-pants,” Chen Xiao said with a deadpan face, mumbling under his breath.

“Ah… a bird should also have legs, right?” She continued with interest and drew a “V”-shaped short line below the vertical one.

“A bird should also have a head, right…” Mrs. Liu mused, but then pondered for a moment, “Hmm… but it seems like people in this team don’t have much of a brain.”

As she spoke, she drew a horizontal line at the top end of the vertical line, making it look like a tilted head.

Then she directly hit the confirm button.

“Hey, hey… it’s bad enough you’ve been altering it randomly, but why on earth did you confirm it just like that? Isn’t this emblem a bit too abstract?” At this point, Chen Xiao could no longer hold himself back and he shouted.

But soon, his own phone vibrated once.

In the previously blank space where he had drawn, an image resembling a card appeared.

The background was black, and white lines depicted a wide-open, laughing mouth shape, but with a vertical line running through the middle and very simple short lines indicating a “head” and “feet” at the ends, turning the picture into an abstract design somewhere between a “smiling face” and “a bird with outstretched wings.”

Chen Xiao looked at the team emblem on his phone and frowned.

Now that the rice was cooked to a crisp, there was no use struggling anymore.

Chen Xiao’s frown wasn’t because of the pattern.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a black card with an image resembling a crow drawn on it.

“Do you recognize this?” he handed the card over to Mrs. Liu.

Mrs. Liu wanted to wave her hand and quickly get rid of this guy, but she saw the expression on his face.

It was rare for him to look so serious.

…

So, she took the card.