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(These players seem to have found a clue. Follow them to see what they discover, and decide for yourself whether to help the players.)
(Task reward: Unknown)
Triggered the mission?
But what's with this "unknown reward" thing?
Tsukishiro Doman wasn't worried about finding that group of people.
That blind guy is a detective; his phone number is clearly written down.
He found a secluded public phone, inserted a coin, and dialed the number.
Hello, who is this?
"Hi, man, do you remember who I am? Hehehehehe~"
"........"
Meanwhile, the blind student stared blankly at his phone, his fingers itching to hang up.
What the hell? Whose voice did I just hear?
How does this guy know my phone number?
Why are you calling me at this time?
In short, blind students are now filled with a million questions.
"What's wrong, blind student?"
Hearing the sobbing voice asking him, the blind student pointed to his phone and slowly said:
"Nothing much, the Joker just called me."
"Huh?"
Everyone stared in utter shock at the phone in the blind student's hand, wondering why the BOSS would call him at this crucial moment.
Could it be that there's something going on between them?
Upon thinking of this, Yingyingying's eyes instantly sharpened.
Although he appears to be a useless middle-aged man, he is actually a highly capable private detective with a strong sense of justice; the clown is a crazy, ruthless killer; the detective is constantly pursuing the clown's trail, wanting to expose the true face behind his mask, and the clown is happy to play along with the detective.
During their pursuit, the detective faced numerous crises, but the Joker always came to his rescue. In the future, the detective, to repay the Joker's kindness, spared his life. And so, they...
(?"? ?)?"(???︿???)
A chop to the head shattered her whimpering delusions.
"Ouch! You blind bastard, how dare you hit my head! Aaaaaah, I'm going to beat you to death!"
Enraged, Yingying rushed forward, her little pink fists pounding against the blind man's chest. But the blind man impatiently pushed her head away with one hand, then continued to push Yingying away with that hand while using the other to answer the phone.
"I'm sorry, my companion isn't quite right in the head. Please don't take it to heart."
"Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool! You are all my lovely viewers, how could I not care about you?"
The clown's distorted laughter came through the phone, causing the blind student to instinctively move the phone further away from his ear.
After hearing it so many times, I felt like laughing myself.
"So, Mr. Clown, what brings you here?"
"GIGIGI, guess?"
"I do not guess you guess guess?"
"If you don't guess, I'll set your office on fire like fireworks, just like that building last time, hehehehehehe~"
"FA♂Q! Okay, you win. I guess you want to know where we are, right?"
"Wow, congratulations on guessing correctly, my friend. So, can you tell me why you guessed that?"
"It's very simple. There are only two possibilities for you contacting us. First, you have some information to tell us, such as you're planning to do something big again and want us to tell the police. Or you're about to be killed by someone you really dislike and are planning to leave your inheritance to us. The second possibility is that you need to contact us for something but couldn't find us at the agency, so you're calling us to ask."
After pausing briefly to catch his breath, the blind student continued.
"Although I'd love to guess that you're being relentlessly hunted by the government because of what happened last time, and are now on your deathbed, perhaps planning to leave a portion of your inheritance to us or just trying to drag us down with you, hearing that you not only have the leisure to play this guessing game with me, but also laugh so heartily, plus the public phone number, immediately rules out that answer. As for you wanting to cause trouble and making us notify the police in advance... judging from the past few newspapers and murder cases, you let that reporter, who was clearly bait, go, so you're a seemingly crazy person who is actually very cautious."
"Based on information provided by some kind-hearted people, you wiped out the government's special forces during the Flame Clown incident, and you even lured them there yourself. You're not the kind of person who would willingly bring about your own demise; you could only have done something like that because you were very confident that you could wipe out the special forces or escape unscathed from their clutches. That kind-hearted person also told me that someone like you who seriously disrupts order would be dealt with by powerful assassins sent by the supernatural world, and they would send several of them at once."
"If your confidence came from some kind of heaven-defying artifact, you definitely wouldn't have come to me. Instead, you would have gone straight to the government office building, turned it into fireworks, and set it on fire, while also doing a hip-hop dance on the roof."
"Since you're still using a public phone to call my cell phone, either you've obtained an incredible artifact but are a madman with extreme caution, or you've chickened out and aren't confident you can take down those assassins. This completely rules out the first possibility. There might be some flaws in my reasoning, but I think you understand the general idea."
“…Great reasoning, Mr. Blind.”
At this moment, the clown's voice sounded very calm and collected, completely different from usual.
At this moment, even his voice became subtly different, but it was hard to pinpoint exactly what was different.
But the next second, that murky laughter rang out again.
"I'll give you 99 points for this reasoning. I'm not giving you the last point so you don't get arrogant, hehehe~"
"Heh~ Since you want me to guess, let me guess to the end. What's the purpose of coming to us now...? To be honest, it's really hard to guess. Maybe they're here to kill us, maybe they're here to say goodbye, maybe they're here to give us one last performance. But considering the information you secretly gave us, we..."
The blind student was talking eloquently, but the clown felt something was off the more he listened.
Secret information leaked? What secret information did I leak? I think I only said it openly once, right?
What? Killing that girl represents a sacrificial offering? The king above the queen means that guy is still hiding? The queen's head is below, meaning that guy's sacrifice site is underground or in a cave in the wild?
???
What happened?
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I'm having the Ereshkigal pool tonight, but I really don't have any gems left...
Tuesday update: I'm devastated. The exam content was unbelievably extensive.
After a full day of classes, the teacher outlined a scope for us...
Putting everything else aside, just look at the multiple-choice questions in English: 30 out of 300, not to mention the cloze test and reading comprehension sections, where the probability is only one in ten...
Monday is still one day with four exams, all taken straight to the end, damn it!
I'm not going to say any more. I'm going to go study for the college entrance exam. Updates will resume as usual on Tuesday...
What happened to the promise that it would be very simple and easy to pass? What happened to the promise to give the answers directly?
Shit!
Chapter 323 The Arrival
The clown became increasingly confused, and eventually he couldn't understand a word the blind man was saying.
When did I ever hint at any of this? I clearly know nothing about it.
Wait a minute, could it be that you took what I rambled on about last time as some kind of intelligence, and even managed to analyze it logically and systematically?
What... should I say...?
The Joker really couldn't bear to tell them that he had made all this up and that he had no idea about these clues.
The detective, who was talking so enthusiastically, is probably so angry that he'll shut up.
"According to information from one of our teachers at the school, his son also joined this camping trip and we haven't been in touch with him for several days..."
Okay, while this information seems valuable, what if they really are going to live without electronic devices for a week?
But why were you triggered in the first place...?
Could it be that they really discovered it by accident?
No!
What incredible luck!
Thinking of this, the clown was speechless.
You're awesome.
But now that I've actually discovered it, I have to pretend it's true.
"Oh ho ho~ As expected of you guys, so where are you now, my dears? That guy isn't someone to mess with, you know. I don't want to run over there only to find your corpses; that would make me so sad, sob sob~"
Towards the end, the clown even pretended to cry a few times, which disgusted the blind student and gave him goosebumps.
You're a boss-level figure, stop being so disgusting, okay? You don't learn good things, you don't learn bad things, you just have to learn to be a whiny whiner.
What a shame.
"Alright, alright, stop crying, it's creepy. We're currently to the right of xxxxx school, at the entrance to that forest. I've brought a few more people with me, so don't get agitated and chop them up."
"Hehehe, how could that be? I'm the lovable Uncle Clown, how could I randomly chop people up? Wait a moment, I'll be right there."
"Hello, hello? Okay, he hung up..."
The blind student shouted a few words into the phone, but all he heard was a dial tone.
"Oh, what an impatient fellow. We'll wait here for a bit; the clown guy said he'll be here in a bit."
"Pfft—cough cough......."
Upon hearing this, the handsome guy, who was drinking water, spat out the water in his mouth and then coughed incessantly.
"Blind student, you really are having an affair with that clown!"
She pointed at the blind student with her finger, her face full of shock.
"What?! Blind student, you and the clown are having an affair?!"
Wu Dou was easily swayed by rumors, staring at the blind student with a shocked expression, seemingly genuinely believing that there was some unspeakable relationship between the blind student and the clown.
"......"
Rosen, standing nearby, looked at Wu Dou and Yingyingying with the same concern one would give a fool, wondering what was going on in their heads.
"Smack!" x2
The blind student mercilessly delivered a chop to both Yingyingying and Wudou.
"Am I that kind of person? Seriously, can't you guys be a little more rational? I have absolutely nothing to do with the Joker. He's just here to kill that hidden boss. He probably wants us to be his helpers, or to keep us from stupidly going over there to be sacrificed. Since we have ready-made henchmen, it's worth waiting a bit."
The blind student sat leisurely on a large rock nearby, lit a cigarette, and beckoned several tall and burly gangsters to come and rest for a while.
These guys were sent by New Health Agency to assist them; they're all elites.
Originally, the blind man and his companions wanted to trick Shin Kensuke, a boss-level figure, into coming to help them. However, since they lacked concrete evidence, they knew that as the dark ruler of a city, Shin Kensuke would not come so easily and risk his life. But since they were sworn brothers, they lent these well-equipped elites to the blind man.
Among them are a martial artist, a special forces soldier who has committed a crime, a half-demon, and three well-trained gangsters.
When the blind man learned that Shin Kensuke had so many talented people, he was puzzled and asked Shin Kensuke why he didn't call them over when he was dealing with the witch.
"I have these people, but doesn't the witch have them too? Her spells and potions have miraculous effects, so it's normal for her to recruit a few people. All I have is money and power. I lost several of the superhumans I recruited and trained in this war. I feel like I've lost a fortune. Sigh, I should have known better than to be so merciful and give those small gangs a way out. After all, it's my hometown, and I didn't want to start a massacre."
At this point, New Health News shook its head and sighed.
If he hadn't allowed that small gang to run rampant, giving Ue Saerika's magic circle the resources and time to build up its strength, he probably wouldn't have lost so many manpower and resources, and he himself wouldn't have been seriously injured.
However, it's too late to regret it now. All we can do now is recuperate and clean up the remaining influence of Ue Saerika.
"Crash-"
White doves fluttered their pure white wings, drawing bright trails in the night sky.
They are announcing the arrival of "who".
Anyway, it's definitely not "peaceful".
In the desolate night, the cheerful yet crisp footsteps sounded particularly heavy in their ears, pounding against their hearts and suppressing their breath.
It's here, "that" has appeared!
What the white dove brought!