Mystery: When the Fool Meets the Masked Fool

Chapter 16: Watch Pan, here I come!

After returning, Serris fell back onto the bed and rolled around a few times out of boredom.

"How boring." Serris looked at the ceiling.

【It's okay, it won't be boring soon. 】

"What's wrong?" Serris turned over again.

【I won’t tell you.】

"Then you shouldn't have said anything from the beginning. Just say half of what you said."

【Hey, can't be selected. 】

It was daytime, and Ceres couldn't see the moon. But if he were on the other side of the earth, he would see something like this:
Today, a full moon, which wasn't supposed to be here, suddenly became one, crimson moonlight surging from it like a tide. Under the moonlight, everyone's emotions became noticeably more volatile. The Beyonders of the Paths of Pharmacists and Cultivators were experiencing even more frantic spiritual fluctuations.

Then, the moon was dyed orange-red. Under the moonlight, people felt happy and couldn't help smiling.

Serris suddenly felt relaxed and happy.

At this time, on the other side of the earth, the night suddenly boiled over, dark clouds blocked the sky and completely blocked the moon.

But Ceris could still hear the laughter coming from deep within his heart.

He raised the corners of his mouth.

…………

Some time ago.

In an unknown place.

This place is dark, a chaotic mess. There's no up, down, left, or right. Lost within it, something might be drifting forward one moment, then spinning and moving erratically the next.

The space here is viscous, wrapping and interpenetrating with each other, twisting, flowing, gathering, and splitting. If anything unfortunate falls into it, the only outcome is to be torn into pieces by the disordered space.

Time here is chaotic, no longer moving straight ahead. Things lost in it travel simultaneously to the past, present, and future. Time has no meaning here, and if you're lucky, you might even see the river of time tap dancing.

This is a place of exile outside the world, and also a place where worlds meet.

At this moment, there is a red unidentified object rolling here in a strange posture.

They were masks, decks of cards, and various small props. But by this time, they had already been distorted beyond recognition. They were constantly twisted, torn, disassembled, and then restored.

Although they were constantly being destroyed, they gathered together to form a ball, and invisible energy spread out from it, turning into a spherical protective shield.

And inside this ball is a headless person.

At this moment, He was like a hamster playing with a bowling ball, using all four limbs to pull forward, driving the entire ball forward.

To say "forward" is actually not accurate, there is no concept of "forward" here. He is simply shortening the distance between Himself and a coordinate.

In the ever-changing space, He keeps changing His direction, making the distance between the ball and the coordinates closer and closer.

Wherever you go, you can hear the laughter of "Hehehe~".

Occasionally, a few spots of light would pass by Him, probably representing different worlds passing by.

But His purpose was crystal clear, unperturbed by external distractions. He was practically moved to tears by His unwavering conviction. He truly had a lot of dignity.

Suddenly, he felt that lifting the ball was becoming more difficult than before. He turned his head and saw that something seemed to be attracted to him and was following him. It was like a satellite captured by the gravity of a planet.

Oh, there's a hitchhiker here.

A hula hoop poked out of the ball and hooked the "stowaway" to prevent it from falling behind.

He doesn't mind people riding in His car; He wants people to have fun with Him. He would rather have people who can fool Him.

After an unknown amount of time, He finally arrived at His destination.

With a bang, he slammed hard into an invisible barrier, forcing the car to brake. The small object hanging behind him also slammed into him.

This is the barrier of this world. But despite that, this barrier isn't actually at the world's edge. It's more of a concept, a barrier between inside and outside. Beyond the barrier is the outside of the world, and within the barrier could be anywhere in this world. He reached out and patted the wall, then assumed a contemplative gesture. He placed one hand on the middle of his neck, roughly where an average person's chin would be, and pretended to think for a moment before scratching the area above his neck, roughly where his head would be.

It really leaves God confused.

Then, he swaggered, clenching his right fist and hammering his left palm. Suddenly, a lightbulb popped up above his neck. He seemed to have a brilliant idea.

He pulled out a dark purple slime-like object from his back. The slime didn't resist, but stared at him with its large, white eyes.

Oo: "..."

Sometimes I really hate gods who have no sense of boundaries.

This was a part He dug out from His good brother. Anyway, His good brother didn't stop him, so he must have agreed.

Don't underestimate the bond between them.

I always act like I don't care about anything, but in the end, didn't I still send part of my consciousness here with Him?
He exchanged glances with the two, then chuckled and evenly smeared the black slime on the wall. He could sense that the barrier was being eroded by the [Nothingness].

Perhaps tens of thousands of years had passed, or perhaps only a second. As previously stated, time had no meaning here. Regardless, in his subjective perception, it hadn't lasted more than a minute.

After an unknown amount of time, a hole was eroded into the wall. He immediately stepped forward, pulled the black slime off, and threw it aside.

I don't know if it was coincidence, but the slime thrown aside happened to be twisted into the shape of a "?". The slime floated beside him, as if silently accusing him.

Oo: "..."

Ah Ha shouted, shrinking his body and crawling through the hole, with all kinds of things behind him also squeezed in. Two gloves were kind enough to grab the black slime and the thing that was halfway on the car. It seemed to be a round ball, and no one knew what was inside.

After coming in, His time and space were stabilized again and no longer chaotic, and He successfully integrated into this world.

"Watch pot, I'm coming in!"

Ahab could sense that the coordinates that led him here were on a planet not far away. He descended on a satellite not far from that planet.

Ah Ha placed the black slime into a box. Even though it was only part of IX, it would still cause trouble if it wasn't restricted. He had to be careful not to damage his future toys.

I felt like I was about to cry for joy, but no, He was already doing so. He rolled around on the ground, crying and laughing at the same time.

His things were chasing Him from behind, but it seemed that they could not catch up.

After entertaining himself for a while, He finally calmed down.

Aha sat up and raised his hands high, like a child who had won a game.

"Hahaha, Akivelli, Akivelli, I have expanded further than you."

"Hahahahahaha." The masks also laughed, and one white mask laughed particularly loudly.

As he laughed, his figure gradually faded and disappeared. In contrast, the masks became noticeably more active.

Perhaps his voice was too sharp. He attracted an unexpected guest.

Although He is an outsider, this does not prevent Him from occupying the moral high ground first.

"Why are there locals here? Isn't this as unreasonable as having men in the men's restroom?"

No one responded to Aha's "female fist". The crimson moonlight swept towards Aha like a tide, swallowing him up in his laughter.

Behind Aha, the gap he had opened with the power of the bond between him and IX had almost completely closed. But a ray of moonlight still managed to seep through, only to be obliterated by the chaos beyond.

And in that chaos, when the past and the present intersected, a certain unlucky traveler seemed to have been contaminated by a trace of the fallen mother goddess.

Who could it be? It's so hard to guess. Ceres, do you have any idea?

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