Chapter 96 Another Branch Line

Incandescent lamps that flicker irregularly,

An old TV full of snowflakes because of no signal,

Parents sitting motionless on the sofa,

And a gift box with images of spooky clowns.

All of these are scenes that were not found in the original movie "The Clown's Soul". More importantly, in the original "The Clown's Soul" movie, only teenagers and children can see the scary clowns in Derui Town.

Adults are invisible.

Now, in the fate world where Han Dong lives, his parents have been seriously affected.

Therefore, Han Dong has completely abandoned the original plot, emptied the brain recycle bin, and treated it as an unknown event.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Han Dong also quickly sent the information of the current encounter to Cass and others from the clockwork device... However, he was unable to receive a reply for a long time.

It seems that Cass and his party are also in a 'dilemma'.

"Procrastinating is not the way, solve it by yourself..."

Han Dong motioned Chen Li to stay at the entrance of the stairs, and Han Dong went down to inquire first, and Chen Li was ready to support at any time.

Just when Han Dong stepped down the last step.

The familiar system sound echoed in my mind again.

『The branch event has been activated: [Laughing Parents]

Requirement: Doing housework?!

Rewards: Small clues (smile gift box), slightly increase the probability of getting the "Fate Card" in the final reward. 』

"Hmm! This is also a branch line!?

However, compared to the school's branch events, the scale of the event is obviously smaller, so it corresponds to a small clue.

Moreover, this time the branch line is directly related to [Joker-Pennywise], and even the description of 'request' has become very strange.

This time the fate of the world,

Is it mainly based on various side quests? "

Just when Han Dong was thinking.

Parents who were supposed to be sitting on the couch watching the TV, deflected their heads in a rather blunt way...

The body remained seated, only the head on the neck was mechanically twisted.

Just rotated 90°, looking straight at Han Dong.

Completely different from the kind parents in the impression.

Both wore exaggerated bright red lipstick and had extremely exaggerated smiles (to the stretch limit of the zygomaticus (facial muscles)).

The wide eyeballs feel that they may 'pop out' from their sockets at any time.

"Nicholas...why haven't you slept yet?" The same voice came from the mother's mouth.

"Come down and have a glass of water."

Facing such a terrifying scene, Han Dong had a normal face, turned around and walked to the kitchen to pour water.

However, just as Han Dong walked to the kitchen and turned his back to his 'parents'.

click!

click!

The first sound is the sound of the TV turning off.

The second sound is the sound of the lights turning off.

This means that all the light sources in the house are extinguished, and only a faint moonlight is injected through the window.

Ka cha ka cha ~ (nail scratching sound)

Something seemed to be crawling fast in the dark.

When Han Dong turned around.

His parents stood upright in front of him and kept a 'smile' at all times.

Han Dong, who was mentally prepared in advance, was indifferent, completely suppressing the fear in his body, and slightly stretched out his hand to let Chen Li, who was hiding in the dark, do it.

During this period, Han Dong kept a smile and looked at his parents.

At this time, a red shadow flashed.

The kitchen knife surrounded by evil spirits cut through the necks of the parents in an instant.

Arteries disconnected, 'oil' surges.

The parents' heads just fell into the sink next to them, still maintaining a 'smile', staring at Han Dong with wide eyes, without any deviation.

The body without the head fell heavily.

The weird thing is!

The corpse that fell to the ground was like a balloon...crack! A blast!

…………

Snapped!

The balloon burst!

Han Dong's consciousness shook for a while.

In a blink of an eye, he was at the brightly lit second-floor bedroom window.

The red balloon outside the window just blew up... Han Dong saw the clown jumping away on the street again, cold sweat dripping down his temples.

"Rewind time? Impossible!?"

Han Dong turned to look at the clock in the room for the first time.

Ten minutes have passed since Han Dong left the room before. .

In addition, parasite specimens have been received in the bookcase.

Both of the above situations are sufficient to show that time is not reversed.

Han Dong quietly left the bedroom and looked at the living room through the gap in the stairwell... He found that the two parents were sitting on the sofa unscathed, exactly the same as before.

This means that it is not a time callback, but a 'scene reset' in a simple sense.

With the death of my parents, it will all start all over again.

"How is such a scene reset achieved? Mind influence?"

Just when Han Dong was lost in thought, the system prompt came:

"Housework needs to be handled by members of the family by themselves, and no outsiders are allowed to intervene. If you deliberately violate the rules to reset the scene, you will be severely punished. 』

"In other words, does this matter have to be done by me? Even Chen Li, who has established a 'master-servant relationship' with me, is not allowed to intervene?

[Housework] That's what it meant. "

In this case, Han Dong immediately took Chen Li back to prison.

Having had a previous experience, Han Dong can be sure that even the parents who are influenced by the clown are not particularly strong.

At least Chen Li can use a sneak attack to solve it with a single knife.

Both fate items are activated. .

The ghoul's arm is also in a semi-activated state, the size remains unchanged and the nails are elongated to about 10cm.

To deal with ordinary mutant enemies, Han Dong still has to keep a hand... After all, all this may be seen by the clown, and Han Dong doesn't want to throw out all his cards at the beginning.

crunch~

When Han Dong opened the bedroom door again, the situation at home became different.

Only the TV was still on, and the parents who were sitting on the sofa had disappeared.

Trigger the Crow's Mark on the back of the hand.

The beak mask with night vision was formed, and the darkness no longer had any effect on Han Dong.

Han Dong first conducted a search at home and found no trace of his parents.

Since the search was fruitless.

Only go back to the living room area

Staring at the open clown gift box on the desktop, there is still a note inside.

After confirming that there was no one around, Han Dong quickly took out the note and checked the information on it.

"[Housework]: Dealing with family members who are not right

(Reminder: In the eyes of the wrong people, those normal people are the wrong people!?)”

At this time.

Glass doors from the kitchen open to the backyard.

Parents with weird smiling faces walked into the house from the backyard.

The reason why Han Dong searched at home to no avail was precisely because his parents went to the backyard to 'get equipment'.

Mother had a long-barreled shotgun in her hand, loaded.

Father was carrying a diesel chainsaw... rumbling! Pulling the pull wire of the engine, the saw chain has been driven frantically by the engine.