purgatory artist

Chapter 66

Liu Ping stretched out his hand and made a gesture of drawing cards in the void.

A card was drawn out by him immediately.

I saw that it was a colorful card with a laughing clown painted on it.

Lines of burning small characters quickly appeared in the void:

"Happy Deck."

"Initial card."

"Card: Joker."

"Character Card (Rare)."

"Use this card, you will automatically get the clown costume, and make the drawn card a clown exclusive prop."

"Exclusive item activation conditions: You must create trouble and make at least one existence happy before you can transform other cards."

"Criteria for identifying joy: applauding, stomping, dancing, laughing, and any other way of expressing joy."

"Special note: This card was originally used to please all living beings, but in the era shrouded in eternal night, no one can feel the emotion of joy, so it has been left out for countless years, and now it is reduced to A most common low-level card."

"—it matches the deck's true name."

Liu Ping stared at the cards in his hand.

The clown stood in the center of the card, kept a laughing expression, and remained motionless.

Liu Ping said softly: "No one feels happy, right?"

The clown remains motionless.

Liu Pingdao: "All beings are caught in a series of dark dramas, just for the gods to choose slaves - how do you think we can achieve happiness?"

The cards are silent.

The clown is silent.

Liu Ping was stunned for a while, then suddenly said: "I forgot, as a user, I am the real clown."

Suddenly there was a burst of machine gun fire on the street outside.

"Get out, Liu Ping!"

Old K's voice sounded far away.

Liu Ping put away the cards, put the hen gently on the table, and prepared to leave the room.

As if remembering something, he returned to the hen.

"Would you like to help me?"

he asked sincerely.

The hen had been staring at him quietly, but now she turned around slowly with a look of thought.

It aimed its ass at Liu Ping.

……

on the street.

Qi Lu and Old K searched carefully along the street.

Old K was walking, and suddenly there was a tactical vest full of magazines on his body.

"Tsk, the bartender is drawing cards again—"

Old K laughed.

"The longer the time, the stronger we will be, and there will be other night watchmen joining us. Liu Ping can't win at all." Qi Lu said calmly.

Suddenly, a voice came from a house by the road:

"You are absolutely right."

It's Liu Ping!
Old K threw a grenade.

boom--

The house was bombed with a big hole and collapsed.

"He's not here." Qi Lu said.

"It's really fast." Old K said.

Not far from the two of them, Liu Ping's voice came from behind a wall:

"I really don't understand—since the longer the time, the better your chances of winning, why are you still chasing me?"

Old K raised his machine gun, but was held down by Qi Lu.

Qi Lu said loudly: "You're right, we don't have to chase you to kill like this, it will waste your time and kill you."

Old K shrugged and said: "—but we have to do something."

Liu Ping's voice came from the other side of the wall: "Why don't we have a chat? I'll surrender when you are all manned, and then we all go to seek refuge with Ms. Pain."

Old K and Qi Lu looked at each other, not knowing how to deal with it.

Inside the bar.

The bartender changed his expression, and said, "Get into a defensive posture, talk to him, and buy me some more time."

As he spoke, he drew another card.

This card depicts a knight with a large iron shield.

The bartender throws the card—

Bang!
Shield Knight Argel landed in front of the bartender.

Alger nodded at the bartender, walked out of the bar, and rushed in the direction of Old K and Qi Lu.

The bartender glanced at the clock on the wall.

After another 55 seconds, the next card is drawn.

"Even the shield knight was drawn out by me... Liu Ping, you will lose this trial soon." The bartender murmured.

After getting the bartender's order, Old K and Qi Lu put on a defensive posture.

They looked at the bare wall—

"Liu Ping, what do you want to talk about?" Old K asked loudly.

There was no movement behind the fence.

"If you really give up, then it's okay for us to talk, after all, we used to be comrades-in-arms." Qi Lu also said.

Still no one said anything.

Did it run away?

Old K and Qi Lu looked at each other with some doubts.

At this time Alger came and put the big shield in his hand in front of the two of them.

——This time the defense is more complete.

Alger said loudly: "Okay, Liu Ping, everything should be over, if you have anything to say, you can come out and tell us now."

suddenly.

A figure jumped up the wall and appeared in front of them.

That was a strange man.

His face was painted pale, his eyes were deep black, he was wearing colorful costumes, and he stepped on a pair of pointed boots.

The man sat down slowly on the fence, propping up the bricks with his hands, and looked at the sky quietly.

"——Liu Ping? Why do you pretend to be this kind of virtue?" Qi Lu couldn't help but ask.

After hearing this, the man slowly lowered his head and looked down at the three of them.

"From an early age, I knew the world wasn't perfect."

He laughed silently, grinning his bloody lips to reveal his neat white teeth, thick black eye shadow raised towards both sides of his cheeks, he looked like a demon practicing human smile.

"It's really funny to say that when I was born, I was a one-armed blind man. I was thrown into the river by my family to feed the fish. I was obviously about to drown, but was picked up by a meddlesome old man, and then taught me all the skills—— —”

"This is the fate of today, to be able to meet you here."

"My friends, you don't have to be shy, and you don't have to avoid my gaze. Throughout my life, I have been treated as a monster. I have already developed the ability to not care about other people's eyes, and I can display my acting skills normally."

After the man finished speaking, he slowly took out four eggs from his bosom.

"Look, this is a rare sight in your life."

As he said, he tossed the eggs one by one, catching the eggs alternately with both hands, and tossed them again.

"..." Qi Lu.

"..." Old K.

"..." Alger.

"No matter how much you praise - this is obviously just the simplest trick." Old K couldn't help but said.

The man glanced at him.

"Easy? No, the wonderful things are coming."

As soon as the words fell, he saw a change in his movements——

The four eggs were thrown out fiercely, and there was a whistling sound in the air.

"careful!"

Alger raised his shield to meet the four eggs.

Something wonderful happened.

I saw four eggs colliding with each other in the air, three of them hit the shield, but the last one jumped up suddenly, passed Alger's defense, and hit him in the face all at once.

Snapped!
The eggs cracked.

Alger's face was splashed with liquid egg yolk and egg white.

The man burst into uncontrollable laughter, and his body swayed so much that he almost fell off the wall.

He smiled and clapped his hands and said:

"A little trick! It requires great skill to perform, isn't it wonderful?"

In the void, lines of burning small characters quickly appeared:
"You caused an incident."

"You expressed your joy and joy by clapping and laughing."

"Next, the cards you draw will be transformed into clown exclusive props."

The man stretched out his hand and twitched lightly in the void.

A card suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

This is the lowest card.

"Card: A bouquet of flowers."

"Miscellaneous card."

"It's the sign of a gift that you can give to someone and bring a little joy to them."

next moment.

I saw that all the small burning characters changed——

"Card: A bouquet of flowers."

"Because the person using this card is a clown, this card has been transformed into a clown exclusive prop."

"You got the card: Blessings of Flowers."

"This is your exclusive item. You don't need to explain this sequence. You naturally know how to use it."

Bang!
Suddenly a bouquet of flowers appeared in the man's hand.

He was stunned for a moment, carefully holding the flowers, and slowly stood up from the wall.

It's not easy.

Until this moment, the gamble that had no chance of winning finally revealed a ray of light.

"Are you ready?" he asked.

"What? What kind of trick do you want to play?" Old K asked vigilantly.

The man grinned and whispered softly:

"That's right, it's still a trick."

"But whatever the trick, I can assure you, it's going to be better than any show you've ever seen."

"—After all, I am a peerless clown."

(End of this chapter)