Chapter 111: Chapter 111: Sewerage
Translator: 549690339
In the bathroom.
Han Dong had envisioned a horrific scene where five young thugs had their mouths stuffed with balloons that burst.
Honestly, Han Dong didn’t really want to get covered in ‘oil’, as it would be sticky and uncomfortable all over… plus, the smell of blood would inevitably draw something from the sewers.
However,
What happened next was drastically different from Han Dong’s imagination.
Just as the clown pressed by the blond teenager against the wall was about to get beaten up,
Heavy footsteps could be heard from outside the door!
Then, a grown man, clad in a grey security uniform, standing about two meters tall with exposed muscles, stood at the door.
“Lesna! ”
This was the security captain at Derek High School. Rumor had it that he was also a top level enforcer in the Derry Town gang.
Such a character was not something a few young thugs could mess with.
“You five, come with me…don’t make me repeat myself.”
“Alright!”
The blond teen leading the group was so frightened that he almost ‘soiled’ himself.
If he tried to run, he’d eventually be caught.
Then, the place dealing with him wouldn’t be the school’s security room, but the gang’s punishment room in Derry Town.
When the five delinquents left the bathroom with their heads down, the leading one glared at Han Dong and the others fiercely, as if signaling ‘you just wait’.
Seeing things develop this way, Han Dong looked surprised, “Hmm?” “You thought I was going to kill these people?”
The clown adjusted his school uniform, reapplied his bright red lipstick in front of the washbasin, “That would be so boring… they would only experience fear and pain for an instant, and that’s not the outcome I want.
The ultimate goal of a performance isn’t just an explosion of emotion in a fleeting moment… it’s about completely changing a person.”
“Lesna, brother… shall we just let this matter drop?”
Walking through the hallway, the blond high school student took out half of his savings, about 100 US dollars… after all, being able to afford such goods indicated that this kid had a decent family background.
He tentatively handed the cash to the security captain.
If the school found out that he was using such substances, expulsion would be a guarantee, and he could even be detained.
Without much hesitation, Lesna took the cash.
The blond and his companions all let out a sigh of relief, thinking the matter was resolved.
But…
Zzz- Zzz- Zzz- The corridor lights began to flicker.
Lesna, standing at the corner, began to act a bit strange.
First, he shoved the money into his mouth, chewing and swallowing it… then
his entire body began to twitch.
Crack- Crack- Crack- (noise of joints twisting)
The head of the security captain twisted a full 1800 , his eyeballs slid out and fell to the ground, the hollow sockets staring at the five of them.
“Ahh!!”
The sight terrified the five delinquents into wild, scrambling retreat down the stairs.
But no matter how much they ran, they couldn’t reach the bottom.
After about twenty floors down, even the connection between the stairs and the laboratory hallway disappeared… leaving only the endless staircase.
Just when they were exhausted and collapsed on the staircase,
Thud Thud (heavy footsteps)
The security captain, with his head twisted halfway, was slowly descending by ‘reversing’, the slow pace seemed to purposely give the group of people time to flee.
However, no matter how they ran, they couldn’t lose the security captain.
The moment they stopped, the heavy footsteps would immediately follow.
Trapped indefinitely in the staircase, endless running, endless despair… this was the clown’s art.
In the bathroom.
Moving on to the main topic,
The [Entryway] was surprisingly set up in the bathroom on the top floor of the experimental building… this was completely different from what Han Dong had envisioned, a sewer entrance covered with a manhole cover. Using the sense of his parasitic organism,
Han Dong stood in front of the last toilet stall in the room.
Due to the dampness and long periods of disuse, the plastic door was already covered with plenty of black mold spots.
Creak- as he pushed open the stall door,
“Huh!? This is the [Entrance] to the Hidden Sewer? It’s on the wall?”
The wall directly facing the squat toilet was surprisingly fitted with a pitch-black circular manhole cover.
Logically, on the other side of this wall should be the adjacent laboratory, and the wall thickness should be only about two meters.
However,
Click!
Just as Han Dong reached out to remove the manhole cover,
What appeared before his eyes was a dark, damp, and lengthy sewage entrance channel.
This channel was the connecting area between [Derry Town] and the [Mysterious Sewer].
Drip drop drip drop…
The sound of dripping water came from deep within the channel.
Even though it was just an ordinary dripping noise, Han Dong instinctively felt a sense of danger and unconsciously stepped back.
The clown stood to one side, his eyeballs bulging as he stared intently at the dark channel, seeming slightly excited:
“The timing is just perfect, the sewer system currently corresponds to the time of least danger… let’s flip a coin to decide who leads the way.
Heads, you lead.
Tails, I lead.”
Ding!
The coin was tossed.
Controlling the coin was an easy task for someone like the clown.
Han Dong was already prepared to take the lead.
But to his surprise, the coin that landed on the clown’s hand was showing tails…
“Oh! My luck really is bad, let me lead the way.”
The clown pulled a thin balloon from his pocket and, with his clever folding and weaving, he transformed the strip into a miner’s hat with a light.
The preparations weren’t over yet.
Visibly, something was wriggling at the sides of the clown’s torso…
Swoosh!
The clown’s clothes were punctured by the ‘extra limbs’ that had grown inside.
Four furry, grasshopper-like long legs wriggled in the air, attached to the clown’s abdomen, assisting him in swiftly crawling in this narrow, damp channel.
Han Dong simply watched the clown’s transformation in silence, without passing judgment.
“Let’s go.”
The clown rapidly crawled into the channel first, then, considering Han Dong’s body limitations, deliberately slowed down to wait for him. “Hurry up! We need to get into the sewer area before ten…
“Ok.”
The Ghoul Arm was activated, the halo effect of the Griffin Short Boots was enabled.
Han Dong immediately caught up to the clown, swiftly crawling in this channel leading to the alternate space.
“Warning: You are currently delving into a special area within the current Fate Space. This area is highly dangerous. Please proceed with caution.”
Just at this moment, the clown suddenly spoke:
“Don’t worry, our game in Derry Town isn’t over yet… as long as I’m not dead, I won’t let you die easily.
Moreover, I still have to rely on some of your abilities and special information. Otherwise, it’s difficult for me to fully explore down there by myself.
Once we officially reach the [Sewer] area, I’ll tell you some ‘secrets’ about it.”
“Thank you, Mr. Clown..”