Kevin, but he is a male mother in Xingtie with little Ai Li

--boom!

There was a loud bang, and a huge insect smashed a hole in the dome of the tavern. Then a figure jumped from the hole to the insect body - it was obvious that this was the material he used to make wine.

Such a huge commotion naturally attracted the attention of most people in the tavern, including Kevin.

This was clearly just a subconscious action, but it made him suddenly stunned when he saw the figure.

Because he never forgot that dark mask...

Chapter 258: Brother Jie, you have to believe me!

"Well, you also think that guy must be a good combination partner, right? It's not easy to get such a big thing from the insect swarm."

Noticing that Kevin beside him was staring at the figure that attracted everyone's attention in a daze, the Joker Mask took over the conversation without waiting for Kevin to speak, and was not stingy with his praise for the other party.

You know, the smaller insects in other people's hands may be easily caught in some marginal areas, but the big guy lying on the floor will only appear in a large enough insect swarm.

This means that this guy with a pitch-black mask not only entered the insect swarm and caught such a big creature, but also looked so...unharmed?

"Hmm... This is really strange. I know every Fool in the tavern and remember all their names, but I have never seen this guy before. It seems... He should have just joined during the few days I was away?"

It is not difficult to know from these words that this seemingly inconspicuous clown mask can actually be regarded as a veteran figure among the Masked Fool?

The guy he didn't even recognize must be the newcomer who just joined the Masked Fool!

What? You said this guy might not be the Masked Fool? What a joke! In the Tavern at the End of the World, wearing a mask, and even participating in the brewing competition - if he is not the Masked Fool, then who is it!

Besides, this guy still looks so, um...laughable?

"Keep your hands off my prey. I don't like sharing my prey with others."

The next second, the Masked Fool who had just appeared in a strange way jumped directly off the huge insect body, and tried to repel those guys who had even begun to touch the insect body in a very unfriendly tone.

Unfortunately, such an attitude could not scare away these daring masked fools. Or rather, there was nothing that could scare them.

"Hey, don't be like that, Brother Jie. You can't handle such a big bug by yourself, but we can all help you!"

"That's right! We've been good brothers for so many days, please don't be so formal!"

"Brother Jie, you must not listen to them! I am thirty-eight years old and have forty years of experience in brewing wine. Let me do it, and I guarantee that we can both take first place!"

With the first person taking the lead, dozens of masked fools nearby soon became a mess, but no one noticed that the fist of the brother they were talking about was constantly clenched, until he could no longer suppress his temper -

"I told you I don't like sharing my prey with others. Don't make me say it for the third time!"

boom--!

The flames gushed out like his uncontrollable anger, instantly pushing everyone around him several meters away, and even a few unlucky people had their clothes set on fire. They could only dance around trying to put it out, which looked quite funny.

After this, at least everyone knew that this brother Jie really had no intention of sharing with others, but no one felt any dissatisfaction. They just stood a few meters away, looking forward to what kind of performance the other party would bring to them.

After finally solving all the troubles, Brother Jie, wearing a pitch-black mask, finally turned around, looked at the huge prey behind him, and began to laugh uncontrollably—

“Haha, hahahaha, hahahahahahahaha!”

This smile is so healthy, maybe... maybe he is celebrating his victory in advance?

"Listen to this wonderful smile! My God, he is actually smiling just for the sake of smiling, what a sunny and cheerful boy, he is simply a natural-born Masked Fool!"

Something even more outrageous happened. After hearing the other party's slightly crazy laughter, the clown mask next to Kevin became as excited as a pervert seeing a beautiful woman, and even couldn't help patting Kevin on the shoulder.

"Looking at your expression, my friend, you also think that he will definitely be a perfect teammate, right? Without further ado, let's go find him right now. Such a cheerful boy like him will definitely be happy to accept us!"

"..."

Kevin's eyebrows couldn't help but twitch, but he still tried to calm down and said to the other party: "I don't think I ever said that I wanted to participate in such a weird competition, right?"

Kevin was indeed staring at the other party, but what he cared about was not the huge insect body, but the other party itself.

"Hey, how is that possible? There is no one in the tavern who is not here for the competition!"

The clown mask's voice always sounded like he was pretending to be surprised, but he suddenly suppressed his voice the next second and whispered in Kevin's ear: "Hey, listen to my friend, even if your goal is the same as mine - that cute boy, we have to use the excuse of the competition to get close to him first. Do you understand my idea?"

Kevin: "..."

Theoretically, there was nothing strange about this, but why did he always feel that it was a little too strange?

"Come on, my friend, cheer up. If you want to win the favor of boys, you have to take practical actions."

He blinked at Kevin, and without waiting for the other party to react, he took the lead to walk towards the direction of the huge insect, forcing Kevin to follow behind.

After squeezing through countless people, the two finally arrived at the center of the encirclement formed consciously by those masked fools.

Everyone in unison turned their eyes to the two people who suddenly squeezed in, because after all, they had already expressed their unwillingness to team up with others, and these two guys obviously wanted to team up with them.

Honestly, is there anything more interesting in this tavern than watching the fun?

"Um?!"

The commotion nearby naturally made Brother Jie, who was concentrating on dealing with his prey in the middle of the field, realize something. He turned his head and glanced at the two people who squeezed in, his eyes were as ferocious as they could be.

"What do you two want to do?"

This deep and hoarse voice, if it was said that it could stop a child from crying, I'm afraid anyone would believe it. Everyone knew that he didn't want to hear that someone was going to share his prey, but the two still said so.

"Hey, don't look at me like that! Believe in us, and believe in yourself, we will definitely be the best team!"

Chapter 259: "Destruction"

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the clown danced and spoke out the answer that everyone most wanted him to give - although most of these expectations were not well-intentioned.

Everyone seemed to be enjoying a show. After he finished speaking, the entire nearby area was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. They were all expecting that Brother Jie would smash his clown mask with one punch - just as violent as he was when he first came to this tavern.

pat-

Wearing a pitch-black mask, he stood up, turned around and walked towards the two of them without saying a word.

"Okay, but I have a request."

The golden horns looked like angry eyes. He was slightly taller than the clown mask, and he crossed his arms over his chest and said without any pause: "Defeat me, as long as you can beat me, my prey will be at your disposal."

"Of course, including me."

Upon hearing this answer, the Masked Clown whistled immediately, as if he was not worried at all about whether he could beat the opponent: "Yes, that's right. Using a sacred duel to define fair cooperation is really a perfect proposal!"

However, according to the law of conservation of happiness in the universe, if he is happy, then naturally someone will become unhappy.

"What??!"

After hearing this answer, people around them soon exclaimed, and then a series of irrepressible discussions and shouts followed -

"How could this be possible? This is completely different from the script we imagined!"

"Absolutely impossible! I've never seen Brother Jie talk to anyone like this. Am I dreaming?"

"From what I know, Brother Jie likes to solve problems with "all"!"

"That's right." "That's how it should be." "He's absolutely right!"

As we all know, after a long period of order, there will inevitably be chaos, and after the chaos, there will always be order - so before the people in the venue had been arguing for long, a wise man stood up.

"Hey, guys! Hey, listen to me!"

That was a Masked Fool who was not very tall. He climbed up the bar of the tavern, stood above everyone's heads, and spoke out under the watchful eyes of everyone: "I mean, is there a possibility that the reason why Brother Jie didn't make such a proposal to us is because none of us can fight, we are too weak!"

It can be seen that this guy is obviously drunk. But who among these people staying in the tavern at this moment is really not drinking?

"What he said...seems to make sense?"

"I think so too. I am indeed very weak. I may not even be able to beat a chicken."

"I can't even beat this Hypa!"

"Hey, my friend! Are you sure you want to argue with me even about something like this? I'm really going to get angry!"

Although the surrounding environment was indeed full of quarrels, the three people in the field were not affected much. After hearing the other party's request to initiate a duel, Kevin, who had not thought much about cooperating, suddenly nodded.

"Okay, I promise you."

"Okay! Wait...how come you agreed faster than me?!" The clown mask looked at Kevin beside him in surprise. The look in his eyes was as if he was looking at his wife who had betrayed him.

"Very good, very good, very courageous! You are much better than those people here who can't even muster the courage to fight." Even though he was wearing a mask to cover his face, Kevin was sure that he was smiling at this moment.

But just saying this would not allow Kevin to be sure whether the other party recognized him or not.

"Let's go. We can't perform here. Let's find a suitable place."

Without any hesitation, the opponent walked around the two and headed for the periphery. The Masked Fools surrounding them spontaneously made way for him - please, this is a fight, they love to watch this kind of thing the most!

"Black Tower, can you confirm that the people who appear in the simulated universe at this moment have actually appeared in the past history?"

Suddenly, Kevin had such a strong thought in his mind - he knew that the guy in Black Tower must be able to see it.

"Why, do you see anyone who looks familiar? Well... to be honest, these people here are actually simulated according to the data in the Tavern at the End of the World. Otherwise, I can't imitate the craziness of these guys."

"But I did design a function in the simulated universe that can directly extract certain images from the influence of the subject... Well, the data flow of the simulated universe is very large now, and I can't directly determine where the character you want to determine comes from."

As expected, the Black Tower did respond quickly in Kevin's ear. But... the answer was still as unreliable as before.

In a distant past civilization, there were thirteen heroes who fought to protect civilization, and Kevin was one of them.

However, the masked fool who was called Brother Jie by others had another identity in Kevin’s memory—one of the Thirteen Heroes of Chasing Fire, "Aomie", Qianjie.

But in Kevin's memory, he was clearly dead, just like Pado, most of the other Thirteen Heroes, and everyone in the previous civilization.

But...the dead Pado has appeared in front of Kevin, so why can't Qianjie do the same?

Even though he still hasn't really figured out whether the current Pado has lost his past memories, or is simply another irrelevant existence in this universe.

To be honest, Kevin thought he might as well not ask that guy Black Tower. Originally, he could have directly identified the other party as someone like Pado, but Black Tower's ambiguous remarks made his judgment fall into a dead end.

Now, unless he goes directly to the real End of the World Tavern to judge, there is no way to know whether Qianjie really exists in this universe... Well, this question is as stupid as Schrödinger's cat.

But the sad reality is that Kevin probably really has to go to that place and be the one who opens the box that holds the cat.

"My friend, why don't you say a word? Don't be nervous, I believe in you, you can definitely win!"

While Kevin was still immersed in his thoughts, he saw the clown mask beside him suddenly patted his shoulder, and said with such a firm tone: "Well, I believe you!"

Chapter 260 Haha, hahaha, hahahahahahaha

"..."

Sure enough, it was a complete mistake to pin our hopes on this guy. It was obvious that he was the one who started all this, but in the end, he didn't even plan to fight in person, and even wanted Kevin to take the lead.

Fortunately, the development of the matter did not completely deviate from Kevin's expectations. Fighting with Qianjie, who was now the Masked Fool, would make it easier for him to confirm the other party's true identity.

Is he a real person existing in this universe, or is he simply a false memory in a simulated universe?

"This is a good place. Let's go here."

After leading the two through a long and narrow corridor, Qianjie finally stopped on an arena - the spacious venue below was at least several thousand square meters in area, and the floor was paved with some unknown blue-black stone bricks, so the texture should not be bad.

It is worth mentioning that there are thousands of high and scattered spectator seats on the platforms dozens of meters high around the arena, and they are all full now.

Maybe the Masked Fools don't necessarily have any special abilities in other aspects, but if you ask them to come and have fun, they will definitely run faster than the other.

"A sacred contract, a fair duel, and a perfect arena... Oh, this is really cool!"

After seeing this grand scene, the clown mask was in such a happy mood. After all, he was not the one going down to duel, so couldn't he be happy?

Unfortunately, the two protagonists didn't even have time to look at him. Qianjie's inexplicable fighting instinct made him focus on Kevin and asked, "So, you are my enemy, right?"

Then, before Kevin could respond, he grinned and said, "You seem very strong, yes, very strong...but is there anything better than this?"

"Come on, come on! As long as you can make me happy, I don't care even if you can't beat me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Qianjie raised his hands excitedly, then suddenly leaped to the center of the arena, held down his shoulders and began to move his right arm wildly.

"Ugh......"

Well, no matter where the Qianjie in front of him came from, at least his hot temper and his preference for physical contact with others have not changed, just like the little Pardo outside who has not been able to change his character of having dirty hands... Is this a good thing?

But after all, things had come to this point, so Kevin had no choice but to follow the other party's wish and jumped to the edge of the arena. Only then did he finally meet eyes with Qianjie who was not far away in this huge arena.