Clown Game

Chapter 447: Chapter 425 Sealing Chapter 447: Chapter 425 Sealing “Ah, so this is really what you look like…” Chen Xiao mumbled to the sculpture.

Of course, there was no response. Ever since his memories had been retrieved, the seals in his mind seemed to have completely severed the connections between the clown, the detective, and himself.

Chen Xiao reached out to touch the corpse…and then…nothing happened.

He frowned and moved on to another sculpture nearby, a tall man wearing a deerstalker hat, with a high bridge of nose and overly deep-set eyes, which made the upper half of his cheeks seem somewhat out of proportion. The wide overcoat had a small bulge in the left pocket, which presumably held his pipe. Chen Xiao tried to open his coat, but he couldn’t move even a single thread.

These two corpses were right before his eyes, but it was like there was a whole world between them. Just like the old man had said, he hadn’t touched them at all.

“You can do nothing about it…” the Ascetic said slowly, “Yes, we haven’t done well. In fact, the world should have been renewed long ago, but we, in order to continue existing, still persist. The Anomalous Phenomena are the price we pay. Without us, there would likely be none of them. The world is already riddled with holes, like a tooth that should have fallen out, but stubbornly clings to the mouth, squeezing the new tooth so that it has nowhere to stand until it breaks through the oral cavity, blood gushing… This truth, I understood it long before you were born… But I cannot change it. Essentially, we are the same as The Splitters you are attached to; existence has meaning only if it continues. Without meaning, how would the universe change? Would the boxes left by eons ago break down? Does it really matter that much?

Humans are selfish, have always been so, from the beginning. Even if we were annihilated again, and a new wave of humanity was reborn, we would still be selfish. Otherwise, we should open our arms and return to our source, back to this universe… It’s like killing. In the end, we still consume the lives of others. Murder is condemned, but snakes, birds, fish, and insects become food. It’s indeed ridiculous. Yet I choose to guard humanity, this dirty, selfish, foolish humanity that only knows how to flee! Whether it’s now, the past, future, or countless generations later… they are all the same, until the day I too cease to exist!”

The old man spoke, for the first time in nearly a hundred years, he had said so much, revealed what was in his heart, but he hadn’t expected that these words would be spoken to a madman.