Monster VS Clown

Li Chenchen felt the digestion progress of his potion make another major breakthrough. That feeling of digesting the potion, of drawing closer to mystery, fascinated him.

Perhaps before long, he would truly become a Magician, an "Extraordinary" capable of freely wielding mysterious arts in a modern city.

Of course, that was contingent on him taking down Bai Cangshu, that fat sheep. Only then would he have enough resources to continue trading for potions.

Li Chenchen was somewhat obsessed with the concept of the Extraordinary. He had always believed that Reincarnators at his tier did not truly count as Extraordinary.

Even if some extreme Reincarnators had come into contact with energy at this stage and could display abilities that seemed miraculous to ordinary people.

In actual combat, though, most of it was just flashy nonsense. Their meager energy attributes meant that Reincarnators at this stage still largely relied on their bodies and weapons in battle.

The strongest type of Reincarnator at this stage was the shooter.

With sufficiently high shooting proficiency and powerful enough weapons, they could kill many powerful Reincarnators and Plot Characters above their tier.

Naturally, they were also the most terrifying kind of people in reality.

Li Chenchen's thoughts jumped around, but his senses were extremely sharp. Through the two instances of consuming and digesting potions, he had gradually made himself "inhuman."

The scraping sound of metal being pulled from the fabric sofa was especially clear to Li Chenchen's ears.

Xiao Ning's back was completely soaked in cold sweat. It felt as though he had returned to the moment when he first faced Bai Cangshu. In his eyes, this mysterious man's skills were even more bizarre.

Perhaps... Brother Bai wasn't this man's match either.

The moment that thought surfaced, his urge to draw the weapon behind his back weakened somewhat.

Li Chenchen keenly noticed this. Rising onto his toes, his figure moved like a ghost. In the dim room, he appeared before Xiao Ning in an instant.

Xiao Ning's scalp tightened as a hand seized his head. The immense pressure on both temples gave him the illusion that his skull was about to be crushed.

"Talk. Where is Bai Cangshu now?"

"That woman who put something in the wine, the woman who took selfies and struck up conversations, and you people—you're all his subordinates?"

Sister Hong watched as this young man lifted Brother Ning off the sofa bit by bit with one hand. It looked no more difficult than lifting a cat.

For the first time, she directly understood what strength was.

Sister Hong began trembling uncontrollably. She sat stiffly in her chair, not even daring to wipe away the wine spilled across her legs.

"Brother Bai is at the school... He's at Binhai University... Ah!"

Xiao Ning cried out in pain. He felt as though his temples were about to be crushed.

His grip loosened, and the polished dagger fell to the floor.

Li Chenchen sneered inwardly. He was very cautious; almost every time he made a new choice, he performed another divination.

So he had long been mentally prepared for the possibility of running into a trap tonight.

He had even noticed something wrong the moment the wine entered his mouth.

Because he had consumed potions, he had completed the special milestone, Poison Testing Apprentice. Its effect gave him additional poison resistance, allowing him to ignore poisons with relatively low toxicity.

That was why he had deliberately drunk that glass of wine and allowed them to take him away.

And as expected, this trap was not particularly dangerous. They were merely a few ordinary people.

Li Chenchen lightly tapped the ground with his left foot. The dagger suddenly bounced up from the floor. Without even looking, he steadily caught it with his left hand, then flicked it hard.

Pfft!

Sister Hong did not react. Two seconds later, she felt agonizing pain shoot through her right hand.

"Ah! My hand..."

Li Chenchen already despised women like her. Learning that she had truly been part of the scheme against him made him feel even more disgusted.

He drove the dagger straight through her right hand, leaving a large hole.

From the corner of his eye, Xiao Ning saw everything and grew even more terrified.

On the other side, A Chao stood rigidly in the room and unconsciously backed toward the door. He wanted to run. Every cell in his body wanted to run.

Finally, when he saw Sister Hong's right hand pierced through, he violently pulled open the door and tried to flee.

Li Chenchen instantly released Xiao Ning. His right hand seemed to vanish, and in the next moment, a Tarot Card shot out.

Pfft!

A Chao, who had opened the door, felt his right leg give way and fell forward, smashing his face against the steps as blood poured out.

But he had still twisted open the basement door. As A Chao fell, it slowly swung open.

Li Chenchen looked coldly at A Chao, whose Achilles tendon he had severed. His left hand still held Xiao Ning as he was about to continue questioning him, but his whole body suddenly jolted. From the corner of his eye, he saw a figure.

He spun around in alarm. It truly had not been an illusion.

A man in a clean shirt was crouching at the basement entrance, watching him with an appreciative smile.

Clap, clap, clap!

Bai Cangshu applauded as he casually walked down.

With a sweep of his foot, he sent A Chao tumbling down the steps.

Then he smoothly shut the basement door again.

"Clown Evans, I'm starting to appreciate you."

Standing on the steps, Bai Cangshu naturally looked down at Li Chenchen. More clearly than anything he had heard, he could see Sister Hong's misery, Xiao Ning's despair, and A Chao's fear.

The emotions these people revealed already proved that Clown Evans was indeed a qualified Reincarnator.

He had not been brought down by this group of ordinary thugs.

In Bai Cangshu's eyes, true aberrations would never be defeated by ordinary people, especially when those people did not even have guns.

The faint shock Li Chenchen felt at Bai Cangshu's sudden appearance quickly subsided. His body became agile and supple again.

Hearing the other man openly speak the name Clown Evans, he knew that this newcomer was indeed far from simple.

Back in the space, he had not been the only one who secretly planted a lead that could help him find the other man...

This newcomer had also understood his intentions at the time and had been waiting for him to appear.

"Heh, so something like this could happen..."

"A mere newcomer, knowing I was going to hunt you down, yet instead of going to Song Xian's hunting dog to pledge loyalty, you wanted to deal with me yourself..."

"Bai Cangshu, has anyone ever told you there's something seriously wrong with your brain?"

Li Chenchen grinned, his mouth seeming abnormally wide. With a cold laugh, he fully loosened his body. Xiao Ning felt the pressure on his forehead vanish and collapsed limply to the floor. Two Tarot Cards slipped from Li Chenchen's sleeves into the gaps between his fingers.

The next moment, whoosh!

The two cards shot out at once, producing only brief tearing sounds in the poorly lit basement.

Bai Cangshu's pupils trembled. His eyes were also well adapted to the dim environment.

He took a step forward instead of retreating.

Thunk!

Only one sound rang out as the two cards embedded themselves in the door. Bai Cangshu had already leaped three meters in a single step, instantly crossing nearly the entire room to appear before Li Chenchen.

He threw a punch.

A fierce gust blasted toward him.

Li Chenchen's pupils contracted, and his neck bent toward his right shoulder as though it had snapped.

Was this guy really a newcomer...

With that speed and power, even a combat athlete would need some enhancement before they could achieve it.

A strange feeling suddenly rose in his heart.

Could a newcomer who gained such enormous rewards in a trial world truly be an ordinary newcomer?

Bai Cangshu had not expected Li Chenchen's neck-breaking evasive maneuver. His punch missed, and in the next instant, a fist struck his chest.

Bang!

Bai Cangshu lowered his center of gravity, sliding backward more than a meter across the floor.

He patted the clothes over his chest, a chilling smile appearing on his face.

"Looks like you haven't become a Magician yet... You're only a Clown!"

Li Chenchen's heart abruptly sank. For an instant, he felt a chill of terror.

Just who... was this guy...?