Am I a clown? !
I'm what you call a clown! ?
Sean’s hair stood on end!
Olivia turned her head and saw Sean's appearance in the mirror, and couldn't help but be surprised and put on a defensive posture.
Although a strange clown is reflected in the mirror, the crimson tie still connects the readers around him.
No matter what the mirror showed, Olivia knew it was Sean standing next to her: "What's going on?"
Sean forced himself to stay calm. He shook his head heavily, his thoughts racing.
Suddenly I understood a lot of things before.
"Moonlight and the others all met people who looked exactly like themselves in the maze.
"However, they did not mention the details of encountering the clown."
The palm holding the Springfield carbine was sweating sticky:
“It was just me who met that clown.
“The foreshadowing of this game has already been laid before it starts.
"The clown who met me on the narrow road in the maze garden was not 'passing' me..."
Sean closed his eyes in pain:
“But it walked into my body.
"In this game, I am the clown."
Even a simple and straightforward person like Olivia Wind Chime realized something at this moment:
"Find the clown, kill him, and exchange for freedom..."
There was worry in her red eyes - naturally she would not hurt her readers, but...
How should this game end?
After standing in front of the mirror and thinking for a long time, Sean was finally freed from his still state.
He turned his head, his expression serious in the firelight: "Olivia, don't let them know."
"They" naturally refers to Max's group of people.
They were indeed reliable allies before, but if they knew that they were "clowns"...
I'm afraid the other party will never trust me again.
When trust is broken, fratricide follows.
Even if Sean didn't remind her, Olivia would have thought of this.
The Seiko girl bit her lower lip lightly, with a rare nervous look on her cold face. She nodded gently, not knowing what to do.
Seeing the expression on Olivia Fengchime's face, Sean closed his eyes and nodded vigorously.
The meaning is obvious: don't worry.
Then, he took a few steps back and walked out of the cave.
Outside the cave entrance, they met Max and Holly who had completed their search.
Although his face was calm, Sean still had a feeling of hair standing on end - he couldn't let them find out that I was a clown!
"Did you find anything?" Sean was satisfied with his steady voice.
Max shook his head and looked at the darkness behind Sean: "What about your side?"
At this moment, his hoarse voice made Sean feel a little like a thorn in his back.
“A mirror like the one at the entrance.
"I thought, if we could find the Joker, maybe this would be the exit."
Since it is only a temporary alliance, they will definitely conduct a second check - Sean has no way to hide the existence of the mirror behind him.
After hearing that they had found the mirror, Max and Holly both walked towards the depths. Sean stood there as a matter of course.
At this moment, he was thinking of the dead people whose hearts were cut out at the entrance, and the poem read by the strange puppet when entering the garden:
"midnight.
“You were frightened by that weird face outside the window.
"Just when I was about to run away through the door...
"You just remembered that there was a mirror, not a window -"
"Fear has always been in your heart.
"Could it be that, in order to eradicate fear,
"Can I just cut out my own heart?"
Sean cursed fiercely in his heart: "Damn it!
"Is this the reward for being promoted first?!"
This poem obviously hints at the method of completing this game——
As a clown, I cut out my own heart.
"So..." It was difficult to control the messy thoughts, and he once again saw the people missing their hearts who appeared behind him, "So, those people at the door were all victims of having their hearts cut out?"
Does this mean that this game is destined to have a victim?
Only if the victim cuts out his own heart according to the prompted poem can he gain the freedom of others?
Max and Holly were still checking the mirror.
Sean's thinking continues: "Are we going to replace our heart with ectoplasm like we did in Undercurrent Street?!"
He dismissed the idea almost immediately: "That heart came back quickly, and this time...
“I’m afraid I have to sacrifice my heart this time.
"A heart formed from ectoplasm cannot last long!"
Doesn't work.
what to do?
what to do? !
When Max and Holly reappeared in front of him, Sean had adjusted his expression - nonchalant and calm.
Behind Max, the shadow was telling him something.
Sean didn't like the feeling, so he just turned around and pretended to be defensive.
"Xiao..." Max said, "We have a proposal."
Sean turned to show that he was listening.
“The mirror at the entrance, when our whole team looked at it together, a prompt about the game appeared...
"I thought maybe we should have everyone stand in front of a mirror to get a hint on what to do next?"
Sean knew that, based on the experience at the entrance, others would definitely think of the option of looking in the mirror together.
However, he didn't expect it to be so soon. He thought there would be more time to think...
So, when Max asked to look in the mirror so quickly, it felt like thunder exploded in his heart.
Whether he chooses to look in the mirror or not, his secret will be exposed!
But there was only an appropriate look of approval on his face: "It's worth trying."
That was all he could answer.
Because there are no loopholes in this logic, if he forcefully finds a reason, it will only cause suspicion to break out in advance.
Behind Max, Holly seemed to notice something, and leaned over to the remnant soldier and said a few words in his ear.
The remaining soldier twitched his nose. Before he said it, Sean, who was highly nervous, finally noticed——
The air became a little strange.
It smells very similar to the smell in the acid room.
And my throat, just like before, started to feel burning pain.
"Those acids..." Max said, "After the tide recedes, it seems to begin to spread throughout the haunted house..."
The amount of acid is so large that if it were completely diffused, the concentration of acid mist in the air would be extremely high.
It is entirely possible to burn people's lungs, trachea, and eye mucosa until death.
"It seems that this haunted house is starting to urge us." Max shrugged.
In order to proceed to the next step, the captains on both sides summoned the team members who were stranded behind.
A group of seven people reunited, but Sean was not optimistic at all.
"Xiao and I found a mirror that was exactly the same as the one at the entrance..." Max, who seemed to be waiting for Xiao to speak, found that his admired ally didn't seem to want to speak, so he had to continue, "We decided to do it just like before entering the haunted house. Same, let’s go look in the mirror together and see if we can get any further hints.”
"Hurry up then..." The Black Death Doctor was already walking towards the cave indicated by Max, "The acid is filling the air. In less than ten minutes, our lungs will be burned..."
The group of people walked towards the cave.
Only Sean stood still.
