“Gentlemen! Ladies!” The circus leader was holding a microphone in his hand, emotionally charged as if he had been injected with chicken blood.
Bai Lixin and Dijia’s attention was drawn to this voice, and their eyes went from the little girl to the circus leader in the middle of the stage.
The circus leader’s eyes were looking at a camera that did not appear on the TV screen, “Welcome to the Crazy Circus, tonight, not only shall we have a mermaid show, but we will also have a special performance by a lucky audience member!”
The circus leader’s eyes turned and suddenly met Bai Lixin’s across the screen.
The curly bearded man: “Let’s give a warm applause to welcome the rich young master!”
Rich young master?
Bai Lixin: “….”
No way. ……
In the next second, the air in front of Bai Lixin became distorted, and Bai Lixin, whose mouth was twitching, got sucked into it.
Dijia immediately noticed and went to grab Bai Lixin, but his fingers went through the young man’s arm, and he only caught a shadow.
He frowned and watched as Bai Lixin, who had just been beside him, appeared in the middle of the stage, bewildered…
In the live broadcast room.
[This operation is absolutely perfect. No wonder the circus leader was not afraid that the tape would get stolen, it eats people.]
[ I feel sorry for God Xin. Two people are standing outside, so why was he the only put in? ]
[Perhaps it’s because the big boss is not human.]
[There’s also the possibility that it’s because God Xin is a player.]
[Come on, the only reason is that God Xin has an F-luck value, what else do you need? ]
[God Xin: Why can’t you be polite?]
[This is another victory for the luck value.]
Bai Lixin looked around the auditorium.
He was now standing on the stage of a circus, with the tall, curly-bearded man standing beside him.
The auditorium in front of him was filled with people, and it was only on closer inspection that he realized that these people had a uniform expression on their faces.
The eyes were curved Into crescent moons, the corners of their mouths were pulled upwards, and there was no hint of a smile in their eyes, as if they were wearing clown masks.
Only the little girl with blonde hair and blue eyes was propped up on her seat with two hands, swinging her two little legs around, and looking at the stage with interest.
A few meters of air separated them, and they briefly looked at each other for a few seconds before the little girl quickly moved her gaze.
Her eyes dodged and flickered a little, as if she wasn’t used to looking at someone for so long.
Given that it was a copy of a fantasy fairy tale, it wasn’t incomprehensible that he had been sucked into the video, so it didn’t bother him much. Only the identity of the little girl intrigued him.
She seemed to be able to be everywhere and could travel anywhere.
The sea, photos, videos ……
Although the little girl had moved her gaze away, Bai Lixin was still examining her, hoping to find some clues from her.
He had just taken two steps towards the girl when there was a sudden static sound in his ears, like the sound of an old television set with a bad signal.
The next moment, his eyes went black and when he opened them, he was tied to a wheel.
His arms and head were bound, and there was an apple on his head.
About five meters away from him stood the blindfolded little blonde girl, several daggers about the length of her forearms in her hand.
There were so many that she could barely clutch them.
Bai Lixin: “……”
Throwing daggers blindfolded?
No way, wasn’t this getting him killed?
The little girl seemed a little nervous, bobbing her head around blindfolded.
The curly bearded man patted the little girl’s head and encouraged her, “Don’t be afraid, be brave and just throw it.”
Even with the curly-bearded man’s words, the little girl was still a little nervous. She put all her extra daggers on the floor, leaving only one in her hand.
The audience on stage pulled stiff smiles and started cheering.
“Come on!”
“Go for it!”
“Don’t spoil the fun!”
Bai Lixin: “……”
It’s not you guys who are tied up.
He calmly examined the wheel he was bound to. Throwing daggers while blindfolded was a highly enjoyed show, and although there was an element of skill in it, the key to a successful performance was in the mechanism of the wheel.
In acrobatics like this, the flying daggers do not really fly out.
The human eye has a visual memory, and the interval between a picture appearing in the eye and remaining on the retina is about 0.1–0.4 seconds. The next still picture that comes along during this visual interval gives the illusion of movement.
This was the principle behind the early films.
According to his understanding, blindfolded flying daggers also used this principle.
Behind the wheel, where one cannot see, would be another person or mechanism hidden.
The thrower hides the dagger the moment he makes the action of throwing it, and the wheel ejects it in the same way. Even if the dagger is not actually thrown, people have the illusion of a flying dagger.
Bai Lixin searched the wheel carefully for signs of a mechanism.
To the left, there were none.
To the right, also none.
Bai Lixin: “……”
Nonsense! This was a horror escape game, how could it play with optical illusions!
The little girl in front of him seemed encouraged, and she raised her hand in a tangled fashion.
Bai Lixin glanced at the curly-bearded man, who looked back at him with a sparkle in his eyes.
Silly, right? Going to die, right?
Surprised?
The audience had fallen silent, with all the spectators holding their breath and looking intently at the little girl as she raised the dagger that was making people’s skulls tingle.
The moment the dagger was about to be thrown, Bai Lixin suddenly called out, “Wait a minute!”
The little girl’s hand stopped at the sound of his voice, and everyone’s eyes except hers fell on Bai Lixin.
“……” Bai Lixin: “I have a proposal.”
Curly-bearded man: “What?”
Bai Lixin: “Do you think I’m good-looking?”
The curly bearded man narrowed his eyes and looked Bai Lixin up and down: “Quite good looking.”
Audience: “Yes, yes, not bad at all.”
Bai Lixin: “Actually, I have a secret.”
Curly bearded man: “What’s the secret?”
Bai Lixin: “I’m actually a mermaid too.”
He was betting on the little girl’s reaction.
Sure enough, the little girl suddenly removed the black cloth covering her eyes, and her emerald cat pupils looked at Bai Lixin curiously.
She walked towards Bai Lixin and the little curly-bearded man frowned and tried to pull the little girl. But the tall man was not as strong as the little girl.
The man was even dragged forward a few centimeters before he reluctantly let go.
This was a distorted space in the circus, and as an outsider, this little girl was not under any control at all.
So she was simply invincible.
The little girl walked forward under the circus leader’s gaze and walked up to Bai Lixin, her somewhat pale face raised as she curiously surveyed Bai Lixin, “Are you really a mermaid?”
“Do you know my mother?”
“She was a mermaid too, with a beautiful mermaid tail.”
She took the crumpled paper out of the small black cloak and unfolded it before Bai Lixin, “That’s her, do you know her?”
Bai Lixin took a deep breath and lowered his voice with the allure of coaxing a child, “I can’t see clearly, put me down and I’ll take a closer look.”
The little girl cocked her head and blinked her eyes innocently and said, “Okay.”
The bet was won!
He recalled that all the places the little girl appeared were next to Miss Xihai.
But she was only looking at Miss Xihai from afar and didn’t seem to have any intention of getting closer.
If she wasn’t interested in Miss Xihai, then she was probably focused on the mermaid aspect.
The abrupt static sound of an old-fashioned television came again.
Bai Lixin’s eyes went black, and by the time he came to his senses again, the sky was hanging high above his feet.
He was holding a long pole in his hand, standing in the middle of a wire.
Walk the tightrope ……
Great, this circus leader was not willing to let him go until he died.
The little girl from earlier was back in her seat, her emerald green eyes looking somewhat nervously overhead.
But Bai Lixin knew that she was not concerned about his safety, she was just worried about losing her only clue.
But he didn’t have any clues; he was fooling a child.
Bai Lixin’s eyes shifted and once again met with the curly bearded man’s eyes, and he once again felt his malice.
Go ahead and walk, then you can fall to your death!
Bai Lixin looked at the tightrope in front of him: “……”
This really can’t kill this young master, you think the fifty years this young master spent walking on a rope over a cliff were in vain?
This is child’s play.
Bai Lixin threw away the annoying bamboo pole in his hand and, amidst the shouts of the audience, performed a set of gymnastics on the tightrope and gave a standard salute when he landed.
The curly-bearded man stared blankly.
Bai Lixin put his hand away and sent a provocative look toward the circus leader.
Silly me.
Not only can this young master walk across the wire, but he can also run, jump, and dance on the tightrope.
“Hahaha.” An abrupt, crisp laugh accompanied by applause rang out. Bai Lixin looked toward where the sound came from, and he saw the little blonde girl clapping her hands and laughing happily.
The audience around her was still stiffly grinning, their eyes amazed as they looked at the little girl, as if they did not understand her actions.
The little girl laughed and pointed at the curly-bearded man. “Look at him, doesn’t his angry face look like a cooked octopus head? Hahahaha, I can’t stop laughing!”
The audience turned their stiff necks to look over.
The more they looked, the more they saw the resemblance.
It was unknown who was the second to laugh, but the little girl’s laughter and comparison infected the entire audience like a plague in no time.
The audience, which was forced to smile, was laughing and dancing, their faces stretched to the point of a bizarre grin, with smiles that made three crescent moons.
They laughed maniacally, slapping the tables and chairs around them, their mad laughter deafening.
The curly bearded man’s face changed abruptly, and the sudden laughter made him crazy.
The sudden static sound came once again.
This time, Bai Lixin quietly waited for the darkness to come, and after the fleeting darkness, three roaring lions appeared before him.
One male and two female lions had no traction around their necks and wore no guards over their mouths.
They were locked in a giant iron cage, and also inside was Bai Lixin.
There was a hungry “gurgle” from the stomach of the lion in the middle, and this one sound seemed to be a switch, and the two lionesses around him followed suit.
They stared intently at Bai Lixin in front of them, and the lion suddenly opened his mouth and let out a roar, showing the pitch-black esophagus.
Bai Lixin: “……”
That’s it?
The curly bearded man stroked his little curly beard and walked over to the cage, his eyes shining brightly, “My little pets haven’t eaten in three days, as long as I give the command, you will be attacked and eaten.”
“Are you scared?”
Bai Lixin gave the circus leader a faint, sweeping glance and asked, “Why haven’t you done anything yet?”
The circus leader’s eyes looked straight at the sapphire in Bai Lixin’s collar, “You’re not dead yet, are you? How about this? Let’s make a deal. You give me the sapphire and I’ll let you go. How about that?”
Bai Lixin glanced at the three lions, whose eyes had long been bloodshot, and then at the curly-bearded man. He did not answer the man’s question; instead, he asked an irrelevant question, “You are their tamer?”
Curly bearded man: “Of course, I’ve raised these good babies since they were little and they listen to me.”
“They will eat you when I say so, they will let you go when I say to let you go.”
Bai Lixin grabbed the iron bars of the cage with both hands, “Oh, what if you are lying to me? What if you say you’ll let me go, and when I’ve given you the sapphire, you order them to eat me?”
The curly-bearded man’s eyes flashed: “What do you propose?”
Bai Lixin: “Here’s the deal, either I get out or you get in.”
The curly bearded man grinned and said, “I’ll go in so that if I order them to eat, they’ll eat me too. So you want to rest assured, huh?”
Bai Lixin was noncommittal, “Yes.”
The curly-bearded man lowered his head and sneered as he opened the iron door.
He had carefully trained these lions so even if he was inside the cage, they would not harm him when ordered to eat.
Sure enough, this was an ignorant young master, how foolish.
To prevent Bai Lixin from escaping, the curly-bearded man even locked the door.
He flicked the whip in his hand, and the lions, which had been so powerful just a moment ago, immediately trembled and sat obediently.
Like dogs.
The curly-bearded man snorted proudly, his eyes looking at Bai Lixin arrogantly.
See, even the king of the grasslands has to submit to me.
Bai Lixin’s eyes fell indifferently on the lions. Although they were covered in thick mane and fur, injuries could still be vaguely seen in the crevices.
These lions must have been raised by the circus leader since childhood, and these longitudinal wounds showed they had suffered a lot.
The curly bearded man flung his whip towards the ground a few more times, and while doing so, he held out his hand towards Bai Lixin, “Well, I’m now in, hurry up and give me the sapphire.”
This gemstone was valuable, and he wouldn’t have bothered to come in if he wasn’t afraid it would be swallowed by these beasts and wasted.
“Wait, there’s no need to rush,” Bai Lixin’s slender fingers fell on his bow tie, untying it with slow and graceful movements, “it’s a bit hard to remove.”
“Gentlemen! Ladies!” The circus leader was holding a microphone in his hand, emotionally charged as if he had been injected with chicken blood.
Bai Lixin and Dijia’s attention was drawn to this voice, and their eyes went from the little girl to the circus leader in the middle of the stage.
The circus leader’s eyes were looking at a camera that did not appear on the TV screen, “Welcome to the Crazy Circus, tonight, not only shall we have a mermaid show, but we will also have a special performance by a lucky audience member!”
The circus leader’s eyes turned and suddenly met Bai Lixin’s across the screen.
The curly bearded man: “Let’s give a warm applause to welcome the rich young master!”
Rich young master?
Bai Lixin: “….”
No way. ……
In the next second, the air in front of Bai Lixin became distorted, and Bai Lixin, whose mouth was twitching, got sucked into it.
Dijia immediately noticed and went to grab Bai Lixin, but his fingers went through the young man’s arm, and he only caught a shadow.
He frowned and watched as Bai Lixin, who had just been beside him, appeared in the middle of the stage, bewildered…
In the live broadcast room.
[This operation is absolutely perfect. No wonder the circus leader was not afraid that the tape would get stolen, it eats people.]
[ I feel sorry for God Xin. Two people are standing outside, so why was he the only put in? ]
[Perhaps it’s because the big boss is not human.]
[There’s also the possibility that it’s because God Xin is a player.]
[Come on, the only reason is that God Xin has an F-luck value, what else do you need? ]
[God Xin: Why can’t you be polite?]
[This is another victory for the luck value.]
Bai Lixin looked around the auditorium.
He was now standing on the stage of a circus, with the tall, curly-bearded man standing beside him.
The auditorium in front of him was filled with people, and it was only on closer inspection that he realized that these people had a uniform expression on their faces.
The eyes were curved Into crescent moons, the corners of their mouths were pulled upwards, and there was no hint of a smile in their eyes, as if they were wearing clown masks.
Only the little girl with blonde hair and blue eyes was propped up on her seat with two hands, swinging her two little legs around, and looking at the stage with interest.
A few meters of air separated them, and they briefly looked at each other for a few seconds before the little girl quickly moved her gaze.
Her eyes dodged and flickered a little, as if she wasn’t used to looking at someone for so long.
Given that it was a copy of a fantasy fairy tale, it wasn’t incomprehensible that he had been sucked into the video, so it didn’t bother him much. Only the identity of the little girl intrigued him.
She seemed to be able to be everywhere and could travel anywhere.
The sea, photos, videos ……
Although the little girl had moved her gaze away, Bai Lixin was still examining her, hoping to find some clues from her.
He had just taken two steps towards the girl when there was a sudden static sound in his ears, like the sound of an old television set with a bad signal.
The next moment, his eyes went black and when he opened them, he was tied to a wheel.
His arms and head were bound, and there was an apple on his head.
About five meters away from him stood the blindfolded little blonde girl, several daggers about the length of her forearms in her hand.
There were so many that she could barely clutch them.
Bai Lixin: “……”
Throwing daggers blindfolded?
No way, wasn’t this getting him killed?
The little girl seemed a little nervous, bobbing her head around blindfolded.
The curly bearded man patted the little girl’s head and encouraged her, “Don’t be afraid, be brave and just throw it.”
Even with the curly-bearded man’s words, the little girl was still a little nervous. She put all her extra daggers on the floor, leaving only one in her hand.
The audience on stage pulled stiff smiles and started cheering.
“Come on!”
“Go for it!”
“Don’t spoil the fun!”
Bai Lixin: “……”
It’s not you guys who are tied up.
He calmly examined the wheel he was bound to. Throwing daggers while blindfolded was a highly enjoyed show, and although there was an element of skill in it, the key to a successful performance was in the mechanism of the wheel.
In acrobatics like this, the flying daggers do not really fly out.
The human eye has a visual memory, and the interval between a picture appearing in the eye and remaining on the retina is about 0.1–0.4 seconds. The next still picture that comes along during this visual interval gives the illusion of movement.
This was the principle behind the early films.
According to his understanding, blindfolded flying daggers also used this principle.
Behind the wheel, where one cannot see, would be another person or mechanism hidden.
The thrower hides the dagger the moment he makes the action of throwing it, and the wheel ejects it in the same way. Even if the dagger is not actually thrown, people have the illusion of a flying dagger.
Bai Lixin searched the wheel carefully for signs of a mechanism.
To the left, there were none.
To the right, also none.
Bai Lixin: “……”
Nonsense! This was a horror escape game, how could it play with optical illusions!
The little girl in front of him seemed encouraged, and she raised her hand in a tangled fashion.
Bai Lixin glanced at the curly-bearded man, who looked back at him with a sparkle in his eyes.
Silly, right? Going to die, right?
Surprised?
The audience had fallen silent, with all the spectators holding their breath and looking intently at the little girl as she raised the dagger that was making people’s skulls tingle.
The moment the dagger was about to be thrown, Bai Lixin suddenly called out, “Wait a minute!”
The little girl’s hand stopped at the sound of his voice, and everyone’s eyes except hers fell on Bai Lixin.
“……” Bai Lixin: “I have a proposal.”
Curly-bearded man: “What?”
Bai Lixin: “Do you think I’m good-looking?”
The curly bearded man narrowed his eyes and looked Bai Lixin up and down: “Quite good looking.”
Audience: “Yes, yes, not bad at all.”
Bai Lixin: “Actually, I have a secret.”
Curly bearded man: “What’s the secret?”
Bai Lixin: “I’m actually a mermaid too.”
He was betting on the little girl’s reaction.
Sure enough, the little girl suddenly removed the black cloth covering her eyes, and her emerald cat pupils looked at Bai Lixin curiously.
She walked towards Bai Lixin and the little curly-bearded man frowned and tried to pull the little girl. But the tall man was not as strong as the little girl.
The man was even dragged forward a few centimeters before he reluctantly let go.
This was a distorted space in the circus, and as an outsider, this little girl was not under any control at all.
So she was simply invincible.
The little girl walked forward under the circus leader’s gaze and walked up to Bai Lixin, her somewhat pale face raised as she curiously surveyed Bai Lixin, “Are you really a mermaid?”
“Do you know my mother?”
“She was a mermaid too, with a beautiful mermaid tail.”
She took the crumpled paper out of the small black cloak and unfolded it before Bai Lixin, “That’s her, do you know her?”
Bai Lixin took a deep breath and lowered his voice with the allure of coaxing a child, “I can’t see clearly, put me down and I’ll take a closer look.”
The little girl cocked her head and blinked her eyes innocently and said, “Okay.”
The bet was won!
He recalled that all the places the little girl appeared were next to Miss Xihai.
But she was only looking at Miss Xihai from afar and didn’t seem to have any intention of getting closer.
If she wasn’t interested in Miss Xihai, then she was probably focused on the mermaid aspect.
The abrupt static sound of an old-fashioned television came again.
Bai Lixin’s eyes went black, and by the time he came to his senses again, the sky was hanging high above his feet.
He was holding a long pole in his hand, standing in the middle of a wire.
Walk the tightrope ……
Great, this circus leader was not willing to let him go until he died.
The little girl from earlier was back in her seat, her emerald green eyes looking somewhat nervously overhead.
But Bai Lixin knew that she was not concerned about his safety, she was just worried about losing her only clue.
But he didn’t have any clues; he was fooling a child.
Bai Lixin’s eyes shifted and once again met with the curly bearded man’s eyes, and he once again felt his malice.
Go ahead and walk, then you can fall to your death!
Bai Lixin looked at the tightrope in front of him: “……”
This really can’t kill this young master, you think the fifty years this young master spent walking on a rope over a cliff were in vain?
This is child’s play.
Bai Lixin threw away the annoying bamboo pole in his hand and, amidst the shouts of the audience, performed a set of gymnastics on the tightrope and gave a standard salute when he landed.
The curly-bearded man stared blankly.
Bai Lixin put his hand away and sent a provocative look toward the circus leader.
Silly me.
Not only can this young master walk across the wire, but he can also run, jump, and dance on the tightrope.
“Hahaha.” An abrupt, crisp laugh accompanied by applause rang out. Bai Lixin looked toward where the sound came from, and he saw the little blonde girl clapping her hands and laughing happily.
The audience around her was still stiffly grinning, their eyes amazed as they looked at the little girl, as if they did not understand her actions.
The little girl laughed and pointed at the curly-bearded man. “Look at him, doesn’t his angry face look like a cooked octopus head? Hahahaha, I can’t stop laughing!”
The audience turned their stiff necks to look over.
The more they looked, the more they saw the resemblance.
It was unknown who was the second to laugh, but the little girl’s laughter and comparison infected the entire audience like a plague in no time.
The audience, which was forced to smile, was laughing and dancing, their faces stretched to the point of a bizarre grin, with smiles that made three crescent moons.
They laughed maniacally, slapping the tables and chairs around them, their mad laughter deafening.
The curly bearded man’s face changed abruptly, and the sudden laughter made him crazy.
The sudden static sound came once again.
This time, Bai Lixin quietly waited for the darkness to come, and after the fleeting darkness, three roaring lions appeared before him.
One male and two female lions had no traction around their necks and wore no guards over their mouths.
They were locked in a giant iron cage, and also inside was Bai Lixin.
There was a hungry “gurgle” from the stomach of the lion in the middle, and this one sound seemed to be a switch, and the two lionesses around him followed suit.
They stared intently at Bai Lixin in front of them, and the lion suddenly opened his mouth and let out a roar, showing the pitch-black esophagus.
Bai Lixin: “……”
That’s it?
The curly bearded man stroked his little curly beard and walked over to the cage, his eyes shining brightly, “My little pets haven’t eaten in three days, as long as I give the command, you will be attacked and eaten.”
“Are you scared?”
Bai Lixin gave the circus leader a faint, sweeping glance and asked, “Why haven’t you done anything yet?”
The circus leader’s eyes looked straight at the sapphire in Bai Lixin’s collar, “You’re not dead yet, are you? How about this? Let’s make a deal. You give me the sapphire and I’ll let you go. How about that?”
Bai Lixin glanced at the three lions, whose eyes had long been bloodshot, and then at the curly-bearded man. He did not answer the man’s question; instead, he asked an irrelevant question, “You are their tamer?”
Curly bearded man: “Of course, I’ve raised these good babies since they were little and they listen to me.”
“They will eat you when I say so, they will let you go when I say to let you go.”
Bai Lixin grabbed the iron bars of the cage with both hands, “Oh, what if you are lying to me? What if you say you’ll let me go, and when I’ve given you the sapphire, you order them to eat me?”
The curly-bearded man’s eyes flashed: “What do you propose?”
Bai Lixin: “Here’s the deal, either I get out or you get in.”
The curly bearded man grinned and said, “I’ll go in so that if I order them to eat, they’ll eat me too. So you want to rest assured, huh?”
Bai Lixin was noncommittal, “Yes.”
The curly-bearded man lowered his head and sneered as he opened the iron door.
He had carefully trained these lions so even if he was inside the cage, they would not harm him when ordered to eat.
Sure enough, this was an ignorant young master, how foolish.
To prevent Bai Lixin from escaping, the curly-bearded man even locked the door.
He flicked the whip in his hand, and the lions, which had been so powerful just a moment ago, immediately trembled and sat obediently.
Like dogs.
The curly-bearded man snorted proudly, his eyes looking at Bai Lixin arrogantly.
See, even the king of the grasslands has to submit to me.
Bai Lixin’s eyes fell indifferently on the lions. Although they were covered in thick mane and fur, injuries could still be vaguely seen in the crevices.
These lions must have been raised by the circus leader since childhood, and these longitudinal wounds showed they had suffered a lot.
The curly bearded man flung his whip towards the ground a few more times, and while doing so, he held out his hand towards Bai Lixin, “Well, I’m now in, hurry up and give me the sapphire.”
This gemstone was valuable, and he wouldn’t have bothered to come in if he wasn’t afraid it would be swallowed by these beasts and wasted.
“Wait, there’s no need to rush,” Bai Lixin’s slender fingers fell on his bow tie, untying it with slow and graceful movements, “it’s a bit hard to remove.”
