In the corridor.
Li Dan crouched in front of Art the Clown and took out the Ghost Card.
"Containment item detected: Soul Severing Clown." "Status: Seriously injured · Cannot be contained."
That line of information irritated Li Dan, so he gave Art two more shots. Soul Severing Clown was no good thing anyway; he loved killing people at random.
"Why aren't you talking?"
Art the Clown wriggled on the ground. He wanted to speak too, but he couldn't.
Bang!
The sledgehammer smashed down onto Art the Clown's toes.
"Talk!"
"Tell me, why do you keep, keep, keep refusing to talk?"
The sounds of pounding echoed endlessly through the building.
Li Dan even stomped hard on Art the Clown's injured toes several times. The pain nearly made the clown speak.
Though a certain Evil God had once said that stepping on someone's toes was a childish trick.
Li Dan knew that Soul Severing Clown possessed an Immortal Body. Even if he killed him, he would revive, so Li Dan did not choose to kill the clown outright.
After pounding away for so long, he was getting tired too.
Art the Clown looked as though he were dead, blood pooling all around him.
Other people might have left by then, but Li Dan had always made a habit of finishing off his enemies.
After all those finishing blows, Art should have died long ago. The problem was, if he wasn't dead, then even if he really did die, Li Dan still wouldn't leave.
This was called camping the respawn point and suppressing him before he could get up.
The Ghost Card still displayed that he could not be contained.
How was he supposed to contain this monster with an Immortal Body?
"How about dismembering him?" Li Dan scratched his head and muttered to himself.
The clown's corpse, which had long since died, suddenly twitched. When Art opened his eyes, he found himself tightly bound to an iron rack with ropes.
Li Dan was pulling out all sorts of tools from his black plastic bag.
There were knives, hammers, an electric saw, and all kinds of strange little gadgets. It looked like he was planning to dismember him, while also digging around to see whether he had anything good.
Obviously, apart from weapons and some junk, there was nothing.
Though Art the Clown could not speak, he could understand human language. He immediately began struggling wildly.
He had killed so many people over the years. Usually, after someone killed him in return, they would just leave. He had never seen someone this deranged, someone who would not even spare a corpse.
Just who was the Soul Severing Clown here...
Li Dan glanced at the struggling Art the Clown, thought for a moment, then pulled out a roll of tape. "You're still not dead after all that? Don't worry, I'm just studying your body's structure. By the way, how exactly am I supposed to seal you?"
"Oh, I almost forgot. You can't talk."
He stuck the tape over Art the Clown's mouth.
Art the Clown: "Mmph! Mmph!"
The scene immediately became much quieter.
Li Dan began studying the various tools and conducting cutting experiments. Soul Severing Clown could not be beaten to death and was not much of a fighter, so Li Dan felt no pity whatsoever while researching him.
During the research.
Tara and Dawn came by specifically to thank him. They even wanted to invite Li Dan to play games at their rented apartment.
Hah, what kind of person did they take him for?
Li Dan naturally declined. Researching the clown was more important. If he did not figure this out now, then when he encountered immortal killers like Jason or Mike in the future, would he only be able to stare helplessly?
That was why researching the clown was absolutely necessary.
In the basement of the building.
To study Art the Clown more effectively, Li Dan stopped pretending. He directly fused with Evil Spirit Wendigo, activated his second form, and entered a frenzied dissection mode.
After watching Li Dan finish transforming, Art the Clown's eyes widened even further.
Through his research.
Li Dan discovered that Art the Clown's Immortal Body seemed to have limits. Sometimes he recovered extremely slowly, while at other times he recovered very quickly.
Even after sawing his body in half, it still took a certain amount of time for the halves to fuse back together.
But if he threw the legs far away before killing Art, then the recovery time became much longer—at least half a day.
He could feel pain as well.
Summary: He really did possess an Immortal Body, but he was much weaker than Jason and Mike. He could feel pain, and his recovery speed was relatively slow.
He seemed like a weakened version. As for cremation, dismemberment, and exorcism, Li Dan had not tried them yet. He was afraid of messing things up.
After all, it had not been easy to find such a weak clown for research and experiments. It would be troublesome if he lost him.
When Art the Clown woke up again.
The look in his eyes when he saw Li Dan had become pure terror. Heaven knew how long he had been tortured.
If he wasn't being tortured, then he was on the way to being killed.
Art the Clown might have had an Immortal Body, but he could still feel pain.
Otherwise, he would not have suffered so much when Tara hit him in the original story.
An entire night.
Was he even human?
No, Li Dan really did seem inhuman sometimes.
"Huh? Why can I suddenly contain him again?"
Li Dan looked at the Ghost Card, thoroughly puzzled. Which step had triggered the containment mechanism?
He thought about it for a long time without finding an answer. Containing Art came first.
Li Dan took out the Ghost Card and contained Art the Clown within Club Five. What he did not notice was Art's gaze in the final moment before being sucked into the Ghost Card. It was a look called relief.
Once the clown was contained, all of Series Six was unlocked.
That counted as an additional surprise.
In other words, excluding Diamond Four and Club Five, he now had eighteen extra empty Ghost Cards.
It seemed he would need to contain more monsters when he had the time.
Even if they had no growth potential, they would still make excellent cannon fodder.
Next, it was time to check Soul Severing Clown's data.
"Containment item: Art the Clown." "Comment: A vengeful soul from Hell, possessing the traits of soulbreaking immortality."
The comment was quite good. At least he was not cannon fodder like an ordinary Wendigo or Deformed Person.
Next, it was time to look at his actual abilities.
"Containment item: Art the Clown." "Extractable abilities: Immortal Body (Incomplete), Instant Movement (Incomplete), Soulbreaker (Incomplete), Curse Transmission." Immortal Body (Incomplete): Recovers slowly. Recovery speeds up in corners where no one pays attention. It fails and results in death when subjected to devastating damage. Instant Movement: In corners where no one pays attention, your movement speed will become faster. Soulbreaker: A dead soul drifting through Hell, with a chance to break the soul and revive. Curse Transmission: Can spread through videotapes and videos, thereby returning to a point in reality.
So that was it.
The moment Li Dan saw most of Soul Severing Clown's abilities, he understood.
His Immortal Body had been incomplete all along. He would still die when faced with devastating damage, and the slow recovery matched what Li Dan had observed.
Still, even an incomplete Immortal Body was enough to make anyone jealous.
Instant Movement was not bad either. At first, he had nearly mistaken it for teleportation.
His movement speed would be faster in places where no one paid attention. It seemed useful for running away, but then again, if he encountered demons or evil spirits, that bit of speed would not be enough.
Then there were Soulbreaker and Curse Transmission.
Soulbreaker was probably why Art the Clown could revive. As for Curse Transmission, it sounded a little useless, but used in the right place, it would be a divine ability.
For example, if Li Dan were trapped in some underground cave or another terrifying place.
If a videotape or video happened to be playing at that moment, he could use the curse to escape danger.
It was equivalent to leaving behind a teleportation point.
As expected, containment items with comments were never too bad.
Soul Severing Clown still had plenty of useful applications, though in terms of combat power, he could not compare to Evil Spirit Wendigo at all.
His heart raced, and his hands trembled.
Li Dan immediately began the extraction...
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