Chapter 836

Kraun's Adventure

Why would a person crawl out of the manhole cover in the alley?

Who is he?

What did he go down to do?

What good things are underneath? Is it treasure, or... a secret?

Kraun was stunned; he pulled up his pants, his expression beginning to become hesitant; he clearly wanted to go down and see, but just lacked a bit of courage.

So he stood blankly in the shadows of the corner, looking at the manhole cover that wasn't covered tightly, struggling violently in his mind.

The three players watched this scene, all wanting to help him, but they chose to remain motionless with great tacit understanding, because when a dull life welcomes a turning point, no one is willing to forcibly change the plot; they all wanted to know how Kraun would choose.

Kraun didn't choose... this coward seemed to have given up.

He still didn't move, long enough that the scholar had already finished his work and returned to the alley, while Kraun was still huddled in the corner frowning and thinking.

Now, not helping wasn't an option.

The scholar would definitely see his manhole cover wasn't fastened when he returned; when realizing that the biggest secret of this town was about to be discovered by an experimental variable, he would definitely search the surroundings carefully to ensure the secret hadn't been leaked, but Kraun was too close; he might not notice in a hurry, but as long as he looked closely, he would definitely find a young lad hiding here.

So the players had to take action, but their way of taking action still left no traces.

Cheng Shi pointed to a small piece of thin ice at his feet, then glanced at Ai Si; Ai Si understood, picked up that small piece of thin ice, leaped silently to the high part of the alley, and then hung upside down on the window sill above the scholar's head in an extremely difficult posture, accurately throwing the thin ice that had been slightly melted by her palm onto the scholar's soles.

The scholar had just turned the alley corner when he stepped on the thin ice and slipped; at this time, Ai Si hung down from the high place, lifted another thick piece of ice from the ground, and let the scholar's back of the head hit the thick ice block hard.

The scholar fell unconscious, not knowing what had happened from start to finish; Ai Si curled her lips and returned to the "best viewing position" in a smooth and flowing manner.

Watching Ai Si's stunning operation, Cheng Shi and Zhang Jizu's expressions were brilliant, clapping for her—no, for him—in a silent way.

Cheng Shi looked at Ai Si with playful eyes, the expression clearly saying: Not even bothering to act anymore?

Ai Si took it all, didn't explain, only rolled her eyes and continued watching the show.

The scholar fell at the entrance of the alley, the huge sound scaring Kraun into a shiver, and when he saw this stranger fainted in front of him, the balance of hesitation in his heart finally broke its equilibrium.

A glimmer of undisguised curiosity flashed in his eyes; he immediately dragged the stranger into the alley, hid him in the shadows beside the stone steps, and then skillfully exchanged clothes with the other party; after confirming everything was correct, he transformed into a "scholar," pushed open the manhole cover, and crawled down cautiously.

The three looked at each other and followed quietly, like invisible bodyguards protecting Kraun's side.

Of course, true invisibility still required the help of props; just as Ai Si wanted to jump down first, Zhang Jizu grabbed her and stuck a small page on her body.

"The power of 【Memory】? Heh, interesting." Ai Si turned and left; Cheng Shi looked at squinty old Zhang meaningfully, and after sticking on the prop, also followed down.

Underground was undoubtedly the observation station of the Tower of Rationality; at first, Kraun, who had just come down, was shocked by this crisscrossing underground water system; even seeing many people shuttling and walking in these pipes, even seeing the clothes on these people were different from the style of Sandlais, he didn't doubt it, only thinking that perhaps this was a secret organization secretly organized by the town center.

Until two young scholars walked in front of him and asked if his actions today were smooth, he realized that things might be completely different from what he had imagined.

But Kraun was very sharp and very smart; he didn't dare let the two touch him, and used his hat to cover his appearance as much as possible, dealing with the other party with one sentence after another, and even used his sharp mind to complete the oral report of this action.

The two scholars were actually fooled; they left with the report and dropped a set of scholar robes for Kraun.

Kraun had already begun to notice something was wrong; he hurriedly changed into the scholar robes and began... investigating this place openly.

Correct, openly, because he realized that being timid here would only make people more suspicious; instead, because of the set of clothes on his body, the scholars didn't doubt him, or even disdained to doubt him.

Perhaps in the eyes of these scholars, the variables of Sandlais would never be this smart.

So Kraun's adventure began; after walking through a few passages and seeing a few people, the "scholar aura" on his body became more and more intense, and later he even began to point out the actions of other scholars passionately and correct their arguments regarding the Sandlais experiment.

Yes, he already knew that the world he was in was just an experiment, but he didn't dare to be afraid in this underground passage, only able to endure the fear in his heart and exert his acting talent wantonly.

Kraun was indeed very talented; he was almost flawless in role-playing.

Zhang Jizu followed behind, chuckled, and evaluated: "Quite like you."

"?" Cheng Shi narrowed his eyes, his expression strange, "You'd better not be mocking me, squinty old Zhang."

"I am complimenting you; there are indeed commonalities between clowns."

"..."

This point couldn't be refuted; in the previous "days," everyone had already seen that Kraun's so-called actor identity was actually a clown.

And when the clown and the underground sewer were associated, Cheng Shi suddenly paused, turned his head to look at squinty old Zhang and said:

"The nose, that clown nose!"

A glimmer of light flashed in Zhang Jizu's eyes; he immediately took out the nose Cheng Shi had once stuffed into his hand, but he didn't hand it to Cheng Shi, instead looking at the nose in his hand in a daze, as if he had realized something.

And just at this time, due to the intense argument with other scholars once evolving into some physical unfriendliness, a small red ball fell out of Kraun's scholar robe.

The scholars surrounding him noticed this point, asking in confusion one after another: "What is this?"

Kraun's movements faltered, soon kicked it away, spread his hands, and squeezed out a smile:

"Passed by that boring theater, picked up a nose from the clown's feet, thought it was interesting so I brought it back.

Now it seems, that clown is really clownish enough; he doesn't even know where his clownishness is."

The inexplicable punchline in this sentence suddenly made all the scholars laugh; everyone either held their stomachs or supported their shoulders, and a conflict was thus eliminated in joy.

Perhaps even Kraun didn't expect that the moment he played the clown most successfully was when he truly became a clown.

His jokes were indeed no longer cold, but his heart never had temperature again.