Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 493: Clock Tower

Just then, footsteps were suddenly heard from another direction.

A large group of blurry figures approached this side dimly. Su Yue drew his knife and prepared for battle with No. 102.

When they got closer, they found that they were a group of modern people like them, and they were wearing normal clothes like the people in the funeral home.

In comparison, the people wearing animal costumes looked as ridiculous as primitive people.

The two teams stood on the left and right sides of the Ghost Gate. The atmosphere was tense and neither side said a word.

"Wait, are you Su Yue?" one of the people on the opposite side asked.

Su Yue was slightly stunned.

Then, another person on the opposite side said, "So you are from the Control Bureau?"

Xia Shou thought for a while and asked, "Are you the clock tower?"

He had heard the man from the funeral home mention that he wanted to kill a group of troublemakers from the clock tower here along with them. Since the other party was not wearing the funeral home uniform, they might be from the clock tower.

"Yes, we are the timekeepers of the clock tower." A gentleman wearing glasses stepped forward and introduced himself. "You can call me Pedros, the current second hand."

Xia Shou quickly went through the information about the clock tower in his mind.

The Clock Tower is an organization that aspires to sort out the seven-branched ladder of the tree of history, attempting to establish a traceable guide in the present world that can safely lead to the distant past.

In the political judgment of the Control Bureau, it belongs to the friendly party, which means it can communicate and negotiate with Dream Theater, and it is an organization that will choose a win-win situation if it can.

The owner of the clock tower calls himself the timekeeper. From one to twelve o'clock, they are divided into twelve factions. The person with the highest status in each faction is called the hour hand, the extremely powerful one is called the second hand, and above the second hand is the even more mysterious minute hand.

Using the Control Bureau's finisher standards as a benchmark, Second Hand's combat power is generally at the level of a fifth-level finisher. However, because the Clock Tower does not have additional requirements for protecting ordinary people like the Control Bureau, such combat power judgment is limited to single combat.

In other words, if there is no need to protect his companions, Second Hand is almost at the level of a level 5 finisher.

It is said that their powerful strength was mostly gained at the cost of their lifespan.

After hearing the other party's name, No. 102's expression changed slightly: "Pedros..."

Xia Shou saw that No. 102 looked a little strange, so he asked directly, "What's wrong?"

"Don't bother, I can just say it myself." Pedros said, "I had some minor conflicts with the Control Bureau before, but after joining the Clock Tower, I have reconciled with the Control Bureau."

"Isn't that an understatement? In the battle with Father Charles, the coffin-carrying priest, you destroyed the remains of a level six finisher, and then were defeated by Shang Liang and Mo Yunxi from our branch... To be precise, the control bureau determined that you had been killed at that time.

But then you joined the Clock Tower, and the three Clock Tower representatives personally came forward to help you negotiate a settlement with the Control Bureau, and then you were removed from the Control Bureau's wanted list."

No. 102 sneered: "It's because of political reasons that we wrote it off, but in fact the Control Bureau has no friendly relationship with you. Who knows what you will do to us in a place like this.

But don't say I didn't remind you, our captain... is the witch's trump card."

No. 102 pointed at Xia Shou with his thumb.

The other members of the Clock Tower behind Pedros shouted, "He was the one who broke the record in the Tower of Terror. I lost two hundred dollars that time!"

"Is he the man who killed the Blood Demon? I heard that he was specially recruited into the department by the witches, and he said that day that he would kill the Blood Demon. People from other departments didn't believe him, so he went in alone and came out in less than an hour!"

"Afterwards, when he came out of the Blood Demon's House, the execution squad of the Control Bureau wanted to conduct a routine inspection on him. He chopped off all of their arms without giving them any explanation! Because he had the witch's support, the execution department didn't dare to say anything."

"Why did I hear that he inherited the power of the blood demon?"

The members of the Clock Tower were arguing quietly, and when Xia Shou heard these words, he finally understood why there was the idiom "three people make a tiger".

Indeed, he was the one who killed the Blood Demon, but the external propaganda of the Control Bureau was that the Tamer got rid of the Blood Demon. How come it was later said that it was him?

And he didn't cut the executioner's arms. It was the executioner's arms that almost killed him. Later, if Su Weiyu hadn't happened to know 678, he would have been eaten by the lizard.

However, some "rumors" scared Xia Shou, such as the claim that he inherited the power of the blood demon. These rumors seemed to be rumors, but in fact they were facts, and no one knew who spread them.

Pedros smiled, then pointed to the plaque high above his head and said:
"Ghost Gate, the full name should be Ghost Gate. As Chinese, you should understand the meaning behind this name better than I do. You are no longer in the real world, but in a period of abandoned time."

Xia Shou knew this. This other historical presentation in the history tree was different from the cyclical history. It was a bit like the present world. There was no concept of time reset, nor was there a passage like the Seven-branch Gate.

Likewise, everything in the lost time can be brought back to reality, without the need for branch fragments as a medium of transportation. However, bringing everything here back to reality will be affected by the passage of time.

For example, if you bring an ordinary cup back to reality from lost time, and the original time of the cup is thousands of years ago, then when you arrive in reality, the cup will directly turn into powder and disappear.

When some anomalous items are brought back to the real world, their anomalous properties may be completely lost and they will become ordinary items.

But there are also some abnormal items, the longer the time is, the more abnormal they become. These items will become extremely powerful.

Therefore, some bold people will deliberately look for lost time, and then choose local raw materials in the lost time to make forbidden objects, and then bring the forbidden objects back to the original world, so that the abnormality of the forbidden objects will be greatly enhanced.

"People from the funeral home are also here. They are also your enemies. Our interests are the same in this regard, but it is obvious that they got here earlier than us, and you are the last.

However, we don't know much about this place, but there is some information we already know that we can share with you.

People here will not die, and I think the place we are in now should be hell." Pedros said.

"Won't die? What does that mean?" Xia Shou looked puzzled.

Pedros tilted his head slightly and said to the men behind him, "Let Kenon come over."

After a while, a dazed man staggered to Pedros.

"Kenon, show them."

Kenon took off his shirt, revealing a body that was clearly mismatched with his head.

Pedros then asked, “How do you feel now?”

(End of this chapter)